Steph Quoted in USA Today,Heads to San Francisco

Here's the article in today's USA Today that quotes Stephanie:
Michael Moore is toning down his act. Will his critics buy it?
By Anthony Breznican, USA TODAY

Michael Moore may be the only filmmaker whose target audience is people who despise him....

...That's partly why Moore believes Sicko is potentially a "more dangerous" film for those who oppose his views: He hopes he has made it more difficult to dismiss his arguments as mere ranting.

"I'm reaching out across the divide that exists in this country and saying to people who are conservatives and Republicans: 'Can't we find some agreement on this one issue, some common ground?' "

Moore's best hope for winning new fans is his humor, says Stephanie Miller, a nationally syndicated liberal radio host. "The hearts and minds you want to win, you have to do it with humor," Miller says. "When somebody perceives you to be a jerk, it hurts your case."



What is the mayor of San Francisco Gavin Newsom doing with Michael Moore in the above-featured photo? I'm not really sure, but it serves as the perfect segue into the next bit of Steph news - Stephanie will be in San Francisco this afternoon. She'll be broadcasting live from the LGBT Center on the Quake from 6:00 - 8:00pm CST (4 - 6pm PST, 7 - 9 pm EST) in conjunction with San Francisco Gay Pride. Check her out - she'll be on the on the air live with fellow progressive talker John Scott from the Rainbow Room. For those of you who are lucky enough to live in San Francisco - there will be an after-broadcast party so that you all may sip some wine with Momma - I'm soooo jealous!!!

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Here are a few Gay Pride Quotes that I sent into Steph and the Mooks (Steph read a few of them on the air this morning - Monday, June 25, 2007)

"I do not want a seat in your synagogue, I do not want a pew in your church. I seek a license that many of you have had, some of you have had two or three times."
--New York Assemblyman Daniel O'Donnell, during the marriage bill debate, as quoted in the Rochester Democrat and Chronicle

"When I was in the military they gave me a medal for killing two men and a discharge for loving one."
--Epitaph of Leonard P. Matlovich, 1988, Unnatural Quotations compiled by Leigh W. Rutledge

"The Bible contains six admonishments to homosexuals and 362 admonishments to heterosexuals. That doesn't mean that God doesn't love heterosexuals. It's just that they need more supervision."
--Lynn Lavner

"Isn't it a violation of the Georgia sodomy law for the Supreme Court to have its head up its ass?"
--Letter to Playboy magazine, February 1987

"If homosexuality is a disease, let's all call in queer to work: 'Hello. Can't work today, still queer.'"
--Robin Tyler

"No government has the right to tell its citizens when or whom to love. The only queer people are those who don't love anybody."
--Rita Mae Brown, speech, August 28, 1982

"Jesse Helms and Newt Gingrich were shaking hands congratulating themselves on the introduction of an antigay bill in Congress. If it passes, they won't be able to shake hands, because it will then be illegal for a prick to touch an asshole."
--Judy Carter

"I'm a supporter of gay rights. And not a closet supporter either. From the time I was a kid, I have never been able to understand attacks upon the gay community. There are so many qualities that make up a human being... by the time I get through with all the things that I really admire about people, what they do with their private parts is probably so low on the list that it is irrelevant."
--Paul Newman

"If male homosexuals are called 'gay,' then female homosexuals should be called 'ecstatic.'"
--Shelly Roberts

"One should no more deplore homosexuality than left-handedness."
--Towards a Quaker View of Sex, 1964

"You are digging for the answers until your fingers bleed, to satisfy the hunger, to satiate the need.... And as you pray in your darkness for wings to set you free, you are bound to your silent legacy."
--Melissa Etheridge, "Silent Legacy," Yes I Am, 1993

"Wouldn't it be great if you could only get AIDS from giving money to television preachers?"
--Elayne Boosler

