Schwarzenegger says Proposition 8 may violate US Constitution ... ... in a written response to a federal challenge of the anti-gay marriage ballot measure ...
Wednesday, June 17, 2009
Defend a free-flowing Internet and support the Broadband Internet Fairness Act
Dear Friends,
We now have a chance to wrestle control of the Internet's future away from Time Warner Cable, Comcast, AT&T and other telco giants.
Rep. Eric Massa has just introduced a bill in Congress, called the Broadband Internet Fairness Act, that will restrict telcos' ability to charge outrageous rates for using the Internet. This bill would be the first step toward guaranteeing an open, fast and accessible Internet for all Americans.
Please visit the URL below to tell your member of Congress to support this important piece of legislation:
Thanks!Some Churches Support Gay Rights
Take my friend's pastor, a Lutheran minister who on Mother's Day said in his sermon,
I have a very hard time finding any reason to be afraid of what is happening in Massachusetts and Iowa and elsewhere. The institution of marriage is strong; it cannot be damaged by extending it to others who want to get married. On the contrary, marriage is strengthened by doing so.
Christianity is not out to get gays and lesbians, despite the popular perception. Not all churches are barring our way to equal rights. Indeed, some are opening the door.
Jennifer Vanasco is editor in chief of 365gay.comYou may read the full article inOutword and the Huffington Post
Tell Obama and Holder: Stop defending DOMA.
Subject: Tell Obama and Holder: Stop defending DOMA.
Dear Friends,They compared same-sex marriage to a marriage between an uncle and a niece. Or between two children. No, we're not talking about Rick Santorum. We're talking about the Obama administration's Justice Department. The brief the DOJ presented defending the Defense of Marriage Act (DOMA) in federal court was not just wrong. It was offensive. The New York Times called it "disturbing" in its lead editorial.
Back in the days of the 2008 campaign, Senator Obama promised he would work to overturn the Defense of Marriage Act. But now that a gay couple in California is challenging DOMA in federal court, President Obama has chosen to take action to defend a law that prevents legally married same-sex couples from receiving any federal benefits, or from having their marriages recognized in other states.
I just signed a petition to tell President Obama and Attorney General Holder to withdraw this offensive brief and apologize for its contents. (The website also has a great video of Rachel Maddow and Howard Dean discussing the importance of this issue!) Please have a look and take action.
http://act.credoaction.com/campaign/doma_brief/?r_by=-1068490-Ddu1sWx&rc=confemail
Tuesday, June 16, 2009
Product Placing The Gays
For years advertisers have given sly, subtle nods to homo consumers, a phenomenon coined by the Commercial Closet as "gay vague." Ramping up the visibility ever so slightly, a few brands have begun placing logos known mostly only to gays in their ads. Below left, an Orbitz ad features a man wearing an HRC golf shirt. Below right, an ad from Taco Del Mar features a surfer with a Gay & Lesbian Surfer Association sticker on his board.
(Taco Del Mar clip via Slog)
Thanks JMG for this
Tell Obama and Holder: Stop defending DOMA.
Friends,
They compared same-sex marriage to a marriage between an uncle and a niece. Or between two children. No, we're not talking about Rick Santorum. We're talking about the Obama administration's Justice Department. The brief the DOJ presented defending the Defense of Marriage Act (DOMA) in federal court was not just wrong. It was offensive. The New York Times called it "disturbing" in its lead editorial.
Back in the days of the 2008 campaign, Senator Obama promised he would work to overturn the Defense of Marriage Act. But now that a gay couple in California is challenging DOMA in federal court, President Obama has chosen to take action to defend a law that prevents legally married same-sex couples from receiving any federal benefits, or from having their marriages recognized in other states.
I just signed a petition to tell President Obama and Attorney General Holder to withdraw this offensive brief and apologize for its contents. (The website also has a great video of Rachel Maddow and Howard Dean discussing the importance of this issue!) Please have a look and take action.
They compared same-sex marriage to a marriage between an uncle and a niece. Or between two children. No, we're not talking about Rick Santorum. We're talking about the Obama administration's Justice Department. The brief the DOJ presented defending the Defense of Marriage Act (DOMA) in federal court was not just wrong. It was offensive. The New York Times called it "disturbing" in its lead editorial.
