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Your handy 'Fire David Letterman' Kit, Part One

This is Part One of your handy “Fire David Letterman Kit,” complete with sample letters, mailmerge instructions and contact info. Here are the topics I plan to cover in the complete kit:

Why we are angry and our cause is just: videos and timeline of David Letterman’s offenses.
Overview of the tools to use to get David Letterman fired.
How to do a mailmerge
Table of contacts you can copy and paste into Word for your mailmerge data
Sample letters
Sample e-mails

Remember, there are four big reasons to get David Letterman fired:

David Letterman’s rape jokes about teen-age girls SHOULD end his career. The fact that he told them about the daughter of a politician he hates makes his offense a thousand times worse. And the fact that he compared that female politician to a “slutty flight attendant” adds several more orders of magnitude to his offense.
If we do not persuade CBS to fire Letterman over his bashing of teen-age girls and women, conservatives AND our candidates will be attacked by millions of his imitators. A stitch in time saves nine.
If we do not show our conservative leaders that we have their backs, the best and brightest of them will find other careers where their talents are welcomed. Likewise, when we show them the enemies they can defeat and the battles they can win with our loyal support, we are going to have more and better people happily working on our behalf.
You can transfer the winning skills and tenacity you learn in this fight to create victory for yourself and your loved ones in all the rest of the battles with corporations and bureaucrats you’ll face for the remainder of your life. Knowing you have this kind of power FEELS AWESOME!

Why we are angry:

First offense: on June 8, 2009, David Letterman attacked Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin with his “Top 10 Highlights of Sarah Palin’s Trip to New York,” characterizing her appearance as a “slutty flight attendant” look:

10. Visited New York landmarks she normally only sees from Alaska
9. Laughed at all the crazy-looking foreigners entering the U.N.
8. Made moose jerky on Rachael Ray
7. Keyed Tina Fey’s car
6. After a wink and a nod, ended up with kilo of crack
5. Made coat out of New York City rat pelts
4. Sat in for Kelly Ripa. Regis couldn’t tell the difference.
3. Finally met one of those Jewish people Mel Gibson’s always talking about
2. Bought makeup at Bloomingdale’s to update her “slutty flight attendant” look
1. Especially enjoyed not appearing on Letterman

The link to the video at CBS.com is here (in case the clip below is removed from YouTube) and here is the video from YouTube:

Second offense: Also on Monday, June 8, Letterman attacked Gov. Palin’s 14 year-old teenage daughter, Willow, who accompanied her to New York, by saying: “During the seventh inning, her daughter was knocked up by Alex Rodriguez.” Here’s the video:

Third offense: On Tuesday, June 9, Letterman said, “The toughest part of her visit was keeping Elliot Spitzer away from her daughter.” (This comment suggests Gov. Palin’s daughter is a prostitute.) Here’s the video:

Fourth offense: On Wednesday, June 10, Letterman gave an insincere apology and claimed he intended to insult Gov. Palin’s 18-year-old daughter, Bristol, for having promiscuous sex, rather than Willow. Because that makes it all better.

Here is CBS’s video from YouTube of Letterman’s apology from Wednesday, June 10 — played for laughs:

If you feel too tired to write the letters and e-mails that will get David Letterman fired, you can watch any of these videos for the adrenalin that will fill you with the energy you need.

Coming in Part Two:

Overview of the tools to use to get David Letterman fired and how to use mailmerge.

Blogger reports Embassy Suites responded to his e-mail they have pulled their ads from CBS.com

Conservative blogger Chris Wysocki just linked me to report the following:

Embassy Suites responded to his e-mail saying the company does not sponsor “Late Night with David Letterman,” but has pulled its advertising from the network’s Web site, CBS.com.

His post reporting the e-mail exchange was linked in a TVWeek.com story about the movement to get David Letterman fired AND in a story on the same topic by Baltimore Sun TV critic David Zurawik.

Congratulations, Chris! Click here for the full story. (But come back soon, I’m working on my “Fire David Letterman Kit.”)

The lesson? Letters are better, but e-mails work, too! Do what you can and just keep doing it until Letterman is fired! If we don’t work as hard and as long as it takes to get this bully fired, then we’ll be fighting the legions of bullies who will jump up because his example and showed them how safe it is to bully us. This is our line in the sand — this kind of behavior is career suicide.