"What are you trying to protect heterosexual marriages from? There isn't a limited amount of love in Iowa. It isn't a non-renewable resource. If Amy and Barbara or Mike and Steve love each other, it doesn't mean that John and Mary can't."
--Ed Fallon

"Labels are for filing. Labels are for clothing. Labels are not for people."
--Martina Navratilova

"Pronouns make it hard to keep our sexual orientation a secret when our co-workers ask us about our weekend. 'I had a great time with... them.' Great! Now they don't think you're queer - just a big slut!"
--Judy Carter

"I can't help looking gay. I put on a dress and people say, 'Who's the dyke in the dress?'"
--Karen Ripley

"If you removed all of the homosexuals and homosexual influence from what is generally regarded as American culture, you would pretty much be left with 'Let's Make a Deal.'"
--Fran Lebowitz

"I like my beers cold and my homosexuals flaming."
--Homer Simpson, from The Simpsons

"Hateful to me as the gates of Hades is that man who hides one thing in his heart and speaks another."
--Homer

"Never be bullied into silence. Never allow yourself to be made a victim. Accept no one's definition of your life; define yourself."
--Harvey Fierstein

"It's a helluva start, being able to recognize what makes you happy."
--Lucille Ball

Dickie, Dickie, Dickie

Who the hell does Dick Cheney think he is? And why are we still listening to any utterance that passes his crooked, curled, thin, little lips? Apparently playing Edgar Bergen to Georgie's Charlie McCarthy has gone to Dickie's head. He believes that laws do not apply to him. He believes that if he says something then it automatically becomes so. He said that the insurgency is in its last throes two years ago and, lo, let's take a look at that last throe -it has taken yet another trumped up offensive, dubbed "Arrowhead Ripper" to try to combat that "retiring" insurgency.

Why hasn't the country fired Dick Cheney? Would you keep an employee who routinely ripped you off, lied to your face, disappeared for days at a time without explanation, hell no, you'd can his ass, and you'd do it before Monday morning, right? So what are we waiting for?

Here's the latest stunt that proves that Cheney cannot be trusted - he has conveniently exempted himself and his staff from Executive Order 12958. It is interesting that some of the many mentions of the office of the Vice President in E.O. 12958 read as follows:

"The authority to classify information originally may be exercised only by: (1) the President and, in the performance of executive duties, the Vice President"

"'Original classification authority' means an individual authorized in writing, either by the President, the Vice President in the performance of executive duties, or by agency heads or other officials designated by the President, to classify information in the first instance."

''Top Secret' original classification authority may be delegated only by the President; in the performance of executive duties, the Vice President; or an agency head or official designated pursuant to paragraph (a)(2) of this section."

"Information originated by: (1) the incumbent President or, in the performance of executive duties, the incumbent Vice President"

"Reveal information that would clearly and demonstrably impair the current ability of United States Government officials to protect the President, Vice President, and other protectees for whom protection services, in the interest of the national security, are authorized."

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Don't tell me Dickie's attorneys (and you know there are loads of them) are going to try to run the "the VP wasn't performing 'executive duties' trick," that's almost as good as the "Scooter Libby never committed any real crime" ruse. This ploy truly won't fly in the face of Cheney's previous claim that he should be afforded "executive privilege" when he didn't feel like sharing his list of oil and gas executives that he invited over to pick their brains about U.S. energy policy. You can't have it both ways, Dickie - you are either a part of the executive branch and can thereby invoke executive privilege or you are not and are not afforded any of the privileges of the executive office - which is it, Dickie? Give me a freakin' break. Progressives have lawyers, too. And we can all read, and the words demonstrate clearly that Dick Cheney is not following the rules, i.e. Cheney is BREAKING THE LAW. Get it, got it, good... Now act - call your Congressperson and demand that she/he sign onto House Resolution 333 (sponsored by Rep. Dennis Kucinich).

