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Gay/Lesbian

Are Obama and Gay Inc planning to roll women under the bus to g...

Transsexualism, actually gender identity disorder, is a medical condition listed in the DSM-IV and is considered treatable. The treatment is hormone therapy and sex reassignment surgery. As a prescribed treatment for a medical condition, I don'tcthink it would qualify as purely cosmetic or elective.  (Friday | post #69)

Morrison, IL

Most support Illinois' vye for Guantanamo prisoners - WQAD

After ten years, the hope that Thomson will be opened as a state prison are all but dead. It has about 2000 beds and I think 150 of them have ever been used. It's like buying a junk car to fix up and never getting around to it. Sure, it would be best to fix it up and drive it. But after so many years of not getting it done, selling it to a collector seems like a decent idea too.  (Friday Nov 20 | post #23)

Morrison, IL

Train vs. truck collision

I suppose there should be a sign on roads leading to that crossing, like they have for low clearance underpasses and narrow bridges. Maybe a little picture of a hill with a semi truck/teeter totter on it.  (Friday Nov 20 | post #1)

Morrison, IL

Most support Illinois' vye for Guantanamo prisoners - WQAD

I find it VERY telling that you put the term civil rights in quotes. It shows how much respect you have for them. We are a country built upon the notion of civil rights for ALL, not just for some and not just for American citizens. What you see as Bush doing everything within his power to keep us safe, I see as Bush doing whatever he could at the cost of this country. I saw him try to kill what this country stood for, civil rights, checks and balances, liberty. He tried to keep people alive, MAYBE, but at what cost? He cr@pped on the bill of rights, and you put the words civil liberties in quotes. We are the nation of due process, of innocent until proven guilty, of not just declaring people evil and shooting them on sight without a trial. It's what America was built on and it's what we stand for. It's why we shouldn't torture and it's why we should give SUSPECTS, unconvicted suspects some of whom may actually turn out to be innocent (it's been known to happen) a chance. ANd it's why we should close down Gitmo. The rest of the world sees us now as one of the bad guys based on Bush's policies of extreme rendition and "enhanced interrogation techniques". Yes, the bad guys do worse, but we aren't them and we shouldn't be happy with just being a little over that bar. We are supposed to stand up as the nation of honor, and dignity, and moral certicude. You may disagree with Obama, and it's clear you do, but Bush was no winner when he declared himself and the US above all authority. We don't need to be the bully nation anymore. We can and should close Gitmo (even your precious Bush was willing to do that), and as long as we need to move those guys somewhere, it might as well be where federal paychecks will go in local coffers. I won't argue you on nuclear rods, because I haven't reasearched that subject. But I would personally feel safer with gitmo detainees in Thomson than nuclear waste.  (Thursday Nov 19 | post #17)

Morrison, IL

Most support Illinois' vye for Guantanamo prisoners - WQAD

Fine, you hate Obama and you have a beef about spent rods. we get it. Now get back on topic and quit ranting. You sound like a lunatic.  (Tuesday Nov 17 | post #12)

Morrison, IL

Most support Illinois' vye for Guantanamo prisoners - WQAD

Kelly mentions terrorists and their families. What families are you talking about? You really think they'd move all over trying to get close? Why? There are NO visiting hours for a super-max prison. And new terrorists coming here? I'm pretty sure, having lived in this white-bread area my whole life, that any middle eastern person moving to Thomson (population 500 or so) would attract notice, something terrorists are notoriously unlikely to do since it botches their chances of getting away with terrorizing people. I'm not sure there are a dozen non WASP people in all of Thomson so I think new non-prison-employe e people, let alone foreigners, would stand out like a sore thumb. This was always a maximum security prison. It was ALWAYS going to house serial killers and gangs and bombers and child rapist/killers. But state prisons bring with them an influx of visitors (and friends of inmates tend to be former and future inmates) and prison gypsies. Prison gypsies are the families of inmates who move from town to town as the inmate is transferred between prisons, to stay close to their loved one, because the state will send a welfare check to any address. The difference now? No gypsies, no visitors, more security. We already house terrorists on US soil. ( http://www.slate.c om/id/2219268/ ) Why not let Thomson have some of the money now?  (Monday Nov 16 | post #10)

Gay/Lesbian

Sometimes Freud Was Right

Hmmm, I see xenophobia, religious bigotry, homophobia, and just an outright need to bash people in the head. It's funny. DO these "sexy male models" really think that their audience is adult hetero women? Straight women of legal age aren't the ones going to madabouttheboys.bl ogspot.com any more frequently than penthouse letters turn out to be true.  (Thursday Nov 12 | post #2)

Gay/Lesbian

Are Obama and Gay Inc planning to roll women under the bus to g...

I love it when I hear people talk like anyone who doesn't have benefits just doesn't want to work full time. I heard this argument from several repub governors during the stimulus debate. Why should they extend unemployment benefits to people who are unwilling to work a full time job? As if the single mom who works 3 waitressing jobs because she can't FIND a full time job is unwilling. And now people who don't have employer-provided health insurance "can't find the time to get a job." What about the self-employed, or the recently laid off, or again - the person working multiple part time or temp jobs while trying to find a full time job? What about farmers, and retail workers, and all the other people who WANT to work, who in fact DO work, but who don't receive employer-provided health insurance? I suppose there just wouldn't be cracks if some people weren't meant to fall through them, huh.  (Tuesday Nov 10 | post #45)

Gay/Lesbian

Portman lesbian scene 'extreme'

You reverse the cause and effect, my friend. When you take impressing the opposite sex out of the equation, you also remove many reasons for adhering to societal gender roles. Why bother with long flowing hair when your partner understands what a hassle it is? Why shave your legs when your partner understands that human legs grow hair, and doesn't care if yours do. Why worry about make up and nail polish when your partner loves you for who you are without it, and isn't interested in proving her manhood to the other guys? Women aren't gay because they don't look femmy. Some of them choose not to look femmy because they're gay. And many of them choose all the outward appearances of femininity anyway, because that's who they are.  (Tuesday Nov 10 | post #11)

Gay/Lesbian

Are Obama and Gay Inc planning to roll women under the bus to g...

