I'm unsure as to why John Podesta and Robert Levy thought it necessary to co-author an opinion piece for today's Washington Post [Marriage equality for all couples]. It's certainly not because the two working together could come up with a new angle on the issue of same-sex "marriage".
The piece consists of pretty much the standard argument that the supporters have been using of late. Namely, that marriage between same sex couples is an issue of equality and simply a continuation of the wrongs righted by the Supreme Court case of Loving vs Virginia in 1967 which put an end to bans on interracial marriage in the United States.
That argument is no different than the one put forth by Richard Cohen in the same paper in December, 2009. Since the argument hasn't changed, obviously, my response would be the same as it was when I criticized Cohen with my post, It's the Biology, Stupid.
"The race-based restrictions on marriage were based on erroneous beliefs concerning the "racial superiority" of Caucasians over "non-whites". The ban on interracial marriages was based on the racist idea that children born of such a marriage would pollute the "white race". Of course, we all know now that no race is superior or inferior to any other race. The children that come from interracial marriages are equal in every way to children coming from "same race" unions.
There never has been any legitimate reason to prohibit marriage between a man and woman of different races.
The same cannot be said about "marriages" between two men or two women. As much as some would wish it were otherwise, the ultimate biological and evolutionary purpose of sex is to reproduce the species. I know it isn't fashionable to say this, but sex is not about self expression. In this day of contraceptives and abortion-on-demand, people seem to have forgotten this basic biological fact."
I am surprised, however, that the Post published the opinion piece today, June 8. Wouldn't it have been more fitting for the paper to wait 4 days and publish the piece on June 12 ? June 12 is, after all, Loving Day.
"Obama told CNN's Larry King on Thursday that he is 'furious at this entire situation. . . . Somebody didn't think through the consequences of their actions.'"
Is he referring to the dunderheads that voted for him? They sure as hell didn't "think through the consequences of their actions".
Obama is a half step away from being declared as incompetent as Jimmy Carter.
I suppose I should look on the bright side. At least he's too incompetent to get most of his agenda passed. That would really damage the country.
Checking the Google Analytics, I learned that my post, Boycotting BP had received an unusually high number of hits Saturday, particularly from Facebook. As a matter a fact, it received significantly more than the number of friends I have on Facebook, so I surmised that a link to my post must have been placed on the Boycott BP Facebook page. I attempted to verify that assumption by checking out the page....but there are so many people posting so many links that it was impossible for me to go through the whole site.
At any rate, going through the Boycott BP Facebook page, I see now the number of fans is approaching a quarter of a million. Jeez, Louise. As any of the fans can leave links and comments, I came across a link from a Facebook group calling for the replacement of crude oil with hemp oil. A typical comment on that page reads, We need to harness the backlash against oil, and the best way to do it, is to push people in favor of legalized hemp farming across the United States and abroad. Remember: 6 times cheaper at the pump with no oil wars, no oil spills and a reverse of the greenhouse effect. There's no downside to hemp enthanol [sic] , unless you're an oil company.
Never mind that we've tried this before using corn to produce ethanol - with disastrous effects on world food prices. If farmers can make more money growing hemp than they can growing food grains the price of wheat, corn, and other cereal grains will go up.
A fan of the Facebook hemp oil page put up a Youtube video which I am posting here. They are really coming out of the woodwork. Watch this video to the end as this space cadet tells of how they are using this oil spill disaster to relocate everyone on the Gulf ...... and put RFID tags on everybody.
I understand now how we ended up with Obama as President.
Obama is looking to kick ass over the BP oil leak.
