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.
She lay in her bed, with a bible clutched in the hand not encased in a cast, speaking openly about her divorce. Despite her deeply religious views, the divorce seems to not bother her at all, other than strategically.
She answers her ancient roommate, "I'll pray for us both to get better, so we can get out of here, but if that doesn't work, we just have to live it, one day at a time." The old lady starts to cry, and she speaks again, "Look at it this way, at least you got 50 more years than I did before you landed here. You've had a pretty good life, dear. We'll get through this."
That stops the old lady's crying.
The two of them talk a lot at night. Neither sleeps well, but when you are bed ridden all day, as she often points out, how tired can you possibly get?
She's 42, and this nursing home is her final stop, and she knows it.
According to Inside Radio, "No format made larger gains in the sheer number of outlets than the religious category, which added 186 stations over the past year and now totals nearly 3,000."
Apparently radio station managers around the globe are trying to get a piece of God's radio pie, as the revenue from religious broadcasting brings in ungodly amounts of dough.
Oh, I know I’ll catch hell for this post. I don’t care. Yesterday was a special day in America. The Hate Crimes Bill was passed and the President signed it into law. Yeah, on the official tip I let it be known that I wasn’t happy that the bill was attached to the defense budget. But deep down inside, I’m happy that the Hate crime bill has been passed. I’m happy because it sends a signal to those who feel that they can harm and abuse other people simply because of their sexuality and/or identity. The bill simply says to the warped minds of America, play God, if you dare.
That’s a powerful statement made by a federal government. Our federal government. So yes. Though I have problems with the bill being attached to something that feeds a loss of life elsewhere, quiet as it’s kept, I’m proud.
So privately I rejoiced in seeing the gratitude expressed by my LGBT community over and over. I loved reading the lovely things people said today in various groups and on their Facebook pages. Today was a time for celebration for many. And they didn’t hold back…God bless them. And yet, there were those.Those people. Those hardened unappreciative sarcastic embittered souls who just couldn’t, wouldn’t, let today’s act by the president of the United States—be a good thing.
Here are a handful of quotes:
“Hopefully he will also talk about his inaction on DADT and defending DOMA and why he continues to fail the LGBT community.”
“Heck he could just issue a presidential directive to end DADT…I think what it really takes is courage and integrity…things he lacks it seems.”
“Its to little, too late”
“The point is this bill as a rider has NOTHING to do with Obama…it was a low hanging fruit. Obama can sign away DADT in two seconds…but nothing, Obama did NOT have to defend DOMA…but when it comes to things that actually take a little bit of corage and integrity…nothing.”
“What has he accomplished in one?” Defending DOMA CHECK! (effectively lumping LGBT’s in with pedophiles and people into beastiality in the defense of DOMA) Ignoring his ability to end DADT, CHECK! Signing a bill that was already in the works well prior to his administration. CHECK!”
I read this stuff as I was going from profiles to group posts today. I couldn’t believe the vicious toxin. The nastiness, the absolute ingratitude. I thought about my activities this last Sunday—screaming hoarsely across a yellow divider at Griffith Park in counter protest of the Tea Party Express—reading these quotes and thinking as I read them that the things these gay people were saying weren’t that far from the Teabaggers I protested against on Sunday.
I get so tired of the jaded and hideous negativity from these people. It’s such a downer. And despite the gains small or large, it doesn’t reflect positively on the LGBT community. And these people refuse to see it. Maybe I take these things to heart a little heavier than most. After all, Obama is African American as I. And I’d be lying if I said I didn’t feel an extra dose of pride at the fact that the first black president of the United States signed the Hate Crime into law.
But you know, I’d read all of those things earlier in the day. So, they were not to be dwelt over. Last night, after accepting an invitation from my mom for dinner, I sat with my youngest sister (a young woman in her twenties) playing with my niece of 1 1/2 years–her daughter. My mother sat on a couch nearby. In the midst of conversation my sister typing into her laptop as we talked suddenly burst out with this story about one of her Facebook buddies who expressed his contempt for the president in signing the hate crime bill.
