Haw Haw GOP

Dear poor GOP.

To quote The Simpson’s Nelson: “Haw Haw!”


Esquire: Clinton is World's "Most Influential Man"
http://today.reuters.com/news/newsArticle.aspx?type=domesticNews&storyID=2005-11-15T232905Z_01_MCC584482_RTRUKOC_0_US-CLINTON.xml

Fair, Balanced and Mundane

Why do I keep hearing conservatives yammering about the "liberal media." It seems they have their own spokes holes as well. It's called Fox News. Oh how I missed the days of the Fairness Doctrine. It was mundane television, but it did not have to remind us it was fair and balanced (as Fox does). For the most part, it just was.

Fox News Won't Show Ad Opposing Alito http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20051122/ap_on_go_su_co/alito_ad;_ylt=AvKzYqOov9XIfawSoV_kAV2s0NUE;_ylu=X3oDMTA3OXIzMDMzBHNlYwM3MDM-

QOTW 11.11

If liberty and equality, as is thought by some, are chiefly to be found in democracy, they will be best attained when all persons alike share in government to the utmost.

~ Aristotle

Is Pat Robertson God's Vegence?

When I hear the things that come out of Pat Robinson’s mouth I cannot help but wonder, what does God really think? Maybe Robertson is God’s reprisal on a society that takes his teaching at a literal level and not on a deeper, meaningful and truthful one. He is weeding out the weak minded from the strong, compassionate and forgiving. Read the bible, and decide for yourself.

Trust God, not Pat.

Televangelist Warns of Evolution Doomsday
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/9995578

Surprise! Bush is Not Honest

Bush is not honest? Is this really news? What are we going to find out next: that there are no WMD's, that activitist judges are conservative as well as liberal, that homosexuals want the right to marry... is there no end to getting the real story?

AP Poll: Most Americans Say Bush Not Honest
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/10000960

More Government; Less Gays

Here we go again. The Republican Party mantra of “less government” is now “more government; big government, nothing but government 24/7.” So much for states rights and Reagan’s New Federalism policies; The Republican are doing their part to keep the world safe from gays. But who is keeping us safe from the Republicans?

Federal Anti-Gay Marriage Amendment Moves Forward
http://pageoneq.com/rssfeedstuff/index.php?id=3971

Bush Leadership

Vatican Admits Science is Good

The bible teaches us that God created the heavens and the earth. After all he does not just spend his day his days crafting divine retributions, he dabbles in science as well.

I believe science is God's gift for us to use wisely. Apparently and finally, so does the Vatican.

The doors opened in 1992, when Pope John Paul II finally acknowledged that “we may have been hasty in our original condemnation of Galileo for heresy.” (http://www.dslnorthwest.net/~danwilcox/galileo.html ) It took the Vatican almost 360 years to concede that he was correct and that in fact, yes the earth is round. (So I don’t give up hope that the church will come around on understanding the difference between pedophilia and homosexuality.)

Today, the holy powers concedes that science is our friend. So dear fellow Catholics, seek invitro fertilization if needed, take medications daily, use condoms, and eat Splenda. These and the entire universe are God’s gift to us. Just remember to say thank you.

Vatican: Faithful Should Listen to Science
http://www.newsday.com/news/nationworld/world/wire/sns-ap-vatican-science,0,6358654,print.story?coll=sns-ap-world-headlines

QOTW 11.4

We must be willing to let go of the life we have planned, so as to have the life that is waiting for us.

~ E.M. Forster

Changing Judge Won't Change Evidence

Tom Delay is getting a new judge, preferably one that is not a democrat. Tom’s argument for the change : “There should not be a public perception of partiality in the case,” say Tom’s lawyers. The fear is that a democrat judge will not treat him fairly.

Public perception has nothing to do with getting a new judge.

I have to wonder, if the money laundering and conspiracy charges against him are “completely false,” why all the trouble to stack the deck on his side.

Tom, you can change the judge but you cannot change the evidence.

