Gay Marriage in Indiana

This may be your last chance to get your voice in.

http://www.gayindy.org/protest/flyer.pdf
or
http://www.gayindy.org/protest/

Conservatives are upset everywhere...

because they can't legally kill teens now :'(

The Supreme Court, in a landmark death penalty decision, today barred executions of people under 18 years of age at the time of their crimes.
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The court has already banned capital punishment on offenders who committed crimes under the age of 15. Today’s decision will move 70 people off death row.

Where's Ashcroft with his curtain?

The new buffalo nickel has a feature that former attorney general John Ashcroft might not be happy with.

A pair of Buffalo nickels are displayed in Washington, Wednesday, Feb. 23, 2005. Watch out for the stampede! Millions of American buffalo are headed to cash registers near you. Sixty-seven years after the government minted its last buffalo nickel, the symbol of the American West is returning to the five-cent piece. (AP Photo/Evan Vucci)

In case I never mentioned it, Thomas Jefferson is one of my favorite people in history.

Support our war-based economy

from http://www.nataliedee.com

I'll have to post a picture of my car ribbon that says "more patriotic than you!"

Ann Coulter quote

from ohnotheydidnt:

ANYWAYS, with that out of the way, conservative author Ann Coulter had this to say about columnist Helen Thomas, who has been a reporter for 60 years and is of Lebanese descent:

"Press passes can't be that hard to come by if the White House allows that old Arab Helen Thomas to sit within yards of the president."

Coulter's syndicate, Universal censored her words and printed it as this:
"Press passes can't be that hard to come by if the White House allows that dyspeptic, old Helen Thomas to sit within yards of the president."

Some LJ users are defending her.

The Guckert Just Hit the Fan

Congressman John Conyers Jr, and Congresswoman Louise Slaughter sent the following letter today to Secretary of Homeland Security, Tom Ridge, submitted a request under the Freedom of Information Act for release of Homeland Security records relating to James D. Guckert and his access to the President:

February 15, 2005

Dear Secretary Ridge:

This letter constitutes a request pursuant to the Freedom of Information Act, 5 U.S.C. § 552 (FOIA). The request is submitted on behalf of the Congresswoman Louise Slaughter, Ranking Member of the House Rules Committee and Congressman John Conyers, Jr., Ranking Member of the House Judiciary Committee.

Recent news reports indicate that James D. Guckert, a Republican activist gained access to the White House press briefing room and Presidential press conferences in violation of standard security procedures and was allowed to work under the assumed name, “Jeff Gannon.” News reports also indicate that Mr. Guckert would not be considered a bona fide journalist by his peers in the press corps, as most of his claims to legitimacy have already been discredited. Access to the President and his press corps is highly competitive, and many seasoned journalists have not had the honor of attending the events or enjoying the access Mr. Guckert has.

We are concerned that such an individual was allowed within a few feet of the President when the public is routinely disallowed any possible contact with either the President or the White House. We understand that your security policies are developed in conjunction with the White House and want to ascertain your respective roles in this decision as it appears to deviate significantly from heightened security measures you have employed recently. To the extent that White House policies were incorporated into the Secret Service’s files and have been read by the Secret Service, we would also like records from the White House.

What I would like to see is a confession from the Bush Administration that they're paying people from within their own party, and supplying those people with press credentials, in order to control the questions and answers that are released to the general public - a direct violation of the freedom of the press. I'm not sure who would be punished though. It's not as much Guckert's fault as it is the person in high authority that gave him that access.

I wish Bush could go down for it, but he hasn't even made time to serve his six months confinement yet.