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[LipstickLola]

Originally Posted by morningstar55

MAJOR ANNOUNCEMENT
Morningstar has hit a Witch with her truck this evening......
she is a lil shaken but fine........ as for the witch well..... lets just say it happend soo fast.......

OMG, I love seeing this (on other trucks of course) heading towards me! I usually honk and wave

[Nat]

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worl...a-nut-job.html

Meghan McCain, daughter of Senator John McCain, has condemned Christine O'Donnell, the Republican Senate candidate, as a 'nut job' who is making a 'mockery' of politics.

Miss McCain, a Republican who is making a name for herself as an outspoken pundit, said what many party colleagues have been afraid of uttering publicly.

She is moderate who supports gay marriage, has criticised her father's vice-presidential running mate Sarah Palin and taken issue with the anti-tax Tea Party for its "innate racism".

Miss O'Donnell, 41, is a Tea Party darling.

She is trailing badly in the Delaware Senate race, is best known for having spoken out against masturbation and admitting she had "dabbled" in witchcraft.

Her first television campaign advertisement began with her saying: "I am not a witch."

"Well, I speak as a 26-year-old woman and my problem is that, no matter what, Christine O'Donnell is making a mockery of running for public office," Miss McCain said on ABC News. "She has no real history, no real success in any kind of business.

"It scares for me for a lot of reasons. In my group of friends, it turns people off because she's seen as a nut job."

Miss O'Donnell, who is running for Senate in Delaware for the third time, scored a shock primary victory over Representative Mike Castle, a moderate Republican who was widely viewed as a certain victory over the Democratic candidate Chris Coons.

But despite astounding fund-raising figures, Miss O'Donnell is badly trailing Mr Coons, a blow to Republican chances of capturing the 10 seats they need to win back control of the Senate.

Miss McCain recently wrote a book called "Dirty Sexy Politics" and revealed that when Mrs Palin joined her father's presidential ticket in 2008 she brought "stress, drama, complications, panic and loads of uncertainty" to the campaign.

[Jess]

Originally Posted by Nat

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worl...a-nut-job.html

Meghan McCain, daughter of Senator John McCain, has condemned Christine O'Donnell, the Republican Senate candidate, as a 'nut job' who is making a 'mockery' of politics.

Miss McCain, a Republican who is making a name for herself as an outspoken pundit, said what many party colleagues have been afraid of uttering publicly.

She is moderate who supports gay marriage, has criticised her father's vice-presidential running mate Sarah Palin and taken issue with the anti-tax Tea Party for its "innate racism".

Miss O'Donnell, 41, is a Tea Party darling.

She is trailing badly in the Delaware Senate race, is best known for having spoken out against masturbation and admitting she had "dabbled" in witchcraft.

Her first television campaign advertisement began with her saying: "I am not a witch."

"Well, I speak as a 26-year-old woman and my problem is that, no matter what, Christine O'Donnell is making a mockery of running for public office," Miss McCain said on ABC News. "She has no real history, no real success in any kind of business.

"It scares for me for a lot of reasons. In my group of friends, it turns people off because she's seen as a nut job."

Miss O'Donnell, who is running for Senate in Delaware for the third time, scored a shock primary victory over Representative Mike Castle, a moderate Republican who was widely viewed as a certain victory over the Democratic candidate Chris Coons.

But despite astounding fund-raising figures, Miss O'Donnell is badly trailing Mr Coons, a blow to Republican chances of capturing the 10 seats they need to win back control of the Senate.

Miss McCain recently wrote a book called "Dirty Sexy Politics" and revealed that when Mrs Palin joined her father's presidential ticket in 2008 she brought "stress, drama, complications, panic and loads of uncertainty" to the campaign.

Thanks Nat. It is actually very refreshing to see more Republicans voicing what everyone else sees. It seems that more and more moderate Republicans are starting to speak up to the idiocy of the ultra-social conservatives.

[Nat]

Originally Posted by Jess

Thanks Nat. It is actually very refreshing to see more Republicans voicing what everyone else sees. It seems that more and more moderate Republicans are starting to speak up to the idiocy of the ultra-social conservatives.

