Monthly Archives: March 2010

Texas GOP Rep. Randy Neugebauer:
I Called Stupak A ‘Baby Killer’

Rep. Randy Neugebauer(R-TX) is apologizing for shouting “Baby killer!” on the floor of the House as abortion foe Rep. Bart Stupak announced his opposition the GOP’s attempt to kill the health care reform bill. “Last night was the climax of weeks and months of debate on a health care bill that my constituents fear and do not support,” Neugebauer said …

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Spitting On The Graves Of AIDS Victims

Revisionists charged with “protecting the legacy” of dead dead dead Jesse Helms are trying to recast the vile homophobe as a champion of people with AIDS. Unsurprisingly, activists are furious. Efforts to lift the [HIV travel] ban were blocked by a 1993 Congressional amendment introduced by Senator Jesse Helms, Republican of North Carolina. Those who fought the law say Mr. …

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Liberty Counsel Sues To Overturn HCR

The right wing is wasting no time in issuing an avalanche of lawsuits to overturn the health care reform bill. Here’s another one, from the anti-gay Liberty Counsel, home to Matt Barber. The healthcare bill is unconstitutional for several reasons, including the fact that Congress lacks the authority to mandate insurance coverage for individuals or private businesses. Any “reconciliation” issues …

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John McCain: We Will Invalidate HCR

John McCain phoned in to Good Morning America today to announce that the GOP intends to overturn the health care reform bill via “lawsuits, tea party rallies, and the ballot box.” UPDATE: Rep. Steve King (R-IO) has already submitted a repeal bill. (PDF)

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Photo Of The Day: Hater 1 – Protesters 500

Protesters outnumbered an anti-gay hater by 500-1 at a scheduled Westboro picket of a high school performance of the Laramie Project in Louisiana. Westboro didn’t show. UPDATE: Here’s an amusing clip of the protesters getting ready for Westboro.

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HCR: Wingnuts Ride The Waaambulance

Right Wing Watch has posted a compilation of wingnut group reactions to yesterday’s health care reform vote. A sampling: The Eagle Forum: “Any formerly pro-life Democrat who voted ‘Yes’ on the Senate health care bill tonight will be forever remembered as being among the deciding votes which facilitated the largest expansion of abortion services since Roe v. Wade. Mr. Stupak …

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Rosie To Replace Oprah?

The Hollywood Reporter notes that Rosie O’Donnell has signed a deal for a daytime television show that launches upon Oprah Winfrey’s retirement in 2011. O’Donnell, who hosted the syndicated “The Rosie O’Donnell Show” and did a stint on ABC’s “The View,” has teamed with syndication veterans Dick Robertson and Scott Carlin for another syndicated talk show. The show, hosted by …

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HomoQuotable – James Randi

“Well, here goes. I really resent the term, but I use it because it’s recognized and accepted. I’m gay. From some seventy years of personal experience, I can tell you that there’s not much “gay” about being homosexual. For the first twenty years of my life, I had to live in the shadows, in a culture that was — at …

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King & Bachmann Console Teabaggers

Rep. Steve King and Rep. Michele “Crazy Eyes” Bachmann left the House chamber last night after the vote to go outside and console their teabagger supporters. Both vowed massive retaliation against the Democrats in November. King: “They people had the nerve to cast this vote on the LORD’S day!” OK, then.

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The House Dems Who Said No To HCR

In alphabetical order, here are the House Democrats who voted against health care reform: John Adler NJ, Jason Altmire PA, Michael Arcuri NY, John Barrow GA, Marion Berry AR, Dan Boren OK, Rick John Boucher VA, Bobby Bright AL, Ben Chandler KY, Travis Childers MS, Artur Davis AL, Lincoln Davis TN, Chet Edwards TX, Stephanie Herseth Sandlin SD, Tim Holden …

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Porno Pete’s Americans For Truth Labeled Hate Site By Southern Poverty Law Center

Due to the lobbying of Chicago’s Gay Liberation Network, Porno Pete LaBarbera’s Americans For Truth About Homosexuality has been listed as a hate site by the Southern Poverty Law Center, the watchdog group that tracks hate groups in numerous categories. Via Andy Thayer at Feast Of Fools: After years of vilifying gays as disease-prone and child molesters, the website of …

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Teabaggers: The Movie

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DC’s Not-So Mass Gay Wedding

Remember how we all groaned when a DC wedding planner announced that he would stage a world’s record group gay wedding featuring “up to 400 couples”? Fortunately, things didn’t quite go down as planned, robbing the Christian right of years of material. Via Advocate: A group of 10 gay and lesbian couples in Washington, D.C. wed on Saturday at an …

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Skinheads Versus Gays In Bulgaria

When a tiny group of LGBT activists in Bulgaria attempted to protest a new law banning open displays of homosexuality, they were surrounding and intimidated by almost 100 skinheads. Six activists of the youth organization “Lesbians, Gay, Bi- and Transgender in Action” arrived to the city of Pazardzhik from Sofia in order to protest an order to local City Council …

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Two Men Shot Outside NYC Gay Dance

Details are sketchy so far, but local NYC news is reporting that two men were shot at 4:30am this morning outside Chelsea’s M2 Ultralounge, which is hosting the annual post-Black Party event Alegria Extreme. One man was shot in the foot and the other was shot in the leg as both patrons stood in the club’s outside smoking area. The …

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If The Whole Country Was Brooklyn

According to some urban planners, if the entire USA lived with the same population density of Brooklyn, we could all live in an area the size of New Hampshire. The rest of the nation would become farmland and parks and there’s be little need for domestic air travel. And we’d all ride our solar-powered hovercycles to our sustainable green office …

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Obama Congratulates Congress On HCR

In a decidedly non-triumphant, almost gracious speech, last night the president congratulated Congress for their passage of the health care reform bill. He took no questions after the speech.

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House Member To Stupak: Baby Killer!

A GOP member of the U.S. House apparently called Democratic abortion opponent Rep. Bart Stupak a “baby killer” just as he began to speak in opposition to an amendment that would have killed the bill.

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FL Pastor: No More Homos And Fags!

Pastor Wayne Sapp of Gainesville, FL’s Dove World Outreach Center goes off on a 6-minute rant against openly gay mayoral candidate Craig Lowe, saying “the world don’t need no more homos and fags.” Check out his YouTube channel for other gems such as Nigger! Is It A Good Word? Last year Sapp and others sued the Alachua Country School Board …

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House Approves HCR By 7 Votes

The House of Representatives has narrowly approved the Senate’s version of the health care reform bill by a vote of 219-212. Democrats hailed the votes as historic, comparable to the establishment of Medicare and Social Security and a long overdue step forward in social justice. “This is the civil rights act of the 21st century,” said Representative James E. Clyburn …

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