I Didn't Say It ...

Ivanka “Complicit” _____, whining about that nickname:

"“If being complicit is wanting to be a force for good and to make a positive impact, then I’m complicit. I don’t know that the critics who may say that of me, if they found themselves in this very unique and unprecedented situation that I am now in, would do any differently than I am doing. So I hope to make a positive impact. I don’t know what it means to be complicit, but you know, I hope time will prove that I have done a good job and much more importantly that my father’s administration is the success that I know it will be.”

Um, a force for good? Fuck off, Princess Complicit; your father is destroying the environment, Trans rights, women’s rights, the EPA and our standing in the world.

So, please, Complicit, if you read this, or if you have it read to you, give me one fucking example of the good your father has done.

Just one.

Failing that, go back, sit down, and please, for the love of all that is good in this world, STFU.

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Louis CK, comedian, kind of apologizing for saying, last year, that _____ is Hitler:

“I guess he’s not as profound as I thought he was. I thought he was some new kind of evil, but he’s just a lying sack of s**t …. There’s liars…and then there’s somebody who lies once in awhile….then you have a liar, it’s like a problem. Then you have just a lying sack of s**t. And they like it. He likes it….It’s just gross. He’s just a gross, crook, dirty, rotten, lying sack of s**t.”

Um, yeah, that’s all.

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Roger Stone, a _____ ally, has publicly accused _____’s son-in-law, Jared Kushner, of being the leak in the White House:

“Sources tell me the president’s son-in-law enjoys a very lively text exchange with Joe Scarborough, and that Scarborough’s repeated attacks on Steve Bannon, not to mention some of these attacks on the president, clearly are being manipulated by Jared Kushner.”

Yikes, even the allies are turning.

Impeachment will be fun.

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Orrin Hatch, Republican Senator from Utah, rejecting a comparison of the GOP refusal to consider Merrick Garland as SCOTUS nominee, and Democratic opposition to _____’s nominee, Neil Gorsuch:

“[The Democrats are] politicizing this whole process. This is a guy who is a mainstream conservative, which they hate, they don’t like that. And of course, they are still upset about my other friend, Merrick Garland. But the Republicans had every right to delay that within a presidential [election] year.”

Isn’t it funny how Hatch can say Merrick Garland would be a great SCOTUS judge but deny him the opportunity because he was an Obama appointee?

The Republicans can’t even see their own two faces.

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Tina Fey, on educated white women who voted for _____:

“The thing that I kind of keep focusing on is the idea that we sort of need to hold the edges, that it’s sort of like a lot of this election was turned by kinda white college-educated women who would now maybe like to forget about this election and go back to watching [home shopping network] and I would want to urge them, ‘You can’t look away.’ Because it doesn’t affect you this minute but it’s going to affect you eventually. Gains that we’ve made over the past 100 years are under attack. Luckily [vice president] Mike Pence isn’t allowed to go down and shut up Planned Parenthood unless his wife goes with him. So you know, if we can just keep Karen busy scrapbooking — we can all still get Pap smears. Earlier tonight in what is surely an April Fools’ joke, the President proclaimed that next month will be national sexual assault and awareness prevention month … so now we know what he gave up for Lent, that’s good.”

These educated women, and even some with less education looked the other way at the pussy grabbing misogynist and now they’re wondering whom to blame.

It’s you, dear. It’s you.

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John McCain, the GOP’s use of the “nuclear option” in Gorsuch nomination:

“I think it’s a dark day in the history of the United States Senate.”

Good on McCain, until you learn that he’s gonna goose-step along with the GOP.

Fuck off, Grampa.

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Random Musings

I’ve said it before: I am an Awards Show Whore™. I love ‘em all—well, for the most part … I think there are far too many country music awards and the Kid’s Choice? Oh honey, no—but I love a good show and a good host; or hosts.

And so this is why I was rolling out the red carpet to the news that Tina Fey and Amy Poehler — who killed at The Golden Globes last year — will be back hosting in 2014 and again in 2015.

I’m as giddy as a schoolgirl!

