If you haven’t signed my Guestbook yet, then why the bloody hell haven’t you, fartknocker? Go do that now, it’ll take all of a minute or two, and I’ll be your BFF…

“The gay community has yet to apologize to straight people
for all the damage that they have done.”

-William Donohue,
president of the Catholic League for Religious and Civil Rights

From the April 11 edition of MSNBC’s Scarborough Country:

DONOHUE: Look, look, there’s a new strain of HIV available in New York City. It’s because of gay men. All right? All the talk about condoms –

RACHEL MADDOW (guest and Air America radio host): Or virology.

DONOHUE: The fact of the matter is it’s due to the behavioral recklessness of gay men in New York City, that they’re endangering the lives of everybody. So, you want to talk about the Catholic Church intervening in other people’s lives? The gay community has yet to apologize to straight people for all the damage that they have done — for contaminating the blood supply in New York City and around the country. And I find it amazing that, when people are acting so morally delinquent, that they’re asking for more rights at the same time.

It seems to me that gay people in this country should apologize to the rest of the people, the way the pope has apologized to other people, and practice sexual reticence. Practice restraint, and you won’t have the problem. It’s entirely a result of behavioral recklessness that we have this disease [HIV/AIDS]. And it’s a politically correct disease, isn’t it?

Quicktime video of the entire exchange - see it to believe it, man.

Minnesota HIV prevention funding threatened by legislator offended by gay sex

Minnesota Representative Tom Emmer, who said he was “shocked and disgusted” by explicit language on Pride Alive’s Website [Link], won approval in a House committee to eliminate all Health Department funding [Link] for the state’s largest HIV prevention program. Minnesota AIDS Project receives $425,000 and spokeswoman Amy Weiss says, “The language is appropriate for the gay and bisexual audience it’s aimed at, written with language that communicates directly with them.” Emmer’s bill would forbid state funding for “websites, pamphlets, or other communications that contain sexually explicit images or language.” The bill proceeds to the House floor.

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I am so beyond angry right now that the light from angry will take 6 million years to reach me. First of all, the Catholic church has NO RIGHT to say anything at all on this subject, considering the amount of raping and pillaging it’s done (and continues to do) over the centuries.

I am sick and motherfucking tired of people getting bent out of shape over words, like anyone ever grew horns, a pointed tail, and hooves from saying “SHITTYSHITFUCKER!” or spontaneously combusted from the occaisional “FUCKING HELL!”. This bullshit is a direct slap in my face in totally dishonoring the memory of people I love dearly and had to bury as a result
of this mentality, this ignorance worn like a gleaming badge of honor, in baseless hysterics over this disease. The implication that if you’re gay, you GET AIDS, while everyone else CATCHES AIDS is another point of sensitivity with me, and in 1992 prompted me to tell Nancy Schaefer to her face in the back hallway of an Atlanta news station that she was “as ignorant and ill-informed as anyone I’d ever had the misfortune to share oxygen with, in addition to being a cunting liar.”

I invite you to follow these links and do your own investigation, and maybe even spread this post, link to it, repost it in it’s entirety, whatever. Nothing fights ignorance like information and awareness.

• NPR: AIDS 2004
• EarthTrends, The Environmental Information Portal
• HIV & AIDS statistics from around the world
• CDC - Division of HIV/AIDS Prevention - Basic Statistics
• Gay Men’s Health Crisis: HIV/AIDS Statistics
• Project Inform Home Page - HIV / AIDS Treatment Information and Advocacy
• AIDS.ORG: Educating - Raising HIV Awareness - Building Community
• Official Journal of the International AIDS Society
• AIDSinfo - U.S. Department of Health and Human Services
• The Body: The Complete HIV/AIDS Resource
• UNAIDS: The Joint United Nations Programme on HIV/AIDS
• World AIDS Day
• Silence = Death

Limp Bizkit - Break Stuff
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Its just one of those days
When you don’t wanna wake up
Everything is fucked
Everybody sucks
You don’t really know why
But want justify
Rippin’ someone’s head off
No human contact
And if you interact
Your life is on contract
Your best bet is to stay away motherfucker
It’s just one of those days

[chorus]
Its all about the he says she says bullshit
I think you better quit
Lettin’ shit slip
Or you’ll be leavin with a fat lip
Its all about the he says she says bullshit
I think you better quit talkin that shit
(Punk, so come and get it)

Its just one of those days
Feelin’ like a freight train
First one to complain
Leaves with a blood stain
Damn right I’m a maniac
You better watch your back
Cuz I’m fuckin’ up your program
And if your stuck up
You just lucked up
Next in line to get fucked up
Your best bet is to stay away motherfucker
Its just one of those days

I feel like shit
My suggestion is to keep your distance
cuz right now im dangerous
We’ve all felt like shit
And been treated like shit
All those motherfuckers that want to step up
I hope you know I pack a chain saw
I’ll skin your ass raw
And if my day keeps goin’ this way I just might break somethin’ tonight…
I hope you know I pack a chain saw
I’ll skin your ass raw
And if my day keeps goin’ this way I just might break somethin’ tonight…
I hope you know I pack a chain saw
I’ll skin your ass raw
And if my day keeps goin’ this way I just might
break your fuckin’ face tonight
Give me somethin’ to break…

I SO Want To Fuck Howard Dean; He Can Even Do His Crazyman Hollering When He Comes If He Wants To.
A Scathing Chairman Dean Finds Republicans ‘Evil,’ ‘Corrupt’ and ‘Brain-Dead’

Howard Dean may not be running for anything, but his elbows appear to be as sharp as ever.

