Well, as we’ve hit — and now exceeded — 1,000,000, your humble bloggers are nowhere to be found. While Bruce has been busy with work, I’ve been catching up after recovering from a terrible stomach ache. While my gastric troubles only put me out of commission for a few hours, they did so at a time when I had a number of pressing obligations.

The one thing I did learn from this experience is make sure that, especially when you’re terribly hungry, that you look inside the bun before you eat a cheeseburger at a restaurant where you’re dining for the first time. When I did check, after eating half the burger, I noticed the bun was coated with something resembling thousand island dressing — a sauce which does not sit well in my stomach.

I’ve always wondered why restaurants which advertise that their burger includes tomato, pickle and onion, neglect to mention that it includes a special sauce as well.

All that said, I’m delighted at the success this blog has enjoyed, that we have become a leading and recognized voice for a long-neglected segment of the American population, gay conservatives. I appreciate our regular readers and those bloggers who have linked us.

And I’m grateful for those critics who have taken the time to craft thoughtful rebuttals to our posts. While we have attracted our share of Snapdiggers, those left-wingers who frequent our blog, more to attack than to argue, we have attracted a good number of readers who regularly (and honorably) take issue with the points we raise. I salute them for spending time on a blog with whose ideas they tend to disagree and being civil in their rebuttals.

Despite our infrequent posts of late, even though we have crossed the 1,000,000 threshold, we’re going to keep on blogging, putting forward our opinions, engaging our critics and expanding our audience, ever grateful to those who take the time to read our work and consider our ideas.

- B. Daniel Blatt (GayPatriotWest@aol.com)

Good morning.   Sometime within the next 24 hours, that ticker at the bottom of the page tracking our visitors on Sitemeter will rollover like a Jerry Lewis Telethon tote board and hit the magic One Million Visitors Mark.

If Dan and I do not have the chance to post close to the time it happens today, I would like to thank all of our readers and supporters for making this happen.   It is an honor to write for all of you and we appreciate your comments, derisions, support and contributions tremendously.

Now, the big news…. whichever GayPatriot reader can prove he or she was our 1,000,000th visitor (or the closest to it) will WIN a $100 American Express Gift Card. The way to prove it is to “screen capture” the Sitemeter tally box at the bottom of our page when you visit our site.  Our webmaster will then check against our IP hits to verify.  Please email those screenshots to me at bruce@gaypatriot.org.

Again, thank you for your support since September 2004.  And congratulations to all for our 1,000,000th visit (sometime later today or tonight!)

-Bruce and Dan

Earlier today, Log Cabin’s National Board announced that it had selected interim organization head Patrick Sammon as its new President. While I’m delighted that someone other that Patrick Guerriero is heading up this ostensibly Republican organization, I’m concerned that the group’s new leader lacks any background in Republican politics.

While Log Cabin touts Sammon’s media experience and appearances in the biography posted on its web-site, it does not indicate that he has had any prior political experience, save his work for Log Cabin itself and its affiliated non-partisan educational foundation, the Liberty Education Forum.

Commenting on his selection, Sammon said:

Log Cabin’s mission is more important than ever before. I will provide a strong voice for those in our Party who believe the GOP can return to power by pursuing a unifying and inclusive conservative agenda that attracts voters from both the center and the right.

I hope that in coming days, he fleshes out what he believes that agenda is. I am, however, concerned that like his predecessor, he will focus more on appealing to the left-leaning gay groups in Washington, D.C. rather than to conservative and Republican organizations in our nation’s capital — and across the country.

No sooner did I receive word of Sammon’s selection that I learned that Joe Solmonese, president of the liberal Human Rights Campaign (HRC), looked forward to working with Sammon “for our community’s top legislative agenda.” To be sure, this may be just standard boilerplate, welcoming the selection of the new leader of a gay organization, but it reminds us of the past cozy relationship between Log Cabin and HRC. Let’s hope that Patrick Sammon doesn’t accept Joe Solmonese’s attempt to define our community’s legislative agenda and dares to differ from Solmonese on issues affecting gay people.

