tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-94457702011-04-21T15:23:42.049-07:00<center><img src="http://www.planetoutcast.net/images/krackedkupbanner.jpg"></center>Welcome to The 1/2 Kracked Kup, the news and views blog of the intelligent web-head! Want to get into a long drawn out discussion of the issues? Then join me at The Kracked Kup Forum forum (the shortcut is in the links).<br><br>"Conservatives are not necessarily stupid, <br>but most stupid people are conservatives."<br>John Stuart Mill (English philosopher)<br><br>See bottom Sidebar for FAIR USE NOTICE.JulieDeehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12891947787196185144noreply@blogger.comBlogger171100tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9445770.post-1126155014194560212005-09-07T21:50:00.000-07:002005-09-07T21:50:14.206-07:00

California’s Legislature makes history California’s Governor vetoes it and Tries to pretend it isn’t breaking His promise. **sigh** Do we all really look THAT stupid? Today something truly unique happened in California, they passed a law making it legal for gays to marry. But that’s not the truly unique thing... What makes this truly unique is that California’s legislature is the very

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As the pendulum swings backAmerica slowly wakes up... Sooner or later the pendulum had to begin swinging back the other way. I’ve been saying for some time now that it had to come sooner than later otherwise we were going to find ourselves on the wrong end of a right wing dictatorship. Well, according to the latest Pew Research Center for People & the Press/Pew Forum on Religion & Public Life

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REAL Conservatives can say "I made a Boo-Boo", Heck, they can even admit To MISTAKES! In all the years I have been following the whole modern neo-con evangelism era we find ourselves living in the last days of now, I have never heard a neo-con pundit ever make a serious apology for anything they have ever said. No matter how minor that indiscretion it may have been. Oh wait! There is one

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Dr. Bob and The Law of Unintended Consequences For those of you who have been regular readers of mine over the years you have already been introduced to the writings of our family vet and my good friend Dr. Robert Hallstrom. Bob’s column can be found every Friday in the Ledger Dispatch, the East County insert in the CC Times. Now Bob and I don’t always agree on things, such as I think he

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True Confessions: Did I ever tell you that I was once a Republican?Yup, I sure was! A card carrying, trigger happy, slash the taxes, keep out of my life Republican. And in many ways I still am. The problem is the GOP isn’t being led by Republicans any more. Nope. For some time now they have been increasingly under the control of two small vocal minorities, The Far Reich and The Religious Reich

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Assemblyman Leno, I have an idea.AndMr. Dobson, why the rush?I was talking to my Domestic Partner (for all intents and purposes my Wife), Andrea this morning about how the Far Religious Right always schedules their initiative votes during the “off years”. You know, those years when there isn’t a Presidential campaign. It’s no accident that they time them this way, because they know that the vast

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From: stuartjohn@xxxxx.xxx (stuart/john)Date: Tue, 24 May 2005 17:33:00 +0000To: stuartjohn@xxxxx.xxxSubject: APA needs our support after voting to support marriage equalityAfter their recent brave action to support the rights of same-sex couples, the American Psychiatric Association is being flooding with angry emails from right wingers. Their Board of Trustees still has to approve the statement

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As I wrote this, the Assembly Appropriations Committee had just passed AB 19 by a 6-3 vote The Religious Freedom and Civil Marriage Protection Act, sponsored by Equality California and authored by Assemblyman Mark Leno.  The legislation will likely not be voted on today but instead will go into suspense and be taken up again by the Committee during the last two weeks of May. This is normal since

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If you are reading this "standard cut and paste" note it is most likely because you have already not seen me for several days and most likely will not see me for several more. The reason for this (in order of most likelihood) is most likely because I'm having either; (1.) a bad pain episode, usually caused by arthritis and/or reflex sympathetic dystrophy; (2.) a bad pain episode caused by having

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Limbaugh walks on his tongue some more.ORThe 300+ lbs Cry Baby, OxycotinJunkie is Silent When ChallengedBy High School Students toDebate About WWIIWhile perusing this morning’s news I came upon this story (excerpted below) in the Chicago Sun-Times;Teens seek debate vs. LimbaughMay 13, 2005BY KATE N. GROSSMAN Education ReporterRush Limbaugh said on his nationally syndicated radio show that

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Yet Another Blow For Justice OR Why I’m Proud To Be A Californian!Today in a stunning upset (well upsetting and stunning, but only if you are a reactionary bigot) the Senate Judiciary Committee announced that Senate Constitutional Amendment 1, by Senator Bill Morrow (R-Oceanside) failed to pass with a 5-2 vote along with an earlier vote in the Assembly vote on Assembly Constitutional Amendment 3,

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Praying For Peace and Understanding...ORGetting Nowhere at Light Speed! In Jerusalem, an American female journalist heard about an old Reformed rabbi who visited the Wailing Wall to pray, twice a day, everyday, for a long, long time.In an effort to check out the story, she went to the holy site and there he was! She watched the bearded old man at prayer--and after about 45 minutes, when he

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ORHow I learned to Goose Step While Loving The LordI’ve been noticing a pattern in the Christian community of late. Not in the mainstream Christian community by any means, but in the small, loud fringe community that has, by their very loudness and cohesiveness, come to power in recent years. Because their actions are so very reminiscent of the actions and tactics and rhetoric of Hitler and his

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Today the History Channel ran a fascinating program on the Book of Revelations... especially fascinating in that they went into great depth into why John of Patmos used the imagery and florid language he choose to use and what he actually meant by it as opposed to what the fundamentalists would have you believe it means. If you ask any legitimate biblical scholar, Revelations was never meant to

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So, Where Are We Now? It’s all over but the shouting. The autopsy is done and the full report will be out in 2 weeks. The Schindlers and the Schiavos are planning separate funerals. And the Pope is dead. So where are we now that we’ve had our guts wrenched out? We’re here -> Just about in the same place we were it seems to me but hopefully a lot more prepared for the curve balls life may

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Terri Schiavo died today Thursday, March 31, 2005... 15 years after falling into a persistent vegetative state and 13 days after her feeding tube was removed. Paul O'Donnell, a Roman Catholic monk and advisor to her parents, said Schiavo died at Hospice Home Woodside, where she had been receiving care. Death came at 9:05 a.m. The public announcement was made 45 minutes later.''It is with great

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Terry Shiavo, wife, and daughter... in that order... lies in a persistive vegetative state with no more ability to interact with the world around her than a carrot. She’s got the mental equivalent of boiled cabbage, people, no longer any more human than a corpse and only kept from that proper state of being by the selfish and cruel actions of her parents and their equally thoughtless supporters.

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