Going to hell, be back later

...and here's their press release.

Tyra Banks VS. Westboro Baptist

...there are hundreds of YouTube videos on these crazy radicals but here's just one example.

I can't believe they're coming to our campus with their hatred and their bigotry and their lies. But one thing's for sure--we're not going to let them show up and not get a big helping of OWU love.

godhatesfags.com

...well, I'm sure everyone has heard, but Westboro Baptist Church is coming to campus next week to protest our showing of "The Anatomy of Hate." They're the folks from godhatesfags.com

This is from the schedule.

"Ohio Wesleyan College 43 Rowland Avenue WBC to picket the screening of "The Anatomy of Hate" to give those attending an opportunity to hear some truth for the first time in their lives. Today's youth have been raised on a steady diet of "God loves everyone" and "it is okay to be gay" -- both loud lies from the pit of hell. The Anti-Christ Obama is on the scene now with his hatred of all men, teaching them these same lies, as well as promoting the slaughter of millions of unborn babies. He will bring this nation and world's full destruction very soon. God's perfect attribute called "hate" is the topic of this film. God's hate is not a human emotion, as God is not a human. God's hate is His determination to send the unrepentant sinner to hell. That needs to be preached! There is no forgiveness without repentance! God does not love all willy-nilly. He loves His own -- those who keep His commandments. De 7:9 - "Know therefore that the LORD thy God, he is God, the faithful God, which keepeth covenant and mercy with them that love him and keep his commandments to a thousand generations". 1Jo 5:3 - "For this is the love of God, that we keep his commandments: and his commandments are not grievous." You do not know His commandments and you do not keep them -- that is why God Hates You! That is the anatomy of God's hate."

Despite how upset I am and how tempting it is to be a militant homosexual, it's important to realize that the goal of their hate is to make us act out and be violent. We cannot do that at any cost. We need to fight their hatred and their foundationless anger with quiet protests and our own creative ways of fighting back peacefully.

I hope the OWtsiders make up songs to rival theirs.

...but if they bring guns I want to be the first one to be shot.

HELL NO YOU CAN'T!!

John Boehner, you silly man.

Teabaggin'

See more at the Dispatch's website.

Our friends the at the Tea Party need to drink some chamomile.

THINGS OUR GOVERNMENT CONTROLS THAT ARE GOOD FOR US

...a list for everyone complaining about health care and the fact that the government controls our entire life.

Our food.
Have you ever read Upton Sinclair's The Jungle? If not, go read it. Without regulation of food packaging and distribution, we might have rats and body parts and dirt in our meat. Think of that next time you bite into a juicy sausage.

Medicine.
This reminds me of the movie/musical Sweeney Todd when a man is claiming to sell a "miracle elixir" to grow hair back. I think it was actually made of pee. Thanks again to government regulation, we don't have phony doctors selling us miracle potions on the street corners...well, for the most part. I still have my doubts about Nutrasystem.

Trust busting.
Hearkening again back to the 1900s, where progressives pushed for government control of big businesses in monopolies. I think it was called "trust busting."

Halliburton anyone?

Toxins in our water and in kids' toys.
Enough said. Thanks to John Stewart for making this point in a poignant and hilarious way.

Childrens' education and, essentially, the future of this country.
No Child Left Behind Act ring a bell?

Pollution.
Call it environmentalism, conservationism, communism...whatever its name, saving the earth has actually been important since the last century's progressives took hold of it. I kind of agree.

Your civil rights.
Sure, if you're a white straight middle-class male, you may not care. But it was governmental laws that made it possible for women and blacks to be treated less like dirt and more like people. Hopefully we'll get there soon with gay rights.

Drugs.
Wait, cocaine is illegal?

Does Mexico know?

Child Labor.
...though sometimes I think the fat little punks in this nation need it.

Health care! ...now can I get married?

All right, so we've got our health care. Passed by 7 votes even though not a single Republican voted for it. I don't know what that says about it or about Republicans, but regardless this is historic.

I also don't really know what it means, so I looked it up on one of the forums I frequent (and moderate), and luckily someone had a topic on it... as of November 2009, these were the basics.

