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Sign Iranian LGBT Freedom Petition

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Even if our American gay “rights” organizations are too busy with being fronts for the Democratic Party agenda, we can do our part to stop this from happening again.

We Support the Iranian Gay and Lesbian Community
We the undersigned declare that:
1. Iranian gay men and lesbians are suffering persecution in Iran and we demand that they be granted freedom and legal protection by the ruling government;
2. Iranian gay men and lesbians live under a homophobic regime in Iran;
3. According to the Islamic penal code, homosexuality is punishable by lashing, torture, harassment, persecution, and death;
4. Iranian gay men and lesbians have no legal rights in their home country and deserve the legal and political protection of outside governments and organizations;
By signing this petition, we state our support for the freedom and legal protection of gays and lesbians in Iran.

SIGN THE PETITION

Music City, USA — Nashville

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My rump has found itself in Nashville for the next few days for a conference.

But it is a horrible weather day here — rainy & chilly… pretty much like the DC area yesterday. There is supposed to be an opening reception at the Grand Ole Opry tonight, but I sure hope it isn’t outside.
Perhaps the most jarring experience I’ve had in the first few hours of my Nashville trip was listening to “The Wolf , 95.5” — Nashville’s contemporary country station. First of all, those of you not familiar with the history of radio probably won’t care, but WSM was one of our nation’s first AM broadcast radio stations. WSM was also the anchor for the old radio programs broadcast from the Grand Ole Opry. So it seems kind of cheap to have “re-labeled” this historic station — “The Wolf.” Ugh. (Okay, it is the FM station….but still.)
But I was most disturbed by the voice of the Sunday afternoon DJ on The Wolf today — Karen Keeley. Imagine being in the heart of Country Music and hearing a thick British-accented DJ introducing songs from Tim McGraw and Kenny Chesney. It was like BBC America had invaded Country Music Television. Just darn creepy, I tell ya.
Anyway, howdeeeeeeeee to y’all from Nashville.

If there are any GP readers in the area, drop me an email hello!
-Bruce (GayPatriot)

Yeah, I’m Still Alive.

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I figured I should post *something* so everyone knows I’m okay. I guess I’m still “recovering” from a pinched nerve in my back/neck that happened about a week ago. Now there was some pain! Whew. Anyway, after a few days of moving up from percoset to vicodan, I’m now back to naproxyn. Can’t hang onto those Schedule II drugs for long or ya get hooked. I don’t think it is in my chemistry to become a drug addict anyway, but hey, I don’t need to find out.
There is still some numbness in my fingers and a sporadic, “achy” pain down my left arm… but nothing like the P-A-I-N of the pinched nerve.
Anyway, I just took the week off from life last week. No work, no blog, no nothing. But as of Sunday I’m back trudging through airports and doing what I do… including mouthing off as “GayPatriot”. Heh heh.
One final thought on this Saturday night. I wanted to thank the hosts of the wonderful party in suburban DC last evening. It was a great gathering of conservative gays and their friends. I joked with PatriotPartner that we had finally made the Gay Republican “A-List” just as we are moving away from the area! That’s pretty much my luck.
Our friend from Philadelphia was down for the weekend and went with us to the party. He’s a far cry from a gay GOP’er, but very gay GOP friendly. He had a blast and all three of us felt like it was one of the best and friendliest gay parties we had ever been to. And as our Philly friend said, “Gay Republicans are hot!”
Thanks again to our friends who had an outstanding party on Friday night!!
-Bruce (GayPatriot)

“Hillary’s Gonna Be Indicted!”

