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Totally, I'll be up all night trying to figure that one out. Is that how Romnee even spells his name?
That said, is there a donation page for these folks? I think we should help them carpet-bomb the Tampa convention with these things.
Vahtever dot minz.
I mention this not to be nitpicky, but to further enrage the small percentage of homophobic dilrods that frequent SLOG just to have something to piss and moan about.
Speaking of which: congratulations to Brigadier General Tammy Smith, the US Army's first openly gay/lesbian flag officer.
I mean, seriously though, kinda demonstrates their priorities and shoots any claim they might have to being 'patriots' right in the fucking foot. "No, but, for real, absolutely just fuck the troops just so long as we don't have to put up with fags. Right? I will suck Osama bin Laden's dead cock if that's what it takes to make sure men can't suck each other's cocks, oh, and poor people can't go to the doctor."
Also seriously, the bogeyman of polygamy, again? Why exactly is that our standard for marriage-related-slippery-slope catastrophe?
How do you stand looking in the mirror?
Isn't this like finding one of those rogue Star Trek comics, where Kirk, Bones and Spock end up in a 3 way in some Colbarian Bug Juice pool?
(I realize that I have left half the readership mystified by obscure references. I don't care)
If memory serves, this was not an uncommon thing, and still happens from time to time, in various urban locales in the Southeast. For some reason Tennessee and Florida stick out in my mind as more recent than most examples of the practice.
Telephone books AND telephone poles as well.
We might just want to keep our eyes open, given that we're talking Tampa for the upcoming hoedown....
the santorum wingnuts are sex obsessed anti-mormon polygaphobes and
our little Danny is a sex obsessed anti-mormon polygaphobe....
JC Penney 2Q earnings disaster
By ANNE D'INNOCENZIO AP Retail Writer
The Associated PressNEW YORK (AP) —
"J.C. Penney Co. offered up grisly details Friday of a terrible second quarter.
The midpriced department store chain reported a bigger-than-expected loss and plummeting sales. Shoppers are still not buying into a bold new gay-friendly advertising strategy. Penney even withdrew its full-year profit guidance.
After the report, Moody's Investors Services downgraded Penney's rating deeper into junk-bond terrain.
The bleak performance marked the second-straight quarter of severe sales declines since Penney featured two homosexual men in a Fathers' Day advertisement. The report confirmed it's going to be a hard sell to shoppers who are used to traditional marriage."
Kidding.
Lovely reading, though. I always enjoy a report from the lunatic fringe.
Ms. D'Innocenzio did write an article about Penney's today, but it said nothing about gay people. You can read it at
http://www.mercurynews.com/business/ci_2…
And Palamedes dear, I come from Iowa, but the religious tracts in phone books was a phenomena I never encountered until I came to Seattle for the first time in the 70's. But it was quite common here until the phone booths started to disappear.
As secular as Seattle is, or maybe because of it, we have a thriving religious whack job population. Apparently these days they just troll websites.
2) Romney consistently shoots himself in the foot, insulting foreign allies while traveling abroad, begging the media to stop talking about his taxes which he won't release, Stating that he enjoys firing people -during a recession, no less.
You'd think with all this that Romney would be polling somewhere around 15% these days. Even the GOP faithful don't like (much less love) their nominee presumptive. Aside from his mother, I'm not convinced anyone truly loves Mitt Romney.
But we non-republicans are excited that Obama is leading Romney by.....2 %. That's Nate Silver,s calculation over at 538.com 2% of the popular vote is what separates Obama from Romney.
Only in a country where a guy named Danielson with no qualifications at all can defeat an extremely well qualified guy names Gonzales without spending a dime on campaigning or even trying to get anyone's vote, can you see an incompetent jackass like mitt Romney within 2 percentage points of the Presidency.
US-2012 President: 52% Obama (D), 45% Romney (R) (CNN/ORC 8/7-8/8)
Also Romney can't seem to get over 191 electoral votes right now, so while its not in the bag, not as close as some think.
I'm tempted to jump ahead to the chapter entitled, "Anderson Cooper Was Born Gay?," but I'm too wrapped up in the complete take-down of LDS, which - judging from the table of contents - takes up half the book.
I used to visit a friend of mine in Sacramento, CA frequently and it seemed strange tracts and writings were everywhere. This was 2002-2006. One time there were a series home made art boxes all over town, filled with the most delightful sorts of nonsense. I kept a bunch of them, but lost it in one of the 10 moves I made since then. That town always seemed so weird, in a nice way -- I always wondered if it was the influence of all the trains and the hobos who rode them, as well as the migrants who came for the fields. I wish you could still find stuff like that in Seattle!
Speaking of, on a recent bike trip to Spencer Spit, we found that the pit toilet for the walk-ins along the water was home to some nice folky-weird art. Free bead art, and a cool diorama. Nice!
http://worditout.com/word-cloud/99317
1) Moderate Republicans have no real place left to go. A few, like Lincoln Chafee, have the star power to get elected without a party to back them up. But the majority do not, so they get forced out like Arlen Specter or retire like Olympia Snowe.
While the Democratic Party is certainly inclusive-it has ultra conservatives like Charlie Melançon and Ronnie Musgrove in it's ranks along side the Progressive giants like Dennis Kucinich. But where will the republicans too moderate for the GOP and unwilling to join their former opponents go?
Will they break ranks and form their own party? Or glom onto an existing Third Party, thereby swelling it's ranks until it becomes competitive?
2) If the GOP ever does elect another President, given that nobody can ever be conservative enough for the GOP's current base, will that President be so reviled by his own party that, like President Taylor, he will be rendered incapable of governing?
Romney - Ryan. "RR" as in Rolls Royce? The media will have some fun with that.
well.
you've got to admit that JCP has been going down the crapper since Dannyboy gushed about the so so sweet father's gay ad....
As if. Can't their fucking God read between the lines, or do they think they can fool him?
NAME IN VAIN. NOT GUILTLESS.
My neighbor has a Kenyan flag sticker on his SUV in the complex parking lot.
(My bid for Kenyan Presidency taught me to recognize the famed spear and shield).
Promise me you won't try to tell any more stories, won't you?
Nowadays the venue for what you allude to is bathrooms - strangely enough, especially those at very conservative churches, with the tone changing towards reassurance of those in the fold instead of outreach/accusation of "the great unwashed". It's a very odd thing, and personally a bit of a surprise to discover (I would not have found out myself , had I not had a conversation with someone on an architecture tour that included a very beautiful but extremely conservative church).
Why is there so much homophobia here in the US? Why have other western democracies (such as Canada, Scandinavian countries, etc.) accepted equal rights for gays with little or no fanfare?
So the Wingnuts are hanging their hat on a losing issue (gay rights) when the country as a whole is moving forward? Interesting.
http://www.alternet.org/newsandviews/art…
Apart from the rambling, trying to tar Rmoney as the Father of Gay Marriage in Mass. (no ... seriously) as a precurser to moving toward country-wide recognition of polygamy, there was this at the top of Page 62: They had to throw in a reference to one of the stupidest books ever published! But why would they do that when they are attempting to show how moral they are? They shouldn't even know what's IN the book, let alone make a sly reference to it.
Is it too much to ask for selective amnesia while I sleep tonight? Well, it's a valid goal.
Anyone else get that?