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15 March 2012

FollowUp 4: Eugene Delgaudio Lies About Legislation Again

The delusional self-proclaimed Public Advocate of the United States wrote again today with more claims regarding supposed legislation.  The way Mr. Delgaudio begs for money is certainly performance art of a sort, but it is a sordid act.

Dear Some,
It's hard to write you this.
My office is in trouble.  And I need your help.
I have been working overtime fighting against the radical Homosexual Lobby.
Today, I'm worried.
Despite passing Thought Control and repealing Don't Ask, Don't Tell, the radical Homosexual Lobby is drooling for more this year in Congress.
Thought control??!?  Really?  There is no such thing as thought control.  My best guess is that Mr. Delgaudio is referring to hate crimes legislation.  Perhaps he would be happier in a new tinfoil hat (very silly site that you otter go see).
And with this Congress, they have adopted new tactics.
I see well-known agents of the radical Homosexual Lobby everywhere. They are huddled in dark corners scheming and plotting.  They meet secretly with members of Congress in hopes of tempting them to advance their perverse agenda with campaign cash and the promise of votes.
A little paranoid?
This, in spite of the fact that we've defeated a major portion of the Homosexual Lobby's perverse agenda in the past .
Together, we held off the Gay Bill of Special Rights in 2011, and cut off the efforts of pro-homosexual Obama White House, but we had to spend everything to do it.
As we saw previously, Mr. Delgaudio is paying himself over one hundred and seventy thousand dollars a year from the donations he receives.  He is lining his purse very nicely as he had to "spend everything to do it."

There is not now and there never has been a "Gay Bill of Special Rights."  The LGBTQ Community continues to push for equal rights.  We want nothing more and nothing less than everyone else.  It is called equality, nothing special.
The Homosexual Lobby knows this, and it knows as well as you or me that if we can't finance ourselves, we won't be able to stand up to them in the future.
We haven't seen the last of the Gay Bill of Special Rights either.  Mark my words.
And the new year brings greater threats than ever before -- I am in trouble...
This is a painful email for me to write.
For the first time ever, I feel as if my pro-family supporters are letting me down.
Translation:  Mr. Delgaudio fears that he won't rake in as much money for his own "pay" this year as he did last year.  Money, money, money.
I have prayed about this matter.  I am sure that I am doing what is right .
It is our duty as decent God-believing adults to fight against the tyranny and immorality of the radical Homosexual Lobby.  But many good Christian supporters aren't coming through.
Tyrrany?  That is the domain of a majority that is able to inflict its will on a minority.  It is immoral to deny equality to all citizens.  Perhaps in these tight financial times, Mr. Delgaudio might have to do real work for a living, instead of simply accepting money for spreading hate.
It seems a lot of people believe all our problems are solved because we have a Republican Majority in the House.  And many pro-family leaders are complacent or just plain worn out, and they want to quit.
Somehow, listening to the GOP presidential contenders, I don't think that Republicans are complacent.  Certainly there are a lot of hate groups making a lot of noise that is better documented today.  Somehow Mr. Delgaudio has not yet made it onto the Southern Poverty Law Center's hate group listing, although he did earn two paragraphs at the conclusion of one of their intelligence reports.
I cannot believe it!  That'd be like surrendering after Pearl Harbor!
And after the holidays, many of my best supporters haven't been able to help like they used to...
In fact, money is so tight here that I have had to scale back important pro-family campaigns.
Since Mr. Delgaudio's "campaigns" appear to be limited to mass e-mails and rarely printing out copies of his hate to hand deliver in Washington, D.C. (he lives nearby), this shouldn't be too much scaling back.  We could hope for more.
Critical petition drives, grassroots lobbying campaigns, and citizen outreach programs may be closed down.
And as the radical homosexuals have gained almost complete control in Congress, my hands are tied...
Heaven forbid that Mr. Delgaudio cut back on his six figure salary from his hate campaign.
At times, life here in Washington has been a virtual hell for me...
I will not forget the past.
I've faced the blinding hatred of the Radical Homosexuals.
Gee, why would people who you work to keep in a lower caste possibly come to hate you?
Radical homosexuals have distributed hate flyers giving out my address and telephone number and urging sick and disgusting calls by homosexuals to harass my family.
Newspapers even print this "Hate the Delgaudio Family" material.
Doing a search on news.google.com for that exact phrase, since Mr. Delgaudio put it in quotes it must be exact, comes up with zero.  If a newspaper did print that, they did not include it in their online edition.  Or, Mr. Delgaudio is forgetting that he claims to be a "good Christian" and he is bearing false witness ... again.
I've received "crank" phone calls... even death threats!
Doing a search for Delgaudio death threat also came up with zero.  Remove the word death and the only news article that comes up is from a week ago, where Mr. Delgaudio is reported to have opposed drug rehabilitation programs as part of his job on the Loundoun Board of Supervisors.  He is quoted as saying, "I need that money for the people who are doing well in life."  This is despite the fact that the rehabilitation programs would have saved taxpayer dollars according to the article.

