Old Gay Lawyer--- Ramblings
The collected thoughts, rants and ramblings of Eamon O'Connor
>> The collected thoughts, rants and ramblings of Eamon O'Connor
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05/08/12@ 11:16:00 pm Categories: Politics & Politicians, Douchenozzles & Douchebagery, Cool Stuff, Gay Stuff , Tags: marriage equality, north carolina , 315 words 
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Well the North Carolina election results are in. Today an unholy alliance of christianists. anti-liberty people andjust plain bigots prevailed by twenty-two points, 61% to 39%. This election amended the state's constitution to not only disallow marriag… more »
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04/18/12@ 02:07:00 pm Categories: Cool Stuff , Tags: john brennan, mt. rushmore, naked, portland international, tsa , 297 words Permalink
Portland area businessman and frequent flyer John Brennan had his fill with TSA at the Portland International Airport. He was headed for San Jose California when he set off one of the magic wands designed to ferret out explosives and such. He asked the… more »
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04/06/12@ 07:37:00 pm Categories: Politics & Politicians, Cool Stuff, Mythology & Religion , Tags: companeros, fernado isern, terrorist groups, us conference of catholic bishops , 480 words Permalink
For quite awhile now I have been watching the activities of the National Conference of Catholic Bishops and wondering if Their Bishopnesses aren't indeed in need of registration with the Justice Department as a terrorist organization.
According to the… more »
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03/24/12@ 03:42:00 pm Categories: Musings Over Coffee, Cool Stuff , Tags: albuquerque, bounty, richard berry , 337 words Permalink
This morning's Albuquerque Journal reports a real shocker. Apparently since 2010 the ABQ New Mexico's police officers protective association, euphemistically called a 'union', has paid its members as much $900 per head to any ABQ cop who shoots a citiz… more »
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02/22/12@ 08:07:00 pm Categories: Cool Stuff, Law Stuff, Gay Stuff , Tags: doma, judge jeffrey white, karen golinski, marriage equality. alex kozinski , 509 words Permalink
Today the Forces of Liberty and Equality were handed another victory in the courts. Today Judge Jeffrey S. White filed his opinion granting the plaintiff's motion for summary judgment in the case of Karen Golinski vs US Office of Personnel Management C… more »
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01/26/12@ 03:59:00 pm Categories: Cool Stuff , Tags: cheap flights , 17 words Permalink
For those of you who love Celtic music this video is priceless. Watch it! What the feck more »
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01/18/12@ 12:36:00 am Categories: Musings Over Coffee, Cool Stuff , Tags: pipa, sopa , 0 words Permalink
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01/07/12@ 12:47:00 pm Categories: Musings Over Coffee, Cool Stuff, Gay Stuff , Tags: apologies, cardinal george, chicago, kkk , 606 words Permalink
Francis Cardinal George is the Archbishop of Chicago soon to retire as he turns 75 in the new year. He is a very public man in the twilight of his position as archbishop. Recently in a local television interview during a time of negotiating the route o… more »
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11/23/11@ 02:54:00 pm Categories: Musings Over Coffee, Cool Stuff, NOT-Cool Stuff , Tags: airloine tickets, ass gas or grass , 205 words Permalink
This story from the SanFrancisco Chronicle caught my eye. I remember in the 60s I occasionally saw license plate frames on VW buses that read "Ass, gas, or grass. No one rides for free." Imagine buying a ticket to ride on an interntional flight from I… more »
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11/20/11@ 07:43:00 pm Categories: Cool Stuff, NOT-Cool Stuff , Tags: linda hatehi, occupation, pepper spray, terror, thugs, uc davis , 585 words Permalink
Things are moving along quite 'nicely' with the fracas at UC Davis caused by a Unicop who calmly walked up behind a group of Occupiers sitting with linked arms and looking down at the ground in front of them. In front of the seated people was a line of… more »
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11/13/11@ 11:05:00 am Categories: Musings Over Coffee, Cool Stuff , Tags: banishment, colorado, george carlin, kansas, utah, wyoming , 150 words Permalink
A friend of mine who still labors at he bar of justice sent me this clip by (as he calls him) the Prophet George. In a little over eightr minutes Carlin lays out his solution for violent criminals, uncontrolled drunks, drug addicts and wingnuts curre… more »
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11/05/11@ 12:02:00 am Categories: Cool Stuff , 41 words Permalink
This is my pick of the day for the best political shirt going. I want one but since it's a baseball jersey I am going to have to be very careful sizing it. After all I do want to wear it. more »