P.S.

Calling all bloggers! When you post a comment here, if you enter your blog’s URL in the comment form, I’m using a plug-in called “Comment Luv” that automatically grabs the title and link of your last post. Your comment will promote YOUR blog!

You’re welcome!

Song of the Soul

I dropped by Little Miss Attila’s this morning and I knew better than to click on her YouTube videos of Janis Joplin singing, “Piece of My Heart,” but I did it anyway and was cast back to my college days in Ann Arbor and the memories of reading a memoir by her lesbian lover and crying myself sick over Joplin’s death, which then was very recent.

But this also made me remember that these were the beginning years of the gay liberation movement — this month is the fortieth anniversary of the Stonewall Riots in Greenwich Village — and they were an exciting and dangerous time for lesbians and gays. One of the things that helped and heartened us the most were our troubadours — troubadeuses? — Cris Williamson and Meg Christian and the lesbian recording company Olivia. Another time I will tell you about getting to sit just a few feet away from Meg Christian when she sang at the Michigan League in the 1970’s.

I didn’t get to see Cris Williamson in concert until the early 1980’s and I started going to her concerts while I was still an ex-lesbian gaining the understanding I needed before being able to assert my integrity and be whole and open and lesbian again — because it takes an enormous amount of strength and courage and understanding to do that.

You don’t have to be a lesbian to love Cris Williamson’s music, which is open-hearted, joyful, kind and brave. Listen to her “Song of the Soul” and learn to sing it yourself, for the times when you are so happy you must burst into song, or the times when you are sad and must sing to let the tears flood out to clear the space for your faith and hope and joy:

“Song of the Soul” is originally from Williamson’s first album, The Changer and the Changed. That album, and Meg Christian’s first album, I Know You Know, were the two ground-breaking albums of lesbian music. (They did a 45 rpm record before these albums, which I have, with Cris on one side singing, “If It Weren’t for the Music,” and Meg on the other singing, “Lady.” Meg’s song does not appear on any of her albums and Cris’s song from the 45 only appears on her 1991 album, “Live in Concert.” For more info, see the Olivia Records Discography here.)

I also highly recommend going to Cris’s site, which I just found, and listening to — and buying — her absolutely luminous song, “Lullabye,” which I used to sing to Margaret, my late life partner.

Now, it is a gorgeous, sunny day in Maryland, and I am going to plant some catnip, marigolds and zinnias. Beauregard and his brother Remington are going to help me. Ivan has gotten out, too, and is very tickled with himself. I think he was after the catnip plants because he was rolling around with one of the pots. He is very shy and hard to catch, so luring him back inside may be tricky, especially since the catnip ratio inside/outside definitely is larger outside. While we are outside, my father will watch the news and Sophia will be keeping an eye on the goldfinches at the feeder in the back yard from the back of the sofa in the den.

This afternoon I will play my bassoon with the Bel Air Community Band at the town band shell for the free summer concert series. It is the perfect day for an outdoor concert in a small town and a wonderful way to celebrate Flag Day. My father will enjoy the concert from a chair I will set up for him under the trees. God bless America, land that I love.

Later this evening I will work on my “How to Get David Letterman Fired” kit. You can’t be lesbian or gay without learning you HAVE to beat the bullies, so Sebastian and I will be showing you exactly how it is done.

Word to the wise: do not abuse anyone teh gays and lesbians love. Sebastian and I love Sarah Palin. David Letterman thinks rape jokes about her daughters are funny. We disagree. We think this is a firing offense. We know you have to beat the bullies or they will just keep making your life a hell. And our tenacity of purpose knows no bounds.

Dr. Hanson, I can tell you why Obama just makes stuff up

Victor Davis Hanson posted a wonderful piece at National Review Online yesterday entitled, “Just Make Stuff Up,” in which he gives a skillful summary of Obama’s broken promises, flip-flops and outright lies. But he just doesn’t seem to know how to put his finger on the explanation for the problem. This is it: Obama is a sociopath and therefore has no core self and no conscience that would require him to be consistent. He cannot be true to himself because there is no one there. This is what allows him to “just make stuff up” because the only reason he ever says anything is to get people to do what he wants. The easiest way to do that is to tell them what they want to hear, so he does, with no intention of delivering on his promises.

