..And then there's the Fox that isn't so ..."Smart".

From dKos:

Monday morning on "Fox and Friends" they decided to create some humor by having an office intern go looking for a video clip of the "Lincoln - Douglas" debates. (In case you're history is really rusty, that would be Abraham Lincoln and Stephen Douglas - see photo at the right.) What they ended up on the screen was a side-by-side photo of Abraham Lincoln and Fredrick Douglass, of the famed American abolitionist.

You can check it out yourself here...



Those are some smart folks over there at Fox, don't you think?!?

To make matters worse; one of their mooks was sent over to interview The Village Idiot in front of the White House. Not being able to chew gum and walk at the same time, the mook referenced the Oval Office as "the round room up there"...



Got them some smart ones over there at Fox, don't you think?!?

EnK

Lesbians being sued by ... Lesbians!

From AP News via Yahoo:

--Nicholas Paphitis

A Greek court has been asked to draw the line between the natives of the Aegean Sea island of Lesbos and the world's gay women.

Three islanders from Lesbos --”home of the ancient poet Sappho, who praised love between women--” have taken a gay rights group to court for using the word lesbian in its name.

One of the plaintiffs said Wednesday that the name of the association, Homosexual and Lesbian Community of Greece, "insults the identity" of the people of Lesbos, who are also known as Lesbians.

"My sister can't say she is a Lesbian," said Dimitris Lambrou. "Our geographical designation has been usurped by certain ladies who have no connection whatsoever with Lesbos," he said.

The three plaintiffs are seeking to have the group barred from using "lesbian" in its name and filed a lawsuit on April 10. The other two plaintiffs are women.

Also called Mytilene, after its capital, Lesbos is famed as the birthplace of Sappho. The island is a favored holiday destination for gay women, particularly the lyric poet's reputed home town of Eressos.

"This is not an aggressive act against gay women," Lambrou said. "Let them visit Lesbos and get married and whatever they like. We just want (the group) to remove the word lesbian from their title."

He said the plaintiffs targeted the group because it is the only officially registered gay group in Greece to use the word lesbian in its name. The case will be heard in an Athens court on June 10.

Sappho lived from the late 7th to the early 6th century B.C. and is considered one of the greatest poets of antiquity. Many of her poems, written in the first person and intended to be accompanied by music, contain passionate references to love for other women.

Lambrou said the word lesbian has only been linked with gay women in the past few decades. "But we have been Lesbians for thousands of years," said Lambrou, who publishes a small magazine on ancient Greek religion and technology that frequently criticizes the Christian Church.

Very little is known of Sappho's life. According to some ancient accounts, she was an aristocrat who married a rich merchant and had a daughter with him.
One tradition says that she killed herself by jumping off a cliff over an unhappy love affair.

Lambrou says Sappho was not gay. "But even if we assume she was, how can 250,000 people of Lesbian descent — including women — be considered homosexual?"

The Homosexual and Lesbian Community of Greece could not be reached for comment.

Nice! What a bunch of jerks....

As a Minnesotan, I don't like being a "mud duck". But I don't think those Chedderheads from Wisconsin are gonna stop calling me that anytime soon....

EnK

Governor Charlie Crist gets a wife: Nobody knew..

I found this amusing out of Americablog: Governor Crist is married?! For anybody not up to date with their politics, Charlie Crist is one of the GOP's most popular gay allegedly gay politicians. From Express Gay News 10/06:

Max Linn, the Reform Party candidate for governor, went on an Orlando radio show in September and blurted it out loud: He said he would “swear on a stack of Bibles that Crist is gay.” Linn followed up that appearance by going on WFTL radio on Oct. 11, National Coming Out Day, and urging Crist to come out of the closet.

But in January 05, then Attorney General Crist was on a talk-radio show in Miami where he tripped all over himself with the "gay debate" by saying:

When the single 48-year-old was asked, "Are you a homo?" by the announcer, Crist responded, "No, man. No. I love women. I mean, they're wonderful,'' before going on to suggest that he's very blessed for having, uh, something special that helps him to attract the opposite sex.

Crist left the radio station and then called from his cell phone only moments later to double-check and clarify that he really truly was not gay...

And then there's that weird Gay Republican story about Jason Wetherington who claims to have carried a long term relationship with both Charlie Crist and Mark Foley

Nothing weirdly wrong with any of that...really. To clarify, Charlie Crist was actually married once; for seven months. But now he's governor of Florida and he's on the short-list for John McCain's Pick of the Veep slot and he's gotta "Hetero It Up" a wee-bit. Enter Governor Crist and his "new" beard wife..."Whats-Her-Name" at last weekend's White House Correspondents Dinner after-party photos:

Photo Shot #1:

Charlie Crist, governor of Florida, right, and his wife attend an afterparty hosted by Bloomberg LP following the White House Correspondents' Association Dinner in Washington, D.C., on Saturday, April 26, 2008.

