The New York Times reported on Wednesday that " Lawyers for President Obama are quietly drafting first-of-their kind guidelines barring workplace discrimination against transgender federal employees." Jim Rutenberg’s story on page A-15 followed one iron law to the letter: advocates for the "LGBT lobby" are not described anywhere as "liberal," but their opponents are routinely and repeatedly labeled "conservatives." Take this passage:
Though transgender men and women are not believed to make up more than a fraction of a percent of the federal work force, their inclusion in the discrimination guidelines is seen as a breakthrough by transgender and gay rights advocates.
"The president is making a very clear statement that transgender people won’t be discriminated against," said Mara Keisling, the executive director of the National Center for Transgender Equality, a group that has been talking with the White House about the new provisions.
The provisions will help give transgender workers avenues within the federal government to protest a job action as discriminatory, though Ms. Keisling added, "There is also a very important symbolic value to that, from our point of view."
The rules are almost certain to stoke criticism from cultural conservatives already displeased with Mr. Obama’s stand on gay rights, abortion and stem cell research.
While Keisling’s paragraph of liberal/libertine advocacy is in the fourth paragraph, the conservative advocates are avoided until paragraph 20, at the rear end of the story:
Conservative groups were cautiously pessimistic about the new guidelines, which have yet to be completed.
Focus on the Family, a conservative evangelical group, released a statement Tuesday night saying that the law already prohibited managers from taking any job action not directly related to job performance, "making this review an unnecessary political action to appease a special interest group embedded in the Obama administration."
The group also criticized the new policy as "government affirmation" of behavior it has defined as "one of many sexual sins that is outside God’s created intent and desire for us."
Notice Rutenberg redundantly employed the label "conservative" twice in two sentences. The text box in the middle of the story highlights the liberal side: "A new avenue for protesting work actions viewed as discriminatory." Viewed as discriminatory by? The "LGBT" lobby.
[Picture: ACLU image of David "Diane" Schroer, who successfully sued the federal government for a half a million dollars.]
—Tim Graham is Director of Media Analysis at the Media Research Center.
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We voted for it.
June 25, 2009 - 16:31 ET by iveseenitallAmerica is getting the "change" it voted for. Why not protection for those who "change" their sex! Never mind,of course, that the "discrimation" might not even exist. Never mind, of course, that the courts will be filled with bogus claims. Never mind, of course, that......oh, what's the use.
This clown Barry is quite a sick puppy. Hey buddy, don't look now, but there are some real problems which need to be addressed.
NEVER,NEVER trust a "liberal"
Come on now...
June 25, 2009 - 16:36 ET by JebsterThere we go again...protecting the perverts...
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Prepare for the coming revolution
Just what we need-yet another protected minority
June 25, 2009 - 16:37 ET by R D HelmThe only people who are going to benefit from this are the lawyers and the people who turn trees into paper.
-Dave
Obama's health care "reform" plan is to blow up the building in order to fix a leak in the roof-Herman Cain
Huh?
June 26, 2009 - 09:04 ET by XJ.JonAre they big enough to be a minority? lol
Taxed Enough Already
A bit of personal perspective
June 25, 2009 - 16:53 ET by BlondeMay be illuminative here.
Once upon a time, I ran a department, where I had to hire temporary workers. A new temp arrived, about 6'3", black woman, with a physique like an NFL linebacker. Extremely well groomed, and well dressed, and attractive. Good manners and good skills.
The pandemonium created was such that people from off-site were "dropping by".
It was horrible. For the good of the department, I had to ask the temp agency to not return this worker.
Human nature is human nature. What is disruptive in a business environment cannot be "accepted". Business is cold, it is hard, it is ruthless.
And yeah, the same thing happened in another department, with a little chippy who'd had Double E breast implants, and a penchant for tube tops. I have no idea what her "skill set" was....but she lasted exactly as long.
I'm as tolerant as the next person, except when it comes to doing my job.
I hope he fails, too.
Any luck finding another job?
June 25, 2009 - 16:58 ET by nwahsDid you find me another job?
