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Make checks payable to John Aravosis. Contributions are NOT tax-deductible. check to have links open new windows Monday, March 06, 2006 Open Thread by Joe in DC - 3/06/2006 05:47:00 PM You know it's a slow news day when the ABC Breaking News email is that NASCAR picked the site for their Hall of Fame.

The Governor of South Dakota signed the abortion bill setting the court challenge in motion. Congressman Bill Thomas (R-CA) is retiring. Let's hope he starts a trend for the GOP.

And tomorrow is primary day in Texas. Comment Permanent Link And if you believe this one..

. US military and intelligence officials have suddenly found evidence of Iran arming the insurgents in Iraq by John in DC - 3/06/2006 05:45:00 PM You have got to be kidding . Suddenly after 3 years we conveniently find evidence of Iran arming the Iraqi insurgents, only a mere weeks after Bush starts laying the groundwork for attacking Iran.

Gee, how convenient is that. This is EXACTLY how they led us into Iraq under false pretenses. And it's rather disturbing that ABC News reports this as an exclusive, yet doesn't bother mentioning that critics worry that this may be another ploy to get the US to attack a country in the region based on faulty or doctored intelligence.

Comment Permanent Link New report: Religious right harms gay teens by John in DC - 3/06/2006 03:57:00 PM The report is right . These people are destroying kids lives. It's time they were regulated, sued, and thrown in jail.

Comment Permanent Link Poll shows majority in five Southern states disapproves of President Bush by John in DC - 3/06/2006 02:40:00 PM From AP : A majority of adults in five key Southern states disapproves of President Bush's job performance and says the war in Iraq was not worth fighting, according to an Elon University poll released Friday. In the survey, 52 percent of respondents said they disapproved or strongly disapproved of Bush's job performance, compared to 43 percent who said they approved or strongly approved. Asked whether the war with Iraq was worth fighting, a slim majority _ 51 percent _ said no, while just 44 percent said yes.

All five of the states polled _ Virginia, North Carolina, South Carolina, Georgia and Florida _ went to Bush in the 2004 presidential election by margins ranging from 58 percent in South Carolina and Georgia to 52 percent in Florida. Less than 18 months later, Bush isn't even close to majority approval in any of those states. Comment Permanent Link Conservative Jews voting to end their ban on gay rabbis and same sex unions by Joe in DC - 3/06/2006 11:26:00 AM This is an interesting -- and hopefully, profound -- development .

It's significant that this group is even considering lifting the ban: In a closed-door meeting this week in an undisclosed site near Baltimore, a committee of Jewish legal experts who set policy for Conservative Judaism will consider whether to lift their movement's ban on gay rabbis and same-sex unions. There seem to be many reasons for the Conservative Jews to consider this action. First, they know more gays: Conservative Jewish leaders say, they have watched as relatives, congregation members and even fellow rabbis publicly revealed their homosexuality.

Second, they don't want to look out of touch: There are those who are saying, don't change the halacha because the paradigm model of the heterosexual family has to be maintained, said Rabbi Meyers, a stance he said he shared. On the other hand is a group within the movement who say, look, we will lose thoughtful younger people if we don't make this change, and the movement will look stodgy and behind the times. And, bottom line, the change will happen eventually anyway: Many students at the seminary say they find the gay ban offensive and would welcome a change, said Daniel Klein, a rabbinical student who helps lead Keshet, a gay rights group on campus.

It's part of the tradition to change, so we're entirely within tradition, he said. Mr. Klein said that even if the law committee did not lift the ban this week, change would come eventually.

Imagine what will happen 10 years from now when some of my colleagues are on the law committee, when people from my generation are on the law committee, he said. It's not going to be a close vote. This last point is key.

The right wing knows that change is coming...

that's why they want to enshrine hate in the constitution. Comment Permanent Link Washington Post corrects itself over Katrina by John in DC - 3/06/2006 10:02:00 AM You never know if these things are indicative of a response to a concern we raised, or whether it's just a coincidence, but the blogs complained a few days ago about the Washington Post's reporting on the new Katrina video. The Post reported on the video, but failed to even mention potentially the most important part of the video, that it contradicts Bush's claim that no one could have imagined the levees breaching (in fact, Bush was briefed about this very possibility in the video, a briefing that happened BEFORE the storm hit).

