Barrack Has Two Daddies
This brief video blooper is hilarious.
http://www.tmz.com/2008/09/02/barack-makes-his-tory-with-his-two-dads/
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Another reason to be glad you’re not Iranian
Iran has got a plan how to deal with its homosexuals. Remember when the Iranian President told a Columbia University audience that his country has no homosexuals? He was more nearly right than you knew!
…in Iran, homosexuality is a crime punishable by death. But the government has provided a way out for the nation’s gays and lesbians: a sex-change operation. Fully paid for by the state, the procedure would allow these people to conform to Iran’s theocratic standards of sexuality.
More on how the Drug War can get you killed
Minneapolis Police Chief Tim Dolan and Mayor R.T. Rybak have given medals and commendations to members of the SWAT team for their bravery in nearly killing an innocent family, whom they mistook for gangsters.
In handing out the medals, The Chief says:
The easy decision would have been to retreat under covering fire. The team did not take the easy way out. This is a perfect example of a situation that could have gone horribly wrong, but did not because of the professionalism with which it was handled.
In ridiculing this madness, Reason magazine says:
This is really beyond outrage. The city of Minneapolis is commending and rewarding its police officers for firing their weapons at innocent people. A family of eight was terrorized, assaulted, and nearly killed, and it’s the “perfect example” of a situation that could have gone wrong?
Read more about this criminal incompetence here and here.
Something important the governor wants you to know
Gov. Crist’s people are circulating a security video tape showing the unmarried governor of Florida making out with his girlfriend in an elevator. This (allegedly) in order to quash persistent rumors that the Republican governor is gay and to make him a more acceptable choice as McCain’s running mate.
Well, it wouldn’t be the first time the Republicans had this sort of problem.
Prevarication
Bill Clinton says, “I have never seen anything like it. I have never seen a candidate treated so disrespectfully just for running. … I can’t believe it. It is just frantic the way they are trying to push and pressure and bully all these superdelegates to come out.”
But, given the Clintons’ complex and difficult relationship with the truth, it should come as no surprise that this statement is not exactly 100% accurate. In fact, in 1992 there was a tremendous litany of demands for Gov. Brown to drop out of the race beginning as early as March, in order to unify the party around Bill Clinton. The link shows about 100 “disrespectful” quotes demanding party unity.
Why do the Clintons always lie even when they must know that people will know either immediately, or at least real soon, that they are lying? It seems so very strange. These are sick people. Personally, anytime I hear a Clinton say anything at all then I assume that it’s a lie.
Gay Wedding at the Crawford Ranch?
Laura Bush and newlywed daughter Jenna appear as guests on the Ellen show Wednesday. Jenna invites Ellen to have her wedding at the Bush family ranch!
Andrew Sullivan says, “When the president’s own daughter backs marriage equality, you know what the future is.”
The Tirade of the Month
Keith Olbermann has quite a remarkable on-air tirade against Mrs. Clinton:
The Gay Marriage Debate
Here is an insane argument against the California Supreme Court ruling:
How, then, can a court invalidate the referendum and over-rule the will of the people? Basically through a kind of legal fraud. The court has to pretend that there is a right to gay marriage even though it is nowhere evident in the state constitution. Read the constitution, hold it up to the light, squeeze lemon juice on it–you won’t see a right to gay marriage in there. It is simply not an enumerated right, nor is it a right that can be clearly derived from other enumerated rights.
And here is that argument torn to pieces:
I bet there’s a whole range of unenumerated rights the court has rightly protected that D’Souza is all for. Nowhere in the constitution does it mention any right to travel from state to state, or to send one’s children to private school (or to homeschool them, for that matter), or the right to read a book if one chooses to. Read the constitution, hold it up to the light, squeeze lemon juice on it - you won’t see any of those rights mentioned. Yet the courts have rightly protected them anyway.
Supreme Courts exist precisely in order to counter democracy. The Founding Fathers feared unfiltered democracy (mob rule) more than just about anything. Those Courts’ function is to protect minorities from the whims of majorities. The so-called Conservatives only remember this principle when it happens to suit them to remember it.
Wedding Bells in California
Ellen is getting married.
And so is Lieutenant Sulu: www.georgetakei.com