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As I have been reading various articles about “Plamegate” in the past few days, I have noted the conditional nature of the claims of lawyers “close to the case” about Special Prosecutor Patrick Fitzgerald’s intentions on indicting White House officials. In this morning’s Wall Street Journal, we learn that he “may be piecing together a case that White House officials conspired to leak various types of classified material” while the New York Times reports that he “may believe the evidence presented in a 22-month grand jury inquiry shows that the two White House aides sought to cover up their actions” and “Mr. Rove and Mr. Libby have been advised that they may be in serious legal jeopardy.” (Emphasis added in all three quotations.)
Reading these latest articles, only one thing seems clear: while some lawyers close to the case seem eager for Fitzgerald to indict, the special prosecutor himself has not yet made up his mind whether to bring indictments. From what we know, it seems increasingly likely that if Fitzgerald brings any charges, they will not be related to the alleged crime he was hired to investigate, but to how certain White House officials handled the investigation. According to the Times, “Among the charges that Mr. Fitzgerald is considering are perjury, obstruction of justice and false statement – counts that suggest the prosecutor may believe the evidence presented in a 22-month grand jury inquiry shows that the two White House aides sought to cover up their actions.”
And although Fitzgerald has not yet made up his mind, speculation is rampant (even among conservatives) that indictments are imminent. All this reminds me of a Republican colleague’s convictions back in the early days of President Clinton’s second term. This man strode into work one day, smiling and expressing confidently, “Hillary’s gonna be indicted.” “When?” we asked, eager to see the then-president’s very partisan wife behind bars. “Any day now,” came the reply. He had no doubt his information was accurate and that then-First Lady would soon be indicted. (My colleague repeated his refrain (about the imminence of her indictment) for several weeks.)
Despite our hopes (and her shady activities), Mrs. Clinton was never indicted and has continued to remain a prominent figure in Democratic politics. It seems a similar thing is going on today about Rove for, in many ways, Democrats think of Karl Rove in much the same way as Republicans think of Hillary. To his (or her) adversaries, each embodies corruption, hunger for power and an eagerness to use that power to advance his (or her) ideological ends. Just as we wanted Hillary to be indicted, today’s Democrats want Rove to be indicted. Wishful thinking on both sides.
But, as Tom Maguire, who has covered this scandal more thoroughly than any other blogger (at least that I have read), observed in a post last night:

Subject to the caveat that most of the leaks have come from attorneys sympathetic to various Administration officials, and keeping in mind that Fitzgerald may have a lot of evidence we have not seen, let me say this – Karl Rove’s problems with the Matt Cooper phone call are trivial, and Fitzgerald will only hit Rove with that if he is desperate to charge Rove with something and is prepared to lose at trial.

In short, based on what we know, Rove did nothing wrong. Still, his adversaries are certain he will be indicted. Not based on evidence, mind you, but based on their conviction that because he is a horrrible, no good, very bad man, he has to be guilty of something. Sounds similar to Republican attitudes toward Hillary nearly a decade ago.
-Dan (AKA GayPatriotWest): GayPatriotWest@aol.com

DeLay, like Clinton, Master of the Political Game

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As I’ve said before, I’m no fan of Tom DeLay, but after seeing his confident smile on his mug shot yesterday, I gotta admit, I admire his political skills, just as I admire those of his chief political nemesis of the 1990s–Bill Clinton. Democrats are now gnashing their teeth at this Republican’s pose. It’ll be hard for them to use this image as a “campaign prop.”
The folks at the Democratic Underground are absolutely apoplectic, with one guy suggesting DeLay received “special treatment.” (Thanks to Malcontent‘s adorable Robbie for the tip.) One reporter noted:

He looks in the photo like a proud member of Congress who might just have won the lottery, not one indicted on charges of money laundering. The photo looks like it could have been taken anywhere.
And that was just the point.

