Well, whatever happens gang, we can all take refuge in knowing that we all stand together! I wish MORE people would become involved. I think most people think like this: *Oh well, whatever. What can I do? The world is just too big for me to take on! Now, what time are we gonna meet up at the cock, do you think there will be coke there and alot of hunky men!* Not that theres ANYTHING wrong with that, (Been there done that!! he he) but when you center your whole world around it, reality is sure to catch up with you! Like, HOLY SHIT I AM MOVING TO AMSTERDAM!!! LOL! You know, going out into the streets and demonstrating, causing a bit of a problem really does help. That is how the STONEWALL riots started! It was FUCK YOU I HAVE HAD ENOUGH!!! I think people need to get ANGRY again! We do not need to *behave* like nice little queens and faggies! Honey, you don*t get nothing done being a lap dog for the master if you don*t reach up and bite his ass every once in awhile. All people who have had to fight for their rights know this! DO NOT BEHAVE. ACT UP BE LOUD SCREAM SHOUT AND STOMP YOUR WAY INTO THE PROMISED LAND! We as Gay People and their friends and supporters deserve to CROSS THE JORDAN with everyone else who are fighting for their right to be treated with dignity and respect! You DO NOT have to be left in the middle of the RED SEA of hate and bigotry. African Americans FOUGHT BACK and are still fighting and look around you now! The IRISH had to fight when they first came to this land where they were despised by their English lords! So did the Italians! Gender rights are just as important, mayby even more so!!! WE ARE A PEOPLE just like any other! In the early days of our Native Americans, we were the SHAMANS and SPIRIT WALKERS of the tribes. In ancient Greece and Rome we were worshiped as Gods and Goddesses. All thru history GLBT people have been treated with respect and awe. Then came the three religions of hatred. All of a sudden it was all about HETROSEXUALITY and all others were considered SATANIC and evil!!! The leaders in the churches twist the teachings of Jesus and the Bible and use them as an excuse for hate! Nowhere in the Bible does Jesus condem us!!! In fact, he scorned the Pharasees and sat at the table with prostitutes tax collectors and other so called outcasts of society. He said, *It is these people that I have come to!!!* But Christians don*t want you to know what HE really said. He also said, *There is neither Greek nor Jew, MALE NOR FEMALE in the Kingdom of God.* and *That even the eunuch shall enter into The Kingdom of God.* Also you find *Angels are genderless!* So why do Christians and Right Wing Bigots use the Bible to condem us? Because they are not real Christians, just a bunch of ignunt, backward thinking Neanderthals. Their way of thinking does not deserve to exist in our modern day world. I am not religious. But I was raised in a religious household and had the Bible shoved down my throat at an early age, so I KNOW WHAT IT SAYS!!! So I say, let*t just get together and fight the powers that be any way we can. The streets, EMAILS, voting booths, the PHONE, MY SPACE, YOU TUBE, THE INTERNET!!! Please don*t sit back and take the bullshit they throw at you!!! Fight back! I can do it! You can do it! WE ALL CAN DO IT!!!!!!!!!! Sincerely Jayne County (Photo taken by Jayne County at last March*s March On Wash.) Please visit my blog at" http://rockandrollantirepublikkkanleague.blogspot.com/

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OBAMA.

In like Flynn.

Did you know that,
"In like Flynn"
is a wink-wink phrase that originated when
Erol Flynn, the mega-star of golden age Holywood swashbuckler movies, was apprehended keeping a young teenage girl for sex on his yacht?

Today it would be 'In like Clinton (Bill).'

Today's newsletter from the Obama campaign

Friend --

News broke this morning that Senator Clinton made three separate loans to her
campaign in the past 30 days -- including one as recently as Monday.

These loans total more than $6.4 million, which combined with her previous personal
loans, add up to at least $11.4 million she's loaned her campaign since February.

A spokesman said she may continue to "loan the campaign additional money out of her
jointly-held assets" -- which include more than $100 million in income since her
husband left the White House.

Meanwhile, by winning a double-digit victory in North Carolina and closing the gap
in Indiana, Barack won another 100 delegates.

Barack Obama is now just 169 delegates away from winning the Democratic nomination.
It's within sight.

This is a decisive moment in this race.

Barack has already won more votes, more delegates, and more than twice as many
states as Senator Clinton, whose path to the nomination has grown extremely narrow.
But these loans show that her campaign will continue to contest the remaining
primaries vigorously.

We need to show that the voices of more than 1.5 million ordinary people donating
whatever they can afford are more powerful than one person giving more than $11
million to their own campaign.

Now is the time add your voice to our historic movement. Make a donation of $25 to
match Senator Clinton's loan:

https://donate.barackobama.com/results

Here's the math of where we stand ...

There are only six contests remaining on the Democratic primary calendar and only
217 pledged delegates left to be awarded. Only 7% of the pledged delegates remain on
the table. There are 253 remaining undeclared superdelegates, for a total of 470
delegates left to be awarded.

