Memphis City Schools Defends Modern Day Anita Bryant

Towleroad has a follow-up to their story on Daphne Beasley's blatant bigotry:

On Wednesday I posted about principal Daphne Beasley of Hollis F. Price Middle College High School in South Memphis, who outed two gay students who were in a relationship to their parents and to other students at the school via a publicly posted list of students who were involved romantically.

As a result of Beasley's actions, the gay students have been the target of verbal harassment and even discrimination from teachers. The ACLU sent a letter to Memphis City Schools, demanding they reprimand Beasley, and compensate and apologize to the two students whom Beasley outed. The ACLU says Beasley violated the students' constitutional rights to equal protection, freedom of expression and association, due process and privacy.

Well, Memphis City Schools responded today via a statement, and they claim that Beasley did nothing wrong and that what she did helped to facilitate "a safe, nurturing and disciplined learning climate." The schools claim that Beasley "did not list any information other than students’ names on her personal call list, and she certainly did not specify the sexual orientation of any student. Additionally, the list was never posted publicly anywhere at the school."

Well, according to the ACLU, "Beasley hung the list up on the wall of her office, in plain view of teachers and other students."



***MEMPHIS CITY SCHOOLS STATEMENT in response to outing of gay students***

“Memphis City Schools is committed to providing its students with the best possible learning environment. Hollis F. Price Middle College is an accelerated high school, which is located on the historically black LeMoyne-Owen College campus. Eligible students may enroll in college classes in pursuit of completing the first two years of college while attending this high school.

Because we have high school students on a college campus, we have to carefully monitor the activities of our students. We are at all times proactive in assuring that our students are provided a safe, nurturing and disciplined learning climate. Unfortunately, in fall 2007, we received numerous complaints from LeMoyne-Owen College faculty and staff that some of our student couples were involved in explicit sexual behavior in public view on the college campus.

In light of this information from LeMoyne-Owen faculty and staff, the principal of Hollis F. Price made several general announcements to the student body that this behavior would not be tolerated. Regrettably, the improper behavior continued. Therefore, the principal felt it appropriate to notify the parents of those children she knew to be involved romantically. This was done in an effort to gain the support of the parents in reinforcing the message that such behavior is in violation of Memphis City Schools’ Student Code of Conduct. The principal did not list any information other than students’ names on her personal call list, and she certainly did not specify the sexual orientation of any student. Additionally, the list was never posted publicly anywhere at the school.

It is the position of Memphis City Schools that the principal did act in an appropriate manner in order to correct a serious issue at the school and that Memphis City Schools has not subjected either of these students to discriminatory treatment.

In the coming days, we will submit a formal response to the ACLU. We look forward to working with them to amicably resolve this matter.”

***END OF STATEMENT***

Today's Paultard Video

This Nazi Paultard has devised a brilliant scheme to wrestle the Republican nomination away from Juan McCain: Make sure all the delegates at the convention are Paultards.

Then, all that's left is to annex America, use their Cheetos-stained hands to tatoo binary ID barcodes on non-Paultards' forearms (because The Matrix will be named America's Official Movie), then force us all to create Second Life characters that will be their Second Life characters' slaves.

Hookhand Monster Leading In Polls

Steve Novick, brickbat's favorite gnome-with-one-hand candidate, holds a lead going into May 20th's Oregon Senatorial primary:

With just over six weeks to go until votes are counted in Oregon's May 20 primary, U.S. Senate Democratic hopeful Jeff Merkley appears to be trailing rival Steve Novick in the race to challenge Republican incumbent Gordon Smith next fall.

A poll conducted Monday exclusively for KATU by SurveyUSA gave Novick a double-digit lead over Merkley, with 23 percent of the 597 likely voters surveyed saying they planned to vote for him. Merkley came in third in the automated poll, with 11 percent of voters, a statistical tie with Eugene anti-war activist Candy Neville, who was supported by 12 percent of voters in the poll.

Forty percent of voters in the poll, which had a margin of error of 4.1 percent, said they were still undecided.



So take that, Mr. "I have both my hands and I don't go home on the Yellow Brick Road" Merkley. Word is, if you lose an election to a gnome, you become a gnome yourself.

via KATU

Weekend Roundup

Barack Hussein bin Laden Stalin Obama hates your freedoms and your flag lapel pins and Travis Childers said nothing.

Another ad proved the above, but this time it had Speaker Sodom and exposed her lesbian haircut's gay liberal terrorist radical agenda.

We all threw the HRC under the bus this week and it was fun. Let's do it again sometime.

We started feeling sorry for Clay Aiken, then stopped because his haircut makes us want to punch a baby.

That lady who bossed around whores for a living was thrown under Dick Cheney's Segway.

Rev. Wright goddamned Hopey, which is still not enough for Cankles to go to his Mooslimy church.

