Late, Late Night FDL: Somebody To Love/White Rabbit
Posted in Main Blog (All Posts) on June 13th, 2011 4:47 am by HL
Late, Late Night FDL: Somebody To Love/White Rabbit
Somebody To Love/White Rabbit–Jefferson Airplane
Somebody To Love/White Rabbit–Jefferson Airplane
I’m rather partial to the bananas grown locally here in the Isles…!
Remember, Off Topic is the Topic, here at LLN, so what’s on your mind tonite…?
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GLAAD Board Member Troup Coronado, AT&T Executive, Broke Rules at BellSouth Too
The AT&T/GLAAD gaywashing scandal proceeds apace. The AT&T-written letter GLAAD ‘president’ Jarrett Barrios submitted to the Federal Communications Commission is linked to former Orrin Hatch staffer and current AT&T lobbyist Mr Troup Coronado, GLAAD board member. Lobbyist Mr Troup Coronado has a smarmy history that goes back to the bad, old days when Speaker Dennis Hastert and his now-felon deputy Tom Delay set the loosest ethics rules in the the history of the House of Representatives.
The AT&T/GLAAD gaywashing scandal proceeds apace. The AT&T-written letter GLAAD ‘president’ Jarrett Barrios submitted to the Federal Communications Commission is linked to former Orrin Hatch staffer and current AT&T lobbyist Mr Troup Coronado, GLAAD board member.
Lobbyist Mr Troup Coronado has a smarmy history that goes back to the bad, old days when Speaker Dennis Hastert and his now-felon deputy Tom Delay set the loosest ethics rules in the the history of the House of Representatives. Despite the looseness of those GOP rules, in early 2006, the Washington Post exposed their egregious violation by lobbyists after it obtained a spreadsheet from a BellSouth employee. This spreadsheet showed how many of the BellSouth DC lobbyists had violated Hastert’s lax ethics rules — so lax they resulted in the largest repudiation of a political party in modern political history later that fall.
On that BellSouth spreadsheet, which the named clerical employee provided to the WaPo because she was sick of the lying and hypocrisy of her employers, one name stood out among BellSouth’s lobbyists: Troup Coronado.
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Of ridiculous myths and worse realities
So which country has the real extremists?
something frothy by greg mcmullin at flickr.com
Oh look, in the midst of the so-called “Arab Spring”, there’s a rather old democracy we always take for granted.
Near-complete results from Turkey’s election show the Justice and Development Party (AKP) of PM Recep Tayyip Erdogan has won a third term…More than 50 million people, about two-thirds of Turkey’s population of 73 million, were eligible to vote in Sunday’s election. NTV television said turnout was 84.5%.
Of course, Turkey’s AKP party has its roots in Islamic faith. This leads many American conservatives to get the vapors and decry how reactionary they must…just must be.
Meanwhile, later today the Republican Presidential Candidates will assemble to debate whether physicians who perform abortions on victims of rape and incest deserve to be merely hung, or also drawn and quartered. Because they’re part of the great non-extremist American political tradition.