Bringing her laptop over to where I sat she showed me the guys profile, his update and a trail of 64 comments that followed. He was a young African American man. In his early 20s. This was his Facebook update:
“WOW PRESIDENT OBAMA IS TRIPPING NOW, YOU SAY YOU A CHRISTIAN GUY BUT SIGN A BILL TODAY SUPPORT THE QUEERS WOW, YOU NOT MY PRESIDENTS NOW I AM GOING INDEPENDENT NO MORE DEMOCRATS… FOR ME… OBAMA COME ON NOW.. YOU SUPPORT SAME SEX MARRIAGES WOW”
As I read his update I thought about all those gays today who shit on Obama’s signing of the Hate Bill. How they for some reason thinks this guy is on easy street—how he’s just dallying along. Not one of them privy to the kind of ugly assaults and attacks on Obama’s character—FROM THE OTHER PERSPECTIVE. Oh, no. It’s all about them. I also thought about all those black men who so quickly forget or who weren’t raised to be humbled by the agony and pain of prejudice that our forefathers and mothers went through—the freedoms that those like Martin Luther King gave up their lives for. How could this young man be so deranged and deluded in his supposed God fearing thinking as to disown President Obama for taking a crucial step in acknowledging the humanity and equality of all men and women in America.
A young black man disowning our black brotha president for protecting others from hatred and harm.
He wasn’t alone. As I said there were 64 comments to his update. A couple of his buddies supported what he said. BUT…the majority of them—the rest of the young black commentators—his friends—did not. And that included my baby sister. Who actually let him have it in 3 or 4 comments all in CAPS.
It was her statements that saved me. Yep. My baby sister. Standing up—because her big brother is gay. And she was not having it. I had absolutely no idea she felt the way she did. I never remember us ever talking about my sexuality. In short: she’s the one who made my day today. It was her words that snapped me out of my own toxic resentment of the things I’d read as I sat there peering into her laptop. It was her love that restored me once again as compassionate and hopeful for my fellow man. It was her words of rage in those comment boxes that cooled my anger at the less than kind things said about the president today. It was her loyalty to me and to humanity that made me recommit to my misguided heterosexual brothers and sisters.
And so my friends, while many of you rejoiced that the Hate bill has been signed into legislation, I got to be reminded about the healing power of love. And how it transcends all. Even me.
The Tangipahoa Parish JP's appearance on CBS this morning - via Crooks and Liars:
Bardwell denied on "The Early Show" that he broke any laws.
"The law says that I cannot deny mixed race marriages," he said. "And that means prevent them from getting married. And I did not prevent them getting married."
But would Bardwell refuse anyone else a marriage ceremony?
Initially, he said he would not refuse a couple on any other grounds, but then corrected himself, saying, for example, he would refuse to marry a couple if one -- or both of them -- was intoxicated.
"I can recuse myself and tell them to come back when they're sober," he said. "That's legal."
Interracial = drunk.
Wow.
Now, lets go back to one of his other statements:
I did not prevent them getting married.
Yes you did, Bard. The fact that they subsequently got married is irrelevant. You did prevent them from getting married - even but for a few minutes (though I think it was a bit longer than that.)
JPs don't necessarily have to be lawyers, so I don't know if The Bard is one or not. Assuming he isn't - here's a lesson via hypothetical for him.
I apply for a job at 'X'
'X' is located in a jurisdiction with a legitimate (trans-inclusive) anti-discrimination law
'X' says 'we studied Janice Raymond in college; we donated to the Vancouver Rape Relief defense fund; we think Norah Vincent should run for president; male-to-constructed females usurp the place of women; we will never hire a male-to-constructed female.'
'X' adds that there is a place across the street, 'Y', whose management studied Susan Stryker in college; 'Y' has no problem hiring transsexual women - and, just by chance, they have a position identical to the one that I was applying for at 'X'.
I walk over to 'Y'
I apply at 'Y'.
I"m hired by 'Y'.
The job at 'Y' pays exactly what the job at 'X' would have paid me.
Question: Did 'X' actually discriminate against me?