Thundercunt cannot use a coffeecappuccino machine. She also cannot beat Hopey.

Juan McCain cannot remember his talking points and cannot remember any of his birthdays because there have been more than 500,000 of them.

Mickey Kantor hates Indiana, but maybe not. What we do know is that James Carville looked like a breakdancing cancer patient in the early 90's.

History Made In Saudi Arabia

From Yahoo:

It's probably as revolutionary and groundbreaking as Mozart gets these days. A German-based quartet staged Saudi Arabia's first-ever performance of European classical music in a public venue before a mixed gender audience.

The concert, held at a government-run cultural centre, broke many taboos in a country where public music is banned and the sexes are segregated even in lines at fast food outlets.

The Friday night performance could be yet another indication that this strict Muslim kingdom is looking to open up to the rest of the world.

Shut Up And Enjoy Your Delicious Freedoms

From HuffPo:

The U.S. military fired guided missiles into the heart of Baghdad's teeming Sadr City slum on Saturday, leveling a building 55 yards away from a hospital and wounding nearly two dozen people.

AP Television News footage showed several ambulances destroyed and on fire, thick black smoke rising from them as firefighters worked to put out the flames.

The strike, made from a ground launcher, took out a militant "command-control center," the U.S. military said. The center was located in the heart of the eight-square-mile neighborhood that is home to about 2.5 million people. Iraqi officials said at least 23 people were wounded, though none of them were patients in the hospital.

HOLY SHIT YES HE HAS A BLOG OMG THIS IS FANTASTIC

Craig Stevens has a blog now.

Today has been a good day.

Rev. Hagee: Goddamn Poor People

via Young Turks

Here Kitty Kitty

Scientists have unraveled how a horse tranquilizer and hallucinogenic night club drug known as "Special K" can ease depression, researchers said on Friday.

Ketamine, which can also cause feelings of detachment, could pave the way for new treatments for people suffering from depression, the researchers added.

Their study, published in the Archives of General Psychiatry, found ketamine restores to normal the orbifrontal cortex, an area of the brain located above the eyes that is overactive in depressed people.

The area is believed to be responsible for feelings of guilt, dread, apprehension and physical reactions such as a racing heart, said Bill Deakin, who led the study.

"The study results have given us a completely novel way of treating depression and a new avenue of understanding depression," said Deakin, a neuroscientist at the University of Manchester.

Depression is a leading cause of suicide and affects about 121 million people worldwide, according to the World Health Organisation.

via Reuters

It's More Fun To Believe He Said It

Now the word is that the hilarious video where James Carville looked like a jackass and Mickey Kantor called Indiananans "shit" and "white nigger" was doctored, just like the Hillary video in Bosnia.

From Ben Smith:

I just spoke to D.A. Pennebaker, the director of "The War Room," who said his film had been doctored to produce a widely-viewed YouTube clip.

In a clip from his film on the 1992 Clinton campaign, posted to YouTube today, Clinton advisor Mickey Kantor is -- according to subtitles -- seen referring to Indiana residents with an expletive and to his colleague George Stephanopolous with a racial slur.

"He does not say that. He does not say that," said Pennebaker, after viewing the clip.

He said the initial expletive referred to the anticipated reaction in the Bush White House to the fact that Ross Perot's polling numbers were holding strong.

"What he says is he’s surprised Perot’s numbers are holding," said Pennebaker in a brief phone interview. "He says they must be shi**ing in the White House."

The second expletive, he said, appeared to have been entirely fabricated, with new audio dubbed onto the original movie.

Pennebaker appeared surprised and amused by the video.

Either way, Mickey Kantor seems like a huge douchebag the end.

Fighting Back

"I would not be here were it not for the fact that somebody, somewhere stood up for me. Because one person stood up, a few more stood up. Then a thousand stood up, and then a million stood up. That's why Hillary Clinton can run for President. That's why I can run for President.

Because somebody stood up.

And the question now is: Will the Democratic Party stand up for the next generation? That's my Patriotism. Those are my values. That's what we're fighting for in this election."

via Sully

Another Moment With Betty Butterfield

Methodists

Cocks For Glocks

Tony Zirkle is possibly the most awesome candidate ever. I hope he keeps his track record of losing so he can run for everything forever.

Here's his latest brilliant plan:

I'm considering discussing divorce aids and my plans for a "Derrenger's for Dildos" policy to put guns in American women's hands instead of divorce aids. Presently, when a criminal is arrested for a weapons crime, the prosecutors seek orders to destroy those weapons. What a waste! Put our criminal prisoners to work modifying those guns to be smart-guns that can only be fired when the female owner is holding it so that children don't hurt themselves and so that criminals can't use them (unless they use the woman's hand). When a women turns in her stash of divorce aids, then give her a free gun to defend America when the jihadists follow us home.