Which is really why you want a new judge: to limit the facts presented in your trial. Let’s see what evidence you ask to be “inadmissible” under this new, hopefully conservatively sympathetic judge.

Anyhow, let’s hope this new presiding judge is true to the law and not to either political party. After all, “There should not be a public perception of partiality in the case.”

Judge Removed From DeLay's Criminal Case
http://www.guardian.co.uk/worldlatest/story/0,1280,-5385184,00.html

B+ for G.W.

Kudos to President Bush (see… I don’t just bash him) for his insightful and proactive approach to what could be a “new pandemic.” (“Pandemic”: Bush’s new word of the week. Okay a little bashing. I can’t help it.)

With surprising forethought, the Bush administration is planning ahead in preparation for the deadly possibilities of a bird flu outbreak. Very wise, very astute, and just when Bush’s approval rating is at a record low. Coincidence? Who knew public health was a pawn for political popularity? To bad Reagan's numbers were so good in the 80s; maybe we have an AIDS vaccine today?

Dear George W., with 40 million people infected with H.I.V. worldwide, Bird Flu may be a new pandemic but it is certainly not the only one we should be working against. B+ for effort.

Bush Outlines $7.1 billion Flu Pandemic Strategy
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/9883713

All Be Afraid

Should I be afraid that the group Concerned Women for America, which threatened a boycott against Starbucks for gay themed coffee cups “Hot Coffee & Bitter Women” /August 05 posting, are also getting calls from the White House for Supreme Court nominee referrals?

I believe in God, he is all forgiving. It's Christian women with insider power that frightens me. Maybe we should all be afraid.

Anti-gay Group with Gay CFO OK's Bush Choosing Samuel Alito for Supreme Court
http://pageoneq.com/news/2005/Alito_pick_Court_1031052.html

Free Speech Fading Out

Ranked 17th in 2002 and then 22nd last year, the United States is moving fast down the list, placing 44th on this year's international press freedom index. What is happening to our free speech?

What is happening to one of the pilliars of our Constitution?

Look at the shiny penny over here: War in Iraq, Supreme Court nominations, CIA leaks, Brad and Jenny split up. Should I go on? All the while, free speech slowly fades out.

U.S. Ranks 44th in Worldwide Press Freedom Index
http://english.ohmynews.com/articleview/article_view.asp?article_class=3&no=254376&rel_no=1

QOTW 10.28

We the people are the rightful masters of both Congress and the courts, not to overthrow the Constitution but to overthrow the men who pervert the Constitution.

~ Abraham Lincoln

Invisible Mary Cheney Reappears

The world’s most invisible lesbian Mary Cheney reappeared this week and has been hired by America on Line. According to inside sources, in this an untitled position, she will “assist in managing the advertising, e-commerce and search engines and… will help the company develop LGBT content.”

Hello! Mary Cheney knows about as much about the real LGBT community as we know about her, (meaning very little). Is she even really a lesbian?

Anyhow, I heard Hooters needs someone to help develop “straight” content. I drink beer, I fart and burb. Do I get the job?

Vice President's Daughter to Join AOL
http://www.usatoday.com/tech/news/2005-10-27-aol-cheney_x.htm

Psalm 24... and Counting

Prayer for Our Future

George W. is my president; yet I shall not fear.
He maketh me cry now for greener pastures.
He leadeth us to a desert slaughter.
He slumpeth in the polls.
He forces me down paths of HIS morality for his small supporters’ (with deep pockets) sake.

Even though I walk through the valley of the shadow of dread,
I will fear no two-term evil,
for truth is with me;
its power and its certainty,
they console me.

God prepare a future for me
in unity with my enemies;
enlighten their heads with wisdom;
(who knows? maybe their capital will overflow).
Surely decency and actual “gentle conservativeness” shall follow all the days of ours lives,
and we shall dwell in a homeland of free thinking
forever.

© 2005

Pagans, Let Us Pray

So the ultra-Christians win again. And we, the liberals and moderates (a.k.a. most America) are left to ponder what life may have been with a extremist we somewhat knew verses to extremist we don't.

