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Month: June 2005

  • Senators Up Press Re: Downing Street Memo

    Senator Kerry (D – MA) has sent a letter to the Senate Intelligence Committee pressing for answers on the Downing Street Minutes and related documents. The letter, obtained by RawStory.com, is also signed by Senators Johnson, Corzine, Reed, Lautenberg, Boxer, Kennedy, Harkin, Bingaman, and Durbin.   And looky-here: Oil broke $60/barrell.

  • U.S. Admits Torture at Gitmo, Iraq, Afghanistan

    (remember, they always release the news they want you to ignore on Friday afternoons) Washington has, for the first time, acknowledged to the United Nations that prisoners have been tortured at US detention centres in Guantanamo Bay, as well as Afghanistan and Iraq, a UN source said.

  • Scorcher

      Holy moley it is hot. And one of the longest days of the year at the same time. As usual, it is also the first day of the Taste of Chicago where you can eat overheated, slightly disgusting food in overheated, slightly disgusting weather with overheated, slightly disgusting people. If this keeps up the […]

  • Anguished Father Calls In to Randi Rhodes

    (via DailyKos diaries) Casey’s sons went to find Bin Laden. They ended up in Iraq. And they both got killed in the war: When I heard what Karl Rove said and O’Reilly think about us liberals… Sign their daughters. Sign their sons up. Because mine are already gone. In Windows Media format.

  • DoJ Porn Regulation Affects Online Personals Sites

    I hadn’t thought of this. The DoJ’s enforcement of documenting actors appearing in adult media seems to apply to online personals sites. Like Gay.com: Always on the lookout for hot guys and ways to keep people from having fun, the U.S. Dept. of Justice is taking a break from prosecuting terrorists to do something it […]

  • Nashville Police Target Gays in Stings

    Since the fall of 2004, officers at the Hermitage Police Precinct have been quietly conducting a sting operation exclusively targeting gay men… The precinct’s crime suppression unit, which operates as a mini vice squad, has been working with at least one confidential informant who has been infiltrating gay chat rooms, contacting users and seeing if […]

  • Tennessee Begins Investigation of Straight Conversion Camp for Teens

    Hadn’t had the time to blog this yet but it is burning up the blogosphere: The state of Tennessee has begun an investigation in response to allegations of child abuse at Love in Action, a Memphis facility that advertises homosexual conversion therapy for adolescents, according to the state department of health. A teen that was […]

  • William Rivers Pitt on War

    Why we have war:  Ten thousand books have been written on this subject, on the impact of our wartime economic footing upon domestic policy, the environment, global affairs and politics. In the end, however, the fact that our economy is set on a wartime footing means one simple thing. We need wars. Without wars, the […]

  • SCOTUS Rules Local Gov'ts Can Seize Private Property for Businesses

    From SCOTUSBlog: [T]he Supreme Court ruled on Thursday that a local government may seize private property for purposes of profit-making private re-development, declaring that this constitutes a "public use" under the Constitution. Sandra Day O’Connor is pissed.  Does anybody else see the word SCROTUM each time they see SCOTUS. It is like when people refer […]

  • Michelangelo Signorile Smacks Up Andrew Sullivan

    I’d read Sullivan’s article in The Advocate but hadn’t realized it was he that wrote it. But in retrospect I think it makes total sense now. Go read Sully’s article and then read Michael’s rebuttal, Dear Bareback Andy: You’re glamorizing illness, for your own selfish reasons, for your own ego… It’s funny because you link […]