(Via Drudge.) His pose reminds me of the confidence then-President Clinton showed when allegations first surfaced in January 1998 that he lied under oath about his relationship with Monica Lewinsky. As the story was breaking, that Democrat was preparing to deliver the State of the Union address. Given the allegations, many thought he should cancel the speech.
Such suggestions notwithstanding, Clinton stood firm and confidently strode into the House chamber that night to deliver his speech as planned. As I recall, he looked presidential and seemed unfazed by the allegations. So delivering that State of the Union address, Clinton saved his presidency. With the American people watching on live television (perhaps there was an increased audience due to the whiff of scandal), he made it appear that, despite the accusations, he was continuing to do his job — focusing on issues of national concern.
Clinton, like DeLay, is a master of the political game. It’s interesting to note that both men (Clinton largely through his surrogates) have gone after the prosecutors leveling charges against them, Clinton’s people badmouthed Kenneth Starr, DeLay taking on Ronnie Earle.
Despite my lack of enthusiasm for Mr. DeLay, I find myself rooting for him in his current troubles, have even considered making a token contribution to his legal defense fund. And all this makes me wonder about Democratic support for Clinton in the 1990s. Maybe they weren’t so much rallying to support their man as relishing his fighting spirit against charges leveled by his (and their) political adversaries.
-Dan (AKA GayPatriotWest): GayPatriotWest@aol.com

The Miers Blunder

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I am perhaps the last conservative blogger to weigh in on the president’s nomination of Harriet Miers to the Supreme Court. On the day the appointment was announced, I didn’t say much because I didn’t want to draw attention away from Bruce’s clever post on the topic (which garnered him much well-deserved acclaim in the blogosphere). And that I got busy with papers, classes and other things.
Like the folks at Powerline, I was disappointed with the choice. While Ms. Miers is, no doubt, an excellent attorney and, in many ways, a legal pioneer, rising in the profession at a time when there were few successful female attorneys and while she is loyal to a president whom I (by and large) support, I had hoped the president would pick someone like Miguel Estrada, Michigan Supreme Court Justice Maura Corrigan or Circuit Judge J. Harvie Wilkinson III, the latter my first choice. I hoped for someone who had not only a fine legal mind, but had also shown a keen understanding of the types of issues likely to reach the U.S. Supreme Court. The president thus “missed an opportunity to drive home with the public the fact that the most brilliant and most principled thinkers in the legal profession are conservatives, not liberals.”
Basically, I think President Bush took the base for granted on this one. After John Roberts’ nomination was well-received by all but the most extreme conservatives, the president may have gotten a little cocky and assumed conservatives would support whomever he tapped for the Supremes. He thought they would see Miers’ loyalty to him as loyalty to conservative principles, so when Senate Minority Leader Harry Reid liked the idea (of Miers’ nomination), the president may have thought he had a consensus pick. And ever eager to be a united, he named her.
In taking the base for granted, the president committed what is arguably the biggest blunder of his administration. The fact that he is trying to reassure conservatives after he announced the pick proves that he and his aides did not do their homework as he was considering Miers’ appointment. According to the Wall Street Journal‘s John Fund in yesterday’s Political Diary, her nomination was not properly vetted. She “was not interviewed by several key players who were deeply involved in the Roberts selection,” including “Karl Rove, Vice President Cheney and Attorney General Alberto Gonzales.” This morning, Lorie Byrd noted that the “lack of advance work led to the huge failure to anticipate the reaction of many to the Miers nomination.”
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No Evidence of Wrongdoing, but Something Smells Fishy about Libby

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Not long after posting my previous piece on Karl Rove and Plamegate, a reader sent me a link to this National Journal piece on the hullabaloo. As I read it, i realized how little attention I had paid to the testimony of I. Lewis “Scooter” Libby, the Vice President’s Chief of Staff. Perhaps because I was so fascinated by the Bush-haters’s demonizing of Karl Rove, I focused more on that good man’s role in all this than in other aspects of the case.
As I read the National Journal piece and recalled some other things I had read (and heard) about Libby, something smelled kind of fishy. It just seemed odd, particularly Libby’s relationship with reporter Judith Miller. Not only that. Several articles have noted contradictions between Libby’s testimony and that of other reporters (including Ms. Miller) with whom he had spoken.
While the New York Times and others on the left seem optimistic that recent comments from special counsel Patrick Fitzgerald heighten “the expectation that he intends to bring indictments” (as the Times puts it), I think this expectation is merely wish-fulfillment — predicting the outcome of the investigation that they most desire. To me, however, it seems far from clear that Fitzgerald intends to indict anyone. The Times itself reports that “Mr. Fitzgerald has repeatedly told lawyers in the case that he has not made up his mind about criminal charges.”
This morning on Fox News, Fred Barnes said that Fitzgerald’s present indecision suggests that there is “no overpowering evidence of wrongdoing.”
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Karl Rove, “Plamegate” & Discrediting a Dishonest Democrat

