In 1967 the Supreme Court ruled in the case of Loving v. Virginia that the states ban on interracial marriage was illegal under the constitution. It wasn’t until 2000 that the last state to have laws banning the practice (Alabama, gee whatta surprise there) repealed them.

Yesterdays decision in New Jersey is but a small step toward making gays human beings under the law. The same as women. The same as minorities.

If you are angered by yesterdays ruling, simply put, you are wrong. You are attempting to force your “morality” on people you have never met, will never meet, and who don’t effect your life in the slightest.

You are wrong. You are ignorant. You will lose. You have always lost in the end. Mind your own damn business and save the rest of us the time, expense, and pain of defeating your intolerant and jealous asses.

I think we’ve all had enough of his ilk:

Don’t be a moran. Vote.

Parkinson Foundation Debunks Limbaugh’s False Smears on Michael J. Fox

Rush Limbaugh has repeatedly attacked actor Michael J. Fox for appearing in television campaign ads promoting stem cell research. Fox, who suffers from Parkinson’s disease, appears “visibly racked by tremors” in the ads.

“He is exaggerating the effects of the disease,” Limbaugh told listeners yesterday. “He’s moving all around and shaking and it’s purely an act. … This is really shameless of Michael J. Fox. Either he didn’t take his medication or he’s acting.”

Watch the ad here. Powerful stuff.

Remember, when the ruling party wants a nice lotion-filled hand of an interview, Rush is stop #1, allowing him to fulfill his role in history as the latest version of this.

Drat:

7-Eleven pulls drink named Cocaine

DALLAS – Convenience-store operator 7-Eleven Inc. is telling franchises to pull a high-caffeine drink from its shelves because of the product’s name: Cocaine.

According to the label, each 8.4-fluid ounce can contains 280 milligrams of caffeine — more jolt than a cup of coffee, a can of Coca-Cola or the leading energy drink, Red Bull — but no cocaine.

Yeah, and if you snort it, it makes a mess of your face.

Seen by the eagle-eyed LH today at the Varsity…!

Hey, King George? Not everybody is as stupid as you. In fact, only about 35% of the country is. So, on behalf of the other 65%, stop acting as if your subjects have no memory, you asshat:

Bush: ‘We’ve Never Been Stay The Course’

During an interview today on ABC’s This Week, President Bush tried to distance himself from what has been his core strategy in Iraq for the last three years. George Stephanopoulos asked about James Baker’s plan to develop a strategy for Iraq that is “between ‘stay the course’ and ‘cut and run.’”

BUSH: And so we’ve got tough action in Iraq. But we will stay the course. [4/5/04]

And to the enabling, brain-dead media: Call the man a liar, please? It’s your job.

Active troops ask congress to end Iraqi occupation

WASHINGTON (CNN) — Sixty five active duty service members are officially asking Congress to end the war in Iraq — the first time active troops have done so since U.S. invasion began in 2003.

Three of the service members will hold a press conference Wednesday explaining their decision to send “Appeals for Redress” under the Military Whistleblower Protection Act to their members of Congress. Under the act, National Guard and Reservists can send communications about any subject to their member of Congress without punishment.

Bob Wilson, an official with the Illinois Ballot Integrity Project — which bills itself as a not-for-profit civic organization dedicated to the correction of election system deficiencies — tells ABC News that last week his organization hacked the database, which contains detailed information about hundreds of thousands of Chicago voters, including their Social Security numbers, and dates of birth.

“If we’d wanted to, we could’ve wiped the entire database out,” Wilson claimed.

As we’ve remarked before, if voting made a difference they wouldn’t let us do it.

Before the law was enacted, Washington was one of 14 states where bestiality had not been explicitly prohibited.

A hidden crisis is under way. Many government insiders are aware of serious plans for war with Iran, but Congress and the public remain largely in the dark. The current situation is very like that of 1964, the year preceding our overt, open-ended escalation of the Vietnam War, and 2002, the year leading up to the U.S. invasion of Iraq.

In both cases, if one or more conscientious insiders had closed the information gap with unauthorized disclosures to the public, a disastrous war might have been averted entirely.

Continue reading Daniel Ellsberg’s The Next War.