Melissa Etheridge is a Genius!!!

Posted by High Priestess Kang as LOL Gheys, Politics

Brilliant!!! Phucking brilliant!!!

You Can Forget My Taxes

Okay. So Prop 8 passed. Alright, I get it. 51% of you think that I am a second class citizen. Alright then. So my wife, uh I mean, roommate? Girlfriend? Special lady friend? You are gonna have to help me here because I am not sure what to call her now. Anyways, she and I are not allowed the same right under the state constitution as any other citizen. Okay, so I am taking that to mean I do not have to pay my state taxes because I am not a full citizen. I mean that would just be wrong, to make someone pay taxes and not give them the same rights, sounds sort of like that taxation without representation thing from the history books.

Okay, cool I don’t mean to get too personal here but there is a lot I can do with the extra half a million dollars that I will be keeping instead of handing it over to the state of California. Oh, and I am sure Ellen will be a little excited to keep her bazillion bucks that she pays in taxes too. Wow, come to think of it, there are quite a few of us fortunate gay folks that will be having some extra cash this year. What recession? We’re gay! I am sure there will be a little box on the tax forms now single, married, divorced, gay, check here if you are gay, yeah, that’s not so bad. Of course all of the waiters and hairdressers and UPS workers and gym teachers and such, they won’t have to pay their taxes either.

Oh and too bad California, I know you were looking forward to the revenue from all of those extra marriages. I guess you will have to find some other way to get out of the budget trouble you are in.

…Really?

When did it become okay to legislate morality? I try to envision someone reading that legislation “eliminates the right” and then clicking yes. What goes through their mind? Was it the frightening commercial where the little girl comes home and says, “Hi mom, we learned about gays in class today” and then the mother gets that awful worried look and the scary music plays? Do they not know anyone who is gay? If they do, can they look them in the face and say “I believe you do not deserve the same rights as me”? Do they think that their children will never encounter a gay person? Do they think they will never have to explain the 20% of us who are gay and living and working side by side with all the citizens of California?

I got news for them, someday your child is going to come home and ask you what a gay person is. Gay people are born everyday. You will never legislate that away.

I know when I grew up gay was a bad word. Homo, lezzie, faggot, dyke. Ignorance and fear ruled the day. There were so many “thems” back then. The blacks, the poor … you know, “them”. Then there was the immigrants. “Them.” Now the them is me.

I tell myself to take a breath, okay take another one, one of the thems made it to the top. Obama has been elected president. This crazy fearful insanity will end soon. This great state and this great country of ours will finally come to the understanding that there is no “them”. We are one. We are united. What you do to someone else you do to yourself. That “judge not, lest ye yourself be judged” are truthful words and not Christian rhetoric.

Today the gay citizenry of this state will pick themselves up and dust themselves off and do what we have been doing for years. We will get back into it. We love this state, we love this country and we are not going to leave it. Even though we could be married in Mass. or Conn, Canada, Holland, Spain and a handful of other countries, this is our home. This is where we work and play and raise our families. We will not rest until we have the full rights of any other citizen. It is that simple, no fearful vote will ever stop us, that is not the American way.

Come to think of it, I should get a federal tax break too…

Oh Liddy Doleeeeeeee…

Posted by High Priestess Kang as Politics, Religion

…where is your precious G-d now?

Not even Jesus can save your sorry, losing ass.

Go Kay Hagan! Go! Go! Go!!!

Posted by High Priestess Kang as Politics, Rants, Religion

Whoops!!!  Elizabeth Dole picked the wrong woman to smear.

Not only am I *praying for Kay Hagan to wipe the electoral floor with Dole’s bouffant, I hope she is compensated appropriately for having to endure this filth.

And…might I add…I saw this vitriol air four times from 08.30 to 11.00 this morning on two local television channels.  Classy!!!

Hagan sues Dole over ‘g-dless’ ad

RALEIGH, N.C. — Democratic U.S. Senate candidate Kay Hagan on Thursday sued Sen. Elizabeth Dole after the Republican refused to stop airing an ad questioning Hagan’s faith.