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While Andrew Sullivan and others on the left hold that Karl Rove (either or his own or through his mischievous minions) leaked the identity of Valerie Plame to the media in order to “smear Plame’s husband, Joseph Wilson,” anyone who spends a few moments studying the facts of the case will see that what little Rove had to say (or do) with the matter involved an attempt to steer a reporter away from the story. That doesn’t sound like much of a smear to me. While the President’s enemies think Rove was involved in an effort to retaliate against a critic, at most, he was involved (and tangentially at that) in an effort to discredit a dishonest critic, a man one who lied to the American people in his criticism of the Administration.
Even Andrew’s one-time New Republic colleague (to whom Andrew introduced me in 1991) Jacob Weisberg (via Instapundit) finds that “Wilson’s accusation that administration officials outed his wife to punish him for speaking up was never really credible.” Based on Judith Miller’s account of her testimony, Weisberg suggests that another Administration official, I. Lewis “Scooter” Libby, the Vice President’s chief of staff, may have leaked the name, not to smear Wilson, but as part of public dispute between the White House and the CIA. Weisberg notes that “Libby’s comments don’t look anything like retaliation against Joe Wilson—especially now that we know that Libby first mentioned Wilson and his wife to Judith Miller three weeks before Wilson went public with his op-ed piece.” (Emphasis added.)
Indeed, as Bush-haters are salivating at the possibility that Rove might be indicted, so certain are they that he sought to slime Mr. Wilson, they ignore how little Mr. Rove actually said to the media about Ms. Plame. Indeed, so far, I have yet to find any evidence that he ever mentioned her name to anyone at all, much less a reporter (before that name became common knowledge).
It seems Rove addressed the matter only two times, once merely acknowledging that he was aware that Wilson’s wife worked for the CIA. When columnist Robert Novak mentioned to him that “he had learned that Wilson’s wife worked for the CIA,” Rove replied, “I heard that, too.” The second time was when Rove warned Time reporter Matt Cooper “not to ‘get too far out on Wilson‘” as it was his wife “who apparently works at the agency on wmd [weapons of mass destruction] issues who authorized the trip.”
It is clear from those comments that, as Rove’s attorney Robert Luskin put it, his client “was trying to discourage Time magazine from circulating false allegations about Cheney, not trying to encourage them by saying anything about Wilson or his wife.” But, so eager are Bush’s critics to smear Karl Rove that they read his attempt to kill a story as a strategem to slime an administration critic.
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Gay organizations silent as Virginia Democrat panders to anti-gay sentiments

