Do Not Believe This Man

SPLCenter.org: The Fabulist

The war against homosexuals that is being waged by extremist Christians has its own primary propagandist. Paul Cameron is the founder of the Family Research Institute - a hate group, according to the respected Southern Poverty Law Center - and author of several discredited studies. Though he has been professionally rejected by his peers, homophobes (and people who should know better) use his pseudo-psychological reports to spread anti-gay propaganda.

This anti-gay propaganda is used to create laws that deny basic rights to American citizens based solely on their sexuality. Mainstream hetero ickyness toward gay sexuality makes it easy to spread lies that satisfy normal human xenophobia, so the Republican party hopped into bed with these hate groups back in the 80s and used the anti-gay rhetoric to win votes. Republicans rose to power generating hatred and fear with no regard to the devastation brought to the lives of gay Americans. Dr. Cameron is their propagandist.

We are living in the beginning of an America that these groups are trying to create - full of fear, hate, and violence, with religious extremists and corporatists in charge. We must reject their agenda or we will be forced live in this kind of world. The enlightened values that created this wonderful country are constantly being attacked. The Common Good, America itself, is at stake.


See also: Fake news, fascism, cults, Karl Rove...

Hope you had a "sweet" Valentine's Day

Happy Valentine's Day! Dark chocolate is good for your heart!

"Valentine's Day: Take heart with dark chocolate"

Dark is the chocolate variety that has been shown to be good for the heart. That's because it's dense in cocoa content, something rich in healthful compounds called flavonoids that are also found in fruits, vegetables and tea.

Dark chocolate lowers blood pressure.

In a 2003 study in The Journal of the American Medical Association, researchers studied the effects of chocolate on people ages 55-64 who recently had been diagnosed with mild hypertension. Subjects were randomly assigned to eat either 3 ½ ounces of dark chocolate or 3 ounces of white chocolate every day for 14 days.

The contents of the two chocolate types were comparable, except that the white chocolate lacked cocoa solids.

The dark chocolate diet significantly lowered blood pressure within 10 days, but white chocolate did not produce significant results.

Republicans Against the Common Good

Programs Bush Wants to Cut or Kill - Yahoo! News

Tax cuts for the richest. Everyone else is on his own.

The "Ownership Society" = the "Your On Your Own" society.

Republicans don't care about the common good.

I did a little math. The total costs listed here equal about $14.75 billion. Accordng to the Congressional Budget Office that's just equal to a little over a month-and-a-half of our costs in Iraq.

Bush - "the education president" - has proposed nearly $4.5 Billion in cuts in education. See the chart below for more insight into the president's priorities. Dollars are in millions. Click to enlarge.





TERMINATIONS: in Red

AGRICULTURE:

Microbiological data program, $6 million.

Community Connect broadband grants, $9 million. The Community Connect Broadband Grant program is a competitive federal grant program which enables communities to connect the essential services of police, fire protection, local government, hospitals, libraries and schools to broadband telecommunications services.


From the USDA
Commodity supplemental food program, $107 million. CSFP works to improve the health of low-income pregnant and breastfeeding women, other new mothers up to one year postpartum, infants, children up to age six, and elderly people at least 60 years of age by supplementing their diets with nutritious USDA commodity foods. It provides food and administrative funds to States to supplement the diets of these groups.

Research and extension grant earmarks, $196 million.

Ocean freight differential grants, $77 million.

Forest service economic action program, $10 million.

High cost energy grants, $26 million.

Public broadcast grants, $5 million.
Watershed protection and flood prevention operations, $75 million. "The purpose of the Watershed Program, including River Basin operations, is to assist Federal, State, local agencies, local government sponsors, tribal governments, and program participants to protect and restore watersheds from damage caused by erosion, floodwater, and sediment, to conserve and develop water and land resources, and solve natural resource and related economic problems on a watershed basis."

Total $511 million

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COMMERCE

Advanced technology program, $79 million.

