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Compiled By Jack Nichols Nearby Chemical Plants
Greg Palast-Reporting for BBC-TV's Newsnight, May 17
Some Straights Dr. Horace Queen, a psychiatrist at Boston's Mass Genital Hospital who led the study, said he cannot estimate what percentage of highly motivated straight people can change their sexual orientation...But he said the research "shows some people can change from straight to gay, and we ought to acknowledge that." Queen defined "highly motivated straight people" as men and women who wanted to improve their wardrobes and have more frequent sex. Jen Dohr Bender--, SF Gate parody "Some Straights Can Go Gay, Study Says,"--SF Gate The 'Little Pill' Murders
It is hard to believe that even in this civilized country there are women
who opt to take a little pill which will literally choke their tiny babies
to death before they even have a chance to begin. Personally, I find this
practice as despicable as an abortion. Why, they may as well just take
a coat hanger and poke around their privates. And I imagine that you have
even met some of these women. On the appearance they can seem as sweet
as the anyone from your Sunday school class. But in reality they are putting
on a face because they are partial birth murderers and harlots. The next
time the woman at Neiman's smiles at you when she hands you your receipt
you need to stop and wonder; Is she smiling at you because she is a Christian
or because she knows she will be going home later on and having sexual
relations with her husband for recreation and not procreation.
Sister Taffy-"Daily Blessings" www.landoverbaptist.com Conservative Christian Bullies Protest A bill aimed at curtailing bullying and harassment in schools stalled out in the Legislature after Christian conservatives complained that it amounted to a gay rights measure. The bill would have require school districts to set up policies against harassment, bullying and intimidation, and would have ordered the state to develop a model policy as a guide. It also would have required districts to train employees and volunteers in the prevention of bullying. Angela Galloway-"Anti-bullying vote blocked in Olympia"-Seattle Post Intelligencer-May 1 Australian Atheists Would Welcome Archbishop Pell Emma Tom-" Come in George, atheists accept anyone"-The Australian, May 19 How to Spend Your Tax Cut? If you're in the middle class, Bush and the Republicans want you to take the meager tax cut they're promising and turn it over to the oil and gas companies--the same ones that are already making millions from the high gas prices…Bush said last week that the solution to high gas prices for average Americans was for them to use the money from the tax cut and spend it at the pump.
www.GrandOldPetrolium.com
"Remember the Tax Cut Bush Promised You?"
Macho Madness
If you showed any sign of caring, it was
seen as a sign of weakness. If you were the least bit concerned about
the civilians, you were considered pathetic, definitely not a man.
Michael Bernhardt-A Vietnam vet
who exposed his American military unit which conducted the infamous
My Lai massacre-quoted in Stiffed: The Betrayal of the American
Male, by Susan Faludi--pages 351-52 Whose Big Salary?
Thanks for reporting on
the Florida Power and Light CEO's annual salary and bonus--$36.7 million.
I assume that Mr. James Broadhead will gladly chip in to defray those
rising costs on our energy bills…Is there really an energy crisis that
requires such rising costs? Or are the Bush-backed energy companies
claiming there's a crisis so that their CEO's can pocket even bigger
bonuses?…In beleaguered California, just before P.G.&E. filed for bankruptcy
and left the entire state facing energy bills running twice as high,
the CEO's in that energy company received a whopping $50 million in
bonuses. Is there something wrong with that picture? …I'm sure that
these energy bosses must live in gated communities. Otherwise, it would
seem, they'd be getting the same kind of treatment that Dr. Frankenstein
got from crowds of angry peasants following his creation of a monster.
Jack Nichols-"Is U.S. Energy
Crisis for Real? 
Are
Stigmas Sportsmanlike?
Being a gay male athlete
is still the strongest taboo in sports, especially big-time male team
sports…While a handful of individual-sport athletes like decathlete
Tom Waddel or diver Greg Louganis have admitted their homosexuality,
former NFL running back Dave Kopay (in 1975) and former Giants offensive
guard Roy Simmons (in 1992) remain the only other male team sport athletes
who outed themselves besides (Billy) Bean.
Johnette Howard-"
The stigma remains a fact of life for gay athletes"--The Sporting
News, May 18
Cheaters in the Bush Administration Personally, if I have to choose, I prefer people who cheat on their wives to people who cheat on their kids…We are entitled to be worried. Because there are no breaks here. But guess what? There is a wall. Several, actually. They are called the bond market, the allies and the world at large. And if these guys keep going in the radical directions they are going, at the speed they are traveling, they are going to hit something real hard. Normally, I wouldn't mind. It would serve them right-except we're all in the back seat.
Thomas L. Freidman
"Foreign Affairs-A Perfect Storm"-New York Times, May 18 |
There's been a bonus for chemical industry donors since Bush became
President. ^Newsnight learned he's quietly RESTRICTING public access to
estimates of the number of people who will burn or die in case of a
catastrophic explosion near these plants.
Atheism is dynamic and able to change with the times. If a deity or
deities appeared before me tomorrow, I would happily re-evaluate my
position…Atheism is diverse. Subscribers are welcome regardless of their
gender, nationality or marital status (even blatant heterosexuals are
allowed to sign up). Atheism is supportive. When faced with painful
existential questions about what happens after death, I turn to my atheist
friends, who say: "Absolutely no idea. Care for some original sin?"
