Good As You: Don't Ask Don't Tell Roundup
11/29/2010
Pryor vs. Future
When Don't Ask Don't Tell repeal came before the Senate, only two Democrats voted against: Sen. Blanche Lincoln and Sen. Mark Pryor, both of Arkansas. One of the two, Lincoln, lost her seat in the November election, and will go...
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11/24/2010
FRC to livestream military discrimination's last gasps
The Family Research Council, ever desperate in the face of good DADT news, is holding yet another webcast in support of military bias. Unlike last time, they won't be using Bryan "homosexuals in the military...gave us six million dead Jews"...
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11/23/2010
Video: What hell hath inclusive service wrought?
*RELATED: Fox News Rejects DADT Repeal Ad [J.M.G.]
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11/22/2010
One day early (in a repeal process that's years past due)
Onward principled soldiers: Signaling the growing seriousness of the Obama administration's commitment this year to ending the military's ban on gays serving openly in the armed forces, the Defense Department said Sunday that it will release a long-awaited report on...
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11/18/2010
Forget lords a-leapin': It's sixty 'buster busters we want under our tree Capitol dome
Major Don't Ask Don't Tell developments: (R-NV): Sen. Ensign to support ‘Don’t Ask’ repeal: source [Washington Blade] (R-AK): Sen. Lisa Murkowski Tells Local TV She Will Vote For Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell Repeal [Wonk Room] (I-CT): Lieberman : We Have...
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11/17/2010
#DADT for this second: White House working to squash Levin-bred fears
In light of comments from Senate Armed Services Committee Chairman Carl Levin (D-Mich.) suggesting that he's open to dropping DADT repeal from the NDAA, the White House is working to ensure concerned eyes and ears that ridding the world of...
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11/16/2010
Video: 'Daily' staff has seen 2030 DADT documentary, warns Sen. McCain of his role in it
It Gets Worse PSA -- John McCain [Daily Show] *** *RELATED: Cindy's turnaround: NO,W8: Cindy McCain shifts #DADT gears back to (R) [G-A-Y] McCain dragging feet in 1993: Flashback Monday: McCain as fairness' roadblock, 1993 edition [G-A-Y]
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11/15/2010
Flashback Monday: McCain as fairness' roadblock, 1993 edition
Ban/Acceptance. Bias/Progress. Then/Now. Clinton/Obama. McCain/McCain: **RELATED: NO,W8: Cindy McCain shifts #DADT gears back to (R) [G-A-Y]
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Audio: Sen. John McCain, you are emboldening this kind of rhetoric
Here's Liberty Counsel's Mat Staver (a frequent guest on popular conservative shows like "Huckabee) on the supposed stakes of Don't Ask Don't Tell repeal: (← click to play) *AUDIO SOURCE: Lame Duck Session & "Don't Ask Don't Tell" Policy [Liberty...
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NO,W8: Cindy shifts #DADT gears back to (R)
First, Cindy McCain shocked us all when, in a web video, she directly challenged her senator husband's resistance to letting gay servicemembers serve openly: 'They can't serve our country openly,' laments wife of DADT repeal's most prominent obstacle [G-A-Y] We...
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11/11/2010
Implied criminality: FRC's latest DADT distration
Of course they're doing this: FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE: November 11, 2010 FRC Calls for Department of Defense to Investigate Leaks Regarding Report on Homosexuality in the Military November 11, 2010 WASHINGTON, D.C. - Family Research Council (FRC) today called upon...
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Video: San Francisco-style showering
(H/t: Towle) Happy Veterans Day, be you a red-blooded American solider or a sex-crazed gay who enters the armed forces simply to see how often you can use your body wash as lube.
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11/08/2010
NDAA + DADT = WH pinky swear
There were whispers going around today suggesting that DADT repeal could be stripped from the National Defense Authorization Act (NDAA) to which its currently attached. The White House is working to muffle that chatter: Dan Pfeiffer, White House communications director,...
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11/05/2010
Log Cabin seeks vacation (*and not like the way they helped vacate DADT hero Patrick Murphy by endorsing his opponent)
The Log Cabin Republicans have filed with SCOTUS, seeking to vacate the Ninth Circuit Court order staying Judge Phillips's injunction pending appeal. Translation: The gay GOP group thinks the stay stinks, so they want it go the way midwestern Democrats...