Back in the days of the 2008 campaign, Senator Obama promised he would work to overturn the Defense of Marriage Act. But now that a gay couple in California is challenging DOMA in federal court, President Obama has chosen to take action to defend a law that prevents legally married same-sex couples from receiving any federal benefits, or from having their marriages recognized in other states.
I just signed a petition to tell President Obama and Attorney General Holder to withdraw this offensive brief and apologize for its contents. (The website also has a great video of Rachel Maddow and Howard Dean discussing the importance of this issue!) Please have a look and take action.
http://act.credoaction.com/campaign/doma_brief/?r_by=-1068490-Ddu1sWx&rc=confemail
NY Times Slaps Obama
From the GIST:
In an editorial headlined "A Bad Call on Gay Rights," The New York Times calls the DOMA brief "disturbing," and slaps Obama for using the excuse of political expediency for denying gay and lesbian Americans their rights:
The Obama administration, which came to office promising to protect gay rights but so far has not done much, actually struck a blow for the other side last week. It submitted a disturbing brief in support of the Defense of Marriage Act, which is the law that protects the right of states to not recognize same-sex marriages and denies same-sex married couples federal benefits. The administration needs a new direction on gay rights.
Monday, June 15, 2009
An organized response to Obama's failure on GLBT rights
An organized response to Obama's failure on GLBT rights
by: Smartypants
Mon Jun 15, 2009 at 18:24:17 PM EDT
Pam's post on HRC's letter to President Obama asks a critical question: "What happens next if the President thumbs his nose at this letter?"
The question really got me thinking. What options are left to us when our purported friends and allies ignore an appeal to common decency?
Because it's pretty obvious our elected 'friends' are screwing us. Again.
And why not? They've gotten away with it before and never paid a price. Too many of these so-called friends and allies in elected office know that if they show up at a pride rally and occasionally vote for some mildly progressive measure on our behalf, as grateful GLBT constituents we will continue to be a reliable source of money and volunteers. And we won't make a fuss because we're afraid our very real enemies will take advantage of any division.
Read the full article at PHB.
Free Hugs Campaign
Free Hugs Campaign - Official Page (music by Sick Puppies.net )
youtube: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vr3x_RRJdd4
Top Obama Gay John Berry: It's Going To Be A Long Time On LGBT Rights
Courtesy of JMG:
John Berry, the director of the Office of Personnel Management and the president's highest ranking openly gay appointee spoke to the Advocate's Kerry Eleveld after his speech at DC Pride yesterday (which I heard). Berry, who said he was speaking with the authorization of the White House, outlined a four-point list of LGBT rights that the Obama administration hopes to achieve, but stressed that the general timetable for these goals is "under the administration's watch", meaning including a potential second Obama term.
Berry went on to say that the gay community should not "waste energy and angst" attacking the president over last week's DOJ-DOMA flap, and instead should be working on getting the necessary votes to overturn DOMA in the House and Senate.We have four broad legislative goals that we want to accomplish and legislation is one of these things where you’ve got to move when the opportunity strikes, so I’m going to list them in an order but it’s not necessarily going to go one, two, three, four. Obviously, I think the first opportunity is hate crimes and we’re hopeful that we can get that passed this week. We’re going to try, but if not, we’re going to keep at it until we get it passed. The second one ENDA, we want to secure that passage of ENDA, and third is we want to repeal legislatively “don’t ask don’t tell,” and fourth, we want to repeal the Defense of Marriage Act.
Now, I’m not going to pledge -- and nor is the president -- that this is going to be done by some certain date. The pledge and the promise is that, this will be done before the sun sets on this administration – our goal is to have this entire agenda accomplished and enacted into law so that it is secure.
The Advocate: Does that include a second term? A lot of people have talked about DOMA being pushed back until a second term.
Berry: I say this in a broad sense -- our goal is to get this done on this administration’s watch.
Solmonese Writes To Obama
Human Rights Campaign head Joe Solmonese has written a lengthy letter to the president decrying last week's DOJ brief opposing the repeal of DOMA.see: JMG post
Sunday, June 14, 2009
Quote of the day...
