Archive of entries posted on 27th March 2013

Wisdom of the Day: Marriage Ban Ventura Whitey

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Obama Warned Us – Sharing

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What the American people hope -– what they deserve -– is for all of us, Democrats and Republicans, to work through our differences; to overcome the numbing weight of our politics. For while the people who sent us here have different backgrounds, different stories, different beliefs, the anxieties they face are the same. The aspirations they hold are shared: a job that pays the bills; a chance to get ahead; most of all, the ability to give their children a better life.

BARACK OBAMA, State of the Union Address, Jan. 27, 2010

“The people who sent us here” (Obama voters) don’t have aspirations of their own. They want you to “share” yours. They want your money to pay their bills, they want you to only be able to work 28 hours a week because your employer can’t afford Obamacare so that they can get ahead because the IRS is hiring full time, and they want you to buy their ne’er-do-well kids an Obamaphone.

Rule the Wreckage

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So Obama has taken a hit in the polls after all his doomsday talk on sequester showed how absolutely full of it he is, so now what’s Obama going to do? Pivot to illegal immigration. If the sequester failed to inflict pain on the American people, that should do it.

Obama’s response to a bad economy and unemployment has been pretty odd. For one, he passed Obamacare which does nothing but make employing people more expensive. And now he’s pushing for more illegal immigrants to increase competition for the few jobs left. Why? Because Obama doesn’t care about making the economy better. That doesn’t help him. What helps is ensuring the Democrats have votes, and they’ve found easier ways to do that than worrying about the complex finances of our nation. If they can pander and bring in millions of new votes through amnesty, it doesn’t matter what a mess the country will be because the Democrats will have a lock on political power. So that’s their goal for the country: A big, smoldering wreck that they have completely political control over, i.e., the whole country will be California.

Hopefully We’ll at Least Get a Learning Experience

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So the Supreme Court heard arguments on gay marriage yesterday, and who knows how they’ll rule but the course we’re on now seems pretty certain. I still find this thing absurd, but with how much emotion there is and how quickly it’s come upon people, trying to talk rationally about gay marriage is like trying to talk rationally about regular marriage to two lovesick teenagers. Of course, marriage is not really a rational thing anyway — it’s a religious thing — and that’s why emotion will win out in the end. And that’s why the arguments will always get silly (such as those in front of SCOTUS trying to explain how same-sex marriage must be allowed by polygamy is still bad and icky).

As I’ve said before, the best end is to get government out of marriage all together — completely separate the religious aspects from the legal ones. No one seems to be leading us in that direction, though, and all that’s left to do is just watch as this train wreck everyone is so excited for happens (“It’s the civil right issue of our generation!”). The government will come up with a new definition of marriage — and then another and another until it’s a completely silly abstraction. And then there will be the lawsuits on churches that won’t perform same-sex marriages — religious liberty has just become an obstacle for free birth control anyway.

Oh well. We’ll muddle through it. And maybe learn something in the end… if the country is still around because it hasn’t collapsed in debt or something.

Random Thoughts: Gay Marriage and Stuff

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Maybe the court will surprise everybody and rule that Prop 8 is super awesome and should apply everywhere.

Don’t worry about reading the Constitution before finding out a Supreme Court decision; there’s no spoilers in there.

“Looking over this constitution, I think you basically mandated gay marriage in here.” -Founding Father no-one listened to

I think the thing I like least about gay marriage is the moral preening.

I thought the progressive stance was to belittle the whole concept of marriage?

This is just like the civil rights movement of the 60s, except remade as a wacky comedy.

The reason you’ve never heard anyone speak out against Prop 8 before is because all the people opposed to it have tape over their mouths.

The path we’re on with gay marriage is a bad idea, but feels like rationalizing with lovesick teenagers that regular marriage is a bad idea.

In the end, there is just nothing particularly rational about marriage. Emotion wins.

So what are all these equal signs about? Affirmative action protest?

“We were sure this was the big civil rights issue of our era; thus we changed our Facebook avatars.” -rambling old people decades from now

So how did people get to thinking marriage was a man/woman thing in the first place?

So we all understand polygamy is inevitable, right? You can’t say the genders are unimportant but the number is sacrosanct.

Well, you could make a religious argument.

Argument against SSM: Marriage has always been between a man and a woman!
Argument against polygamy: Marriage has always been two people!

Happy Passover!

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[High Praise! to Irritable Pundit]

This may sound strange, but as an atheist who has no religious holidays, it always makes me exceptionally happy when religious people wish me happiness on *their* religious holidays. Makes me feel like I’m being handed a little gift-wrapped box of joy.

Spontaneous kind gestures like that are one of the biggest blessings of the human condition.

Happy passover to you, too, IP.