Fahrenheit 8

The briefly-tenured CEO of Mozilla steps down amidst a flap about his support of (and rfusal to disavow) his support of Proposition 8 in California back in 2008. The Tolerance Community won't tolerate alternative viewpoints, which should be news to no one.

However, we can find a bit of pushback from the left, as well as an interesting bit of cinematic history - Joe Cannon reminds us that in the film version of Ray Bradbury's famous Fahrenheit 451 the powers that will be ran televison ads which included such exhortations as "Be Tolerant Today".

Well. When Michael Moore made Fahrenheit 911 it was all good for the authoritarian progressives. But Fahrenheit 8? Not even happening.

And since we are flashing back to Ray Bradbury, let's flash back to the power of the mob as demonstrated by the #HasJustineLandedYet fracas.

BRAINLOCK: Which state's motto is "Be Tolerant or Die"? Yeah, and wattsa motto with you?

BOTH MAY BE TRUE: AllahPundit explains that California presents a public record of all donations above $100 to state ballot measures and that the LA Times put up a searchable database in (guessing from non-existent datelines) 2009. (Bored lefties can quickly find some Apple or Google Prop 8 supporters to purge.)

However Fox News has an opinion piece noting that the IRS allegedly leaked a national donor list of supporters of the National Organizaton for Marriage.

These stories may be complementary rather than contradictory, especially since the Fox piece does not allege anything about California specifically. However, some people are conflating the two. FWIW, Mr. Eich of Mozilla posted on his outing in 2012, linked to the LA Times database, and cited the California law on reported donations.

ONGOING BRAINLOCK: Andrew Sullivan is worried that "LGBT Movement Becoming Like Religious Right". I am straining to remember the CEOs that lost their jobs due to their pro-choice or anti-gay-marriage positions.

And I am not talking about politicians, most of whom with national aspirations feel obliged to hew to their party's line.

Comments

[Jane]

Well, well, well...

Via gateway pundit

BREAKING: HHS Started Obamacare Applications for Americans Without Their Knowledge or Permission
Posted by Jim Hoft on Friday, April 4, 2014, 9:32 AM

How do you get from 5 million Obamacare enrollees to 7.1 million Obamacare enrollees in two weeks?
You start the applications yourself.

Health and Human Services was mailing out letters notifying certain Americans that they had already started a healthcare coverage application on their behalf.
HHS had started the applications for them.

[Sue]

First.

[Sue]

Dagnabbit!

[maryrose]

Jane:
You will apply for O-care and you will like it!
Stasi tactics reminiscient of East Germany-the Left's communistic underwear is showing...

[MarkO]

Take the damned doctor we give you and be thankful you have anyone.

These purges show why extortion is illegal: it works.

[Marlene]

NH's iconic motto is "Live Free or Die",which is a quote from Revolutionary war hero John Stark. The opposite of "Be Tolerant or Die."

Maine's motto is "Dirigo" which means wicked good. :)

[Bori]

Jane- When I heard the over 7 million sign-ups I thought that something was up. My first impression was how would you do it?

Use all those list of information from donor lists to PAC's, etc. and start their application. It doesn't matter if they actually buy Obamacare but that they demonstrate a large enough number to appear at least interested.

Though I admit that I thought that this was too devious and felt that even the O admin would not do that. Well, I guess I was wrong.

[Jane]

Even Andrew Sullivan is pissed off about the treatment of Mozilla's CEO.

This is a very bad thing for gay people.

[narciso]

What did she say, 'we will not let you be uninvolved' 1984, it's an instruction manual.

[boris]

Seems possible gays are primarily a passive excuse for "tolerance or else" by liberals of any orientation looking to justify telling everybody else how to live.

[centralcal]

Hopefully, it will turn out to be a "very bad thing" for Mozilla/Firefox as well.

[NK(withnewsoftware)]

Ray Bradbury told us 60 years ago the philosophy that future tyrants would use to seize power... tyranny with a smiley face "Be Tolerant... or die". TomM rightly poins out the sinister hypocrisy of today's fascist Left in adopting Bradbury's smiley faced tyranny.

Orwell warned us about the methods tyrants would use to maintain power. The Left indeed uses Orwell as its How To manual.

