The commenters have been clamoring for a little skin from the Miss USA pageant held last night. Since this is a family-oriented site, we'll strike a compromise by showing one of the lovelies getting entangled in a little socio-cultural hot-button issue.
Here's Miss California, Carrie Prejean, of our humble little burg in the extreme southwest corner of the nation, San Diego, answering a question about.... gay marriage?
Enjoy that 2nd place finish, sweetheart and remember to stay on point, next time.
H/T: Deadspin
Commenter X-tacle contributed: The answer sparked a shouting match in the lobby after the show.
This was immediately followed by an evangelical and a gay man having a windmill fight.
Monday, April 20, 2009
What ever happened to the those questions that could be answered with "world peace?"
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For the love of Pete, can't the gays ever give it a rest? It was the freaking Miss America Pageant! It wasn't the Transvestite Queen of San Francisco contest! She's not being judged on how she appeals to other women, but to men. You know, men. The ones that like women, not the ones that dress up like little girls and molest donkeys.
Message to the gays: Go the @#^& away and plug each other's nether regions for a while and leave us all alone!
I'm a little lost as to why they would ask that question as well. "Miss California, would you please hold this lightning rod for the next few minutes while our judges glance sideways at your capacity to conduct electricity?"
Was Miss CA's question equitable in its 1.1 Gigawatt Capacity to the one for Miss NC, or any of the other contestants for that matter?
But, more importantly...
BwD, photos, please. Worthless post without the bikini photos. Utterly and hopelessly and completely useless.
- It Was An Itsy-Bitsy Teenie Weenie Yellow Polka Dot Mongo...
Damn it!
1.21 Gigawatts!!
- Mongo Needs to Feed Einstein
Wait, do we all agree that this was a stupid and inappropriate question?
WTF?
Foxfier, I certainly agree with you that the question was stupid and inappropriate.
I'm not sure it was so much inappropriate, as it might have just been unfair.
Again, I'd have to know what the other contestants were asked. If the rest were all being served up slow-pitch softballs, and Miss CA got a knuckle-curve, then it's a tad unfair.
You know, if every other other candidate got a question like "What's your view on abortion, Miss Alabama?", "What do you think about evolution, Miss Nebraska?" or "How do you feel about the Yankees, Miss NY?", then I'd say the Miss CA question is a wash.
- Mongo Wondering If Anybody Really Gives a Damn Who Won, As Long As The Swimsuits Were On Point
The louder someone complains, the closer you are to the truth. I anticipate a lot of ad hominem complaints from statists here. Do not let them talk you out of reading this book.
In any given generation, there are but a few authors and thinkers whose creations can survive the ravages of time and the shifting sands of societal evolution. It is rarer still when a key book is written, recognized, and celebrated contemporarily. This is one such book.
Mark R. Levin logically lays out what has made the United States of America different from all other nations in the history of humanity. He re-introduces us to the founders and framers, and those people who inspired them long ago. At its most basic elements, our country was founded on the ideals of life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness...and that we have these rights conferred on us, not by man or government, but by Natural Law, which originates with the Creator. Mr. Levin puts us back in touch with our founding doctrines, which are the at the very heart of what conservatism is and has always been.
For too long, Conservatives have let themselves be defined by the media. Mr. Levin's book recasts what it is to be a proud Conservative, and gives voice to those who are often silent in the face of ideological slander. If you believe in this great country, if you believe in truth and honesty, if you believe in life and principles, if you believe in freedom and patriotism, if you believe that all people are created equal and it is up to the individual to succeed according to their talents and interests, and if you believe in a smaller efficient government, and lower taxes, then this book is for you.
NY Times Best Seller - Hardcover Nonfiction - #1 for 3 weeks running!
Amazon.com - all categories - #1 for 29 days and counting.
Over 900,000 in print, in its 15th printing.
