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Friday, June 30, 2006

Oh.... Senator... over here....

I've been unavailable for a few days...deep in research and a short trip. Let's just say I am soooo happy this exists. I doubt the Senator will not be as happy as I am over it though.

Speaking of Senators... Where were we on that list?

He voted against the amendment:
John E. Sununu (R-NH)
And just because I want to narrow the list by a few:
Wayne Allard (R-CO)
Robert F. Bennett (R-UT)
Sam Brownback (R-KS)
Jim Bunning (R-KY)
Richard Burr (R-NC)
Saxby Chambliss (R-GA)
Thad Cochran (R-MS)
Norm Coleman (R-MN)
John Cornyn (R-TX)
Larry E. Craig (R-ID)
Mike Crapo (R-ID)
Jim DeMint (R-SC)
Michael B. Enzi (R-WY)
James M. Inhofe (R-OK)
Johnny Isakson (R-GA)
Mel Martinez (R-FL)
Pat Roberts (R-KS)
Jeff Sessions (R-AL)
Richard C. Shelby (R-AL)
Gordon H. Smith (R-OR)
John Thune (R-SD)
David Vitter (R-LA)
George V. Voinovich (R-OH)
And then there were...20.
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Check her out...

Another progressive challenges the status quo... I have a friend working on this campaign for a Maryland House seat... I hope you take a moment to stop by their site...



They've got a fundraising campaign up too.
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Monday, June 26, 2006

Are you an HTML expert?

If you are an HTML expert -- it's a real 'expert' problem -- or know one who might be interested in helping me out on one question, please drop me a note at this page. Thanks.
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Thursday, June 22, 2006

Contrary to popular belief...

...I'm a big fan of HRC.

I've worked in the national movement... at the National Gay and Lesbian Task Force, the Harvey Milk School, and GALA Choruses and understand the importance in fighting for our rights on as many fronts as possible -- Nationally, statewide and locally. Updated... Now work safe: If this is some kind of new subliminal advertising campaign by HRC... it's brilliant. Craigslist is the 27th largest site in the world... can't beat the exposure.



On a serious note...kudos to HRC and all of you who signed the HRC petition for the FMA campaign... not only didn't the 'phobes improve their counts, the lost a vote!

PS: Folks... I've gotten three emails in 5 minutes... THIS IS A JOKE... Sorry I forgot to add the HTML codes for sarcasm and sense of humor.
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Tuesday, June 20, 2006

TAKE ACTION: Tell The Hill newspaper to stop protecting the closet of US Rep. Jim McCrery



JAMES McCRERY (R-LA), A closeted member of Congress, has raised $15,000,000 (Update: $27 million, not $15 million.) for the National Republican Congressional Committe. You can read about his outing by the Advocate in 1992, here.

This closeted gay man has gone and raised $15 million for the National Republican Congressional Committee... The Hill, apparently, doesn't think that gays raising money for homophobes is a big deal. I feel otherwise.

TAKE ACTION: Write to top editors at The Hill and the article's reporters to protest their covering up the truth about McCrery: He's a closet case assisting the homophobes. CLICK HERE TO SEND THE EMAIL [Note: If this SEND EMAIL link doesn't work, just copy and paste the text in the text box to your email 'To' field.]

Cut and paste box for email addresses:

The Hill: Milestone for McCrery
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Roy Blunt tries to change movie rating




Today and yesterday Hollywood has a way of
making things seem different than they
are, movies about Indians are a
great example of this. Many times grossly inaccurate.


NOTE: Welcome Crooks and Liars readers!

Check out my latest story on a closeted House member
who rasied $27,000,000 for an anti-gay organization!



Remember the guy who made sure closet case David Dreier didn't get a House Leadership post? Well, right winger Roy Blunt is now trying to influence movie ratings for religious-based films. The Hill is reporting that he is unhappy about a PG rating for a film about a football team at a Christian High School. The Motion Picture Association of America mad the rating for themes unrelated to the Christianity portrayed in the movie, and an MPAA spokesperson was surprised at the allegation.

Never one to let the truth get in his way, Blunt accuses the MPAA of anti-Christian motivation:
"This incident raises the disquieting possibility that MPAA considers exposure to Christian themes more dangerous for children than exposure to gratuitous sex and mindless violence," Blunt wrote. "I am sure many of my colleagues share my concern, he wrote in a letter.
The Hill reports that the MPAA wrote back:
According to the MPAA, the film explores several mature themes that led the ratings board to conclude that children would benefit from parental guidance. The MPAA cites a subplot related to pregnancy but also says the film includes "proselytizing" elements.
I'm so glad we have Roy Blunt around... I am hoping he can help end oppression of Christians in America. Who knows, Blunts efforts may result one day in a Congressional majority of Christians and even a Christian President of the United States. WOW!

The Hill:
Blunt weighs in on movie’s PG rating
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Monday, June 19, 2006

Has Superman been "outed" or "inned"?

I've been a big fan over Jake Tapper ever since he wrote this article for GQ magazine. Now he's turned his sights on a far bigger character than me... here....



blogACTIVE readers... What do you think? Gay? Straight? or...?
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Stealing from the little guy...

This Markos thing gets more interesting as the days go by. Who is involved in using the stock market to shaft the little guy?



a) Ken Lay?
b) Marko's boyfriend business partner Jerome Armstrong?
c) ALL OF THE ABOVE.
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Thursday, June 15, 2006

Great...

Now, she wants to steal pink!
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Wednesday, June 14, 2006

Retro

Book burning is soooooooo 1933. (And, if you don't think it was about gays, denial is your friend.)
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A true case of...

