Random Musings

Well, that didn’t take long … just a one day after endorsing Donald [t]Rump, House Speaker Paul Ryan disavowed the GOP nominee’s accusations of bias against Gonzalo Curiel, the judge in the Trump U case, because of his “Mexican heritage”:

“It’s reasoning I don’t relate to. I completely disagree with the thinking behind that.”

He may have added, “I mean, if the judge was gay that’s another story,” though I cannot verify that at this point.

In addition, even Senate Majority Leader Mitch McTurtle, er, McConnell said Trump should be doing more to unite Republicans. But McTurtle, who would never say anything bad about a Republican, added that he was unfamiliar with Trump’s comments about the judge.

Really, McTurtle? Pick up a paper every now and again you moron!

And speaking of [T]Rump, after calling a reporter a sleazebag — and let’s not discuss how unpresidential that is — last week, the Love Gloves the media used on [t]Rump are off.

As evidenced by that CNN news scroll from last week when they blatantly called the GOP gasbag a liar.

Loving it!

There are as many reasons people think being gay is bad and sick and dirty and perverted and against God, as there are reason for justifying why people hate The Gays, but this one is just about the craziest one yet. And the fact that it comes from Texas wingnut Congressman Louie Gohmert comes as no surprise.

In a speech on the House floor last week, Gohmert went down to the subbasement of stupid by arguing that continued discrimination of LGBT people is necessary to, ahem, save the future of mankind! His theory? Glad you asked …

Say a meteor is hurtling toward Earth and we are all in danger of extinction. Wouldn’t we try and find a way to save ourselves like by, maybe, building a rocketship to take everyone to Mars so we can start over and colonize the Red Planet?

Well, Gohmert figures we’d need about 40 people to go to Mars to start over — though how he came up with forty he isn’t saying — but, as Gohmert says, if we can’t discriminate against LGBT people, then what happens if all the people on the spaceship are gay?

You know, because gay women cannot give birth to children and gay men cannot get women pregnant, and we all know that heterosexual people, whilst repopulating Mars would never ever give birth to a person who was born gay.

To me, the only way to insure the safety of mankind, should a meteor come crashing though our atmosphere, is to aim it at Louie’s house and rid the planet of stupid.

Javier Raya, a twenty-five year old Olympic figure skater from Spain, has come out as gay in a new-fashioned way … by posting a picture to Instagram of him kissing his boyfriend Andrew Nicholson:

And then adding:

“Many of you know, others can imagine by the pictures and others will be surprised, but I have to say that right now I feel like the luckiest person in the world! Thank you!”

The photo was posted three weeks ago, but did not get much attention outside of the Spanish media but coming on the heels of that other Spanish athlete, Olympic water polo player Victor Gutierrez, coming out as gay last week, suddenly Javier is news and out and proud.

And the recipient of the HOMO HQ Coming Out Toaster Oven and a copy of The Gay Agenda.

Welcome out, Javier!

Well, it looks like it’s on North Carolina … because last week Renee Ellmers, a  Republican Congresswoman, a [t]Rump supporter, and lover of the state’s anti-trans HB2 law has become the GOP’s first incumbent to lose in a primary this year.

Yup, Ellmers, who backed North Carolina’s constitutional amendment banning same-sex marriage, who supported bills to prevent military chaplains from officiating same-sex marriages and who endorsed efforts to defend the Defense of Marriage Act, lost her seat to fellow GOP Congressman George Holding.

You’re on the right path, North Carolina; send all the haters packing.

In celebration of LGBT Pride month, the NBA has unveiled a new collection of rainbow t-shirts and all the proceeds will go to GLSEN-- Gay, Lesbian and Straight Education Network.

GLSEN executive director Eliza Byard:

“Professional sports showing up for LGBT people is one of the biggest cultural developments of the last decade, and really the last five years. The NBA has been showing up for LGBT youth and for GLSEN for a number of years. Having this be a league-wide initiative, knowing any LGBT fan in the country can choose to celebrate their team and themselves with one of those shirts, that’s a whole new thing.”

