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AMERICAblog: Iceland to appoint gay woman minister to Prime Minister post

  • Mark in Florida · 10 months ago
    Sorry, OT: But the house just voted for President Obama's stimulus package, without ANY republican support.

    If you live in a republican district, write and call your representiive.

    Here is my letter:

    Dear Mr. Mica, You just don't get it. I know this email will fall on deaf ears and you will no doubt send some smarmy insulting mass rant about how voting against the bailout bill today set forth by President Obama was filled with too much Pork. You sir are filled with too much pork. I find it beyond disingenuous that after eight years of rubber stamping Bush's ridiculous war funds, that you are now suddenly feigning to be "fiscally responsible." You have voted against funds that will immediately put people to work. Period. You know it, I know it. If you dig just a bit under that bill you know that to be true. A direct immediate connection. And when you are standing in front of that school or public project a couple of years from now at a ribbon ceremony, I and other constituents will NOT allow you to stand there and take credit for "bringing these jobs to this district". YOU ARE A HYPOCRITE OF THE HIGHEST ORDER. You have been in power too long, and it is my hope that you and your ilk get the boot in the next election cycle. You are an irrelevant partisan hack. The American people do not want what you are pedaling. You are an obstructionist in a time of crisis. I cannot think of anything more anti-American than that.
  • SCLiberal · 10 months ago
    Good letter.
    And this tells me that the House, at least, doesn't need to placate the Republicans. And why isn't the MSM reminding everyone how the Republicans pushed so hard for the first bailout package that they even hinted at martial law if it didn't pass?
  • Mark in Florida · 10 months ago
    They are partisan hacks...they really don't care about this country...I am convinced of it. They are only interested in their own survival and ego.

    Call your senators to encourage them to vote for the presidents proposal as is.

    Thank you for the note. I was concerned that my note was a bit too harsh. But harsh times.......
  • davidinchelseama · 10 months ago
    Politics has a storied history of rough critiques:

    http://media.www.arbiteronline.com/media/storag...
  • SCLiberal · 10 months ago
    Harsh? Not really. I'm writing a short letter to Jim DeMint (since I'm stuck in South Carolina) and it begins, "Senator Demint—You are such an ass."
  • KarenMrsLloydRichards · 10 months ago
    According to reports: no, she's a first. Unless you count Caligula and Nero.
  • paulbot5 · 10 months ago
    A strong government that works for the people, thats like an oxymoron :P
  • Nick34 · 10 months ago
    All it took was for the country to go bankrupt.
  • Terje · 10 months ago
    One other country -- technically. In 2002 Per-Kristian Foss became acting Prime Minister of Norway for about a day in January 2002. He was an openly gay cabinet minister (Finance) and was named when both the Prime Minister and the Foreign Minister were out of the country. So he holds the title, if only with an asterisk.

    http://gaytoday.badpuppy.com/garchive/world/020...
  • ndtovent · 10 months ago
    O/T, but I just heard that James Brady died. I liked his articles.
  • ndtovent · 10 months ago
    Good for them! I was stationed there in Keflavik in 1980. I would've thought that they were too 'backwater' to appoint (or was it 'elect') an openly G or L politician. I guess times change.
  • munjoyfan · 10 months ago
    Here it is--the roll call vote on the stimulus bill. Check out the map and email your Representative if he or she didn't vote the right way. Because they will have a second crack at this bill when the Senate is done with it. Not single Republican supported the bill, knowing full well that they didn't have a chance of winning. It's a giant temper tantrum. is Newt behind this behaviour?
  • KarenMrsLloydRichards · 10 months ago
    The Rude Pundit has a few choice words to say about the GOP's performance today:

    http://rudepundit.blogspot.com
  • munjoyfan · 10 months ago
  • AdrianBrowne · 10 months ago
    I'm listening to Rachel Maddow's interview with Blogajevich -- it's really sad -- he's having a slow motion mental meltdown in public.
  • Indigo · 10 months ago
    Several of the Doge of the Republic of Venice were "Templars." The Medici family of Florence generated a number of "Platonic" mayors. Alexander the Great was accompanied by his male companion all the way through several political marriages, (regardless of what Colin Farrel says) Achilles was gay even if the Greek government and Brad Pitt want you to think not. And so on. The Emperor Hardrian and his partner, Antinouos, were an important force for good in the Roman Empire, and many more besides.

    The fault, dear reader, lies in the failure of our educational system to acknowledge gays in history, regardless of the terminology, and not in the absence of gays in history. We are everywhere!
  • Same crap, different a-hole · 10 months ago
    Cheers Iceland. I hope history proves her to be a great leader, and not just an asterisk.
  • cosanostradamus · 10 months ago
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    What about Maggie Thatcher?

    Hope this lady ain't like her!
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  • Tim · 10 months ago
    70s British Prime Minister Ted Heath was about as openly gay as people got during that era (only legalised in 1967). He was always referred to in the paper or on TV as a "confirmed batchelor" and often seen around town with good looking young men.
  • Joe S. · 10 months ago
    What about the current ruler of the Vatican--what's his name? Out? Well, he's tolerably flaming.