The other day, I received in the mail the following "2009 Priority Issues Survey" from the DCCC (Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee). The idea is to gather our input ("us" being happy Democratic donors, presumably) about which topics the Democrats in the House should prioritize in the coming year or so.
The brochure is reprinted below in its entirety. See if you can guess WHICH Democratic issue, heavily campaigned on by Barack Obama during the 2008 presidential race, is completely missing.
Pretty thorough, isn't it? And yet, there's something missing. Full story...
From National Catholic Reporter's Chuck Colbert comes an utterly damning breakdown of Portland Roman Catholic Diocese Bishop Richard J.
The anti-gay Family Policy Institute of Washington has posted a video called "BY PROHIBITING GAY MARRIAGE, AREN'T WE VIOLATING THE SEPERATION (sic) OF CHURCH AND STATE?".
crossposted on Holy Bullies and Headless Monsters
This Adam Lambert controversy is ridiculous - that's my take on it.
Well. The Catholic Church spends oodles to defeat marriage equality in Maine, and yet there own record on child abuse.
The Advocate is asking the question "Would you support the Employment Non-Discrimination Act if gender identity protections were again taken out of the bill?"
As of 9:30 AM PST Thanksgiving morning, this is the response:
The initial response from the non-scientific poll responders seems to be a big "No.
I was waiting for evidence that the networks, particularly CBS with its blurring of Adam Lambert's on-screen kiss of his male bandmate during the post-Children's Hour performance on the American Music Awards.
A real laff-fest for you...Rep. Michele "deranged" Bachmann (R-MN) as a featured guest along with Sarah "Bible Spice" Palin at the first National Tea Party Convention can conjure up a lot of jokes, but it's all true, including restricted press access to save them from themselves on camera.
Blame Dawn in Maine for this video- we were just talking about Arlo a few minutes ago on the phone and I mentioned that the first time I ever heard "Alice's Restaurant" was on Thanksgiving Day 1987, as I was driving back from my relative's in Amherst MA to my apartment outside Boston.
From the San Francisco Chronicle:
Air quality officials have called a Spare the Air alert for Thanksgiving, meaning the burning of wood and manufactured fire logs is banned both indoors and outdoors from midnight tonight until midnight Thursday.
From: http://www.tips-q.com/1638591-war-thanksgiving
This gem is from Christian Newswire:
The war over Thanksgiving as a holiday began when a generation was taught that the holiday's first setting was Pilgrims being saved from starvation by Native Americans.
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