3:09 PM yesterday
Julie in Eugene commented on Coming Soon to Strangercrombie: Art Piatas.
Julie in Eugene commented on Coming Soon to Strangercrombie: Art Piatas.
Very cool. What a great idea for Strangercrombie....
1:19 PM yesterday
Julie in Eugene commented on Teabaggers Turn On Palin.
Julie in Eugene commented on Teabaggers Turn On Palin.
She has a bus? With the book cover painted on it?
1:15 PM yesterday
Julie in Eugene commented on The Alaskan Stereotype.
Julie in Eugene commented on The Alaskan Stereotype.
When I visited Alaska, my thoughts were that it was like a more extreme version of Maine. Maine has beautiful scenery and people that are quirky, independent, practical, and suspicious of outsiders. Alaska is similar to that, only about ten times more intense.
Nov 19
Julie in Eugene commented on Palin Goes to Fort Hood to Promote Going Rogue.
Julie in Eugene commented on Palin Goes to Fort Hood to Promote Going Rogue.
@1 - I think it has to do with the fact that she highlights how completely polarized our country is right now. A significant portion of the population is completely dumbfounded by her -- how did someone who is so clearly not qualified for public office come close to being VP? She is, objectively, not a person who has a solid grasp of the issues facing the world/the US and she doesn't seem capable of much in the way of critical thinking. And yet, she is being seriously discussed as a potential 2012 Presidential candidate.
This is shocking to many people, particularly considering that there is another portion of the population who loves her. Who looks at her and says, yep, she would be a great President.
I don't know, for me, I'm drawn to articles about her because I have no idea how two people with the same set of information about her could have such vastly different opinions. What are those people who love her and want her to be President thinking? The rational part of my brain thinks she has no shot at all in 2012, but I still get a bit of a nervous feeling in my stomach when I think about it. What if people really are that dumb?
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This is shocking to many people, particularly considering that there is another portion of the population who loves her. Who looks at her and says, yep, she would be a great President.
I don't know, for me, I'm drawn to articles about her because I have no idea how two people with the same set of information about her could have such vastly different opinions. What are those people who love her and want her to be President thinking? The rational part of my brain thinks she has no shot at all in 2012, but I still get a bit of a nervous feeling in my stomach when I think about it. What if people really are that dumb?
Nov 19
Julie in Eugene commented on Notes from the Prayer Warrior.
Julie in Eugene commented on Notes from the Prayer Warrior.
I love that "I spoke at the stockholders meeting" makes it sound like he gave a speech. When, really, he just asked a question during the Q&A and everyone there was probably like, when is the crazy nutjob going to sit down. We actually would like to hear something about the business now.
Nov 19
Julie in Eugene commented on U.S. Catholic Bishops: "These unions pose a serious threat to the fabric of society that affects all people.".
Julie in Eugene commented on U.S. Catholic Bishops: "These unions pose a serious threat to the fabric of society that affects all people.".
To your point @6, again, "since that's the reality and nature of the world we live in," why won't you forbid infertile couples from being married? Why should my mother-in-law have been able to re-marry, when she is no longer able to reproduce? Just think of being gay as like a kind of infertility. It's not illegal for women who've had hysterectomies to get married, so why should it be illegal for gays?
Nov 19
Julie in Eugene commented on U.S. Catholic Bishops: "These unions pose a serious threat to the fabric of society that affects all people.".
Julie in Eugene commented on U.S. Catholic Bishops: "These unions pose a serious threat to the fabric of society that affects all people.".
@6 - Loveschild, the survival of the species has nothing, absolutely nothing, to do with justifying discrimination against gays. Particularly since only a small portion of the population is gay. Even in a world where 100% of the population was gay (perish the thought, right?), humanity would still survive. People still want to be parents, even gay people, and would still be able to use different methods (surrogates, laboratories) to do so. The "reality and the nature of the world we live in" is that gay individuals can still reproduce.
I'd love it if someone (Golob?) would do the math about the current rate of population growth, and the percentage of adults who would need to be gay (and, according to Loveschild's logic, not reproducing) for it to even mean zero population growth worldwide (let alone a decline).
I'd love it if someone (Golob?) would do the math about the current rate of population growth, and the percentage of adults who would need to be gay (and, according to Loveschild's logic, not reproducing) for it to even mean zero population growth worldwide (let alone a decline).
Nov 19
Julie in Eugene commented on U.S. Catholic Bishops: "These unions pose a serious threat to the fabric of society that affects all people.".
Julie in Eugene commented on U.S. Catholic Bishops: "These unions pose a serious threat to the fabric of society that affects all people.".
Well said. The church is also not working to outlaw birth control or pre-marital sex. Or eating fish on Fridays during Lent.
A number of Catholic couples that I am friends with lived together officially before getting married (a few more "unofficially" lived together). One couple was berated by their priest during their pre-marriage counseling, and was told that their marriage would most likely end in divorce. But... the priest still married them. I think the church should get serious about the divorce/cohabitation thing. No second marriages. No marrying people who've lived together. We'll see how long Catholicism lasts in this country after that, eh?
A number of Catholic couples that I am friends with lived together officially before getting married (a few more "unofficially" lived together). One couple was berated by their priest during their pre-marriage counseling, and was told that their marriage would most likely end in divorce. But... the priest still married them. I think the church should get serious about the divorce/cohabitation thing. No second marriages. No marrying people who've lived together. We'll see how long Catholicism lasts in this country after that, eh?
Nov 19
Julie in Eugene commented on Chemicals in Plastics Turn Boys Into Sissies.
Julie in Eugene commented on Chemicals in Plastics Turn Boys Into Sissies.
@5. Okay, so, the whole nature vs. nurture thing? If a boy was born with some sort of inability to process testosterone ("the action of the male hormone testosterone" had been knocked out), then that would be nature. Nature means you're born that way (even if it's cause by something "unnatural" like phthalates). Nurture means you got that way based on things that happened to you after you were born. So, if you're born without a hand, that's nature. If your hand is cut off in an accident, that's nurture.
Anyways, I'm assuming your comment is some sort of reference to your view that homosexuality ("psychological gender deviations") is a result of "nurture" factors (it's a decision one makes or a psychological problem), as opposed to being innate. Just keep in mind that, as demonstrated by this study, "nature" doesn't always mean genetic. It can mean anything that happens hormonally or developmentally within the womb.
[I know I'm not going to convince her that gay people are born that way, but, baby steps, people, baby steps.]
Anyways, I'm assuming your comment is some sort of reference to your view that homosexuality ("psychological gender deviations") is a result of "nurture" factors (it's a decision one makes or a psychological problem), as opposed to being innate. Just keep in mind that, as demonstrated by this study, "nature" doesn't always mean genetic. It can mean anything that happens hormonally or developmentally within the womb.
[I know I'm not going to convince her that gay people are born that way, but, baby steps, people, baby steps.]
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