The DC City Council seems poised to enact legislation allowing same sex marriage, paving the way for the first ceremonies to take place in the spring (ah, all decked out under the apple blossoms; how romantic). Predictably, the Catholic Church has worked itself into a petulant frenzy over it, and is attempting to blackmail the City by saying it’ll suspend all its charitable works in DC if they’re forced to treat “those people” like regular human beings. I think that’s how God would want it, don’t you?
I also think God would want the City Council to revisit its mechanism of determining what constitutes a “tax exempt” entity. If the Catholics want to abandon the vast amount of homeless and poor folks in DC, that’s cool. Now start paying taxes on all that prime real estate you own (including that University with the shitty dorms). In fact, I’d go beyond that, and tell them they need to perform at least a dozen same sex marriages (Priests and Altar Boys don’t count) a week in that fancy schmancy Basilica of theirs (which looks pretty gay to me), or all their property will be assessed at full value, and we’ll be needing a check by the end of January (and another one for the school taxes in September).
Turns out Kimberly Munley – the heroic female cop credited with “taking down” the Ft. Hood shooter – was certainly heroic – just not the person who put Major Hasan down. It was Sgt. Mark Todd who plugged Hasan and then kicked he shooter’s gun away. Kinda makes you wonder what else we aren’t hearing about this whole thing. I mean, first, they told us Hasan was dead – and that was the official story for many hours. Then for some reason (why? Better story?) they tell us – despite lots of other eyewitness accounts – that one cop ended the ordeal, when in fact it was somebody else. They say Hasan shouted “Allah Akbar,” too. Will that turn out to be true? Or just another good story? I’m starting to wonder if Nidal Malik Hasan’s name will turn out to be Nicholas Michael Hogan, and instead of being a Muslim, he’s a Scientologist.
If I didn’t know better, I’d think the Army is just incapable of telling the truth or something. But that can’t be, ‘cuz I saw Stanley McCrystal on the teevee, and when he says he can win in Afghanistan if only he gets more troops, I just know it’s true. 🙄
Last Friday, when I noticed it was November 6th, I had a premonition that we would soon have a Friday the 13th – and here it is. Spooky, isn’t it? I’m kind of Nostradamic that way. To celebrate, I decided to take the day off (since it’s going to be a nice, sunny day, and I’m getting tired of coming home from work when it’s pitch black out). Looks like the dogs are gonna get a nice long walk today.
Watch out for black cats, and stay away from ladders today.
Enjoy the day off, PJ. I always find the days I take off to be quite enjoyable.
Here in Brooklyn it is VERY windy. Gusts over 40 mph. Finally, all those beautiful red and yellow leaves that have been gathering on my sidewalk have disappeared. I’ve also got a collection of my neighbor’s stuff in my backyard, but I guess I’ll have to give it back when the wind stops blowing.
Yes the Army lies. I know you realize this PJ, but McCrystal was the same guy who covered up the real Pat Tillman story.
And then there was Jessica Lynch of course.
This is probably not PC, but why doesn’t someone mention that the Ft.Hood soldiers were just doing their job? If the cretin Hasan didn’t attack them he would have gone after civilians. I thought soldiers are there to protect civilians and take the brunt of the force? If there is one building we would rather see an arsonist try to burn down, it would be a fire station. Or a mugger trying to hold-up an undercover cop.
I was down in Ft Hood when the Killeen massacre was still somewhat fresh in people’s memories. That killer was upset over the Clarence Thomas selection. In retrospect, I wonder if people would rather had that guy attack the nearby Ft Hood instead of a restaurant. That was the biggest massacre until the Virginia Tech killings a couple years ago.
Yet as someone mentioned, the VT killer and Hasan both had attended Virginia Tech. The Army lies or people from VT are killers. What should we believe?
I would rather see the media talk about false correlation/causality stories than blindly regurgitate whatever the Army tells them.
NASA announced that a “significant” amount of water has been found on the moon, following the LCROSS mission to “bomb” the moon earlier this year.
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pj- You should take off every friday. You were on FIRE this morning. I wish I’d read it before I went to work. It would have warmed up a very grey day here in Colorado.
Dude, you’re Huffington-Post-Worthy. :bow:
oh, and before it’s too late…,
it’s :boobs: Friday!
And one other thing. Since Hasan is a terrorist, why aren’t they waterboarding him? After all, he could be holding some vewwy important secwets.. He could have been the guy that stole my shoe !!! :fire: