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You don’t have to be a Buddhist or a Tiger to appreciate these images. They say that when training giant predators it helps if you don’t mind being eaten.

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In an unexpected turn of events the devil will be doing some advertising work for NY area church.

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This is an idea that no serious politician can be caught handing out, but there is speculation that some are trying to encourage this line of thinking.

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Nude yoga, nude dinning, nude comedy clubs…

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It’s hard to believe that a publication as respected as the New Yorker would allow something like this to take place. In looking at the controversial cover and listening to the back and forth in the media over the issue, I kept asking myself how many people had to have signed off on this before it went to print. How many experts, how man people with experience, how many editors, thought this was appropriate? The answer: enough, enough for this piece of “satire” to grace the cover of the New Yorker.

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Here is another on of those questions, like “what would the Buddha do” that, as familiar it maybe between you and your weird friends, is sort of shocking when you read it in print.

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Now here’s a story with a headline that will catch the eye.

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   More from the Denver Post

         Civil unions, yes, equal protection under the law, yes, hate crimes legislation, yes, equal employment grantees, yes, but sex changes for children, that’s where I draw the line. And on the other side of that line is Dr. Norman Spack, a Boston area pediatric specialist who has opened a clinic for “trans-gendered children”.

          This story makes me feel like Rush Limbaugh or worse Michael Savage (the most hateful pundit I could think of) . So maybe I should offer the disclaimer that I am a ‘bleeding-heart’ leftist when I comes to economics and taxes and war vs. peace. I tend to line up with San Franciscans when it comes to natural selection vs. intelligent design, and climate change, and stem cells research, and a woman’s right to choose. I like polar bears. I was against the war ‘from the beginning’ (1990). And I think Al Gore won in 2000. But this is where I and many of my lefty friends part ways.

           Only a completely negligent and wholly unfit parent would consider allowing a seven year old child, who probable can’t decide on green or purple as a favorite color, to make a life changing and irreversible decision about altering their gender. While ‘open minded’ parents may think they are doing the ‘enlightened’ thing by ‘empowering’ their children to make  ‘out side of the box’ (pun intended) choices, in truth they are engaging in the most irresponsible of activities.

          This is another example of what plays out all the time in American house holds (starting with the boomers) where people treat their young children and sometimes pets as if they are their equals, who just need a little love and understanding. But that’s not what a parent is, I should say, that’s not all that it is. Even the smartest most mature child, can never make an adult decision. They don’t yet understand the stakes they are playing with. And for the record, most pets i know do a very poor job of distinguishing food from poop, and little kids arnt much better. A little gidance is what is needed.

            Being a man or a woman involves respectively, challenges and privileges that no seven year old can understand much less evaluate. How can a prepubescent boy decide that he doesn’t like having male genitals if he has yet to put them to their sexual purpose? Do they show that Paris Hilton video before the little guy gives the final ok? No they don’t because it would be illegal to show a minor anything so depraved (wonderful), but he can give consent to have is gender changed? Now wait, I know what many of you are thinking, this is the perfect justification for sex with little boys, and I’m quite sure that this justification will eventually be sited by the well known radical pedophilia lobby, but keep your priest’s robes on for now, that is not what I am suggesting here. I know this might sound crazy but what if decisions about changing one’s gender were made only by people who are old enough to understand at least what the word gender means?

          To go a step further perhaps towards provoking those few who still may have other wise been on my side I will say this: a child is not a medium upon which to paint one’s own political or social message for the world, how ever impressive those views maybe. To be completely honest, I don’t think it’s even a good idea to read “Cindy has Two Mommies” to grade school kids. In my estimation a prepubescent child only needs to be instructed on the concepts of private areas and abuse, until such age that they are sexual active and or reproductively viable, which ever comes first. At which point I tend to jump ship with the conservative, who until this point might have been with me, and say that teenagers should be encouraged to consider the varied routs to sexual literacy, including but not limited to the Kama Sutra as well as a traditional education about contraception and STDs, and hopefully a less dogmatic and more progressive conception of the intimacy and ecstasy of the celebration of their (adult) sexuality.

         What’s more, I confess a fear that in some cases, the desire of homosexual couples to raise children in the first place,  has less to do with providing what may well be a loving family environment and more to do with a need to normalize the parent’s lifestyle and seek the societies approval vicariously through a child who the parent imagines will be harder for others to reject than them selves. Unfortunately it is most often not true that people will be more accepting of any young person who is confused about their gender roles.

