December 10, 2009

Protest Buju Banton’s Grammy Nomination

or, Start a Petition

Change.org

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September 10, 2009

Dear Hawaiians: Between the Mormons and “Beat Haole Day,” You Can Have Hawaii Back

Honest, Hawaiians, I used to be in favor of returning Hawaii to independent sovereignty because it was the right thing to do. These days, the more I hear about Hawaii, the more I want to give it back… for reasons that aren’t quite so positive. So, have at it — this is one less haole you’ll have to worry about. The Mormons, however, are still your problem.

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Q. What’s Worse Than Cheating on Your Wife With Two Other Women?

Take your pick:

A1. Bragging that you’re cheating on your wife with two other women, then saying it was all “just talk,” dragging one of your so-called conquests through the mud along with you; or:

A2. Listening to one of your cohorts, who’s on the Committee on Utilities and Commerce, brag about cheating on his wife with two other women, one of of whom is a utilities lobbyist, and and not reporting the conversation, especially when both of you are on the Assembly Ethics Committee.

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Brian Brown’s Very Bad Week

By Fred Karger, Californians Against Hate

Poor Brian Brown. It has not been a good week for him and his Mormon front group, the National Organization for Marriage (NOM).

With two more states (Maine and Iowa) considering investigations of his organization for improper reporting of campaign contributions and money laundering, plus the on-going ten month investigation by the California Fair Political Practices Commission (FPPC Case #08-735), Brian went on the offensive on Friday and sent out the email below to all his supporters and the media.

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September 9, 2009

Why Hasn’t Glenn Beck Been Locked in a Cage Yet?

And why he been excommunicated by the Mormon church yet? Or is this sort of thing A-OK with Salt Lake, Inc.?

BECK: Hang on, let me just tell you what I’m thinking. I’m thinking about killing Michael Moore, and I’m wondering if I could kill him myself, or if I would need to hire somebody to do it. No, I think I could. I think he could be looking me in the eye, you know, and I could just be choking the life out — is this wrong? I stopped wearing my What Would Jesus — band — Do, and I’ve lost all sense of right and wrong now. I used to be able to say, “Yeah, I’d kill Michael Moore,” and then I’d see the little band: What Would Jesus Do? And then I’d realize, “Oh, you wouldn’t kill Michael Moore. Or at least you wouldn’t choke him to death.” And you know, well, I’m not sure.

More at Media Matters.

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Courage Campaign Calls on Attorney General to Investigate Assemblyman Michael Duvall

LOS ANGELES — September 9, 2009 — After California Assemblyman Michael Duvall (R-Orange County) was caught making obscene boasts about sex with married lobbyists on a live microphone in committee meeting, the 700,000-member Courage Campaign called on Attorney General Jerry Brown to investigate.

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California: Rabidly Anti-Gay “Family Values” Republican Mike Duvall Caught With Pants Down

Or, at least, on a hot mic, describing the lurid details (details so lurid, even we won’t repeat them here) of his affairs with two female married lobbyists.

“One works for a firm which represents utility companies,” notes KCAL — which is no small detail: Duvall was the vice chair of the Committee on Utilities and Commerce, which oversees regulation of public utilities in California. You don’t have to be psychic to see an ethics probe in Duvall’s future!

While we put together Duvall’s inevitable entry for the Conservative Babylon Hall of Shame, get a load of the report from KCAL-9 in L.A., below.

Of course, Duvall is a rabid homophobe, who, among other things, received a perfect rating from the Capitol Resource Institute — the pro-Proposition 8 PAC created by Karen England’s Capital Resource Institute (read more here), the haters behind the astounding scumbaggery of distributing “Yes On 8″ propaganda to be passed out to trick-or-treaters on Halloween, 2008 (see “Proposition 8 Supporters Take Child Exploitation to New Low: Anti-Gay Fliers to Be Passed Out to Trick-or-Treaters Tonight“).

And now, heeeeeere’s Mikey:

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September 8, 2009

Wal-Mart Kills

If this sounds like nothing more than a bizarre, isolated incident in China, keep reading; after the fifth paragraph, your jaw will be on your chest:

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September 1, 2009

Maine Ethics Commission Hits Hard on Opponents of Same-Sex Marriage

AUGUSTA, ME — September 1, 2009 — Jonathan Wayne, Executive Director of State of Maine Commission of Governmental Ethics and Elections Practices, sent a strongly worded four page letter to Stand for Marriage Maine PAC (SFMMP) and the National Organization for Marriage (NOM), seeking more information on the charges of “money laundering” against them in their campaign to repeal Maine’s same-sex marriage law.