Indeed, if Patrick Sammon really wants to establish himself as a conservative leader — and to help return the GOP to its small government roots — he would distinguish Log Cabin from other gay groups by coming out against the Employment Non-Discrimination Act (ENDA). While he would make clear that he believes government agencies should not discriminate and that discrimination against gays is wrong, he would affirm the conservative principle that the federal government shouldn’t interfere with the personnel decisions of private companies.

Thus, by coming out against ENDA, the leader of Log Cabin would help define gay Republicans as true conservatives who don’t favor turning to the government to seek solutions to the problems our community faces. In not pushing for legislation which would ostensibly benefit our community, we can better stand up for the small-government principles which our party appears to have abandoned in recent years. Log Cabin would thus set an example for other conservative and Republican groups, encouraging them to follow suit in opposing legislation which would benefit their constituencies by expanding the size and scope of the federal government.

And Log Cabin would strengthen its case against those social conservatives who seek legislation to advance their pet causes, reminding that we seek to live our lives free or state interference and respect their rights to do so as well. Log Cabin would take the lead in promoting a true return to the vision of Ronald Reagan where individuals seek solutions in their own communities — and through private institutions — rather than in lobbying for state action.

While I am ever optimistic, I doubt Patrick Sammon will take such a bold step. But, perhaps, he will find some other way of distinguishing Log Cabin’s agenda from that of other gay groups and put forward a conservative vision on gay issues which accords with the principles of our party.

I will be paying close attention to his initial actions and statements now that he had officially taken the helm of Log Cabin. I hope that he makes an effort to reach out to Republican elected officials as well as conservatives leaders in the various think tanks and advocacy organizations in our nation’s capital.

He should approach the national gay groups with caution, recognizing that many of these groups’ leaders see their work as part of some broad “progressive” movement. While he should be ever cordial to these leaders, he must recognize that they are, by and large adversaries of Republicans, even gay ones.

Given Patrick Sammon’s media background, it seems Log Cabin’s board is more interested in playing to the media than to the GOP. I hope I’m wrong. While Patrick does seem to be an accomplished young man, his resume shows little evidence that he has the stuff to lead a Republican organization.

The test is not in his background, but in his actions. And while I am, at this point, skeptical, I will reserve judgment and wish him the best of success in his new responsibilities. I will continue to make my views known, both as a blogger and a member of Log Cabin. And will continue to hope, perhaps naively so, that Log Cabin can be a bold voice for conservative principles, the ideas of Ronald Reagan, as its new leader reaches out to his two audiences, neither particularly friendly to gay Republicans.

No wonder, in an e-mail to me, one reader commented that Log Cabin’s president has a “thankless job.” I recognize the difficulty of the task which lies ahead for Patrick Sammon. While I may be somewhat critical of the selection of Log Cabin’s new leader, I do believe Mr. Sammon is up to the challenge.

- B. Daniel Blatt (GayPatriotWest@aol.com)

ADDENDUM. Over at The Malcontent, Matt offers his thoughts on Sammon’s selections and the general thrust of his observations is similar to my own.

Via Instapundit, hat tip: GP Reader Calarato…

The March To Mecca – Greg Gutfeld, HuffingtonPost

PRESS RELEASE
EMBARGO DATE: December 15, 2006, 4 PM.

IN THE NAME OF FREEDOM AND TOLERANCE, AND IN HARMONY WITH OUR GAY MUSLIM BROTHERS AND SISTERS, WE PROUDLY ANNOUNCE THE FIRST MARCH TO MECCA, FEBRUARY 14, 2007

Human Rights Watch, Moveon.org, ACT-UP, the Huffington Post and David Geffen are proud to present the March to Mecca, a celebration of peace that calls all gay brothers, sisters and people undergoing sex-reassignment to march to the holiest of holy cities, Mecca, the capital city of Saudi Arabia’s Makkah province on Valentine’s Day, February 14, 2007.

The march, a brainchild of activists and celebrities who acknowledge that more gays are dying from Islamic fundamentalism than from the policies of George W. Bush, will begin 12 noon sharp in Jeddah, the stunning night-life friendly Saudi Arabian city located on the coast of the Red Sea.

