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https://www.yaledailynews.com/article.asp?AID=25384
Go Bush and friends!
whatever will he get up to next?
Josh
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veteran
1,389 posts
Location: Guelph, ON, Canada
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As he told the Federal Times last week, "People confuse conduct and sexual orientation as the same thing, and I don't think they are." So while you can't be fired for bringing your same-sex partner to the office picnic, you can be fired for being gay.
*sigh* When will they get it?
~ Bobo
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playing the days away
7,263 posts
Location: The Middle lands, United Kingdom
Jeeeeeezoos!! How are there people like this Bloch character in positions like this? Obviously trying to use words and changing deffinitions to push his own personal views forward through the legal system. He's not their to guide the public, he is a servant of the public who should bend to the needs of the public.
How much does work like this cost the American public?!?! Shouldn't it be spent doing good not creating insults like this to their tax payers.
Let's relight this forum 
All the neurotic makings of America's lesser known sweetheart
9,831 posts
Location: body in Las Vegas, heart all around the world, USA
um. ya. i'm speechless. has the Bush administration lost its mind??
I was always scared with my mother's obsession with the good scissors. It made me wonder if there were evil scissors lurking in the house somewhere.
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Classically British
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Location: Epsom, Surrey, England
Has the Bush administration ever had a mind?
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All the neurotic makings of America's lesser known sweetheart
9,831 posts
Location: body in Las Vegas, heart all around the world, USA
good point.
I was always scared with my mother's obsession with the good scissors. It made me wonder if there were evil scissors lurking in the house somewhere.
Do not meddle in the affairs of dragons for you are crunchy and good with ketchup.
**giggles**
Mand's Girl....and The Not So Shy One
2,723 posts
Location: Calgary, Alberta Canada
*sigh*
JUST what I want to read after getting back from a brilliant holiday.
Can I move to Canada? Please? And take Mand with me?
Solitude sometimes speaks to you, and you should listen.
Carpal \'Tunnel
6,207 posts
Location: "In your ear", United Kingdom
ok so let me state this VERY palinly, for what i understand you can be fired for being gay?
does this mean that soon you will be firable for being incompatant at ur job, does this finaly mean bush will be fired for being s**t at his job?
Step (el-nombrie)
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Location: Portland Oregon USA
we can only hope Mech, we can only hope. But what will we get in his place? *shudder*
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HOP Mad Doctor
13,925 posts
Location: San Francisco, CA, USA
Ok, I see no mention of this on the Human Rights Campaign website. Nor on the ACLU site.
I find it unlikely that a single administrator could overturn a 20-year policy like that.
-Mike
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Hyperloops suck
595 posts
Location: USA
As terrible as this is, and believe me, I do agree, it is absolutely horrendous, the given article is grossly biased and gives only part of the story.
Looking strictly at the laws, he was legally obligated to remove the protection. Gay and lesbian people aren't covered under the US civil rights laws, so they can't be specifically corrected.
Not only that, he's issued a review on the case as well - I believe he is against his own ruling as much as anyone else is, but it is his legal obligation to remove the protection.
I'd also like to voice my opinion about the blatant Bush bashing on these forums - he's a terrible political person, makes a ton of stupid calls in my opinion, and I think there's thousands of people that could do a better job. But that doesn't mean everything that goes wrong in this country is his fault. Stating "chalk another one up for Bush" after every single thing that goes wrong in the country is just as bad as his rediculous statements that Clinton is to blame for our current situation. I think that if someone came on these forums and blindly attacked the democratic candidate/president, you'd all be offended... as would I. My mother is very much guilty of being on the Bush Bashing Squad, and it makes me cringe every time I hear her being so damned hypocritical.
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Location: Vansterdam
On behalf of all Canadians I would like to extend an invitation to all americans who are dissatisfied with the Bush administation to the true north strong and free.
But what if you're bi? do they only fire half of you?
In the 60's people took acid to make the world weird, now the world is weird and they take prozac to make it normal again.
