The Christian Civic League of Maine's Mike Hein calls Pam's House Blend: "a leading source of radical homosexual propaganda, anti-Christian bigotry, and radical transgender advocacy."
He is "praying that Pam Spaulding will "turn away from her wicked and sinful promotion of homosexual behavior."
(CCLM's web site, 10/15/07)
Ex-gay "Christian" activist James Hartline on Pam:
"I have been mocked over and over again by ungodly and unprincipled anti-christian lesbians."
(from "Six Years In Sodom: From The Journal Of James Hartline," 9/4/2006, written from the "homosexual stronghold" of Hillcrest in San Diego).
"Pam is a 'twisted lesbian sister' and an 'embittered lesbian' of the 'self-imposed gutteral experiences of the gay ghetto.'" -- 9/5/2008
Peter LaBarbera of Americans for Truth Against Homosexuality heartily endorses the Blend, calling Pam:
A "vicious anti-Christian lesbian activist." (Concerned Women for America's radio show [9:15], 1/25/07)
"A nutty lesbian blogger." (MassResistance radio show [16:25], 2/3/07)
Pam's House Blend always seems to find these sick f*cks. The area of the country she is in? The home state of her wife? I know, they are everywhere. Pam just does such a great job of bringing them out into the light.
--Impeach Bush
who monitors yours Bevis ?? Just thought I would drop you a line,so the rest of your life is not wasted.
The out former U.S. Marine, Tim Smith, who appeared on a billboard in Memphis, TN has come forward to speak about the vandalism that destroyed the sign, which said, "I'm gay and I protected your freedom." (The Advocate):
The serviceman, who was kicked out of the military under its "don't ask, don't tell" policy, says he was shocked when he received news about the vandalism. "It was more or less shock and then it turned to righteous indignation and anger towards whoever had done it and that the act had even been committed," Smith told WPTY-TV.
Rachel Maddow asked Uncle Pat Buchanan why he thought 108 out of 110 Supreme Court justices being white, as he railed on about Sotomayor was an "affirmative action" appointment.
"White men were 100% of the people that wrote the Constitution, 100% of the people that signed the Declaration of Independence, 100% of the people who died at Gettysburg and Vicksburg, probably close to 100% of the people who died at Normandy. This has been a country built basically by white folks."
I do not know how she held it together as this flat-out-and-proud racist -- there's nothing else to call this man -- uttered this bullsh*t.
Pat Buchanan forgot the whole bit about the fact that the darkies back in 1776 were owned by the men signing the Declaration of Independence, and women couldn't own property or vote. And the wealth of those men in the wigs was built on the whipped backs of slaves.
And I don't know WTF he's talking about -- blacks fought for this country in every war, despite being segregated by the great white men he's mooning over. How does this man stay on the air? Is he supposed to be MSNBC's house white supremacist? It's time for MSNBC to fire Pat Buchanan before he opens his racist trap again.
Welcome to post-racial America, where people have their heads in the sand about the state of race relations in this country because a black man was elected POTUS.
The staff at the Valley Swim Club in NE Philly must have stepped into the DeLorean and took a spin back into the days of segregation, as 60 kids were turned away from the pool there and apparently the people at the Swim Club didn't mind their inner bigot surface for all to see. (NBC Philly):
"I heard this lady, she was like, 'Uh, what are all these black kids doing here?' She's like, 'I'm scared they might do something to my child,'" said camper Dymire Baylor.
The Creative Steps Day Camp paid more than $1900 to The Valley Swim Club. The Valley Swim Club is a private club that advertises open membership. But the campers' first visit to the pool suggested otherwise.
"When the minority children got in the pool all of the Caucasian children immediately exited the pool," Horace Gibson, parent of a day camp child, wrote in an email. "The pool attendants came and told the black children that they did not allow minorities in the club and needed the children to leave immediately."
..."There was concern that a lot of kids would change the complexion … and the atmosphere of the club," John Duesler, President of The Valley Swim Club said in a statement.
Excuse me, what year is this? Am I watching a rerun of a scene in Far From Heaven (2002)? There was a scene in the Todd Haynes film, set in the 1950s, where a black boy, the son of service worker at a Miami hotel, dares to step into the hotel pool. His father rushes and pulls him out, but it's too late -- the white people in the pool race to get out of the "contaminated" water. Apparently that's the kind of "change they can believe in" at The Valley Swim Club.
