Exactly how stupid is this? Gay rights leaders and supporters are invited to the White House for a party and some take the time to flip off Ronald Reagan’s portrait, take a picture of the act, and then release the picture to third parties. It is now the rage on the Internet from Drudge to Yahoo to dozens of conservative sites — giving opponents of both Obama and gay rights the perfect photo foil to use against them. It is a disgraceful and contemptible display that is being used to paint an entire movement in the worst possible light. (UPDATE: The White House has rebuked the activists for their actions.)
The disrespectful act occurred at the White House’s first-ever gay pride reception. Philadelphia Gay News publisher Mark Segal (center) is shown opting for a simple (and non-problematic) thumbs up. According to the report below, the man on the left is Matthew “Matty” Hart, the national director of public engagement at Solutions for Progress, and the woman on the right is photographer Zoe Strauss.
Even without releasing the photos to third parties, it is remarkably uncivil and contemptible to flip the bird inside of the White House. No matter what one’s political affiliation or feelings toward Reagan or Bush, this is a revered place and your are a guest in this house. Worse yet, Obama and the gay rights movement are likely to be painted with this obnoxious conduct.
Source: Blaze
The Supreme Court reversed a decision by a Montana court supporting a state anti-corruption law passed in 1912 that prohibited corporate influence in state elections, reaffiriming that their Citizens United decision invalidates such restrictions. Montana, supported by 22 states and Sens. John McCain (R-AZ) and Sheldon Whitehouse (D-RI), had argued that their law should be allowed to stand because of the state’s unique history of corruption around its mining industry, which led to its passage by referendum. The court ruled against them 5-4, the same majority that determined Citizens United.
Blouise
1, June 22, 2012 at 8:15 pm
Woosty … atrobicious!
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Blouise did you just call me a ‘bad girl’…..?
leejcaroll 1, June 24, 2012 at 7:01 pm
Matt seen a lot of vegetables (guess that is the opposite of ‘fruits’) parade around in tight leather pants. Whose ass will you kick or will you ask them first if they are hetero or homo-sexual?
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I won’t ask any questions. I prefer broccoli, celery, green beans, peas, and certain others. Tomatoes and onions too. Any sauce to go with that? To make a salad?
ID707,
My balls wouldn’t get lost. And neither would his. He would simply go over the side. I’m not drunk or disabled. Are you? Stay away from the wolf cage in Sweden.
Matt,
He might cut off your balls if you said that. I am looking forward to that. But you are just trolling for attention of course. Matt is drunk and disabled again.
Matt seen a lot of vegetables (guess that is the opposite of ‘fruits’) parade around in tight leather pants. Whose ass will you kick or will you ask them first if they are hetero or homo-sexual?
We’re Queer, We’re’ Here, get used to. I told more than one fruit I don’t care if he’s queer or not. Keep it to yourself. And stop parading around in your tight leather pants. Unless you want to get your ass kicked.
Wait, wait, nobody answered Professor’s original question:
“Exactly how stupid is this?”
Professor, exactly: 79.5666666 stupid. (Those who disagree with my calculation and the underlying data are wrong.) 🙂
How many can say: “Same in my state.”?
Incredible. And not an evil intent in sight.
Kicking the mental patients out had another perhaps unintended consequence, a convoluted thing, actually. The mental patients go OUT. They become the homeless but the homeless shelters really can’t deal with them. They have no services, and no structure. At the same time, many of the state mental hospitals are now in a shambles, no money coming in from Medicaid, Medicare, etc. Some of them become homes for the criminal courts to send people to in “diversion programs.” These are often for drug busts, some of which are busts of convenience and even “drop/busts” when the drugs were just planted on homeless people to give them a reason to be arrested. Then they go to the state-run mental hospitals on a different expense line than they used to go in on, and for no real reason, and with no real treatment, for six months at a pop because that’s how the criminal justice system does its little non-habeas deprivations: in units of six months each. Some judges get awards for working out diversion programs. And the whole thing goes another unrecognizable round.
I lived in NYC when Regan kicked all the mental patients out of the hospitals. the city was never, ever the same after that. People were sleeping on traffic medians in sweltering heat in broad daylight because they had no where else to go.
Reagan made a hell on earth for some people.
David Blauw,
Maybe there are more than you and I discovering our brains growing and finding new facilities. My own explanation for mine is the taking away of constrictions, inibitions, constant worrying over land mines etc etc. that my mind is now free to operate better.
Have no idea what yours is connected to, if indeed it is a change as I interpret it to be. Good luck with it and keep me informed as a cheerleader for you.
Here’s some just for you. Words are but sounds we use to represent objects (anything which can be objectified).
We agree on their usefulness and congruency with reality or other places. Which comes first? The thought or the concretization in words. Obvious, says the newborn. The thought does.
Your thoughts are yours to play with in whatever center you wish to designate. Freud’s are no better than yours. Many authorities stultify.
I am currently delighted in exotic words never used in 60 years popping up in perfect consistency with the match needed.
Thanks for sharing.
