November 19, 2008

Does this mean that Prez-elect Obama is NOT an al-Qaeda operative?

AFP photo
Images of President-elect Barack Obama and slain civil rights leader Malcolm X, seemingly comparing the two, hang in Harlem, New York. Al-Qaeda’s No. 2 boss says that Malcolm X and Barack Obama are cut from different cloth, however.
The Associated Press reports that al-Qaeda’s No. 2 boss has called President-elect Barack Obama a “house slave” (or “house [...]

November 19, 2008

‘Homosexual’ as a dirty word

You know what, homo-haters?
Just go ahead and call us gay men and lesbians “faggot” or “queer” or “butt fucker” or “carpet muncher” or the like.
You know why?
Because at least that’s more honest about your feelings.
The homo-hating wingnuts have taken to using the word “homosexual” as a pejorative. They think the venomous ideas that they espouse sound less [...]

November 19, 2008

2008 blue state-red state map finalized

Associated Press graphic (Nov. 6, 2008)
Less red now than in 2004, but still too much red…
So the 2008 presidential election results for the final state, Missouri, were called today. (Missouri is shown in gray in the graphic above because at that time its results were still up in the air.) Unsurprisingly, Repugnican John McInsane won Missouri, but [...]

November 19, 2008

Quote of the week

“I think a lot of people realize that the amount of [pro-Proposition 8] fundraising done by Mormons was well out of proportion to the electorate. I love my church, but don’t agree with them on this.”
– Joyce Bradshaw, whom the Sacramento Bee describes as a Mormon pediatrician in Auburn, Calif.,  who donated $1,000 to the No on [...]