Ted Nugent, faded rock star, gun nut, Teabagger and serial baby-maker has said he might run for President.

His own proposed campaign slogan — and this is real y’all … it came straight from Nugent’s ever-running piehole: 

“Hi, I’m Ted Nugent. I have nine children from seven women and I’m running for president.”

He really just ought to run for sperm donor. On second thought …. Ick.

Greg Louganis traded his Olympic Gold Medals for a band of gold.

He’s married. Greg married his partner, the adorably hot Johnny Chaillot last week in Malibu:

"It was amazing because I have so many people from all facets of my life here tonight and they are all here and celebrating it is all wonderful, I already feel different. The ceremony was so reflective and representative of who we are." 

The two men — and it’s still a rush to say “the two men” when speaking of newlyweds — are asking for donations to charities like the Human Rights Campaign and Mending Kids International, in lieu of a traditional wedding registry:

"We are both in our mid fifties and don't need another blender so we really wanted to give back."—Johnny Chaillot 

Congrats to the happy, cute couple.

I loves me some Nashville, even before they added the closeted gay country star played by hottie-in-tight-jeans Chris Carmack.

That show really plays to its gay audience with some of the hottest men around, like …

Michiel Huisman , who plays Liam, the renegade record producer and Rayna’s new love interest, and blond beauty Charlie Bewley, who joined the show last week as Juliette’s new love interest.

I’m also interested.

In other same-sex wedding news …

Indiana's first openly gay countywide official, Zach Adamson, will be making history once more by marrying his longtime partner Christian Mosburg in Washington D.C. this week.

"It's important that people see this doesn't have to be the wedge issue or the divisive issue that it is often portrayed as. We are just doing what other people do."—Zach Adamson

He added that the positive reception he and Christian have received as an engaged, same-sex couple “speaks to how far we've come."

We’ve still got a way to go, but each couple that married breaks down the walls.

Congrats.

What’s this, North Dakota? You now have a tax form for married same-sex couples even though you don’t recognize such marriages?

Well, since the IRS announced in August that it would allow same-sex couples to file as married couples if they were legally married in a state that allows such marriages, even if they live in a state that doesn’t, North Dakota saw that as a problem.

But Lorie Bowker, of the North Dakota tax department, says the answer lies in a new form: ND-1S, which allows for the divvying up a couple’s federal tax filing so they can file as individuals in North Dakota.

Bowker said, like the federal government, there is a “marriage penalty” built into the North Dakota tax code, so filing as individuals could be beneficial to same-sex couples who would then save on their tax debt.

All well and good, but some advocates for same-sex marriage say the discrepancy between federal and state tax filings could be grounds for lawsuits based on the equal protection clause of the U.S. Constitution.

And that would mean … channeling Oprah … Everyone gets a marriage. You get a marriage! And you get a marriage!

So, the new TV season is basically in full swing, although I am awaiting the return of Grimm ­— with the delicious David Giuntoli — and the start of Dracula — with the oozing with sex appeal Jonathan Rhys Meyers.

Loving:  AHS: Coven.
Also loving: The Crazy Ones, especially the adorable, and funny, James Wolk.

Liking ... for now: Sean Saves The World.

Beginning to loathe: Trophy Wife and Hostages

Annoyed: It took three weeks to bring Brody back to Homeland, and then when the episode aired it was dull, dull, and dull.

And you? What do you love, like or loathe?

File this under It’s About Freakin’ Time:

The Harvey Milk Foundation has announced that the United States Postal Service will issue a stamp in honor of LGBT political icon Harvey Milk.

This makes Harvey Milk, who made history as the first openly gay man to win political office in California when he was elected to San Francisco’s Board of Supervisors in 1977, the first openly LGBT official ever featured on U.S. postage.

“Harvey Milk’s legacy is alive and well. His historic run paved the way for a new generation of LGBT leaders who can be open and honest about who they are, and it’s encouraging to see the U.S. Postal Service honoring his legacy of perseverance and pride today.”— Chuck Wolfe, President and CEO of the Gay & Lesbian Victory Fund and Institute

The stamp is expected to be introduced in 2014, and though I rarely snail mail any more, you can bet I’ll be lignin up for the stamps and whatever else I can get.

