Tuesday, March 02, 2004
Nothing recently has grabbed my attention, so I shall resort to that standby of lazy column writing, the bullet point column.
- For the past week, there has been a rebellion going on in Haiti. Revolutionaries have been trying to oust President Jean-Bertrand Aristide. He refused to step down, even as countries such as the U.S. and France tried to get him to leave. Finally, he seemed to have relented, fleeing for the Central African Republic.
He is now claiming that our government's military "kidnapped" him and forced him to leave. Aristide made this claim via phone calls to Rep. Maxine Waters and Reverend Jesse Jackson.
This is absurd.
If this were so, then why were these phone calls allowed to be made in the first place? After all, it'd be easy to tie him up and make sure he contacts no one. Then you can just say that he's under heavy protection, and that his location is being secured for his own safety. Why would our military kidnap a foreign national, then allow him to tell everybody about it?
Please try to keep positions within the realm of rationality.
- The California State Supreme Court ordered that Catholic Charities, which is a church-run charity group, must provide prescription contraceptives in their employees' health care plans.
This isn't a totally absurd ruling, but it does confound me. It has forced a religious institution to violate its doctrine on the basis that it provides some secular services while employing some non-Catholics. Of course, this kind of treatment of religion is par for the course these days.
- Speaking of which, there are 20 states, including Texas, that have laws requiring prescription contraceptives to be offered by company health-care plans. The reason given is that to not offer them would be discriminatory towards women.
Okay, so would failing to provide free helmets to children who ride bikes be discriminatory towards children?
I don't really see why companies or the government should be obliged to pay for our health care at all. I certainly think it's absurd to force coverage of contraceptives upon businesses.
Safe sex is not a right guaranteed by the government. It's that simple.
- Hillary Clinton said recently that women were better off under Saddam Hussein.
Read that again.
Hillary Clinton believes women were better off getting raped and murdered in mass numbers under Saddam than they are now.
Why?
Because now there's a chance that they won't become what she thinks women should be. See, things were better back when women "went to school; they participated in the professions, they participated in the government and business and, as long as they stayed out of [Saddam's] way, they had considerable freedom of movement".
Apparently, being a good little feminist is better than being, oh, not raped and killed.
It's not like I *want* women to be hidden from public life. But jeez, put it in perspective people.
You gotta love the left forcing their view of women down the Middle East's throats, while bitching that we're imposing our form of government on them.
It comes down to this: any sensible feminist would've been outraged at how Saddam treated Iraqi women, and be glad that he's gone. Instead, Hillary complains that we liberated them from sexual assualt and death by a madman, then laments for the better days when they could go to school and enter businesses.
So as long as you let women be as Hillary thinks they should be, then you can rape and murder women all you want, because dagnamit, raping and murdering just isn't as bad.
Hillary Clinton is a lunatic, and we should cringe at the thought of her becoming the first female President.
- Finally, I'd like ya'll to check out my nation on a game called NationStates. I ran across it on the online diary of a friend of a friend, and it is absolutely a blast for someone such as me.
You create your own nation, then you run your country by making choices on issues such as voting rights, the treatment of chicken, and just how acceptable you want public nudity to be. It then gives your country a profile that rates its civil rights, economy, and political freedoms. It also gives vital stats on your nation and tells you just what kind of outfit you're running. Everyone starts off as an inoffensive centrist democracy. Currently, I'm a Compulsive Consumer State: hopefully I can get that changed soon. Check out the Republic of Keydon here.
- For the past week, there has been a rebellion going on in Haiti. Revolutionaries have been trying to oust President Jean-Bertrand Aristide. He refused to step down, even as countries such as the U.S. and France tried to get him to leave. Finally, he seemed to have relented, fleeing for the Central African Republic.
He is now claiming that our government's military "kidnapped" him and forced him to leave. Aristide made this claim via phone calls to Rep. Maxine Waters and Reverend Jesse Jackson.
This is absurd.
If this were so, then why were these phone calls allowed to be made in the first place? After all, it'd be easy to tie him up and make sure he contacts no one. Then you can just say that he's under heavy protection, and that his location is being secured for his own safety. Why would our military kidnap a foreign national, then allow him to tell everybody about it?
Please try to keep positions within the realm of rationality.
- The California State Supreme Court ordered that Catholic Charities, which is a church-run charity group, must provide prescription contraceptives in their employees' health care plans.
This isn't a totally absurd ruling, but it does confound me. It has forced a religious institution to violate its doctrine on the basis that it provides some secular services while employing some non-Catholics. Of course, this kind of treatment of religion is par for the course these days.
- Speaking of which, there are 20 states, including Texas, that have laws requiring prescription contraceptives to be offered by company health-care plans. The reason given is that to not offer them would be discriminatory towards women.
Okay, so would failing to provide free helmets to children who ride bikes be discriminatory towards children?
I don't really see why companies or the government should be obliged to pay for our health care at all. I certainly think it's absurd to force coverage of contraceptives upon businesses.
Safe sex is not a right guaranteed by the government. It's that simple.
- Hillary Clinton said recently that women were better off under Saddam Hussein.
Read that again.
Hillary Clinton believes women were better off getting raped and murdered in mass numbers under Saddam than they are now.
Why?
Because now there's a chance that they won't become what she thinks women should be. See, things were better back when women "went to school; they participated in the professions, they participated in the government and business and, as long as they stayed out of [Saddam's] way, they had considerable freedom of movement".
Apparently, being a good little feminist is better than being, oh, not raped and killed.
It's not like I *want* women to be hidden from public life. But jeez, put it in perspective people.
You gotta love the left forcing their view of women down the Middle East's throats, while bitching that we're imposing our form of government on them.
It comes down to this: any sensible feminist would've been outraged at how Saddam treated Iraqi women, and be glad that he's gone. Instead, Hillary complains that we liberated them from sexual assualt and death by a madman, then laments for the better days when they could go to school and enter businesses.
So as long as you let women be as Hillary thinks they should be, then you can rape and murder women all you want, because dagnamit, raping and murdering just isn't as bad.
Hillary Clinton is a lunatic, and we should cringe at the thought of her becoming the first female President.
- Finally, I'd like ya'll to check out my nation on a game called NationStates. I ran across it on the online diary of a friend of a friend, and it is absolutely a blast for someone such as me.
You create your own nation, then you run your country by making choices on issues such as voting rights, the treatment of chicken, and just how acceptable you want public nudity to be. It then gives your country a profile that rates its civil rights, economy, and political freedoms. It also gives vital stats on your nation and tells you just what kind of outfit you're running. Everyone starts off as an inoffensive centrist democracy. Currently, I'm a Compulsive Consumer State: hopefully I can get that changed soon. Check out the Republic of Keydon here.
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