With his six figure income from his "work" as the so-called Public Advocate, he must need money for people like himself.  The term greedy seems appropriate.
Years ago, after a man in a black car was caught taking photographs of my children, I had to call in police protection for them.
One time a dead dog was left in my yard.  What kind of people would do this?
I was once even forced to send Sheila and the children into hiding for a short time .
They are safe now... There is no precaution that I will not take to protect my wife and precious children.
Some in the news media routinely promote or allow printed attacks on my wife, my children or me.
Sorry, but I don't believe any of this.  Mr. Delgaudio either never reported these assaults to the news media or they didn't happen.  In terms of attacks, those are missing as well.  There are rare responses, one of which I recently wrote about, but the purpose has been a response to Mr. Delgaudio's rants, never a threat of attack on him or his family.
Sometimes, I am afraid that without your support, I too will be forced to give in to the Radical Homosexual Lobby and stop fighting against their perverted agenda.
That's why I need to ask you today to seriously consider making an emergency contribution to Public Advocate.  Even a donation of $20 or $40 would make a huge difference.
Sorry, but I removed this link.  Mr. Delgaudio's begging does not need to be rewarded.  If that is your inclination, go to his website and do so, it is the first link in this blog post.
My friend, I am tired.
My health is suffering under the strain of fighting the Radical Homosexual Lobby with limited help.  I can't eat, I can't sleep and I am sick with worry.
Many nights I stay up and worry -- worry about my family, worry about Public Advocate's future, worry about the future of the American Family and morality.
Somehow he doesn't seem to be worried about the morality of fleecing his donors.
I have fought on, but I desperately need your help right now. Please don't let me down.
Last year's fights have put my office tens of thousands of dollars over budget.
Every day, it seems, it gets harder and harder to raise the money to keep our campaigns going .
I'm expected to expand programs to stop liberals in Congress from allowing homosexuals to run rampant over our country...
The Gay Bill of Special Rights is at the top of the agenda for pro-homosexual congressmen this year.
Last time the Gay Bill of Special Rights came up, only an outpouring of support by members like you allowed us to stall the vote in the House and buy us the time we needed to rally our troops.
If this immoral bill passes, it will mean pro-homosexual hiring quotas in workplaces throughout the nation.  It will also make it nearly impossible for employers to deal with unsatisfactory employees who are radical homosexuals.
No.  This is a bald-faced lie.  There has NEVER been legislation proposed that included a hiring quota for homosexuals.  Never written up as legislation.  Never proposed.  Mr. Delgaudio is back to bearing false witness.

Lesbians and gays want the same rights as straights.  We want to not be fired without cause.  That cause should not be our sexuality, but our work performance.  This is called equality.  No special rights, equal rights.  How radical a person's politics are away from work should not affect their employment performance review and retention or firing.  (There are some exceptions for employees who work with the public and who should not have their politics on display ... such as public school teachers.  But it should still be equal rules without regard to sexuality).
President Barack Obama has vowed to use his power to pass pro-homosexual legislation before it's too late.
The only other significant "pro-homosexual legislation" is the Respect for Marriage Act.  That legislation, which would effectively repeal DOMA (the Defense of Marriage Act), will not be considered in the House of Representatives this session.
And the attitude of the Oval Office is only likely to get worse as President Barack Obama seeks new ways to appease his radical homosexual allies ahead of his re-election.
There is no chance of Presidential opposition.  We need to stop the Gay Bill of Special Rights ourselves, now!
There is no chance of equality legislation passing the House while John Boehner is Speaker.  This is a set up for more begging for money (I've removed the link again).
Please Click Here to chip in.
The letter goes on and one.  Rather than quote every line.  Let's jump ahead to the next outrageous claim.
These people admit that they want to molest our children.  They admit that they want special rights that no American has.  They admit that they want to infiltrate and weaken our military's moral fiber.  They admit that they want complete control over the national law enforcement apparatus.  They admit that they're deviants.
No, no, no, no, and no.  Five significant lies in just one paragraph.

