Two others need special mention: Michael Totten and Huffington Post. I am not a normal reading of Huffington Post, but the work being done by one reporter is great. Also check out Pajamas TV for more up to the minute news. I found some good Iranian blogs in English with detailed information and lots of video footage and photos.

The Iranian women are doing great, and they really want their freedom.

As for your President…… does he have any balls?

Regards,
Peter H.

Oh, it’ll take awhile for that to happen, but note carefully: leftists never stand up strongly for gays in Islamic countries. Just as they never stand up for women’s rights there, either. What does that tell you about their real priorities?

I live in Texas, and damn if I can figure how how Prop 8 affects me.

Here’s a clue: IT DOESN’T.

Regards,
Peter H.

Pat, no disrespect intended, but if you’re still at a stage where you believe Obama and the Democrats will be “forming some position” with the participation or input of Republicans, you have about 67 or 68 stops to go before you hit cynical.

I imagine Obama, Democrats in Congress, and Republicans will be forming some position regarding this. They just have to figure out what it is, and make it sound authentic as opposed to something for political gain. Yeah, I’m pretty cynical now.

I have been Twittering my ass off throughout the weekend on the subject!

They say that 90% of the tweets come from 10% of the users

Life in America for us is ashamedly better than nearly every other country on earth.

Is that a typo? Not saying it is; I can assign a valid meaning to it “as written”, like:
1) It’s shameful how some other countries (Iran) treat gays;
2) We should be ashamed that we have such petty outrage in this country, when in fact our gay life is great.

Same thing here: A person opposed to Prop 8 sees it as immediately impacting their lives in a meaningful and tangible way, while gay rights (or women’s rights, or religious rights) in a country halfway around the world doesn’t intrude that much into our day-to-day lives.

I’m not giving them a free pass, but it is a part of the human condition that the mote in our eye is MUCH more important than the plank is someone else’s eye.

So many (not all) on the Left will support the Palestinians as a way of showing their dissatisfaction with Western culture and with the US in particular, the consequences for the people actually involved be damned. The Israelis are just too Western for their tastes. They’ll become more riled about gay marriage than legal, state sanctioned murders for homosexuality because to admit that the latter is worse (ie. that Iran is worse than the US) would be to admit that conservatives have got something right and have some valid points.

Yet who do the American Gays side with in their protests? Palestinian terrorists.

And they call ME self-loathing! ROFL.