Thursday Open Thread

Welcome to your Thursday open thread. Civil unions are now the law of the land in Delaware. Does this mean that Delaware is responsible for the coming apocalypse?

Florida may have accidentally outlawed sex.

At the time, I posited that only shiny-pated grifter-Governor Rick Scott could possibly foul up the effort. But over at Southern Fried Science, blogger “Andrew” points out that the law’s wording has basically outlawed sex entirely:

An act relating to sexual activities involving animals; creating s. 828.126, F.S.; providing definitions; prohibiting knowing sexual conduct or sexual contact with an animal; prohibiting specified related activities; providing penalties; providing that the act does not apply to certain husbandry, conformation judging, and veterinary practices; providing an effective date.

As any biology student knows, humans are animals. Apparently Delaware’s law is written similarly to Florida. So is sex illegal in Delaware, too?

I’ve been perversely amused by the debt ceiling rhetoric. John Boehner has said Democrats must agree to $2T in cuts or the economy gets it (I always picture Dr. Evil when I think about this). Now the Tea Party is signaling a different hostage will do:

Temple is 100% opposed to raising the debt ceiling, and said that how members vote on the issue will be the sole item on the tea party scorecard when it comes to rating candidates in 2012. Vote for the increase, you get a zero. Vote against it, you get a 100. Apparently it’s that simple.

But even Temple said he understood a compromise might be coming. So he offered a long list of things the Republicans could do that would lead the “tea party movement as a whole” to “possibly forgive Boehner and the House Republicans a small bump in the debt limit.”

On the list was keeping the front lines of America’s wars as free of openly gay people and women of any sexual leaning as possible.
Temple said that “if the House Armed Services Committee and the Pentagon slow down on injecting open homosexuality and females into forward combat roles,” tea partiers might be able to put up with their new Republican House voting to ensure American government services are paid for with more borrowed cash.

That’s right. $2T or re-discriminate against gays. I guess openly gay service people are worth $2T? I think they must be seriously underpaid then.