Duncan Hunter went on NPR last night and his first rationale for opposing lifting the ban was “Hermaphrodites and Transsexuals” would be able to serve

Actually, this was something I’ve been wondering about! Currently transgender and intersex individuals are not effected either way by DADT, but are nevertheless barred from the armed forces; intersexed persons are considered medically unqualified, whereas transsexualism is considered a psychological condition that makes one unfit for service. (The specific military regulation that covers this is worded in an unusually archaic and nasty way, simply listing transsexualism in a longer list of “paraphilias”.) I had been wondering if the move toward finally allowing homosexuals in the military at any point provides an opportunity to question the separate policy keeping out the transgendered; so far though Hunter is the first person I’ve seen bring the idea up.

Kind of fascinating that this was the first thing that came to Duncan Hunter’s mind, though—his biggest concern with reducing discrimination against a group[ is that it might impact his future ability to discriminate against another, even more hated group.

If you want it to be like the integration of women-that is what will happen. Heterosexual white males will have one more strike against them.

***playing the world’s smallest violin for all those heterosexual white males and all the institutionalized discrimination they face***

There’s a way to get the doubters on board-tell them it will be like the intergration of women into squadrons and ships.

Not!

This is not about getting along together. Its about whether these folks will really be treated “the same”. Knowing the military, they will create a new class of preferred customers just like what happened with women.

Will there be “GAY” stamps on service records to ensure that the right percentage of gays are promoted to ensure “diversity”?

Will public affairs officers slobber all over themselves printing press releases touting the “first openly gay Commanding Officer”?

Will there be enlistment quotas and targets to ensure a “critical mass” of gay troops?

And when will we have to start observing Gay History Month?

If you want it to be like the integration of women-that is what will happen. Heterosexual white males will have one more strike against them.

If you can assure me that none of those things are going to happen-you’ll get a lot more folks on board.

John McCain is 900 years old. What difference does it make in the long run what his stance is?

“When nine hundred years old you reach, look as good, you will not, hm?”
—Yoda

A common career path for political operatives is a lucrative job at a Washington lobbying firm that allows them to continue campaign work, and McCain is hardly the first candidate to draw on that talent pool. The campaign of Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton (D-N.Y.) has been aided by lobbyists Harold Ickes and Mark Penn, who heads Burson Marsteller Worldwide. Sen. Barack Obama (D-Ill.) has been advised by former senator Thomas A. Daschle (D-S.D.), who is not a registered lobbyist but advises clients about Washington.

Essentially, McCain is a massive hypocrite but Clinton is advised by two lobbyists and Obama is advised by someone who is not a lobbyist so both sides are equally bad. Also.

TRANSLATION: reporting bias added to importance bias.

Senator Saxby Chambliss of Georgia said that if they began to loosen one restriction, others might unravel, leading to a louche atmosphere brimming with “alcohol use, adultery, fraternization and body art.”

For not the first time, I am struck with how much they rely on external controls to keep their Id from rampaging through society like a frat kid on crack.

This is the “man standing over you with a big stick” school of motivation.

Ok, serious question, why ARE so many translators gay?

Because gays love terrorists and want to be able to chat with them after they turn the greatest military force in the world into a giant bathhouse with compulsive participation. This is outside their regular gay recruitment duties, of course. They’re busy people, but we all know their organizational skills are as sharp as their decorating sense.

Seriously, I’ve wondered whether there really is a slightly higher proportion or whether they’re just getting more attention because we’re so short of Arabic linguists. No idea what the answer is, but Randy P’s probably right—it’s likely the same as the general pop.

But I still think an element of McCain’s latest crap, beyond his reflexive contrariness to anything Obama does and his need to suck up to his state’s ‘bagger brigade, is his wanting to smack down his gay-loving wife. I see no reason to think that the spite he amply demonstrates toward virtually everyone who has the gall to disagree with him in public would not extend to his wife. The guy is, among his numerous other character faults, a raging control freak.

Sounds like a Pride In Gaming Event. I would attend.

Language is an art and teh ghey has +10 to your artistickal stats.

Dungeons & Strap-ons?

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