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Biased? Guess What an Independent Analysis Found About the Media’s Coverage of Gay Marriage

June 18, 2013 at 3:06pm

GRTD,

Not many are aware that, in 2012, maybe 2011, the APA removed pedophilia as a disorder from the DSM. Now it’s simply a preference. I’ve written on the Blaze about this before. You don’t have to be a rocket scientist to see the trajectory of that decision. We’ve seen what happened when they removed homosexuality. I may not live to see this, but I predict the result of that decision will be the lowering of the age of consent to something that would blow our minds today (age 12? age 10?) but will be seriously argued for by supposedly serious people. Sitcoms with likeable, loveable, funny, and kind pedophiles that really love children. These sitcoms will eventually move to featuring adult-child sexual relationships. Ditto for movies. The child will be portrayed as happy and emotionally well-balanced. I give it thirty years, tops. Things progress much faster these days so it won’t take the forty years that the mainstreaming of homosexuality took.

Before you come down on me, I am not a hater as much as you’d like to think I am. The fact is that, on its face, homosexuality is a disorder. It is not at all in harmony with nature, much less nature’s creator, God. When a culture embraces disorder, chaos is bound to ensue. Always has, always will.
So Paul Ryan Now Supports Gay Adoptions — But Not Gay Marriage

May 2, 2013 at 4:49pm

In reply to LiquidLou.

My sentiment exactly. Ryan caving like this is truly disappointing.
Fracking Might Have a New Water Problem…and It’s Not Pollution

May 2, 2013 at 3:58pm

In reply to Renewable_Energy_Teacher.

That’s a great idea but it’ll never come to fruition because can you imagine the EIS that would be required? And the length of time it would take to get such a project approved? Even though it would be one helluva “make-work” program. You know, “shovel ready”? We could put thousands of welfare recipients to work digging the canals with actual shovels. It would require pump stations along the way, but it’s definitely plausible. Have you ever seen the canal system in France built way back when? Maybe someone should add up the monetary damage from this years’ floods along the upper Mississippi alone and see how far that would go towards such a visionary project. That Guy really doesn’t want to see people working though. That’s so mean to want people to work. Here’s a link to just one of the French canals and a little history about it:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Canal_du_Midi
The Scathing Speech That Takes the Media to Task for Blackout of Gruesome Abortion Trial: If the ‘Doctor’ Used An AR-15, You Bet They’d Care

April 12, 2013 at 11:13am

In reply to American Soldier (Separated).

Have you not heard of Providence my friend? Have you not experienced it yourself in your life? Providence is always at work, all the time, in all our lives. And would have been in the lives of all of the aborted children in the world had not mankind, by the use of his free will, short-circuited their lives.
Did Pope Francis Secretly Endorse Civil Unions for Gays?

March 22, 2013 at 3:25pm

In reply to SpankDaMonkey.

I am a Catholic and when all the clergy abuse came out into the light of day, our diocese took action and all the laity that worked within the Church were put through classes of different types. One of these was a presentation by an insurance industry actuary (no ax to grind, no ox to gore) who laid out the statistics. For any given year, the incidences of pedophilia reported to authorities is plus/minus 1% for any given group, whether that group is clergy (Catholic, Jewish, Protestant), teachers, lawyers, atheists, etc. There are most certainly unreported cases but those are probably decreasing, hopefully, in this day of greater awareness that victims aren’t alone.

So, the Catholic Church is what it is, a divine institution that is run by sinful humans who are doing the best they can and seeking God’s guidance and strength in their lives. I remain a devout Catholic in spite of it all because I know that there are far more good people, clergy and laity, in the Catholic Church that are trying to lead holy lives.
Did Pope Francis Secretly Endorse Civil Unions for Gays?

March 22, 2013 at 2:58pm

In reply to SubHuman.

Max:

Sola scriptura means “scripture alone” and is a foundational principle of Protestantism. The RCC simply teaches that God is revealed through Sacred Scripture and through Tradition. If you’ll remember, long before the Bible was compiled, the “Church” was conveyed by oral means mostly, and some written means. The practices were handed down and became “Tradition” by which our ancestors in faith came into contact with the divine nature of God, and thus learned more about Him. The Bible wasn’t compiled until the 4th century, A.D.
According to One Measurement, This Is the Best TV Ad of All Time…and You Probably Haven’t Seen It

February 7, 2013 at 10:26am

In reply to ghee99.

This kind of stuff is right up my alley. I’ve studied le cinema myself and the only thing I would add to this magnificent bear rug’s repertoire would be a banana somewhere in the plot. A slippery banana has been, and always will be, one of the icons of humor (and a symbol of man’s futile attempts at competence). I don’t know, maybe The Rug has explored this in some of its student work and that work is not “out there” for all to study and enjoy.
Have You Seen These New Las Vegas Ads Targeting Gay People — and Poking Fun at Straight Couples?

January 21, 2013 at 11:19am

In reply to Disgusted_in_CT.

My sentiments exactly! I hereby pledge/vow/promise to never ever deposit one dime in the Las Vegas economy.
This Video Shows What’s Thought to Be the Largest Iceberg Collapse Ever Caught on Film

December 14, 2012 at 11:43am

In reply to JustaFacts.

Man, the warming has been ongoing, mostly uninterrupted, for 12,000 years. At that time (12,000 years ago) there were permanent, i.e. year-round, ice sheets as far south as Kansas and Missouri. Ice sheets/glaciers leave tell-tale deposits after they melt and those can be seen today in Kansas and Missouri if one wants to go out in the field to view them. So, something caused the Earth to start warming about 120 centuries ago and it hasn’t stopped. The entire history of the Earth is one of warming/cooling with its attendant rise/fall of sea level. The geologic record reflects this quite nicely.
Geithner’s Debt Solution: Let’s Remove All Limits to Our Borrowing

November 20, 2012 at 1:50pm

This is a tremendous admission by Geithner. If any of you have read The Creature from Jeckyl Island, about the passing of the Federal Reserve Act and the founding of the Federal Reserve, you would know this is an admission that it is all “fiat” money anyway. The author of Creature makes the case that the Fed creates debt in order to create currency but it really doesn’t mean anything in the end. You’ve got to read the book for a fuller explanation but the author also makes the case that the only reasons the government has to levy taxes are twofold: to redistribute wealth and control behavior. Otherwise, it can just “create” the money it needs for its budget and leave us alone.

There ought to be an amendment to the Constitution that the government can only create/spend a certain percentage of the GDP so that it can’t overwhelm the private sector with its spending. Maybe something like 15-20% of GDP. Historically, I think the figure is around 18%, give or take.