“Not marching in these countries, in this era of terror, seems cowardly,” says event co-organizer Sharon Stone. “I’m embarrassed to say at social gatherings I even blamed the United States for everything. But I realized it’s the radical Muslims – not the US – who want gays dead, and for that I am truly sorry.”

Paris’ gay Socialist Mayor Bertrand Delanoe, who was stabbed by an immigrant Muslim, is organizing the European contingency which features Limahl, Johnny Hallyday and Ciccolina. Whoopie Goldberg, along with Robin Williams will be hosting the kick off party at the Sheraton Riyadh. There will be refreshments and karaoke, hosted by David Hyde Pierce.

Beth Ditto, lead singer of the Gossip, who will perform with the newly reformed Yaz, thinks the march is overdue. “Forget right wing Christians. They don’t hang gays for being gay. Islamofascists do. That’s why were asking moderate, non-violent Muslims across the Western Province to join hands and embrace gay people everywhere.”

“Almost half of all Muslim countries outlaw gay relations,” says Huffington Post contributor Gene Stone, “and more than 70 countries ban all homosexuality, sometimes making it punishable by death. And here I am, blogging about how bad Renew America is. LOL.”

“Think about the two teenagers convicted of homosexuality who were hanged in Iran last year,” says Harry Shearer, “It makes all the hay we made over Mark Foley at the Huffington Post seem stupid. I, for one, am tired of being part of the problem.”

The March to Mecca will snake through the sandy, sunny valley of Abraham, and it is urged that you pack sunblock and plenty of bottled water. “Don’t forget to blog!” adds co-sponsor Arianna Huffington. After the march, Rep Barney Frank of the U.S. House of Representatives will host a special VIP rave on the Queen Boat, a floating disco on the Nile. Hugh Jackman will perform hits from “The Boy From Oz.”

If only this satire were half-true, I’d have a bit more confidence that Americans…. especially liberal ones who spout faux platitudes about human rights…. truly understood the threat we all face from America’s real enemy.

Bravo, Greg!!!

-Bruce (GayPatriot)

If I did not blog on gay topics, I would long since have let my subscription to the gay magazine, the Advocate, lapse. The periodical regularly provides biased coverage of the news, with regular misrepresentations of Republicans and conservatives. Its latest issue, announcing TV personality Bill Maher as it’s “Person of the Year,” is just another example of its narrow focus.

Were it not for Bill Maher’s left-wing politics as well as regular attacks on conservatives, the Advocate would certainly not have chosen to honor him. This periodical regularly heralds left-of-center media figures even when they have done little to make gay lives better.

If Bill Maher did not offer up the politics Hollywood wants to promote, he would long since have vanished from the scene. He’s more pretentious than funny and offers little (if any) original thought. Far from being politically incorrect, he just mouths whatever slogans he feels will endear him to producers and other entertainment industry bigwigs. Kind of like Madonna (the pop-star not the mother of Jesus) without the vocal talent.

This year, there are clear candidates for people of the year, individuals who have not been in the media spotlight, but who have done a good deal for gay people. Last month, for the first time since states have been voting on referenda defining marriage as the union of one man and one woman (and otherwise limiting the types of relationships states may recognize), voters in one state — Arizona — defeated one of these pernicious proposals. At the same time, while similar referenda passed in other states, they saw the margin of victory greatly reduced (from those in states which had voted on marriage in previous years).

It seems there’s been a shift in the debate on gay marriage. Perhaps, gay organizations have learned from their past campaigns and adjusted their rhetoric to better influence Americans. Whatever the case, those who organized against the Arizona referendum succeeded in improving the lives of gay people by blocking an initiative which would have banned recognition of our unions. As they proved that passage of these referenda is not a given, they provided a model for activists in other states to follow.

I don’t know who these people are — and would dare say their politics are (by and large) not my own. But, those activists did do something more than just pretend to be courageous while spouting politically correct views.

So, here’s to the real people of the year (as far as the gay world is concerned) — those who worked successfully to defeat the Arizona referendum. It’s too bad our media outlets are more obsessed with self-important celebrities than they are with those making real accomplishments outside our nation’s entertainment centers.