I've never met a homosexual who wants to molest children.  Those people are called pedophiles and every homosexual I know objects to them as much as every heterosexual I know.  There was a magazine article last year where some idiot wrote, "Yes, we want to molest your children." as satire.  Equally stupid people like Mr. Delgaudio picked that up as if it were gospel truth.  It is not.  I work with teenagers and know that however cute their bodies might be, they are immature brats who need to grow up before they become interesting as potential partners.  For the record, I'm not interested in potential partners, preferring to stay with the same man who I have been with since 2005. 

Homosexuals want equal rights, not special rights.  Right now heterosexuals enjoy special rights that homosexuals do not have.  The caste system should end.

I served in the United States Navy before Don't Ask, Don't Tell (DADT).  Gays and lesbians have served in the military for a long time.  We serve to protect and strengthen our country.  Now we can serve without keeping secrets that might hamper unit effectiveness.

I have no idea where the "complete control over the national law enforcement apparatus" comes from.  Is this a reference to hate crimes laws?  Is this a decade-late complaint about the Supreme Court decision in Lawrence v. Texas?  Perhaps Mr. Delgaudio is being a bit more delusional than usual.

Homosexuality is on the normal and natural spectrum of animal and human behavior.  It is not a deviancy other from Mr. Delgaudio's narrow definitions.
And just as Jesus showed us by example and could not have stood back and done nothing at the Temple, I couldn't stand back and do nothing in the face of the growing power of the radical Homosexual Agenda.
Following Mr. Delgaudio's analogy, he is much closer to running the Temple than to Jesus.  Perhaps he should study his Bible a little more carefully.  Jesus was the radical according to the Christian gospels.
I absolutely must raise $132,945.23 in the next 25 days to pay past bills and keep programs going.
Still less than halfway through the e-mail.  It is repetitious and annoying.  There are some darker references further along that I won't dignify with printing here.  Too ugly.  Too many lies.  Mr. Delgaudio appears to always choose the wrong answer to the popular question, "What would Jesus do?"

19 December 2011, Original Pedantic Political Ponderings post.

11 January 2012, FollowUp 1.
14 January 2012, FollowUp 2.
16 February 2012, FollowUp 3.

13 June 2012, FollowUp 5.
12 July 2012, FollowUp 6.

14 March 2012

Praise: Overruled! a Lambda Legal victory movie



This movie tells the story of the overruling of sodomy laws by the United States Supreme Court.  The achievement of Lambda Legal in Lawrence v. Texas.  Twenty minutes of fascinating history.

Happy Pi Day

This post is really for math geeks only.  If you aren't ready to play with a little calculus and a little probability, don't bother watching the video.  Today is Ï€ Day, March 14th.  March is, of course, the third month and Pi or Ï€ is a number that starts with 3.14.  Thus the silly pretense for sharing a cool video about numbers.



As someone pointed out in the YouTube comments, the length of this is 2Ï€. Geeky!

13 March 2012

FollowUp 2: Not Doomsday

I continue to stand by my prediction that doomsday is not in 2012 (no matter who is elected in November).  Don Yeomans is a Senior Research Scientist at NASA who has put together a short video that offers pretty good evidence that most of the popular doomsday scenarios for this year are wrong.



21 December 2011, Original Pedantic Political Ponderings post.

2 January 2012, FollowUp 1.

12 March 2012

FollowUp 16: Wisconsin Republican Dirty Tricks

Wisconsin Senate President Scott Fitzgerald has failed in his attempt to avoid a recall election by claiming that redistricting invalidated petition signatures.  Reuters notes that all four of the Republican state senators facing recall drives will have to stand in recall elections.
The state agency that oversees elections agreed unanimously on Monday that enough valid signatures by voters were submitted to require all four senators to face recall votes.
The four lawmakers include Senate President Scott Fitzgerald, a chief architect of an anti-union law passed last year that sparked the recall movement.
Channel 3000 writes that the Senators, have not had time to challenge this decision.  The other three state senators being recalled are Van Wanggaard, Terry Moulton, and Pam Galloway.
The board rejected broad arguments made by all four senators challenging thousands of signatures.
"I do think the board got it wrong today, but whether or not we'll pursue anything legally is a decision for my clients," said Joseph Olson, an attorney for the Republican senators. "I haven't had a chance to speak with them about that yet."
Pending approval of the courts, the recall elections will be on 8 May 2012 for a primary elections and 5 June 2012 for the general elections.

