This is why Texas can't have nice things. The New York Daily News reports:
Houston cops are hunting for a dapper art vandal who was caught on video spray-painting a priceless Pablo Picasso painting at a museum last week.
Cell phone video shot by a visitor at the Menil Collection Wednesday
showed a suave hoodlum in a dark suit jacket and sunglasses
spray-painting a stencil over the Spanish master's "Woman in a Red
Armchair."
Someone actually videotaped him spray-painting a Picasso with their cellphone. How, what... grrr. What's going through your head if you just stand back and videotape this douche instead of actually doing something to prevent this from happening, or identifying and apprehending him. I am only mildly upset with the film-maker; my true ire is directed towards Fuck-Head.
You're the type of douchebag that talks all through out a movie, because you are so much more brilliant than the auteur. And I'm guessing you sing along at choir performances, because you easily could be first chair. Nope. You're not first chair, because you suck. You're not a director, because you are not good enough. People came to see Picasso not you. Get over yourself. If Marcel Duchamp had the common decency to not actually vandalize the real Mona Lisa with a mustache, then I think you should follow suit. By vandalizing artwork, you are silencing an artist. Without art what joy is there in life?
And secondly that is such a lame tag. Ooh Spanish writing on a Picasso. How daring.Way to teach that dead Spanish guy how to speak Spanish. Here is my suggestion on how to make a tag nobody would want to remove:
Classy, elegant, and it would now be worth much more money. Because let's face it, isn't the money what it's all about.
Do you know what, I'm just going to say it: Fuck Texas. I know this crap happens everywhere, but still let's all start mess'n wid texus.
UPDATE: I found the full video, and to be fair the section of youtube was taken out of context. I'm not going to take down this post because I have heard many of the same arguments made by other people. So I guess just pretend that Mr. Barber didn't say these things.
I stumbled upon this video, and it quickly became apparent that I need to comment on this idiocy. The video was uploaded to Youtube via Right Wing Watch. I found the transcript on Right Wing Watch's site.Not like this isn't a daily occurrence, we get to see Matt Barber make an ass of himself, Liberty Counsel, and thus ""Liberty" "University""(oh wait it actually is ABA accredited).
This tyranny of rights, this tyranny of the minority, and we’re not
talking about racial minorities, neutral minorities, we’re talking about
people who define their identity based upon sexually deviant behaviors
and proclivities.This is a tyranny of sexually deviant rights and it’s
by design to replace the enumerated Constitutional rights given by our
Creator based upon the Laws of Nature and of Nature’s God, these
so-called rights violate the Laws of Nature and Nature’s God, and yes
violate the expressed guarantees that we have to religious liberty,
freedom of speech, freedom of association granted to us by the United
States Constitution. The LGBT agenda and Constitutional rights cannot
exist in harmony. At Liberty Counsel, we defend the Constitution.
Let's deconstruct his argument chunk by chunk.
This tyranny of rights, this tyranny of the minority, and we’re not
talking about racial minorities, neutral minorities, we’re talking about
people who define their identity based upon sexually deviant behaviors
and proclivities.
A tyranny of right, that sounds like a tyranny of freedom, which makes perfect sense. I have to give him credit, if you say something that is dumb enough it's like brain Novocaine, that way you won't notice the hate so much.Then he moves to how the act of gay sex is the only thing that identifies us. It's never the love two people share, the emotional connections, the friendship, the stories, or the day-in-day-out same as strait people lives, it is always about the sloppy butt sex. Yep for me it is. I couldn't go to work because I was getting ass-fucked. I couldn't get the mail because I was getting ass-fucked. Guess why I couldn't walk the dog. I digress.
This is a tyranny of sexually deviant rights and it’s
by design to replace the enumerated Constitutional rights given by our
Creator based upon the Laws of Nature and of Nature’s God, these
so-called rights violate the Laws of Nature and Nature’s God, and yes
violate the expressed guarantees that we have to religious liberty,
freedom of speech, freedom of association granted to us by the United
States Constitution.
Once again a tyranny of rights.. Is this fucker trying to piss me off, or is does he seriously confuse liberty and oppression. I could live with one of those. Then he says it will replace the enumerated rights, what enumerated right will disappear? Well, tell me jackass. Which one goes bye-bye? That's what I thought.Next he says god wrote our original constitution. Great job on that slavery things asshole. And if you're omnipotent and omniscient why did you allow for amendments..