I love Meghan McCain in a way

[Apocalipstic]

Originally Posted by Nat

I love Meghan McCain in a way

Me too.

and

She is HOT! (not that being hot should matter, but when I see her I just grin. lol)

[Nat]

Judge tentatively rejects 'don't ask, don't tell' stay request

A federal judge in Riverside who declared the military's "don't ask, don't tell" policy banning gays unconstitutional issued a tentative ruling Monday rejecting the federal government's request to stay her decision while the case is appealed.

U.S. District Judge Virginia Phillips said the government failed to provide sufficient proof that her injunction halting the policy would cause "irreparable harm" to the military or that the government's appeal would be successful. Phillips planned to issue her final decision early Tuesday.

[MsDemeanor]

If the 9th Circuit doesn't grant the stay, the Supremes surely will.

[MsDemeanor]

Debate between Coons and O'Donnell. What Olbermann says about Palin is doubly true about O'Donnell: "that woman is an idiot".

O'Donnell criticized Democratic nominee Chris Coons' position that teaching creationism in public school would violate the First Amendment by promoting religious doctrine.

Coons said private and parochial schools are free to teach creationism but that "religious doctrine doesn't belong in our public schools."

"Where in the Constitution is the separation of church and state?" O'Donnell asked him.

When Coons responded that the First Amendment bars Congress from making laws respecting the establishment of religion, O'Donnell asked: "You're telling me that's in the First Amendment?"

linkyloo

[Isadora]

bangs head on desk

Originally Posted by MsDemeanor

Debate between Coons and O'Donnell. What Olbermann says about Palin is doubly true about O'Donnell: "that woman is an idiot".

O'Donnell criticized Democratic nominee Chris Coons' position that teaching creationism in public school would violate the First Amendment by promoting religious doctrine.

Coons said private and parochial schools are free to teach creationism but that "religious doctrine doesn't belong in our public schools."

"Where in the Constitution is the separation of church and state?" O'Donnell asked him.

When Coons responded that the First Amendment bars Congress from making laws respecting the establishment of religion, O'Donnell asked: "You're telling me that's in the First Amendment?"

linkyloo

[MsDemeanor]

*offers Isadora a pillow for banging her head*

I can't believe that you slackers haven't posted this yet *giggle*

The Defense Department said Tuesday that it is accepting openly gay recruits, but is warning applicants they might not be allowed to stick around for long.

linkyloo

Dan Choi spent the day trying to re-up. The marines turned him down - seems that he's too old.

Rachel's show should be extra interesting tonight!

[MsDemeanor]

If one is running on a Constitution platform, shouldn't one know what's in the Constitution? In addition to 1, O'Donnell doesn't seem to know 14 or 16, either. Those two are kinda important to the tea bag crowd!

Also during the debate, O'Donnell stumbled when asked whether or not she would repeal the 14th, 16th, or 17th Amendments if elected.
"The 17th Amendment I would not repeal," she said, before asking the questioner to define the 14th and 16th amendments, adding: "I'm sorry, I didn't bring my Constitution with me."

This after challenging her opponent's understanding of the Constitution.

linkyloo

[Linus]

Originally Posted by MsDemeanor

If one is running on a Constitution platform, shouldn't one know what's in the Constitution? In addition to 1, O'Donnell doesn't seem to know 14 or 16, either. Those two are kinda important to the tea bag crowd!

Also during the debate, O'Donnell stumbled when asked whether or not she would repeal the 14th, 16th, or 17th Amendments if elected.
"The 17th Amendment I would not repeal," she said, before asking the questioner to define the 14th and 16th amendments, adding: "I'm sorry, I didn't bring my Constitution with me."

This after challenging her opponent's understanding of the Constitution.

linkyloo

Seriously. This has to be the dumbest candidate I've ever heard. I really hope that Delaware is listening to what she is saying to get an idea of what kind of Senator she would be if she represented them.

