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Wordless Thursday: Swine Flu

Courtesy of this article at one of my favorites, Consumerist.com.

I'm gonna throw my paw into this flaming cat fight to say...

Don't blink, because you may never see this again. In a few moments, you'll witness me engage my precious typing fingers to comment on... of all things... a friggin beauty pageant. Miss USA to be exact. (God. I think I just threw up a little in my mouth, but I digress.)

Just in case you were lucky enough to actually miss this on the news, here's the summary. The gay Miss USA judge (and famous blogger), Perez Hilton asked Miss California (Carrie Prejean) a controversial question during the competition. And the poor little blond thing gave an answer that arguably cost her the title. (Doesn't she know that "world peace" is the correct answer to all those dayum beauty pageant questions? Just ask Miss Congeniality.) Anyway:

Prejean, a blonde student was one of the favourites to win the Miss USA title at the pageant held on Sunday at the Planet Hollywood hotel and casino in Las Vegas and shown live on TV.

Having negotiated earlier rounds of modelling in a swimsuit and evening gown, she was down to the final 15 and had to answer a single question from one of the panel of five judges.

Prejean picked celebrity blogger Perez Hilton, who is openly gay and calls himself 'queen of all media'.

Hilton asked her: 'Vermont recently became the fourth state to legalise same-sex marriage. Do you think every state should follow suit. Why or why not?'

Prejean paused for a moment before replying: 'Well, I think it’s great that Americans are able to choose one or the other. We live in a land where you can choose same-sex marriage or opposite marriage.'

She continued: 'And you know what, in my country, in my family, I think that I believe that a marriage should be between a man and a woman.

'No offence to anybody out there, but that’s how I was raised and that’s how I think it should be - between a man and a woman. Thank you very much.' [source]

Since that time, all hell has broken loose in the media like a cat fight of biblical proportions (no pun intended). Perez Hilton kicked it off by calling Prejean a "dumb bitch," which I suspect came with a lot of neck-rolling and batted eyelashes. But I call "Dumb" on Perez Hilton for asking that question in the first place. Why?  Because gay marriage is the new double-punch hot-button issue that grabs people by their political AND religious nuts (preceded only by the equally double-punched question of abortion). And I don't think that kind of question has a place in all the priss and prance of a beauty pageant. In fact, if the answer isn't "World Peace," I call foul on the question (but I digress again).

Now I can't leave Perez hanging in the wind for turning the stage into his personal platform for gay rights. Because Miss California did the same by converting the stage into her personal pulpit.

But Hawa, aren't you a Christian? Didn't you agree with her immediately and wanna smack the pink out of Perez's soul?

No. HELL no. I'm not siding with the self-proclaimed Christian Keepers of the Moral Center for Finger Pointing. Because Christians, especially Christian Conservatives, are notorious for picking on the "other" sinners. By "other", I mean anybody believed to commit worse sins than the sanctified among us. Really, it just gets ridiculous.

If you believe homosexuality is a sexual sin, then get consistent with your bible thumping finger pointing. What about putting adultery back on the books as illegal and giving the betrayed spouse legal rights to sue? Why not disallow all these TV shows that glorify sex before marriage? While we're at it, lets make sure liars and common fornicators can't adopt children.

You see, I don't want my government ruling under a narrow set of "Christian" beliefs. Not only do we pride ourselves on allowing religious freedom, but John McCain and Sarah Palin taught us a HUGE lesson about the way Christians can't even agree about religion (read: Christian conservatives scare the crap out of me). Even the Klu Klux Klan considers themselves a Christian organization. So I can do without lessons from some folks on how to be a Good American Christian.

Marriage from a government perspective is about the legally binding contract between two people. And that's what I want my government to tend to. If two consenting adults of the same sex decide to marry, why shouldn't the mate receive property rights and other spousal benefits? Leave the legalities to the legislators. Leave the religious dilemma to individuals.