I may discuss the historical fact that before there were Nazi doctors, there were divorce aid doctors who used these divorce aids to "treat" "hysterical" women. Is there an etymological connection between hysterical and hysterectomy? http://www.dailycal.org/article/9535/sex_on_tuesday_history_69

I may also call attention to the fact that one of the biggest commercial frauds is that divorce aids market themselves as being for "novelty purposes only" so that they can avoid all consumer safety inspections; yet ,they then go to court and claim they have a 1st Amendment so called right to privacy to abuse their bodies. http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/19333870/page/2/ Who knows what toxic chemicals these women are inserting into the most intimate areas of their bodies and how many men chase children because they can not find comfort from an adult women.

Ezekiel noted women made male images and committed whoredom with them just before their 70 years of slavery, and Bertrand of Worms implored women to set aside their divorce aids about a generation before the crusades began. (I'm still looking for the cite on Bertrand (sp?) of Worms).

Jeremiah 3:9: And it came to pass through the lightness of her whoredom, that she defiled the land, and committed adultery with stones and with stocks.

Ezekiel 16:17 (Whole Chapter)
Thou hast also taken thy fair jewels of my gold and of my silver, which I had given thee, and madest to thyself images of men, and didst commit whoredom with them.

Ezekiel 16:26 (Whole Chapter)
Thou hast also committed fornication with the Egyptians thy neighbours, great of flesh; and hast increased thy whoredoms, to provoke me to anger.

(That last one did not sound like a ringing endorsement for Jungle Fever to me. Maybe that should go into the self-determination segregation section).

By giving our soccor moms guns, they will be better able to take out the suicide bombers once they start following us home. Isn't that what the republicans are saying will happen if the deomcrats get elected and even dare to withdraw our troops from Iraq prematurely?

So, maybe we need a whole army of Sen. Hillary Clinton styled Annie Oakleys? Didn't Sen. Obama recently say that one would think she was Annie Oakley or something.

If the Derrengers for Dildos idea doesn't get me an invite to John Stewart's Comedy Central or the Colbert bump, I'm not sure what will.

Whoredom is now my favorite word.

Tony Zirkle for Congress via Jesus' General

Playgrounds That Your Kid Will Never Recover From

From Gawker:

Communism. It sounds like it's all fun and games, until you see what the Soviet definition of "fun" is. Witness the freako attractions at children's playgrounds across the former USSR!

Elderly Juan McCain Throws Oil Under The Bus

Topping learning there is no Santa Claus and seeing Hermione Granger's whatnot on the intertubes on the list of things that have shattered my worldview, the kindly ol' senile gent from Arizona just let me know that George Bush and Dick Cheney lied to me.

Juan McCain had another senior moment: slipping up and telling me Operation Iraqi Freedom was not at all about freedoms or terrors or little Iraqi lapel pins. It was all so that stupid bitch next to me at the gas pumps that can't drive her Excursion in the first place has plenty of oil to endager people for 100 miles.



The elderly man immediately blacked out and fell asleep for 14 hours. He awoke the next day and, after someone reminded him of what had happened, had this to say:

"No, no, I was talking about that we had fought the Gulf War for several reasons," McCain told reporters.


One reason was Saddam Hussein's invasion of Kuwait, he said. "But also we didn't want him to have control over the oil, and that part of the world is critical to us because of our dependency on foreign oil, and it's more important than any other part of the world," he said.

"If the word `again' was misconstrued, I want us to remove our dependency on foreign oil for national security reasons, and that's all I mean," McCain said.

"The Congressional Record is very clear: I said we went to war in Iraq because of weapons of mass destruction," he said.

Still confused by the flashing lights and the crazy image taking contraption that was stealing his soul, McWALNUTS! then had this to say about the above stuff that he didn't say:

But then when specifically asked by an Associated Press reporter if, when he made the statement, he was “thinking about the first Gulf War,” he said no.

“No, I was thinking about- it’s not hard to- we will not,” McCain stumbled. “By eliminating our dependency on foreign oil, we will not have to have our national security threatened by a cut off of that oil. Because we will be dependent, because we won’t be dependent, we will no longer be dependent on foreign oil. That’s what my remarks were.”

He then screamed "What the hell are you lookin' at!?!?", punched the reporter in the throat, and shuffled his way back to his plane before he miss Jeopardy.

via HuffPo and MSNBC

Happy Birthday Cecelia

Something Alan Keyes And I Can Agree On

He is an abortion.


via BraveNewFilms

Pawpaw McCain Appaled By Man Repeating Word He Used

The elderly Republican Condo Association President held a town hall meeting yesterday and took questions from the audience. One brave man asked WALNUTS! if he really called his wife a cunt.

People in the audince groaned and McCain was offended. After the meeting WALNUTS! killed the man and fashioned his ears into a necklace.