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Gosh, nwahs!!!!
June 25, 2009 - 22:37 ET by BlondeThat was you?
Who knew?
Thank God I canned your ass!
I hope he fails, too.
Blonde, why do you have the ability tyo edit my messages?
June 26, 2009 - 18:03 ET by nwahsNoel, why does Blonde have the ability to edit my messages? This happened once before when I couldn't log onto my account after a disagreement with Blonde. Someone else was on my account. In the above message I posted "Did you ever find another job"
Now the message is edited, obviously by Blonde. Now I do care as I did take a dig at her. I am concerned that she has the capability to edit my messages. So Noel- what going on here? If staff gets angry with someone, they will change the content of messages?
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Not so fast
June 26, 2009 - 18:35 ET by RukusI just saw your "what the hell" remark to blonde in a totally other post and wondered why you said it. Then I saw your post here and noticed you answered blone only about 5 minutes later, she then answered you back about 6 hours laters. I'd think your disputed post, if edited, would have been a lot later. I really don't think the mods would mess with your post. If they didn't like it they would probably just delete it. I think something else happened. blonde is a poster just like the rest of us.
I'm just sayin' this 'cause I noticed your other post on obviously the wrong thread. Weird, yes. I don't think blonde did anything shawn.
Gary
Look, it's already hot as hell down here, so don't sweat it! - My Dad
Sweet tea please! - Me
I know exactly what happened
June 26, 2009 - 18:59 ET by nwahsBlonde is not a poster like you or I. She is a moderator and she abused her position. All she had to do was either ignore my crack, or come back with a crack of her own. Instead she decided to use her moderator powers to edit my post and attribute it to me. Thats inexcusable. She is not a poster like you are I. And she is not one to be trusted as a moderator.Delete my post, mark the post edited by moderator, but do not edit my post's content and attribute it to me.
Thats fraud.
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I can understand the need for a moderator
June 26, 2009 - 19:14 ET by nwahsI can not understand how a moderator can edit a post and not mark the post as "edited by moderator." This is just not right. I mean its a stupid joke, but an egregious breech of trust.This has happened before during a disagreement I had with Blonde. Can NewsBusters possibly find a moderator that acts within their bounds even in disagreements? This aint right. I'm spitting tacks right now. I've been on the internet before there was even hypertext. I have NEVER, before now, had a moderator edit the content of my post and attribute it to me.
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Blonde, I sincerely respect
June 26, 2009 - 15:03 ET by JasonCBlonde, I sincerely respect the position you were put in as the boss in this anecdote, as well as the difficult decision you had to make. Nonetheless, your story begs the question: Who was more at fault? The person who came to work dressed in the way in which she felt most comfortable and was, as you said, was "Extremely well groomed, and well dressed, and attractive [and had] good manners and good skills"? Or the people for whom a transgendered individual is such a freakish novelty that they spent more time trying to get a look at her in order to have a story for their friends than doing their own jobs? It sounds to me like those are the people to fire.
Indeed, there are many areas in the U.S. in which transgendered people are a relatively common sight and, as such, most people just don't care. I've seen them on a regular basis in every city I've lived in since I moved out of my parents' home at 18. Generally, if I saw a group of people pointing and gawking at a transgendered person, I felt safe in assuming those people were tourists.
An anecdote of my own. In college I was waiting tables at this little sidewalk bistro. Three guys started yelling at and hassling a M>F transgender. I mentioned it to the manager, and next thing I knew, he was telling the group to leave. It was pretty awesome.
I find your judgement
June 26, 2009 - 22:03 ET by nwahsWanting. But I also find your judgment on par with your moderating ethics - nonexistent. Did the woman, or victim of your judgment, have a physiological condition like gigantism? Did you care? Did you ask her? Your solution for gawkers is to fire the gawkee? What a stupid person you must be. Thank God they weren't gawking at her for having prosthetic limbs, eh?
