Alright, so because gays won the right to marry the world is going to end (when the Large Hadron Collider is turned on). But what does it mean to get married?

A 50% chance that you will lose 50% of your stuff (unless you get your prenups done right).

Some people insist that marriage is founded in the “good book;” but why not take a closer look at what the bible says — like the parts about forcing one’s daughter to marry some guy who killed your enemies. Sounds like a great idea! I will give my daughter to the first girl to get Hillary to finally give up.

So what is marriage besides being a reward for a favor?

Making sure your fuck spawn is really your fuck spawn.

Marriage comes from the same holier-than-thou mentality that demands you save yourself for your wedding night. It’s designed to ensure that your first-born boy (and only boys really matter) gets all your stuff. Thanks to the “sanctity” of marriage you “know” the woman you knocked up is holding “your” kid (but people forget that the size of human testicles are a direct result of our tendency to cheat [more info about that under cut- because it goes way off topic but is fun to read I promise]).

People seem to have this evil idea that:

Woman + Man= OK
Man + Man = FUCKING END OF THE WORLD (quickly turn on the Large Hadron Collider)
Man + Dog = apparently alright according to bible thumper logic

And leaving the best for last-
Woman + Woman = every guy’s dream / an accurate description of my love life (don’t ask- I’m just very, very lucky!)

Truthfully, marriage is about rights — originally the succession of property rights, but now legal rights as well. For example, if a gay person is hospitalized, as things stand currently, their life partner would not have the right to visit them, much less have any say about their care.

Some insist that civil unions are the same thing by a different name, but gays who have suffered from lack of legal standing know better, and the courts in California finally recognized that and corrected it.

In summation (never thought I would use that once I left high school), marriage is not the sanctimonious romantic ideal that our society represents it to be. Listen up, you people who have been vigorously thumping those bibles, please, please, please, wake the [tirade of expletives that even I refrain from putting on the web] up! Two same-sex people getting married are not going to “ruin marriage” — Britney Spears already beat those “damn dirty gays” to that.

So if any gay couple wants to have a nice wedding, go for it; just don’t let me catch the garter (or bouquet, for that matter) — I tend to be bad luck when I do.

-Magus-

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Here we go the first Dark of the Moon Crone Cast. Vivienne D’Avalon and I’s first podcast together, we go over things from this Election, to Nanobots, to Scientology vs. a group called anonymous, to the FBI taping your Tubes. For the music clip “W’s Duty” by Jonathan Coulton go here.

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Alright, to catch you up from the last time we had this conversation,
We have figured out that religion has struck down:

Evolution
Stem cell research
Nanotechnology

So what next? How about opposing a cure for cancer?
Yep, they are against preventing cancer!

And not just some obscure cancer that no one’s ever heard of; this one affects half a million people.

The good news about this type of cancer is that there is a vaccine against it — or rather, against the virus that is the leading cause of it — genital human papillomavirus (HPV), which causes cervical cancer.

But back to why Americans are against it. Are you ready?
Because (gasp!) vaccination “might encourage premarital sex!”

How so, you ask?

Because, for the vaccine to be effective, you need to use it before there is any risk of contact with HPV, which means before someone becomes sexually active. (Though men can’t get cervical cancer, they can still catch HPV, become an asymptomatic carrier, and thus unknowingly pass it to their sexual partners). So the best strategy is, as the cigarette companies say, ” get them while they’re young.”

Unfortunately, here in America we blindly follow abstinence-only “education” policies. The proponents of such policies erroneously but fervently believe that if we vaccinate children against this virus, they’ll take that as a signal that it’s OK to go have sex, instead of waiting until marriage “like God wants you to.” (Apparently the sacrament of marriage is some kind of miraculous vaccine against HPV and a cure for cancer — wait ’til the pharmaceutical companies hear of this, and figure out a way to patent it and make a fortune off of overcharging for it!)

Well, FUCK THAT!
No, really — FUCK THAT!