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11/04/11@ 07:12:00 pm Categories: Politics & Politicians, Cool Stuff, Gay Stuff , 357 words Permalink
Bryan Moylan over at Gawker.com has come up with an intersting punishment for Ken Mehlman. To refresh your recollection Mehlman was George W. Bush's manager and a chief strategist along wth Karl Rove in Bush's 2004 election campaign. Mehlman was one of… more »
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10/31/11@ 03:37:00 pm Categories: Politics & Politicians, Douchenozzles & Douchebagery, Cool Stuff, Requiescat in Pacem , Tags: douchebags and douchebaggery, james forrester, marriage equality , 213 words Permalink
North Carolina legislator, James Forrester, who was a retired Air Force Brigadier general, medical doctor and a twenty year veteran of legislative politics as a member of the North Carolina General Assembly has died. I extend my condolences to the mem… more »
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10/30/11@ 01:47:00 pm Categories: Politics & Politicians, Musings Over Coffee, Cool Stuff , Tags: carol jensen, occupy barstow, ows , 135 words Permalink
I came across on my Twitter feed. Even in small towns stuck in the middle of the desert like Barstow, California Americans are upset with the betrayal of Americans by the Congress and our entire national government. They are upset that government now is… more »
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10/29/11@ 11:54:00 am Categories: Politics & Politicians, Cool Stuff, Requiescat in Pacem , Tags: afghanistan, barack obama, eon panetta, hamid karzai, more dead soldiers , 249 words Permalink
The New York Times reports that 13 American soldiers were killed by a suicide bomber in Kabul when the bomber drove a truck loaded with fifteen hundred pounds of explosive into a heavily armored transport outside the US… more »
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09/26/11@ 04:16:00 pm Categories: Politics & Politicians, Cool Stuff , Tags: fdr, wannabe presidents , 604 words Permalink
I was wandering around Facebook this morning feeling sorry for myself recovering from a surgery that laid me low and seemingly destroyed my own personal dignity when I found this song called "Dear Mrs
Rossevelt" written by Woodie Guthrie some fifty ye… more »
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08/15/11@ 08:01:00 pm Categories: Musings Over Coffee, Cool Stuff , Tags: 2012, democracy, failure, obama, perry, romney, special interest, voting , 659 words Permalink
Well it looks to me like our choices for president in 2012 are to select the status quo represented by Barack Oama on the Dem side of the aisle and either Mitt Romney (Magic Underwear) or Rick Perry (Pastor Rick) on the GOPer side. Both of those gentlem… more »
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08/08/11@ 06:13:00 pm Categories: Cool Stuff , 71 words 
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This is a really cool picture taken in May by the Mars Recon Orbiter. It shows brown streaks below what appears to be an eroded cliff in a crater on Mars. NASA says the streaks are evidence of the movement of free brine water. The picture is a composit… more »
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08/07/11@ 12:42:00 am Categories: Cool Stuff, NOT-Cool Stuff , Tags: dea, mexico, money pit, subversion, war on drugs , 526 words Permalink
This story in Saturday's New York Times lays out in lurid detail two very serious facts of American political history in the opening decades of the 21st century. Fact number one: America is an arrogant empire and is oppressing people and their politica… more »
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08/06/11@ 12:52:00 pm Categories: Cool Stuff , Tags: anything, nothing, something , 83 words Permalink
Imagine a boundary that divides all that is from all that isn't. Our Universe is on one side of the Boundary and on the other side of the Boundary there is nothing. This nothingness is govern by nothng and because of that it can not act on itself for… more »
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08/05/11@ 05:33:00 pm Categories: Cool Stuff, NOT-Cool Stuff , Tags: dept of defense, nasa, spacetravel , 165 words Permalink
Now this is most interesting. Our military establishment, the one President Eisenhower warned us against (along with the industry that feeds off of it) is starting to plan for a starship-miliary vessel that will travel to another solar system in about a… more »
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08/04/11@ 05:55:00 pm Categories: Politics & Politicians, Cool Stuff , 149 words Permalink
Governor Chris Christie of New Jersey whose fame to date seems to be based on saying and doing dumb things has opened his mouth yet again but what flowed out, given the current crop of GOPers, was simply amazing. Christie put his considerable weight be… more »
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