She's Not Going Anywhere Anytime Soon

Cankles McGee sat down for an interview with Nightline and had some interesting things to say:

Andrew, the former head of the Democratic National Committee, nominated by Bill Clinton, cited his belief that continuing to support Clinton was bad for the Democratic Party.

"I think this has been good for the Democratic Party," Clinton countered in an interview with "Nightline" co-anchor Cynthia McFadden, adding that Andrew didn't call her to tell her about his decision.

"I haven't spoken to him," Clinton said. "But, you know, people can decide however they want to decide. That's up to them. But anyone who believes this is bad for the party I just think is not paying attention, because the level of enthusiasm to be part of this process is, from my perspective, helping us build a stronger and deeper Democratic base."

Clinton said those who say she should get out of the race "don't understand politics or history."

When asked if she would pull out of the race if she didn't win in Indiana, she replied, "I'm not going to pledge to do anything. I'm going to just keep getting up every single day and going out there.

"I think that this is such a close election, why would any of us think that it shouldn't go to the end? We've got a process. The rules are it goes all the way into June. Let's follow the rules and get to those June contests and see where are."

...When asked if she sees any similarities between Obama's campaign and her husband's 1992 campaign, Clinton said, "No. No, not at all. I give [Obama] great credit for running a really successful campaign and doing a wonderful job, and inspiring people. But when Bill ran in '92, he was the longest-serving governor in America. He'd actually solved a lot of problems. He had immersed himself in the issues and had very specific ideas about what he would do as president. So he wasn't just giving speeches; he was offering very specific solutions to the problems that he thought America faced."

She then she told us how she totally wanted to bone a dead man:

Clinton spoke about a number of different policy issues, but also touched on a pressing pop culture topic. Is it actually true that Clinton's dream celebrity date is Abraham Lincoln, as she told "People" Magazine?

"It is pretty dorky," Clinton said. "But, you know, they asked me who I would want to have a date with for dinner, anybody, living or dead. And I assumed it was not a romantic date, because I'm not into that.

Gross.

via ABC

DC Madam Predicted She Would Be Suicided

From Prison Planet:

DC Madam Deborah Jeane Palfrey predicted she would be "suicided" on several occasions both recently and as far back as 17 years ago - comments that now appear ominous in light of the announcement that the former head of a Washington escort service allegedly killed herself today.

"If taken into custody, my physical safety and most probably my very life would be jeopardized," she wrote in August 1991 following an attempt to bring her to trial, "Rape, beating, maiming, disfigurement and more than likely murder disguised in the form of just another jailhouse accident or suicide would await me," said Palfrey in a handwritten letter to the judge accusing the San Diego police vice squad of having a vendetta against her.

During several recent appearances on The Alex Jones Show, Palfrey also said that she was at risk of being killed and that authorities would make it look like suicide. She made it clear that she was not suicidal and if she was found dead it would be murder.

Palfrey had threatened to release the names of well-known clients of her upscale call girl ring in the nation's capitol, and had indicated that Dick Cheney may be one of them.

"We now know it goes at least as high as a United States Senator," Palfrey told The Alex Jones Show, "I'm hearing rumors now from other people that there are other possibilities in that stratosphere so to speak, on that level."

"No I'm not planning to commit suicide," Palfrey told The Alex Jones Show on her last appearance in March, "I'm planning on going into court and defending myself vigorously and exposing the government," she said.

Mickey Kantor Places Sheeny Curse On Indiana

Here's a hilarious video from 1992 of James Carville, George Snuffleupagus, and campaign chair of the Clinton campaign, Mickey Kantor, checking polls. In it, Kantor calls the good people of Indiana "shit" and "white niggers".

Besides the fact that James Carville is dressed like a total douchebag, the video is also hilarious for the fact that the word "wigger" had already been around for a while. "White nigger" is what elitists say.

Today's Hopetard Video

Palfrey Remembered

From Wonkette:

For the great crime of hooking up willing ladies with horny politicians, "D.C. Madam" Deborah Jeane Paltry was facing four to six years in prison, and today she was found dead in a shed behind her mother's house in Florida. The men who paid for hookers through her service, such as Republican Senator David Vitter, have paid no price for their crimes, and they remain in power as the very people who make up the laws. Anyway, good-bye, Deborah Jeane. Though we didn't know you at all, you had the grace to hold yourself while those around you crawled. They crawled out of the woodwork, and they whispered into your brain. They set you on the treadmill and then Dick Cheney had you killed. But Wonkette just sent your name to this moon spaceship, Deborah. Enjoy the ride to a better place!

