Rahm Emanuel Is Just Raking In Your Taxpayer Dollars
- Over 100 White House staffers make more than $100,000 per year, in order to keep themselves well-stocked in dijon mustard and arugla. That’s not quite as many as in the Bush administration, but still, who does this Obama guy think he is? Don’t worry too much, though, because some White House staffers are still poors (PDF), like the rest of us. (CNN/White House)
- Your US Marines launched a major new offensive against the Taliban in Afghanistan yesterday. Wait, Taliban? We’re still fighting those guys? I thought “Mission Accomplished,” and all that. And which one’s “Afghanistan” again? Are they the ones with the WMDs? (BBC)
- What is up with North Korea, man? Here they were having these nice talks with South Korea about industry, or something, when all of the sudden the North just shoots some missiles into the water because why not? Seriously, North Korea, enough with the shooting missiles at things all of the time, already! (Voice of America)
- Congratulations, gays! It is no longer a crime for you to exist in India! Fort Worth, Texas, not so much, but India is okay. Baby steps, people! (AFP/Fort Worth Star-Telegram)
- At a healthcare town hall in Virginia, President Obama took a question from a woman who has cancer but doesn’t have a job or health insurance. He called her “Exhibit A” for why we need healthcare reform, but he did not cure her cancer with his superpowers! Why haven’t you cured cancer with magic, Mr. President? (NECN)
7/2/09 9:06 am | | Permalink | Tags: Afghanistan, Barack Obama, cancer, Fort Worth, healthcare, India, LGBT rights, North Korea, public option, South Korea, Taliban, White House
A Question for Law Enforcement
Why is it a waste of money to prosecute Mark Sanford under a South Carolina statute criminalizing adultery but the Fort Worth PD’s gay bar raid was okay?
If this country is going to prosecute morality, shouldn’t we at least be consistent about it?
6/30/09 12:47 pm | | Permalink | Tags: Fort Worth, LGBT rights, Mark Sanford, South Carolina
Well, if you squint when you look at the “5″ it kinda looks like a “9″…
- Conservatives who oppose Sonia Sotomayor’s nomination to the Supreme Court Conservatives have a new talking point today, that all nine Supreme Court justices disagreed with Sotomayor’s ruling in the firefighter discrimination case! Like many right-wing talking points, this is false, since four justices actually agreed with the second circuit’s ruling. Of course, facts and numbers are both known to have a liberal bias. (TPMDC)
- On the anniversary of the Stonewall Riots, which began 40 years ago when New York police raided a gay bar in Greenwich Village, your Fort Worth Police Department raided a gay bar, for funsies. Seven men for arrested for “public intoxication”–or in other words, for having been drinking in a bar. Apparently officers were concerned that the gays might be a danger to others because of their gayness, which you can totally get from touching a gay, y’know. (Washington Blade)
- American Heroes FOX News, on their wingnut gathering website “The FOX Nation,” reported a satirical blog post as fact. And this is different from what FOX News does on a regular basis… how? (The FOX Nation)
- In 2009, the city of Venice now has its first female gondolier ever. All the men didn’t think she could do it, but she figured, “Hey, if I can push two children from my uterus into the world, this can’t be that much more difficult.” And she was right. (Some Australian paper, because what does America care about women and/or other parts of the world?)
- There is a John Edwards sex tape in existence, the end. (New York Daily News)
6/29/09 2:03 pm | | Permalink | Tags: Fort Worth, FOX News, John Edwards, LGBT rights, Sonia Sotomayor, Stonewall Riots, Venice
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