President Obama recently named Amanda Simpson to be a Senior Technical Advisor to the Commerce Department.Posted on 01/04/2010 10:30:27 AM PST by Notoriously Conservative
President Obama recently named Amanda Simpson to be a Senior Technical Advisor to the Commerce Department.
The kicker? Simpson is a shemale. Just look at the name, "A Man Da." Shiver. I don't by the whole transgendered thing. I'm sorry you don't feel comfortable in the skin God gave you, but chopping off your dangley bits isn't the answer, medication and counseling is. God doesn't make mistakes, men do.
In a statement, Simpson, a member of the National Center for Transgender Equality's board of directors, said that "as one of the first transgender presidential appointees to the federal government, I hope that I will soon be one of hundreds, and that this appointment opens future opportunities for many others."
Sure, hundreds of them, why not? They can have a big pride parade, and invite all their gay and cross dressing friends, it will be fabulous, fab-u-lous!
While Simpson is clearly one of the first transgender presidential appointees, Democratic officials say they're unsure if she is the very first one.
Well sure, the jury is still out on Janet Reno and Janet Napolitano.
The White House had no comment on her appointment.
A 2004 YWCA "Woman on the Move," Simpson recently served as Deputy Director in Advanced Technology Development at Raytheon Missile Systems in Tucson, Arizona.
At Raytheon, Simpson -- a former test pilot who had worked for the company for more than a generation -- transitioned from male to female and was instrumental in convincing the military contractor to add gender identity and expression to its equal employment opportunity policy.
Where does this end? Are we going to have to start hiring pedophiles, because they were born that way, and we don't want to discriminate? If you want to hire someone who has changed their sex, fine, but the hiring shouldn't be because they are that way, nor should it be a protected status. How about this, I am going to have a third arm attached to my body, and call myself a tri-armer. God accidentally gave me only two arms, and I feel that I was supposed to have three. I demand that tri-armers be a protected sector of the population, to avoid discrimination. How is this any different?
Well said, ma'am.
I believe the correct term is "capon".
Ha’ we lost the goodliest fere o’ all
For the priests and the gallows tree?
Aye lover he was of brawny men,
O’ ships and the open sea.
When they came wi’ a host to take Our Man
His smile was good to see,
“First let these go!” quo’ our Goodly Fere,
“Or I’ll see ye damned,” says he.
Aye he sent us out through the crossed high spears
And the scorn of his laugh rang free,
“Why took ye not me when I walked about
Alone in the town?” says he.
Oh we drank his “Hale” in the good red wine
When we last made company.
No capon priest was the Goodly Fere,
But a man o’ men was he.
I ha’ seen him drive a hundred men
Wi’ a bundle o’ cords swung free,
That they took the high and holy house
For their pawn and treasury.
They’ll no’ get him a’ in a book, I think,
Though they write it cunningly;
No mouse of the scrolls was the Goodly Fere
But aye loved the open sea.
If they think they ha’ snared our Goodly Fere
They are fools to the last degree.
“I’ll go to the feast,” quo’ our Goodly Fere,
“Though I go to the gallows tree.”
“Ye ha’ seen me heal the lame and blind,
And wake the dead,” says he.
“Ye shall see one thing to master all:
’Tis how a brave man dies on the tree.”
A son of God was the Goodly Fere
That bade us his brothers be.
I ha’ seen him cow a thousand men.
I have seen him upon the tree.
He cried no cry when they drave the nails
And the blood gushed hot and free.
The hounds of the crimson sky gave tongue,
But never a cry cried he.
I ha’ seen him cow a thousand men
On the hills o’ Galilee.
They whined as he walked out calm between,
Wi’ his eyes like the gray o’ the sea.
Like the sea that brooks no voyaging,
With the winds unleashed and free,
Like the sea that he cowed at Genseret
Wi’ twey words spoke suddently.
A master of men was the Goodly Fere,
A mate of the wind and sea.
If they think they ha’ slain our Goodly Fere
They are fools eternally.
I ha’ seen him eat o’ the honey-comb
Sin’ they nailed him to the tree.
If you stop to think about it, if Simon the Zealot and the other Apostles had spoken English, it would have been the rough dialect of sailors.
If Pound had stuck to that line of work instead of Vorticism, Imagism, Modernism (not to mention anti-Semitism, treason, and faking insanity) he could have done some good work.
I had to look twice at that phrase.
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LOL! F- blank blank blank!!! (Octagon soap to follow).
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