Contact information for the club is here. This is so outrageous that I'm almost unable to type.
I don't see anything on the membership app asking about race, so when do they determine you can't join -- when you show up? Check out the club's rules of operations below the fold.
InterstateQ has posted The U.S. Senate will debate a resolution, Senate Concurrent Resolution 26, apologizing for slavery and “Jim Crow” today.
While we have already appoligized to those American Citizens who were imprisioned during WWII for being of Japanese decent, our nation has never apologized for using our fellow human beings as slaves to build this country.
The Republicans have out-and-out bigots peppered in leadership who find safe harbor in the party, and every once in a while these numbskull racists get the wild hair and cut loose when they think no one is watching. (FitsNews):
SC: Republican activist calls escaped gorilla an "ancestor" to Michelle Obama on Facebook
A prominent S.C. Republican Party activist is in hot water after describing an escaped gorilla at a South Carolina zoo as an "ancestor" of First Lady Michelle Obama.
The exchange occurred after Trey Walker, an advisor to S.C. Attorney General Henry McMaster, posted an innocuous Facebook update about this morning's escape of a Western Lowlands Gorilla from Columbia's Riverbanks Zoo.
Walker's harmless update, however was followed by a highly-questionable comment from longtime SCGOP activist and former State Senate candidate, Rusty DePass.
"I'm sure it's just one of Michelle's ancestors - probably harmless," DePass wrote.
An early South Carolina supporter of former President George W. Bush, DePass has been active in Republican politics in South Carolina for decades.
The comment has been removed; it's not clear if FB did it or DePass. BTW, the runner-up to head the RNC, Katon Dawson (who belonged to a whites-only country club), is also the former SC state GOP chair, said this:
"Even if it was taken out of context - its not something that should have ever been said. It's sad, disappointing, and unfortunate,"
Wow, what gusto. Sounds like he had to squeak that out knowing his bud got caught with his pants down on the Internets."
And so came the "apology."
"I am as sorry as I can be if I offended anyone. The comment was clearly in jest."
"You know, I don't think there's anything funny about that comment," says Coble. "That is the First Lady of the United States. We've had a long tradition of wonderful first ladies, and I don't think any of them deserve that type of comment."
And while his trousers were at his ankles, DePass made the situation worse by claiming that the First Lady brought up the subject first in the media.
"The comment was hers. Not mine," saying the first lady made statements in the media recently saying we are all descendents of apes.
She never said it -- no stories can be found.
So we have the usual non-apology from these bigots, added to the utter ignorance that when you put something up on Facebook, it's up for public grabs. Unless you have your account/profile in lockdown and have only friends you know you can trust, anything you put up there can and will be used against you. I don't know where people get the idea that there is some zone of privacy on a social networking site you have open for all to see. The account holder selects the level of public access, so Mr. DePass clearly thought that cutting loose with this badass racist self was not a problem. We are fortunate to have gotten a peek inside a GOP operative's mind -- it only confirms why its voter base is populated with bigots, know-nothings and extremists and shrinking every day.
Is this Michael Steele's party? I receive press releases all the time from the GOP and I've seen nothing out of the RNC condemning the remarks. DePass is a symptom of the party's larger problem.
Frank Rich's column today discusses the extremist fringe of the party that is stirred up, and he notes that leaders in the GOP and in the conservative movement aren't stepping up to turn the volume down on the crazies among them.
A sizable minority of Americans is irrationally fearful of the fast-moving generational, cultural and racial turnover Obama embodies - indeed, of the 21st century itself. That minority is now getting angrier in inverse relationship to his popularity with the vast majority of the country.
...What's startling is the spillover of this poison into the conservative political establishment. Saul Anuzis, a former Michigan G.O.P. chairman who ran for the party's national chairmanship this year, seriously suggested in April that Republicans should stop calling Obama a socialist because "it no longer has the negative connotation it had 20 years ago, or even 10 years ago." Anuzis pushed "fascism" instead, because "everybody still thinks that's a bad thing." He didn't seem to grasp that "fascism" is nonsensical as a description of the Obama administration or that there might be a risk in slurring a president with a word that most find "bad" because it evokes a mass-murderer like Hitler.
