angry about the fear of teh gay

* athenae's angry about the fear of teh gay.

* athenae's also angry at AGAG (thnx don) for his newfound gray-zones in the first amendment:

"Freedom isn't an absolute. Good to know. Maybe you could put that in a bulletin to our troops overseas, Mr. Gonzales. They've been told for three years now that they're defending freedom, spreading freedom, promoting and supporting America's freedom. Now that freedom's optional, now that it's just one menu item on the Discount Fascist Buffet, maybe you could let them know, so that when they walk into an IED, they know exactly what they're dying for."

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* kathleen in the comments:

"Busholini let all the Bin Ladens fly out of the US on 10/11 and then scopped up thousands of innocent nobody's simply because they had Arab names and carted them off to Gitmo to be tortured, so they would look like they were fighting their War on Terror. Then they initiated their Pavlocracy, raising and lowering their little color code, so we would all know when to salivate simultaneously...."

funny.

* laura:

"I am still kind of amazed at this story (about hastert et al standing up for jefferson). In a city that has become so hyper, Beria-like politicized, House GOP have pretty overwhelmingly sided with a House Democrat looking at face value pretty vulnerable to corruption charges in protesting the unprecedent FBI weekend raid on Rep. Jefferson's office as a sign of what lawmakers claim is executive overreach. But the strange thing is, lawmakers would ostensibly have total oversight responsibility for the FBI, through the power of the purse, the power of writing legislation, subpoena power, etc. If they're concerned about alleged FBI overreach, they can haul in not just FBI director Mueller, but his boss Alberto Gonzales. So what is really going on here? Perhaps a shot across the bow? Or is it panic?"

it is very funny to watch. i suspect 'panic' is the correct answer.

* speaking of panic:

"President Bush goes to Pennsylvania tomorrow to campaign for embattled Republican House members in the Philadelphia suburbs. But one of the candidates isn't expected to be there.
Mr. Bush "is really doing poorly in our state," says Rep. Curt Weldon, explaining why he won't be on hand and hasn't asked for the president's help. "I've got to win this by myself."" (link)

hysterical.