02/01/2006
Australian gay sex killer Bevan Spencer von Einem under investigation for the alleged rape of another inmate.
An Israeli man who stabbed three people at last year's Jerusalem Pride parade has been convicted of attempted murder. The State's Attorney's office will ask the court to put him behind bars for 10 years.
Tim McFeely via Hilary Rosen on the SOTU: "In his meandering, theme-less State of the Union Address last night, near the conclusion Bush declared: They [the American people] are concerned about unethical conduct by public officials and discouraged by activist courts that try to redefine marriage. In 8 seconds, the president dismissed the corruption scandals gripping Congress and his Administration and equated these in the American mind with judges who have applied state constitutional precepts on equality to lesbian and gay couples. The reaction? Applause from both sides of the proverbial aisle — Democrats want to underscore the unethical conduct reference and Republicans want to take another swing at scapegoating homosexuals for the moral decline of America."
And I agree with Pam and Rod. Tim Kaine is a nightmare.
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How is Tim Kaine different from Bill Clinton, who signed DOMA, or from John Kerry, who voted against DOMA but then said during the 2004 campaign that he was against gay marriage? The distinction between civil unions and gay marriage is a subtlety beyond the capacity of a state that went to the Supreme Court to keep its ban on interracial marriage. I just don't see how he's substantively different from most Democrats, except that he wins.
Posted by: JimVA | Feb 1, 2006 12:08:08 PM
According the article, von Einem killed a 15-year old. Should he be labeled a pedophile/rapist killer instead of a gay sex killer? I've never heard of a "straight sex killer."
Frankly, a 24-year prison sentence for raping, torturing, and murdering a child seems damn light.
Posted by: noah | Feb 1, 2006 12:58:05 PM
I agree, Tim Kaine was uninspiring in both his words and his delivery. The Dems are still trying to be polite while the Republicans are gloating about being the biggest bully on the block and throwing their weight around. That was a very lightweight response from Kaine about the HUGE corruption scandals that we know and don't know about in the Bush WH. And the best they could come up with is "there's a better way"?
OMFG, not only are we losing our civil liberties, we're losing a real opposition party. I guess Ralph Nader was right.
Posted by: monty | Feb 1, 2006 2:09:29 PM
The predictability and repugnance of the President's throw-away line about judicially decreed gay marriage is exceeded only by the Left's inability to acknowledge anything redeeming about what George Bush ever has to say, such as his domestic agenda to expand AIDS treatment.
Posted by: Malcontent | Feb 1, 2006 2:16:15 PM
I wonder when we liberals will learn...it doesn't matter how well you sell it...if it doesn't call to people it doesn't matter.
Have you seen Bush? He couldn't tie two sentences together if his life depended on it, yet people don't care. I could care less if Kaine is vibrant or an amazing public speaker. Just make sure whoever is talking has good things to say.
I seriously think he had a better chance of connecting with average americans than most of our potential speakers (they weren't going to let any potential presidential candidate do it).
And as the other poster said...find me a national democrat who people take seriously who openly advocates for gay marriage.
Posted by: DEMinNYC | Feb 1, 2006 3:01:32 PM
I think that George Bush's words on AIDS funding far out paced the actual money spent by his administation. I know this is the case in Africa. He made the promise but did not fulfill the funding promised.
Posted by: Donald | Feb 1, 2006 5:15:52 PM
They investigate prison rapes in Australia? Bizarre.
Posted by: Chad Hanging | Feb 1, 2006 8:45:12 PM