A different slant on DADT and Dan Choi

For the record…it is wrong for laws like Don’t Ask Don’t tell to exist. Anyone who wants to serve should have the right to do so. Hell discrimination on any level is clearly wrong. Having said that here are some things about being gay.

Unlike when they would not allow Negroes to serve in the military, you usually can’t tell gay people by looking at them, we don’t wear scarlet letters or have pink triangles etched onto the side of our faces. So unless you’re caught live or on film in a “situation” people generally will not know you’re a homosexual.

Lt. Dan Choi has a very impressive military resume’.

“Lt. Dan Choi, a graduate of the U.S. Military Academy at West Point and an Iraq War veteran, is a capable soldier and leader who can continue to play a vital role in this time of war.

As a member of the military who is fluent in Arabic, Lt. Choi's skills are especially needed at this critical time
in our nation's history. America's national security is dependent on the service of soldiers like Lt. Choi, who is ready to deploy again if his country calls on him.”

Today a military board ruled that Dan should be dismissed from the service because he came out of the closet. Let me repeat that….He came out of the closet!! On his own of his own accord, without any prompting from anyone else. Now look at his resume’ again, he went to West Point so these rules are not new to him. He decided however to break those rules on national television.

I have received many emails asking me to sign the petition to keep him in the service and a couple of times I thought about it, but at the end of the day Dan is on a road that he put himself on. I am all for him being a spokesman for repealing DADT, I am all for him being branded a trailblazer. But at the end of the day he did break the rules. He had spent many years in the service and he knew what would happen to him when he went on Rachel Maddow. Unpopular true but also very accurate.

Full Lid

Happy Birthday to Debbie Reynolds & Rachel Maddow

Sony announced they plan on bringing back the Men in Black series. Maybe third time will be the charm. No word on if Tommy Lee Jones or Will Smith will be returning.

Someone at FOX leaked an almost full and complete copy of the upcoming X-Men prequel X-Men Origins: Wolverine on the internet. It is reported that it has already been downloaded about 750,000 times today alone. The only thing missing from the movie is a few special FX shots. Poor FOX.

Justin B. Smith a resident of Silver Springs, MD and a fellow blogger was recently interviews in Gay Life Baltimore’s GLBT newspaper. The interview discusses his Vlog about living with HIV.

After 72 years CBS has cancelled “The Guiding Light”. Now I am not a soap head, I had a brief flirtation with “All My Children” back in the mid 90’s but the Natalie got her sight back on Christmas day and…well I digress. I remember my Great Grandmothers soap line up and the Guiding Light was part of it. Makes me think of her so it’s worth a mention.

Back on the hometown front, Michael Jordan (who I don’t believe still lives in Chicago) has joined Mayor Richard Daley’s campaign to bring the 2016 Olympics to Chicago. I am still very much on the fence about this as I am not sure how it will affect residents in the long run.

And that is about it for today….Thank you all for checking in. I am calling a full lid for the day!

Chuck Todd The real red headed step child

Is Chuck Todd getting on anyone else’s nerves?


I have to say that since the folks at MSNBC took Chuck Todd from behind the digital map and made him Sr. White House correspondent the bloom has fallen off that particular rose. I am the last person to say I dislike someone for doing their job, but unlike Keith Olbermann or Rachel Maddow, or hell even Bill O’Riley of on farce news Todd is not being paid to be cynical and snarky, he is being paid to report from the white house and to get us the information we need.


His question at President Obama’s press conference Tuesday night was laughable. “Will you be asking American’s to make sacrifices?” Ummm hello Chuck, you’re a reporter, how can the current state of the economy and the suffering of Americans have escaped you unless you have your head firmly wedged up your ass? Even when the President gave examples of how people were sacrificing days at work so co workers would not get laid off you still didn’t seem to get it.


Today the President held the first ever “On line” town hall meeting. One more attempt he is using to make the White house seem more open and give us the people, who don’t have your press credentials, a voice. You however come on ten minutes after it ends and you refer to it not only as some stunt, but you are self centered enough to believe the administration is doing this to get past the press.


I hope when MSNBC picks his replacement they give they check to see if the next Sr. White house correspondent has his finger on the pulse and not up his nose. (It can’t be up his ass, which is where his head is!)

You Go Girl!!!!!!!! Speak that word!!!!!!!!

So about a year ago the “Daddys” got me hooked on this show called “Countdown with Keith Olbermann” on MSNBC.

Not one to watch the news because it was so depressing Countdown was a cool breath of fresh air. Mostly political with just enough human interest thrown in, I have found myself looking forward to the six foot six host and his expensive clothing allowance. But this blog is not about the well dressed dapper intelligent Keith, it is about his some time stand in gal pal Rachel Maddows.

Rachel Maddows is host of the aptly named “Rachel Maddows show” on Air America radio and when Keith goes fishing she sits in on Countdown. I have watched Rachel as she has gone from a Keith stand in using his same inflections to tell a story to Rachel the woman with her own style. Well today her own style paid off as it was announced that she will host a as of yet unnamed show on MSNBC that will follow “Countdown”.

So to Rachel I say congratulations girlfriend!!!!! I look forward to your fist day 09/08/2008.