Issues

Here's an attempt to share what I've been reading about lately.

It's a weird day when I find myself sharing ideologies with a man who writes the crap that comes out of Dumbya's mouth.

Today is such a day.

Matthew Scully, POTUS speechwriter, is also a fighter for animal welfare. He wrote an article that calls for more humane treatment toward animals in Pat Buchanan's magazine and...come on, this can't be right...Pat Buchanan? George Will, that original bow-tied conservative who loves the sound of his own multisyllabic words, joined in to call for integrity at the dinner table. Hey, whatever gets more people over to my side - the side that doesn't throw fake blood on people wearing fur, but definitely thinks tortured cowmeat is an unhealthy choice. Welcome George, Pat, and Matthew. Wanna get naked?

Not so fast. Seems there's a group of Christian soldiers out there talking about sex, writing about sex, but not actually having sex. Who knew that during my formative years, tightening a chastity belt, I was way ahead of my time? These upstanding folks say that celibacy is cool. Even those who lost their virginity years ago can use the "ecclesiastical white-out" and become recycled virgins once again. Some even wear masturbands, bracelets that stay white as long as you don't go near the woo-woo area. If you do, the band becomes (*eeewww alert*) discolored and you must take it off until you literally get your hands clean again. Feeling hot when explicit commercials come on the air? Abstinence.net actually suggests switching over to Fox News. I can tell you from personal experience, nothing kills the mood like O'Reilley's face. NOTHING.

If you have a child or might in the near future, this is scary stuff. There is a mercury-laced preservative in immunizations that's been harming our kids. Thimerosal has been linked to alarming numbers of hyperactivity, attention deficit and autism disorders. What's worse? Our government has known about it for years and suppressed information that should have been available to the public. According to an article by Robert Kennedy Jr: "Senate Majority Leader Bill Frist, who has received $873,000 in contributions from the pharmaceutical industry, has been working to immunize vaccine makers from liability in 4,200 lawsuits that have been filed by the parents of injured children. On five separate occasions, Frist has tried to seal all of the government's vaccine-related documents -- including the Simpsonwood transcripts -- and shield Eli Lilly, the developer of thimerosal, from subpoenas. In 2002, the day after Frist quietly slipped a rider known as the Eli Lilly Protection Act into a homeland security bill, the company contributed $10,000 to his campaign and bought 5,000 copies of his book on bioterrorism." What we do to our children is painful, folks. Painful.