Who do you support for Governor in Tennessee in 2010?

FreddyCupples wrote:

okay this is comment number thirty three thousand one hundred and ninety two...put it to rest IMHO

Agree! Nothing new or noteworthy since the #1 post. Enough already!

Don't Like Gay Marriage? Don't Get One.
Don't Like Cigarettes? Don't Smoke One.
Don't Like Abortions? Don't Have One.
Don't Like Sex? Don't Do It.
Don't Like Drugs? Don't Do Them.
Don't Like Porn? Don't Watch It.
Don't Like Alcohol? Don't Drink It.
Don't Like Guns? Don't Buy One.
Don't Like Your Rights Taken Away?
Then Don't Take Away Somebody Else's.

Hey wrote:

I remember reading an article about a man who wanted to not be a man but a woman and wanted a sex change operation.
Before this procedure is done evidently you have to talk to a psychiatrist first.
It appears his mother used to tell the kid his thing ought to be chopped off.
They went through with the opperation.I thought the answer was, the guy's mother was a nut job and this dude needed therapy not a knife job.
I still feel gay is psychological.
Nature is about a continueation of the species.
Gay would be a dieout of the human race.
Just my thinking.

WPATH standards of care, widely accepted as the standard for treatment of trans people:

quote:

“Sex Reassignment is Effective and Medically Indicated in Severe GID. In
persons diagnosed with transsexualism or profound GID, sex reassignment
surgery, along with hormone therapy and real-life experience, is a treatment
that has proven to be effective. Such a therapeutic regimen, when prescribed
or recommended by qualified practitioners, is medically indicated and
medically necessary. Sex reassignment is not “experimental”,“investigative” ,
“elective”,“cosmetic”, or optional in any meaningful sense. It constitutes very
effective and appropriate treatment for transsexualism or profound GID.”

Also, take note:

quote:

“Severe Gender Dysphoria cannot be alleviated by any conventional
psychiatric treatment, whether it be psychoanalytic therapy, eclectic
psychiatric treatment, aversion treatment, or by any standard psychiatric
drugs.”

That's from Green (1999); Report cited in Bellinger v Bellinger, Court of Appeal, Judgement, July 17th 2001

Or, how about :

quote:

Sex reassignment plays an undisputed role in
contributing toward favourable outcomes, and comprises Real Life
Experience, legal name and sex change on identity documents, as well as
medically necessary hormone treatment, counselling, psychotherapy, and
other medical procedures… Medically necessary sex reassignment
procedures also include complete hysterectomy, bilateral mastectomy, chest
reconstruction or augmentation as appropriate to each patient (including
breast prostheses if necessary), genital reconstruction (by various techniques
which must be appropriate to each patient, including, for example, skin flap
hair removal, penile and testicular prostheses, as necessary), facial hair
removal, and certain facial plastic reconstruction as appropriate to the
patient… These medical procedures and treatment protocols are not
experimental: decades of both clinical experience and medical research show
they are essential to achieving well-being for the transsexual patient

That's Whittle et al; WPATH Clarification on Medical Necessity of Treatment, Sex Reassignment, and Insurance Coverage in the USA (2008).

Or, try:

quote:

“To require the condition to go untreated until it had caused an additional
severe illness disregarded the duty on Health Authorities to prevent illnesses
and constituted inhuman or degrading treatment.”

(This refers to waiting until trans people are suicidal before treating.) That's from R v North West Lancashire Health Authority ex parte A, D & G (1998).

Dee Lay wrote:

<quoted text>For Democrats, the recall defeat of Wisconsin Governor Scott Walker on June 5th is supposed to be a precursor to Barack Obama’s landslide re-election victory in November. Not so fast. Scott Walker, who faced token opposition last night in the primaries, won 97% of the Republican vote, garnering more votes than both of the top Democratic candidates combined. He actually pulled in almost as many votes as were cast in the Democratic primary altogether. Not a very good sign for Unions and Democrats who will face Walker for real on June 5th.

In other news, Barack Obama is WAY behind in the Republican Presidential Primary!

breakfast sandwich wrote:

<quoted text>
In other news, Barack Obama is WAY behind in the Republican Presidential Primary!

LMAO! Well darn, & I had such high hopes! LOL!