Under The Bard's logic - 'no harm, no foul' in his mind - 'X' didn't.
But, of course, 'X' did - becaue there was harm! The fact that I found a job immediately and for no less pay certainly cuts down on the amount of actual damages that I could sue 'X' for - but the act of discrimination itself is the evil - theharm - that the law addresses and provides redress against.
Scratch shovels off of The Bard's xmas list. He obviously has plenty - and he's using all of them to dig himself a hole the size of Henderson Swamp.
Every so often I see something in the news that makes me wonder if the person is really genuinely that goddamn dumb that they don't realise that anyone with a quarter of a brain (let alone half of one) could see through their statement. Here are some of the more notable recent examples of paper-thin reasoning:
The problem is that television executives have got it into their heads that if one presenter on a show is a blond-haired, blue-eyed heterosexual boy, the other must be a black Muslim lesbian.
-- Jeremy Clarkson, of the BBC's "Top Gear"
The problem, Clarkson, is that you've become accustomed to the privilege associated with being a straight while male, and now that position is being threatened you're throwing your teddy out of the pram. And not for the first time either.
The church "does not involve itself institutionally in every same-sex election contest."
-- Kim Farrah, spokeswoman for the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints
No, Farrah - you're not throwing $millions at it because you got your fingers not merely burned but very nearly chopped off in California - in fact they may still be chopped off, given that you're under investigation for financial malpractice. Similarly, you're not encouraging Mormons to donate because of the negative publicity and because so many of them risked their financial well-being last year that you dare not ask again, and because so many saw through your ploy, letting individual Mormons donate the bulk of the money rather than the LDS church itself, that you know full well another attempt would backfire even more unpleasantly than it did in California.
I am the most persecuted person "in the entire history of the world".
-- Silvio Berlusconi, Prime Minister of Italy
Even discounting your €billions, Berlusconi, when it comes to privileged straight white men throwing their toys out of the pram you make Jeremy Clarkson, that renowned British expert on the subject, look like a complete and utter amateur. Even a brief list of examples why this statement is in unbelievably gross poor taste would run to tens of thousands of words, and I am reasonably confident that few will have read this far without already having thought of several.
Obama is the best friend that gays have had in the White House -- ever. To say otherwise is short sighted, insulting and just plain dumb.
-- Earl Ofari Hutchinson, Huffington Post
Sorry to disappoint you, Hutchinson, but while this is undoubtedly true, when you consider his predecessors it is not a particularly significant or noteworthy achievement. He can be the best friend the LGBT community has had in the White House simply by sitting back and doing nothing at all. In fact, it seems to me that this is exactly what he has done for the large part.
Compare this to the previous, current and likely next British premiers: much as I may dislike them, both Bliar and (thanks to considerable wifely prodding) Brown have taken proactive roles in securing and protecting equal rights for LGBT Britons. It is Cameron, the leader of the Tories, whose announced intent is to sit back and do nothing.
Obama claimed he would be a "fierce advocate" for LGBT rights, yet he has wasted opportunity after opportunity to put his money where his mouth is. Placing LGBTs in positions of influence is one thing, but the effects take time to trickle down; what is needed are Presidential actions that have effects on the lives of ordinary LGBT Americans right here, right now, like a suspension of DADT prosecutions. After 1500 years of abuse and dehumanisation, I think the LGBT community has more than earned the right to a little impatience. To say otherwise is short-sighted, insulting and just plain dumb.
Jonathan Escobar says he chooses to wear clothes that express himself. Skinny jeans, wigs, "vintage" clothing and makeup are the staples of his wardrobe.
"I don't consider myself a cross-dresser," he said. "This is just who I am."
But the 16-year-old says an assistant principal at North Cobb High School told him last week he needed to dress more "manly" for school, or consider being home-schooled. He had only been a student at the school for three days...
The reason he was given for being kicked out dropping out of school?
Escobar said the assistant principal told him his style of dress had caused a fight between students at the school.