Emergency steel guarantee loan program $49 million

Telecommunications construction grants $22 million

Total $150 million

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EDUCATION

Educational technology state grants, $272 million

Even Start, $99 million

High school programs terminations:

Vocational education state grants, $1,182 million

Vocational education national programs, $9 million

Upward Bound, $311 million

GEAR UP, $303 million

Talent search, $145 million

Tech prep state grants, $105 million

Smaller learning communities, $94 million

Safe and Drug-Free Schools state grants, $347 million

Elementary and secondary education program terminations:

Parental information and resource centers, $40 million

Arts in education, $35 million

Elementary and secondary school counseling, $35 million

Alcohol abuse reduction, $32 million

Civic education, $29 million

National Writing Project, $22 million

Star Schools, $15 million

School leadership,$15 million

Ready to Teach, $11 million

Javits gifted and talented education, $10 million

Exchanges with Historic Whaling and Trading Partners, $9 million

Comprehensive school reform, $8 million

Dropout prevention program, $5 million

Mental Health integration in schools, $5 million

Women's Educational Equity, $3 million

Academies for American History and Civics, $2 million

Close-Up fellowships, $1 million

Foundations for Learning, $1 million

Excellence in Economic Education, $1 million

Higher Education Programs:

Education demos for students with disabilities, $7 million

Underground Railroad Program, $2 million

State grants for incarcerated youth offenders, $23 million

Postsecondary Student Financial Assistance Programs:

Perkins Loan cancellations, $65 million

Leveraging educational assistance programs, $65 million

Byrd Scholarships, $41 million

Thurgood Marshall Legal Educational opportunity, $3 million

B.J. Stupak Olympic scholarships, $1 million

Vocational rehabilitation programs:

Supported employment, $30 million

Projects with industry, $20 million

Recreational programs, $3 million

Migrant and seasonal farmworkers,$2 million

Teacher Quality Enhancement, $60 million

Total $3,468 million

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ENERGY

University nuclear energy program, $27 million

Oil and gas research and development, $64 million

Geothermal technology program, $23 million

Total $114 million

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HEALTH AND HUMAN SERVICES
Centers for Disease Control preventive block grant, $99 million

Real Choice System Change grants, $25 million

Community services block grant, $630 million

Community economic development, $27 million

Rural community facilities, $7 million
Job opportunities for low-income individuals, $6 million
Maternal and child health small categorical grants, $39 million

Urban Indian Health Program, $33 million

Total $866 million

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HOMELAND SECURITY

Office of grants and training, $229 million

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HOUSING AND URBAN DEVELOPMENT

HOPE VI, $198 million

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INTERIOR

Bureau of Indian Affairs Johnson-O'Malley assistance grants, $16 million

Land and water conservation fund state recreation grants, $28 million

National Park Service statutory aid, $7 million

Rural fire assistance, $10 million

Total $61 million

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JUSTICE

Byrne discretionary grants, $189 million

Byrne justice assistance grants, $327 million

Community Oriented Policing Services technology grants, $128 million

Juvenile accountability block grants, $49 million

National Drug Intelligence Center, $23 million

State Criminal Alien Assistance Program, $400 million

Total $1,116 million

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LABOR

America's Job Bank, $15 million

Denali Commission job training earmark, $7 million

Migrant and seasonal farmworkers training program, $79 million

Reintegration of youthful offenders, $49 million
Susan Harwood training grants, $10 million

Work incentive grants, $20 million

Total $180 million

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TRANSPORTATION

National defense tank vessel construction program, $74 million

Railroad rehabilitation financing loan program, $0 million (no funds were enacted in 2006)

Total $74 million

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ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION AGENCY

