Like a typical GOP politician, congressman lived a “full and married” life as a closeted homosexual, constantly deriding and beating on fellow gays legislatively …..until he was caught — arrested for a DUI after leaving the gay nightclub FACES, in Sacramento, CA. When the police stopped the state-issued vehicle, there was an unidentified man (lover) in the passenger seat of the car.

LOL!

Yesterday, he came out — a freshly minted “Gay American,” like the former New Jersey governor, James McGreevey, who announced his resignation in 2004, revealing that he is gay and that he had an adulterous affair with a man.

The difference between the two cases, is that McGreevey never bashed fellow gays, unlike many of his Republican counterparts — several of whom have been caught; one, a Sen. Larry E. Craig (R-Idaho) in a Minnesota TOILET.

Asked when did he know he was gay, and if he had come out to his family, Senator Roy Ashburn said “That’s my private life and that’s personal,” “I don’t think it’s relevant to how I do my job,” “my personal life is my personal life, I’ve already said that I’m gay.” “The facts are what they are. I acknowledge what I DID and I’ll pay the consequences for that.”

Yes, once again, another “holier-than-thou,” “sexual pervert,” — a member of the “GOD people,” the “Moral Majority,” has fallen flat on his “moral ass.”

If you are gay, you are gay ….no ifs or buts. Just be who you are and roll with the punches! There is really nothing to be ashamed of — because shame will not change your orientation. You are stuck with it, and the demeaning opinions held by some — especially the “Religious Hypocrites.”

Lastly, a man not true to himself, cannot be true to anybody else — his constituents, “wife,” friends and sundry.

I can imagine how “ghastly” the cheated wife feels right now.

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   Columnist – John Sammon
The news yesterday that Democratic Senator Barbara Boxer’s opponents are trying to make hay out of a remark she recently made to a general asking him not to call her “ma’am,” but to call her “senator” instead, sparked personal memories of Boxer of my own.

I had a rare, momentary insight into Boxer, and the kind of ego and strokes it takes to make a national candidacy. I did this by doing as was my habit at the time, and still is, by standing in the wrong place (for Boxer) at the right time (for me).

I have never related it until now.

This is not about politics. I have been an avowed enemy of the right wing of late.

Nevertheless, when Boxer was running for the US Senate in 1992, I was a reporter at a small-time newspaper in Placerville, California.

Boxer came through for an appearance.

It was apparent she was too busy to stay long in this town of about 8,000. Small-town reporters like I was got used to this. It’s a huge moment for us when somebody famous comes to visit, but often a non-event for the bored celebrity.

It was apparent she would not grace her Placerville supporters with a speech. She was in a rush. She had to get to Sacramento, a much bigger town.

A bunch of the local party faithful munched what looked to be stale salad in a ground-floor hotel activity room while Boxer breezed in, exchanged perfunctory greetings with a select few local yokels of note, and then headed quickly to a second-story hotel room. She had a retinue of females surrounding her who appeared to be hangers-on accompanying her on the campaign.

Politicians always say how much they love allegedly common-as-dirt people, but when push comes to shove, they often give away their actual in-person disdain.

There was obviously something important going on upstairs, so I let myself be swept, jostled and bumped along with the group. I have this unique ability to blend in despite my size, almost like I’m one of those tropical fish that can change color to match the surrounding corral rocks.

Maybe it’s because I’m a non-entity.

As an example, on one other occasion I innocently, not knowing, entered a top secret meeting where the press was supposed to barred, and I didn’t know it, and I listened to the whole secret meeting before its horrified organizers discovered I was a reporter. They screamed at me. I thought they were going to forbid me to leave, make me a prisoner and lock me in a closet.

But that’s another story.

Anyway, back to Boxer.

She jostled through the excited crowd with her female retinue and pushed her way into the small hotel room. The door closed. There was something on television much more important than the small-town political rally going on down below.

They were watching her be interviewed on (I think) the TV Show 60 Minutes. The door opened a crack. There she was, seated on a bed, surrounded by her worshipful retainers. They were laughing at every supposedly clever pithy thing she must have been saying on the TV. Their eyes shined with wild excited delight. Her sycophants were literally chortling along with her at everything memorable and witty she must have been saying on the TV screen.

How wonderful they all thought she was (including herself).

It must be thrilling to be a star.

I got the idea from watching it for just that moment, seeing what I wasn’t supposed to see, that here was a supreme ego and its admiring adherents at work.

She maybe stayed all of 10 minutes and then left.

I have never forgotten seeing that brief secret glimpse of a candidacy. It bothers me still because I think it shows our elected officials are subjected to a grandiosity they find it hard to control or to play down.

It’s easy in these cases to lose touch with reality.

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USAToday: “I don’t get the hard fouls I used to,” Obama said — talking to Leno about pickup basketball games under the watchful eyes of Secret Service agents.

Obama, the first sitting president to appear on the show (The Tonight Show With Jay Leno), told Leno he was stunned when he learned of the bonuses that insurance giant AIG was paying to retain certain employees as it goes through a restructuring with taxpayer money. Obama said the payments raise moral and ethical problems and that the administration’s going to do everything it can to get them back.

As he did a day earlier at a fairgrounds meeting in Costa Mesa, Calif., Obama encountered largely adoring and enthusiastic crowds at the Miguel Contreras Learning Center in downtown L.A. Attendees had placed their names on an online site and were selected by lottery.

“I was inspired,” said Tonantzin Castro, 31, of Pasadena, who said she was unemployed and looking to Obama for help for the jobless. “He’s not a miracle worker; it was just his general ideas of hope. Watching the news is so demoralizing, and you start to lose that hope.”

