Strayhorn (No Tax Exemption For Unitarians) vs. Perry for Texas Governor

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Tuesday January 03, 2006 · 3:32 PM PST

2006/01/03 · 15:32

From the Houston Chronicle:

AUSTIN - Comptroller Carole Keeton Strayhorn, in either a bold stroke or a huge long shot, stepped away from the Republican primary Monday to challenge Gov. Rick Perry as an independent candidate.

No independent candidate has won the Governor's Mansion in the 147 years since it was taken by Sam Houston, a hero of the Texas war for independence and two-time president of the Republic of Texas.

http://www.chron.com/...

Instantly upon hearing her name, I remembered two things about Strayhorn. The first is that she is White House Press Secretary Scott McClellan's mother.

The other was an abuse of power in her office as Texas' Comptroller to deny Unitarians a tax-exempt status. More below the fold... Read More

Unfortunate Ad Placement?

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Tuesday August 09, 2005 · 12:00 PM PDT

2005/08/09 · 12:00

(Something weird going on with my webhost. The rest of my website comes up just fine, but these pictures seem to have been deleted on their end.)

The Tampa Tribune is running an article on Florida Representative Katherine Harris' accusation that some newspapers colorized her photos. Next to the article is a rotating ad. One ad from Cirque du Soleil adds a little extra humor to the story.

http://www.tampatrib.com/FloridaMetro/MGBY1483XBE.html

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DSM: Break the BAT! Help DFA get the word out!

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Friday June 17, 2005 · 5:44 PM PDT

2005/06/17 · 17:44

Help DFA get the word out on the Downing Street Minutes!

Less than $1500 needed to bring the bat to $100,000

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The Bush administration "fixed" the facts leading to Iraq and made virtually no plans for an exit strategy. The American public has been lied to, but you'll hear barely a peep about it on the news. So we asked the DFA community earlier this week to tell us how to make the Downing Street Memo and the Secret UK Eyes Only briefing paper--and their implications--more widely-known.

Thousands of ideas have been submitted so far, and Democracy for America will use the funds raised to spread the word about these two documents. If America's mainstream media isn't going to pick up the story, then we're going to take matters into our own hands. We have the power, right?

Click the link or the graphic above and give that ol' bat a swing!

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Howard Dean visited DFA and blogged!

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Tuesday June 14, 2005 · 5:43 PM PDT

2005/06/14 · 17:43

From http://www.blogforamerica.com

Democrats on the Way Back!
Guess who stopped by Democracy for America headquarters today for lunch?

From Howard Dean:

I just read Renee's blog post from yesterday. First of all, thank you! Second, it's great to see the DFA community still out there and vocal in defense of America and the ideal of American community. Third, thank you for defending me personally. I suppose it is a victory for us when the Vice-President disses your mother (it shows what the Republican leadership's values really are) but it is a disappointment nonetheless.

The real story is that the Democrats are on the way back. At the DNC we are raising money, putting people in the field, learning how to frame the debate, putting together a message as opposed to a list of issues, and setting up a communications apparatus (inspired by the Rapid Response Network) where we can be on the air everywhere with a united message. Most of all, we are fighting back!

more after the break! Read More

Ban Gay Fairy Tales?

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Saturday May 28, 2005 · 1:23 PM PDT

2005/05/28 · 13:23

From the man often credited with bringing us "freedom fries" comes this:

Dubbed the "Parental Empowerment Act," Representative Walter Jones (R) of North Carolina has introduced a bill to, according to Jones' website, "create local parental review boards that will have the authority to review library and classroom-based materials before they are purchased for elementary schools."

In a press release at Jones' website, it states:

Congressman Jones' interest in this legislation was sparked by a situation in Wilmington, NC where parents became concerned that their young children had access to books of adult content without their knowledge or consent. One book in particular, King and King, upset many parents because of its storyline detailing a homosexual marriage between two princes. The parents in Wilmington took their case to the school board where a vote was taken to restrict access to the book in local elementary schools.

More, including the complete text of the bill, after the break... Read More

Senate: Galloway who?

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Sunday May 22, 2005 · 3:56 PM PDT

2005/05/22 · 15:56

In true Orwellian fashion, it appears that the U.S. Senate Committee on Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Permanent Subcommittee on Investigations wants to just forget that the George Galloway appearance even took place.

From the Senate website:

Title: Oil For Influence: How Saddam Used Oil to Reward Politicians Under the United Nations Oil-for-Food Program

...

Panel 2
George Galloway , Member of Parliament for Bethnal Green and Bow , Great Britain
Mr Galloway did not submit a statement

From vnunet.com

Galloway Senate testimony PDF goes AWOL

Evidence 'missing' from Committee website

Iain Thomson, vnunet.com 20 May 2005

The website for the Senate Committee on Homeland Security and Government Affairs has removed testimony from UK MP George Galloway from its website.

