Governor Christie is quite a Genius

So I'm sitting here pretty pumped up by the Heat win.  I thought they'd still be drunk from celebrating their win over the MVP, but apparently they decided to come out early and play.  If they keep this up, it might be tough for Dallas to win a game after all.  But anyway, I wanted to thank all my readers.  As of today, my page has been viewed 650 times.  That is amazing, and I encourage you all to follow me by signing in through either Google or Aim and becoming a "follower".  Apparently all different sites now link to my blog, which is awesome.  As of recently, Latvian Google has sent some people to my site.  If you don't believe me, go to Google.Lv and search "I hate Russell Westbrook." Apparently, Latvians hate him just as much as I do.  But enough of that, we have bigger news today.

Not sure if you all heard (especially all you Latvians) but New Jersey has quite an exciting governor.  He decided to celebrate a huge snowstorm in New Jersey by taking his family to Disneyworld.  Then, he came back and decided to fix New Jersey's budget crisis by just taking away from schools.  After all, it's not like New Jersey is known for its excellent schools, so who would notice?  A lot of teachers can no longer get jobs because of it? Well that's ok, they can just go take their teaching abilities and teach people about the different options on a McDonald's menu.

But then Christie does this. Now I'm not sure if he was sober when he chose to have a helicopter fly him to his son's baseball game, but even if he was on crystal meth this still would have been an unbelievable decision.  The helicopter landed on a field adjacent to the baseball field, and Christie then had a car drive him 100 yards to the actual baseball field.  

Now imagine what the teachers and other fans at the game must have thought.  Oh here comes Mr. Christie, maybe he's here to talk to us about somehow helping us out and hiring a few more teachers.  Maybe he's here to try and do the impossible; restore his image.  Never mind the fact that he just got out of a helicopter that cost the taxpayers 12.5 million dollars.  He's here to do good!  

If the helicopter landing wasn't in itself a giant indirect finger to the educational community, then that came when he sat down on the bleachers and pulled a Krispy Kreme donut from his pocket.  Here he was, surrounded by security and police officers, watching his son play baseball.  Not to try and rectify the situation or perhaps attempt to salvage his reputation, but to watch his son play baseball.  And he couldn't just drive here, God forbid.  He didn't cut all that money from New Jersey schools to be driving around and facing traffic!

And if that wasn't enough, the Governor didn't even stay till the end of the game.  During the 5th inning, the Governor and his wife stepped into the car and they were then driven to the helicopter, which was literally walking distance for any other human being on this planet.  Apparently the Governor was not impressed by his son's performance, and he could not sit and watch any longer.  It's quite a shock really, to imagine that his son did not inherit his father's athletic genes. 

But you know what, the real losers here are the children involved.  Imagine being a high school kid and seeing a helicopter arriving.  You immediately assume it's some famous athlete, or maybe a famous celebrity coming to visit your game.  But instead, some fat, old, white guy steps out of the helicopter.  Not only is this not the person you imagined it to be, but it also happens to be the very man who replaced your textbooks with unlimited access to Google.com.

Man this is a lose lose situation for everyone involved.  Rumor is that Governor Christie lost his 7 remaining supporters, all of whom decided to stop backing him after they heard the news during dinner at the Trenton Psychiatric hospital.  New Jersey loses because it's budget, which already was fucked from the beginning, is forced to cover the costs of bringing police officers and a giant helicopter to a random high school in Montvale, New Jersey.  Governor Christie's son loses because, well, he's Governor Christie's son.  But then again, I guess he was always kinda screwed, so that didn't really change.

But yeah, Governor Christie truly makes some brilliant decisions.  Next time all the annoying teachers come to Trenton to protest, he should pull a Floyd Mayweather Jr. and pull up in a Rolls Royce Phantom and just start throwing 20's at them.  I mean, can his reputation really suffer any more?

Yearning to Unlearn? Watch Fox News.

Rolling Stone has done an outstanding piece on Fox News. Here’s what they say about the people who watch Fox News. It’s probably to most significant quote in the story … and it’s sure as hell the most distressing:“According to recent polls, Fox News viewers are the most misinformed of all news consumers. They are 12 percentage points more likely to believe the stimulus package caused job losses, 17 points more likely to believe Muslims want to establish Shariah law in America, 30 points more likely to say that scientists dispute global warming, and 31 points more likely to doubt President Obama’s citizenship.”Hear the loud whirring noise? It’s Walter Cronkite, Chet Huntley, David Brinkley, Edward R. Murrow, William L. Shirer and a host of other great and principled reporters of the past … spinning in their graves.

