20 people that think being bigots toward gays is OK
Embarrassingly, yesterday the New Jersey Senate voted down the Same Sex Marriage Act, because with an incoming, proud bigot coming in as Governor, it became OK to hate “teh gays” again I guess.
State Senator Sean Kean (R), who lives in what he calls “the gayest district in New Jersey” voted “No” on gay marriage. I guess, voting in a way that represents the people of your district isn’t important in his and others eyes in the Senate.
I just want to make sure I have it on record, the 20 people that voted no, the 20 people that think that being bigoted is OK, that think “all men are created equal… except those faggots.” This way, when election time rolls around again, and they say they want to represent the people of New Jersey, we can return the favor and say “NO” to them.
The Republicans that Voted NO:
Bateman, Branchburg
Beck, Red Bank
Bucco, Denville
Cardinale, Demarest
Connors, Surf City
Doherty, Washington Township, Warren County
Haines, Springfield
S. Kean, Wall
T. Kean, Westfield
Kyrillos, Middletown
Oroho, Franklin Borough
O’Toole, Cedar Grove
Pennacchio, Montville
Singer, Lakewood.
The Democrats that added to the embarrasement by voting no
Girgenti, Hawthorne
Madden, Washington Township, Gloucester County
Rice, Newark
Sacco, North Bergen
Turner, Trenton
Van Drew, Dennis
Can’t blame the moon
Often when weird things happen, the immediate (and folklore-ish) way to explain it is to fall back on blaming a full moon. Well, the full moon is certainly not ocurring now, and yet this weekend seemed to be filled with the weird and bizarre.
The weekend started out, with the news of a college student that committed suicide “live” via webcam, while some audience members either egged him on, and others tried to talk him out of it. While my thoughts go out to the family, I have to admit that the immediate speculation of potenteial lawsuits I find bothersome. It is a tragedy to be sure, but speculation that you could blame the web host just smacks of opportunism.
Here in my home state of New Jersey, and actually not terribly far from me, only a couple of towns over, came an incident where a man drove across the country to confront and then shoot is estrange wife and two other victims in a Clifton, NJ church. The woman recently moved from California to New Jersey to escape her estranged husband and even had a restraining order against him. He drove… drove! That is what, five days worth of premeditation? He is still currently at large, but when they catch this clown, my only regret right now is that New Jersey has suspended the death penalty here in New Jersey, because if anybody deserves it, it would be an animal like this.
Then we have the sword weilding maniac that was shot and killed at a Scientology Church in California. Apparently, he never saw Raiders of the Lost Ark, where Indiana Jones shows quite well what happens when a man with a sword threatens a man with a gun.
Cannot end well
I certainly hope my cynical side is just coming through, and part of me is sympathic for her reasons, but the fact that a a Roseville woman has resorted to a pellet gun to solve her rat problem makes me… well… nervous.
Like I said I can sympathize, or at least empathize. I know the sight of just a little field mouse can send TheWife, normally a relatively tough and not easily scared woman, scurrying up onto a table, counter or chair. So when dealing with a rat infestation problem, which of course brings the fear of all sorts of diseases, I can’t fault anyone for being willing to take extreme measure.
But a pellet gun? Well, I can see the Red Ryder BB Gun jokes/comparions coming along when somebody gets their eye put out in an unfortunate accident.
And this is (supposedly) a Blue State
For the most part, falling only perhaps to Liz, I am as pro-New Jersey person as you will find. Despite what a lot of people and comedians may lead you to believe there is a lot to like. I am not going to go into a long list here (your welcome). But one of those things that I am typically happy about is that (perhaps thanks to northern logistics), it is a place that race does not usually play a big part in the way people thing.
Perhaps that is why then I am utterly shocked and amazed when something like this comes along. It seems that Pemberton Republican Club in New Jersey thought it would be cute to try and link Barack Obama and OJ Simpson with the slogan, “Obama loves America like O.J. loved Nicole.”
The club’s Web master, Ed Kuck, didn’t respond to a message left at his home but told The Philadelphia Inquirer that he saw the slogan on an Internet site and copied it onto the club’s Web page as a joke.
“I just want to apologize to anybody who was offended, because that wasn’t our intention at all,” Kuck told the newspaper.
Racism, is apparently still “funny” to some people. While this fact does not shock me, and I fully expect to see more pathetic attempts to inject racism into the race, I never expected it to come from here. Just goes to show, narrow minded people live everywhere.
Friday Foccacia
CHO me the outrage - I have to admit that I am more than a little surprised at the lack of lashback against Yahoo! and their new Shine. Ask.com recently decided it was going to be a niche search engine, dedicated to “married women looking for help managing their lives” and now Yahoo! has seemingly taken the steps to create a sight dedicated to the “Chief Household Officer” (CHO). According the story on Yahoo News, Yahoo said the site will have “attitude,” “personality,” and humor, while providing advice and secret tips like “a friend.” Maybe it is just me (and am I really the right one to be offended by this?), but about the only way I could see Yahoo! making this a bit more misogynistic, would have been if they added to that saying something like, “would be just like your best friend, only it won’t steal your boyfriend.” The only thing I can figure is that the content is good enough to keep people from being annoyed by the marketing mis-steps.
Comparison shop on the fly – So you are shopping in a store and see something you like, but you are thinking, “I could probably find it cheaper online” but that requires you to avoid the instant gratification of buying it “now” right? Well, not anymore. Amazon has now started the TextBuyIt program, which people text the name of a product, its description or its UPC or ISBN to 262966 (that’s “Amazon” on the keypad) from anywhere their cell phones work — including from inside physical stores.”
And you thought it was just to wake you up – According to a new research report, coffee may cut the risk of dementia. So, as it turns out, not only will coffee enable you to keep up with your kids, it will help keep them from driving you nuts. (I’m joking, please no e-mail defining what dementia really means)
Not Just Wrong, well beyond it - Every time I think I can’t see anything new that parent’s do that would bother me… bang… there it is. This time, it is an article in Philadelphia Magazine about mothers taking their pre-pubescent daughters in for Bikini Waxes, eyebrow waxing and other spa beauty treatments. Tell me, what are the odds of these girls not growing up with severe body issues?
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