This is a very personal issue for me. I have a friend who is dying from cervical cancer, not because she had consensual premarital sex, but because she was raped. If she had been given this vaccine before that horrid incident, maybe she would not be dying now, when she’s still too young to legally drink!

Use some common sense, people! Are you going to go find some rusty nails and jab yourself with them, just because you’ve been vaccinated against tetanus? Are you really looking forward to rejoicing at your 18 year-old daughter’s funeral because “the little slut got what she deserved for sinning against God?”

What worries me most about this kind of twisted logic is a big “what if ” scenario: What if we discover a vaccine that successfully prevents HIV and AIDS? HIV is also sexually transmitted (among other methods), and it’s widely believed among the religious right to have been “created by God to kill fags.”

So, how much do you want to bet that if an HIV vaccine becomes available, the religious “wrong” will try to squash that, too?

Personally, I can’t afford to take that bet. I apparently need to save every penny, just so I’ll be able to buy the life-saving vaccines I need on the black market.

-Magus-

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Alright people, Obama scored a 37 out of 300 bowling.

BOWLING!

How the FUCK does this at all matter to the election?

No, tell me. Really.

Hell, he can beat me in a game of bowling; unless it’s on the Wii, then I can get a 40! W00t!

This just shows you how asinine this election has gotten. I mean, how many delegates would Obama have gotten if he bowled a 300? My guess is, one Spartan.

So again, does this matter when “Delegates Decide the Democratic Candidate: Your Vote Does Not Matter ‘08?” Well, it does matter, because once again it’s coming back to the race issue!

MSNBC political analyst Howard Fineman decided to tell America on Hardball, “he should have stuck to shooting hoops.” So I wonder, what would he have said if Mrs. Clinton had scored a 37? “She should have stuck to stitching quilts?” Or McCain? “He should have stuck to shouting at kids on the lawn like other grandfathers?” Or Ron Paul (because if I don’t mention him other bloggers will get mad at us)? “He should have stuck to shouting at kids on the lawn — about the Constitution?”

So this little issue of only scoring 37 pins, 37! Has nothing, NOTHING to do with the election (except, of course, that more underlying racial tension comes to light). This is just as bad as hearing about Britney Spears’ latest crisis. Why don’t we just get this election over with; after all, don’t you know that line 37 on page 666 of the Patriot Act says that Bush automatically gets a 3rd term?

But then, even that might not happen if the Large Hadron Collider kills us all (more about that later).
-Magus-

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This morning (Wednesday, March 12, 2008) NPR aired a story that salvia divinorum may soon be made illegal. For those of you who don’t know what salvia is, it’s a form of sage that has some psychoactive effects. Salvia is currently an uncontrolled substance, because its chemical makeup and effects are too dissimilar to drugs that are already banned — the law says that a drug has to be similar to a drug already on a particular schedule or class of illicit substances, in order to be included in that list. However, a substance can be added to this list based on analysis of 8 factors: 

• Actual and potential for abuse
• Pharmacology
• Other current scientific knowledge
• History and current pattern of abuse
• Scope, duration, and significance of abuse
• Public health risk
• Psychic or physiological dependence liability
• If an immediate precursor of a controlled substance

….  Based on the results of the analysis, the DEA may recommend that Salvia divinorum be scheduled as a controlled substance.

Salvia has been used by shamans and other spiritual seekers for “out of body” experiences and similar meditative practices. It does not have a market as a social drug, because the mental states it creates in the user are not conducive to social interaction, but rather, introspection. Just as with alcohol or tobacco, the user must act responsibly, and know enough not drive or operate heavy machinery while under the influence of any mind altering substance. However, NPR is reporting suicides that have supposedly been linked to salvia, thus causing a renewed push for criminalization.

Salvia divinorum is currently illegal in several states in America and in many countries around the world, and more states are jumping on the banning bandwagon every day. The DEA considers it “a drug of concern.” “The majority of the pending legislation would add the plant ‘Salvia divinorum’ to the states’ lists of controlled substances.”

