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He’s not gay!

Dear Senator Larry Craig:

You disgust me.

I really don’t care that you were picked up for trying to cruise an undercover cop for sex at the Minneapolis-St. Paul International Airport. It was sordid and tawdry and just plain damn sloppy, but hey, each to their own. Nor do I care that it appears you’ve been having sex on the sly behind your wife’s back, and most likely your wife is simply a “beard” to cover up for your man to man sexual preference. I just don’t give a damn. The fact that you have viciously attacked the civil rights of, and balked equality for gays, lesbians, bisexuals and transgender persons while at the same time engaging in duplicitous same sex activity does kind of piss me off. But that kind of hypocrisy is par for the course with Republicans.  However, the thing that really makes me want to kick your ass from here to Idaho – what really turns my stomach – is hearing your little speech about how you “are not gay.” No shit.

You aren’t gay. You don’t want to be identified with “those people.” You are not “one of them.” You may be a cock-sucking, fudge-packing pillow-biter, but you aren’t gay. Well good for you. No one can force the title on you if you don’t want it. You can call yourself whatever you want. It won’t change the fact that liberals and conservatives alike will think you are just a closeted basket case.

Since the gay community is so diverse, and encompasses people from all walks of life, religions, genders, economic strata, and races (among everything else), I can’t presume to speak for all gay people. However, speaking for this gay man, I am more than happy that you have chosen to disassociate yourself from the rest of us. Quite frankly, we don’t want you. While it would have been fantastic to have another highly visible advocate for equality for glbt folks in congress, we can do without the likes of you. You are a closeted, small-minded, hypocritical, bigot. We are better off as a community without you.

Being in the closet is tough. Coming out is tougher.  It takes a great amount of personal courage and honesty to come out to oneself and others. You don’t have that courage. You are a weasel and a coward. Your fear and shame and self-loathing only adds to the general burden of individual and collective homophobia that gay people deal with every day.

You have, through your actions, personally sought to deny civil and human rights to myself and millions of other American citizens. Yes, I do take that personally. In a case of high irony, the type of society you have sought to perpetuate – one in which gay people are marginalized and maligned – is the type of society in which you are not allowed to exist politically. Your career is over. Too bad you don’t have family and friends who know you and accept you for who you are to comfort you in this time of personal hardship. In short, too bad you’re not gay.

Coulter bitch slapped with a velvet glove.

Previously I have called for someone to give Ann Coulter the bitch slap she so richly deserves for her vicious, personal, homophobic and racist attacks on Democrats.

On June 26, Elizabeth Edwards rose to the ocassion with grace and elegance. She asked Ann to stop using the death of her son and name-calling to make attacks against her husband and other Democrats. Edwards asked Coulter to raise the tone of her discourse. Coulter twisted this to say that Edwards was trying to stifle her right to free speech. The implicit assumption from this understanding of what Edwards actually asked of her is that, aside from the hate and the venom, Coulter must shut up because she has nothing else to say.

Elizabeth Edwards is a smart and classy lady. I’d be proud to have her as a First (or Second) Lady of the United States. She is more intelligent and elegant by far than Ann Coulter – there really is no comparison. That is what makes her calling of Coulter out all the more delightful. She shows that you don’t have to descend into the gutter to make a point, even when trying to get the discourse out of the gutter. I am glad that there are the Elizabeth Edwards of the world. They will offset my sinking to the same level as Coulter in calling her a toxic waste dump of humanity; a vile, repulsive evil creature spawned from avarice, hate, and fear. Thank you Elizabeth.

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Not that complicated, Dick.

During today’s White House press briefing, there was some confusion as to whether or not the Vice President’s office was part of the Executive Branch of the government. Spokesman Dana Perino indicates that there is some controversy, and it is something for others with a “legal mind” to figure out. Luckily, I have a “legal mind.” At least the state bar where I live thinks so, as it has admitted me to practice law. So, I am ready to post a legal opinion on this matter. I will even stake my law license on it.

The Office of the Vice President of the United States of America, and its members and staff, including the Vice President, fall under the domain, control, and regulation of the Executive Branch of the government of the United States of America.

I hope that clarifies it for Dick. He can take that to court. (Of course if he takes it to the Supreme Court, by the time it reaches there, the members of the bench will have probably proclaimed themselves part of the Executive Branch. And Congress will be the Judicial Branch.)

