Quotes of the day
posted at 9:30 pm on May 2, 2009 by Allahpundit
“Marriage equality is going to happen in this country. It’s only a matter of time.
For some, this reality is exciting, uplifting and extraordinary. For others, it is scary, frightening, even unfathomable. But no matter your opinion on the subject, this truth is inexorable: Gays and lesbians will one day be able to wed legally in all 50 states. Our relationships will finally be recognized as valid under the law and protected by our government. And America will be a stronger country for it.”
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“Instead of mocking Miss Prejean, the would do well to consider the wisdom of a titan of another sort: ‘If you strike me down, I shall become more powerful than you could possibly imagine.’ The more they attempt to strike her down, the stronger she becomes. And the more popular she becomes among her supporters and Americans increasingly irritated by the crowd continually eager to find someone to belittle and to blame.”
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What do we got here, a bunch of college yahoo’s?/
WTF are you doing at home on a Saturday night?
I’m old, I have an excuse! What do I have to do, teach you young’uns how to party and study for finals at the same time????????
Knucklehead on May 3, 2009 at 12:48 AM
Good question… I have a project that I’m working on for the summer – putting it off. My other friends are prepping for finals, so that leaves me to procrastinate the inevitable.
Upstater85 on May 3, 2009 at 12:51 AM
Do you know what a straight man is in a comedy routine?
Just checking.
The only thing that makes me laugh about this administration is the teleflubbies when TOTUS is being bad.
Other than that, my emotions range from fuming to horrified.
Loxodonta on May 3, 2009 at 12:51 AM
I should be very stern with you, but I enjoy your company.
Loxodonta on May 3, 2009 at 12:53 AM
I recalled after I made my post (we are under the Prejean thread after all). I just went with my blunder.
That about sums it up.
Upstater85 on May 3, 2009 at 12:53 AM
And you, I left a compliment for you at the bottom of the previous page.
Loxodonta on May 3, 2009 at 12:53 AM
Coming to the party late but I’ve really enjoyed it.
In the beginning, liberals said that birth control was good and the sky would not fall if people used it.
Then liberals said that no fault divorce was good and no one would get hurt and the sky would not fall if it became law.
Then liberals told us that abortion was good and would mean all children were wanted and the sky would not fall if woman had choice.
Then liberals told us that homosexuality was normal and genetic and the sky would not fall if they came out of the closet.
Looking at this all now, I am devastated that I ever fell for their lies. But, there is one lie I no longer believe. That is that liberals are compassionate and loving and care about the little people. Their lies have nearly destroyed the little people.
The sky is falling.
Jvette on May 3, 2009 at 12:55 AM
Have we scared everybody away?
Or, are they sitting back laughing at our inane attempts at humor?
Or, are they all in a drunken stupor?
Have I missed any possibilities?
Loxodonta on May 3, 2009 at 12:56 AM
I am tired of the tyranny of the minority. Marriage has existed throughout all of mankinds history. There has never been homosexual marriage. In today’s world homosexuals can have everything that a marriage confers, but it is not enough for them.
As evidenced by Hilton, their rage and desire to destroy things not gay is the real issue. They care less about marriage and more about devaluing/destroying marriage because it has never been intended for them.
America1st on May 2, 2009 at 10:51 PM
Could you possibly state in a more honest manner?
Thank You America1st
heshtesh on May 3, 2009 at 12:57 AM
Gays like Perez Hilton shouldn’t dish it out, if they can’t take it. Don’t cry on MSNBC the next time you hear someone calls you a name you don’t like.
Star20 on May 3, 2009 at 12:57 AM
And don’t phone into Hardball to defend your husband against Ann Coulter’s remarks – even if you are a darling saint /s
Upstater85 on May 3, 2009 at 1:00 AM
Yep. Only thing left is to do is make Ted McGinty VP.
TMK on May 3, 2009 at 1:01 AM
I’m seriously considering running for public office at the local level (gotta start somewhere). I really didn’t think I had it in me, to get up and make a big speech in front of 500+ people. And it felt pretty darn good to get a standing ovation when they found out about the budget stuff.
And I didn’t use telepromter lol! Since the eyesight is failing, it was easy to speak in front of all of those people…..I couldn’t see.
Knucklehead on May 3, 2009 at 1:01 AM
You didn’t have to live under Jimmy Carter who gets the top honor of being the worst President ever……..until we elected the Pantywaste we’re dealing with right now.
Barack Hussein Obama, starring in:
Welcome Back Carter
jgapinoy on May 2, 2009 at 11:01 PM
I remember Carter and as bad as he was he never got me near as wound tight as the present idiot doe’s.
heshtesh on May 3, 2009 at 1:06 AM
My only knowledge of Perez Hilton is through the Teen USA incident. He asked the question. Carrie Prejean gave a respectful response of her view that marriage should be between a man and a woman. Then, Hilton went home and fumed on camera his complaints about Prejean, calling her degrading slurs.
