Dammit, Osama… wait your place in line!

Al-Qaeda Plot To Kidnap Russell Crowe? – MSNBC.com

Russell Crowe says Osama bin Laden?s al-Qaida terror network wanted to kidnap him as part of a ?cultural destabilization plot,? according to an Australian magazine.

Man, I love our readers!!! The “Equal” sign becomes the “Pause” symbol as seen on many electronic items. That is probably generous given that HRC now seems to be going in the opposite direction of America.

Christian Grantham broke the news first… he has the official word this morning.

HRC Confirms: Joe Solomonese Is New President and CEO

From an email sent out by the Human Rights Campaign….

“At HRC, he will not only continue building an extraordinary bipartisan political operation, he will also develop innovative programs to talk to America about GLBT lives.

Joe is excited to expand the conversation with America beyond the political to the personal, engaging with communities of faith, communities of color, and empowering all GLBT Americans and their families and friends.”

*choking on my bagel*

Hey Joe…. tip number one…. don’t tell these communities of faith what you did in your former job as the head of Emily’s List. I guess HRC can’t deny anymore that they are a pro-abortion organization when they call PatriotPartner trolling for money again.

Oh, and here’s a great addition to Joe’s resume for Red State America to learn all about. GayPatriotWest found out last week that Ol’ Joe is a board member of “America Votes, Inc.” an umbrella group for all of America’s favorite left wing radical groups. So the new head of HRC sits on the board of an organization whose top contributor is George Soros! At least Log Cabin Republicans won’t be the only gay rights group shut out of the White House.

Yeah, just what the gay community needs right now to earn respect in Majority America… to be expanding their radical ways by hiring a pro-abortionist with ties George Soros to lead their largest and most public organization. Good Lord!

Oh man… do I love the premise of this or what? I’m so sick of hearing that every American military campaign is “the new Vietnam” so this take on the spread of democracy is priceless! Hat tip, The Corner.

Saigon’s Sharansky – Will Vietnam be the next Iraq? – OpinionJournal.com

So it happens that a message reached me last weekend from within one of the world’s most repressive states: Vietnam. Word came that the Sharansky of Saigon, democratic dissident Nguyen Dan Que, had been released from his latest stretch in Vietnam’s prisons.

Given that Vietnam’s secret police almost certainly eavesdrop on any contact he has with the wider world, I was prepared for a discreet and carefully phrased conversation, meant to minimize his risk. Dr. Que was not. He got straight to the point: “What I want is liberty for my people.” The question now, he said, “is how to make regime change in Vietnam.” For democratization of his country, he added, “support from the rest of the world is important.” Specifically, he wants Hanoi’s decaying communist party to “put forward a timetable for free and fair elections.”

Thank goodness we elected a President who stands up to tyrannical regimes as a plank of the War on Terror. And not the alternative candidate who coddled the North Vietnamese repressive regime when he was wearing the uniform of the United States military at the time.

Hey, I’ll give major kudos here to the Equal Rights Coalition in Indiana. Inviting Fred Phelps to participate in a debate on gay rights!?! Man… I wouldn’t be in the same room with him, but this is definitely a very smart and strategic step for the ERC to do. Just let the guy talk and talk and talk. My only hope is that the forum attendees keep their cool and just let Fred look like the fool he is.

If any of you out there are close enough to attend, consider yourself an official correspondent and let us know what happens!

Gay Group Hosts Fred Phelps – 365gay.com

As I start this post, let me state clearly I am NOT a supporter of the “ex-gay” ministry stuff. Not, not, not. So the disclosure on this article is that the author of the book profiled appears to be from the “ex-gay” crowd. So if you can get past that…

Loving Homosexuals as Jesus Would – TownHall.com

I thought the article was very interesting. Is the “political Christian” movement realizing that, at long last, gays are not going anywhere and there are too many to convert back now?

Should loving them be contingent upon them renouncing their homosexuality? Nope.

“Often LGBT people refuse to accept our message simply because they perceive an ulterior motive on our part. They know that, often, Christians who show them love are doing it only so we can eventually talk them into “going straight.” So we must show love to homosexuals regardless of whether they want to change. Real love does not demand anything in return.”

Unconditional love — now there’s a novel idea. When a call to unconditional love can be legitimately described as a fresh Christian approach, something has gone very wrong.

Should we then not ask ourselves if we should treat anti-gay Christian activists as Jesus Would?

And, perhaps should the real question for the gay community be “shouldn’t gay landlords want to rent to Christian evangelicals?” — the reverse of the question Ryan Zempel poses at the beginning of his column.

Just doing what I can to bring you the stories you won’t see other places…. and let you talk amongst yourselves….

Roger Simon offers some valuable insight on the former president:

His problem is that he was and is President Zelig, unable to experience conflict at a level which would allow him to stand by his opinions or even remember them. In some ways this kind of excessive empathy has value. When it comes to dealing with religious dictatorship, it is a moral and physical disaster, for the people of those countries most of all.

Read the whole thing. Roger also has a post on the “Good Bill.”

One of my many correspondents, who runs a swell blog of her own, is trying to set up a chapter of Log Cabin in Charlotte, North Carolina and asked that I give y’all a headsup about their meeting with LCR National Field Director Jeff Cook who’ll be down in the Tar Heel State on Friday. This post gives the details and discusses their efforts to set up a chapter.