Hagan also rolled out her own television ad Thursday in which she tells voters “I believe in God” and cites the Bible’s Ninth Commandment to decry her rival’s tactics.

Dole’s ad questions why Hagan went to a fund-raiser at the home of a Boston man who serves as an adviser to the Godless Americans Political Action Committee, an atheist advocacy group.

The ad ends by showing a picture of Hagan while another woman declares in the background, “There is no God.”

“Elizabeth Dole’s attacks on my Christian faith are offensive,” Hagan says in her ad. “She even faked my voice in her TV ad to make you think I don’t believe in God. Well, I believe in God. I taught Sunday School. My faith guides my life, and Sen. Dole knows it.”

Referring to the Ten Commandments, Hagan concludes her response by saying the campaign is about creating jobs and fixing the economy, “not bearing false witness against fellow Christians.”

Dole said the ad does not question Hagan’s faith, only her agenda and associations.

“All I know is that she was willing to travel to Boston, and it was done in a way that, I think, she didn’t want people to know about it,” Dole said.

Hagan’s campaign had demanded that Dole stop airing her ad, and they followed through on their threat of legal action, filing paperwork in Wake County Superior Court as a prelude to a libel and defamation suit.

Dole’s campaign called the suit “frivolous” and said they would try to get it dismissed.

Dan McLagan, a Dole spokesman, said the campaign had no plans to pull the ad from the air, calling Hagan’s promise of a lawsuit an empty threat aimed at distracting voters.

“The ad will be up until it reaches its saturation point,” McLagan said.

The dispute comes amid a tight race leading up to next Tuesday’s election.

A WRAL News poll released Wednesday showed Dole holds a 46 to 42 percent lead, with 9 percent of voters still undecided. A different polling firm said Thursday that Hagan has a 52 to 46 percent lead.

*prayers may not be answered as High Priestess Kang does not believe in Jesus Christ.

Calling all G-dless Americans and Non-Christians

Posted by High Priestess Kang as Politics, Rants, Religion

This morning, I was confronted with one of the most horrific political ads of the season. Desperate Elizabeth Dole ran an ad against her strong competitor Kay Hagan.

In this ad, the Dole campaign highlights how Kay Hagan had the audacity (not to mention freedom under the law of the Constitution) met with a group called, “G-dless Americans.” The ad further details that these people don’t believe in Jesus.

WHAT THE PHUCK.

This is base. This is disgusting.

As a spiritual person, a Jew, I was completely horrified. So - as a non-Jesus believing spiritual person, I am to assume that I am now G-dless according to the definition of Elizabeth Dole?

I called the Dole campaign office. The phone was answered on the first ring by a very patient woman (who sounded as if she had been hearing complaints for a while). She persisted to tell me that the ad was factual.

Fine. Kay Hagan met with, “G-dless America.” Who gives a phuck who Kay Hagan meets with as it relates to religion? Americans can meet with any religion they want. It’s our right.

But more importantly - what’s Jesus got to do with this madness? This ad has the most bigoted undertones I have heard in ages. So…you don’t believe in Jesus? Phuck you.

As a religious minority, I reminded the Dole campaign that there are *gasps* Jews in North Carolina. There are Buddhists. There are Hindus. There are Muslims.  There are Atheists. There are Agnostics. And so forth. And we all vote.

Please call Elizabeth Dole and tell her to pull that offensive ad and demand an apology. Her campaign headquater’s number is: 704.633.0014. For those of you outside the United States, you can email the campaign at info@elizabethdole.org.

Stand up and be heard. Please.

Anchorage Airport…?

Posted by High Priestess Kang as Politics

What are they going to call it, now???

Sarah Palin Can’t Dress Herself…

Posted by High Priestess Kang as Politics

…or at least she can’t afford to.

“You ain’t got no iiiiiice cream. You can’t aaaaaford it. You’re dad’s on weeeelfare.”