Nobody should treat another person in that manner for simply disagreeing with them. Frankly, I can’t imagine any justification for anyone ever using the slurs Hilton used. So, from my point of view, even if Hilton can take it, he shouldn’t be dishing it out.
Unfortunately, bitter, vulgar, and abusive hatred seems to be in these days in much of contemporary culture. All I can do about it is not add to it.
Loxodonta on May 3, 2009 at 1:09 AM
MCAT’s are coming up too. My son is finished with his junior year and now getting ready to take the test and begin applying to med school.
Jvette on May 3, 2009 at 1:11 AM
Please consider it carefully, especially the impact it could have on your family. However, if you feel you can live through it, win or lose, then please do so. We need honest people in government who have common sense.
And if you can apply the Golden Rule and Reagan’s 11th Commandment, I predict you will do very well.
Loxodonta on May 3, 2009 at 1:12 AM
Laxodonta,
You are a nice person. The kind of person that allow people Perez Hilton to flourish without objection or restraint. Throughout history, nice people haven’t spoken up when tyrants, despots and the dregs of society took over.
Star20 on May 3, 2009 at 1:14 AM
Did you happen to catch the woman on O’Reilly with Laura Ingraham last night?
She said that she has had much worse said about her by conservatives including Laura. Laura had a fit and tried to stop her talking saying that she had never said a word about this woman.
I thought Laura handled her well, but I find too often that conservatives don’t challenge liberals when they make these outrageously false claims.
Jvette on May 3, 2009 at 1:14 AM
But if BHO had been there, it would have been hugs & big smiles & handshakes & bows & …
jgapinoy on May 2, 2009 at 11:26 PM
Just leave it at that.
heshtesh on May 3, 2009 at 1:19 AM
In my personal life, I never hesitated to speak out against bullies and far worse, at least until recently. Over the past fifteen years, I slowly got quieter to the point that since the second Bush term I am practically silent about my political and ethical views. The reason for this is that I have been punished by liberals for speaking out. Given my age, condition and circumstances, I simply cannot take such risks anymore. So, I only express myself online and anonymously.
Loxodonta on May 3, 2009 at 1:21 AM
In my personal life, I never hesitated to speak out against bullies and far worse, at least until recently. Over the past fifteen years, I slowly got quieter to the point that since the second Bush term I am basically silent about my political and ethical views. The reason for this is that I have been punished by liberals for speaking out. Given my age, condition and circumstances, I simply cannot take such risks anymore. So, I only express myself online and anonymously.
Loxodonta on May 3, 2009 at 1:23 AM
While I support gay couples’ desire to affirm their relationships in a civil sense,what the he$$ does that have to do with “making America stronger”?What planet do these people live on?
DDT on May 3, 2009 at 1:28 AM
Sorry for the double post. Hot Air went off line for me for a moment. I swear it wasn’t my fault, but as I am Catholic, I am willing to feel guilty about anything, anywhere, anytime, so…
Loxodonta on May 3, 2009 at 1:31 AM
Loxodonta,
I have had RPG’s fired at me, three times, a grenade thrown at me once and been under snipe fire and mortar attacks more than I could count. I wrote a column for a while. During that time, I was threatened and told that the readers hoped my wife and children died slow and painful deaths. I was fired once, for refusing to do something illegal. You can’t live afraid.
Star20 on May 3, 2009 at 1:31 AM
How powerful is she?Only a stong conservative woman could make the Miss U.S.A. Pagaent relevent.
DDT on May 3, 2009 at 1:32 AM
No TV or radio or safety net. I am just a forgotten old hermit.
Loxodonta on May 3, 2009 at 1:36 AM
Give me their names and addresses and I will have a little heart-to-heart talk with them. If that does not work then I will use my little green ring and take them apart molecule by molecule and then put them back together again. And maybe I put them back together right and maybe I don’t. But they’ll be alive and conscious for every second of it.
HalJordan on May 3, 2009 at 1:37 AM
I’m sorry you had to live through such difficulties, and am glad you came through so well. I’m thankful that there are younger people who are able to stand up and fight. More power to you. If there is anything I can do to help, in the ways I can help, I will as best I can. However, as there are times I have difficulty standing up, let alone standing up for myself …
I don’t live in fear.
Loxodonta on May 3, 2009 at 1:46 AM
That’s a very good line.
Loxodonta on May 3, 2009 at 1:50 AM
Loxodonta,
I’m doing fine. You don’t have to worry about me. By the way, I’m not a “younger people.” I’m a grandfather, who has had a wonderful life. Stand up for yourself and seek others if you need support. Don’t let the bastards get you down.
Star20 on May 3, 2009 at 1:53 AM
Thanks. I do best when I am helping others.
