DISQUS

tlsintx · 1 year ago

and married, straight couples get to bunk together in the Army...
see who gets special rights?

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20080401/ap_on_re_mi...

scooter in brooklyn · 1 year ago

i never dreamed i'd live long enough to be married. i hope i live long enough for my marriage to be equal, but i don't expect it.

ponchoinparadise · 1 year ago

The Question to ask is: Has Vice President Cheney,s daughter and partner
ever been transported on military aircraft?

BLOGGING BITCH! · 1 year ago

That's so odd. They allow bin Laden to bomb us and escort his family out of the country when no-one else was allowed in the air.


When's Barack and Hillary going to start asking some real questions?

Of course Hillary told us not to expect much from her before she ever ran for the Senate...Remember? Said she couldn't do much because there won't be 60 of her. Guess it was her way of telling us to keep expectations low.

You do know that Hillary was once fired as a Lawyer, right?

http://www.northstarwriters.com/dc163.htm

Nigel Elliott · 1 year ago

Did CNN remove Bush's boos in this clip?
http://www.dailykos.com/story/2008/4/1/174348/1...

grandma · 1 year ago

lol Nigel...apparently there is a controvery over the boos/cheers :

A lively debate has emerged online, however, over whether his appearance at the Washington Nationals’ season opener provoked more boos or cheers.

There are dueling videos, some with more boos than others. This Washington Times video is highly boo-filled. Associated Press captured some more cheers in this video. (Click the word “Replay”.)

Some fan videos on Youtube, like this one, definitely lean heavily toward the booing side.

http://theboard.blogs.nytimes.com/2008/04/01/pr...

KerrynowCampau · 1 year ago

ponchoinparadise, that is none of our business! (snark)

ponchoinparadise · 1 year ago

Yes it is. If different standards are applied due to political
position. Just on the merits of hypocrisy it is a subject
matter to be explored. This has nothing to do with lifestyle
Define Snark.

grandma · 1 year ago

I agree Mirth...Kudos to Nancy.

This is OT.....Keith Olberman has been following the story closely:

CNN is now reporting that Wal-Mart "said in a letter to the family of Deborah Shank it will not seek to collect money the Shanks won in an injury lawsuit against a trucking company for the accident."

http://thinkprogress.org/2008/04/01/olbermann-a...

Thank you Keith....you do make a difference.

PeteWa · 1 year ago

Thanks for the link to that trash heap known as The Politico.

OlderAndWiser · 1 year ago

Ohferchrissakes. So tired of these petty bureaucrats and their disrespect for an injured vet who's also a Representative. Jesushchrist, don't they have some billions to find?

And you know damned well at least Mary Cheney has probably been on AF-1, which is considered a military aircraft. Did she even bother to take Heather Poe, or just kick her to the curb because she knew the "rules?"

Married couples get to screw and get pregnant while fighting in Iraq...hell, they even let off guys who rape and sexually harrass females who are supposed to be their peers.

It's all rather sickening. Who would think all those tough guys would be so threatened? [snark]

jr · 1 year ago

The Pentagon's rapture bunnyism knows no bounds. Party like it's 1999 BCE

TruthCounts · 1 year ago

Bill and Hillary have a big part in how this came about. A lot of people were surprised when Bill Clinton rushed through both DOMA and DADT to target gay people for discrimination. And then recently when Bill Clinton advised John Kerry to attack gay people in the election as a way to gain votes, many soured to the dishonest methods fo the corrupt Clintons. Now with Hillary using the same anti-gay negative ads as well as racist attacks, most Democrats are sickened by the Clinton's amorality. It wasn't enough for them to stain the White House with their adulterous lifestyles. Now they openly attack glbt people. I would bet there are more gays now who would vote for a Republcan rather than ever vote for a despicable Clinton ever again.

KerrynowCampau · 1 year ago

Snark = sarcasm

Soundboy_jeff_meanie · 1 year ago

that's it... sometimes I feel like going all Trogdor on those oppressing me.

http://www.homestarrunner.com/trogdor.html

bastards.