I explain this more in the following posts:

“Understanding Obama“:

Let me say it again: a sociopath’s sole purpose when making a promise is to get something in the easiest and most pleasant way. There is NO INTENT TO KEEP THE PROMISE!!!

Indeed, once the promise has achieved its purpose, if you try to make the sociopath deliver his side of the bargain, you will generally get one or both of two responses. First, delay and fog – you’ll get what was promised, at some time in the future, but only if you do even more of what the sociopath wants, with tiny rewards applied whenever you start to lose faith, as the sociopath leads you on toward an ever-receding goal.

“The chilling explanation of why Obama is cool”

Much is made of Obama’s so-called cool and calm demeanor and how this makes him superior to ordinary mortals who get emotional about stuff, and how this means he clearly has magic powers to keep all of his contradictory and often mutually-exclusive promises because if he didn’t, why, then we would know because he’d act all nervous about what will happen when the jig is finally up and the chickens have come home to roost.

Well, besides Obama’s success in rigging the game in every possible way so that he comes out on top no matter what, so he doesn’t have to be nervous, there’s this: he is missing the vital faculty that would allow him to be nervous and have emotions other than anger, rage, gloating and glee.

Obama does not have a conscience.

God help me, and of all people, Ann Coulter spotted this first in her column, “Obama’s Dimestore ‘Mein Kampf’.”

“Why ridicule is Obama’s Kryptonite“:

[Eric] Hoffer explains on p. 138 [of his book, The True Believer] how the media are able to create the grounds for a fanatical mass movement like Obama’s:

It is easy to see how the faultfinding man of words, by persistent ridicule and denunciation, shakes prevailing beliefs and loyalties, and familiarizes the masses with the idea of change. What is not so obvious is the process by which the discrediting of existing beliefs and institutions makes possible the rise of a new fanatical faith. For it is a remarkable fact that the militant man of words who “sounds the established order to its source to mark its want of authority and justice” often prepares the ground not for a society of freethinking individuals but for a corporate society that cherishes utmost unity and blind faith.

Why the Left hates Sarah Palin

Little Miss Attila has an excellent post on “Cold Fury on the Letterboy Flap,” where she drew my attention to Ric Locke’s musings at the Protein Wisdom Pub on why the Left hates Sarah Palin’s family:

Stereotype: Womyn® are good Progressive Democrats.
Reality: Sarah Palin is a Republican.

Stereotype: Only Democrats give power to Womyn®
Reality: Sarah Palin is not just a Governor, she’s Governor of a State where the Governor has real power.

Stereotype: All manly men are part of Teh Patriarchy, dedicated to preventing Womyn® from achievement and deeply resentful of anything resembling a subordinate position.
Reality: Todd Palin is a manly man with a manly occupation; nevertheless he seems quite cheerful and accepting that his wife’s occupation is much higher on the social scale than his.

Stereotype: Good Progressive Womyn® are supposed to abort their babies to prevent career difficulties, especially if they might have medical problems.
Reality: Sarah Palin has several (three?) children, the latest of which has Down’s Syndrome, and seems perfectly capable of handling her duties as Governor despite any child-care difficulties.

Stereotype:Patriarchal manly men don’t participate in child-rearing; they force the Womyn® in their lives to do it all, which is why Progressive Womyn® have to avoid childbearing if possible.
Reality: Todd Palin apparently participates wholeheartedly in child-rearing.

Stereotype: Winger dupes of the Patriarchy are supposed to be disgusted with childbearing out of wedlock, call such girls “sluts” etc., and cast them out.
Reality: Bristol Palin is an unwed mother. The Palin family (all of them, including Todd and the grandparents) has been supportive.

Well, having recently left the Left, I believe I have a valuable point to add, so I’m linking my post explaining why the Left is working so hard and fighting so dirty to destroy Sarah Palin and her family: “Save the wolves! Palin for president!“:

Totalitarian feminists were very busy during the presidential campaign fighting for the Obama/Biden ticket and its implacable allies in the Muslim and illegal alien community who believe women are property. They were busiest writing viral poison e-mails filled with plausible lies about Gov. Palin, which, in my opinion, were motivated by her decision – her “choice,” if you will – to bring her Down syndrome fetus to term and lovingly embrace him, special needs and all, just the way he is.