CLICK HERE TO VOTE NOW!!!!

Given the number of talented blogresses under consideration for the coveted title of “Grande Conservative Blogress Diva 2007,” we had to find a way of paring down the list to a manageable number. To be sure, every blogress listed in my last post truly qualifies as a diva, a strong confident woman who commands the respect of men. When I reviewed their blogs, I was impressed by the quality of their writing and the independence of their thought.

In the end, we decided to nominate based on an objective criterion — those blogresses who had been seconded, either in the comments section or in e-mail to one of us. Please note that not all nominees are conservative per se. Some are libertarian. And others, while more centrist, distinguish themselves by their iconoclasm and the manner in which they take on the silliness of certain leftists — and conservative pretenders, i.e., those who, in the words of one of our nominees, “drive . . . liberals nuts.”

That said, please find below the list of nominees. We’ll post the link to the post as soon as Bruce gets it up:

Ann Althouse
The Anchoress
Little Miss Attila
Tammy Bruce
Dymphna of Gates of Vienna
e-Claire
Townhall’s Mary Katharine Ham
Sondra K of Knowledge is Power
National Review Online‘s K-Lo (Kathryn Jean Lopez)
Michelle Malkin
Virginia Postrel of Dynamist Blog
Kathy Shaidle of Relapsed Catholic
Alexandra von Maltzan of All Things Beautiful

We will keep this round of voting open until December 24th at which point, we’ll do a second round of ballotting with the top candidates.

In the past few weeks, where I have found myself able to write only with much difficulty, I did a lot of thinking, about events of the day as well as some of the broader social issues I wish to address, both on this blog and in other writings. And I have been delighted to note that ideas for my Fantasy Epic which had only come to me intermittently for most of the fall started to flow freely in the past few weeks.

In short, it has been a period of introspection, but I know it is soon to come to an end, for, in the past few days, instead of vague ideas and broad notions that have crossed my mind, I have also had a great variety of ideas for posts to this blog. I expect to start writing again later this afternoon — as soon as I post the list of nominees for Grande Conservative Blogress Diva.

To those who have e-mailed me — and not yet heard back — please note that I am not neglecting your missives, only that, because of graduate school work, other obligations and my own more “quiet” period, I have allowed my e-mail to back up — on this and other accounts, primarily opening those related to the Blogress Diva competition (and other pressing obligations). As soon as I have a moment, I will get to your correspondence.

I hope in the coming days to address some of the issues that have crossed my mind during this period of introspection as many of them relate to gay culture, particularly our attitudes toward sexuality — and personal difference.

And to those who have sent me words of support, while they were not needed, they were greatly appreciated. It wasn’t personal difficulty that had prevented me from writing, but merely a need to step back and think about things, a time to ponder and not to post. I do hope that this period now concluding will serve me well in terms of personal growth as well as the ideas I express on this blog — and in other endeavors.

- B. Daniel Blatt (GayPatriotWest@aol.com)

Um… I’m really not sure what else I could possibly add to this very bizarre story.

Rick Lisko hunts deer with a bow, but got his most unusual one driving his truck down his mile-long driveway.

The young buck had nub antlers— and seven legs. Lisko said it also had both male and female reproductive organs.

“It was definitely a freak of nature,” Lisko said. “I guess it’s a real rarity.”  He said he slowed down as the buck and two does ran across the driveway Nov. 22, but the buck ran under the truck and got hit.  When he looked at the animal, he noticed three- to four-inch appendages growing from the rear legs. Later, he found a smaller appendage growing from one of the front legs.

“It’s a pretty weird deer,” he said, describing the extra legs as resembling “crab pinchers.”

“It kind of gives you the creeps when you look at it,” he said, but he thought he saw the appendages moving, as if they were functional, before the deer was hit.

“And by the way, I did eat it,” Lisko said. “It was tasty.”

-Bruce (GayPatriot)

First, researchers are stunned at their own results:  Diabetes cleared in mice experiments.

Nerve cells in the pancreas may be a cause of type-1 diabetes in mice — a finding that could provide new ways to treat the disease in humans, Canadian and U.S. scientists said on Friday.

