Hawking the Scene

Canada Responds to Hockey Loss to America

 

Touche.

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Happy Valentine's Day

This gave me a case of the giggles.

 

Fella Gaga's Parody of Poker Face: "Social State"

Amusing parody of Lady Gaga's Poke Face by "Fella Gaga."  I especially love his back-up hillbillies, er, teabaggers and the gun-toting Palin.

"Obama-ma"

"Can't change my, cant change my country into a social state.  S-s-s-social state s-s-social state."

"Screw your health care, killin' gramma's not fair."

The sad and very scary realization of this parody is that it's not far off from reality.  Click here to witness the stylized musics of Glenn Beck and Sean Hannity fall out of the "intelligent" mouths of their loyal and obedient sheep at Sarah Palin's recent speaking engagement.  

Gay Remake of Google's Superbowl Ad

This heartbreaking remake of Google's Superbowl ad, titled Parisian Love Too, highlights the immigration inequality that's partnered with marriage inequality.

Protect Insurance Companies PSA

This PSA by Funny or Die is great and rings true on so many levels.  Will Ferrell, Jon Hamm, Olivia Wilde and other celebrities come together to "protect" insurance company profits from the evils of health care reform.

"So why is Obama trying to reform health care when insurance companies are doing just fine making billions of dollars in profit?"

"Health Insurance agencies are huge.  They need to make big profits so they can afford to give their employees health insurance.  Believe me, that stuff's not cheap!"

Hahaha.

I Am An American Conservative Shithead

I pulled this from America blog.  Apparently it's making its way around the Internet.  It's a great, eye-opening read.  Author still unknown:

This morning I was awoken by my alarm clock powered by electricity generated by the public power monopoly regulated by the U.S. Department of Energy.

I then took a shower in the clean water provided by a municipal water utility.

After that, I turned on the TV to one of the FCC-regulated channels to see what the National Weather Service of the National Oceanographic and Atmospheric Administration determined the weather was going to be like, using satellites designed, built, and launched by the National Aeronautics and Space Administration.

I watched this while eating my breakfast of U.S. Department of Agriculture-inspected food and taking the drugs which have been determined as safe by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration.

At the appropriate time, as regulated by the U.S. Congress and kept accurate by the National Institute of Standards and Technology and the U.S. Naval Observatory, I get into my National Highway Traffic Safety Administration-approved automobile and set out to work on the roads build by the local, state, and federal Departments of Transportation, possibly stopping to purchase additional fuel of a quality level determined by the Environmental Protection Agency, using legal tender issued by the Federal Reserve Bank.

On the way out the door I deposit any mail I have to be sent out via the U.S. Postal Service and drop the kids off at the public school.

After spending another day not being maimed or killed at work thanks to the workplace regulations imposed by the Department of Labor and the Occupational Safety and Health administration, enjoying another two meals which again do not kill me because of the USDA, I drive my NHTSA car back home on the DOT roads, to my house which has not burned down in my absence because of the state and local building codes and Fire Marshal's inspection, and which has not been plundered of all its valuables thanks to the local police department.

And then I log on to the internet -- which was developed by the Defense Advanced Research Projects Administration -- and post on Freerepublic.com and Fox News forums about how SOCIALISM in medicine is BAD because the government can't do anything right.

Palin’s Resignation: The Edited Version

It's no secret that I love grammar and I'm certainly not a stranger to editing in neither my vocational nor personal life, so you can imagine how excited I was to find this amazing piece by Vanity Fair.  Too bad Sarah Palin can't see grammar from her house - that gosh darn, gotcha media elite will get you every time!

If you watched Sarah Palin’s resignation speech, you know one thing: her high-priced speechwriters moved back to the Beltway long ago. Just how poorly constructed was the governor’s holiday-weekend address? We asked V.F.’s red-pencil-wielding executive literary editor, , together with representatives from the  and  departments, to whip it into publishable shape. Here is the colorful result.

Sex With Ducks

Riki "Garfunkel" Lindhome and Kate "Oates" Micucci respond to Pat Robertson's quote with a quirky video about sex with ducks.  Robertson previosuly said that if the Matthew Shephard Act passed, sex with ducks would be legal.

"Cuz if gay marriage becomes lawful I'm going to find myself a duck and legally do something awful."

HA.

The Defenders

Piggy-backing on my last post, The Defenders is a video about voting to dissolve all marriages that aren't "traditional marriages"

Married before?  Christians/Jew wedding?  Interracial?  

We're just going to have to break you up.

"Motion Carries"

Rise of the Apathetic Gay Community

Today, the Illinois legislature was slated to vote on the Civil Union Bill, which would grant same sex couples in Illinois the same legal recognition and many of the benefits that straight married couples currently benefit from.  Because of this landmark bill, an email and facebook blast was sent out to gay Illinoisans and their supportive friends and family encouraging them to contact their local State Representative.  Using the provided script, I took 45 seconds out of my life and called my Representative and asked her to support the bill.

Though many of my straight friends jumped at the opportunity to support the bill, I was saddened to find not only the lack of knowledge, but the amount of apathy in the gay community over what is tantamount to the beginning of a civil rights movement in our state.  After the Proposition 8 debacle, I thought eyes would be widened, answers would be demanded and anger would be inflamed.  Civil rights are being denied and these rights extend beyond the right to marry to the right to employment non-discrimination, the right to hate crime protections, the right to fight for our country and the right to feel like an equal citizen.

All too often, many in the gay community demand equal rights, yet few of them are willing to do the work.  Equally frustrating are those who complain about their lack of rights but refuse to do anything about it, including vote.  Asking for their participation at a rally to show solidarity for their community for two hours or to spend a minute making a phone call to their government is hardly much to ask for something as important as basic rights afforded by the Constitution. 

Don’t just get angry.  Don’t just complain.  Do something about it.