For juvenile stupidity and classic Incipiat Turba nonsense, stick with Incipiat Turba.

For my computer nerd related comments, go to the new domain: ComputerMisuse.net

The most interesting thing in this election is the collection of bogus Green Party candidates on the ballot.  I heard about this when the primaries happened, but I didn’t pay as much attention to the details.  It’s amazing how fake they really are.

In this article: http://www.azcentral.com/arizonarepublic/news/articles/2010/10/05/20101005arizona-green-party-candidate-larry-gist.html you have Larry Gist refusing to answer any questions about his values.  The Green Party’s positions are clear, how hard is it to go on record as agreeing with them if you are in fact, a Green?  You could try to reach these candidates, but all you’ll get is a Starbucks: http://www.azcentral.com/news/election/azelections/articles/2010/10/03/20101003arizona-green-party-candidate-starbucks.html

The fun part is reading the candidate statements.  The entry for Theodore Gomez (Photo NOT submitted) says this:

“I was recruited to come to Arizona from Michigan by Collins College in Tempe.  The promised me that if I got myself to the school they would arrange for student loans and a job.  A friend and I loaded everything we owned into a car and drove across the country.  When we arrived the admissions counselor at Collins College enrolled us and signed us up for tens of thousands for dollars in student loans–but no job.  So now we are homeless and live on Mill Avenue.  It’s hard to study when you have no place to sleep, so we dropped out of school but Collins College won’t refund our money.  We aren’t the only students who have been scammed by Collins College.  They lure young people here with promises of a better life and then pile us up with debt that we can never pay and throw us out on to the streets where we resort to asking strangers for change.  If elected I will demand that private colleges be regulated so they can’t hurt kids any more.  Thanks Steve May for helping us out.”

That’s the case he’s making to be elected for public office.  Those are his qualifications and views on the issues.  Also, Steve May (thanked by the candidate above) is a Republican drunk driving enthusiast, so if he’s supporting a random collection of “Greens,” that’s a little shady.  He did ask them if they are fake and they said “No,” so maybe I’m being too cynical.

On the gay marriage debate, I don’t see any reasonable case for restricting the rights of other people.  I don’t accept a possibility of being wrong in this case.  There’s treating people fairly and then there’s blatant discrimination.  That’s it.  Fairness == good.  Discrimination == bad.  Consenting adults of any gender, sex, race, creed, fan club, ethnicity or what have you should have the same options for entering into a partnership.  There’s another argument about the name of this partnership and whether the government should have anything to do with it at all, but that’s separate and distracting.  Marriage is a convenient term for it, so that’s what we go by.  Those who claim that they are “protecting marriage” or supporting “traditional marriage” work with fictional concepts regarding what they think marriage should be.  The history of marriage contains many more issues than the modern “traditional” view cares to account for which really defeats the whole “traditional” concept right from the start.

The other list of reasons to legislate inequality include:

- Gay relationships are unproductive, they can’t have kids. So?  Plenty of straight couples don’t have kids.  Not allowing them equal rights is not going to make them quit being gay and begin procreating.  Besides, there are plenty of kids who need to be adopted…

- The children!  What about the children!? Children of gay parents are not worse off than the children of straight parents.  Delusional religious people would have you convinced that this is true, but they have no evidence for this.  In fact, a recent study showed that kids with two mommies were actually more well adjusted than kids from the “sacred” or “traditional” families.  Gay parents won’t make kids gay either, straight parents make the gay kids, see the previous argument.

- God said it’s bad. Really any other arguments are desperate grabs to cover up for this one.  Even though they argue (falsely) that America is a Christian nation, and was founded as such, many understand that this doesn’t constitute a rational argument.  Plenty of other sins are legal and will not see any significant legal strife.  Businesses are open on Sundays, straight people can get divorced, gambling is legal and of course the United States already attempted and failed to ban booze.  Since “God said it’s bad” doesn’t work for those, it won’t work here either.

- It’s yucky and gross! Any doubts they have about God are covered by this.  You know what’s yucky and gross?  Church.  Church : Freaky Metal Kid :: Gay Bar : Protect Marriage Assholes.  I don’t wanna be in church, so I don’t go.  I don’t like religious people telling me their ghost stories, so I don’t hang out with them.  If you don’t want to make out with another dude, don’t do it.  If you don’t like hot girl on girl action, stay off the internet.

I’m tired from work and losing my train of thought, so I’ll end with: don’t be a dick to people just because they’re different from you.  If you don’t like them, leave them alone to do their thing and you can go do yours and we’ll all be happy.  It’s not that fucking complicated.