Since the Down syndrome baby is the boogie fetus that pro-choice advocates use to scare fence-sitters into their camp, a mother and family of a Down syndrome child who would model how to love and raise him to his fullest potential in the public spotlight was threat-level DEFCON 1 for destruction. (Note: DEFCON 1 is the highest threat status; DEFCON 5 is the lowest where everything is safe.)

To scare off bullies, you must first have hit one of them

Members of the cast of "Happy Days" at the soda shop, left to right: Scott Baio (Charles "Chachi" Arcola), Anson Williams (Warren "Potsie" Weber), Ron Howard (Richard "Richie" Cunningham), Henry Winkler (Arthur "The Fonz/Fonzi" Fonzarelli), Don Most (Ralph Malph).

I did not watch the TV sitcom Happy Days very often, but one of the shows made a lasting impression on me. It encapsulates why all of us who are outraged at David Letterman’s vile rape jokes about 14-year-old Willow Palin and his unfunny, degrading remarks about her mother, Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin, must get this bully fired from his show on CBS.

As you may know, Happy Days was about the high school days of an all-American, clean-cut boy, Richie Cunningham, his family and clean-cut friends, and his family’s tenant, the motorcycle-riding, womanizing, leather-jacketed drop-out known as The Fonz, or Fonzi.

Well, in one show some bullies have been harassing Richie, so The Fonz meets him at the soda shop to teach him his technique for intimidating other tough guys out of beating him up. The Fonz demonstrates his technique by looking his opponents in the eye, getting angry and red in the face, and then furiously tearing off his jacket and throwing it down on the ground in order to prepare for the fight. At that point, his opponents look frightened and hurry away.

So, just as Richie is confronting his own tormentors and angrily taking off his letterman’s jacket, he and Fonzi note that the tormentors are unimpressed and stand their ground. Fonzi is startled by a flash of realization and pulls Richie aside and says, “I just remembered! For this to work, you must have once hit someone.”

Well, getting David Letterman fired is our version of scaring off future bullies by having once hit someone.

Unless we like getting pounded for our lunch money every day, we’ve got to get in it to win it. The bullies will only get bolder and more numerous if we don’t.

Our current system of health care rationing

Via Drudge Report:

Go to Watching the Watchers here for the full story, with photos:

This is what not having health care for a year and a half when you’re diabetic and have high blood pressure looks like.

This is what our American health care system looks like. It is as broken as my kidneys.

I don’t want sympathy; I want single payer universal health care. I don’t want pity; I want single payer universal health care. I don’t want commiseration; I want…

I want this not to happen to anybody else’s kidneys.
I want this not to happen to a single other woman, or man, or child.
I want people in this country to get the preventive care they need to keep this from happening. I want them to get the chronic care they need to keep this from happening.

And I want it to happen seamlessly for providers and patients alike, without bankrupting a single patient or causing another patient to lose his or her home.

I want people to be secure in their retirement. I want them not to fear what will happen when a major illness or condition is found.

I want cancer patients to get treatment without having to lie awake nights wondering how they’ll pay for it.

I want one class of people who have health care in this country: everybody. I want no more of this stratified system where it’s determined that Joe can have care but Susan can’t because she can’t pay.

There’s more — it is worth clicking to read the full story. It will only take a minute or two.

For the record, my big heresy from fiscal conservatism is universal health care. I think we lose too much in productivity from people without access to health care, or with high deductibles, or with insurance that excludes the care they really need due to pre-existing conditions. Liberals do not understand the word “socialism” or dread the stagnation it produces. And I think as a nation we are in dramatically different circumstances than we were in when the Clintons proposed universal healthcare. Now when people have to decide between the death of capitalism and their own personal death from lack of health care, they may be willing to sacrifice capitalism.

More on how to get Letterman fired — and why Republicans need to do so

Sebastian Gray at HillBuzz has been giving lessons this week on how to get David Letterman fired for his rape jokes about Gov. Sarah Palin’s 14-year-old daughter, Willow.