...Obama's Cairo address, meanwhile, prompted over-the-top accusations reminiscent of those campaign rally cries of "Treason!" It was a prominent former Reagan defense official, Frank Gaffney, not some fringe crackpot, who accused Obama in The Washington Times of engaging "in the most consequential bait-and-switch since Adolf Hitler duped Neville Chamberlain." He claimed that the president - a lifelong Christian - "may still be" a Muslim and is aligned with "the dangerous global movement known as the Muslim Brotherhood." Gaffney linked Obama by innuendo with Islamic "charities" that "have been convicted of providing material support for terrorism." If this isn't a handy rationalization for another lone nutjob to take the law into his own hands against a supposed terrorism supporter, what is?
...Hard-core haters resolutely dismiss any "mainstream media" debunking of their conspiracy theories. The only voices that might penetrate their alternative reality - I emphasize might - belong to conservative leaders with the guts and clout to step up as McCain did last fall. Where are they? The genteel public debate in right-leaning intellectual circles about the conservative movement's future will be buried by history if these insistent alarms are met with silence.
Joan Walsh at Salon has a piece up, "Can right-wing hate talk lead to murder?", that features her appearance on Hardball where she discussed the climate of hate featured as entertainment by the likes of Limbaugh, O'Reilly and the rest of that motley crew who are now scurrying like rats in the wake of the murder of George Tiller and the white supremacist shooting at the Holocaust Museum yesterday that resulted in the murder of a security guard.
I tried to choose my words carefully. Unless it's shown that either man had accomplices, we have to be clear that the men responsible for those murders are the ones who pulled the trigger. Still, it's hard not to think about the extreme right-wing rhetoric, especially about Barack Obama, and whether it could conceivably lead to more right-wing violence. You can see whether I succeeded here (more text follows the video):
The range of crazy ideas about Obama is broad and wide: He's a secret Muslim, he's going to take our guns, he's even the anti-Christ! James von Brunn just happened to be a "birther," one of the nuts who believe that Obama wasn't born here, his birth certificate is fake, and he thus isn't eligible to be president. I thought it was strange and maybe a little ominous last summer when suddenly Obama was labeled a "socialist" and a "Marxist"; Hillary Clinton and John Kerry are arguably more liberal than Obama; why did he get tagged with that sinister, subversive, alien ideology? It seemed linked to the fact that he's just so ... different from other politicians, so easy to marginalize and, frankly, demonize.
Then came Rush Limbaugh with his sexual fears about having to "bend over and grab the ankles" for a black president. Soon Limbaugh was saying he hoped Obama fails; last week he said Obama was more dangerous to our country than al-Qaida, our terrorist enemy who has killed thousands of Americans. Could that conceivably inflame someone marginal and isolated to act against a president who's more dangerous than terrorists?
Joan goes on to mention Bill O'Reilly's constant on-air vilification of the recently assassinated abortion provider as "Tiller the Baby Killer" and comparison of the doctor to Nazis and the amoral stoking of the "Angry, Disenfranchised White Man" by the likes of Rush Limbaugh, Lindsey Graham and the GOP's Michael Steele by suggesting that the Sotomayor nomination means a white man can't get a break in today's society.
Are statements like this directly responsible for the murder of Holocaust Museum security guard Stephen Tyrone Johns? No. What the mainstream GOP has to take responsibility for is the fact that its continued reliance on the politics of division that gives extremist views safe harbor. Race, gender, class, sexual orientation/gender identity, and religion have constantly been used to win votes. The appeals to the lowest common denominator -- ignorance and fears of the "other" displacing white male supremacy, God and family in no uncertain terms attracts a demographic we saw on display at the McCain/Palin rallies -- bold, hateful, openly racist people who proudly stood before the cameras emitting bigotry as a badge of honor. And they were standing outside a rally for the Republican, not the Democratic candidate.
Below the fold, look at the video evidence that the party has capitalized on the worst instincts in people.
Over at RH Reality Check, Oklahoma teacher Debra Taylor comes forward to discuss how she was forced to resign for teaching about The Laramie Project -- to highlight hate crimes and intolerance to her high school Ethics class students. (I first blogged about this story in March.) The students decided to film scenes for an in-class project -- with the permission of the principal at the time. Then a few weeks later, Superintendent Ed Turlington canceled the class, Taylor was put on paid leave, and Turlington recommended that she be terminated.
I was challenging them to examine where and how the two young men - McKinney and Henderson - learned to hate; because hate, like love, is learned behavior. I wanted them to understand where the lessons of hate and intolerance are typically learned: parents, teachers, members of the community, even in churches. I had hoped that by using The Laramie Project each student would examine their prejudices and form healthier practices of tolerance, compassion and advocacy.
