· A weekend of bloody violence in Iraq. More than 150 people are killed after a powerful truck bombing in a Turkmen-Shiite town near Kirkurk and at least two dozen die after car bombings in Baghdad. The Iraqi parliament has proposed a no-confidence vote on Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki before its August vacation.
· Sen. Lindsey Graham (R-SC): Escalation strategy is "working beyond my expectations."
· Violence on the streets of Budapest. Several hundred skinheads and right-wing agitators threw rotten eggs and smoke bombs to disrupt the gay pride parade. This comes just days after cabinet minister Gabor Szetey becomes the first governing politician in Hungary to publicly come out as gay.
· John Edwards invokes the cautionary tale of Howard Dean: "Money will not decide who the nominee's going to be. Everyone will remember Governor Dean who outraised everyone else by more than 2-to-1 and wasn't able to win the nomination."
· British footballer Rio Fedinand proposes to longtime girlfriend Rebecca Ellison in Las Vegas. Meanwhile, back at home, his upcoming Punk'd-inspired prank show has been canceled.
· Durex says 200 adults Australians—men and women—are needed to test its newest line of condoms.
· A Jamaican psychologist defends her nation's entrenched and violent homophobic culture: "We have a reputation to uphold and our reputation is that we are homophobic and anybody who come with it is going to be knocked down."
· Judge overturns the temporary suspension of a San Francisco police officer whose whose amateur videos were "denounced by city officials as racist, sexist and homophobic." The officers taped skits that mocked blacks, Asians, gays, lesbians and transgenders. One parodied a white police officer in a patrol car running over a black homeless woman.
The Jamaicans are openly proud of their homophobia, just as evangelical Christians are in the U.S., and just as Southern white people used to be of their racism.
It makes them feel superior while requiring absolutely no effort on their part. This is irresistable.
These people will only give up their beloved hatred when not doing so incurs a heavy price.
Posted by: Jim | 08 July 2007 at 13:34
Escalation strategy working??? havent we had back to back deadliest months for US soldiers? These people really do think they can piss on our heads and call it rain
Posted by: DFS | 09 July 2007 at 02:45
I don't know what more can be said about the situation in Jamaica. I wonder if the country can be taken before the World Court for sanctioning inhumane treatment of gay people. And how hypocritical many Jamaican folks are (just like many folks in our country too). I have a friend who's on his way to vacation in Jamaica next week. The reason he continues to go? Because there's so much "trade" for such low prices. No, they may not want homosexuals in Jamaica, but they sure have a lot of buysexuals.
As for Senator Graham: he's a lyin' South Carolina cracka'. Ooops, I used the "c" word. They gonna' get me like they got Isaiah. Oh, shit, my career is finished. I'll never be able to work in a low paying office job again!
Posted by: Derrick from Philly | 09 July 2007 at 09:18
Nothing can be done about Jamaica. I work with folks from the islands and they are just downright disrespectful and hard to deal with. Don't waste your vacation dollars or your time there. Save it for a place where you don't have to worry constantly about some pack of savages beating your brains in.
Posted by: Me | 09 July 2007 at 14:52
Hey not all Caribbean folk are homophobic. Sure, like America the powers that be don't support gay rights... it's not good politics. And we could use a gay bar or two down here, but dont clasify all of us as homophobic as are Jamaicans.
Jamaicans are simply repressed sexually... even a heterosexual male in Jamaica would call fellas from my island nasty because my friends like to perform oral sex on women.
It's a sad sad country, but other Caribbean countries are somewhat tolerant and are changing for the positive. Some really are coming into the 21st century, even Haiti.
So don't categorize a whole archipelago as savages, ohk? You dont like it when the KKK's call u simian, unevolved, moronic, animalistic subhumans, ok, don't do the same. You alsowould like when persons from your own community here in the USA attack you because you like cock.
Posted by: IsleZeus | 09 July 2007 at 21:55
Never did I say ALL people there are savages ... but when a mob of people assaults a man for being gay and NOBODY helps - they are animals and they deserve to be called a pack of savages. Sorry, but it's a fact. The same would be said if it happened here.
Posted by: Me | 10 July 2007 at 10:08