It’s about time an LGBT icon and hero was recognized.

The Houston Chronicle has come out and apologized for endorsing Ted Cruz for political office in light of Cruz’s recent descent into egomaniacal insanity:

Does anyone else miss Sen. Kay Bailey Hutchison? We're not sure how much difference one person could make in the toxic, chaotic, hyperpartisan atmosphere in Washington, but if we could choose just one it would be Hutchison, whose years of service in the Senate were marked by two things sorely lacking in her successor, Ted Cruz. When we endorsed Ted Cruz in last November's general election, we did so with many reservations and at least one specific recommendation - that he follow Hutchison's example in his conduct as a senator. Obviously, he has not done so. Cruz has been part of the problem in specific situations where Hutchison would have been part of the solution. We feel certain she would have worked shoulder to shoulder with Sen. Susan Collins, R-Maine, in crafting a workable solution that likely would have avoided the government shutdown altogether. But we'll never know.

Suh-nap!

I Didn't Say It ....

Tina Fey, on Representatives Todd Akin, Richard Mourdock, and all those Republicans who have an opinion on rape:

“I wish we could have an honest and respectful dialogue about these complicated issues, but it seems like we can’t, right now. And if I have to listen to one more grey-faced man with a two dollar haircut explain to me what rape is, I'm gonna lose my mind. I watch these guys, and I'm like, 'What is happening? Am I a secretary on Mad Men?'"

No, you’re just watching the GOP back-step about fifty years into oblivion.

Jan Pauls, a Kansas state representative, and Democrat, on her rejection of the national party's endorsement of marriage equality:

"The Democratic national platforms have never been that important in local or state politics. We’re a little different here. I think most Kansans' concerns are not that the homosexuals want equal rights but superior rights. That’s what makes this issue so difficult."

Superior rights.

My desire to be treated like every other &%$#ing American is a superior right?

Wow. And from a Democrat, no less, although one from Kansas—which, sorry to say, people from Kansas—doesn’t say a lot.

It just proves that even in the DNC we have a few asshats on the loose.

Chris Christie, New Jersey governor, on President Obama and Hurricane Sandy:

"I was on the phone at midnight again last night with the president. He has expedited the designation of New Jersey as a major disaster area. I was on the phone with FEMA at 2 a.m. this morning to answer the questions they needed answered to get that designation. The president has been outstanding in this. The folks at FEMA and his folks have been excellent. ...[T] he President has been all over this and he deserves great credit. [He] told me to call him if I needed anything and he absolutely means it, and it’s been very good working with the President and his administration.”

Nice to see that politics is not [really] at play here.

Nice to see Christie step up and applaud the president for his actions rather than try and take him down a peg.

But, I can’t help but shake the itch in my brain, that Christie is doing this so he can run for president in 2016.

Linda Lingle, former Hawaii governor and current GOP Senate candidate, on marriage equality in a debate last week with Democrat opponent Mazie Keiko Hirono:

"Well this is a question that I have spent an awful lot of time on as governor. And I know people have very strong feelings on both sides. It's something that I've wrestled with, President Obama has wrestled with it. I would certainly support putting this constitutional amendment on the ballot. Personally, I believe that marriage is between a man and a woman. But I also think the people of Hawaii should be able to make that decision."

Yes, Obama has wrestled with it, but he’s stopped wrestling and come down on the side of equality. Too bad Lingle is so desperate to stay in political office, with all those benefits and healthcare just waiting, to actually take a stand.

Mazie Keiko Hirono, in response:

"We all remember when as governor she vetoed the civil unions bill and in doing so, before she vetoed it, she invited members of the LGBT leadership to join her. And they thought that she was going to sign that bill into law. And instead, right in front of them, the very group that had worked so hard to pass this legislation, she vetoed that bill. I thought that was extremely insensitive and disrespectful of their position."

