August 13, 2005
Tales from the Left - We Can't Make This Stuff Up
Thanks to liberals, we don't have to make up anything crazy to report on them. They give us more material than we can use. Look at these samples:
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The Florida State Guardianship Association (FSGA) bestowed its Guardian of the Year Award on Schiavo for carrying out his wife's wishes not to be kept alive artificially despite a drumbeat of criticism. In a rare public appearance, Schiavo, 42, accepted the award at the association's 18th annual conference at the Doral Golf Resort & Spa. 'As you know,' he said, 'I'm not much of a speechmaker. I don't talk much. But on behalf of my wife, Theresa, I thank you.'
Great choice, huh? And, Michael, that's okay about not making a speech. Your actions speak louder than your words. And, you accepted on behalf of your wife, too! Enjoy your visit at the spa and resort and think how much Terri would have liked being there with you.
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In a related story...
Schiavo Seeks Extension on Deadline to Sue Caregivers
Michael Schiavo has asked a Florida court to extend the deadline for him to file lawsuits under the state's medical malpractice laws. The move indicates that Schiavo could be planning to sue some of the medical professionals who cared for his former wife, Terri Schiavo.
(Wait. I thought he didn't want her to get any care.) Anyway, I hope that any extra monetary awards that you win, Michael, will help to ease your pain.
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Planned Parenthood Wants Choice - "Choose to like us or choose to die."
An animated video produced for a Planned Parenthood chapter in California, advocating sexual activity by teenagers and violence against conservatives who oppose abortion, was removed from the organization's website Tuesday, but the reaction to the video itself is still pouring in. Jim Sedlak, executive director of American Life League's STOPP International, told Cybercast News Service that what the animation 'really shows is that if you don't agree with Planned Parenthood, then they want to eliminate you violently.'The video...features a female superhero called Dianisis, presumably named after the president and CEO of PPGG, Dian J. Harrison. Dianisis travels the world fighting for 'choice.'
'It starts out with an abstinence educator who is simply trying to tell kids that if they want to avoid STDs and other problems, that they should abstain from sexual activity. Planned Parenthood's response is to drown him in a garbage can,' Sedlak said.
'Then you have pro-life protestors outside a Planned Parenthood and in the video, [Planned Parenthood] even admit[s] that these people are not violent, they are doing everything legal, but she just wishes they would go away, so she shoots them with a condom gun and blows them up,' Sedlak added.
The next scene....
There's more, and this is good. If you want to view the fun cartoon, go to the bottom of this article; or, go to The Dawn Patrol (a different one) to see pictures and comments along with another link to the clip.
Here's the kicker from the article. You're paying for this!
Sedlak called for taxpayers to cut off Planned Parenthood funds. 'People should understand that we give Planned Parenthood $265 million a year in taxpayer money. That particular affiliate in San Francisco, PPGG, gets over $9 million a year in government money -- just that one affiliate and this is what they're spending the money on; on films promoting violence.'
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Next...
Court Ruling Paves Way for Men to Wear Dresses to Work
The Commonwealth Court of Pennsylvania ruled Thursday to uphold a human relations ordinance in Allentown, Pa., which added 'sexual orientation' and 'gender identity' - a ruling a family group said paves the way for men to wear dresses to work and to shower with female coworkers.
I don't know how many men will get drunk enough to put on a dress just to gain entrance into the women's locker room, but I do know that two straight men just got married to each other under the new Canadian gay marriage law just so that they could enjoy the tax benefits--much to the consternation of the gay community.
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Finally...NORAD, which is charged with protecting our air spaces against terrorist attacks, took some time off and reallocated funds to see if it could be as silly as the NCAA about being PC.
Military commands drop Indian terms from exercise titles
(NORAD) at Peterson Air Force Base in Colorado Springs...struck the word 'warrior' from one major exercise and replaced it with 'phantom'....'Amalgam Chief' has been changed to 'Amalgam Arrow'...an exercise dubbed 'Amalgam Fabric Brave' is now 'Amalgam Fabric Dart.' 'Fabric Indian' was deleted in favor of 'Fabric Sabre.'