Today he has a post explaining that Republicans do not have the same tenacity as Democrats in working the system to get what they want — in this case, persuading CBS to fire David Letterman. He is correct. However, there is a bonanza of empowerment in it for Republicans if we make this a fight we are determined to win.

Sebastian says it will take 30 days of daily letter-writing to CBS and Letterman’s advertisers. That’s because for the first two or three weeks, they’ll just wait for the tempest to blow over. Not only do we have to keep it up, we have to make it build. This is our line in the sand. Letterman MUST BE FIRED NOW!!!

I hope you read Sebastian’s entire post because if you do, it will totally change how you advocate for yourself and your causes. In the following passage he describes how Republicans can benefit from getting Letterman fired:

So, I’m interested to see how long Republicans can keep the pressure up on The Olive Garden, Mars Candy, and Kelloggs in particular. Losing those three big accounts will make CBS apoplectic. I think it’s a valuable lesson to both CBS and Letterman personally to see how many advertisers drop him if we keep this pressure up for 30 days. To my knowledge, Republicans have never stayed focused on anything that long, losing interest in protesting after a day or two, and then probably going off to play golf.

Meanwhile, on the blue side of the aisle, we continue to be busy, busy, little letter-writing bees…with the busiest and buzziest being Sharpton, a man we personally find as repugnant as Letterman (but for different reasons), but a man no one here could ever claim was not effective.

The advertisers will all buckle in the end…but it will take a few weeks for them to stop listening to CBS’s line that “this will all blow over, just watch.”

If you take this opportunity to use Democrats’ favorite tricks against them and you don’t let this blow over, Republicans could very well be surprised to learn a whole new set of tools to get what they want from the MSM and liberal elite. Jessie sure was surprised to have a glimpse of how things are done on my side of the aisle – you can be pleasantly surprised like that too.

But first you have to work hard to get there.

To do this right, we need the lists of the contact info for the members of the Board of Directors for each company, and the “C” suite (chief executive officer, chief financial officer, etc.). This is more than I can take on for each one of the these companies. But if my readers will help with the research and share it here in the comments, I’ll update the post.

Here is the list of Letterman’s advertisers, which I received via e-mail from the “2012 Draft Sarah Committee”:

Mars Candy
Mars North America
100 International Drive
Mount Olive, NJ 07828
Tel: 1 973 691 3536 [Media],
1 800 627 7852 [Consumers]
Fax:1 973 691 3829
http://www.mars.com/global/News+and+Media/Media+Contacts.htm
email – form – http://www.mars.com/global/Contact+us/Media+contacts+North+America.htm

Best Western
Best Western International, Inc.
Customer Relations Department
Telephone: 1-800-528-1238
Fax: 623-780-6199
Email: customerservice@bestwestern.com
Regular Mail: PO Box 10203
Phoenix, AZ 85064
Attn: Customer Service

Capital One
Capital One Financial Corporation 1
680 Capital One Drive McLean, VA 22102
1/703-720-1000

On The Border Restaurants
Brinker International
6820 LBJ Freeway
Dallas, TX 75240
(972) 980-9917
Contact at:
http://www.ontheborder.com/contact/contact.asp
Phone:1-800-983-4637

Intel – Website contact page: http://www.intel.com/feedback.htm?iid=ftr+contact
Corporate Mailing Address
2200 Mission College Blvd.
Santa Clara, CA 95054-1549
USA
(408) 765-8080

JohnFreida.com – Contact page: http://www.johnfrieda.com/event.asp?action=entry&EventCode=jfcontact
Consumer Relations Dept
Kao Brands Company
2535 Spring Grove Ave
Cincinnati, OH 45214
Phone – 1-800-521-3189

DiTech – Not sure if this is Ditech financial , or Ditech networks and don’t know if they are one and the same.