Carpal \'Tunnel
2,617 posts
Location: Berlin, Ireland
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But what if you're bi? do they only fire half of you
good point that'd make a nice signature.... As far as bush bashing goes, I won't waste my time cause I find it difficult to pick words to do my contempt for him justice.
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veteran
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Location: Dublin, Ireland
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But what if you're bi? do they only fire half of you
Maybe they only allow you to work part-time.....
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564 posts
Location: Vansterdam
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Maybe they only allow you to work part-time.....
In the 60's people took acid to make the world weird, now the world is weird and they take prozac to make it normal again.
Hyperloops suck
595 posts
Location: USA
I wish I could move to Canada to escape the looney American life.
ZORT!
3,045 posts
Location: Brisbane, Australia
no loonies in canada? but what about patrick?
but on topic, as mentioned, most newspaper articles have a problem giving both sides of the story. does anyone have some good links where there's a different perspective?
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no loonies in canada? but what about patrick?
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Super Gidg!!!!
8,506 posts
Location: Portland Oregon USA
And Patrick just proved that Cananaducks are as
as the rest of us. Growing old is mandatory; growing up is NOT.
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Hyperloops suck
595 posts
Location: USA
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but on topic, as mentioned, most newspaper articles have a problem giving both sides of the story. does anyone have some good links where there's a different perspective?
https://www.365gay.com/newscon04/03/031704fedWorkers.htm
Pro-gay site (Or so it seems from the few things I've read, don't blame me if I'm wrong) which states his actions weren't exactly evil in nature. It sucks, of course, and I think everyone here would agree it is a terrible incident, but his job is not to impose his own or anyone else's morals upon the law, but rather to rule by the laws.
9,232 posts
Location: NYC, NY, USA
Now I'm totally confused.
See this is the kind of thread that WOULD have been in "Political" but now has been merged and I CERTAINLY thought it would now be in "Social Discussion" rather than "Social Chat"... but then again, I'm no moderator.
Or should I have posted this post in "Social Discussion" as it is a Discussion of a Chat topic?
Are we posting our Bush Bashing under "Chat" or "Discussion"? Cuz being that I live in one of the most Liberal places on Earth (Which I do believe the East Village of New York City to be) I occationally like to take a break from my Bush Bashing to do thinks like eat and brush my teeth and discuss how my Poi friends are doing.
And when will there be a forum where we can fight each other through our computer interfaces like the Matirx? I think HoP should work on that too.
Well, shall we go?
Yes, let's go.
[They do not move.]
big and good and broken
7,330 posts
Location: lunn dunn, yoo kay, United Kingdom
we can have a go with the current interface if you like nyc?
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*in best streetfighter II voice*
round one... FIGHT!!
Code:
coleman throws: swooping left hook
"i see you at 'dis cafe.
i come to 'dis cafe quite a lot myself.
they do porridge."
- tim westwood
big and good and broken
7,330 posts
Location: lunn dunn, yoo kay, United Kingdom
we can have a go with the current interface if you like nyc?
=====================
*in best streetfighter II voice*
round one... FIGHT!!
Code:
coleman throws: swooping left hook
to: floating ribs
"i see you at 'dis cafe.
i come to 'dis cafe quite a lot myself.
they do porridge."
- tim westwood
Carpal \'Tunnel
2,617 posts
Location: Berlin, Ireland
oo ooo go for the tiger uppercut
I live in a world of infinite possibilities.
9,232 posts
Location: NYC, NY, USA
*Slow motion dodge while camera pans around behind Coleman in bullet time... NYC grabs Cole's wrist, Cole reverses and throws NYC directly upwards through skylight.*
I see. NOW we have degraded this to a CHAT.
Well, shall we go?
Yes, let's go.
[They do not move.]
Returning to a unique state of Equilibrium
3,289 posts
Location: Adelaide, South Australia
Hey NYC,
I didnt think there would be anything more than 1-liners posted to this topic, so I figured it belonged in Social Chat
I wasnt even attempting to start a conversation - just sharing a link I was passed by a friend.Perhaps you can single handedly raise the intellectual level of the discussion enough to have the thread graduate to social Discussion?
Josh
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