Regardless, I am just as astonished and outraged at the sheer audacity of Dick, whose actions are pretty much the equivalent of giving the American people the middle finger. Thank you Dick. Back at you. It offends my “legal mind.” It offends the $120,000 I spent on law school. It offends all the time I spent studying for the bar. (How Dick Cheney Broke My Mind by William Rivers Pitt)

Hell, if nothing else, it offends the Constitution. I think Dick needs to go back and read Article II, Section 1 of that document which invests the Vice President “together” with the President. I take that to mean part and parcel. They’re riding in on the same horse.

Interestingly enough, the Constitution – the original copy – is maintained by the National Archives – the exact people asking Dick to comply with rules regarding document security.

Why blog?

I am happy to be a “Fringe liberal blogger.”

I believe women should have the right to an abortion. I believe all people are created equal – men and women – no matter their skin color. I believe the rich should pay more taxes than the poor. I believe we can wipe out most of the homelessness and hunger in this country and the world if we really put our minds to it. I am a tree hugger. I believe we should take care of the earth. I believe we should protect the trees of nesting owls. I believe gays should have the right to marry. I believe in the separation of church and state. I believe torture is unacceptable and wrong in all circumstances. I questioned the necessity of invading Iraq from the start. I believe Al Gore won the election. I believe John Kerry won the election. I believe freedom of expression and dissent makes our country stronger. I believe that we don’t make ourselves safer by making ourselves less free (with props to Molly Ivans).

I believe we are the “Land of the free, and the home of the BRAVE” and freedom requires bravery and that secret prisons and Gitmo and Abu Ghraib and warrantless wiretaps and Presidential signing letters are indicia of fear and weakness and oppression. Those are not the traits of a free society, nor a brave society.

All these beliefs and more make me a “Fringe liberal blogger” and a “Looney Moonbat” because people like us just don’t shut up and go away. We write blogs. We write letters. We talk to other people. We donate our money and our time. We lead by example. We will not go away, and I will keep agitating and ranting and making noise until there’s no more breath in my body and my fingers are too weak to press the keys of the keyboard.

Top Law Enforcement Officer is a Liar

Alberto Gonzales is the Attorney General of the United States – the chief law enforcement officer of the Federal Government. He is also a liar. On January 18, 2007 he testified before the Senate Judiciary Committee that he would “never, ever make a change in a United States attorney position for political reasons….” He also denied any involvement in the firings of eight U.S. Attorneys which appear to be politically motivated.
(See the “Timeline: Behind the Firing of Eight U.S. Attorneys” by NPR’s Ari Shapiro.)

It is implausible to believe that the AG was unaware that in 2006 his chief of staff was in communication with the White House, i.e., Karl Rove and Harriet Miers, to discuss removing U.S. Attorneys they felt were not toeing the Republican, er, sorry, the “Bushie” part line. If we are to buy that, then we’d have to believe that both George and Al were completely oblivious to the machinations of their underlings and minions; that the politically motivated restructuring and awarding of U.S. Attorney positions as spoils of war (against their own administration presumably) to friends was done completely without their knowledge.

Sampson, the AG’s Chief of Staff who liaised between the Office of the AG and the White House, has so far been one of the fall guys. As we’ve come to learn in the past with the Bush administration, the buck doesn’t stop here. It doesn’t stop at all. The craven lack of accountability just goes on and on. Bush continues to reaffirm his faith in Al. Which leads one to believe that Al must have some really good dirt on George.

George is pathologically incapable of admitting mistakes. His staunchness in the face of his party, and the Congress, and the ill winds Al betides for George’s own administration, indicate that as his credibility continues to slip through his hands like water, he continues to tighten his grasp. Still, Alberto’s days as Attorney General are numbered. Every day more information comes out that Al was not the victim of conniving subordinates that he attempts to make himself out as. He had knowledge.

The memos are coming out, which indicate that Al was indeed part of the discussion to fire the U.S. Attorneys. If he was part of the discussion, and he was, then he had to have known that the firings were not about performance, but about political retribution and paying back attorneys who were not living up to the Republican ideals of protecting their patrons and giving a blind eye to those in power.

The question now is how blatantly the Bush administration thinks it can lie to Congress and get away with it. Alberto lied to Congress in his denial of having knowledge and in the firings not being politically motivated. Bush won’t let Rove or Miers testify on the record for fear that they could be held for perjury in face of the lies they would have to spew. They would get caught in their lies of course. Their arrogance has made the sloppy, and made them enemies.

What is the worst thing about all of this is that while Alberto Gonzales is a hypocrite and a liar, he also is the top law enforcement officer in the land. And with callous disregard for his office, and the attorneys who serve him, and the Congress, and the people of the United States, he, like Bush, is through his actions giving us the finger.

