Wednesday, November 16, 2011

Wednesday PM Stuff

I apologize to every living, breathing, multiplying life form in the entire universe for devoting a speck of time whatsoever to the human mistake that truly is Pat Buchanan (h/t Atrios), but I want to take the almost bile-inducing bigotry of what he says in this clip (sound only) and say something about it that might not come immediately to mind.

As Roman Catholic parents in the Archdiocese of Philadelphia who have occasion to come into contact with school-age kids attending classes with the young one (the “teenage one” just about now), Mrs. Doomsy and I have taken what is called “safe environment” training so that we have a much better idea to look out for occasions where kids could fall prey to sexual predators (of course, the need for such training is a whole other topic I don’t intend to get into now). And one of the points that is made loud and clear in the training is that homosexuality, statistically speaking vs. heteros, has nothing to do with the abuse scandal and gays do not pose this type of threat to kids (or much of any type as nearly as we can see).

That is one of the reasons why Buchanan is flat, dead wrong (though he actually does start to make a bit of sense until he gets to about 1:00, and then the metaphorical wheels completely fall off – to do something in response, read this - more here)...



...and on a somewhat less serious, but still important, note, I give you this (tells you just what some of the Bushies are up to now, and it also tells you how little Scalia and Thomas of The Supremes care about even the appearance of a conflict of interest)...

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...and oh yes, they're all still out there, and as much as I'd like to ignore them, I really can't (here)...



...and with all of this other stuff, I'm kind of in the mood for a silly bit of fluff like this.

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