All other witness testimonies for the hearings on the Oil for Food scandal are available on the Committee's website in PDF form. But Galloway's testimony is the only document not on the site.

Here's a link to the transcript still online at The Times:

From Times Online UK

Bushus Interruptus

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Friday May 20, 2005 · 2:21 PM PDT

2005/05/20 · 14:21

bushus in·ter·rup·tus
n.
1. Social intercourse deliberately interrupted by withdrawal of the pResident from his leisure time prior to completing evacuation.
2. Removal from office.

Laura Bush is again showing that independent side (yeah, right!)

Regarding the recent failure to interrupt George's bike ride while D.C. was under red alert, Laura had this to say:

"I think he should have been interrupted," Mrs. Bush declared, hastening to add, "but I'm not going to second-guess the Secret Service that were with him."

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20050520/ap_on_re_mi_ea/laura_bush

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The Pet Goat, The Sequel

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Friday May 13, 2005 · 10:33 AM PDT

2005/05/13 · 10:33

It's the protocol, Stupid!

The press conference is almost amusing. The hands-on Commander-in-Chief was kept safely and blissfully unaware of an evacuation, one that included his wife, while he was allowed to finish his bike ride through the Maryland countryside.

More, and a transcript link, after the break... Read More

Tired of gays whining about marriage?

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Sunday May 08, 2005 · 4:59 PM PDT

2005/05/08 · 16:59

Want to do something for the Conservative Cause?

Are you one of those people who believes that being gay is a choice, a product of poor parenting?

CHRIS MATTHEWS: You don`t think it`s nature? You think it`s nurture.

JERRY FALWELL: I don`t think any--I don`t think anybody is born a bank robber or born a hostile left-winger or a hostile right-winger or gay or a promiscuous heterosexual. I think there comes a time in childhood where environment may be a part of it, whatever, teaching, instruction, one chooses, I will do this or that. And that`s why good, godly parenting...

Source: MSNBC Hardball - December 2, 2004

"GOOD, GODLY PARENTING"

Now, this is just the beginnings of a theory, and I'll be the first to admit that I don't have a lot of boring studies to back me up yet, but hear me out.

What is the biggest problem facing Conservatives today? Gay people, right? Now, where do all those gay men and lesbians come from?

My thesis, after the break... Read More

Favorite Quote, Anyone?

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Saturday April 30, 2005 · 12:51 PM PDT

2005/04/30 · 12:51

I've been paying a lot of attention to words lately. There is a lot of wisdom to be found out there, especially with the assistance of the world wide web.

I've found I can be moved to tears more easily these days when the right combination of keystrokes discovers a tender spot within me. I can be inspired to action by that meetup of like-minded syllables, and chuckle when a few choice words playfully bump against each other. I can be enraged by fighting words and soothed by loving ones. The "pen" really is mightier than the sword, even if it comes in the form of a keyboard.

So, I'm asking for your favorite quotes, with attribution when possible. What words have moved you recently? Feel free to tell us why, too.

I have a long list, but if I had to pick just one for now... I guess it would be the one I have in my signature these days, because it reminds me that I don't always have to follow the rules that were made to keep me powerless.

Well-behaved women rarely make history - Laurel Thatcher Ulrich

Vatican: No Gay Jokes Please

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Friday April 22, 2005 · 11:11 PM PDT

2005/04/22 · 23:11

No legal protection. No sex outside marriage. No marriage. We'll call you "objectively disordered" and "an intrinsic moral evil," but we won't be targeting you with jokes, insults or inhumane expressions.

Gee, thanks! Was this really said with a straight face?

The Cardinal went on to argue that the Church does not discriminate against gays, but said they needed help.

"The Church does not accept homosexuals being the target of jokes, insults and inhumane expressions. They are people who deserve all our love, our support and our aid."

Times Online UK Read More

More of Ratzinger in his own words

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Friday April 22, 2005 · 3:24 PM PDT

2005/04/22 · 15:24

Adding to my previous diary, I've found more by Pope Benedict XVI, formerly Cardinal Joseph Ratzinger covering similar topics, such as feminism, contraception, abortion and euthanasia.

On feminism:

"However, so-called feminism is frequently based on the same utilitarian presuppositions as machismo and, far from liberating woman, contributes rather to her enslavement."

"When, in line with the dualism just described, woman denies her own body, considering it simply as an object to be used for acquiring happiness through self-fulfillment, she also denies her own femininity, a properly feminine gift of self and her acceptance of another person, of which motherhood is the most typical sign and the most concrete realization."

"An individualistic type of anthropology, as we have seen, leads one to consider objective truth as inaccessible, freedom as arbitrary, conscience as a tribunal closed in on itself. Such an anthropology leads woman not only to hatred of men, but also to hatred of herself and of her own femininity, and above all, of her own motherhood."

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