capital hill

i take this moment to promise that i will do all i can to help promote bill clinton to take his turn as 'the first lady' in 2008...a lot of people are saying it's too early for her to run but with the current state of this weathered world of usa...i'd say anything is possible. and the photo above i hope to definitely make into a 'future t-shirt'. below is a statement that sends her into a step in the favorable direction in my eyes...check it out

Statement of Senator Clinton on Today's Reintroduction of Net Neutrality Legislation

Washington, DC - Senator Hillary Rodham Clinton issued the following statement on the reintroduction today of the Internet Freedom Preservation Act. Senator Clinton is an original cosponsor of the legislation.

"No other communications medium in recent history has had such a profound impact on the expression of speech, education, the dissemination of information, the proliferation of commerce and the exchange of political ideas as the Internet. However, it was under the basic principles of neutrality and non discrimination from its inception that the Internet was able to flourish. Indeed, under these conditions a small business has been able to market to the same customers as the biggest corporation. The average citizen has been able to voice their grievances in the same forum as the editors of the largest newspaper. And students, entrepreneurs and consumers have been empowered by the wealth of information and opportunities afforded by an open Internet.

It is clear that we must continue to build on the innovations brought forth by the Internet. This means ensuring more affordable broadband access and ensuring that there continues to be open, unimpaired and unencumbered Internet access for both its users and content providers. As evidenced by the diverse coalition of the consumer, business and citizen groups that span the political and ideological spectrum, and who all strongly support the concept of network neutrality, it is critical that Congress take steps to preserve the principles enshrined therein. We need to ensure that the Internet of the 21st century opens the same doors, creates the same opportunities and fosters the same innovation that has been created by its predecessor. It is for these reasons that I am an original cosponsor of the Internet Freedom Preservation Act to guarantee that the open and nondiscriminatory architecture of the Internet remains in tact. As the 110th Congress begins, I join my colleagues in reintroducing this important legislation and look forward to an open and substantive debate on this issue."

here's a press conference from june of 2006 where she talks about 'net nuetrality' and the 'so called blogosphere'...i really love listening to her talk...she intrigues me and makes me want to listen...

i just came up with a slogan for her...."capital hill" ....ya like it? ehhe

supermadge

here's another one of the '15 films about madonna'...it's called "supermadge" and it's damn hysterical! it's about time people started getting creative with their homages of the queen ehhe. you can probably find all the others on youtube...it's interesting...i think we are currently living in 'generation y' and i think the 'y' stands for 'youtube'! definitely a cultural phenomenon...don'tcha think?

sex the movie!

when madonna did her photoshoot for the sex book...someone had an 8m camera and made this visual masterpiece set to edith piaf songs...it's simply divine!

check it out
madonna - sex the film

knight in shining armour

hey...can't go without making mention of t.r. knight's debacle with isaiah washington from grey's anatomy...i love the show..just recently caught on to it and saw the episode of ellen with him on it. he's so sweet and cute and seemed so intelligent and nervous about the whole scenario. i applaud him and am presenting you with the link to the petition online to get washington fired...here it is
get isaiah fired!

co star katherine heigl defending her friend
t.r. knight on ellen
parts 1 and 2




will post more later about this i promise...lots of links and stuff to share

loose change

here's a link to a website and company who is striving to uncover the truth about 9/11...that it was an inside job through and through...there's downloads, a forum and a blog...it's all worth checking out. my friend diane just recently introduced it to me and i thank her for that...
loose change

here is their mission statement and brief history

The original Loose Change resulted in the formation of Louder Than Words, which has grown from a kid with a laptop computer bouncing from couch to couch, to a considerable force in the 9/11 Truth Movement.

We would not be here today if not for the constant and endearing support of both our fans and the people that continue to be affected by 9/11.

We also owe amazing gratitude to the researchers and filmmakers that have come before and after us, for without each other, we have absolutely nothing.

All we want is the Truth, whatever it may be.

if you're interested in seeing the movie...email me at PseudonymphoProductions@gmail.com and put loose change in the subject line...

34,452?