The irony is that the students learned the lesson well, but not inside the walls of a Grandfield High School classroom. They had their classroom moved into the real world where they have experienced the real life lessons of intolerance; witnessed acts promoted by homophobic fears and ideology and yes, encountered hatred. Even in this small town of 1,100 people, it's not all black and white. As one local resident told Hunter Stuart, a video journalist, "We don't live in the fifties anymore." Another told him, "I know people who are gay. I don't like what they do, but I treat them with respect."
But as one thing led to another, I asked a member of the school board to get involved. I was accused of insubordination by Superintendent Turlington and felt I had no alternative but to accept the superintendent's agreement of resignation. As the editor of the local newspaper admonished in an editorial "it was wrong to question the decisions of your superiors."
I am humbled by the fact that people across the country find the story of my students and me important. The media has become our courtroom. The more people advocate for us against the injustices we have experienced, the better I feel about losing my job.
Here's a report by LOGO's Itay Hod; the students discuss the homophobia that resulted in Taylor's resignation.
Too bad, so sad for the Alliance Defense Fund. There's a reason anti-discrimination laws exist, and the Hastings Christian Fellowship at the UC Hastings College of the Law, doesn't seem to understand this. The U.S. Court of Appeals has ruled that the law school was within its rights to deny recognition and funding to a group that excludes LGBT students and non-Christians. (SFGate):
The San Francisco law school is entitled to require official student organizations to "accept all comers as members, even if those individuals disagree with the mission of the group," the Ninth U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals in San Francisco ruled. It said the school's policy is "viewpoint-neutral" and does not violate the rights of the Christian Legal Society.
The brief ruling cited the court's decision last year allowing a Washington state high school to deny recognition to a student Bible club that required members to endorse its religious creed. Last week, the club asked the U.S. Supreme Court to review that case.
Both rulings allow public schools to "require religious organizations to include people in their groups who disagree with what the religious groups believe," said attorney Jeremy Tedesco of the Alliance Defense Fund, a Christian legal organization that is involved in both cases on behalf of the student groups. "That's a violation of the First Amendment, free speech and freedom of religion."
Ethan Schulman, a lawyer for UC Hastings, said Tuesday's ruling allows the school to apply its nondiscrimination policy to any group seeking recognition and a share of the funding that goes to organizations from mandatory student fees.
BZZZT. Fail. The ADF had to know this was a losing case -- this has nothing to do with freedom of association, or religious freedom -- these Christianists just can't expect the school to support their bigotry with funding, office space and inclusion in official school publications.
Besides, even if the school or the state didn't have protections that extended to sexual orientation and gender identity, this group runs afoul of federal law by discriminating against non-Christians -- that's an automatic no-no. The Christian Legal Society (the parent org) isn't a private club.
What is ridiculous is that the Hastings Christian Fellowship did have approval of the school up until 2004, when a new policy set forth by The Christian Legal Society barred those who engaged in "unrepentant homosexual conduct" required all new members to endorse a "statement of faith." You know the ADF is going to take this one to SCOTUS.
These anti-gay, Christians-only campus groups are not willing to abide by established non-discrimination policies that cover race, religion, age, gender, sexual orientation, disability, etc, although these non-discrimination policies apply equally to all other groups on campus.
These days, one is unlikely to find a whites-only fraternity or a no-Latinos chess club on any campus in the US. So why should these Christian groups be handed an exemption, not to mention receive official recognition and funding - some of which is derived from fees paid by GLBT and non-Christian students?
More bad news coming out of the state of Sally Kern...
The episode began in January, when Debra Taylor showed students at Grandfield High School The Laramie Project, a 2002 film based on the play of the same name, about the murder of Matthew Shepard. The students soon decided to film selected scenes themselves for an in-class project.
Taylor, 50, knew the project was controversial with strong language, but got her principal's permission. A few weeks into it, the principal told her to stop production. After students protested, she held a 20-minute ceremony in a nearby park in which students wrote their thoughts and rolled them into helium balloons, then released them.
The next day, Taylor says, Superintendent Ed Turlington canceled the class. After she complained to a school board member, Turlington put her on paid leave and recommended that she be fired. The school board approved her resignation Friday.
Taylor says she was let go for complaining to the board member, but others say it was a result of the play's subject: homophobia. "They don't want something like this addressed in our community," says senior Matt Ebner, one of Taylor's former students.
