I Didn't Say It ....

Newt Gingrich, thrice-married, serial adulterer, switching it up on marriage equality:

"It is in every family. It is in every community. The momentum is clearly now in the direction in finding some way to ... accommodate and deal with reality. And the reality is going to be that in a number of American states -- and it will be more after 2014 -- gay relationships will be legal, period."

How nice that Mister-Marry-A-Woman-Cheat-On-Her-She-Gets-Cancer-I-File-For-Dovorce-Marry-The-Mistress- She-Gets-Cancer-I-File-For-Divorce-Marry-The-Mistress has decided that maybe The Gays do deserve to treat marriage like the bottom of their shoes, too.

Henry Rollins, on being an LGBT-ally:

"I appreciate and admire the day-to-day courage of the gay people I have encountered in the music world and elsewhere. I have never been put in the position of having to "stand up" for my heterosexuality. I am on the biggest possible team and it's always the home game for me. The Westboro Baptist Church's god doesn't hate me and I have lived life with an incredible amount of mobility and a low level of fear and tribulation. On the other hand, gay in Wyoming? That's some Bruce Lee Enter the Dragon highlight-reel action. I am not a religious person, but I will say that music is at least a way to live my life, it instructs me to adhere to a certain code of conduct. If I am digging music from all over the world, performed by males and females, gay and straight, then I am screwed on the prejudice front."

Understanding and equality set to music.
Thanks Henry.

Kyle Kacal, Texas GOP congressman, on what's more dangerous than guns:

"I've heard of people being killed playing ping-pong -- ping-pongs are more dangerous than guns. Flat-screen TVs are injuring more kids today than anything."

More dangerous than ping-pong balls and flat-screen TVS are politicians like Kyle Kacal, who is obviously in the pocket of the NRA.

Pope Benny, on how being gay is against God, in his annual Christmas message:

"People dispute the idea that they have a nature, given to them by their bodily identity, that serves as a defining element of the human being. They deny their nature and decide that it is not something previously given to them, but that they make it for themselves. The manipulation of nature, which we deplore today where our environment is concerned, now becomes man's fundamental choice where he himself is concerned. When freedom to be creative becomes the freedom to create oneself, then necessarily the Maker himself is denied and ultimately man too is stripped of his dignity as a creature of God"

Isn’t it interesting that, while speaking about God, he can so easily tell a portion of the world that we are unworthy?

He’s not so F%$&ing Christ-like, is he?

Barney Frank, on homophobe and bigot Antonin Scalia:

"I was glad that he made clear what’s been obvious, that he’s just a flat out bigot. I’d previously said he was a homophobe. And Fox and the rightwing said, ‘Oh just because he’s not for same-sex marriage? And I said, ‘No, let me be very clear. That’s not it. This is a man who has said you should go to prison for having sex.’ It was an extraordinarily abusive sentiment and it was dead wrong. And, by the way, for a guy who is supposed to be so smart -- quite stupid. This young man said to him, ‘Why do you compare sodomy to murder?’ And he said, ‘Well because I have a right to say if I think something is immoral.’ Well the question wasn’t about his right. The question was, By what morality is expressing your love for someone in a physical way equivalent to killing that person? It makes it clear that the man is an unreconstructed bigot, and given that you have a bigot on the Supreme Court like that, it is useful to know."

I am seriously gonna miss Barney Frank, and hope the rumors that he’ll take John Kerry’s Senate seat when Kerry becomes Secretary of State, are true.

We need Barney in government.

Bradlee Dean, hate group leader, saying Barack Obama is responsible for the Newtown murders:

"The Sandy Hook shooting occurred just days after Sen. Rand Paul sent out an alert that the U.N. was set to pass the final version of the Small Arms Treaty, supported by Obama the day after election. Part of the treaty bans the trade, sale and ownership of all semi-automatic weapons like the one Adam Lanza used to kill 20 children and 6 adults. When the 'fire' is started, these government gun banners are right there to strip away your rights in an attempt to gain control under the guise of 'putting out the fire.' Adolf Hitler was responsible for attacking his own Reichstag to start a world war. Hitler was also responsible for sending his brownshirts to incite the people so he could play the role of solving their problems. No one believed Hitler was guilty of these crimes until after the fact. Then it was too late."

