SavageDem

"I don't belong to an organized political party – I'm a Democrat." – Will Rogers

Month: May 2010

  • A Mother Fights Back Against Homophobia

    Many letters have been sent to the Valley News concerning the homosexual menace in Vermont. I am the mother of a gay son and I’ve taken enough from you good people.

    I’m tired of your foolish rhetoric about the “homosexual agenda” and your allegations that accepting homosexuality is the same thing as advocating sex with children. You are cruel and ignorant. You have been robbing me of the joys of motherhood ever since my children were tiny.

    My firstborn son started suffering at the hands of the moral little thugs from your moral, upright families from the time he was in the first grade. He was physically and verbally abused from first grade straight through high school because he was perceived to be gay.

    You simply must read the full text of this letter to the editor. Sharon Underwood from Vermont penned this wonderful response to homophobes back in 2000 in the Valley News out of White River Junction, VT.

  • DWI Emmer Wants to Make It Easier for Drunk Drivers

    GOP candidate for governor Tom Emmer is a great choice for Minnesota’s next top dog – if you’re a habitual drunk driver. Emmer, who has two DWIs of his own, has authored several bills that would ease penalties on DWI offenders.

    …he authored a bill which would have the practical effect of allowing DWI offenders to hide their convictions from the public after a period of time.

    It’s not surprising to find that Mark Buesgens – the guy that hates poor people, gays, minorities, and educating children, but still calls himself a “Christian” – is chairman of his campaign. These two scumbags were made for each other, and I’ll be laughing like hell watching their campaign go down in flames. They might as well get used to hot flames now…

  • Pawlenty Broke the Budget, But Refuses to Fix It

    Great post over at MNPublius on non-Governor Pawlenty and how he broke Minnesota’s budget, illegally – and that’s not opinion, that’s fact – tried to “fix” it by “unallotting” funds, and now refuses to support a real solution. TwoPuttTommy’s comment afterwards lays out a concise time-line showing exactly how this whole thing went down.

    The February 2009 Forecast predicted revenues of $31.1 Billion (rounded). Knowing that number, Pawlenty proceeded to sign Spending Bills of $33.8 Billion (rounded) anyway.

    This created a $2.7 billion deficit; from the Governor-approved spending and the Feb 2009 Forecast. A bill to balance that deficit, HF-2323, was passed and presented to the Gov. to sign. Except, Pawlenty didn’t sign that revenue bill to balance the budget; he vetoed it.

    Upon creating an unbalanced budget, TBag immediately claimed unilateral power to fix the problem he created. As to Pawlenty actions creating an anticipated budget problem, then using powers to deal with unanticipated budget problems? Twice, the Courts ruled against him.