The point of your story is to show what type of take charge manager you are, but all it shows is your idiocy, and your juvenile lack of empathy. Business is cold and ruthless, and lacks a brain. So do you - congrats!. You're basically a latch on wannabe. Leech like. Pleas wow us with more anecdotes of your business prowess, chickie. You can't even fake intelligent.
Edit this post, sweet pea.
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That picture
June 25, 2009 - 17:08 ET by nwahsThat picture looks like a Saturday Night Live caricature of Katherine Harris.
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Cute by half
June 25, 2009 - 17:11 ET by bigtimerCute by half shawn.
Doubling down on stupid is not a particularly good idea. ~Andrew Breitbart
Ha. That's a pretty good
June 25, 2009 - 17:22 ET by balboaHa. That's a pretty good call.
Not hardly boa. Whatever
June 25, 2009 - 17:29 ET by bigtimerNot hardly boa.
Whatever turns your crank I guess.
Doubling down on stupid is not a particularly good idea. ~Andrew Breitbart
Potato / potahto
June 25, 2009 - 17:37 ET by balboaPotato / potahto
You forgot the "e"!!!
June 25, 2009 - 19:41 ET by MightyMouth"There are two types of people in this country; those who provide freedom and those who enjoy it." MM says...
Dan Quayle wouldn't be
June 25, 2009 - 19:50 ET by bigtimerDan Quayle wouldn't be happy about that.
Doubling down on stupid is not a particularly good idea. ~Andrew Breitbart
Says nwahs
June 25, 2009 - 22:40 ET by BlondeAs he/she/it looks in the mirror.
I hope he fails, too.
Let me tell you something Blonde
June 26, 2009 - 18:42 ET by nwahsYou have no room to talk about anyone. A moderator that will use their position to edit a posters content and then attribute that content to the poster, is nothing but a fraud. You Blonde, are a fraud, and you shouldn't be a moderator of anything. You don't have the emotional maturity.
How dare you edit my conent without marking it as edited by you? What are you, a damn idiot? You couldn't just post a spiffy comeback like anyone else. You got to use your position to do a little voodoo on the board?
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Paranoid?
June 26, 2009 - 18:53 ET by cocodrieKeep a sharp lookout for the men in white coats. Don't bother looking for the pink carnations.
They're coming to take you away not to take you on a date.
Jesus Loves You so much He died for you
Cocodrie you have no clue
June 26, 2009 - 19:13 ET by nwahsBlonde is a moderator. This is not paranoid. Its happened before. But Blonde is only a moderator. When you start editing the content of posts and not marking it as edited, all the work paid for by the owners of the board is cheapened for the loss of integrity. Wouldn't that be a stupid situation to come about over a silly wisecrack?
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I was warned about Blonde
June 26, 2009 - 19:19 ET by Jen7that if I made her mad, she'd get my account tossed.
that's what you call a BULLY.
As you may presently yourself be fully made aware of, my grammar sucks.
Family Guy
~Queen Mum
June 26, 2009 - 19:23 ET by choselife3xDid she spread that rumor to EVERY lefty here?
That high-pitched scream you hear is the troll under my heel.
QM? The poster above is
June 26, 2009 - 21:19 ET by bigtimerQM?
The poster above is Jen7....
...or do you have a problem reading that?
Doubling down on stupid is not a particularly good idea. ~Andrew Breitbart
~I was referring
June 27, 2009 - 09:30 ET by choselife3xTo the poster who 'warned' her. Or do you have a problem reading that?
That high-pitched scream you hear is the troll under my heel.
Well it seems with all the expense
June 26, 2009 - 19:24 ET by nwahsIt seems with the expense of creating a following, one would not jeopardize it by using a emotionally immature moderator. This is a fine board because of heated discussions. It doesn't need a moderator playing God for narcissistic reasons.
For the record, she waged the same threat toward me "You don't want to get on my bad side."
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Not sure I buy it. Blonde
June 26, 2009 - 19:28 ET by JasonCNot sure I buy it. Blonde would have kicked me off by now if she could.
