However the whole prop-8 debate makes me mad from the sense of privacy and respect. Some idiot has now put up eightmaps.com which will allow any nutcase radical activist type to hunt down and harass those with whom they disagree. Google is party to this, and should be made to take it down or at least remove people’s names and adresses.

Let’s all hope that fair-minded and decent people of all viewpoints can see the danger in this. This time you might smirk that it has those ‘evil conservative minded types’ on the run. I guarantee if it was a similar breech of privacy for left-thinking individuals (pick ANY leftist issue), people would be screaming bloody murder from the highest mountaintop. The hypocrisy is mind boggling here. Any number of groups involved in terrorism or human rights violations could use the google map technology for bad intentions.

Try reading the link, in which you not only see Hilary Rosen, but examples of DNC leadership like Andrew Tobias supporting and endorsing said gay marriage bans.

That being said – I also agree with your point that masculinity is more compatible with being a so-called “man’s man” and expressing one’s emotions through physical contact. I’ve always said that gay men are more “masculine” than straight men because of our appreciation for the male form and physique.

And not to hijack the thread or open a can of worms, but there tends to be a dichotomy between “masculine” gay men and the feminized ones. As I’ve always told my friends and family, being gay doesn’t necessarily mean being a pansy. If I wanted to have sex with a woman, I’d have married one. (Fortunately I didn’t – Hubby is truly a man’s man. But I digress.)

Bruce and/or Dave, maybe there’s a blog topic in all of this somewhere?

BTW – Ash, good points and all. Would love to hear more from you about this.

Regards,
Peter H.

Let me think of 3 off the top of my head.

1) Steve Stivers who, despite some voting irregularities certified by a blatently partisan democrat Sec of state, didn’t challenge the loss to Mary Jo Kilroy.

2) That Gov of Washington who was blatently cheated out of an election by the democrats, but didn’t fight it ‘for the good of the state of Washington.’

3) Richard Nixon, 1960. Who lost to blatent manipulation by the Daley machine and LBJ in Texas, but didn’t fight, for the good of the nation.

Yes, this means I’m rating Nixon as having higher standards than Obama, since you conceed he’d do or say anything to be elected.

How did the gathering go?

like every single candidate for every single office from both major parties.

Just wondering.

Regards,
Peter H.

Actually, I don’t think Wright is lying, in the sense that he knows better and is deliberately telling a falsehood, when he rants about the United States and white people; he’s just saying what he actually believes, regardless of how stupid it is. Ultimately what got Wright disowned was that he told the truth about Obama, which is that Obama will say and do whatever he has to to get elected — including denouncing Hamas when Wright knows Obama supported him and his support of Hamas.

Congratulations NDT, you’ve found a new BS lie to sling at me. A person’s skin color, or language, or blah blah blah does not excuse them from being held accountable and gives them no extra priviliges with me, never has and never will.

Funny how when Wright rants and raves about the US and white folk he’s a hateful liar. When he claims something about Obama that you agree with he’s suddenly telling the truth. You are so full of sh*T

What’s more, dingleberry, I was told by two HFD batallion chiefs that I was wasting my time applying BECAUSE they were looking for blacks and Hispanics. Foolishly, I applied anyway because I thought that my credentials would speak louder than the color of my skin. But I was younger and dumber back then. And no, no other white candidates were accepted during that hiring process.

In an industry dominated by favoritism of who you know (literally and biblically) rather than what you know, knowing Dr. “Red” Duke, Dr. Paul Pepe and one of Dr. Debakey’s chest cutters didn’t hold a candle to my lack of melanin.

I’m quite aware of why I didn’t make it into HFD and why I didn’t make it in Emergency Management. Clearly you don’t, nor do you know jack shit about me and my work aptitude. You don’t even know that I don’t wallow in victimhood as liberals are wont to do.

I’ll give you kudos though. Generally liberals won’t answer my questions, I suppose, out of fear that they’ll actually expose their ignorance or what they really think. Fact remains that they don’t have to. You at least tried.