100th Post, Fable 3, 10 Year Old Hackers, Voodoo Earthquakes And More Bob McDonnell

Usually, a topic I want to discuss will be either political, religious, geeky or video game related. Surprise for today though, it's post #100! So how about all four!?

I talked about Bob McDonnell, Virginia's governor, last week, and my obsession with Virginia politics just keeps growing and growing. So apparently, Mr. McDonnell got his degree from Regent University, a school run by 700 Club host Pat Robertson. (We'll actually talk about Pat a little later down the page). Bob McDonnell wrote a thesis to graduate from that school, and I took some time to read it. Here's a quote:

The family as an institution existed antecedent to civil government, and hence is not subject to being defined by it. It is in the law of Nature of the created Order that the Creator instituted marriage and family in Eden, where He ordained that “For this reason a man will leave his father and mother and be united to his wife, and they will become one flesh.” Family arises out of this divinely-created covenant of marriage between a man and woman, the terms of which can neither be originally set nor subsequently altered by the parties or the state. (pg. 19)

Basically what Mr. McDonnell is saying here is that politicians and leaders cannot alter the definition of marriage because it is overseen by God, and we have no right. That's not overly shocking, in fact, that's textbook Christian bullshit, and we've been hearing that for decades. What is actually shocking, is this:

“[W]hen the exercise of liberty takes the shape of pornography, drug abuse, or homosexuality, the government must restrain, punish, and deter” (pg. 26).

The government has no right to re-define marriage because it would override God's almighty authority, but politicians have the right to punish that which a select number see as a sin? And I say select number because two of the three things he listed there are 100% legal in all 50 states. I'm not done here, in fact, here are a bunch of quotes from this prince's paper:

“Further expenditures” on child care, he wrote “would be used to subsidize a dynamic new trend of working women and feminists that is ultimately detrimental to the family by entrenching status-quo (sic) of non parental primary nurture of children” (pg. 46).

[E]very totalitarian movement of the twentieth century has tried to destroy the family. The modern American experience can be seen as an ideological battle between the forces of democratic capitalism and socialism, with the latter’s attempt to “substitute the power of the state for the rights, responsibilities, and authority of the family.” (pg. 10)

McDonnell goes on to refer to family as a “God-ordained government,” and asserts that there’s no need for government policy to treat “alternative lifestyle living arrangements” equally to the traditional family (pg. 19).

And he blasts efforts to “redefine family by allowing special rights,” not just for “homosexuals,” but for “single-parent unwed mothers” (pgs. 72-73).

Bob McDonnell wants women who are considering abortion to be forced to take an ultrasound, even if it is against their will, to try and spark some one-sided sanctity of life perspective before proceeding with the procedure. Bob McDonnell fought hard to preserve Virginia's ancient and never enforced anti-sodomy laws, just so it is still technically a crime to have gay sex. Bob McDonnell is currently wrapped up in a huge scandal, in which he is being investigated for accepting illegal bribes and campaign contributions. One of the contributions that his donors illegally gave him was to cater his daughter's wedding. You're all about the family right Bob? Yet you pay for your daughter's wedding with bribe money? Fuck you dude, seriously. I love stupid politicians, and they make me smile, but I draw the line at evil. 

Microsoft messed up, and now that all of their fans are hopping the border fence in an attempt to make a new life for themselves with Sony, Xbox has been releasing free games for their gold subscribers, (Playstation Plus has been doing this for 2 years now). Anyways, the first game is Fable 3, a game I never got a chance to play. I'm 2 hours in, and my favorite part so far was a hungry child screaming "Im tired of eating snow!!" More on this when I get further.

This is Cyfi, a 10 year old hacker who found dozens of vulnerabilities in Apple's IOS games. At 10 years old she has figured out how to beat Apple security, breakdown an iphone's internal clock by manipulating wi-fi setting, and also sent Apple the solutions on how to fix all of the things she found. She appeared at this year's DefCon to speak publicly, and to me, is the coolest kid I've read about. Ever.

Remember when I said that Pat Robertson would be coming back into conversation? Well, above is a video of Joe Ellison, the GOP's new "Black Outreach Director" (what a title), agreeing with a very controversial statement that Pat Robertson made on his show, The 700 Club. What was the statement? Pat Robertson said that Haiti suffered an earthquake because they made a pact with devil. Joe Ellison agrees, and says that Voodoo is the cause of all of Haiti's problems. This man is trying to obtain political office in a state that has voted for Obama, twice.

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