February 29, 2008
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Lifted from Taylor Marsh — who asks:
What Will Gay and Lesbians Get for Their Obama Cash?
Taylor pulled it from SusanUnPC’s entry at No Quarter:
“As God Is My Witness”: Obama Snubs Newsom, Gays
Read them. And weep.
It’s not too late, gay Texans and Ohioan. You can turn the tide against this two-faced panderer who will gladly “reach out” for your money and votes — but won’t stand up for your rights.
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Don’t like it? Complain to the author, not me.
The Haloed One
. . .
There are those who suggest, only half-jokingly, that Obamamania has become something of a cult. Of course it is a cult, manifesting what writer James Wolcott refers to as “salvational fervor” and “pure euphoria.” Listen to what the Anointed One said in South Carolina at one of his rallies, which he alludes to as tent revivals: “At some point in the evening, a light is going to shine down and you will have an epiphany and you’ll say, ‘I have to vote for Barack!’ ” Something insidious is happening beneath this rapture. Because of the halo effect, too many people are afraid to sincerely criticize Obama for fear of being attacked and otherwise humiliated.
Many white Democrats who do not support Obama are keeping their heads down and their mouths shut. They do not want to be denounced as racists for preferring Hillary Rodham Clinton for reasons that have nothing to do with race.
. . .
Predictably, the people most negatively affected by Obamamania are blacks who have resisted the new, emerging black monolith by supporting Clinton. These poor souls are being excoriated by other blacks and sometimes labeled as self-loathing Uncle Toms.
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Now the tables have turned. Obama is on top, with the overwhelming majority of blacks zealously supporting him. That support is the new litmus test for being “authentically” black.
One young man, clad in hip-hop duds, offered this insight to a black magazine: “Backing or not backing Barack shows how developed your racial consciousness is. You ain’t black if you don’t support Barack.” During the 1960s, blacks used the expression “blacker than thou” to refer to the chosen few who set the standard for blackness. Those who did not measure up were dissed for not thinking “black enough.” The other expression during the 1960s was “black three-hundred-and-sixty degrees,” meaning you were profoundly black in a psychological sense.
. . .
During a recent interview with National Public Radio’s Melissa Block, Missouri Rep. Emanuel Cleaver, a member of the Congressional Black Caucus, said he and some other members are being pressured and threatened by their constituents to vote for Obama. He said that Georgia Rep. John Lewis, an early Clinton supporter who has worked tirelessly for black causes since assuming office in 1987, had become the victim of “robo-calls” and that some of the callers said “very, very derogatory things about him.”
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Here is why I said Obama’s halo will tarnish if the Illinois senator is elected president: It will give him an indefinite honeymoon. We will be reluctant to challenge him, fearing that the albatross of racism and its attendant pathology, the blame and counterblame and old hatreds, will come crashing down on us.
I fear we are about to elect an untouchable president, just as George W. Bush was until his incompetence and mendacity snatched us back into reality.
And yet those of us who refuse to drink the Kool-Aid have been hammered mercilessly by Obama supporters who tell us “Obama transcends race,” while simultaneously telling us we are racists for refusing to fall in line no matter how much we disagree with Obama’s positions, and telling us “It’s time to elect America’s first black president,” and telling us “You can’t understand any of this unless you’re black.”
You can’t have it all three ways, Obama supporters.
Not if you want to retain any shred of credibility whatsoever.
Now go read the entire piece.
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February 28, 2008
From People for The American Way (PFAW):
WASHINGTON, DC - February 28 - This week McCain campaigned with Rod Parsley, founder and president of “The Center for Moral Clarity” and leader of the right-wing “Patriot Pastors” (a church based campaign that was infamous for referring to political opponents as “secular jihadists,” the “forces of darkness,” and the “hordes of hell.”)
Just yesterday, he accepted the support of John Hagee, founder of “Christians United For Israel” and a vocal supporter of preemptive, religious war with Iran.
Rod Parsley, whom McCain has called a “spiritual guide” has in the past:
• called hate crimes legislation a “deceptive ploy of [the] liberal, homosexual agenda.”
• advocated criminal prosecution of adulterers.
• compared Planned Parenthood to the Nazis.
• declared “I came to incite a riot! Man your battle stations! Ready your weapons! Lock and load!” at a “War on Christians” conference.
• urged voters to “let the Reformation begin! Shout it like you’re going to carry the blood-stained banner of the cross of Christ the length and breadth of the Buckeye State!” at a political rally.