We can trade discoveries. Like social bookmarking discovered yeaterday. And how to export bookmark files from Windows Explorer (Don’t know).
BTW, how do you make smiles, and is the WordPress guide standard HTML? Just came upon the possibility now.
Getting loose from the chains acquired when growing up is useful and fun.
Idealist 707 Your quote hit my brain comprehension center and bounced around it and now wants to stay there. I think it is excellent and well proven historically, especially politically. Thank you.
My term ‘messaging file’ came out of my brain comprehension center, which coincidentally enough, the term ‘brain comprehension center’ just came out of itself about 6 sentences ago. It’s a miracle another Virgin birth !!
I have gotten accustomed to my confusion of terms, the benefits are being surprised by myself at the terminologies that suddenly appear.
I acquired my 1st computer 10 months ago, my ignorance is fascinating. Most 10 year olds know much more than I about its use and proper terms.
So in conclusion my basic messaging file is in my head, I just discovered it is located in my “brain comprehension center” and messaging file sounded like I knew what I was talking about….. This is a win win, I have a new quote that is good, and I now have two new areas of recognition in my brain.
Thank you :o)….. I learned how to make smiles about 3 months ago, I am still finding them neat to make.
Lottakatz, thanks for all that education; you really handed the information to me on a platter! (My son is great with this kind of teaching but not many other people can do it, and consequently, I usually fail to understand explanations of technological magic.)
I’m also very indifferent about whether or not somebody elevated his or her middle finger near a photograph — didn’t even read the main article that led this thread! — but I was fascinated by the photography stuff.
Lottakatz and they also forget that because of Reagen a number of disabled killed themselves when, without rhyme, reason, or adequate notification, he removed thousands from the social security disability rolls leaving them with no source of income..
BarkinDog 1, June 23, 2012 at 1:52 am
The bird is the word. This article is a backhanded way of throwing rocks at President Obama. A week ago or so he and Eric Holder were criticised for Holder giving a speech to black ministers. This week it is Gay, Gay, Gay and Gays flip Reagun the bird. We dont know what the members of Blackwater do when invited by Cheney to roam around the Oval Office. When Romney brings in the Mormons they will be drinking Five Wives Vodka. When his VP brings in the K Street money givers they will be flipping off photos of Roosevelt and Truman. The hookers from C street and the gay friends of Romney from C street will be flipping off Biden’s photo. When they invite the Log Cabin Republicans in to the Romney White House they will be flipping off photos of Bush for discriminating against gays in the military.
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Woof!
Sometimes we drift away from actual history. There are two sides to the coin. Thanks for bringing up the other side of the coin:
(How Good Can President Obama Be?). I think it was Gene H who said that rocks could be thrown at the last 4 presidents, meaning also that our society is adrift, and we do ourselves a disservice to attribute it only to individuals.
A comment I read somewhere said “If it takes a whole village to raise a child, perhaps it takes a whole nation to make a great president?”
Perhaps JT was criticizing the society at large for not supporting a broader effort at improvement?
idealist707 1, June 23, 2012 at 5:31 am
David Blauw,
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Idealist707
Money never cares what’s said. Only as long as more is made.
Is that your quote, or do you have an attribution for it. I would like to put it in my messaging file.
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It’s mine. I slways attribute otherwise, even if vaguely.
I specialize in these things. Since have no knowledge, I cook up these things instead.
And tell me please, what is a messaging file? Trying to learn internet at 75.
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You could easily teach the young folks who use “the innertubes” and “the google” a thing or two.
I wasn’t there during Reagan’s regime, otherwise I would add soem stuff to Lotta’s list.
To me he was always Mr. Snow Job, the one President who could give you the buddy look a la “What me worry”
-Älfred E Neumanns, and then some ,”heh-heh”, weak assed explanation that only fools and Republicans would buy. Anybody notice the equivalency?
And this is a sound expression of our saying: EFF the system. Not any one or several Presidents by respective partisan groups. That is my warped interp.
And now a repeat of my earlier message:
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Really, how asinine is this uproar?
We see the swinging door and the front door opened wide each day to lobbyists, and the whole list of riff-raff who scorn this nation and it’s people—-do we protest every day? Do we protest at all. (Somebody will respond to that challenge.)
No, we don’t I feel, not as much as we should do.
Now, does political wiseness compensate for evil acts or intents?
Seems so.
Not to me.
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Hoping for more demonstrations. Never forget the one at the Mexico City Olympics, by Smith and Carlos (??).
That felt like my arm raised. Was it the same for you?
Prime examples of the suspected mental issues.
LottaKatz,
OMG, are you dense? Don’t you know that Malisha wants you to look at the two bloody head photos of Zimmerman and give a readout on their being shopped or not.
Now if you had launched into all that photo stuff with mem it would be fine. Cause I’m a photo freak, but she’s a JUSTICE freak, particularly now using Zimmerman as an example.
Thank you for giving me the chance to feel superior. Doesn’t happen many times to me. Hee, hee.
OT anytime with me on optics. The cells talk all the time about Mbits of pixels, shame there is not certification of minimum optical quality of the lens in it.