With North Carolina and Indiana complete, Barack Obama only needs 169 total
delegates to capture the Democratic nomination. This is only 36% of the total
remaining delegates.

Conversely, Senator Clinton needs 326 delegates to reach the Democratic nomination,
which represents a startling 69% of the remaining delegates.

With the Clinton path to the nomination getting even narrower, we expect new and
wildly creative scenarios to emerge in the coming days.

While those scenarios may be entertaining, they are not legitimate and will not be
considered legitimate by this campaign or its millions of supporters, volunteers,
and donors.

You can help make sure Barack Obama is the nominee. Please make a donation of $25 now:

https://donate.barackobama.com/results

We want to be clear -- we believe that the winner of a majority of pledged delegates
will be and should be the nominee of our party.

And we estimate that after the Oregon and Kentucky primaries on May 20th, we will
have won a majority of the overall pledged delegates.

Evidently, the Clinton campaign agrees. According to a recent news report, by even
their most optimistic estimates the Clinton campaign expects to trail by more than
100 pledged delegates and will then ask the superdelegates to overturn the will of
the voters.

But we have our own case to make: that millions of Americans volunteering their time
and donating in small amounts have built a campaign that has won the most delegates,
the most states, and the most votes.

And this campaign -- your campaign -- will be the one that wins the presidency in
November and delivers a wave of support for Democrats at every level of office.

Now is the time to step up and make it happen by owning a piece of this campaign.
Make a donation of $25 today:

https://donate.barackobama.com/results

We'll be in touch as the situation evolves.

Thank you,

David

David Plouffe
Campaign Manager
Obama for America

Donate: https://donate.barackobama.com/results

Now I've read that Obama is open to the idea of Hillary as his VP. I'm not sure how I feel about that. I know the thinking is that such a ticket would heal the rift in the party. But for Obama, it dilutes his brand. I mean, if he's supposed to represent a new way of doing things and turning a page, then hitching the Clintons to his bandwagon goes against all that. Also he should think about if he wants to risk being seen as a co-president, because surely Bill and Hillary will be running amok at every chance they get. Well, maybe not.

Months ago I said he'd be smarter to pick some other white woman who could bring all the positives to his ticket Hillary would bring but none of the negatives. However that was before this race became so long and cumbersome. Now I'm not so sure.

People say Hillary is tough, and in a sense I agree. It takes someone superhuman to get up at the crack of dawn and be on a campaign trail every day for over a year and to have taken all the attacks she's taken for nearly the last fifteen years and keep going.

But on ethics and issues, she's not tough at all. She waffles. She's a panderer. Her vote for the invasion of Iraq, the most important of her entire career, was purely for political expediency and nothing more. Her support of the summer gas tax freeze is the same thing. She does whatever she thinks will make her look good. The only thing she's stuck with is health care.

what is at stake this year

I was originally a Kucinich supporter since I felt he had the most progressive policies. Then, when it appeared John Edwards was gaining more traction I planned on voting for him in New York in the hopes that he would get some delegates and fight for economic justice at the convention. When he dropped out, I was left with Hillary and Obama. I had problems with both of them. I preferred her Health Plan but was still upset with her vote on the Iraq War and I had serious concerns that she would follow the triangulation policies of her husband in the white house (Welfare Reform, Defense of Marriage Act, expansion of the Death Penalty), so I voted for Obama with reservations.

I approach this election as a progressive. I vote for the candidate I think offers the best hope of progressive change that will have the greatest effect on people's lives. The racial and gender considerations are secondary at best.

Whatever happened, my intention has always been to support the nominee, no matter who I supported in the primary. The issue differences between Obama and Clinton are miniscule when compared with McCain. In all truth, this primary has been a personality contest between two center left politicians.


Which is why I cannot understand the vitriol between Obama and Clinton supporters. I voted for Obama, but if Clinton won the nomination, even by using Super Delegates to thwart the will of the elected delegates, I would support her in November. The stakes are too high to sulk if my candidate doesn't get the nomination. We have to keep this in perspective.

There will be at least 3 Supreme Court vacancies in the next few years, all Liberals. If McCain wins, it's all over, and not just Abortion Rights, but church state separation and are constitutional government as we know it. There will be no action on health care, none, leading to more suffering, the war in Iraq will rage on forever and more people will needlessly die. It goes on and on.

We need to think beyond our candidates and focus on the millions of lives that will be devastated by a McCain presidency.

That is the situation we are in. The Democratic nominee must win in November. It is a matter of survival for a lot of people and we cannot let this internal popularity contest enable a continuation of the Bush presidency. If we do, people will suffer and die and it will be our fault for letting the true reason we all care about politics disappear behind the shouting of Clinton and Obama partisans.

OBAMA!

Obama is the real deal.