– Congrats to all future married gay couples! (video loaded automatically for me)
– Even though I mostly agree with this fact-check about the rainbow flag crosswalks, how about just a little joy and whimsey is good enough?
– Even though it’s obviously based on bullshit, I suppose I support the GOP call for Roberts’ ouster, as long as Obama is still president.
– I’m looking forward to the First Hill Streetcar whenever it eventually gets going.
– Bristol Palin’s politics are awful, but her pregnancy really isn’t my business.
Marriage responds to the universal fear that a lonely person might call out only to find no one there.
When did Justice Kennedy become acquainted with Teabagger?
Bristol Palin really is the best person to push foolish abstinence only bullshit. I can’t wait to see who the father is.
Goldy @GoldyHA
So, do we all get to pick and choose which SCOTUS decisions we “acquiesce to,” or just GOP presidential candidates? http://talkingpointsmemo.com/d.....n-marriage …
Well, there probably are some members of the African-American community who might not be so happy.
In Part 2 of Scott Light’s exclusive interview with civil rights icon Dr. Joseph Lowery, we talked about the issue in the two ways he has to address it, as a civil rights leader and Methodist minister.
“I’m befuddled by the homosexual community and their thing, but I believe in equal rights,” Lowery said. “If you believe in equal rights, you have to grant everybody equal rights.”
“What if a gay couple came to you and said, ‘Pastor Lowery, would you marry us?'” Light asked.
“Well, I’d had that experience and I didn’t marry them,” Lowery answered.
Read more: http://www.cbs46.com/story/288.....z3eBRQ1pSP
Unfortunate title here, because SCOTUS doesn’t pass laws any more than President Obama follows them, but I digress:
Coalition of African-American Pastors Threaten Civil Disobedience If Supreme Court Passes Gay Marriage Law
Read more at http://www.christianpost.com/n.....cQH68TY.99
I wonder if Reverend Clementa Pinckney might have been among them. Not so long ago he apparently shared their views:
Along with all but one state senator, Pinckney voted to ratify the state’s constitutional amendment in 2007 banning gay marriage.
http://www.motherjones.com/pol.....ng-funeral
More recently, or at least as many choose to remember him (same MJ link), he became a gay rights supporter. Sort of in that ‘The enemy of my enemy is my friend.’ way:
“Sen. Pinckney would be among our troops,” she told me by phone from Columbia, where on Wednesday Pinckney’s open casket was placed on display at the statehouse with an official ceremony. Pinckney and the Black Caucus “had the same opponents in the legislature, and that made us form bonds.”
Justice Kennedy kind of crushes it.
But Marriage has meant one thing for millennia and who are we to change it?
It should be left up to the states! No one elected the courts!
You’re oppressing us Chirstians and our religious freedom is at stake.
I’d say to anyone who finds the sky falling this morning to just get over it. You lost. But then people still fly the confederate flag so getting over it isn’t going to happen soon.
@ 4
I’d say to anyone who finds the sky falling this morning to just get over it. You lost.
Would you say that to those on the losing side of the Citizens United decision, cz?
BTW congrats to all on today’s decision. Slippery slope aside, Fourteenth Amendment seemed to be pretty clear on the concept. Even Teabagger deserves not to end up alone.
“Ireland, home of the free and the brave.”
Goldy @GoldyHA
With SSM, never before has there been a SCOTUS decision so big in which the losing side lost so little.
In which Goldy erases Brown v. Board of Education from United States history textbooks.
@5 Leave it to Trickle to equate gay civil rights with allowing corporations to buy elections. My rabbit imagination couldn’t have dreamed up that one.
It has taken the Supreme Court 150 years to figure out that “equal” means “equal,” and discrimination isn’t equality. What took them so long? But better late than never.
I realize all the focus this morning is on the SCOTUS gay marriage decision, but I think it’s worth noting who DIDN’T get his hands on an assault rifle and what might have happened if he had.
http://www.cnn.com/2015/06/26/.....index.html
@2 Probably Dakota Meyer.
RE: Rainbow Crosswalks and Jason Rantz
I like that he called out Dori in his blog post.
That would be Dori who regularly bleats that any kind of spending by any government that isn’t for something he holds dear is wasteful.
People would love to live in, or drive in from Shoreline to a city that didn’t have a Sculpture Park or an Arboretum or a single mural or a playground. Having those things is a waste and they’re stealing your money to pay for it. I mean c’mon…do we really need a Football Stad…wait, Dori likes and gets paid for that one so shush.
@7
Well right wing radio cranks are comparing today to 9/11 and Pearl Harbor so…
https://twitter.com/BryanJFischer
Next can we get the city to put a rainbow crosswalk in front of an African-American church? Why should Capitol Hill have all the joy and whimsey?