4. O FILHO DA JUSTIÇA
Para onde pode ir o apaixonado senão à terra de seu bem-amado? E qual apaixonado poderá ficar tranqüilo longe do desejo de seu coração? Para quem ama verdadeiramente, a união é a vida e a separação é a morte. O seu peito está vazio de paciência e o seu coração está privado de paz. Incontáveis vidas ele renunciará a fim de se apressar para onde se encontra o seu bem-amado.
4. O SON OF JUSTICE!
Whither can a lover go but to the land of his beloved? And what seeker findeth rest away from his heart's desire? To the true lover reunion is life, and separation is death. His breast is void of patience and his heart hath no peace. A myriad lives he would forsake to hasten to the abode of his beloved.
From
We read this at our wedding. It means a lot to me as it almost addresses our bi-national marriage.
Para onde pode ir o apaixonado senão à terra de seu bem-amado? E qual apaixonado poderá ficar tranqüilo longe do desejo de seu coração? Para quem ama verdadeiramente, a união é a vida e a separação é a morte. O seu peito está vazio de paciência e o seu coração está privado de paz. Incontáveis vidas ele renunciará a fim de se apressar para onde se encontra o seu bem-amado.
4. O SON OF JUSTICE!
Whither can a lover go but to the land of his beloved? And what seeker findeth rest away from his heart's desire? To the true lover reunion is life, and separation is death. His breast is void of patience and his heart hath no peace. A myriad lives he would forsake to hasten to the abode of his beloved.
From
We read this at our wedding. It means a lot to me as it almost addresses our bi-national marriage.
Parada Gay movimenta avenida Paulista com 3,5 milhões de pessoas
Parada Gay movimenta avenida Paulista com 3,5 milhões de pessoas
Da Redação
Atualizado às 13h18
Cerca de 3,5 milhões de pessoas devem tomar conta da avenida Paulista durante este domingo (14) na 13ª edição da Parada Gay da cidade de São Paulo. A festa, que é considerada a maior do mundo, começou às 12h20 e deve terminar por volta das 19h30. A expectativa, de acordo com a Associação da Parada do Orgulho LGBT de São Paulo, é que o evento reúna público recorde mais uma vez.
For those of you who cannot read, understand or falar the world’s most beautiful language UOL says:
Around 3.5 million people are expected on Avenida Paulista for this Sunday (14) in the 13th edition of the Gay Parade in
Courtesy of UOL.
CA Attorney General Brief: Prop 8 Violates 14th Amendment
CA Attorney General Brief: Prop 8 Violates 14th Amendment
Jim Burroway
June 13th, 2009
What a contrast between the California Attorney General and the U.S. Department of Justice. On the same day in which the Obama administration filed a brief before the U.S. Supreme Court defending the so-called “Defense of Marriage Act,“ California Attorney General Jerry Brown filed a very different brief in Perry v. Schwarzenegger, the Prop 8 challenge brought by Ted Olson and David Boies.
Courtesy of Box Turtle
Quote of the Day
Cada um de nós é vários, é muitos, é uma prolixidade de si mesmos. Por isso aquele que despreza o ambiente não é o mesmo que dele se alegra ou padece. Na vasta colônia do nosso ser há gente de muitas espécies, pensando e sentindo diferentemente.
Each one of us is several, is many, is a profusion of selves. So that the self who disdains his surroundings is not the same as the self who suffers or takes joy in them. In the vast colony of our being there are many species of people who think and feel different ways.
Fernando Pessoa, Livro Do Desassossego. In Night Train to
Saturday, June 13, 2009
March on Washington
Our single demand:
Equal protection in all matters governed by civil law in all 50 states.
Our philosophy:
As members of every race, class, faith, and community, we see the struggle for LGBT equality as part of a larger movement for peace and social justice.
Our strategy:
Decentralized organizing for this march in every one of the 435 Congressional districts will build a network to continue organizing beyond October.
California Communities United Institute
California Communities United Institute
To encourage people from different communities to work together in support of each other
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Why Have We Stopped Talking About Guns?
