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April 21, 2005
the don't miss event of the weekend
Listed in this morning's Metrorail Express as "the don't miss event of the weekend", be there at Blowoff Live upstairs at the 930 club this Saturday starting at 11. Not only will there be new live tunes from Bob and Rich, but good music spun up as well. Plus, the promise of a few dozen sweaty, randy, NYC Gotham ruggers, some Renegades in the same state, lots of alternabears, and even some shorn and smooth alterna-queens too.
Uh-oh...looks like there's some pressure for even more same-sex union priviliges in The District of Columbia (that's where I live, and no it's not part of MD or VA). Right now we do have visitation rights for hospital stays with registered couples. Apparently now there is some controversy over filing joint tax returns. Surprise, surprise, some fucking meddling REPUBLICAN Senator Sam Bareback (R) from Kansas has 'warned' the District, threatening to withold future funding for the District should we go ahead and recognize people who have lived, loved and paid taxes together long-term for many years.
In other words, some dude from some state out west is saying that a city/district with the second largest percentage of gays in the nation cannot recognize long-term same-sex partnerships, and that he will withold funds for roadwork, schools (think about THE CHILDREN!!!) or even national security funds (much of which we haven't spent yet. So this fucker is saying that gay partnerships and long-term property co-ownership in a city he doesn't even live in or grew up in is more of a priority to him than national security, education for children, or potholes. This is the Republican agenda. Gays are more terrifying to them, or more likely more gain them political clout, than security, education, or utilities. Fucker.
Posted by jimbo at April 21, 2005 10:44 AM
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Jimbo, don't you cower in your closet every night, praying the rosary, because of the hordes of gay-homo domestic partners roaming the streets of DC demanding basic civil rights? I'm surprised that you have survived this long...
Posted by: homer at April 21, 2005 12:40 PM
Well here on the plantation we gotta listen to massa when he cracks the whip. Since you've already used it, I figure I can second your term for the man: What a fucker.
Now if only there's some dirt on the man. Maybe some illicit visits to Secrets he doesn't want his constituents to know about? Let the mudslinging begin.
I get that twinge of "Oh no, hipsters!" when I saw the bit about the Express' place to be. But if they feel uncomfortable getting cruised and hit on, they'll just have to go back to VA.
Posted by: copperred at April 21, 2005 12:52 PM
We are at the "fuck you" moment when we need to get ourselves and our political allies to take on the schoolyard bully of the religious right.
It is time to tell them to fuck off, rude people get away with being rude because polite people are too polite to say anything about it.
Its time for us polite people to say FUCK YOU.
Posted by: Seamus at April 21, 2005 5:29 PM
Not all republicans are bad! Most do suck, but I think that is more the christian agenda more than the republican agenda.
The irony of christians fighting fire with fire has long been lost. I think it's in the handbook now. Ahh yup, page 1, there it is.
Posted by: Kevin at April 21, 2005 9:04 PM
Yea, hopefully you guyz in DC can pull this off.
This would be a big advance for gay marriage.
Those of us elsewhere would benefit as well. WOOOF
Posted by: bt at April 22, 2005 7:21 AM