Obama Issues Pride Month Proclamation

The White House today issued a proclamation recognizing LGBT Pride Month. Metro Weekly notes that for the first time since Obama took office, the statement makes no mention of recognizing gay relationships. The proclamation begins:

The story of America's Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, and Transgender (LGBT) community is the story of our fathers and sons, our mothers and daughters, and our friends and neighbors who continue the task of making our country a more perfect Union. It is a story about the struggle to realize the great American promise that all people can live with dignity and fairness under the law. Each June, we commemorate the courageous individuals who have fought to achieve this promise for LGBT Americans, and we rededicate ourselves to the pursuit of equal rights for all, regardless of sexual orientation or gender identity.

Read the proclamation in full (PDF).

Randall Sells Out

Shades of the Sassy Best Friend. Randall's YouTube fans are split on this development, of course.

HomoQuotable - Dan Savage

"The first adult authority figure that I came out to who wasn't a member of my family: my pediatrician. I'd been seeing him since I was a child and he was still my doctor. After my third or fourth visit about 'a small skin blemish,' he asked me what I was really worried about. I remember what I said to him: 'I'm gay and I don't want to have AIDS.' I don't remember what he said to me, but I'll never forget the look on his face. It was this combination of pity, panic, disappointment, and judgement. I never saw him again." - Dan Savage, in a post marking the first year of AIDS in the United States.

AFA's Poll Of The Day

The American Family Association has posted another of its classic "polls," this one about the Obama administration's denouncement of the GOP's attempt to derail the repeal of DADT.

Pat Robertson: Opposing Islam Is As Valid As Opposing The Nazis

"Why is it bigoted to speak against a force that is slowly but surely trying to exercise domination over the entire world?" - Pat Robertson, speaking without the slightest fucking trace of irony.

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More Dogs of War

From Rebecca Frankel, War Dog, Foreign Policy

Memorial Day, a time to honor the nation's soldiers, has just passed. The debate over U.S. involvement in Afghanistan and Iraq continues. For many, the killing of Osama Bin Laden by the U.S. military Seal Team 6 is a heroic success and a highpoint of the War on Terror. It shares something with one of the lowpoints of that war--the abuses of prisoners at Abu Ghraib--and that's the use of dogs. A dog was also dropped by helicopter at Abbottabad because a dog's nose still outdoes high tech devices in the quickness and accuracy of its detections.
Dogs, like people, can be happy and placid. Also like people, they've evolved to be socialized predators who can call up or fall into aggressive tendencies. Canines were domesticated not just for fuzzy warmth but for their ability to guard and attack. (Most everyone has heard that domesticated dogs bark far more than wild canids, presumably because the bark was useful to owners with poorer hearing abilities.) The deployment of dogs against an enemy has a long, complex history. Among the most horrendous examples was the use of dogs to catch, control, and intimidate slaves. During the early 1800s in Haiti, the colonizing French used starved dogs to attack, kill, and even eat rebelling slaves. Historian Sara Johnson has written about the use and training of these dogs and quotes a contemporary indictment of the slave managers for “not merely returning to the barbarism of the earliest periods, but descending to the characters of assassins and executions; and removing the boundaries which civilization had prescribed even to war, rendering it a wild conflict of brutes and a midnight massacre.” (Sara E. Johnson,  "'You Should Give them Blacks to Eat': Waging Inter-American Wars of Torture and Terror" American Quarterly 61.1 March 2009: 65-92).  For a number of animal rights adherents, people should never force an animal to do anything that would not be in the animal's own best interest. Nor should unwitting dogs be put in harm's way.
However, if someone you know is deployed to a military zone, you might hope that he or she has the best bomb-detecting device known. And that device probably has four legs. The U. S. Military has become increasing aware of dogs' value and of the imperative to treat them well during and after active service. Rebecca Frankel of Foreign Policy has been documenting the roles of dogs in combat, and one of her photos shows a Lab lolling blissfully with handlers,

