Pam's House Blend - Recent Comments

This guy still entered a plea that amounts to guilty.

lw — Sat, 21 Nov 2009 10:21:07 GMT

There was no reason for him to have been set free, all legal protections granted.

I'm assuming you simply weren't familiar with the specifics of this case

lw — Sat, 21 Nov 2009 10:19:43 GMT

This person was given time served for second degree murder after having been allowed to change his guilty plea to an Alford plea (basically the same as no contest, but nuanced with a bit of "we all know I'm guilty but not admitting it"). When a defendant enters an Alford plea, they are treated as guilty. The fact that he was allowed to enter one ten years later shouldn't reduce his sentence by 2/3.

It is absolutely mind-boggling that this person was set free--and totally indefensible.

Ish, you've always made it perfectly clear that you're a hater.

donal1944 — Sat, 21 Nov 2009 10:06:03 GMT

We know all about your hatefulness. And we know you're an Obot. That's not in question.

Every time you open your mouth you expose how little you know about history, politics and the LGBT movement for equality. As it turns out, you don't know squat. All you really do know is how to hate those who expose you.

I didn't ask you to defend right wing Democrats like Obama and Dixiecrats like Clinton and Eastland. You don't have to be asked. You write fantasies and apologies for them without being asked and it's really all you can do. I asked you to prove your embarrassing and preposterous 'untruth" that Eastland and the rest aren't Dixiecrats. You couldn't so you cover yourself you replied that you didn't have to defend them. You're sinking deeper and deeper.

It's Obots like you who constantly try to derail the fight for equlity because you fear it'll get out of hand. That's the only thing you're right about.

Don't you get tired of being constantly exposed and put down by us bad ole commie-anarcho-maoist-stalinist-trots?

As if Battered Wife Syndrome is funny?

CisgenderLesbianRadical — Sat, 21 Nov 2009 08:53:47 GMT

...??

Who wrote that article??

CisgenderLesbianRadical — Sat, 21 Nov 2009 08:52:37 GMT

They can't even write. Punctuation, anyone? Changing of tenses?

I know you do

sarasnavel — Sat, 21 Nov 2009 07:51:56 GMT

...and I very much appreciated what you wrote, despite us having a difference of opinion on a few of the practical observations and repercussions.

You didn't hijack the thread. Mercado's life was taken for not being a heterosexual male or female in all regards, be it appearance, identity or role. Not a very fair trade; in fact I can think of nothing more terrifying. My oldest child fits that description (as do I, but that only allows me to more fully realize what lay ahead for her).

"I also do not believe it is my place to define what transgender identity means. It is the place of people who identify as transgender to define it."

And that is the crux of the problem: none of us are given the chance to define ourselves and have those definitions respected and not feared. And this comes not only from the uninformed masses, but from within as well! Insofar as nothing being erased, I was referring to the unrealized ideal presented, whereupon Mercado could have simply described as "transgender" and that could have meant gay, gay-in-drag, genderfluid, hetero-crossdressed or transsexual and it would not have mattered. Transgender would not be a definition other than implying transgression of unrealistic gender expectations.

In an ideal use of transgender, Mercado's self definition would not have been subject to claim by gays or transsexuals or anyone else. We all would have claimed the loss of one of our own, but it would have been done together, with a clear respect for whatever self-definition was the truth. We wouldn't be claiming a "transsexual" death or a "gay" death like a pack of morbid trophy hunters. But that ideal does not exist today. It has in the past and I believe it will again, but we have a lot of work ahead of us to bring it (back) to fruition. There is a lot of desperation, erasure (as you used the term), ignorance and fear to overcome.

As you pointed out we must stop using transgender as a synonym for transsexual. We (everyone) must educate ourselves and the public by correcting incorrect usage of the terms with as much fervor as we (transsexuals) do the use of pronouns or we (gays and lesbians) do the misinterpretation of gender identity.

Believe it or not, things are pretty easy right now. All of us are being targeted and have frightening battles ahead of us that will try to exploit our differences. The fights that lie ahead must not be lost due to fighting within, and they must not be lost due to a lack of clarity as to who we are. The other side, after all, has God on their side.

"You are just as selfish as everyone else in Washington."

bluegrassfool — Sat, 21 Nov 2009 07:38:20 GMT

Duh.

Lame Argument

Arbitrator — Sat, 21 Nov 2009 06:14:30 GMT

"ENDA will [...] force churches, small businesses run by Christians, and faith-based charities to hire nonbelievers or face federal investigation."

I believe that religious discrimination is illegal, so people can already be forced to hire nonbelievers.

This includes the Jew or Muslim that doesn't believe Jesus is the son of God or the atheist that doesn't believe in God at all. If these people were really serious about not wanting to hire nonbelievers, I think that those people would be something to be more concerned about when compared to people that have violated a vague passage in Leviticus. This is even more so when you have someone that is gay and Christian because then that gay person is likely more in tune with your (supposed) beliefs than the Jew, Muslim, or atheist.

Since they want to turn this into a religious issue, this essentially turns this into an issue of religious discrimination. Namely, you want to discriminate on my religious (or lack thereof) views or practices because it disagrees with your own religious views. I have to wonder how objectionable they would find it if someone chose not to hire them because they went to church, displayed a cross, or committed adultery because all of these are essentially the same thing. (Protections against religious discrimination is stupid though since there isn't a remotely clear line as to what is a religious view and what is a nonreligious view.)

Given the above, one can only conclude that religion is a front and they're only doing this because they hate gays or they've deluded themselves into believing such contradictions. (I suppose the latter would not be surprising if they've deluded themselves enough to believe in God...)

Good grief

Reiuji — Sat, 21 Nov 2009 06:13:17 GMT

I can dig waiting outside overnight for a video game, but dragging your entire family with you just so you can get your prettied up and bookbound trash signed by the garbage lady herself?

These people REALLY need to analyze their priorities in life.

but he could have

sickntired — Sat, 21 Nov 2009 06:12:13 GMT

just been a drag queen... no trans anything ...

"We gave up our entire workday, stayed in the cold. My kids were crying,"

NVTodd — Sat, 21 Nov 2009 06:03:03 GMT

"They went home with my wife. She was out here in the freezing cold all day. I feel like I don't want to support Sarah."

But they will anyway, Conservatives all seem to suffer from a weird kind of Stockholm/Battered Wife Syndrome; they always go back to the ones that hurts them most.

Sarah hit me - and it felt like a kiss !

har har har

I want to know

one jewish dyke — Sat, 21 Nov 2009 05:50:33 GMT

if every single laid-off attendee of their rallies has declined unemployment payments on principle that people with jobs shouldn't pay taxes to support people who aren't working.

Strange parents

Herb — Sat, 21 Nov 2009 05:42:50 GMT

who would keep their kids out in the "freezing rain" all day to get a worthless signature on a book. Palin and these people deserve each other.

Twilight

Keori — Sat, 21 Nov 2009 05:08:54 GMT

It's the only fandom they have left.

You seem to think this guy sets the program

peteyPornpig — Sat, 21 Nov 2009 05:08:23 GMT

Obama is commander-in-chief, he TELLS the military, and they follow orders....PERIOD