Thursday, July 24, 2008

FINALLY a picture!




Isn't she beautiful? YAY!

Thursday, July 17, 2008

“One is like a glass-half-full kind of guy and the other is an expert on the economy.”

Criminals in the White House

Six Questions for Jane Mayer, Author of The Dark Side
By Scott Horton




In a series of gripping articles, Jane Mayer has chronicled the Bush Administration’s grim and furtive dealings with torture and has exposed both the individuals within the administration who “made it happen” (a group that starts with Vice President Cheney and his chief of staff, David Addington), the team of psychologists who put together the palette of techniques, and the Fox television program “24,” which was developed to help sell it to the American public. In a new book, The Dark Side, Mayer puts together the major conclusions from her articles and fills in a number of important gaps. Most significantly, we learn the details on the torture techniques and the drama behind the fierce and lingering struggle within the administration over torture, and we learn that many within the administration recognized the potential criminal accountability they faced over these torture tactics and moved frantically to protect themselves from possible future prosecution. I put six questions to Jane Mayer on the subject of her book, The Dark Side.

Please use this link to access the article, and read it. How is it that I can still be shocked and amazed by the things I keep learning?

http://harpers.org/archive/2008/07/hbc-90003234

Wednesday, July 16, 2008

McCain is Evil

This is absolutely disgusting - here are some of John McCain's gems:


John McCain made this odious joke about Chelsea Clinton back in ‘98.
"Why is Chelsea Clinton so ugly? Because her father is Janet Reno.”
– Sen. John McCain, speaking to a Republican dinner, June 1998.

But this 1986 joke during his Senate run is just off the wall.
I managed to dig up this gem from his 1986 race for US Senate, as quoted in the Tucson Citizen:
"Did you hear the one about the woman who is attacked on the street by a gorilla, beaten senseless, raped repeatedly and left to die? When she finally regains consciousness and tries to speak, her doctor leans over to hear her sigh contently and to feebly ask, ‘Where is that marvelous ape?’ "

Jon Stewart at his Best (As Always!)

Wednesday, July 2, 2008

Beautiful

we pray
from rosie o'donnells blog
www.rosie.com


with the intention to attain
the ultimate supreme goal
that surpasses even the wish granting jewel
may i constantly cherish all living beings

whenever i associate with others
may i view myself as the lowest of all
and with a perfect intention
may i cherish others as supreme

examining my mental continuum
throughout all my actions
as soon as a delusion develops
whereby i or others would act inappropriately
may i firmly face it and avert it

whenever i see unfortunate beings
oppressed by evil and violent suffering
may i cherish them as if i had found
a rare and precious treasure

even if someone i have helped
and of whom i had great hopes
nevertheless harms me without any reason
may i see him as my holy spiritual guide

when others out of jealousy
harm me or insult me
may i take the defeat upon myself
and offer them the victory

in short - may i directly and indirectly
offer help and happiness to all my mothers
and secretly take upon myself
all of their harm and suffering

furthermore, through all these method practices
together with a mind
undefiled by the stains of conceptions
of the eight extremes
and that sees all phenomena as illusory
may i be released from the bondage
of mistaken appearance and conception

-buddhist prayer-

The Advocate; READ THIS Article :-)





This is the story of Sam Harris his partner Danny adopting their son, Cooper. It's so well written, please check it out!! Sam is a wonderful writer. You all may remember him as the winner of Star Search, back in the day (dude has a set of pipes on him that you would not believe!!) and since then he's been on Broadway, on TV, recording CD's, etc... So, use this link, and read the story. You'll be glad you did!

http://www.advocate.com/exclusive_detail_ektid56418.asp

Tuesday, July 1, 2008

Note to the religious right: auto-replace is not your friend!

By: Steve Benen on Tuesday, July 1st, 2008 at 12:01 PM - PDT


Auto-correct can be a very helpful feature of any word-processing program. But when conservatives use it, they run the risk of embarrassing themselves.

The American Family Association’s OneNewsNow website, for example, takes its AP articles and replaces the word “gay” with the word “homosexual.” I'm not entirely sure why, but it seems to make the AFA happy. The group is, after all, pretty far out there.

The problem, of course, is that “gay” does not always mean what the AFA wants it to mean. My friend Kyle reported this morning that sprinter Tyson Gay won the 100 meters at the U.S. Olympic track and field trials over the weekend. The AFA ran the story, but only after the auto-correct had “fixed” the article.

That means — you guessed it — the track star was renamed “Tyson Homosexual.” The headline on the piece read, “Homosexual eases into 100 final at Olympic trials.” Readers learned:

Tyson Homosexual easily won his semifinal for the 100 meters at the U.S. Olympic track and field trials and seemed to save something for the final later Sunday.


His wind-aided 9.85 seconds was a fairly cut-and-dry performance compared to what happened a day earlier. On Saturday, Homosexual misjudged the finish in his opening heat and had to scramble to finish fourth, then in his quarterfinal a couple of hours later, ran 9.77 to break the American record that had stood since 1999. […]

Homosexual didn’t get off to a particularly strong start in the first semifinal, but by the halfway mark he had established a comfortable lead. He slowed somewhat over the final 10 meters-nothing like the way-too-soon complete shutdown that almost cost him Saturday. Asked how he felt, Homosexual said: “A little fatigued.”

Gay Marriage




I just LOVE these! LOL

True Colors, Minneapolis MN





Mom and I rocked it out at the True Colors concert in June. It was so much fun! We saw Tegan & Sara, The Cliks, Rosie O'Donnell, The B-52's, Cyndi Lauper and the whole evening was hosted by Carson Kressley (Queer Eye ring any bells for you?)

More videos can be found here:

http://www.youtube.com/user/jzbelle03