How Liberals Think

 1) When it comes to Homosexuality, for Liberals:

Genetics trump feelings


2) But when it comes to Transgenderism, for Liberals:

Feelings trump genetics


Whatever fits the narrative is TRUE.

Whatever doesn't is FALSE.


This is the formula for every policy and position of their ideology.

This is why no thinking, logical, mature person can be a Liberal.

/gun

Elena Kagan

Aren't lesbians becoming just a little over-represented on the Supreme Court at this point?

I mean, they're like 2% of the population...and will soon hold 22% of the SCOTUS seats?

Seriously, people...

Straight women do not HULK. (Have you SEEN Sotomayor walk?)

Straight women in their positions wear makeup and have good hair(dressers).

Straight women in their positions have Clothing Stylists:

Straight women in their positions do not wear sensible shoes with tiny heels before age 75 

—unless they have been injured.  

And straight women DO NOT SIT like this in business settings.

Did I mention Hair?

Straight women in their positions do not wear ill-fitting, short-sleeve suit jackets for SCOTUS interviews. 

 (Did I mention hair and makeup?)

Straight Women in their position do not wear oddly inappropriate jewelry that suits neither the occasion nor their features. (See above for dangly earrings with a "suit".)

See below for delicate feminine pearl earrings on Kagan.

And can I just say....a New Yorker, who's also a Jew, who's also Gay, who's also been educated at Harvard: 

What are the chances we have anything but a FLAMING PROGRESSIVE on our hands here, people?

While, in spite of the inane "more inclusive, more representative, more reflective" rambling of 'Bama the Bombast,  there will be six Catholics and three Jews on a nine person bench...while 70% of the country is Protestant Christian.

Anyone wondering why Protestants don't rate being included, represented and reflected?

Yeah, me neither.

The Gunslinger
(East Coast Elites, meet iconoclast Wolf)

God and Gays

Okay, I'm reading articles and comments in American Thinker and I'm suddenly inundated with Christians insisting that the only way out of our national crisis is Christ.

You know, that's really annoying to those of us who don't believe in Jesus.

...That agnosticism is a woefully incomplete crackpot idea. To wit:

"Atheists and agnostics do not know from where they come or where they are going. Further, they are proud of this as though it is a badge of some kind of intellectual accomplishment. Therefore, Christians rightly hold atheism and agnosticism in contempt as woefully incomplete crackpot ideas. Shouldn't a world view be able to explain the world it views? "

What kind of mind equates the ugly religious fervor of atheism with the honest questioning of agnosticism? Agnosticism is not an idea, "crackpot" or otherwise. It is merely a lack of certainty.

...And insisting the homosexuality is degeneracy.

Personally, I'm prepared to believe that people are born homosexual. That means it's natural.

But that doesn't mean it's normal.

In fact it is an obvious deviation from the norm, in that the norm is sexual congress between heterosexuals with the purpose of propagating the race. (Nature's purpose anyway.)

In that sense, homosexuality is "deviant".  But that does not mean "degenerate".

The former merely indicates a variation from the norm - an entirely neutral term. The latter is a value judgement meaning debauched, dissolute, corrupt—evil.

They are not interchangeable.

Homosexuality might not be normal, but there is no good reason why consenting adults of the same gender shouldn't have sex if they want to. And there is no harm to anyone else, or to society as far as I can see, if they do.

As long as they don't do it in the street and scare the horses.

Sure, to me it's kind of gross. But "kind of gross" doesn't make something unnatural or evil.

As I pointed out is a recent post, there is no good reason to support gay 'marriage', and I don't want to be endlessly screeched at by gay activists that I must "celebrate" their preferences.

But I don't see a scintilla of evidence that Nature's God would disapprove of a homosexual being true to his nature, as he was made, as long as he didn't hurt anyone else.

Call me crazy.

The Gunslinger
Tolerance not Indulgence

Our military is at the mercy of the Moonbats

Insightful discussion of what repealing "Don't Ask, Don't Tell" would really look like in the military.

