Logo gets it's first show really worth watching

Ok, so you're tired of waiting for Project Runway to come back, and you're sick of the untalented lumbering mental cases on America's Next Top Model? Well Problem solved.....check out "Ru Paul's Drag Race" on Logo. It's the competitaveness of Project Runway combined with a bit of the CRAZY from Top Model and on the bright side, you don't have Tyra Banks or either of those Jay's. What you have is Ru Paul playing both Tyra and Tim Gun, give it a look.

Or better yet, check out Tom and Lorenzo's blog, add their bitchy judgement to an already bitchy and judgemental show.

http://tomandlorenzo.blogspot.com/

GM, we don't want to spend less, just don't let anybody know!

OK, so GM still wants their CEO to use the corporte jet at $40,000 a trip, they just don't want anybody to know about it.

Nov. 27 (Bloomberg) -- General Motors Corp., criticized by U.S. lawmakers for its use of corporate jets, asked aviation regulators to block the public’s ability to track a plane it uses.

“We availed ourselves of the option as others do to have the aircraft removed” from a Federal Aviation Administration tracking service, a GM spokesman, Greg Martin, said yesterday in an interview. He declined to discuss why GM made the request.

Hollywood homophobia has it's costs.

After donating $1,500 to the Yes on 8 Campaign, Film Independent's Richard Raddon has stepped down as director of the L.A. Film Festival.
Raddon had previously tendered his resignation and the board unanimously refused to accept it, but that bit of political theatre failed to mollify the gay community and the threat of a massive gay boycott turned out to be enough to pressure Raddon to resign for real this time.
A-List gay Hollywood was divided on the issue, according to Queerty, with older directors like Bill Condon arguing that those who donated to Prop. 8 saw it "not as a civil rights issue but a religious one. That is their right. And it is not, in and of itself, proof of bigotry" and younger, indie filmmakers like Gregg Araki countering:
"The bottom line is if he contributed money to a hateful campaign against black people, or against Jewish people, or any other minority group, there would be much less excusing of him. The terrible irony is that he runs a film festival that is intended to promote tolerance and equality."
While conservatives will undoubtedly argue that the threat of boycott's (they'll probably term it something like "angry gay mob forces director from post") will have a chilling effect on those who would speak up with their voices or wallets against marriage equality, our rejoinder is, "Yes, that's the point."
People have a right to speak up and say what they want or donate to a cause, but with that right comes the responsibility to live up to the consequences of their actions. If publicly donating to a cause that stripped the civil rights of many of the people you work with and for makes those people not want to support you or the organization you run, that choice was yours, not theirs. It was Raddon, not the gay community, that put the L.A. Film Festival at risk of a boycott and so, today's resignation was his decision and nobody else's.

Unlikely? More likely because she was a lesbian.

If you read part of this Newsweek profile on Rachel Maddow, it's interesting that somebody with her background would ever have been called an "Unlikely" candidate for TV....more likely they never thought she would suceed due to being unwilling to hide the fact of her lesbianism.


The greatest media-created cliché about Maddow has been that her "meteoric rise" has been almost accidental, that the truck-driving, yard-clearing, erstwhile activist became an "unlikely" star once the MSNBC heads recognized her potential. That's clearly a fiction.
Her résumé is impressive: she studied public policy at Stanford before winning a Rhodes scholarship to undertake a Ph.D. in political science. While completing her thesis, Maddow worked odd jobs—unloading trucks, landscaping, stamping coffee packets—before entering a competition on local radio. She was offered a job that day. In 2004, she got her own show on Air America, which still airs nightly. Before long, the cable-TV networks anointed her as one of their favorite leftist pundits, and not long after that, MSNBC star Keith Olbermann pressured his bosses to give Maddow her own show. Maddow's partner, artist Susan Mikula, believes the "unlikely" label is just code for lesbian: "She goes from Stanford to Oxford to activism to radio, then TV? What's so unusual about that? Is it because she is a gay lady?"

Ca. to Investigate Role of Mormon Church in Prop 8!

Hey, if they didn't do anything wrong, this shouldn't worry them. ;)

SAN FRANCISCO (AP) — California officials will investigate whether the Mormon church accurately described its role in a campaign to ban gay marriage in the state.
The California Fair Political Practices Commission said Monday that a complaint by a gay rights group merits further inquiry.
Executive director Roman Porter says the decision does not mean any wrongdoing has been determined.
Fred Karger, founder of Californians Against Hate, accuses the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints of failing to report the value of work it did to support Proposition 8.
A representative from the Salt Lake City-based church could not be reached for comment.


http://www.google.com/hostednews/ap/article/ALeqM5i7Ee9lkE23iWetMMU1Vy5nxReXCgD94LNA7G0

Huh?!

OK, read this and then look at the math at the bottom...something seems really really off....

