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Okay, so if this is something you can do, if this sort of thing is actually politically viable, how’s about Obama openly campaign on a constitutional amendment mandating that gay marriages be legal nationwide?
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Mitt Romney to openly campaign on constitutional amendment against gay marriage
May 12th, 2012 
Jason Thibeault 
Posted in Gender, Marriage, Politics, Privilege, Religion 
Tags: Barack Obama, bigotry, election 2012, gay marriage, marriage, Mitt Romney, politics, religion, Republicans 
14 Comments »Why my initial thoughts on the Obama gay marriage announcement are wrong
May 10th, 2012 Jason Thibeault Yesterday, Barack Obama declared that his position on gay marriage has evolved, and where once he thought civil unions were sufficient, he’s decided, rightly, that they are not, and has made possibly the clearest and most supportive statement on the matter that any president has ever made. Critics have contended that civil unions are another [...]
Posted in Gender, Marriage, Politics, Privilege, Religion Tags: bigotry, cynicism, gay marriage, gay rights, human rights, marriage, Obama, politics, privilege, religion 202 Comments »The uniform groupthink of The Freethought Borg
May 4th, 2012 Jason Thibeault Look! Look at how identical our opinions are on everything! This latest spate of opinionation on the SCA’s new hire pretty much proves that we’re all cookie-cutter and identical around these parts. Stephanie: When I say interesting, I mean in the sense that I’m highly ambivalent about it. On the one, obvious hand, Rogers is [...]
US puts Canada on piracy watch list yet again!
May 4th, 2012 Jason Thibeault Remember how, last time around, Conservative Industry Minister Tony Clement convinced the US to put Canada on a piracy watch list despite us being in last place on a list of 46 countries? Given the circumstances of that particular attempt at sabotaging our country’s standings so baselessly, can you understand why I might be skeptical [...]
Posted in Canada, Copyright, Politics Tags: Canada, Conservatives, CopyFight, copyright, Harper, politics, privacy, SOPA, Tony Clement 9 Comments »Canada’s bill C-31 would make us an isolationist country
April 27th, 2012 Jason Thibeault Seems times are tough all over. The US just passed in the House a bill that effectively repeals the 4th Amendment, and as usual any time some really terrible bit of freedom-abrogating law is passed in the States, people are talking about moving to Canada. However, I’m really hoping they’re just joking, because they’re going [...]
Posted in Canada, Politics Tags: C-31, Canada, Conservatives, Harper government, politics, racism, refugees, Vic Toews 6 Comments »S E Cupp is wrong about so many things… this time, equality
April 24th, 2012 Jason Thibeault You folks might remember S. E. Cupp as FOX News’ token atheist, who claims to be godless but “doesn’t hate God”. You might remember her as Sarah Cupp, who I’m guessing doesn’t like to be called Sarah because she bears more than a passing resemblance to Sarah Palin both in politics and in appearance. Now, [...]
Posted in Gender, Politics, Privilege Tags: equality, feminism, gender, politics, prostitution, rape, S E Cupp, scandal, Secret Service, sexism 27 Comments »CISPA marches onward with precious little fanfare or opposition
April 23rd, 2012 Jason Thibeault What happens when the government wants to fire a salvo in the copyright war that will, as a function of its broadside, accidentally break the foundation of the internet? Everyone gets upset, from the common folk to the mass media — because, see, everyone uses the internet. Thus, SOPA and PIPA died. What happens when [...]
Posted in Computers, Copyright, Politics Tags: Big Brother, cispa, computers, cyber security, internet, internet spying, PIPA, politics, Republicans, SOPA, warrantless wiretapping 5 Comments »Stop CISPA. NOW. It goes to vote MONDAY.
April 20th, 2012 Jason Thibeault Here’s an infographic that explains succinctly why this matters. Facebook supports this bill, and has evidently been stripping links to information about CISPA from people’s messages. Total internet surveillance, without legal recourse. Facebook and other big tech companies are supporting giving information to the government without warrants, so that when they cooperate with the government [...]
Posted in Computers, Politics Tags: cispa, computers, internet, PIPA, politics, SOPA, warrantless wiretapping 8 Comments »SCOC ruling: Harper’s warrantless internet wiretapping unconstitutional
April 13th, 2012 Jason Thibeault Via Ottawa Citizen: The Supreme Court of Canada’s landmark ruling that emergency wiretapping without a warrant is unconstitutional — which could pave the way for a new federal law that better safeguards privacy rights — is being used by critics to revive their attacks on the Harper government’s controversial Internet surveillance bill. “It’s a huge [...]
Posted in Canada, Computers, Politics Tags: Canada, Conservatives, governmental spying, internet, politics, privacy, Stephen Harper, surveillance state, warrantless wiretapping 7 Comments »Rush Limbaugh, the racist prop comic, sans funny
April 8th, 2012 Jason Thibeault “Oh, what’s he done this time?” you ask, with a mix of impatience and exasperation.
Posted in Politics, Privilege Tags: Barack Obama, Oreo cookie, politics, privilege, racism, Republicans, Rush Limbaugh, Triple Double 9 Comments »
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