Proposition 8 Dishonor Roll - Starring CT

Via Californians Against Hate:

Below is a list of the Top 12 contributors to the Yes on Proposition 8 campaign that took away marriage equality in California. Click on the names for more information.

1. Knights of Columbus, New Haven, CT $1,425,000
2. Howard Ahmanson, Jr., Irvine, CA
   Fieldstead & Co.
   $1,395,000
3. John Templeton, Bryn Mawr, PA
   John Templeton Foundation, Chairman/President
   $1,100,000
4. National Organization for Marriage,
   Princeton, NJ
   $1,041,134.80
5. Alan Ashton, Lindon, UT
   $1,000,000
6. Terry Caster & Family, San Diego, CA
   $693,000
7. Robert Hurtt, Orange, CA
   $550,000
8. Focus On the Family, Colorado Springs, CO
   $539,643.66
9. American Family Association, Tupelo, MS
   $500,000
10. Claire Reiss, La Jolla, CA
    Reisung Enterprises
    $500,000
11. Elsa Prince, Holland, MI
    $450,000
12. Concerned Women for America, Washington DC
    $409,000

Just so as you know...

Who are they kidding here?

From the NY Times - 7th paragraph of the article:

The bill also would increase the borrowing authority for the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation to $100 billion from $30 billion, a move that will save banks billions of dollars by reducing the extra premiums that they would have had to pay to shore up the deposit insurance fund.

Title of the article:

Senate Approves Measure to Reduce Home Foreclosures

And the relief for home foreclosures?

The new Senate bill does not include additional money to aid mortgage borrowers, but it does draw $2.3 billion from the Treasury’s $700 billion financial bailout fund for various provisions.

This is a joke:

Senator Christopher J. Dodd, Democrat of Connecticut and chairman of the banking committee, said at a news conference after the vote. “The bill does other things, but certainly, a major target is to deal with peoples’ housing issues and try to stem the tide.”

Another $70,000,000,000.00 giveaway to the banks and measly 2.3 Billion dollars taken from the already pissed away 700 billion is about helping homeowners? And no cramdown either.

Note to the NY Times and Sen. Chris Dodd:
A fine fuck you to you two, too!

Meaningless Ramblings

As promised to dickday in comment... "As a reward for these few minutes of distraction from the daily rut I promise that my next post will be nearly pointless. :)"

I like to play with photoshop sometimes...

John McCain, his stepping stone wife
and Chris Shays with their pet neocon and
foreign policy poodle Joe Lieberman

try to hide the new Palin crap here...

The little pieces of nothings that I have done pale in comparison to some of the greats out there. The amount of time that I have to put into doing just a crappy photoshop amazes me and has given me an even greater appreciation for what some these artists do. Some of the Bloggers that I read regularly (near daily, If I have the time) are darned good at snark, humor and playing with internet scissors.

Take DistributorCap's work for example:

Or one of the greats, Tengrain:



Anyways... Tengrain calls his Blogging friends, his regular readers, scissorheads and, yes, I am proudly a scissorhead. It is an apt moniker since most of us really enjoy seeing the great work being done out there.

I have 4 kids but I am going to introduce you to my youngest daughter (Connecticut Kid3 - she is 5) in a video I took a few months ago... I figured that since dickday has sound, well, now he can enjoy video:



I think she may turn out to be just like Daddy...

And I hope that this was meaningless enough of a post to satisfy my debt to dickday...