January 12, 2008
…for Dickheads of the Year (Maher’s “picks for the biggest assholes of 2007″), we’ll never know. But Maher is so spot-on, and entertaining, it’s a must-see (and a must-pass-along). A few of our favorite lines:
Blackwater despot Erik Prince: “…a super-Christy Jesus freak who looks on the Crusades the way rednecks pine for the Confederacy.”
Crandall Canyon Mine owner Bob Murray: “The fat-ass, lying embodiment of the Bush administration’s regulatory policies.”
Senator Larry “Wide Stance” Craig: “Don’t people like Larry Craig and Ted Haggard and Mark Foley prove that being gay really is a hard-wired thing — not, as the conservatives always claim, a ‘lifestyle choice‘? If anyone could choose not to have gay sex, it would be these guys, since their whole careers are built on not having gay sex.”
Senator David Vitter, diaper-wearing hooker’s john: “Caught dead to rights as a customer of the D.C. Madam, and explained it away by saying, ‘Several years ago I received forgiveness from God in confession.’ Oh, well, all righty then, it’s all good, then you’re obviously not a disgusting, horrible hypocrite who runs on family values and then fucks whores at home and in Washington.”
College Republicans: “…cutthroat, amoral putzes like Karl Rove… Doughy losers who, at age twenty, care more about tax cuts than girls.”
Bush’s Attorney General du jour, Michael Mukasey: “Kind of makes you miss those innocent days when Gonzales just couldn’t recall.”
Rudy Giuliani: “Rudy says if a Democrat is elected in 2008, we’ll be at risk of another 9/11, because… he was mayor of New York when they attacked the World Trade Center the first time? His slogan should be ‘Not on my watch… again.’”
Much, much more at the link, and well worth the click.
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September 12, 2007
Reports 365gay.com:
Oregon anti-gay activist David Crowe has called an elections complaint against his group “Oregon’s Own 9-11″ and “an attack within our borders.”
Crowe made the remarks in an email to supporters Tuesday in which he fired back at a longtime activist for “clean elections” in Oregon who last week asked Oregon’s Secretary of State to investigate Crowe’s group “Concerned Oregonians” and another organization for the way they were soliciting funds for a voter initiative to repeal two state LGBT civil rights laws.
“This comparison is incredibly disrespectful not only to the mourning of our nation but to the families of those who died and to those who fought so hard to saves lives at Ground Zero,” said John Hummel, Executive Director of Basic Rights Oregon, the state’s largest LGBT rights group.
“For David Crowe to compare his own self-inflicted legal troubles to the events of 9/11 is beyond comprehension, purely reprehensible and downright bizarre.”
In an e-mail with the subject line “Defaming To Destroy: Oregon’s Own 9-11,” Crowe complains of a “September Day of Infamy” occasioned by the elections complaint.
See also:
Election Law Complaint Filed Over Anti-Gay Petition Gatherers
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September 11, 2007
One sailor’s call to duty after 9/11
In response to Sept. 11, 2001, many people felt called to military service in order to do something to defend our great country. Sept. 11 had the opposite impact on my life.
At 8:30 a.m. that day, I went to a meeting in the Pentagon. At 9:30 a.m., I left that meeting. At 9:37 a.m., American Airlines Flight 77 slammed into the Pentagon and destroyed the exact space I had left less than eight minutes earlier, killing seven of my colleagues.
On Sept. 11, 2001, I was a lesbian Navy captain who, at that time, had more than 28 years of dedicated military service. My partner, Lynne Kennedy, an openly gay reference librarian at the Library of Congress, and I had been together for more than 11 years. Each day, I went to work wondering if that would be the day I would be fired because someone had figured out I was gay.
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As the numbness [after Sept. 11] began to wear off, it hit me how incredibly alone Lynne would have been had I been killed.
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In fact, had I been killed, Lynne would have been one of the last people to know, because nowhere in my paperwork or emergency contact information had I dared to list Lynne’s name. This realization caused us both to stop and reassess exactly what was most important in our lives. During that process we realized that “don’t ask, don’t tell” was causing us to make a much bigger sacrifice than either of us had ever admitted. …
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