The blind interviewing the blind.
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Markos continues...

Apparently everyone at the convention thought he was gay. But I know better, real gays love Maureen Dowd:
Markos: 'Maureen Dowd is an Insecure, Catty Bitch'
But for a sexist pig like Markos, it's de rigueur. Frankly, from this vantage point it looks more like Markos...is the insecure, catty -- oh wait, progressives use more respectful language when talking about women.
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Sunday, June 11, 2006

I'm back



As I lay in a hospital bed Wednesday, Thursday and Friday of last week, I had a great deal of time to think about the work of blogACTIVE, the President's shameful use of an issue he cares little about, and, most important, the fact that there are gay men in the United States Senate who voted against our community last week. The experience was scary, but it left me more committed to this work than I have ever been. In that vein, look for a Roy Cohn Award toward the end of the week for someone who crafts anti gay messages for US Senate candidates.

I have a recurring heart issue that has put me in the hospital three times following surgery I had back in 1999. Each time I tend to ignore the symptoms until someone yells at me to "get it checked out."

My experience at the hospital this time was different and while I don't share much about my personal life on blogACTIVE, I couldn't let the events of the past week go by without thanking a friend who made the ordeal much more bearable. Here, I'll call him 'CR.' From the moment I went to the hospital, CR, a very close friend and physician was there for me...Explaining what was happening, reviewing test results, and, most valuably, just being available as a supportive friend. Thanks CR -- and congrats, you have finally made it onto the blog!



There's a lot of time to kill when you're lying in bed all day waiting for tests and doctors. Fortunately, a few days before my "trip" I bought a copy of Herblock's 1955 book, Here and Now. If you are not familiar with the late-political cartoonist and Pulitzer winner, you should be.

Reading a book of political cartoons from 1955 makes you realize that the more things change, the more they stay the same. And to think, I actually thought Eisenhower was not like the rest of those right wing freaks:






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Tuesday, June 06, 2006

Playing with Video

I've gotten into the video craze. In addition to my first filming effort, the protest in DC last week, I converted my apprearance on the O'Reilly Factor for viewing on the web:


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Sunday, June 04, 2006

Print the private letter? And become like them? No thanks.

"Print the letter, Mike."
"Pete Domenici is for the Federal Marriage amendment, why protect him?"
"Don't protect those haters"
Those are just a few of the comments I received around my post the other day about Pete Domenici. Make no mistake about it, as Senator Pete Domenici attacks my family and supports the Federal Marriage Amendment he's got a few issues of his own to deal with, right Pete?



So, why won't I publish the handwritten letter from one US Senator to Sen. Pete Domenici? Because, I don't want to become one of them. As they stand up and shamelessly use the lives of gay people in exactly the same way their predecessors have used other groups over the centuries, I have decided to let Pete Domenici keep his personal problems just that, personal.

I'd think however, with what's gone on in Pete's life, he'd have more important matters to deal with than attacking other families. I mean even the GOP senator who wrote Pete is conerned about him:


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WOW

So, there's a woman running for Goveror of Nevada... She's a one-time dominatrix, who I heard had this story back in 2004. I'm not verifying it... I'm just saying it's running now over at Wayne Madsen's site.

WOW.
June 4, 2006 -- More on George W. Bush's "Sanctity of Marriage" gay marriage constitutional ban.

George W. Bush's marital problems have just taken another turn for the worse. Apparently, Mr. Bush has not only engaged in an extra-marital affair with a member of the opposite sex who is also a senior member of his Cabinet, but also a member of the same sex. WMR received the following release this morning from Leola McConnell, Democratic candidate for Governor of Nevada (who has been endorsed by WMR). McConnell is a one-time professional dominatrix.

"President Bush's speech to the nation Monday. If he doesn't say he's a gay American or at the least a bisexual one then he shouldn't be making one at all. And the notion that it would be in regards to writing bigotry into our nation's Constitution is reprehensible. Too bad it isn't me doing the rebuttal because in 1984, I watched him perform (with the enthusiasm of homosexual male who had done this many times before) a homosexual act on another man, namely Victor Ashe. Victor Ashe is the current Ambassador to the nation of Poland who should also come out like former Governor McGreevey of New Jersey and admit to being a gay American. Other homo-erotic acts were also performed by then private citizen George Bush because I performed one of them on him personally.

I am the woman this website (bushssecretlifein84.tripod.com) speaks of that has been posted on the net nearly two years now. None of this would be the business of anyone but President Bush's little ruse to save his failed presidency by using DOMA [Defense of Marriage Act] to divide Americans one from the other has to be exposed as the act of a desperate closeted homosexual man. The only crime in being GLBT is in the hiding. The President needs to come clean with the American people about his own past sexual behavior before he tries to besmirch the humanity of people in search of sincerely committing to the same bonds of matrimony he's afforded. He violated his own vows of monogamy having a homosexual affair with a long time family friend of whom his wife had no knowledge. His hypocrisy seems to know no bounds.

I had planned to run for governor of Nevada without going into any of this but his planned nationally televised address to the nation makes it necessary for me to address his attempt at division in as public a way as he picked to try this Bushification of reality regarding same sex marriages.

Sincerely,
Leola McConnell
Liberal Democratic candidate for Governor of Nevada"

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Friday, June 02, 2006

This protest takes nerves....

Bloggers have it easy. Tap a few keys and that's that. To stand on a corner in Washington, DC at Freedom Plaza and make out with your boyfriend for an hour really takes a strong will and a passion for your cause.

Here's some video of Mike Bezell and Christopher McDonough:


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