Lexus
P.O. Box 2991 – Mail Drop L201
Torrance, CA 90509-2991
http://www.lexus.com/contact/ (Go to this page and click the “e-mail” button
Phone: 1-800-255-3987
TTY/TTD Users: 1-800-443-4999
Fax: 1-310-468-2992
Monday – Friday, 8 a.m. – 9 p.m., EST
Saturday, 10 a.m. – 7 p.m., EST

Earn My Degree
WCS
157 Yesler Way Suite 200
Seattle WA
United States 98121
206-812-4653
information@worldclassstrategy.com

Bowflex -Nautilus, Inc.
Global Headquarters
16400 SE Nautilus Drive
Vancouver, WA 98683
1 360 859 2900
PublicRelations@nautilus.com
Contact page- http://www.bowflexrevolution.com/nautilus_incorporated/contactus.jsp?lid=Contact+Us+-+ContactUs

LasikPlus
7840 Montgomery Road
Cincinnati OH 45236
Telephone: 513-792-9292
Toll-Free: 800-688-4550
Fax: 513-792-5620
Email: bkise@lca.com
Contact page- http://www.lasikplus.com/ir/contacts.html

EBay
eBay Inc.
2145 Hamilton Avenue
San Jose, CA 95125
Media relations – (408) 376-7458
Contact page – http://news.ebay.com/about.cfm

True Credit
TrueCredit
100 Cross Street, Suite 202
San Luis Obispo, CA 93401
866-212-2170 (only contact number 2012 Draft Sarah Committee could find)

CBSports.com – Contact page: http://www.cbssports.com/help/contactus/usersspeak
Headquarters
2200 West Cypress Creek Road
Fort Lauderdale, FL 33309
Phone: (954) 351-2120

Update: Welcome, Instapundit readers! I will be adding posts regularly with the contact info for the right people to write/e-mail to persuade CBS to fire Letterman, so please check back often AND let me know what you are doing to get Letterman fired!

Via Instapundit: An Austin, Texas, jeweler has filed an FCC complaint against David Letterman. Strangely, although both comments state their support for the jeweler, the story says commenters are threatening to boycott him.

P.S.

For notice of new posts on getting Letterman fired, please follow me on Twitter: @conservativelez. Let’s tag our tweets with “#Letterman.”

Update, 6/13: Michelle Malkin’s syndicated column yesterday did not call for Letterman to be fired, but made the case:

Face it: David Letterman, late-night entertainer-turned-partisan hack/hitman has a deranged obsession with Sarah Palin and her family that has crossed into rank bigotry and hatred. If the CBS network cares about basic standards of decency on public airwaves and if it cares at all about bolstering its shrinking audience, the network honchos will get Letterman a therapist pronto.

Over the past year, Letterman has displayed his sexist, elitist stripes in jibe after jibe aimed at Palin. Taken cumulatively, Letterman’s mockery is about much more than expressing contempt for the popular GOP governor. It’s a handy device to deride a broad class of working-class and middle-class women he holds in contempt ….

Update, June 13: Ace of Spades HQ, thanks for the link! Together we can show the liberal media that rape jokes are never funny and that we conservatives have the backs of our fellow conservatives. If we learn ’em now, it will save us a heap o’ hassle later — a stitch in time, saves nine, and all that.

Update, June 13: There’s a “Fire David Letterman” rally scheduled on Monday, June 15, at the time and location where “The Late Show with David Letterman” is taped:

Time of rally: 4:30 to 6:30 pm

Location:

The Ed Sullivan Theater (sidewalks in front)
1697 Broadway
Between West 53rd and West 54th Streets
New York, NY 10019-6119

You may bring signs, but please keep them “G” or “PG” rated — after all, we are trying to make a point about the boundaries of good taste and good character.

Daily Kos has a post urging its readers to attend the rally — I gather they would come as Letterman supporters. If you are new to rallies like this, stay polite and don’t engage with them, no matter how provocative they get.

Update, 6/13: Letterman is co-owner of a race car and depends on sponsors who might be sensitive to the concerns of people who object to rape jokes. Hot Air has all the contact info.

Update, 6/13: Awesome tweet from Jim Treacher:

I’m going to keep judging David Letterman by a couple of bad jokes as long as you keep judging Sarah Palin by a couple of bad interviews.

Maybe longer. No, definitely longer.

