MINISTER OF RANTS

THIS JUST IN - MARY CHENEY'S BABY HAS TWO MOMMIES! FIRST PHOTO...

Here is the first photo of Heather & Mary and Infant Suri.


Thanks to Wonkette who wondered if there might be a gay shotgun wedding courtesy of Mary's trigger-happy daddy. Who knows what might the Dicky do?

Shouldn't these women get married for the sake of the baby?!

STATE ISSUES IN OHIO: YES, NO, NO, YES...

Issue 2:
Free-market fundies claim the minimum wage is counterproductive. OK. Then why don't they dump it. Wipe it from the books! F*ck the working poor! If it weren't for their wages and benefits there'd be higher profits...

Seriously, the studies show a lot of things - but they show that raising the minimum wage to keep up with inflation helps the working poor. It's true that it doesn't impact favorably on the bottom line for bidnesses. Oh, well.

Issue 3:
Absolutely NO! I FAVOR casino gambling in Ohio

- not just at racetracks and in a couple of predetermined big city locations in northeastern Ohio. As for the money for college tuitions thing, there are better ways to provide a plan that would be beneficial to future students. I strongly object to such a narrow, poorly-worded statute being engraved in the State Constitution.  

Issue 4:
Smoke Less?! NO! Don't blow smoke in my face and I won't FART, OK?

Issue 5:
Vote YES! We can’t repeat this too often. Most voters are clueless tools. Tuesday, in Ohio, vote YES on Issue 5 – to clear the air in EVERY saloon & restaurant, OK? Vote NO on Issue 4! If Issue 4 gets a simple majority of YES votes it supersedes Issue 5 – and Issue 4’s a freakin’ CONSTITUTIONAL AMENDMENT that’ll leave us chokin’ on toxic fumes ‘til they cart us off to a hospice! NO on Issue 4 – got it?!

And to those SMOKERS who called me a “pussy” for speakin’ up for the rights of the REST of us to be protected from the noxious, carcinogenic byproducts of YOUR self-indulgent addiction in places where we eat, drink and work:

Hey, Marlboro Stud – remember - Anyone can give up smoking - but it takes a real man to face cancer!

SOS! EVERY VOTE COUNTS. ELECT SECRETARIES OF STATE WHO WILL SEE THAT EVERY VOTE IS COUNTED!

According to the Secretary of State Project (SOS) -

If Katherine Harris had not been the secretary of state in Florida, Al Gore would have been elected president. If Ken Blackwell had not been secretary of state in Ohio, John Kerry might be president today.

Click here to read the Report commissioned by John Conyers, Jr., the ranking Democrat on the U.S. House Judiciary Committee, on what went wrong in Ohio.

In most states, secretaries of state run elections: they set the rules for voter registration, election administration, and counting the votes. Why do we allow Republican partisans to control the casting and counting of our ballots?

Da Pagan Baby & I had to stand in line for hours to vote in 2004 in Fairborn – in a predominately WHITE precinct. The real horror stories were in large urban precincts and university areas where some college students had to stand in the rain for nine hours!

The cornerstone of American democracy, the right to vote, was obstructed and compromised in Ohio in 2004. The election was stolen. I believe Ohio can run a fair election.

The local county Boards of Elections deserve strong leadership in a Secretary of State. Americans believe in Jennifer Brunner

Two words - – Ken Hackwell: if you umpire a game, you don’t wear the jersey of one of the teams

From Fitrakis & Wasserman:

The GOP engine of vote theft is built primarily on two pillars:

First is the massive disenfranchisement of mostly urban Democrats, including millions of people of color.  Second is the simultaneous inflation of mostly rural and suburban Republican votes, including the mythological influx of "last-minute evangelicals" who may well exist primarily in the memory cards of rigged electronic machines.

IN OHIO: Democrat Jennifer Brunner is in a dead heat with Bush/Cheney crony Greg Hartmann. Hartmann, who moved to Ohio just seven years ago, is the son of Robin Hartmann, the lawyer who helped clear legal obstacles for Dick Cheney in 2000 and enabled him to join George W. Bush's ticket as Vice President. Robin Hartmann is a crony of Bush's personal lawyer Harriet Miers and was put forth by the White House as a talking head to defend her failed nomination to the Supreme Court.