Or we could at least be more helpful with our paint and use it for rainbow concentric circles around some of the larger potholes in the city…
@13 & 14
Such bitterness.
Spending on things I Travis think are worthy….GOOOOOD
Spending on anthing else…..BAAAAAAAD
@ 7
My rabbit imagination couldn’t have dreamed up that one.
I don’t see why not. It was your imagination that applied ‘fleeing felon doctrine’ to a guy killed while bull-rushing a cop.
@ 15
Not at all. I like rainbows as much as the next guy. There’s a pot of gold at the end.
@14 Hey fuckface, if you don’t like rainbow crosswalks, don’t walk in ’em. Nothing’s stopping you from walking down to the next block and using a regular crosswalk.
@17 Then why are you snarking against them?
Rainbows could be painted in front of every Seattle establishment known to be owned by a conservative.
Sort of a dog-whistle telling gays where not to go, and at the same time putting an obvious fuck-you at the doorstep of someone you don’t like.
A twofer.
Slippery slope aside?
What’s the slippery slope that republicans will try to pass more freedom less legislation to counter?
Long live Ireland – land of the Free and the Brave
Long live Ireland!
Speed global warming so Bob can rot in hell.
@10 Why cancel the wedding if she’s pregnant? Unless of course its another man’s baby.
“Scalia: Gay marriage decision shows court is America’s ‘ruler'”
Geez, and here I thought we were being ruled by global corporations thanks to the SCOTUS’s (and Scalia’s) Citizens United decision.
Zombie (u)SP has a post up, but because it’s a Jim Miller post, a coward who will not allow comments, (u)SP still walks with the dead.
“Westneat could have, instead, discussed the history of the Democratic Party, could have explained why it was the home of Jefferson Davis, Robert Byrd (Democrat, KKK), and now Al Sharpton, who in this area is — don’t laugh — usually referred to as a “civil rights leader”. But, for some reason, Westneat chose not to tell readers about that very interesting part of history.”
Miller, like the trolls here, will never acknowledge the even more “interesting part of history” which followed, Nixon’s Southern Strategy and how the GOP became the party in which racists found a welcome mat. The Big Tent.
Zombie (u)SP. An intolerant right-wing blog where, when comments are allowed, one will most certainly be banned for mentioning a certain waitress or simply disagreeing with a certain poster, and whose racist right-wing commenters relish calling our nation’s president a “nappy-headed bongo”.
Similar to the GOP whom they support, Zombie (u)SP has never taken issue with the Republican racists who go there to post their racist screeds.
Just found an old link to Blatherwatch.
I’ve been trying to remember where I got tuned into HA from. When I got to Seattle I was looking for local radio blogs.
Now that local radio has dried up everywhere, and there is very little that’s listenable or interesting in the News/Talk format, other than NPR, I guess those are gone. Radio was a lot of fun before consolidation. KBCS/91.3 has some good shows, but they are not convenient to my listening habits, and they have small RF footprint. I do love the Uncle Meghabhuti show on Friday nights. I like to crank up my guitar and jam with it. Sorry. I’m Blathering. Am I off topic?
To the resident jackass Boob who calls himself educated. I thought the argument wasn’t about equal benefits.
http://www.democraticunderground.com/10141128717
Get in line with your party. Be a good party boy. There is a salute that goes along with it, learn it….when you salute you are suppose to say “Hail Hitler”, or something like that.
awe Boobs dream boy is giving a little. Bob, may have to vote for the closeted gay guy, the man with many hoes.
http://www.democraticunderground.com/10141128562
opps my bad, I guess even the closeted gay guy is giving in. Bob, who’s looking good now, Ted Crud?
http://www.democraticunderground.com/10141128562
Republicans like to start wars, and piss on people. But when the people being pissed on eventually have enough and start to piss back on them, they start to cry that it is unfair.
http://thehill.com/homenews/ad.....on-victims
Not one of Obama’s better singing moments at the funeral of Rev. Clementa Pinckney. It was moving, but a bit rough. Speaker John Boehner was in attendance. He probably didn’t sing, but I’ll bet he cried.
@23 The Palins canceled the wedding the same day Meyer’s prior marriage surfaced in the media. He apparently is divorced now, but had concealed that marriage, possibly because his ex-wife says marrying him was a “big mistake” and being his wife was a “nightmare.”
http://handbill.us/?p=54698
Relic Bob, Relics. Or the other side is to become a Nazi State, led by Mike Fuckabee, the guy that loves the Confederate Flag, and east too much along with his fat piggy kids.
http://talkingpointsmemo.com/l.....vative-cry
To the troll that I was educating the other night, here is where your party is in the wrong and why they are considered racists because of their denial.
http://talkingpointsmemo.com/l.....ng-remarks
They’d rather not be leaders and correct something if it needs to be corrected if it means insulting or talking down to their constituents.
