Mike Barnicle: gays who care about Warren selection only live in five cities

Georgetown?

Georgetown is not a gay neighborhood; DC's gayborhood is in the Dupont Circle area.  And Santa Monica?  I thought the gay lived in WeHo.

If you're going to use hate-code, at least get it right ...

"There are two kinds of people in this world -- the kind who separate the world into two kinds of people, and those who don't."  -- Gloria Steinem

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by: red7eric @ Mon Dec 22, 2008 at 19:41:23 PM CST

Santa Monica

Many East Coast fossils still think of the Santa Monica as the most liberal of cities because of their history of leading the nation with rent control, anti-smoking, and homeless rights legislation.

Santa Monica was also the home of Tom Hayden and Jane Fonda back in the early '80s. Someone should tell them that Jane Fonda doesn't live there anymore

The city isn't as liberal as it was back in the '80s and '90s that's for sure. There are now many gated communities and those controversial rent control laws now defer to state regulations. Due to recent gentrification  a large percentage of the population are now millionaires who support conservative causes.

No one but the wealthy can afford to live in WeHo anymore, either.

When you look for the bad in mankind, expecting to find it, you surely will.

- Abraham Lincoln.

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by: Fritz @ Mon Dec 22, 2008 at 20:33:20 PM CST

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Chased from our homes and then marginalized

This discussion touches a topic that I've been harping about for months now.  In discussion after discussion, pundits have been talking about how we have all freely moved to the big cities to party and have fun.  Most of us didn't just move to have fun ... we fled to the big cities to get a modicum of respect, a wee bit of safety, and the chance that we wouldn't be fired from our jobs.

Others stayed in our home towns, often being forced to be closeted or risk abuse.  Others have found safety in accepting communities, but those are often far and few between.

LGBT folk have been chased from their homes, thrown out of their churches, and  often kicked out of their families.  Some times this happened via physical force, other times by mental abuse.  However in many cases this has made us refugees in our own country.

It has gotten significantly better over the past 4 decades and fewer people find the need to escape.  However until the time that we are free to stay in our own homes, churches, and families, there will be no true equality in this country.

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by: garrett_in_sf @ Mon Dec 22, 2008 at 19:50:14 PM CST

I felt the exact same way

watching here in Charlotte. I am sure as hell mad too and I emailed Barnicle's website to tell him so. Not every gay person is rich and lives in New York or LA. When will it ever end?

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by: DilworthDem @ Mon Dec 22, 2008 at 20:08:34 PM CST

It's more small town values crap

Apparently people who live in larger town, aka "real" America don't have the same values as people from Laramie, WY, Jackson, MS, and  Lincoln, NE.  They actually think that they are the ones who are in the right, doing god's work, etc.  It just boggles the mind...

My America includes LGBT families.

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by: Mena @ Mon Dec 22, 2008 at 20:08:45 PM CST

Thanks, Chris Matthews

I was fuming over this editorial invention a few days ago when Chris Matthews was trying to sell it.

Angering the gays is good for Obama?

I don't understand his logic. I suppose Obama should invite the KKK to march in his parade. Maybe it will earn him points with the white racists in rural America.

If Obama keeps it up, he will lose four or five million votes in 2012. How will that benefit him?

When you look for the bad in mankind, expecting to find it, you surely will.

- Abraham Lincoln.

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by: Fritz @ Mon Dec 22, 2008 at 20:16:44 PM CST

So Dallas/Fort Worth

is no longer ALL steers and queers?

Since when have gay people strictly lived in 5 cities?  I've never even BEEN to these 5! LOL

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by: bluegrassfool @ Mon Dec 22, 2008 at 20:27:28 PM CST

Representing ATL

Mike, your last name is soooo apropos.

Signed,

One of like 10 actual natives of Atlanta

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by: rptrcub @ Mon Dec 22, 2008 at 20:35:09 PM CST

I live in Phoenix

so add one more city to the list.

Fetch my pearls, I need to clutch them!

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by: RainbowPhoenix @ Mon Dec 22, 2008 at 20:40:07 PM CST

Granted, St. Louis may have been demoted to a very large town...

with under 500,000 residents within the city limits (metro area 2 million), and it no longer is the American Beer Capital, but why rub it in, Barnicle? I hope you choke on your  Belgian beer.

