“This means that the default behaviors for almost all the non-player characters in the game are easier on you than they would be otherwise. The default barriers for completions of quests are lower. Your leveling-up thresholds come more quickly. You automatically gain entry to some parts of the map that others have to work for. The game is easier to play, automatically, and when you need help, by default it’s easier to get.”
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This Is All Kinds Of Wrong of the Day: A Texas-based “pro-family” group is calling for a boycott of Girl Scout cookies [pdf] in response to the organization’s decision to allow a Colorado boy who identifies as a girl to join a local troop.
In a video uploaded to YouTube last week, Honest Girl Scouts member Taylor, a 14-year-old Girl Scout from Ventura County, California, reads a statement excoriating GSUSA for “not being honest with us girls, its troops, its leaders, its parents or the American public.”
“Girl Scouts describes itself as an all-girl experience,” Taylor continues. “With that label, families trust that the girls will be in an environment that is not only nurturing and sensitive to girls’ needs, but also safe for girls.”
This isn’t the first backlash GSUSA has seen from its decision in Colorado: Three troops in Louisiana disbanded in December, citing the inclusion of trans girls as the reason.
A boycott of Girl Scout cookies would undoubtedly harm the august organization, as it receives a generous amount of its funding from their sale.
Reached for comment, Girl Scouts spokeswoman Michelle Tompkins told the Washington Post that GSUSA “prided itself on being an inclusive organization serving girls from all walks of life,” and will continue to review “cases involving transgender children on a case by case basis with a focus on ensuring the welfare and best interests of the child in question and the other girls in the troop as our highest priority.”
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You know they know they’re being assholes because they disabled ratings and comments for their video.
Come on, if you’re trying to present a strong, coherent, intelligent argument, the least you could do is memorize your talking points instead of reading the whole damn thing.
Most of this video is blah selling-me-stuff drivel, but 0:11 has been the highlight of my day.
This video must’ve really been ahead of its time. I mean, Yo-landi can’t be more than seven there.
It’s weird because you read the title and think this is a good thing, but the reality is that the motions to scrap that rhetoric barely passed, homophobia/anti-gay legislation is still every bit an issue in that party as it ever was, and the purpose of the removal wasn’t to show a genuine embracing or even acceptance of the “other” so much as to conceal the party’s long-standing contempt & disregard for it in an effort to gain more support. It’s deceitful. Strategically so. But that’s politics for ya.
I did like this quote though:
“a lot of younger Republicans don’t feel as though this kind of rhetoric has any place in a small government agenda. If we want to do small government, shouldn’t we get government out of the bedroom as well?”
Potentially the best protest sign I’ve ever seen.
Thanks, Thornberry.
| — | Anthony Trollope | Phineas Finn As quoted by David Frum in his CNN.com op-ed “I Was Wrong About Same-Sex Marriage” |
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Introducing the 2012 California Marriage Protection Act! [src]
This initiative, writes sponsor John Marcotte, is a “logical extension” of Prop. 8, which “did not go far enough in protecting traditional marriage.”
Although the law, if enacted, would actually ban divorce, the movement is really a parody of those who supported Proposition 8… Their aim is to catch Prop. 8 supporters between a rock and a hard place, forcing them to remain consistent in defending traditional marriage by religious standards while also supporting a legal ban of divorce, which may be a stretch.
“If we allow anyone to get divorced, before you know it, people will be divorcing their dogs!”
Word.
