A city councilman in Fort Worth, Texas, has rocketed into cyberspace prominence in a video pleading with gay teens not to commit suicide and tearfully recounting his own ordeals as a bullied schoolboy. (Oct. 15)
Continue reading …NBC’s Todd Asserts ‘Weaker’ Tea Party Nominees Give Democrats ‘Fighting Chance’ to Hold Senate
October 16, 2010 No Comment
NBC's Chuck Todd conceded “the Tea Party has been helpful to the GOP in both re-branding the party away from Bush and giving it a real grassroots component,” but he insisted, “this Tea Party influence in Republican primaries has put a number of Senate seats in play for Democrats that at this point should be out of reach.” “The bottom line,” Todd declared on Friday's NBC Nightly News in a likely preview of the latest iteration of the news media's bi-annual “Republicans candidates were too far to the right” line: Because of weaker Tea Party nominees , Democrats have a fighting chance in Delaware, Kentucky, Colorado, yes, Nevada, and even Alaska. Without the Tea Party, all five of those races would be in the bank right now and the Senate majority would definitely be in the Republican sights. read more
Continue reading …There’s something curious about this : Attorney General Eric Holder says the federal government will enforce its marijuana laws in California even if voters next month make the state the first in the nation to legalize the drug. The Justice Department strongly opposes California’s Proposition 19 and remains firmly committed to enforcing the federal Controlled Substances Act in all states, Holder wrote in a letter to former chiefs of the U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration. The Associated Press obtained a copy of the letter, dated Wednesday. “We will vigorously enforce the CSA against those individuals and organizations that possess, manufacture or distribute marijuana for recreational use, even if such activities are permitted under state law,” Holder wrote. What I find curious is that Obama and his minions basically told states with medical marijuana laws, like California, that they would not seek to enforce those laws.
Continue reading …CNN: ‘Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell’ an ‘Unjust’ Policy; Gays Have ‘Right to Fight’
October 16, 2010 No Comment
On Friday's Newsroom, CNN's Ali Velshi channeled the homosexual lobby's disappointment with the Obama administration's defense of the military's “don't ask, don't tell” policy: ” This unjust policy has gone on far too long in America .” Velshi also stated that homosexuals ” have a right to serve. They have a right to fight .” The anchor criticized the Justice Department's appeal of a federal judge's Tuesday injunction halting the military from enforcing the 17-year-old policy during his regular “XYZ” commentary. After giving a brief on the judge's ruling and the Obama administration's Thursday appeal, Velshi outlined his opposition to”don't ask, don't tell:” VELSHI: Justice delayed is not necessarily justice denied in this case, but it is justice delayed. I t's time to end 'don't ask, don't tell' now. This unjust policy has gone on far too long in America . Countries around the world allow gay troops to serve openly and just because a policy has been deemed constitutional in the past doesn't actually mean it's good policy and it certainly doesn't mean it's right . read more
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Although doctors are at odds about when a fetus can feel pain during development, it’s an issue that could change the way abortions are regulated in the US A new controversial law in Nebraska bans abortions after 20 weeks of pregnancy. (Oct. 15)
Continue reading …Iowahawk has another brilliant piece that I can’t possibly begin to explain here.
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Hidden treasures (Photo: Orin Zebest via Flickr) As yesterday’s post on using lead swabs for safer thrifting may have gotten you guessing, the terms ” thrifting ” and ” thrifter ” are used to describe those who shop (sometimes exclusively) at thrift stores, flea markets, garage sales and charity shops. (Note that there is apparently a difference between thr… Read the full story on TreeHugger
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Image: NASA, GISS And the heat keeps on coming. The records continue to be met or broken, and what was last month announced to be the hottest January-August period in the global temperature record has moved on to become the hottest January-September ever measured. But don’t take it from me — take it from NASA. … Read the full story on TreeHugger
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