As "conservative backers had doubts about her (Harriet Miers) ideological purity," (fancy words for saying she is not as tight-assed as us,) Bush's next nominee will be far more right, far more righteous and far more frightening. The immediate outlook is not looking so bright. Let's keep our fingers crossed and despite what the conservatives believe about us anti-family anti-God pagans, let us pray for the future of our country. (See "Psalm 24”)

Miers Withdraws Supreme Court Nomination
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/9837151/

Gay in Spirit

Please excuse my two week hiatus. I was out of town. Got sick. And reconnected with my old high school friends for a wedding.

Congratulations to Rich and Pam! Thank you for inviting us to the party. Which brings me to my current posting below…
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Like the women's liberation movement of the 70s that lead way to female world leaders, CEOs, doctors, police officers and unisex restrooms at your local gas station, gay liberation is creating its own results that many would not have foreseen, and some even sadly, bitch about. I am talking about the growing number of straight men in gay bars and at circuit parties. Dude! What the hell is this about?

Dude! Who cares? I think it's great.

With their girlfriends (or wives in tow,) or even single and hanging out with their gay friends or siblings, they are joining the party for all the fun and celebration. When I was “straight,” the company of men I kept was not as cool. Going to a “fag bar” was not an option. Drinking beer chased down with shots of chilled Southern Comfort then hitting a Del Taco drive thru with our pants down in a shopping cart, now that was good night! Okay was it senseless.It was straight guy fun, bro! Now, I can barely remember those drunken escapades.

Now, the gays and the straights have become friends. Shaking my gay shimmy against a straight money-maker is not as bothersome as it is powerful. They grow older with us, they grow wiser with us. They will father children who will receive gifts on Christmas morning not only from Santa, but as well as from Uncle John and Steve or Aunt Cindy and Stephanie. These straight men who share our bar stools and chuckle at our secrets will settle down as adults with their children in a new world that welcomes us as part of the family; a real home that accepts gay and lesbians for all our goodness and faults without question, fear or prejudice.

Remember your childhood, as you sat at the Thanksgiving card table at your grandparents and heard your families talk about their proms and youthful histories. "Member, you member..." Now close your eyes, and look into your future at the same holiday, as you and your friends (gay and straight) regale about favorite clubs that are now furniture stores or parking lots, prides, parties or Cher no-shows. The laughter and children abound. Yes, the times are a changing and are we only the better for it. And that coy straight guy hanging out with his gay friend is the sign of this change.

I know some would argue that because Grace has a friend named Will, this is sign that all is good in the world, but let's face it; we are still on the road less traveled.

This world was not made in a day and nor will the new one evolve after a three day weekend in South Beach. When you stare at that straight guy who reluctantly but inevitably takes his shirt off at the dance club, know he is more than a dance partner who needs coned off floor space, he is, maybe for his first time, feeling what we often feel on a bar bar- comfortable being himself. And at that moment at least, he is one of us, gay in spirit. Having a great time, feeling it, being it.

Smile at him and tell him “Thanks for coming.” Invite him to the next party, ask him to bring friends. As time and we move onward, attitudes change. He is proof of that. "Why can't we all just get along?" This man questions society not his or your sexuality. He is the face of a greater future and our inevitable right to marry.

Maybe in return, this straight man in a gay bar may invite you into his home. Or even to be best man at has wedding. He will invite into his home and into his life for big mug of friendship. And with this, a new world comes into being where there may no longer be straight bars or gay bars, just bars- where as always, friends come to have a good time, laugh out loud and maybe dance (to Cher) together.

QOTW 10.7

For my LA friends:

"Rosas! Rosas!...Rosas!?"

http://www.davidology.com/roses/

Ban on Lesbians

Who would ever think I would miss Ronald Reagan and his policy of "less government."

Indiana Considers Ban On Lesbian Pregnancies
http://www.365gay.com/newscon05/10/100405birthBan.htm