Good News and Better News

Not sure I was prepared to post anything like this topic till near or after the fall election. I certainly hope this isn't just a respite from the onslaught of anti-family family values and further dilution of our constitution. Not quite ready to pop the cork on all this, but the bubbly is chilling just in case...

But, SCOTUS bitch slapped the white house and said they broke with Geneva Convention and cannot conduct military tribunals on the GITMO folks.

The Dems in Congress seemed to have found a line item in the budget to buy brass ovaries and they are rattling the cage the Republicans are putting us all in.

Rush Limbaugh has lied his way into a big hole...maybe that is why he needed viagra.

Bush can't get enough National Guards to protect the borders. Perhaps cloning is not such a bad idea after all?

Another Homeland security employee is under fraud charges and the Homeland's cyber guy's generous salary is questioned.

The Pentagon is being sued for not providing a wind study in timely fashion and Sierra Club is holding their feet to the fire over it.

Arkansas lost the case to forbidlgbt folks from fostering.

Jenna Bush is going to teach in Latin America. Ah yes we can send folks to Mars and Bush progeny to Latin America. Chances of her becoming a democrat? High, I think.

And PFLAG is ringing the closing bell on Wall Street today.

Not a bad week, if you ask me.

Rally of the timid

Apparently, Mike Tidmus is rallying folks to protest the hangings of two gay men in Iran. This occured in July of '05 and received some attention , though exectedly not from the MSM. Another issue of restricting rights to religious text filters upon which our religious right agrees with their religious right.

Support goes to Mike and his efforts, and while I can appreciate the intent of rallying folks to bring attention to the hangings of the boys in Iran, I wonder if the effort is misdirected. Why are we not rallying folks to the hypocrisy of the Fatwa against our own people in IRAQ, where we are allegedly bringing democracy?

Despite the horrific nature of Iran's conduct, they are not out of integrity with the other policies they hold against women, free speech and the like. The 51st state, Iraq, however is, within the context of creating a democracy.

I wonder just when we will have enough of all of this? And I mean all of it. Just what PRIDE are we celebrating? Just what homage do we pay Stonewall?

See Democracy Now's interview with a gay Iraqi exile.

Dogs and Cats livin' in sin

this week is only half over and ALREADY its been a week of comedic material, kidney punches, and unfullfilled wishes for thunderbolts to strike.

This week I certainly wish there was some sort of force that would get back into the business of smiting enemies of mine and thine.

On the one hand we have folks who limply offered up the Federal Marriage Amendment and for the life of me this anemic attempt should be a signal for something, but I say I cannot figure it out. I might not be stupid enough or devious enough. And you cannot fix stupid, I heard, so I will work on devious over the next few days.

Meanwhile the FMA failed to pass. But some folks on the hill got some great questions asked of them. (H/T to John at americablog)

But on to Anne Coulter. This is the one for whom lightening bolts should be deployed and in gross amounts. This woman should be struck down so hard that even her past is obliterated. I have, in the past, sat before my tubular-wonder translator of matter and watched her spew forth incredibly huge buckets of bilious untruths without any counter from anyone. But this week, she left me gobsmacked.

Gobsmacked, I'll tell you.

Clamoring for whatever klieg lighting she can get, this entity we know as Ann Coulter must be devoid of humanity. The fact that she can speak and read might indicate that she had human contact during childhood, but she must be the sister of Dr. Evil. Perhaps she is the one who shaved his scrotum.

Accusing the widows of 9/11 of profiting from their grief is beyond derision. Its the act of a guttersnipe.

Ann Coulter: a soul which cries for a heart in it.

Meanwhile, there were folks who thought that because Tuesday was June 6th of 2006, that Satan was spawning his anti-christ. Or that it had already been born and would rise to power, or that...WHATEVER.

Of course 6/6/06 does happen EVERY ONE HUNDRED YEARS.

So which 06 will it be...or is it 616 as has been reported? Or maybe it is that 666 represents the feminine and is numerically a translation of EVE as has been said.

WHATEVERx2

Suspend your beliefs that put men on the moon, discovered penicillin, and uncovered string theory but realize that chasing after heresy instead of producing goods and making discoveries will seriously effect the coffers.

AND TOOTHPASTE CAN MAKE YOU INVISIBLE, too.

WALMART MAKES US POORER

Finally the truth is out and measurable.
Hema Swaminathan of the International Center for Research on Women “found that an estimated 20,000 families nationwide have fallen below the official poverty line as a result of the chain’s expansion.”

More here

TRUTH WINS OUT

Wayne Besen launches Truth Wins Out on June 7th at the National Press Club. To quote Besen, "Truth Wins Out will confront a dangerous lie that has buttressed anti-gay campaigns from coast to coast. From school boards to city councils to Congress, a lie is being advanced that sexual orientation is something that can be directed or 'cured. It's false, and Truth Wins Out will strike this pillar out from under anti-gay efforts."

Here Here! Where do we go to donate?

More info to come as I get it.

nuff said

no, really it was 7 and a half pounds. Thiiiiis Big

Make it stop!

Bruce Willis is starring in the 4th franchise of Die Hard. It should be entitled Die Hard, But Please Just Die, Willya?