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Just What the Doctor Ordered, an Anti-Gay Surgeon General

Bush nominates Dr. James Holsinger for SurgeonGeneral,  an anti-gayactivist. Do we really need America's chief health educator waging a war onhomosexuality?

America's chief health educator, giving Americans the best scientificinformation available on how to improve their health and reduce the risk ofillness and injury.

An outspoken anti-gay Surgeon Generaljust doesn't cut it in my opinion (and probably the majority of Americans). Stick to the health issues, and there isn't any proof that sexualpreference has anything to do with health.

Dr. James Holsinger's professionalcareer has been as a medical provider and administrator, but President Bush'snominee to be surgeon general also has had a parallel volunteer career among thetopmost reaches of the "Confessing Movement," a neo-evangelical effortwithin the United Methodist Church to return it to theological orthodoxy.Opposition to a growing tolerance and even acceptance of gays within the churchhas been one of the group's main fixations.

Holsinger also helped found achurch in Kentucky that operates an "ex-gay" ministry Read  on...

According to Holsinger, "homosexuality is achoice and can be cured", just what we need, another government officialthat wants to cure us of "making choices" . I don't believe it is a choice,but I also think if you should make that choice, go right ahead.

LEXINGTON,Ky. -- President Bush's nominee for surgeon general, Kentucky cardiologist Dr.James Holsinger, has come under fire from gay rights groups for voting to expela lesbian pastor from the United Methodist Church and writing in 1991 that gaysex is unnatural and unhealthy.

Also, Holsinger helped found a Methodist congregation that, according to gayrights activists, believes homosexuality is a matter of choice and can be"cured."

Holsinger, 68, has declined all interview requests.  (now there's a good start for a potential public official) Read  on...

"gaysex is unnatural and unhealthy." Maybe to protect us from this evildisease, "they" will be made to wear Scarlet Q's upon their chest...Isurely wouldn't want to catch that unnatural and unhealthy thing!

Surprise, Cheney behind warrantless wiretaps after all

All roads point to Dick Cheney.  In 2004, when Alberto Gonzales was sent to awkwardly argue with hospital-bound John Ashcroft about warrantless wiretaps, Dick Cheney may have been the one behind it all:

Vice President Dick Cheney told Justice Department officials that he disagreed with their objections to a secret surveillance program during a high-level White House  meeting in March 2004, a former senior Justice official told senators yesterday.

The meeting came one day before White House officials tried to get approval for the same program from then-Attorney General John D. Ashcroft , who lay recovering from surgery in a hospital, according to former deputy attorney general James B. Comey .

This was all revealed during a Senate Judiciary Committee hearing yesterday.

Dick Cheney is a product of the post-Watergate era when officials in the Ford Administration had to work with limited executive power.  That really frustrated Cheney.  Ever since then, he has been on a mission to reestablish White House power the way it was under Nixon.  So far, he has been quite successful.

Q: What Do You Call a Song Titled 'Let's Impeach The President'? A: A Good Start

I feel compelled to find and post the truth every time I hear Our GreatPresident open his mouth which has become synonymous with lying.Thanks again to "granny" for sending us the link for the video.

It didn't take the liberal bloggers and general long public to react and speak outagainst the dems for caving in on the funding bill. And it seems that theybetter grow a set quickly before we start shopping around. Think about this fora moment, you tell your spouse or significant other you are going shopping, butinstead go to a friends house...simple right? umm, NO!, you are confronted bythem and are told you lied. Maybe that's a simple minded analogy, but comparethat to The President of the United States lying on an ongoing basis, changingthe story and then his supporters actually lie further to support him. Wrong,just plain old everyday kindergartenly,  fundamentally, unacceptably wrong.

Well lets start this thing....

'Let's Impeach The President' Song by Neil Youg. Check out Neils page of Song Videos HERE.(check out the hompage)The Lyrics are HERE.

I do not like Andy Dick in just about everything I have ever seen himin...except this video

'Bush Idiot Speech'

Here is a huge list of anti-warsongs worth a peak. Listof Bush lies.

There is just so much more content which could be added to this post, but Ineed to move on from this "consumption" of me.

