Friday, October 23, 2009
Hate crime law passed!,
http://www.advocate.com//News/Daily_News/2009/10/22/Senate_Passes_Hate_Crimes_Measure/
Senate Passes Hate-Crimes Measure
By Kerry Eleveld
HATE CRIMES MATTHEW SHEPARD CAPITOL SENATE X390 (FAIR USE AND PHOTOS.COM) | ADVOCATE.COM
The Senate voted 68 to 29 Thursday to pass a Defense Department funding bill that includes a measure extending hate-crimes protections to people targeted on the basis of their gender, gender identity, sexual orientation, or disability.
The National Defense Authorization Act now goes to President Barack Obama’s desk for his signature.
“As the President said back in April, the hate-crimes bill takes on an important civil rights issue to protect all of our citizens from violent acts of intolerance, while also protecting our freedom of speech and association. He looks forward to signing it into law,” said White House spokesman Shin Inouye.
The late senator Edward Kennedy of Massachusetts originally introduced the legislation in 1997 during the 105th Congress. The bill was renamed the Matthew Shepard and James Byrd Jr. Hate Crimes Prevention Act in honor of Shepard, a 21-year-old gay man from Wyoming, and James Byrd, a 49-year-old African-American man from Texas, both of whom were brutally murdered in 1998.
According to the Human Rights Campaign, today's vote was the 14th and final floor vote taken on the measure. HRC president Joe Solmonese said the more than decade-long struggle to enact the legislation had almost come to completion.
“We’re in the home stretch,” said Solmonese. “We look forward to President Obama signing it into law; our nation’s first major piece of civil rights legislation for lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender people.”
Along with expanding the protected groups, the legislation will provide extra resources to state and local law enforcement officials, give the U.S. Justice Department the power to investigate hate crimes that local officials decline to pursue, and direct the Federal Bureau of Investigation to track hate crimes committed against transgender individuals -- statistics the FBI already keeps for other groups.
Sen. Carl Levin of Michigan, chairman of the Senate Armed Services Committee, said including hate crimes within the defense authorization bill was perfectly logical.
"It is highly appropriate for this law to be part of the National Defense Authorization Act," he said. "The values our men and women fight for include tolerance and freedom from hate-inspired violence against our citizens. Indeed, hate crimes represent a dangerous variety of domestic terrorism while our troops fight terrorism overseas.”
Senate Passes Hate-Crimes Measure
By Kerry Eleveld
HATE CRIMES MATTHEW SHEPARD CAPITOL SENATE X390 (FAIR USE AND PHOTOS.COM) | ADVOCATE.COM
The Senate voted 68 to 29 Thursday to pass a Defense Department funding bill that includes a measure extending hate-crimes protections to people targeted on the basis of their gender, gender identity, sexual orientation, or disability.
The National Defense Authorization Act now goes to President Barack Obama’s desk for his signature.
“As the President said back in April, the hate-crimes bill takes on an important civil rights issue to protect all of our citizens from violent acts of intolerance, while also protecting our freedom of speech and association. He looks forward to signing it into law,” said White House spokesman Shin Inouye.
The late senator Edward Kennedy of Massachusetts originally introduced the legislation in 1997 during the 105th Congress. The bill was renamed the Matthew Shepard and James Byrd Jr. Hate Crimes Prevention Act in honor of Shepard, a 21-year-old gay man from Wyoming, and James Byrd, a 49-year-old African-American man from Texas, both of whom were brutally murdered in 1998.
According to the Human Rights Campaign, today's vote was the 14th and final floor vote taken on the measure. HRC president Joe Solmonese said the more than decade-long struggle to enact the legislation had almost come to completion.
“We’re in the home stretch,” said Solmonese. “We look forward to President Obama signing it into law; our nation’s first major piece of civil rights legislation for lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender people.”
Along with expanding the protected groups, the legislation will provide extra resources to state and local law enforcement officials, give the U.S. Justice Department the power to investigate hate crimes that local officials decline to pursue, and direct the Federal Bureau of Investigation to track hate crimes committed against transgender individuals -- statistics the FBI already keeps for other groups.
Sen. Carl Levin of Michigan, chairman of the Senate Armed Services Committee, said including hate crimes within the defense authorization bill was perfectly logical.
"It is highly appropriate for this law to be part of the National Defense Authorization Act," he said. "The values our men and women fight for include tolerance and freedom from hate-inspired violence against our citizens. Indeed, hate crimes represent a dangerous variety of domestic terrorism while our troops fight terrorism overseas.”
Wednesday, October 21, 2009
Tuesday, October 20, 2009
Why some men like their own sex (even some women do, but I lack the knowledge to talk about it, as you would imagine)
Some little gene
Interfered with hormones
and so we are there
Homosexual to the core
Need we say more?
Some say we don't like women. What? We actually love women. I certainly do...not only because I'm a bit bisexual, but, come on, women are gorgeous!I'd be in a sorry position if I didn't feel so. I work in a department whose worktorce are all women, save the Boss (a sweet and OK fellow, to be sure, but he's the Boss)and the BOSS, whose height towers over me. Women are the spice of life. Hetero men are so boring!
Only, I happen to like Men's shapely bodies a lot more that I find women's body form. Blame Gene,Hormones, and whatever. Well,what I like in Male Form?
I like this:
Sculpted torsoes
And this:
Lovely arms
and this:
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Sensual form
I also like some other things that cannot be shown in a not porn blog.
Why we like our own sex? We don't know, but we know I like men a lot!
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