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With the Stonewall Democrats attacking anything our president says or does (whether or not it is related to gay issues), with HRC and NGLTF obsessed with abortion and with Log Cabin issuing bromides or blathering on about the radical right hijacking the GOP, it’s left to bloggers to take on Democrats who pander to people’s prejudices. In an e-mail this morning, blogger Eva Young alerted me to this post which reports that Tim Kaine, the Democratic nominee for Governor in the Old Dominion has used a radio spot to accuse Jerry Kilgore, his Republican opponent, of “not being straight.”
As Mike Slaven notes in an editorial in the University of Virginia’s Cavalier Daily, “The Kaine camp fails to add the obligatory “with voters;” the ad simply observes, “Jerry Kilgore is not being straight,” period.” Kilgore, married with two daughters, has what some have called a “gay-sounding” voice (whatever that is) and has been described as effeminate.
If a Republican released an ad claiming that a Democrat with a similar voice and appearance was “not being straight,” you can be sure that all the leading gay organizations (including Log Cabin) would be taking him to task. Yet, today, all these groups are silent. If it weren’t for bloggers like Eva Young and Pam Spaulding, we would likely not hear of this anti-gay pandering.
Since LCR spends more time attacking the party to which it allegedly supports than it does to taking on the opposing political party, I expect them to maintain their silence on this. And I don’t think it will upset HRC or NGLTF too much either. They seem to see themselves as part of a broad “progressive” movement which defines Republicans as the enemy and excuses all kinds of behavior among Democrats, even actions and statements which play to anti-gay prejudices.
-Dan (AKA GayPatriotWest): GayPatriotWest@aol.com
UPDATE: Reading this post on GayOrbit, I realized that I had previously read about Democratic attempts to insinuate that Kilgore is gay. Back in April, on his blog, my friend Rick Sincere wrote that Kaine supporters would use innuendo to raise doubts “in voters’ minds about . . . Kilgore’s sexual orientation.” Check it out here!

Large Turnout in Iraq Vote — Another Victory for Bush Doctrine

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Even if Iraqi voters don’t approve the Constitution in today’s vote, the large turnout is still a huge victory for the Bush doctrine. Until our troops liberated that land from Saddam’s tyranny, these people had no say over their government. By turning out in droves to vote in today’s referendum, Iraqis showed that they recognize how their country has changed since coalition troops came two and a half years ago.
According to a curious AP article:

Sunni Arabs voted in surprisingly high numbers on Iraq’s new constitution Saturday, many of them hoping to defeat it in an intense competition with Shiites and Kurds over the shape of the nation’s young democracy after decades of dictatorship. With little violence, turnout was more than 66 percent in the three most crucial provinces.

I call the article curious because it begins by noting the opposition to the constitution. At least the headline did acknowledge the “large turnout.” What makes the piece even curioser is the last line where the reporter seems to have looked all over Iraq to find one of the few Shia who longs for “someone like Saddam.” But, since even this guy acknowledged that he was a small minority among Shi’ites, it seems the reporter could have ended the piece by showing support for the charter among this group.
Despite the reporter’s curious spin at the end of his piece, the large turnout represents a big victory for the Bush doctrine. Even if Iraqis don’t approve the charter, the Iraqi people recognize that, even with American troops in their country, they can participate in the political process and vote against a measure favored by what many on the left define as an imperialist occupying force.
-Dan (AKA GayPatriotWest): GayPatriotWest@aol.com
UPDATE: Violence is down this time as well. Over at GOP Vixen (where I occasionally blog as Wordluf), my pal Dirty Harry notes there were fewer terrorist attacks during today’s elections than during the elections last January, “13 vs. 347.” Now read the whole thing!
UP-UPDATE: Despite the adminstration’s errors of communication in this fight, Manos finds that the Iraq fight was “worth it.” I agree. He also thinks we should put this vote in the “proper historical context“:

The United States invaded another country not for riches or gold or conquest but to spread ideas. Liberals from earlier generations, who went to war against fascism in Spain in the 1930’s, would have supported this war.

Now that I’ve whet your appetite, read the whole thing! Hat tip: Instapundit.
UP-UP-UPDATE (also via Instapundit): More historical perspective at Gateway Pundit on the time it takes a war-torn nation to ratify a new constitution. Seems that in historical terms, they’re working pretty quickly in Iraq.
UP-UP-UP-UPDATE: An expression of our failure in Iraq? (via: Polipundit).
UP-UP-UP-UP-UPDATE: Gateway Pundit offers some pictures from Saturday’s vote that you are unlikely to see in the MSM, including one of Iraqi women waiting to vote while holding pictures of our president and theirs. Seems some Iraqis do appreciate the good that President Bush has done for their land. (Via Powerline.)

