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Compounding Insult With Insult (CORRECTED) Posted 07 Jan 2010 under Media, Republican Clown Show
MEA CULPA: This is going to sound incestuous, but quoting from the Huffington Post story that had quoted this post yesterday: It’s been pointed out to me that however hilarious the insertion of “engine” is, the fault here is not Fox’s at all, but the automated transcription service that provided the transcript in the first place. Thus, [...]
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Official No Homo Posted 20 Nov 2009 under Depends on the Definition of Change, Obama Uber Alles
Give in on same-sex benefits, judge orders feds – San Francisco Chronicle (11/19/09): The chief federal appeals court judge in San Francisco bluntly ordered the Obama administration Thursday to stop resisting his finding that the wife of a lesbian court employee was entitled to government insurance coverage. The federal agency that oversees benefits for government employees [...]
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No Homo Posted 11 Oct 2009 under Depends on the Definition of Change, Obama Uber Alles
John Aravosis on Obama’s Big Gay Speech: Barack Obama just promised us that if he becomes president, he’s going to repeal Don’t Ask Don’t Tell, the Defense of Marriage Act, and get ENDA passed. The speech was Saturday night, October 10, 2009. Very hard to make a case that Obama takes the rights of GLBT Americans [...]
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Common Denominator Posted 28 Sep 2009 under Obama Uber Alles
Digby: Does anyone else find it odd that the Obama administration consistently uses the most hardball, down and dirty, tough guy tactics when it comes to Democratic Party electoral politics but pleads that it is required to observe every arcane, institutional ritual when it comes to legislation? [...] It’s this willingness to play the hardest hardball when it [...]
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Pride 2009 Posted 30 Jun 2009 under General
(First off, here is the post I link to whenever I write about civil rights for the GLBT community. If you haven’t read it before, I highly suggest you do so now.) Since the passage of Prop 8 taking away the right of gay and lesbians to marry in California, and the Obama administration’s broken [...]
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Strange Bedfellows Indeed! Posted 26 Jun 2009 under Congressional Man Date
The Waxman-Markey bill (a.k.a. the energy reform bill, a.k.a. the climate change bill) is expected to come up for a House vote today. Passage requires 218 votes, and it’s not at all clear the votes exist: According to an E&E analysis of the floor debate, Democrats still have their work cut out for them. Even [...]
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A Concise History Of DOMA Pretenses Posted 18 Jun 2009 under Obama Uber Alles, Podium Spin
(1) First, Obama-the-candidate promises to repeal the Defense of Marriage Act. Then, the Obama administration files a brief supporting DOMA (see Matt’s powerful post about Obama’s wideranging and continuing betrayal of the GLBT community). A brief that John Aravosis describes as “despicable, and gratuitously homophobic”. Then, White House spokesman Robert Gibbs insists that [...]
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An Appalling Betrayal Posted 16 Jun 2009 under Depends on the Definition of Change, Obama Uber Alles
2008 SF Pride Parade – © Matt Cohen I go to the San Francisco Gay Pride Parade ever year. I used to go with some of my gay friends, and these days I get assigned to photograph it. I go because it’s important. I go to support my gay friends. I go [...]
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Jewish for the Jokes Posted 19 May 2009 under General
Alvy Singer: Don’t you see the rest of the country looks upon New York like we’re left-wing, communist, Jewish, homosexual pornographers? I think of us that way sometimes and I live here. For $5 Million, Woody Allen Drops Lawsuit vs. American Apparel – NYTimes.com “Annie Hall,” the Oscar-winning film directed by Woody Allen, earned the director $5 [...]
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Iraqi Millitias Are Listening to Too Much Wu-Tang Posted 21 Apr 2009 under General
Think Progress (4/21/09): “A prominent Iraqi human rights activist says that Iraqi militia have deployed a painful form of torture against homosexuals by closing their anuses using ‘Iranian gum.’ …Yina Mohammad told Alarabiya.net that, ‘Iraqi militias have deployed an unprecedented form of torture against homosexuals by using a very strong glue that will close their anus.’ [...]