Facebook In Reality

On Death And Dying

From guardian:

This sombre series of portraits taken of people before and after they had died is a challenging and poignant study. The work by German photographer Walter Schels and his partner Beate Lakotta, who recorded interviews with the subjects in their final days, reveals much about dying - and living. Life Before Death is at the Wellcome Collection from April 9-May 18

Pictured:



Elly Genthe was a tough, resilient woman who had always managed on her own. She often said that if she couldn’t take care of herself, she’d rather be dead. When I met her for the first time, she was facing death and seemed undaunted: she was full of praise for the hospice staff and the quality of her care. But, when I visited again a few days later, she seemed to sense her strength was ebbing away.

Sometimes during those last weeks she would sleep all day: at other times, she saw little men crawling out of the flower pots who she believed had come to kill her. “Get me out of here”, she whispered as soon as anyone held her hand. “My heart will stop beating if I stay here. This is an emergency! I don’t want to die!”

via Sully

Satire Within A Day

In response to the bitter elitist cappuccino machine.

Focus On The Family's New Logo

Good As You gives their take:

And to be honest, we find the image a little bizarre. For while the Dobsonites clearly mean for it to represent a child with his mother and father, we see several other options that can easily be gleaned from the sketch. Like, maybe:

- A butch and femme lesbian couple with their child

- A gay male couple, one with broad arms and one with more diminutive features, with their kid

- A child whose parents are divorcing and fighting over which way the child is going to go

- A family standing hand-in-hand on a protest line, chanting freedom songs in protest of FOF's constant push for inequalities

- A demented child who has just ripped his parents limps off of their bodies and is now holding them up as a sign of his victory (and/or warning to others)

- A child being forcibly pulled into "ex-gay" therapy against his will

RCP Update

Total Delegates: 1735 - 1597 Obama + 138
Super Delegates: 246 - 264 Clinton + 18
Pledged Delegates: 1489 - 1333 Obama + 156
Popular Vote: 49.2 - 47.5 Obama +1.7
Popular Vote (w/FL): 48.3 - 47.6 Obama +0.7
Nat'l RCP Average: 45.1 - 43.4 Obama +1.7
North Carolina: 48.4 - 41.2 Obama +7.2
Indiana: 43.2 - 48.0 Clinton +4.8

via RCP

The Democratic Race In Seven Minutes

via Sully

The Latest In Charlie Walker's Unhealthy Crusade For Kid Touchers™

A follow-up to this.

Pat Robertson on Church-State Issues

via RightWingWatch

Jesus Christ: Proud American

DC Madam Found Dead

From MyFox Orlando:

Police were called to the home of DC Madam Deborah Jeane Palfrey's mother on Thursday to investigate her apparent suicide. Police have confirmed that the dead person is Palfrey who was 52.

Palfrey was dubbed "The DC Madam" by the national media after her arrest for allegedly running an upscale call girl ring in the nation's capitol.

She was convicted on Tuesday of money laundering, using the mail for illegal purposes and racketeering, but she had not yet been sentenced.

There has been much speculation in the media about who was on Palfrey's client list, but few details came out during the trial.

Randall L. Tobias resigned as a deputy secretary of state after acknowledging to ABC News that he used Palfrey's service for massages.

Palfrey had an interesting list of clients, including the diaper wearing David Vitter and possibly the one and only Darth Cheney.

Today's Hilltard Video

Here's another one of those gay homosexuals who supports Cankles. Rumor has it that after watching this video, you will die.

Kids Fucking Scare Me

From boingboing:

British schoolchildren in the west of England are terrorizing their chums by impersonating pedophile stalkers.

A spokesman for Devon and Cornwall police told the Manchester Grauniad:
"Information from the public has highlighted a possibility that the offenders could be children aged 10 and over, masquerading as a paedophile. The investigations are continuing and at this moment we are looking into every line of inquiry and are not ruling out any possibility. However, the language used on the social networking sites such as Bebo and MSN is at times childish. [No change there, then - Ed]

"It could be youngsters playing a sick game to try and intimidate friends they have fallen out with. This will be treated seriously and we will be contacting the families of the children involved and we will try and help them by involving social services."

Link

SciFi's Theories Of Evolution

io9 explores SciFi's most interesting explanations:

If Ben Stein really wants to convince us all that evolution is a crock, he doesn't need to make a documentary and play semantic games with Richard Dawkins. He just has to sit us down and make us watch this episode of Star Trek: Voyager, where traveling at super-warp speed causes Janeway and Paris to super-evolve into lizards (and make lizard babies.) But it's not just Voyager — science fiction provides a ton of evolution theories that make intelligent design seem downright sensible.

...4. Your children will inherit your body-mods. Maybe the earliest evolutionary theorist was Jean-Baptiste Lamarck (1744-1829) who believed in the idea of "soft inheritance," where you pass on your acquired characteristics to your kids. If your body adapts to circumstances during your life — for example, if a particular organ gets smaller because you use it less — then your children will inherit it. (That organ will be smaller in your kids.) In fact, only genetic changes are passed on. But that doesn't stop science fiction from presenting changes to a creature's body, or non-genetic adaptations that you make in the course of your life, as being heritable. (Lamarck's ideas are sometimes mischaracterized as, "if you lose a leg, you'll have one-legged children," but he wasn't that silly.) In David Cronenberg's 1979 classic The Brood, a cutting-edge psychotherapy causes patients to manifest their darkest emotions in their own bodies — and one transformed woman gives birth to monster children that she can control telepathically.