Bill Moyers and Michael Winship | Why Have We Stopped Talking About Guns?
http://www.truthout.org/061309Y
Bill Moyers and Michael Winship, Truthout: "There is much talk about hate talk; hate crimes against blacks, whites, immigrants, Muslims, Jews; about violence committed in the name of bigotry or religion. But why don't we talk about guns?"
http://www.truthout.org/061309Y
Bill Moyers and Michael Winship, Truthout: "There is much talk about hate talk; hate crimes against blacks, whites, immigrants, Muslims, Jews; about violence committed in the name of bigotry or religion. But why don't we talk about guns?"
Coalition Of LGBT Groups Join To Condemn DOJ Motion To Dismiss DOMA Challenge
A coalition of LGBT groups have issued a joint statement condemning the Obama administration's motion to dismiss a challenge to the Defense Of Marriage Act. Via press release:
We are very surprised and deeply disappointed in the manner in which the Obama administration has defended the so-called Defense of Marriage Act against Smelt v. United States, a lawsuit brought in federal court in California by a married same-sex couple asking the federal government to treat them equally with respect to federal protections and benefits. The administration is using many of the same flawed legal arguments that the Bush administration used. These arguments rightly have been rejected by several state supreme courts as legally unsound and obviously discriminatory.
We disagree with many of the administration's arguments, for example that DOMA is a valid exercise of Congress's power, is consistent with Equal Protection or Due Process principles, and does not impinge upon rights that are recognized as fundamental. We are also extremely disturbed by a new and nonsensical argument the administration has advanced suggesting that the federal government needs to be "neutral" with regard to its treatment of married same-sex couples in order to ensure that federal tax money collected from across the country not be used to assist same-sex couples duly married by their home states.
There is nothing "neutral" about the federal government's discriminatory denial of fair treatment to married same-sex couples: DOMA wrongly bars the federal government from providing any of the over one thousand federal protections to the many thousands of couples who marry in six states. This notion of "neutrality" ignores the fact that while married same-sex couples pay their full share of income and social security taxes, they are prevented by DOMA from receiving the corresponding same benefits that married heterosexual taxpayers receive. It is the married same-sex couples, not heterosexuals in other parts of the country, who are financially and personally damaged in significant ways by DOMA. For the Obama administration to suggest otherwise simply departs from both mathematical and legal reality.
When President Obama was courting lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender voters, he said that he believed that DOMA should be repealed. We ask him to live up to his emphatic campaign promises, to stop making false and damaging legal arguments, and immediately to introduce a bill to repeal DOMA and ensure that every married couple in America has the same access to federal protections.
Signed:
American Civil Liberties Union
Gay and Lesbian Advocates and Defenders
Human Rights Campaign
Lambda Legal
National Center for Lesbian Rights
National Gay and Lesbian Taskforce
Friday, June 12, 2009
HRC Weekly Update from Joe Solmonese
Dear Daniel,
Before I share the week's news, let me begin by expressing our grief over the fatal shooting of a guard at the Holocaust Museum. As a community that faces the ongoing threat of hate-motivated violence, we know these individual acts are often designed to terrorize an entire community. Wednesday's shooting took place in the presence of school children who had come to the museum to learn its lessons of peace, remembrance and tolerance. This is one more sad reminder to recommit ourselves to stopping extremism and hate, whatever form it takes.
Today we received news of the Obama Administration's decision to defend the constitutionality of the discriminatory Defense of Marriage Act in a federal lawsuit filed on behalf of a married gay California couple. The couple rightfully claimed that DOMA is unconstitutional, and the Administration, stating that it had a duty to defend the statute, responded that the case should be dismissed. Their brief included a lengthy defense of DOMA's constitutionality. You can read the full brief here.
HRC immediately released a statement repudiating this ridiculous defense of DOMA, and called upon President Obama to show leadership in protecting our rights by sending a DOMA repeal bill to Congress. Read our full statement here.
With the 40th anniversary of Stonewall approaching, we are frustrated with the slow pace of progress on the issues that are critical to our community. The time for action is now. We have communicated loud and clear to the president that his duty to defend our community from discrimination is stronger than the duty to defend a law that harms us and that he has called “abhorrent.”