So, because Obama wants to halt the sale and ownership of ASSAULT weapons, he’s Hitler?

Bradlee Dean, a man who never met logic.

Tagg Romney, on his father and the presidency:

“He wanted to be president less than anyone I’ve met in my life. He had no desire to . . . run. If he could have found someone else to take his place . . . he would have been ecstatic to step aside. He is a very private person who loves his family deeply and wants to be with them, but he has deep faith in God and he loves his country, but he doesn’t love the attention."

Oh, Tagg, sit down.

If your father didn’t want to be president he wouldn’t have run.

If your father didn’t think he should have been president he would have drafted a concession speech just in case.

If your father didn’t want to be president, we wouldn’t have heard a single story about how devastated he was that he lost.

He lost. Tagg. Don’t rewrite history. The majority of voters in this country did not want your father to be president. Ever.

Gareth Thomas, out rugby and fitness star, on coming out to his dad: 

"My family were amazing - once it was taken in, my dad, who is a very tough man, sat me down at home with the family; he opened a bottle of champagne and said 'this is a toast to the rest of your life son.' It was overwhelming, and my family as a whole have been superb."

I remember my dad, when I came out, saying, “I love you very much.”

I wish all coming out stories could have happy endings like mine and Gareth’s.

Ron Paul, surely angering his Teabaggin' followers, on NRA head Wayne LaPierre's call for armed guards in every public school:

"Do we really want to live in a world of police checkpoints, surveillance cameras, metal detectors, X-ray scanners, and warrantless physical searches? We see this culture in our airports: witness the shabby spectacle of once proud, happy Americans shuffling through long lines while uniformed TSA agents bark orders. This is the world of government provided “security,” a world far too many Americans now seem to accept or even endorse. School shootings, no matter how horrific, do not justify creating an Orwellian surveillance state in America."

Funny, the Teabaggers want less government, but when you talk guns, they demand more government action to protect their, ahem, rights to bear arms.

Random Musings Overload

So, let me get this queer:

Unemployment is down.

The deficit, too.

And now housing starts increased 15% last month to a seasonally adjusted annual rate of 872,000 units, which represents the quickest pace since July 2008.

Tell me why, again, anyone in their right mind--key word right mind--would vote Romney?

RADIO HOST: I’m gonna ask something I know a lot of people want to know, or at least I do. What it is like for you to hear the President of the United States call your dad a liar. How do you react to that?

TAGG ROMNEY: Uh, you know, uh, well, jump out of your seat, and you want to rush down there to the debate stage and take a swing at him. But you know you can’t do that, because um, well first because there’s a lot of Secret Service between you and him…

Hmmm, so when someone says something you don't like about your father, you want to physically assault them? I mean, forgetting that he's the President and your sorry ass would be locked up for life. Is that how Mittsy and Queen Ann raised their children? To use violence as a form of expression? That the adult thing to do when someone disses Dad is to 'take a swing' at them?

Lovely parenting skills......Lovely.

Funny Tweet from Bill Maher about the Biden/Ryan debate:

What's a girl to do when, a few years back she was a Teabaggin' darlin' but then lost her election because it became apparent she was all kinds of crazy.

No, silly, not MGB™, but Christine "I'm not a witch" O'Donnell.

What's that little nugget of nuttiness been up to since rational folk stopped paying her any mind?

Well, she and her nephew have recorded a "rap" song in which they attack the President.

Yeah, her career in "music" will be as short-lived and successful as her career in politics.

PS I won't link you to her "video": you wanna see that, you’re on your own.

Hot man:

Gay men often think back to that moment when they relaized they were gay and I am no different. This weekend, while feeling sniffly, i snuggled on the couch watching old movies and I came upon a Lana Turner classic, Imitation of Life.

Now, I saw this on TV eons ago, and, had I been straight, i might have been drawn to Miss Turner. Alas--not really alas--I was a little queerling, so i was more entranced by Lana's fabulous wardrobe and one John Gavin who played Lana's love interest.

One look at him and I knew.......And I still do.

Product placement.....look closely:

British Gas =)

No secret here that I’m an awards show queen. I watch the Red Carpet arrivals and I watch the shows and I watch the morning show recaps and I watch The Fashion police slams and raves.