Tenn. Principal Outs Gay Students, ACLU Responds

From Towleroad:

The ACLU has sent a letter to Memphis City Schools, demanding the school system implement new policies, reprimand principal Daphne Beasley of Hollis F. Price Middle College High School in South Memphis, and compensate and apologize to two students whom Beasley outed in a public posted list which the ACLU says violated the students' constitutional rights to equal protection, freedom of expression and association, due process and privacy.

ABC24 Memphis reports:

"The ACLU says in September 2007, Beasley asked her staff to give her the names of students who were couples, heterosexual and homosexual, because she wanted to keep an eye on them to cut down on public displays of affection. She's accused of publicly posting the names of those students, including two boys, Andrew and Nicholas, who had just started dating. The ACLU says that in doing so, Beasley revealed their relationship to other students, teachers and even their parents."

As a result of Beasley's actions, the gay students have been the target of verbal harassment and even discrimination from teachers:

"One of the young men, Nicholas, an 11th grader who just made the Dean's List, spoke with Eyewitness News Everywhere. 'It was actually frightening,' he says, 'to see a list with my name on it where not just other teachers could see but students as well.' Nicholas says his teachers and other students treat him differently as a result of Principal Beasley's decision and that he and Andrew have both had to deal with verbal assaults. Nicholas was also not allowed to go on a trip to New Orleans to help rebuild homes because, as one of his teacher's explained, he would 'embarrass' the school by engaging in gay affection. 'I really feel that my personal privacy was invaded,' Nicholas says. 'I mean, Principal Beasley called my mother and outed me to my mother!'"

Said Hedy Weinberg, Executive Director at the ACLU of Tennessee: "The principal's outing of these two students to their families, classmates, and teachers is unacceptable. Its only purpose was to intimidate not only these students but all gay students at Hollis Price. Educators should be focused on educating their students and not on harassing them because of their sexual orientation or the people with whom they associate."

Gas Experts Agree With Obama

To which the Clinton Camp responds: We don't need to listen to the experts.

Video via BraveNewFilms

Hillary vs. the coffee maker

Everyman Thundercunt has trouble with the bitter elitist cappuccino machine. Real 'mericuns pour their coffee out of a pot.

Thundercunt Throws Rev. Wright Under The Back Of The Bus

Hillary is going to be on the teevee's O'Reilly Factor tonight and HuffPo has a clip.

When asked about the America hating Rev. Wright, Hillary calls him offensive and outrageous and also reiterates that she would have not stayed at that church because it is a black church and she and Bill hate black people.

Elderly Juan McCain Celebrated His 1000th Bday In Honor Of Katrina

The confused centenarian has been going around to where black people are and apologizing for stuff. Stuff like Hurricane Katrina and for that time he brought over America's first slaves on the original "Straight Talk Express" many years ago.

Funny story:

Speaking in New Orleans about Hurricane Katrina today, Sen. John McCain (R-AZ) tried to contrast himself with President Bush’s delayed response to Katrina, saying, “I would’ve landed my airplane at the nearest Air Force base and come over personally.” But as Newsweek notes, on Aug. 29, 2005, when Katrina had just hit New Orleans, McCain was posing with President Bush for his 69th birthday:

It was Aug. 29, McCain’s 69th birthday, and on the tarmac, Bush presented his old political rival with a cake. The two posed, holding the cake up for cameras, and within seconds, went their separate ways. The cake, melting in the 110-degree Arizona heat, was left behind, uneaten.

“Yet on the issue of New Orleans, it’s still unclear how different McCain and Bush actually are,” Newsweek writes, noting that McCain has visited the Ninth Ward only twice since the storm. “The senator won’t present his own plans for recovery, at least not today.”

via Think Progress

People Say Clay Aiken Came Out On QVC

Monday, QVC took time out from hocking glittery country duck sweatshirts and face creams for cougars on a budget to push closet-spelunking Clay Aiken's new abortion album.

From Towleroad:

Clay Aiken debuted his new CD on QVC Monday night and folks are buzzing that the song he performed, entitled 'The Real Me', was pretty much a cry for help from the closet.

The lyrics:

Foolish heart looks like we’re here again
Same old game of plastic smile
Don’t let anybody in
Hiding my heartache, will this glass house break
How much will they take before I’m empty
Do I let it show, does anybody know?