[Janet - the districts lie fallow, while the Capitol gorges itself]

"If competent individuals can be fired at work for their personal stances on issues that they do not bring into the workplace, then we are no longer in a free and open society..."

http://www.americanthinker.com/2014/04/brendan_eich_and_the_new_american_totalitarian_state.html#.Uz6jjYHbKDU.facebook

[narciso]

the Huxleyan word view is more plausible than
the Orwellian, it was played for laughs as San Angeles in 'Demolition Man' but it seems it's the goal they are striving for,

[Bori]

I checked the story on GP and it appears that the State was the culprit in sending the HHS the information.

Of course, the HHS could have access to this information anyway and are mentioning the State to cover their misuse of the information.

[Account Deleted]

"This is a very bad thing for gay people."

It wasn't a very good thing for Mr. Eich, either. I believe I'll be able to control any flood of sympathy I might feel concerning damage incurred by gay bigots due to their bigotry.

[Ann]

How many voting ballots have been filled out from the information at HHS, the state exchanges and the IRS?

[Janet - the districts lie fallow, while the Capitol gorges itself]

Seems possible gays are primarily a passive excuse for "tolerance or else" by liberals of any orientation looking to justify telling everybody else how to live.

I believe that, boris. Just like lots of the environmental groups are really just 10 leftist lawyers sittin' in an office filing lawsuits.

Wonder how many gays were actually part of the mob?

[NK(withnewsoftware)]

Gay activists are an integral part of the Left mob. They are an important Left tribe.

[DrJ]

If you want to read what the spittle-flecked yutes are saying about the Eich resignation, see here:

http://arstechnica.com/business/2014/04/brendan-eich-resigns-as-mozilla-corporation-ceo/?comments=1&start=0

Arstechnica has been following the story since the beginning.

[Jeff Dobbs]

narc:
What did she say, 'we will not let you be uninvolved'

Well, she literally said, "Barack will never allow you to go back to your lives as usual, uninvolved, uninformed."

At the time she said it, Barack Obama shared the same position on gay marriage as the briefly tenured former President of Mozilla.

Also in that quote?

"Barack Obama will require you to work."

What a kidder. What she really meant was Barack Obama will give you more extended unemployment benefits, more EBT cards, Obamaphones-for-all, and will give you the sweet release from job-lock through the wonders of Obamacare so that you can be a cowboy poet.

[Sandy FryDaze]

Well, I liked Firefox, and groomed with extensions, was very happy with how it worked.

Still use TOR of lots of stuff. As TOR uses an earlier version of FF, presumably I will still use FF when using TOR.

But right now, am using Opera (on my MacBook). I can still use the Narcisolator and killfile, still have a great ad blocker, and Last Pass password manager is also available. The Text Formatting Toolbar is not available, alas, and I have not found a substitute.