[Greyson]

Virginia Thomas is the wife of U.S. Supreme Court Justice, Clarence Thomas. In January 2010 Mrs. Thomas launched a group, "Liberty Central Inc." a non-profit lobbying group linked to the Tea Party movement. Need I say more? IMO, this phone message asking Anita Hill to apologize is way out of line and beyond reasonable behavior. I have never seen the politics in our country, USA, so wrought with absolute absurdity, ingnorance, and a blantant tone of "Us against them" in my entire life.
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October 19, 2010

Clarence Thomas’s Wife Asks Anita Hill for Apology

By CHARLIE SAVAGE

WASHINGTON — Nearly 20 years after Anita Hill accused Clarence Thomas of sexual harassment during his contentious Supreme Court confirmation hearings, Justice Thomas’s wife has called Ms. Hill, seeking an apology.

In a voice mail message left at 7:31 a.m. on Oct. 9, a Saturday, Virginia Thomas asked her husband’s former aide-turned-adversary to make amends. Ms. Hill played the recording, from her voice mail at Brandeis University, for The New York Times.

“Good morning Anita Hill, it’s Ginni Thomas,” it said. “I just wanted to reach across the airwaves and the years and ask you to consider something. I would love you to consider an apology sometime and some full explanation of why you did what you did with my husband.”

Ms. Thomas went on: “So give it some thought. And certainly pray about this and hope that one day you will help us understand why you did what you did. O.K., have a good day.”

Ms. Hill, in an interview, said she had kept the message for nearly a week trying to decide whether the caller really was Ms. Thomas or a prankster. Unsure, she said, she decided to turn it over to the Brandeis campus police with a request to convey it the Federal Bureau of Investigation.

“I thought it was certainly inappropriate,” Ms. Hill said. “It came in at 7:30 a.m. on my office phone from somebody I didn’t know, and she is asking for an apology. It was not invited. There was no background for it.”

In a statement conveyed through a publicist, Ms. Thomas confirmed leaving the message, which she portrayed as a peacemaking gesture. She did not explain its timing.

“I did place a call to Ms. Hill at her office extending an olive branch to her after all these years, in hopes that we could ultimately get past what happened so long ago,” she said. “That offer still stands. I would be very happy to meet and talk with her if she would be willing to do the same. Certainly no offense was ever intended.”

In response to Ms. Thomas’s statement, Ms. Hill said that she had testified truthfully about her experiences with the future Justice Thomas and that she had nothing to apologize for.

“I appreciate that no offense was intended, but she can’t ask for an apology without suggesting that I did something wrong, and that is offensive,” Ms. Hill said.

Andrew Gully, senior vice president of the Brandeis communications office, said Ms. Hill turned the message over to the campus police on Monday.

Ms. Thomas, 53, has long been active in conservative circles in Washington. In the past year she has become more prominent as the founder of a new nonprofit activist group, Liberty Central, which is dedicated to opposing what she has characterized as the leftist “tyranny” of the Obama administration and Congressional Democrats. The group has drawn scrutiny in part because of the unusual circumstance of a spouse of a sitting Supreme Court justice drawing a salary from a group financed by anonymous donors.

Ms. Hill, 54, is a professor of social policy, law and women’s studies at Brandeis. In 1991, she was at the center of a confrontation that deeply divided the country and prompted a national debate about sexual behavior in the workplace.

Ms. Hill had been an aide to Mr. Thomas at the Department of Education and the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission. President George Bush nominated Mr. Thomas to fill the Supreme Court seat left vacant by Justice Thurgood Marshall.

In testimony before the Senate Judiciary Committee, Ms. Hill claimed that Mr. Thomas had repeatedly made inappropriate sexual comments to her in the workplace, including descriptions of pornographic films. Mr. Thomas denied the allegations and called them “a high-tech lynching.”

In her 1998 book “Speaking Truth to Power,” Ms. Hill noted that she had been accused of harboring a romantic interest in Justice Thomas by his wife. “Virginia Thomas and I have never met,” Ms. Hill wrote. “And one can imagine that she is guided by her own romantic interest in her husband when she assumes that other women find him attractive as well.”

Justice Thomas weighed in with his own autobiography in 2007, “My Grandfather’s Son, ” referring to Ms. Hill as “my most traitorous adversary” and asserting that liberal advocacy groups stooped to “the age-old blunt instrument of accusing a black man of sexual misconduct” to block his ascent because of his conservative views.