Suh-nap.

Say goodnight Lingle, because The Gays have a long memory and don’t often forget those wingnuts like you who’ve treated us so shabbily.

Martin O’Malley, governor of Maryland, on his state’s marriage equality fight:

“We’re now about $400,000 away from having on hand what we need to have, so this last push is critically important. We continue to raise dollars, and the interest in this question continues — more and more people are becoming interested in this, so I appreciate your coverage on it. And hopefully with your coverage of what you’re doing and what the campaign we’ll be able to get the word out and rally people to this cause.”

And if the cause is simple equality, something we all say we deserve, then Marylanders should vote accordingly on Tuesday.

I Didn't Say It........

David Hyde Pierce, on coming out as a happily partnered man:

"It was very important to me never to pretend, never to hide. In 1985, my partner Brian and I were new in the business and were not comfortable letting people know that we were gay. We had separate apartments. We went about our business. We met this lovely married couple down in the grocery store below the apartment building where we all stayed. A month later, we finally had the courage to come out and let them know that in fact we were a couple. They said, 'We knew when we saw you shopping.'" 

Just further proof, as if we needed it, that coming out really is all right.

And that it does get better.
David Hyde Pierce and his partner, Brian Hargrove, have been together for over twenty-five years, but only recently were allowed to marry in that slim window of equality in California before Prop H8.

Tina Fey, accepting the Kennedy Center's Mark Twain Prize--this bit was edited out of the program by PBS because, they say, the show simply ran long:

"And, you know, politics aside, the success of Sarah Palin and women like her is good for all women - except, of course --those who will end up, you know, like, paying for their own rape 'kit 'n' stuff.' But for everybody else, it's a win-win. Unless you're a gay woman who wants to marry your partner of 20 years - whatever. But for most women, the success of conservative women is good for all of us. Unless you believe in evolution. You know - actually, I take it back. The whole thing's a disaster." 

Funny, she didn't say anything that wasn't true, and yet her remarks were clipped from the show.

Funny, she was being honored for her work as a comedian, yet her jokes were edited out.
Funny, I expected more from PBS.

David Hyde Pierce [again], on finally marrying his longtime partner:

"It wasn't so much about being uncomfortable being gay, it was about being uncomfortable … Like the bully on the playground was pushing your face in the dirt saying, 'Say it, say it, say it. "[Getting married], I felt transformed … We'd been together 26 years when we were legally allowed to get married in California. We went and did it, and we both agree it had a power, an importance to us in our lives that we can't really put into words, but that is totally palpable and intrinsic to who we are."

This is an argument I've had with my anti-marriage equality, um, for lack of a better word, friends.

They get why they married, and what it means to them, as a couple, as a union, but they don't get why I might want the same thing.


Dan Choi, on the idea that President Obama suffers from silent homophobia:

"We have served our country valiantly, the defense of freedom and justice, now it is time for our leaders to do the same. After visiting Senator Harry Reid today, the majority leader, his staff telling us that the president is not engaged, at all, in the repeal of the most discriminatory law that bars soldiers from telling the truth. After all his rhetoric I think we must conclude that there is truth to the knowledge in homophobia of both sorts. There is a loud homophobia, those with platforms. And there is a silent homophobia of those who purport to be our friends and do nothing. Loud homophobia and silent homophobia have the same result, they must be combated and this is what we intend to do today."

I feel, as I've said before, some ring of truth in what Choi says. Obama has done a lot for the LGBT community, with all his LGBT appointments and so on, but he is remarkably silent, at least until someone else speaks out, on issues important to our community.

It took him a while to talk about Pride celebrations, and only did so after Hillary Clinton spoke up; the same with the It Gets Better project; he was silent until Hillary spoke up.

Do I think, as Choi also said, that Obama is the worst president in regards to LGBT issues? Not by a long shot. I do, however, wish he'd speak up more, and become that fierce advocate he promised.