Dubya’s IMs Go Unanswered

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This is one of the funniest things I have read in a long time! (Maybe it is funnier cuz I’m on pain medication??)
Bush’s IM Buddies Go Offline – The Huffington Post (Danielle Crittenden)

Kickass43: heck
Kickass43: my posses awol
Kickass43: waz happenin Karen
Kickarabbootay: Undersecretary Hughes cares about what you have to say. She is offline right now because is doing important work on behalf of the President and for all Americans, whatever their faith or background. She will be happy to discuss your concerns at another time.
Kickass43: shud never have let her go
Kickass43: thats y im in this dam mess
Kickass43: she kept my sorry ass in line

The whole thing is priceless!
-Bruce (GayPercoset)

Proof That Libs Are The Fringe Of American Culture

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This is a very telling survey from Gallup. (hat tip: The Corner)

A new Gallup survey asks the question:
Which of the following statements comes closest to your views on the origin and development of human beings: Human beings have evolved over millions of years from other forms of life and God guided this process; human beings have evolved over millions of years from other forms of life, but God had no part in this process, or God created human beings in their present form exactly the way the Bible describes it?
And the poll results are:
Evolved, God guided: 31%
Evolved, God had no part: 12%
God created exactly as Bible describes it: 53%

Full Gallup results here.
According to my math, that means that 84% of the American public believes in some “form” of intelligent design.
According to my political math, this result puts the Secular, Anti-Religious Left way outside the mainstream of American culture. Unfortunately for the advancement of gay rights, the GayBorg-ites are part of that group.
-Bruce (GayPatriot….in sheer pain)

PastryPatriot Strikes In North Carolina??

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GOP Gay Leader Dodges A Pie – Newsobserver.com
Okay, I guess this pie-throwing story is funny in retrospect. But my silly headline aside, in this day and age and given the University of Oklahoma suicide bomber, I honestly find this story a bit disturbing.

The head of a national gay Republicans group got “pied” Monday night while giving a speech at UNC-Chapel Hill for National Coming Out Day.
About five minutes into the speech, part of a week-long observance of National Coming Out Day, a person wearing dark clothes and a baseball cap launched the pie, witnesses said.
Guerriero, a former college soccer player, dodged the pie, but his suit coat got splattered.
“I faked to the left and moved to the right, which is probably something I do in politics sometimes,” he said Tuesday.

I give Patrick a lot of credit as he handled the situation with what sounds like grace and humor. And I swear there is no connection to the fact that he spoke at Carroll Hall.
-Bruce (GayPatriot…. still on percoset)

400,000 and climbing….

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I just noticed we’ve topped the 400K mark this evening.

I’d share this news with Dan, but he seems to be missing. Therefore, in honor of our achievement, I will issue a “Lavender Alert” for the missing GayPatriotWest. If any one in Los Angeles sees him, please call 1-800-GAY-BOY-MISSING.
-Bruce (GayPatriot)

New Blog In the GP Browser

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A new gay conservative website was brought to my attention this week.
GayConservative.org
Hey, Steve and Michael are kinda cute, too. I’ve always found gay Republicans to be cuter than gay Democrats. (And much less vapid, of course)
-Bruce (GayPatriot)

GayPatriot Follow-Ups

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Partner and I have frequently said there should be a cable news channel called “The FollowUp News.” You know, giving us updates on stories that the media drilled into our brain and then dropped like hot rocks when the “next big story” came along.
Examples:
-What happened to “Baby Jessica”, the baby girl who fell into a well in Texas in 1987? (Some people are keeping homage to the event. Freaky.) How come NBC News doesn’t tell us what’s up with Jess these days?
What is Donna Rice doing in 2005? Or Fawn Hall?
Seriously, wouldn’t this make interesting television? It would at least provide some follow-through from the media! Maybe we should name it the Barbara Walters Network?
Anyway, here are two follow-ups to stories I wrote about over the past few days….
Judy Miller Meets the Grand Jury, Part Two – HuffingtonPost.com (GP posting: Judith Miller “Missing Notebook” Is Found)
The Zawahiri Letter: Strategic Analysis and Discussion – AustinBay (GP Posting: Al-Qaeda Leaders Want Iraq To Be Center Of Islamic Empire)
-Bruce (GayPatriot… on Percoset)

