“Today, the president gave one of those speeches — an Obama speech. One of those signature speeches by this person at this moment in history that somehow rise up out of normal politics and address a taboo with an uncommon level of frankness and clarity and nuance.” — MSNBC’s Christopher Hayes

“Today’s speech was an important historic moment. It was a speech worthy of a man who has won the Nobel Peace Prize.” – MSNBC’s Al Sharpton

“This is a big historic speech. This is a turning point for the way America talks about its role in the world.” – MSNBC’s Rachel Maddow

“It was, I believe, the kind of presidential leadership many of us applaud. It probably helps I agree with everything the president said today.” – MSNBC’s Chris Matthews

So… it’s just a COINCIDENCE… that the tactics of the Obama campaign precisely mirror the policies of the IRS after Obama became president?

Up next, “It’s time to move on and let the president get back to doing his important work for the American people.”

They see homosexuality as immoral. Period. No other explanation needed.

OK, since “no other explanation is needed” I will proceed to offer one. (Funny about how throwing down the glove makes others get really feisty.)

The scouts have not heard from God that homosexuality is completely moral. That is because homosexuals who need God’s approval have not been able to reach Him and get the appropriate documents of moral neutrality or, better, moral encouragement. (Something like “And you, be ye fruitful, and multiply; bring forth abundantly in the earth, and multiply therein” – but, different.)

On the other hand, if the scouts would dump all the God stuff (“To do my duty to God”) and just substitute mother earth, they would be fully free to be wedded to moral relevancy and make the ends justify the means of the moment.

I rather like a scheme of moral relevancy toward loosing up the meaning of: honor, my best, duty, Scout Law, help, at all times, physically strong, mentally awake, morally straight, duty to country, being trustworthy, being loyal, being friendly, being courteous, being kind, being obedient, being cheerful, being thrifty, being brave, being clean and being reverent to mother earth. You can chant the doctrine and do what you want in living up to it. Just a lazy, hazy, crazy night out with the guys with no fouls and no points recorded.

You can twist those suckers into pretzels. Cool. No actual belief system, just words.

But, maybe, just maybe, the scouts have decided to open their ranks to gays on the basis that gay is not gay until sex is involved and dealing with that issue through exclusion is counter to their actual belief system.

However, it does leave the young gay boy with the problem of whether he can take the oath to do his duty to God and and be morally straight as he deals with his adolescent development which includes a discovery of being homosexual and all of its societal and libido driven ramifications.

Frankly, I feel sorry for any gay scout who would have to closet part of who he is becoming in order to go along with others who are becoming like 95% or more of society.

In the city, I can imagine a large enough group to form a gay scout troop where they can control their diversity issues in ways particularly relevant to their perceived needs.

As I look over the century of scouting, I see a group that has largely dwindled in size and importance in the community. I rarely see signs of the scouting organization and when I do, I am surprised they are still going at it.

We don’t have town parades any more. So, the scouts don’t get to march. We don’t have scouts helping people park at the country fair. We don’t have scouts doing projects like planting trees at the park on arbor day. We don’t have scout troops formed out of the congregations of churches all over town. We don’t have scouts wearing their uniforms to school on meeting days.

Our society through its culture has kissed the scouts goodbye and only by the dint of effort among some die hard adults does the scouting programs even exist.

So, I wonder, will the adult gays now infuse scouting with the much needed direction and energy to revitalize it? Or, is all of this just an other step in the death of scouting progression? Has scouting outlived its time and usefulness and all this business over gays in scouting is just a momentary fuss that makes people aware that scouting is not completely dead yet.

Much of the new evidence disclosed Thursday in filings by Zimmerman’s attorneys comes from Martin’s cell phone, including photos showing a semiautomatic pistol and ammunition and small marijuana plants growing in pots.

In other pictures, Martin is pictured making obscene gestures in an apparent self-portrait

Gee, you mean Trayvon Martin wasn’t the innocent little schoolboy gunned down by a trigger-happy racist like the narrative presented by the 4th estate? Gee, which side got *that* story right?

Bonus points: What is Candy Crowley eating and who is feeding her?

I don’t know about that, but I bet when she dresses in black, she looks like a stolen Mercedes.

Rumor has it she once devoured an entire country.

Regards,
Peter H.

Dana Milbank, of all people, wrote an article for WaPo earlier this week, basically saying that not only is the Rosen scandal real, but that the admin has clearly crossed the line in its pursuit of journalists it deems disloyal.

You should see the comments…one big collection of idiots covering their ears and screaming, “LIES, LIES,LIES!!!! Faux News had it coming!”

Almost comical, were it not so fascist.

An analogy to this is when Augusta National let in two women as members earlier this year. As a private organization, if they desire to be men only, that is their prerogative. If they want to be coed, then that is also their right, WITHOUT government influence.

The USA needs a strong 4th estate to keep the sunlight on government actions.

Which of the following has stayed focused and reported, summarized and broken news regularly on Benghazi, the IRS scandal, and Obamacare (you may choose up to three):

MSNBC
CNN
ABC
CBS
NBC
FOXNews
The NYT
The WaPO
The Washington Examiner
NPR
Jon Stewart
Rush Limbaugh

Do you see any sort of a pattern?

Explain how a shield law would have helped the others strengthen their shining the light of the sun on the government.

Bonus points: What is Candy Crowley eating and who is feeding her?

Extra Credit: Write an essay of up to 500 words on whether looking the other way, shading the truth or flat out lying works best as a strategy for a bootlicking journalist in protecting the man he loves.

Meanwhile, MMFA, a clearly partisan group that, like the bootlicker, simply echoes the admistration’s talking points, never has its tax exempt status question.

Also, the “Shield Law” contains a natinal security exception; so President Mugabe and his corrupt regime would have just gone after Rosen and his family and co-workers on that basis.

20.Aww…………Free association/acceptance can not be achieved through “social engineering” by progressives. I expect a lawsuit any day to force inclusion of LGBT scoutmasters and who knows what other “problems” progressives will find down the road that will need to be “corrected”.

Of course. Rather than see the vote yesterday as a vote for tolerance, it will be seen as weakness and the progressive sharks will see blood in the water.

And the entire purpose of shield laws in the modern world is to enshrine that some press is more equal than others. If a ‘shield law’ protecting CBS and excluding LGF had been in place, would we have known that CBS was pimping forged documents?

http://commoncts.blogspot.com/2013/05/now-we-know-ten-leading-democrats-wrote.html

You’d get Bambi-in-the-headlamps stares. You’d get spluttering and red faces. You’d get insults one might expect from kids in the seventh grade. But you’d get no satisfactory answers.

I had a very interesting exchange with one statist lefty just the other day. I was told — for at least the thousandth time — that because I’m a libertarian, I’m a “conspiracy theorist.”

I explained that conspiracy theory assumes that grand ideas can be effectively implemented by a central elite, capable of marshaling the cooperation of a wide a diverse bunch of people. That libertarians don’t believe this can be done — which is exactly why we’re libertarians in the first place. And that, therefore, calling us “conspiracy theorists” makes no sense.

I got a stare, and spluttering. He didn’t know how to answer me, because his keepers hadn’t told him what to think about it.