Wooohooo This is Good News!!!!!

In one of my earlier blogs I had a thing about a young man who was forced by his parents to go to a camp to make him straight.
Well they are being told to stop, not the parents, the place that is turning out ex-gays!!
Even from their words they can't make someone straight that's why they use the term ex-gay.
Here is the story for all interested.

http://www.365gay.com/newscon05/10/102205exGay.htm

This an excerpt from a news story in yahoo

This is written by:
Andrew Noyes,
PlanetOut Network

In March, a coalition of whistleblower protection and civil rights groups filed a complaint against the former ethics attorney for violating the very nondiscrimination laws his office is charged with enforcing.
Documents acknowledging that the probe would begin were released by Public Employees for Environmental Responsibility (PEER) on Tuesday. In recent months, the case has been supplemented with new allegations against Bloch for supplying misleading information to Congress and misusing his office to support a person espousing creationist views even though the Office of the Special Counsel had no jurisdiction in the matter, PEER said. Bloch previously served as deputy director for the Justice Department's Task Force for Faith-based and Community Initiatives.
Violations against Bloch include failing to uphold the long-standing interpretation of federal law that protects federal civil service employees from discrimination based upon sexual orientation, according to the Human Rights Campaign, one of the organizations that lodged the complaint.
According to PEER, the grievance specified instances of illegal gag orders, cronyism, invidious discrimination and retaliation in forcing the resignations of a number of his legal and investigative staff. The White House and the Office of Personnel Management's director Linda Springer have stated that federal law prohibits discrimination based on sexual orientation in government jobs.
"No bureaucrat has the right to single-handedly roll back decades-old protections for workers securing our homeland and protecting our nation's health," said Human Rights Campaign President Joe Solmonese. He said OPM's Inspector General should reel in a "renegade appointee" who has "ignored the law to satisfy his own extremist agenda."


It seems this isn't the first time some one has tried to make things their way or not at all.

My Letter to the President

This is about federal money being used to rebuild churches and the religious schools.

president@whitehouse.gov
FEMA and Religious Buildings.

I don't think that is equitable to rebuild religious schools etc... with federal money. They do not pay taxes on that property or for their orginazations.
The churches and their schools get money from their parishioners and that is what should be used to do the rebuilding. Since when is the federal government the holding bag for any church?This is truely not seperation of church and state.

S. C. J.

Interesting spin on the apointee

STOP HARRIET MIERS FROM CROWNING BUSH AS KING
This is all the more reason to oppose the appointment of Harriet Miers, who they want to install as yet another rubberstamp crony for the Bush imperial power grab. So greedy is the right wing for absolute power in every respect they want, there are some reactionary commentators who are complaining that they have not been assured that Miers is radical enough for them. This is our nomination to stop, and then we can move on to the REAL struggle which is to fight for a true moderate as the next appointee. Click on the link below also and you can submit both action pages with the same contact information.STOP MIERS IN HER TRACKS at http://www.nocrony.com

We can take no satisfaction with someone just because they don't fulfill EVERYTHING on the wish list of the other side. We must stand up for what WE want and believe. Most of all we must build a national consensus that any new Supreme Court appointees must be true moderates at the worst. We can TAKE ADVANTAGE of the silly opposition of the neocon think tankers who are so intellectually greedy they will not settle for another clone vote like Thomas. Let them hold out for an "in our face" reactionary scholar. In the meantime we must all speak out on the absent merits of Miers and reject her OURSELVES as nothing more than a faith-based crony.
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So many of the orginazations I belong to feel the same way as the PEN.
I have to agree that Shrub is trying to become a dictator and using religion to do it.
I wish this country would wake up more.

Doesn't this prove that the "Religious Right" is a Hate Group

http://www.news-journal.com/news/content/news/stories/2005/10/15/20051015LNJMarriageAmendme.html

Again and again they foist their rules on every one and try to make good folks be "devils" just because we aren't like them. Isn't this how Hitler and his folks start in Germany to start WWII?

Honestly they would find any kind of way to make just about anyone an enemy just because we aren't following their sheeple mode of thinking. It's a control thing and they think they need to control how everyone lives.

This also makes me glad that I am Pagan and as a Pagan we have no need to limit the freedoms or beliefs of any one group of people.

This doesn't do anything to "protect marriage" or children or anything of real use in this society.
It is tearing the country apart and making it easier for hate and fear to run rampant.

Let's help this company !

Let's show them that the AFA and other hate groups like that have no place in our society.

http://www.madison.com/tct/home/topstories/index.php?ntid=57927&ntpid=3

I find this ariticle very interesting as the neo-cons would take away the rights of all women and put us back in the 1800 with their "morals".

Keith Olbermann's blog on MSNBC

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/9665308/#051012a

Ok so I didn't keep track of days, but I'm glad that I am not the only one who noticed this "little" fact.
Distract folks with fear and hate then you can get just about any thing past them. Well I don't get distracted and I'm not afraid of what they want me to be afraid of. So thanks for the good blog.

Message: 2 From one of the online groups that I am in.