Defective nerve endings may attract immune system proteins that mistakenly attack the pancreas, destroying its ability to make insulin, the researchers said. This destruction is what causes diabetes.

Injecting a piece of protein, or peptide, to repair the defect cured diabetic mice “overnight“, Dr. Hans Michael Dosch of the University of Toronto said in a telephone interview.

Wow.  That is truly a medical breakthrough if it holds in human clinical trials.  I was really set back on my heels when I heard this news tonight on the radio.

And then there was this from the morning newspaper:  Breast Cancer Rates Plunge.

U.S. breast cancer rates plunged an unprecedented 7 percent in 2003, the year after millions of women stopped taking menopause hormones when a study showed the pills raise the risk of tumors.

The startling new analysis, reported Thursday at the San Antonio Breast Cancer Symposium, does not prove a link between hormone therapy and breast cancer, but strongly suggests it, many experts said.

“When I saw it, I couldn’t believe it,” statistician Donald Berry of the University of Texas M.D. Anderson Cancer Center in Houston said of the drop.

Cancers take years to form, so going off hormones would not instantly prevent new tumors. But tumors that had been developing might stop growing, shrink or disappear so they were no longer detected by mammograms, doctors theorized.

Cases dropped most among women 50 and older — the age group taking hormones. The decline was biggest for tumors whose growth is fueled by estrogen — the type most affected by hormone use.

This story is particularly fascinating and troubling given that it suggests that hormone therapy may have contributed to the increase in breast cancer we have seen over the past 20 years or so.  I guess “better late than never”, but it really begs a debate over how much “tinkering” with the human body is good versus the negative outcomes.   I’m sure we haven’t heard the last of this issue.

-Bruce (GayPatriot)

Hey gang, while we haven’t been actively campaigning this year…. I did want to offer a friendly reminder about the last day to vote for the 2006 Weblog Awards.

We are still in second place in the Best LGBT category — hopefully we will stay there.  But if you have a chance, please vote today in our category.   Today is the last date to vote!

More importantly, there are a lot of good bloggers nominated in all other categories.  It is great to see my fellow Pajamas Media Network Bloggers so well represented!

Please cast your vote for your favorite blog through Friday at the 2006 Weblog Awards!

-Bruce (GayPatriot)

As December 15 approaches, you still have time to nominate — or second — your favorite conservative, libertarian (or otherwise iconoclastic) blogress for the coveted title of Grande Conservative Blogress Diva 2007.

We define a diva as a strong, confident woman who commands the respect of men. And given how much (most) gay men respect such women, we believe it appropriate that our blog conduct this competition.

Sometime tomorrow, Bruce and I will review the comments to this post, the initial posts (here and here) on the competition and our e-mail to determine the final list of nominees. Unlike last year, we expect to do this in two parts, with the first round of balloting taking place from Sunday, December 17 until December 24, then holding a run-off the following week, announcing the new year’s Diva just as the old year draws to a close.

Please use the comments section to second one of the blogresses below — or to nominate another wise and witty blogress whom we may have neglected. Or you can just e-mail me.

Ann Althouse
The Anchoress
Little Miss Attila
Tammy Bruce
Wizbang‘s Lorie Byrd
Dympha of Gates of Vienna
e-Claire
Jane Galt of Asymmetrical Information
Townhall’s Mary Katharine Ham
Bridget Johnson of GOP Vixen
Reigning Grande Conservative Blogress Diva Sondra K of Knowledge is Power
Carol Platt Liebau
National Review Online‘s K-Lo (Kathryn Jean Lopez)
Kate MacMillan of small dead animals
Michelle Malkin
neo-neo con
Betsy Newmark of Betsy’s Page
Juliette of Baldilocks (and Pajamas)
Pamela of Atlas Shrugs
Pat Santy
Debbie Schlussel
Cathy Seipp
Kathy Shaidle of Relapsed Catholic
Alexandra von Maltzan of All Things Beautiful
Cathy Young

US Senator Gordon Smith (R-OR) delivered a powerful speech on the floor of the Senate last week.  Here are some excerpts.  It is really great stuff and probably summarizes a lot about how I’m feeling these days, too.

