The Bishop and the Butterfly: Murder, Politics, and the End of the Jazz Age
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    STRANGE NEWS THAT WAS EXPECTED


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        THE 2010 GRAND MASTER OF THE NEW ORLEANS GAY PRIDE PARADE


    Ken Mehlman, who headed the Republican National Committee between 2005 and 2007, has come out in an interview with the Atlantic's Marc Ambinder:

    Mehlman arrived at this conclusion about his identity fairly recently, he said in an interview. He agreed to answer a reporter's questions, he said, because, now in private life, he wants to become an advocate for gay marriage and anticipated that questions would be asked about his participation in a late-September fundraiser for the American Foundation for Equal Rights (AFER), the group that supported the legal challenge to California's ballot initiative against gay marriage, Proposition 8.

    http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2010/08/25/ken-mehlman-gay_n_694843.html

     

    IN THE NEWS

    Ken Mehlman headed the RNC during the height of GOP power and watched that power ebb through the 2006 elections.

    And now we are to believe that this entire time, Ken Mehlman is gay.  http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2010/08/25/ken-mehlman-gay_n_694843.html

     

    Mehlman arrived at this conclusion about his identity fairly recently, he said in an interview.

    Shiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiit. I arrived at that conclusion five years ago. I mean this is news.

    And I would watch him on MSNBC justify the GOP positions including the repub belief that all Homosexual activity is sodomy, homosexuals should not be married, family values exclude any rights for gays.....blah blah blah.

    But I would watch this guy and know damn well he was gayer than Liberace and Clifton Webb combined.

    In related news Anthony Richard (Tony) Perkins of the Family Research Council acknowledged his affection for young boys but confirmed his belief in 'Platonic Relationships'. His housemate, Tom Platonic was not available for comment.

    IN OTHER NEWS

    Clarence Thomas acknowledged that he was African-American and that both his parents were African-American.

    Clarence Thomas also rendered a Majority Opinion in the Supreme Court today finding that an Arkansas Law making Miscegenation a felony is constitutional on its face.

    Here is part of that opinion in the case entitled The People of Arkansas v. Thomas Jefferson & Household Help:

    Therefore this Court finds that Arkansas Public Laws SS5290.6A is fully consistent with the provisions of the 13th, 14th & 15th Amendments to the United States Constitution.

    Although the 14th Amendment guaranties equal rights for all, this Arkansas Public Law does provide due process in that any two parties found to have breached its provisions by attempting to 'mix the races' were fully represented at trial and the trial judge was fully courteous to all the parties involved in those proceedings; and all of the white jurors were good afamily men (quoting Lawerence Welk).  298 U.S. 921. (2009)

     Mrs. Thomas was not available for comment.

    IN YET OTHER NEWS

    El Papa today confirmed that he was indeed a Roman Catholic.

    When asked about his days in the Hitler Youth Movement, El Papa responded:

    Well Adolf was not wrong about everything you know. And he was a real fine meat tenderizer.

    (Oh, the Pope also acknowledged relieving himself in the woods as a youngster.

    IN OTHER NEWS

    Glenn Beck admitted to a previous divorce and time spent in an insane asylum.

    When asked to elucidate Mr. Beck said:

    I sure like it better on the outside, as it were.

    AND FINALLY IN YET OTHER NEWS

    George W. Bush admitted at a family gathering of people he used to know that someone just read his own book to him.

    It IS a very fine book Junior noted.

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