Still on the loose

So, the US is still denying claims that Pakistan handed them bin Laden several months ago, and trying to play down various insiders claims that they expect to catch him by "the end of this year." And, I'm sure they're telling the truth, because this administration would never lie to us or use the war on terror to stage a fake publicity stunt for political reasons...

But, until his inevitable "capture" shortly before the November elections, I think we can still have fun playing Where's Osama?

It looks like Bush's wedge issue is backfiring quickly!

Judge Won't Block Gay Marriages in Oregon

Advocates of gay marriage scored a victory in Oregon Monday.

A judge denied a request to block same-sex marriages in Multnomah County, which includes Portland. More than 1200 licenses have been issued to gay and lesbian couples in Portland since county policy was changed last week.

Meantime, the mayor of Seattle says his city will recognize the marriages of gay city employees who tie the knot elsewhere. The city of San Jose is considering a similar proposal.

In New Paltz, New York, more than a dozen couples got married Monday, but the mayor was not in attendance. He faces 19 criminal counts for officiating at gay weddings.

In San Francisco, Southern California Assemblywoman Jackie Goldberg married her partner of over 20 years at City Hall Monday.

So, the Bush re-election team has chosen now to launch a major offensive against gay marriage, in a rather obvious and shameless attempt to create an issue that we can fight over, and that hopefully some people will take his side on. The point, of course, is to get us all arguing over this instead of his lies about Iraq, Cheney's missing Enron/Arthur Anderson papers, and, of course, the economy and the several million missing jobs.

But it looks like it's not working at all. More and more cities are rebelling on this, and various other issues. Cities who aren't performing same-sex marriages are passing legislation to at least recognize those from other places. It's snowballing like crazy. This seems to be happening much quicker than the whole equal rights for black people in the 60s.

And, investigations continue. People still continue to ask Bush about where he was during his national guard service, or why he refuses to cooperate with the 9/11 investigation, and process servers are still trying to root out Cheney from his spider-hole, er, I mean, undisclosed location.

This same group of people did exactly the same thing last time they were in office, only then it was an attempt to pass an anti-flag-burning amendment. It didn't work then, and it looks like its failing even more spectacularly this time around. Bush is going down, and it looks like he's gonna take one of our last bits of legal bigotry with him.

Hooray for the good guys!

I said during the last election that it just may be possible that Bush ends up doing for non-fundamentalist-Christians what McCarthy did for Communists. I still hope I'm right about that!

And now - silly lj quiz!

( What kind of assassin are you? )