Rebecca Frankel, War Dogs

For her running commentary on dogs in and after service, see the Foreign Policy site.
While Frankel focuses on the amazing talents of these dogs, some other commentaries point to more dubious issues. Gardiner Harris, writing for The New York Times, notes that "dogs can be used to pacify an unruly group of people — particularly in the Middle East. 'There is a cultural aversion to dogs in some of these countries, where few of them are used as pets,” Major Roberts said. “Dogs can be very intimidating in that situation.' Sergeant Mylott said that dogs got people’s attention in ways that weapons sometimes did not. 'Dogs can be an amazing psychological deterrent,' she said."
Like the soldiers, the dogs follow orders, so the orders had better be good. Also like soldiers they shouldn't be completely docile and reactive. I've heard a dog-trainer, who used to train dogs for the army and now trains them for airport duty, say that they dog has to have an independent will to find something. The dog can't just look at the handler for the answer, after all.
Putting dogs in harm's way--that remains a big issue. But they are hardly seen as disposable by their handlers or by the people who invest significant time and money in training them. Rebecca Frankel's photo essay makes that point repeatedly.

Other war dog links:
See this blog, for April 10, 2011, on Lt. Col. Jay Kopelman's book, From Baghdad, With Love;
NPR Bomb-Sniffing Dogs;
CBC news on a run-away dog;
The Wall Street Journal on a shell-shocked dog;
Not every handler and dog return: fromThe Guardian earlier this spring.

Perkins: America Needs Godly Leaders

"I believe that we will have to give an account [to God] as Christians in America for the leaders we have selected over time and the direction they have taken us."

FLORIDA: Transgender Student Named High School Prom Queen

Steve Rothaus reports at the Miami Herald:

They’ve bullied and taunted her, calling her names and writing on her locker. And now, the seniors at McFatter Technical High School have elected Andrew Viveros their 2011 prom queen. “They called my name and I was in total shock,’’ said Andrew, a 17-year-old who was born male but has publicly presented herself as female for the last two years. With her long wavy brown hair, Andrew wore a royal blue dress and got a fresh manicure for the Friday night dance. Andrew, also known as Andii, plans to someday change her name to Andrea after she transitions. She wanted to run for prom queen in order to show other transgender teens “it gets better.” She ran against 14 others.

Photo Of The Day - Manhattanhenge

JMG reader Inga sends us her stunning photo of last night's Manhattanhenge.

Swag Tuesday

Today's Swag Tuesday prize is two tickets to Zarkana, the new Cirque Du Soleil show opening in New York City at Radio City Music Hall on June 9th.

Cirque du Soleil invites you to Zarkana, a beautifully bizarre journey premiering exclusively at Radio City Music Hall. This epic spectacle takes audiences into a fantastical and suspenseful world where highly-acrobatic feats are heightened by original live music and interactive multimedia elements. Zarkana transforms the grandest stage in the world into a world of unreality as only Cirque du Soleil could imagine. Directed by the internationally acclaimed François Girard (The Red Violin, Silk), this new production features 71 international artists and follows Zark, a magician on a quest to find his lost powers. He finds himself plunged into a world inhabited by surreal and mesmerizing creatures. The music of Zarkana is composed by Nick Littlemore, a protégé of Sir Elton John. Zarkana from Cirque du Soleil begins June 9 for a limited engagement.

Advance tickets to Zarkana are on sale now. Enter to win two tickets by commenting on this post. Only enter once and please remember to leave your email address in the text of your entry. Entries close at midnight on Wednesday, west coast time. If you cannot be in NYC to attend the show, your winning entry is transferable to the person of your choice.

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Germany To Shut All Nuclear Plants

Germany has announced plans to close all its nuclear power plants by 2022.

German Chancellor Angela Merkel’s coalition endorsed a blueprint to shut its nuclear-power plants by 2022, repealing the law she pushed to extend the life of the reactors to become the biggest nation to exit atomic power. The decision in the early morning hours today by coalition leaders in Berlin underscored Merkel’s flip-flop from a 2009 re- election promise to extend the life of nuclear reactors. She did her about-face after the March meltdown in Japan as the anti- nuclear Green Party gained in polls. Her party lost control of Baden-Wuerttemberg state to the Greens in March and finished behind them in a state election for the first time on May 22.

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Circumcision Ban Attempt Spreads

First San Francisco, now Santa Monica.