1billinnj2 · 1 year ago

the armed forces are not going to change unless you change the political climate of the generals. they are truly an old boys school.

Indigo · 1 year ago

My humble suggestion for Rep. Baldwin is this: get on the Pentagon budget committee.

tlsintx · 1 year ago

OT, but McCain is so full of BS. He's chatting up the Greatest Generation, taking a stroll down memory lane with good old boys and girls, he can't help it if he gets "angry" when he witnesses all the "corruption" around him and he won't stand for "corruption". *cough*
(hair-trigger temper...Keating Five...check)

http://www.cnn.com/2008/POLITICS/04/01/mccain.t...

Rab · 1 year ago

C'mon Dems, that can be taken care of in the legislature, pass laws, get it done Harry and Nancy,

OlderAndWiser · 1 year ago

Well, the stock market is happy after Paulson's speech, up almost 400. They know the Fed will print up money to save all the financials when it's needed. See, money does grow on trees.

We ordinary souls are so fucked, gay or straight.

paulbe · 1 year ago

Thanks to the courage of "impeachment off the table" Pelosi, the focus moves onto yet another piece of trivia in the grand scheme of destroying America.

hector · 1 year ago

Put even more plainly... Barack Obama can't have it both ways, which increasingly seems to be his campaign's modus operandi. While it is altogether plausible that, in the spirit of bringing hope and unity, a civil rights leader might sit down with members of white supremacist groups to address racial differences, it is another thing entirely to propose that the same civil rights leader could count any of those white supremacists among his closest friends because he finds them to be inspirational people if, you know, you take that pesky race thing out of the equation.

Similarly, while potentially capable of co-existing peacefully in an environment of mutual respect, the homophobe and the LGBT rights advocate aren't likely to be found cooing at or canoodling with one another in private because they share so many other common interests. Yet these are precisely the kinds of scenarios that Barack Obama asks the American people to accept on faith each and every time unsavory questions arise about the associates with whom he has chosen to surround himself. Ultimately, it is this porous type of reaction that may be Sen. Obama's undoing. But, then again, perhaps not.
http://www.chicagopride.com/news/article.cfm/ar...

OlderAndWiser · 1 year ago

I find it silly that some white people are so upset when black people start saying ugly but true things about the white race. How the hell would you feel after 400 years of oppression and white supremacy thrown in your face? To realize, that even if you achieve wealth and fame, to many whites, you're still a--I can't say the word. Anyone who doesn't acknowledge this just isn't thinking.

If it weren't true, white and blacks would be socializing together all the time--even attending the same churches. And we don't. We have a long way to go in this country.

Soundboy_jeff_meanie · 1 year ago

OlderAndWiser

If it weren't true, white and blacks would be socializing together all the time--even attending the same churches. And we don't. We have a long way to go in this country.
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however, I'm not sure they'd want to mix in that situation...

put it this way, church is like family.

looking at it from a gay man's perspective? if everyone accepting LGBT's meant that gay bars would disappear?? I'm not sure if I want that kind of acceptence.

the gay ghetto, to me, is being surrounded by family... in fact, 1/2 the people I know there get bent out of shape when they see straight couples with strollers. There's no hate there, just a feeling that this is OUR neighborhood.

I think a lot of the churches can be likened to that... if you're part of the community, then they accept you... if not, its a bit uneasy.

.

OlderAndWiser · 1 year ago

Soundboy, well, I'm an atheist. Family to me is somewhat different. It's relatives...the ones who raise you and you try to keep in touch with and the ones you don't get along with as well. I don't think anyone should be in a "ghetto" either. We can segregate ourselves as we've done since the beginning of time, along tribal lines or some type of self-imposed segregation, but we see how that's turned out in most cases. As a bisexual, I've been in straight and gay bars and felt comfortable in both.

You say, "church is like family" -- that's the problem--people who can't accept another because he or she is different are living unrealistically, to my way of thinking. One reason why I'm not the least bit religious. Being human comes before anything else.

rick · 1 year ago

why pretend the military and our government isn't homophobic?

mirth · 1 year ago

Ok, so here's something else Pelosi has done right. A cheer for her.
But we do not forget...