Ms. Hill said she had a previous but indirect interaction with Ms. Thomas. After Justice Thomas’s book was published, she said, Ms. Thomas told an interviewer that Ms. Hill should apologize. In response, Ms. Hill gave an interview reiterating that she had nothing to apologize for.

“I thought that was enough then to end it, but apparently it was not,” Ms. Hill said.


Peter Baker contributed reporting from Washington and Tamar Lewin from New York.

http://www.nytimes.com/2010/10/20/us...ml?_r=1&emc=na

[AtLast]

Originally Posted by Greyson

Virginia Thomas is the wife of U.S. Supreme Court Justice, Clarence Thomas. In January 2010 Mrs. Thomas launched a group, "Liberty Central Inc." a non-profit lobbying group linked to the Tea Party movement. Need I say more? IMO, this phone message asking Anita Hill to apologize is way out of line and beyond reasonable behavior. I have never seen the politics in our country, USA, so wrought with absolute absurdity, ingnorance, and a blantant tone of "Us against them" in my entire life.
__________________________________________________ _______________

October 19, 2010

Clarence Thomas’s Wife Asks Anita Hill for Apology

By CHARLIE SAVAGE

WASHINGTON — Nearly 20 years after Anita Hill accused Clarence Thomas of sexual harassment during his contentious Supreme Court confirmation hearings, Justice Thomas’s wife has called Ms. Hill, seeking an apology.

In a voice mail message left at 7:31 a.m. on Oct. 9, a Saturday, Virginia Thomas asked her husband’s former aide-turned-adversary to make amends. Ms. Hill played the recording, from her voice mail at Brandeis University, for The New York Times.

“Good morning Anita Hill, it’s Ginni Thomas,” it said. “I just wanted to reach across the airwaves and the years and ask you to consider something. I would love you to consider an apology sometime and some full explanation of why you did what you did with my husband.”

Ms. Thomas went on: “So give it some thought. And certainly pray about this and hope that one day you will help us understand why you did what you did. O.K., have a good day.”

Ms. Hill, in an interview, said she had kept the message for nearly a week trying to decide whether the caller really was Ms. Thomas or a prankster. Unsure, she said, she decided to turn it over to the Brandeis campus police with a request to convey it the Federal Bureau of Investigation.

“I thought it was certainly inappropriate,” Ms. Hill said. “It came in at 7:30 a.m. on my office phone from somebody I didn’t know, and she is asking for an apology. It was not invited. There was no background for it.”

In a statement conveyed through a publicist, Ms. Thomas confirmed leaving the message, which she portrayed as a peacemaking gesture. She did not explain its timing.

“I did place a call to Ms. Hill at her office extending an olive branch to her after all these years, in hopes that we could ultimately get past what happened so long ago,” she said. “That offer still stands. I would be very happy to meet and talk with her if she would be willing to do the same. Certainly no offense was ever intended.”

In response to Ms. Thomas’s statement, Ms. Hill said that she had testified truthfully about her experiences with the future Justice Thomas and that she had nothing to apologize for.

“I appreciate that no offense was intended, but she can’t ask for an apology without suggesting that I did something wrong, and that is offensive,” Ms. Hill said.

Andrew Gully, senior vice president of the Brandeis communications office, said Ms. Hill turned the message over to the campus police on Monday.

Ms. Thomas, 53, has long been active in conservative circles in Washington. In the past year she has become more prominent as the founder of a new nonprofit activist group, Liberty Central, which is dedicated to opposing what she has characterized as the leftist “tyranny” of the Obama administration and Congressional Democrats. The group has drawn scrutiny in part because of the unusual circumstance of a spouse of a sitting Supreme Court justice drawing a salary from a group financed by anonymous donors.

Ms. Hill, 54, is a professor of social policy, law and women’s studies at Brandeis. In 1991, she was at the center of a confrontation that deeply divided the country and prompted a national debate about sexual behavior in the workplace.

Ms. Hill had been an aide to Mr. Thomas at the Department of Education and the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission. President George Bush nominated Mr. Thomas to fill the Supreme Court seat left vacant by Justice Thurgood Marshall.