On Sunday our nation will observe Flag Day and with all that's swirling around us from the economy, to health care proposals, to an historic Supreme Court nomination, it is all too easy to forget that America is at war, with more than 195,000 military members serving in Iraq and Afghanistan. We must not forget their service or their sacrifices, and join all of our fellow Americans in wishing for their safe return.
The day also reminds us that thousands of lesbian, gay, and bisexual women and men are also serving their country, often with distinction. They provide essential skills as linguists, bomb specialists, medics, infantry, and every other military specialty. They, too, put their lives on the line. But they alone shoulder an additional burden -- they must serve in silence, concealing who they are or risk discharge under the discriminatory Don't Ask, Don't Tell (DADT) policy. More than 13,000 lesbian, gay, and bisexual service members have been discharged since DADT was enacted in 1993, with over 200 discharged since President Obama took office in January. And this past week, the Supreme Court declined to hear a challenge to this discriminatory policy. You can read the Associated Press article for more on the Supreme Court's decision and HRC's reaction by clicking here.
We must end the discharges. Few examples have made this more vivid or real than the case of Lt. Dan Choi, an Arabic linguist facing discharge this month. President Obama could stop this discharge and any others that face him as Commander in Chief.
It's time to end these discharges, direct Congress to repeal the ban and ensure that the Pentagon creates and implements a thorough plan for implementing repeal.
To that end, I am pleased to announce that HRC has hired former U.S. Army veteran Jarrod Chaplowski to HRC to help expand our efforts and lend added urgency and a voice to this battle. Jarrod enlisted in the U.S. Army in 2000 and trained as a Korean linguist and cryptologic voice interceptor at the Defense Language Institute and Goodfellow Air Force Base, finishing second in his class. He worked as an interpreter and translator in Korea, supporting the 3rd Military Intelligence Battalion on more than 300 sensitive reconnaissance operation missions, and as a squadron school's non-commissioned officer at Ft. Lewis, Wash., in the 2nd Armored Cavalry Regiment. Jarrod has been featured on 60 Minutes, CNN's Situation Room, The Advocate, and over 100 piece of national and local media. He is also a principle subject in the upcoming PBS documentary Ask Not, which premieres on June 16.
In the meantime, let's remember all of our service members this Flag Day and the sacrifices each of them make for their country, and recommit ourselves to stopping the discharges and overturning Don't Ask, Don't Tell once and for all.
Warmly,
Joe Solmonese
President, Human Rights Campaign
Quote of the Day
“The more difficulties one sees in the world the more perfect one becomes. The more you plow and dig the ground the more fertile it becomes. The more you cut the branches of a tree the higher and stronger it grows. The more you put the gold in the fire, the purer it becomes. The more you sharpen the steel by grinding the better it cuts. Therefore, the more sorrows one sees the more perfect one becomes. That is why, in all times, the Prophets of God have had tribulations and difficulties to withstand. The more often the captain of a ship is in a tempest and difficult sailing the greater his knowledge becomes. Therefore I am happy that you have had great tribulations and difficulties. For this I am very happy—that you have had many sorrows. Strange it is that I love you and still I am happy that you have had sorrows.”
‘Abdu’l-Bahá in Fire and Gold p.13 in Star of the West Vol. 14 #2 p. 41
Revoked is a virus, worthy of WHO concern...
If you click the map, it will take you to the data page.
Since I can probably claim well over 2/3 of the USA hits -(for the postings I do) The folks in the Seychelles are statistically near the USA... a big howdy and a warm hello to the two hits in Afghanistan!
Onde estão os meus amigos Brasileiros, uai?
Leahy’s Immigration Provision Sows Sex Panic Among Key Religious Groups
Who is really pointing the dagger to the heart of immigration reform, the senator who seeks to include permanent partners (including gays) or the Bishops and evangelicals who oppose it?
the author concludes:
I was taught to take seriously the words, “whom God hath joined together let no one put asunder.”
These days I think it’s almost funny to hear pundits wondering why so many Americans, including so many Catholics <insert or Baha'is>, are giving up on religion altogether. Could it be on account of blinkered morality and irrational antics like this? Gee, I don’t know: Could it?
me: yep...To see full article: Religion Dispaches
Thursday, June 11, 2009
Controversy of the Day
Everyone who knows me knows I can't type well. An injury in an 8th grade wood shop class earned me both a shortened right index finger and a “C” in the course. Which allowed me to drop typing and to add chorus... definitely contributing towards making me gay as we learned to sing a few show tunes and musical hits.