And please, by golly, leave the politically and religiously-charged questions OFF the beauty pageant stage. It's just.... not.... cute.

Fortune Cookie: Thank God I don't have to drive sometimes (aka Jesus take the wheel).

I love Chinese food. It's terrible. Not the food. The food is great, but my love for the greasy grub with a sprinkle of MSG is terrible. At one point, I was making my junkie run to the Great Wall Restaurant for lunch... Every. Dang. Day.

Now I won't comment on the huge portions compared to the less-than-$5 price tag. I'm scared to know the secret of the mystery meat. What animal dies for me to get a bucket-load for less than a McDonald's meal? Chickens and cows just don't come to mind.

But I make that run several times a month and I need a place to talk about my fortune cookies. I stick them on my computer. I tape them to my notebooks. And now, I can blog about them. With that, and a cheesy drum roll, I bring you another installment to my very first blog feature: Fortune Cookie.

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So I reached into my stash of fortunes and came out with this one:

"Right now, there's an energy pushing you
to stay on your path."

Boy, do I know it! Sometimes when I look back and look around, I know I didn't have enough of my own motivational strength to even get up in the morning. Some days I drag my arse to work and don't see anything past the paycheck to keep my wheels turning. And when all hell breaks loose, I can't deny that my only strength has been the Father who sits in heaven.

Perhaps it's the Easter holiday. Perhaps it's the TD Jakes DVD I watched late last night. Or heck... maybe it's just gas. But for a moment, I stopped looking around the corner... I stopped peeking under rocks... all long enough to take a look up to the only hill from which cometh my help.

And if just the thought of God's loving hand can lift an entire human spirit, imagine the wonders that come when we move out of the way and let him really get involved.

I have lived the life of faith that looks up. I have lived the life of doubt that looks down. I have cycled from one to another over the course of time. But I can say without hesitation that faith truly operates in the life of a believer to degrees that defy words.

So if you're in the doubt-time of your faith walk, take a look around and realize the energy that keeps pushing you on your path. While you were sleeping at the wheel, somebody kept your whack-azz hooptie on the road. Like the footprints in the sand, you were carried until you mustered the courage to believe again.

I had no idea this fortune cookie post would go this way. But hey... Sometimes an energy pushes us on the right paths, and apparently somebody needed to hear this today.

Be well, be blessed, and Happy Easter!

Because we don't even have enough dignity to keep Easter holy...

When natural selection CLEARLY gets it right...

Imagine this. The 32 year-old mother of a 13-year old child can no longer bear children, but she wants a child with her current boyfriend. What options for them come to mind?

A surrogate mother?

Fertility treatments? Octomom did it in grand style.

Adoption?

How about a darned PUPPY?

Apparently Shana Brown of western Pennsylvania is a much more complex thinker than us simple-minded organisms. Because the genius machine in her dome concocted a plan to drug her 13-year old daughter and allow her grown-assed boyfriend to rape and impregnate the girl.

Seriously, the girl escaped the sick plan on three different occasions:

"The three attempts to occurred in Brown's home in Uniontown, about 50 miles south of Pittsburgh, according to the criminal complaint. The girl told police the plot was apparently hatched sometime in December after she rejected her mother's proposal that she allow Calloway to impregnate her and then marry him."

If your eyes aren't burning from their sockets yet, you can read the entire story here.

Now I'm not one to be unreasonable. I want to be fair. Let's all offer the mother a round of applause for giving the girl the option to screw the boyfriend and have the baby while wide awake. [crickets] I thought so...

It's a shame when odd news goes from funny and quirky to tragic. While we've all complained (once or twice) about bad mothers who can't stop having kids, how about the sweet natural selection that robbed Ms. Brown of her fertility? Who knows what Tales of Fantastic Mothering would have met offspring #2.

I hear there's a special place in hell for Baptists who drink and *gasp* dance. There must be a special place in jail for mothers who condone the statuatory rape of their own daughters, and the flaming morons who join the party.