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TownHall’s Doug Giles is getting upset!

I hate to sound like a freaked out parent, but I AM A FREAKED OUT PARENT! — and I?m seriously concerned about what is going on inside our public school systems, natoinwide [sic.]

Actually, Doug sounds a lot like Jerry: No I don’t! In fact, if even one corpuscles of that blood should find it’s way across that hall I will freak out on you Kramer! Freak out.

So why is Doug so excited, turned on, pissed off? Because of them homosexuals:

We should also be able to expect their teachers not to undercut the moral authority that we parents have over our children, regarding right and wrong, particularly as it relates to sexual intercourse and homosexuality.

And there is nothing wronger than sexual intercourse. And if you do say anything else, well, trouble:

Public school teachers and administrators: if you mess with my kids’ heads while they?re in your classroom or at your school, respecting what I feel is not only wrong but also foul and offensive as well as spiritually, socially, mentally and physically unhealthy — you’re going to meet with at least one angry Dad.

Danger Will Robinson! Danger!

It?s bad enough my girls have to see and hear things from fellow students that single sailors on leave in Borneo don’t see and hear, but now they get an overt inoculation regarding homosexuality sanctioned by their teachers and paid for by MY tax dollars.

One of Doug’s daughters is 12, the other 14. Are they enrolled at the local pirate school???

The pro-gay propaganda and politically correct thought-control spawned by a few, a VERY FEW liberal deconstructionists ought to be radically and unendingly challenged by the 95-plus percent of Americans who think homosexuality is wrong.

So basically, everyone but homosexuals thinks that homosexuality is wrong. That’s quite a finding.

There is much we can do, and we CAN succeed in stopping gay recruitment — but we can?t do it by burying our heads in the sand.

Hey Doug, maybe you should talk to our good friends Ben and Kyle. The three of you can get together and wonder why those darn homos are always trying to recruit you. We mean, you guys are so obviously totally straight right? Doug even has a beard and stuff.

Last October, Terry at Nitpicker reported on the favorite go-to word of the Opinion Journal crowd, kerfuffle. Terry may be gone but that hasn’t stopped the OJ folks from going back to the well one more time.

CJ nicely summarizes the latest apparition, so just go over there and read the whole thing. Thank you.

Broken Glass Democrats

In an ideal world, we would be ruled by Beavis and Butt-Head.

alicublog also takes a look.

Victor A. Canto manages to accidentally shoot down George W. Bush’s favorite deficit story:

But the one disturbing feature about the 2004 deficit figures is an attribution of $90 billion to a weaker-than-projected economy and $287 billion to the legislated Bush tax cuts[.]

Time to say hello to our old friend, Ari Fleischer:

the deficit, which was created by the war and the attack and the recession

Thanks Ari.

Canto, whose Ph.D. appears to be in batshit craziness (a registered trademark of The Tooney Bin,) goes on to argue that the deficit won’t be a problem in the future because, well, it’s like, you know:

It’s worrisome, however, that the official budget projections now in use underestimate the real GDP growth figure as well as the revenue effect of a strong economy and stock market. […] Even if tax revenues come in better than expected, the data show that the methodology used by the Treasury and the Congressional Budget Office are biased; they underestimate the substitution effects that occur in the real world and will overestimate the revenue losses of any future tax action.

Canto, drawing on an interesting mixture of stupidity and ignorance, writes that economic growth will be stronger than forecasted, hence no deficit. This he can accomplish by pretending that making Bush’s tax cuts permanent won’t have an impact on the projected deficit, that the Medicare drug benefit won’t prove to be very costly, and that the Administration will not need to spend any money in Iraq after September 30. So as long as all those things are true, then all will be fine and Bush’s “deficit reduction program related activities” will work out. Is it reasonable to assume all that? Sadly, No! Then again, what’s to stop a boy from dreaming?

Victor Davis Hanson writes today (yes, today!:)

But after the instability in Iraq and a cost nearing 400 combat deaths…

US casualties in Iraq: 547. (Of which, 408 since the end of major combat operations.)
Total coalition casualties: 647 (475 since the end of major combat operations.)

Update: Several readers have pointed out that Hanson is correct, to the extent that he was discussing combat deaths, excluding non-combat related deaths. While this strikes us as correct but in a meaningless sort of way, it is “correct.”

