02/10/2006
Hideous anti-gay adoption bill introduced in Ohio: "To amend sections 3107.03 and 5103.03 of the Revised Code to prohibit an adoptive or foster child from being placed in the private residence of a homosexual, bisexual, or transgender person."
Plame leak scandal making headlines again, Cheney in focus. Reuters: "Vice President Dick Cheney directed his aide Lewis "Scooter" Libby to use classified material to discredit a critic of the Bush administration's Iraq war effort, the National Journal reported on Thursday."
Bullied mice show withdrawal and reclusiveness as changes in brain structure: "'The ability of stress to induce BDNF in this reward circuitry is probably a good thing' from an evolutionary standpoint, Nestler said. 'If you're constantly subjected to something bad like being beaten up, it makes sense to avoid what's beating you up.' But extreme stress can throw that normally protective system into overdrive, he explained. That's similar to what can happen in people, when someone genetically predisposed to depression experiences a first bout after an emotionally stressful event."
Police are investigating whether Jacob Robida was traveling to Arkansas to meet with white supremacist groups there, and whether or not more gay bar attacks are planned.
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Wow. Thanks Ohio.
Posted by: david | Feb 10, 2006 1:14:00 PM
"Plame leak scandal making headlines again, Cheney in focus. Reuters: "Vice President Dick Cheney directed his aide Lewis "Scooter" Libby to use classified material to discredit a critic of the Bush administration's Iraq war effort, the National Journal reported on Thursday."
Once again the truth loses out to the uninformed. As stated in the AP story:
"Special prosecutor Patrick Fitzgerald said in documents filed last month that he plans to introduce evidence that I. Lewis "Scooter" Libby, Cheney's former chief of staff, disclosed to reporters the contents of a classified National Intelligence Estimate in the summer of 2003."
Problem # 1: The is a NIE, not "Valerie Plame's identify".
Problem # 2: The NIE the AP story mentions was DECALSSIFIED AND EXTENSIVELY WRITTEN ABOUT IN THE MEDIA in summer 2003 (http://www.fas.org/irp/congress/2003_cr/h072103.html) which means that if Cheney did anything, he authorized Libby to release decalssified information to reporters - information which had NOTHING to do with Valerie Plame or Joe Wilson.
Posted by: Robert | Feb 10, 2006 1:27:59 PM
Will something like that Ohio legislation pass? Why is it called a "protection" act? Do they think GLBTQ hurt children? Why are they conducting this with an aire of sobreity? Does it not seem the least bit motivated by hate? Sooo many questions...
They don't want there to be a generation that tolerates GLBTQ, so they try to stop it at the source...something like that?
Posted by: Scott A | Feb 10, 2006 1:39:14 PM
In Ohio, both the State House and The State Senate and the Gov are all Republican, so yes it does stand a good chance of passing. In Fact, I just found out the Rep from my district is one of the co-sponsors of the bill. That prompted my to fire of a short, curt e-mail to his office. Not that it'll do anything to change his mind, but I have had about all I can take from these wingnuts here in Ohio and across the country. It's an election year and the wingnuts are trying to play the "fear" card.
Here is the short message I sent him of my opionion of H. B. No. 515.
Dear Rep Gibb,
I noted you were one of the co-sponsors of H. B. No. 515. Just to let you know AS A GAY MAN IN YOUR HOMETOWN that I AM SICK AND TIRED of being treated like a THIRD class citizen by YOU and ALL your religious ZEALOTS. Thankfully this is an election year and hopefully this country will return to some sense of fairness and justice. You may say that people like me make you sick, the feeling I'll tell you is mutual. I'll be fighting YOU and YOUR allies to the bitter end on this one buddy.
Donald L Rumgay Jr.
1906 E Cove Ct.
Findlay, Ohio 45840
Posted by: D Rumgay Jr | Feb 10, 2006 3:59:14 PM
Reson number 5,432 why I'm getting the HELL out of Ohio. I'm sick of it. Our economy is one of the worst in the nation, and we're one of the highest states in the nation for joblessness, but THIS is what they're worried about in Congress?
Screw Ohio, and the self-righteous crooks in power. My 5 years here are enough.
Posted by: Mike | Feb 10, 2006 4:16:21 PM
Tonight on the 10 o'clock news:
OHIO: The New South.
Posted by: zed | Feb 10, 2006 5:04:49 PM
Or OHio the old south
Posted by: Donald | Feb 10, 2006 5:15:10 PM
"Once again the truth loses out to the uninformed."
Thanks, Robert. The Loony Left over at Huffpoo are dancing naked around the fire hoping for a belated Fitzmas. Guess being a leftist and possessing a modicum of reading comprehension are incompatible.
Posted by: Tom | Feb 10, 2006 5:19:22 PM
Thanks for saving us all the trouble of going to see what Fox has to say about this, Robert.
Scooter discussed the NIE with Judith Miller on July 8,2003, ten days BEFORE the NIE was declassified. So much for "problem 2".
As to "problem 1", the reference Andy made here was to the "Plame leak scandal". The Plame leak scandal is in the news today,like it or not. The only reference to "Valerie Plame's identity" above was made by you.
The whole episode goes a bit further to document that Cheney is behind the faked/souped up/manufactured WMD evidence, and that Cheney was out for retribution because of Wilson's July 6th, 2003 op-ed in
the New York Times. I'll save you the trouble and just "suppose" the NIE release on July 18th was coincidental. But that doesn't change Fitzgerald's contention that Scooter spilled the beans PRIOR to declassification.
I'm sure you've just been too busy to come back and clean up your "uninformed" bit above.
Posted by: Chris in SF | Feb 10, 2006 6:36:13 PM
Thank you, Chris in SF.
But then, ever since Scooter's indictment, has there been anyone in the country with even slightest doubt that Cheney was behind the punitive leaks? (Besides, Robert and Tom, of course.)
Isn't it ironic that on a day when CIA Director Goss is whining on the Times Op-Ed page about how leaks of classified information are seriously undermining U.S. efforts to combat terrorism--boo hoo!--we have word that Dark Lord Cheney himself is leaking secrets to the press whenever it suits his criminal agenda?
Porter says leakers should be locked up. And in this case, I'd have to agree.
Hopefully we can declare Cheney an "enemy combatant" and banish him to some hole far from the reaches of the American court system. Now, that would be justice.
Posted by: 24play | Feb 10, 2006 9:25:56 PM
The Robidas look pretty dark-skinned, especially the sister, why would he think he's ayrian?
Posted by: frank | Feb 13, 2006 3:39:00 AM