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Sunday, Nov 8, 2009
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Congrats, Lynn, Paige, Rebecca, et.al. for a thought-provoking, insightful and down-right fun first year. I look forward to your posts/articles and seeing the comments from other Broads (regardless of their gender).
I know when I click on this section, it's going to challenge me, anger me, make me tear up, laugh, in short keep me real and connected. (Sort of a more outwardly intellectual version of the weekly Sit N Knit at my favorite yarn shop. Yes, Virgina: real dykes do knit! )
Thanks again and every good wish to you all.
Sorry for misspelling your name.
No, but Mimi apparently is...she needs to get a life rather than continuing talking to her Size 0 friends, go out and meet real women (paging the Dove gals). Oh, yeah, and maybe give into gluttony and order a petite filet once in a while.
And let's be realistic (hmmm, perhaps the word is cynical?): Baker's only getting involved because his buds on various corporate boards and in various lobbying groups are getting antsy.
Hell, they were told they'd have a brand-y-new Iraq to call their financial playground well before now, not a Land of Misfit & Broken People and Dreams, which is a very tame description of what Iraq is. (A state of civil war and a Wild West disaster area are more on target.)
Still, if Baker & Co. can work with the new Democratic leadership post-election to set much-needed time tables and eventually get more of our troops home, so be it. It was economic interests (and Dubya's mano-a-mano issue with Poppy) that got us in this mess, it'll be economic interests that get us out.
Kerry and Hillary both go away, far away? Both are gaffe-prone, bellwether opportunitists. Neither are what grassroots liberal-progressives want in the Oval Office, governing this country from a compassionate, insightful perspective.
They are, collectively this week, the October surprises we didn't need or want.
I love statements like this in which narrow-minded bigots like Musgrave show their ignorance. The two--gay marriage or, more to the point, straight marital rights for gay couples, and religious freedom--have nothing in common in the strictest sense. How does my wanting to spend time at my partner's hospital bedside destroy anyone's freedom to practice religion as they see fit?
It doesn't, of course. See, in one sentence, their sleazy, catch-phased argument is blown away like dust in the wind.
And I think more and more open-minded people, as they meet more gays and lesbians, are coming to realize that. Politics is indeed personal. Get to know us, look us in the eyes (or better yet, find out your beloved aunt, daughter, son, et.al. is gay) and then try to tell us why we shouldn't be allowed to comfort the person most beloved to us in his/her hour of need.
In addition, how much does two queers holding hands really matter when your son or daughter just came home in a body bag, when your job was just outsourced, when your health insurance dries up?
It's real-life, real-world issues, stupid. Just ask Rick "man-on-dog action" Santorum that on Nov. 8th.
he already had the lobotomy...and it would take major surgery to remove that mother of all hemarroids known as Dick Cheney.
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When I approached the voting location this morning, the usual Democratic and Republican committee people were out front. One said, "You've got electronic machines this year."
"Really," I said. "Then I know my vote won't count....Guess you can tell who I'm voting for..." They looked momentarily stunned, but the Democratic committeeman got it.
Also, the regulars at my voting place said they'd already seen more turnout at that time than in several previous elections--and it was only 7:20 a.m.
...if there weren't American lives and so much at stake, for Mr. Conservative to try to back away from the label he wore so proudly for so long.
I'm reminded of Dan Savage's description of the definition of "santorum" (let's just say it ain't pretty...and possibly something the Rev. Haggard knows about). How true, how true...
Say buh-bye, Ricky...your reign of incompetence and ignorance is over, and mine isn't the only PA household that'll be celebrating tonight.
They're so busy sticking their noses in my business as a lesbian that they failed to focus on their own damned family. Where is that Musgrave person when you need her to jump in and tell Haggard that his "lifestyle" is destroying her "religious freedom"?
As for Mrs. Haggard, well, she'll probably get a high-powered divorce lawyer to sue his pants off for good. Can't much say I blame her if she does...their kids'll need the $ for years of therapy.
Oh, look: There's a closeted gay man staring back at you. One who is so self-loathing, he's aligned himself with the most amoral (under the guise of High Church Morality) bunch of crooks and sleazebags we've seen in a while in Washington (and that's saying a lot), who would strip your fellow LGBTs and fellow Americans of their basic civil rights in the name of a morally wrong and excrutiatingly misguided war.
Take a look at the men around you, now clinging to whatever they can. They need some mirrors too, to see that the American people are no longer in lock-step behind you about terrorism, that quagmire in Iraq, on countless other issues on which you claimed the moral high ground...which turned out to be quicksand that enveloped us all.
And Democrats: Go podcast Robert Reich's excellent commentary from this morning's Marketplace Report (npr). It's about setting the agenda for the next 2 years--if Dubya bats it back, you've got what you need to win in '08. If he signs off (unlikely), you've made the progress we want and so desperately need.
Much of the initial coverage about Fort Hood turned out to be wrong. Is there anything wrong with that?
The accountability imposed by another country for the CIA's kidnapping and torture reveals much about our own.
Fox News' morning show plays to type, talking about whether Muslims in the Army should face "special debriefings"
The survivor and author is upset about comparisons some on the right are making to genocide
Once seen as a lunatic fringe, reactionary anti-women groups are courting respectability
Salon headlines in your mailbox