In testimony before the Senate Judiciary Committee, Ms. Hill claimed that Mr. Thomas had repeatedly made inappropriate sexual comments to her in the workplace, including descriptions of pornographic films. Mr. Thomas denied the allegations and called them “a high-tech lynching.”

In her 1998 book “Speaking Truth to Power,” Ms. Hill noted that she had been accused of harboring a romantic interest in Justice Thomas by his wife. “Virginia Thomas and I have never met,” Ms. Hill wrote. “And one can imagine that she is guided by her own romantic interest in her husband when she assumes that other women find him attractive as well.”

Justice Thomas weighed in with his own autobiography in 2007, “My Grandfather’s Son, ” referring to Ms. Hill as “my most traitorous adversary” and asserting that liberal advocacy groups stooped to “the age-old blunt instrument of accusing a black man of sexual misconduct” to block his ascent because of his conservative views.

Ms. Hill said she had a previous but indirect interaction with Ms. Thomas. After Justice Thomas’s book was published, she said, Ms. Thomas told an interviewer that Ms. Hill should apologize. In response, Ms. Hill gave an interview reiterating that she had nothing to apologize for.

“I thought that was enough then to end it, but apparently it was not,” Ms. Hill said.


Peter Baker contributed reporting from Washington and Tamar Lewin from New York.

http://www.nytimes.com/2010/10/20/us...ml?_r=1&emc=na

I so admire Anita Hill, always have, always will. Again, she demonstrates integrity and I have never doubted this misconduct by Thomas happened. No, she has not one thing to apologize for.

[Nat]

Military to accept openly gay recruits

[Nat]

Originally Posted by Greyson

Virginia Thomas is the wife of U.S. Supreme Court Justice, Clarence Thomas. In January 2010 Mrs. Thomas launched a group, "Liberty Central Inc." a non-profit lobbying group linked to the Tea Party movement. Need I say more? IMO, this phone message asking Anita Hill to apologize is way out of line and beyond reasonable behavior. I have never seen the politics in our country, USA, so wrought with absolute absurdity, ingnorance, and a blantant tone of "Us against them" in my entire life.
__________________________________________________ _______________

October 19, 2010

Clarence Thomas’s Wife Asks Anita Hill for Apology

By CHARLIE SAVAGE

WASHINGTON — Nearly 20 years after Anita Hill accused Clarence Thomas of sexual harassment during his contentious Supreme Court confirmation hearings, Justice Thomas’s wife has called Ms. Hill, seeking an apology.

In a voice mail message left at 7:31 a.m. on Oct. 9, a Saturday, Virginia Thomas asked her husband’s former aide-turned-adversary to make amends. Ms. Hill played the recording, from her voice mail at Brandeis University, for The New York Times.

“Good morning Anita Hill, it’s Ginni Thomas,” it said. “I just wanted to reach across the airwaves and the years and ask you to consider something. I would love you to consider an apology sometime and some full explanation of why you did what you did with my husband.”

Ms. Thomas went on: “So give it some thought. And certainly pray about this and hope that one day you will help us understand why you did what you did. O.K., have a good day.”

Ms. Hill, in an interview, said she had kept the message for nearly a week trying to decide whether the caller really was Ms. Thomas or a prankster. Unsure, she said, she decided to turn it over to the Brandeis campus police with a request to convey it the Federal Bureau of Investigation.

“I thought it was certainly inappropriate,” Ms. Hill said. “It came in at 7:30 a.m. on my office phone from somebody I didn’t know, and she is asking for an apology. It was not invited. There was no background for it.”

In a statement conveyed through a publicist, Ms. Thomas confirmed leaving the message, which she portrayed as a peacemaking gesture. She did not explain its timing.

“I did place a call to Ms. Hill at her office extending an olive branch to her after all these years, in hopes that we could ultimately get past what happened so long ago,” she said. “That offer still stands. I would be very happy to meet and talk with her if she would be willing to do the same. Certainly no offense was ever intended.”

In response to Ms. Thomas’s statement, Ms. Hill said that she had testified truthfully about her experiences with the future Justice Thomas and that she had nothing to apologize for.

