Politics: July 2006
It's a Free Country
Filed by Marla R. Stevens | July 24, 2006 | 5:14 PM |We're all free to do whatever ShrubCo likes and no one is ever targeted for no reason....Read More
Frat Boy Misbehaves Again
Filed by Marla R. Stevens | July 20, 2006 | 10:22 PM |The Head Groper In Charge is at it again. This time Shrub got caught on camera "''playfully' slapping" Rep. Al Green on the face at the NAACP convention. Our president has no sense of boundaries or personal space or even...Read More
Bush: Sexual Predator?
Filed by Bil Browning | July 19, 2006 | 2:04 PM |Check out these pics of our fearless leader trying to put the make on German Chancellor Angela Merkel... Apparently during the G8 summit, Monkey Boy decided that the German leader looked a little tense. Ms. Merkel does not appear...Read More
If I had one...
Filed by Marla R. Stevens | July 18, 2006 | 8:30 PM |...this is what I'd say to my Pentacostal sister-in-law, Child Abuse Advocate James Dobson *, Sen. Sam "Turtle Sex" Brownback, Shrub, Sen. Rick "Dog Sex" Santorum, and every beady-eyed or slack-jawed-slobbering hate-panderer who voted for Rep. Marilyn "Looking More and...Read More
Aint that America?
Filed by Bil Browning | July 18, 2006 | 8:10 PM |The personification of everything that's wrong with Hoosier politicians, Dan "Can't We Just Call 'Em Spuds?" Quayle, has done a super job of acting like an ass again. Good ole Danny Boy went to a John Mellencamp concert last Friday....Read More
Discrimination fails again
Filed by Bil Browning | July 18, 2006 | 5:44 PM |The US House of Representatives has failed to pass a constitutional amendment to ban same-sex civil marriage. Even though the outcome was predicted, the right wing fundies wanted a vote on the amendment to serve as a homophobic litmus test...Read More
Sound the Trumpets!
Filed by Edward Fox | July 14, 2006 | 7:23 PM |I just had a conversation that brought to the fore questions that I think need ventilating. Start the fans! I have gotten the impression from several sources, and if I am wrong, I am pleased to be wrong and nevertheless...Read More
Duck and Cover
Filed by Scott Barnes | July 12, 2006 | 11:15 AM |According to today's Huffington Post (and the New York Times), the Department of Homeland Security ranks Indiana as the state with the highest number of potential terrorist targets (8,591), which is 50 percent more listed sites than New York (5,687)...Read More
Bayh the Abuser
Filed by Marla R. Stevens | July 12, 2006 | 7:08 AM |In an earlier post, our fearless leader posited that we had nothing to worry about from Bayh, given his current ranking in Iowa. Iowans, however, would not be so hasty, knowing how quickly fortunes can change there -- especially for...Read More
Bayh the Abuser
Filed by Marla R. Stevens | July 12, 2006 | 7:08 AM |In an earlier post, our fearless leader posited that we had nothing to worry about from Bayh, given his current ranking in Iowa. Iowans, however, would not be so hasty, knowing how quickly fortunes can change there -- especially for...Read More
South Bend HRO Amendment One Vote Shy of Passage
Filed by Ed Team | July 11, 2006 | 2:30 AM |"South Bend Equality demonstrated courage and skill in leading the effort to prevent discrimination based on gender identity and sexual orientation in their community," said Vivian Benge, Vice President of INTRAA. "Those who raised their voices for fairness in South Bend deserve our gratitude and support as they continue their efforts for equality."Read More
Now THERE's an issue....
Filed by Chris Douglas | July 03, 2006 | 9:06 AM |Indiana, a state with a Republican House, Senate, Governorship, and DECADES with a Republican Superintendent of Education has the highest high school dropout rate in the nation. According to a columnist in the New York Times today, high dropout rates...Read More
Paccione on Musgrave's Federal Marriage Amendment
Filed by Marla R. Stevens | July 01, 2006 | 5:24 PM |Colorado State Rep. Angie Paccione who is running against the U.S. House author of the Federal Marriage Amendment, Rep. Marilyn Musgrave, just put out a new comment on Marilyn breaking her promise not to reintroduce it and instead to concentrate...Read More