She cant kick you off
June 26, 2009 - 19:45 ET by nwahsBut she can delete your post and she can edit your post. She can't ban you. She's a moderator, and she abused her moderator powers. She is here to keep obscenity off the board, not play board God. Noel Shepard can ban you, and after asking about causes for banning people, he suggested in pm they take that very seriously, and it isn't done haphazardly or because of political ideology.
I'm not asking for much. I just want the post that was edited to note it was edited by the moderator. Thats a simple request that maintains the integrity of the board.
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nwahs...
June 26, 2009 - 21:40 ET by MightyMouth...just askin, but how do you know blonde is a "moderator"?
"There are two types of people in this country; those who provide freedom and those who enjoy it." MM says...
~Clarification
June 26, 2009 - 19:42 ET by choselife3xI can positively say that Blonde DOES NOT ban people she fights with, dislikes, or disagrees with. That said, I saw the post that shawn is referring to both yesterday and today and it is indeed worded differently now. I suggest he refer the matter to the admins, and the trolls (I'm not referring to you, shawn) can stop shrieking and mewling about Blonde. She's not the bogeyman, Jen, come out from under the bed.
That high-pitched scream you hear is the troll under my heel.
Thank you
June 26, 2009 - 19:47 ET by nwahsThank you Chooselife.
Thank you
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Hey Ron er I mean Mo
June 26, 2009 - 19:59 ET by general companyYour the biggest jerk on this entire site, and have been since you got here. Go blow your nose, whiner
My Gov. thinks I am dangerous, so be careful
"Television is a freak show" Bernie Goldberg
~Aww come on
June 26, 2009 - 20:14 ET by choselife3xThe biggest?
*sidles up, flutters eyelashes beguilingly* Do I get an honorable mention, at least? Maybe a little trophy just for showing up? Oh that's right, we're conservatives. We don't nameca--uh, give prizes for attendance.
That high-pitched scream you hear is the troll under my heel.
There is only One
June 26, 2009 - 20:22 ET by general companyNumber One, all others are second.
My Gov. thinks I am dangerous, so be careful
"Television is a freak show" Bernie Goldberg
~Crap
June 26, 2009 - 20:31 ET by choselife3xGuess I'll have to open a box of Cracker Jack if I want a consolation prize.
That high-pitched scream you hear is the troll under my heel.
From me?
June 26, 2009 - 20:39 ET by general companyI want a consolation prize.
Yep
My Gov. thinks I am dangerous, so be careful
"Television is a freak show" Bernie Goldberg
~That's okay
June 26, 2009 - 20:55 ET by choselife3xI lifted your wallet while I was sidling and fluttering and now I'm going to go blow the roof off *looks in wallet* --uh, McDonald's.
That high-pitched scream you hear is the troll under my heel.
Dont use a wallet.
June 26, 2009 - 21:07 ET by general companyBut, I knew you were a theif.
My Gov. thinks I am dangerous, so be careful
"Television is a freak show" Bernie Goldberg
~*Sigh*
June 26, 2009 - 21:13 ET by choselife3xThat's what I get for joking around with you, a weird accusation.
But, I knew you were a theif.
Based on what?
That high-pitched scream you hear is the troll under my heel.
I lifted your wallet : Choselife3x
June 26, 2009 - 21:52 ET by general companya weird accusation.
Yea thats what I thought?
My Gov. thinks I am dangerous, so be careful
"Television is a freak show" Bernie Goldberg
~Your choice of words
June 27, 2009 - 09:34 ET by choselife3xPast tense. "Knew". You imply that my joke confirms something you 'knew'. Both your last 2 responses to my farcical comments came off to me as snarky. If I read you wrong, I apologize.
That high-pitched scream you hear is the troll under my heel.
cl3x, long time...
June 26, 2009 - 22:24 ET by JasonCcl3x, long time...
~Hi Jason!
June 27, 2009 - 09:53 ET by choselife3xFancy running into you on the transgender thread....*excuse me, déjà vu makes me dizzy....*
That high-pitched scream you hear is the troll under my heel.