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Great, another thing I have to worry about…

The Perils of “Being Smart”
If you believe that you can get better at something, you probably will.

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Puh-leeze.

The firing of U.S. Attorneys was so orchestrated and maneuvered as to have been executed with as much forethought and consideration as the Bushie regime could ever muster.

The only thing Gonzales is sorry about is getting caught.  The man is an embarrassment to lawyers everywhere.  He is the epitome of the craven, self-serving, disgustingly sycophantic, slimy, sleaze bag attorney who will say anything his masters pay him to say.  This is the kind of person who makes me ashamed to be an attorney.  Didn’t he take a vow, an oath to defend and uphold the Constitution of the United States, not just as Attorney General, but as an attorney?  What a liar and hypocrite.  He should be disbarred.

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Not enough on his plate…

General Pace has taking to moralizing about gays in the military – because the military doesn’t have enough to do right now and has time and energy to squander on misplaced priorities….

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Why does this bitch not get called out? (or, "Why the blacks, gays, and fatties must all die so Ann Coulter can be happy.”)

The Republican candidates — and Ann Coulter — try out their acts | Salon News

How is it that Ann Coulter can get away with saying Al Gore is fat, Bill Clinton was the first black (“half white, half trash”) president, and that John Edwards is a “faggot,” without everyone in the room giving her the bitch-slap she so richly deserves? Okay, granted these are Republicans, but are there no fat Republicans? Are there no black Republicans? Are there no gay Republicans? (No, these are not meant to be trick questions.) Aren’t those some of the groups that the Republicans normally try to round up into a dog and pony show around the time of the National Convention? When that time rolls around again, what self-respecting fat, black, or gay is going to be willing to admit being a Republican when standing next to Coulter? Who’d admit it now? Straight, white, rich college kids, perhaps. Most likely some of whom will end up in Iraq, whether they like it or not, at some point, and will inherit Georgie’s federal deficit and the burden of his tax cuts for the rich, which undermines their own future retirements and medical care, not mention will shift the burden of their parents’ onto them as well.

Is there any Republican who is not embarrassed to have this bigoted, homophobic toxic waste dump of a human being invited to stand on a platform and represent them to the world? Why don’t the Republicans do something to shut her up? Are they afraid that if they said something she’d turn her invective against them? She’d call them big, fat, black, fags too? Hey, Giuliani! Hey, Romney! Hey, McCain! Pay attention, because when it comes down to the primaries, she’s going to have her sights on at least a couple of you.

Coulter called the 9/11 widows “witches” (because even her cojones weren’t big enough to come right out and articulate the blatant sub-text of the term – being used as cover for the word “bitches”) for wanting to have congressional hearings surrounding the circumstances of their husbands deaths, and whether or not the President had any warning of a possible attack, and then accusing them of politicizing their husbands deaths. Coulter is so intellectually dishonest that she has penned an apologia for Joseph McCarthy. Coulter doesn’t descend into ad hominem attacks, but starts there. Coulter has the gall to call John Edwards a “faggot” and then deny being homophobic. She goes one step further and perpetuates further myths about gays making more money than straights, and being victims, so “they should be natural Republicans.” Gee, Anne, except people like you, the cultural representatives of the party, keep making derogatory remarks about “faggots” and then denying them equal civil rights.

Obviously she is someone who is really, seriously, psychologically damaged in some profound manner. That is not meant to excuse her disgusting actions in any way. It is, however, the only possible explanation how someone who is the epitome of the elite – white, educated, well-off – can perceive themselves as a victim. There has to be a cognitive distortion of incredible proportions to allow her to believe herself to be in the right about so many things, when by objective standards she is so wrong. Her mind has taken the task of bending and interpretting her perceptions of reality to conform to some twisted paradigm, which in her own deluded little way satisfies some internal need.

Perhaps she is suffering from post traumatic stress syndrome of some kind. Perhaps she’s on drugs. (Just step away from the pipe, Ann.) Perhaps she’s one of these people who has everything – the privilege, the education, the money – who is still miserable because every day she has to get up in the morning and look at herself in the mirror. She can’t stand the person she is, that vile morass of black evil with bad hair, so she has to externalize all those bad feelings. “Eew. Icky.” she says to herself. “I can’t handle these feelings of not liking myself. I need to find a way to deal with them.” So she projects them onto others. Because it is black people, and gays, and fat people who have made life really hard for Ann Coulter. If all those blacks, and gays, and fatties, would just die, Ann could be happy.