Photo Shot #2:

Charlie Crist, governor of Florida, and his wife arrive for an afterparty hosted by Bloomberg LP following the White House Correspondents' Association Dinner in Washington, D.C., on Saturday, April 26, 2008.

This is what we need in an election! We can always hope the Republicans win in November and we'll have catapulted the first Gay Man into the Vice President's seat in American history.

EnK

Kinky crop circles or more Larry Craig shenanigans?

Just when you thought the self-loathing homophobia would stop for the folks in Idaho, something else...err... "Pops up".

A giant sized crop-circle has appeared on the front lawn of the governors' mansion in Boise, Idaho sometime last summer. Grounds keepers have tried everything including covering it up with a huge tarp hoping to kill all the grass around it, but nothing works. The giant-sized penis will not fade away.

From Right Wing Pundits:

Seeing as how its Idaho, they still haven’t fixed it. Now, I really don’t know that much about Idaho, but it seems like most places would have called in the national guard to get a penis off the governors property! Especially a 60 foot penis erected right on a main highway in plain sight for everyone to see. But in Idaho they said something like, ‘Well, the snow will cover it over the winter and we’ll fix it next spring’. Something like that. I understand their reasoning behind the cold, but in this case it didn’t shrink the penis because it was still there waiting pop right back out as soon as the snow melted.

In their defense, the grounds keepers just can’t seem to beat the giant penis. They tried to cover it with a tarp for a while. Before the tarp they tried to replant the grass in the penile area, but the new green grass in the outline of the penis just made it stand out more. That’s when the tarp went over it. Then the snow did cover it so they didn’t worry about it over the winter. But now that its spring the big ol’ penis is getting on everybody’s nerves. The neighbors are complaining. You know how neighbors can be.

So the Idahoans have decided to do something about the giant penis now that its has been pointing the way to the governor’s mansion for almost a year. I really think they wanted everybody to get a chance to see it before it was taken away. You know, like snow sculptures.

Idaho authorities are blaming it on teenagers. It IS pretty sophomoric so it could have been teens. It could be a way too obvious attempt to make up for feelings of inadequacy on the part of whoever put it there. I don’t think it was that though because Senator Larry Craig was in the restroom at the time. I’m opting for aliens myself. This is too similar to the crop circles to be a coincidence.

US Senator Larry Craig's office could not be reached for comment. However, it appears to be new understanding what Senator Craig meant when he said he had a "wide stance".

EnK

McCain: Women are uneducated and untrained

Senator John McCain, desperately trying to sound like the dumbest candidate running for President, has slipped into it again. This time he's fired up women's groups everywhere demanding an apology for sexist comments he's made in relation to Lilly Ledetter Fair Play Act. From my own emailbox:

Dear EnK,
This week our members hit the phones to call on their senators to enact the Lilly Ledbetter Fair Pay Act. On Wednesday, we came close but fell three senators short of the 60 necessary to force a vote.

As disappointed as I was by the result, I was even more upset when I came across a news report regarding the reaction of Senator John McCain, who failed even to show up for the vote.

McCain said the gap between the pay of women and men in this country isn't due to discrimination. Women just need more "education and training" to earn as much as men.

Tell Senator McCain that what women need is equal justice under the law.

Lilly Ledbetter worked 19 years at Goodyear before she learned the men at her level were earning far more for the same work. She sued, and stood up for inequality by taking her case all the way to the Supreme Court—where five male justices ruled her claim invalid because she filed it more than 180 days after the discrimination started. Now, Senator McCain is blocking a vote on legislation to correct this injustice—and in the process, he seems willing to roll back 50 years of women's rights.

Sign our petition asking Senator McCain to take back his sexist statements and stop blocking this crucial vote.

Another vote will be called soon, possibly within days. If we can stop senators like John McCain from blocking a vote on the Lilly Ledbetter Fair Pay Act, the bill, which has already passed the House, will surely pass the Senate as well. I'm asking all my friends to stand up for the rights of women in the workplace. I hope you will, too.

Signed by CREEDO's CEO herself!

