He's Totally Straight, I Swear

Look! Over there! It's Charlie Crist, announcing his Senate bid and reminding everyone that he has a WIFE who is a WOMAN all in the same tweet!

Christ that's small. Bummer. Well, anyway, OMGIT'SOFFICIAL! Cool! My favorite southern, tan, unquestionably straight, youngish governor wants more of a nation-wide type of persona! Cool! He's certainly a fun guy, and since he's going to skip right along to an easy win, we might as well just accept it and move on.

Oh, in totally unrelated news, there's this new movie coming out, Outrage, about outing closted gay elected officials who have anti-gay voting records. Totally unrelated,  swear.

Remember When...

Hey everybody, remember way back in the day when a giant airplane flew low in the skies over New York and scared the Hell out of thousands of people? By which I of course mean,

Hey, remember the super screwed up Air Force One photo op? Sure ya do! Well, guess what! The fella who thought that flying giant airplanes through New York City was a good idea is resigning, because he is, in fact, an idiot and can't do his job. Right on, Whit House Military Office Director Louis Caldera! Now you're one of the nation's popular "unemployed" clique, which makes you "one of the cool kids," because, let's face it, everybody's doing it (losing their jobs).

Just to smooth things over, though, we get to see the picture!

See? There it is! And look how gorgeous AF1 looks flying high above... NEW JERSEY? Oh, cool, you scare the Hell out of everyone and DON'T EVEN GET A GOOD PICTURE? Yeah, have fun finding your next job, Louis.

OMGLEAVEHIMALONE

Oh haiiiiiiiiiiiii, Arlen Specter! How are you? Good? I'm glad. How do you like being the center of attention? No? You don't like it? Have you noticed that people TOTALLY ACT LIKE DOUCHEBAGS?

Arlen Specter became a Democrat last week, and in doing so, apparently pissed everybody off. On Countdown with Keith Olbermann tonight, Keith took out of context a comment made by Senator Specter, and, based on that, labeled Specter a DINO - Democrat in Name Only. So here's what happened, and some background:

First of all, you should know that Arlen Specter is funny. Really, he is. Also, he thinks he is. He does stand up sometimes. REALLY, I SWEAR TO GOD:

Yeah, so that's him. Then, the man agreed to an interview with The New York Times Magazine and this exhange took place:

Q: With your departure from the Republican Party, there are no more Jewish Republicans in the Senate. Do you care about that?

A: I sure do. There's still time for the Minnesota courts to do justice and declare Norm Coleman the winner.

Q: Which seems about as likely at this point as Jerry Seinfeld's joining the Senate.

A: Well, it was about as likely as my becoming a Democrat.

So, yeah that's what happened. What did Keith Olbermann take away from this?

"OMG ARLEN SPECTER TOTALLY IS GAY FOR NORM COLEMAN!"

No, that's not actually a quote. I jest. Basically, however, that was the gist of it. Arlen Specter is a schmuck, and lies, and undermines the Democratic Party every day. Fine, don't trust him, he was, after all, a Republican just a little over a week ago. Let's not make things up though, alright?

Thanks!

Hate Crimes, Veterans, and SCOTUS Vacancy

Long time, no see! So much has happened in our time apart, so let's sum up the biggest, most interesting things, shall we? Yes, we shall:

A.) Hey, look! Maine is totally gay for opposite opposite-marriage! So is D.C. [maybe?]!

II.) Known crazy-person Michele Bachmann (R-Minn) has a challenger for her seat in next year's election! Everyone on the left is torn about this, because, oh, that's right, she's so TOTALLY insane that she exists solely for entertainment, and is no sort of threat to anyone [except maybe her neighbors.]!

3.) Oh, yes, David Souter (self-loathing Supreme Court Justice) wants to get out of awful-crowded-grumpy Washington and head back to the woods to live out the rest of his days climbing mountains and eating apples.

Four.) Republicans hate hate HATE Barack Obama's nominee to replace Souter, even though no such nominee exists.

e.) Arlen Specter is now a Democrat! Again! Which means a number of things, the most notable of which is: nothing is really changing.

Wow, what a few weeks, huh? In other news, Representative Virginia Foxx (R-NC) is a godless infidel who should be defeated for reelection as soon as humanly possible (next year). Over the course of debating the "Matthew Sheppard Hate Crimes Bill" she argued that Mr. Sheppard wasn't killed because he was gay, which is... a total lie. Opposing hate-crimes legislation is a totally understandable position in certain respects [you can't legislate against some one's thoughts, etc.] but to come out and slander a boy who was murdered just because you don't like a piece of legislation is a horrible, horrible thing to do. 

To put that out there for his parents, who have already been through so much, is really very not-okay. So, Virginia Foxx, you, unlike Michele (the idiot) Bachmann are actually a target now, way to go! Anyone else feel like going on a trip to North Carolina in 2010?

In other news, Paul Rieckhoff of Iraq and Afghanistan Veterans of America is circulating IAVA's new ad, "Signs," and for some reason his goal is to have 100,000 hits by mother's day (which is this coming Sunday, in case you didn't know and now need to run out and get flowers or something). So, to do my part because I think the IAVA is an amazing organization, tied for first place in my absolute-best-American-organization contest with the ACLU, here's the video for your viewing pleasure:

And, just cuz I think they're so great, here's their best ad yet, "Alone"