So far, so Good.
~~~
Meanwhile, Mark Steyn, discusses the Brandon Eich situation and his own confrontation with the speech police, here, in his essay Celebrate Conformity!!
http://www.steynonline.com/6236/celebrate-conformity
He recalls:
QUOTE
I heard a lot of this stuff during my free-speech battles in Canada. The country's chief censor, the late Jennifer Lynch, QC, was willing to concede that free speech was certainly a right, but it was merely one in a whole range of competing rights - such as "equality" and "diversity" - that needed to be "balanced". What the "balancing" boils down to is that you get fired if you are an apostate from the new progressive groupthink. Underneath the agonized prose, Mitchell Baker is a bare-knuckled thug.

~It's the thuggishness and bullying that ought to disgust people, even those who support gay marriage. My final appearances at National Review Online were a spat with my editor, Jason Lee Steorts, over "two jokes one can no longer tell on American television" that I quoted in a column on Phil Robertson's suspension for "homophobia". First, Bob Hope, touring the world in the year or so after the passage of the 1975 Consenting Adult Sex Bill:

"I've just flown in from California, where they've made homosexuality legal. I thought I'd get out before they make it compulsory."

Second, Frank Sinatra and Dean Martin on stage in Vegas throughout the Sixties and Seventies:

Frank: "How do you make a fruit cordial?"

Dino: "Be nice to him."

Mr Steorts thought my resurrection of these ancient "slurs" was "derogatory" and "puerile":

People who used them in different times need not be regarded as monstrous, nor must the canon be censored; we could instead feel good about having awoken to a greater civility and make generous allowances for human fallibility.

Yeah, just like Brandon Eich "awoke to a greater civility" yesterday morning. What Mr Steorts especially disliked about my column was "the slur in its borrowed concluding joke". Which was:

How do you make a fruit cordial?

Be nice to him.

Or else.
UNQUOTE

[Sandy FryDaze]

BTW -

I STAND WITH STEYN.

If one doesn't STAND WITH STEYN, one stands with...

[Janet - the districts lie fallow, while the Capitol gorges itself]

Look at how disgraceful our "news" media are - http://newsbusters.org/blogs/scott-whitlock/2014/04/04/abc-uses-footage-hateful-westboro-baptist-slime-ceo-who-opposed-gay-

[Account Deleted]

"Wonder how many gays were actually part of the mob?"

Very, very few. Look for the organ grinder. The Fascist watermelons are dancing for Speyer, the gay bigots for Bloomberg and the Connecticut BathhouseBoyz working both parties.

[Neo]

In the closing days of the open enrollment period for the Affordable Care Act (ACA) , the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) was mailing out letters notifying certain Americans that they had already started a healthcare coverage application on their behalf.

The HHS letter stated that the information they used to begin the application for individual Healthcare was obtain by the state agency in charge of implementing Obamacare.

The next step for the individual would be visit Healthcare.gov and complete the already started application to see if they qualify for “Marketplace coverage.”

[Disillusionist]

I've been using Firefox for about a decade. No more. Uninstalled it last night. I replaced it with Chrome, which I'm not wild about, but it's fast. Firefox was the best, but I refuse to be associated with these spittle-flecked Nazis for another minute longer.

[NK(withnewsoftware)]

Ukraine: Putin/Gazprom (same thing) have begun the economic war against Kiev/Ukraine, jumping gas prices 80% So those of us who guesse Putin would use economic blackmail/war against Ukraine were correct. Ukraine claims to be on it, and is ready to ramp up native coal for energy. Simultaneouly Putin continues his military build up on the border. So those of you who guessed he would grab Eastern/Russian Ukraine may also be right. Meanwhile Chuck Hagel speaks, and he removes all doubt that he is an idiot: http://hotair.com/archives/2014/04/04/video-russia-raises-gas-prices-80-for-ukraine/

[Account Deleted]

Boycotting Firefox will enhance the illusion of power which the gay bigots wish to present. The gay bigots will claim credit for any damage done to Mozilla at this point, Boycot gay bigots instead. If you can't find a gay bigot to boycott, write a scathing critique of the President's inability to demonstrate proper color coordination in decorating the Oval Office.

[anonamom]

I have no idea what the topic is--
but for two days, I've been listening to NPR as I spread 80 bales of pine needles.

Yes, torture--but remember, I have those 20 -something children who are immersed in this view--I NEED to know what is being said.

But this is what we're up against--here I am, listening to to a "historian" on Fresh Air, being interviewed about the Civil Rights legislation passed in 1964, as today is the 45th anniversary of MLK Jrs assassination. ( A day I remember well.)

