Day: January 15, 2007

WingNut Daily Columnist: Soy Causes Homosexuality and Small Penises

Jon Ponder

Listen up, men. WorldNetDaily columnist Jim Rutz has a warning for you: If you consume soybean products such as tofu or soy milk, you will become gay and, worse, your penis will get smaller:

Rutz says homosexuality is a choice — and yet it is still caused by consuming soy products. Doh! I can’t win.

Soy is feminizing, and commonly leads to a decrease in the size of the penis, sexual confusion and homosexuality. That’s why most of the medical (not socio-spiritual) blame for today’s rise in homosexuality must fall upon the rise in soy formula and other soy products. (Most babies are bottle-fed during some part of their infancy, and one-fourth of them are getting soy milk!) Homosexuals often argue that their homosexuality is inborn because “I can’t remember a time when I wasn’t homosexual.” No, homosexuality is always deviant. But now many of them can truthfully say that they can’t remember a time when excess estrogen wasn’t influencing them.

Of course, none of this is even remotely true:

While it is true that soy products contain estrogen, there is nothing to support that it causes homosexuality or “feminizing” of men who eat them.

Rutz notably fails to quote from a medical source to support his argument, merely referring to generalizations that he spins to his own ends. In searching for any medical reasons for his arguments, I found the opposite.

The official stance of the American Psychological Society [APS] is that there is no defineable single cause for homosexuality, and that it is likely a combination of biological, genetic, and environmental factors….

[The] APS states that there is no evidence for a rise in homosexuality. Rather, there is a rise in people willing to admit they are homosexual.

Talk about having it both ways. Rutz says homosexuality is a choice — and yet it is still caused by consuming soy products. Doh! I can’t win.

Even funnier is the idea that research exists on human males that correlates soy intake with genital size.

If King Were Alive Today, He’d Likely Protest Bush Policies

Trish

Celebrating amazing courage in the face of fear is what today is supposed to be all about. And when you realize what the followers of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. went through, you feel kind of puny for not doing more to protest our presence in Iraq. Or at least I do.

King and the civil rights activists stuck to their pledge to wage a nonviolent fight for desegregation. But it’s a good thing improvised explosive devices weren’t around back then because people on the other team probably would have used them.

According to my hometown paper, you can’t throw a rock here in St. Augustine, Florida without hitting a site where someone, um, threw a rock during the civil rights struggle. A short list, with me substituting descriptions for the actual addresses, since you probably don’t need those:

The black dentist was beaten by the Ku Klux Klan, and his home was shot up, narrowly missing his pregnant wife and killing the family dog

A “safe house” at the beach: In the summer of 1964, King was moved to this house from [town], because of the fear for his life. Ironically, this house was then shot up and firebombed. King was not there at the time but returned later, and a famous photo (above) shows him pointing to the bullet holes.

House in the north part of town, near me: Nothing is there today but the brick steps. The house was destroyed by fire, believed to be arson, after the…family who lived there sent their sons to integrate previously all-white Fullerwood School. The investigation of this fire was so significant that it is included in the 700 pages of King’s Florida FBI file, now at the University of Florida Smathers Library.

Old Woolworth & Co. downtown: Just weeks after the first lunch counter sit-in in Greensboro, N.C., in 1960, Florida Memorial College students [a teaching college in St. Augustine for black future instructors] conducted a three-day sit-in at the Woolworth’s on King Street…[Another sit-in] in June 1963, resulted in the teenagers known as the St. Augustine Four spending six months in jail and reform school. They were finally released by the action of the governor and cabinet in January 1964.

A house in West Augustine: The home of Dr. Robert B. Hayling, a [black] dentist who was the best-known leader of the St. Augustine efforts. He was beaten by the Ku Klux Klan, and his home was shot up, narrowly missing his pregnant wife and killing the family dog. He later moved to Fort Lauderdale, but in 2003 he came back with his family for ceremonies re-naming the street in his honor.

On Saturday, King’s former secretary, Dora McDonald, died from cancer in Atlanta.

An Associated Press story Sunday said King entrusted his family to McDonald’s care when he was in jail or traveling, and it was McDonald who told Coretta Scott King that her husband had been assassinated on April 4, 1968, in Memphis, Tenn.

In a 1989 interview with the Atlanta Journal-Constitution, McDonald described her role as King’s secretary at Ebenezer Baptist Church and later at the Southern Christian Leadership Conference as “a 24-hour-a-day, seven-day-a-week job.”

McDonald never married or had children, and has no immediate survivors.

McDonald was working on a book about her life called, “Sharing the Dream: Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. and Me.”

Are Hangings and Accidental Beheading a Cover-Up?

Trish

Can this get any worse?

The official video of the hangings showed Hussein’s half-brother lying headless below the gallows, his severed head several yards away

Iraq hanged two of Saddam Hussein’s aides early Monday, and one of the men was decapitated in the process.

The official video of the hangings showed Hussein’s half-brother lying headless below the gallows, his severed head several yards away, The Associated Press reported.

Good Lord.

The new barbarities come as people continue to question the timing of Saddam’s recent hanging, which took place after he was found guilty of a charge that paled in comparison to the biggie — gassing thousands of Kurds. Some observers, such as Ghada Karmi in The Guardian, wonder if the Bush administration wanted to see Saddam die before American support for Iraq’s 1980 — 1988 war on Iran, which took place while Junior’s dad was vice president, could be explored.

But it was also essential to stop him revealing secrets about the west’s past enthusiasm in supporting and arming his regime. Hence he was tried on the relatively minor charge of killing 148 people in the village of Dujail, after a plot to assassinate him. Far better to put him away safely for that rather than risk his exposing western hypocrisy, treachery and double-dealing.

Bush on Saddam’s Execution: ‘I Didn’t Watch the Whole Thing’

Jon Ponder
Sneering at the pleas for clemency from a woman he is about to have executed, George W. Bush whimpers, his lips pursed in mock desperation, “Please — don’t kill me.”

The only unqualified success in Pres. Bush’s misadventure in Iraq is the capture, trial and execution of Saddam Hussein. So it’s odd that he told “60 Minutes” that he couldn’t stomach watching Saddam die:

He said he was discouraged by the handling of Saddam Hussein’s execution, which he saw on an Internet video but stopped watching before the trap door opened under the former Iraqi leader. “I didn’t want to watch the whole thing,” Bush said.

What happened to the macho governor of Texas who, in a 1999 interview with rightwing writer Tucker Carlson, sneered at the clemency plea of Karla Faye Tucker, a convicted murderer whom he had approved for execution:

In the weeks before the execution, Bush says, a number of protesters came to Austin to demand clemency for Karla Faye Tucker. “Did you meet with any of them?” I ask. Bush whips around and stares at me. “No, I didn’t meet with any of them,” he snaps, as though I’ve just asked the dumbest, most offensive question ever posed. “I didn’t meet with Larry King either when he came down for it. I watched his interview with Tucker, though. He asked her real difficult questions like, ‘What would you say to Governor Bush?'” “What was her answer?” I wonder. “‘Please,'” Bush whimpers, his lips pursed in mock desperation, “‘don’t kill me.'” I must look shocked — ridiculing the pleas of a condemned prisoner who has since been executed seems odd and cruel — because he immediately stops smirking.

So George W. Bush has the courage to put a woman to death — and to mock her while he is at it — but is too cowardly to watch a video of the death of a man he toppled a nation to apprehend.