Not one to make a right-wing supporter feel left out, McCain said, “I am very proud to have Pastor John Hagee’s support.” Hagee has:
• predicted God will allow terrorists to strike the United States if the government is insufficiently supportive of Israel.
• preached that US invasion of Iran is foretold in the book of Esther.
• claimed that George Washington designed the Great Seal of the United States to include a hidden menorah in the eagle’s tail feathers.
• accused the Catholic of joining with Hitler in “a conspiracy to exterminate the Jews.”
• argued that “Hurricane Katrina was, in fact, the judgment of God against the city of New Orleans.”
“For a man the media loves to call a maverick, McCain sure spends a lot of time holding hands with the Religious Right,” said People For the American Way Political Director Mary Jean Collins. “McCain’s embracing Parsley and Hagee is a sign that either he’s changed his mind about what constitutes an ‘agent of intolerance‘ or he’s decided that a little extremism in pursuit of power is no vice.”
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This is the ad Barack Obama is running in LGBT publications in Ohio and Texas, beginning Friday, February 29:
“While we have come a long way since the STONEWALL RIOTS in 1969, we still have a lot of work to do. Too often, the issue of LGBT rights is exploited by those seeking to divide us. But at its core, this issue is about who we are as Americans, it’s about whether this nation is going to live up to its founding promise of equality by treating all its citizens with DIGNITY AND RESPECT.”
I have so much to say about this — so very, very much — and none of it good.
I’m just too angry right now to write.
Right now, I just want you to see this hollow, meaningless, pandering piece of B.S. Obama is running in gay publications, starting Friday, February 29th, as an eleventh-hour bid to win over gay and lesbian voters in Ohio and Texas presumably too freaking stupid to see right through this gossamer-thin stagecraft.
Look at it. Look at the “tear” running down Obama’s cheek.
Boo-freaking-hoo!
Read the words. Resist the urge to hurl, if you can.
This is the biggest pile of steaming garbage from the Obama camp yet.
When my blood pressure goes down, I’ll tell you what I really think.
Stay tuned.
P.S. Stampp Corbin, you stay tuned as well; I’ve got plenty to say to you, too.
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From the Palm Beach County Human Rights Council:
Palm Beach County School District Expands Domestic Partner Benefits
Palm Beach County School District Recognizes Domestic Partners and Their Children as Family Members
West Palm Beach, Florida — The Palm Beach County School Board unanimously adopted a policy this afternoon redefining “family” to include employees’ domestic partners and their children.
“This pro-family policy recognizing employees’ domestic partners and their children is a significant step forward,” said Rand Hoch, President of the Palm Beach County Human Rights Council.
The Council has been the leading advocate for domestic partner benefits in Palm Beach County for almost twenty years.
While the School District of Palm Beach County has recognized domestic partners as family members for several years, today’s vote marks the first time the School Board has included the children of employees’ domestic partners.
In 2005, the school district first offered employees the option of purchasing health insurance for their domestic partners. Currently, 46 employees purchase domestic partner health insurance from the school district.
However, unlike all other public employers in Florida offering domestic partner insurance, the School District of Palm Beach County does not allow its employees to purchase health insurance for domestic partners’ children.
“The School Board’s newly expanded definition of families gives us hope that the school district will soon allow employees to purchase insurance for the children being raised in their homes,” said Hoch.
Public employers in Palm Beach County which allow employees to insure domestic partners and domestic partners’ children include Palm Beach County, the Palm Beach County Sheriff’s Office, the Office of the Clerk and Comptroller, the Office of the Tax Collector, the Office of the Property Appraiser, the Office of the Supervisor of Elections, the Office of the Public Defender, the Port of Palm Beach, the Palm Beach County School District, the Solid Waste Authority, Palm Tran, as well as the cities of Delray Beach, Lake Worth, and West Palm Beach, and the Town of Jupiter.
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February 26, 2008
Per the Miami Herald:
The incident occurred Sunday morning outside The Floridian at 1410 E. Las Olas Blvd.
The couple and a friend sat down to breakfast about 3 a.m. at an outdoor table. They ordered sandwiches, tea and juices.
A man got out of his pickup truck, walked by them and promptly began yelling slurs at the trio — Melbourne Brunner, his partner Mitchell Mart and a friend visiting from out of town.
“He was yelling, ‘Faggot, were you looking at me, if you were, I’m going to come back there and break your neck. That’s what I do to faggots’ and then he twisted his hands together,” Mart recalled.
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The men started to get into their car, which was parked two feet from the table, when the pickup driver said, “‘That’s what faggots do, they run,’” Mart said.