And this is what featured guest Todd Purdham says, when asked why JFK had wanted to wait until his second term to pass civil rights legislation:

"Well, you have to remember that at that time, the Congress was dominated by Southerners..."

Not Southern DEMOCRATS, just those racist Southerners.

[matt]

The Leftists/Gay radicals took the issue of marriage as being between one man and one woman and turned it into an "equal rights" issue. Prop 8 was very clear and there was specific language barring discrimination against LBGT people. This is how the Left plans to redefine language and create a new class of offense, thoughtcrime.

Whether it is disagreeing on economics, or the climate, or school choice, or whatever you choose henceforth you can be charged and convicted by an anonymous accuser who is often leaked confidential information from within government files.

[Old Lurker]

"Ukraine claims to be on it, and is ready to ramp up native coal for energy."

Converting from coal to natural gas is fast and easy.

Going the other way is much much harder, even assuming you have ongoing coal mining that can be ramped up.

So I call BS on that statement, certainly in time to impact the current crisis they are in.

[NK(withnewsoftware)]

The natgas energy blackmail is one of the major issues in play, another is Ukraine debt renunciation. How much Russian debt will Kiev renounce as “dettes odieuses" made between the prior corrupt regime as insider deals with Russian patrons? Any such renunciation will be...ahem...provacative and destabilizing.... as least as far as Tsa Vlad is concerned: http://www.weeklystandard.com/articles/ukraine-s-odious-debts_786503.html

[Account Deleted]

NK,

OTOH - a vote to join the Russian Federation keeps the IMF bank thieves out of the vaults and gets the Gazprom NG subsidy back in play. Meanwhile, the President of the United States has turned to page 2 of Chess for Dummies without fully understanding the import of page 1.

[Old Lurker]

I figured Vlad is just upping the amount owed by Ukraine and then plans to, in US real estate law terminology, apply the doctrine of self-help to go in and secure his debt.

As I have been mentioning I have enjoyed all the Bernard Cornwell Viking books lately. One Viking tactic was to land in England, trash a few towns and rape the virgins and wives to prove their seriousness, then offer to skip over towns that would give them a bunch of gold or silver to go away.

A bunch of that Russian DNA derives from the the same Northmen too.

[Threadkiller]

Why I Never Dismissed Obama Birther Stuff

http://nationalreview.com/corner/366364/peter-otoole-rip-mark-steyn

I STAND WITH STEYN.

[NK(withnewsoftware)]

We all know what Putin wants (EVERYTHING!), even if those idiots Obummer, Kerry and hagel have no clue because they can't find their own asses with 2 hands and a flashlight. I couldn't guess at this point what tactics Putin will use to get what he wants.

[(A) nuther Bub]

National Review fired John Derbyshire for a thoughtcrime too (for an article published elsewhere) and Jason Lee Steorts, an editor at NR, upbraided Mark Steyn for writing about two mild and essentially benign jokes that Bob Hope and Dean Martin made about gays. I don't think they have much room for righteous indignation over the treatment of Mozilla's CEO (as expressed today in NROs editorial).

Yes, I will uninstall Firefox, just as I will never again take a NR cruise, although I've been on five of them in the past. Both hurt because I'm a technological dunce who requires some time to learn a new system and because I had a great time on the cruises. A shame to punish myself too, but what other voice do I have?

[windansea]

I've been reading a novel by Ted Bell called Tsar, a spy thriller with all the usual clichés and unreal characters. But the author just nails the present situation with Russia, Ukraine, Crimea etc. I had to look at the publishing date as the accuracy of current events made me think it was just published, actually it was published in 2008. Strange how a less than famous author could predict what would happen while our clown posse government fumbles in the dark.

[Jane]

Though I admit that I thought that this was too devious

Not me. Not for one second.

AB, I'm still trying to get Pat Caddell on the cruise which you promised would get you to violate your oath. (Or you could just sneak on in Nov and I promise not to tell anyone.)

[AliceH]

I don't understand how Mozilla makes money, and I certainly don't understand how my installing/using or not installing/not using Firefox affects their business.

Can someone explain?

[centralcal]

I am curious about that too, AliceH.

[Danube on iPad]

"at that time, the Congress was dominated by Southerners..."

Congress has exactly the same number of Southern senators as it had then, and pretty close to the same number of representatives in the house.

[GMax]

apply the doctrine of self-help to go in and secure his debt.