So we deny a student an education not because the student has is inciting violence, but because others are reacting to the students gender expression in a violent way. Apparently, declaring a student "distracting" is for gender expression is a way for school bureaucrats to say "'We' can acceptably be bigoted towards lesbian, gay, bisexual, heterosexual, and transgender students who express gender in ways 'we' are 'uncomfortable' with."
When I took Sociology 101 (oh so many years ago at Long Beach City College), one of the things I learned about in class was about schools' hidden curriculum. One example is school bells. What did school bells teach many students? The importance of orderly transition from activities, and how to show up places on time -- or pay the consequences for not showing up when the clock tells you to show up somewhere. Eating lunch when the bell and the clock said it was lunch time no longer was a function of when one was hungry, but of when authority figures told one was the scheduled time to eat. In other words, the secondary, hidden curriculum has been to teach students how to be good factory workers and good cubicle bound office employees.
So what is the hidden curriculum here at North Cobb High School? The message that I see hear is that the school values gender conformity over the teaching of subjects to their students. And, apparently since gender diversity isn't prized in factories and cubicles -- and certainly isn't prized by Bible Belt culture -- the teaching of students who express gender in a way that doesn't conform to societal norms doesn't appear to be something that is seen as necessary.
At least, that's my take.
For those who don't remember, last March we at Pam's House Blend posted on GLSEN's Harsh Realities For Transgender Students. It's a good refresher to go back to that post -- to GLSEN's report -- and read about the findings. These included school outcomes for trans students:
• Almost half of all transgender students reported skipping a class at least once in the past month (47%) and missing at least one day of school in the past month (46%) because they felt unsafe or uncomfortable.
• Transgender students experiencing high levels of harassment were more likely than other transgender students to miss school for safety reasons (verbal harassment based on sexual orientation: 64% vs. 25%, gender expression: 56% vs. 32%, gender: 68% vs. 38%).
• Transgender students who experienced high levels of harassment had significantly lower GPAs than those who experienced lower levels of harassment (verbal harassment based on sexual orientation: 2.2. vs. 3.0, gender expression: 2.3 vs. 2.8, gender: 2.2 vs. 2.7).
How much below average the graduation rates are for out trans and gender variant youth appears to be an unanswered question at this point -- As far as I know, no school district or organization is collecting and/or tracking that data.
But, should gender expression that varies from societal norms be a reason to deny a student a public education? At Georgia's North Cobb High School, the answer is apparently "Yes."
Rep. Steve King (R-IA) opened his trap and revealed that his grasp of reality is tenuous at best. Using logic that only someone like Rick Santorum can understand, King went on WingNutDaily radio to discuss the impact marriage equality has been on his state. (BTW, he agrees with Little Ricky that allowing LGBTs to have full civil equality would lead to a right to incest.)
King belched the usual bigot blather about Iowa becoming a mecca for gay marriage, but then he jumped the rails at high speed by suggesting that if gay and lesbian couples have access to civil marriage, it is the gateway drug to socialism. This quote jaw-droppingly stupid. Cover your keyboards. (Think Progress):
So in the end this is something that has to come with a, if there's a push for a socialist society, a society where the foundations of individual rights and liberties are undermined and everybody is thrown together, living collectively off of one pot of resources earned by everyone. That is, this is one of the goals they have to go to is same-sex marriage because it has to plow through marriage in order to get to their goal. They want public affirmation. They want access to public funds and resources. Eventually all those resources will be pooled because that's the direction we're going. And not only is it a radical social idea, it is a purely socialist concept in the final analysis.
A candidate for Dumbf*ckistan. . Marriage equality=socialism because when gays get married, somehow the institution of marriage automatically morphs into socialism because we'll have access to the same public resources straight couples do.
Did I miss the memo -- is there some sort of socialism "trigger" that the homos set off that heterosexual couples don't. WTF? The full transcript of the radio program is here.
So when you hear the horns tonight, just crank that Marilyn Manson up to window rattling, turn your vibrators on high, and double toke the bong. Wear yourself out and sleep like a baby, because tomorrow we all be reborn!
60-70% of Americans: GONE. All their shit: STILL HERE.