Dee Lay wrote:

<quoted text>the 49% that pay no fed taxes

http://www.tnr.com/blog/jonathan-chait/89076/...
The right-wing talking point that half of all Americans pay no income tax keeps circulating endlessly. Chuck Marr and Brian Highsmith of the Center on Budget and Policy Priorities gives it the thorough debunking it so badly deserves. Summary:

The 51 percent figure is an anomaly that reflects the unique circumstances of 2009, when the recession greatly swelled the number of Americans with low incomes and when temporary tax cuts created by the 2009 Recovery Act — including the “Making Work Pay” tax credit and an exclusion from tax of the first $2,400 in unemployment benefits — were in effect. Together, these developments removed millions of Americans from the federal income tax rolls. Both of these temporary tax measures have since expired. In a more typical year, 35 percent to 40 percent of households owe no federal income tax. In 2007, the figure was 37.9 percent.
The 51 percent figure covers only the federal income tax and ignores the substantial amounts of other federal taxes — especially the payroll tax — that many of these households pay . As a result, it greatly overstates the share of households that do not pay any federal taxes. Data from the Urban Institute-Brookings Tax Policy Center show only about 14 percent of households paid neither federal income tax nor payroll tax in 2009, despite the high unemployment and temporary tax cuts that marked that year.
This percentage would be even lower if federal excise taxes on gasoline and other items were taken into account.
Most of the people who pay neither federal income tax nor payroll taxes are low-income people who are elderly, unable to work due to a serious disability, or students, most of whom subsequently become taxpayers.(In a year like 2009, this group also includes a significant number of people who have been unemployed the entire year and cannot find work.)
Moreover, low-income households as a whole do, in fact, pay federal taxes. Congressional Budget Office data show that the poorest fifth of households as a group paid an average of 4 percent of their incomes in federal taxes in 2007 (the latest year for which these data are available), not an insignificant amount given how modest these households’ incomes are — the poorest fifth of households had average income of $18,400 in 2007. The next-to-the bottom fifth — those with incomes between $20,500 and $34,300 in 2007 — paid an average of 10 percent of their incomes in federal taxes.
Even these figures understate low-income households’ total tax burden, because these households also pay substantial state and local taxes. Data from the Institute on Taxation and Economic Policy show that the poorest fifth of households paid a stunning 12.3 percent of their incomes in state and local taxes in 2010.
When all federal, state, and local taxes are taken into account,the bottom fifth of households paid 16.3 percent of their incomes in taxes, on average, in 2010. The second-poorest fifth paid 20.7 percent.

http://thinkprogress.org/special/2011/10/12/3...
"It is true that 47 percent of Americans did not pay net federal income taxes in 2009 — the number is unusually high because of the depression in incomes following the recession — but it is completely false that only 53 percent of Americans pay taxes.

For example, if you look at state and local taxes, the working poor actually pay a higher percentage of their income in these taxes in every state except for Vermont. In “Alabama, for example, low-income families (which make less than $13,000) pay 11 percent of their income in state and local taxes, while those making more than $229,000 pay just 4 percent.”

Really Sassy wrote:

Don't Like Gay Marriage? Don't Get One.
Don't Like Cigarettes? Don't Smoke One.
Don't Like Abortions? Don't Have One.
Don't Like Sex? Don't Do It.
Don't Like Drugs? Don't Do Them.
Don't Like Porn? Don't Watch It.
Don't Like Alcohol? Don't Drink It.
Don't Like Guns? Don't Buy One.
Don't Like Your Rights Taken Away?
Then Don't Take Away Somebody Else's.

Conservative thinking does not take away rights. Liberal thinking does!

Justme wrote:

<quoted text>Conservative thinking does not take away rights. Liberal thinking does!

Anybody can make that statement, but let's see you back it up with Facts!

Really Sassy wrote:

<quoted text>
But, Pedophilia was openly practiced & condoned in King James' Day.
Read it all, not just the parts that support your warped views!

once again, every type ya post anything, more proof yer NUTS!! Were we talking about pedophilia??? or do ya just have pedophilia on your brain??

PUFF, the Winning Horse at the Steeplechase collapsed & died immediately after the Race!

Really Sassy wrote:

<quoted text>
Anybody can make that statement, but let's see you back it up with Facts!

In the simplified version: If a conservative doesn't like something on TV, he changes the channel. If a liberal doesn't like a TV program, he protests and ask for removal of said program.

Exasperated1 wrote:

<quoted text>
once again, every type ya post anything, more proof yer NUTS!! Were we talking about pedophilia??? or do ya just have pedophilia on your brain??

She/he needs to remember this, " Keep your mouth shut and be thought a fool! Open your mouth and remove all doubts!"

Hey wrote:

I remember reading an article about a man who wanted to not be a man but a woman and wanted a sex change operation.
Before this procedure is done evidently you have to talk to a psychiatrist first.
It appears his mother used to tell the kid his thing ought to be chopped off.
They went through with the opperation.I thought the answer was, the guy's mother was a nut job and this dude needed therapy not a knife job.
I still feel gay is psychological.
Nature is about a continueation of the species.
Gay would be a dieout of the human race.
Just my thinking.