Obama shows his total opposition to gay equality with DOMA brief

As soon as I knew about Obama’s 20-year allegiance to his pastor, Rev. Jeremiah Wright, his Muslim up-bringing in Indonesia, his ties to the Muslim world and his support of illegal immigration — all groups that hate homosexuals and most of whom feel entitled to kill us, and some of whom believe they are obligated to do so — I knew that none of his promises of support to the gay community could be true. He would take our money and our work and our votes, then oppose our equality to appease these groups — the ones he really supports.

Through Instapundit’s link to AMERICAblog today, I learned that Obama has filed a brief in support of the Defense of Marriage Act in Smelt v. USA that is the most devastating attack on the movement of equality for lesbians and gays ever. AMERICAblog analyzes the brief and explains its consequences here. They are wrong about one thing, though: George W. Bush advanced homosexual equality when he signed the Worker, Retiree and Employer Recovery Act of 2008 (WRERA), which makes it mandatory for an employer to roll over retirement benefits to a same-sex partner in the event of an employee’s death. GayAgenda explains:

Prior to the law, employers could decline the benefit and surviving same-sex partners would have to pay an inheritance tax on the deceased partner’s retirement savings. As you know, legally married heterosexual couples automatically avoid that tax penalty.

For more about WRERA, see Gay Patriot here.

BTW, the most heart-felt praise and gratitude expressed toward Pres. Bush that I read during his final days in office were from the gay centrist Democrats at HillBuzz here.

Obama’s Motion to Dismiss Marriage case

Towleroad has more (but really, guys, white type on black IS HARD TO READ!).

P.S.

This is different than the case fighting for marriage equality for homosexuals filed by the Bush v. Gore attorneys, Theodore Olson, a conservative, and David Boies, a liberal. They filed Perry v. Schwarzenegger in federal court in May with the intent of taking the case before the U.S. Supreme Court. I described that case and gave a link to the brief here.

Thank you, Attila, dear: See “Obama Throws Gays/Lesbians Way, Way Under the Bus.”

P.P.S.

see more Funny Graphs

See HillBuzz on how to get David Letterman fired

… and Little Miss Attila on WHY Letterman should be fired for his rape jokes about Sarah Palin’s 14-year-0ld daughter:

This is American Sharia, assholes. The practitioners of Sharia in Muslim countries are at least consistent in their contempt for women and in their practice of gender apartheid: you, on the other hand, want sexual slavery for some women in this country; others, whose opinions you prefer, can live in relative peace and freedom. You will allow it.

If you are giving women and girls the “gift” of not being badgered for being female, and threatened with misogyny and sexual assault, they are not truly free-only living in a state of grace, contingent upon performing the right tricks, spouting leftist verbiage like seals at Sea World, balancing balls on their noses in the hopes of getting fish thrown into their mouths.

And any woman who doesn’t understand this fundamental truth about the misogynists living among them could be in for a rude awakening at any point, because that attitude will infect those who harbor it.

Sebastian Gray at HillBuzz has the best instructions on how to get the attention of big corporations and persuade them to do the right thing. I know, because I used to have to fight battles like that for my late life partner all the time (she was quadriplegic the last 10 years of her life due to multiple sclerosis). I only have these points to add:

The reason that you always cc at least two persons above the person you are writing to is to make sure your original target is afraid to discard or bury your complaint. They will have to explain to their boss what they are doing to handle your request. And the first boss has to explain to his boss. And so on.
If you call the company, always be polite.
If the company stonewalls you, ask to talk to the supervisor of the person doing the stonewalling, and/or get the name and contact info (phone, fax, e-mail, street address) of both the stonewaller and his or her supervisor. Follow up with e-mails, faxes and letters.
Follow the money: when you are wondering whom to contact, always ask yourself who has control of their money or income stream.
Follow the power: of whom are they afraid? For example, liberal newspapers probably will protect Letterman, but he won’t have any defense against viral e-mails with links of the companies to contact to get him fired, or YouTube videos, or better yet, viral e-mails with links to YouTube videos calling for Letterman to be fired and/or lampooning him.

I never thought Letterman was funny and I’m glad to see some of the rest of the world is catching up.

H/T to Jimmy Bise at The Sundries Shack for his selection of Little Miss Attila’s quote in his apt piece, “So, My Leftist Friends, Rape Jokes Are in Play Now?“