General company
June 26, 2009 - 20:53 ET by nwahsThis is not a whine, this a potential security problem. Back in January when Blonde did this, I could not log onto my NewsBusters account. During that time, Blonde posted a response to me on *my* account. It looked like I was talking to myself. Well that response quickly vanished, and she reposted it on her account. Thats how I knew she had access to my account and not just editing powers over my posts. Now here's the problem. I have sent posts ( mainly to Noel and other NewsBusters officials) on my account that has personal information - phone numbers addresses etc. With Blonde accessing my account, she probably has this information.
This is not a whine. This is a potential security problem for me.
She's not just editing my posts. She's accessing my account and messages I've sent (sent box) with any personal information.
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or... we could all just be
June 26, 2009 - 20:59 ET by PeskyDaneor... we could all just be insane...
Sorry
June 26, 2009 - 21:02 ET by general companyShow me the proof, I am not taking your word for it. BTW if I were a mod, you wouldnt be here, or I wouldnt be a mod. Dont care how you feel about it either.
My Gov. thinks I am dangerous, so be careful
"Television is a freak show" Bernie Goldberg
Why would I say something that wasn't true?
June 26, 2009 - 21:23 ET by nwahsI've had heated discussion with NewsBusters officials, and they wouldn't hesitate to tell me where to get off if I was making this up. I'm not making this up.
And thats exactly why you shouldn't be a mod. If your response to something you disagree with is to ban the disagreement, you shouldn't be a mod, you should be a proponent of the fairness doctrine. You have all the morality of liberals who want to squelch opposition or dissent.
There's an old saying among geeks - "The proof is in the cache."
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Your kidding right?
June 26, 2009 - 21:40 ET by general companyWhy? Oh I donno, would be the overwhelming respect you show for folks, nap, that wouldnt be it?
And thats exactly why you shouldn't be a mod.
And if I owned the site, then how would you feel? I have read a lot of your words, you are constantly wrong on most everything you post, but yet I must take your word? Get a grip.
"The proof is in the cache."
So is your credibility
My Gov. thinks I am dangerous, so be careful
"Television is a freak show" Bernie Goldberg
And tell me
June 26, 2009 - 22:00 ET by nwahsWhat are you right on. Being a bully is not being right. What are you right on? What is the post you are most proud of? Hell, you don't even have to link it, just paraphrase it. And if I hear crickets you're a fraud defending a fraud.
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What are you right on.: nwahs
June 26, 2009 - 22:08 ET by general companyYou.
What are you right on. Being a bully is not being right. What are you right on?
You throwing around baseless acusations, my poof? Your inability to prove any.
Hell, you don't even have to link it, just paraphrase it.
Link? Now I have to prove YOUR acusations?
And if I hear crickets you're a fraud defending a fraud.
How in the hell would I know what it sounds like in your head?
My Gov. thinks I am dangerous, so be careful
"Television is a freak show" Bernie Goldberg
General Company
June 26, 2009 - 22:13 ET by Free StinkerGeneral Company,
while I admire your tenacity, arguing with Bizarro Shawn is a waste of time. He refuses to let facts or logic influence his mind.
You're basicaly an empty vessel
June 26, 2009 - 22:11 ET by nwahsYou're pretty much an empty vessel aren't you? You couldn't think of one post of substance.
But you got your point across - "Stop saying that!"
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Scorecard
June 26, 2009 - 22:14 ET by Free StinkerGeneral Company: 1
Bizarro Shawn: 0
I'm betting you gave me a 10
June 26, 2009 - 22:16 ET by nwahsI bet you gave me a "10" and Blonde edited out the "1"
She does that don't you know.
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Naw, it was a
June 26, 2009 - 22:21 ET by Free StinkerNaw, it was a zero.
You've never managed to make a comment that was cogent enough to earn a point.
You know I'm going to embarass you
June 26, 2009 - 22:30 ET by nwahsI've been rooting through old posts to bring up a January ordeal. I'm going to post a link to you agreeing with me :)
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I know
June 26, 2009 - 22:18 ET by general companyBut he live 40 miles south of me, protecting my own!
