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Our rating book came back and we have grown the show by over 350%!!!
The program director said he could not believe how fast we have grown!!!
THANK YOU ALL VERY MUCH
Any topic is fair game. Tell us what you think was the biggest story of the week, and why.
On Saturday show we will be taking suggestions and job applications from listeners as to who should replace Senator Saxby Chambliss since Chip Rogers has, at this time, declined. Please call us and let us know who you like or dislike for the job!
The sparks will fly this Saturday.
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John Konop & “Eeevil Conservative” will be featured speakers at an immigration reform rally at the State Capital. John & “Eeevil Conservative” are scheduled to speak at 4pm after the radio show.
COME JOIN US AND LET YOUR VOICE BE HEARD!
WHAT: State-Wide Immigration Rally
WHEN: Saturday, June 16, 2007, 1pm – 6pm, RAIN OR SHINE
WHERE: Steps of the Georgia State Capitol – Washington Street side
Join top state-wide advocates for border enforcement including Todd Walker, Director for the Georgia Chapter of MCDC; State Senator John Douglas; Bill Greene, 10th District Congressional Candidate; John Konop & “Eeevil Conservative” from Control Congress Radio; WGKA radio talk show host, Fox News contributor and Grassfire.org partner Mike Gallagher; and Billy Inman, father of deceased Dustin Inman and advocate for the Dustin Inman Society.
This will be the Atlanta arm of a nationwide series of simultaneous rallies (going on in 14 other states and a Washington, D.C.) to send the message to our President and Congress that we demand our borders be secured and our existing immigration laws enforced.
Annex Mexico!!!Alan Caruba makes some valid points here:
http://www.anxietycenter.com/warning/main.htm#topstory
Here’s some Jack Cafferty at his best!!
http://youtube.com/watch?v=wBDgj5e0_M4
http://youtube.com/watch?v=34yBKj92ou8
http://youtube.com/watch?v=K-Yb4G2SguA
http://youtube.com/watch?v=WNyD0YMNrfw
Legislature kills anti-gay marriage question
By Edward Mason , Staff writer
Eagle-Tribune
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BOSTON – Michael Courtemanche wants to get married someday, but he doesn’t want to rush it.
So he was concerned that lawmakers would make a decision that would force him to get married before voters took away his right to do so.
The Methuen resident was so worried, he showed up at the Statehouse at 5 a.m. yesterday, becoming the first person in line to witness the vote that blocked a proposed constitutional amendment that could have banned gay marriage.
“I’m a little bit surprised because I didn’t necessarily expect a positive outcome,” he said. “I’m also ecstatic.”
Yesterday’s vote – taken without debate – ended, at least temporarily, the bitter legal and legislative battle over same-sex marriage rights, granted to Massachusetts couples in a historic 2003 court ruling.
The question needed the approval of 50 of 200 lawmakers in consecutive sessions to advance to the 2008 ballot. It got the first approval at the end of the last session in January with 62 votes but failed to move forward yesterday with a 45-151 vote.
Rep. David Torrisi, D-North Andover, said the vote killed efforts to end gay marriage.
“As far as I’m concerned, it’s dead,” Torrisi said.
Traditional marriage advocates were stunned by the number of votes they lost since January, accusing the governor and his supporters of trading political favors for votes.
Rep. Linda Dean Campbell, a freshman Democrat from Methuen, was one of the lawmakers courted by both sides.
“I’ve had no pressure from leadership to change my vote,” Campbell said shortly after a late Wednesday meeting with Patrick in his office. Campbell, who voted to put the issue on the ballot, said she believes people have the right to vote on what marriage is.
Courtemanche had tried, in person, to persuade Campbell to support gay marriage rights, and he was disappointed when he saw her light turn green, indicating she had voted to put the question on the ballot.
“It was very cowardly of her,” he said. “It’s a black mark for Methuen. It’s a black mark for her.”