The election has been over for months now and this loser still can't get over it. From the land of Sally Kern, look what happened to 13-year-old Lane Dunkley and his dad Daniel Reddy experienced when he took a class to receive his hunting license.
But when father and son arrived at the lesson, the volunteer instructor, Kell Wolf, asked if any of the students voted for President Barack Obama.
Reddy, a transplanted Californian - and former Marine - raised his hand.
According to Reddy and others in the room, Wolf called Obama "the next thing to the Antichrist" and ordered Reddy and Dunkley from the room. When Reddy refused, Wolf said he would not teach "liberals" and would cancel the course if Reddy didn't leave.
So Reddy and Dunkley left, as did a few others.
...Contacted on Friday, Wolf had no comment on the matter. Meek said he talked briefly to Wolf on Wednesday, and that Wolf did not deny ordering Reddy from the class or offer an explanation.
At least the hunter education coordinator for the Oklahoma Department of Wildlife Conservation, Lance Meek, stepped up and apologized -- and offered a private class. Wolf was also told he could no longer volunteer with the department.
Do you remember in days gone by when gay men were were almost always portrayed as fruity, effeminate men in high heels? -- apparently this is still the image of LGBT people within Randy Thomasson's mind...
The homosexual activists never stop claiming to be victims, even when they have an iron stiletto heel upon your neck. They will claim that they are being victimized by you. They're intolerant, and now they're pushing even more legislation in the California government."
If folk like Thomasson don't want to be called intolerant, homophobic, or bigoted, then perhaps they shouldn't use the language of intolerance, homophobia, or bigotry.
And, the LGBT community has "an iron stiletto heel upon [their] neck[s]"? Oh please.
Frederick Clarkson has a great piece up, "The Religious Right isn't going anywhere," that gives a roundup some of the more rancid fundnut activities in 2008, along with commentary that these creationism proponents and bedroom and womb peepers will continue the culture wars for years to come, focusing on throwing up roadblocks at the state level, since they aren't going to get much accomplished at the federal level with the regime change. Here are his Snapshots from the Culture War in the States this year:
* Anti-marriage-equality initiatives prevailed in Arizona, Florida and California in 2008. Fueled with funding from politically animated Mormons, Catholics and Protestant evangelicals at the urging of religious leaders, the initiatives passed, and for the first time in American history, rolled back a court-ordered civil rights advance.
* While Rhode Island and New York recognize the validity of same-sex marriages from other states, the 1996 federal Defense of Marriage Act allows states to refuse to recognize the validity of same-sex marriages. The Supreme Court has so far declined to hear constitutional challenges to DOMA. So far, 30 states have passed anti-marriage-equality initiatives; and 10 states passed statutory DOMAs.
* New York and New Jersey: The conservative religious coalition that passed the stunning reversal on marriage equality in California plans to take the battle to these eastern states.
* Constitutional Convention initiative in Connecticut: Every 20 years, the state is required to have an initiative asking the voters if it is time for a state constitutional convention. Following the state's Supreme Court legalization of same-sex marriage, the Religious Right and the Catholic Church seized on the initiative, purchasing a large, last-minute TV ad campaign. While this effort was unsuccessful, we can expect further battles in Connecticut.
* Failed efforts to get other anti-abortion or anti-gay initiatives on the ballot: Montana, Arkansas and Massachusetts. Even in losing, the Religious Right has considerable capacity to keep its issues on the front burner.
* Texas: The elected State Board of Education appointed three prominent "intelligent design" advocates to a six-member science-review panel. The chairman of the SBOE wrote in an op-ed, "Science education has become a culture war issue" and that the claims of scientists "will be challenged by creationists."
This stance by the United States is stunning on several levels, and shows the disconnect between our self-described identity as a beacon of democracy and freedom and the reality when the rubber hits the road.
In all, 66 of the U.N.'s 192 member countries signed the nonbinding declaration - which backers called a historic step to push the General Assembly to deal more forthrightly with anti-gay discrimination. More than 70 U.N. members outlaw homosexuality, and in several of them homosexual acts can be punished by execution.
Co-sponsored by France and the Netherlands, the declaration was signed by all 27 European Union members, as well as Japan, Australia, Mexico and three dozen other countries. There was broad opposition from Muslim nations, and the United States refused to sign, indicating that some parts of the declaration raised legal questions that needed further review.