Reborn, I tell you to the land of milk and honey errr hops and buds! I so deserve this punishment sir, I've been naughty, naughty, naughty. Leave me behind. Twice if you need to. I've been a bad, bad girl. God, you're the boss, and I just. don't. listen. You can't take me.
I deserve the utter hell:
No Faux News reporters, no televangelists, no Republicans, half the Democrats with them, no homophobes, no, well, no nothing that sucks, man. (Other than what you want sucked or to suck! And no one to tell you that's wrong!)
IT WILL BE THE GARDEN OF EDEN ONCE AGAIN! Oooooops, sshhhhhh. It will be hell, I mean.
The Trevor Project, a national organization focused on crisis and suicide prevention efforts among LGBTQ youth, is hosting the Lifeline Event Series. The Trevor Project operates the only accredited, nationwide, around-the-clock crisis and suicide prevention helpline for LGBTQ youth.
I am honored to be on the host committee with my husband, Commissioner Anthony Niedwiecki of Oakland Park, as well as other South Florida supporters of the important work that the Trevor Project does. It's sure to be an amazing event for a great cause.
The event has also gotten another, quite surprising, supporter: The Tim Hardaway Foundation, founded by Former Miami Heat guard Tim Hardaway, who in 2007 wrecked his post-basketball career by declaring on radio "I hate gay people.'' Here's the interview:
Many of you may know that I am a former flight attendant. What you may not know is that I was in the air on September 11th, working a flight leaving New York City going to Florida. I worked for an airline that has live TV's in every seat, so we were some of the few people in the air that actually watched the horrors of that day unfold live.
It all started normally enough. The crew of 6 (four flight attendants and two pilots) met for the early morning flight, expecting a short trip to Tampa and back. The plane was full of people, mostly bleary-eyed from having to make it to the airport on time. We did a quiet, low-key service, chatting with the few passengers who were awake, then went to our respective galleys to rummage up some breakfast for ourselves.
Referring to my area of NC (the Triangle of Raleigh-Durham-Chapel Hill), one Freeper registers his disgust at Durham's high 'mo factor:
I used to live in the triange (K-9th Grade), and it was a great place to grow up (Durham Co, not city), however after the mid-90s' the new wave of carpetbagger liberal (allied at times with liberal blacks), btw The triangle has a HUGE problem with pro-homosexual people/policies) have made it very liberal in places! SICKENING TO see DIXIE become so weak.
Yeah, baby...we don't miss ya! In news related to the article that generated the above comment, was the recent ruling by the state Court of Appeals regarding second parent adoption and custody issues.
The appeals court ruling upheld a 2005 adoption by Sen. Julia Boseman of her partner's son. The child was conceived by Melissa Jarrell of Wilmington through artificial insemination; she and Boseman jointly raised the boy.
After the couple split, Boseman sought joint custody; Jarrell argued that the adoption wasn't valid because the law doesn't allow unmarried partners to have such parental rights. The court's decision validated only Boseman's adoption, giving her standing to fight for joint custody of her son; it did not make a sweeping pronouncement about unmarried couples' rights.
In NC, many same-sex couples come to Durham or Orange county because the judges are amenable to granting second-parent adoptions.
Such adoptions became commonplace in Durham County in 2002. Sharon Thompson, a Durham family lawyer and a former state representative, asked her county clerk of courts and local judges to consider what she had seen a few other states do: waiving the requirement that a parent forfeit rights before another can adopt. Thompson said that citizens can waive legal rights. She argued that surrendering legal parenthood before an adoption is a benefit and protection for the parent who wishes to give up the child. Therefore, she argued, the surrender is a right that can be waived...Adoption law experts say Thompson's method isn't valid. Even the Court of Appeals gently criticized the process in its ruling this week.
So the adoptions have been going on for years apparently under the radar of the GOP gasbag lawmakers. This ruling has awakened and outraged the batsh*t wingnuts in our legislature; it's the usual homo-obsessed suspects, James Forrester and Paul "Skip" Stam. They are making threats to enact legislation to specifically bar gay and lesbian couples from adopting.
