I Didn't Say It ....

Newt Gingrich, thrice-married, serial adulterer, switching it up on marriage equality:

"It is in every family. It is in every community. The momentum is clearly now in the direction in finding some way to ... accommodate and deal with reality. And the reality is going to be that in a number of American states -- and it will be more after 2014 -- gay relationships will be legal, period."

How nice that Mister-Marry-A-Woman-Cheat-On-Her-She-Gets-Cancer-I-File-For-Dovorce-Marry-The-Mistress- She-Gets-Cancer-I-File-For-Divorce-Marry-The-Mistress has decided that maybe The Gays do deserve to treat marriage like the bottom of their shoes, too.

Henry Rollins, on being an LGBT-ally:

"I appreciate and admire the day-to-day courage of the gay people I have encountered in the music world and elsewhere. I have never been put in the position of having to "stand up" for my heterosexuality. I am on the biggest possible team and it's always the home game for me. The Westboro Baptist Church's god doesn't hate me and I have lived life with an incredible amount of mobility and a low level of fear and tribulation. On the other hand, gay in Wyoming? That's some Bruce Lee Enter the Dragon highlight-reel action. I am not a religious person, but I will say that music is at least a way to live my life, it instructs me to adhere to a certain code of conduct. If I am digging music from all over the world, performed by males and females, gay and straight, then I am screwed on the prejudice front."

Understanding and equality set to music.
Thanks Henry.

Kyle Kacal, Texas GOP congressman, on what's more dangerous than guns:

"I've heard of people being killed playing ping-pong -- ping-pongs are more dangerous than guns. Flat-screen TVs are injuring more kids today than anything."

More dangerous than ping-pong balls and flat-screen TVS are politicians like Kyle Kacal, who is obviously in the pocket of the NRA.

Pope Benny, on how being gay is against God, in his annual Christmas message:

"People dispute the idea that they have a nature, given to them by their bodily identity, that serves as a defining element of the human being. They deny their nature and decide that it is not something previously given to them, but that they make it for themselves. The manipulation of nature, which we deplore today where our environment is concerned, now becomes man's fundamental choice where he himself is concerned. When freedom to be creative becomes the freedom to create oneself, then necessarily the Maker himself is denied and ultimately man too is stripped of his dignity as a creature of God"

Isn’t it interesting that, while speaking about God, he can so easily tell a portion of the world that we are unworthy?

He’s not so F%$&ing Christ-like, is he?

Barney Frank, on homophobe and bigot Antonin Scalia:

"I was glad that he made clear what’s been obvious, that he’s just a flat out bigot. I’d previously said he was a homophobe. And Fox and the rightwing said, ‘Oh just because he’s not for same-sex marriage? And I said, ‘No, let me be very clear. That’s not it. This is a man who has said you should go to prison for having sex.’ It was an extraordinarily abusive sentiment and it was dead wrong. And, by the way, for a guy who is supposed to be so smart -- quite stupid. This young man said to him, ‘Why do you compare sodomy to murder?’ And he said, ‘Well because I have a right to say if I think something is immoral.’ Well the question wasn’t about his right. The question was, By what morality is expressing your love for someone in a physical way equivalent to killing that person? It makes it clear that the man is an unreconstructed bigot, and given that you have a bigot on the Supreme Court like that, it is useful to know."

I am seriously gonna miss Barney Frank, and hope the rumors that he’ll take John Kerry’s Senate seat when Kerry becomes Secretary of State, are true.

We need Barney in government.

Bradlee Dean, hate group leader, saying Barack Obama is responsible for the Newtown murders:

"The Sandy Hook shooting occurred just days after Sen. Rand Paul sent out an alert that the U.N. was set to pass the final version of the Small Arms Treaty, supported by Obama the day after election. Part of the treaty bans the trade, sale and ownership of all semi-automatic weapons like the one Adam Lanza used to kill 20 children and 6 adults. When the 'fire' is started, these government gun banners are right there to strip away your rights in an attempt to gain control under the guise of 'putting out the fire.' Adolf Hitler was responsible for attacking his own Reichstag to start a world war. Hitler was also responsible for sending his brownshirts to incite the people so he could play the role of solving their problems. No one believed Hitler was guilty of these crimes until after the fact. Then it was too late."

