Lets Go Girl

May 17, 2008 by Kingston

You have probably heard that Ellen DeGeneres and Portia de Rossi are getting hitched, since the California Supreme Court decided this week there are enough marriage licenses to go around:



I am sure my invitation is in the mail. However, it will be conditional. It is conditional because some people are attempting to stay the California Supreme Court's decision to open Pandora's Box of Hell. These are the same people who know that even though Ellen is America's sweetheart, Jesus would slit her throat if he was on the scene.

They want it stayed until there is a vote on a measure attempting to amend the California constitution to prohibit this godless practice. But, as I mentioned yesterday, that ship has sailed.

I know there are some folks that are genuinely and sincerely concerned. But, by and large, most people are just tired of the gay baiting. And even if it doesn't sit quite right with them— this year most people have a lot bigger worries—like being able to pay their bills.

There are also some who claim not to be against same sex marriage—but think it should be up to the people. They do not seem to realize that the whole purpose of the third branch of our government is to protect minorities from the tyranny of the majority.

Fortunately, since the Fourteenth Amendment was specifically designed to protect the rights of slaves and their descendants—all courts, except some of the gomers in the Deep South of the day, knew it was impossible for a state to amend its constitution so that it specifically kept colored people in their place.

If not for the Constitution and the courts, who knows how long it would have taken America to grow up.

However, the Fourteenth Amendment (and the state versions of it) does not specially mention African-Americans— it gives every single person the right to be treated equally under the law. And actually that is implied in the constitution as originally drafted.

Whenever something of significant value is at stake, the government must have a “compelling state interest” in order to treat citizens differently. The California Supreme Court agreed with the “family values” people that marriage and family are fundamental values—and then said they could not find any compelling state interest that would justify treating same sex couples and families any different than anyone else.

It has been necessary for the courts. which have ruled against same sex marriage, to get quite creative. They claim the government has a compelling state interest in promoting and licensing propagation. That is, of course, just a pretend reason—no license is required to procreate—and almost half of children are born out of wedlock. And no one has suggested that childless marriages be automatically annulled.

The California and Massachusetts Courts have actually been quite rational and traditional in their application of Constitutional Law. The other courts have been “activist” in using a novel legal theory to reach the result they want.

Anyway, the genie is out of the bottle, and though there will be much wringing of hands, it will slowly subside when the sky does not come tumbling down.

Eventually everyone will discover there is nothing more fun than a lesbian wedding.

In the meantime here is a sappy rom noir video scrapbook dedicated to Ellen and Portia:




“De” girls will make nice brides.

And I do hope the California ballot proposal, which would prohibit anyone named Anne Heche from getting married, is approved.



P.S.--John McCain has been busy trying to clear up some ethical issues, and hasn't had time to weigh in on the initiative to amend the California constitution and end all this nonsense.

But, I am more interested in how everyone's boy wonder, Barack Obama, is going to deal with it. Obama has painted himself into a corner on the issue, not knowing that the Justices of the California Supreme Court would jump out and say “Boo.”

What makes it interesting, is that the case really only decided if there is anything in a name. California already had a domestic registry, which conferred all of the same legal benefits upon same sex couples if they filled out the proper forms.

The Supreme Court said that , in this case, a name matters.

Obama, like Hillary Clinton, is against gay marriage and in favor of civil unions. So on this one he really should be with the Catholic League and the Forum on the Family folks, who are attempting to amend the California constitution to define marriage as a union between a man and a woman. It will not effect the statutory domestic registry.

So this will make the cool candidate sweat.

Will he be consistent and try to win favor with some of the “bitter people” by throwing gays and lesbians under the bus—with the position that it would be fine if the masses nullified a landmark civil rights decision?

Or will he do a flip flop?

So far we have this from the campaign:

"Barack Obama has always believed that same-sex couples should enjoy equal rights under the law, and he will continue to fight for civil unions as President. He respects the decision of the California Supreme Court, and continues to believe that states should make their own decisions when it comes to the issue of marriage."

If I wasn't so wishy washy I think I'd run for public office.

But the gay press is not going to be satisfied with that answer—and this will irritate Obama.

Will he continue his long, self-imposed moratorium on talking with the gay press?

And some of you lawyers or constitutional scholars might be interested in helping me out on this one. I am wondering whether the initiative, if passed, will stick.