In G. Pagan’s March 12, 2007 bill analysis of California AB259, he quotes information that

The effects produced by Salvia divinorum are not comparable to any other effects produced by the other psychoactive substances (i.e., peyote, psilocybin, LSD, etc.). This also includes variables of the user, such as body weight, sensitivity, strength, and dose taken and method used. The effects can range from subtle to extremely strong, causing an individual to have out-of-body experiences and create a real potential for physical danger to oneself and others.

Pagan’s analysis also discusses the fact that prisons are already overflowing because so many people are being incarcerated on drug charges because of substances that are already banned.

Salvia’s reputation suffers from “the current lack of laboratory and clinical research into its potential therapeutic properties.” So of course, rather than do responsible research, fear mongers are instead gunning to criminalize it so they can seize yet more control over their “subjects” — otherwise known as American citizens. Never mind that there are freedom of religion issues, that salvia “was used for both medicinal and religious purposes by the Mazatec Indians in Oaxaca well before the arrival of European colonial powers” and that it is currently in use by modern day shamans pursuing that freedom of religion. Never mind that we are supposed to have the right to “life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness” in this country; if the pharmaceutical companies can’t charge an arm and a leg to sell us chemical happiness, Whhhhyyyy, it’s a danger to society! Ban it! Burn it! Throw the witches in prison! Never mind that the prisons are already stuffed to the gills, that just means more money for the companies that build prisons and hire out guards and supply weapons!

“Salvia divinorum is a valuable medicinal herb that is rarely abused…. It is not habit-forming, not addictive, and does not present a significant risk to public health or safety. Because it is a powerful consciousness-altering herb, some regulation of sales is sensible and appropriate, but criminalizing possession certainly is not.”

So why can’t we use common sense, people? Why is that so frikkin hard????

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We here at Kentuckyspace value your privacy. This is why when you sign up you must give your legal name, address, and valid electronic mail address as a precondition of using the interactive service at Kentuckyspace. Not only that but every time you post your full legal name will be shown as the author. That way your boss can quickly find out about your late night drinking, your spouse can see that you are questioning the relationship, and generally with the magic of Google every secret that you feel should be safe, hidden behind the anonymity of the internet, will be just a click away. Kentuckyspace is brought to you by Tim Couch (R-Hyden), a Kentucky state representative who feels that forcing people to post under their real identity, instead of assumed aliases or anonymously, will prevent “online bullying.” Online bullying is a a matter of protecting the children from the dangers of the internet and in no way is it helping the government track you better online.

So what if the site wishes to keep their visitors information private? They can, if they are willing to fork over $500 for the first offense (i.e. first person to post not using their legal name), and $1000 for each subsequent time.

Thankfully this only effects people doing business in Kentucky so there goes any hope of a good server location. Even though this is only affecting one state, if this bill passes, think of what this might cause. You give the government a cookie, and they’ll want illegal wiretaps….

The Bill- HB 775
Tim Couch’s official web page
Tim Couch’s contact information
Local News Story from WTVQ-TV/DT - Action News 36

-Magus-

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Alright so we already know that the U.S. has a moral stance against using stem cell research because the killing of the unborn. But now what would you say about Nanotechnology?
Well only 29.5% of people in a recent survey say that it is morally just. Now compared to other countries like the UK at 54.1% or even better the French with 72.1%.
29.5%! Now you would think maybe the people surveyed did not know what nanotechnology?
Nope.
The survey respondents are well-informed about nanotechnology and its potential benefits. So you cannot fault for them not understand what it was (but then with the all child left behind act maybe the word science has been deluded).
So why do they not want to accept this valuable science?
Because we would be playing god.
So once again religion beats science.
Evolution
Stem cell Research
And now
Nanotechnology
Once again the American public as a whole follows what it believes to be the word of god, because a book that was finished 2000 years ago is always correct (like what it says about how the earth travels around the sun, or maybe gravity, just some thoughts).

For the original article go to: Science Daily

-Magus-

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