[Chorus:]
But you see the real me
Hiding in my skin, broken from within
Unveil me completely
I’m loosening my grasp
There’s no need to mask my frailty
Cause you see the real me

Painted on, life is behind a mask
Self-inflicted circus clown
I’m tired of the song and dance
Living a charade, always on parade…

Today's Godtube Moment

Finally, a puppet talking about porn.

Paultard Weirdo To Aid LDS Kid Touchers

Meet Charles Walker. He's gonna take us on a magical tour of his protest area outside the Waco, TX LDS compund where all those bad things happened to kids in the name of Space Jesus. Walker isn't mad at the magic pajama ninja pervs. No, he's mad the governments for taking away the children of the magic pajama ninja pervs.

He even gives his phone number in case you wanted to help...um...bitch about the governemnt and pick up pills on the side of the road?

Here you go, Mrs. McCain: 979-948-3845

Arianna Huffington Banned From NBC

The funny sounding Greek beard is not welcome anymore because of some nasty things she said in her new book about Tim "I know i look like a molester but I'm not" Russert.

From Gawker:

Arianna Huffington has reportedly been BANISHED by NBC news—including MSNBC!—because her new book savagely criticizes NBC political honcho Tim Russert. Keith Kelly reports: "Sources said that Huffington was at a dinner in the home of Barbara Walters on Tuesday night when she heard that word had come down from on high that she no longer appear on NBC or MSNBC, where talk show hosts Keith Olbermann, Joe Scarborough and Dan Abrams were all interested in booking her."

While Huffington is disappointed, it will give her more free time to "catch moose and sqvuirrel."

Truckers March Drive On Washington

Here's a video of yesterday's trucker protest in Washington. They're pretty pissed that gas costs about $1200 a gallon.

They're organizing a trucking shutdown on May 5, which has nothing to do with gas and everything to do with running out of meth because of the high cost of gas.

via BraveNewFilms

But What Does This Have To Do With Rev. Wright?

The NRCC has released the latest in their Totally Awesome Barry the terrorist hates America series.

This time it's against Louisiana democratic congressional candidate Don Cazayoux, who aids and abets Sen. Unicorn and Speaker Sodom in gay liberal terrorist activities which will steal our freedoms. Their radical agenda doesn't quite match up with Lousiana's values.

On Bob Barr

From Sully:

People who believe in limited government, constitutional order and individual freedom still have somewhere to go in this election. If, somehow, the Clintons manage to wrestle the Democratic nomination from Obama, and if McCain really does continue what looks like a morphing into a neocon supply-sider budget-buster, then Barr will increasingly look like an option for a solid protest vote.

Dealing With Rev. Wright. Again

via Sully

Charlie Crist's Kinda Wife

From Americablog:

I am pretty positive this is an accident (x2), but paging through Bloomberg's official White House Correspondents' Dinner afterparty pictures, I found this and this.

In both photos, Crist has his arm around an attractive brunette woman, and the captions read as follows (emphases mine):

Charlie Crist, governor of Florida, right, and his wife attend an afterparty hosted by Bloomberg LP following the White House Correspondents' Association Dinner in Washington, D.C., on Saturday, April 26, 2008.

Charlie Crist, governor of Florida, and his wife arrive for an afterparty hosted by Bloomberg LP following the White House Correspondents' Association Dinner in Washington, D.C., on Saturday, April 26, 2008.

I did a little digging around, and I don't think Crist is married. In fact, contrary to what the Florida press and Charlie's dad have reported, I thought there was a lot of speculation as to whether Governor Crist ever wanted to marry a woman...again. (He was married once before for about a year back in 1979).

However, if there is any truth to the speculation that he's a possible Republican VP candidate, then someone urging him to be seen with an attractive "wife" at this particular juncture wouldn't be entirely far-fetched.

Guess Who Organized The Rev. Wright Appearance At The NPC?

A Hillary supporter:

Shortly before he rose to deliver his rambling, angry, sarcastic remarks at the National Press Club Monday, Wright sat next to, and chatted with, Barbara Reynolds.

A former editorial board member at USA Today, she runs something called Reynolds News Services and teaches ministry at the Howard University School of Divinity. (She is an ordained minister).

It also turns out that Reynolds - introduced Monday as a member of the National Press Club "who organized" the event - is an enthusiastic Hillary Clinton supporter.

On a blog linked to her Web site- www.reynoldsnews.com- Reynolds said in a February post: "My vote for Hillary in the Maryland primary was my way of saying thank you" to Clinton and her husband for the successes of Bill Clinton's presidency.

via NY Daily News

HRC = Judas

There's been a couple of great pieces over the past couple of days on the Human Rights Campaign that points out things I've been saying for years.

Howie Klein gets it:

But what opened my eyes to what HRC has become -- an insider establishment bunch of kiss-asses -- was their endorsement of Holy Joe Lieberman over Ned Lamont in 2006. After I learned more about them, I smashed my award and removed them from my will. HRC is one of those inside the Beltway organizations that has long ago lost sight of its original idealistic mandate. Instead of fighting for gay equality, they fight to win DC status games and to enhance the future career prospects of the top staffers. When it comes to electoral politics, you can almost always expect the worst from them.

