I couldn't resist you, I'm not deaf dumb and blind

[wombat_socho]

Do people like this student even realize how bigoted they sound? Makes me wonder how long we'll have to wait for a new Test Act that also bars evangelicals -or people who look and sound like evangelicals- from office. Judging from the confirmation hearings for Justice Alito last year, some people evidently think there's one in effect already.

Tonight I'll probably be working on my apazine for this weekend's StippleAPA, which as usual I've done absolutely nothing with in the last six weeks since Arcana. I did a little background work for Blood Red Skies today which should make writing the battle scenes in the middle chapters a lot easier, but I'm dubious about whether I'll actually get any actual writing done.

As for the weekend, aside from the Stipple collation, a stop by the library to pick up the new David Drake novel Some Golden Harbor (one of the Lieutenant Leary series, featuring the most lethal librarian in the universe) and a programming meeting with thaadd sometime Sunday, I don't have any plans, because those usually require money, and that's going to be scarce for a while.

Comments

[433.livejournal.com]

I don't think she is right for the office either. I don't think that anyone who is told what to do by God, Allah, Vishnu, Buddha, Flying Spaghetti Monster, or her husband should be in office. Stand up for your own beliefs, stand up for yourself.

You can be as religious as you want, that's fine with me. You can vote the way your religion tells you too, that's okay too. However, don't you dare vote the way your spouse tells you. I don't care if you're Bachmann, Clinton, or Knutson. Stand up for yourself.

[wombat-socho.livejournal.com]

*shrugs*
It's a free country. People elect drunks, murderers, pedophiles, thieves and liars to office all the time and that's just the Democrats so I don't see how being a submissive wife is necessarily a disqualifier. Besides, can you actually find anything that they disagree on? We're not talking another Coya Knutson situation here, after all.

[433.livejournal.com]

Hey, *I* brought up Coya! ^_^

I think being a submissive *anything* is shitty - I want to elect a person, not a family - be it Clinton or Bachmann.

And even if they *did* disagree, how would we know about it? Would he let her say that she disagreed with them? Would she be comfortable speaking or voting without his express approval?

[wombat-socho.livejournal.com]

Considering which one of them spends all the time in public, we might well ask if he's actually the one that wears the pants in the family.

Aren't you in the 5th CD anyway? What do you care what those God-bothering reactionaries in the 6th CD do?

Irony thy number is 433

[(Anonymous)]

hmmm against a submissive, I take it then he didn;t vote for a practicing Muslim, after all "Islam" means submission, Literally

Re: Irony thy number is 433

[wombat-socho.livejournal.com]

Bigot! ;)

Re: Irony thy number is 433

[433.livejournal.com]

A) I voted for Tammy Lee.
B) Who the hell are you? You've been commenting in my LJ and now here. If you don't have an LJ account (get one, they're free!), at least have the guts to sign your name.

Re: Irony thy number is 433

[wombat-socho.livejournal.com]

I thought for a minute it might be my friend RS from back East, but he usually appends his initials to his posts. I don't really know either.

[433.livejournal.com]

She has as many votes as Ellison, or McCollum, or Kline, or Walz, etc. do. And every time she appears on TV, she has that little "MN" next to her name.

[wombat-socho.livejournal.com]

Your point being what? We don't elect Congresscritters at large, we elect them to specific districts to represent specific groups of people because that's what the House is all about. If you feel some weird sense of shame because she comes from the same state you do, then you're the one with the problem. Me, I have no problem laughing at the nimrods in the 5th District for electing Ellison, but he doesn't represent me so it doesn't bother me all that much that he's the new Congressman from there.

[433.livejournal.com]

I guess we'll have to disagree on this. Minnesota has eight votes in the HoR, and I'd like to be proud of them all.

[wombat-socho.livejournal.com]

You can't always get what you want. [/Mick Jagger]