3rd and Final Official BAT Post or...

What's in your Playlist???

Okay, so I'm late. Fuck that!! In Thorne's world, today's not over until I wake up tomorrow. Thank you for an incredible ride, BlueGal, Neural Gourmet, Talk2Action and Mock, Paper, Scissors!

Wow!!! BlueGal you are amazing!!! I wanna do a shout out to First Freedom First. THANK YOU!!!!

Oh, ow. Man, I'm wiped out. A little tense. I think it's time for some....tunes. Ahhh... (dammit, where's the lube?) music. Yeahhhh.... Hmmmm... That's better. Tonite's playlist has got to be the blues. Stevie ray Vaughn, Candye Kane, Johnny Lang and ahhhh Eric Clapton, Thass right. A lil slooooow haaaand...

Hmmm. Where was I?! Right! Blogswarm. So I started my day with this:
Universal Declaration of Human Rights
Adopted and proclaimed by General Assembly resolution 217 A (III) of 10 December 1948

On December 10, 1948 the General Assembly of the United Nations adopted and proclaimed the Universal Declaration of Human Rights the full text of which appears in the following pages. Following this historic act the Assembly called upon all Member countries to publicize the text of the Declaration and "to cause it to be disseminated, displayed, read and expounded principally in schools and other educational institutions, without distinction based on the political status of countries or territories."


Article 16.

(1) Men and women of full age, without any limitation due to race, nationality or religion, have the right to marry and to found a family. They are entitled to equal rights as to marriage, during marriage and at its dissolution.

(2) Marriage shall be entered into only with the free and full consent of the intending spouses.

(3) The family is the natural and fundamental group unit of society and is entitled
to protection by society and the State.


Where the fuck does it say anything about the gender of these people?? NOWHERE!!!! Even "spouses" refers to them without use of a gender specific pronoun. Nor is there a definition of what constitutes a "family"

In a true DECLARATION OF HUMAN RIGHTS these terms would be left intentionally undefined, to leave room for growth, change!! This document was created to protect ALL OF US!!! We could do lots worse than adopting a declaration such as this for our own. Uh... wait a minute. We already are doing far worse than this...uh; ummm - you know what I mean
*pant, pant, pant* Oh, my. This shit wears me out.

Ahhh. No, really. That panting was from getting all worked up - I mean pissed off- earlier. (It had nothing to do with my newest iPod accessory. Cross... my... heart).

Then I found this sorrowful and succinct summary of the State of The Union entitled This could have been a beautiful place.

I found This article which was not directly part of BAT, but was cited in this excellent submission by No More Mr Nice Guy The first article is a permanent bookmark in my references file.

I was kinda wondering on n off throughout the weekend if this apparent surge of RRF Dominism is like the whole sky is falling, Y2K, End of a Millenium panic that comes 'round in reasonably predictable cycles. I was happy to get a whole shitload of history about this from Jeff Sharlet in Harpers, who tells us that: We don’t like to consider the possibility that they are not newcomers to power but returnees, that the revivals that have been sweeping America with generational regularity since its inception are not flare-ups but the natural temperature of the nation.
Not to minimize the threat in the least; a well researched article worthy of serious consideration.


Then I wandered rapturously through the blogswarm pausing to play with Balls and...Walnuts!!!
My comment:
This was a great article, but the comments and your continued interaction with them really made it for me. I especially love your anonymous friend's rant. Although I've never been (even by the furthest stretch of the imagination) a christian, I have to admit that the whole idea of the rapture and Armageddon has always appealed to me in a perverted sort of way. I dunno... maybe I read too much survivor type science fiction as a kid. Ray Bradbury, Robert Heinlein. I always kinda wished those rapturous freaks would disappear, body and all (so we "left behind"-ers wouldn't have to deal with the bodies and general clean up.) One particularly vehement rapture-ist once informed me that I specifically, would be in the direct employ of satan in the endtimes. As a tattoo artist, I would be in high demand to mark everyone with the number of the beast. Ha-ha. Now, that's what I call job security!!! Really, though... all seriousness aside. I think it might be kinda cool to rebuild without all those religious zealots. Who knows what we might achieve in the aftermath of a global abortion. I think Big Mama (aka Mother earth) is getting pretty tired of this crap, anyway. I mean; check out the bees.

After a bout of coitus interruptus, caused by an insane video game for good christian kids that made me eat my words about wanting to live in a post-apocalyptic world and almost blew my whole sexy innuendo thing I got goin' here...

(Thank god[dess] for science. I mean, who woulda thunk there could be so many cool accessories for an iPod??)

Anyway I went from Balls to RamboJesus. Oh my!! Now this is a Jesus I could go for... (oops! there's that damn lesbian "dick tooth" [in the immortal words of Margaret Cho], again) Stopped by the Chocolate Jesus because a "dick tooth" is one thing, but a "sweet dick" tooth??!! Mmmm. (Melts in your mouth, etcetera and so on.

Ohhhhh.... Mmmmmmm.... Ahhhhhhh....

and finally ended up at Cycle A man shaped by religious neglect of his poor lonely penis who hilariously brings us Jesus Boobies! ( Boobsalot, boobsalot, I like boobsalot... It's true (oh, it's true) I'm with you, Cycle!!

Oh!! Uh - huh. Ungggghhh. There. Whew. Mmmm hmmmmm.... *sigh*
Much better. I think I can go to sleep now.

Oh, yeah. Here's a small sample of my playlist.

Aerosmith
Alanis
Big & Rich
Bread
Bruddah Waltah
Candye Kane
Clint Black
Dave Matthews
Dixie Chicks
Elton John
Eric Clapton
Evanescence
Fiona Apple
Flyleaf
Grand Funk
Hoobastank
Indigo Girls
Joe Cocker
Johnny Lang
Kitaro
KD Lang
KT Tunstall
Limp Bizkit
Little Feat
Marilyn Manson
Melissa Etheridge
Molly Hatchet
Mozart
Natalie Merchant
Nickelback
Pavarotti
REM
Social Distortion
Stevie Ray Vaughn
Toni Childs
Van Morrison
Vivaldi


Tell ya what. Don't fuck with my music, and I won't fuck with yours. Amen, hallelujah.
Peace out.