34,452 Iraq Civilians Said Killed in '06

By STEVEN R. HURST
Associated Press Writer

BAGHDAD, Iraq (AP) -- Twin car bombs tore through a leading Baghdad university as students left classes Tuesday in the deadliest attack in Iraq in nearly two months, and the United Nations reported 34,452 civilians were slain last year, nearly three times more than the government reported.

A total of 142 Iraqis were killed or found dead Tuesday, in what appeared to be a renewed campaign of Sunni insurgent violence against Shiite targets. The sharp uptick in deadly attacks coincided with the release of U.N. figures that showed an average of 94 civilians died each day in sectarian bloodshed in 2006.

The blasts wrecked two small buses as students at Al-Mustansiriya University were lining up for the ride home at about 3:45 p.m., according to Taqi al-Moussawi, a university dean. At least 65 students died.

The attackers stationed a man wearing a suicide belt in the expected path of fleeing students to take even more lives, but he was spotted and shot by security men before he could blow himself up, the dean said.

"The only guilt of our martyred students is that they pursued education. They belong to all religions, sects and ethnic groups," said an angry al-Moussawi, himself a Shiite. "The terrorists want to stop education. ...Those students had nothing to do with politics."

After the explosions, a rescue worker and three men in civilian clothes scrambled through the debris to carry a charred victim away in a sheet. Firefighters in yellow helmets examined the charred wreckage of an bashed-in, overturned minivan.

The university's well-shaded campus occupies several square blocks in north central Baghdad, a mostly Shiite area. The school ranks second among institutions of higher education in Iraq. Founded in 1963, it was named after one of the oldest Islamic schools, established in the 13th century during the Abbasid dynasty that ruled the Muslim world. Thousands attend the university, known especially for its colleges of science, literature and education.

Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki blamed the attack on "terrorists and Saddamists" seeking revenge for Monday's hanging of two of Saddam Hussein's top aides, convicted with him for the slaying of 148 Shiite men and boys after a 1982 assassination attempt in the northern town of Dujail.

The violence Tuesday against Shiites may signal a campaign by Sunni insurgents to shed as much blood as possible before the deployment of 21,500 more American troops. Most of the additional U.S. troops will be used to back up the Iraqi army in a security sweep to rid the capital of Sunni and Shiite gunmen.

Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice, in Kuwait for a meeting with eight Arab nations to discuss ways to keep Iraq from sliding into civil war, sought to lower any expectations that the troop buildup would quickly pacify the country.

"Violent people will always be able to kill innocent people," she said. "So even with the new security plan, with the will and capability of the Iraqi government and with American forces to help reinforce Iraqi forces, there is still going to be violence."

She said the U.N. civilian death figures differ from others. "But whatever the number of civilians who have died in Iraq - and there obviously are competing numbers - but whatever the number is, it's too many," she said.

Tuesday's death toll at the al-Mustansiriya bombings made it the single most deadly attack against civilians in Iraq since Nov. 23, when a series of car bombs and mortar attacks by suspected al-Qaida in Iraq fighters in Baghdad's Sadr City Shiite slum killed at least 215 people.

Nov. 23 remains Iraq's deadliest day since the Associated Press began tracking civilian deaths in April 2005. The second deadliest day came on Sept. 14, 2005, with 178 deaths. The report Tuesday of 142 Iraqis killed makes it among the deadliest days, but not all those deaths were confirmed to have occurred on Tuesday.

The U.N. civilian casualty count for last year was announced in Baghdad by Gianni Magazzeni, the chief of the U.N. Assistance Mission for Iraq in Baghdad. He said 34,452 civilians died - an average of 94 a day - and 36,685 were wounded.

But Dr. Hakem al-Zamili, Iraq's deputy health minister, told The Associated Press the United Nations may be using unreliable sources for its casualty count. "They might be taking the figures from people who are opposed to the government or to the Americans," he said. "They are not accurate." He said he would provide Iraqi government figures later this week.

In early January, a compilation of Iraqi government figures put last year's civilian deaths at just 12,357. The numbers are gathered monthly by the AP from reports by three Iraqi agencies.

When asked about the difference, Magazzeni said the U.N. figures were compiled from information obtained through the Iraqi Health Ministry, hospitals across the country and the Medico-Legal Institute in Baghdad.