My Gov. thinks I am dangerous, so be careful
"Television is a freak show" Bernie Goldberg
Well come have a beer
June 26, 2009 - 22:26 ET by nwahsI'm a nice person in the flesh, and I guarantee we can laugh in spite of ourselves. Know where I spent spent most of Katrina? In Cutoff, just down the road from Lockport and Des Allemands. Now you know they take no BS in Lockport. So, you're up in Folsom?
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From one shawn to another
June 26, 2009 - 22:29 ET by shawn228Dude seriously quit complaining, your giving the shawn name a black mark :-)
He had my vote
No
June 26, 2009 - 22:35 ET by nwahsNo, I'm not going to quit complaining till I make sure some nut in Florida doesn't have my personal info. I'm an experienced "swamp camper" ( one way in one way out), but I wanna know if I'm being hunted. So I don't give a rats ass if you like me complaining or not.
I'm the person who's account and personal information has been accessed by a nut.
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Know Middendorfs?
June 26, 2009 - 22:35 ET by general companyIn Manchac? Had'nt been there in a while, but?
My Gov. thinks I am dangerous, so be careful
"Television is a freak show" Bernie Goldberg
Hell yea
June 26, 2009 - 22:37 ET by nwahsThin crispy catfish! Water on both sides ;)Last time I was there they had two dining halls.
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Great,
June 26, 2009 - 22:47 ET by general companyTomorrow about 6-7? Seriously, I will even buy, bring someone. I will also bring a copy of this thread, be fun.
My Gov. thinks I am dangerous, so be careful
"Television is a freak show" Bernie Goldberg
Let me answer in the morning
June 26, 2009 - 22:54 ET by nwahsI'm drinking a few and I don't want to make commitments while drinking. I'll pm you about 10 am. Promise not to hit me ! ;)
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OK
June 26, 2009 - 22:59 ET by general companyAnytime? No problem. Just pm me.
My Gov. thinks I am dangerous, so be careful
"Television is a freak show" Bernie Goldberg
We will definitiely do this
June 26, 2009 - 23:09 ET by nwahsAnd if not, this is your evidence I'm a LIAR! ;) If not tomorrow, we will do this within the next couple of weeks, and my treat. I really don't take all the sparring seriously, and I know it will be fun. We will do this. I do promise. I think it would be a kick.
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Good
June 26, 2009 - 23:54 ET by general companyBut I warn you, I am not much different in real life. We will have a good time. I already requested the bill, but I give in easy?
My Gov. thinks I am dangerous, so be careful
"Television is a freak show" Bernie Goldberg
I used to own land
June 26, 2009 - 22:44 ET by nwahsI used to own about 140 acres in Magnolia Miss, just south of McComb. I'd stop by Middendorf's frequently on my way there and back.
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Even if she edited your post
June 26, 2009 - 19:22 ET by cocodrieEven if she did edit your post, why are you whining like a child?
I don't believe you anyway.
Jesus Loves You so much He died for you
Because ITS WRONG
June 26, 2009 - 19:25 ET by nwahsIts absolutely wrong.
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David "Diane" Schroer
June 25, 2009 - 19:16 ET by Paragrouperhttp://www.time.com/time/nation/article/0,8599,1840754,00.html
I saw the name and it reminded me--David, or Diane (whatever) was my operations officer for a time while I was in the Army (circa 1992).
Every time I see him in the news I wonder; is he less of a D--k than he was before the operation?
"If everyone is thinking alike, someone isn't thinking." - General George Patton Jr
Pg.... LMAO! Now, that
June 25, 2009 - 19:22 ET by bigtimerPg....
LMAO!
Now, that post of yours is priceless.
Doubling down on stupid is not a particularly good idea. ~Andrew Breitbart
Just about any group
June 25, 2009 - 20:15 ET by MidAmericaJust about any group that organizes and is a democrat voting constituancy can get federal protection. I want to start one for the most discriminated group of workers there is, the lazy and incompetent. All across this country lazy and incompetent people are routinely dismissed without a moments thought as to the personal devastation this does to the very average worker. Now I realize that all levels of government have been offering unoficial protection to lazy and incompetent workers but I think it's time for these beleagered workers be allowed to come 'out of the closet' and given fully codified legal protection so that they can hold their heads high and proclaim "I'm on break" and It's not my job".
