Mike Tidmus

“Let me be clear: I don’t want the GOP to pick up gay votes and I have no intention of voting Republican myself. Ever, ever, ever. But if Dems are worried about gay and lesbian progressives sitting out this election and the GOP managing to pick up the votes gay conservatives idiots, well, here’s how [...]

Poor oppressed Christian Gary Bauer: “Progressives and Islamists are indeed on the same side. Their common disdain for Christianity explains why left-wing judges in America find any inkling of Christianity in the public square unconstitutional, while Islamist judges in the Middle East deem it executable.” Only, that’s total bullshit. Wake me when we start beheading [...]

Seeeeeeee… It’s not just Mike bitching about Obama’s National AIDS Scam. Thankfully, the AIDS Healthcare Foundation has been following along (for decades now). AHF: “The additional $5 million being offered today is clearly far less than the $126 million that AIDS advocates have agreed upon as the minimum amount necessary to clear the current waiting [...]

“I get the distinct feeling the White House hopes it can simply duck the marriage question straight through 2012, and I’d also bet dollars to doughnuts it won’t be able to. What became clear to me while interviewing attendees of the August 6 meeting was that while the friendly audience may have cut the administration [...]

Ouch! (video: Rep Alan Grayson’s channel at YouTube) Democratic Rep Alan Grayson — he of the trenchant (but true) assessment of the GOP’s version of healthcare reform: Sick? Just drop dead — had some harsh words for President Obama’s press secretary, Bozo the Spokesman Robert Gibbs, who stepped in it when he slimed the Democratic [...]

Gibbs’ frustration understandable but misguided (video: Countdown with Keith Olbermann) What Keith said. MSNBC’s Keith Olbermann explains the reality-based world to our fierce advocate and his administration following White House press secretary Robert Gibbs’ sudden onset of foot-in-mouth disease.

The Obama Administration turns on the left (video: Countdown with Keith Obermann) Part of a statement from White House Press Secretary Robert Gibbs: “I hear these people saying [President Obama is] like George Bush. Those people ought to be drug tested. I mean, it’s crazy. … They will be satisfied when we have Canadian health [...]

George Carlin: “It’s called the American Dream, because you have to be asleep to believe it.” (video: Biostech2008 at YouTube) Your Sunday AM sermon via the late George Carlin, from Life Is Worth Losing. Ask yourself who’s benefited as a result of the American people voting for change they could believe in? Wall Street, the [...]

The enemy within (video: Pat Condell at YouTube) Atheist, writer, and comedian Pat Condell condemns the West’s tolerance for religious fascism. Find all of Pat Condell’s videos at his YouTube channel. Get the bound transcripts in Pat Condell – Godless and Free, at the link.

“America is at the wrong end of so many critical lists, like education, health care, broadband speed and access, child mortality, obesity, cancer … and, same-sex marriage. “When will the GOP stop talking about “American exceptionalism” and stop keeping us from regaining it?” — David Badash, American writer and editor of The New Civil Rights [...]

“If we were asking questions about any other identity group — Would your wife mind living on post next to a Chinese family?, Would you take orders from a Baptist officer?, Would you mind serving alongside an African American? — these kinds of questions make those groups second-class citizens.” — Aaron Belkin, Director of the [...]

Pointing to this excellent and frequently amusing editorial in San Diego CityBeat is not only my civic duty, it’s also a great excuse to brag a bit and cheer vigorously for the NL West leading San Diego Padres. OK. Also. For the politically-aware, this is nothing less than a must-read (and it’s been weeks since [...]

This July Fourth, declare your independence from war (video: Rethink Afghanistan and Brave New Foundation) Rethink Afghanistan: July 4 is a time when Americans celebrate life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness. But when we’re spending hundreds of billions on the Afghanistan War, and when we’re cutting education and unemployment insurance benefits in a dismal [...]

“The fact that we’ve got activists here is important because it’s a reminder that change never comes — or at least never begins in Washington. It begins with acts of compassion — and sometimes defiance — across America. It begins when ordinary people — out of love for a mother or a father, son or [...]

Jon Stewart: “Barack Obama thinks he can be trusted with the power, but he’s being stalked by a strange and twisted creature who wants to take the precious away.” (video: The Daily Show with Jon Stewart) Sadly, the guy in that sequence of video clips was candidate Obama and not the dude we now call [...]