He criticized the government for allowing much of the violence to go unpunished, saying urgent action was needed to re-establish law and order in the country to prevent its slide into all-out civil war.

"Without significant progress in the rule of law, sectarian violence will continue indefinitely and eventually spiral out of control," he warned.

The U.N. report also said that 30,842 people were detained in the country as of Dec. 31, including 14,534 held in U.S. military-run prisons.

At least 470,094 people throughout Iraq have been forced to leave their homes since the bombing of an important Shiite shrine, the Golden Dome mosque in Samarra, in February, the U.N. accounting said.

The report said the violence has disrupted education by forcing schools and universities to close, as well as sending professionals fleeing from the country.

In a summary of the report posted on its Web site Tuesday, UNAMI said Iraq's women were particularly vulnerable, citing cases where young women were abducted by armed militia and late discovered sexually assaulted, tortured or murdered. In many cases, the agency said, families refuse to retrieve the bodies out of shame.

As bombs detonated at Al-Mustansiriya University on Tuesday, there were a series of other attacks on Shiite neighborhoods in central Baghdad.

A bomb planted on a motorcycle exploded in a used auto and motorcycle parts market in a Shiite neighborhood. As people rushed to aide the victims of the first blast, a suicide car bomber drove his car into the crowd. Fifteen people died.

Raid Abbas, a 26-year-old who received shrapnel wounds in the attack said he went to the market because the city had been quieter over the past two weeks.

"Shortly after midday, I heard an explosion. Motorcycles were flying in the air, people were falling dead and wounded," he said from his hospital bed.

About 45 minutes later, gunmen riding two motorcycles and in a van fired on another outdoor market in a mainly Shiite neighborhood near Sadr City. Police said at least 11 people were killed.

Of the 142 Iraqis killed or found dead Tuesday, 124 died in Baghdad. Police said they had been unable to complete their tally of dumped corpses in the eastern half of the city because of violence there.

liquid lover

this is a demo from i believe the 'music' album sessions by madonna and william orbit...it's called 'liquid love'...i wonder what she wrote it about? ehheeh
would love to hear a final version of it...it's actually really beautiful doncha think?
madonna - liquid love (demo)

disgusting is a compliment

this song i uploaded is one of the reasons i am happy to be a dj in this day and time...the knife is a brilliant band on their own but what trentemoller...one of my favourite producers of the moment...has done to this track is simply vulgar and disgusting....and in my jargon...that's a good thing...
this track is so fracking brimstone! (yeah i was watching battlestar galactica last night can you tell? hehe) it came out last year but just wanted to share it with ya'll...close your eyes and let it take you to another planet..filled with acid geysers and molten lava oceans...it's fa fa fa filthy!!! this one's for boris the alchemist...xoxo
the knife - we share our mother's health (trentemoller mix)

the price is right

Speaker Pelosi needs to put protecting gay kids first
by deb price

The photograph of new House Speaker Nancy Pelosi was political gold: Surrounded by a sea of lawmakers' shiny-faced girls and boys, a few of them her own grandkids, the first woman to lead "the people's House" waved the gavel, signaling a new era, particularly for America's youngest citizens.

Odds are that at least one of the 19 children will start becoming aware of being gay by age 10.

If Pelosi's picture-perfect snapshot is to mean something beyond being a politically useful prop, she should direct the new Congress to take its first serious look at what it's like to grow up gay in America.

That picture isn't so pretty. And those of us who're gay adults have the psychic scars to prove it.

Painfully aware that much of the world considers them worthless, many gay kids struggle with a cycle of self hatred that they carry into adulthood, if they are lucky enough to survive that long.

Why should Pelosi put "Protect our gay kids" atop the House's to-do list? Heart-breaking research provides plenty of reasons:

Compared with classmates, gay kids are more likely to use alcohol and drugs, engage in risky sex, have more sex partners, skip school for fear of being attacked, think of suicide or even attempt suicide, according to a 2001 article in the American Journal of Public Health. Gay kids whose schools provided gay-sensitive instruction about HIV reported fewer problems.

Nearly half of gay kids told the Gay, Lesbian and Straight Education Network in 2005 they attend schools that teach a federally funded "abstinence-only" until heterosexual marriage courses.