This past February their in-house magazine, Equality, prominently featured Republican rubber stamp and fake moderate Susan Collins (R-ME), in a 2 page spread giving the false impression that Collins is a friend of the gay community. One of the more outrageous parts of their interview with Collins is a bit about the Gang of 14. They make it sound like her membership in it should be praised, but that's pretty naive considering that one of the only accomplishments of the gang was to ensure the confirmation of viciously homophobic, right-wing crazies on the federal bench like Janice Rogers Brown, Priscilla Owen, and Bill Pryor. But that's exactly what HRC has turned into -- an organization so concerned with looking "mainstream" and "adult" inside the Beltway, that they will give aid and comfort to people who work against the gay community.


spnj889 at Kos does too:

The Human Rights Campaign (HRC) REFUSES to support Jim Neal, an openly gay candidate in North Carolina running for US Senate. Something fishy seems to be going on. Is the DSCC interfering in a Democratic Primary election?

...Jim Neal, a progressive Democrat in North Carolina, is running to take on Senator Elizabeth Dole. He was the only Democrat running for the nomination until the National Democratic Party found out he was gay. The DSCC freaked, and recruited a Republican-lite candidate named Kay Hagan to run for the nomination (she originally refused to run). Basically, everyone in Washington DC is freaked that there is a openly gay candidate who actually has a shot of winning the Dem nomination on May 6th.

Jim Neal is supported by many here in North Carolina. He's a businessman/investment banker, so he has financial sense. He also is progressive on many issues. He's an amazing speaker in person, and would really put Elizabeth Dole on her toes. Here's what the North Carolina Triangle Independent Newspaper says about Jim Neal...

Anyway, turns out the Human Rights Campaign refuses to endorse Jim Neal for the primary. They endorsed in many Senate races, but not in North Carolina. JIM NEAL IS AN OPENLY GAY CANDIDATE RUNNING FOR ONE OF THE HIGHEST OFFICES IN THE LAND. Also, Jim Neal is all about LGBT equal rights, while his opponent refuses to answer questions about her LGBT views. Why didn't the HRC endorse Jim Neal then? SOMETHING FISHY IS GOING ON. I wonder if the National Dems/DSCC had something to do with it. They have been trying to sink Jim Neal's candidacy from the very start.

...Joe Solomnese, I want my HRC membership dues back. How the hell can HRC not endorse an amazing pragmatic, passionate, progressive, grassroots candidate who is openly gay?

What does everyone else think? I think there is some fishy politics going on here.

Atleast One Bitter Old White Lady Likes Hopey

Juan McCain Dumping Cindy McVicodin For Tween Whore

Realizing you can have a rich wife who is hot and young, Pawpaw called Miley Cyrus to see if she would be interested in being his caretaker.

Gross.

Barry Hussein's MS Friends Hate America

Here's the latest in GOP attack ads. This one is from Republican congressional candidate Greg Davis, who is running against democratic candidate Travis Childers. Childers has been endorsed by St. Barack of Obama, therefore he's a bitter terrorist.

JFK introduced the Civil Rights Act and Travis Childers said nothing.

Penis Shrinkers Arrested

From sexblo.gs:

Police in Congo have arrested 13 suspected sorcerers accused of using black magic to steal or shrink men's penises after a wave of panic and attempted lynchings triggered by the alleged witchcraft.

Reports of so-called penis snatching are not uncommon in West Africa, where belief in traditional religions and witchcraft remains widespread, and where ritual killings to obtain blood or body parts still occur.

Rumours of penis theft began circulating last week in Kinshasa, Democratic Republic of Congo's sprawling capital of some 8 million inhabitants. They quickly dominated radio call-in shows, with listeners advised to beware of fellow passengers in communal taxis wearing gold rings.

Purported victims, 14 of whom were also detained by police, claimed that sorcerers simply touched them to make their genitals shrink or disappear, in what some residents said was an attempt to extort cash with the promise of a cure.

Hillary Will Kick Your Ass, Fag

Hooray! Sen. Thundercunt picked up another endorsement today from North Carolina Gov. Mike Easley. Let's see what he has to say:

Democratic presidential candidate Sen. Hillary Clinton received the endorsement of North Carolina Gov. Mike Easley Tuesday morning in Raleigh, NC. After touring a bio-manufacturing training center, Gov. Easley, First Lady of North Carolina Mary Easley and Clinton held a ceremony at NC State University. The Governor formally expressed his support saying that there was "nothing I love more than a strong powerful woman." Easley concluded his remarks saying Clinton -- "makes Rocky Balboa look like a pansy".

via ABC