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Archive for March 25, 2007
Take my uterus – please
Could it be that the war on condoms, and birth control in general, is an agenda for a Christian majority? And, why is the Pope talking about economics and individualism? Seems more political than spiritual to me.
Pope: Europe Losing Faith in Its Future | The Huffington Post
Benedict expressed concern that Europe’s population trends, “besides putting economic growth at risk, can also cause enormous difficulties for social cohesion, and, above all, favor dangerous individualism, careless about the consequences for the future.”
So, what do the Protestants have on their concern list? How about the Muslims? Buddhists?
Politicians, Popes, Imams, Ministers…All of them want to control the uterus.
As a woman, I would support an organ transplant program to all the male leaders in the world. Take my uterus – please. In fact, have my vagina as well – then you can impregnate yourself, because you should also have to remain the responsible for your penis. You guys take the responsibility of making babies (or not) and we will see how you fare in our world. In fact, I would like to choose my uterus/vagina recipient – Tony Perkins come on down!
My guess – Condom stocks go through the roof.
Meme – Oh, That’s What It Means…
Kinda knew what it meant, but never looked it up. What to do with myself on Sunday morning….
Memetics – Wikipedia
Dawkins contended that the meme is a unit of information residing in the brain and is the mutating replicator in human cultural evolution. It is a pattern that can influence its surroundings – that is, it has causal agency – and can propagate.
David Frum
I saw David Frum on Bill Maher last Friday and couldn’t believe how he stammered his support for the Iraq invasion and occupation. To be fair, he was in an environment with an audience hostile to his position. Still, if he so believed this is the right war, at the right time, in the right country – it would be less surprising how unconvinced he sounded.
Crooks & Liars has the video and I snatched this comment from John Amato:
Crooks and Liars » What’s the Answer in Iraq, David?
Update: John Amato: A close friend of David’s told me that he had to talk him off the cliff after he had visited Iraq and watched the horror that he helped create…
Why can’t these neocons just admit they were wrong abut going into Iraq?
Anger is one of the best motivators
Reading Dean’s interview with Thomas B. Edsall is enlightening to say the least. Limbaugh, Hannity and Coulter – and other high energy anger peddlers – are explained in the context of what their role is in the GOP scheme of things. Interesting stuff. Edsall’s book is going on my reading list (the paperback is out this summer he says).
John Dean: Questions Thomas B. Edsall
Building Red America The New Conservative Coalition and the Drive for Permanent Power
Q: Your title in Chapter 2 “Anger Points: Polarization as a Republican Strategy.” Did your research show that when wedge issues provoke anger they are particularly effective? What are some examples?A: The Republican Party used many sophisticated data-mining and micro-targeting techniques – culling consumer lists, magazine subscriptions, polling and other information – to develop portraits of individual voters. The goal was to identify likely Republican voters and their “anger points.” Issues lending themselves to political manipulation – i.e., issues touching upon anger points — included gay marriage, welfare, spending for social services, taxes, abortion, and culturally permissive government policies, and government interventions viewed as favoring the interests of ethnic and racial minorities. The GOP found that anger is one of the best motivators for mobilizing political participation. [Emphasis Mine]
