HRC Coming Out effort features blogger who outed Lance Bass

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Friday September 29, 2006 · 6:59 PM PDT

2006/09/29 · 18:59

Blogger Perez Hilton, whom many had never heard of before he started harassing former *NSYNC singer Lance Bass on the internet about Bass' sexual orientation, is featured at the top of the Human Rights Campaign's home page at http://hrc.org as one of a variety of people celebrating National Coming Out Day on October 11, 2006. Hilton, who is openly gay and whose real name is Mario Lavandeira, outed Bass even though Bass in no way had attacked or was a threat to the LGBT community. HRC's own "Resource Guide to Coming Out" defines "outing" as "[e]xposing someone's sexual orientation or gender identity as being gay, lesbian, bisexual or transgender to others, usually without their permission; in essence 'outing' them from the closet." ( http://hrc.org/Template.cfm?Section=Coming_Out3&Template=/ContentManagement/ContentDisplay.cfm&a mp;ContentID=32381 ) Forcibly outing someone who is not harming the LGBT community is, in the view of many, unethical in the extreme. Read More

Terrorists attack U.S. soil

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Tuesday September 12, 2006 · 11:10 AM PDT

2006/09/12 · 11:10

Islamic terrorists attacked the United States embassy in Damascus, Syria earlier today. Embassies are, by international law, considered to be the sovereign territory of the guest country, even though the land is an enclave surrounded by the host country.

So much for the Coward in Chief's claims that we haven't been attacked since 9/11/2001.

Within a few weeks, more Americans will have died at the hands of terrorists in Iraq than died within the borders of the U.S. on 9/11/2001. Only an imbecile or a moral degenerate (both represented in the personage of the man living in our White House) would think that the matter of borders makes a difference. You are no less dead if you're a Boise schoolteacher in the Reserves who takes a bullet in the cranium in Fallujah than you are if your jet is flown into the Pentagon.

We are not safer. We are not more secure.

Lieberman, shunned by Democratic consultants, finally hooks up

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Wednesday September 06, 2006 · 1:46 PM PDT

2006/09/06 · 13:46

MediaPost reported 25 August that Humble Joe has had difficulty getting a new internet consultant. Blue State Digital and PlusThree both found reasons for declining to associate with His Radioactiveness. See http://publications.mediapost.com/...

With Lieberman's blog going back up, the National Journal's Hotline is reporting today that it is Liberty Concepts that finally agreed to sign on. They also do Jim Pederson's (D-AZ) work. It will be interesting to see how much money Liberty managed to wring out of Lieberman when the next FEC reports are in. See http://hotlineblog.nationaljournal.com/...

Middle East's most dire problem? World Pride gay festival

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Saturday July 29, 2006 · 11:15 PM PDT

2006/07/29 · 23:15

War. Invasion. Death. Civilians rocket bombed. Soldiers kidnapped. Terrorists in Parliament. Terrorists in the Cabinet. Iranian machinations. Syrian money. Russian armaments. 800,000 refugees. Human shields. A gay Pride festival in Jerusalem.

Guess what Christian and Jewish fundamentalists think is the most pressing problem in the Middle East?

See http://www.speroforum.com/...

New Hampshire GOP takes a bold stand for ethics

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Thursday July 27, 2006 · 6:03 PM PDT

2006/07/27 · 18:03

Various GOP operatives conspired to jam get-out-the-vote phone lines sponsored by the New Hampshire Democrats on election day two years ago. Some have already been convicted; more are likely to go down as well.

No doubt they'll be able to sell tickets by the table now that they've cleared this up (tongue in cheek):

http://www.unionleader.com/...
[New Hampshire] GOP state chair Wayne Semprini reports that the party "is having a fundraiser and not a penny is going toward legal fees" related to the phone-jamming scandal....

Imagine having to assure your donors that their support will not go to corruption cleanup.

Bush is only five points ahead of Milosevic

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Tuesday May 09, 2006 · 11:00 AM PDT

2006/05/09 · 11:00

The Gallup Poll that was released today shows that George W. Bush's disapproval rating is at its all-time high of 65%. This is exceeded among post-war U.S. Presidents only by Richard Nixon's July 1974 disapproval rating of 66%, just before Nixon resigned in disgrace.

But there is at least one former world leader whose disapproval rating exceeded even those of Messrs. Bush and Nixon: deposed Serbian dictator Slobodan Milosevic.

According to a 1999 poll taken by the U.S. polling firm Penn, Schoen & Berland Associates, Milosevic had a disapproval rating of 70% among Serbian voters months before the successful electoral campaign to oust him from that country's presidency. Milosevic lost the presidency in autumn 2000 after the Serbian opposition united behind moderate nationalist leader Vojislav Kostunica. Read More

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