Here Is The Big Gay Agenda Revealed! The horrifying secret plot to homo-amplify America!!
We got a nice card from Nhut’s friends Dana and Albert…
Coretta Scott King Dies at 78
By ERRIN HAINES, Associated Press Writer 1 hour, 12 minutes ago
ATLANTA – Coretta Scott King, who turned a life shattered by her husband’s assassination into one devoted to enshrining his legacy of human rights and equality, has died. She was 78.
AP via Yahoo News
Oh, and in case you were wondering, here’s what Mrs. King had to say about gay rights.
not just for women and not just because of his views on abortion rights… but for gays and blacks and everyone who isn’t a white christian.
Alito on His Way to Confirmation
By JESSE J. HOLLAND, Associated Press Writer 1 hour, 31 minutes ago
WASHINGTON – Samuel Anthony Alito Jr., the son of an Italian immigrant and a longtime lawyer, prosecutor and judge, is poised to take his place as the 110th Supreme Court justice behind what is expected to be the most partisan victory for a high court nominee in modern history.
“There is no consensus that he will allow the court to perform its vital role in continuing the march of progress toward justice and equal opportunity,” said Sen. Edward M. Kennedy.
‘Brokeback Mountain’ Gets 8 Oscar Nods
By DAVID GERMAIN
The Associated Press
Tuesday, January 31, 2006; 9:06 AM
BEVERLY HILLS, Calif. — The cowboy love story “Brokeback Mountain” led the Academy Awards field Tuesday with eight nominations, among them best picture and honors for actor Heath Ledger and director Ang Lee.
Al-Zawahri Calls Bush ‘Butcher’ for Attack
By NADIA ABOU EL-MAJD, Associated Press Writer 9 minutes ago
CAIRO, Egypt – Al-Qaida No. 2 Ayman al-Zawahri said in a videotape aired Monday that President Bush was a “butcher” and a “failure” because of a deadly U.S. airstrike in Pakistan targeting the bin Laden deputy, and he threatened a new attack on the United States.
“Butcher of Washington, you are not only defeated and a liar, but also a failure. You are a curse on your own nation and you have brought and will bring them only catastrophes and tragedies,” he said, referring to Bush. “Bush, do you know where I am? I am among the Muslim masses.”
Bungler might be more appropriate than butcher, but failure is right on.
Still wondering if it will ever happen, seems there’s much more unofficial Extreme Blue blogging activity going on. I installed CivicSpace on my home machine, and populated the news aggregator with a few Extreme Blue alumni blogs. Just wondering if there’s any community interest out there…
The Vote Of A Lifetime
Many people seem curious or even skeptical why United States Senators believe it’s so important to take a stand against the confirmation of Samuel Alito to the Supreme Court — why we’re willing to take on a fight that conventional wisdom suggests we will lose.
The reality is simple. We care about the future of our country.
We care about the millions of Americans who expect Congress to stand up and fight for their rights and their freedoms, and we also know that the Supreme Court, again and again, is the battlefield on which those rights and freedoms are decided.
So let’s get this straight. The time to fight is now – before we make the irreversible decision of confirming a new Supreme Court Justice. When you’re talking about the Supreme Court, you don’t live to fight another day. It’s a zero sum game. Once Judge Alito becomes Justice Alito, there’s no turning back the Senate confirmation vote. We don’t get to ‘take a mulligan’ when choosing a Supreme Court Justice. The direction our country takes for the next thirty years is being set now. Will it matter if we speak up after the Supreme Court has granted the executive the right to use torture, or to eavesdrop without warrants? Will it matter if we speak up only after a woman’s right to privacy has been taken away? Will history record what we say after the courthouse door is slammed in the faces of women, minorities, the elderly, the disabled, and the poor? No. History will record what we say and what we do now.
Read the rest of it at the Huffington Post.
Bush picks Abramoff prosecutor for federal judgeship
Democrats wonder about the timing of president’s move
Philip Shenon, Elisabeth Bumiller, New York Times
Friday, January 27, 2006
Washington — The investigation into Jack Abramoff, the disgraced Republican lobbyist, took a provocative new turn Thursday when the Justice Department said the chief prosecutor in the inquiry would step down next week because he had been nominated to a federal judgeship by President Bush.
The prosecutor, Noel Hillman, is chief of the department’s Office of Public Integrity, and the move ends his involvement in an investigation that has reached into the administration as well as into the top ranks of the Republican leadership on Capitol Hill.
Democrats swiftly questioned the move’s timing and called for a special prosecutor as Bush faced a barrage of questions about why he would not make public “grip and grin” photographs of himself with Abramoff. The photographs apparently show Bush and Abramoff smiling at White House Hanukkah parties and Republican fundraising receptions.
Promote the guy before he does any more damage…
Pension worry piles pressure on American consumers
By Alister Bull 27 minutes ago
WASHINGTON (Reuters) – Americans banking on a comfortable retirement got a rude reminder this month that generous traditional pensions are vanishing, a shock that added to such worries as stagnant wages and rising health costs.
In the early days of 2006, International Business Machines Corp. (NYSE:IBM), Sprint Nextel Corp. (NYSE:S) and Alcoa Inc. (NYSE:AA) froze long-standing defined benefit pension plans, affecting thousands of American workers and probably prompting millions more to reexamine their retirement finances.
Pension concerns may be the last straw for free-spending U.S. households that have been a mainstay of the economy since the 2001 recession, particularly with wages refusing to budge, costly health care and a cooling housing market.
“There is no question that these are trends that are going to add to people’s anxiety and the process has already started,” said David Rosenberg, chief North American economist at Merrill Lynch in New York.
Experts expect other firms, facing baby boomer retirees and heavy pension costs, will follow suit.