Everyone who knows me knows that I can't spell well at all, now I don't spell well in 3 languages – MS Word and Open Office have helped me with this.
Everyone who knows me knows that my reading vision needs an upgrade (new glasses headed to me in 7-10 days), and also wonder why on earth a near sighted, lasiked dude uses a small min-computer to blog with (ans. I find the lugging around of ton laptops very unsightly.
There seems some concern by my hyper-literate, Berkeley grad son and his beautiful lady-friend about the spelling of this blog...
Let me explain
So there are some reasons, but after a great deal of market based research that took over 14 minutes, I decided upon REVOKED as Baha'is had revoked my administrative privileges and I was hoping mad. Mostly because, I wanted to celebrate my amazing talent to put my foot in my mouth with my inability to spell well.
Besides revolked, revocked seemed dumb, and well TheBahaisreallypissme off.blogspot seemed silly, tho it pretty much summed up my feeligns at the time. Rovoked was born, and few really great people snet their love, energy and disapointments...
So I revoked, just to be safe, and went to the defintion revoked - Definition from the Merriam-Webster Online Dictionary and found, that my spelling actually was quite fine, thank you very much.
revoked
One entry found.
- Main Entry:
- 1re·voke
- Pronunciation:
- \ri-ˈvōk\
- Function:
- verb
- Inflected Form(s):
- re·voked; re·vok·ing
- Etymology:
- Middle English, from Anglo-French revocer, revoquer, from Latin revocare, from re- + vocare to call, from voc-, vox voice — more at voice
- Date: 14th century
transitive verb 1 : to annul by recalling or taking back : rescind <revoke a will> 2 : to bring or call back intransitive verb : to fail to follow suit when able in a card game in violation of the rules
re·vok·er noun
Quote of the Day
"Preservation of one's own culture does not require contempt or disrespect for other cultures."
--Cesar Chavez
Me thinks thou dost...
Larry Stickney - Defender Of Marriage
Pam's House Blend contributor Lurleen has just posted an astounding evisceration of Larry Stickney, the campaign manager for Protect Marriage Washington, the group behind the effort to repeal that state's brand new "everything but marriage" domestic partners law. Among Lurleen's revelations is that the three-times married Stickney has had a restraining order issued against him by one of his ex-wives who alleged that he had beaten her. Stickney says that marriage equality "will demolish the historical understanding and definition of marriage as that of uniting a man and a woman for life." Life, or until she gets tired of you beating the crap out of her. Oh, and there is so much more.
"THE HOUND DAWG SONG"
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The link between the popular songs of the sixties [1860s], and the commercialized product of the nineties [1890s ] is best represented by the music of James Bland, born of free Negro parents in New York, musically well educated, a brilliant graduate of Howard University. He joined a Negro minstrel show company (of which there were not many) and wrote more than seven hundred songs for minstrel use, copyrighting only a few. Equaled perhaps only by Foster in his gift for melody, Bland turned out good songs by the score, many published under others' names."Carry Me Back to Old Virginny" (1878) alone was enough to place Bland with the popular immortals... "They Gotta Quit Kickin' My Dog Aroun'" was a comedy favorite for years. When Bland's troupe visited London in 1884, he stayed there to enjoy a highly successful career on the English stage. When he returned twenty years later the minstrel shows were nearly gone and he could not write what vaudeville wanted. Like Foster, he died broke and alone in 1911.
Russel Nye, The Unembarrassed Muse: The Popular Arts in America, New York, 1978, p. 314
Bob Dylan's likely source: Version #1, Alan Lomax, The Folk Songs of North America, Garden City, 1960; Song #158, listed as "The Hound Dawg Song", p. 311; from Vance Randolph (State Historical Society of Missouri), Ozark Folksongs, Columbia, Missouri, 1946-1950 (4 volumes), Vol. III, p. 278.