No matter how difficult life is, there are always little wonders to appreciate if one is open to them. Even the simple touch of raindrops upon one’s face can be a reminder of the wonders and miracle of life.
Loxodonta on May 3, 2009 at 2:06 AM
Actually, with the federal Defense of Marriage Act and the state constitutional bans in most states I doubt same-sex marriage will be anything more than what it is now; abnormal.
It will always be a contradiction in terms.
As for the Constitution’s Article IV. Section 1. that does not apply to state licenses, which is what state’s grant to married couples – licenses. If it did doctors and lawyers would not need to get them in each state they wish to practice and hunting and fishing licenses from each state would be valid in all 49 other states (56 other states for you Obamaites). As I am neither a hunter nor a fisherman I am assuming those are not carried over due agreements between states.
Trying to validate an abnormal lifestyle choice by changing definitions only serves to reinforce the reasons the definitions were made in the first place.
Bubba Redneck on May 3, 2009 at 4:11 AM
It’s easy to grade procrastinator’s papers – they get, as we used to say, “hog nuts” (00).
Bubba Redneck on May 3, 2009 at 4:15 AM
The joke’s on us. Perez Hilton is just pissed because HE couldn’t participate in the Miss America pageant.
afotia on May 3, 2009 at 4:34 AM
Have you noticed that the comments section for the Headlines thread, Science Daily: Yes, Virginia, there is an invisibility cloak, are proof positive that the invisibility cloak does indeed exist?
Another demonstration of the wonders of science, brought to you by the Hot Air Institute of Technology.
Loxodonta on May 3, 2009 at 5:05 AM
You’re long gone, but I’ll chime in that I did see that Ingram segment on O’Reilly. What planet was that feminist from? Women like her cheer on conservative-women haters. It’s bizarre. I do disagree with you, however, about how Ingram handled it. I like her–a lot–but she’s not that great on TV. I find she spends too much time talking over guests. In this case, she should had the producer cut the other woman’s mike while Laura corrected her lie. Then, she should have allowed to continue only after acknowledgning the lie–as I recall, it had to do with the guest accusing Ingram of personally attacking her in the past when, in fact, this was the first time Ingram had ever been aware of the woman.
As I saw it, it was an important enough point to stop the debate and beat the guest over the head with her lie. The only way to deal with liars is expose them by drawing a big red circle around it and then making them admit that they lied.
BuckeyeSam on May 3, 2009 at 5:06 AM
Good grief, it’s hard to believe that anything that long ago could be so dead on relevant at this very moment. Stunning.
Cindy Munford on May 3, 2009 at 7:11 AM
Well isn,t this a special thread!?
sabbott on May 3, 2009 at 7:26 AM
There will likely soon be 13 states that recognize gay marriage or have civil unions that are equal on the state level.
A majority of Americans favor recognizing gay civil unions at the federal level.
The court question with DOMA is whether the federal government should recognize each state’s right to define and administer marriage. SCOTUS can invoke the commerce clause in support of the federal government’s own definition, but Scalia and Thomas have shown, as in “US v Lopez” that they believe the commerce clause has been stretched too far.
Rather than gay unions being legally abnormal, there will probably be a prolonged period where the states are divided over the issue.
dedalus on May 3, 2009 at 7:50 AM
Commuting 1.5 hrs to school every day has turned me into a very early to bed, early to rise bird. Man I remember living on campus, never went to bed before 2-3 AM. Plus none of my friends are home yet from skrool.
two weeks!
blatantblue on May 3, 2009 at 8:35 AM
Ewww. I didn’t think of that.
jgapinoy on May 3, 2009 at 8:47 AM
That would’ve been his next question if had gotten the chance:
“Do you think attractive men like me should be allowed to compete in this pageant?”
jgapinoy on May 3, 2009 at 8:49 AM
This is a necessary application of the commerce clause.
Imagine the mess: Two men marry in CA, then move to Salt Lake City. Then they sue for their marriage to be recognized in Utah, & it works its way through the courts up to BHO’s liberal SCOTUS. God help us.
jgapinoy on May 3, 2009 at 8:53 AM
Yeah, we liked it. Keyword was not “focus”.
Cindy Munford on May 3, 2009 at 9:05 AM
Until you graduate or just finish the year?
Cindy Munford on May 3, 2009 at 9:06 AM
That would’ve been his next question if had gotten the chance:
“Do you think attractive men like me should be allowed to compete in this pageant?”
jgapinoy on May 3, 2009 at 8:49 AM
You never know a little quality time with Perez Hilton and you could get up to speed GOOD LUCK!/sarc
heshtesh on May 3, 2009 at 9:11 AM
Graduation! That’ll be in December.
All my pals and my woman are graduating in two weeks, but I got a little behind.