The Post didn't mention this, but on Friday, two days ago, they wrote a front page story on this very issue. Whether or not the Post responded to the concerns we all raised, the point is they did the right thing, they wrote the story that needed to be written - needed to be written as dictated by the very facts of the story - and they get kudos for that. Here's the article .

It's good. Comment Permanent Link Bad polls numbers on Iraq by Joe in DC - 3/06/2006 08:52:00 AM If you were President, you'd probably start to worry about these new numbers from the Washington Post-ABC News poll . They show that, as John Murtha says, the American people are way ahead of the politicians on Iraq: An overwhelming majority of the public believe fighting between Sunni and Shiite Muslims in Iraq will lead to civil war and half say the U.

S. should begin withdrawing its forces from that violence-torn country, according to the latest Washington Post-ABC News poll. The survey found that 80 percent believed that recent sectarian violence made civil war in Iraq likely, and more than a third said such a conflict was very likely to occur.

Expectations for an all-out sectarian war in Iraq extended beyond party lines. More than seven in 10 Republicans and eight in 10 Democrats and political independents believe civil war was likely. In the face of the continuing violence, fully half--52 percent--of those surveyed said the United States should begin withdrawing forces.

But only one in six favored immediate withdrawal of all troops from Iraq. The Post will have the rest of the poll at 5 PM today. Comment Permanent Link Monday Morning Open Thread by Joe in DC - 3/06/2006 07:54:00 AM Here we go again.

What new horrors will unfold from team Bush this week? Comment Permanent Link Homeland Security not so secure by Chris in Paris - 3/06/2006 04:00:00 AM Chertoff really is as bad as Brownie says . Sounds like Chertoff is priming himself for a Congressional Medal of Honor at this pace.

Did the hazard training team come from Chernobyl? Thank goodness this is the team that is responsible for protecting America. For instance, when an envelope with suspicious powder was opened last fall at Homeland Security Department headquarters, guards said they watched in amazement as superiors carried it by the office of Secretary Michael Chertoff, took it outside and then shook it outside Chertoff's window without evacuating people nearby.

I had never previously been given training ...

describing how to respond to a possible chemical attack, Daniels told The Associated Press. I wouldn't feel safe nowhere on this compound as an officer. If the allegations brought forward by the whistleblowers are correct, they represent both a security threat and a waste of taxpayer dollars, Democratic Sens.

Byron Dorgan of North Dakota and Ron Wyden of Oregon wrote. It would be ironic, to say the least, if DHS were unable to secure its own headquarters. Comment Permanent Link Another step closer to Big Brother by Chris in Paris - 3/06/2006 03:51:00 AM Just say no to more government surveillance .

I don't trust this administration (or others for that matter) to have any more power to track and monitor Americans. If any government could show that they can resist the temptation to abuse information, perhaps, but in the mean time this proposed national ID card-like program is a bad idea. I don't buy into the pitch that it will help stop illegal immigration or illegal workers because it won't.

I really wish politicians would quite playing the 9/11 card as well and debate facts and not emotion for something so serious. Comment Permanent Link Sunday, March 05, 2006 Wesley Clark cuts to the point on port security by John in DC - 3/05/2006 11:26:00 PM The bottom line is that Bush still isn't inspecting cargo coming into the US, and if Osama wanted to just ship a nuke in, he could. And after it goes off, Bush is going to say that no one could have imagined it.

We have a president who is incapable of running our country during a time of war. Former Democratic presidential candidate Gen. Wesley Clark, however, called for an overall strengthening of port security on This Week.

It's weak, and it doesn't matter who owns it, Clark said. We're not inspecting the containers that are coming in. We don't have the right radiation monitors out there.

We don't know who's in the ports ...

Comment Permanent Link What he said by John in DC - 3/05/2006 09:54:00 PM And finally, I would say that, you know, we are a little bit out of touch in Hollywood every once in a while. I think it's probably a good thing. We're the ones who talk about AIDS when it was just being whispered, and we talked about civil rights when it wasn't really popular.

