Flag on my Backpack

juthikalala:

trastorn:

cognitivedissonance:

A 14 year old girl on rollerblades was getting ready to march in the Maple Leaf Parade with the LGBT Resource Center’s float, she was carrying a rainbow/American flag hybrid. But it got ugly when Mark Schneider ran up, grabbed the flag, pushed her and screamed, “Go to a country where they will hang people like you.”

What the fuck? Seriously, WHAT THE FUCK IS WRONG WITH PEOPLE?!

Humanity FAIL.

…what? Instant migraine.

What the fuck is wrong with people?! 

One o’ these days I’m gonna find a happy story relating to gay rights, Islam, Christianity, or anything.

As I’ve written in an upcoming story of mine with openly gay superheroine Black Bowhuntress…

“Cats in trees.  One o’ these days all we gonna haveta worry ‘bout is rescuin’ cats from trees.  I look forward ta that day.”

stfuracists:

submitted by lifebime:

Bigots at their lowest. What kind of racist ass town tells someone to dig up the graves of their loved ones?

From the article:

“They knew we had the cemetery,” Hass said. “I filed burial permits with the town. It wasn’t an issue until the ground zero mosque came up.”

Town Supervisor Bob McCarthy said the cemetery is illegal and bigotry had nothing to do with the board decision. He said no legal action has been taken yet and referred questions about the potential action to town attorney Joseph Ermeti, who didn’t return a call seeking comment.

“These people just came up and buried bodies on the land,” McCarthy said. “You have to have permits. They didn’t have them. You can’t just bury Grandma in the back yard under the picnic table.”

But Hass said he has a 2005 document from the town zoning board saying the cemetery is legal and burial permits showing the burials were handled by licensed funeral directors.

New York law explicitly says the state does not regulate private or religious cemeteries. The Town of Sidney zoning ordinance states that cemeteries are permitted on private land with a single contiguous area of at least 15 acres (six hectares).

The Sufi community was established in 2002 on a 50-acre (20-hectare) sheep farm to be “a small intentional community devoted to contemplation and prayer, to lead the spiritual life of Islam, to lead a simple, quiet life close to the earth,” Hass said in a statement. The community has about 30 members.

Imam Feisal Abdul Rauf, the leader behind the proposed Islamic community center and mosque near ground zero, is a Sufi, but is not affiliated with the group in Sidney Center.

Hass said community members learned from friends about the town board vote.

“We were never contacted by the town board in any way about this,” he said.

McCarthy said his concern is that the town might get stuck taking care of the cemetery some day if it’s abandoned.

“The person that’s most discriminated against is the real property taxpayer,” McCarthy said. “The cost of taking care of this falls back on the taxpayer.”

He said the town already has a number of old, abandoned burial sites it must maintain.

But Hass noted that the town board wasn’t proposing to disinter bodies from any of those graveyards.

[Emphasis mine]

I guess the non-Muslim private graveyards are funded with magic money and have nothing to do with taxpayers, right?

This is garbage.  For a community to do that, and seemingly have a double standard for other abandoned cemeteries.  Just.  Complete.  Bullshit.

stfuteabaggers:

challenge:

find any news story.

find a way for it to offend you

blame it on big government, call it the nanny state!

seriously. the tea party can and will make everything a conspiracy. 

Here’s the problem with smoking (and I, admittedly and sheepishly, admit that I smoke).  People have a right to breathe more than smokers have a right to smoke.  Saskatchewan recently announced that the law will state no one inside a car can smoke in the presence of anyone who also happens to be in the car who is under the age of 18 (I believe, it may be 16, I’ll have to check later).  Smokers always bitch about the price of cigarettes, the continued ban on smoking in certain areas and so on.  But here’s a news flash!  You don’t have the right to smoke!  Not at all!  It’s a privilege.  Here’s the difference between a right and a privilege.  A right is something that every human being needs.  Food, clothing, HEALTH CARE, an education and housing.  A privilege is having the little luxuries.  Eating at a restaurant, going to a movie, buying books (why buying, because you should be able to afford a damn library card), living in a poshe apartment, or owning a sports car.  AND SMOKING!  Smoking is not a right.  You do not have a right to smoke.

But everyone has a right to breathe.

Reblogged this from my Wordpress blog because it’s kinda important.

The world’s most northern mosque has arrived by barge in Inuvik, N.W.T., giving Muslims in the Arctic town a proper place of worship.

A Northern Transportation Company Ltd. barge arrived in Inuvik late Wednesday afternoon, carrying the prefabricated 1,554-square-foot beige building that will soon be a mosque and community centre for a growing Muslim population in the Arctic hamlet of 3,200 people.

Facing an early snow, a crowd of about 40 Muslims greeted their long-awaited mosque at the NTCL shipyard. There were prayers, group photos, hugs and applause.

“It’s a beautiful building. Everyone’s happy to have this small little home for meeting and for prayer, and for the children to be playing in,” resident Amir Suliman told CBC News when the mosque arrived.

The arrival caps an incredible 4,000-kilometre road and river journey from Manitoba, where the mosque was built, through two provinces and the Northwest Territories, down the Mackenzie River to the community just north of the Arctic Circle.

The Zubaidah Tallab Foundation, a Manitoba-based Islamic charity, raised the money to build and ship the structure to Inuvik to help the Islamic community there.

Read more: http://www.cbc.ca/canada/north/story/2010/09/23/north-mosque-inuvik-arrives.html?ref=rss#ixzz10NHeSNit

Amidst the crap about the “Ground Zero Mosque” it’s nice to see at least one place of worship gets a happy conclusion to a long journey.

More on the government of STFU from First People, as they expand on the problem the Harper government has with actually detailing or engaging in conversation.  Instead, they just react by telling people to STFU.