The ISG Report: Bush Was Against it before He Was for it.

When does it stop? When do people start being honest and stop protecting Bushand making crap up as they go? In the last few days there have been TONS ofDemocrat bashing by us libs because they foldedon the war funding bill. But what about when Bush double talks and is blatantly full of crap? FOX to the rescue, and Brit Hume gave us an outstanding displayon Fox News Sunday. Bush is now OK with the ISGreport, and when Juan Williams calls it like it is "historicalrevisionism", Hume wanted to know "who opposed it"...watchthe video then I'll tell you WHO opposed it.

 

I guess you want to know who opposed it? Bush did...

WASHINGTON, Dec. 7 — PresidentBush moved quickly on Thursday to distance himself from the centralrecommendations of the bipartisan IraqStudy Group: pulling back all combat brigades over the next 15 months and directtalks with Iran and Syria.

His administration did...

WASHINGTON, Dec. 9 — Administrationofficials say their preliminary review of the bipartisan IraqStudy Group’s recommendations has concluded that many of its key proposals areimpractical or unrealistic, and a small group inside the NationalSecurity Council is now racing to come up with alternatives to the panel’sideas.

as did the Conservative media tools!...

Summary:Conservative media figures, including Bill Kristol, Rush Limbaugh, and GlennBeck, have attacked both the members of the Iraq Study Group and its report:Kristol has called the report "an evasion" and "not a seriousdocument"; Limbaugh asserted that ISG members are "doing everythingthey can to unite the American people" in "defeat" and"surrender"; while Beck has called the ISG report "OperationWhite Flag."

Bumper Sticker campaign: 'Brit is Fullof Sh*t' or 'Humes is Full of Fumes'.

Even though I believe thatWallace has become a "little" more fair lately (maybe Daddyschooled him), Hume and Kristol against Williams isn't even a good start to fairand balanced.

(Video) Fox guest: I want more babies, more baby, we love babies

Usually Fox News does a more thorough job of screening their guests sothe conservatives always wins the argument.  But today on Your Worldwith Neil Cavuto, Fox conservative guest Leslee Unruh tried to pin MaryAlice of NARAL into a corner about a new form of contraception the FDA just approved that allows a female to stop her menstrual cycle in order to prevent unwanted pregnancies.

By the end of the debate, it was clear who had the upper hand. Frustrated, Unruh constantly interrupted by muttering phrases like"lies, lies, lies, lies"; and "I want more babies, more baby, we lovebabies."

UNRUH: Big pharma, here we go again.  Attack on children, on families and women.

ALICE: What we're saying is let's reduce unintended pregnancy, let'sreduce teen pregnancy, let's reduce the abortion rate in this country.

CAVUTO: Okay.

UNRUH: I want more babies, more baby, we love babies.

This was definitely the most amusing debate ontelevision all week:

Bush is Protecting Us From Bin Laden Again

The Bush machine threw in some new "recently declassified" information today to convince us that the war in Iraq is justified and necessary.  This intelligence goes into vague details about Bin Laden sending his people into Iraq to plan for an al Qaeda settlement.  Speaking at a commencement address (what any of this has to do with a college graduation I have no idea) at the Coast Guard Academy today, the President made several comments about the war and his newly unveiled intelligence:

"There's a reason bin Laden sent one of his most experiencedparamilitary leaders to Iraq," Bush said. "He believes that if al Qaedacan drive us out, they can establish Iraq as a new terrorist sanctuary."

The president acknowledged that critics "question whether the fight in Iraq is part of the war on terror."

He said "the best way to protect our people is to take the fight to the enemy ... so we do not have to face them at home."

Thepresident also made a comparison between Iraq and the Vietnam War,saying, "There are many differences between the two conflicts, but onestands out above all. The enemy in Vietnam had neither the intent northe capability to strike our homeland. ... The enemy in Iraq does."

The article, posted Wednesday afternoon at about 2:15pm EST at cnn.com, details more about the Bin Laden connection to the new Iraq.

