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This is fun. It proves how far the Progressives are in Europe and Americans are still Cave-Dwellers on the the topic of Same-Sex Marriage and Civil Unions:

A heterosexual couple in Austria is fighting for the right to enter into a registered civil partnership – introduced for homosexual couples in January 2010. Under current law the couple will be denied that right – but they have vowed to take the case to the country’s constitutional court to overturn what they says is a discriminatory legislation.

I’m hoked already: Hetero’s?  Whining about being in the minority?

Austria introduced civil unions for gay couples on January 1, affording them some of the rights enjoyed by their heterosexual counterparts. The new legislation, passed after weeks of wrangling between the ruling Social Democrats and their conservative coalition partner in government, gives same-sex couples a status similar to traditional marriage but different in a number of respects. For instance, there are less strict rules in the event of a divorce.

Bildunterschrift: Großansicht des Bildes mit der Bildunterschrift: ‘The issue is equality – nothing but equality,’ the couple argues

The heterosexual couple in question argues that this is a more modern form of union – which simply suits them better than a traditional marriage. And if it’s offered to gay couples, why shouldn’t it be an option for them as well? The issue at stake, they argue, is standing up against discrimination.

“Everyone should have the same rights, and there shouldn’t be different rules for different people,” the couple’s lawyer, Helmut Graupner, told Deutsche Welle.

“Regardless of how many different forms of union a state provides to couples, all of those forms should be available for everyone and must not be restricted on the basis of race, class or sex or gender or other criteria, which are traditionally the very criteria for discrimination,” Graupner said.

I like it!  “Tittie-Chasers are on-the-run!”

A Little Bit “Equal”

“The issue is equality - nothing but equality,” Graupner said. “You can not be ‘a little bit equal.’ Just like you can’t be ‘a little bit pregnant’ or ‘a little bit dead.’ Unless you’re entitled to the same kind of institutions and forms of law you’re not being treated equally and that’s discriminatory. That’s what we are fighting against – we’re fighting for the rights of both heterosexuals and homosexuals.”

Graupner is not only trying to help the heterosexual couple to get a ‘gay’ marriage. He’s also representing gay couples who want a traditional marriage – rather than the registered civil partnership that lawmakers have agreed on. The current legislation provides same-sex couples with equal rights to heterosexuals with regards to pensions and alimony – but the law for instance continues to ban adoption. It also does not allow civil partnership ceremonies at the civil registry office, where heterosexual couples can marry.

Yet Graupner is up against strong resistance. The country’s conservative party – the Austrian Peoples Party – only reluctantly agreed to the civil partnership in the first place. The conservatives insists that significant differences between the two forms of union must remain.

Ah!  Since we’re unequal, we’re worthy of a law-suit because you’re not unequal-enough under federal law?

The entire design is hysterical.

The Catholic Church isn’t amused by the entire epic.  Austria is like 900% Catholic and the entire subject of Church v. Law lays in question on the subject and it appears that the Church is on the Outs.

It sucks to be “Church”!

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Sarah Palin‘s “Death Panels” failed in Montana:

The Supreme Court in Montana has ruled that nothing in the state’s law prevents patients from seeking medical assistance to commit suicide.”

“Doctors will now be able to prescribe the necessary drugs to the terminally ill without fear of prosecution.”

It’s the “Silent Obvious”, contrary to the very same “Moral Majority”: When you’ve got Death Doctors stomping through Oregon and marching eastward through Montana, who’s bothering with the silliness of beauty-queens from Alaska with Death Panels from Obama?

Drive it like you stole it!

Matter Networks has run an article publishing the fact that the Ford Motor Company is selling a gasoline vehicle that gets a whopping 64 miles per gallon! Whose not surprised by the fact the Ford is shilling the “Fiesta” here in the United States that only gets around 40 miles per gallon.

…And why is that, Fruit?! You’re always coming up with the most amazing stories, gol’ darnit!

I’m glad you asked, Butterscotch. Because the Euro Trash regulates the hell out of the auto industry and demands better performance for their fleet of motor vehicles! The Euros have a real concern about global warming – instead of a simplistic theatrical ideology as we do here in the U.S.

From Matters Networks:

Imagine a gas-fueled car that gets 62 miles to the gallon: “With start-stop, regenerative brakes and an Eco Mode system, the new Focus gets 62 MPG (U.S.) on the European scale and emits just 99 grams of CO2 per kilometer” Available in Europe next Spring.

What is even more startling about this achievement by European Ford is that this mileage is achieved with just good old-fashioned tweaks on the traditional ICE gas car. There is no major technological breakthrough.

…you mean there’s no corn fuels and “olive oil distillates” involved? We don’t have to recycle used baby diapers and climb through dumpsters looking for combustible matter for our gas tanks?!

Let’s get the meat and gravy of this subject:  “Why aren’t these vehicles made here in the Land of the Free, and the Brave, Fruit?!”

…Because Republicans hate corporate regulations and government restrictions!  Any liberal could have told you that!

Again from Matters Network:

It’s partly to do with differences in regulations making it hard to build those engines to meet US specs, but a large part of it has to do with differences in attitudes towards the climate change crisis we are facing.