Where I come from, that is changing the locks when the nonpaying tenant is out of the building. In that light, Putin used self help to remove squatters from the bases in Crimea, and appears to me to be poised to do it again in Eastern Ukraine.

[Bori]

Browsers make money from referral fees. The more subscribers the higher the fee charged. They also make money from companies that pre-package their software with the product.

[Old Lurker]

The are more southern reps today than than years ago because of the migration south and west. So JFK had a more northern congress than we have now. DoT's correct that the Senate has not changed since the addition of Hawaii and Alaska.

[Old Lurker]

That is what it means here to GMax but it is frustrating to us landlords in Janet's Arlington County that even when our leases expressly state that the Landlord is entitled to change the locks for non-payment of rent, our lawyers have not let us do that for years now. It did not take the tenants long to figure out they can get six additional months rent free while the landlord gets a court order for eviction.

[Porchlight]

Remember folks, the traditional marriage people who think, vote, donate and conduct business with some quaint expectation of a secret ballot or free speech or free association - they're the intolerant ones.

[Old Lurker]

...which is why I have actually been known to pay a bad tenant to go away quietly.

[NK(withnewsoftware)]

"...which is why I have actually been known to pay a bad tenant to go away quietly."

wait, you didn't pay legal fees to attorneys to complete the legal process to marshal/sheriff eviction? ....????...
to the fainting couch I have the vapors....

[Porchlight]

Great points, (A)B. I'd forgotten about Derb.

[jimmyk on iPad]

Is there some person or group (like the Board of Directors) at Mozilla who could have stood up for Eich, refused his resignation? Our ire should be focused on them. There will always be agitators and thugs. The important thing is to stand up to them. This would have been easy--Prop 8 won in lib California after all.

[AliceH]

Bori: Sorry to be dense, but what exactly is a referral from a browser? I can't recall ever seeing one - are they "behind the scenes" to the end user? An example would help.

[(A) nuther Bub]

(Or you could just sneak on in Nov and I promise not to tell anyone.)

Could you also sneak me into Kevin Williamson's stateroom, Jane? Thanks. You're a pal.

[Jane]

Something else from Gateway Pundit - which I'm not sure is true, because the LA times had the info. Now where they got if from I don't know.

But I'm perfectly willing to nail Obama for it:

And, how did gay groups know Eich donated money to the Proposition 8 Campaign?
Because the Obama IRS leaked this information to a gay-advocacy group in 2012.
First Things reported, via The Tatler:

Amazingly enough, it is entirely due to the fact that Eich made a $1,000 donation to the campaign urging a ‘yes’ vote on California’s Proposition 8. When this fact first came to light in 2012, after the Internal Revenue Service leaked a copy of the National Organization for Marriage’s 2008 tax return to a gay-advocacy group, Eich, who was then CTO of Mozilla, published a post on his personal blog stating that his donation was not motivated by any sort of animosity towards gays or lesbians, and challenging those who did not believe this to cite any “incident where I displayed hatred, or ever treated someone less than respectfully because of group affinity or individual identity.”

[Porchlight]

Jane,

I had this same question but it's been answered - according to CA law, donations over $100 must be made public. The list of those Prop 8 donors went up on the CA SoS site shortly after the election in 2008 and has been public ever since (though Prop 8 supporters tried to get it taken down, a judge ruled against them). So the LAT had the info legally.

Allahpundit has a pretty good post here:

http://hotair.com/archives/2014/04/03/how-did-people-find-out-that-mozillas-ceo-donated-to-support-prop-8

[Porchlight]

However, I think it's quite clear from other evidence that IRS IS releasing confidential tax data to advocacy groups. The Engelbrecht/True The Vote saga is just one of many examples. Just saying that IRS likely wasn't the source of the Eich info.

[Old Lurker]

Sorry NK. I eventually figured it out.

[NK(withnewsoftware)]

Heh

[Captain Hate]

Yes, I will uninstall Firefox, just as I will never again take a NR cruise, although I've been on five of them in the past. Both hurt because I'm a technological dunce who requires some time to learn a new system and because I had a great time on the cruises. A shame to punish myself too, but what other voice do I have?

Kudos to you. Taking a principled stand often involves sacrifice, which is lost on a lot of people.

[narciso]

Todd Purdum, Mr. Dee Dee Myers, was a greater then usual hack at Carlos Slim's, before he went to Vanity Fair, a real pest when it came to Giuliani and need it be said, the acknowledged author of one of the horrid screeds against the Huntress, who for