Chicago, however, is not so easy to demote.

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by: NancyP @ Mon Dec 22, 2008 at 20:46:10 PM CST

For the record, you lying dismissive bashing b*stard

Friends at The Hague trying to indict Warren's buddy Akinola for Crimes Against Humanity are furious about Warren's selection

Friends in Ireland and the UK hoping for a rational foreign policy and a return to established principles of international law on the part of the US are frightened by the selection of Warren, an advocate of assasination

Friends in Upstate, in counties as far away from the Upper West Side as Cattaraugus, Erie, Chautauqua and Niagara are opposed to the selection of Warren

And this Lesbian, friend to those listed above, who lives north of Harriman, opposes the selection of Warren.

Pompous Prick!

I tell you Chica that no greater abomination exists than women denying their spirit of sisterhood and instead becoming the oppressor. -Rebeca, Universidad Complutense de Madrid

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by: MauraHennessey @ Mon Dec 22, 2008 at 20:47:10 PM CST

Double-source it!

Anything that comes out of Barnicle's mouth needs to be checked to make sure he actually said it.

Funny, how getting fired for plagiarism means you can still have a career as a pundit.

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by: Darkrose @ Mon Dec 22, 2008 at 20:49:17 PM CST

Barnacle's nothing but a waste of space, airspace and otherwise.

Did you know that when he wrote for the Boston Globe the Globe regularly bought Mike Royko's column, but never ever ran it?  

Meh......

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by: oddjob @ Mon Dec 22, 2008 at 20:53:00 PM CST

for the record

While I'm not thrilled about Warren's selection, I'm hardly ready to man the barricades over it. Obama could have picked Hagee, Brother Pat, or Rev. Rod. At least Warren is pro environment.

I'm honestly more disappointed with Obama over the lack of LGBT people in high level positions within his government and for punting on DADT.  We have also heard silence on ENDA and hate crimes.  In fact, if Obama actually enacts any of that legislation, he could invite the Pope, Brother Pat, Hagee, Rev. Rod, Rick Warren, Archbishop Akinola, James Dobson, Jay Sekulow and Fred Phelps over for supper and a White House photo shoot and I would not care.  

In short, stop paying so much attention to the symbolism and push for policy changes.  The latter is what matters!  

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by: arsenalchick @ Mon Dec 22, 2008 at 21:16:44 PM CST

Obama showed diversity

we have a homophobic transportation secretary who voted for the federal marriage amendment and to ban gay adoptions in DC

we got the advocate of assasination and the buddy of suspected war crimes perp Akinola giving the invocation.

How much more diversity can we handle?

I tell you Chica that no greater abomination exists than women denying their spirit of sisterhood and instead becoming the oppressor. -Rebeca, Universidad Complutense de Madrid

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by: MauraHennessey @ Mon Dec 22, 2008 at 21:24:09 PM CST

[ Parent ]

We also have someone

vocally pro-equality giving the benediction. I'm not saying this makes up for the other choices, but let's keep an eye on the big picture.

Fetch my pearls, I need to clutch them!

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by: RainbowPhoenix @ Mon Dec 22, 2008 at 21:32:32 PM CST

[ Parent ]

OK, big picture:

homophobe in the cabinet without exxperience in the department that he oversees

homophobe who supports the author of LGBT enslavement in Nigeria and who advocates assasination giving the invocation

DADT referred to a review group not yet named to be brought up in say, 2010 maybe?

but we got a band, by god!
Diveristy works.

Does anyone besides me feel any sense of kinship for our brothers and sisters doing hard labour for 5 to 15 years in Nigeria, sent there through the efforts of Peter Akinola, who Warren wholeheartedly supports and has written a defense of?

Do we not owe them kinship and solidarity by at least objecting in public, at the inaugural or on the streets throughout the nation, at the inclusion of the ally of their tormentor in Obama's "diversity?"

I tell you Chica that no greater abomination exists than women denying their spirit of sisterhood and instead becoming the oppressor. -Rebeca, Universidad Complutense de Madrid

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by: MauraHennessey @ Mon Dec 22, 2008 at 21:40:40 PM CST

[ Parent ]

I'm not saying don't protest Warren.

How does the transportation secretary even affect us?
The passing of DADT was such a disaster that getting rid of it will be very difficult. We will hold Obama's feet to the fire though.  

