Evidently that’s what the American Family Association reported this morning. They’ve got an auto-replace thingy on their web site that replaces the word “gay” with “homosexual.” So they reported Tyson Gay as Tyson Homosexual.

Here’s the link, though the AFA has corrected it by now, as I’ve been told.

There it is. A vandal or two wrote clearly racist messages on a bunch of city vehicles in Orlando, and Barack Obama was the target. This isn’t going to surprise anyone who has been watching this race, but the red herrings left at the scene just might be a surprise. the vandals left a bunch of business cards denouncing Obama and McCain, and there are supposedly words that indicate the culprits were Hillary Clinton supporters. I don’t believe the red herrings for a minute…

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Bush and Cheney are just as popular as they always were, scoring a full 23% approval rating in the latest LA Times poll, which is easily as much approval as they deserve. Heck, one could likely those 23% would stay with them if they decided to mount an offensive in Iran. And that’s just what Seymour Hirsh claims they are going to do. But not before Bush and Cheney listen to their own Intelligence Agency’s opinions on the Iran Nuke program, and then summarily reject the report. Here’s the LA Times poll, and here’s the story about the US Intel.

Why did they reject US Intelligence estimates about how the Iranians don’t have an active nuclear program? …

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The following video is a trailer for a documentary titled, Spiral Up. The film’s release date has yet to be established. The film was the idea of Scott Seskind, a social worker at a nursing home in Boulder where Nathan, the subject of the documentary (who also has Huntington’s Disease) lives.

I first met Scott over a year ago when I responded to his Craigslist ad in search of a videographer. When I first spoke to Scott, he expressed his interest in making the film. Once we began filming, it was evident that Nathan was a remarkable person and it was also obvious why Scott had chosen to make the documentary.

Since then, we’ve been meeting, primarily on the weekends, and spending time filming Scott’s conversations with Nathan and some of the other patients who know him at the nursing home.

While it can be said that we’re documenting Nathan’s battle with his disease…the real purpose, since the outset, has been to document his amazing spirit. You’ll note in the trailer that Scott has pondered his motivations for making the film. Trust me when I say that he needn’t do so…and anyone who takes the time to see Spiral Up will quickly realize that Nathan’s story needed to be told.

Cross-posted at Thought Theater

Did you know that Tim Gill is a homosexual activist who operates under the radar as a stealth politico intent on changing the political landscape and adding the scalps of God fearing Christians to his belt? This latest video offering from Focus on the Family’s Turn Signal has to be one of their most transparent attempts to pander to their followers by portraying gay activism as a sinister effort to undermine conservative family values.

As I watched this video, I couldn’t help but think back to my days in commercial real estate. OK, I’m sure you’re wondering how in the hell is this related to the FOF video? Stay with me. After spending fourteen years in the business, I honed my skills at spotting tenants who were manipulative and on the precipice of having financial problems. One of the tell-tale signals was a sudden surge in complaints about their space…the AC wasn’t working right, the janitorial staff was doing a lousy job, the tenant next door was too loud, and on and on.

Generally speaking, the strategy was to go on the offensive and portray oneself as a victim in anticipation of lacking the wherewithal to pay the rent or fulfill the remaining term of one’s lease. When I first started in the business, these tenants had me standing on my head trying to please them, but over time I realized that more often than not, their complaints had nothing to do with me or the service our company was providing. It was simply the strategy of a cash strapped tenant to create mitigating circumstances for the moment when they were unable to pay rent…and their ultimate goal usually included being let out of their lease.

That brings me back to Focus on the Family and this video segment. First, Focus on the Family is far from bankrupt; having total receipts in excess of 140 million dollars each of the last three years. However, when one looks more closely, the arm of the organization that funds political activities, Focus Action, has seen a steady decline in revenues over the last three years.

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Dave Comroe stepped to the firing line, raised his 12-gauge Browning over and under shotgun, aimed and fired. Before him, a pigeon fell, moments after being released from a box less than 20 yards away. About 25 times that day Comroe fired, hitting about three-fourths of the birds. He was 16 at the time.

“It’s not easy to shoot them,” he says, explaining, “there’s some talent involved. When a live pigeon is released, you have no idea where it’s going.”

Where it’s going is usually no more than five to ten feet from its cage…

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We’ve all watched the flooding in the midwest unfold over the past few weeks like a slow motion train wreck. Levee after levee has failed, and thousands of people have been displaced and millions of farm acres are under water.

The latest levee failure is being attributed to a muskrat burrowing under a levee in Winfield, Missouri:

And on Friday morning, in Lincoln County, Mo., the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers’ efforts were undermined by another threat: muskrats.

The little critters made enough holes in the earthen berm to significantly weaken the Pin Oak agricultural levee, and overnight rains helped the floodwaters break through Friday morning around 5:30 a.m. The muskrats were looking for food or seeking to make dens in the levee, and emergency crews had had to patch up a hole earlier in the week created by a single burrowing muskrat, whose hard work was described as creating a “geyser of river water.”

The levee was the last one remaining in Lincoln County and was protecting about 100 homes, which were immediately evacuated. Almost 700 homes in the area have been damaged by flooding….

Is the state of our national infrastructure so bad that a five pound animal can bring down a flood control levee and drown a town?

No one could have predicted…

I’ve been out of the loop for the past few days, and yesterday evening I wanted to catch up on the chatter in the progressive blogosphere. But as I hit a few of the blogs that I visit on a regular basis, it wasn’t the election chatter that caught my eye. My attention was consumed by a new advertisement that’s been rolled out on some A-list blogs (see the screen capture to the left). The creative aspect of the ad hit me with the force of a ton of bricks:

Up Yours, Baby Boomers

My initial reaction, as a card carrying member of the baby boomer generation? “Whoa. You talkin’ to me, buddy? You got somethin’ to say? Let’s take it outside and discuss. I might be on the shorter side in stature, and getting a bit long in the tooth, but I think I can hold my own in a smackdown. So, why you dissin’ me, baby? WYFP? Ready to go?

Why did I get my ass up in the air? Because in my view, the Peter G. Peterson Foundation advertisement sets up a very pressing national problem as a generational wedge issue…

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A mere day after Antonin Scalia wrote the Supreme Court opinion to strike down Washington DC’s restrictions on hand guns, a guy in Washington State demonstrated what a good idea this was. From KXLY.com in Spokane:

According to the Spokane Police Department, “a 42-year-old male was playing with his gun and assumed it was unloaded … He attempted to prove it was safe and unloaded it by pointing it at his face and pulling the trigger.”

The former brother-in-law of the victim identified the man as James Estes, who was rushed to Sacred Heart Medical Center. He remained in the Intensive Care Unit in critical condition early Thursday afternoon.

Scalia thinks that a handgun is necessary for those who experience a home invasion, and can thus point the gun while simultaneously calling the police. Yes, that is in his opinion. As this case from Spokane notes, gun owners are rarely that smart.

There’s some sources that are spreading a smear that Barack Obama does not have a birth certificate showing he is a citizen. Forget that the US government has already gone over Barack Obama’s bona fides in order to give him a passport. Evidently these truly stupid people can’t figure that stuff out. Here’s one of the web sites promoting this bogus smear, in an article by Judi McLeod (anyone who has a first name like that has to be Canadian or something, eh?) and here’s the Obama quick response team’s answer. The author, if I may use that term loosely, of this article compares Barack Obama’s birth certificate to that of Winnie the Pooh…

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