daring to stake out the same opinion as Obama and Biden, (although we know they didn't mean it) was hung in effigy in West Hollywood, and her church was set ablaze,

[Danube on iPad]

CH, you got a place to watch the games tomorrow?

[AliceH]

The State of Mozilla (2012):

The majority of Mozilla’s revenue is generated from search and commerce functionality included in our Firefox product through all major search partners including Google, Bing, Yahoo, Yandex, Amazon, eBay and others. Mozilla’s reported revenues also include very important individual and corporate donations and grants, which are growing significantly, as well as other forms of income from our investable assets.

I would think the number of searches generated from Firefox, vs. the raw number of "subscribers" of Firefox, would be the revenue driver.

If that's true, then just using DuckDuckGo (which doesn't share your search) might be the equivalent to "unsubscribing". No?

[narciso]

Yes, Hagel, does remove all doubt, meanwhile two minor Russian envoys joke about taking California and Miamiland,
as they call it. (re the Interpreter)

[Bori]

AliceH,

One good example are search engines, for example, Google pays Firefox for them to use their search engine.

In turn Google gets revenues from advertisers for displaying their results first. Having a browser, in this instance, Chrome facilitates that.

Another source is news, those companies pay the browsers to display and link to their news stories. Obviously, the more popular your browser the more views and possible links to your own site.

[Marlene]

I hope Vlad doesn't invade Latvia.Our nephew is going to Europe with his girlfriend next month. They will be visiting Latvia,where she has relatives. My sister-in-law is the queen of worry warts. I talked to her the other day and she asked is Latvia near Ukraine? Ha. I assured her not to worry,but knowing her for 40 years,she will.

[narciso]

Meanwhile the unfriending proceeds apace in LatakiA, where another of those misunderstood lads from Officer Krupke's jail (Gitmo) went Norwegian Blue.

[narciso]

Interesting Belarus, which is just North of the Ukraine, is not copacetic with these moves of Volodya, so there is that.

Why is it impossible to consider that the IRS provided double secret confirmation to
the claims turned up against Proposition * supporters.

[narciso]

From that same Interpreter link, there are more patrols over Lithuania, so that will be a likely target.

[Jim Rhoads f/k/a vnjagvet]

Mozilla’s reported revenues also include very important individual and corporate donations and grants, which are growing significantly...

Hmmmmm. Could the CEO decapitation have been because of filthy lucre? Looks to me like this is a dot that needs connecting. I wonder who the donors and grantors are.

[Old Lurker]

test

[NK(withnewsoftware)]

Good move by the House, beginning to 'fix' ObummerCare, full-time is amended to 40 hrs not 30hrs under Obummercare, 18 Dems vote for change. WH threatens veto-- ValJar is so retarded. Next week House should vote to repeal Insurer Bailouts-- hey 7 MILLION new customers, no bailout needed...right?
http://hotair.com/archives/2014/04/04/house-republicans-pass-bill-redefining-full-time-work-to-40-hours/

[Old Lurker]

So typepad will not allow me to LUN to IBD.

Is the NSA at work?

They have a good story about Chevron suing Patton Boggs

[MarkO]

Did we add states only in the South in 1964 and then expel them? I know Obama thinks there are 57 now.

History is not taught in school.

[Old Lurker]

That would 'splain it MarkO...

Nor is Civics taught.

[Danube on iPad]

My love for Chevron grows stronger every day:

http://news.investors.com/ibd-editorials/040314-695838-chevron-takes-its-battle-to-its-environmentalist-demonizers.htm

[Jim Eagle]

DoT,

I think I mentioned before here that my friend the ex head of Chevron Gas told me that they have a GC who is an ex-Marine (IIRC) who takes no prisioners and articulted to the board that if they rolled over on this they would be extorted the rest of their lives. He told them the only way to win was to fight harder, faster and more lethal than the other guys. [Typical marine strategy:]

[NK(withnewsoftware)]

DoT-- here's a news story about the Chevron counterclaims being approved to proceed against Patton Boggs. I hope Chevron bankrupts those DC crony sons of bitches. http://online.wsj.com/news/articles/SB10001424052702304157204579473832863036964

[Jim Eagle]

We have a gay neighbor in Southampton who sic'd the police on us because he thought our AC units were violating the village noise code. We were served a warrant to appear in court. Come to find out that he was known for frivilous complaints and law suits against anyone and anything. The judge and village attorney were scared to death of this guy and his antics. He would call them out and pester them all day. Eventually to maintain peace in my own house as well as the neighborhood we replaced the units but the bitter taste remains.