“We’re very disappointed,” said Kris Mineau, president of the Massachusetts Family Institute. “We’re very suspicious of how this large number of votes switched in so little time.”
Sitting in the gallery, the 42-year-old Courtemanche felt optimistic that the measure would fail, since he had been told that a vote wouldn’t have been taken if legislators in favor of gay marriage didn’t think they had the votes to win.
But it was still “nerve-racking,” and surprising when the vote got underway almost immediately after the session opened, Courtemanche said.
“I don’t think anyone expected them to vote so quickly,” he said.
All around the room, people had their fingers raised in front of them, as they counted out the number of green lights. Once the number of green lights went over 40, when 50 votes were needed to put it on the ballot, Courtemanche realized how close the vote really was. He counted a second time to make sure he had it right.
“I don’t know if I breathed for that entire time,” he said. “You could pretty much hear a pin drop in the room.”
Courtemanche wasn’t the only one interested enough in the outcome of the vote to make the trip to downtown Boston yesterday. Anticipating a final showdown on Beacon Hill, backers and opponents of gay marriage arrived early in the morning to make their presence felt. Hundreds of people representing both sides lined up on opposite sides of Beacon Street outside the Statehouse.
Ballot supporters waved their green “Let the people vote” signs. Their opponents brandished homemade signs with slogans such as “Love is love,” “No discrimination in the constitution” and “Don’t vote on rights.”
KnowThyNeighbor.org, which published the names of the 170,000 people who signed the petition necessary to put the amendment before lawmakers, unfurled a giant banner warning ballot supporters that “History will remember you!”
After the vote, gay marriage supporters lined Beacon Street and cheered lawmakers, some of whom waved to the crowd from the Senate balcony.
“Today’s vote was not just a victory for marriage equality but for equality itself,” Gov. Deval Patrick said.
Lawmakers who voted to block the ban from reaching the ballot celebrated the outcome.
“It’s a great day for the protection of minority rights,” said Rep. Michael Costello, D-Newburyport.
Gay marriage opponents said they don’t want to give up the fight. Mineau said he and other opponents of gay marriage are considering court action, as they had done in December when they sued state lawmakers for refusing to vote on whether to put the amendment on the ballot.
Mineau also said his group will closely watch the nine lawmakers who switched their votes yesterday after a week of heavy lobbying to see if “there is a quid pro quo.”
Gay marriage opponents could make another attempt to put the question to voters, but the soonest it could appear on the ballot would be 2010. In the meantime, gay couples can continue to tie the knot legally.
Courtemanche hopes he will be among them. He and his partner of nearly 10 years want to marry, but they hated the idea of having a “deadline” – to either get married before the question went on the ballot in 2008 or face the possibility of never being able to marry.
Now, he doesn’t have to worry about rushing his wedding plans.
“We don’t have this horrible deadline,” he said. “Now we can just make the decision on our own schedule, just like anyone else in the state.”
Staff reporter Jessica Benson contributed to this report.
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WND AT THE WHITE HOUSE
‘Gay’ critics of Holsinger get ‘no comment’
Spokesman declines to address condemnation of health nominee
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Posted: June 14, 2007
1:00 a.m. Eastern
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© 2007 WorldNetDaily.com
“Gay” activists who have been attacking Dr. James Holsinger, Jr., the White House nominee to be the next U.S. surgeon general, for his 1991 writing about homosexuality aren’t getting a response from the president.
The confirmation came from White House spokesman Tony Snow, who was responding to a question from Les Kinsolving, WND’s correspondent at the White House.
He asked: “The Los Angeles Times and The Washington Post both report that Dr. James Holsinger, the president’s nominee for surgeon general, has been denounced by homosexual activists, as well as by presidential candidates [John] Edwards and [Hillary] Clinton, because in 1991, Dr. Holsinger wrote that sex between people of the same sex, especially men, could lead to many sexual – serious health problems. And given the medical accuracy of the doctor’s statement, what is the president’s reaction to such attacks on this physician who is his nominee?”
