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davidinalameda Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Feb-04-06 02:07 AM
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Bush Admin Equates Gay Rights Groups With Pedophilia
http://www.365gay.com/Newscon06/02/020406riceFolo.htm

The State Department said Friday that concern over potential support for pedophilia was behind the U.S. vote to exclude two gay rights groups from membership on a United Nations panel.

"We did not vote against the group because they are a gay rights group," State Department spokesman Edgar Vasquez. "The United States remains a champion of human rights for all in the world and committed to the right of individual freedom of expression."

The department was responding to criticism that the U.S. had sided with Iran, Zimbabwe and other repressive regimes in excluding two gay rights groups the U.N. Economic and Social Council.

"I had hopes for better from you," Rep. Barney Frank, D-Mass., said in a letter to Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice this week. (story)
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TechBear_Seattle Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Feb-04-06 02:10 AM
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1. "The United States remains a champion of human rights for all..."
"... and we don't consider homosexuals to be humans."

That certainly seems to be the subtext. :mad: :puke:
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WarNoMore Donating Member (530 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Feb-04-06 02:16 AM
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2. This is the most bigoted, stupid ass-backward administration.
It is just so hard to comprehend this kind of thinking. I also, as an incest survivor with a homophobic abuser, find it offensive to the nth degree.
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Erika Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Feb-04-06 02:25 AM
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3. How very sick. This administration shames all of us
as it becomes more Taliban in nature.
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MatrixEscape Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Feb-04-06 02:55 AM
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6. What is even sicker is that ...
The Taliban, Hitler, and Napoleon didn't have as much money, power, and weapons at their disposal as Emperor Bush and his Regime have right now. You and I both know that Bushler and his Regime partners KNOW what they have and how they can use it.

The potential for a kind of power and tyranny that the World has never known stands before us all grinning and laughing and moving its agenda forward with impunity, and We the People have in so many ways, contributed to it. Yes, WE! Talk about responsibility! We have people here arguing about being true democrats, sticking to the party, this, that, everything.

I can't think of anything in history more crucial than what we are all facing together. We either get to the point where we pull the plug on this horrific, megalomaniacal, venture to use our pooled resources to enslave and control the entire World, or, if we live, we go on to say things like, "I was only a citizen!" and, "I was only doing my job as a consumer of goods and a participant on a very hip forum online!" or, “I couldn't give up all I have stop it like those before me! Are you crazy?”

We are all apart of this and our culture is us as much as we are it. It was put into us when we were children and you cannot claim that your current reactions, for or against, are not a part of it. In that sense, it is a unitive motion, just like the nature of the Universe itself. Perhaps that will give some small insight into the relationship of you to the foe, the tyrant, the antithesis. If not, then the results and reactions are already accounted for within this vast system and the playas' are going to win based on what they know about it.

There is no more time to indulge yourselves in your own personal spheres and tendencies to support a myopic grip on reality. The rapid acceleration of change is what is giving your foes the oneupmanship they have. We have to embrace the acceleration in new ways and regurgitate it as a response. This is going to go faster and faster. You can see it. Jump on it and exploit it like nothing else ... for the altruistic sake of overall survival for man, animal, and plant.

That is something to really ponder.
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saltpoint Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Feb-04-06 02:37 AM
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4. Condi Rice is capable of many horrendous decisions. This sounds like
one such.

Generally she seems to me to be haughty, self-removed and unmotivated to change, embarrassingly unqualified (as she is hopelessly antiquated as an old-Soviet Union scholar), and far more stylish than substantive.

I don't like her clothes either.

Condi Rice is a strong contender for the Leni Riefenstahl Award, not just for this decision, but for lifetime achievement.
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Erika Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Feb-04-06 02:57 AM
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7. Yeah, Condi is one cold bitch
It interestes me that her absolute coldness appeals to the bushbots.
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saltpoint Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Feb-04-06 10:50 AM
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9. True. Ultra conservatives tend toward 2 kinds of women --
either witless supplicants like Kay Bailey Hutchison and Liddy Dole, or steel-souled & ruthless like Condi and Maggie Thatcher.
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bliss_eternal Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Feb-05-06 03:23 PM
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11. You forgot A. Coulter--
they seem to love her type. Though I do believe there are no others like her, she is a first.

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RedXIII Donating Member (749 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Feb-04-06 02:47 AM
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5. This is so hypocritical...
because recently in Vermont there was a story about a man who repeatly touched a girl,but they say all gays are like that. sheesh
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xchrom Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Feb-04-06 04:49 AM
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8. taking a line from th pope's playbook.
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kevinbgoode Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Feb-04-06 06:49 PM
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10. Someone needs to see if the Pope and the Catholic Church
have any representation at these events. . .and if they do, they need to go back to the Prez and Condi and ask why the Administration allows a group with over 10,000 reported cases of child sexual abuse to be still sitting there at the U.N.
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