tvashtarkatena

Thank God for basketball; the last thing we need is more overcrowding in our prisons. I actually hate basketball, too; it was me dear ole Da's favorite sport and I was his favorite opponent. Plus, I can't dribble for shit. Plus, I'm short. And I can't jump. Or shoot. In fact, that only sports I like that involve spheres smaller than planet earth are squash and raquetball. Like baseball, you get to hit things (occasionally burning one into your partners backside) but unlike baseball, you get to hit them more often than once an inning. I like climbing because you're half a rope length from the nearest Angry Hairless Monkey on average.

Jade is a beautiful stone. I throw like a girl, and that is an insult to girls everywhere. Furthermore, every time a try to throw like a girl I pull something in my elbow. Plus, I just don't like to stand around waiting for something to happen. I want to be actively taunting The Furies for something to happen. I can remember playing softball drunk on vodka stolen from my buddy's dad's Mexican restaurant during high school PE and I was STILL bored. Finally, I hate white trash, so it would follow that I hate a sport played by white trash, except when they're Dominican. I prefer sports played by elite athletes, like polo, or basketball.

I suspect that people who don't get baseball are probably sociopaths.

Baseball isn't so much a sport as a ceremonial ritual for the masses to reconnect with common, iconic American narratives. Which may be why I don't get what the deal is at all.

We self-parody. You deride.

The only fantasy I'm into involves Catholic School Girl uniforms.

Finally, a principled group dedicated to Not Doing Something. Their meeting minutes must be easy as hell to record. From the OKerz blog: "For 8 years of Bush you brave outspoken souls don't say peep. This man tosses aside the Constitution and he's given a second term. Suddenly you get Constitution religion with the election of Obama...."

Purrell Corporation - Turrell Corporation?

I just wish that shit woulda stayed outta the White House

That joke is what I'm reduced to tonight.

This is precisely why pink I am on ???!!!!

Me thinks pics are in order to counter the boner-withering charge....

Dude, even livestock won't fuck you.

Interesting, unintended typo.

Chronic Wasting Disease is such a tragedy when it occurs in humans....

OK, I recognize that I've been pissing off even people in Africa who I've never met today. Apologies all around. I'll buy you all beers at SausageFest. No I won't, but... ...I'm going to try to make it up to you by providing this informative post on the same sex marriage, state by state. It has not been updated since our recent election, but it's a very good representation of the cluster fuck we have today. You'll notice that most states have passed a Defense of Marriage Act, but don't let that fool you. That happened mostly in the late 90s...even our own state passed such a law, and now look where we are. Times and attitudes are changing fast. Hopefully, the upcoming generation will clean up some of this mess. Same Sex Marriage, State by State

While Billcoe films him.

Not that this is relevant to the argument, but Berdinka fucks livestock.

Jebus, full power to the fucking shields today, Scotty.

For those of you who do not have as much time to surf the internet as Tvash and I, "A prion (pronounced /ˈpriː.ɒn/ ( listen)[1]) is an infectious agent that is composed primarily of protein. To date, all such agents that have been discovered propagate by transmitting a mis-folded protein state; the protein itself does not self-replicate and the process is dependent on the presence of the polypeptide in the host organism.[2] The mis-folded form of the prion protein has been implicated in a number of diseases in a variety of mammals, including bovine spongiform encephalopathy (BSE, also known as "mad cow disease") in cattle and Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease (CJD) in humans. All known prion diseases affect the structure of the brain or other neural tissue, and all are currently untreatable and are always fatal.[3] In general usage, prion refers to the theoretical unit of infection. In scientific notation, PrPC refers to the endogenous form of prion protein (PrP), which is found in a multitude of tissues, while PrPSc refers to the misfolded form of PrP, that is responsible for the formation of amyloid plaques and neurodegeneration. Prions are hypothesized to infect and propagate by refolding abnormally into a structure which is able to convert normal molecules of the protein into the abnormally structured form. All known prions induce the formation of an amyloid fold, in which the protein polymerises into an aggregate consisting of tightly packed beta sheets. This altered structure is extremely stable and accumulates in infected tissue, causing tissue damage and cell death.[4] This stability means that prions are resistant to denaturation by chemical and physical agents, making disposal and containment of these particles difficult. Proteins showing prion-type behavior are also found in some fungi, which has been useful in helping to understand mammalian prions. Fungal prions, however, do not appear to cause disease in their hosts and may even confer an evolutionary advantage through a form of protein-based inheritance.[5] The word prion is a compound word derived from the initial letters of the words proteinaceous and infectious, with -on added by analogy to the word virion." I hope that clears THAT up. Um, I think everybody already knew that except you...and Kev.

A gay's gotta do what a guy's gotta do.

Since when the fuck did Pete start getting all lawyery on us? Stick the spray for gods sake! And dickhead one more practical difference is that gay people in Washington are going to continue to feel like their civil liberties are being infringed upon until they can actually be married. Meaning another referendum for them to loose. Look...you're not being that bright isn't really my problem, but my claim and challenge to you was to come up with a substantive (legal) difference between marriage and civil unions, assuming, of course, that civil unions mirror the rights of marriage. So far, all Dickheads and Fuckyous aside, you've failed. In addition, I neither claimed nor implied that Maine's referendum was equal to Washington's...obviously, one used the word 'marriage', the other purposefully did not. In observing that the 'M' word has an emotional impact, you've superbly mastered the obvious. As for gays still feeling discriminated against because they can't 'marry'...again, no shit, Sherlock. Give the boi a gold star for being awake.

And, BTW, if you post in spray, you're a sprayer, by definition. Contrary to OW's bullshit, and given Darryl's fuck you response, I'd say he's solidly mired in the mudhole with the rest of us, not floating ethereallly above it.

This is false. States do not have to, nor do they generally (unless a specific statute has been passed) recognize same sex marriages performed in other states that allow them. This is exactly the same as with civil unions. Quite to the contrary, the majority of states have passed Defense of Marriage Acts which explicitly prohibit the recognition of marriages performed elsewhere. Similarly, the U.S. does not recognize same sex marriages performed in other countries where it is legal, either for immigration or any other purposes. For example, U.S. law prohibits gays (married or not) in other countries from adopting U.S. citizens...whether or not the adopting couples are married as allowed by the laws of those countries. Similarly, gay marriages performed in other countries where it is legal do not afford any immigration advantage into the U.S., as straight marriage would. It is obviously true that the voting public can view 'marriage' in a very different light from 'civil unions', but, as I claimed, there is no substantive legal difference when civil unions are crafted (as they are in Washington) to mirror all of the enumerated rights of marriage. The public is often swayed by emotional, false arguments promulgated by the religious right differentiating 'marriage' from 'civil unions', the most notorious (and probably effective) of which is the false notion that churches will be forced to marry gays against their doctrine. This is, of course, nonsense, as churches may refuse to marry any couple without any real justification whatsoever.

Go fuck yourself Tvash. Your original post compared what happened in Washington ("Everything but Marriage") and Maine ("Full on fucking Marriage") as if they had some equivalency. Are you really claiming that gays now have full equality in Washington? And actually feel that way? No way! Sometime in the near future in this state there will either be a referendum for marriage or one to repeal legislatively/judically enacted gay marrige. I'll put my money on that failing here just like in Maine. Asshole And Bug. You hurt my feelings. Are you denying that many people could concievably support one but not the other? Lotsa noise coming out of this airbag, but it still hasn't come up with a single practical difference between a full-rights included civil union and 'marriage...other than the name.