Craig, Vitter Sponsor Bill To "Protect" Marriage

You have got to be kidding me!

Just this week, a group of Republican senators re-introduced the Federal Marriage Amendment to the Constitution, which, as we know, would ban gay marriage.

This isn't especially surprising. Republicans are looking at the political landscape, and they're feeling awfully discouraged. The polls look bad, the base looks depressed, and fundraising looks iffy. Rallying the far-right troops with an anti-gay amendment to the Constitution -- even though it has no chance at even getting so much as a hearing -- might be helpful to the conservative movement.

But the funny part is looking over the list of the 10 original sponsors. Most of the names are predictable -- Brownback and Inhofe, for example -- but there are two others whose names stand out: Sens. David Vitter (R-La.) and Larry Craig (R-Idaho).

Yes, two of the principal sponsors of a constitutional amendment to "protect" marriage include one far-right Republican who hired prostitutes and another far-right Republican who was arrested for soliciting gay sex an airport men's room.

Link below to the rest of the story.

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U.S. Embassy refuses to pay road tolls

So, the federal government of the United States just doesn't pay its traffic citations? Their reasoning is because they want to call it a tax and they are not subject to the tax. I am so going to use this on my parking ticket. See ya in court!

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1,000 California Pastors Launch 'Call to Arms' on Same-Sex Marriage

Sounds like it is time to start talking about tax exempt status of churches. When you enter into the political arena then you no longer get to enjoy a tax free status. You got to pay to play in this game. Not to mention with the debt GW has run up, his followers should be equally putting into the kitty just like everyone else!

1,000 California Pastors Launch 'Call to Arms' on Same-Sex Marriage: "

Pastor Jim Garlow of the 2,500-member Skyline Church in San Diego County organized a conference call of more than 1,000 mostly Evangelical ministers yesterday to discuss strategy related to the anti-gay ballot measure headed to California's ballot in November:

'The strategy session, which included input from lawyers and political consultants, was the opening of what conservative religious leaders hope will become a massive Christian outpouring of support for the proposed amendment. The effort will include a 40-day fast leading up to election day, along with 100 days of prayer. On the weekend before the election, Garlow told the ministers, the goal would be to fill Qualcomm Stadium in San Diego and other amphitheaters with people praying for a ban on gay marriage...All told, organizers said, the ministers on the call lead congregations totaling about 1 million people.'

If you remember, earlier this week I posted that the Church of Latter Day Saints is also gearing up for battle.

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Dumb Parents

How does a parent allow a 2 year old to cross a four lane main street without holding his hand? I don't care if he is walking right next to you. How stupid can you be? These are the type of people that depend on government to raise them and their children. There is no excuse for this type of stupidity. I defend your right to be stupid, just don't come back whining and crying because something happens because of your laziness!

30 years???

Let me see if I have this right. You can just ignore a court order?

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Deal Reached in Congress to Rewrite Rules on Wiretapping - NYTimes.com

Okay, this is just nuts! Our supposed leaders in Congress have once again looked at the Constitution and decided to piss on it. We don't have leaders anymore, all we have are a bunch of people that are professional sell-outs. This bill is just simply crazy and anyone supporting the daily destruction of our rights and the frame work of this country is equally nuts.

Apathy is killing our nation, and us.

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By ERIC LICHTBLAU
Published: June 20, 2008
WASHINGTON — After months of wrangling, Democratic and Republican leaders in Congress struck a deal on Thursday to overhaul the rules on the government’s wiretapping powers and provide what amounts to legal immunity to the phone companies that took part in President Bush’s warrantless eavesdropping program after the Sept. 11 attacks.

The deal, expanding the government’s powers in some key respects, would allow intelligence officials to use broad warrants to eavesdrop on foreign targets and conduct emergency wiretaps without court orders on American targets for a wee"

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Michael Savage: Homosexual Mafia is Raping Children's Minds

Michael Savage, the supreme residential idiot of the far right, (so far it makes a loop) is up to his old bullshit. When he doesn't get enough attention from the conservatives he feels the need to whip up something stupid. Course, I am sitting here posting this shit so I must be nuts too.

Michael Savage: Homosexual Mafia is Raping Children's Minds: "

Talk Radio Network's Michael Savage has unleashed some particularly disgusting anti-gay nonsense on his show this week.

'I had to explain to my young son why these two men were holding hands the other day,' said one caller on the June 16th broadcast of anti-gay radio show host Michael Savage's radio show.

Savage responded:

'You've got to explain to the children ... why God told people this was wrong. You have to explain this to them in this time of mental rape that's going on. The children's minds are being raped by the homosexual mafia, that's my position. They're raping our children's minds.'

Media Matters reports that earlier that day another caller had called in to discuss same-sex marriage.

Said Savage: 'It's not a joke when you pervert an institution like marriage, which is in trouble enough. It's not a joke. Our children are being destroyed by this. It's a very important story. The children don't know what to make of it. Children nine, 10 are saying, 'I'm gay.' They don't know what it even means. It's a giant propaganda machine trying to pervert children.'

Audio at Media Matters.

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Savage, Limbaugh, Imus, Coulter: The Week in Hate Speech [tr]

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Chief Judge in Obscenity Case Caught Posting Porn | Threat Level from Wired.com

He didn't think his site was publicly accessible? There is so much I want to say about this, but I will just let the story stand on its own!