VIDEO: RICHARD DAWKINS QUESTIONS TED HAGGARD...

VIDEO!!

Richard Dawkins Questions Evangelical Pastor

POP GOES THE PENTACOSTAL POOFTER PASTOR! What did God tell Ted Haggard?!

HAGGARD SURFED THE WEB FOR DATES USING HIS MIDDLE NAME...

An associate pastor at New Life Church in Colorado Springs, Colorado said Friday morning that there's "some truth" to allegations made this week against the Rev. Ted Haggard, founder and senior pastor of the 14,000-member church. A Denver man on Wednesday alleged that he was paid for sex during a three-year relationship with Haggard and that he saw Haggard use methamphetamine…

One night about 1 a.m., he was watching late-night TV. He went to the kitchen. He poured a bowl of Cheerios. Suddenly, the Lord called him to become a pastor. "It was so vivid it arrested me," Haggard said. "It wasn't a thought. It was a vivid, dramatic encounter."

Haggard said he didn't hear a voice. When God talks to him, it's a quiet whisper in his head. He gets an idea, and he knows it's not his. He's had visions -- of angels in Africa, for example. He said he senses them sometimes, "sees them in his spirit."

Hmmm... I wonder if God ever tried to get his ear during those 3-hour once-a-month Meth & Hot Sex sessions with Denver resident Mike Jones, a prostitute...

He said he saw demons hovering over newborn babies at a hospital, waiting to instill in them negative character traits such as hatred, greed, drug use and masturbation…

Da Rev can't wait to see the movie! It ain't gon' be no "Tobacco Road", though. Ted Haggard built a megachurch, raked in big buck$, and had weekly advisory sessions with God's Own Dubya! These hillbillies have all their teeth (capped) and hobnob with wealth & power.

Jones claimed to have two voice mail messages and a letter from Haggard, which he released to KUSA. The television station hired Richard Sanders, a voice identification expert from the University of Denver, to compare the voice mail messages with samples of Haggard’s voice. MSNBC reported Friday morning - the voice on the messages has been matched with Haggard’s.

Ted Haggard has said he sees things other people don't. He's seen "angels and demons and blood on his hands". Sometimes, he sees things before they happen. I'll bet he didn't see his ignominious outing coming at the WORST possible time for the fundangelicals and their hostage political party...



POLITICAL IMPLICATIONS?

Ted Haggard was entrenched in conservative Christianism, which IS political (in the way Islamism is political)! Haggard not only helped drive the agenda for the Religous Reich in Washington, DC - he was actively involved locally in anti-abortion efforts. In next Tuesday's election there are TWO initiatives on the Colorado ballot:

1) Extends some rights to GLBT individuals;
2) Constitutional Amendment to Define Marriage, blah, blah, blah...

Haggard had been campaigning for the anti-gay amendment.

There are two groups who should be angry:

1) The people who were damaged or discriminated against because of this pastor's zealous exclusionist preaching;
2) The people who followed this pastor's preaching against people who were doing what he, too, was doing - SECRETLY - in out-of-town motel rooms.

YUP -  You know it's politically significant when James Dobson is falling all over himself to say it's all the media's fault.

JESUS got himself all washed, oiled and perfumed for the party only to discover to his disappointment that some dummy invited girls, too.

THE DNC MIGHT DO WELL TO HIRE EFFETE CONSERVATIVE ICON BILL BUCKLEY AS A CONSULTANT... PLUS - GIVE JOHN KERRY A CUP O' STFU 'TIL AFTER THE 2006 ELECTION, PLEASE!

"The Democratic platform of (2004) did not even go so far as to call for pulling back immediately on our missent forces from Iraq. And on the broader question of our continued reliance on militarism, the Democrats did not call for the rejection of the military. No, they actually called for a stronger military."
[William F. Buckley discussing the Democrats’ inadequate response to the Iraq war in his “final speech on public affairs” at the Yale Political Union].

