JUSIPER
Friday, November 30, 2007
How stupid are gay voters?
Inexplicably, they continue to support Hillary Clinton. Morons.
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Thursday, November 29, 2007
Italian choirboy dismissed
His crime: being gay. If he'd only shut up about it, he might have been Pope someday.
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Presidential Medal of Freedom winner dies
A sad day for his family.
Longtime Congressman Henry Hyde has died at the age of 83. The office of House Republican Leader John Boehner confirmed his death today.
The Illinois Republican steered the impeachment proceedings against President Clinton and championed government restrictions on the funding of abortions during a decades-long House career.
Hyde had represented his suburban Chicago district for 32 years before retiring last year.
He'd been recovering in a Wheaton hospital after heart surgery and couldn't make the trip to Washington, D.C. earlier this month when he received the Presidential Medal of Freedom.
That honor is the nation's highest civilian award and recognizes contributions in science, the arts literature and the cause of peace and freedom.
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Wednesday, November 28, 2007
Huckabee ahead in Iowa?
A bit sooner than we expected. Rasmussen:
The latest Rasmussen Reports telephone survey of the Iowa caucus finds former Arkansas Governor Mike Huckabee with 28% of the vote, former Massachusetts Governor Mitt Romney with 25% support, and everyone else far behind. National frontrunner Rudy Giuliani gets just 12% of the vote in Iowa at this time while former Tennessee Senator Fred Thompson is the only other candidate in double digits at 11% (see crosstabs).
Given the margin of error, the challenges of determining the relatively small number of people who will participate in a caucus, and other factors, the race is far too close to call at this point in time. However, the fact that Romney is no longer the clear frontrunner in Iowa reflects a stunning change in the race.
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Tuesday, November 27, 2007
Trent Lott update
An escort. A male escort. There's a name. And picture. Waiting for further confirmation.
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Hooray for Howie Klein
If he'd been running Warners, the music industry would have been in a much better place.
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Monday, November 26, 2007
Goodbye Trent
Good riddance. But why would a reinstated Klanner leave the best job in Washington? Who knows. Hre is one possibility?
Others claim that Larry Flynt is on to Lott and that he's resigning now rather than face Larry Craig-like humiliation. I have it from a reliable DC source that "Lott would cruise the area gay bars whilst wearing a different toupée from his usual one. He apparently thought that was enough of a disguise."
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Friday, November 23, 2007
You become what you think about
We have long believed that the most promiscuous forms of homosexuality are the continual object of Republican contemplation. Now we have proof.
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Wednesday, November 21, 2007
Monday, November 19, 2007
Mexico City closes its cathedral indefinitely
Because leftists protested that the Church openly supported a right wing candidate.
Who knew it was that easy to silence the church responsible for the election of Bush and hundreds of other politicians of his ilk worldwide? Any chance some leftists can protest in America too?
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Tuesday, November 13, 2007
55% believe Bush has committed impeachable offenses
Similar number for Cheney: 52%. But far more believe Cheney should actually be removed from office.
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Sunday, November 11, 2007
Vatican-Chinese collaboration foiled
Link removed.
In related news, Sean O'Malley's progressive teachings continue to dazzle:
At the Venice event, held in anticipation of the 800th anniversary of the church's sanction of the Franciscan "Proto-Rule," the cardinal urged his community to shy away from "introducing the Trojan Horse into the City of God," a direction which, he said, would "allow the radical nature of our life as Capuchins to be watered down."
Noting that the community appeared set to include more elements of social justice and ecology into its foundational document, O'Malley warned of a "false sense of security," citing his experience in the US.
"I see many religious communities in my country produc[ing] documents worthy of the Green Party," he said, "but they are dying on the vine themselves."
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Daniel Day Lewis on America
It ain't England:
“Where I come from, it was a heresy to say you wanted to be in movies, leave alone American movies,” Day-Lewis continued, as he ate a chicken-salad sandwich. “We were all encouraged to believe that the classics of the theater were the fiery hoops through which you’d have to pass if you were going to have any self-esteem as a performer. It never occurred to me that that was the case. One of the great privileges of having grown up in a middle-class literary English household, but having gone to school in the front lines in Southeast London, was that I became half-street-urchin and half-good-boy at home. I knew that dichotomy was possible. England is obsessed with where you came from, and they are determined to keep you in that place, be it in a drawing room or in the gutter. The great tradition of liberalism in England is essentially a sponge that absorbs all possibility of change. America looked different to me: the idea of America as a place of infinite possibilities was defined for me through the movies. I’m glad I did the classical work that I did, but it just wasn’t for me. I’m a little bit perverse, and I just hate doing the thing that’s the most obvious.”