Everyone in the area walks on egg shells because the out of pocket legal costs to defend yourself can run into the tens of thousands and you get no relief from the village or the police. Have never had a neighbor problem where ever I have lived until we came back to Southampton and ran into this jerk.

[Steve]

Hillary Struggles to list any accomplishments as Sec of State:

http://commoncts.blogspot.com/2014/04/video-hillary-clinton-struggles-to-list.html

[NK(withnewsoftware)]

She did misplace that $6B.... not many people 'accomplish' that.

[Danube on iPad]

JiB, check to see if NY has a vexatious litigant statute. CA has one.

[Captain Hate]

Rodham's only accomplishments as SoS were boosting the sales of Corona in whatever country she was visiting.

Negatory, DoT; I'm going to one of my musical listening bud's place tomorrow and I'm pretty sure he doesn't have cable either. Oh well, maybe I can watch on my iPad if he has wifi (which I'm not sure about).

[Captain Hate]

Tammy Bruce has been very outspoken against the Gaystapo and their actions; unlike a certain co-blogger @ AoS who has lied in defending GOProud previously, for example.

[Captain Hate]

Although I commend Randy Andy for not acting like a complete imbecile on this, he still is stuck with a cartoonish caricature of the religious right in his addled mind. TM gets it right.

[jimmyk on iPhone]

The Board of Mozilla, presumably the villains here.

http://investing.businessweek.com/research/stocks/private/board.asp?privcapId=10460890

None are familiar to me. Perhaps we should look up their political contributions over the past 15 years.

[Happy, happy, joy, joy Ignatz]

--JiB, check to see if NY has a vexatious litigant statute. CA has one.--

Was just going to mention that.
However IIRC the creep has to lose to be considered vexatious, at least in CA, and has to represent himself. If people keep rolling over for the guy he aint vexatious cause he keeps winning.

[Some Guy]

Gay Rights advocates are demanding the resignation of BO due to his stand on gay marriage in 2008.

[headlines never written or contemplated]

[Miss Marple]

Good afternoon, all. Busy day at the food pantry, but we did get a load of returned toiletries from WalMart.

Therefore, although the only meat we had was canned salmon and hot dogs, I could load folks up on toothpaste, razors, soap, and shampoo. (These are things you cannot buy with food stamps, which is why some poor people are sort of smelly.)

Temperature has dropped 20 degrees since this morning, with a brisk wind.

Grandson has come over to help me move large boxes and such, so I will be back later.

[Porchlight]

he still is stuck with a cartoonish caricature of the religious right in his addled mind. TM gets it right.

Ditto, Cap'n. Sullivan had to get his shots in at his favorite religious right boogeyman. But I'm glad he spoke up.

Will Saletan in Slate also had a good take. It's satire but I'm sure some readers will miss the satire part:

http://www.slate.com/articles/news_and_politics/frame_game/2014/04/brendan_eich_quits_mozilla_let_s_purge_all_the_antigay_donors_to_prop_8.single.html

[Old Lurker]

I'd be looking for that $6B in the Clinton Foundation.

Also I see on Fox that a bunch of the Obamacare enrollees are prisoners in states that are shifting their costs to the Feds. Nice.

[Porchlight]

Excellent Taranto today - discussing Citizens United, Eich, and campaign donation disclosure:

http://online.wsj.com/news/articles/SB10001424052702303987004579481502667817472

[Beasts of England]

Prisoners deserve maternity benefits, too, OL...

[Jim Rhoads f/k/a vnjagvet]

Patten Boggs is in deep do do. I have a hunch Squire Sanders will not come to their rescue. I suspect that insurance coverage for this kind of claim is iffy, too.

[Janet - the districts lie fallow, while the Capitol gorges itself]

Rodham's only accomplishments as SoS were boosting the sales of Corona in whatever country she was visiting.

That's a great line, Captain!! Hah!

[Bori]

BoE,

If you have read some of the stories recently, some prisoners are in definite need of birth control as well.

[daddy]

I just watched Steve's link above of Hillary unable to name a single specific of accomplishment during her time as Secretary of State.

The part that struck me is the continual fawning of the guy who asked her the question, continually saying "Yes", and nodding his head in agreement over and over again as she says absolutely nothing.

Whoever he is, the subservient bootlicker certainly knows his place.

[Old Lurker]

Whoa.

Did you guys see some of W's art in today's WaPo?

LUN

Who knew? Good for him.

[Jeff Dobbs]

Miss Marple:
but we did get a load of returned toiletries from WalMart.

Some smarta** is probably thinking of joking about whether the returned toiletries were unused.

But not me.

[NK(withnewsoftware)]

Hillary's peons. I watched Lawrence of Arabia the other night (never gets old), and in an early scene, Lawrence takes on 2 orphans as attendants, Sharif Ali (Omar Sharif) says disgustedly about the boys: "These are not servants, these are worshippers." describes the HildaBeast fawners quite well.