Sideshow Bob embarrasses us again

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The Richmond Federal Reserve is flying the rainbow flag to acknowledge gay/lesbian/bisexual/transgender  pride month.  The request was made by PRISM, an advocacy group for the aforementioned groups.   The Fed is a private establishment.  Its first vice president, Sally Green acknowledged:

“We are flying the pride flag as an example of our commitment to the values of acceptance and inclusion.”

Sounds good to me.  Pretty flag, commitment to inclusion.  Gay people make and have money.  What could anyone find wrong?

Enter side-show Bob Marshall, 13th delegate district who claims  that flying the rainbow flag represents

“…a serious deficiency of judgment by your organization, one not limited to social issues.”

According to the Richmond Times Dispatch:

In a letter to Richmond Fed President Jeffrey M. Lacker, Marshall says the homosexual behavior “celebrated” by the bank “undermines the American economy” and is a class six felony in Virginia.

“The Richmond Fed’s endorsement of costly, anti-social, immoral behavior is rejected by 6,000 years of Western Religious and moral teaching,” writes Marshall, who is among the General Assembly’s most conservative members and has long been outspoken on gay-rights issues. “You want the American people to trust your [judgment] in economic matters when your spokesperson celebrates an attack on public morals?”

 

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Torture: Finding our moral compass

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Guest Post:  Colonel Morris Davis
A singe cell unit taken at the Tuol Sleng Genocide Museum in Phnom Penh, Cambodia. Under Khmer Rouge, prisons and interrogation centers were euphemistically referred to as "Security Centers." (Courtesy Alan Chan via flickr)

By Morris Davis

The imagery depicting the mutilated body of 13-year old Hamza Ali al-Khateeb was rapidly disseminated around the world and is Syrian President Bashar al-Assad’s Abu Ghraib; iconic images documenting torture forever etched into the record of his government’s infamous history.

At nearly the same time, the body of Pakistani journalist Syed Saleem Shahzad, who had written about suspected links between some in the Pakistani government and extremists, was pulled from a canal about 100 miles from his home where he was last seen alive. His body bore the marks of torture, too. Suspicion immediately fell on Pakistan’s spy agency, the Inter-Services Intelligence (ISI) agency, and adds to a growing list of doubts about the ISI and the Pakistani government that includes possible links to the deadly terrorist attack in Mumbai, India, in 2008 and providing safe harbor to al Qaeda leader Osama Bin Laden until U.S. forces killed him in 2011 in Abbottabad.

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Turtle Wrasslin’ and Almost Losing An Eye

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Guest Contributor:  Cargo Squid

 

So there we were….driving home down Highway 81, from the Lucky Gunner Blogger Machine Gun Shoot, listening to a mystery on tape, when out of the blue,

TURTLE!

What?

Turtle! Back there! Pull over!

I had seen a suicidal turtle making a mad dash for the interstate. About the size of a dinner plate, it was hurtling across the shoulder at top speed, on its way to CERTAIN DOOM.

So, my wife, familiar with my tendency to be insane, pulls over and backs up. (We appear to be a little suicidally crazy too.) I pull on my shoes and jump out of the car. The Turtle is about to cross…the WHITE LINE OF DEATH!

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Dr. Jack Kavorkian, age 83, dead

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Dr. Jack Kevorkian is dead at age 83.  Dr. Kevorkian was a leader in the ‘death with dignity’ movement.  He spent time in prison for his efforts in ‘assisted suicide’ with terminally ill patients.  Dr. Kevorkian also went by such epithets as “Dr. Death.”   Kevorkian attempted running for office and a movie was made chronicling his efforts to legalize euthanasia called ‘You Don’t Know Jack’, starring Al Pacino as the controversial doctor. 

I always thought Dr. Kevorkian should be named a national hero  rather than imprisoned.  He helped people who were too seriously ill, help themselves.  He wanted to help end suffering.  Is that so horrible? 

As more baby boomers come of age where things like this matter, the more ‘death with dignity’ will become a political issue.  Right now, only Washington and Oregon have any laws that allow people to decide when and where they ‘check out.’ 

Between a C*#K and a Hard Place for Rep Weiner

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The Big Wang Theory? Holy cow. This story is taking on a life of its own. It really falls in the category of SO WHAT! How can one determine if generic gray boxers are theirs?

Poor Anthony Weiner. I can’ get serious over this issue. This is just a gift that keeps on giving.

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