Meryl Streep, on Cher:

"We hung out and drank plum wine--eww--after work. Cher was really fun. I was smitten by her openness, both as an actress and as a person. It's incredibly disarming--you're a little worried for her, like: Are you sure you want to be telling me all this? Her lack of inhibition is part of what endeared her to the national audience on The Sonny and Cher Comedy Hour--that's where I first saw her. Most people on TV had a little TV veneer back then, a performing gloss, but her gloss was not only her beauty but how easily she wore it and dismissed it, like 'No big deal!' For a showgirl there's not a phony bone in her body."

Oh man, how I would have loved to sit with these two, drinking plum wine and talking.
Oh man......

Cher, on Meryl Streep:

"She's so good, and she makes me laugh hysterically. We are opposites: she takes everything so easily, and I am so stressed about everything....I think Meryl is doing it [aging] great. The stupid bitch is doing it better than all of us. But I don't like it. It's getting in my way. I have a job to do, and it's making my job harder."

Such polar opposites, in, seemingly, every way, and yet they've remained friends since appearing in Silkwood.

Just that fact makes me love them both more.

Max Adler, who plays Glee bully Dave Karovsky who gave Kurt Hummel his first kiss:

"I just got the script like any other script. I had no clue what was going on...I saw Ryan at the premiere, and he said, 'We just wrote some really good stuff for you for episode six,' and I was like, 'Oh, cool. Some more slushies?'...And then I got the script, and I was reading that scene, and Kurt, he just doesn't let up. He keeps on me and he keeps on me, and I thought, 'I'm going to punch him in the face. This is getting serious.' And then I turn the page, and it says: 'Karovsky kisses Kurt.' And I was like, 'What?' I jumped off the couch. I was as shocked as anybody else was. It was totally unexpected. [But] yeah, first time I've kissed a guy, and I'm glad it was Chris Colfer!"

Imagine getting that script, and seeing that you go from bully to closeted homosexual.

I hope they play his story out a bit more as the season moves on. I've always said that the biggest homophobes are closeted homosexuals.

Congressman John Shimkus, on global warming and how "god" will protect us:

"I believe that's the infallible word of God, and that's the way it's going to be for his creation. The Earth will end only when God declares it's time to be over. Man will not destroy this Earth. This Earth will not be destroyed by a Flood. I do believe that God's word is infallible, unchanging, perfect." 

But, wingnut, is there are earthquakes and floods and tornadoes and hurricanes, and all sorts of natural disasters, wouldn't global warming fall into that same category?

Natural?

And, maybe god won't destroy the Earth, but even a wingnut such as yourself, could see how mankind is destroying the planet. 

Pat Sajak, on Keith Olbermann:

"I was the person who introduced Keith Olbermann to America ... I'm not sure how he morphed into the bitter-sounding, hate-mongering name-caller he's become, but I'm sorry he did. I do know that to whatever extent the political well has been poisoned, Keith has dumped more than his share of venom into the water. I'd like to think he knows that and maybe even regret it. I liked the Keith Olbermann of 1989." 

Oh Pat, keep selling vowels.

You cannot take responsibility for someone else. You are not that powerful, even though you seem to think quite highly of yourself.

And, interesting, that while you take, um, credit, for unleashing Olbermann, the show on which he appeared with you was cancelled in about ten minutes after it first appeared.
You think far too highly of yourself.
I'd like to solve the puzzle: Shut The F_ _k Up.

Keith Olbermann, on Pat Sajak's criticism:

"Pat Sajak did not introduce me to America. I started on CNN the same year he started on 'Wheel.' I think if he needs to apologize for anything it needs to be that talk show. When he was canceled, he was replaced by a crime-and-skin series called 'Silk Stalkings,' for God's sake." 

Pat Sajak Is A F_ _ ktard, Keith.
He just proves it time and again.