So, to hear that Amy Poehler and Tina Fey will host Golden Globe awards has me all in a dither.

The GGs are the loosest drunkest awards show ever and this duo will rule that roost.

There was lots to love in the Second Presidential Debate when Obama mopped the floor with Mittsy's binders of women and outright lies, but this exchange is my personal fave:

Mittsy: I think it’s interesting that the president just said something which is on the day after the attack he went in the Rose Garden and said that this was an act of terror.

Barack Obama: That’s what I said.

Mittsy: You said in the Rose Garden the day after the attack it was an act of terror? It was not a spontaneous demonstration? Is that what you’re saying?

Barack Obama: Please proceed governor.

Mittsy: I want to make sure we get that for the record because it took the president 14 days before he called the attack in Benghazi an act of terror.

Barack Obama: Get the transcript.

Moderator Candy Crowley: He did in fact sir, so let me call it an act of terror and —

Barack Obama: Can you say that a little louder Candy?

Suh-nap!

I just adore Anne Hathaway; not merely for the movies she makes, but also for the stands she takes. Like when she decided, as most celebrities do, to sell the photographs of her wedding to one of "those" magazines, like InStyle or People or something.

But, Anne didn't sell the pictures for a profit, she sold the pictures in order to donate to some of her favorite causes, like the American Cancer Society, St. Jude Children's Research Hospital, The Girl Effect  and Freedom to Marry, a non-profit dedicated to ensure that same-sex couples across the country can one day soon enjoy a fairytale wedding like hers.

Way to go, Anne.

Okay, so Fave Mittsy Moment Two, was his assertion that he, while governor, actively sought out women to fill cabinet posts because, he's all pro-women and stuff--unless it comes to their bodies and medical attention and contraception where w all know women need a little help.

Well, it didn't actually happen like that, Mittsy, did it? Nope. He didn't ask anyone to search high and low for strong women. What actually happened was that, prior to the election, a bipartisan group of women in Massachusetts formed MassGAP to address the problem of few women in senior leadership positions in state government. 

They did the research and put together the binder full of women qualified for all the different cabinet positions, agency heads, and authorities and commissions and then they gave this binder to Governor Romney when he was elected.

In other words, Romney did not, as he claimed, "make a concerted effort to find qualified women for my administration."  The group came to him with that binder and demanded his attention.

Mittsy.Lies.

Funny Tweet:

Hot Man:

I never caught Primary Colors--ALLEGEDLY the Bill Clinton story when it was in theaters, but I managed to see it over the weekend on TV.
I'm not a fan of Travolta's, so as I was about to turn away, one Adrian Lester appeared onscreen and, well, I was hooked.

I also laughed when Mittsy sent in his lapdog, Paulie "Jersey Shore" Ryan to try and clean up BinderGate. While Paulie says that Romney getting the Fact Check Smack Down on Libya from Candy Crowley on Libya was not Mittsy's weakest moment, he also "clarifies"--Ryan speak for I'm'a lie to y'all right now-- by saying: 

"All he meant was that he went out of his way to try and recruit qualified women to serve in his administration when he was governor. And by the way, he has an exceptional record of hiring women in very prominent positions in his administration, and that’s the point he was making."

Um, Paulie, you dumbass. That's not wheat he said, that's how you spin it.

Let's make it queer: he said he had his team scour the countryside looking for qualified women to put in cabinet positions, when, in fact, all he did was sit on his wallet until the women came to him and demanded to be included.

Sit down, Paulie, before you fall down.

By the way, click HERE for the Romney Tax Plan.

Hot Man:

I love Once Upon A Time because I love the whole fairy tale versus real life fairy tale story within a story stuff. i also like that they have some of the most beautiful men on the show,m often wearing leather pants and being all swashbuckley and stuff.

This is Sinqua Walls, who played Lancelot for a couple of weeks. He was :::sPILER ALERT::: killed, but there's always hope that he'll return in a flashback.

Stephen, over at Post Apocalyptic Bohemina sent a Facebook congtaulations to Carlos and me on our 12th anniversary. He sent a picture, and dubbed us, the First Couple of Smallville.

Thanks Stephen!