I think as politicians, the Republican party is making their best efforts at diverting the topic from logic or they're absolutely failing at putting 2 and 2 together.  The reason terrorists are flocking to Iraq isn't because we invaded one of their terrorist states, it's because we created a new terrorist state.  The President's intelligence about Bin Laden setting up shop in Iraq doesn't rationalize the good we could still do, it illustrates the harm we've already done.

Gingrich picks up where Falwell left off

Yesterday at Liberty University's commencement ceremony, former House Speaker Newt Gingrich praised the school's founder Jerry Falwell for his crusade against the "secular" interests:

“A growing culture of radical secularismdeclares that the nation cannot profess the truths on which it wasfounded,” Gingrich said. “We are told that our public schools can nolonger invoke the creator, nor proclaim the natural law nor profess theGod-given quality of human rights.

“Inhostility to American history, the radical secularists insist thatreligious belief is inherently divisive and that public debate can onlyproceed on secular terms,” he said.

If not wanting organized religion to have more influence on American society makes you a radical secular, then 73% of the country opposes Newt's idea about the way things ought to be.  According to a Gallup Poll taken in January, only 27% want to see "organized religion have more influence in this nation," while 32% think religion should have less influence, and 39% want to keep it the way it is. 

Translation: people are pretty much okay with the way things are, and don't agree with the ideology being preached by people like Gingrich.  The only moral storm on the horizon is the one invented by people like him.

Melanie Morgan banned from 'The NewsHour with Jim Lehrer'

These videos speak for themselves, but...what makes these far right wingers tick, and what exactly is it that they know, that the generals, soldiers, majority of America and the Hill don't know? More here.

Part 1

Part 2

Jerry Falwell, the guy that said....

"I really believe that the Pagans, and the abortionists, and thefeminists, and the gays and the lesbians, ... the ACLU, People For theAmerican Way - all of them who have tried to secularize America - Ipoint the finger in their face and say 'you helped this [terroristattack: 9/11] happen." Jerry Falwell, 700 Club, 2001-SEP-13.

Died today.

Ipoint the finger in their face and say "you helped this happen"

Bill O'Reilly, Need I say More?

I thought about adding this to our newly added daily post 'WorthyMentions from the Liberal Blogosphere', (the name can possibly change in thefuture, and if there are any suggestions for a new title, please feel free tosend them in to The Blue State). Idecided it was worthy of a post of its own.

On Friday's ' The O'Reilly Factor' (5/11/07), Bill was fed up and said"I'dlike an honest media in this country...is this too much to ask?" As Iwatched this, I knew the News Houndswould be all over it, so I waited for their post.

Bill O'Reilly was on a tear on the Factor last night 5/11/07 because an8-page article by retired General McCaffrey that says there are some positivesigns in Iraq is not on the front page of the New York Times or the BostonGlobe. I don't know how to break it to him, but it's not on FOXNews.comeither. Maybe it has something to do with the fact that the article is over sixweeks old, and in that time 150 moreAmericans have lost their lives in Iraq.

First O'Reilly summarized the eight pages for us, and it was strikingly likeall the talking points we hear on FOX on a daily basis: our cause is just; theconsequence of failure will be severe; we now need a last powerful effort toprovide the politcal support, economic resources, and military strength it needsto succeed. In faint yellow-on-pink print in the graphic you can make out thedate: March 26th, 2007.

O'Reilly never sided with McCaffrey whenhe was critical of the war, but now is in love with him and his '8 pages'. Billalso says "if things are getting better, don't derail the train"...whydidn't we hear him say the opposite while the war was not getting better? (whichwas the entire time)

Retired Col. David Hunt was their to support O'reilly'srant, however Hunt doesn't give Bill everything he wanted to hear. When O'Reillydiscusses the war with retired Generals and Colonels or other experts, he will go at them if theydo not agree with him, however he always agrees with his "Body Language Expert"Tonya Reiman. When a guest does agree with him, he'll cut them off and move on to another issue or statement to gain as many agreements he can secure for future "back up".
 

Bill O'Reilly has gotto be one of, if not THEE most disrespectful news show hosts there ever was. Read therest of The News Hounds Post HERE...

 

Bill Bloviating