And we, you know, we bring up subjects. This Academy, this group of people gave Hattie McDaniel an Oscar in 1939 when blacks were still sitting in the backs of theaters. I'm proud to be a part of this Academy.

Proud to be part of this community, and proud to be out of touch. George Clooney, at the Academy Awards Comment Permanent Link Oscare update thread by John in DC - 3/05/2006 09:28:00 PM Hmmmm, a bit overdone, that song..

. Comment Permanent Link Murtha calls Chairman of the Jt. Chiefs a liar (or an ignormaous) by John in DC - 3/05/2006 09:17:00 PM Good for Murtha.

There's no other way to characterize what Murtha said this morning about the head of the US military, and he's right. The war in Iraq is not going very, very well. At some point, our military leaders need to stop acting like they're running some banana republic, and start acting like they care about our troops and our nation.

That war is a disaster, and George Bush is in over his head. From Meet the Press Murtha expressed skepticism of assurances given by Gen. Peter Pace, the chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, on NBC's ?

Meet the Press? on Sunday. Pace said the war in Iraq was going ?

very, very well. ?Why would I believe him?

? said Murtha, D-Pa. ?

This administration, including the president, has mischaracterized this war for the last two years ...

So why would I believe the chairman of the Joint Chiefs when he says things are going well?? And isn't it funny that the Joint Chiefs had no problem challenging Bill Clinton over gays in the military, they have no problem getting together and challenging the Washington Post over a cartoon that didn't even do what they said it did, but when George Bush is running our military and this country into the ground, where are the Joint Chiefs?

Comment Permanent Link Oscar open thread by John in DC - 3/05/2006 08:26:00 PM George Clooney got best supporting actor for Syriana, the rather confusing movie. Thoughts about other Oscars? Comment Permanent Link Colorado Republican House member Marilyn Musgrave facilitates violation of military rules by John in DC - 3/05/2006 06:41:00 PM (Note the uniformed military service member behind Musgrave at the GOP event.

) Josh Marshall informs us that the White House now has a plan to use, and is already using, active-duty US servicemen for partisan political purposes - which is kind of a big deal in a democracy where the military doesn't run the country, and where the war in Iraq and the war on terror are supposedly not political stunts. You can find Josh's accounts here and here . Well, conservative Republican House member Marilyn Musgrave of Colorado (the lead force behind amending the US Constitution to take away the rights of gay Americans), actively facilitated the use of our servicemembers, IN UNIFORM , at a partisan Republican political function.

Musgrave's use of uniformed military service personnel at partisan political events which is a direct violation of US military rules. Not to mention, you'd think our uniformed service members have better things to do (oh, I don't know, how about win in Iraq?) than appear as props at Republican political events.

Then again, Musgrave has already had her share of ethics violations, and has been ranked as one of the 13 most corrupt members of Congress. So it's perhaps no surprise she's breaking the rules again. More from Josh: The existence of this ban and the enforcement of it are hugely important both to good order and discipline within the military and to preserving our democratic republic.

The military can't be made into an arm of one or the other political party. Nor can the executive be allowed to enlist members of the armed forces, either individually or en masse, willingly or not, as soldiers in his domestic political battles. This is about preserving a professional military and preserving our system of government.

It's a big deal. We need to find out a few more specifics about what happened at the Musgrave event. Perhaps the newspaper account is deeply misleading about what actually happened.

But if this thing that looks like a duck and quacks like a duck, is a duck, then it needs to be nipped in the bud. Comment Permanent Link Beautiful Sunday open thread by John in DC - 3/05/2006 04:07:00 PM It's sunny and warm, somewhere..

. Comment Permanent Link If Ann Coulter were her fans' daughter, they'd call her a slut by John in DC - 3/05/2006 02:55:00 PM It's funny how Ann Coulter gets away with being such a conservative cultural marm when she lives the life of such a skank. The woman lived in New York City, then moved to Palm Beach, dresses like a slut, and hangs out with gay men like Matt Drudge (a conservative closet case who lives in South Beach, where he moved from Hollywood).

I'm sorry, but such is not the lifestyle of a raging conservative who has any credibility attacking liberal lifestyles. Ann lives the liberal lifestyle I can only dream of (except the tight slutty clothing). And the real irony is that while conservatives love Coulter's rants against liberal morality, if she were their daughter and dressed the way she does, they'd ground her.