ALAN LOMAX:
Some say "The Hound Dawg Song," a favourite Ozark mountain song, originated before the Civil War, when a country boy named Zeke Parish had a tussle with a townie, who had kicked his dog. Old Aaron Weatherman, Swan Post Office, Taney County, Missouri, concurs -- "I was there and knowed Zeke and his paw and the hound, too."Some of his neighbours laugh at old Zeke and say that "The Hound Dawg Song" is a recently composed piece, while others swear that Daniel Boone brought the song to Missouri. It became universally popular at the time when Arkansas's favourite son, Champ Clark, who was candidate for the presidency of the United States, used it as his campaign song. Since that time civic orgainzations and booster clubs in both Arkansas and Missouri have claimed it for their state. The tune is the old fiddler's favourite, "Sandy Land" or "Sally Anne."
Alan Lomax, The Folk Songs of North America, Garden City, 1960, p. 303.
VERSION #1 (also included in Digital Tradition, filename KICKDAWG, as "Hound Dog Song")
Ev'ry time I come to town
The boys keep kickin' my dawg aroun';
Makes no diff'rence if he is a houn',
They gotta quit kickin' my dawg aroun'.Me an' Lem Briggs an' old Bill Brown
Took a load of corn to town;
My old Jim dawg, onery old cuss,
He just naturally follered us.As we driv past Johnson's store
A passel of yaps come out the door;
Jim he scooted behind a box
With all them fellers a-throwin' rocks.They tied a can to old Jim's tail
An' run him a-past the county jail;
That just naturally made us sore,
Lem, he cussed an' Bill he swore.Me an' Lem Briggs an' old Bill Brown
Lost no time a-gittin' down;
We wiped them fellers on the ground
For kickin' my old Jim dawg around.Jim seen his duty there an' then,
He lit into them gentlemen;
He shore mussed up the court-house square
With rags an' meat an' hide an' hair.Every time I come to town
The boys keep kickin' my dawg aroun';
Makes no difference if he is a houn',
They gotta quit kickin' my dawg aroun'.
Wednesday, June 10, 2009
Quote of the Day
"The way to real growth is not to become more powerful or more famous, but to become more human and tolerant."
--Maya Angelou
--Maya Angelou
Tuesday, June 9, 2009
Quote of the Day
"If any person's religious beliefs don't bring out the best in the spirit and the goodness of men and women, it's not a religion; it's an excuse for being a bigot." - Buzzflash
(29 of October 2006)
(29 of October 2006)
From a buddy...
Hi,
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I just signed a petition to Air Force Secretary Donley asking him to let Lt. Col. Victor Fehrenbach -- who is getting fired simply for being gay -- keep serving his country.
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Lt. Col. Fehrenbach has served honorably for 18 years in the Air Force as an F-15E Aviator. He has received eight air medals, one for Heroism, and was hand-picked to protect the
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http://www.sldn.org/fehrenbach
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Thanks!
"What marriage has done to me"
at Farmoyz this:
Dear Father Tony,
In all the talk about marriage equality, we hear about laws and rights and injustice, as well we should. But the video interview of George Takei and his husband made me wish I could hear more about the difference it's made to newly-married gay couples. What does it mean to you, now that you're married? As a long-committed newlywed, you are one whose opinion I'd like to hear, and other Bilerico contributors might chime in as well. This is the sort of message that straight people need to hear, to understand the reality of what heretofore may have been just an abstract idea. We need stories—pictures in our heads—to replace the old rhetoric.
For further commnts, or to leave yours go to: http://farmboyz.blogspot.com/2009/06/today-on-bilerico-what-marriage-has.html#comments
Dear Father Tony,
In all the talk about marriage equality, we hear about laws and rights and injustice, as well we should. But the video interview of George Takei and his husband made me wish I could hear more about the difference it's made to newly-married gay couples. What does it mean to you, now that you're married? As a long-committed newlywed, you are one whose opinion I'd like to hear, and other Bilerico contributors might chime in as well. This is the sort of message that straight people need to hear, to understand the reality of what heretofore may have been just an abstract idea. We need stories—pictures in our heads—to replace the old rhetoric.
