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Sunday, June 3, 2007

Under Fire On Patrol - Baghdad, Iraq.

Saturday, June 2, 2007

WHAT I MISSED.net: Paris' Music Career Over?

WHAT I MISSED.net: Paris' Music Career Over?:

"Paris Hilton has been dropped by her record label after her CD was a
flop. Paris' record label reportable forked over $250,000 for her 'Stars Are
Blind' video (below); and are upset with her CD selling less than 500,000
copies. Warner Brothers released this statement, 'We are not expecting any new
Paris Hilton material in the foreseeable future.' "

She gave it a try and it looks like it didn't work. There may be music deals with other companies in the future of course.

Oh and good luck in jail by the way Paris.

TV Squad Daily with Brigitte: 06-01-2007

Hannity Forgets He Doesn't Believe In Hillary Bashing

O'Reilly Blames TB man on "Secular Progressive" Boogeyman

Pentagon launches more witch hunts of Iraq war critics - AMERICAblog: A great nation deserves the truth

Pentagon launches more witch hunts of Iraq war critics - AMERICAblog: A great nation deserves the truth:

"In this case, they're going after an Iraq war vet for wearing camouflage
fatigues during a mock patrol protesting the war that took place in DC in March.
Wearing camo? Funny that the Bush administration uses active and former
military, in uniform, at practically every political event they hold, but the
Pentagon has no problem when it's the Republicans using our troops for political
purposes.

Remember when Colorado Republican House member Marilyn
Musgrave had active-duty troops in uniform at a political event during her
re-election? I didn't hear about those service members being in trouble.
Remember when Bush did it in the White House a few months back (see photo at
left), he had a whole crew of folks in uniform behind him at a terribly
political event mean to bash Democrats over the war. The presence of uniformed
American military at an event meant to declare Democrats unsupportive of our
military implies that the military brass believes that Democrats are
unsupportive of the military. That's a huge declaration for a country in which
the military is supposed to be subservient to the political leadership, and not
the other way around. Not a word about any of them facing charges either. The
simple fact is that there are two standards of law in America (that's a
violation of Equal Protection under the Constitution). One for Bush and company
and one for the rest of us. And our military leaders have been just as corrupted
by politics as the rest of the administration."

Not only do I not believe that either party has the moral high ground to talk about supporting the troops. I think that this constant battle back and forth between the two parties makes them a pawn in the political system. If you support the troops then bring them home, has some truth to it. It is true that if the war were over the number of troops dying would stop. If you support the troops support the battle that they gave or are risking their lives for. This also has some truth. Ideally we would never have to send our young men to die in war. However we do not live in an ideal world and this debate about how to support the troops is a back door attempt to attack the war on one hand. On the other it is a back door attempt to attack those who oppose the war. When both sides are using the backdoor for its coming and goings how is the American public supposed to understand what is going on in Iraq.

"Terror" Plot Disrupted By Law Enforcement, Again [Oliver Willis: Like Kryptonite To Stupid]

"Terror" Plot Disrupted By Law Enforcement, Again [Oliver Willis: Like Kryptonite To Stupid]:

"Four men have been charged with conspiring to attack John F. Kennedy
International Airport by planting explosives to blow up jet fuel supply tanks
and a pipeline, officials said.
Homeland Security sources said there is no
current threat at the airport and that the attack as planned was 'not
technically feasible.'"

Before this gets ugly, I want to say that if lives have been saved and those who would commit attacks against innocent civilians are arrested - this is good news.

eHarmony sued for anti-gay discrimination - AMERICAblog: A great nation deserves the truth

eHarmony sued for anti-gay discrimination - AMERICAblog: A great nation deserves the truth:

" The online dating service was founded by an evangelical and had close early
ties to the lead religious right activist organization Focus on the Family. And
now they're being sued for excluding gays. I suspect the suit is based on local
public accommodations laws, which include sexual orientation in numerous places
around the country (i.e., you aren't allowed to turn away customers just because
they're black, women, etc.) I remember when we were taking on Sandals, the
previously virulently anti-gay Caribbean resort. An ACLU lawyer at the time told
me that they could potentially be held liable under a public accommodations suit
in any city in which they seek customers so long as the city (or state) includes
sexual orientation in its public accommodations law. And I can't wait for the
evangelicals to try to argue that their dating service is really a church."

I support gay rights, but that also means I support their right to form their own dating services online. Forcing yourself into a service that doesn't want you seems just silly. What is the result they are after, are they after a monetary gain, if so how are they going to show damages. If they are after forcing the site to open itself to gays, gays would be entering a site that was unfriendly to their being there. I am not going to argue that this is a church, but it is more like a social group. Does the government have the right to force membership in a social group.

Form your own site, they lose your money and you get a site that is actually concerned about gays. Even if the site allows gays on to it, no one can make the site care abut gays and their special concerns.