When we came to the vote on Iraq, it was an issue of great moment for me. No issue is more difficult to vote on than war and peace, because it involves the lives of our soldiers, our young men and women. It involves the expenditure of our treasure, putting on the line the prestige of our country. It is not a vote taken lightly. I have tried to be a good soldier in this Chamber. I have tried to support our President, believing at the time of the vote on the war in Iraq that we had been given good intelligence and knowing that Saddam Hussein was a menace to the world, a brutal dictator, a tyrant by any standard, and one who threatened our country in many different ways, through the financing and fomenting of terrorism. For those reasons and believing that we would find weapons of mass destruction, I voted aye.

I have been rather silent on this question ever since. I have been rather quiet because, when I was visiting Oregon troops in Kirkuk in the Kurdish area, the soldiers said to me: Senator, don’t tell me you support the troops and not our mission. That gave me pause. But since that time, there have been 2,899 American casualties. There have been over 22,000 American men and women wounded. There has been an expenditure of $290 billion a figure that approaches the expenditure we have every year on an issue as important as Medicare. We have paid a price in blood and treasure that is beyond calculation by my estimation.

Now, as I witness the slow undoing of our efforts there, I rise to speak from my heart.

***

Many things have been attributed to George Bush. I have heard him on this floor blamed for every ill, even the weather. But I do not believe him to be a liar. I do not believe him to be a traitor, nor do I believe all the bravado and the statements and the accusations made against him. I believe him to be a very idealistic man. I believe him to have a stubborn backbone. He is not guilty of perfidy, but I do believe he is guilty of believing bad intelligence and giving us the same.

I can’t tell you how devastated I was to learn that in fact we were not going to find weapons of mass destruction. But remembering the words of the soldier–don’t tell me you support the troops but you don’t support my mission–I felt the duty to continue my support. Yet I believe the President is guilty of trying to win a short war and not understanding fully the nature of the ancient hatreds of the Middle East. Iraq is a European creation. At the Treaty of Versailles, the victorious powers put together Kurdish, Sunni, and Shia tribes that had been killing each other for time immemorial. I would like to think there is an Iraqi identity. I would like to remember the purple fingers raised high. But we can not want democracy for Iraq more than they want it for themselves. And what I find now is that our tactics there have failed.

***

Again, I am not a soldier, but I do know something about military history. And what that tells me is when you are engaged in a war of insurgency, you can’t clear and leave. With few exceptions, throughout Iraq that is what we have done. To fight an insurgency often takes a decade or more. It takes more troops than we have committed. It takes clearing, holding, and building so that the people there see the value of what we are doing. They become the source of intelligence, and they weed out the insurgents. But we have not cleared and held and built. We have cleared and left, and the insurgents have come back.

I, for one, am at the end of my rope when it comes to supporting a policy that has our soldiers patrolling the same streets in the same way, being blown up by the same bombs day after day. That is absurd. It may even be criminal. I cannot support that anymore. I believe we need to figure out how to fight the war on terror and to do it right. So either we clear and hold and build, or let’s go home.

What will continue to guide the way I vote is simply this: I do not believe we can retreat from the greater war on terror. Iraq is a battlefield in that larger war. But I do believe we need a presence there on the near horizon at least that allows us to provide intelligence, interdiction, logistics, but mostly a presence to say to the murderers that come across the border: We are here, and we will deal with you. But we have no business being a policeman in someone else’s civil war.

***

We were not prepared to win the peace by clearing, holding, and building. You don’t do that fast and you don’t do it with too few troops. I believe now that we must either determine to do that, or we must redeploy in a way that allows us to continue to prosecute the larger war on terror. It will not be pretty. We will pay a price in world opinion. But I, for one, am tired of paying the price of 10 or more of our troops dying a day. So let’s cut and run, or cut and walk, or let us fight the war on terror more intelligently than we have, because we have fought this war in a very lamentable way.