I am pro-choice, but that doesn't mean that the choice has to be made affordable. I believe people have the choice of whether or not to have any elective medical procedure, but they don't all have to be covered by insurance. The whole "What if they can't afford it" argument doesn't carry water with me, sorry. For one thing, many abortion clinics already charge on a sliding scale so it's not like they cost thousands of dollars as it is now. For another, what if people can't afford lots of stuff? I believe in the public option, for HEALTH care, not for convenience. If an abortion is medically necessary then fine, cover it. But not as an elective surgery. Insurance companies do that already with other procedures that could go either way. If your back bothers you because of weight up front, breast reduction is covered; if you just want to look different it's not. To over-simplify, cover prescriptions, not over the counters. And for the record, some states mandate that any insurance company doing business within the state cover birth control. I don't know which ones do, but in Illinois, it's covered. There are also plenty of women's health clinics and county health departments handing it out for free too.  (Monday Nov 9 | post #29)

Gay/Lesbian

Are Obama and Gay Inc planning to roll women under the bus to g...

I personally don't see why abortions have to be federally funded, but I don't think government should tell private insurance NOT to cover something. And what's with the hate for vasectomies? Vasectomies help men AND women. If I were a woman who didn't want any more kids, I'd be pretty pissed if insurance would pay for invasive surgery for me but not an outpatient procedure for my husband. That would be more sexist, to say "we'll only pay if the woman undergoes major surgery."  (Monday Nov 9 | post #3)

Gay/Lesbian

Portman lesbian scene 'extreme'

I don't think anyone 'invented' the G-spot or the 1 hour orgasm, but I seriously doubt a heterosexual man found either of them. I seriously doubt many heterosexual men would care to look for either of them.  (Saturday Nov 7 | post #6)

Gay/Lesbian

Skywest Airlines Accused of Discrimination Against Same-Sex Cou...

My grandmother told me once that she reads the bible every single day, multiple times a day, but doesn't understand a word of it. She prays to Jesus to see fit to make her understand but in His infinite wisdom, He doesn't. But she knows that the bible, and by extension God, is against gays because her preacher on the TV tells her so. The people exist and they're scary as Hell. They don't believe in the bible or in a loving God and Jesus, but in a single interpretation by the telepharisees. And they'll never admit that there might be a flaw in that, that it might be possible for someone to feed them false information. The fact is, even if you believe Jesus to be a fictional character, he was not a hateful one.  (Monday Nov 2 | post #44)

Gay/Lesbian

Skywest Airlines Accused of Discrimination Against Same-Sex Cou...

Some people (albeit seemingly the majority) interpret their religions to oppose homosexual sex. I have never heard of a religion that opposes homosexual love, only the sex. These same religions oppose heterosexual sex when it occurs outside of some very narrow confines (only when married and in some religions, only when actively trying to conceive) but people conveniently forget that. Some folks do NOT disagree with homosexuality or homosexual sex on religions grounds, including Episcopalians, Quakers, and a host of others. BUT, the law in this country, which does not ban the marrying of non-virgin heterosexuals or heterosexuals who admittedly engage in sodomy, withdrawl (Onan, remember) adultery (open relationships) and other "sins", does deny secular civil marriage rights to homosexuals based on a religious interpretation against gay sex. No one is really fighting against religion opposing us, not right now. We just want people to understand that not ALL religion opposes us, and that religious interpretation has no place in civil law. Keep in mind that religion has also been interpreted to defend and justify racism, segregation, slavery, sexism, and child abuse. So, interpretations can change and it doesn't have a great track record anyway. And if you're going to use the New Testament as your personal defense, bear in mind that not only was Jesus against judging even offenses that had been clearly banned in the Old Testament, but he personally interfered in the legal punishment for prostitution, showing that he was so opposed to judgment that he wanted criminal sentencing withheld.  (Monday Nov 2 | post #38)

Gay/Lesbian

Skywest Airlines Accused of Discrimination Against Same-Sex Cou...

I mean, if you can legally adopt kids of different races, why not houseplants or cars? Because, you know, legal arrangements establishing kinship are ALWAYS logically extended to inanimate objects. Idiot. Civil marriage, the kind that can be performed by judges and ship's captains rather than church officiants, are legal contracts. They can only be signed by people legally recognized as able to sign contracts. That's why you can't marry your heterosexual, legally adult, opposite sex girlfriend if she is, say, in a coma. It is ALSO why you will never be able to marry a pet, or a sex toy, or luggage. Because these things cannot legally sign contracts, or give consent, OR SAY "I DO", and they never will be able to. The idea that a gay man is the equivalent to a houseplant, and that if one can get married then so can the other, is insulting to ALL men. I mean, if my brother could marry you, he could marry a brick, because you're a brick, right? What, you mean you're an adult capable of making your own informed decisions and then standing by them later? Well then what happens to your houseplant analogy?  (Saturday Oct 31 | post #21)