I think Senator McCain represents the female voters of Arizona well don't you? He's essentially explained that the women in his state are untrained and uneducated, so why should they get equal pay? And he's absolutely right! Why should employers pay their employees for what they're not trained in doing? If they're uneducated, they shouldn't get the same pay as those who got their education. And the same goes for our legislators; if you can't represent your district with the respect they deserve, then you shouldn't get paid for the time you're up there "representin'!"

EnK

Oil and Gas: Bring it all into Minnesota Politics

On the 18th of April, House Minority Leader Marty Seifert has drummed up a brilliant political plan for the GOP. Pissed off that the Minnesota DFL managed to over-ride the (Republican) Governor's veto on a $.02 gas tax increase, he decided to drag the issue directly to the Minnesota citizens: At the gas pump.

A gasoline stations with small 10" video monitors turn on automatically once the pump is turned on. Currently, local meteorologists will do a quick run of the weather followed by a news anchor giving the customer a run-down of the news highlights. With the gasoline prices that are skyrocketing by thirty and forty cents, Representative Seiftert has added a fifteen second video that notes the high priced gasoline is because of the DFL's tax increase. The video allegedly will include naming each DFL representatives who voted for the measure.

Nasty, don't you think? Typical Republican: Don't blame corporate greed for high gas prices, blame the Democrats for a $.02/gallon gas tax!

...And to think; they were actually pissed off when the Dems blamed them for the I-35W Bridge collapse!

Now the DFL has come out against the GOP: Senator Norm Coleman.


EnK

3 Trillion Dollar Shopping Spree

EnK

Michael Moore: Not going to vote for Hillary, I guess!

In a piece titled: My Vote's for Obama (if I could vote) ...
Michael Moore has posted a rather vapid piece on his website that puts the "urge" in the word scourge.

Moore throws a rant like I've rarely seen aimed directly at Hillary Clinton for an unusual moment in last week's debates in Philadelphia. I heard it as well and I'm sure others did too. She runs a list of names of people of "ill repute" and points to Obama's associations with them and among the list, she included Louis Farrakhan's name. Odd, because there is no association between the two men aside from their ethnicity. And this is what brings on the scourge.

Moore states:

Well, that sounded good last year, but over the past two months, the actions and words of Hillary Clinton have gone from being merely disappointing to downright disgusting. I guess the debate last week was the final straw. I've watched Senator Clinton and her husband play this game of appealing to the worst side of white people, but last Wednesday, when she hurled the name "Farrakhan" out of nowhere, well that's when the silly season came to an early end for me. She said the "F" word to scare white people, pure and simple. Of course, Obama has no connection to Farrakhan. But, according to Senator Clinton, Obama's pastor does -- AND the "church bulletin" once included a Los Angeles Times op-ed from some guy with Hamas! No, not the church bulletin!

This sleazy attempt to smear Obama was brilliantly explained the following night by Stephen Colbert. He pointed out that if Obama is supported by Ted Kennedy, who is Catholic, and the Catholic Church is led by a Pope who was in the Hitler Youth, that can mean only one thing: OBAMA LOVES HITLER!

Moore then goes on in for the jugular:

Yes, Senator Clinton, that's how you sounded. Like you were nuts. Like you were a bigot stoking the fires of stupidity. How sad that I would ever have to write those words about you. You have devoted your life to good causes and good deeds. And now to throw it all away for an office you can't win unless you smear the black man so much that the superdelegates cry "Uncle (Tom)" and give it all to you.

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How sad for a country that wanted to see the first woman elected to the White House. That day will come -- but it won't be you. We'll have to wait for the current Democratic governor of Kansas to run in 2016 (you read it here first!).

After a short amount of time discussing subjects like "electability" and Clinton's vote for the Iraq War, Moore finishes with:

But the question I keep hearing is... 'can he win? Can he win in November?' In the distance we hear the siren of the death train called the Straight Talk Express. We know it's possible to hear the words "President McCain" on January 20th. We know there are still many Americans who will never vote for a black man. Hillary knows it, too. She's counting on it.

I can't say I disagree with him. Clinton's tactic is right out of Jesse Helms' playbook when he ran against Harvey Gantt in 1990. I helped the Gantt Campaign and it was run like a well oiled machine. Up to about three weeks before the voters went to the ballot, Jesse Helms ran television ads of retouched photos of Gantt's skin color with fear mongering insinuations that a black man couldn't be trusted as a US Senator.

EnK

The DNC has released their first television ad of the Presidential season. It's a 30-second short listening to McCain sounding positive about the country while showing negative stats related to unemployment, inflation, gas prices and the economy.

Clean, nice... I like it! It's going to be a slug-fest for the GOP.

EnK