The only thing I would add is that no one knows how to fight the War on Terror in the civilized world.  We value life, our enemy celebrates death — and our media infrastructure is siding with the enemy.  Until we work out the basics of how the US fights this war, I’m afraid we are definitely in for more Iraq-like situations rather than D-Day triumphs.

-Bruce (GayPatriot)

Here’s a great new contribution to political comedy from the guys at JibJab.com.

Enjoy!

-Bruce (GayPatriot)

Senator Johnson Suffers Possible Stroke – Breitbart.com 

I express only the same sentiments of good wishes to Senator Johnson (D-SD) that those on the Left would express if Senator Rick Santorum ever had a stroke.

-Bruce (GayPatriot)

I can’t say I’m at all surprised by this news.   Anyone with half a brain has to wonder what Nifong was thinking to publicly pursue this case in the first place.

DNA testing conducted by a private lab in the Duke lacrosse rape case found genetic material from several males in the accuser’s body and her underwear _ but none from any team member, including the three charged with rape, according to a defense motion filed Wednesday.

The motion, signed by attorneys for defendants Reade Seligmann, Collin Finnerty and David Evans, complained that the information was not disclosed in a report on the testing prosecutors provided earlier this year to the defense.

“This is strong evidence of innocence in a case in which the accuser denied engaging in any sexual activity in the days before the alleged assault, told police she last had consensual sexual intercourse a week before the assault, and claimed that her attackers did not use condoms and ejaculated,” the motion read.

In an interview, defense attorney Joseph Cheshire said the report’s findings suggest the accuser had sex shortly before the March team party where she was hired to perform as a stripper. The woman has said three lacrosse team members gang-raped her in a bathroom at the party.

“None of (the DNA material) happens to be from lacrosse players who are supposed to have had sex with her, which is pretty significant,” said Cheshire, who represents Evans.

Tawana Brawley, call your publicist… this stripper stole your gig!

-Bruce (GayPatriot)

So let me get this straight…

Under President Clinton’s watch between 1993 and 1997, the following terrorist attacks took place by Islamic fundamentalists and/or al-Qaeda.

• February 26, 1993 – World Trade Center bombing in NYC
• November 13, 1995 – US Military Complex bombing Saudi Arabia
• June 25, 1996 – Khobar Towers bombings in Saudi Arabia

And in the face of the growing threat to America by the Islamists, the Clinton Administration naturally began spying on Diana, Princess of Wales. 

An official British report into the 1997 car crash that killed Princess Diana will say the U.S. Secret Service was bugging her phone on the night of her death, according to the London newspaper the Observer.

The official report into the Paris crash by former Metropolitan Police chief John Stevens will be published Thursday.

Of course!

Hey, maybe I’m ignoring the 9/11 Commission’s conclusion that America suffered a “lack of imagination” before the September 11th attacks.   I guess a very wise person in the Clinton White House felt the danger of a Perfume Dirty Bomb was the real threat to America at the time.  Maybe it was Sandy “Sticky Fingers” Berger?

And so much for the faux Democrat outrage on warrantless wiretapping. Clinton had apparently reverted back to the J. Edgar Hoover days!

Meantime, Osama bin Laden plotted to kill 3,000 Americans for years before 2001.

**UPDATE** – National Security Agency denies Diana spying.

The National Security Agency is working on a statement that will deny eavesdropping on Princess Diana, a U.S. intelligence official tells CBS News national security correspondent David Martin.

An official British report into the crash that killed Princess Diana concluded that a U.S. intelligence agency was bugging Diana’s phone without the approval of its British counterpart on the night of her death, according to British newspaper reports.

Well, that’s all fine and good for the NSA… but the original British reports say “US Secret Service.”  WTF is going on here?

-Bruce (GayPatriot)

This should be a lesson to American Liberals (*cough* David Corn *cough*) who think it is okay to “out” people in public.  In Nigeria, outings have resulted in the gay community being terrified to have dinner with each other.  And now the government is considering all forms of gays interacting with each other in Nigeria.

In the Muslim north of Nigeria, Bisi Alimi could be stoned to death for having gay sex. In the south, he could face three years in prison. Now, a proposed law would make it illegal just to share a meal at a cafe with gay friends.