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11/03/2010
Video: Rudy on #DADT repeal: 'You could probably accomplish it now. '
Unless he's evolved his positions on marriage equality and others issues, this site would challenge the idea that Rudy Giuliani is a supporter of gay rights, with no qualifiers thrown in. But we'll certainly take his support for repealing Don't...
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Video: President on #DADT repeal
(Sorry for ancillary noise. We'll post a better clip once one is available) "Lame" and "duck" are certainly two words we've heard frustrated activists use to describe the handling of this situation. Perhaps those labels were prescient? We'll have to...
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11/01/2010
Roses are red, Violets are [still discharged for being lesbians]
In late August, inspired by what I thought was Don't Ask Don't Tell's soon and ultimate end, yours truly planted a glorious bed of flowers in a vintage military helmet. The goal: For the flora to outlive the overwrought ban....
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10/28/2010
Video: 'These studies show a relative, if not positive outlook, at least an accepting outlook.'
*MORE: DADT STUDY: Majority Of Troops Would Not Object To Serving Alongside Gay Soldiers [The Wonk Room -TP]
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10/21/2010
'Army not a toy,' says grown man who wants G.I. Joes subjected to his Moral Monopoly
Tony Perkins has spoken: "In the middle of two wars, it's wrong to treat the military as a political yo-yo." [SOURCE] Hmm...active items treated like personal playthings, repeatedly smacked down by larger hands? String-pulling that's easily tangled up by even...
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10/20/2010
Video: 'Stand Up. Stand Out. Stand Army Strong'
*** *SEE ALSO: Lt. Dan Choi, You’re In The Army Now! [New Civil Rights Movement]
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10/19/2010
He's aware that 'drilling young men' isn't a euphemism, right?
The Thomas More Law Center and the American Family Association keep the predatory homosexual meme alive: But Richard Thompson, president and chief counsel of the Thomas More Law Center (TMLC), does not think the president cares about how unjust and...
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Phillips *this close* to a stay; overwrought debate *this close* to mind-numbingly annoying
An official ruling is coming down today. But all signs say Judge Virginia Phillips is unlikely to issue a stay on her Don't Ask Don't Tell injunction: Stay Unlikely From Trial Judge in DADT Case [Poliglot] Should Phillips do as...
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10/14/2010
ASK! TELL! (*While you can) (*Maybe not)
As of right now, for at least a second or two, Don't Ask Don't Tell is, for all intents and purposes, dead: The Pentagon is putting a hold on kicking people out of the military for being gay, while it...
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10/13/2010
Video: Maddow on #DADT plan for today, now, this hour: 'This is incoherence'
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"Ep. 5: How being gay is like cheating on your spouse"
In Debate, O’Donnell Likens Repealing Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell To Adultery [Think Progress]
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10/08/2010
Keynoter both feted and knocked? It must be HRC Nat'l Dinner time again
HRC: Washington – The Human Rights Campaign, the nation’s largest lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender civil rights organization, today announced that White House Senior Advisor Valerie Jarrett will be a guest speaker at the organization’s 14th Annual National Dinner to...
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10/04/2010
D-NY to DOJ: Military bias merits no appeal!
Tell the Department of Justice: Don't Defend "Don't Ask, Don't Tell"! [Senator Gillibrand]
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09/28/2010
Video: But truthiness *is* the policy
[Comedy Central] *BONUS: [Comedy Central]
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09/24/2010
Video: I don't care what you say -- Mccain's not Gaga
Your morning working mix courtesy of Sean Chapin: Sean Chapin's Channel [YT] H/t: Pam Spaulding *** *SEE ALSO: The source clips
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09/23/2010
Video: Jon surveys freedom's 'holes
Are we run by A**holes? [Daily Show]
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09/22/2010
Stuck with the #DADT bill, Clinton disputes charges
“Don't ask, don't tell was only adopted when both houses of Congress had voted by a huge veto-proof margin to legislate the absolute ban on gays in the military if I didn't do something else. That is, they made it...
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Anecdotal stubbornness vs. documented evidence: Do you care yet, John McCain?