The Wisconsin Government Accountability Board has determined the number of signatures for recalling the Lt. Governor and the Governor.  In each case, 540,208 valid signatures are required for a recall election to be called.  842,860 signatures were turned in for the recall of Lt. Governor Kleefisch.  About 29,125 of those have been struck.  Approximately 930,000 signatures were turned in for the recall of Governor Walker.  About 26,000 of those have been struck.  So, it looks like six recall elections are imminent.  Wisconsin progressives and Democrats couldn't be happier and Wisconsin conservatives and Republicans are a bit upset.

16 November 2011, Original Pedantic Political Ponderings post.
30 November 2011, FollowUp 1.
4 December 2011, FollowUp 2.
11 December 2011, FollowUp 3.
14 December 2011, FollowUp 4.
15 December 2011, FollowUp 5.
30 December 2011, FollowUp 6.
13 January 2012, FollowUp 7.
17 January 2012, FollowUp 8.
25 January 2012, FollowUp 9.
2 February 2012, FollowUp 10.
9 February 2012, FollowUp 11.
12 February 2012, FollowUp 12.
18 February 2012, FollowUp 13.
22 February 2012, FollowUp 14.
6 March 2012, FollowUp 15.

16 March 2012, FollowUp 17.
30 March 2012, FollowUp 18.
31 March 2012, FollowUp 19.
3 April 2012, FollowUp 20.
4 April 2012, FollowUp 21.
11 April 2012, FollowUp 22.
14 April 2012, FollowUp 23.
17 April 2012, FollowUp 24.
21 April 2012, FollowUp 25.
29 April 2012, FollowUp 26.
2 May 2012, FollowUp 27.
6 May 2012, FollowUp 28.
10 May 2012, FollowUp 29.
13 May 2012, FollowUp 30.
23 May 2012, FollowUp 31.
24 May 2012, FollowUp 32.
30 May 2012, FollowUp 33.
2 June 2012, FollowUp 34.
4 June 2012, FollowUp 35.
5 June 2012, FollowUp 36.

12 March 2012: Marriage News Watch



Links:  American Foundation for Equal Rights, Marriage News Watch.

23 January 2012: Marriage News Watch.
30 January 2012: Marriage News Watch.
6 February 2012: Marriage News Watch.
13 February 2012: Marriage News Watch.
20 February 2012: Marriage News Watch.
21 February 2012: Marriage News Watch Special Episode.
27 February 2012: Marriage News Watch.

19 March 2012: Marriage News Watch.
26 March 2012:  Marriage News Watch.
2 April 2012: Marriage News Watch.
5 April 2012: Marriage News Watch, Surprise Advance.
16 April 2012: Marriage News Watch.
23 April 2012: Marriage News Watch.
30 April 2012: Marriage News Watch.
7 May 2012: Marriage News Watch.
10 May 2012: Marriage News Watch, 2012's Biggest Marriage Milestones So Far.
14 May 2012: Marriage News Watch.
21 May 2012: Marriage News Watch.
28 May 2012: Marriage News Watch.
4 June 2012: Marriage News Watch.
5 June 2012: Marriage News Watch, Prop 8 Rehearing Denied.
11 June 2012: Marriage News Watch.
18 June 2012: Marriage News Watch.
25 June 2012: Marriage News Watch.
2 July 2012: Marriage News Watch.
10 July 2012: Marriage News Watch.
16 July 2012: Marriage News Watch.

