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Thank you to Wonkette tipster “MB” for directing us to this chart from today’s most lurid math-porn site, FiveThirtyEight, of recent polls about California Proposition 8, the famous referendum which will decide whether the gays can keep getting married in their home state. For a while, it looked like the gays had this thing all locked up, but now it’s a toss-up after Jesus made angry robocalls about “the gay AIDS” infecting everyone’s children. And he left his mark on this chart: it’s a JESUS FISH. Whoa. Consider. [FiveThirtyEight]
Zoom in on the right-hand side of that fish and you’ll see the face of the Virgin Mary. Case closed.
Smells fishey to me.
If they only knew that Jesus was teh ghey too.
Are you sure that’s not a butt plug?
I saw that, but didn’t make the connection to the Jesus fish. Maybe if it turns into a rainbow everything will be all right.
Fuck, Jim, you post this like it’s a joke, but I guaranfuckintee you that 98% of that bill’s supporters really do believe this chart is a revelation of Baby Jesus’ divine will.
NewSpence: WIN
HMMM . . . TWO PARABOLAS OFFSET . . .
MEH. CALL ME WHEN YOU GET HIS VISAGE ON A PIECE OF TOAST OR SOMPIN’
my mother is a fish
This shit better not pass. The Mormons are pumping money into California for the sole purpose of spreading their magic-underwear-rice-krispie-treats-orang-tang-and-10-kids agenda. Go fuck yourselves (or not), and leave our gays alone!
Actually, that looks more like a banded rainbow fish. Which is totally gay.
http://www.thetropicaltank.co.uk/Fishindx/mel-trif.htm
So…gay marriage is legal in California now because the law preventing it was declared unconstitutional. So if this law passes then won’t it just be thrown out as being unconstitutional?
I hate Nate’s comment sections. Seriously, he needs to start dropping the banhammer on some of those assholes, like the one that called him a faggot - I think that deserves a ban.
So…are they getting together for a fuck at the fish head? Cuz that’s all I see.
John McCain: Fish? What Fish? Looks like Cunt to me.
Cindy McCain: Yes Dear!
Thy fabulous will be done.
“Oh, hi, we are California. We proudly took away a civil right millions of people had and rendered their marriages void. Boy, doesn’t that make us noble? We are proud of ourselves.”
Shit, my oh-so-progressive Virignia passed a despicable Constitutional Amendment banning just about every type of partnertship two people of the same gender could enter into, but California would do us one better because it never was legal here. Cali gets to say “Hah, just kidding! You suck and are not married! Go live in Massachusetts you subhumans”
Liverspots: you are right. Maybe god is gay?
slackdaemon: the bevel is better
Some lady came by my brother’s house the other day talking about the horrible horrors of teh ghey marriage and how school children will learn that it’s okay for small boys to d each other in the b as long as they reach around or whatever. (I always thought that was common courtesy though.) And I been seeing commercials saying the same thing…there’s one with a little girl that tells her horrible mother she’s going to marry a princess. (Good for her!) All these commercials are based on a false premise though. Children don’t learn ANYTHING in California schools. These ads are obviously coming from out of state.
I like the comment that’s all NATE SILVER CARES ABOUT THE GAYS? FAGGOT and the army of syncophants rushing to defend their Internet boyfriend. Well la-dee-dah… not that I’m blaming them, mind you…
runcrash:
I think this proposition is for a constitutional amendment… which, if you think about it, is pretty fucked up: California is a state in which a very small number of highly motivated individuals can strip a person of his state constitutional rights through a simple majority in a plebiscite that most voters are going to go into having only the barest understanding of the question being asked and its ramifications.
Don’t eat those Jesus fish — on the third day, they come back up.
I’d hit that.
runcrash: This would amend their constitution. So… alas no.
runcrash: No, ’cause Prop 8 will actually change the constitution to include the phrase “only marriage between a man and a woman is valid or recognized in California.”
Fuckers.
Hey everyone, sorry I don’t mean to veer off topic but I thought you would appreciate who else is in the tank for our Hopey. It turns out Colombia (yes, the one that McCain bragged about visiting in the debate), it turns out they have Hopey’s picture in their Lottery. How insane is that. Check out the google news link: http://afp.google.com/article/ALeqM5j58HgA-9EH6LaAWYbq-lw5DvWVaQ
runcrash:Plus what Serolf said.
They can amend their constitution with a simple majority vote in CA? That’s fucked.
No on 8!
