Me and Trevor

How cute is my puppy (Trevor) when he is sleepy?
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Answer: Very Cute!

Catholic Health Initiative to Acquire Nebraska Heart Hospitals in Lincoln - and close on Sundays

Denver-based Catholic Health Initiatives will acquire Nebraska Heart Institute and Nebraska Heart Hospital, both located in Lincoln, according to a Grand Island Independent report. (satire starts) In doing so Catholic Health Initiative Hospitals will join the Nebraska Law Suit against the Obama Administration to protest being required to provide Birth Control in the Health Care Services. Current Lincoln Heart Hospital employees will have their Health Insurance updated, and be requested to flush their remaining Birth Control pills down the toilet.

Newly installed Cardinal Timothy Dolan is quoted as saying, “The fact that we don’t require proof to show that the pills were flushed shows how tolerant we are being to the sinners among us.”  He has also sent 3 priests for temporary assignment to take confession from the newly identified sinners.

In other news (satire grows; marginally) Catholic Health Initiative’s current Hospitals in Arkansas, Tennessee, Ohio, Wisconsin and Colorado – in addition to the newly aquired ones in Nebraska, will be closed on Sundays, beginning in March 2012.  A spokesman said, “Our stated mission is clear and on our web site, ‘The mission of Catholic Health Initiatives is to nurture the healing ministry of the Church by bringing it new life, energy and viability in the 21st century. Fidelity to the Gospel urges us to emphasize human dignity and social justice as we move toward the creation of healthier communities.’  We can’t do that on a Sunday!  The Bible says reserveth thy Sunday for the Lord.” The spokesperson immediately drooped to one knee and Tebow'ed - which makes sense as Catholic Health Initiative is headquartered in Denver.

When questioned as to what happens if a accident occurs on a Sunday, the spokesperson responded.  “Kind of Lord’s will, then isn’t it?”  After a moment the spokesperson added, “In 75% of our coverage areas, another hospital is within 53.6 miles.  We suggest the heathens can always travel to a secondary support facility.”

Two receptionists (who requested anonymity) asked the injured to bring back some Birth Control pills and condoms.  They were immediately fired.

Umm... okay...

Kind of an odd headline without context....
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I mean, different dictators dress complete differently.
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Take a look at ex-Dictator Ghadafi (I don' t want to embarrass any under-dressed members-only jacket wearing Iranian Dictators).

Traditional Dictator Look #2

African Garb at the African Congress

Rocking the Arab Look at the Arab Council

White Party,
Right before the X kicked in..

Picking & Choosing Among Catholic Ideas...

I love Ron Paul:
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9.28 pm. Ron Paul brings up Catholic just war theory, which bars pre-emptive, aggressive war and torture, both of which are backed by the two Catholics.  (added by me: And the Mormon, who's "just war theory" is "just hate the fags" amended from the pre-1970s "just hate the blacks and feminists")

Freedom To Marry Pics

So we have the Freedom to Marry party pictures (where my honey met Nick Adams).

Eddie and Me

The guy to the right is Max Von Essen (who will be in Evita)

Attack of the Reality Show Stereotypes

Oh
My
God
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Survivor One World has, what I thought, was the most offensive stereotypical Gay Man this season.  Colton, who wears pastel colors, needs a wrist splint and can't seem to talk with rolling his eyes.  Yikes!
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Then I saw The Amazing Race, who has an even more stereotypical Southern Redneck team.  One is black and one is white, but both seem to revel in hog-hollarin', air-booty humpin' and Kentucky call out - which must make the state proud.
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There is a total "guido" team too, but they look positively reserved next Hic' and Hic'er.
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Good Grief

Colton (hands on hips)

Team Kentucky

First Punch in Card

So I was showing Aldona the Quilt Ed did from our old t-shirts (yes he has started a new job now...).  anyway, Aldona was impressed and really liked it.
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So Ed says,  "I get another punch in my gay card."
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And Aldona said, "Oh honey.  That's really your first punch."
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We aren't very professional homos; we have bad lighting in the house, no candles in the bathroom, JUST now hooked up iTunes to the Stereo and no linen napkins - so she is kind of right.