"In stonewalling the request by Congress's General Accounting Office for records of the energy task force's meetings, Cheney has invoked the hallowed principle of executive privilege. He told a weekend news show that the request is 'unprecedented in the sense that it would make it virtually impossible for me to have confidential conversations with anybody ... You just cannot accept that proposition without putting a chill over the ability of the president and vice president to receive unvarnished advice.'"
--Hiding behind executive privilege only reinforces the sense that he's hiding something smelly. By Scott Rosenberg, Salon, January 29, 2002


Why, oh, why is this man and all of his mechanical parts still the second (?) most powerful man in this country? Let's throw the bum out! IMPEACH DICK CHENEY!!!

Text of Representative Kucinich's House Resolution 333 Impeaching Richard B. Cheney, Vice President of the United States, for high crimes and misdemeanors.

Representative Henry Waxman's Letter to Dick Cheney.

Notes from a Radical Militant Insomniac

That's it, this war or occupation or whatever you call the ever-growing debacle/fiasco/quagmire that is Iraq is officially wrecking my life - (well, the war plus the fact that I'm 48 years old and staring down the ugly road of peri-menopause, looking ahead to the full-blown car wreck known as menopause). Thanks to both of these events, I haven't slept through the night in over two weeks and I am more than a little bit cranky. For one thing, every day there is another scandal breaking about how this goddamn administration has broken or simply ignored another law and yet they are still in power - what gives?

It is 4:30 in the morning here in Tulsa, Oklahoma, both of my doggies are sacked out (one on the futon beside me, the other back in the bedroom) sleeping the sleep of two innocent beings while their mom has been up since 3:30am. I've already sent several e-mails to Stephanie, one to Chris (a loverly version of the Armageddon Dildos singing their singular hit "Homicidal Maniac" - don't worry, readers - I'd resort to becoming a suicidal maniac before I'd ever contemplate hurting anybody else), and an e-mail to the lovely and talented Rebekah Baker (the Associate Producer of the SMS).

Here are a few simple questions that plague my sleep-deprived mind:

--Why can't the Bush administration just admit the attack and subsequent occupation of Iraq was a colossal mistake and just get the hell out of that country with the shred that is left of America's dignity?

--Why can't somebody follow the e-mail scandal trail where it so clearly leads and nail Karl Rove's ass?

--Why is Alberto Gonzalez still serving as the Attorney General, while the Department of Justice is in a complete meltdown under his corrupt and deceitful leadership?

--Why are we continuing to funnel huge amounts of money to Halliburton, Blackwater and KBR while every audit has shown that these corporations are ripping us (that's you and me, American taxpayers) to the tune of billions of dollars?

--Why hasn't every Democratic Representative and the few Republican Reps with any integrity signed on to Representative Kucinich's Resolution to impeach Dick Cheney?

--Why, in the wealthiest country in the world, are there people dying IN OUR ERs?

--Why has New Orleans now resorted to soliciting funds from foreign countries, because our own government has squandered so many of the donations that generous Americans gave in the aftermath of that tragedy?

--Why, in a country of laws, not men, is the question of possibly pardoning the convicted felon Scooter Libby even being discussed, while Genarlow Wilson continues to sit in prison for a crime that is now classified as a misdemeanor?

--Why, why, why??? I ask you, if any of you out there can answer these questions to my satisfaction, I would love to hear from you. Shit, it's 5:30 in the morning, guess I'll go ahead and put on a pot of coffee, and hope for better sleep tonight. I don't know if I can keep this up until November of 2008, but that may be the only solution to my problem - Regime change here in America!

Here's the only thing that has buoyed me lately, a wonderful video of the great Patti Smith singing the righteous anthem "People Have the Power." Would that it were true!

The power to dream / to rule
to wrestle the world from fools
it's decreed the people rule
it's decreed the people rule
LISTEN
I believe everything we dream
can come to pass through our union
we can turn the world around
we can turn the earth's revolution
we have the power
People have the power...

--Patti Smith, People Have the Power, from the album "Dream of Life"