Defined benefit plans that guarantee a set amount at retirement are being replaced with less generous defined contribution plans and 401(k) tax-deferred savings plans that hand employees the risk of investing for their golden years.
The Pension Benefit Guaranty Corp., a quasi-government agency that insures corporate pension plans, said late last month that one in ten of all defined benefit pension plans in the country had now been frozen.
All this could spell the end to fat retirement benefits once taken for granted by U.S. workers and may act as a wake-up call to spendthrift consumers — forcing them to start saving, with serious implications for growth.
Reuters via Yahoo
Mr. Abramoff’s Meetings, Again
Saturday, January 28, 2006; Page A20
IF A TYPICAL picture is worth a thousand words, a picture of President Bush with Jack Abramoff, we suppose, might be worth about 10,000. And so we understand the desire of our more visually inclined colleagues to obtain photos of the president and the criminal. But the focus on the photos distracts from a more important question that the president managed to duck in his news conference Thursday: Who in the White House and administration met with Mr. Abramoff, and what were those meetings about?
It is no answer to this question to say, as Mr. Bush did, that “there is a serious investigation going on by federal prosecutors” and “if they believe something was done inappropriately in the White House, they’ll come and look, and they’re welcome to do so.” It is no answer to dismiss questions about Mr. Abramoff and the White House, as press secretary Scott McClellan has, by calling them a “fishing expedition.” If there is one thing that is now clear, anything involving Mr. Abramoff is, by definition, fishy.
Post-Katrina Promises Unfulfilled
On the Gulf Coast, Federal Recovery Effort Makes Halting Progress
By Spencer S. Hsu
Washington Post Staff Writer
Saturday, January 28, 2006; Page A01
Nearly five months after Hurricane Katrina swamped New Orleans, President Bush’s lofty promises to rebuild the Gulf Coast have been frustrated by bureaucratic failures and competing priorities, a review of events since the hurricane shows.
While the administration can claim some clear progress, Bush’s ringing call from New Orleans’s Jackson Square on Sept. 15 to “do what it takes” to make the city rise from the waters has not been matched by action, critics at multiple levels of government say, resulting in a record that is largely incomplete as Bush heads into next week’s State of the Union address.
That’s what happens when the government is more of a PR machine than a government. You get photo ops and press releases, but real results are hard to come by. Heck of a job, Bushie.
Pharmacists Sue Over Birth Control Policy
25 minutes ago
EDWARDSVILLE, Ill. – Four pharmacists who refused to sign a pledge promising to dispense the morning-after birth-control pill sued Walgreen drug stores Friday, alleging they were illegally fired.
A new state rule requires pharmacies that sell federally approved contraceptives to fill prescriptions for emergency birth control “without delay” if they have the medication in stock. The rule is being challenged in federal court.
In response to the rule, Deerfield-based Walgreen asked pharmacists to pledge in writing that they would fill prescriptions for contraceptives such as the morning-after pill. The plaintiffs were suspended indefinitely without pay when they refused to sign the pledge in November.
Walgreen spokesman Michael Polzin said the company needed to ensure that its stores would comply with the new regulations regarding the dispensing of emergency contraceptives.
“We are required to follow the law. We don’t have a choice in the matter,” he said.
Isn’t it a pharmacist’s job to fill prescriptions? After how many years of school, and suddenly, you have a problem with that?
Coulter Jokes Justice Should Be Poisoned
Fri Jan 27, 12:10 PM ET
LITTLE ROCK, Ark. – Conservative commentator Ann Coulter, speaking at a traditionally black college, joked that Justice John Paul Stevens should be poisoned.
Coulter had told the Philander Smith College audience Thursday that more conservative justices were needed on the Supreme Court to change the current law on abortion. Stevens is one of the court’s most liberal members.
“We need somebody to put rat poisoning in Justice Stevens’ creme brulee,” Coulter said.
GOP to force Federal Marriage Amendment vote in 2006
Melissa McEwan
Published: January 27, 2006
A Republican effort to ban gay marriage nationwide will be returned to the Senate floor in 2006, RAW STORY has learned.
The Marriage Protection Amendment was originally introduced by Marilyn Musgrave (R-CO) in 2003, and leveraged as a wedge issue by the GOP during the 2004 election cycle as a way of mobilizing its base to vote against same-sex marriage.
Senator Wayne Allard (R-CO), a co-sponsor of the 2005 joint resolution, has confirmed that Senate Majority leader Bill Frist (R- TN) will attempt to bring the controversial legislation to the floor this year for a full vote.
Washington state passes gay civil rights bill
Sexual orientation to be included in housing discrimination law
Updated: 4:02 p.m. ET Jan. 27, 2006
OLYMPIA, Wash. – A gay civil rights measure passed the state Senate on Friday, a major victory for gay rights activists who have watched the measure fail in the Legislature for nearly 30 years.
The bill passed on a 25-23 vote, with a lone Republican joining majority Democrats.
The measure adds “sexual orientation” to a state law that bans discrimination in housing, employment and insurance. Sixteen states have passed similar laws for gays and lesbians; six of those states have passed laws for transgendered people.
I was at a career fair at the University of Wisconsin this week, looking for interns for this summer’s Extreme Blue program. Being out of the office makes for a lot more to do when I get back…
I just watched his pathetic performance at his press conference where he tried to justify his domestic spying program and stonewalling investigators with the lamest of rambling excuses.
Bush: Bin Laden Should Be Taken Seriously
By NEDRA PICKLER, Associated Press Writer 15 minutes ago
FORT MEADE, Md. – President Bush, defending the government’s secret surveillance program, said Wednesday that Americans should take Osama bin Laden seriously when he says he’s going to attack again.