The European political landscape has largely signed on to global warming as fact. European laws force European auto makers to adhere to strict low-emissions standards. Low carbon emissions and better mileage are co-related.

Europe has already passed legislation limiting carbon emissions. Engineers swiftly revamped the auto industry over there and achieved the new carbon emissions and mileage standards for their fleets.

So European consumers who want better green choices benefit. Voters over there are presumably similar to us in terms of the average understanding of the environmental issues facing the world, yet they elected politicians who have acted to reduce the environmental impact of living.

By the time we, as a society here in the U.S., demand vehicles getting the same MPG and sharing the same environmental footprint as our Euro Trash friends, we’re going to get screwed by the auto industry.

Tired of paying $2.50/gallon for your Ford Taurus?

Start calling your legislators and your Senators and demanded green-energy legislation.

The sales strategy is made apparent by Ford Motor Company’s sales staff in the last paragraph of the piece:

Europe’s Ford buyers are offered a Ford Focus Econetic that is capable of (US) 62 MPG: available next month. Americans are offered a Fiesta getting just 40 MPG, that won’t even be available till 2011.

It’s hypocrisy at its finest.  Don’t you think?  Americans are offered a Mexican American festival in exchange for higher gasoline prices and non-technological fuel-fed engines.

Let’s be fair: Ford didn’t take stimulus money from Barack Obama’s Administration. (That’s a lie!) Ford decided to strike out on their own without “playing the game”.  Which was smart, of course!

If you’re an auto maker: Who could blame you if you couldn’t care less about selling a car to an European with better gas mileage than you could sell a car to an environmentally-apathetic American.

Business is business.

The Europeans figured that out years ago – and the Americans continue to remain nothing but screaming babies and toddlers.

Kudos goes to the Euro-Trash: They get the (corporate) attention of Ford Motor Corp.  Their assembly-line doesn’t have to achieve European muster.  They’ll make millions at American tax-payer expense while they complain about corporate taxes (because nobody cares).

…And they’ll sell a product in Europe far below manufacturers suggested retail price because the Republicans will insist on it in the U.S.A.

GOP is a sell-out

Drive it like you stole it!

I get my socialized medicine at the V.A.  I had health care insurance through Blue Shield Blue Cross of Minnesota, it got to the point that I couldn’t afford to pay them any more.  Ever invoice I got from them, it was more money!  Being self-employed, you’ve gotta raise the money for yourself to live, pay your bills on time, get good credit …and then get slammed with an ever-increasing health care premiums!

So, my doctor is a government employee, he gives me my meds from his pharmacy that mails my refills to me.  Unlike whatever Sarah Palin has been through, or the rest of the Republican Party for that matter, my government employed doctor has never offered to cut off my penis to make me a girl, nor has he ever made an appointment for me to meet with a “Death Panel”.  (Right?!! Like…a “death panel”?!? Seriously?!)  Nope, my Doc is about my age, maybe a little younger than me.  He’s straight, I’m not, he’s married and it’s illegal for people like me to be married.  The government isn’t between me and my Doc.  The government has nothing to do with me and my conversations with my Doc.  All of their medical records are computerized, universally – so if I want to have time with a shrink, they have my medical records completely wrapped up.  It’s pretty awesome…for being socialized medicine of course.

All you slobs who are paying through the nose for those premiums – I feel sorry for ya – but ya shoulda done the time and saluted that Old Glory of a flag for a few years!     …You can get old and have a cute-assed doctor say to you with a wooden stick in his hand: “Open up and say Ahhhhhhhh”.

So, I was saying…

I have contacts and they’re getting kind of old.  They’re building up those calcium spots and it feels like gravel under the lids.  My baby-greens are still fabulous, but seriously, who needs gravel in the eye?  Did I tell you that the V.A. will give ya an eye exam for free too?  They won’t cut off your dick, but they will give you an eye exam!

I got up this morning, took Little Otis for his walk and decided that when I see my Doc on the 19th, I may as well make an appointment to get my eyes examined and think about a new pair of contacts.

I get home – dialed up the V.A. on the little Post-It note I have stuck to the backside of the door to the pantry in the kitchen.  The phone rings a half-dozen time until a nice lady answered:

Nice Lady: “Hello…V.A. Medical Center.  How may I help you?”

Stupid Fruit Fly: “Hi!  I was curious – How do I make an appointment to get my eyes examined?”

Nice Lady: “Well, you’d need to make an appointment with the eye clinic!”

Stupid Fruit Fly: “Cool!  Can I have the number please?”

Nice Lady: “Ah.  Well, they’re closed today.”

Stupid Fruit Fly: “What?!?  That’s the dumbest thing I ever heard!  It’s a Wednesday for Gods Sakes!”

Nice Lady: “Ah ..Yeah and it’s also Veterans Day.”

Stupid Fruit Fly: “Oh dear god… I am so sorry…”

Nice Lady: “Have a good day, Sir.”

Jesus… Tomorrow I’ll have to make an appointment to have my head examined.  They do that too by the way!  They won’t make an appointment for me to meet with a Death Panel, but they will examine my head!  …If I could simply pull it out of my ass…