"The effect of this is that adoption policy can now be set by our district court judges," said state Rep. Paul Stam, a Wake County Republican and a lawyer. "All people have to do now is find one district court judge who will do what they want. That's the lowest common denominator adoption policy."
State Sen. Jim Forrester, a Gaston County Republican, said it might be time for legislators to explicitly tell judges what kind of families can adopt children. Forrester, who is against gay adoptions, said judges are crossing the line and becoming advocates instead of arbiters.
So if they get riled up enough, EqualityNC and allies will be back to battle the wingnuts again.
Just to irritate Forrester and Stam more, NC Pride 2009 is scheduled for Saturday, September 26, 2009, 10am - 5pm at Duke East Campus, in Durham. I'm the keynote speaker this year. Still haven't written my speech yet, there's a lot to fit into 15 minutes!
Anyway, I'm still wondering what that Freeper *ss-clown is imagining what would return "strength" to Dixie-going back to stringing up some nigras, and burning and beating fags and dykes to death for entertainment? The good old days. I sure wouldn't want to be the neighbor of this creep-any guesses as to where he's living?
I'm going to be up front on this: I have not listened to the audio file of this yet. However, I think the summary is sufficient - given that it comes from that legendary advocate of women's rights: Albert Mohler, of the Southern Baptist Theological Seminary.
Does legalized abortion really give women freedom over their bodies? Evidence would suggest the opposite. When women are given the freedom to “choose” whether or not they want to keep their babies, evidence clearly shows that men are given power over women. Dr. Mohler discusses this tragic and important issue with Dr. Richard Stith, Professor of Law at Valparaiso University School of Law.
Meaning of course that killing doctors who perform abortions and criminalizing all contraceptive-based healthcare "clearly" gives women the power of autonomy and self-determination.
The page containing the summary has links to the audio - and for those who decide to go there, even having not listened yet, may I suggest an empty stomach and no loaded firearms within reach?
Have you ever read the parable of The Good Samaritan? It's the definitive read for those who self-identify as Christians for how to define who a good neighbor is, and how one should treat others as oneself. It's a parable of pious faith leaders not helping an injured man -- left beaten on the side of a well-traveled road by robbers -- when they should have treated the injured man as a neighbor. A Samaritan -- a spiritual pariah -- was "the other" that helped that same injured man by being a neighbor to him.
So, when some conservative "Christians" read this story with regards to the healthcare reform debate; however, they have come up with a different conclusion than the obvious ones. From the OneNewsNow article 'WWJD' - about healthcare reform? comes this take on this parable (link for dictionary definition of polity added):
A health policy expert at the Cato Institute believes Jesus' Parable of the Good Samaritan provides insight into why a new government health insurance program is a poor idea.
Michael Cannon, the Cato Institute's director of health policy studies, recently published a blog post on the think tank's website titled "Health Care Reform: What Would Jesus Do?" The post, written by Cannon's father -- a Catholic theologian in Northern Virginia -- took the familiar story in the Book of Luke about a man traveling from Jerusalem to Jericho who "fell among thieves" and was "left half dead," and applied that to the current debate in America over healthcare reform.
Cannon says while everyone has an obligation to help those who are less fortunate, it is important how that duty is fulfilled. He contends President Obama's desire for the government to carry out that responsibility is misguided because Jesus did not instruct his followers to form a polity or put their charity to a majority vote before acting to help those in need...
Quoting the referenced piece from the Cato Institute directly (emphasis added):
Michele Bachmann is a member of Bill Posey's nine-member Birther Caucus. She originally blocked the resolution celebrating the 50th Anniversary of Hawaii Statehood that included a line citing Hawaii as President Obama's birthplace, but then voted for it. But when asked by Mike Stark of Firedoglake.com whether she believed Obama was born in the United States, she recited a litany of things she was too busy working on that precluded her from giving a "yes" or "no" answer.
One of your readers said the country was run by “old white men” — but just where is the proof of that? We have a black president, a black attorney general, a female secretary of state and many cabinet chiefs or senior posts are filled by non-white males. Whites are now the minority in four states, including California. In 20 years, 17 states will be minority white. Most big city mayors are non-white male.