How can anyone take
June 25, 2009 - 20:56 ET by nadadhimmiHow can anyone take seriously a disturbed person that makes a concious decision to mutilate their own body in such a horrific manner? Without question, these trannies are mentally ill. Very mentally ill, and they expect me and others to validate their insanity, with the coercive force of law to force people to think as the perverts demand. They demand "tolerance" while simultaneously exerting brute force to end others people's right to their own opinion. One should expect no less from these insane, emotional and intellectual cripples.
Here's the problem
June 25, 2009 - 21:47 ET by nwahsSome children are born sexually ambiguous (anatomically), or intersex. Now most differentiate this physical condition from the identity issue. But I don't know if Obama is differentiating. Do you? Does Tim Graham? This is an important detail.
From: http://emedicine.med...
"While the techniques of surgical genital reconstruction have been
mastered, the understanding of the psychological and social
implications of gender assignment has shifted the paradigm away from
early reconstruction in some cases. This article focuses on newborn
evaluation and the differential diagnosis in children with intersex
conditions, including children with ambiguous genitalia."
This is part of what you are calling mutilation and what Tim Graham is representing with a picture that looks like a man in drag.
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Maybe they should call it the Michael Jackson Law?
June 26, 2009 - 01:55 ET by RR GOPWonder if they still allow crosses to be worn in full view? Or do people that work for the Feds not believe in that stuff?
Strange that if you're a heterosexual male (and females technically, but c'mon now) and you show interest in a female coworker you're violating the law. The basis of these anti-harrassment laws are inherently sexual in nature.
But yet when dealing with homosexuals and trannies, the entire issue is sexual, that is their sexual preferences define who and what they are in society...but they get special protections...know what I mean?
One of the 34% who thinks George W. Bush was a great President. One of the 61% who wants to bring back the stock and pillory (yep...approval for Congress now at 39%...do you believe that!?).
Sometimes I despair of the Right
June 26, 2009 - 03:38 ET by Zoe BrainLet's leave the mendacity and the exaggerations to the Moonbats, shall we?
Focus on the Family is "conservative" the way the Marxist-Leninist Socialist Collective is "liberal". They're somewhere to the right of Genghis Khan, and have been caught lying more often than Bill Clinton.
OK, not as often as Obama, but still...
What's their latest? That Pedophilia is a "legitimate sexual orientation" no matter how "sexual orientation" is defined by the APA, or in other legislation, so laws that stop gays being fired for being gay also give open slather to Catholic Priests and others?
As for Colonel Schroer, some weenie at the LOC decided that National Security wasn't nearly as important as "putting those people in their place". And was willing to pay however many of other people's taxdollars it took to shore up their beliefs.
Here's some correspondence from Dr Ecker, after he gave a presentation at the American Psychiatric Association annual conference:
The seminar was on "The Neurobiological Evidence for Transgenderism". And unlike fashionable leftist nonsense about Gender being a "social construct", this is stuff you can see in Autopsies and MRI scans. Male and Female brains, and hence minds, differ - and sometimes development in the womb goes wrong, and you get Intersex conditions, a body neither wholly male nor wholle female. When the brain is cross-gendered, you get a perfectly sane, healthy woman - landed with a male body. Or the reverse. Which is as unpleasant for the patient as it sounds.
But hey, they're only facts, so are of no use in arguing against Lefties, who are more concerned with "feelings" and "what should be" rather than "what is".
I despair though that many on the Right are going the same way.
jessieH
June 26, 2009 - 07:57 ET by jessieHjessieH Lawyers are quietly working = mr. obama has told his lawyers to keep their mouths shut about this. Mr. obama's dictionary : Transparency = Word used to distract the citizens from the truth. : To lie. : A one sided debate.: A word to block questions the oposing side from asking questions. : A hipnotic word to control the MSM.......