June 2006
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How About Giving Directions
CHICAGO, June 25 /U.S. Newswire/ — Republican gubernatorial candidate Judy Baar Topinka’s float in today’s Chicago “Gay Pride” parade is scheduled to be just nine spots ahead of a float sponsored by the homosexual bathhouse called Steamworks, said Illinois Family Institute Executive Director Peter LaBarbera.
LaBarbera and Matt Barber of the group Americans for Truth will be attending the homosexual “pride” parade today as critical observers, to document the goings-on for future use. (Past parades have featured public nudity and other illegal and obscene behavior, tolerated by the watching police.) The two men will be available for media comment, “for those reporters who still recognize that there are two sides to controversial moral issues,” LaBarbera said.
“The media is treating this like any other parade, but what other parade would feature a float for a ‘gym’ (Steamworks) that doubles as a 24/7 sex club, where gay men go for anonymous sexual hook-ups with other men?” LaBarbera said. (Steamworks is also an official sponsor of the upcoming “Gay Games” in Chicago, as is another homosexual sex club, Man’s Country.)
The Steamworks bathhouse is located at 3246 North Halsted Street in the heart of Chicago’s “Boystown” neighborhood demarcating the city’s homosexual community
Who wants to bet if this year’s video includes any crotch shots again?
Gay, Gay, Gay
Judy Baar Topinka is gay, gay, gay
Doing nothing while a good Republican is attacked would be nothing new for this group ? nearly all of them hid in the tall grass while Jack Ryan was being crucified two years ago. That is if they weren?t pounding nails themselves.
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A wag was recently heard to quip that the Illinois Republican Party?s leadership ranks are ?gayer than an Ikea store on Super Bowl Sunday.? (Yes, we think that?s very offensive too, and we call on that person to please, please immediately seek some sensitivity training for gosh sakes.) But it has to be said that our Gubernatorial nominee is a pro-gay rights activist who supports almost no part of the National Party Platform.
It’s worse than offensive, it’s really not very funny.
For those Topinka supporters who might want to break in slowly to Gay Pride Weekend in Chicago ? please consult Joe Birkett. While running for Attorney General in 2002, Birkett didn?t march in the parade, but he did attend the pre-parade rally hosted by Equality Illinois at the gay bar Sidetrack. (The gay activist group Equality Illinois is leading the fight against conservatives by trying to prevent the Protect Marriage referendum from appearing on the ballot this November.)
Some might say Birkett was straddling the fence in 2002. Kind of like what he is doing this year by claiming to be a conservative even as he works to elect a pro-gay rights activist more liberal than even Blagojevich. We?re all supposed to care that he?s running for Lieutenant Governor ? a position that?s unnecessary and a complete waste of taxpayer dollars.
Okay, this one is funny:
We just have one more request ? a fashion suggestion actually. Mr. Kjellander, if you can be persuaded to march proudly with your Judy on Sunday, our advice would be to steer clear of the leather chaps as well as the tiny shorts with glitter. Yes, they are a favorite of many participants ? but avoid the temptation. We?re just trying to help as much as we can.
Anyone remember all of the movie reviews in the Reader that always found a gay subtext to every movie. Imagine what that reviewer could do with IFI/FTN and gang.
Great, Now I Have to Cover Another Campaign
I agree with Rich–you get on the ballot, you get coverage in Illinois. It’s an impressive effort. Congrats to the Greens.
If they don’t get knocked off.
For FUn
Your results:
You are Green Lantern
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The Gray Davis Campaign
Everyone looks at the Governor’s poll numbers and insist he is going to lose. He’s certainly vulnerable, but the playbook is right out of the Gray Davis reelection campaign and while not very popular, Davis suffered from some of the same problems Blagojevich does with big money donors receiving favorable treatment. Yet Davis won.
His numbers recovered slightly over the next year, peaking again in July 2002, this time with 41% approval, 49% disapproval
On top of it, Davis started attacking early, though Blagojevich didn’t quite go as far. Davis started attacking in the primary to avoid the moderate candidate–imagine if Blagojevich had been bold enough to go after Judy in the primary so he would draw Oberweis. Man, that would have been good blogging.
Frankly, Blagojevich is far warmer than Davis and Judy’s non-campaign is only helping him set the terms of the campaign cycle. In a Blue State, in a Blue year, she’s missing her chance.
The Ferris Bueller Campaign
I’m expecting Ben Stein to be standing around going, Topinka….Topinka…Topinka…Topinka….
I generally like Judy, but this campaign appears to have all the well oiled machinery of Dawn Clark Netsch.
Except for one thing: DCN could tell you what she was going to do 10 years before she ran for Governor. Obviously, she can articulate why she wants to be Governor, but it sure would be nice if she did.
It’s not about being Pro-Life, It’s about Being Anti-Sex
Illinois Right to Life attacks a recent study on condom usage reducing the risk of contracting HPV.
The number of times that you see pro-life groups talking about birth control is staggering. Certainly many people who are pro-life are also against birth control given the Catholic Church’s position, but let’s be honest about the program/ It’s not about abortion, it’s about sex.
The basic finding is that condom usage reduces risk, not that there is no risk–that’s what a scientific study does is determine a probability of an event occurring and in this case, condoms reduce the chance of an individual contracting HPV and that is a good thing. Information is good–in fact necessary to make choices. Between this and the crusade against the HPV vaccine, it’s clear that these people are reading Margaret Atwood novels as a how to model.
Here’s a fine piece attacking the HPV Vaccine.
HPV Vaccine?Another Deception of the Culture of Death
This HPV vaccine, my friends, is a classic case of the culture of death playing fast and loose with people?s lives. They use junk science to hook our terribly un-reflective culture on a promise that will benefit only a miniscule portion of the population, and then the false perception of security surrounding their newest ruse hooks everyone else into behaviors and lifestyles that perpetuate the damage and decay our decency.
On June 8, 2006, an HPV vaccine (manufactured by Merck) was licensed by the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) for use in females, ages 9-26 years. This vaccine protects against four types of HPV, including two that cause most (70%) cervical cancers (types 16, 18), and two that cause most (90%) genital warts (types 6, 11). The vaccine is given through a series of three injections over a six-month period. The second and third doses should be given two and six months (respectively) after the first dose.
Another HPV vaccine (being developed by GlaxoSmithKline) is in the final stages of clinical testing, but it is not yet licensed. This vaccine would protect against the two types of HPV that cause most cervical cancers.
A 70% reduction in cervical cancer is a bad thing. Really.
Ozzie Guillen: Victim
So says…Petey:
Perhaps Bud Selig needs to send Ozzie Guillen, a man’s man, to coach a baseball team at the upcoming “Gay Games” in Chicago to learn how to “set appropriate tone and example.” Barring that, who better but Chicago’s tolerant gay activists to train Ozzie how to talk, act–and think–correctly?
Or just not to call people derogatory names. Fag comes from the kindling that used to be used to burn homosexuals at the stake. Unless Petey is suggesting such a thing, it might be noted that one can think homosexuality is a sin or wrong or however one might like to characterize it, but one doesn’t have to use epithets, especially one rooted in burning someone at the stake.
It’s called being a grownup. Ozzie could have easily simply called Mariotti and asshole and gotten several amens maybe even from Mariotti who seems to relish the role.