SayItWithWookies: Win.
But if this trend continues, wouldn’t it morph into a Two-Tailed Jebus Fish? That’s the graph equivalent of Blinky, the Three-Eyed Fish. God obviously wants us to invest in newkyoolar power.
I liked the 583 comments section much better when there were 30 or 40 average comments per post and it was mostly helpful questions and answers about math, methodology and terminology.
Much too hard to wade through nowadays. I haz a
This is just a scare tactic. Voting down Prop 8 will not allow Troy McClure to marry a fish.
NewSpence: Win. Beat me to it.
Maybe the RNC has been spending $150,000 to make prop 8 look FABulous.
In all seriousness, I’m straight and say no on 8.
Naked Bunny with a Whip: Yes, yes it is. And if you are in the LA area and would like to volunteer to phonebank for no on 8, you can do so at the USC campus at the United University Church.
Phonebanks are:
Wednesday from 6 to 9
Saturday from 2 to 5
Sunday from 4 to 8
Or if you’re from elsewhere in CA, contact a field office and see what you can do.
SayItWithWookies: SayItWithWookies: That Jesus fish was more than likely flown in from the Great Lakes area so it’s without a doubt full of mercury. That’s why you can’t keep it down, not because it might rise again from the dead. Even if it does, it’s be risin’ from the sewer treatment plant by that point.
As a lifelong Cali resident, I can tell everyone that with some rare exceptions, MOST props are killed in votes. I Dad’s habit for years was to vote no on any proposition after Prop 13 passed in the 1970s and raised everyone property taxes. The large amount of new/young voters also makes this one a tough call.
Oh, and graphs are totally gay.
ColdCupofHope: Vote no on all the poorly worded/confusing propositions. Vote no on everything!
Letting teh gays marry would be a huge boon for the economy–think tux shops, cake bakers, flowers, caterers, photographers & all things wedding related. Because the gays can outdo any non-gay in the fancy wedding dept. Plus when it came time to adopt & divorce, think of the boon for all the family law attorneys. Win / win for everyone, right?
I SEE THE VIRGIN MARY IN THESE STATISTICS!!!
That anti-gay jesusfish is covered with parasites. DON’T EAT THE JESUSFISH!
Serolf Divad: Yep, it’s a petition for an amendment to the state constitution, which would supersede the pro-same-sex marriage decision out of the CA Supreme Court from a few months back. This, of course, is why it’s so galling that the language of the proposition was written by a committee of Arizonans, since it’s, you know, our state constitution. It’s also largely funded by a coterie of interests from AZ and UT; this is not a proposition with a lot of local roots. Of course, that doesn’t change the fact that it’s our homegrown mouth-breathing idiots who’ll be voting for it.
Naked Bunny with a Whip: And yeah, we’re ridiculous like that.
runcrash: Not if we change the Constitution. Then we can make all kinds of crazy laws!
tunamelt: Sorry, I’m watching this from the cold, wet farmlands of Iowa, where gay marriage was legal for about 3 hours awhile back.
There’s this slimy used car salemanlike “professor” from a law school on the Pro-8 commercials here in CA. He’s Mormon. He talks about how if gay marriage is allowed that he’s going to march into your homes and have buttsecks with you, but only after he marries you. No matter who you are. ‘Cause he’s Mormon, and they’re down with the polygamy. Check out hottie Newsome and his limp wristed arm flapping.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GLKca67ML1k
ixthios is in the tank
Serolf Divad: That’s the dire part. That all our rights are ultimately at the whim of illiterate, underwater, homedebting wingnuts in god-foresaken central valley and foreclosure Fontucky who believe that if they don’t vote YES, everyone will start teh ghey fucking in kindergartens and public libraries.
nobody fucks with the jesus
Oh, that’s nothing.
The graph depicting the trading between May thru September this year on the Iowa Electronic Market’s ‘Winner Take All’ betting forms a perfect pair of glossable lips, with the kiss-off mark, (and Obama’s $35 dollar rise), co-coinciding exactly with the day he made his his ‘Lipstick On A Pig’ comment:
http://iemweb.biz.uiowa.edu/graphs/graph_Pres08_WTA.cfm
From that moment on, the graph for Obama pivots, campaign turning point stylee, into the top part of a hockey stick, while McCain’s falls like his viagra has worn off completely.
Word from the trenches is that individuals in Utah were calling California voters and telling them a vote FOR prop 8 was a vote FOR gay marriage. Slimy. Also, lying is not christian…