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In the last twenty four hours there has been more coverage on this subject, the MSM and on the blogs, than any one particular subject since O's election was certified. He's definately taken more heat over this than any one issue. The criticism is coming from all sectors, gay and straight, left and right. But he's not backing down from HIS decision, and make no mistake, he made it, for what ever reason in his pointy head I can't fathom, but it's his. Joe Salomonese, the head of the Human Rights Campaign and a long time friend of mine, blasted him in a press release yesterday, and asked for him to rescind his invitation. O said NO. His show. Mostly everyone is saying the same thing, how outraged they are, would they have invited a racist or a white supremacist? Blah blah. But there is a terrific post over at MyDD, (MyDigitalDemocracy) that truly spells out what the comparisions between men and women and religious doctrine REALLY mean. Its worth the train fare. I'd cut and paste it here but my technical savvy with that so far has been limited to squeezing THESE words into the box!

Geoff Kors, of Equality California said today that he's going to decline his invite to the inaug. Surely his perogative. But it's not getting much press, and if it doesn't get media play, it won't count much as a boycott (gaycott?). I've always been of two minds of these actions. Sure the boycott against Coors hurt them badly, but their beer is TERRIBLE. Maybe that had more to do with the piss poor sales. A major push was going around for a boycott against the entire state of Utah, which I thought was ludicrous. Just because the Mormon church donated so much money to support Prop 8 in CA is no reason to take the little bit of tourism money left away from decent gay lovin people in that great state. I've been to Utah, and liked it very much. People hate all over the country, even here in blue Connecticut, where we have LEGAL gay marriage. HRC's pdf listing of individual businesses and their ratings of gay friendliness are FAR more effective if one wants to put one's bucks in the right place. Just MHO.

thebushies today announced that they will throw 17.4 billion of our dollars at the auto industry, given that they adhere to really really strict guidelines and massive oversight, give up their private jets and shit like that. they're going to throw 'em 14 billion now, cuz thats all thats left of the TARP money now that Wall Street and Bernie Madoff (pronounced MAY-doff, not to be confused with our lovely Rachel) have stolen all the rest of the first tranch of 350 bil. But in there in really really REALLY small print is a provision that the workers will get paid LESS than foriegn car workers in the US. So this really was about union busting all along, as anyone with any sense already knew. The UAW isn't screaming too loud, yet. Maybe cuz the Chrysler plants all got shut down. And they are majorly screwed blue and tattooed every way they look. Ford apparently still has a bit of cash left, but not much. They'll be askin for dough by the time the second tranch of the Failout opens up. Don't doubt that for a NY minute myself.

Gotta love New Yorkers. Are they the absolute stupidest rich people ever created? Handed this Madoff guy 50 BILLION bucks, not million BILLION. On a handshake. In country clubs and in locker rooms at the gym. The more I read about it the more I want to say "NAh NA nAH NAH NAH NAH NAH!!!!!!" How can people do something like that? These are some of the biggest landlords and property owners in the city. Now they're gonna be on food stamps. Literally. A lot of them have beem totally cleaned out. Not a fucking nickle left. I suppose that its a karmic justice of sorts, they who've exploited and overcharged for Manhattan apartments, (and having been a tenant, I know know how much it can suck to have a really bad landlord) are now going to get evicted from their own places. Yeah, sometimes the wheel of karma plays, and spins in your direction. Better make sure that you've done something worthwhile in this lifetime. Or the last.

We got snow. A foot maybe comin down on us here in southern New England. Not that I really mind an awful lot. I dont like cold and rain, but snow is just inconvenient. It gets in the way. But its moveable. And my next door neighbor and I have an arrangement. I let him use my empty garage to store one of his cars, and he digs me out with his riding snowthrower, and since theres only four houses on my street, he usually does at least most the street as well. Beats waiting for the plows to come. Hes a real sweet guy, and works in the landscaping biz, so I had a tree planted in his and his wife's name by my foundation in Washington D.C. It seemed appropriate.

Check back for a wrap up post on Sunday. Conclusions and attitude.