primroseburrows: (pride)
HEY GUYS!

DADT IS *SO* THIRTY MINUTES AGO.



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primroseburrows: (SA: facepalm)
Joe "You Lie" Wilson is using RCAF discharge policies as an example of how discharging gays and lesbians under DADT doesn't affect military readiness in wartime. DOES HE NOT SEE HOW HYPOCRITICAL IRONIC THIS IS? Answer: No.

I wonder how many people he's tried to shut down who have referenced the Canadian Medicare system as an example of how single-payer healthcare won't kill our grannies and/or force us all into slavery to the government.*



*not that the current US healthcare plan is ANYTHING LIKE single-payer healthcare, because IT SO ISN'T.
primroseburrows: (pride)
Joint Chiefs Chairman: Time to repeal 'Don't Ask Don't Tell'


Also, watch Joint Chiefs Chair Mike Mullen rock like a rocking thing while John McCain flip-flop like a fish in a bucket change his mind comes to an alternate conclusion about stuff he said last year. Bonus: Jeff Sessions' face after he figures out that he's up the creek without a paddle. Or a boat. Or a creek.




I think I have this right: If it's offered as part of a defence bill (which would make sense, because that's how DADT was introduced in the first place), Congress will need sixty votes not to GET a repeal, but to KILL one. *tiny squee of optimism*

"No matter how I look at the issue I cannot escape being troubled by the fact that we have in place a policy which forces young men and women to lie about who they are in order to defend their fellow citizens."

How can there even BE an argument against this?


ETA: Oh, and also watch this: BBC Viewpoint: Gay US airman.

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