Performing a circumcision on a boy under age 18 — even for religious reasons — would be illegal under a measure that a San Diego group hopes to place on Santa Monica's November 2012 ballot. A similar initiative this month from the anti-circumcision group known as MGM Bill garnered enough signatures in San Francisco to place it on that city's November ballot. MGM stands for "male genital mutilation."

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AUSTRALIA: Christianist Group Forces Removal Of Safer Sex Campaign

An anti-gay Christian group in Brisbane, Australia has forced an outdoor advertising company to yank a just-launched safer sex campaign. The ads featured a fully-clothed gay couple holding an unopened condom.

Adshel, the company that provides advertising for Brisbane's bus shelters; Goa Billboards; and the Advertising Standards Bureau were targeted in an orchestrated campaign by the Australian Christian Lobby (ACL). Healthy Communities executive director Paul Martin said it was extremely disheartening that Adshel had buckled. "Those of us who have been around fighting HIV in Queensland for a while will remember this kind of reaction from days gone by," he told AAP. "We certainly don't expect it in 2011."

ACL was trying to have gay people "erased from the public sphere", Mr Martin said. "It's an extreme minority of people who are very well organised and are able to launch this kind of action," he said. "The vast majority of Queenslanders support gay and lesbian rights." ACL Queensland director Wendy Francis said she objected to the sexual nature of the ads, not the fact the couple pictured were gay. Ms Francis was last year forced to apologise publicly after a Tweet likening gay marriage to legalising child abuse.

TRAILER: The Waiting Game

A Christian abstinence film with a cameo by Ted Haggard.

Old Navy Launches Gay Pride T-Shirts

Yesterday Old Navy began selling gay pride-themed t-shirts.

The T-shirts, which are priced from $7 to $14, bear the rainbow flag, a symbol of gay pride, and different messages, including “Love Proudly” and “Pride 2011.” The retailer says the campaign honors Pride month and is part of its larger flag T-shirt collection. Old Navy is donating 10 percent of the proceeds to the “It Gets Better Project,” an organization dedicated to preventing suicide among gay and lesbian youth.

Matt Baume: Marriage News Watch

State Dept Condemns Moscow Arrests

The U.S. State Department has issued a letter condemning the arrests of gay activists in Moscow over the weekend.

STATEMENT BY MARK TONER, DEPUTY SPOKESPERSON

Concern about Freedom of Assembly in Russia

We note with concern that in Moscow on Saturday, May 28, a peaceable demonstration of Russians advocating for the rights of gays and lesbians, joined by international supporters, was forcefully disrupted by counter-protesters, and that Russian security forces then detained people from both groups, including American citizens. Some protestors were seriously injured according to media reports.

Freedom of assembly is a fundamental right all members of the OSCE committed to, including in the Moscow declaration and as recently as the Astana summit. As nationwide legislative elections approach, constraints on the ability of Russian citizens peacefully to gather and express their views will be closely watched in evaluating the integrity of the electoral process. We call on Russian authorities to work with municipal officials to find better ways to safeguard these fundamental freedoms.

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Afternoon View

The water taxi from downtown Manhattan to Brooklyn provides a great view of the Statue of Liberty.

NEW YORK: Eight State Senators Still Undecided On Gay Marriage

With the legislative year fast drawing to an end, eight New York state senators say they have yet to make up their minds on same-sex marriage.

The measure would need 32 votes for adoption in the Senate, and 26 senators, all Democrats, indicated they would back the bill. Twenty-eight senators expressed opposition — possibly leaving the measure's fate in the hands of the eight undecided lawmakers, five Republicans and three Democrats. The senators who have not publicly declared their stance include Sens. Steve Saland, R-Poughkeepsie; Greg Ball, R-Carmel, Putnam County; and James Alesi, R-Perinton, Monroe County. Alesi and Saland voted against the bill in 2009 when it failed by eight votes. "I've heard from any number of people on both sides of the issue," Saland explained. "And certainly I'm trying to take into account, in a deliberative fashion, the issues that have been raised by the proponents, issues which hadn't necessarily been raised with me when I cast a vote previously."

In 2009 same-sex marriage failed in the New York senate when eight Democrats voted against it.

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Fischer: U.S. Should Outlaw Blasphemy

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Family Research Council Hate Reel

Our hard-working video clipper Dave Evans has compiled the below reel of the Family Research Council proving why they deserve their hate group designation.

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