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These started going up in the Pentagon this week. http://img842.imageshack.us/img842/8708/51403307.jpg

WOW!

It's Obama's fault.

I thought no one cared about this anymore....

God dang! Wow, yeah.

You know when the pentagon was built they made separate bathrooms for the blacks and whites.

The typography of that poster bothers me...

I find it curious that it has a quote from Panetta on it.

Me too.

I thought panetta was a type of bread.

The quote is, if I'm not mistaken, from a video Panetta recorded in support of LGB servicemembers (trans* people need not apply - they're still barred from service, even if the posters and such imply otherwise) recently for pride month.

The typography is horrifyingly bad.

I will be excited about the idea on the poster when it is no longer needed ... celebrate humanity, people, not individual divisions of it.

I heard about this on the new conservative talk radio station. So far the only thing that is pleasing me about the new conservative talk radio station is that they have more local stuff, and Dave Ramsey. I like Dave Ramsey.

What station is that Wolf?

Ib, your link is an excellent read.
No problem in society is ever solved completely at the first try.
But there is hope.

The rock/hard place is the separateness of homosexuality from transgender.
It's most ironic that f->m transition in the military may get some benefit
in being perceived as lesbian, but the opposite is the case with the m->f transition.
We can hope that the more publicity such issues receive in the general public,
the more likely and quickly the resolutions will be.


HUD has taken the repeal of DADT to heart, and in time the military will too.

This isn't exactly the thread for it but it doesn't really warrant its own:
So, yeah, we're all familiar with DOMA, right? the law that says the federal gov can't recognize same-sex relationships? Well, there's a growing number of insurance companies who provide benefits to same-sex spouses or partners, just like they do to all other spouses. Cool, right? Well, under DOMA, if your partner's employer-based health insurance covers you too, you have to pay taxes on it as taxable income, unlike between straight partners covered under a single plan.
Hooray for the homo-tax!

I think they may actually have found a way to stop homosexuality! TAX IT! :lol:

Oh and Ibram, your line ' "She", not "he", guys' is helpful, but some of the womenfolk around here get a mite riled up if you call them guys. :eyebrow: :lol:

I don't :p

'guy' is a word for males, but 'guys' as a group term can mean either gender.

Same with chap/ chaps. Or even chaps in chaps.
At least in my vernacular.

Yup, chap too.

He's a cunt.

Who "he"? Not to be confused with "whoooooeeee".

Chap. Chap is a cunt.

And an abrasive one at that.

That's not progress its DOOM.. if you read that bit I found about calling evil good and good evil you see this is part of the "delusion" America is under...

Doom. DOOOOOOOOOOM!

I call everyone "dude" and "man," even in the singular. Is that okay?


I don't see gender. People tell me I'm female, and I believe them because sometimes I don't get a ticket when a cop pulls me over.

nice colbert ref

Yeah, the terms "dude" and "man" are fairly agendered nowadays, but it's all about context.
If someone calls me dude, idgaf. if someone calls me A dude? yeah that's not cool. And I've definitely had people call me man when i could definitely tell they meant it not like "mate" or "pal" or whatever but definitely gendered-ly.

Oye'

They don't care who you're fucking, but they're real persnickety about what you wear.

Yeah. 'man' is another of those words.

Funnily enough the other way around doesn't really work. So, 'guy', 'man' and 'dude' mean male but can also apply to females. But I cannot think of any words for woman that can also apply to males.

Makes a sort of sense linguistically...'man' used to mean person. It was used to signify a male, and it also meant 'person' of either gender. If it was necessary to specify female, then the word became Wyfman.

106.9fm. I think that it was the FM Christian Talk and Music station that even Christians didn't listen to, and before that it was the soft jazz station.

They do have a lot more local programming, and Hannity, but need to learn that more reverb does not make the talk sound better. It just sounds like it's in the bottom of a deep well. The signal strength is far better than 1210AM, and it doesn't fuzz out when I go past buildings with fluorescent lighting, so that's definitely better.

Rush Limbaugh is going to be on there in a couple of days. Next Monday, maybe?

Gay Activists Visiting White House Take Photos of Themselves Flipping Off Reagan Portrait

Real classy. Just the kind of behavior appropriate for the White House. Especially as guests of the President. :headshake

Thats the way to win friends an influence people - not.

Link

Yeah, Ibs. See what your kind get up to? Hope you're ashamed :p

The re-write of Reagan's history is well underway.

I'm sure he was a very personable man, with a great flair for humorous quips.
For those of us who lived through his career, there is much that cannot be forgotten.

* his support for the infamous Black List of individuals in the film industry as Communists
* his turning mentally ill patients out on the street without support in order to save tax $
* his silence and inaction on the AIDS/HIV crisis

If you are of the age of the gay/lesbian individuals in this pic, you might understand better their actions...

Reagan's AIDSGATE

There have been many gay (Log Cabin) Republicans,
and there are reasonable arguments that Reagan, personally,
was not anti-gay. To wit:
Independent Gay Forum
Reagan and Gays: A Reassessment by Dale Carpenter on June 10, 2004

But as the President, his silence and road-blocking in the AIDS/HIV epidemic condemned
huge numbers of men and women around the world to a miserable illness and death.
I suggest that the disrespect shown by these three people was
directed at President Ronald Reagan, not the Office of the President.

Whether you believe that or not is irrelevant,
their behavior at the WHITE HOUSE was despicable.

Sorry Classic, I thought your post was about the two people giving Reagan "the finger".
I agree, that fellow giving George W. the "thumbs up" in the WH was despicable. :rolleyes:

Of course it is irrelevant. And would not be posted if not for nonsense about liberal vs conservative / left vs right and other extremist concerns. Why do you not post pictures of others doing same to Jimmy Carter? Political bias.

People do this every day on highways. That is also despicable. And not worthy of comment in any Current Events board.

What I don't get, is why that post is in this thread.

It's an interesting news piece, not saying it shouldn't be posted. I just don't see it is relevant to this particular thread.

Apparently you answered your own question. Why did you ask it and then answer it? You forget your meds again?

Seemed to fit here as well as anywhere based upon the opening post.
This was progress and related to the gay community
"White House’s first-ever gay pride reception"

Last time his posts were constant insults is when he lost his job. Apparently classicman is having another bad week.

Not to prove you wrong again, but ...
My week/ month is going fabulously!
I have created a website from scratch, got it up and running and added over a dozen vendors to my business. Membership is already over 50 and growing daily.
Personally speaking things are going very well also.

"Despicable"? Sounds like a poutrage is brewing.

Uncouth, perhaps.