Alan Keyes is Kicking Gay Daughter Out of House

This is one story that kind of stayed under the radar during the Illinois senate race, I guess because Keyes never had a chance as well as because outing political civilians is not cool. But now that she is officially out, you should all check out this entry in her Xanga journal. I just don't get how some parents can turn off their love so quickly, reject their children outright when things don't work out as they planned. Good Christians my fucking ass.

Condi Warms Up, Body Temp. Reaches 30 Below

WP article on how Condi is on the offensive with her newfound charm:

When Rice stepped out on the world stage this week as America's new secretary of state, though, she seemed like a different woman -- engaging, self-confident, even commanding in daily on-the-record interviews.

Rice even showed moments of openness and humor. Shortly after takeoff on Air Force Two from Washington to London last Thursday, she ventured from her spacious cabin-office to the back of the plane where the press sits -- in the only cramped economy seats on the modified Boeing 757. (Eight staffers had been displaced from the plane to make room for what was billed as the largest press corps ever taken on a State Department trip -- 19 American and foreign journalists.)

"We're going to travel a lot and I wouldn't want anyone to feel lost," she said with a grin. "Therefore I have for each of you the pocket world atlas as a little memento of our first trip together." Each copy was inscribed inside with her signature and the date.

It was the beginning of a charm offensive orchestrated by a team imported from the White House, including James Wilkinson, the administration's fast-talking equivalent of a whirling dervish who once studied to be a mortician and last year was featured in People magazine.

I don't care, I still think she's a bitch. A smart one, I'll give her that, but a bitch nonetheless.

Things that Rhyme with Corey: Gory, Story, Allegory, Montessori. . .

For anyone who got that reference, good job. For all you others, too bad.
Anyway, I don't think I have ever posted about Michael Jackson on here before. Kind of a personal rule for me. But I couldn't let this one slide, for it involves my second favorite Corey, Corey Feldman.

Because Everybody Loves Jude Law

Good father, terrible husband?

Jeff Gannon, the Fake Newsman

I'm not sure how aware of this you guys are, so I figured I throw something up about it. There is a widespread search currently going on in cyperspace trying to figure out who this guy "Jeff Gannon" is. It seems that he is a reporter in the White House pool, yet his name is a pseudonym and the news service he works for, Talon News, is essentially a fake news outlet. None of this would be too big a deal if it weren't for the fact that he was subpoenaed in the investigation into who outed Valerie Plame as a CIA agent. It's really an interesting little, well possibly big, news item, and it seems that it will be around for awhile. In fact, this guy may be the chink in Bush's armor that could ruin a second term (as is par for second terms in recent years). Really, check this out.

Farmers, Veterans, Elderly Vote for, Get Screwed by Bush

This article just about sums up the fact that it the same demographics that voted Bush back into office that are the ones that are going to get hit the hardest with by his economic policies. From The Capital Times in Madison:

. . . It's our farmers, our veterans, our frail elderly who are going to pay for George Bush's tax cuts for the rich and for the ill-conceived, incredibly expensive war, which have combined to throw our nation into such debt that other nations are starting to worry about our economic health.

Surely, this president can't be serious about forcing America's veterans - more than 14,000 of them with serious injuries suffered in his war with Iraq - to pay a bigger share of their prescription drugs, plus charge them an up-front $250 fee to be treated in the veterans' health care system.

But, yes, there it is in the budget he sent to Congress Monday: a budget that cuts Medicaid help to the states, eliminates most of the farm subsidies enacted only a few years ago, and shifts yet more costs onto the financially strapped states.