And the critical difference between "tolerance" and "acceptance/endorsement".

"…it is not possible for the military to merely “tolerate” openly-avowed homosexuality, in the way civilians think of tolerating it.  What the military does now, with DADT, is tolerate homosexuality.  It officially doesn’t ask, and doesn’t even want to know, unless one servicemember’s activities create a discipline or readiness problem."

The assault never ends. Øbama. What a friggin' train wreck.

The Gunslinger
...the tolerant

The "New" Military!

"When I joined the military it was illegal to be homosexual,

then it became optional.

I'm getting out before it becomes mandatory."



MSGT Harry T. Serres , USAF Ret.

31 and Counting

Maine voters rejected "gay marriage".

The legislature passed, the governor signed it, and the voters promptly repealed it.

The issue has lost in every single state in which it has been voted on. It's been defeated in 31 states.

The interesting thing here, as has been repeated in many states, is the disconnect between the  gummit and the people.  Once again, the elites made decisions totally against the wishes of the citizens they are supposed to be representing.

Do we have to go through this 50 (or 57 if you're a democrat) times before they get the message?

I'm at a loss to understand this homosexual mania that insists we celebrate deviant* sexual preference. I'm okay with adults having consensual sex with whomever they choose. But is it too much to ask that they do it PRIVATELY...and without public applause?

The Gunslinger, EOTIS
Para Bellum

*This is not a slur. It is a description of something that "deviates" from the norm. And like it or not, heterosexuality is the norm.

Cult Media Ignore Rape Case at Duke University

Duke University has another rape case.

Have you heard about it? Hmmm...

Perhaps it's because it involves a gay couple, one of whom sexually molested their adopted black son, and apparently advertised for others to do the same.

It's amazing how the Cult Media can find this sickening outrage less enthralling, compelling and newsworthy than that involving a bunch of innocent, white jocks, isn't it?

It's a story bad for gays, bad for gay marriage, bad for gay adoption. Of course the Cult Media is ignoring it!

Here's some commentary:

American Thinker

Mike Adams

The Gunslinger

Leftwing Hypocrisy ..... [yawn]

This is hilarious.

"We strongly feel that Sacha Baron Cohen and UNIVERSAL PICTURES have a responsibility to remind the viewing public right there in the theater that this [Bruno] is intended to expose homophobia." [Human Rights Campaign]

Billed as an encore to the blockbuster BORAT, with a twist, the film is set for July 10. It's delivered R-rated and ready to shock.

Where was the Human Rights Campain's outrage at the original, Borat, which insulted everyday, fly-over Americans, their beliefs and their ideals and their faith?

But now that he's skewering gays....oh my....now he has a "responsibility"... (!)

The Left's hypocrisy is so monumental it fills their entire field of vision—so they literally cannot see it. They are blind to their own ridiculousness.

At least it's good for a laugh for the rest of us.

The Gunslinger

American Idol

I haven't written about Idol this year because, well, I just didn't care much. (Relative to my unrepentant hysterical fan-girlism over David Cook last year.)

But last night the winner was chosen by popular vote, and it wasn't Adam Lambert.

This convulsed the media...who called it an "upset", insulting all the fans that voted for him, had every intention of voting for him, had always planned to vote for him, in the millions...and of course, the man himself, whom they thereby declared has been, in their minds, the likely loser.

Nice guy, humble guy, sweet guy, laid-back guy, nuanced guy, Christian guy, and naturally cool guy Kris Allen took home the coveted prize. He's this year's American Idol.

Even if you don't watch, or don't care about AI, this is a big deal for a couple of reasons.

1) The Media hyped its favorite, believed its own hype, and was shocked....shocked that he lost.

Once again the media, and particularly the "entertainment" media, centered in Los Angeles and New York, decided in their little blue bubble that their man Adam Lambert was God's gift to American Idol, North America and the World.