The letter sent to Joseph Keaney, Stand for Marriage Maine PAC’s Treasurer and Brian Brown, NOM’s Executive Director, called upon both organizations to respond in writing by September 17, 2009 “…concerning whether the Commission should conduct an investigation.”

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August 20, 2009

Lockerbie Lunatic Loosed: The FBI Says It A Lot More Nicely Than We Ever Will

There are no words to express our disgust with Scotland’s decision to release this evil bastard. “Compassionate grounds“? Where was the “compassion” of this living trail of catsick when he blew 270 human beings to pieces? He should have been left to rot in prison.

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August 13, 2009

GOP: Pay No Attention to Our Crazy Supporters Who Want to Kill Obama

These death threats aren’t threats—they’re challenges. They’re attempts to inject into the public debate the sense that violence is a legitimate response to political defeat. As someone in the blogosphere whom we can’t presently recall wrote yesterday, the appropriate response to a president who advocates rounding up the elderly and sending them before death panels is—if it seems like he’s on the cusp of achieving that goal—to kill or rebel against him. And each publicized call for Obama’s death adds to the public perception that we’ve reached a decision-point about whether it’s time for killing. Every sign—even if the bearer is merely an angry loon who could never get close to Obama—is an inducement to someone who is willing to try. It’s a message to fellow travelers, a signal that they are not alone in their rage, a promise of glory to come if they actually manage to get the job done. As we said before, there are always people who want to kill the president. The question is how many give it a shot. And the more of these signs there are in the background of Fox News’ live report from some town hall in Missouri saying that someone should give it a shot, the more people actually will. And the more people that give it a shot, the more likely someone is to hit the jackpot.

Excellent piece at Gawker by John Cook that deserves the full read.

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“Death to Obama” Sign Man Detained - And is That a Gun on His Hip?

Is that a gun on his hip?

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Karger Warns Maine of Money Laundering by NOM, Mormons, Dobson, & Others

LOS ANGELES, CA / AUGUSTA, ME — August 13, 2009 — Californians Against Hate founder Fred Karger sent a letter today warning top Maine election officials of possible money laundering by opponents of same-sex marriage.

The organization trying to overturn Maine’s same-sex marriage law, Stand for Marriage PAC recently turned in 100,000 signatures to place the question on the November ballot. These gay marriage foes hope to repeal LD 1020 — the law passed by the Legislature and signed by the Governor allowing same-sex marriage in Maine.

Of the $343,689.50 raised to pay the Brighton, Michigan-based National Petition Management, Inc. to collect the signatures, only $400, or a mere .001 of that total came from individuals. The remaining $343,289.50 was given by various religious organizations and James Dobson’s Focus on the Family. The National Organization for Marriage (NOM) gave nearly half of that total, $160,000. The remainder came from Catholic organizations ($150,000) and James Dobson’s Focus on the Family ($31,000).

“It sure looks like they are trying to hide the donors in their latest effort to strip away marriage equality,” said Fred Karger. “There is no way these organizations like NOM and the Roman Catholic Diocese of Portland had all this money sitting in their treasuries (except for possibly Focus on the Family). They went out and raised it expressly for this campaign. It’s very expensive to hire these signature gathering firms to collect 100,000 signatures in a short period of time.”

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August 12, 2009

Scumbag Calls for O.D. Death of Chris Dodd, Glenn Beck Acts Out Poisoning of Nancy Pelosi, and More from the Insane Right-Wing Posse

We have no words. No words. Just watch:

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Must-Read SPLC Report: Return of the Militias

They’re back — and they’re insane:

In Pensacola, Fla., retired FBI agent Ted Gunderson tells a gathering of antigovernment “Patriots” that the federal government has set up 1,000 internment camps across the country and is storing 30,000 guillotines and a half-million caskets in Atlanta.

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August 5, 2009

Well, At Least They Won’t Be Breeding Again for the Next 25 Years

“If I go to the doctor, I am putting the doctor before God. I am not believing what he said he would do.”

Seriously. The last thing we need is for these whackjobs to create more children to murder in the name of their deeply held religious beliefs folie à deux:

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Overheard

“We aren’t supposed to talk about religion, but it was a Mormon that tied Matthew Shepard to a fence, a Baptist who beat him to death, and a Catholic (Rep. Foxx) who called it a hoax.”

