Monthly Archives: May 2010

Keith Olbermann & Dan Savage On The Anti-Gay DADT Crazies

Last night Olbermann and Savage talked about all those Hitler loving, soldier-raping, AIDS-carrying gays that the AFA and FRC have been warning you about. And then they get into John McCain’s announced plan to filibuster the Senate vote and bring the entire repeal effort crashing down.

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Who Were The House Dems Who Said No To The DADT Repeal Compromise Bill?

Here they are: Bright (AL), Berry (AR), Ross (AR), Bishop (GA), Lipinski (IL), Donelly (IN), Peterson (MN) Childers (MS), Taylor (MS), Skelton (MO), Etheridge (NC), McIntyre (NC), Shuler (NC), Pomeroy (ND), Carney(PA), Critz (PA), Spratt (SC), Davis (TN), Tanner(TN), Edwards (TX), Gene (TX), Ortiz (TX), Boucher (VA), Rahall (WV).

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90+ Story Apartment Building Planned For Manhattan Near Central Park

The ugly Trump World Tower will be deposed as New York City’s tallest residential building after a planned 1005 foot apartment building is completed in Manhattan’s near the southern end of Central Park. The tower, designed by the French architect Christian de Portzamparc, will rise 1,005 feet above 57th Street east of Seventh Avenue, feature striking views of Central Park …

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Activists Released In Zimbabwe, Say They Were Tortured In Jail

The two gay activists arrested in Zimbabwe earlier this week have been released on bail. The men were arrested for “undermining” the regime of dictator Robert Mugabe after an anti-Mugabe letter from former SF Mayor Willie Brown was found posted in their office. The men say they were tortured in jail. Their employer, Gays and Lesbians of Zimbabwe (Galz), said …

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Maddow On “Top Kill” Oil Spill Attempt

It turns out that the amount of oil spilling is actually from 12,000 – 25,000 barrels per day, up to 25 times what BP first claimed. And yet BP is still low-balling people who’ve lost their livelihoods with ridiculously small settlements.

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Iron Baby

Better than Robert Downey!

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What Disney Teaches Girls

Not to mention that many of Disney’s villains have been older, single, effeminate men. (Via – Boing,Boing)

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Quote Of The Day – Rush Limbaugh

“I know I am a target and I know I will be destroyed eventually. I fear that all I have accomplished and all the wealth I have accumulated will be taken from me, to the cheers of the crowd. I know I am hated and despised by the American Left.” – Rush Limbaugh, from an email written the day after …

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Around The World

They are: Cuba, China, Egypt, Greece, Iran, Jamaica, Mexico, Nigeria, North Korea, Pakistan, Saudi Arabia, Singapore, Somalia, South Korea, Sudan, Syria, Turkey, United Arab Emirates, Uganda, United States, Venezuela, and Yemen. (Via – Esquire)

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DADT House Debate Highlights

Since most of today’s speeches were read from prepared statements, they often lacked the dramatic emotional punch of those delivered on our behalf during the New York Senate’s debate on marriage equality. But here’s a few of of the best.

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House Passes DADT Repeal 234-194

The House of Representatives has passed the compromise repeal of “Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell” after long and rancorous debate. I’ll post highlight clips from the debate shortly and will update this post with the vote’s roll call. Ten reps did not vote, 26 Democrats voted “NO” and only five Republicans voted “YES.” UPDATE: The five GOP “Yes” votes: Charles Djou …

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Senator Senior Name

I just got an email from the DNC’s Organizing For America asking if I would send a thank you letter to Senator Senior Name for standing up to Wall Street. It concludes, “Please show Sen. Name that support for reform isn’t going unnoticed.” I’ll wait to see how Sen. Name votes on DADT.

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DADT Compromise Repeal Bill Passes In Senate Armed Services Committee

The vote was 16-12 and now moves to the full Senate. And it wasn’t televised, despite the demand made by John McCain earlier today. The Senate Armed Services Committee on Thursday voted to let the Pentagon repeal the ban on gay men, lesbians and bisexual people from serving openly in the military, a big step toward dismantling the Clinton-era policy …

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Family Suing School After Bus Driver Tells Student To Stop Saying Gays Go To Hell

The wingnut-o-sphere is positively quivering with outrage today over a report that an Indiana school bus driver berated a girl for continuing to preach against gays and Obama to fellow students. The driver was recorded admonishing the student over the bus PA system. Keep in mind that the below news story and video are from a Fox News affiliate. The …

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Republican House Members Rail Against DADT Repeal

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Newly Out CA Sen. Roy Ashburn May Be Leaving The Dark Side

CA state Sen. Roy Ashburn (R), who was outed earlier this year after being arrested for DUI leaving a Sacramento gay bar, may slowly be seeing the light. Yesterday he voted for one of the two LGBT rights bills put before him and talked about being gay while doing so. Two months after announcing he was gay, state Sen. Roy …

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Quote Of The Day – Charlie Crist

“Ultimately, as in all military matters I defer to the Pentagon and to the Generals and what the Senate is doing today is giving them the ultimate authority to do what is best for our military. So, I would be inclined to support the Senate’s action on this.” – Florida Gov. Charlie “Closet Case” Crist, reversing his previous position on …

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OBAMA: I Take Responsibility For Not Moving Faster On Gulf Oil Spill

Vowing that BP will have to “pay dearly” for the Gulf oil spill, the president also acknowledged that the federal government did not move quickly enough at first. “We are relying on every resource and every idea, every expert and every bit of technology to work to stop it,” the president said. “We will take ideas from anywhere but we …

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Obama Promises Answers On Sestak

Today the president promised that the White House would “very shortly” address GOP claims that he illegally offered a job to Pennsylvania Democratic Senate nominee Joe Seestak if he would drop his challenge to Arlen Specter. UNRELATED: I always want to write “Sestak” as “sleestak.” Too much Land Of The Lost as a kid!

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Fake Pediatricians Group Dumps Rekers

You’ve really got to be a scumbag when other scumbags won’t be seen with you. After being disavowed by the Family Research Council (which he co-founded) and by NARTH, for whom he wrote extensively and sat on their board of directors, Dr. George Rekers has now been dumped by that fake pediatricians group fronted by NARTH members. Wayne Besen reports …

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