As a gay male, even I know that those so-called “old white men” (read: straight) have passed many laws that have benefited minority groups. Ask yourself, can you honestly see a Supreme Court totally black, female and Hispanic? I shudder at the thought. What’s next? A chairman of the Joint Chiefs bringing his sheep to work? A few cross-dressing senators on the floor filibustering? A group of drag queen representatives in the House? A blind 747 pilot? A deaf music critic? Lifeguards who cannot swim?
Why not, isn’t it their human/civil right? ... The last real generation of whites are lying beneath the sands of Iwo Jima and Normandy. Now, most are pink with yellow stripes running down their backs.
Rome tried multiculturalism and look what happened to them. It’s only a matter of time.
I guess I shouldn't be surprised that the media melange that saw fit to (attempt to) legitimize a gay prostitute who had made a (fake) name for himself by trying to pass as a journalist would run a letter like this.
A neighbor of mine named Barbara Moore apparently was killed this morning. She lived in the apartment building across from mine which is owned by a different owner.
My upstairs neighbors described Barbara's body as visibly black and blue when the ambulance took her away, her having two black eyes -- She was taken away in an ambulance between 8:30 AM and 9:00 AM PDT this morning, and apparently died later.
I knew Barbara, but I didn't know her well. She was profiled about a year-and-a-half ago when the San Diego Union-Tribune profiled her in an article about San Diego Pets Are Wonderful Support (PAWS) entitled PAWS works to help people and pets stay together. The photo is a thumbnail of the photo from the article (where she is seen with her cat Tiger); selecting the photo will take you to the Union-Tribune's PAWS article.
They have a suspect in custody -- apparently her boyfriend. News cameras have already been outside my apartment photographing the scene for later broadcast.
Strange. Lots of uniformed police and homicide detectives outside my apartment building. Because this appears to be a domestic crime, I certainly don't feel unsafe in my apartment building. That said; however, it actually is a bit disconcerting that she was so injured but that I didn't hear anything. You would think that with someone that violently injured would scream, and since my tendency during the summer is to sleep with my front door open/my security screen door open and deadbolted...well, I thought I would have heard something.
I think that is the scary part: It leaves me wondering if something happened to me in my apartment, would anyone hear anything?
And oddly, I'm wondering what's going to happen to her two cats. At least I know who would be taking care of my kats Bon-Bon and Maggie -- I've previously made arrangements for them should anything happen to me.
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Update: The news is calling Barabar's death one apparently caused by blunt force trauma, but the person in custody hasn't been arrested at this point. I can only hope this actually turns out to be an accident instead of a homicide, but none of us in the two apartment buildings really knows...if I had to guess, based on the comments of my neighbors, the injuries lead me to believe it was homicide. I hope we're wrong.
It looks too like one of my neighbors is likely going to take one of Barabra's cats, and it looks like I'm going to probably add Tiger to my collection of kats. So, that would make the Sandeen Kat Kollective into the trio of Bon-Bon, Maggie, and Tiger verses the duo it currently is.
Miller, of course - and it smells a lot like Tom 'Ricky Ricardo' Coburn, only the subject is the man who nominated Judge Sotomayor and the racism isn't accent-based.
Okay, when you get down to it, it actually smells worse.
Miller was the Thursday keynoter at the annual gathering of the American Legislative Exchange Council, which ostensibly is a bipartisan or nonpartisan group of legislators. In practice, however, ALEC is overwhelmingly Republican, as evidenced by the the speakers Thursday who bashed President Barack Obama and the the Democratic majority in Congress. This morning at breakfast it was economist Stephen Moore. At lunch it was WSB radio host Herman Cain, a former Republican candidate for U.S. Senate, and then Miller, who served as a Democrat but famously rejected the party near the end of his time in Washington.
Miller said Obama’s decision to try and close the Guantanamo Bay prison where suspected terrorists and enemy combatants are held, is “nuts.”