Homosexuality occurs in over 1500 species of animals. How is that not "natural?"

Justme wrote:

<quoted text>Alcoholism is giving in to an urge..murder is giving into an urge....rape is giving in to an urge...need I say more? Homosexuals give into an urge....it is a sin! Should we have the homosexual? No, but that still does not make it right. I pray for them just the same way I do for others who are sinful.

You just listed behaviors. Very deceiving. A homosexual act is a behavior, homosexuality is a natural state of being. Confusing the two is the standard MO of conservative "Christians.".

Mobile-Amused wrote:

<quoted text>
Homosexuality occurs in over 1500 species of animals. How is that not "natural?"

It is the egg and sperm that creates life .Sxcept for Monsanto of course.

breakfast sandwich wrote:

<quoted text>
WPATH standards of care, widely accepted as the standard for treatment of trans people:
quote:
“Sex Reassignment is Effective and Medically Indicated in Severe GID. In
persons diagnosed with transsexualism or profound GID, sex reassignment
surgery, along with hormone therapy and real-life experience, is a treatment
that has proven to be effective. Such a therapeutic regimen, when prescribed
or recommended by qualified practitioners, is medically indicated and
medically necessary. Sex reassignment is not “experimental”,“investigative” ,
“elective”,“cosmetic”, or optional in any meaningful sense. It constitutes very
effective and appropriate treatment for transsexualism or profound GID.”
Also, take note:
quote:
“Severe Gender Dysphoria cannot be alleviated by any conventional
psychiatric treatment, whether it be psychoanalytic therapy, eclectic
psychiatric treatment, aversion treatment, or by any standard psychiatric
drugs.”
That's from Green (1999); Report cited in Bellinger v Bellinger, Court of Appeal, Judgement, July 17th 2001
Or, how about :
quote:
Sex reassignment plays an undisputed role in
contributing toward favourable outcomes, and comprises Real Life
Experience, legal name and sex change on identity documents, as well as
medically necessary hormone treatment, counselling, psychotherapy, and
other medical procedures… Medically necessary sex reassignment
procedures also include complete hysterectomy, bilateral mastectomy, chest
reconstruction or augmentation as appropriate to each patient (including
breast prostheses if necessary), genital reconstruction (by various techniques
which must be appropriate to each patient, including, for example, skin flap
hair removal, penile and testicular prostheses, as necessary), facial hair
removal, and certain facial plastic reconstruction as appropriate to the
patient… These medical procedures and treatment protocols are not
experimental: decades of both clinical experience and medical research show
they are essential to achieving well-being for the transsexual patient
That's Whittle et al; WPATH Clarification on Medical Necessity of Treatment, Sex Reassignment, and Insurance Coverage in the USA (2008).
Or, try:
quote:
“To require the condition to go untreated until it had caused an additional
severe illness disregarded the duty on Health Authorities to prevent illnesses
and constituted inhuman or degrading treatment.”
(This refers to waiting until trans people are suicidal before treating.) That's from R v North West Lancashire Health Authority ex parte A, D & G (1998).

So when mama says son ya ought to cut off your dickeedo you should go please your sick mamas wishes?
And the great men of science say hey man go for it.Or was this all about Freuds penis envy taken a little to far.
There are a lot of dead folks in the name of science.I would be damned to let a crazy women destroy who this person is.He was accepted by the universe his mother was the the problem here not him.Not to fight for this broken person and his beauty is a crime.Science or no science.

Mobile-Amused wrote:

<quoted text>
You just listed behaviors. Very deceiving. A homosexual act is a behavior, homosexuality is a natural state of being. Confusing the two is the standard MO of conservative "Christians.".

And, you are nit-picking!

Hey wrote:

<quoted text>
It is the egg and sperm that creates life .Sxcept for Monsanto of course.

No chit! So, that's what causes all these pregnant Girls! Huh, well I'll be darn, NOW you tell me! Lol!

Hey wrote:

<quoted text>
So when mama says son ya ought to cut off your dickeedo you should go please your sick mamas wishes?
And the great men of science say hey man go for it.Or was this all about Freuds penis envy taken a little to far.
There are a lot of dead folks in the name of science.I would be damned to let a crazy women destroy who this person is.He was accepted by the universe his mother was the the problem here not him.Not to fight for this broken person and his beauty is a crime.Science or no science.

The more important question is, why would a Mother tell her Son that? That's a cruel & inappropriate thing for a Mother to say to her Son, especially during his formative years, but actually, anytime!

i support your girlfriend right now. keepin her fed, if u know what i mean.