December 3, 2008

Prop 8 Protests: A Matter of Convenience

Apparently the boycott-the-businesses-of-supporters-of-Prop-8-as-punishment strategy is only in fashion when it’s convenient for the protesters.  
[Geoffrey Gilmore, the director of the Sundance Film Festival] said festival officials were stepping carefully around demands that they cooperate with a boycott of businesses associated with supporters of California’s Proposition 8, banning gay marriage.
The festival, for instance, will make certain that [...]

December 3, 2008

The Deafening Sound of Silence; UPDATE: Silent No More

Update: Either Thomas Friedman is not losing it or he just got really, really lucky today.  Given his incredible expertise and insight into most things Middle Eastern, I’d be willing to chalk that Obama-wins-Iraq-war thing up to his having a bad day.
At any rate, here’s his latest on the attacks in Mumbai as they relate to [...]

December 3, 2008

Prop 8 The Musical

This, despite being filled with Biblically incorrect fluff-n-stuff, is a much better way to protest the passage of Prop 8.  It is catchy and clever.
Too bad about what happened in the weeks between Prop 8’s passage and the musical’s premiere, eh?  (here, here, here, and here)

more about “Prop 8 The Musical“, posted with vodpod
via Michelle Malkin

December 3, 2008

Detroit Automakers: Bargaining 101

Remember that $25 billion that the Detroit auto execs flew into DC to ask for a couple of weeks ago?  Recall that Congress sent them home to refine their plea.  How’s this for refinement:
The new request is for $34 billion.

Elmer Fudd: Congress (ala Harry Reid)
Daffy Duck: Taxpayers
Bugs Bunny: Detroit Big Three 

Yep. [...]

December 3, 2008

Indiana Planned Parenthood Coaches 13 Year Old To Cover Up Rape and Cross State Lines for Abortion Without Consent

Video here.
Unreal.
HT: Michelle Malkin

December 3, 2008

GM’s Doomed, and Misery Loves Company

From the Wall Street Journal (via Michelle Malkin and HotAir):
If you’re a U.S. taxpayer you ought to read GM’s “Restructuring Plan for Long-Term Viability.” By the end of next year, you’ll own a good chunk of this company, so you might as well familiarize yourself with what’s going on there.
Even the folks who prepared this propaganda for [...]