Fetch my pearls, I need to clutch them!

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by: RainbowPhoenix @ Mon Dec 22, 2008 at 22:00:28 PM CST

[ Parent ]

kinship

Why should I feel kinship with unfortunate gays in Nigeria when my own community here in the USA has a big segment of activists (located largely in the Northeast and West Coast) that ignores the needs of the LGBT community here...particularly in the South and Midwest? Am I sorry for gays in Nigeria?  Sure. I'm just much more focused on getting protections that will make a difference in my life and in the lives of people that I know.  In that respect, taking on Warren costs us political capital that we don't need to waste.

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by: arsenalchick @ Mon Dec 22, 2008 at 22:54:46 PM CST

[ Parent ]

And when they come for us here like they came for them?

We have no political capital.
None
If we had, Warren would not be speaking.

Obama is being applauded for his brilliant strategy in picking part of his base to abuse and he picked us

Why?

Because there will be no consequences.

So what is it exactly do you have to lose by standing up on behalf of people imprisoned and doing hard labour whose suffering is partly Warrren's doing?

Or is the LGBT community as self absorbed and narcissistic as Warren and his cohorts claim it is?

I tell you Chica that no greater abomination exists than women denying their spirit of sisterhood and instead becoming the oppressor. -Rebeca, Universidad Complutense de Madrid

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by: MauraHennessey @ Mon Dec 22, 2008 at 23:02:27 PM CST

[ Parent ]

self absorbed?

The vast majority of the country is more worried about the economy, health care, Iraq, Afghanistan, torture by our own government, housing, no credit, imploding industries and I could go on.  Yet, the LGBT community is jumping up and down and hollering over some preacher from California that has advocated against us, hurt our feelings and might even be Obama's BFF. As a community, we have entirely lost focus about the reality of the situation.  Our nation is going down the tubes.  It isn't just the LGBT community. Getting this country moving again by achieving policy changes(in many areas...LGBT rights included) is a lot more important than the politics of symbolism.          

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by: arsenalchick @ Mon Dec 22, 2008 at 23:41:19 PM CST

[ Parent ]

Congratulations, you must be a student of history...

...because you're spouting the exact same argument bigots used to downplay the importance of civil rights for African Americans back in the 1940s, '50s and '60s.

Newsflash, arsenalchick: there's no such thing as being TOO self-absorbed about your civill rights when you're being actively discriminated against.

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by: johnbinpt @ Mon Dec 22, 2008 at 23:52:45 PM CST

[ Parent ]

yep, I am

let's go down the list:
-Are LGBT people being laid off?  probably so
-Are LGBT people losing health care because they have crummy jobs or no jobs? probably so.
-Can the LGBT folks with jobs easily buy cars or houses because of the credit crunch?  Not so much.
-Can LGBT college students get loans to stay in school? Much more difficult because of the credit crunch.
-Should our government torturing folks bother a group that is openly discriminated against (LGBT people)? Probably so.

I'm sorry but those are gay rights issues too.  Unfortunately for many in our community, those issues intersect with the interests of other groups.  As the recent vote in California demonstrated, we are not very good at seeing intersections or paying attention to how we can work with others.

With respect being a student of history, socially marginalized groups do better politically when the economy is growing. In fact, if you want to go back to Jim Crow, those laws were able to be enacted in part because the economy was frequently bad in the late 1800's and early 1900's (particularly in the South). In parts of the South, a populist-Republican alliance had formed and it seemed like gains would be had.  Unfortunately, at the national level, the Populists (whose existence was largely for economic reasons) chose to align themselves with the Democrats  They nominated William Jennings Bryan for President. Of course, he scared the dickens out of the country and the Republicans would be in charge for most of the next 30 years...except in the South where you had a toxic stew of racists and disenchanted folks who wanted to use government power for "changes." Moving forward on the time line, we didn't see civil rights gains until the rather prosperous 1950's and 1960's.  The reenergized attack on civil rights occurred during the crappy 1970's when whites outside of the South got fed up with things because they were stressed financially.  

Also of note, the religious right tends to gain adherents in a bad economy.    
   