In 1964 the California Supreme Court found a housing scheme to be unconstitutionally racially discriminatory. The bigots got together and passed an initiative seeking to amend the Constitution to get discrimination back in the Constitution. Both the California and the US. Supreme Courts ruled that the state and federal constitutions prohibit that kind of crap.

Let me know what you think.

~Becky
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May 12, 2008 by Kingston

Oh Apathy—you are looking so sweet .

It seems the Libertarian Party may choose to go mainstream --- flush principle down the crapper, and nominate one of the biggest douche bags on the D List Politco circuit--committed racist, homophobe and public boob licker Bob Barr—which means I burn my LP card.

And John McCain—sorry old pasty face. You are truly a hero and a decent guy, but the tag McBush is not really inappropriate, except, if the past is any indication, the maverick stew will be spiced with a few harebrained (most likely unconstitutional) liberal-lite tid bits.

If only I could join the in-crowd and just be an Obamite. All the cool kids are doing it. Red-State-Blue State, Black-White, Rich-Poor,Conservative-Liberal,Male-Female, Queer-Breeder----none of it matters anymore—its a transcendent moment and a new age in America—skeptics like me are just old cranky bats, soon to be left in the dust heap of history by the Age of Obama.

I sure hope I am not becoming one of those people who gets a kick out of stepping on other people's dreams. But to me, Barack Obama just seems an ordinary liberal, albeit refreshingly intelligent, successfully dished up to a competence-hungry nation by the leftist royalty of Chicago, where the weather is always fine since Bill Ayers and Bernadine Dohrn reign supreme.

However, I am not sure anyone really cares about the thoughts of Obama—the adoration of the adorable, but vacuous headed, Amber Lee Ettinger , is really not atypical. The dude is the thinking person's Dubya—he's just one heck of a good guy.

I ask my friends why they like Barack—and there is a gleam of orgasm in their eye. I get it-- we all know that mixed race people are by far the hottest. At least , unlike the last two general elections, the personal attraction is not accompanied by rebel yells, jubilant demonstrations of our second amendment rights and numerous toasts of Pabst Blue Ribbon.

Of course, I have to admit the inner Trailer Park Tramp in me likes all that stuff— but we should have leaned by now that the best-guy(gal)- to-pal-around-with is not a good way to pick the Leader of the Free World. Besides, with politicians, it's always a falsie, which our personality-obsessed culture is all too eager to swallow.

Sonny turned out to be a preppie drug store cowboy in the worst way, and an actor that makes John Wayne look good.

And Hillary—she is not going to lose the nomination as a result of sexism, but those who deny the sexism and say:" its not all women, just THAT WOMAN"—just don't get it. As I discussed a while back, the sexism she endured was glaringly apparent to almost all women.

Even though I don't like Hillary Clinton as a person, or her politics, I admire the fight she put up against insidious misogyny. And because she kept fighting against the sexism, her gender is NOT the reason she is going to be denied the nomination. For that she is hero to me, and to a whole lot of women.

It's just like Obama is a hero to almost all blacks, regardless of whether they are Democrats, Republicans, libertarians or apathetic (yes, just like lesbians--- African-Americans are far from being some homogeneous group that necessarily supports all aspects of the “black agenda” and can be perpetually taken for granted by the Democratic Party).

I know most of my lesbian pals are disappointed. But even in the recent Rambo-chick days, before the campaign steamed full speed ahead into the state of denial, I still could not picture Hill comfortably outfitted in a rainbow chocker, bullet proof corset and pleated khaki shorts.

However, the whole Clinton thing is now sadder and more disturbing than the Lewinsky humiliation.

Maybe if the pant suit doll had smartened up and strategically kicked Bill in the nuts, I could choke back some Hillary Honey tears. There was certainly ample reason to finally put an end to the dysfunction . The final straw should have been the pathetic bombastic attempt, as an offensive ward captain, to make up for a lifetime addiction to chubby interns and horesy faced hussies.

Those two have successfully surpassed the TomKats as the creepiest couple on the planet.

Now if Chelsea would only try on that corset...


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April 29, 2008 by Kingston

Jeremiah Wright, despite a stubborn streak of lunacy, is clearly an intelligent and accomplished person, so it is fair to assume that he is deliberately sabotaging Barack Obama's campaign.