Date: Mon, 10 Oct 2005 14:40:38 EDT
From: Proud Liberal 7@
Subject: Battle Hymn of the RepublicansBattle Hymn of the Republicans(to the tune of the above mentioned song Battle Hymn of the Republic)
Mine Eyes have seen the bungling of that stumbling moron Bush;
He has blathered all the drivel that the neo-cons can push;
He has lost sight of all reason 'cause his head is up his tush;
The Doofus marches on.

I have heard him butcher syntax like a kindergarten fool;
There is warranted suspicion that he never went to school;
Should we fault him for the policies -- or is he just their tool?
The lies keep piling on.

Glory! Glory! How he'll Screw Ya'!
Glory! Glory! How he'll Screw Ya'!
Glory! Glory! How he'll Screw Ya'!
His wreckage will live on.

I have seen him cut the taxes of the billionaires' lone heir;
As he spends another zillion on an aircraft carrier;
Let the smokestacks keep polluting -- do we really need clean air?
The surplus is now gone.

Glory! Glory! How he'll Screw Ya'!
Glory! Glory! How he'll Screw Ya'!
Glory! Glory! How he'll Screw Ya'!
Your safety net is gone!

Now he's got a mighty hankerin' to bomb a prostrate state;
Though the whole world knows its crazy -- and the U.N. says to wait;
When he doesn't have the evidence, "We must prevaricate."
Diplomacy is done!

Oh, a trumped-up war is excellent; we have no moral bounds;
Should the reasons be disputed, we'll just make up other grounds;
Enraging several billions -- to his brainlessness redounds;
The Doofus marches on!

Glory! Glory! How he'll Screw Ya'!
Glory! Glory! How he'll Screw Ya'!
Glory! Glory! How he'll Screw Ya'!
THIS...DOO...FUS...MAR...CHES...ON*
(from my email)

Thanks for putting this in the group I seem to remember one similar to this about one of the other persidents many years ago.
I think it may have been(I am not a crook) Nixon.

Bush Chooses Miers for Supreme Court - More of what he said

By DEB RIECHMANN, Associated Press Writer
12 minutes ago
WASHINGTON -
President Bush on Monday nominated White House counsel Harriet Miers to replace retiring Justice
Sandra Day O'Connor on the Supreme Court, reaching into his loyal inner circle for a pick that could reshape the nation's judiciary for years to come.
"She has devoted her life to the rule of law and the cause of justice," Bush said, announcing his choice from the Oval Office with Miers at his side. "She will be an outstanding addition to the Supreme Court of the United States."
If confirmed by the Republican-controlled Senate, Miers, 60, would join Justice
Ruth Bader Ginsburg as the second woman on the nation's highest court and the third to serve there. Miers, who has never been a judge, was the first woman to serve as president of the Texas State Bar and the Dallas Bar Association.
Miers, who Bush called a trailblazer for women in the legal profession, said she was humbled by the nod.
"If confirmed, I recognize I will have a tremendous responsibility to keep our judicial system strong and to help insure the court meets their obligations to strictly apply the laws and Constitution," she said.
Democratic and Republican special interests groups were braced for a political brawl over the pick, Bush's second. But the lack of a judicial record may make it difficult for Democrats to find ground upon which to fight her nomination.
Senate Minority Leader Harry Reid, D-Nev., had urged the administration to consider Miers, two congressional officials said. There was a long list of staunchly conservative judges that Democrats were poised to fight, Miers not among them.
Bush, his approval rating falling in recent months, had been under intense pressure to nominate a woman or a minority.
Miers' pick came shortly before Chief Justice John Roberts was set to take his seat on the court for the first time Monday after breezing to nomination. Miers helped push his nomination through the Senate.
"She will strictly interpret our Constitution and laws. She will not legislate from the bench," Bush said. Conservatives apparently agreed.
"There's every indication that she's very similar to Judge Roberts — judicial restraint, limited role of the court, basically a judicial conservative," said Republican consultant Greg Mueller, who works for several conservative advocacy leaders.
The president offered the job to Miers Sunday night over dinner in the residence. He met with Miers on four occasions during the past couple weeks, officials said.

This does nothing to make me less afraid, only more so.

The Pres Announces his Choice

WASHINGTON (Reuters) -
President George W. Bush picked White House counsel Harriet Miers as the next justice on the
U.S. Supreme Court and was to announce it on Monday morning, senior administration officials said.
Miers, a longtime ally of Bush's going back to his days as Texas governor, would replace Justice
Sandra Day O'Connor on the high court.
The announcement was scheduled to come at 8 a.m. EDT (noon GMT) at the White House with Miers present.
A senior administration official said the name of Miers, 60, came up in consultations with both Republican and Democratic senators as someone who could win bipartisan support.
The official also said some senators from both parties thought it was important for Bush to pick someone who was not a judge and could offer a different perspective on the job.
Bush offered her the job on Sunday night over dinner at the White House residence, the official said.
O'Connor was a key swing vote on the closely divided Supreme Court and her replacement was certain to undergo great scrutiny at the U.S. Senate, which must confirm Bush's choice.
The announcement will come just hours before the Supreme Court opens its 2005-2006 term with Bush's first choice for the court, Chief Justice John Roberts, taking his seat for the first time.

He said she was a part of a group called Exodus, isn't that a right wing fundimental group?
She may be a good lawyer, but she has no experiance as a judge.
She also has no paper trail to tell us who she is and how she sees things.
This is scary.