This is a contest in which the viewers vote for their favorite. The "media" has no power to dictate the results except insofar as they can influence their consumers. Even the producers of the show, and the record companies who must sign the winner and produce his first album can only attempt to manipulate the opinions of the audience, they cannot proclaim the winner. They are, after whatever attempt they might may to influence the viewers, at the mercy of the public's choice. It is final, there is no appeal.

This year, the media, and the entire machinery of the show worked, not very subtly, and with rather reckless disregard for good manners, objectivity, fairness, courtesy, and disinterest, to make American Idol the "Adam Lambert Show". Unfortunately for them both, they were among those who drank their own Kool-Aid, and the results became for them, a forgone conclusion, a prophecy fulfilled in all but the mere formality of the vote.

Until, that is, Ryan Seacrest spoke the "wrong" name from the "envelope please".

The shock on the face of the winner, who was among those who became utterly convinced of the inevitability of the crowning of "The Chosen One", speaks to the effectiveness of the inside-the-AI/media-bubble-full-tilt-boogie-full-on-Adam-Lambert-is-the-best-ever-PR-campaign.

This disconnect will come as no surprise to those of us who are the marginalized, despised, criticized, and satirized majority who live somewhere beyond the horizons and under the radar of the glitterati of LA and NYC. But, damn, its nice to see them trip on their bottom lips in front of God and everybody on national television—on the highest rated program of the year.

Sometimes, life is good.

They, of course, don't understand what happened. They are so convinced of the superiority of their brand, of their boy, it does simply not occur the them that others may simply prefer a different one. And that segues into my next point...

2) American Idol watchers and voters once more chose the cute, clean cut, all-American boy next door as their idea of the symbol and face of American talent...instead of what the media hype (and his fans) were pleased to call their favorite: "edgy", "different", "original", "sexual", "in your face".

In order to understand the contest, one has to describe Adam Lambert and Kris Allen. Perhaps a photo of the two is the best place to start:

This is Adam Lambert, the Presumptive winner:



This is Kris Allen, the Actual winner:



Adam is a 27-year-old theater performer (from age 10) living in L.A. Kris is a newly married 23-year-old student, from Arkansas, with no performing resume to speak of.

Adam is a (very) high-voiced glam-rock screamer/singer who wears makeup, black nail polish, snake-skin boots and terminally hip costumes. Kris is a laid-back, guitar-playing, piano playing, nuanced singer who wears regular guy clothes and tennis shoes - and sometimes has that trendy (admittedly kind of sexy) needs-a-shave whisker shadow goin' on.
























Now, to each his own, and all that, but the interesting thing about this year's top two is the cultural issues one side is raising.

Adam Lambert is in my not very charitable opinion, a dated glam-rocker. He's got all the required glam-rock theatricality and overt sexuality of a junior-drag-queen..."not that there's anything wrong with that," as Jerry Seinfeld would say.

I get that this is hot stuff to the unsophisticated and unsubtle tastes of children who think this is what "sexy" means...and to the jaded tastes of old queens to whom subtle flavors no longer give a "lift". He has a very strong, very skilled, very high voice. He can kill all those screamy rock high notes. And he does it with tedious regularity. This is his stock-in-trade. His theater background, his ownership of the stage, his costumes, his bawdy sexuality and his howling soprano convinced the young, the inexperienced, the unwashed and the unsophisticated that he's a "rock god".

And these pseudo-sophisticates are all over the blogs and media columns spitting bile that because Americans prefer Kris Allen, they are "afraid" of someone as "different" as Adam Lambert

"Different" if you've been living under a rock for 30 years.

In any case, Adam's hysterical fans (including the entertainment media en masse) are outraged because the "wrong contestant" won. The vote was an "upset". And they are furious because boring, stupid, white-bread America has proven once again it likes bland and boring beige rather than juicy, exciting and unique "true" talent...and that Adam Lambert is just too "scary" for frightened, uncultured, oatmeal-eating, middle America.