— “Chance,” responding to
Jay’s claim of culpability
in the Tel Aviv murders

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August 4, 2009

Erik Prince, Murderer?

The blockbuster article from The Nation is too complex to excerpt coherently, so just read on — and then, after the jump, take a look at a very abbreviated map that explains just a few more reasons we detest everything Erik Prince (and, in fact, his entire, theocratic, un-American family) stands for.

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August 3, 2009

Why Didn’t Kent Hovind Just Ask Jesus to Make the Dinosaurs Eat the IRS?

Sweet, sweet Schadenfreude (which was the first phrase that came into my head before I read my lovely wife’s post on the subject!):

Feds can seize Dinosaur Adventure Land

A federal judge has cleared the way for the government’s seizure of a creationism theme park in Pensacola.

A ruling this week says the nine properties that make up Dinosaur Adventure Land, and two bank accounts associated with the park will be used to satisfy $430,400 in restitution owed to the federal government.

Kent Hovind, who founded the park and his ministry, Creation Science Evangelism, is serving 10 years in federal prison as a result of a tax-fraud conviction for failing to pay more than $470,000 in employee taxes in a long-running dispute with the Internal Revenue Service. …

More at the link, and more delicious commentary from Ed Brayton.

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Shooting at Tel Aviv Gay & Lesbian Youth Center Leaves Two Dead, 10-15 Wounded

According to witnesses, the unidentified gunman, wearing a mask, stormed into the club and began shooting in all directions. Then he fled. Hundreds of Israeli police have launched a manhunt for the assailant.

Voice of America
August 2, 2009

More after the video.

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August 1, 2009

August Provost Murder Suspect Jonathan Campos Commits Suicide

Buffy touched on the death of August Provost earlier this month; now, reports OnTop:

Suspect In Gay Sailor’s Death Commits Suicide

The seaman being held in the brig of the Marine Corps Base Camp Pendleton charged with the death of a gay sailor was found unresponsive Friday, the ‘Houston Chronicle’ reported.

Petty Officer Jonathan Campos was charged last month with the death of August Provost, a gay sailor found dead on June 30 in a Camp Pendleton guard shack near San Diego. …

Campos was taken into custody on July 1 but military prosecutors officially charged with him the death of Provost last week.

Provost of Houston, Texas was found dead about 3:30AM on June 30…

More at the link.

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Peter Cammarano: Well, At Least It Wasn’t a Sex Scandal

Way to go, dumbass:

Hoboken Mayor Peter Cammarano resigns after arrest in sweeping corruption probe

Hoboken Mayor Peter Cammarano heeded calls for his resignation and finally stepped down Friday, a week after his arrest for taking a $25,000 bribe.

The 32-year-old Cammarano spent 30 days in office before submitting his letter of resignation to the city clerk, his lawyer said. …

He was accused of taking the money in return for his support for a high-rise building project. He initially vowed to stay in office while he fights the charges, but protesters set up camp outside his home and at City Hall demanding he vacate the office.

Cammarano took the oath of office on July 1 after a hotly contested race. City Council President Dawn Zimmer was sworn in as his replacement.

More at the link.

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Elephant Man, Still Inciting Torture & Murder of Gays, Bounced from Toronto Show

Good:

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July 31, 2009

Sometimes, My Heart Hurts So Much…

Comment to “Life, Interrupted” tonight:

I’m a gay 24 year old young man and i keep on hearing people from my home town call me faggot, puff, queer and in the pub a straight man rescued me after i got kicked in the head and had a cut in my head which i needed 8 stiches. The people who done this to me are now in prision for Homophedial

When will it ever end? Will it ever end?

Rhetorical questions, I’m afraid.

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Kansas D.A. Frank Campbell Refuses to Prosecute 17-Year-Old’s Rape, Then “Shows Around” Photos of Girl’s Assault

H/T to Renegade Evolution

D.A. Showed Around Photos of Girl’s Sexual Assault, Family Says

A county attorney in Kansas violated a girl’s privacy by showing around photos of her sexual assault, the teen and her mother claim in Topeka Federal Court. The Anderson County Attorney refused to prosecute the assailant, but showed other parents photos of the sexual assault, and was suspended from practicing law for 6 months for it, the family says.

The parents say their 17-year-old daughter attended an outdoor party in May 2007, where four men or boys forced her to take off her clothes. One of them had sex with her in the bed of a truck, despite her repeated pleas for him to stop, while others took photos of it, according to the complaint. …

Suspended? We’d like to see him disbarred.

More disgusting details at the link.

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