Across the street from the school’s gym where the president spoke, several hundred people waved a variety of signs in favor of legalizing illegal immigrants. [ READ MORE ]

Keith Olbermann Previews Obama’s Leno Visit With Craig Ferguson

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I watched last Saturday’s “forum on faith” at the Saddleback Church in California, hosted Rev. Rick Warren, and it was pretty obvious that McCain, who was questioned after Obama had an unfair advantage.

McCain got some notice that Obama did not.

NBC political reporter Andrea Mitchell reported Sunday that Obama aides thought McCain “may have had some ability to overhear what the questions were to Obama.”

She was right.

A Republican pastor plus his “God-Smooching” crowd…..Please!

The so-called evangelicals follow some of the most racist and bigoted Ministers (pastors) in the United States, who freely advocate American wars based on Biblical mandates, rant hatefully against Islam, and argue that natural disasters occur because God hates gay people.

Pastor Warren might not utter the same, but he and his congregants belong to the same cesspool — a snake pit of the most racist vipers in America, who have and continue to use Religion (Christianity) to persecute others who do not think like them.

The entire Republican establishment is permitted actively to lavish them with praise and court their support without the slightest backlash or controversy.

To me, Religion is a disease, an affliction that is the catalyst of 90% of the world’s problems.

Comedian Bill Maher says: “Religion as brain disease,” “Christians have neurological disorder,” ……”I think religion is a neurological disorder…. When you were a kid and they were telling you whatever you believe in religion, do you think if they had switched the fairy tales that they read to you in bed with the Bible, you would know the difference? Do you think if it was the fairy tale about a man who lived inside of a whale and it was religion that Jack built a beanstalk today, you would know the difference? Why do you believe in one fairy tale and not the other? Just because adults told you it was true and they scared you into believing it, at pain of death, at pain of burning in hell.

My friend at afriqueonline.com says: God doesn’t exist. He never did . . . he never will. Wake up . . . grow up . . . and get over it! Religion is a fairy tale for adults, a scam run by priests, ministers, rabbis, nuns, witch doctors, bishops and popes so that suckers will pay for their big houses, fine clothes and BMW’s. As scary as it might sound, you alone are responsible for what happens in your life, not some imaginary spook living in a paradise in the sky . . . not some evil goblin living underground in a fiery pit . . . You!….[read more]

I agree with both, and it pains me to admit that my own dear mother is hooked to Religion like a junkie on crack-cocaine.

I rejected Religion (All Religion) at the age of five. At first my mom could drag me to church by force, but when I got bigger later in my teen years and she got older, the best she could do was scream at me (poor mama).

But don’t get me wrong — she is the best human being on earth and so are many other evangelicals — those who are not bent in shoving religion down my throat.

My early rejection of religion has not prevented me from knowing what’s right and what’s wrong — several decades later.

Now, back to ReTHUGlican McCain.

The New York Times and so many others reported that John McCain was not sitting in what Pastor Rick Warren referred to as “the cone of silence” while Barack Obama was questioned during Saturday night’s Saddleback Civil Forum on the Presidency.

McCain staffers told journalists that the Republican candidate was in a motorcade on his way to the church when Obama was on stage, but heard none of the questions.

Several times the pastor allowed McCain to “Stump” as if in a town-hall meeting, a luxury that was not accorded Mr. Obama.

After this charade, as usual, blood-sucking right-wing snakes(pundits) rushed out to toast McCain’s victory over Obama.

Rick Warren is just another lying and conniving “give GOD 10% of your wealth” pastor. I bet you he discussed every question with McCain before conducting the forum.

That had to be the case — judging from how relaxed the bumbling McCain was on Saturday.

This was a setup!

God’s Profits: Faith, Fraud, and the Republican Crusade for Values Voters

Special Comment on McCain: Olbermann chastises McCain: Grow up!
Senator is acting like a child, needs immediate attitude adjustment

Overnight, some industries would become desperate for workers. The biggest beneficiaries would be low-skilled American workers. The big losers might surprise you.

At least 12 million illegal immigrants live in the U.S. Most pick crops, wash dishes, build houses, cut lawns and do other jobs for between $6 and $15 an hour. They make up about 5% of the total U.S. work force. But…

What they were all thrown out?

Lettuce and strawberries would rot in the fields. Dirty dishes would pile up in restaurants. Thousands of farmers and builders would go bust. Predator aircraft drones would prowl the Mexican border. And chunks of Los Angeles and Houston would look like ghost towns.

The biggest losers would be middle-class families with two working parents, living in high-immigrant states such as California, Texas, Florida or New York. Why? They would pay more for food, housing, entertainment and child care as a shortage of low-skilled workers drove up some wages, and therefore, some prices. Meantime, their own pay would remain the same. What’s more, the ripple effect of thousands of businesses shrinking or closing for lack of staff might put one of the parents out of a job. Not to mention the garbage collection going to pot and no one to polish the missus’ nails.

   Immigrants Rally in the U.S. — 2007

How likely is it that this will happen?

Although polls show that most Americans want stronger border enforcement, deporting the illegal immigrants already here is not popular. A CBS News poll found 33% of Americans favored deportation [Republicans], while 62% preferred offering legal status. In a Gallup poll, 13% favored deportation and 78% favored offering citizenship. Neither John McCain nor Barack Obama leans toward deportation.

Crime

Critics of lax immigration policies say that drug running, traffic accidents and crime would go down with the illegal immigrants gone. But The Immigration Policy Center, a Washington research group, argues that studies show that immigrants in general are less likely to commit crimes or to end up behind bars than native-born Americans. The debate goes on.

Immigration Hate Crimes Across America!

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REFERENCES:

1. CNN’s Lou Dobbs – The Minister of ‘Propaganda and Enlightenment’
2. More Immigration Articles | Part 1 | Part 2 |