Ben Shapiro offers the following:

I don’t think it’s right to comment on the burgeoning John Kerry sex scandal until all the facts are out. […]

Assuming Kerry did this, I don’t think it will hurt him very much. Republicans must be careful not to overplay their hand on this issue, and let it detract from attacking Kerry on the issues, where Kerry has been nothing less than a spinning top. This can’t become another anti-Clinton campaign, where sex scandals are pursued to the exclusion of all else. Besides, these are Democratic primary voters, and they couldn’t care less how many women Kerry has shtupped while married.

The part of this story that’s disturbing isn’t really Kerry’s adultery (big shocker there), but his alleged urging of the girl to get out of Dodge during his presidential run. That smacks of intimidation, and merely underscores Kerry’s opportunism. When he’s seeking political power, he’ll ditch anyone, hide anything. I don’t think that’s a good characteristic in a United States Senator, let alone a president. [Emphasis added]

Like Ben said, it’s not right.

Over at Human Events Online, Terence Jeffrey asks:

Does Cloning Break All Ten Commandments?

Survey says… Sadly, Yes!

But when I read the recent Science article describing how researchers in South Korea had cloned human embryos, it occurred to me that cloning might be the perfect sin. It just might break all Ten Commandments at once.

Follow my thinking on this.

Your wish is our command Mr. Jeffrey!

3. Remember that thou keep holy the Sabbath day.

Cloning’s abuse of life goes around the clock. They don’t empty the petri dishes Saturday and start again Monday.

Off with their heads, off we say!

6. Thou shalt not commit adultery.

Cloning uses women to create children by means other than their husbands.

Those no good whore sluts! ::mad::

7. Thou shalt not steal.

“Therapeutic” cloning steals stem cells from embryos; all cloning steals a child’s right to a natural father, conception, gestation and a unique place in the human family.

Have the embryos filed a complaint yet? Maybe when they grow up embryos can become really bad comedians: Take my stem cell… no really!

8. Thou shalt not bear false witness against thy neighbor.

Cloning is predicated on the lie that a human embryo is not a human life.

Honey, there’s a bunch of embryos moving in next door — there goes the neighborhood.

9. Thou shalt not covet thy neighbor’s wife.

Because of the many human eggs cloning demands, practitioners will covet women as donors.

We don’t think this is quite the kind of coveting God had in mind. Hey baby, want to go back to my place so I can get me so eggs?

10. Thou shalt not covet thy neighbor’s house, nor his field, nor his servant, nor his handmaid, nor his ox, nor his ass, nor anything that is his.

Therapeutic cloners covet an embryo’s stem cells. And is it unreasonable to assume the drive to clone arises from an inordinate desire for money or power?

When did these embryos get a house, a handmaid, an ox or an ass? Then again, on the latter it would appear that Mr. Jeffrey is very well covered, so maybe he’s taking this a bit too personally.

Rush Limbaugh, February 19, 2004:

One thing that conservatives and Republicans know, is just leave this gay marriage issue alone and the Democrats will implode on it. They will destroy themselves.

Out there in the real world:

Statements from conservative leaders with access to President Bush indicate that his declaration of explicit support for a constitutional amendment that bans same-sex marriage is imminent.

“We heard last night that President Bush is going to come out very clearly advocating the passage of a federal marriage amendment (FMA) and he is looking for an opportunity to do that,” Glenn T. Stanton, policy analyst for the Christian group Focus on the Family (FoF), told the New York Times on Wednesday.

“It is not a question of if but when,” he added. …

Conservative activist Gary Bauer told the Times that he had been in meetings this week with senior presidential adviser Karl Rove, Dr. James C. Dobson, founder of FoF, and other conservative groups to develop a strategy for supporting the amendment.

Bauer said he expected the president to announce support for the FMA “sooner rather than later.”

Kerry and Jane

Jane and John, sittin’ in a tree, k-i-s-s-i-n-g!

Shorter concept inspired by busy, busy, busy from an idea by D-Squared.

In spite of our best efforts, regular readers of Sadly, No! already know that we did not win a Koufax award this year. Well who needs awards when you can have this instead:

rajmgk – 6:44 AM ET February 19, 2004 (#19991 of 20001) …

FWIW, I do read a couple of web logs, but one of the best that I have discovered is Sadly, No!

https://sadlyno.com/

Today’s entry is funny as heck.

It is written by a guy who apparently lives in Munich–but who writes in English and has a wonderful sense of irony.

In related news… We keed, we keed!