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by: arsenalchick @ Tue Dec 23, 2008 at 00:44:39 AM CST

[ Parent ]

But we have the extra burden

of those things happening BECAUSE we're gay. With the current economic crisis, the inheritance rights that come with marriage are more important than ever. We have enough problems now without our sexuality being used against us. We need to fight harder than ever now.

Fetch my pearls, I need to clutch them!

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by: RainbowPhoenix @ Tue Dec 23, 2008 at 01:24:55 AM CST

[ Parent ]

that's the problem

Everyone's (including myself) is afraid that this is where Obama's "fierce advoca[cy]" is going to stop. So far, he punted DADT, he gave 0 positions to an open LGBT person, he has not said anything on the time line of even the ENDA... And now, he's welcomed a bigot, which independent of Obama's intentions has already alienated a large group of us.

On top of that, I haven't heard the words "I understand Warren's words cause pain to the LGBT Americans," "I regret that this decision has caused pain," "Warren is wrong on the civil rights of LGBT Americans..." None of these words, or their equivalents have been said. Does it take much to do this? Any PR effort not related to politics would involve this in the first 5 minutes after any blogs started talking about it. Why hasn't Obama's campaign done that?

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by: avocado @ Mon Dec 22, 2008 at 22:42:22 PM CST

[ Parent ]

Because they mean to piss us off

to distance themselves from us.

Yhey did have one contact, to remind us in a snotty fashion that we got the band in the prarde for the first time and what a breakthrough that was.


I tell you Chica that no greater abomination exists than women denying their spirit of sisterhood and instead becoming the oppressor. -Rebeca, Universidad Complutense de Madrid

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by: MauraHennessey @ Mon Dec 22, 2008 at 23:57:45 PM CST

[ Parent ]

Exactly

I completely agree. And that's what I find troubling.

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by: avocado @ Tue Dec 23, 2008 at 02:07:50 AM CST

[ Parent ]

But we got a band, and maybe hairderssers

in the inaugural...
Shouldn't we be happy with "inclusion?"

I tell you Chica that no greater abomination exists than women denying their spirit of sisterhood and instead becoming the oppressor. -Rebeca, Universidad Complutense de Madrid

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by: MauraHennessey @ Mon Dec 22, 2008 at 21:19:06 PM CST

Nonsense!

I'm in New Mexico and folks are pissed all over the place.

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by: mwfolsom @ Mon Dec 22, 2008 at 21:36:24 PM CST

this pair are neither as intelligent or entertaining as static

What have you done today, to make ya feel PROUD?


~Heather Small

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by: peteyPornpig @ Mon Dec 22, 2008 at 22:40:54 PM CST

Exactly the only place this ill-conceived nonsense would end

Symbolic triangulation of a minority.

This affair has magnified the LGBT community's minority status and lack of influence.  The MSM and political establishment has learned a new way to counterbalance our community's limited power, and is repeating it over and over and will until Jan 20.

A structural minority has to mask it's weakness to achieve the appearance of power rather than put it's powerless anger on display for all to see.

The suggestion to handle this through back-channels and squeezing the bank accounts is not a suggestion to go back to the closet or blindly accept a slap in the face.  It is the wisdom to not demonstrate weakness.

We have given more power and standing to Warren than if we had left this plainly cynical political pick alone and shrugged it off as the irrelevant ploy of political payback.

Next time something like this happens - and it will happen often - set up the community for appearance of success (like the marginalization of our enemies not our own triangulation from the real power).

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by: HunterC @ Mon Dec 22, 2008 at 23:00:46 PM CST

We have the ability to bring cities to a standstill

Don't even begin to beg off this using the drawing room politics model and our lack of political clout. Our weakness politically was definively demonstrated for the nation to see on November 4th. Conventional political soultions are no longer viable.

We can disrupt and discomfit the majority til oppressing us is too birdensome for them to continue.

If we have the will....

I tell you Chica that no greater abomination exists than women denying their spirit of sisterhood and instead becoming the oppressor. -Rebeca, Universidad Complutense de Madrid

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by: MauraHennessey @ Mon Dec 22, 2008 at 23:07:15 PM CST

[ Parent ]

Plus

In this day and age, MSM are not as important as they once were. Majority of the country has internet access. Many people have video cameras or at lest microphones. We can mobilize huge numbers of LGBTs, and we can get our message across.

