After Friday evening's vote in Albany, NY, I've been thinking a great deal about this particular New York native.
Here's to Harvey Milk's adopted home state seeing the light on marriage equality soonest!
How 'bout THIS item in the "this day in history" realm?! I'm sure the NY state legislature had this event in mind the whole time leading up to the vote Friday night. ;D On this date in 1969, patrons at the Stonewall Inn, a gay bar in New York City's Greenwich Village, clashed with police in an incident considered to be the birth of the gay rights movement.
Let's Countdown!
"White House Sit - Down" AKA "Dueling Over Debt" - The memo coming from the White House now concerning debt ceiling negotiations is that getting rid of the GWB tax cuts for the super rich isn't on the table; the presser dude even repeated the often - repeated memo that causes & programs dear to liberal hearts just might be on the chopping or trimming block. Senator Bernie Sanders is not happy with that. Here's that "hostage taking" memo again; Senator Sanders took to the Senate floor to take President Obama to the woodshed! It's too bad the White House probably won't listen. The GOBP wants tax breaks for oil companies & hedge fund managers to stay in place - well duh! *&^%$#@! Mitchie McConnell took to the Senate floor to threaten he'd hold his breath until his face turned blue. ;D
Here's Senator Sanders {insert standing 'o' here}! :D The American people want ACTUAL shared sacrifice; we are willing to do their part if the super rich gives a little, too. Senator Sanders wants President Obama to show some backbone; oh honey, don't hold your breath. The GOBP got what they wanted by holding "we, the people" hostage with the GWB tax cut extensions; they have no reason to believe it won't work again. This President & a whole mess of Dems are just as beholden to the rich & powerful as the GOBP are. *&^%$#@! Even those propping up the GOBP want the debt ceiling raised!! Senator Sanders said the GOBP isn't dumb & can "read the political tea leaves." Some of them might not be dumb, but all of them are petrified of being tea bagged! THAT'S why they're being so damn stubborn about this debt ceiling $hit. Senator Sanders wants us to either sign onto the letter on his website, I guess, or call the White House to let them know what we think about the attempted GOBP debt ceiling shenanigans. I'll try to dig up a link to the letter Senator Sanders mentioned.
"Run Away" AKA "Bachmann's Waterloo" - Bat$hit Bachmann officially entered the 2012 GOBP clown car today in Waterloo. So, we all know what the campaign song is, yes?! ;D I'll also dig up an appropriate logo in the comments. ;D ;D AND, the poor bat$hit darling got her Iowa towns & her "John Wayne"s sparked up. Yea, she stopped reading whatever bio she was reading 1 word or 1 last name short. ;D She's already in 2nd place in Iowa. We then get a review of Bat$hit Bachmann's "greatest hits." HA! And, there's that Hardball clip; man, I saw that live & couldn't believe what I was seeing. Our Great Orange Satanic Leader actually thinks she could get the nomination; gadzooks, I can't decide if I want him to be right or wrong!
Matt Taibbi's back in studio. Did y'all read his Rolling Stone article? Getting her "John Wayne"s mixed up doesn't matter to her minions. Wow, who does THAT remind you of?! *&^%$#@! She had stool issues, too?! ;D Oh, she just can't differentiate between 3 & 4. Chris Wallace called Bat$hit Bachmann a flake but apologized. Well, he should've apologized; what he said WAS AN INSULT TO ACTUAL FLAKES! ;D
"Time Marches On!" - There's a kitty kitty kitty!!!! :D Another German octopus is trying to pick soccer matches again. A flying shark decided to land on a surfer - $HIT!
"High Court 'Chutzpah'" AKA "Campaign Finance Reform" - SCOTUS today overturned a "Show Me Your Papers" state law that allowed for some additional state coin in political races involving opponents backed by super rich PAC TurdBlossom Kochtopus organizations, so we have a Citizens United - lite situation here. I'm a little surprised that Justice Kagen dissented because I have the distinct feeling that had she been on SCOTUS at the time of the Citizens United decision, she would've voted with the majority. Maybe, it was the input of state coin as an equalization effect tilted her in the dissenting camp here. Chief Justice Roberts wrote the majority opinion in the 5 - 4 decision. This margin of "victory", again, is the reason why "Justice" Clarence Thomas ain't leaving SCOTUS. *&^%$#@!
Here's John Dean! Sandra Day O'Connor even had some "words" about today's decision. HELLO?! No, I don't think the "framers" had corporations in mind when the First Amendment was written because CORPORATIONS AREN'T PEOPLE! *&^%$#@! Basically, SCOTUS said today that coin from the state to another candidate was a burden to those who were financing their campaigns with their own money. What a crock of $hit!!
"WPITW" - Greta VanWhatsHerName wants the WI SC judge who was the strangle - ee to resign - NOT the dude who strangled her. Newtie trashed the NY marriage equality vote by pointing out that he defended DOMA while he was in Congress - while he was cheating on his wife at the time. The TSA made a 95 - year - old woman remove her adult diaper in the screening line.
"Legal" AKA "Gay Marriage" - Dan Savage gets happy NY marriage equality duty tonight! Did y'all see pictures of NYC pride parade from this weekend? :D Not all responses in NY state or the country were happy, though. *&^%$#@! Bat$hit Bachmann wants "the people" to decide. Since when do "people" get to decide human rights?! The next big battleground for marriage equality is in MN. Demographics may have helped the marriage equality effort in NY; younger people don't understand what the big sparking deal about "gay marriage" is! TurdBlossom went to see The Book of Mormon?! ;D