Happy Happy Third Blogiversary to Shakesville

Go over and wish the Shakers a happy blogiversary. Melissa has done a lot to help to blogging efforts of Tas, Litbrit and myself. We gained greater exposure because of her. Thanks, Lis.

Caption Shakes Photo

Shakes has a hysterical photo she wants captioned.

Hooters New Menu Item

Shakes shows her distain for Hooters new fish tacos. For those that have been living in a cave, fish taco is slang for vagina. There are cruder variations of the slang term. I explained in the comments that the Hooters chain built their market campaign from starting out in Tampa.

Hooters started in the Tampa area. Another thing the town I live in as contributed to America. Tampa is also known as the strip club and porn capital of the SouthEast. Tampa is also known for Gasparilla.

From a Feb. 9, 2000, letter to the Tampa Tribune written by a Riverview woman: "We experienced the Gasparilla parade. Instead of fun for all, it was trouble, beer and bared breasts for all."

This is the demographic the first Hooters restaurant was marketing to. What does that say about Hooters?

What does this say about Tampa?

Welcome to Shakesville

Update your blogrolls. Shakespeare's Sister has moved to Shakesville. Many of you may know Litbrit writes there. Now fellow Floridian Mustang Bobby has joined the gang.

Just How Bad Is SB 2546

Litbrit crossposted her entry on the restrictive abortion law Dennis Baxley and Ronda Storms are trying to pass at Shakespeare's Sister. Reader MJ left this comment at Shake's site.

Hang on, if two 15 year olds are having sex, and they aren't at the age of consent (18, in Florida, but 16 if the older partner isn't more than 23 years old)- does that mean they are in fact, sexually assaulting each other?

Are they going to take a DNA sample from infants as well?

Women are prosecuted for having sex with underage male partners. If the boyfriend can be prosecuted (she was underage), so can the girlfriend(he was underage).

In Ronda Storms' world it would be. She tried to make Hillsborough County have to power to sterilize convicted sex predators. I certainly deplore sex predators. I don't think using the same tactics as the Nazis will solve the problem.

Simon Rozenkier bears living testimony to the ultimate goal of eugenics, a pseudoscience that has proven itself to be a front for deliberate ethnic and racial extinction. He said his life was spared because the Nazi doctors thought he had unusual genes inasmuch as he had reddish blond hair--supposedly an Aryan feature. His family, including his 3 sisters and brother were not spared, and the experiments rendered him incapable of producing children of his own.

Storms doesn't support Plan B, but has no problem with sterilization. What happens if one of those convicted sex offenders is later proven to be innocent? Will Storms personally apologize? I'm not counting on it.

There is no reason not to believe that Storms would have a problem with the prosecution of consenting minors having sex.

Melissa McEwan Quits Edwards Campaign

Melissa McEwan has resigned from the John Edwards campaign. Lindsay Beyerstein reports that her sources told her neither Shakes or Amanda Marcotte were fired by the John Edwards campaign.

"This was a decision I made, with the campaign's reluctant support," wrote Melissa. "Because my remaining the focus of sustained ideological attacks was inevitably making me a liability to the campaign, and making me increasingly uncomfortable with my and my family's level of exposure." What that might be about is the death threats both bloggers have received from these Christian followers of Donahue.

The ramifications of Bill Donohue and the Catholic League's reckless rhetoric has materialized in the form of death threats to bloggers Amanda Marcotte and Melissa McEwan. This is what happens when the ultra-right wing is given the megaphone of mainstream media. It is also a complete break down in the responsibility that the media has in vetting those who are given a platform to spread a message.

This is also evidence that ultra-right wing organizations that create messages based on hate and fear find sympathetic audiences with people who think more like citizen-militia than the loyal Catholics that Bill Donohue claims to represent. It is no wonder that there has been no mainstream Roman Catholic group, nor the Church itself, to step forward to support Donohue in his illegal, unethical scalp-seeking tirade against Senator Edwards' bloggers.

Huffington Post blogger Lane Hudson is challenging Bill Donahue to rescind his comments and ask people to leave Melissa and Amanda alone. That is more than fair. Considering that both bloggers are no longer with Edwards. Considering Donahue's long history of hateful comments - I doubt he will show the leadership to ease up on the bloggers. It's not only the right thing to do. It's what Jesus would do. I hope otherwise.

You can call Donahue's office at 212-371-3191. Tell him to lay off Amanda and Melissa.

Spin Zone

Bill O'Reilly goes on his fair and balanced attacks on Melissa McEwan and Amanda Marcotte. It is really something to hear Michelle Malkin to attack other bloggers for "unhinged diatribes." I've lost track of the times Malkin has had to print retracts for her diatribes. Considering that Malkin led the attacks to get both bloggers fired; is pathetic that Fox News would breing her on as an unbiased commentator.

Support the Edwards Bloggers Petition

BlogPac.org has an online petition you can sign to show your support for Amanda Marcotte and Melissa McEwan.

Lindsay Beyerstein talks about the noncontroversy on the Taylor Marsh Show.

The Liberal Media Strikes Again

The Bill Donahue rampage against Amanda Marcotte and Melissa McEwan continues. Isn't Donahue suppose to be keeping us safe from Marilyn Manson?

Curse that liberal media for bringing no one on the panel to counter Carlson or Donahue.

Lame Attacks On Amanda Marcotte

I see the attacks on Amanda Marcotte have begun. The conservative bloggers are going to be making nasty and sexist comments about Amanda and Shakes. The reason is they have been hired to write on the John Edwards blog. Fortunately, Jill has their back covered.

You don't have to agree with Amanda or Shakes politics. (I do.) Making comments about their appearances is just childish and tacky. Sandbox mentality arguments won't impress many, but the already converted.