From the Washington Post...
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/11/23/AR2008112302064.html

Facing an increasingly ominous economic outlook, President-elect Barack Obama and other Democrats are rapidly ratcheting up plans for a massive fiscal stimulus program that could total as much as $700 billion over the next two years.

That amount, more than the nation has spent over the past six years in Iraq, would rival the sum Congress committed last month to rescuing the country's financial system. It would also be one of the biggest public spending programs aimed at jolting the economy since President Franklin D. Roosevelt's New Deal.
Hints of a hefty new spending program began emerging last week. New Jersey Gov. Jon Corzine (D), an Obama adviser, and Harvard economist Lawrence H. Summers, whom Obama has chosen to lead his White House economic team, both raised the possibility of $700 billion in new spending. Yesterday, Obama adviser and former Clinton administration Labor secretary Robert Reich and Sen. Charles E. Schumer (D-N.Y.) also called for spending in the range of $500 billion to $700 billion.

While Obama has set a goal of creating or preserving 2.5 million jobs by 2011, his economic team -- whose members are scheduled to be formally introduced at a news conference today in Chicago -- have yet to decide how that would be accomplished or how much it would cost.

Dividing one number by the other, that works out to $280,000 per job. By that ridiculous logic hell, why not just cut checks for $70,000 each to 10 million people, at least you know the money is getting there rather than just going into a secretive black hole in a floundering company.

Is This a Joke?!

While groups like join the impact are planning nationwide protests and bombarding the new president with letters for our rights, and groups like Equality Maryland are doing outreach into the African American and hispanic communities to fight some of the bigotry.....look at what HRC is doing.....telling you to go spend money to help pay their inflated salaries.

Join HRC for
SHOPPING WORKS WONDERS #2
on December 12th, 2008
At both the San Francisco Bloomingdales Store and the Stanford Bloomingdales Store in Palo Alto from 2pm to 10pm, Bloomingdales will donate a portion of your purchases to HRC. There will be in-store promotions, special offers just for HRC shoppers, refreshments, complimentary giftwrap, coat and bag check and many more surprises!

Don't forget!

Keep Checking the "Join The Impact" site to see what the latest is on their fight for gay rights!

http://jointheimpact.wetpaint.com/

A quick opinion about the large gay lobbying group HRC

Look, the large group "The Human Rights Campaign" actually tried to prevent some of the gay marriage lawsuits from going foreward. They claimed that if we just sat on our hands and waited eventually everybody would just be fine. They wanted us to concentrate on ENDA, which they have been trying to pass for 10 years now. So if we had listened to them, we would not have marriage in Massachusetts, nor Marriage acceptance in New York, nor now in Ct. Look, I'm sure that Rosa Parks grandmother would have told her. "Rosa, don't stir up trouble, things will be fine if you just sit back there and stay quiet. Don't worry, eventually things will be different.
So basically, these large groups, with their huge parties where everybody jostles to have their picture taken with Rosie O'Donnell and care more about what wine is served than about securing our rights are like grandparents. You can appriciate their lives without reliving them yourself. The people that can pay $2000 to go to an HRC dinner, aren't concerned as much about the protections needed by a gay couple in West Virginia. they can pay lawyers to draw up contracts and take care of all that. So they also don't mind that 98% of that money raised by HRC will go to paying off the mortgage on their gigantic new office building in downtown Washington, and on the inflated staff salaries they pay. Again, the times, they are a-changing, and these large organizations have been sitting on their heels living off our donations and doing nothing for far too long.

The More Things Change...

The More They Stay The Same...

President-elect Barack Obama will not move for months, and perhaps not until 2010, to ask Congress to end the military's decades-old ban on open homosexuals in the ranks, two people who have advised the Obama transition team on this issue say.
Repealing the ban was an Obama campaign promise. However, Mr. Obama first wants to confer with the Joint Chiefs of Staff and his new political appointees at the Pentagon to reach a consensus and then present legislation to Congress, the advisers said.

The only thing that takes some of the sting out is thinking of what McCain would have done if he had won.

DEc 10th, call out "GAY" from work.

http://www.daywithoutagay.org/

The worldwide media attention surrounding the massive grassweb efforts for gay rights has been tremendous. Join the Impact was a HUGE success and will continue to thrive because of our efforts.
We've reacted to anti-gay ballot initiatives in California, Arizona Florida, and Arkansas with anger, with resolve, and with courage. NOW, it's time to show America and the world how we love. Gay people and our allies are compassionate, sensitive, caring, mobilized, and programmed for success. A day without gays would be tragic because it would be a day without love.
On December 10, 2008 the gay community will take a historic stance against hatred by donating love to a variety of different causes.
On December 10, you are encouraged not to call in sick to work. You are encouraged to call in "gay"--and donate your time to service!