11 March 2012

FollowUp 11: Republican Denial of Climate Change

Virginia Attorney General Ken Cuccinelli has been among the more vicious Republicans in denial of climate change.  (Readers of this blog may recall Mr. Cuccinelli trying to change Virginia primary election rules).  Vicious because instead of merely using climate change as campaign rhetoric, he has pursued legal action against a University of Virginia Professor who researched climate change.  That pursuit ended last week when the Virginia Supreme Court terminated Attorney General Cuccinelli's investigation of climate scientist Michael E. Mann.  As reported in the Washington Post
This month, after nearly two years of legal proceedings, the Virginia Supreme Court halted the attorney general’s investigation of Mr. Mann, who used to teach at the University of Virginia. Twisting a law designed to root out embezzlement of state funds and the like, the attorney general had demanded oceans of documents — including Mr. Mann’s e-mail correspondence — from U-Va. But, along with some technical legal problems with his demand, Mr. Cuccinelli didn’t offer any reasonable suspicion that Mr. Mann had committed anything resembling fraud — even as the attorney general proposed violating scientists’ sacrosanct freedom to conduct research without political pressure. Multiple independent reviews of Mr. Mann’s record have found that the professor did little more than participate in the normal push-and-pull of scientific inquiry.
Mr. Cuccinelli’s inspiration appears to have been the conspiracy theorizing that emerged from the so-called Climategate scandal, in which global-warming opponents stole scientists’ e-mails — including a few of Mr. Mann’s — and then misinterpreted them to justify their activism.
Now that the Supreme Court has shut Mr. Cuccinelli down, what’s left is a range of consequences that can only hurt the commonwealth. The university had to raise nearly $600,000 for legal fees — money the cash-strapped university should have been able to use for something productive. On top of that are the public resources of the attorney general’s office that Mr. Cuccinelli wasted. Scientists in Virginia now have reason to wonder whether they will suffer similar pressure if they publish research government officials don’t like. And, because of some of the Supreme Court’s legal findings, the powers of the attorney general to pursue actual fraud have been clipped.
According to the Guardian, Dr. Mann, now at Penn State University, will be publishing a book next month that goes over some of the tactics used against him.
In his book, Mann warns that "public discourse has been polluted now for decades by corporate-funded disinformation – not just with climate change but with a host of health, environmental and societal threats." The implications for the planet are grim, he adds.
Mann became a target of climate deniers' hate because his research revealed there has been a recent increase of almost 1°C across the globe, a rise that was unprecedented "during at least the last 1,000 years" and which has been linked to rising emissions of carbon dioxide from cars, factories and power plants. Many other studies have since supported this finding although climate change deniers still reject his conclusions.
Even this blog has seen claims that climate change is not real, notably comments from Dan Pangburn in FollowUp 9.  Rather than pretend to be a climate scientist myself, I try to learn from the experts in the field.  Reputable scientists are clear in their message.  Posted a few days ago, last month there was a TED Talk by James Hansen, another leading climate change scientist, which is worth the eighteen minutes to watch.


1 October 2011, Original Pedantic Political Ponderings post.
10 October 2011, FollowUp 1.
11 October 2011, FollowUp 2.
17 October 2011, FollowUp 3.
21 October 2011, FollowUp 4.
27 October 2011, FollowUp 5.
30 November 2011, FollowUp 6.
29 January 2012, FollowUp 7.
15 February 2012, FollowUp 8.
18 February 2012, FollowUp 9.
2 March 2012, FollowUp 10.

4 June 2012, FollowUp 12.

FollowUp 2: Claims of Threat to Religious Liberty

I must admit that I was tempted to start a new thread titled humor, but despite the temptation to laugh at this news, the implications of religion triumphing over civil law are serious.  This is particularly true for the victims of religious claims against those who do not fit within that particular religion's view of acceptable.

Appleton Wisconsin is a small city, about half an hour South of Green Bay, almost two hours North of Milwaukee.  It is a relatively peaceful community in the Fox River Valley.  So, it was unusual to have a case of felony property fraud in Winnebago County, the first in over five years.  Even more surprising is Erik Hudson's planned defense of religious rights to the property he stole.  The counterfeit property transfer is best explained by the Northwestern.
The document, in which Appleton resident Erik Hudson claimed to transfer ownership of property at 312 E. Cecil St. to the Moorish Science Temple of America, also contained pages outlining the religious beliefs of the temple, which is based in Washington, D.C..
That aroused suspicion, which led to the discovery that Anchor Bank had purchased the property in a January 2011 sheriff's auction and Hudson had no legal claim to it.
Hudson, who also uses the name Kabir Karim Bey, was charged in October with criminal slander of title, which carries a maximum penalty of six years in prison and a $10,000 fine. In its criminal complaint, the state of Wisconsin claims that the deed Hudson filled out is "false, a sham, and frivolous."
After filing the bogus deed, Hudson began to rent the property to a Neenah woman, according to Winnebago County Circuit Court records.
Court documents filed in October state that Hudson, who claims to be a representative of the Moorish Science Temple of America, "admitted he had filed the document, and had various unusual political and legal theories that he believed supported his conduct."
Among these theories is Hudson's belief that "the Americas" are under possession of the Moorish Science Temple of America and that the church has lawful authority to exercise this jurisdiction through its members, including missionaries, Grand Sheikhs and sheikesses.
If one truly believes that religious law must supersede American law, then Mr. Hudson, Sheik Bey, must prevail.  One must ask to what degree religious liberty warrants protection from the government.  The First Amendment could be interpreted to mean that Winnebago County and the State of Wisconsin should not interfere with the Moorish Science Temple of America.

Or we could come to our senses and respect religion under law, and not the other way around.

6 February 2012: Original Pedantic Political Ponderings post.

28 February 2012: FollowUp 1.