So, because Obama wants to halt the sale and ownership of ASSAULT weapons, he’s Hitler?

Bradlee Dean, a man who never met logic.

Tagg Romney, on his father and the presidency:

“He wanted to be president less than anyone I’ve met in my life. He had no desire to . . . run. If he could have found someone else to take his place . . . he would have been ecstatic to step aside. He is a very private person who loves his family deeply and wants to be with them, but he has deep faith in God and he loves his country, but he doesn’t love the attention."

Oh, Tagg, sit down.

If your father didn’t want to be president he wouldn’t have run.

If your father didn’t think he should have been president he would have drafted a concession speech just in case.

If your father didn’t want to be president, we wouldn’t have heard a single story about how devastated he was that he lost.

He lost. Tagg. Don’t rewrite history. The majority of voters in this country did not want your father to be president. Ever.

Gareth Thomas, out rugby and fitness star, on coming out to his dad: 

"My family were amazing - once it was taken in, my dad, who is a very tough man, sat me down at home with the family; he opened a bottle of champagne and said 'this is a toast to the rest of your life son.' It was overwhelming, and my family as a whole have been superb."

I remember my dad, when I came out, saying, “I love you very much.”

I wish all coming out stories could have happy endings like mine and Gareth’s.

Ron Paul, surely angering his Teabaggin' followers, on NRA head Wayne LaPierre's call for armed guards in every public school:

"Do we really want to live in a world of police checkpoints, surveillance cameras, metal detectors, X-ray scanners, and warrantless physical searches? We see this culture in our airports: witness the shabby spectacle of once proud, happy Americans shuffling through long lines while uniformed TSA agents bark orders. This is the world of government provided “security,” a world far too many Americans now seem to accept or even endorse. School shootings, no matter how horrific, do not justify creating an Orwellian surveillance state in America."

Funny, the Teabaggers want less government, but when you talk guns, they demand more government action to protect their, ahem, rights to bear arms.

Ron Paul's Convention Chaos: The Veep Slot

An obscure rule change made four years ago by the GOP has opened the door for Ron Paul supporters to cause a ruckus for Mittsy when he tries to nominate his vice presidential choice at the Republican National Convention this August.

Now, the GOP still has time to change Rule 40, but in doing so it would make them seem like they were forcing Mittsy's pick through the nomination and, well, chaos could ensue.

Ron Paul fans, and there are many--and they control the majority of delegates in Maine, Minnesota and Iowa, with large contingents in other states--might just decide to enter Paul's name into nomination for vice president. This would result in a roll call vote and each delegate from each state would be polled on the floor for his or her vote.

Chaos, I tell ya! Chaos!

Now, the result of this roll call vote would simply result in more time being spent on the process--rather than shoving Mittsy's choice down the delegates throats--but it might shake up the GOP in term's of party unity and kind of give Mittsy's fall campaign a bit of a swift kick to the nether regions.

Fun stuff.

And it would also open the door for alternatives to Mittsy's choice to step forward, maybe gain a little support and just throw the whole GOP shebang into a brouhaha.

Emphasis on the ha ha.

See, it's like this: say Mittsy chose Ohio Senator Rob Portman as his Veep choice, but the Ron Paulette's used their rather sizable foothold in several states to nominate Paul from the floor. Well, then maybe other delegates might throw someone like Florida Senator Marco Rubio into the mix and that would put Rubio, Paul and Portman onto the ballot and a clusterf**k would ensue..

And that's some reality TV worth watching. A GOP implosion as the party splinters and tries to right itself.

for more on Ron Paul Power read THIS.

As Joe My God Says: "Infighting Is Fun!"

In what can only be seen as a revolt against eventual nominee Mittsy Romney, some 40 additional Republican National Convention [RNC] delegates have asked to join 123 previous plaintiffs in a lawsuit against the RNC, and their attorney said hundreds more may soon follow suit.

