http://www.gaypatriot.net The Internet home for American gay conservatives. Sat, 04 Jul 2009 05:39:19 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en Guess I shouldn't have been so surprised to see this sign as I approached the Bay Bridge, given my left-of-center friend who was wearing green for Iran.  Seems even the folks in Oakland support freedom for the Iranian people. Sorry I couldn't get a better picture, but snapped this in very ... http://www.gaypatriot.net/2009/07/04/oaklander-supports-free-iran/ So much did the youngest PatriotNephewWest like the hat his favorite uncle bought him that he tried it on without taking off the price tag: Then, he and his Mommy took me for a walk through Golden Gate park. And every time I looked at him, he responded with a ... http://www.gaypatriot.net/2009/07/03/patriotnephewwest-models-his-new-hat/ This story must have broke when I was crossing the Bay Bridge (after being stuck in traffic to get through toll plaza for nearly and hour) driving across the Golden State en route to spending the holiday weekend with my youngest nephew. My initial thought is that this all ... http://www.gaypatriot.net/2009/07/03/on-palins-intentions-to-resign-as-governor/ It must be true... a McClatchy newspaper sez so today.  Right there, above the fold in today's Charlotte Observer: Dismal Numbers 14.7 million: People unemployed in June, the most ever in records dating to 1948.  (GP Ed. Note - obviously there were more during the Great Depression) 12.1 million:  People unemployed in December ... http://www.gaypatriot.net/2009/07/03/highest-unemployed-americans-since-1948/ Yesterday, Glenn linked a comment James Taranto made in his Best of the Web column for the on-line edition of the Wall Street Journal: Have you noticed a change in the economic news over the past year or so? It's a deliberately ambiguous question: The actual news has gotten worse, but ... http://www.gaypatriot.net/2009/07/03/does-media-coverage-of-economy-affect-our-perception-of-its-health/ We'll be having another gatheing of GayPatriot readers in the Southland, this coming Tuesday 07/07 @ 7 PM.  And we'll be honoring 007 by drinking our martinis shaken, not stirred. E-mail me for information. http://www.gaypatriot.net/2009/07/03/gaypatriot-la-dinner-tuesday-0707-7-pm/ Welcome Instapundit Readers!  While you're here, you might want to check out my tributes to Karl Malden, my co-blogger's reflections on the President's tanking poll numbers, a thought on how some gay marriage activists have made demonizing Mormons their modus operandi and my observation that the MSM see Obama and ... http://www.gaypatriot.net/2009/07/02/despite-failure-of-stimulus-to-work-as-advertisedpresident-focuses-on-regulatory-schemes-not-economic-recovery/ For the fourth time since I moved to LA, I trekked up to Hollywood Boulevard to honor a legend who had recently passed by laying flowers on his star on the Walk of Fame.  The large wreath is something the Hollywood Chamber of Commerce places over the star of each ... http://www.gaypatriot.net/2009/07/02/and-ordinary-looking-actor-with-an-extraordinary-talent/ Wow.  As PatriotPartner said to me -- "Want to see a lead balloon?  Go to Rasmussen today". (h/t - HotAir) Ed Morrissey sums it all up nicely over at HotAir. Rasmussen’s new poll, taken before the release of June’s unemployment numbers, shows significant slippage for Barack Obama on the economy, his central ... http://www.gaypatriot.net/2009/07/02/obama-support-is-tanking/ This is depressing news. My prayers go out to him and his family.  Please let's all pay attention to what is going on in both Iraq and Afghanistan! CAMP LEATHERNECK, July 2 -- A U.S. soldier missing from his base in eastern Afghanistan since Tuesday is believed to have been ... http://www.gaypatriot.net/2009/07/02/us-soldier-captured-in-afghanistan/ One of the greatest character actors of all time has died. Karl Malden, who won an Academy Award for best supporting actor in A Streetcar Named Desire, died of natural causes yesterday in Los Angeles. He was 97. He made up for his ordinary looks by his extraordinary performances, distinguishing ... http://www.gaypatriot.net/2009/07/02/in-memoriam-karl-malden/ When talking to (and reading the e-mails of) my gay friends and acquaintances about Mormons, all too many of them insist on insulting that faith and its flock, largely because of the church's involvement in the efforts to pass Proposition 8 last fall. Recall the hysteria of the protests last fall ... http://www.gaypatriot.net/2009/07/02/theyd-rather-demonize-mormons-than-promote-gay-marriage/ .  . . . he wouldn't be facing headlines like this one in the Christian Science Monitor:  Are Specter’s Senate days numbered? With his polls slipping and Congressman Joe Sestak having all but announced a bid to challenge the Senator in Pennsylvania's Democratic primary, the odds against the Republican-turned-Democrat returning to ... http://www.gaypatriot.net/2009/07/02/if-arlen-specter-had-voted-against-the-stimulus/ Well, there are many.  You know, like her actually having executive experience before she appeared on the national stage--and actually taking on corruption in her party.  Ace identifies another one--perhaps the one which prevented her from looking as good in interviews during the fall campaign as he did: As I said ... http://www.gaypatriot.net/2009/07/02/the-primary-difference-between-sarah-palin-barack-obama/ During the presidential campaign last fall, former House Speaker Newt Gingrich speculated that no "elite television journalist" ever asked Republican Vice Presidential nominee Sarah Palin about her "actual career in Alaska": The media paid as little attention to her record in office as they did to that of their preferred candidate, ... http://www.gaypatriot.net/2009/07/01/obama-palin-blank-slates-on-which-journalists-project-their-biases/ GayPatriot reader Jeff Fenner sent me this "letter to the editor" for publication.  I have reprinted in its entirety. All I can say is.... AMEN, brother! -Bruce (GayPatriot) ========== Call me crazy, but I don’t see anywhere in the United States Constitution that gives anyone the right to marry, least of all, heterosexuals. What ... http://www.gaypatriot.net/2009/07/01/constitutional-marriage-rights-where-bra-readers-view/ I task all my readers to ask their feminist friends how they would rate the following hypothetical woman: While a housewife, having only been elected to local office, this woman helped expose the corruption and/or end the political careers of three white male Republican politicians holding statewide office. Ask them if they ... http://www.gaypatriot.net/2009/07/01/assignment-to-our-readersquestion-to-determine-integrity-of-your-feminist-friends/ In his short biography on the greatest man of the century just concluded, British historian John Keegan writes: It is now often thought that Churchill became prime minister because of the success of the German blitzkrieg, which produced the strategic catastrophe against which he had warned throughout the appeasement years.  It ... http://www.gaypatriot.net/2009/07/01/obama-churchill-a-comparison/ Back in the late 1970s, just after Howard Hughes passed, people would regularly come forward saying with fantastic stories detailing how they  met the reclusive billionaire, with him promising them part--or all--of his fortune. Most, if not all of those stories turned out to be fabrications.  As I read the various ... http://www.gaypatriot.net/2009/07/01/on-the-estates-of-eccentric-icons/ I'm ambivalent about gay marriage in part because, in studying the history of the institution, we learn it is defined by gender difference.  Up until the 1990s, those cultures which have recognized same-sex unions either called  them something different than marriage or, if they did call them marriage, required one ... http://www.gaypatriot.net/2009/07/01/on-gender-difference-political-correctness/