Thus we lead into Ann's Oscar predictions. They're not really predictions, per se, the article is just another chance for Ann to launch bigoted attacks - this time calling gays homos and suggesting that Ang Lee will win an Academy Award for being Asian. But the most atrocious and dangerous part of Coulter's article is her, once again, defense of Senator Joseph McCarthy.

You see, Ann thinks Senator McCarthy, the guy who launched anti-communist witch hunts against so many innocent Americans based on no evidence whatsoever, well that Senator McCarthy got a bum rup in history, according to Ann. Here's an excerpt from her most recently article, that I won't be linking to: The best original screenplay will be Good Night, and Good Luck as Hollywood's final tribute to the old Stalinists (Hollywood's version of The Greatest Generation ). Ah yes, the McCarthy years.

The real crime was all the Stalinist liberals that the poor Senator had to root out. Coulter would be pathetic if she weren't so widely admired by Republicans. She goes to their dinners and gets paid a pretty sum to spew her venomous bigotry.

And the Republicans have no problem with it. Personally, Coulter can be as skanky as she wants, that's her business (well, if America were the way Coulter and her buddies on the far-right want it to be, she'd probably be stoned for the way she dressed and talk). But if she's going to pretend to be a culture marm, while continuing to use her column and her pulpit to promote bigotry and, of all things, McCarthyism, then someone should let the papers that run Coulter's un-American bile know exactly what kind of filth they're distributing in good family newspapers.

Comment Permanent Link GOP style DeLay bashing by Joe in DC - 3/05/2006 01:44:00 PM Tom DeLay has his GOP primary on Tuesday, March 7th. It hasn't been that much fun for him..

..it's always good sport to watch the GOPers turn on each other : Campbell has gone straight for DeLay's ethics jugular.

In one television ad, he contends DeLay was distracted by his legal troubles. In another, residents of DeLay's district repeatedly describe Campbell using the word integrity. Mr.

DeLay is unelectable and Republicans in our district have a choice. They can either elect a conservative that doesn't carry the baggage Mr. DeLay carries or one that Nick Lampson has the ability to beat, Campbell said.

It's time for Mr. DeLay to come home. Comment Permanent Link Lead gay activists ask Oscar winners to speak out in favor of equal marriage rights for gays by John in DC - 3/05/2006 12:19:00 PM N E W S R E L EA S E For Immediate Release: March 5, 2006 Can Oscar Marry Oscar?

Same-Sex Couples Suing for California Equal Marriage Rights Ask Academy Awards Recipients to Come Out in Support When They Receive Their Oscars Los Angeles - Robin Tyler, with her partner, Diane Olson, and The Reverend Dr. Troy D. Perry and his husband, Phillip Ray De Blieck, the first couples to file suit in California for equal marriage rights for gays and lesbians, today called on actors, producers, directors and anyone who accepts awards based on gay, transgender, or progressive-themed movies, to come out publicly in support of same-sex marriage during the 78th Annual Academy Awards on Sunday, March 5, 2006.

. The Hollywood community has given us a tremendous gift by nominating great achievements such as Brokeback Mountain, Capote, and Felicity Hoffman in TransAmerica. Despite the cultural recognition, gay people are still second-class citizens in the United States.

We ask the tremendously talented people involved in these movies to come out in support of same-sex marriage to the tens of millions who will be watching the Awards, Tyler and Perry said in a joint statement today. Nobody will be hurt if Thelma gets to marry Louise, or Oscar holds hands with Oscar, said Robin Tyler, plaintiff in the lawsuit Tyler vs. County of Los Angeles.

In the United States, the L word means 'Lesbians' -- but it also means 'Less' rights. The Reverend Dr. Troy D.

Perry, the first openly gay member of the Los Angeles Human Relations Commission and founder of the 43,000 member Metropolitan Community Churches, said, The Hollywood community has a great Academy Awards' tradition of speaking out for social justice issues. This year's Oscar recipients have an opportunity to honor movies with lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender themes by speaking out for full legal equality, including marriage equality, for LGBT people. Perry's Metropolitan Community Churches perform more than 6000 same-gender marriages each year.

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