Ooh here he say's the constitution is predicated upon Laws of Nature and of Nature's God. Yes because there are no such things a gay animals. Nope no such things as gay penguins. I means seriously has he never been to the monkey section of the zoo. Chimpanzees are always "playing" with each other. Bonobo constantly giving out gay hand-jobs (well technically they are bi hand-jobs.) And just a side note when I end up in hell, I hope it's penguin hell. He then says being gay violates these Law's of nature and thus the constitution res ipsa loquitur.
Let's look at the constitutional rights he list again:
Religious Liberty: Yes and which God hates the gays. If my God happens to think we all should be gay. Or more likely what if I am Buddhist, Hindu, Reform Jewish, or a Congregationalist.
Freedom of speech: Meh off the top of my head I have nothing clever for this one.
Freedom of association: Dear lord he's an idiot. First off, freedom of association is not a word for word constitutional right. It is known as a penumbra. A good definition of penumbra come from Lawyers.com, "a body of rights held to be guaranteed by implication from other rights explicitly enumerated in the U.S. Constitution." Similar to privacy which was granted Griswold v. Connecticut. if the courts start eating away at the penumbras so goes free association.
Second what can be more of a freedom of association issue than choosing who you want to hang out with, date, love, have sex with, live with, and eventually marry. Those are what the Gay Rights are all about.
The LGBT agenda and Constitutional rights cannot
exist in harmony. At Liberty Counsel, we defend the Constitution.
Yes of course rights of the people cannot exist with the Constitution. And didn't Jesus say to be a Fish of Men.
This is a bit of the reason why I titled this blog "Freedom Just For Me."
In 2010 a group of ultra rabid, foaming at the mouth, freedom hating, meh I could go on forever with insults Republicans had their collective Hate-Meters ramped up all the way to Def-Con 6. The issue at hand was Park51, which they labeled as the Ground-Zero-Victory-Mosque.
Park51 will be a vibrant and inclusive community center,
reflecting the diverse spectrum of cultures and traditions, and serving
New York City with programs in education, arts, culture and recreation.
Inspired by Islamic values and Muslim heritage, Park51 will weave the
Muslim-American identity into the multicultural fabric of the United
States. Park51 aims to foster cooperation and understanding between
people of all faiths and backgrounds through relevant programs and
initiatives.
Wow that's gutsy as hell of them to quote Osama Bin Laden's First Video. The conservatives, who months prior dressed up in tricorne hats screaming that the government is takin' way all 'em freedumz, were petitioning New York City to make the Burlington Coat Factory a historical cite, thus preventing the construction of the Center. If you want to protest or boycott that is your right as a free citizen, but to take legal action through the Government to prevent people from practicing their religion, and it is especially terrible if you literally are waving a banner that reads "Liberty." I cannot imagine these people taking legal action to prevent a church from being built, or enjoying being on the receiving end of a government order. They want freedom and the liberty to deny others the freedoms they enjoy.
Glaring hypocrisy aside, the problem with whole Ground Zero Mosque thing is that
A: Park51 is not on Ground Zero. It was previously a Burlington Coat Factory store;
B: Park51 is an inter-religious cultural center not a Mosque. Apparently they have had a workshop teaching children how to make bread. Quel Malheur;
C: By labeling Park51 as a "Victory Mosque" they are implying Muslim-Americans are somehow in cahoots with Bin Laden. It's saying that Muslim Americans are taking victory, even though Muslim-Americans were in that area prior to 9/11.
Equating all Muslims with the Al-Qaeda is like say all Americans are just like Fred Phelps. Speaking of the idiot, maybe this should be his next sign.
This year I am going to celebrate Father's Day with Charles Darwin and with some hypothetical Biology/Mathematics. I guess I should do a little bit of explaining. What better way to celebrate humanity and origins than to trace it all the way back to the separation of proto-human and proto-bonobos. I watched a Nova Video not too long ago, and it hasn't been too long since my anthropology classes, and I think these numbers are mostly B.S. but at the same time not too far off.
The Numbers:
Most Recent Common Ancestor of Humans and Bonobos: approximately 7 million years ago
Most of that time our forefathers were more like Bonobos than Humans. Bonobos typical start having children at age of 13.
Let's say average generation, just for shits and giggles, was 16 years long. That doesn't mean life expectancy was 16, just mean breading age.
That means 7 million divided by 16 produces 4.4 x 10^5 great grandparents. Or to put it another way, imagine the city of Sacramento is nothing but your ancestors. Now imagine a great line of 440,000 people long, imagine all the ways you look different from your father and all the differences your father has from your grandfather; now imagine the differences that must have been between your grandfather and his father. All the way back until the separation.