Yeah, don't think we didn't notice. We somehow ended up with John F. Kerry heading our ticket, remember? Then and now, I wonder at the incongruity of a seemingly bright, educated, serious man of broad and deep experience, and a freakin' WAR HERO, can express himself in such rambling, wonkish soliloquys as to induce mass narcohypnosis across the land. Unfortunately, there are always a few alert operatives from the opposition who manage to stay awake and catch him when he misspeaks.

Kerry is woefully awkward when speaking off-the-cuff. Remember "I voted for the war before I voted against it"? Or... was it the other way around? It doesn't matter. When considered alongside the unanswered shitstorm of charges from  so-called Swift Boaters, Kerry managed to come up short in a race he should have won. To be fair, Kerry lost by a whisker - and Ohio's electoral votes were probably hijacked by Sec'y. of State & Bush Ohio Campaign Chair Ken Hackwell.
I have said that I'm glad Kerry lost in 2004. As bad as things are under the Texass Dauphin, at least the Dems appear to be poised to take back the House, and they're threatening to serve up either a Dem Senate or one that's 50-50. Does ANYONE think that in the first 2 years of a Kerry administration, the pendulum would be swinging so decisively TOWARD the Dems? Sheeeit! We were So lucky Kerry didn't get the presidency!

Kerry's "botched joke" against President Bush's incompetent prosecution of the Iraq war - and that's ALL it was - should, mercifully, for the Senator, his family, and all the rest of us, should turn out to be the final nail in the coffin in which his presidential ambitions reside. As Imus told him during a televised phone call Thursday morning on MSNBC, "Quit talking now! Go windsurfing! Ride your bike. Don't say any more about it!"

Imus extracted a promise from Kerry that he would NOT campaign in Tennessee for Harold Ford, Jr., an Imus fave...

 

THE MAN WHO WOULD BE GOVERNOR OF FLORIDA PANDERS TO THE HOMOPHOBIC FUNDANGELICALS - EVEN AS HE BOINKS A CRIMINAL THIEF & FORGER! CHARLIE CRIST IS JEB'S HAND-PICKED SUCCESSOR...

From Broward/Palm Beach.com (EXCERPT)

A videotaped sworn statement has surfaced that bolsters the contention that Florida Attorney General and Republican gubernatorial candidate Charlie Crist had a recent romantic relationship with a convicted felon and former travel aide to U.S. Rep. Katherine Harris.

...21-year-old GOP staffer Jason Wetherington had claimed to credible sources that he had a sexual relationship with the 50-year-old Crist and had identified the frontrunner's "long-term partner" as Bruce Carlton Jordan, who remains on state probation after serving a 30-day jail sentence for a conviction on grand theft and forgery charges.

Crist has repeatedly denied that he is gay and, with the election looming next week, has recently become more vocal in his stance against adoption by gay couples and in support of an amendment to the U.S. Constitution to ban gay marriage.

Crist's campaign spokeswoman, Vivian Myrtetus, responded:

"Wild, false rumors like this one are a sad commentary on the politics of personal destruction which is so hurtful to the political process... This is a completely false story from a convicted felon."

Evidence, however, is piling up that he and Jordan, whom the GOP candidate claims not to remember ever having met, had a relationship and that his Republican opponent Tom Gallagher knew about it prior to the September 5 primary vote.

Much of the information surrounding the relationship came, unwittingly and somewhat ironically, from the Harris U.S. Senate campaign, where Jordan worked as the congresswoman's personal travel aide not long after his release from jail in February.

It was while he was employed in that capacity that another traveler on the Harris campaign, Dee Dee Hall, befriended him. In a videotaped statement... Hall swears that Jordan confided to her that he had an ongoing romantic relationship with Crist.

(Hall's boyfriend Jay Vass was a pilot known for flying Republican bigwigs around the state. Vass gave his own sworn statement, also stating that Jordan on numerous occasions spoke openly of his relationship with Crist.)

Click to view VIDEO HERE!

ARE ALL RETHUGLICKIN’ OFFICIALS & THEIR OPS CLOSETED GAYS?!

