Monthly Archives: November 2010

British PM David Cameron – It Gets Better

(Tipped by JMG reader Vivian)

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James Carville On President Obama

“If Hillary gave up one of her balls and gave it to Obama, he’d have two.” – Democratic strategist James Carville, speaking about the president’s commitment to the repeal of DADT. After Carville’s comment was widely criticized, he fired back: “If I offended anybody, I am not sorry and I do not apologize.”

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GOP Birthers: Keep Obama Off 2012 Ballot

GOP state legislators swept into office in the midterm elections are using their new majorities to push bills that would require proof of American citizenship in order to be placed on state presidential ballots. Bills are now being readied in Pennsylvania, Texas, Arizona, and Georgia. The internet birther headquarters, Christianist site World Net Daily, is cheering them on. Texas state …

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The Superions – Crummy Christmas Tree

The Orlando-based Superions are a side project from B-52’s frontman Fred Schneider. Their holiday album Destination: Christmas is now on sale. UPDATE: JMG reader Hightemp suggests you might like this one better. I do.

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Quote Of The Day – Gary Bauer

“From the standpoint of the Democratic Party, she did a great job of ramming their agenda down the throats of the House of Representatives. But in so doing, she has alienated a good bit of the American people, including those independent voters. I thought it was rather humorous that for weeks and weeks, there was a big sign outside the …

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Murkowski Waffles On Her DADT Vote, Two Other GOP Senators May Be Onboard

Last night Sen. Lisa Murkowski characterized her position on the repeal of DADT as “indeterminate” despite earlier reports from Alaskan media that she’d indicated she would support the repeal. The second clip from Rachel Maddow, which also talks about potential GOP support from Sen. Dick Lugar and Sen. Susan Collins, was recorded before Murkowski backtracked to CNN. The bottom clip …

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What The American Public Knows

(Via – Andrew Sullivan)

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Adele – Someone Like You

Grammy winner Adele appeared on the UK’s Later…with Jools Holland to debut a new single from her upcoming sophomore release, which is due in January. She’s only 22.

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NOM Thinks You’re Mentally Ill

Good As You points out the above diatribe from NOM’s Facebook moderator Louis Marinelli. So much for NOM’s incessant protestations that they aren’t anti-gay, that they totally respect LGBT people, etc etc.

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He’s A Hoopy Frood Who Really Knows Where His Towel Is (And Has Been)

This is actually an ad for this nonsensical product. NSFW.

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American Family Association And Liberty Counsel Object To Hospital Rights For Gays

“Certainly there are Catholic hospitals and Baptist hospitals that recognize homosexual behavior as sinful behavior and they do not want to take part in affirming homosexual sin under the strong arm of the government.” – Liberty Counsel spokesbigot Matt Barber, objecting to new federal rules which stipulate that any hospital that receives Medicare or Medicaid funding must allow LGBT patients …

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A Message From Transport Canada

(Via – AmericaBlog)

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Democratic Senators Hold Press DADT Conference: We Will Get This Done

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Joe Biden On DADT

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Lieberman : We Have The DADT Votes

This afternoon Sen. Joe Lieberman said that there are more than enough votes to repeal DADT in the Senate. Via Wonk Room: “I am confident that we have more than 60 votes prepared to take up the Defense authorization with the repeal of ‘don’t ask, don’t tell’ if only there will be a guarantee of a fair and open amendment …

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TEXAS: Possible Gay Panic Defense In Murder Of 18 Year-Old Student

Texas police have charged a 19 year-old student with murder after he led investigators to the beaten and burned body of 18 year-old fellow student Joshua Wilkerson (left). The suspect claims the pair fought after Wilkerson made sexual advances on him. The suspect, identified as Hermillo Moralez, beat Joshua Wilkerson to death with a large wooden object sometime Tuesday afternoon, …

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Two Minutes Of Crazy

Televangelist/con artist/homophobe Cindy Jacobs tells an audience of college students that she has personally “stationed angels all around this church” in order to “pierce the darkness of humanism and atheism.” As a bonus in crazy, nasty homophobe Lou Engle comes on stage to babble in tongues and encourage the students to do the same. Mekka-lekka hi there!

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GOP Negotiation Tactics

(Via – Ezra Klein)

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HRC’s Fred Sainz On Mormon Church’s So-Called Change Towards Gays

Much noise is being made about the Mormon Church’s so-called softer position on homosexuality. HRC’s Fred Sainz went on MSNBC to talk about it, but Pride In Utah, who has read the new Mormon Handbook, says don’t believe the hype.

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Quote Of The Day – Sarah Palin

“Did you ever wonder where the producers of American Idol come up with the seemingly endless supply of people who can’t sing but are deluded enough to get up in front of a national television audience and screech out a song anyway?” – Sarah Palin, from her coming book America By Heart.

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