As Brunner tried to climb into the passenger seat, the man punched him several times, pushing the car door on him. Brunner fell to the ground, striking his head.
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The man ripped off his shirt and threw it over [his license plate] as he yelled, “I’ll kill you before you get my tag number!”
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Brunner suffered severe bruising, which has spread, Mart said Tuesday afternoon as they prepared for another doctor visit. Brunner did not suffer any broken bones. “His jaw is out of wack,” said Mart, a retired dentist.
“Everyone was just sort of in shock. We were traumatized,” he said.
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Police are treating the incident as a battery and looking into the possibility that it may have been a hate crime.
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Fort Lauderdale, known for being one of the most gay-friendly communities in the country, has had an increasing number of violent acts committed against members of the gay community in the last year.
That coupled with controversial comments from long-time Fort Lauderdale Mayor Jim Naugle. …
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…[L]ately there have been the violent overshadows: just last week, Simmie Williams, a 17-year-old boy, was murdered at the corner of Sistrunk Boulevard and 10th Avenue. He was wearing women’s clothes. …
“Police are treating the incident as a battery and looking into the possibility that it may have been a hate crime”?!
Just how many times does the perp have to use the word “faggot” in the same breath as a direct threat before it’s officially a hate crime?
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Or: Yet Another Reason We Wish Nigeria Would Disappear Into A Gigantic Sinkhole
From the traditionally gay-baiting-and-hating Nigeria, in the gay-baiting-and-hating Daily Sun, a gay-baiter-and-hater called Leo Nwokoji equates gay and lesbian Nigerians — and “people of questionable marital paternal or maternal footing” — with vampires:
National Assembly and morality question
Senator Nuhu Aliyu had no qualms, made no mistakes, spared no one when he declared that fraudsters had infested the National Assembly. But for the intervention of the Senate President, he probably would have entertained the nation with a roll-call of who is who and infact who tops the chart among these desecrators of our hallowed chambers.
Contributing to the debate on a motion tagged Direction and Tempo of the War on Corruption, sponsored by Senator Sola Akinyede, Senator Nuhu Aliyu, after identifying with the content and spirit of the motion, declared that Ribadu made a world of difference in the fight. He proceeded by recapping the world preception of Nigeria as a nation of 419ers and added that they even abound in the the Senate.
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Among the issues begging for attention is the propriety of tolerating every shade of moral leaning in the National Assembly. The lesbians, perjurers, fraudsters, gay, cultists and vampires, street fighters and people of questionable marital paternal or maternal footing.
Isn’t it about time we started aiming at a more decent legislature, in both ethical and moral sense? For instance, should we allow an avowed sexual pervert, a notorious 419er, a serial rapist, and blood drinking cultists to rub shoulders with saner, more decent senior citizens in the hallowed chambers of our legislature when their likes are languishing in Kirikiri and Gashua prisons? Should such base characters be allowed to enact laws that will drive national issues? Will this caliber of people not legislate us into crisis?
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Heaven is revealed to us in the Bible as a stainless city of righteousness, implying that sin cannot enter there. If God almighty, whose name is holy, decides in his magnanimity as the sovereign one, to admit into heaven everyone who obeys him in all points except one, say lying, cheating, anger, adultery or fornication, pilfering or outright robbery etc., at the end of such exercise, wouldn’t the heaven, the avowed kingdom of righteousness and hollowed abode of the mighty God, become a mere replica of sinful, depraved, earthly kingdom? Wouldn’t even the integrity of the holy one be called to question? Now, let’s come back to the terrestrial arena in context. …
Nwokoji goes on like this for a few more paragraphs (using the word “hallowed” at least twice more — doesn’t this guy own a thesaurus?); hit the link if you want to get the full effect of the nutso-wackiness within.
By the way, The Sun crows about itself like so:
Our name says it all: THE SUN – Nigeria’s King of the Tabloids. The sun is a king of the cosmic world. That is why we call ourselves “Nigeria’s King of the Tabloids.” The essence and spirit of a tabloid newspaper go beyond the elementary distinction in size. Beyond that, a tabloid is a special newspaper that looks at news – whatever the subject of the news – largely from the human angle.
THE SUN therefore is a paper of human voices, capturing the unpredictable and unexpected rhythms of life and existence, the daily heartbeat of humanity in lucid and crisp prose. THE SUN is a mirror that reflects reality with fresh, bloodied brazenness. …
“Bloodied brazenness”? Definitely.
“Lucid and crisp prose”? About as “lucid and crisp” as the latest missive from any of Nigeria’s 419 scammers. 
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