Wow. Our President is Ambitious!

My head is still reeling and I’m trying to catch my breath. I guess I’d better start applying to colleges. He wants every citizen to go back to school. I wonder if this means I can hang out at coffee houses and smoke Afghani hash. Um, sorry. But that’s what college meant back in the [...]

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Sénégal Jails Gays

The U.N. has responded to the jailing of nine gay men who were active in HIV education, prevention and treatment. In a press release dated yesterday the U.N. Press Center stated:
“UNAIDS has teamed up with civil society organizations, the public sector and partners such as the UN Development Programme (UNDP), the French Embassy and the [...]

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Torture: a.k.a. The Bush Years

“We tortured Qahtani,” said Susan J. Crawford convening authority for the Guantanamo military commissions. “His treatment met the legal definition of torture. And that’s why I did not refer the case” for prosecution. Wednesday’s  Washington Post article by Bob Woodward at the end of Mr. Bush’s reign of error marks the first time an administration [...]

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Cuba’s New Groove (update)

Fifty years ago today Fidel Castro  rolled into Havana to jubilant crowds. Thus began an uneasy relationship that continues today. In the early days Fidel Castro was considered a hero in the United States. My mom bought toy Castro beards for me and my brother. Heck, everyone was wearing them. Then it became clear that [...]

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Politics as usual for the RNC

Apparently “Barack the Magic Negro” was just another inside racist joke among the Republican National Committee until recently. Rush Limbaugh played it on his radio show in 2007. Long before then the myth of Rush’s second brain cell had been exposed as a hoax. So his antics were not taken seriously.
The song is blatant racism [...]

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Red & Black Ball at 2640 (updated)

Kate from Red Emma’s:

“The ball is an end-of-year fundraiser for Red Emma’s, and a kind of alternative holiday celebration at the same time.  It’s a Victorian-themed masquerade ball, so we’re encouraging folks to unleash their old-timey creativity and put together period-type costumes with the “Red & Black” theme in mind … but [...]

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HRC President Joe Solmonese on H8

HRC President Joe Solmonese urges a coalition building with gay marriage adversaries during this Saturday’s protest aginst Proposition 8:
“Our campaigns to beat back discriminatory ballot measures in California, Arizona, Florida and Arkansas failed to help others who have experienced discrimination understand that putting the rights of one minority up for a vote puts everyone’s rights [...]

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Bishops turn out for “heavy hors d’oeuvres” and an “open bar.”

Invitations for the reception sponsored by the Catholic Campaign for Human Development (CCHD) offered “heavy hors d’oeuvres” and an “open bar” at the U.S. Catholic Bishops conference here in Baltimore.
Critics of the CCHD see its work with the poor, immigration rights, and its recent association with ACORN. as leftist. The heavy turnout at the CCHD [...]

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Victory celebrated on Wall Street

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The attack on Syria

“The raid on the town of Abu Kamal had killed a father and his three children, a farm guard and his wife, and a fisherman,” according to the Syrians. The source is Walid Muallem the foreign minister of Syria. Note that he has a name and takes ownership of his statement.
Meanwhile our government’s unnamed source [...]

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