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by: avocado @ Tue Dec 23, 2008 at 02:15:44 AM CST

[ Parent ]

How this model I prefer brings religious opponents to a standstill

Read and enjoy how to really hurt a bigot cloaked in religion.

From the land of the real Billy Graham and the heart of the Bible Belt:

http://christianactionleague.o...

The second-most prominent lobbying organization against LGBT-rights was made to DEFEND school-bullying.  Yes, triangulating the bigots as pro-bullying, as they say in their own article, has sent them $15,000 in the red.

Of course, they quote a perennial sponsor of the state's marriage amendment in their plea for fundraising, all but admitting they're in a weaker position heading into the coming legislative session (no matter the issue - amendment, bullying, whatever).

This back-channel, fly under the radar, pick your battles, bleed 'em dry model has worked pretty well against a massive, religion-backed anti-gay machine in my experience.  

That's why I want to keep using it and caution against publicity unless you know you're showing strength.  Just as this anti-gay organization shows weakness, surely pro-LGBT orgs are in better shape if they're strong - or at least mask their weakness better than this anti-gay org did.

I know we're all working for equality, so I don't question anyone's motives, just tactics.

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by: HunterC @ Tue Dec 23, 2008 at 06:19:50 AM CST

[ Parent ]

Seattle

You can damned well include Seattle and Portland in the circle of pissed off places.  Warren and Obama were the main topic of very angry and disheartened conversation at the holiday party I went to Saturday night.  As my dear elderly mother would say, "fuckin' assholes".

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by: Smartypants @ Mon Dec 22, 2008 at 23:24:16 PM CST

I love your mom!

"It goes on one at a time, it starts when you care to act, it starts when you do it again after they said no, it starts when you say We and know who you mean, and each day you mean one more."

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by: Louise @ Tue Dec 23, 2008 at 05:45:51 AM CST

[ Parent ]

People who care if Mike Barnicle gets run over by a truck tomorrow...

...are limited to those he owes money to.

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by: johnbinpt @ Mon Dec 22, 2008 at 23:25:31 PM CST

Warren empire associated with Left Behind Game

From Talk to Action:
Mark Carver, a top aide to mega-church pastor and best selling author Rick Warren, has resigned as a business advisor to Left Behind Games, the developers of a video game in which Christian militias wage physical and spiritual warfare using the power of prayer and modern military weaponry to convert New Yorkers and kill those who resist. Mr. Carver's abrupt resignation, announced in a statement e-mailed to Talk to Action by Mr. Warren's Purpose Driven Ministries on June 6, 2006, came in response to a two-part series on Talk to Action that criticized the game's antisocial nature (warriors shout "Praise the Lord!" as they blow infidels away, and players can switch to the side of the AntiChrist to kill Christians). The series also revealed the game developer's links to Mr. Warren's empire and their emulation of his network marketing techniques. For example, Mr. Carver, Executive Director of Purpose Driven Church, served on the Advisory Board of Left Behind Games, a corporation formed in October 2001 (weeks after the attack on the World Trade Center) to develop the violent video game and distribute 1 million sample discs through pastoral networks and mega-churches.

Do we think that Mr. Warren would allow his name brand and reputation to be casually invoked in a major business venture that involves one of the largest publishers in the Christian marketplace, who published the Left Behind novels, one of the best selling fiction series of all time? Does anyone think that Left Behind Games invoked the name brand of Mr. Warren's Purpose Driven Church without his permission? Since this possibility is far-fetched, what we are looking at here is a business/marketing alliance between several evangelical business and ministerial entrepreneurs for whom the Great Commission also means great profits.


I tell you Chica that no greater abomination exists than women denying their spirit of sisterhood and instead becoming the oppressor. -Rebeca, Universidad Complutense de Madrid

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by: MauraHennessey @ Mon Dec 22, 2008 at 23:53:47 PM CST

does anyone care what mike barnicle says?

Didn't he get canned by the Boston Globe years ago for making stuff up?

Regardless..I happen to have been recently married and don't live in any of the cities he mentions.  In fact my town had the first gay mayor in the US.  Guess Mike isn't doing his homework again...but wants to prove he's hip enough to know a few areas where there might be gay people and thereby justify writing a story about it.  Think 2x...this ain't news..just more divisive, infotainment, opinionploitation...