Ok. Maybe that’s a bit melodramatic but this little tidbit from Politico made me laugh.

RNC appears to shell out $150K for Palin fashion

The Republican National Committee appears to have spent more than $150,000 to clothe and accessorize vice presidential candidate Sarah Palin and her family since her surprise pick by John McCain in late August.

According to financial disclosure records, the accessorizing began in early September and included bills from Saks Fifth Avenue in St. Louis and New York for a combined $49,425.74.

The records also document a couple of big-time shopping trips to Neiman Marcus in Minneapolis, including one $75,062.63 spree in early September.

The RNC also spent $4,716.49 on hair and makeup through September after reporting no such costs in August.

Politico asked the McCain campaign for comment, explicitly noting the $150,000 in expenses for department store shopping and makeup consultation that were incurred immediately after Palin’s announcement. Pre-September reports do not include similar costs.

Spokeswoman Maria Comella declined to answer specific questions about the expenditures, including whether it was necessary to spend that much and whether it amounted to one early investment in Palin or if shopping for the vice presidential nominee was ongoing.

“The campaign does not comment on strategic decisions regarding how financial resources available to the campaign are spent,” she said.

The business of primping and dressing on the campaign trail has become fraught with political risk in recent years as voters increasingly see an elite Washington out of touch with their values and lifestyles.

In 2000, Democrat Al Gore took heat for changing his clothing hues. And in 2006, Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton (D-N.Y.) was ribbed for two hair styling sessions that cost about $3,000.

Then, there was Democrat John Edwards’ $400 hair cuts in 2007 and Republican McCain’s $520 black leather Ferragamo shoes this year.

A review of similar records for the campaign of Democrat Barack Obama and the Democratic National Committee turned up no similar spending.

But all the spending by other candidates pales in comparison to the GOP outlay for the Alaska governor whose expensive, designer outfits have been the topic of fashion pages and magazines.

What hasn’t been apparent is where the clothes came from – her closet back in Wasilla or from the campaign coffers in Washington.

The answer can be found inside the RNC’s September monthly financial disclosure report under “itemized coordinated expenditures.”

It’s a report that typically records expenses for direct mail, telephone calls and advertising. Those expenses do show up, but the report also has a new category of spending: “campaign accessories.”

September payments were also made to Barney’s New York ($789.72) and Bloomingdale’s New York ($5,102.71).

Macy’s in Minneapolis, another store fortunate enough to be situated in the Twin Cities that hosted last summer’s Republican National Convention, received three separate payments totaling $9,447.71.

The entries also show a few purchases at Pacifier, a top notch baby store, and Steiniauf & Stroller Inc., suggesting $295 was spent to accommodate the littlest Palin to join the campaign trail.

An additional $4,902.45 was spent at Atelier, a high-class shopping destination for men.

Bootilicious Obama

Posted by Ming the Merciless as Guest Author, LOL Gheys, Ming the Merciless, Politics

See, even John McCain wants Obama in ‘08.

Some things to think about.

Posted by Ming the Merciless as Guest Author, Ming the Merciless

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The mass of men serve the state thus, not as men mainly, but as machines, with their bodies. They are the standing army, and the militia, jailors, constables, posse comitatus, etc. In most cases there is no free exercise whatever of the judgment or of the moral sense; but they put themselves on a level with wood and earth and stones; and wooden men can perhaps be manufactured that will serve the purpose as well. Such command no more respect than men of straw or a lump of dirt. They have the same sort of worth only as horses and dogs. Yet such as these are commonly esteemed good citizens. Others–as most legislators, politicians, lawyers, ministers, and officeholders–serve the state chiefly with their heads; and, as they rarely make any moral distinctions, they are as likely to serve the Devil, without intending it, as God. A very few, as heroes, patriots, martyrs, reformers in the great sense, and men, serve the state with their consciences also, and so necessarily resist it for the most part; and they are commonly treated as enemies by it.

Henry David Thoreau
Civil Disobedience