“I appreciate that no offense was intended, but she can’t ask for an apology without suggesting that I did something wrong, and that is offensive,” Ms. Hill said.

Andrew Gully, senior vice president of the Brandeis communications office, said Ms. Hill turned the message over to the campus police on Monday.

Ms. Thomas, 53, has long been active in conservative circles in Washington. In the past year she has become more prominent as the founder of a new nonprofit activist group, Liberty Central, which is dedicated to opposing what she has characterized as the leftist “tyranny” of the Obama administration and Congressional Democrats. The group has drawn scrutiny in part because of the unusual circumstance of a spouse of a sitting Supreme Court justice drawing a salary from a group financed by anonymous donors.

Ms. Hill, 54, is a professor of social policy, law and women’s studies at Brandeis. In 1991, she was at the center of a confrontation that deeply divided the country and prompted a national debate about sexual behavior in the workplace.

Ms. Hill had been an aide to Mr. Thomas at the Department of Education and the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission. President George Bush nominated Mr. Thomas to fill the Supreme Court seat left vacant by Justice Thurgood Marshall.

In testimony before the Senate Judiciary Committee, Ms. Hill claimed that Mr. Thomas had repeatedly made inappropriate sexual comments to her in the workplace, including descriptions of pornographic films. Mr. Thomas denied the allegations and called them “a high-tech lynching.”

In her 1998 book “Speaking Truth to Power,” Ms. Hill noted that she had been accused of harboring a romantic interest in Justice Thomas by his wife. “Virginia Thomas and I have never met,” Ms. Hill wrote. “And one can imagine that she is guided by her own romantic interest in her husband when she assumes that other women find him attractive as well.”

Justice Thomas weighed in with his own autobiography in 2007, “My Grandfather’s Son, ” referring to Ms. Hill as “my most traitorous adversary” and asserting that liberal advocacy groups stooped to “the age-old blunt instrument of accusing a black man of sexual misconduct” to block his ascent because of his conservative views.

Ms. Hill said she had a previous but indirect interaction with Ms. Thomas. After Justice Thomas’s book was published, she said, Ms. Thomas told an interviewer that Ms. Hill should apologize. In response, Ms. Hill gave an interview reiterating that she had nothing to apologize for.

“I thought that was enough then to end it, but apparently it was not,” Ms. Hill said.


Peter Baker contributed reporting from Washington and Tamar Lewin from New York.

http://www.nytimes.com/2010/10/20/us...ml?_r=1&emc=na

Maybe Ginni is trying to distract people from this:



Here's a sidenote about her from wikipedia:

Virginia Thomas took training with the controversial self awareness program Lifespring while a congressional aide.[1]She said in a 1987 interview with The Washington Post that she had to seek counseling after her decision to break away from Lifespring. Thomas left Lifespring in 1985, and joined the Cult Awareness Network. She ultimately had to hide in another part of the country in order to avoid a constant barrage of phone calls from Lifespring members, urging her to remain in the organization. Thomas spoke on panels and organized anti-cult workshops for congressional staffers in 1986 and 1988. In a 1991 interview, Thomas commented on Lifespring, stating "they are pretty scary people." She also stated: "I was once in a group that used mind control techniques."

[Nat]

Ugandan newspaper publishes 'gay list', calls for their hanging

http://edition.cnn.com/2010/WORLD/af...y.list/?hpt=T2

Earlier this month, Rolling Stone newspaper -- not affiliated with the U.S. magazine with the same name -- featured 100 pictures of Uganda's gays and lesbians. Next to the list was a yellow strip with the words "hang them."

Those named in the story are living in fear, she said. Some have had to change jobs and move to new places.
"We are providing some with psychological support," she said. "People have been attacked, we are having to relocate others, some are quitting their jobs because they are being verbally abused. It's a total commotion."

[The_Lady_Snow]

Gay Chants Spark Outrage at High School Football Game

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/21134540...45671#39745671

[The_Lady_Snow]

Charges in Attack at New York's Oldest Gay Bar


http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/21134540...45671#39741881

[Nat]

The title of this article and the content appear to have conflicting info

http://www.cnn.com/2010/US/10/20/dont.ask.dont.tell/