Wednesday, December 02, 2009

From actress Meredith Baxter‘s son Peter:

“I just couldn’t stop smiling because she finally figured it out.”

Context here. [hat tip StrangeAppar8us]

Posted by Kevin K. on 12/02/09 at 04:26 PM
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Monday, November 09, 2009

They aren’t just hanging around football games waiting to accost the children. fRightwing perverts are lurking outside of schools (via TPM, h/t lahm31):

Westboro Baptist Church, the fringe-of-the-fringe anti-gay group famous for protesting at military funerals and claiming that God is punishing the country for its tolerance of homosexuality, was spotted this morning protesting outside Sidwell Friends, the school attended by Sasha and Malia Obama [I disagree with TPM’s characterization of the WestBurrow Boobtists. Are they really that much less bug-fucking nuts than the rest of the cretins who dance the Homophobic Hop? That was a rhetorical question. -ed].

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According to their web site, today they plan to hit a few more local schools and the White House, and will be at the Sidwell Friends Lower School tomorrow afternoon.

‘Cos nothing says reaLAMErican(R) Values like shrieking at school kids.

Seriously. If run of the mill TalEvangicals like Ted sHaggard are into snorting meth off male hookers, I don’t like to think of what the WB Boobtists get up to. Maybe large dogs are a bad idea. A bazooka might drive them wild. Also.

Posted by Hunger Tallest Palin on 11/09/09 at 11:44 PM
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Friday, October 30, 2009

Barack Obama about lifting 20-year-old U.S. travel ban against people with HIV:

“If we want to be a global leader in combatting HIV/AIDS, we need to act like it.”

Bravo.

Wingnut meltdown in 3 ... 2 ... 1 ...

Posted by Kevin K. on 10/30/09 at 01:32 PM
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Thursday, October 22, 2009

This is not a good week for our insect bothering friends. Obama’s dastardly plan to make throwing rocks at a gay couple a federal hate crime (which is totally not fair, look you made Tony cry) is a few swipes of the pen from completion. At the same time the Department of Health & Human Services is unleashing a plot to send your grandparents to Death Camp and replace them with people who are old and gay! It’s TRUE (via the HHS Website):*

HHS Secretary Kathleen Sebelius today announced plans to establish the nation’s first national resource center to assist communities across the country in their efforts to provide services and supports for older lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender (LGBT) individuals.

Experts estimate that as many as 1.5 to 4 million LGBT are aged 60 or older [That sound you just heard was fReichtards keeling over at the thought of 4 million Barney Franks roaming the world, talking smack and taking no prisoners -ed].

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Posted by Hunger Tallest Palin on 10/22/09 at 09:20 PM
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Monday, October 12, 2009

This strategy could actually work:

Ginning up outrage against health care reform efforts that would benefit most Fox viewers is more complicated than sending them into gay panic. Not that the GOP is incapable of it, as we’ve seen this summer. But convincing even dolts to agitate against their own interests involves some effort: It entails telling and sustaining lies and partnerships with corporations to fund the scare-mongering, with the object being to move the uninformed middle toward one side via sheer volume.

The teabag demo is already prejudiced against LGBT equality and will eagerly pounce on any moves toward advancing it. But there’s no real corporate motivation to massively fund an effort to stymie LGBT equality initiatives. As Maher points out, a well-timed repeal of DADT could suck all the oxygen out of the anti-health reform movement by giving the lemmings who underpin it a shinier object on which to focus. And it’s the right thing to do into the bargain.

[Cross-posted at Betty Cracker]

Posted by Betty Cracker on 10/12/09 at 08:49 AM
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Thursday, August 13, 2009

It’s an ill wind that blows nobody any good, and Great Depression Part Deux is no exception: The fundamentalist nutbags at Focus on the Family have been forced to unload their unprofitable “Love Won Out” homo-conversion racket due to a $6M budget shortfall:

Focus on the Family also announced Tuesday it would no longer stage “Love Won Out” conferences across the country. The events drew both participants and picketers for their promise to “help men and women dissatisfied with living homosexually understand that same-sex attractions can be overcome.”

[Spokesman] Schneeberger said that one staff position will be eliminated and that other financial steps are under discussion. Last fall, budget problems prompted Focus on the Family to eliminate more than 200 positions.

Tough times call for tough choices. Focus on the Family founder James Dobson may have decided to farm out the anti-gay crusades to focus more sharply on his child-flogging advocacy work. Regardless, this development must be considered a victory for The Homosexual Agenda. The end.

Posted by Betty Cracker on 08/13/09 at 07:53 AM
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Saturday, August 01, 2009

From the letters section of the Star-Telegram:

Why so many titles?

I don’t understand why Americans have to be called something other than American. The only African-American I know of is Barack Obama. His father was African and his mother was American.

Everyone else I know is an American who happens to be black. I am an American who happens to be white. Others are American who have Italian, Irish or Indian ancestry — but they are Americans.

My real title would be too cumbersome to remember. I am a redneck, Southern Baptist, American-Indian conservative Republican, male chauvinistic pig, homophobic, veteran, Southern gentleman who still can’t wear his hat indoors or at a restaurant.

If you can’t see the humor in all this, you are a Naive American.

— Lee B. Downs, Mineral Wells

Umm, sorry, not seeing “the humor.” Someone want to steer me toward the punchline in that mess?