Good on the NBA for recognizing that even The Gays, well, some of the gays because I don’t follow the volleyball, love them some sports.

Or men in sports, maybe?

So, I watched a new show the other night, based on a comic book, or so I was told. It’s called Preacher, and it stars the scorchingly hot Dominic Cooper, top, as a priest who gets infected by an alien something or other and can now make people do things for him … or something.

The first episode was ultra-violent and when I see a way to do film a scene showing a man rip his own heart out of his chest without the actual visuals and still make it scary and violent, well, sorry Dominic, even your hotness won’t lure me back; but we’ll always have episode one.

I also watched Saint Laurent, about fashion designer Yves Saint Laurent and it stared French actor, and scorchingly hot and hotter, Gaspard Ulliel, bottom left. I am now officially obsessed and it’s not just because of Gaspard’s very impressive nude scene in the film. Really … it’s not!

We also watched Hunters, about a US terrorism unit tracking down extra-terrestrial terrorists. It started off good, and there was some gore — though not the literally ripping your heart out of your chest variety — and stars beefy Aussie actor Mark Coles Smith, bottom right, who might be a mole in the terrorism unit … meaning he’s one of them.

Good hot stuff, I say.

Remember when Lindsey Graham went after Donald [t] Rump and said he was the worst possible choice for president? And then, once [t]Rump sent all his opponents packing Miss Lindsey tentatively leaned out towards [t]Rump to kiss his ass, er, ring? Well, now Miss Lindsey ain’t playing any more and says she will not vote for The [t]Rump and is publicly encouraging Republicans to unendorse the Bigot:

“If anybody was looking for an off-ramp, this is probably it.”

And add Illinois Senator Mark Kirk to that list because now he says he will not endorse the GOP nominee either:

“It is absolutely essential that we are guided by a commander-in-chief with a responsible and proper temperament, discretion and judgment. Our president must be fit to command the most powerful military the world has ever seen, including an arsenal of thousands of nuclear weapons.”

Infighting is fun.

Sidenote: is it me, or did Mark Kirk steal some of his objections about [t]Rump from Hillary’s foreign policy speech? Maybe that's who he's voting for? Just sayin’.

Up there to Canada, they are looking to make their national anthem gender neutral: 

“Bill C-210, which passed 219 to 79, proposes to switch just two words in the lyrics of ‘O Canada’ — changing “in all thy sons command” to “in all of us command” in one verse. The simple substitution is meant to do away with the exclusively male phrasing in part of the song, but it’s also causing an uproar among some conservative members of Canada’s government.”

You know, because conservatives think in terms of men only.

And I’m the gay one? Hee hee … one.

The Lying Game 3: The Three Faces of Mark Kirk

That wacky Mark Kirk is at it again.

If you remember, he made up a story about being Naval Intelligence Officer Of The year, though he wrongly assumed no one with intelligence would check that out and find out it's a lie.

Then came the allegations that Mark was a Friend Of Dorothy, or, in today's lingo, He Could Have His Own Show On Bravo, and blogger Mike Rogers investigated and found out it was an open, then closed, er, closeted, secret that Mark Kirk likes the mens.

Now comes word that Mark Kirk often talks about his teaching career.

On the floor of the House, in his campaign commercials and oftentimes during interviews, Mark Kirk has discussed his time spent in classrooms, or, backrooms. No; classrooms. In fact, at at a speech before the Illinois Education Association, Mark Kirk said, and this is a quote because it has those curlicue thingies, “as a former nursery school and middle school teacher, I know some of what it takes to bring order to class.”

Um, okay, but.....Mark Kirk likes to talk about being a teacher, but he doesn't like to talk about how long he was a teacher. He spent one year in London at a private school, and worked part-time in a nursery school for a work-study program while he was a student at Cornell University.

So, he was a teacher, for about a year, and as part of a college work-study program.

Following Mark Kirk's logic, since I, at one time in my life, danced onstage at Caesar's Tahoe with Miss Diana Ross [HERE] I am now adding "former member of the hit Motown group, The Supremes" to my resume.