The proposal under debate in Nigeria’s House of Representatives would outlaw not just gay marriages, but any form of association between gay people, social or otherwise, and publication of any materials deemed to promote a “same-sex amorous relationship.”

Anyone attending a meeting between gay people, even two friends in a private house, could receive a sentence of five years under the act. Engaging in homosexual acts is already illegal in Nigeria, with those convicted facing jail terms in the south and execution in the north.

Alimi’s been trying to drum up united opposition to the legislation, but says Nigeria’s homosexual community is so far underground and the subject is so taboo that it’s been difficult. The 27-year-old activist is one of few openly gay Nigerians, having been “outed” by a university newspaper three years ago. None of his companions have told their families they are attracted to men. The risk of arrest, beatings or even death is why they requested that only first names be used for this article.

It’s funny how the American Left accuses the Bush Administration of gay oppression and alleges that Bush is building “gay concentration camps” in the Western States.  But the leading indicators of actual gay crimes are coming from the Gay Left itself….. Outing Their Own Community.

Sick.

-Bruce (GayPatriot)

As a reminder to those of you unhappy with your potential 2008 choices, GayPatriot will be monitoring our favorite Independent candidate — Jonathon “The Impaler” Sharkey.

This email from the Presidential hopeful should spice up your morning….

Though Presidential Candidate Jonathon “The Impaler” Sharkey is not holding a Media Press Conference to unveil his new “Impaling Stake” until December 13, 2006 at 1pm in Brunswick, Ohio (the hometown of his wife Spree), he is the talk on the Internet.

Besides guarantying Victory in 2008, Jonathon “The Impaler” guarantees that he will Impale either a criminal or terrorist before the 4th of July 2007. Jonathon doubts it will be here in America. He is getting request from other country’s to make an appearance, with his Impaling Stake. The American Vampyre from New Jersey is out for BLOOD! The BLOOD of our enemies!

I know I’m just another tool for the Impaler’s campaign… but I can’t help myself.

-Bruce (GayPatriot)

Jules Crittenden hits the nail on the head:  The anti-war movement’s big moment has arrived. The pressure for cut-and-walk is on. The moment of defeat is at hand!

While the Greatest Generation suffered 400,000 deaths in order to rid the world of Nazi Fascism, apparently America’s political leaders don’t have the stomach to confront Islamic Fascism in the same way.

The loud chorus of Kumbaya that precedes any American military unit will alert anti-American terrorists that here are people who want to understand why they hate us. Surely this will cause these heartless killers to pause, and reconsider their ways.

I expect John “Last Man” Kerry and John “Cut-and-Run” Murtha — as doves who actually have heard shots fired in anger and engaged in the American imperialist war crime that was Vietnam, but have since repented — will be leading the Doves’ Crusade. I encourage all peaceniks to climb on board for the Big Lose. When your grandkids say, “What did you do when the United States of America was humiliated?” you don’t want to have to change the subject.’

The only person standing between a major American defeat and major Islamist victory in World War III is President George Bush.  Otherwise, the spines in America have become awfully soft these days.

-Bruce (GayPatriot)

Wow.  This is quite ugly.  I’m never quite sure how people that systematically screw the government think they won’t get caught.  I mean people are paid full-time to track down behavior like this.

A prominent gay Republican leader faces a possible 25-year prison sentence after admitting in federal court on Dec. 1 that he cheated New Jersey taxpayers and the IRS out of as much as $1 million.

Robert Stears, 51, who served as chair of the national gay group Log Cabin Republicans from 1999 to 2002, pleaded guilty to one count each of mail fraud and tax evasion charges.

Federal prosecutors began investigating Stears’ company after the head of a local taxpayers advocacy group discovered from public documents that the bridge commission appeared to be paying Strategy Group exorbitant fees for questionable services. Rick Perr, who has since become chair of the Burlington County Democratic Party, said he also discovered from campaign finance records that Strategy Group donated at least $110,000 to the Burlington County Republican Party.

Maybe Stears thought the only way to get ahead in New Jersey politics was to become as corrupt as the Garden State Democrats?

-Bruce (GayPatriot)