Thanks for noting my blog. :)

Cam, thanks for the ego boost!!  I lived in France for a while so I know how those keyboards can be - not sure I ever really got used to them!

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head shaking and eyes rolling. i don't believe an ex-patriot should even have a right to an opinion on the United States and its' practices. but, that is just my opinion. iran would have the public believe the worst no matter what. we currently occupy iraq. we are currently at war in iraq. we invaded a building in iraq. not iran. i consider myself to be a moderate. i have no training or education in politics. scarily, however, i am being pushed to the conservative side by this extremely liberal thinking. we are not experts on war tactics. we need to let the people who are, run this war. our soldiers need people like you to stop trying to castrate our government and our troops if we are going to make a good difference. this constant bashing of Bush (I am not a big fan either) reduces our appearance of strength, which weakens our country and will reduce us to nothing. Oh, that's right, you left, you don't care.

I think I just heard the sound of human excrement striking a fan. We're in it now!

Does it matter whose rights are being violated and what the tax burden is? Shouldn’t the larger point simply be that rights at large are being violated - not just privacy rights, but human rights - whether Hispanic, Middle Eastern, North American, African, European, etc.? Security should be amped up - WITHIN the confines of the law. These standards SHOULD include the ..:namespace prefix = st1 ns = "urn:schemas-microsoft-com:office:smarttags" />UK – along with Germany, Canada, France and every other country in the world and the standards should be legal and uniform across the board. Correct me if I am wrong, but I get the sense that the above comment implies that this is all ok, as long as it isn’t happening to Brits. What I fins troubling is that ugly, fucked-uped attitudes like that are quite common these days...:namespace prefix = o ns = "urn:schemas-microsoft-com:office:office" /> FYI to the author of the comment above: Richard Reed, the attempted shoe bomber, was British born - hence amped up security directed at western powers like Britain, France, Canada or others is not unjustified or unwarranted - the violation of civil rights however is, i.e. the recent Marar Arrar case. . Look it up if you don’t know what I’m referring to. Privacy is the LEAST of the civil rights abuses taking place

Yes I am saddened by the passing of Joe Barbera. I grew up watching all the classic and not so classic HB stuff as a kid and well into my adulthood. I still love their stuff,especially the action-adventure stuff. Please go to my blog and read what I had to say about his passing. :(

Awww! R.I.P.

Thats as bad as the one with the water bottle..

Venomous? Hateful? Not hardly. Being honest used to be a good thing. I know people who are homo and dont go around beating them up.

Violence is not only a matter of the physical. Your particular brand of violence falls under the emotional/spiritual category. It is the same brand of violence committed by passive bigots in the 1950s deep south. MLK wrote his Letter from a Birmingham Jail not to those who were turning the firehoses on blacks, but to his fellow clergyman who were counseling restraint and acceptance to those who were experiencing discrimination and oppression.

BUT if the movement suddenly shifted to "EMBRACE" adultery, pedophilia, being a thief and lying,I would be there just as loudly saying it is wrong!

I would like to assume by "movement" you are referring to gay rights activists, though I get the feeling you are referring to homosexuals as a single unit instead. This is a tragic error in reasoning, as I am sure you would not like me to lump yourself and Bush in the same category even though you are both Christians. But back to the point, I challenge you to produce a single individual or group who is championing the rights of adulterers, pedophelia, stealing, or lying (not sure how the last two have even a single connection to this discussion).

You cannot throw the blanket of morals away just because it feels good and makes you happy. There are absolute rights and wrongs. That lifestyle is against the LAWS of GOD "and" The Laws of NATURE!

Well, this is a legitimate point of contention, isn't it? You feel as though you have a monopoly on morality based on, in my opinion, a tragically flawed and decontextualized reading of the bible. Whereas I feel that there is nothing inherent in homosexuality that violates the laws of God. As for the laws of nature, there are plenty of examples that contradict this argument in sexual terms. Lust is animalistic and even housepets will hump anything they can wrap their paws around. In terms of Love, this is a strictly human construct, so homosexulity, like heterosexuality, is unique to the human experience and therefore has no context exterior to it from which to draw conclusions.

Why should that be taught to young and impressionable kids? It would be one thing if they were struggling with it, but they are embracing it and teaching our kids to do the same!

If sexuality was something that could be taught, then there would be no homosexuals. Think about it. All children are born to a pairing of male/female, so where would existing homosexuals have "learned" their behavior? Not to mention that there appears no causal relationship amongst children raised in homosexual households.

I cannot stand there and say NOTHING! People like you may call it hateful, I call it honest. ...

I'm not trying to infringe on your free speech. In fact, I hope I've made it clear that I am trying to engage you on an intellectual level, attacking your ideas and not you personally. But I think you missed the point of my last post - your words are being perceived as offensive not because of the specific word you're choosing, but because your intent is to cause offense. When someone who clearly despises homosexuality as much as you do, then that person will be hard-pressed to find phraseology that won't be deemed offensive. This is your cross to bear - just as the bigots in the 1950s had to go on television to defend segregation, you will have to also prepare to weather attacks from the more open, inviting, and inclusive elements of society. I hold no illusions that I am going to change your mind and I will continue to love and respect you even when we disagree so strongly. But there will come a day (a generation or two from now) when homophobes will be regarded with the same contempt we now hold for racial bigotry - and then you will have to endure explaining to your children and grandchildren why you hold the opinions that you do.

Sodomites,= From the land of Sodom and Gomorhhea. Book of Genesis chapter 13- on I never said they couldnt believe in GOD. No matter what I say I am wrong ( according to them, homo is wrong, queer is wrong, etc...) Dont label me right or left or hate filled or intolerant, I am a truth seeker and not p.c. I believe in calling the truth what it is - not the revisionsts new form of it. As for My comments they refered to Kevin Mccolloughs column.