tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5393996338560944889.post8081286284727999970..comments2024-03-02T02:26:00.928-05:00Comments on bleakonomy: Telling jokes to the choirtetracontadigonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04604381739383227553noreply@blogger.comBlogger7125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5393996338560944889.post-88008891407986283762010-03-27T17:49:23.587-04:002010-03-27T17:49:23.587-04:00Because, GJ, the post is about DADT and celebritie...Because, GJ, the post is about DADT and celebrities as advocates. It is only tangentially about civil disobedience. It has nothing to do with charo.Danhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11213051268392108382noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5393996338560944889.post-40170222329071458832010-03-27T04:28:04.080-04:002010-03-27T04:28:04.080-04:00Just a little update here folks. Talk about bulls...Just a little update here folks. Talk about bullshit, this comes to us from the Marine Corps Commander, The Marine Corps' top officer says he would want to avoid housing gay and heterosexual Marines in the same rooms on base if the ban on gays openly serving in the military is lifted. So now they want Separate but equal? Where have we heard that before and I wonder how the president feels about that. P.S. JG, I know a little something about cross-hairs and I don't like it one bit when these wacko Tea Party Nut-bags use the metaphor for our elected officials.Uncle Jimhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07992402926190259718noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5393996338560944889.post-39159179703904596992010-03-26T12:51:21.734-04:002010-03-26T12:51:21.734-04:00How so, Dr. Dan? The post itself brought up civil...How so, Dr. Dan? The post itself brought up civil disobedience and chaining people to the WH fence. I remarked on how liberals approve of this sort of stuff all the time, but when the civil disobedience shoe is on the right foot, some on the left find it an abusive. (Kinda like how liberals was more or less silent when Pres. Bush was marked with swastikas and gunsight crosses, but discovered danger when liberal politicians were on the receiving end.)<br /><br />Dedication to the cause is fine. Maintaining the same standards of conduct to behavior opposed to the cause (something at which you excel) should not be an equestrian animal of an entirely different hue.Gadfly Johnnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5393996338560944889.post-8800234197404400582010-03-25T10:20:54.256-04:002010-03-25T10:20:54.256-04:00It's not only who is most likely to get voters...It's not only who is most likely to get voters to the polls. Not only does she lack knowledge or authority. What person is the endorsement of Kathy Griffin (of all people) going to move to support DADT, who doesn't already support it? DOes she have a single fan who does not already support gay rights?Elizabethhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09953173396955681485noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5393996338560944889.post-76798498466026820762010-03-25T09:11:16.837-04:002010-03-25T09:11:16.837-04:00GJ, might your comment be a wee bit off-topic?GJ, might your comment be a wee bit off-topic?Danhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11213051268392108382noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5393996338560944889.post-14769816087927717592010-03-25T07:20:25.181-04:002010-03-25T07:20:25.181-04:00Dear friends, it is time for me to once again beat...Dear friends, it is time for me to once again beat this dead horse in front of all you non-veterans. The study on DADT is again gaining momentum with the R's and will be another in their attack strategy comes November. (Let’s see the R's use same attack strategy used on anyone else in the manner they use it against us). Remember, Truman? He was the man from Missouri with huge balls. He signed an executive order and that did it period. He with a stroke of his pen ended the military discrimination in the armed services for our black military personnel. For those who support Mr. Obama in his study I say… nonsense. How long and how many studies must be done to have enough Americans behind the study so it will stand on its own. How about this scenario, how about the AMA prohibiting gay surgeons to practice medicine because their fellow doctors are uncomfortable being is a locker room while they are changing into their scrubs or using their fingers in surgery, after all they are touching each other. Or the gay college professor who may see their fellows (either he or she) in the buff after a workout or coaching the football or basketball team. Gay military personnel are professionals too. They are professionals in a different manner. They are professionals at defending us in ways non-combat veterans cannot possibly imagine and in ways I do not wish to re-live nor repeat. These persons protect us so we may go about making our living, or voting, or just being. I never once heard anyone worry about being fondled while being shot at. Although the DC vote for gay marriage was a wonderful reprieve from the current run on hatred, Barney Frank said it best when he said, we are taking the wrong approach with parades and banners. We should be enlisting everyone we know and causing a barrage of e-mails and calls to every elected official, just like the NRA. When I first heard about Dan Choi being arrested for handcuffing himself to the fence of the White House and I began to think about what happened, I had totally forgotten what real activism was. <br />Let me be quite clear about one thing: what Dan Choi did was plotted to gain the most amounts of press and attention, and undoubtedly will dominate the conversation going into the next Don't Ask, Don't Tell news cycle. It's big, over the top, political theater of the type that is destined to get tongues wagging about the issue once again and will definitely secure Lt. Choi's place as a major figure in gay activism. I speak out for the same reasons that other gay veterans do: because there are thousands of gay soldiers currently serving whose voices are rendered completely silent due to this policy, and if we veterans don't speak up for them, nobody else will. It is our job to make people care, and to put a human face to the Don't Ask Don't Tell conversation, and to engage people on a more grassroots level so that they can get a good idea of the damage that the policy does. Since exploding onto the scene just under a year ago, it is arguable that Lt. Dan Choi has done this more effectively than anyone else. Lt. Choi's actions seem to hearken back to an era that Cleve Jones talks about when he reminisces about the work he did with Harvey Milk back in the 70's, the era when we gay men founded ACT UP after becoming sick and tired of seeing each other dying from AIDS and getting nothing but silence from the Reagan Administration, and it's the era where gay people actually fought for their rights instead of waiting patiently for them.Uncle Jimhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07992402926190259718noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5393996338560944889.post-78197822626202807492010-03-24T21:08:20.927-04:002010-03-24T21:08:20.927-04:00Ya know, when someone suggests a little civil diso...Ya know, when someone suggests a little civil disobedience like chaining people to the WH fence to protest the lack of Gay Rights, I'm sure charo and crew are all for it. I would have no problem with it either; the chainees know they are making a statement and are hoping to change public opinion on unfair policies.<br /><br />When someone suggests a little civil disobedience like defying 'insurance' 'reforms' to protest the lack of sane fiscal and healthcare policies, we see charo gets the vapors and drops to his fainting couch. Oh well, consistency is overrated as a virtue.Gadfly Johnnoreply@blogger.com