Oh...and that all of us who voted for Kris Allen are just dull, boring, stupid, trembling homophobes. (You HAD to know that was coming, right?)

Once again the idiocy of the Liberal is on full display. How, exactly, does one have an "upset" via a popular vote? The only thing that happened is that the people who were utterly certain Lambert would garner more votes were wrong. Just wrong. There was no "upset". The public voted how it had always intended to vote. It was the Lambert fans who were mistaken in their assessment of his general popularity.

The "right" winner is the contestant that gets the most votes. In a contest decided by popular vote (assuming all votes were fairly counted) a "wrong" winner is a logical impossibility. But they are just like their political allies. They have no doubt that they are correct, that their minority opinion is the right one, and anyone who disagrees with them is evil or stupid.

Starting to sound painfully familiar, isn't it?

And they are all proclaiming that in spite of the stupid (or evil) public, Adam Lambert will be much bigger star than the winner, Kris Allen. They insist that the dullness of the American public in voting for the more or less insipid Mr. Allen will not prevent the glorious Mr. Lambert's soaring success and the rapid fading away of the "coffee-house" singer that actually won.

And they are very content and self-satisfied in their declarations...without a thought about exactly how that can be expected to happen in the real world.

I wonder if these people understand how "success" in music is achieved? I wonder if they understand that if many more people prefer Mr. Allen's music than preferred Mr. Lambert's (which, after all, has been clearly demonstrated by the result of their voting to crown Mr. Allen as the American Idol) it's possible that those same people will purchase Mr. Allen's albums and attend Mr. Allen's concerts in greater numbers than they will Mr. Lambert's.

There's no guarantee, of course, fame is fickle. But it's a likely eventuality I should think.

But it's not the actual eventual fate of either man that is at issue here. At issue, as always, is the smug, superior, condescending attitude and unsubtle tastes of the supposedly sophisticated—but in fact the hilariously parochial and the easily impressed.

Adam Lambert is a big, fast, loud, f/x studded, summer blockbuster Hollywood movie that once seen has revealed all its secrets. Kris Allen is a sophisticated, intelligent indie flick, in which every time you watch it, you find something new.

Adam Lambert is a rollicking bodice ripper romance novel that's pretty much like all the other rollicking bodice ripper romance novels but with different names. Kris Allen is a clever English village murder mystery, peopled with unique characters, that keeps you guessing until the very end.

Adam Lambert is KISS (the band)...whom the American Idol Powers-That-Be chose to appear with him on "results night". Kris Allen is Keith Urban...whom the American Idol PTB chose to appear with him on "results night".

Honestly, I think they got it exactly right...but I'm not sure they understood exactly what message they were sending—silly Liberals.

It did finally occur to me, eventually, that the reason the undue, perplexingly unprofessional and annoyingly obvious favoritism was brought to bear for Adam Lambert is because he's gay. Simple as I am, for a long time I just didn't understand their unwavering and rather slobbering adoration for this slightly bloated, round-faced, serpent shod screamer that would be a perfect fit in Vegas playing to the glam-rock glory-day memories of people old enough to be his parents.

The judges insistence that Adam's 80's showy rock style was "current" was baffled me until I looked at the show with my "political" (conspiracy?) eyes.

I think it's as simple as this: it was important to the Leftist/Media/Hollywood complex that an overtly sexual homosexual win American Idol. One columnist actually said that considering American finally elected a Black president, it's time that America had a gay American Idol.
All the puzzle pieces fell into place. This was a concerted effort to make Adam Lambert, gay guy, the American Idol. He has mad skills...and was a good candidate.

And of course, not a word was mentioned about his sexual preference anywhere near the show. It was the unspoken criterion. So they slobbered and drooled all over his performances, compared other contestants unfavorably to him, recalled praise of him when critiquing other singers. His picture graced most blog and columns referencing AI.

In the final "group song" on results night, the director shot Adam in several close ups...and got not one of the eventual winner...it was typical of the whole season.