"It's disappointing," said Rama Yade, France's human rights minister, of the U.S. position - which she described as in contradiction with America's long tradition as a defender of human rights...
The first thing that came to my mind when reading about this travesty was that this country's inability to sign on to this is saying the United States under this administration is fine with the criminalization of homosexuality within its own borders, and that the only thing standing in the way was the little bit of legal business called Lawrence v. Texas. That the "activist" U.S. Supreme Court made a grave mistake. That it would like to return to the days of the law peeping into the bedrooms of a private home and arresting two consenting adults. What was the explanation given by our government?
According to some of the declaration's backers, U.S. officials expressed concern in private talks that some parts of the declaration might be problematic in committing the federal government on matters that fall under state jurisdiction. In numerous states, landlords and private employers are allowed to discriminate on the basis of sexual orientation; on the federal level, gays are not allowed to serve openly in the military.
Oh yes, it might call into question some legal inconsistencies we have going on here. But we're supposed to feel good, according to Carolyn Vadino, a spokeswoman for the U.S. mission to the United Nations, that Uncle Sam still condemns the more untidy matter of killing or torturing people for being gay.
What small comfort that is, as we watch civil rights of same-sex couples eliminated in the beacon of democracy and freedom. What position would the Obama administration take on this resolution given the same "issues" with state jurisdiction would still apply?
The U.S. send the message to the world that gay people aren't equal citizens of the world. President-elect Obama seems to be sending the same symbolic message here at home by chosing Pastor Rick Warren to do the invocation at the Obama Inauguration.
The U.S.'s position on this U.N. vote matters as a message to the world; Obama's picking of a pastor giving an invocation after saying that same-gender relationships are equal to pedophilia sends a message to LGBT people in the U.S. too. Truly, our nation has rubbed our noses in the inequalities we experience compared to other U.S. citizens.
California was a showdown between two national movements, the Christian Right and the LGBT's. As such, it has huge symbolic significance, particularly since the Chirstian Right, for the first time since they worked in the South to establish Jim Crow laws, was devoting its resources to removing an existing Constitutional right and thereby relegating a minority to Second Class Status.
Prop 8 is our Alamo, our Pearl Harbor, our "Remember the Maine." It is the unconscionable affront, the dastardly act by a "hate-filled, notorious, unprincipled foe." It made Election Day '08 our Day of Infamy. It is our equivalent of the violation of Belgium in World War One, with the Constitution of California and the decisions of the California Supreme Court reduced, like the Guarantee of Beligum Neutrality, reduced to a "scrap of paper," a phrase of historical infamy.
We either take it as a rallying cry, as the Belgium, the Maine, the Pearl Harbor of our age and our movement, or we curl up in defeat, cringing as we plead "don't hurt me." We continue to object, to struggle against the theocratic and Domionist tyrrany that is insiduously undermining the Secular Republic as the brave souls in the Resistance did in WW II or we abjectly surrender as the Right continues to push its agenda, which includes re-criminalising our love, removing us from public life, re-pathologizing us and eventually sentencing us not only to prison, but to the hands of unprincipled clinicians who will resume the horrors that were once inflicted upon us for simply being gay or Lesbian.
Our choice to make, and we need to make it, and make it strongly and irrevocably, now.
Unbelievable. More patriots for the cause, this time in Hays County, Texas. You won't believe what the hooligans in support of McCain/Palin did to this car. Mock, Paper, Scissors received this from a friend:
Check out the pictures of my car.
I am also reporting this to the Obama Campaign, hoping they keep track of incidents like this.
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On the eve of early voting, an Obama supporter's car was vandalized in rural western Hays County, Texas.
The Obama bumper sticker was torn off, a 20-lb rock was put through the back window, two Obama yard signs were shoved through the hole in the rear window and "Obama" was badly spray-painted in orange along the drivers side door.
Hays County Sheriffs Deputies spent several hours dusting the scene of the crime for fingerprints and gathering other evidence. Onlookers identified this incident as a hate crime and possible voter intimidation.
Take a look at this footage by Keystoneprogress.org of the idiot with the monkey doll that I posted about yesterday. Here he's having a grand old time outside the Palin rally.
Waving the monkey doll with the Obama sticker around its head he says "This is little Hussein; little Hussein will deceive truth and good Americans." (laughs with gusto). He then waves and taunts protestors at the Johnstown, PA Palin rally with the monkey.