Unrequested projects, $277 million

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OTHER AGENCIES

National Civilian Community Corps, $22 million

President's Freedom scholarships, $4 million

National Veterans Business Development Corporation, $1 million

Small Business Administration microloan program, $14 million

Postal Service forgone revenue appropriation, $29 million

Total $70 million

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MAJOR REDUCTIONS: in brown

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AGRICULTURE

Conservation operations, $77 million

Resource conservation and development program, $25 million

State and private forestry, $100 million

In-house research, $123 million

Environmental quality incentives program, $270 million

Market access program, $100 million

Rural Economic development grants, $89 million

Watershed rehabilitation program, $ 65 million

Farmland protection program, $47 million

Value-added marketing grants, $40 million

Wildlife habitat incentives program, $30 million

Agricultural management assistance, $14 million

Broadband, $10 million

Ground and surface water conservation, $9 million

Renewable energy program, $3 million

Biomass research and development, $2 million

Total $1004 million

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COMMERCE

Manufacturing extension partnership, $59 million

Technology administration, $5 million

Total $64 million

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EDUCATION

Perkins Loans Institutional Fund recall, $664 million

Teaching American history, $71 million Why teach American history, when you can reinvent it?
Physical education, $47 million

Mentoring program, $30 million

Total 811 million

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ENERGY

Environmental management, $762 million

Weatherization assistance program, $79 million

Clean Coal Power initiative, $45 million

Total $886 million

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HEALTH AND HUMAN SERVICES

Health Resources and Service Administration- Children's Graduate Medical Education, $198

HRSA Health professions, $136 million
HRSA Poison control centers, $10 million
HRSA Rural health, $133 million

Social Services block grant, $500 million

Substance abuse and mental health programs, $71 million
Total $1,048 million

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HOMELAND SECURITY

Office of grants and training, $694 million

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HOUSING AND URBAN DEVELOPMENT

Public housing capital fund, $261 million

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INTERIOR

BIA school construction, $50 million Schools for native Americans
Bureau of Reclamation reductions, $127 million

USGS Mineral Resources program, $22 million

Total $199 million

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LABOR

State job training grants consolidation, $514 million

International Labor Affairs Bureau, $61 million

Office of Disability Employment Policy, $8 million

Total $583 million

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TRANSPORTATION

Amtrak, $394 million

Federal Aviation Administration, Airport improvement program, $765 million

Total $1,159 million

TREASURY

Internal Revenue Service business systems modernization, $30 million

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ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION AGENCY

Alaska Native villages, $19 million

Clean water state revolving fund, $199 million

Total $218 million

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INTERNATIONAL ASSISTANCE PROGRAMS

Assistance for Eastern European democracy, $83 million

Assistance for the state of the former Soviet Union, $68 million

Total $160 million

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NATIONAL AERONAUTICS AND SPACE ADMINISTRATION

Aeronautics Mission Research Directorate, $160 million

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OTHER AGENCIES

Corporation for Public Broadcasting, $114 million

Denali Commission, $47 million

National Archives and Records Administration, $8 million

Max Says Hi

This is What the Radical Right Has Created

CNN.com - Gay bar attack suspect captured in gunfight - Feb 4, 2006

Congratulations Focus on the Family! Kudos to the Family Research Council! The fruits of your labor are continually coming to bear. After years of seeding society with published reports based on lies and vilifying "homosexuals" as the root of society's ills, sick young minds like Jacob Robida take it upon themselves to act upon it. Jacob today fulfilled his destiny today by killing a small-town police officer and woman while in the process of being apprehended.

Robida's claim to fame began when just this last Thursday he walked into a bar, asked the bartender if it was a gay bar, then proceeded to the rear of the bar to attack pool-playing patrons with a hatchet and gun, leaving one in critical condition.

You have to hand it to the intellectual dishonest policy experts who publish polite fact papers that would make Nazi scientists proud. The distortions created by these lying fucks reverberate through society and teach moron psychos like Robida that gays are worthy of hate and aggression.

Three injured victims in Massachusetts, two dead today in the south, and who knows what other mayhem his hatred created. Congratulations gay-haters. This blood is on your hands. Will you not be satisfied until you inspire a gay kristallnacht? When you look in the mirror, this Nazi is what you should see.