They’d prefer to have people like Bristol Palin teach everyone about abstinence
@25 I’m sure Jim Miller can imagine the comments he’d get for his defense of the symbol of secession, slavery, and racism. If I thought like him, I wouldn’t allow reader comments either.
I suppose Miller feels he has to play to the local redneck crowd or the WSRP may lose the 13 voters they still have.
@27 The problem with Abbott’s edict is those state employees are acting in their official, not individual, capacities. Consequently, if a state employee denies a gay couple a marriage license, or refuses to recognize a gay marriage for purposes of administration of state laws, they’re acting on behalf of the state and not as individuals exercising personal religious liberties. That will put the state of Texas in violating of the Supreme Court decision. The next step will be for affected individuals to file suit against the state in federal court. A federal judge will then order state officials to comply with the decision. When (not if) they refuse, the judge then will order them to appear in court and show cause why they should not be held in contempt of a federal court order. If they still refuse, the judge can remand them to a federal custody institution.
@31 The voters who elected Obama weren’t hiring a gospel singer. That’s not his job function.
Friday News Wrapup
One of the prison escapees on the run in upstate New York has been killed in a police shootout after trying to carjack an RV camper.
In Tunisia, an ISIS terrorist murdered 37 European tourists at a beach with an AK-47.
Zombie (u)SP’s Jim Miller, speaking of Westneat writing about a Confederate commemorative park in our state, sez, “A tiny, private park that almost no one in the state had ever heard of, before he wrote that column.”
I don’t read Westneat or the Times, so thanks, Jim Miller, you idiot, for informing me about the Confederacy commemorative park in our state which you apparently wish was still a dirty little wingnut secret.
@38 Are you sure? I’m being told we elected him because he’s black; by people who think all black people are watermelon eating gospel singers.
… Jim Miller, you idiot, for informing me about the Confederacy commemorative park in our state which you apparently wish was still a dirty little wingnut secret.
A columnist in a local paper found a local angle on a national story, and informed his readers of surprising local history they probably didn’t already know. If cranky ol’ Jim hadn’t chased all of us commenting kids offa his lawn, I’d ask the self-appointed media critic what kind of stories he thinks a local columnist should write.
Also, Jim’s crotchety bitterness seems to be worsening with age:
But a journalist or politician who wants to find the right symbols to protest can always find them (or invent them) and Seattle Times columnist Danny Westneat showed that he was up to the job.
Someone needs to inform Jim that Mr. Westneat could “find the right symbols to protest” (without having to invent them) because local right-wingers continue to maintain that racist symbol *one hundred and fifty years* after the treasonous cause it celebrates was finally defeated.
Ironically, Jim himself mentioned, without seeming to notice (!), how this local racist symbol of treason has no real historical connection to Washington state:
In Washington state, those journalists and politicians are at a disadvantage. Washington did not even become a state until 1889, well after the Civil War, and, even as part of a territory, played almost no part in the Civil War. There were never any black slaves here … Washington, like every state, has some citizens whose ancestors came from the Confederacy, they have never been much of a force here.
No matter for how much longer (z)(un)SP staggers pointlessly along, its long-overdue death will occur long before any of the front-page posters there will ever have shown the least glimmer of self-awareness.
To all you haters. Nothing but love in NYC tonight!
Tensor sez, “I’d ask the self-appointed media critic what kind of stories he thinks a local columnist should write.”
I’d say Jim Miller doesn’t want anybody writing about these guys and their little fucked up park.
“Greeting Confederates,
If you are reading this, I applaud you. You are one of the brave men and women who are working deep behind “enemy” lines to further the Confederate cause of Liberty.
The South, had a noble and just Cause. Yankees did not. That is something that, we as members and friends of the Sons of Confederate Veterans, can be extremely proud of. Our blood ancestors took up arms to fight against an invading army. Our ancestors did not want war, and were not the aggressors. They simply wanted to be left alone and be able to make their own decisions.
Today, we face a very powerful foe. Our Cause is under attack, and the main subject we get attacked on is Slavery. We cannot hide from this. Slavery is a topic that we all need to be ready to speak about. Today, Yankees intentionally use the Slavery issue to justify the war, taking the “moral” high ground.
Erik Ernst,
Commander
SCV Pacific NW Division”
https://scvpacnw.files.wordpress.com/2014/12/scv-pacific-nw-division-newsletter.pdf
“They simply wanted to be left alone and be able to make their own decisions.”
Decisions? Like what? Which slave girl to fuck tonight?
“You are one of the brave men and women who are working deep behind “enemy” lines to further the Confederate cause of Liberty.”