Carry on.

More Lies From Mark Kirk

The last time I spoke to y'all about Mark Kirk, the senatorial candidate from Illinois who wants Barack Obama's old seat, I told y'all that he was a big fat liar who claimed he'd won the U.S. Navy's Intelligence Officer of the Year award.

He did not.

And, since then there have been rumors swirling--because rumors swirl, you know--that Mark is a Friend Of Dorothy; or, to put it into words the kids of today will understand: he could have his own show on Bravo.

He's queer, dear. ALLEGEDLY.

But what is not alleged is that Mark Kirk has been caught lying again. What's that? A politician lie, deny they lied, and then lie some more. This must be the end of the world as we know it.

While running for re-election last year, Mark Kirk riled some folks up by announcing that China was drilling for oil off the coast of Cuba. He lied, and finally acknowledged his lie, er, misstatement, er, words taken out of context, just last week.

And then there was the Somali pirates. Remember them? Remember how last year President Obama authorized the shooting of those Somali pirates who kidnapped American Captain Richard Phillips?

Kirk doesn't. He talked about pirates attacking ships off Africa:"We began to see some backbone, not from the U.S. but from France. France was always good for a quick $2 million ransom until the election of President Sarkozy. When his first ship was seized, he authorized the standard ransom payment-- with a transmitter in the box. As that went into the pirate compound, he then authorized French Special Forces to roll in. And they killed everybody. . . . It kind of shocked us in the Pentagon. But it sent a clear message and I don't think the French have had many problems since."

Nice story, but it's just that. A story, er lie, er, misstatement. You get the picture.

Then Kirk told a local radio station that the United States drill offshore for oil so we don't have to import oil from Iran: "We have a fundamental choice. . . . We can either buy 80 billion barrels of oil from the Iranians or from ourselves."

Trouble is, we don't get oil from Iran, and the government has adopted sanctions for any company that would try.

Mark Kirk.

Homosexual? I don't know.

Liar? Apparently.

Why Oh Why Do People Lie?

Just the other day, while entertaining Nelson Mandela, Christian Siriano, Oprah, and Sarah Ferguson, the Duchess of York, among others, in my Fifth Avenue pied-à-terre, and discussing my recent Nobel Peace Prize for my work in Somalia with my husband David Beckham, we discovered a rather amusing little story about lying.

It seems that Congressman Mark Kirk, the Republican candidate for President Obama's old Illinois Senate seat has, um, inaccurately claimed to have received the U.S. Navy's Intelligence Officer of the Year award for service during NATO's conflict with Serbia in the late 1990s.

Turns out, however, that Kirk was, or is, to put it delicately, a fucking liar.

And his lie sparked a lot of news journalists, as well as his opponent in his senate race, one Hottie McHottie, Alexi Giannoulias, to seek the truth. Which they did.

Now, oddly enough, Kirk changed his website to offer a new, and different, account of the award, writing on his blog: "[U]pon a recent review of my records, I found that an award listed in my official biography was misidentified."

Misidentified.

Kirk-speak for "I lied and got caught."

It seems that the National Military Intelligence Association, gave Kirk's entire unit an award for outstanding service in 2000, but the Vice Admiral Rufus L. Taylor Award does not mention Kirk specifically, and instead designates the entire Intelligence Division.

Kirk also, um, misidentified the award publicly, during a House committee hearing in March 2002, in which he said, and these are his words: "I was the Navy's Intelligence Officer of the Year."
Uh huh.

When, oh when, are people going to realize that their lies will be uncovered? A simple Google search proved Kirk lied, er, misidentified, his achievements. Seriously, a few mouse clicks and you can uncover the truth of what anyone says.

Which is what we were all laughing about at my penthouse party, while Oprah polished my Best Actor Oscar, and James Earl Jones and Madonna read passages from my Pulitzer Prize wining novel, The Truth Is A Website Away, and Martha Stewart served petit-fours and champagne to my guests.

When will people learn.

You lie.

You get caught.

Right, Oprah? Oprah? For the love of god, woman, that rack of lamb is for all of us!