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Heh. So I get pointed to a post in which our favorite Wingnut Neanderthal Boy calls Jerid a Chucklehead earlier tonight. He left out faggot this time, which was nice. Against my better judgement I click over. I end up making a quick comment, which of course was CENSORED! No free speech allowed there boys and girls. Anyway, I capped it for posterity:
So touchy that Matt. It was just a simple question!
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Two thoughts: 1) Wow! and 2) Particularly considering it just so happens to be Iowa, it will be extra interesting to see how this ongoing story will play out alongside the presidential primary election.
From the Chicago Tribune:
DES MOINES, Iowa – A Polk County judge on Thursday struck down Iowa’s law banning gay marriage and ordered the county recorder to permit gay and lesbian couples to marry.
Less than two hours after word of the ruling was publicized, two Des Moines men applied at the Polk County recorder’s office for a marriage license, and for the first time the application was accepted. The process of granting a license to marry in Iowa takes three days. [click to continue…]
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When asked about the Larry Craig incident, Mike Huckabee had a pretty good response:
“The American people will forgive us for being sinners. They will not forgive us for being hypocrites.”
But I’d take it a step further by asking: who really cares if Larry Craig is gay?
I certainly don’t. I don’t even care if he wants to meet people in a bathroom to have sex.
Being a lying hypocrite, though- that’s a different story.
The fact is: a lot of people are gay. It doesn’t make them sinners and it certainly doesn’t make them bad political leaders.
Not that we’d know though- since, at last count, I think there were only three OPENLY gay members of congress.
Which is strange given that somewhere between two and ten percent of the general population is estimated to be gay.
In reality, we should have around five gay senators and twenty five gay members of the house.
So… either the sexual preferences of the members congress are strangely different than that of the general population or, more likely, congress is full of a bunch of lying hypocrites.
I’m guessing it’s the latter.
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Last year Jim Petro lost a tough primary election to Ken Blackwell.
Last week it was rumored that he would run for congress in Ohio’s 15th district.
Two days ago he announced he “wants to run for Ohio Supreme Court chief justice” instead.
And today he started his campaign by announcing he would
work pro bono to free convicted rapist Roger Dean Gillispie.
Sure, the evidence is lacking and may actually point toward his innocence…
But come on Jim- it’s really much too soon to start pimping yourself with cheesy quotes like this:
My heart goes out to him. It really does — 16 years (in prison). Oh, my God. I get choked up when I think about it
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This Friday is my 5th wedding anniversary, so I’m going offline for a few days. See you next week.
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From the American Red Cross:
Earlier this week, a string of severe thunderstorms caused significant flash floods, mudslides and dam breaks throughout Ohio. As families and individuals wade through deep waters towards shelter, the rains continue. Local chapters immediately opened shelters for the hundreds of people that had to evacuate their flooded homes. Over 700 Red Cross disaster workers are serving hot meals and snacks, as well as distributing clean up and comfort kits to affected residents.
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I thought this was a funny quote worth sharing- from a couple who attended a recent fundraiser for the Summit County Republican Party:
Gust and Frances Kalapodis of New Franklin, who attended the event, said they were confused by Coughlin’s effort. ”I think the guy’s a little squirrelly,” Gust Kalapodis said about Coughlin.
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Howz about some “Flight of the Conchords”?
Special bonus song after the jump (it’s hilarious). [click to continue…]
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Has anyone else noticed the unbelievable run of bad luck that has befallen state chairmen of Republican presidential campaigns?
July 12 — McCain
McCain campaign official denies soliciting for prostitution
July 24 — Giuliani
Former Giuliani state co-chair resigns from office (cocaine)
August 28 — Romney
After guilty plea, Sen. Craig resigns spot in Romney campaign
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According to the Cincinnati Post:
Cincinnati School Superintendent Rosa Blackwell surprised the board of education Monday by announcing that she plans to retire.
Despite what the Post thinks, I’m quite sure the Cincinnati School Board was not surprised by her decision.
Blackwell’s three-year contract is nearing it’s end- and she has been fighting with the school board for months over the terms of her most recent evaluation.
Earlier this month, the board decided not give her a raise.
And that sounds, to me, like a very non-surprising reason to quit.
( Note: her annual salary of $203,820 is about four times higher than that of the average Cincinnati teacher. )
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One of my firm’s clients is the IAFF – the fire fighters union that has been taking on Giuliani. I’ve been keeping a secret for a week, but we finally got the go-ahead to break the news at 4pm today…
The IAFF is endorsing Senator Dodd for president at a news conference tomorrow in DC. This is the union that endorsed Kerry in 2004 – when he was no where in the polls. I don’t think anyone at the IAFF thinks this will have the exact same result as that endorsement, but it would be nice to see Dodd get a second (or even a first) look from the public, the MSM and the bloggers.
So, this is the first bit of news that I get to break on a blog…it should be everywhere tomorrow! It’s started with this confirmation in The Hill this afternoon.
Oh, and the IAFF would have been the first union endorsement of this cycle, but Hillary’s campaign was prepared! After news of this first started spreading yesterday (and reporters were calling the campaigns trying to find out “who it would be”), Hillary’s campaign must have called in a favor…she got the official first labor endorsement today from the United Transportation Union.
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Terrific little insight in to how Ben Stein is getting his “science is flawed because it excludes God” movie Expelled made. He (or rather, his producers) are lying to people they interviewed, talking to them about other subjects, and then carefully removing quotes from context to say something completely different.
Why were they so dishonest about it? If Mathis had said outright that he wants to interview an atheist and outspoken critic of Intelligent Design for a film he was making about how ID is unfairly excluded from academe, I would have said, “bring it on!” We would have had a good, pugnacious argument on tape that directly addresses the claims of his movie, and it would have been a better (at least, more honest and more relevant) sequence. He would have also been more likely to get that good ol’ wild-haired, bulgy-eyed furious John Brown of the Godless vision than the usual mild-mannered professor that he did tape. And I probably would have been more aggressive with a plainly stated disagreement between us.
I mean, seriously, not telling one of the sides in a debate about what the subject might be and then leading him around randomly to various topics, with the intent of later editing it down to the parts that just make the points you want, is the video version of quote-mining and is fundamentally dishonest.
I don’t mind sharing my views with creationists, and do so all the time. By filming under false pretenses, much like the example of the case of Richard Dawkins’ infamous “pause”, they’ve undercut their own credibility … not that that will matter. I suspect their audience will not question whatever mangling of the video that they carry out, and the subterfuges used to make it will not be brought up.
Read the whole article for a better view of how exactly PZ Myers ended up in the film.
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You may have heard about the Columbus Police Officer who posted some videos of herself (and her sister) on the internet making some pretty outlandish anti-Semitic claims. Just in case you haven’t, here is one of the many videos.
Of course, they aren’t limiting their comments to Jews. They have videos on Ebonics (and racial stereotypes!), Miami Cubans, and the US border. They even have a website – they call themselves The Patriot Dames. (And they appear to support Ron Paul!)
Mayor Coleman has requested a formal investigation. You can see the text after the jump. [click to continue…]
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