LEST WE FORGET Oil Slick Barry Is All For Off-shore Drilling

They sure are quiet about it at the moment—with much of the Gulf literally in flames and a 200-mile stretch of critical estauaries and salt marsh about to be inundated with thousands of gallons of crude oil every day...for months, if not years—but just a month ago, Obama and his white boys were all about off-shore drilling all along the American coasts. But don't trust me, let's return to the nation's journal of record:

Take a moment to stroll with Mister Bates down memory lane...

THE NEW YORK TIMES
March 30, 2010

WASHINGTON — The Obama administration is proposing to open vast expanses of water along the Atlantic coastline, the eastern Gulf of Mexico and the north coast of Alaska to oil and natural gas drilling, much of it for the first time, officials said Tuesday.

The proposal — a compromise that will please oil companies and domestic drilling advocates...would end a longstanding moratorium on oil exploration along the East Coast from the northern tip of Delaware to the central coast of Florida, covering 167 million acres of ocean....the sheer breadth of the offshore drilling decision will take some of his supporters aback.

WELCOME OBIE How was your flight (from reality)?

The above pic of a Hollywooder greeting the Prez on his recent, much-heckled visit to shake the palms for Barbie Boxer...warmed my stone heart. Seems the Welcome Wagoneer has a problem with the Prez's Vietghanistan War. That makes one, I guess. Where have all the hypocritties gone....

And now word comes the Latinos in Congress have had enough of Harvard's best. But enough of enough. The low-hanging fruit with Ike and Mamie Obama is...too ripe to touch. Let's let it rot of its own accord. Anger is so 09.

Meanwhile, Annie-mal Wintour STILL needs to be SENT HOME to join the gang of poorly washed poshies in Notting Hill from whence she came. If they can just get the ASS CLOUD to make room for her bony butt.

God bless and hugs all round.

WINTOUR XVI Resign!

Italy has called La Wintour, Critter in Chief of American Vogue, on her pontifical assumption that she could dictate the Milan Fashion Calendar. Clearly they know what she hasn't realized: it's time to downscale and move back Notting Hill. Just like Benny The Ratzinger, YOU'RE OVAH—Ancient Anna!

PAYING U.S. TO HATE ME The Gay Tax Day Blues

Sitting here with my big fat gay checkbook and about to write the big ones to Uncle Sam, Cousin Dave P and Aunt Bloomieberg. Finish off '09 tax bill, make the first big dent in '10. Funding my own exclusion from the Constitution. Seems I remember people not paying the "War Tax" back in the days of Hanoi Jane.

And now I read Uncle Samantha's having town meetings with soldiers as part of deciding whether gay Americans can quit lying in order to defend a set of freedoms they don't even have. Back to the desegregation of the troops under Truman: Do you think they asked a single soldier what he thought about sharing the battlefield and bunkhouse with black soldiers? Again: the military works on orders. The soldier's job is to OBEY. SO ORDER EQUALITY. NOW. AND THEY WILL OBEY.

Speaking of de-funding wars... what's UP with this Afghanistan thing? Paying for that, too. Add another 0 and FORGET ABOUT SOCIAL SECURITY being there when my generation needs it.

It's a sociological commonplace that money troubles are the number one cause of relationship failure. Well, I am SO out of love with paying for OBAMA'S Justice Department to write MORE briefs supporting the fed ban on marriage equality.

Lissen up, Obie: the gay check's in the mail.

SUSANNA MAILO: Trendsetter

Whilst the poor Papa is getting dragged down by his mighty mitre into the mire of priestly diddling of pubescent boys, apparently 1000s upon 1000s of them, and clearly is about to be wrenched from the throne of St. Petra, let us take a moment to remember the voice crying in the wilderness that showed us the way: Blessed Susanna Mailo, Pope Tackler. Let us gather round the table of Christ and see once more what was done for one for all: the video.

Can I get an early Alleluia?

ENLIGHTENED, DECENT...BIGOTRY

"Enlightened enforcement" is what The NY Times calls the new guidebook to discrimination against gay and lesbian soldiers in the US military, issued by Secretary of Defense Robert Gates yesterday. He patted himself and the President on the back for showing "common decency" in the methodology for kicking gays out of the military on unconstitutional grounds. Wow. The white boys, and that includes at least half of the Pres, must feel like they're really doing something big. They and, say, Joe Solomoneasy of the Subhuman Rights Campaign.

And now who are the military most worried about losing and/or under-recruiting by DADT repeal? The AP says the "Southern, Christian base" might resist. That would be the SAME base that resisted desegregation of the troops in the 40s.

Shall we repeat: order them to, and they will do it. That's the principle. There's no phase-in, or "gradual easing" needed. The Times says, to effect the change requires "a major push by President Obama." Yeah, we can see that. I'll bet he's already told Rahmy E, "get on that queer justice right pronto."

That would be the same Obama who tried to buy off his gay critics by saying we could be at our dying partners' death beds and funerals—without a single family benefit, including the very insurance we need to get health care for our partners, and ourselves. The same Obamacrats who are giddy with self-congratulation over Health Care "Reform;" whatever you want to call the massive transfer of yet more public wealth to the private health insurance industry, it does NOT make a single benefit available to gay families as such. In other words, the whole health care industry can continue to discriminate against gay families with impunity until the cows come home.

Thanks Obie. Rahmy. Nancy Pee-pee. You're so enlightened and decent. Your children must be proud. (Speaking of Sasha and Malia, next topic.)

'IMPLEMENTING' JUSTICE dadt damn homphobia

Let me ask you this, Gates, Betrayus, Obie, Barney, Tammy, Joey L....

How is ANYTHING ever implemented in the military? By an order. Soldiers are told what to do and when to do it by their superiors. The military is NOT a democracy. It's a hierarchy. So this WATERBOARDING delay of justice for queers in the military is just plain ole duplicitous. You and I and every one knows, when you do something in uniform, it's ONLY because you're told to. So, Mr. Commander in Chief, Lady Gates, et al, ORDER IT ALREADY.

Did it ever occur to anyone that a gay soldier forced to stay in the closet might be a danger to his or her fellow soldiers? I mean, would any gay person be surprised to hear that a gay soldier had lost his/her shit and shot a comrade. I mean, when the REAL ENEMY is in the next bunk... who would you shoot?

Just saying.