Why post this?  Because a video of Lee Downs being interviewed on FOX News was just uploaded to the GOP.com/RNC channel on YouTube. The Grand Ole Party likes what a redneck, homophobic, male chauvinistic pig has to say (especially since most of it isn’t true):

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Posted by Kevin K. on 08/01/09 at 11:01 AM
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Tuesday, July 21, 2009

Reactions have been mixed.

In case anyone’s memory needs refreshing, Carrie Prejean competed in the recent Miss U.S.A. contest as Miss California.  In the finals she was asked by judge Perez Hilton whether other states should follow Vermont and legalize same sex marriage.  Her now famous answer:

Well, I think it’s great that Americans are able to choose one or the other. We live in a land where you can choose same-sex marriage or opposite marriage. And you know what, in my country, in my family, I think that I believe that a marriage should be between a man and a woman. No offense to anyone out there, but that’s how I was raised, and that’s how I think it should be between a man and a woman.

Prejean lost Miss U.S.A. but gained a huge wingnut following, to the point that she started blowing off her duties as Miss California (contracts are such pesky little things) and ultimately got fired by The Donald.  Which just tells you she must really be a piece of work because he had no issues keeping on underage party girl Tara Conner as Miss U.S.A. a couple of years ago!

According to Prejean and her supporters, though, it was all about medialiaberalbias and shutting her up!  Which she’s not going to and she’s gonna write a book instead and tell everyone!

So now Ms. Prejean really can tell her tale of woe to wingnuts everywhere (cause who else is gonna buy this thing) courtesy of wingy publishing house Regnery Publishing.  Don’t forget to reserve your copy on Amazon, y’all!

Posted by marindenver on 07/21/09 at 08:18 PM
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Monday, July 13, 2009

Amanda Carpenter deleted this Tweet a few minutes after she posted it (using her “Hot Button”) but, luckily, my TwitterFox add-on has a great sense of humor and retained it:

Ha ha.  Cheney has a gay beard. The only thing that could have made that funnier was if Amanda typed “gesundheit” after “Eschoo” [sic]...

Posted by Kevin K. on 07/13/09 at 10:20 AM
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Sunday, June 28, 2009

This is truly upsetting:

Our colleague Michael Feingold told us some very bad news today: a former Voice sales rep, Joe Holladay, in town on business, was jumped and beaten Saturday morning by a group of men who called him a faggot.

Holladay tells us that he walked out of John Jerome’s apartment on East 85th Street between York and East End Avenues, where he’d been staying, at about 4 a.m. to smoke a cigarette on the sidewalk, and five or six young men swarmed him. [...]

Jerome, an acting coach, heard the fracas and came downstairs to find his friend “in a pool of blood. I thought he was dead. He wasn’t moving.” [...]

Holladay says his doctor told him his injuries suggest he was hit with a blunt object. “The mark on my forehead looks like it was made by the base of a gun,” he says.

If you check out the post you can see a picture of Holladay after the attack. Pretty brutal. And sad.  We still have a long way to go. Even in New York City.

Posted by Kevin K. on 06/28/09 at 09:24 PM
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Thursday, June 18, 2009

Dear President Obama,

I’ve recently had cause to consider the implications of getting gays’ hopes up and then dashing them. So naturally I thought of you.

I’ll be honest—-I share your lack of a sense of urgency. I’m in no hurry to see these people sent off into an ill-considered war zone with no good options for an exit strategy. But my opinion of the institution of marriage aside, there’s also the DADT issue, and we need translators.

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Monday, June 08, 2009

Pssst! Hey you! Yeah, you, the one cataloguing hate-speech directed at Sotomayor by Fox anchors for beckbusterswatch.blogspot.com.

Ix-nay on etting-lay the epublicans-ray in on the fact that atinos-lay tend to be extremely ocially-say onservative-cay and if the EOP-jay (judges?) would ock-knay it off with the atant-blay acism-ray they could easily eel-pay off enough ispanic-hay upport-say to once again become oliticlly-pay iable-vay.

Owever, it sure would be nice to see the back of this hatemongering ignoramus. (pause) Hay.

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Wednesday, June 03, 2009

The New York Times is reporting that New Hampshire Governor John Lynch signed a bill legalizing same sex marriage in New Hamphire this afternoon.  New Hampshire is now the sixth state in the nation recognizing marriage between same sex couples. 

Mr. Lynch, who previously supported civil unions but not marriage for gay couples, said in a statement that he had heard “compelling arguments that a separate system is not an equal system.”

“Today,” he said, “we are standing up for the liberties of same-sex couples by making clear that they will receive the same rights, responsibilities — and respect — under New Hampshire law.”

Folks, I think we’re seeing something of a trend here!

Of course a few fundies had to grouse about the inequities:

[M]any of the bill’s opponents believe the language adopted by New Hampshire and several other states does not go far enough because it protects only religious groups and their employees. New Hampshire’s same-sex marriage bill does not exempt photographers or florists, for example, from having to provide services at gay weddings.

Exempt photographers and florists from “having” to provide services?  Most photographers and florists are not that crazy to turn down legitimate work in an economic down cycle but if they want to, I’m not sure how they could be compelled to do it anyway. 

But let the fundies grouse.  The rest of us are HAPPY!

Posted by marindenver on 06/03/09 at 07:30 PM
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