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Chief Judge in Obscenity Case Caught Posting Porn
By Kim Zetter June 11, 2008 | 2:40:54 PMCategories: Crime, Porn, The Courts  

A top federal judge who is presiding over an obscenity trial in Los Angeles has been caught posting explicit photos and videos to his web site. The judge told the Los Angeles Times that he didn't think the site was publicly accessible.
Alex Kozinski (at right), a conservative appointee of former president Ronald Reagan who is chief of the U.S. 9th Circuit Court of Appeals, posted a photo of naked women standing on all fours and painted to look like cows, as well as a video of a half-naked man with a farm animal. A step-by-step pictorial depicted a woman shaving her pubic hair and other images showed masturbation and what the Times called 'contortionist sex.'
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Hulk Hogan's Wife: Jail Him

Why am I thinking that there will be no more new episodes of "Hogan Knows Best?"

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CLEARWATER, Fla. — Hulk Hogan's estranged wife is asking a Florida judge to cite the wrestler for allegedly not paying his share of a $4.2 million Las Vegas condo.

Linda Bollea is asking that Hogan, whose real name is Terry Bollea, be held in contempt of court and jailed until he pays. A court order requires them to share the purchase of the condo at The Palms hotel and spa.

Linda Bollea is asking that Hogan be jailed in Pinellas County. That's where the couple's son is serving an eight-month sentence after pleading no contest to causing a crash that seriously injured his friend.

An assistant for Hogan's lawyer says the attorney wasn't immediately available. Linda Bollea's lawyer is expected to release a statement later Wednesday.

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7 arrested for cheering at S. Carolina graduation | KOMO News - Seattle, Washington | Offbeat

Can you say, Police Stupidity? What in the world could these cops be thinking? Course, it is a stretch to expect cops to think in the first place.

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Five Seattle-area women charged in student-loan scheme | KOMO News - Seattle, Washington | News

See, now these are the sort of people that deserve to be prosecuted to the full extent of the law.!

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Lesbian kiss at Seattle ballpark stirs up gay-friendly town

So, what is it with parents that can't talk to the children? The issue here was that a mother had kids with her and she didn't want to "explain" to her children why two women were kissing? Well excuse the hell out of us! Just because your weak and too lazy or lame to talk to your children, maybe you need to stay home? Then you can safely and never have to talk to them about anything.

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Sirbrina Guerrero stands in front of the Seattle Mariners' ballpark Tuesday, June 3, 2008, in Seattle. Guerrero was admonished while watching a game at the park a week earlier by an usher who told her and Guerrero's date that it was inappropriate that the two women should be kissing. (AP Photo/Elaine Thompson)

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SEATTLE (AP) — Most of the time, a kiss is just a kiss in the stands at Seattle Mariners games. The crowd hardly even pays attention when fans smooch.
But then last week, a lesbian complained that an usher at Safeco Field asked her to stop kissing her date because it was making another fan uncomfortable.
The incident has exploded on local TV, on talk radio and in the blogosphere and has touched off a debate over public displays of affection in generally gay-friendly Seattle.
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John McCain’s pursuit of happiness

Just found this and thought it was interesting, let me know what you think.

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It takes the UK’s Daily Mail to report on the presidential campaign story the US media refuses to cover:

McCain likes to illustrate his moral fibre by referring to his five years as a prisoner-of-war in Vietnam. And to demonstrate his commitment to family values, the 71-year-old former US Navy pilot pays warm tribute to his beautiful blonde wife, Cindy, with whom he has four children.

But there is another Mrs McCain who casts a ghostly shadow over the Senator’s presidential campaign. She is seldom seen and rarely written about, despite being mother to McCain’s three eldest children.

And yet, had events turned out differently, it would be she, rather than Cindy, who would be vying to be First Lady. She is McCain’s first wife, Carol, who was a famous beauty and a successful swimwear model when they married in 1965.

She was the woman McCain dreamed of during his long incarceration and torture in Vietnam’s infamous ‘Hanoi Hilton’ prison and the woman who faithfully stayed at home looking after the children and waiting anxiously for news.

But when McCain returned to America in 1973 to a fanfare of publicity and a handshake from Richard Nixon, he discovered his wife had been disfigured in a terrible car crash three years earlier … In order to save her legs, surgeons had been forced to cut away huge sections of shattered bone, taking with it her tall, willowy figure. She was confined to a wheelchair and was forced to use a catheter.

Through sheer hard work, Carol learned to walk again. But when John McCain came home from Vietnam, she had gained a lot of weight and bore little resemblance to her old self.

And so McCain did what any honorable, loving, family man would do: he immediately started cheating on his faithful wife before eventually dumping her to marry a beautiful heiress 18 years his junior.

For her part, Carol McCain sounds philosophical:

‘My marriage ended because John McCain didn’t want to be 40, he wanted to be 25. You know that happens…it just does.’

But former friends and acquaintances are not so forgiving….

They portray the politician as a self-centred womaniser who effectively abandoned his crippled wife to ‘play the field’. They accuse him of finally settling on Cindy, a former rodeo beauty queen, for financial reasons.

Of course this is America, where everyone has the right to pursue happiness, and if McCain couldn’t be happy married to a woman who wasn’t tall, beautiful and wealthy, then perhaps it was best for him, Carol and their children to end the marriage. But really… enough of this family values character crap for a man who abandoned his crippled wife when she needed him most. One can assume the only reason he’s remained married to Cindy this long is that she’s managed to retain her height, looks, wealth and bladder.

In the words of Ross Perot (who paid Carol’s extensive medical bills while her husband was a prisoner of war):

‘McCain is the classic opportunist. He’s always reaching for attention and glory,’ he said.

‘After he came home, Carol walked with a limp. So he threw her over for a poster girl with big money from Arizona. And the rest is history.’

A history most Americans will never learn.

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