In the final analysis, his mad promoters among judges, directors and the entertainment media did Adam a disservice. With all the hype, it's simply not possible that he didn't expect to win. He'd been told as much from his first performance to his last. He was literally set up. He was led to the slaughter by people who had agendas to advance, and for whom his individuality was subsumed by his sexual preference and its usefulness to their politics.

He was, in the end, despite all the apparent drooling affection, treated shabbily.

Kris expected to lose, and was prepared for the inevitable. The win was almost disconcerting for him. He was in shock. But for him, the shock was good.

It would be too much to ask of any young person put in the position Adam was, to expect him to ignore the heaping praise for weeks on end and not harbor certain expectations. Kris' win must have been equally disconcerting for him, even though he handled it with grace. But for him, the shock was bad. And unnecessary. Shame on the "adults" for not behaving more responsibly.

It is, as always, the left who talk of caring for people, but who always sacrifice them, whenever convenient, to their own volcano gods.

We'll see how this plays out. But there is a chance that the artificially and purposefully whipped up extreme expectations for Lambert's win, and the subsequent immense and "shocking upset" disappointment, may serve to tarnish both Kris Allen's legitimate victory and both boys' very real accomplishment of reaching AI's top two.

I hope it's a tempest in a cyber-teapot. But when the Gay-Agenda biddies gets crankin' there's no knowing where that speeding locomotive will stop.

In my opinion the American Idol audience has once again proved that the American people GET. IT. RIGHT.

And Leftists...we're just getting started.

The Gunslinger

ADDENDUM: Here is a hilarious example of the sort of comment on the net about the "upset" on AI:

"It was quite a shocker to say the least. Kris Allen was voted in as the new American Idol, defeating fan favorite Adam Lambert."

Pay particular attention to the italicized bit. Logic is not their strong point.

The "News"

This is the mental retardation I live with in the San Francisco Bay Area. This "story" was reported —with delirious joy and envy, no doubt—in the New York Times. I'm shocked it wasn't above the fold on the front page of the Chronicle*, and lead story on the local news at both 5 and 11. With film and interviews. And a website. And an 800 number for donations.

It has everything. It is the perfect San Francisco story:

1) lesbians
2) lesbians kissing
3) black woman on public transportation
4) morally superior guilt over the passing of Prop 8 - by someone who didn't vote for it
5) morally superior guilt over slavery - by someone who wasn't alive when slavery was legal
6) self-righteous acceptance of personal guilt for acts committed by others
7) morally pretentious apology to lesbians for acts never committed by apologist
8) morally pretentious apology to blacks for acts never committed by apologist
9) self-serving, cathartic "communication" about feelings...
10) ...with strangers of both a different race and sexual orientation!
11) the shared Cult of Barack Obama, the Messiah
12) there are no men involved; there are no white heterosexual women involved.

Seriously. Pity me.

On the morning after the election, Kristin Rothballer, 36, who lives in San Francisco, kissed her female partner goodbye on the train while commuting to work. A black woman who sat down next to her turned and said she was sorry that Proposition 8, the amendment to ban gay marriage in the state, looked like it was going to pass.

"We grabbed hands," Ms. Rothballer recalled. "And I said, 'Well, I really want to congratulate you because we have a black president and that's amazing.' "

"Our conversation then almost became about the fact that we were having the conversation," she said.

Something moved her to apologize to the black woman for slavery.

"For two strangers riding a train to Oakland to have that conversation about race, it wouldn't have been possible if Obama hadn't been elected," she said. "I always felt open with my colleagues, but to say to a stranger on the train, 'Hey, I'm sorry about slavery,' that just doesn't happen."

*Okay, it might have been. It's not like I read it...

The Gunslinger

More from the "Diversity" Front

Fascism by any other name:

eHarmoney gets bullied, and, unfortunately, caves. Prepare for more.

Who knew Nancy-boys would be the next Nazis?

The Gunslinger