“What’s another three months?” I tell myself.
blatantblue on May 3, 2009 at 9:23 AM
I’m almost positive y’all don’t believe that Ms. Prejean is/was the only contestant with breast augmentation…
Are you really going to go down that road?
Let’s start with hollyweird.
elifino on May 3, 2009 at 9:29 AM
That may happen. SCOTUS will probably avoid ruling on gay marriage but will likely address DOMA and “full faith and credit”.
Another issue with DOMA is whether the federal government has the right to not recognize a valid marriage within a state, in effect encroaching on the state’s power to regulate such matters.
Minimum marriage ages can vary between 13 and 21 by state. Could the federal government set a marriage age of 21 and ignore the state marriages for those under that age?
dedalus on May 3, 2009 at 9:57 AM
I don’t recall any hollywood persona EVER criticizing a woman because she had breast implants. They just hate women who can think and they especially hate hot women who can think.
Like abortion, homosexual marriage will be crammed down our throats by an immoral judiciary and a feckless elected government.
It’s a good thing that Christ is one day returning or this all could be awfully depressing.
Mojave Mark on May 3, 2009 at 10:24 AM
FIFY
warbaby on May 3, 2009 at 11:17 AM
Cool beans! December will be here before you know it and the earlier graduates can help you network into employment.
Cindy Munford on May 3, 2009 at 11:27 AM
Possibly the weirdest aspect of the whole cat fight. One of the folks on Red Eye said in Hollywood you need implants to work at McDonalds.
Cindy Munford on May 3, 2009 at 11:30 AM
Assuming the economy will still be around, Swine Flu hasn’t zombified the Earths population, and Perez Hilton hasn’t taken over the world.
blatantblue on May 3, 2009 at 11:38 AM
Back off on the optimism, Killer. Let’s see if conservatives raising some he!! can move the ball forward.
Cindy Munford on May 3, 2009 at 11:55 AM
LOL I jest
It’s deciding time.
Low price Arabic graduate programs are kind of an oxymoron.
blatantblue on May 3, 2009 at 12:00 PM
No, we will be a less free country for it. That’s because for the most part the agenda is being pushed by liberals and whenever liberals hand us something it will cost us our freedom, our money, or both. Now I do have some sympathy for the libertarian case for gay marriage (ie. live and let live…keep government out of our personal lives). The problem is we do not live under a libertarian system. Government recognition of SSM carries with it all kinds of ripple effects in a big government “it-takes-a-village” society like ours. There are numerous example of this in my state of Massachusetts which was the first state to sanction SSM. One such example happened in a neighboring town. Prior to the SSM ruling in 2003, parents of students were issued warnings the day before any SSM materials were to be discussed in the classroom (I’m talking elementary grades here). After 2003, the warnings were stopped. When outraged parents complained, they were told by the superintendant that with SSM marriage now being legal in Massachusetts, they were under no obligation to warn parents when SSM was to be discussed (discussions in which SSM was portrayed as normative and any opposition to it was looked apon as bigotry). Now parents in that town have no alternative but to pull their children out of the public school system and put them in private schools. Of course not everyone can afford that. This is a clear case where parental freedom was lost. All of this because of the recognition of gay marriage by government. This is why I get so exasparated when I hear SSM supporters keep asking how gay marriage will hurt my marriage. I don’t think gay marriage will hurt my marriage. But I do think it will infringe on parental freedom. We are already way too far down the road of statism to have the government put it’s stamp of approval on gay marriage and NOT have it affect our lives in numerous other ways.
frank63 on May 3, 2009 at 12:40 PM
It s clearly an anti-Christian mode so deeply entrenched in the liberal left.
wepeople on May 3, 2009 at 2:10 PM
Is it too soon for people to start work on pushing for the complete acceptance of child porn, bestiality, pedophilia and polygamy, or are those things still a year or two off?
Star20 on May 3, 2009 at 2:11 PM
Like I posted at the Gay Patriot story
Big John on May 3, 2009 at 3:33 PM
Now I can strike Forbes off my list of magazines to stack in my bathroom by the toilet.
bluelightbrigade on May 3, 2009 at 4:57 PM
P.S.
I’m a big fan of the GP blog. Thanks for quoting it here, AP. He deserves the cred.
bluelightbrigade on May 3, 2009 at 4:58 PM
Star20 on May 3, 2009 at 2:11 PM
Do socons actually imagine this is a valid argument? You want to know why it’s invalid? Inability to give informed consent.
There you go.
Krydor on May 3, 2009 at 6:10 PM
Did anyone catch the feminist on O’Reilly this Friday? Laura Ingraham was guest hosting. The feminist, after trying to casually accuse Laura of saying worse things herself, actually said Prejean should’ve had a heart implant instead of a breast implants.
Here’s the link
hawksruleva on May 3, 2009 at 9:57 PM
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