A controversial proposed bill to prohibit gays, lesbians and single people from using medical procedures to produce a child has been dropped by its legislative sponsor.

State Sen. Patricia Miller, R-Indianapolis, issued a one-sentence statement Wednesday saying: “The issue has become more complex than anticipated and will be withdrawn from consideration by the Health Finance Commission.”

Under her proposal, couples who needed assistance to become pregnant — such as through intrauterine insemination; the use of donor eggs, embryos and sperm; in vitro fertilization and embryo transfer; or other medical means — would have had to be married to each other.

Glad that idiocy died. But, as Spencer who first linked this story said, I’d be willing to bet it’ll be back.

Vidiot, someone I know from Flickr, was down in Georgia taking pictures (as we Flickrites are apt to do). As he took a picture of the 11th Circuit Court of Appeals building, he was stopped…

Cop: “Who do you work for?”

Me: “Who do I work for?”

Cop: “You heard me. Who do you work for?”

Me (wondering what possible bearing my employer has on anything…perhaps he was waiting for me to say “al-Qaeda, and what’s it to ya?”): “[my employer].”

Cop: “Don’t do that.”

Me: “Do what?”

Cop: “Take pictures of that building.”

Me: “I’m sorry, Officer. I wasn’t aware that taking a picture of a building from a public street was against the law.”

Cop: “It ain’t illegal. They just don’t want you to do it.”

Me: “Okayyy….” as I walked away.

I guess when you’re in a strange city, the last thing you want to do is tell a cop to go F themselves, however, it would’ve been warranted. If it isn’t illegal, a police officer has no right to stop you. Simple as that. Imagine, though, a police officer said with a straight-face that what he was doing wasn’t illegal, but he had to stop it because “they” didn’t want him doing it.

What a great standard to go by! If I don’t want you doing something, the police will stop you whether it’s illegal or not!

The new America sucks.

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via RKB

On his new movie, George Clooney had the following to say:

It’s no secret that Clooney leans Left in his political views. He runs the risk that Good Night, and Good Luck, named for Murrow’s signing-off catchphrase, will alienate Republicans in the US. But the actor, who talks more intelligently about contemporary issues than most “bleeding-heart liberal” film stars, says he was determined not to create a piece of anti-Bush propaganda.

“I didn’t want to preach,” he insists. “I’ve always believed that polarising people doesn’t do us any good; that just means I appeal to 48 per cent of this country and nobody else opens their eyes and their ears. The trick is to go in and say that this is a debate, the issues are more complicated than right or wrong. When Murrow says we must always find a way to protect the rights of the individual and the state at the same time, it’s not easy. That’s the difficulty of democracy.”

Have you really, George? That’s interesting.

Non polarizing George Clooney had some pretty choice words for Charlton Heston back in January of 2003:

In receiving a special filmmaking achievement award from the National Board of Reviews, actor George Clooney joked that “Charlton Heston announced again today that he is suffering from Alzheimer’s.”

Clooney still had a chance to apologize for the bad humor day. When questioned about the remark by New York Newsday, Clooney sputtered: “I don’t care. Charlton Heston is the head of the National Rifle Association. He deserves whatever anyone says about him.”

Nope. No polarization there.

Does anyone in the media fact check the talking heads any more? Or do they just spew forth as parrots whatever they say as long as they agree with the side of the political aisle that talking head resides upon?

So you’re the foreperson of a grand jury. You’ve heard the testimony. You’ve read the information. You have to figure out whether or not to indict someone on charges of conspiracy.

GIBSON: I just looked at that before I was ever on the Grand Jury. They were telling people how to vote, this is before I ever got on the Grand Jury. Being a citizen of this town, I looked at those things and felt that, “Hey those are telling people how to vote.”

CAESAR: Now, which ads are these, Mr. Gibson?

GIBSON: These are the ones in the paper from the TAB that were put in your local paper.

CAESAR: All right.

GIBSON: Telling people how to vote, (unintelligble), but the so-called freedom of speech, they were putting something in the paper for people to look at and let them make their decision.

CAESAR: Okay.

GIBSON: But looking at those ads, people with average intelligence could tell what they were there for.

CAESAR: All right. Texas Association of Business ads.

GIBSON: And all this came out way before I was ever on the grand jury, these mailers were in your paper, in the Austin papers, everybody else’s paper. They were flooding the market around here. That those were way before I ever went on the grand jury, my decision was based upon those, not based upon what might have happened in the grand jury room.

CAESAR: Oh, okay. So your mind was made up after you learned about the ads.

GIBSON: Right, those ads way back, telling people how, their so called freedom of speech deal. I looked at it as they’re just telling people, “Go vote for that person, go vote for that person.”

CAESAR: So they didn’t have the persuade you in the grand jury with any evidence, you already –

GIBSON: That was already public knowledge there. That way back (unintelligible) that is what I based my information on. They stated their positions, and I could state my position by saying, “Hey, I don’t like that.”

Here’s the foreperson of the grand jury saying that he didn’t care what information was presented to him in the hearings; he knew what he was going to decide based on election ads that were run. It didn’t matter if the evidence didn’t amount to an indictment; he was indicting.

Go ahead. Tell me Delay got a fair shake in that hearing room.

And while you’re at it, can you explain to me how Ronnie Earl managed to seat 3 Grand Juries in as many days?

Transcript Source: Rush Limbaugh

Sean Hannity had Brent Bozell (of the Media Research Center) and Ann Coulter (who doesn’t know Ann Coulter?) on and talking about President Bush’s new Supreme Court nominee. Let’s just say I agree with both of them, but they don’t think what you think they think. Have a listen below…

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“American Idol” winner Fantasia Barrino reveals in her memoirs that she is functionally illiterate and had to fake her way through some scripted portions the televised talent show, which she won in 2004.

“You’re illiterate to just about everything. You don’t want to misspell,” Fantasia told ABC’s “20/20.” “So that, for me, kept me in a box and I didn’t, wouldn’t come out.”

The 21-year-old R&B singer says she’s signed record deals and contracts that she didn’t read and couldn’t understand. But the hardest part, she said, is not being able to read to Zion, her 4-year-old daughter.

In another shocking announcement, Barrino also admitted she was black. Come on people… Have you heard an interview with this woman? Is it really so surprising to hear that she’s not able to read? And she dropped out of High School? How the hell did she get into High School if she couldn’t even read!?

Thanks Fantasia. You’re a true role model.

Source: San Jose Mercury News

So now we know who spoke to Judith Miller about an article she never published.

I. Lewis Libby.

The non-issue of the non-secret-agent’s name being outed more than five years after she had been abroad last carries onward…

Pardon me, but I’m bored with it already. If you listen to the media…

Joe Wilson is 100% credible and what he says is not to be questioned.

Karl Rove is really the mastermind even though he had a few e-mail exchanges with Matt Cooper, none of which proved anything (otherwise Rove would’ve been charged already).

It’s all a big conspiracy to embarrass a good, hardworking, credible, non-partisan man.

There are no preconceived notions on people’s guilt, despite Wilson’s grandstanding speech on the steps of the White House demanding authorities “frog-march” Karl Rove out of the White House in handcuffs.

I think the mainstream morons have lost all ability to report this story honestly. There are clearly defined good guys and bad guys, and the “good guys” are not questioned. Oh, and the good guys happen to be after the Bush Administration.

WTF?

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Saw this plate last night when Beth and I went out for dinner. Don’t ask me to explain it because I can’t.

Update:

Found him with the help of Google…