Archive for March, 2010
Support our soldiers! Ask Obama to pardon Choi and Pietrangelo at PardonOurSoldiers.com
Friday, March 19th, 2010Our soldiers would give their lives for us, and it doesn’t matter if they are gay or straight. Yesterday, two brave men, Lt. Dan Choi and Capt. Jim Pietrangelo protested the US Military’s practice of Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell, the discriminatory practice of throwing gay and lesbian soldiers out of the armed forces. [...]
How to put half a million people to work, RIGHT NOW
Thursday, March 18th, 2010Face it. Unemployment is insane at over 10%. We need to do something about it, and we need to do it fast, or else Sarah Palin will be telling Barack Obama in 2012, “It’s the economy, stupid”. Wow. Wouldn’t that be ironic.
In Oregon, where the ProudLiberal is, as well as in New Jersey, we have [...]
We must be our own fierce advocate, because to everyone else, we are just props
Thursday, March 18th, 2010Remember during the 2008 election, when Senator Barack Obama said that he would be a “fierce advocate” for the GLBT community? Fast forward a few months, when President Obama’s administration defended DOMA, the Defense of Marriage Act, and equated gay marriage to pedophilia and incest.
Remember the 1992 election, when Governor Clinton became one of the [...]
CNN is trying to out-FOX FOX
Wednesday, March 17th, 2010There is an uproar brewing about CNN, and it’s just getting uglier and uglier.
Seems that CNN is trying to do something about it’s ratings. Let’s see now, who has higher ratings than CNN? Why, that would be FOX News, right? So what does CNN do? They announce proudly that they are hiring Redstate.com founder – [...]
A tale of two headlines
Tuesday, March 16th, 2010Okay, so it’s more than two headlines. It’s the concept of two different headlines for the same basic story, with VERY different undertones. But it’s the headline that gets you going, and gets you into the story, which is all the more reason that this has been bugging me all day long.
I use Yahoo!’s “My [...]
Unemployement benefits and the big “FU!”
Wednesday, March 3rd, 2010Like many Americans, I have been watching the Senate wrangle with the issue of unemployment benefits, and the detestable act that Kentucky Senator Bunning has committed in denying benefits be continued. Then I watched as Senator John Kyl of Arizona, the number two Republican in the Senate, call people that got unemployment benefits “lazy”. This [...]