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by: Creek Freak @ Tue Dec 23, 2008 at 00:02:22 AM CST

Actually

He was canned from the Boston Globe because he plagiarized someone else's work in a column he used to write for the Globe.

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by: BB @ Tue Dec 23, 2008 at 08:50:23 AM CST

[ Parent ]

What's surprising re: Maqssachusetts

is that Mike left off Ptown/Cape Cod. Left off Northampton/Amherst. Went for Cambridge instead??

HE's a tool.

"It goes on one at a time, it starts when you care to act, it starts when you do it again after they said no, it starts when you say We and know who you mean, and each day you mean one more."

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by: Louise @ Tue Dec 23, 2008 at 05:49:40 AM CST

Fuck-off dyke.

Fuck you you fat, butt-ugly, man-hating dyke.

Homosexuality is nothing more than a cancer on mankind's DNA & soon we will be able to detect it in the early stages of fetal development, and abort appropriately.

BTW, kudos to the guys that gang-raped & beat the shit out of that dyke in Richmond, CA; that cunt had it coming with her fag-flag 'proudly' displayed on her car.

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by: djhartm @ Tue Dec 23, 2008 at 07:35:09 AM CST

get off this website, you troll!

How dare you? Leave Pam and the rest of us alone.  

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by: elizabethws @ Tue Dec 23, 2008 at 08:10:04 AM CST

[ Parent ]

oh my, a smelly troll

wow, we haven't had one this stinky in a while. Someone air out the coffeehouse pronto; I may have to open the trap door soon.

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by: Pam Spaulding @ Tue Dec 23, 2008 at 11:19:37 AM CST

[ Parent ]

Pam, I hope you'll let this one stand.

Because as vile as it is, this troll is more honest than an acre of Rick Warrens.  It's refreshing in that regard.  

I hope the Obama people are listening.  This is what you are giving tacit approval to.  Are you prepared to take that responsibility?

Lurleen on Twitter

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by: Lurleen @ Tue Dec 23, 2008 at 11:39:11 AM CST

[ Parent ]

absolutely no need to delete the comment

You're right -- this is the base that Obama is reaching out to. Note the quality of the commentary.  

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by: Pam Spaulding @ Tue Dec 23, 2008 at 11:46:27 AM CST

[ Parent ]

Here's the terrible story

to which our latest troll referred.

I had just read it and came over here to see what discussions had occurred to find- this.

What goes around comes around in life, you sick piece of garbage. Just remember that and know that when it happens, you fully earned it.


"It goes on one at a time, it starts when you care to act, it starts when you do it again after they said no, it starts when you say We and know who you mean, and each day you mean one more."

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by: Louise @ Tue Dec 23, 2008 at 12:16:12 PM CST

[ Parent ]

Oh CRAP!

Lurleen, I answered on the wrong line- you KNOW I would never in a million years say that to YOU! Very sorry...

"It goes on one at a time, it starts when you care to act, it starts when you do it again after they said no, it starts when you say We and know who you mean, and each day you mean one more."

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by: Louise @ Tue Dec 23, 2008 at 12:18:58 PM CST

[ Parent ]

lol! i figured it out, no worries. :D

Lurleen on Twitter

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by: Lurleen @ Tue Dec 23, 2008 at 12:26:00 PM CST

[ Parent ]

Guys rarely get this kind violent rant

One of the things that I have to point out is that this kind of comment is rare on blogs owned by men.

I've been blogging for almost eight years and I've never been:

1) Called ugly
2) Called fat
3) Been threatened with rape

I've had a couple of death threats. But, they've never included comments about my appearance. I've lost count of the number of times I've seen this happen to women.

Sadly, this is a reflection of our misogynist society more than anything else. Men feel free to threaten women, transwomen, and lesbians in the most vile ways. Sick, huh?

When you look for the bad in mankind, expecting to find it, you surely will.

- Abraham Lincoln.

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by: Fritz @ Tue Dec 23, 2008 at 12:04:15 PM CST

[ Parent ]

It also comes from the belief

 that we (Lesbians and Transwomen) think about sex 24/7.  Just more of the false BS that is spread by the religious right and the "lifestyle" garbage.

If I make sense? it was quite by accident.

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by: HappyCat @ Tue Dec 23, 2008 at 12:40:02 PM CST

[ Parent ]

Okay, so let's parse out your shit.

