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Saturday November 12th 2005, 1:35 am
Filed under: feedback, letter, links, state law, suggestion

We’ve received some great news tips from Jim in Florida that I would like to summarize…

First this bit on the Tampa Bay County Commisioners:

Well I’m sure you know about how our wonderful County Commissioners in June refused to acknowledge Gay Pride here [following commisioner Ronda Storms suggestion], and refused to allow a Gay Pride display in several of the county buildings….resulting in the parade not be approved and so on. Well, you can’t “Tread on Me” and not slip and fall. Someone with enough money, and really great attorneys is taking the Hillsborough County Commissioners to task on this…. and has filed a lawsuit against all the Commissioners but the one for violation of our Consititutional Rights.

There is more info and lots of links to news reports over at Sticks of Fire.

Next we would like to join Jim in congratulating Equality Florida (recently added to our links page) for their efforts in this and past elections. But of course we must also share Jim’s dissapointment in the results of the Texas election.

Finally, Jim gave us a lead on a story concerning QueerTampa.com’s use of an image depicting George W. Bush morphing into Hitler. Queer Tampa offers this reply:

In a recent issue of www.queertampa.com we linked to an article on infowars.com which questions the mental stability of George W. Bush. The graphic linking to that article features an image of Busch morphing into a Hitler type character. The image was indeed provocative. The original purpose of the image was to provoke interest and thought. Oddly enough, what it did was spark the very behavior that such an image is intended to rail against. The fact that some now feel a need to silence us only supports the concern that fascism is a real threat in America.

…along with some select quotes…

“Unthinking respect for authority is the greatest enemy of truth”. - Albert Einstein

“If This Were a Dictatorship, It Would Be a Heck of a Lot Easier, Just So Long as I’m the Dictator” - George W. Bush

“If Tyranny and Oppression Come to This Land, It Will Be in the Guise of Fighting a Foreign Enemy” - James Madison

“You Can Fool Some of the People All of the Time, and Those are the Ones You Want to Concentrate On” - George W. Bush

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