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December 10, 2005

The Washington Post:

The 48-year-old man turned down a job because he feared that a co-worker would be gay. He was upset that gay culture was becoming mainstream and blamed most of his personal, professional and emotional problems on the gay and lesbian movement.

These fixations preoccupied him every day. Articles in magazines about gays made him agitated. He confessed that his fears had left him socially isolated and unemployed for years: A recovering alcoholic, the man even avoided 12-step meetings out of fear he might encounter a gay person.

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Mental health practitioners say they regularly confront extreme forms of racism, homophobia and other prejudice in the course of therapy, and that some patients are disabled by these beliefs. As doctors increasingly weigh the effects of race and culture on mental illness, some are asking whether pathological bias ought to be an official psychiatric diagnosis....

Duh. Of course it's a mental illness.

12:20 PM | Comments (0) | Posted By Bob Cesca

December 06, 2005

This is a classic, must-watch clip from Fox News in which panelist Neil Gabler lets fly all over FNC for fabricating this ridiculous "war on Christmas" bullshit.

Watch.

11:00 AM | Comments (0) | Posted By Bob Cesca

December 05, 2005

Hillary R. Clinton, the great prevaricator, is at it again:

Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton is supporting new legislation to criminalize desecration of the United States flag _ though she still opposes a constitutional ban on flag attacks.

Clinton, D-N.Y., has agreed to co-sponsor a measure by Republican Sen. Bob Bennett of Utah, which has been written in hopes of surviving any constitutional challenge following a 2003 Supreme Court ruling on the subject.

Man, my six-year old could figure out that pretty much every legislative decision and public statement Hillary makes is engineered to make her a "viable" candidate for 2008. And it's precisely that utterly heartless, indefatigably cagey strategy that makes her precisely wrong for 2008 (or any year, for that matter).

Hillary is like the Terminator. Not Arnold. The character. She has a mission, and, like an indestructible robot from the future, she will not stop until she has completed her task, and she will not let anything like morals or consistancy or the lives of American soldiers get in her way.

I'm to the left of most Democrats, so naturally I think having a woman president would be a hell of a lot better than having a man. I base that not only on the fact that women have proportionally larger brains than men, that they are physically more robust and live longer, but on the fact that they are mothers, life-bringers, nurturers. That they excel at talking to others, that they enjoy networking, that they thrive on compromise. Of course, I'm making generalizations. Anne Coulter doesn't fit this description. And neither, I'm afraid to say, does Hillary.

But it doesn't matter what an uber-leftie like me thinks. Look at any of the Daily Kos straw polls: Hillary is consistently ranked in the bottom three choices. And those are rank-and-file Dems. And then, of course, there are the millions of Americans who absolutely hate her. I mean hate. I've talked to a lot of these people. Some of them are my cousins. And, of course, their hatred is unjustified and based on a lot of hate-rhetoric from Limbaugh and Fox News and the GOP.

And now journalist and labor activist Jonathan Tasini is making a primary run for her seat in NY. He's not just running against Hillary. As he writes on the Huff Post:

It is also meant as a direct challenge to the entire Democratic Party, which has an opportunity to capture large swaths of the voting public -- if it has a spine, an authentic message and the courage to offer something besides an agenda that is Republican-lite. The growing numbers of people who oppose the war in Iraq and are calling for its end are Democrats, Republicans and Independents. They are people throughout New York State who don't want their loved ones killed, and their government throwing away hundreds of billions on an immoral war.

My question to Hillary: if you can't stop being the Terminator, can you at least be the Terminator 2?

11:54 PM | Comments (0) | Posted By John Christian Plummer

It's comforting to know that the Ford Motor's Company's track record of making short-sighted decisions continues unbroken.

It's not bad enough that Ford repeatedly turns it back on engineering innovation, on fuel economy, on alternative fuel technology, on the environment, and, most recently, on its blue-collar workforce. No, now Ford is turning its back -- or perhaps giving the finger is a more apt metaphor -- to Gay America.

That's right: if you're gay, Ford doesn't want to sell cars to you. And that includes the Jags and the Range Rovers they make. The Advocate explains:

The antigay American Family Association claimed a cultural victory on Thursday and called off its threatened boycott of Ford Motor Co. On Friday, Ford spokesman Mike Moran confirmed to Advocate.com that the company will stop advertising its Jaguar and Land Rover brands in gay publications but insisted it was strictly a business decision.

[snip]

Threatened with a boycott by the Mississippi-based AFA, Ford and some of its dealers agreed to negotiate, and the AFA announced in June that it would hold off on its planned action. On Thursday, AFA announced the boycott would be canceled altogether.

"They've heard our concerns; they are acting on our concerns. We are pleased with where we are," said Donald Wildmon, AFA’s chairman, in a statement. "Obviously there are still some small matters of difference, as people will always have, but generally speaking, we are pleased with the results—and therefore the boycott that had been suspended [is] now officially ended."

Read the rest here.

Why is Ford making such a bone-headed choice (not only ethically bone-headed, but financially, too. I mean, alienating a group of disposable-income people who are extremely well-informed and well-organized is just bad business.)? They're doing it simply because they got scared by a boycott from a bunch of people who hate homosexuals for being...themselves.

Man, what the hell is wrong with people?!? I mean, REALLY. It's nearly 2006, and this is the USA, and we have organized groups to force companies to effectively gay-bash?! How many years has Will & Grace been on the air? How long ago did Ellen come out? Ellen shills for Amex, for crying out loud!

Ford is officially living in the dark ages. How many years before there is no more American auto industry? If this is the way they run their companies, I'd say way too many.

But it's not just Ford and this latest nonsense. It's the whole "gay marriage debate." Why is it a debate?! How many times do we have to hear about the "gay marriage debate" before we realize how similar it sounds to the "miscegenation issue" or the "integration debate" or the "slavery question"? Who in their right mind would debate in favor of violating someone's right to marry the person they love? The same kind of person who would argue against inter-race marriages and for segregation and slavery before it. In other words, someone who doesn't mind violating the human rights of another human being.

Ford and the AFA and all the homophobic and racist yahoos out there have got to get their heads around something: homosexuality is not going to go away. But Ford and the AFA are.

11:25 PM | Comments (0) | Posted By John Christian Plummer