First- you're an utter lowlife.

Second- you clearly believe that homosexuality is not a choice, but that people are born homosexuals.

Okay, even a stopped clock is right once a day- so there's one for you.

Third- you clearly believe in abortion as a choice.

Hey, good for you! You hit your "twice a day" quota!!

Now run along and go fuck yourself, like a good troll...

"It goes on one at a time, it starts when you care to act, it starts when you do it again after they said no, it starts when you say We and know who you mean, and each day you mean one more."

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by: Louise @ Tue Dec 23, 2008 at 12:23:49 PM CST

[ Parent ]

wow

you take the time to register a profile on a dyke blog, take the time to receive an email confirmation and password , and post a rant worthy of a fred phelps family reunion. what are trying to proof? that we will be scared shit back into the closet.

Pam, save this email. the next time Peter "bam-bam" labarabera bitches about left wing/homosexual intolerance, send thim this post.

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by: henry81 @ Tue Dec 23, 2008 at 12:52:00 PM CST

[ Parent ]

Which dyke?

There are a number of us here; primarily well educated fiery women.

And none of us really hate men.
We just don't sleep with them...

Cunt? I have one but I am not one

Now, rather a shame that those brave guys in Richmond did not try that with one of the Pink Pistols....other dykes who shoot competitively....now that might have been an even match..and someday one of those gangs of misogynistic men armed with penises but no brains and no balls will try something with one of the PP's

and you will be the first one in here whimpering that the dykes need brought under control..because men like you who applaud rape from behind the screen of anonymity do so because they have no balls. None. nada.

I tell you Chica that no greater abomination exists than women denying their spirit of sisterhood and instead becoming the oppressor. -Rebeca, Universidad Complutense de Madrid

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by: MauraHennessey @ Tue Dec 23, 2008 at 14:24:56 PM CST

[ Parent ]

I won't bother

listing all the things wrong with this. I hope to find your real name so that I may add you to my list of graves to dance on.

Fetch my pearls, I need to clutch them!

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by: RainbowPhoenix @ Tue Dec 23, 2008 at 14:27:35 PM CST

[ Parent ]

Overcompensating?

I'm terribly, terribly sorry about your tiny dick.

Nah, not really. I think it's pretty funny, in a pathetic kind of way. Now run along, and let the adults go back to our conversation.

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by: Darkrose @ Tue Dec 23, 2008 at 15:22:38 PM CST

[ Parent ]

Firefox has a kill option for blogs.

It's part of Greasemonkey.  

My America includes LGBT families.

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by: Mena @ Tue Dec 23, 2008 at 15:26:58 PM CST

[ Parent ]

I did a quick search on our troll

He is Mr. David J Hartman, afficianado of Lesbian porn.

He visited the Bash Back! site and commented :Every time I see one of those fucked-up rainbow stickers on a car, rest assured it will be keyed, thanks in no small part to your group's bullshit.

David J Hartman

djhartm@nc.rr.com

Worst of all, he has a passion for Honda Motorcycles.

David, when my brothers hooked me up with my first Triumph bike, they taught me the dictum "Friends don't let friends ride rice-burners"

So keep riding Honda....

I tell you Chica that no greater abomination exists than women denying their spirit of sisterhood and instead becoming the oppressor. -Rebeca, Universidad Complutense de Madrid

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by: MauraHennessey @ Tue Dec 23, 2008 at 22:18:44 PM CST

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Left a message at Barnicle's website

Basically, I care, and I live in Mesa, Arizona, one of the most conservative places in the USA!

pffth. I can't stand these stuffed suits.

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by: Mirele @ Tue Dec 23, 2008 at 07:47:26 AM CST

North Carolina

People all over my home state of NC are pissed as hell about the selection of Rick Warren. Where did this "data" about the only p.o.'d queers being in a handful of cities come from? Mike Barnicle needs to go back in his hole. He is not a serious journalist by any stretch.

As my mother said recently, "This issue is about a bunch of old white people being afraid of change. And you know what? They're all going to die off pretty soon. People either need to get on the equality bus or get the hell out of the way."

My mother is almost sixty, white, and a native Southerner. Thanks, Mama!

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by: elizabethws @ Tue Dec 23, 2008 at 08:09:13 AM CST