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Quote of the day
Notice the Flower has Nine PetalsPhoto by Daniel Orey, all rights reserved
Consider the flowers of the garden; though differing in kind, color, form and shape, yet, inasmuch as they are refreshed by the waters of one spring, revived by the breath of one wind, invigorated by the rays of one sun, this diversity increaseth their charm and addeth unto their beauty. How unpleasing to the eye if all the flowers and plants, the leaves and blossoms, the fruit, the branches, and the trees of the garden were all of the same shape and color! Diversity of color, form and shape enricheth and adorneth the garden, and heighteneth the effect thereof."
-'Abdul-Baha
Monday, June 8, 2009
Easy to Be Hard
While watching the Tony´s last night, I remembered being in a mini-version of Hair for a music competition. This was many moons ago @ Oregon State University,the early 70's. We rather shook up the audience, like the tribe did in the Tony´s last night... so embracing the moment, as I foten do because of my Ipod, I bought the soundtrack.
My I-pod can be almost mystical. While driving around doing errands, it shuffled to this, which considering my exiled state from the Bahá´ís, rings so very true... its easy to be hard, when you are administrating...
Easy to Be Hard
How can people be so heartless
How can people be so cruel
Easy to be hard
Easy to be cold
How can people have no feelings
How can they ignore their friends
Easy to be proud
Easy to say no
And especially people
Who care about strangers
Who care about evil
And social injustice
Do you only
Care about the bleeding crowd?
How about a needing friend?
I need a friend
How can people be so heartless
You know I'm hung up on you
Easy to give in
Easy to help out
And especially people
Who care about strangers
Who say they care about social injustice
Do you only
Care about the bleeding crowd
How about a needing friend?
I need a friend
How can people have no feelings
How can they ignore their friends
Easy to be hard
Easy to be cold
Easy to be proud
Easy to say no
Sunday, June 7, 2009
Gay Marriage Battle Heats Up In Nation's Capital
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All Things Considered, June 7, 2009 · Earlier this year, the Washington, D.C., City Council passed a measure that would allow the nation's capital to recognize same-sex marriages performed outside of the city. Supporters now hope to see the council pass legislation that would allow same-sex couples to marry inside the district. But opponents vow a pitched fight.
Bilingual Quote of the Day
Do not despair! Work steadily. Sincerity and love will conquer hate.
How many seemingly impossible events are coming to pass in these days! Set your faces steadily towards the Light of the World. Show love to all; `Love is the breath of the Holy Spirit in the heart of Man'.
Take courage! God never forsakes His children who strive and work and pray!
Let your hearts be filled with the strenuous desire that tranquility and harmony may encircle all this warring world. So will success crown your efforts, and with the universal brotherhood will come the
- ‘Abdu’l-Bahá
Não se desespere! Trabalhe firmemente. A sinceridade e o amor conquistarão o ódio.
Quantos eventos que parecem impossíveis estão acontecendo nestes dias! Posicione seus rostos firmemente em direção à Luz do Mundo. Mostre amor a todos; “O amor é o sopro do Espírito Santo no coração do homem.”
Tenha coragem! Deus nunca esquece as crianças que trabalham e oram fervorosamente!
Deixe seus corações serem encobertos com o desejo árduo de que a tranqüilidade e a harmonia podem englobar todo o mundo em guerra. Estão, o sucesso irá coroando os seus esforços, e com a irmandade universal virá a paz e a boa vontade do reino de Deus.
--Baha'i: Abdu'l-Baha:
"Dissent is the highest form of patriotism." -- Ben Franklin
"A nation that continues year after year to spend more money on military defense than on programs of social uplift is approaching spiritual death.... Our only hope today lies in our ability to recapture the revolutionary spirit and go into a sometimes hostile world declaring eternal hostility to poverty, racism, and militarism."
-- Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.
"We can have democracy in this country or we can have great wealth concentrated in the hands of a few, but we can'thave both."
-- Louis Brandeis, U.S. Supreme Court Justice
"Cowardice asks the question - is it safe? Expediency asks the question - is it politic? Vanity asks the question - is it popular? But conscience asks the question - is it right? And there comes a time when one must take a position that is neither safe, nor politic, nor popular; but one must take it because it is right."
-- Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr
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