By the way, thanks, Jim Miller. If it wasn’t for you, I might never have known that we have these asswipes right here in our own state, “working deep behind “enemy” lines”.
I believe in freedom and that these people should be free to create a private Confederate commemorative park. Just the same, I’m free to be disgusted by these people and they represent, and free to call them pieces of fucking shit who haven’t stopped their goddamned incessant whining for 150 fucking years.
“Erik Ernst, Commander”
Too funny! Thanks again, Commodore Miller, you hapless twit.
“Ted Cruz wants to add same-sex marriage bans, Supreme Court elections to Constitution”
http://www.rawstory.com/2015/0.....iage-bans/
This week saw Confederate flags going down and rainbow flags flying high. The White House is bathed in rainbow colors of light. Millions of Americans will continue to have health care coverage, be they afflicted with a precondition illness or not. In other words, this was a really great week for America, but a really bad week for TeaBircher Republicans.
@14 Cartoon penis’s would be more effective. Fellow in Britain has used that technique for years with generally fantastic results…though he uses non permanent paint.
It’s not ok for ISIS to be upset and threaten death when one claims that they will burn the Koran or paint a carton, but it’s acceptable to act the same way if someone threatened to burn the confederate flag.
And the ones getting most upset are the ones that get most upset over Muslims acting the same way.
Can anyone say, the haters are fucking hypocrites, and the next worst thing to ISIS.
Texas man threatened over offer to burn Confederate flags
http://nydn.us/1Gy2Z5o
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I guess I, the one trick pony, will have to continue to be the one trick pony because some Republicans aren’t giving up either.
Who is making this a daily issue which doesn’t have to be?
Long live Ireland – Home of the Free and the Brave.
Some Republicans Want Their Party To Shut Up About Gay Marriage Now http://www.huffingtonpost.com/.....73344.html
Regarding Bristol Palin’s unplanned pregnancy:
This needs to be acknowledged. Not becuse she and many in her attention/celebrity obsessed family are hypocrites. And not because of their politics. But because it IS an unplanned pregnancy, and because this young woman and her family are looked up to and admired by so many unfortunate people. For their sake it needs to be acknowledged that unplanned pregnancy is a real and all too common event in the lives of American women. And that common circumstance most definitely encompases the lives of fiercely conservative, right-to-life, “good girls” like the Palin daughter.
Most of the time, when people oppose a woman’s frredom to make choices about unplanned pregnancy, they do so out of a very mistaken conviction that such choices are limited to poor, ignorant, “slutty”, “un-churched” “bad girls” who therefor “deserve” to be denied control over their own bodies.
It is very important for these people to see how very universal unplanned pregnancy really is. Ms Palin has support and life options not even remotely available to the majority of women in our country. And her choices in these matters need to be cosidered in that context. But it remains that her choice is one that has been thrust upon her not by virtue of her politics, her religion, or her behavior, but by virtue of her gender.
@50. I acknowledge – she is a slut. Maybe she could be one of Lindsey Graham’s hoes, like a respected senator said he would have. Many hoes.
Hey climate deniers, how d’ya like this ICE AGE
Hey climate deniers, how d’ya like this ICE AGE we’re having?? This COLD WAVE proves that climate change is a HOAX!!
LMAO!!!
Bristol Palin, in the words of the execrable babbling jackass troll, “did the deed with the steed”…
Or she behaved as a “semen sponge”.. Such hateful babbling from the jackass.
Where was her klownservatic kristian upbringing and politics babbling jackass?
You’d think wise parents and family would counsel her on contraception BUT NOOOOOOO…
“unplanned pregnancy”
As she was a very highly-paid celebrity advocate for abstinence policies, that’s where specific penance is due.
http://www.forbes.com/sites/el.....charities/
“CNN International Reporter Breathlessly Reports On ‘ISIS Flag’ At Gay Pride Parade”
http://crooksandliars.com/2015.....eathlessly
OMG! Puddy was right! The gay commie-fascist Jihadists are coming!
http://crooksandliars.com/2015.....eathlessly
“And none of them notice that the symbols on the flag are … butt plugs and dildos and other sex toys.”
Oh, excuse me. My bad.
@ 54
“Or she behaved as a “semen sponge”.. Such hateful babbling from the jackass.”
The colloquial term is: “cumdumpster”.
Her most recent engagement was broken off, when it came out that the turkey she was engaged to was still married, and his wife had just filed for divorce. I guess the guy was as loyal to his wife as he was to his several girlfriends.
What the hell. I can’t really fault the guy here. He’s a jerk, but he has the Medal of Honor. Knowing how other MOH honorees have behaved in the past, I suppose it’d be natural to dip ones wick in whatever brass lamp came along that needed a rub, after living through the events that earned them that medal in the first place.