Summary: The summary of the bill includes the following elements, among others:

1. Establishes a mandate to purchase private insurance for most individuals with an income above poverty level.
2. Creates a mechanism to enforce the mandate in a sliding scale tax on those who do not purchase health insurance for most legal United States residents with an income above poverty level.
3. Prohibits pre-existing condition exclusions.
4. Requires adjusted community rating, guaranteed issue, and guaranteed renewal of individual and small group health insurance that: limits age rating variation of premiums to 2:1 (200 percent), prohibits gender and health status rating variation of premiums, allows variation of premiums by geographic area and family (vs. individual) enrollment.
5. Prohibits cancellation of coverage except for evidence of fraud.
6. Limits annual out-of-pocket expenses to $5,000 for an individual and $10,000 for a family.
7. Requires Health and Human Services to create a non-subsidized public health insurance plan with pricing based on private industry averages. Three optional levels of coverage are to be offered by the plan which must set premiums at a level sufficient to fully finance the costs of the health benefits the administrative costs related to operating the plan.
8. Establishes a Health Insurance Exchange (HIE) within a proposed Health Choices Administration, to provide a market place for insurers to sell qualifying plans on a public web site.
9. Requires the creation of a risk equalization pool that will allow qualifying plans to minimize the impact of adverse selection of enrollees among the plans.[9]
10. Provides a tax credit for low-income individuals and families to help pay insurance premiums.
11. Requires employers with payroll costs over $500,000 to provide health insurance that meets the minimum standard of coverage allowed in the HIE.
12. Provides for a tax on employers that do not provide the required health insurance.
13. Provides for a tax on couples with adjusted joint gross income exceeding $350,000 (80% of this figure for single people)
14. Reduces Medicare payments to hospitals with excessive re-admissions.
15. Further expands Medicaid eligibility and scope of covered preventive services, for lower-income individuals and families.
16. Increases Medicaid payments to physicians for primary care.
17. Provides for a phased-in elimination of the Medicare Part D coverage gap and requires drug manufactures to discount and/or rebate additional qualifying drugs originally excluded from the plan.
18. Requires the Secretary of Health and Human Services (HHS) to develop quality measures for the delivery of health care services in the United States.
19. Establishes the Health Benefits Advisory Committee chaired by the Surgeon General of the United States.
20. Prioritizes any eventual implementation of best practices in the delivery of health care.
21. Establishes a National Prevention and Wellness Strategy along with appropriations for its trust fund.
22. Outlines Administrative standards that reduces costs and improves service, including the ability for Administrators to determine an accurate total financial estimate at the point of service as well as enabling real time electronic transfer of funds to take place if possible (mirrors currently existing laws)

Ways of funding is currently being debated.

It may be too much to ask, but...can I get married now?

Stewart vs. Beck

Am I the only one who cringes every time they see Glenn Beck on the televisions in HamWill during dinner?

No?

Then check out John Stewart's parody of the FOX News commentator--guaranteed you'll get a laugh out of it.

Hope everyone's weekends are going well so far. :)

This week's editorial cartoon

is FABULOUS! As is this week's featured celebrity. :) I hope everyone had a good and safe night. Please don't end up on TFLN...

The new issue is up at www.owutranscript.com! But in case you just can't wait for the editorial cartoon...



I wonder who that could be?

Good night all. Get home safe!

RJ

Green beer and three-legged cats

I almost rolled out to class today in my green plaid pajama pants but decided that would be too overboard, even for St. Patrick's Day. But I was wrong! There was plenty of Irish pride out there on campus. Even the food had an Irish accent--corned beef, fish, sauerkraut...I, of course, wanted none of those treats in my mostly Italian mouth, so I opted for the egg salad.

As tempting as it was to go to Clancey's with my roommate and the rest of the world, I'm locked down in my dorm room trying to do everything I didn't get done while in NYC. Kind of a shame. I've got Dropkick Murphys on; does that count for partying like the Irish?? I didn't see any pots of gold today, either, or any rainbows...overall, a disappointing day. But the Lucky Charms treats at the bakery looked delicious!

On a more tangential note, I met the cat who lives in WoHo today. You know, the fluffy one with three legs? ADORABLE. I suppose he was out enjoying the sunshine with the rest of the creatures on campus who decided to surface today. It's good to see people outside enjoying the weather for a change instead of power walking to the nearest building to thaw their extremities. Let's hope it stays, eh?

RJ

Here comes the vomit

Live from the Internet, it's WORD VOMIT!

Your favorite chunks of verbal upchucking are now splattering all over the Internet. Apart from my weekly column in the Ohio Wesleyan Transcript, I've decided to start blogging on a regular basis about OWU life and whatever else comes to mind. We'll see what we can come up with, eh?

I'm currently in La Guardia airport with editor in chief Katie Tuttle, news editor Kate Miller, arts and entertainment editor Diane Bizzarro and former A&E editor Brad Russell. We just wrapped up three days in New York City for the spring college media conference! No one was raped, murdered or pickpocketed but we did meet some pretentious journalists, a possible radical liberal feminist terrorist and a whole host of other characters in the Big Apple. We're eager to apply some new changes to the paper as the semester goes on. :)

For some of my other hot juicy meaty opinions visit my LGBT issues-related blog at outandoutraged.blogspot.com.

SO FETCH!

RJ