When reporters Kerry Eleveld and Chris Geidner pressed him on Don't Ask Don't Tell discharges, Sen. John McCain (Increasingly Far R-AZ) had a very novel response: Well, Senator, maybe you will care what diligent DADT researcher (and G-A-Y friend) Dr....
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Video: 'Hey, you know what? Even though you may have made that deal, you didn't get the votes to repeal it!'
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09/21/2010
Video: Yup, still nauseous. Here, let Rachel share some thoughts
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I'm still busy vomiting. Here, read some #DADT releases
SLDN Statement on the U.S. Senate’s Failure to Break Filibuster and Repeal “Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell” WASHINGTON, D.C. – Servicemembers Legal Defense Network (SLDN), a national, legal services and policy organization dedicated to ending “Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell” (DADT), issued...
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56 - 43 #DADT
Couldn't get the 60 votes for cloture, repeal vote blocked. So it's official: Your United States, Democratic-led Senate just voted against/ failed to secure your most basic of human rights in the midst of partisan attacks. [::sigh::] Why are you...
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09/20/2010
Video: 'Geneous' plan: Buck wants military to be homo-
Here's Ken Buck, the Colorado GOP candidate who's challenging Democratic incumbent for a U.S. Senate seat: "It's one thing to deny someone access to the military and to a career in the military, it's another thing to -- for morale...
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09/17/2010
#VVS2010: DADT (Don't Allay Discrimination Tactfully) Panel
Warning: This is one of the most disgusting, dehumanizing American political panels ever conducted: Don't Ask Don't Tell Panel [AFA]
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Video: DADT: Act like a Lady
Little Monsters #makeyourownvideos if u believe in #equalrights and want the Senate to #repealDADT. Tweet me your video and I will post them @ladygaga
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09/16/2010
Eggin' Meghan: Activists tell (R-AZ) to save principled face
Activists with H.E.R.O. and GetEqual this morning interrupted a Senate Armed Services Committee hearing, demanding that Sen. John McCain (R-AZ) end his threat to filibuster the Don't Ask Don't Tell repeal process. Here's some of the messaging they carried along...
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09/15/2010
Video: Repeal party in our dorm, B-Y-O-☮
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09/14/2010
Video: ♫ You're the grossest ban, I'll follow you until you free me, D-A-, D-A-D-T ♫
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09/13/2010
Wrongful termination vs. rightful determination
In the LGBT world, our paths have never been direct nor nicely paved. But we who stay the course are nothing if not tenacious: SEATTLE – Opponents of the "don't ask, don't tell" policy against gays serving in the military...
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VMAs 2010: 'Don't Ask' is the new Kanye-interrupts-Taylor
ALERT: Lady Gaga Fights for DADT Repeal at VMAs [SLDN]
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09/09/2010
Wow, unexpected: Terrible #DADT policy earns awesome court smackdown
A federal court in California today ruled in favor of plaintiffs in the case challenging the constitutionality of “Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell.” U.S. District Court Judge Virginia Phillips decided in favor of Log Cabin Republicans and their lawsuit against the...
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09/06/2010
Bias is Laborious
On this employment-themed date, we want to remind you that, at the end of the discriminatory day, Don't Ask Don't Tell repeal is actually a jobs bill. One that would keep LGB military personnel from worrying that an innocuous blog...
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09/03/2010
Video:@SenGillibrand sits with, listens to booted soldiers. Something @[insert-GOP-repeal-foe] never does.
[In The Life]
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08/25/2010
Video: Justice delayed vs. justice (D-NY)ed
Former Westchester, NY, Congressman Joe DioGuardi, onetime U.S. Treasury Department official David Malpass and attorney Bruce Blakeman are all looking to unseat Democratic U.S. Senator Kirsten Gillibrand. On military fairness it's a choice between a rock star and a trio...
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08/19/2010
Dear future Americans with itchy bias bones: Discrimination never, ever, ever pays
Don't Ask Don't Tell expert (and all-around good guy) Nathaniel Frank sent us his new report detailing the costs that this unwarranted discrimination poses to military readiness, cohesion, morale, taxpayer dollars, privacy, and the military’s reputation in general. Not to...
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08/12/2010
Video: No one's Asking and Telling like Rachel
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