At the moment Wikipedia says:
2.5 x 10^5 -greats-grandparents or a generation every 20 years. My calculation had over twice as many predicted ancestors. O well.
Georg Büchner once wrote: "Aber da, da, was liegt hinter dem?
Geh, wir haben grobe Sinne. Einander kennen? Wir muessten uns die
Schaedeldecken aufbrechen und die Gedanken einander aus den Hirnfasern
zerren." How do we know what another person is thinking. We would have to crack open their skull and pull out their brain.
Obviously I cannot know what is going through another person's mind, especially if that person's the President. But this is what I believe is the background to the President's change of heart on gay-marriage.
I believe that President Obama has lied to the American People. It's en vogue to call the President a liar. It's fashionable to call any president a liar actually, but that's a different subject for a different day. Despite his policy positions, he has to be a Socialist-Marxist-Kenyan-Muslim-Secularist-Atheist-Christhating-SOB, because he is lying.
The basic history of Obama goes like this. He has been in the closet for the last eight years.He experimented with supporting Gay Rights in college like so many do, but then was scared back in when he realized people might be judge him for it. Finally his conscience caught up with him and after he outed himself, he looks like the weight of the world has been taken off his chest.
However I think President Obama was actually lying to the American Public in 2004 when he stated that marriage should be between a man and a woman religious-blah. His comments were in contradiction to his 8 year old (law professor) statements that he supported ultra-gay marriage. And once again he said it was his personal religious convictions that made him no longer support gay-marriage.
I allude to this position as the law professor position due to the Fourteenth Amendment and how states have historically taken a Cleveland Steamer on it, whenever possible. Selective Inclusion (also known as the Supreme Court releasing a decision every other week from 1868 to Malloy v. Hogan saying the Bill of Rights are applicable to the States) shows that every right on a state level has to be fought for even if the courts have already granted that right or one similar.
In 1967 the Supreme Court issued its decision in Loving v. Virginia, and soon it will grant gay-marriage rights on essentially the same grounds as Loving with Perry v. Brown. Freedom, Penumbras, and Privacy O My. Privacy is prerequisite for liberty and was etched by uberfascist liberal courts with decisions like Hogan, Loving, Griswold, Eisenstadt, and Lawrence. So as a law professor it would seem obvious that short of a new constitutional amendment gay-marriage is inevitable. Why weren't the freedom loving Conservatives in favor of free loving (or privacy for that matter)? I can think of no greater freedom than choosing who you want to marry, love, and live with.
In 2004 Obama upgraded to Obama 2.0 and became a real politician. Like any real politician his position crapped on the 14th Amendment. His official stance was the issue was separate but equal (because we all know how that worked out the first time). I can only conclude that this was a position taken because at the time Guns, God, and Gays. Even at this time he supported Civil Unions thus supporting the freedom to love and live with whoever you want. The moral of the story is apparently politics are stupid and make good rational men make terrible decisions for no real reasons.
Then in 2012 crazy eyes Uncle Biden blurted out in front of the whole family on thanksgiving that President Obama is gay for gay-marriage. Interestingly his policy shift happened 2 months after the Ninth Circuit issued their decision on Perry v. Brown and after it was announced it would be heading for the Supreme Court in the not too distant near.
On a completely random ass ending, I would like to say: let's end the Gay Debate once and for all for every culture in the world. As far as I know all objections to gay-marriage come from religious institutes.What kind of God is more obsessed with what we shove up our asses than with the 5.5 million children that die each year due to starvation. 83 Million Dollars were spent by backers of Prop 8. I cannot bring myself to write the sentence linking those two thoughts. Grow up.
I hate when politics falls into the fray of ad hominem rhetoric. It always ends starts there, and I inevitably tumble into the collective mindset. I had nothing personal against Mitt Romney before the early part of the year until I stumbled across the article Mitt Romney was a pro-war draft dodger who protested anti-war protesters.
Growing up, my dad always called himself a draft dodger for ducking into the National Guard. Vietnam was not going to be his legacy; he had no hatred for the denizens of that Asian Country. He wasn't rich (instead he poached deer); he wasn't well connected to influential people. Instead, he took the safe way out, but he never advocated for anyone-else's forced deployment to the jungle.
If a hick from the sticks can show common decency, I do not think it is too much to ask of a Harvard Graduate and potential president. People change, people mature, forgiveness is a virtue; however sometimes it cannot be granted-- particularly when they march around teeming with machismo.
So I did what any non-rational person would do to keep myself from hate-vomiting: with the help of the Democratic Underground, I started Photoshopping the record.