I Won't Harp ; Joan Walsh Voice of Reason

Joan Walsh is the voice of reason pointing in these discussions.  Today she thanks Rick Santorum for highlighting how offensive the current Republicans are.  I do want to highlight one thing (if you don't read it all).  Virginia (along with a Texas and a few other states) now require trans-vaginal ultrasounds before abortions, even in the case of rape or incest.  Because (in the words of a Virginia lawmaker) "... they are vaginally penetrated in order to get pregnant".
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But if you women want to vote for idiots like this, by all mean be my guests.
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From Salon

OK, it’s true: Rick Santorum didn’t sponsor Virginia legislation to require that women seeking abortion undergo an ultrasound – and in cases of very early pregnancy, when a fetus is hard to see, a creepy and intrusive transvaginal ultrasound. But seven states have already passed ultrasound requirements for women seeking abortion. The Virginia bill is galvanizing opposition nationally at least partly due to the climate of crazy that’s been fomented by Santorum’s backward candidacy.

The man who calls contraception “a license to do things in a sexual realm that is counter to how things are supposed to be” went from being a failed Pennsylvania senator, Mr. “Man on Dog,” to GOP presidential frontrunner over the last month. Now he’s crusading against prenatal testing because he claims it encourages abortion (when in fact most prenatal testing helps women help babies who develop in utero health issues) and claiming President Obama’s policies will ultimately send Christians to the guillotine. (By the way, I apologize for harping on the way Protestants have persecuted Catholics in the U.S., because Santorum reminded me of some of the reason why, with his charge that mainline Protestant churches are a Satan-sponsored “shambles” that are “gone from the world of Christianity as I see it.”) He and Mitt Romney, who’s trying to match him outrage for outrage, having been chasing women voters away from the GOP in droves over the last couple of months.

Into that polarizing political climate came the news that Virginia Republicans want to go where no politician of any stripe belongs: up the vaginal canal and into the uteruses of pregnant women who are seeking an abortion. The bill already passed the state Senate, and clearing the House of Delegates seemed a mere formality, especially given that Alabama, Arizona, Florida, Kansas, Louisiana, Mississippi and Texas already have ultrasound requirements. A mere formality, that is, until people began paying attention.

Too Easy

It is too easy (like shooting fish in a barrel) to get annoyed / outraged / flummoxed / confused by the bizarre arguments going on right now about providing Health Care and other things.

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Rick Santorum has enough wacky ideas for a full slate of sitcoms.  It would all be absolutely hilarious, if he wasn't treated as a serious candidate for President.  He honestly thinks Birth Control is wrong because sex should be reserved for ONLY procreation.  Which is interesting, but - come on, really?  He thinks amniocentesis should NOT be part of health care- because as far as he knows it is used for abortion exclusively (or at least so often he doesn’t want to pay for it).  He is way wrong there, and would sentence thousands of children a year of brain damage (Rh negative disease) along with other easily resolvable conditions.

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Of course once they are born, Rick doesn’t wantto pay for schoolin’ neither.  He doesn’t see a justification for Federal OR State government to provide education.  Gang, it astounds me that we are even having this discussion.  Last I heard, we were worried about falling behind in science and math scores.  Now he wants parents teaching kids and not schools.  At least not public schools (and “public” in the US terminology).  So poor kids with 2 working parents don’t get schooled at all.

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Mittens looks reasonable by comparison.  And this is a man campaigning in Michigan on the “let GMC, Ford and Chrysler go bankrupt”. Man.  He also doesn’t think Health Care should cover birth control – but he also believes that baptizing Jews from the Holocaust is okay because they have a choice to say no (in the afterlife).  You can’t argue with that kind of logic.

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Good Grief Charlie Brown.

Pigeon Poaching

So I was walking Trevor this morning, and I see a sign on 9th Ave.  It reads (paraphrasing)... "Illegal Netting of Pigeons was spotted in this area on 12 Feb.  If you see illegal behavior, please inform the NYPD.   Pigeon Poaching Is Illegal!"
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And I thought, Illegal?
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That's a bit harsh.  I mean you should really give it a quick par-boil to seal in that disgusting squab taste, then run it under the broiler for 10 minutes.  But illegal?   What will government over-regulate next?  Damn Democrats.

I saw Shatner on Broadway

Shatner on Broadway sounds like the start of a bad joke, but I really liked it.
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Review Here

From Sulu (George Taki's) Facebook Page