That sort of sex ed makes gay kids feel invisible -- or worse. Gay students at such schools reported higher levels of skipping school because they don't feel safe, being bullied and feeling unable to talk with teachers, counselors or other adults paid to help them through rocky growing-up years. And these kids were less likely to know any openly gay school official.

Seventy-five percent of gay youth report hearing anti-gay name-calling like "faggot" or "dyke" often at school. And more than one-third (38 percent) said they'd experienced anti-gay physical harassment at school, the network's National School Climate survey found.

Young males, ages 15 to 22, who have sex with other men are at high risk for HIV -- that's particularly true among African-Americans and Hispanics -- but 55 percent keep their orientation secret, according to the Centers for Disease Control. Those secretive boys and young men, the CDC says, are less likely than open gays or bisexuals to get tested for HIV, so they are less likely to know if they are infected. They're also likely to have female sex partners, whom they put at risk for HIV.

The most vulnerable gay kids -- throwaways, runaways and lockaways -- report appalling levels of anti-gay abuse in foster care, homeless shelters and juvenile detention centers, the Child Welfare League of America finds.

Pelosi ought to use her forceful "mother of five" voice to speak out against these outrages and insist that our nation live up to its obligation to gay kids. Now, that would be a pretty picture.

Reach Deb Price at (202) 662-8736 or dprice@detnews.com.

bastard

if he decides to run for president there has to be some mafiosa dirt that gets uncovered or something....uggh

Giuliani Hires Gay Foe As '08 Campaign Advisor
by The Associated Press

Posted: January 16, 2007 - 1:00 pm ET

(Des Moines, Iowa) Former New York Mayor Rudy Giuliani has hired prominent Iowa Republican Jim Nussle to advise him on his possible presidential run.

Nussle, a former congressman and 2006 candidate for governor, will play "an important leadership on behalf of the exploratory committee both in Iowa and nationally," Giuliani said in a statement.

Giuliani said Nussle brings valuable skills and a strong political track record in the state where precinct caucuses traditionally launch the presidential nominating season.

Nussle lost the governor's race by roughly 100,000 votes to Democrat Chet Culver. The eight-term congressman announced last week that he was forming a political consulting business.

There are deep philosophical differences between the two Republicans.

Giuliani supports abortion rights and gay rights. Nussle took a strong anti-abortion stance in his campaign and wants a constitutional amendment banning gay marriage.

Nussle said he's focusing on Giuliani's accomplishments and suggested Giuliani's actions after the 2001 terrorist attacks impressed voters who want a strong leader.

Giuliani is among a handful of Republicans who have formed exploratory committees, a move that lets them travel and raise money as they explore seeking the presidential nomination.

Giuliani and Nussle declined to discuss terms of Nussle's employment.

©365Gay.com 2007

chauncey treat

this is one of my favourite songs from last year...played it pretty darn often and introduced it as i usually do to the masses...only the ones with good taste likeded it and requesteded it heheh. you're not gonna believe your ears that it's tom jones singing...listen while oogling that dreamy retro pic of him from the 80's...woof!
chicane featuring tom jones - stoned in love (12" mix)

compare the drunks

photo from www.moderndrunkardmagazine.com
we did compare the divas when the dreamgirl brouhaha was unleashed but now we have a new clash of the titans to embark on....who's the better drunk...danny devito or paula abdul or r.i.p. james brown?






i think they all have their moments...james brown had me cracking up out loud (cuol...my new version of lol ehhe), danny devito killed me with his george bush impersonation and when he sat on rosie's lap and paula just made my ribs split right off the bat with "good morning everybody!!!"..... it's up to you...you vote ehahahah

chauncey treats

these are some of my recent favourite songs that i wanted to share with you...some obscure bands with some awesome tunes...i've accompanied each with a piece of artwork that i chose to represent each track from one of my favourite sites... www.deviantart.com. enjoy!


apologetic by schizzy
the sounds - queen of apology


firestarter by for no one
brandston - over and out

serling by shellsweet
the rapture - get myself into it


the welcome parade by winter and wolf
lcd soundsystem - time to get away