Just to make this trend clearer, consider this report:
ACLU: Effort to Marginalize Indians Succeeding
The nationwide campaign to drum American Indians out of the public square chalked up another win this week as NORAD announced it would stop using Indian names to describe its air defense exercises. This follows last week's decision by the NCAA to ban Indian mascots from its college sports tournaments.'Naming things after Indians gives these tribal people recognition that they don't deserve,' said an unnamed spokesman for the American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU). 'After all, we conquered them and occupied their land. Why give them the honor that comes from naming stuff after them as if they were brave, victorious warriors. They lost. Do you really want your children emulating a bunch of losers?'
In related news, the Indiana state legislature today will take up debate on a measure to change the state's name to Caucasia.
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See...we don't have to make jokes up about the left when they are doing it for us without even realizing it. But, as funny as they are, this entertainment comes at a price and the taxpayers pay for most of it. I'm laughing so hard that it hurts--right in the ol' pocket book.
Posted by GM Roper at August 13, 2005 02:30 AM | TrackBackGreat stuff on Michael Schiavo. Tried to convince Bidinotto that guy was a ne'er do well. Oh, well -- can't win 'em all.
I wouldn't trust Michael Schiavo to babysit Norman Bates' mother. :p
Posted by Robert Jones at August 13, 2005 03:48 AM
Pretty good, Robert!
Now, I would support Michael Schiavo to be head of Secret Service security for Hillary Clinton. Her brain quit working a long time ago.
Liberals have strange heroes.
Posted by Woody at August 13, 2005 11:19 AM
1. You seem to like to label this nuttiness on the right, so in the
interest of fairplay:
2. Soon to be conservative but apparently not conservative enough SCOTUS justice John Roberts recently said that Congress had no business getting involved in the Terri Schiavo case, seeing it at strictly the business of the courts.
The good Rev. James Dobson, in his book Bringing up Boys', teaches that fathers of young boys can ward off incipient "gayness" by using such techniques as `teaching wrong boys to hammer square blocks in square holes' and fathers taking showers with their male offspring to show that Dad, like young skippy has a penis, only larger. Huh???
Oh, and then there's `Intelligent Design'. Don't get me started.
Which goes to show, conservatives are just so kooky :)
Posted by Jim Hitchcock at August 13, 2005 02:35 PM
These are stimulating stories. I especially liked the parody from Scrappleface.
However, except for the Planned Parenthood outrage, it's not clear to me that the other stories are from the left. The Schiavo case I've never seen as a strictly left-right political issue, but rather a complex dispute over the appropriate limits of government/court intervention into private family affairs. The Pennsylvania court ruling could be viewed as an act of judicial restraint against overturning a city ordinance, which normally is a conservative virtue. I would not ordinarily view NORAD as a left stronghold. (The NCAA is far more likely acting out of bureaucratic cowardice rather than grinding a political axe).
Besides, I don't see how it contributes to informed and intelligent debate to paint the entire left with the actions of fringe elements. The same tactic could be used to similarly attack the right.
It's best just to put these stories out there and let the readers draw their own conclusions.
Posted by civil truth at August 13, 2005 09:02 PM
Jim, I agree that the fringe right can appear to do some interesting things. However, I still believe that the left, more often, tends to jump off cliffs before they think--probably because the left tends to be more radical and have more of a passion for attacking the right rather than the other way around. If you look at civil disobedience and public protests, you rarely see the right, which is busy making a living and paying taxes and which doesn't have the time.
On Dobson, I have no explanation. He is a child psychologist and has helped many families with his programs to guide families. His programs "for the children" are really intended to be for the children rather than for the politics. This may be a case of the left attacking without knowing the entire story, which neither you nor I likely know. However, I would think that the left would like the idea of exposing sexuality to kids and would applaud Dobson's suggestions. At least he didn't suggest for the dad to demonstrate how to install a condom.
Posted by Woody at August 13, 2005 11:05 PM