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Friday, November 09, 2007
Top three headlines at evangelical news site
Witness a movement's political implosion:
Activist says televangelist leading family voters 'astray' with Giuliani endorsement
A California pro-family activist believes Pat Robertson made the biggest mistake of his public life earlier this week by endorsing former New York Mayor Rudy Giuliani for president. Randy Thomasson says the well-known televangelist is "casting a blind eye" to Giuliani's penchant for pro-homosexual issues.
Brownback gives nod to McCain despite differences on human embryo research
A former GOP presidential candidate who dropped out of the race last month claims his colleague in the Senate, Arizona Senator John McCain, is "the best pro-life candidate who can beat Hillary Clinton" in the general election.
Huckabee's conservatism questioned
A former Arkansas Republican state senator who had some heated battles with Mike Huckabee over immigration says the GOP presidential candidate is not the solid conservative he makes out to be on other issues as well.
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Thursday, November 08, 2007
Evangelicals are disgusted
Perspectives: With their own party.
Closer to my home is the problem of self-avowed five-point Calvinist (and recently re-elected) Governor Haley Barbour of Mississippi, one of the leading Republicans in the nation. He embraces Christians and has even been willing to talk about his personal faith when pressed on this columnist's radio show. But he also readily explained, on an American Family Radio program, why coddling the Mississippi casino industry was a great moral choice for the people of his state.
It makes one wonder, with such proud faith as that, where Mississippi could possibly be headed.
Let's be honest: the reason that many are up in arms about the "don't vote for a non-Christian" issue is the possibility that Mormon ex-governor Mitt Romney might be a threat to garner the Republican nomination.
Ease up, folks. If you really want something to get concerned about, go to YouTube and find the clip of Mr. Romney debating Senator Ted Kennedy. Rarely will you view someone trying to out-liberal that senator. But having heard, go and cast your vote in the presidential primary of your state. My proverbial bet is it won't be for Romney.
Don't vote for a non-Christian ... an unbeliever? This columnist has grown much more wary of the Christians who tout their beliefs, then find a way to live contrary to the Judeo-Christian ethic at nearly every turn on some of the most crucial social issues of our day.
Whether George W. Bush, or Bill Clinton, or Mitt Romney, or Hillary Rodham Clinton, there is a nice line out of Scripture that we should keep in mind much more than the religious declarations of candidates positioning themselves for votes and approval:
By their fruit ye shall know them.
Yes.
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Wednesday, November 07, 2007
Josh Marshall on the endorsement
Yup:
Robertson's reasoning is that God has withdrawn his protection from us because of America's collective embrace of a godless, secular, gay-loving culture. When you put that together with his claim today that Rudy, a paragon of the secular culture, is the one to protect us from the terrorist hordes, the upshot seems to be that Robertson has more confidence in Rudy's leadership and national security skills than he does in God's. And that's one hell of an endorsement.
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Who's the pitcher?
Pat Robertson is endorsing Rudy Giuliani.
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Dollar finally begins its long-awaited crash?
Wait and see... and don't plan on spending too much time in Europe for the next decade, unless you're on an expense account.
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VA Senate goes Democratic
That is huge. JUSIPER has been arguing for the state's potential competitiveness in 2008 for years now. All signs point to that as a real possibility now.
If the GOP has to spend money defending Virginia in a presidential election, the Democratic nominee (who will be loaded, unless it's Edwards), will be sitting pretty.
UPDATE: Markos on the failure of the anti-immigration message to sell in the capital of the Confederacy.
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Thursday, November 01, 2007
American church to pay lip service to human rights
So very impressive:
U.S. bishops will vote next month on a political roadmap for Roman Catholics headed into the 2008 presidential election that gives priority to the issue of abortion but also includes opposition to torture and killing noncombatants in war.
The U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops will publicly debate and vote on "Forming Consciences for Faithful Citizenship" at its fall meeting in Baltimore.
The president of the conference, Bishop William Skylstad, says the bishops are "very committed" to what he says will be "a very good teaching document."
So sometime in August, priests around the country can mention their opposition to torture, so that Catholics can feel good about the idealism their church used to stand for. And the pre-election sermon, particularly in predominantly white congregations, will be about abortion. That way the young priests formed by John Paul II and his successor can follow whatever it is that passes for their hearts.
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