The first 123 delegates, all from the 9th Circuit, sued the RNC, Chairman Rince Priebus, and every state party chairman in the 9th Circuit in Federal Court on Monday, demanding the right to vote for the candidate of their choice on every ballot at the Republican National Convention, including the first.

Meaning they are the Not-Romneys.

These delegates say that the RNC violated federal law by forcing them to sign loyalty affidavits, under threat of perjury, to vote for Mitt Romney, though he is not yet the official nominee. And they are also claiming that state party chairmen are fixing elections at state conventions and changing ballots so that all votes cast count for Romney.

Huh? What? Huh? The GOP fixing elections? How very 2000 of them.

"When nominating someone for a federal office, all delegates must be free to vote their conscience," says Richard Gilbert, attorney for the delegates. "They don't want to be bound to any candidate, or even be forced to vote for the nominee...To have a real convention, the delegates must have free will so that when they meet, they can persuade each other and then decide who to vote for."

Gilbert goes on to add that the public is unaware that the GOP is rigging elections and committing voting fraud--well, some of the public is unaware--but he says he has more than 100 signed affidavits from delegates to support these allegations: "Some campaigns act like organized crime syndicates--and I mean organized crime, no doubt about it. In Arizona, the voting machines were rigged so that Ron Paul votes were counted as Mitt Romney votes. It was so intentional that a Romney delegate refused to certify the vote count, and for that he got thrown off the convention."
The delegates' complaint states that the RNC has threatened violence against those who don't support Romney, and had men in dark clothing come to conventions and physically remove people who refuse to vote for him.

Again, sounds very GOP to me.

"I have nothing against Romney's politics, it's his behavior," Gilbert said. "He's the one who chose to run his campaign based on intimidation and violate federal law...It's really serious,[p]eople don't realize that delegates aren't chosen on the Tuesday primaries like they think.
"For example, Ron Paul got 16 of the 19 delegates in Massachusetts, which is a pretty serious vote of no-confidence in Romney from his own state, but I know that my friends and family aren't aware of this."
Gilbert wants this case heard as soon as possible so that all rightfully elected delegates are seated at the National Convention in August, and are free to vote for the candidate of their choice. However, no hearing dates have been set because more than 100 defendants need to be served. 

And, if the case is heard, well then, the Republican National Convention could become the biggest hot mess since, well, I can't even think of a bigger, hotter mess. Legally, the case may hinge on whether the judge accepts the plaintiffs' claim that the nominating convention is a "federal" election. Courts have traditionally given the two major political parties considerable leeway in managing their own affairs,

But, Gilbert says if the judge rules the delegates' favor, "I won't be surprised if three or four new candidates, say Sarah Palin, jump in and say they want to be considered."

Oh, this could get ugly.

And good.

And good and ugly.

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Ladies and Gentle-Ladies, Your GOP Anti-Gay Presidential Candidates:

I can't help myself, because this sums up the GOP perfectly.

The GOP presidential candidates echoed and re-echoed their anti-gay marriage sentiments loud and clear in Iowa last week. And even though nearly every single poll out there shows that the majority of Americans  support marriage equality. Only former Utah Governor Jon Huntsman distinguished himself for his support of civil unions--which is still not good enough.

MITT ROMNEY: Marriage is a status. It’s not an activity that goes on within the walls of a state and as a result, our marriage status relationship should be constant across the country. I believe we should have a federal amendment to the Constitution that defines marriage as a relationship between a man and a woman.

JON HUNTSMAN: I also believe in civil unions, because I believe this nation can do a better job when it comes to equality and I believe we can do a better job when it comes to reciprocal beneficiary rights rights.

RON PAUL: I think marriages should be between a single man and a single woman and that the federal government shouldn’t be involved.

RICK SANTORUM: It sounds to me like Rep. Paul would say that polygamous marriages are okay.

MICHELE BACHMANN: I support the federal marriage amendment…and as president I would not nominate activist judges who would legislate from the bench.










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