“You know what? I haven’t asked him about that, so I don’t know,” Snow said.
“Wait a minute. The National Organization of Parents and Friends of Ex-Gays and Gays has issued a statement that the denunciations of Dr. Holsinger are bigoted. The president, in supporting him, would not disagree with this, would he?” Kinsolving continued.
“I’m not going to speculate on that,” Snow responded.
Bush on May 24 nominated Holsinger to be U.S. surgeon general. A cardiologist and former Veterans Health Administration medical director, he also has run the Department of Health and Family Services in Kentucky.
But homosexual activists groups took only a short time to focus on a 1991 report Holsinger authored for the committee on homosexuality for the United Methodist Church.
Those activists concluded Holsinger is homophobic because the report concluded there is no biological cause for homosexuality.
The report described the results of such lifestyle choices as impactful. For example, it concluded that the rectum is inhospitable to inserted “objects that are large, sharp or pointed.”
Another activist group said Holsinger has a “dark view” of homosexuals, and notes that the 1991 report uses “sickeningly lurid” language such as “fist fornication,” “sphincter injuries,” and “deaths seen in connection with anal eroticism.”
“Holsinger’s allies – those who lobbied the White House for his nomination – include James Dobson’s Focus on the Family and the Heritage Foundation,” commented one critic. “They have predictably cast his confirmation battle as a religious test, alleging that his homophobia is a reflection of orthodox Christian views,” wrote Max Blumenthal.
“To oppose Holsinger on the grounds of his anti-gay sentiments, the right says, is to discriminate against him simply for being a Bible-believing Christian. Why should he have to check his Christianity at the church exit door? they ask. This worn-out appeal to the Christian right’s victimhood complex distracts from the most salient argument against Holsinger’s confirmation – which is exactly what it is intended to do,” he wrote.
But he concluded more significant is that Holsinger believes that homosexuals can come out of that lifestyle.
“When Holsinger goes before the Senate, ex-gay therapy goes on trial,” Blumenthal wrote. “He and his Republican supporters should be compelled to state their views on homosexuality and the crackpot practice the Christian right employs to ‘cure’ people of it.”
Another writer, from Bible Belt Blog, spoke with former U.S. Surgeon General Jocelyn Elders, who was fired by President Clinton after suggesting that masturbation “is a part of human sexuality, and it’s a part of something that perhaps should be taught.”
She said the nation’s chief health educator would need “to help American evolve into a sexually healthy nation.” There are some things Holsinger has said “that are out there,” she said.
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Letter from reader
Patriot Citizens:
Saxby is up for election in ‘08. He has shown his true colors over the
past weeks. He’s in damage control mode now so let up. When making
signs today, see the list below for ideas:
Direct a LOT of signs to Saxby.
SAXBY: WE CAN NEVER VOTE YES FOR YOU IF YOU VOTE YES ON AMNESTY.
SAXBY! WE ARE WATCHING YOU!
WILL SAXBY VOTE YES TO AMNESTY-AGAIN?
WANTED: PRIMARY OPPONENT FOR CHAMBLISS!
GEORGIA SENATORS: GET OUT OF BUSH KENNEDY AMNESTY NOW!
BUSH…KENNEDY, LA RAZA…CHAMBLISS?
Keep spreading the word about the March for America at the GA State
Capitol.
Letter from readers
NOT A DIME TO THE GOP – NO RINO’s in 2008
“The Attempt to Blackmail the American People by Threatening to Refuse to Enforce the Law Without a New Bill Is Disgraceful: A number of powerful figures in the Bush Administration and in the Senate have been saying that if we do not agree to pass this destructive bill, they will never enforce the law.”
READ
SAXBY OUT ROGERS IN!
I am still hoping!
What about my congressman Jim Marshall?
What about John Linder?