Someone's Fifteen Minutes Are Juuuuuuuust About Up

That's me in the RED print:

Palin Takes Aim at Fey, Couric, Kennedy
By Alexander Mooney,
CNN
(Jan. 8) - Sarah Palin is credited with making Tina Fey a world-wide star and boosting Katie Couric's ratings at CBS.
But in a recent interview with conservative John Ziegler, Palin said both "exploited" her twelve-week candidacy — a fact, she said, that "says a great deal about our society.”
Fey's widely-applauded portrayal of the Alaska governor boosted SNL's ratings, while Couric’s audience grew after a series of interviews during which Palin now-famously faltered.
“I did see that Tina Fey was named entertainer of the year and Katie Couric’s ratings have risen," Palin said in the interview. "I know that a lot of people are capitalizing on, oh I don’t know, perhaps some exploiting that was done via me, my family, my administration — that’s a little bit perplexing, but it also says a great deal about our society.”

Aw! Tina Fey and SNL picked on you?
Katie Couric, Charles Gibson et al asked tough questions?
Maybe then, if you felt so exploited you should have said good-bye, packed your guns, your Abstinence Is The Only Way Handbook, your tolerance for the gay community, that brand new wardrobe courtesy of the Republican party, and gone back to Alaska!

The Alaska governor was particularly upset with an SNL skit during which Fey's version of Palin said, "I believe marriage is meant to be a sacred institution between two unwilling teenagers."
The line was a clear reference to Palin's 18-year-old daughter Bristol and her fiancé Levi Johnston. The two announced shortly before the GOP convention that they were expecting a baby and had plans to marry.
"The mama grizzly rises up in me, hearing things like that," she said of a skit. "Here again, cool, fine come attack me. But when you make a suggestion like that that attacks a kid, it kills me."

Sarah, honey, you're the one who talked about abstinence, you're the one who spewed Conservative Right-wing Religious zealot propaganda, you're the one who called parts of our country the "real America."
If you can't stand the heat, go back to Alaska.
You chose to be a public figure; you said Yes when McCain called.
Deal with it!

In the wide-ranging interview, Palin also faulted the McCain campaign for agreeing to a series of sit-downs with Couric after the first one appeared to go so poorly.
“I knew it didn’t go well the first day, and then we gave her a couple of other segments after that," she said. "And my question to the campaign was, after it didn’t go well the first day, why were we going to go back for more…going back for more was not a wise decision either.”
During one of those follow-up interviews, Palin took heat for appearing to be unable to name the newspapers or magazines she reads: "Um of them, any of them that have been in front of me all these years," was the Alaska governor's response.
In the interview with Ziegler, Palin called that answer "too flippant" and suggested the question itself offended her.
“To me the question was more along the lines of, ‘Do you read, what do you guys do up there, what is it that you read?’”
"…Katie, you’re not the center of everybody’s universe," Palin added off-handedly.

Sarah, sweetie, I don't like Katie either, but she didn't ask what you all "up there" read, like it would be a shock to find out people in Alaska read. She asked what you read, and you couldn't come up with one thing. Not one. Sheesh, even I can come up with one: TV Guide, there, that's not so hard. Moose-Killing Monthly! Another one!

Palin, who has long criticized media coverage of her campaign performance, also said she is interested to see if reporters are equally tough on Caroline Kennedy as she pursues the appointment to the likely-vacant Senate seat in New York.
“I’ve been interested to see how Caroline Kennedy will be handled, and if she will be handled with kid gloves or if she will be under such a microscope,” she said.

The microscope may not be trained too hard on Caroline Kennedy, but that's because we know more about her than you. You snow-mobiled out of Alaska and came down to the Lower Forty-Eight like we should have rolled out a red carpet, and when you were asked tough questions, you told us you'd have to get back to us on that!
When people poked fun at you, did you complain then?
Did you ask that Tina Fey stop?
When she supposedly made jokes about your unwed, pregnant teenaged daughter, did you yell or stomp your feet?
No, honey, you went on SNL yourself.

“It’s going to be interesting to see how that plays out and I think that as we watch that we will perhaps be able to prove that there is a class issue here, also that was such a factor in the scrutiny of my candidacy versus, say, the scrutiny of what her candidacy may be," she also said.

Yes, Sarah, there might be a class issue between you and Caroline Kennedy.
She has some.