Which Is Worse? Avian Flu or the American “Gay Disease”

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From the annals of Another Gay Republican comes this look at being gay in Arab countries.
Arab Gays – AGR

)From AP article) “But more Arabs are coming out as gays, or at least coming to terms with their sexuality, even though in some countries they face laws that can land them in jail and extremists who beat them up because Islam condemns homosexuality.
On top of that, homosexuality is widely seen as a disease spread by the U.S. and Israel to corrupt Arabs and undermine their religious faith.”

AGR wonders if we as gay Americans can be recognized for our contribution.

Who knew we were helping spread American imperialism and Israeli oppression? Do we get paid for that?

Related Story – No Dancing and No Gays If Hamas Gets Its Way – TimesOnline (hat tip: BladeWire) (GP Note: Uh, wait. The Gay Lefties tell me that Isreal is the occupier and bad, and I should love the Palestians who are oppressed and our friends…. what happened to your anti-American and anti-Isreal indoctrination talking points, HRC and NGLTF?)
Another Related Story – (h/t: NorthDallasThirty): Queers for terrorism – Kesher Talk
-Bruce (GayPatriot… somewhere in the Midwest)

Are You a “Born-Again Gay”?

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One of my favorite “homo-con” bloggers is Chad at Cake Or Death? Since I began reading blogs via FeedReader (again, I highly recommend doing that!), I’ve neglected sites that don’t have RSS or XML feeds. Most Blogger.com sites don’t.
Anyway, I drifted by Chad’s joint this morning and caught a great posting he did last Friday called “Food for Thought“.

My roommate likes to talk…. A lot. He’s a Louisiana Southerner and it’s in his blood.
…tonight, he spewed forth probably the most prophetic thing I’ve ever heard him utter. It was in regards to a former roommate of ours who is gay. I’ve gotten permission from him to hijack it and blog about it – the reason being is that I feel that it pertains to the majority of the gay population and their obsessiveness with being and attaining all things “gay”.
She wasn’t born the day she was born. She was born the day she figured out she was a lesbian.

So my question this morning… are you a “Born-Again Gay”, or like me are you an American who happens to be gay (among other countless genetic traits)?
[Related Story – The Party Crasher asks a similar question in a bizarre case of “great minds thinking alike.”]
-Bruce (GayPatriot)

Judith Miller’s “Missing Notebook” Is Now Found

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I’ve been saying, well to myself mostly, that this whole Valerie Plame story is not what it appears.
Greg Mitchell has the scoop on the Plame scandal’s equivalent to the “missing 18 minutes” of the Watergate tapes. Ol’ Judy’s notes have been found!
The Case of the Missing Notebook – Editor and Publisher (hat tip: Lucianne.com)

If its recent track record is any guide, The New York Times, later today or tomorrow, will get around to confirming Michael Isikoff’s Newsweek revelation late Saturday that the missing notes Judith Miller has suddenly found and turned over to the federal prosecutor in the Plame case were located in a notebook in the newspaper’s Washington, D.C. bureau. The prosecutor, Patrick J. Fitzgerald, has now scheduled another meeting with Miller on Tuesday.
The notes in question, we now know, cover a Miller discussion with I. Lewis Libby on June 23, 2003, two weeks before Joseph Wilson’s WMD Op-Ed that was thought to have set the Bush backlash in motion. These notes, the Times has disclosed, do mention Joseph Wilson. Isikoff observes that the notebook is “significant because Wilson’s identity was not yet public.”

Mr. Wilson…. that’s the sound of your phony story blaming Karl Rove unraveling….
-Bruce (GayPatriot)