Since taking over as chairman of the Democratic National Committee earlier this year, the former presidential candidate has been quoted in newspapers making unusually caustic remarks about Republicans.

Dean has suggested that they are “evil.” That they are “corrupt.” He called them “brain-dead” during a stop in Toronto — and while the Terri Schiavo case was still in the news. He has tagged Sen. Rick Santorum (R-Pa.) as a “liar.” Last week, the Minneapolis Star Tribune reported that he mimicked a “drug-snorting Rush Limbaugh” at an event there.

[Link]

Bush Admits He No Longer Understands His Social Security Proposal
Orders Worldwide Manhunt to Find Someone Who Does

During a speech in Flint, Michigan today, President Bush sent shockwaves through the debate about Social Security by admitting that he no longer understands his own proposal for revamping the nation’s retirement program.

The Flint speech had been billed as a pep rally of sorts for the president’s ambitious Social Security overhaul, which made his candid admission that he could not “make heads or tails of the darned thing” all the more surprising.

“I have read it over and over and over again, and I’ve got to tell you, I do not have a clue what it means,” Mr. Bush told his audience, many of whom audibly gasped. “I had an easier time figuring out The Da Vinci Code.”

At the White House, spokesman Scott McClellan acknowledged that Mr. Bush’s bafflement over his own Social Security proposal may push back implementation of the controversial plan: “According to current estimates, it is highly unlikely that the president will actually understand this plan any time before the year 2029.”

To speed up that timetable, Mr. McClellan said that Mr. Bush is ordering a worldwide manhunt to find someone who can understand his Social Security proposal and explain it to him “as soon as possible.”

“And if that person turns out to be Osama bin Laden, we’ll be killing two birds with one stone,” Mr. McClellan added.

Elsewhere, in a sign of improving relations between the two countries, India and Pakistan announced today that they would transform the disputed region of Kashmir into a gigantic calling center to handle customer service questions from U.S. computer users.

[Link]

Senator Abel Tapia tells Colorado Senate his son Sebastian is gay

One of Colorado’s most powerful legislators, state Senator Abel Tapia, revealed something during his speech in favor of a bill that outlaws discrimination based on an employee’s sexual orientation. That’s why he called his son Sebastian who lives in Oregon to tell him, “I just told the state Senate you are gay.” Sebastian tells the Denver Post, “My dad’s a really private person, and so am I, but he’s a man of integrity. I think he did what was right.” Senate colleages, especially Senator Ron Teck, were spewing homophobic hateful stereotypes. “The very important thing my dad did was put it on a personal level. It was not about gay or straight. It was about family.”

[Link]

Virginia Supreme Court backs gay adoptions

Virginia’s Supreme Court has issued a ruling that the state must provide new birth certificates for children born in Virginia who are adopted by out-of-state gay and lesbian couples. A lower court had ruled otherwise because of state policy bans joint adoptions by unmarried couples.

[Link] [Here’s the law]

Gay counter protest stuns Westboro crew in Albuquerque
Take THAT, Fred.

When Chris Lucas saw the Phelps klan’s signs of hate in Albuquerque, he pulled his car over to join a counter-protest - where he stunned those homophobes by deep kissing a man he’d just met. “I had my eyes closed. It was actually kind of liberating to do this.”

[Link]

Soulforce to rally at Liberty University

While Soulforce is putting the squeeze on James Dobson next week, they’re stirring things up with Jerry Falwell at Liberty University today.

Capitol Hill Democrats stand firm
Lawmakers credit Rep. Pelosi, Sen. Reid

Democrats were supposed to enter the 109th Congress meek and cowed, demoralized by November’s election losses and ready to cut deals with Republicans who threatened further campaigns against “obstructionists.” But House and Senate Democrats have turned that conventional wisdom on its head.

[Link]

G.O.P. Senator Casts Doubt on U.N. Nominee

In contrast to optimistic statements from the White House, a top Republican senator said Sunday that John R. Bolton’s prospects of winning Senate confirmation as ambassador to the United Nations were “too close to call.”

The doubts expressed by the Republican, Senator Arlen Specter of Pennsylvania, who spoke on the CNN program “Late Edition,” came as Democratic critics sharpened attacks aimed at portraying Mr. Bolton as someone who sought to politicize intelligence judgments. Four of 10 Republicans on the Senate Foreign Relations Committee have expressed concern about Mr. Bolton, on a panel where one Republican vote against him could keep the nomination from reaching the Senate floor.

[Link]

Frist Urges End to Nominee Filibusters
Democrats Decry Speech at Church Rally

Senate Majority Leader Bill Frist delivered a taped speech Sunday to a nationwide broadcast in which Christian conservatives, during other segments, attacked Democratic senators for blocking judicial nominees described in the program as “people of faith.”

Frist (R-Tenn.) avoided religious references in his six-minute video for “Justice Sunday,” which sponsors said reached 61 million households.
The hour-long telecast drew criticism from Democrats and some religious groups who said its theme inappropriately injected religion into a heated debate over the filibustering of some of President Bush’s most conservative court nominees.

[Link]

Also Related: Extremist Sunday: Frist on the Nuclear Option | Media Debating Whether To Ignore Frist’s Lie

Documents Show Lobbyist Paid for DeLay’s Travel
This one’s all over the place, news agencies & blogoshere-wide

Credit card receipts and other documents reveal lobbyists paid for House Majority Leader Tom DeLay’s expenses during a trip to Scotland in 2000 that totaled over $120,000, The Washington Post reports. The payments are a clear violation of House ethics rules.

[Link]