JABbering Stooge

Or not…

LONDON, September 25, 2008 — The Baghdad coordinator of Iraqi LGBT has been assassinated, probably by one of the two religious militia.

Peter Tatchell of Outrage! issued the following statement at lunchtime:

• This morning, I received news from Iraq that the coordinator of Iraqi LGBT in Baghdad, Bashar, aged 27, a university student, has been assassinated in a barber shop.

  Militias burst in and sprayed his body with bullets at point blank range.

  He was the organiser of the safe houses for gays and lesbians in Baghdad. His efforts saved the lives of dozens of people.

  Bashar was a kind, generous and extremely brave young man – a true hero who put his life on the line to save the lives of others.

  My thoughts go out to his loved ones and to the other members of Iraqi LGBT.

  Their courage is an inspiration to all people everywhere fighting against injustice.

Mr. Tatchell said that the exact identity of the gunmen is unclear, but Bashar was probably murdered by the Islamist death squads who are targeting lesbian and gay Iraqis for ‘sexual cleansing’.

No word yet as to what the contents of the collective jockey shorts of James Dobson, Matt Barber, Peter LaBarbera and Michael Savage were if/when they found out about this senseless murder.

Well, well, well. It looks like reality still has a liberal bias:

A new two-year study by the American Psychological Association (APA) finds that women “who choose to abort an unwanted pregnancy may experience feelings of grief and loss, but there is no evidence that a single abortion causes significant mental health problems.” From the APA’s press release:

• “The best scientific evidence published indicates that among adult women who have an unplanned pregnancy, the relative risk of mental health problems is no greater if they have a single elective first-trimester abortion or deliver that pregnancy,” said Brenda Major, PhD, chair of the task force. “The evidence regarding the relative mental health risks associated with multiple abortions is more uncertain.”

Naturally, the fetus fetishists are up in arms over the decision. Lifesitenews.com, one of the sites that was enthusiastically pimping the Massive Poll™®© conducted by astroturf company KLR Vu, even goes so far as to make the laughable claim that the APA violated its own ethics standard. But then, what do you expect from a group that had previously written off the APA as a tool of the Homosexual Agenda™©® when the APA rescinded its previous ruling that homosexuality is a mental disorder?

Ah, the things confirmation bias will do to you.

* I think you know the one…

A Day in the Life of a True Conservative
Source Unknown (First seen on Thom Hartmann’s web site)
Additions by J. A. Baker

Joe Conservative wakes up in the morning and goes to the bathroom. He flushes his toilet and brushes his teeth, mindful that each flush & brush costs him about 43 cents to his privatized water provider. His wacky, liberal neighbor keeps badgering the company to disclose how clean and safe their water is, but no one ever finds out. Just to be safe, Joe Conservative boils his drinking water.

Orson Scott Card pinches a loaf at the thought that he might have to treat gays as human beings.

State job is not to redefine marriage

• Homosexuals are varelse, and any government that says otherwise deserves to have a political Dr. Device deployed against it!

“Shorter” concept created by Daniel Davies, perfected by Elton Beard and given a beneficial mutation by the fine folks at Sadly, No!
I am aware of all Internet tradtions.™

It didn’t have to be this way…

‘Cause, I mean, even with all this stuff we preach about the sanctity of life, we don’t practice it. We don’t practice it. Look at what we’d kill: Mosquitos and flies. ‘Cause they’re pests. Lions and tigers. ‘Cause it’s fun! Chickens and pigs. ‘Cause we’re hungry. Pheasants and quails. ‘Cause it’s fun. And we’re hungry. And people “libruls”. We kill people “libruls”… ‘Cause they’re pests. And it’s fun!

George Carlin — Back In Town

Yeah, and I’m the heir to the throne of Zanzibar.

From the local fishwrap:

Austin district cuts off support for ‘Rent’
Content prompts officials to halt financial backing, but high school production will go on.*

So basically, AISD summer school students get the honor of being the first high school students in Texas to obtain the rights to perform a famous, smash-hit Broadway musical, only to have that honor stolen and the funding slashed to nearly nothing because the musical’s themes don’t sit well with a bunch of howling fanatics.

What kind of theocratic authoritarian prick would pull this shit? Who the hell would be so threatened by the “humanizing of homosexuals” that they would resort to this sort of Mafia-style tactic?

Oh, right.

Wonder if a certain Professional Outrage Maven threatened to behead members of the AISD school board if they continued to support this.

* Cf.

California’s Supreme Court has overturned a ban on gay marriage. About frickin’ time.

Interestingly, the last time a court overturned a state ban on gay marriage, I wound up fisking none other than Eugene Volokh’s reaction to the ruling.

You know, the one that the “librul” media is trying to sweep under the rug.

His latest column is available here, and it’s a good one. For the record, the Miami Herald’s title is “Reject intolerance cloaked in faith”. For me, the money quote is this:

Some did, at least. Ours is still an era wherein war, hatred and intolerance often wear a clerical collar. As Lawson puts it, “Much of Christianity in the United States has been more influenced by violence and sexism and racism and greed than by the teachings of Jesus.”

Indeed.

* With apologies to former ESPN sportscaster Dan Patrick.