Slim pickings

The Jewish Daily Forward reports a new poll finding 62% of US Jews supporting Obama, the same percentage as this time in 2008 (Obama ended up with 78% of the Jewish vote):
The reason for Democrats’ strong showing in the poll, which was released April 3, lies in deeply rooted views of American Jews on social issues, including traditional liberal stances on improving the economy and reducing the gap between rich and poor.
“Whoever wants to appeal to Jewish voters has to go through social values,” said Robert Jones, CEO of the Public Religion Research Institute, the not-for-profit, nonpartisan organization that conducted the survey. “Our poll shows that you cannot appeal to these voters through the single issue of Israel.”
Also from the Forward, 81% of American Jews favor same-sex marriage (up from 76% a year ago). As I've been saying, it's just not Jewish to be conservative; it's really part of the religion.
Research suggests almost three-quarters of Jewish contributions go to non-religious causes. Jews disproportionately give to meet basic human needs like food and shelter. (Jewish World News)

As violence in Syria spills helplessly over the Turkish border, I can't help thinking about Tanzania's invasion of Idi Amin's Uganda and Vietnam's invasion of "Democratic Kampuchea", both in 1978. Do you suppose that's how this dreadful story ends as well, with the Turkish army mopping up the Assad regime? And a quieter and comfier, Sunni, dictatorship for a couple of decades? Would that be a good thing? (I know it would be better than a US invasion, but that's not saying a lot...)
No, not even slightly like this. (From Edmund Spencer's Turkey, Russia, the Black Sea, and Circassia, 1855. Wikimedia Commons.)

Wisconsin repealed their equal pay law last week, on the grounds that there's no need for it;
Repealing the law was a no-brainer for state Sen. Glenn Grothman (R), who led the effort because of his belief that pay discrimination is a myth driven by liberal women’s groups....
When [Daily Beast reporter Michelle Goldberg] ran the numbers by him, he replied, “The American Association of University Women is a pretty liberal group.” Nor, he argued, does its conclusion take into account other factors, like “goals in life. You could argue that money is more important for men. 

Who could have suspected?

From Reggie's Non-Bottle Victorian Trade Cards.
ScienceDaily (Apr. 6, 2012) — Homophobia is more pronounced in individuals with an unacknowledged attraction to the same sex and who grew up with authoritarian parents who forbade such desires, a series of psychology studies demonstrates.
The study is the first to document the role that both parenting and sexual orientation play in the formation of intense and visceral fear of homosexuals, including self-reported homophobic attitudes, discriminatory bias, implicit hostility towards gays, and endorsement of anti-gay policies. Conducted by a team from the University of Rochester, the University of Essex, England, and the University of California in Santa Barbara, the research will be published the April issue of the Journal of Personality and Social Psychology. (Via Balloon Juice)
Wait, I know who could have suspected! Anybody who was paying attention! But there's one kind of evidence that doesn't get enough attention, and that's the tortured insistence on the part of the homophobe (or sodomechthriac, as I have recommended calling it) that sexual orientation is a choice:
Because schools fail to warn children of the dangers of homosexuality, and because it is taught that homosexuality is not only "normal" but "healthy" as well, homosexuality starts to seem like a good choice to young school children. To supplement this many schools give homosexuals preferential treatment, for instance protecting a homosexual student from teasing in cases where they would not protect a heterosexual student. Homosexuals are also given exclusive clubs that have the goal of recruiting additional students to homosexuality.[11]
These are just some of ways that students are tricked into mistakenly thinking that homosexuality is a desirable lifestyle. As people get older and study the word of God they become less susceptible to being misled like this. This is the reason the homosexual agenda targets school children for recruitment into homosexuality. (Conservapedia)
They know it must be a choice because it's a choice they've made, or hope they have, with all the help they could get from peeing with Dad and studying God's word and whatever else it takes.

Because there is no hideous Illuminati society of a Homosexual Agenda (unless you count the Roman Catholic priesthood—though I for one am pretty sure it's not the priests who recognize themselves as gay but the sodomechthriacs that rape altar boys), but there is a struggle that these men are telling us about, and that we learn about from the tragicomic stories of Larry Craig and Ted Haggard, and so on, all the way back to M. de Charlus (who terrified little Marcel with his pitiless contempt for any kind of male gentleness or softness). The chaos they fear will be released if "everyone just does whatever they want" is the chaos that would come if they gave in to their own desires; God, with the memory of Dad's penis, is the only thing that's keeping them from running out and sodomizing everything they see, right down to Rick Santorum's dog. And when they say that "marriage is threatened" it's their own marriages they have in mind. And always they have to keep asking themselves: If it isn't a choice, than what am I?
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