...and all the while, a deafening silence from the major media outlets - until now, April 20th, when the MSM champions an anti-American book.
http://tinyurl.com/mlevinbook
This book is perfect for the individual who has always "felt" conservative, but couldn't quite explain herself. Mark Levin's "Liberty and Tyranny" begins with an excellent overview of where our country is as a constitutional republic and how we got here. He then states clearly his book's theme and rallying cry -- Conservatives must know the philosophical foundations for the principles they purport to advance in order to defend liberty from the "soft tyranny" of modern liberalism.
Levin goes on meticulously (many more than 300 endnotes), but plainly explaining the principles of classic conservative philosophy of "prudent" progress, a government that is subservient to the people (rather than the other way around), the fundamental truth that rights are not derived from the government but from a higher power, that the free market system more than any other in history provides the best, most efficient and most just opportunity for individual prosperity as well as for the general welfare, and much much more.
Levin's book provides ample evidence of government encroachment on individual liberty and our country's descent into the soft tyranny warned of by Alexis de Tocqueville in our country's earliest years. Economic regulation, environmental extremism, the usurpation of representative government by the judiciary, unprecedented and uncontrolled illegal influx of people into out country, and the like threaten our economic viability. Finally, Levin's book details how the liberal (and some so-called conservative) political elite rejects the notion of American Exceptionalism and seek to surrender voluntarily the sovereignty our forefathers fought and died to give and to preserve for us.
UPDATE: This book is currently on sale at Amazon. Now is a great opportunity to pick up this book, if you haven’t already.
http://tinyurl.com/mlevinbook
BwD,
And you complain about me going off-point! Just wait until I have a book to sell come this fall!! I'm going to double the size of Camera Fanatic's post.
- Mongo & Noble
Oooh, what's the topic going to be?
If it's about distilled spirits, it can be sorta-kinda on topic ANYWHERE here!
You'll like it, Sailorette. I read an advanced copy and it's definitely a roller coaster. But I'm under a gag-order by the actual author at this time as to specifics. It's tentatively called "Heroes of Kandahar", though that will probably change by the October release date.
Anyway, here's the author's website and an ever-so-brief teaser on the topic. You'll have to cut & paste...
www.ericblehm.com
- Mongo, Assistant to the Assistant Researcher on All-Things Afghanistan
Oddly, I have a hard time reading non-fiction on serious topics.
I can read information sources without end, I enjoy fantasy and science fiction and even Gaslamp Fantasy, but reading non-fiction, especially about war... I just can't stand it.
I can listen to people tell their stories, but if it's not at least some form of humor, I just can't read them.
It does sound like a fantastic story, though.
Foxie, I've read one of the author's other offerings, "The Last Season". He took a topic that I thought would make my eyes bleed and turned it into a great read. Again, non-fiction.
P.S. In order to get comment exchange kicked into high gear, I am only going to do gay marriage posts from here on out.
She would have been disparaged for her answer in any case. Her answer was predicable, she had professed her beliefs prior to the question. Mr Judge Fagula wanted to put forth his agenda. It was shameful. Why didn't he ask her about the fraudulent global warming crises?
But she was inarticulate in her response. It didn't help her "cause" to stammer and stutter and lack the ability to express herself.
That being said, Mr Cat said it best, "It's a freaking Miss America Pageant" We don't care about her views on the current bail-out, creation science, global warming or Mr. Lloyd's socialist fantasies.
We want to know her turn-on/offs, measurements, and what she likes to eat.
What the heck was this fagula doing judging anything more than a Chippendales show?
Where the hell did Mr. Camera come from. Why didn't we ask Miss California for her take on the Levin book? Mr. Lloyd writing a book? Better find the crayons.
Camera Fanatic, you took the words right out of my mouth. And given the size of your cut and paste job, you took the words out of several other people's mouths as well.
Road Dawg, I'm LOL at your comment.
Dawg,
Books are these things where several sheets of paper are fastened together. Each piece of paper has several words. Put the words together, they make a story.
Some of us with an education and research skills are asked to contribute to these things.
You'll probably want to start with the kind that have pictures in them.
Lots and lots of pictures.
- Mongo Willing to Start a R.I.F. Program for BwD's Least Literate Canine, uh, Reader
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