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Red-Hot Bigot List: Stand for Marriage Maine Yes On 1 Donor Filings

Lavender Newswire  Oct 15 09

Filed October 13, 2009 Notes: • The data that follows is taken from Maine Commission on Government Ethics & Election Practices PDF file, and sorted for easy reading.

DU “Admin”/DUer Trying to Login as Me: Did You Find What You Were Looking For?

Lavender Newswire  Oct 13 09

A visitor from host81-152-29-68.range81-152.btcentralplus.com (81.152.29.68) arrived from www.democraticunderground.

I Am Thy Creature; I Ought to be Thy Adam (Translation: It’s Over. I’m Done. I Quit.)

Lavender Newswire  Sep 17 09

“Remember, thou hast made me more powerful than thyself… “Remember, that I am thy creature; I ought to be thy Adam; but I am rather the fallen angel, whom thou drivest from joy for no misdeed.

Oh, No… Not Mary Travers

Lavender Newswire  Sep 17 09

My heart is shattered. Mary Travers - a member of the hugely popular 1960s US folk group Peter, Paul and Mary - has died aged 72.

Dear Hawaiians: Between the Mormons and “Beat Haole Day,” You Can Have Hawaii Back

Lavender Newswire  Sep 11 09

Honest, Hawaiians, I used to be in favor of returning Hawaii to independent sovereignty because it was the right thing to do.

Just Sign It This Time, Arnold

Lavender Newswire  Sep 11 09

…unless you’re trying to Gaslight us with an annual case of déjà vu. Harvey Milk Day Bill Headed To Governor’s Desk A bill to establish a statewide day honoring slain former San Francisco city supervisor and gay civil rights leader Harvey Milk is headed to Gov.

Q. What’s Worse Than Cheating on Your Wife With Two Other Women?

Lavender Newswire  Sep 10 09

Take your pick: A1. Bragging that you’re cheating on your wife with two other women, then saying it was all “just talk,” dragging one of your so-called conquests through the mud along with you; or: A2.

Brian Brown’s Very Bad Week

Lavender Newswire  Sep 10 09

By Fred Karger, Californians Against Hate Poor Brian Brown. It has not been a good week for him and his Mormon front group, the National Organization for Marriage (NOM).

Where Do We Sign?

Lavender Newswire  Sep 10 09

Marijuana Initiative Enters Circulation Changes California Law to Legalize, Regulate, and Tax Marijuana.

Why Hasn’t Glenn Beck Been Locked in a Cage Yet?

Lavender Newswire  Sep 10 09

And why he been excommunicated by the Mormon church yet? Or is this sort of thing A-OK with Salt Lake, Inc.

Courage Campaign Calls on Attorney General to Investigate Assemblyman Michael Duvall

Lavender Newswire  Sep 09 09

LOS ANGELES — September 9, 2009 — After California Assemblyman Michael Duvall (R-Orange County) was caught making obscene boasts about sex with married lobbyists on a live microphone in committee meeting, the 700,000-member Courage Campaign called on Attorney General Jerry Brown to investigate.

California: Rabidly Anti-Gay “Family Values” Republican Mike Duvall Caught With Pants Down

Lavender Newswire  Sep 09 09

Or, at least, on a hot mic, describing the lurid details (details so lurid, even we won’t repeat them here) of his affairs with two female married lobbyists.

We Lost a Friend Today

Lavender Newswire  Sep 09 09

Well, yesterday, actually, but we found out today. Victoria was a Tory (a Thatcher Tory), and a Republican (dual citizenship, you see, with a home on each side of the pond) — and a nurse who worked through the London blitzkriegs (and who came home one day to find a gaping hole where her house used [.

Wal-Mart Kills

Lavender Newswire  Sep 08 09

If this sounds like nothing more than a bizarre, isolated incident in China, keep reading; after the fifth paragraph, your jaw will be on your chest: Another Wal-Mart Shoplifter Is Killed

Soap Star Fired for Refusing to Perform Job, Plays Christian Martyr Card

Lavender Newswire  Sep 08 09

Of course, to hear her tell it, she was fired for — gasp! — being a Christian. Oh, poor little persecuted martyr! Jesus, Mary, and Carrie Prejean, whatever shall we do??? Soap Star: “I Was Fired for Religious Beliefs” One Life to Live actress Patricia Mauceri says she was axed from the soap earlier this year because [.

R.I.P. Albert L. Gordon (1915-2009)

Lavender Newswire  Sep 08 09

Albert L. Gordon dies at 94; attorney fought for gay rights Albert L. Gordon, an attorney who helped advance gay rights in the 1970s and ’80s by challenging discriminatory practices and laws, including a successful effort to decriminalize consensual homosexual acts, died Aug.

You Should Weep, Monica Hesse. Harder.

Lavender Newswire  Sep 08 09

‘Sanity & a Smile’ and an Outpouring of Rage The [Washington] Post recently featured a story by reporter Monica Hesse that ran on the front of the Style section while she was on vacation.

Conservative Babylon

Lavender Newswire  Sep 03 09

…has moved. Your existing deep links should redirect your visitors automatically (no need to thank us — you’re welcome! LOL) to the correct page(s), but for future ref: http://ConservativeBabylon.

Interrupted Communications While We Move

Lavender Newswire  Sep 01 09

No doubt you’ve noticed our sporadic posts and blazing error flame-outs. Reason is, The Lavender Newswire is migrating to a new database (the old one is bloated and corrupted), and Conservative Babylon is (finally!) relocating to its own domain (woo hoo!).

ACLU Mourns Passing of Larry Frankel, Former ACLU-PA Legislative and Executive Director

Lavender Newswire  Aug 30 09

PHILADELPHIA — August 30, 2009 — It is with great sadness that the American Civil Liberties Union of Pennsylvania marks the passing of Larry Frankel, who served as Legislative Director to the organization from 1992 through 2008 and Executive Director from 1996 to 2001.

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