Hi everyone!
Welcome to Social Notes, the sometimes weekly goings-on of Houston’s lesbian community. You
can sign up to receive an email notice every time I update the site, by clicking on the blue box in
the upper right hand corner of this page. Now, let me show you around the website:
- The Calendar page contains a listing of events for the next couple of months.
- To find out about clubs and organizations, check out the Organizations page. This page is
sub-divided to make it easier to find things.
- I know all you kind-hearted pet-loving lesbians would want to know about animals needing a
new home, so I included a Pets page.
- The Jobs Page lists both women in search of jobs, and job openings for gay-friendly
positions.
- If you want to support lesbian, women-owned, or just generally gay-friendly businesses,
then check out the Networking Page. This page has also been recently subdivided to make
it easier to find what you are looking for.
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As many of you know, it is my goal in life to own and operate an upscale dude ranch/wilderness
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The Rant
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Tuesday, September 2, 2008
Gosh, have you by any chance heard the news that John McCain has selected the manifestly
unqualified governor of Alaska, Sarah Palin, to be his vice presidential running mate? Yeah, it's
been on the news a tad bit.
McCain seems to think we're all gonna vote the Vagina ticket, happy to elect ANY team that
includes a woman. Ha! THIS particular woman is anti-choice (even in instances of rape), wants
creationism taught in the schools, has abused her office multiple times to fire people who
displeased her, has ZERO foreign policy experience, and has filed suit to keep polar bears OFF
the endangered list, amongst other travesties. No thank you, John.
McCain has made two big decisions since he became the presumptive Republican nominee, and he
has booted them both. His piss-poor decisions are an excellent demonstration of the kind of
"leader" he would be if elected. Pull up a chair and I'll tell you more...
His first decision concerned the kind of campaign he intended to run. After promising early on
to run an honorable, upright campaign, he panicked when he realized just how badly he was
polling. He decided to bring in Karl Rove's old team - the same team that worked for Bush back
in 2000, and ran the hideous behind the scenes smear campaign AGAINST John McCain in the
South Carolina primary. McCain was rightly furious that this team had spread rumors suggesting
that his brain had been addled by his stint as a POW, and also suggesting that he had fathered
an illegitimate black child (he and his wife adopted a dark-skinned Bangladeshi girl). Yet, for all
his fury, he turned around and embraced Smirky McChimp, then hired his henchmen to run the
same kind of low-road campaign. Where is the honor in that, I ask you?!
Decision numero TWO was his selection for running mate. After telling the nation that it was
critical to select a mate who was ready to assume the office of President on Day One, and
continuing the neocon spiel that we are facing the quintessential threat of our generation from
terrorism, he proceeds to nominate someone who's never even bothered to formulate a thought
on foreign policy.
Wonder what the heck he was thinking? Well, the answer is that he WASN'T. He was pissed
that Rove and the hard core right wouldn't let him select Joe Lieberman or Tom Ridge. The
right said absolutely no way are you nominating anyone who is pro-choice, and if you try it, we
will fight you on the convention floor. So, our "Maverick" kowtowed to the theocracy which
rules the Rethug party, and in a fit of pique, nominated a fundamentalist political rube who
hadn't even been thoroughly vetted (checked out). That's the reason we're seeing all these
disturbing facts come out about Palin now. No one from McCain's team even showed up in Alaska
to start checking her out til last Thursday, and they're still at it! Is this the kind of foot
stomping, pouty decision we could expect from McCain as president??? You betcha!
The latest little tidbit of scandal is that her 17 year old daughter Bristol is 5 months pregnant.
Of course, the right wing is trying to declare this little slice of Americana to be off limits, but
I disagree. When you support abstinence-only sex education, as Palin does, and your kid gets
knocked up, it's a legitimate topic for discussion. When you have steadfastly fought funding to
reduce teen pregnancy, as John McCain has, then it NEEDS to be discussed.
What about keeping the candidate's kids safe from the political rhetoric? Well, here's a joke
that John McCain told back in 1998, when Chelsea Clinton was a school kid and her dad was
president: "Why is Chelsea Clinton so ugly? Because her father is Janet Reno." Nice, eh? Rush
Limbaugh, that boil on the butt of humanity, also weighed in, called Chelsea "the White House
dog".
Speaking of boils on the butt of humanity, last night Bill O'Reilly was apoplectic that anyone
would be talking about Bristol's pregnancy. Was it only months ago that the same Bill O'Reilly
was lashing out at the pregnancy of Brittany Spears' sister, Jamie Lynn? According to O'Reilly
(known to the blogosphere as O'Lie-ly), the blame fell directly on the Spears parents. Is this
two-faced son-of-a-bitch also going to hold the Palin's accountable for their randy kid's
mistake? Don't sit by that radio waiting!
Hypocrisy, thy name is the Republican Party. It HAS been fun, though, to watch all of its
blow-hard acolytes trying to convince us that Sarah Palin is the BEST PERSON IN AMERICA to
be serving at John McCain's side. What an insult to the collective intelligence of this country.
What a perfect example of prioritizing politics over governing. What a joke. And what a
frightening thought, that either McCain OR Palin would be allowed any where NEAR the White
house.
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