This just in from Wayne Madsen ! !

November 2, 2006 - With less than a week before the election and amid Virginia Senator George Allen's commitment to an amendment to the Virginia Bill of Rights banning state recognition of civil unions or domestic partnerships for hetero- and homosexual couples, comes additional chatter about the large number of open and closeted male homosexuals working in top positions in Allen's Senate office. Allen is described by Capitol Hill insiders as having a relationship with one of his gay Senate staffers that is "closer" than his relationship with his wife Susan.

Allen's closeted homosexuality has long been the subject of interest ever since his time as Governor of Virginia. Allen, according to informed sources in Richmond, was a frequent visitor to private clubs in the state capital that catered to gay clients. The rumors about Allen dogged him from Richmond to Washington, especially after it became well known that Allen's DC hiring practices favored young gay men. Allen was also one of three U.S. Senators who received contributions from Rep. Mark Foley, who resigned after soliciting sex from underage male pages. The other two are Rick Santorum and Jim Talent.

The closeted homosexuality of Allen as an issue of hypocrisy of top GOP leaders is sure to affect turnout and support by Christian fundamentalists in downstate Virginia, thus boosting the chances of Democratic candidate Jim Webb.

 

Similar allegations of hypocrisy also surround Florida gubernatorial candidate Charlie Crist, Pennsylvania Rep. Phil English, California Rep. David Dreier, North Carolina Rep. Patrick McHenry, Louisiana Rep. Jim McCrery, California Rep. Dana Rohrabacher, Idaho Senator Larry Craig, and Utah Senator Orrin Hatch.

Hmmm... No WONDER, George Felix Allen's ops strongly denounced the heterosexual sex-laden novels of challenger Jim Webb.

Hmmm... George Felix Allen's upbringing included frequent contact with macho, raucous, hulking, lumbering, members of his Dad's sports franchise with the racially-insensitive team name - the Washington  Redskins...

BLOGGIN' THE SCANDALS... THE LIST: CLOSETED PUBLIC OFFICIALS...

Investigative Reporter Mike Rogers has been outing hypocritical gay Reupugs who pander to the homophobic Religious Reich. Blogging HERE - Rogers asserts his purpose:

To educate not just gays and lesbians about these homophobes, but to educate the greater electorate at large...

Mike Rogers has a record that speaks for itself. His scrupulous accuracy in reporting is evident, since his facts have never been successfully refuted. Here's the list of closeted public officials from his website - it's, you know, DEVELOPING:

NAMING THE CLOSETED POLITICOS! 

US Representatives
Rep. Ed Schrock (VA)
Rep. David Drier (CA)
Rep. James McCrery (LA)
Rep. Mark Foley (FL)

US Senators
Sen Barbara Mikulski (MD)
Sen. Larry Craig (ID)

Senior GOP Staff
Jay Timmons, NRSC
Dan Gurley, RNC
Jay Banning, RNC

Senior Senate Staffers
Robert Traynham, Santorum
Jonathan Tolman, Inhofe
Kirk Fordham, Martinez
Dirk Smith, Lott
John Reid, Allen
Paul Unger, Allen
Linus Catignani, Frist

Senior House Staffers
Jim Conzelman, Oxley
Lee Cohen, Hart
Robert O'Conner, King
Pete Meachum, Brown-Waite

Bush Staff
Israel Hernandez
Jeff Berkowitz

Local Officials
Vincent Gentile, NYC

Uncle Tom Armstrong Williams

The rest...
Ed Koch, Switched to Repugs - former NYC Mayor
Jennifer Helms-Knox, Judge
Armstrong Williams, Radio host
Matt Drudge, Headline writer
Steve Kreseski, MD Gov.
Chip DiPaula, MD Gov.
Lee LaHaye, CWA
John Schlafley, Eagle Forum (Phyllis's Kid!)

WAKE UP, AMERICANS!!

 

"I want you to go to the window, open it, stick your head out and yell: 'I'm as mad as hell, and I'm not going to take this anymore.'"

[Howard Beale (Peter Finch), Network, the movie...]

Better yet, turn LEFT at the next election...