Later, this bigot wasn't nearly as boastful when he noticed that the MSM was videotaping him, then he took the sticker off. Too late, you SOB.
You know, the question I have is what are these people going to do if Obama wins? That scares me.
I'm glad Magic stood up and said something about the pea-brains in Minnesota, radio host Chris Baker and his sidekick Langdon Perry, who claimed that the NBA legend faked the fact that he is HIV positive.
During the October 8 broadcast of KTLK's The Chris Baker Show, Perry asked: "What about diseases that are eminently treatable and you can live with for a long, long time quite healthily if you just get some basic drugs?" Baker interjected, "like Magic Johnson," to which Perry replied, "Like Magic with his faked AIDS." After Baker asked, "You think Magic faked AIDS for sympathy?" Perry stated, "I'm convinced that Magic faked AIDS." Baker replied, "Yeah, me too." Perry added: "It falls apart when you get into motivation. I'm not sure why, but I'm pretty sure he faked AIDS. ... Cause he's the only cured AIDS guy ever."
"I am extremely disappointed in KTLK in Minneapolis. I am outraged that Chris Baker and Langdon Perry would minimize such a serious and deadly issue. Millions are dying from HIV/AIDS and the fact that they would make jokes about my status is unbelievable," Johnson said. "Chris, Langdon and KTLK should use their power in a more positive light by encouraging people to get tested for this disease instead of making up such ridiculous lies."
The ignorance of Baker has been hard to keep up with this week.
"This is not a man who sees America as you and I do: as the greatest force for good in the world," Palin said at a fundraising event in Colorado, according to a statement released by the McCain-Palin campaign. "This is someone who sees American as imperfect enough to pal around with terrorists who targeted their own country."
In saying this, Sarah Palin has gone too far. She has not only accused Obama of being a terrorist by association, she has opened the door for everyone to evaluate and criticize every single person and organization with which she associaties.
Obama and Ayers met at meeting for a school reform project in 1995 and again later that year. Then, Ayers hosted an event where then-Illinois state Sen. Alice Palmer, who planned to run for Congress, introduced the young community organizer as her chosen successor, campaign spokesman Ben LaBolt said. Both men also served on a charitable board together, he said.
[snip]
"We're going to get a little tougher," a senior Republican operative said, requesting anonymity because he wasn't authorized to discuss strategy. "We've got to question this guy's associations. Very soon. There's no question that we have to change the subject here." CNN
If you are the same as those you know and you are guilty of everything they say and do (or are alleged to have said and done) by association, wouldn't the degree of guilt increase with the frequency and intimacy of that association? Based on this, Sarah Palin is a separatist, Jew-hater, who thinks Jews and Gays must be converted and is a danger to the very freedoms American citizens hold dear.
Crews Inn co-owner David Moore says he plans to remove the "T" - for transgender, that is - from the clientele at his Fitzhugh Avenue bar on Tuesday nights.
"Drag queens act like they are divas and think they can't do no wrong," Moore said. "They have stolen money straight off the bar, hassled costumers for drinks and locked themselves in the bathroom with a bunch of guys. And with Tuesday being our busiest night, there is just no way for me to keep the draq queens under control then. I don't want draq queens in here that are going to misbehave."
..."How do I separate one draq queen that is being bad from others?" Moore said. "We don't have the time on Tuesday nights with all the people in here to sit there and tell them apart from one another. If a drag queen misbehaves one week and then the next comes back in a different outfit I wouldn't be able to recognize them. That's why I don't want any of them in here on Tuesdays."
Zippers is a block down from Crews Inn, and Zippers manager John Miles says he has never seen problems with the transgender community.
"I have not noticed any difference in the behavior of drag queens from our other customers," he said. "They behave themselves very well and do not cause problems. They will always be welcomed at Zippers."
The behavior that the owner of Crews Inn complains of has nothing to do with whether one is trans or not -- you toss out disruptive customers, not ban a whole class of people. Jesus, the level of bigoted ignorance is astounding.
Blender Clayton, who is in Dallas, plans to give an on-scene report: "This isn't exactly the classiest place in Dallas. There's a protest planned this week--I'm going to try to stop by and snap some photos."
Rachel Maddow asked Uncle Pat Buchanan why he thought 108 out of 110 Supreme Court justices being white, as he railed on about Sotomayor was an "affirmative action" appointment.