“This strange Obama sense of justice penalizes our civilians’ with their loss of freedom while rewarding the terrorists with new rights they never had before,” Miller said.
Obama, “our globe-trotting president,” Miller said, “needs to stop and take a break and quit gallivanting all around. I think (chief of staff) Rahm Emanuel ought to get some Gorilla Glue and put it in that chair in the Oval Office and say ‘Sit here awhile.’”
I have some toughts about where Rahm - or anyone else - should force Zell Miller to sit. But, in the name of civility, I'll refrain.
For over 15 years, Judge Cindy Lederman served as top administrative judge over Miami-Dade's juvenile courts. The announcement came from the new Chief Justice over Miami courts, who says he "wants new perspectives and leadership." My impression from the announcement: "we need someone who doesn't like gays and will keep the bigoted status quo."
This is a huge loss of the juvenile courts and for all for all fair-minded Floridians.
It is also a huge loss for me and my family. Judge Lederman is the judge who placed our foster son with us and presided over our court dates.
It's bad enough that people seem disconnected from the outside world, jabbering and texting on their mobile phones while driving and many insist they can do both safely, here's proof how distracting these activities can be even when you're on your own two feet. (NYDN):
A Staten Island teen trying to text while walking fell into an open manhole - and city officials have launched an investigation.
Alexa Longueira, 15, was walking with a friend along Victory Blvd. on Wednesday when she suddenly dropped underground.
"She's all scraped up on her back, under her arms and her shoulders," her mother, Kim Longueira, said.
The schoolgirl had just been passed the phone by her friend and was opening it to send a text message when the ground beneath her feet disappeared.
A city department had the manhole open to flush a sewer line. It does beg the question why there were no cones or anything around the open hole to warn anyone, regardless of the distraction, before they actually plunge into blackness.
A 46-year-old Kimball Township man who is a former local youth pastor is facing a felony charge of accosting a child for immoral purposes, a case that involves confiscated computers and electronics from a Clyde Township church, officials said. Craig Coon is due in court for a preliminary hearing at 1:30 p.m. July 21 in front of District Court Judge John Monaghan, said Mike Wendling, St. Clair County Prosecutor.
...The felony warrant said Coon was wanted since he "did accost, entice, or solicit (victim), a child less than 16 years of age, with the intent to induce or force that child to commit an immoral act, to submit to an act of sexual intercourse or an act of gross indecency, or other act of depravity or delinquency, or did encourage the child to engage in one of these acts."
...In 2004, the Times Herald reported about Coon as the leader of The Quest, a contemporary church service that attracted many teenagers and 20-somethings in a casual setting.
"I want to get people to start asking where they are spiritually, what they need to do to start walking with Jesus," Coon said in the article. "We need to get past those stereotypes they hold about church. They're roadblocks to Christianity."
Rep. Steve King (R-IA) opened his trap and revealed that his grasp of reality is tenuous at best. Using logic that only someone like Rick Santorum can understand, King went on WingNutDaily radio to discuss the impact marriage equality has been on his state. (BTW, he agrees with Little Ricky that allowing LGBTs to have full civil equality would lead to a 
Many of you may know that I am a former flight attendant. What you may not know is that I was in the air on September 11th, working a flight leaving New York City going to Florida. I worked for an airline that has live TV's in every seat, so we were some of the few people in the air that actually watched the horrors of that day unfold live.
I used to live in the triange (K-9th Grade), and it was a great place to grow up (Durham Co, not city), however after the mid-90s' the new wave of carpetbagger liberal (allied at times with liberal blacks), btw The triangle has a HUGE problem with pro-homosexual people/policies) have made it very liberal in places! SICKENING TO see DIXIE become so weak.
So the adoptions have been going on for years apparently under the radar of the GOP gasbag lawmakers. This ruling has awakened and outraged the batsh*t wingnuts in our legislature; it's the usual homo-obsessed suspects, 
State Sen. Jim Forrester, a Gaston County Republican, said it might be time for legislators to explicitly tell judges what kind of families can adopt children. Forrester, who is against gay adoptions, said judges are crossing the line and becoming advocates instead of arbiters.