Some are saying his idiotic hyperventilation is just the result of a profound sense of narcissism. But there is more to it than that.

If Barack Obama was to be elected president of the United States, the Jeremy Wrights and Al Sharptons of America would be pushed off the front page, and have to go back to preaching about Jesus, and visiting sick parishioners in the hospital.

After all, when a brother is the Leader of the Free World, he is not only going to get more press than Al Sharpton and Jeremy Wright, but it is going to be a little difficult to blame everything on the man.

Al Sharpton has always been skeptical of the mulatto, not only because he derailed his plans to get mucho ego stroking and coin in another quixotic run for the White House, but more importantly because he considers Obama to be just another house nigga—like Colin Powell or Tiger Woods.

Today, he took his place in the tag team after the Reverend Wright put the odds-on-favorite Democratic nominee on the ropes.

Al Sharpton denounced Obama because he does not wish to join in his effort to shut down New York City, in protest over the verdict in the police shooting case.

Sharpton said he had hoped Obama would "side with the Bell family" and not use it as an "opportunity to grandstand in front of white people."

Obama attempted today to toss his pastor under the bus, but it was weak, and too little, too late. But perhaps there is really nothing he could do.

There are a lot of people in America who would not vote for an African-American under any circumstances. But there are a whole lot more who like to preface their remarks with the qualification “I am not a racist, but...” or "this has nothing to do with race..."

Wright's loud and obnoxious presence on the national stage, has given the “not racist but” folks the opportunity to dwell on this ad nauseum, all the while protesting that it has nothing to do with race.

I disagree with Barack Obama on a lot of issues. But the success of his candidacy truly was something that America, was rightly, very proud of.

It is too bad he had to be brought down in this way.

There is always a Judas.


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April 28, 2008 by Kingston

I don't really think people should be judged by their friends. I know if I was to run for president, I would constantly be apologizing for my associations with queer feminist trotskyites, animal rights extremists, eco terrorists, smack addicts, D list Hollywood tarts, lap dancers, as well as bat ass crazy militiamen bunkered down in the Idaho panhandle.

So I don't really care if Bill Ayers is one of Barack Obama's honky bros. And I don't really care if, in his youth, under the influence of way too much Marx and copious quantities of hallucinogens, Ayers became a pimply-ass suburban version of Che Guevara. That sort of nuttery was the kind of thing dorky college students, who should have been worrying about why they weren't getting laid, contemplated during the Dawn of the Age of Aquarius.

But what I am concerned about is that a President Obama might appoint Dr. Ayers, or one of the many education professors just like him, to head the Department of Education.

The unrepentant former Weatherman Underground bomb tosser, is now a respected education professor at the University of Illinois at Chicago. He is also responsible for some of the most outrageous political claptrap being foisted on America's teachers-in-training.

Of course, with the United States ranking near the bottom in educational achievement in the industrialized world, the teaching colleges should be solely concerned about producing teachers who can somehow teach Jane and Johnny to read, not politics of any kind.

But with a public education system rapidly going down the crapper, the mission of Dr. Ayers is to make sure America's teachers are thoroughly indoctrinated in Marxist theory.

Bill Ayers is a leader in the “critical pedagogy” academic educational school of thought,which sees elementary school students as vessels through which the revolution can be realized. Rather than blowing up ROTC offices, Bill Ayers is now attempting to plant bombs in the minds of the nation's school children.

His Handbook of Social Justice in Education is required reading in many of the nation's Schools of Education.

Ayers' “critical pedagogy” theory is based upon Paolo Freie's book Pedagogy of the Oppressed , which is also must reading in academic educational circles.

Freie's bible of progressive education explains why traditional teaching methods are just tools of capitalist oppression and imperialism.

Dr. Ayers, and his fellow latte sipping Marxists, browbeat young teaching students, until they accept the thoroughly discredited economic and social theories of dialectic materialism, much as the victims of Mao's Cultural Revolution did.

Bill Ayers is just a nerdy misguided college freshman, who never grew up, and can not stop playing revolution.

Unfortunately, there are way too many people, including perhaps Barack Obama, who take him seriously.

At the very least, the presidential aspirant needs to tell us that his pal is full of shit.


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