         We should be simultaneously working to fight homophobia and discrimination, and also telling young people the truth about the difficulties facing an openly gay person in our society, to say nothing of the trials of a closeted or otherwise contradictorily oriented person (transgender, bisexual, etc). In this as in any struggle for growth as a society we must never use human beings, in this case children, as merely a means unto an end, however noble we may imagine that end to be.

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This week, while speaking in front of the NRA who interestingly banned guns from their convention, the former republican presidential candidate, Arkansas Governor Mike Huckabee made what I guess we can call a joke, about Barack Obama diving for cover when someone aimed the barrel of a gun at him. He has since apologized for his poor delivery of a joke that he says came out wrong. But its hard to figure out how any comment with those components could come out any way but wrong. After Malcolm X and Martin Luther King and John F. Kennedy and Robert Kennedy, what does Mike Huckabee think is funny about a gun being aimed at the man who may well be the first black president of these United States? And what are we to think of these sort of people, people like former preacher Huckabee, good natured , quick to laugh, presumably wholesome, and then they say something like this, something so racist and treasonous.

 Since this is the internet, and all of us are widely known to be composing and reading this stuff from our parent’s basement, I will put this out there. But let me say first that just because we are covering UFOs A New Day Post does not want to be in anyway associated with the type of sensationalistic (commy) organizations who have stood by this story to this point: AP, BBC, the government of the United Kingdom, um, never mind.  

The truth is this subject does have a stigma, but stigma is seldom a good justification for closing one’s eyes to developing information. The release of these files raises questions again from many in our country, about when the United States might finally declassify its own files on the subject. It also stands in contrast to what has been a heightening level secrecy generally by our government.   

 The files include numerous first hand accounts of sightings of object with no earthy explanation. Most interesting is the number of military, law enforcement and domestic pilots whose testimony included.

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Go to A New Day Post’s coverage of the Democratic Primary race

This should add the all important radical-libertarian-constitutional-internet-fringe. I for one think that if we get to a point where Ralph Nader and Ron Paul and Pat Buchanan and Denis Kucinich all agree on Obama’s candidacy then he has to be the guy, or maybe that should disqualify him, (Isn’t this like one of those books that Thich Nhat Hanh writes about how Jesus and the Buddha are really getting at the same thing?)

We’re not quite there yet; I’ll get back to you.

Go to A New Day Post’s coverage of the 2008 general election

Here again we have people using their “faith in God” to try to obscure their racism and failing. The Jonesville church of God Pastor Roger Byrd cant seem to understand why all the controversy over the sign that he says was meant to “make people think” . Read more here  

Get your “If you want to catch Osama you’ve got to vote Obama” bumper sticker here

Read the AP Chair’s question about “Obama bin Laden”

If you want to catch Osama you’ve gotta vote Obama

For anyone who thought that it was safe to have doctors shoot a derivative of botulism toxin (weapons of mass destruction) into your face, please read this article.

            Last week Hillary Clinton described a trip she took as first lady to Bosnia. She began, “when a place was too small or too dangerous for the president to go they sent the first lady…” According to Hillary it was quite a scene. Complete with the first lady covering her head and ducking to avoid incoming sniper fire as she ran from her airplane to the car. Now this is the type of thing that really sets Clinton apart form her democratic rival, she has first hand experience in a war zone. The only problem is it isn’t true.

            Just days after Hillary retold the story; video footage surfaced showing the first lady and a teenage Chelsea Clinton strolling off their plane and being formally received. Ms Clinton is even seen taking time to meet a little girl who she stoops down to speak with for some time. No one has on a Kevlar helmet, no one is ducking or running for the car and there is no sniper fire.

            Today Clinton acknowledged that her original story wasn’t correct, but worsening the political impart of this blunder, she attempted to justify her faulty memory by saying she was sleep deprived. That’s right, the same lady who Americans are supposed to trust to take that 3 A.M. phone call, was too sleepy to remember whether or not she and her teenage daughter had been shot at. Who knows what she might say if she answered that red phone. This race, and the coverage of it as a still competitive contest, is before our eyes, leaving the realm of reality.

NBC’s coverage of this story with footage from Bosnia

Go to A New Day Post’s Coverage of the democratic primary race

             While it would be wildly unprofessional for a serious new source to make up a story like this, but reporting on it when it really happened is just a case of A New Day Post fulfilling in obligation to supply our readers with news of consequence. 

Read about the torch that one Moscow man holds for his ex

This brings new meaning to the phrase ‘outside of your jurisdiction’.

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