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The Washington Time has an exclusive article which aruges that Obama is likely to delay repealling Pres. Clinton’s infamous “don’t ask don’t tell” policy that allows gays and lesbians to serve in the military. In fact, it looks like he won’t move on it, if he does at all, until 2010 according to the Times.

Mr. Obama’s gay-ban pledge was not a major campaign issue. However, he provided a policy statement to the Human Rights Campaign, the largest U.S. gay rights group, pledging to repeal the exclusion and to invite back service members discharged under the law. He also said that he wants the Pentagon to school military people on how to treat gays.

Well, get used to it Obama supporters. I have a feeling he is going to change his mind on a lot of his campaign pledges. Oh yeah, that one where only people making $250,000 or more, he’s pretty much already forgotten that one. Welcome to President Carter the sequel, ain’t it grand!

Sudden Illness befalls the US Attorney General as Michael Mukasey collapses yesterday while speaking at an annual meeting of the Federalist Society. See the collapse video, pictures, and a biography below.

The official statement is that Mukasey is alright. Reportedly, he was shaking while speaking, and then suddenly collapse. He was rushed to George Washington University Hospital where he stayed overnight for observation. The third man in the Justice Department was alerted of the situation.

Michael Bernard Mukasey was born the son of an immigrant in the Bronx, July 28, 1941, which makes him 67 years old. He replaced Roberto Gonzalez as the attorney general in the Bush administration on November 9, 2007. He is only the second Jewish person to hold the position.

Mukasey received a B.A. from Columbia University in 1963. Then he attended Yale law school where he graduated in 1967. He practiced as an attorney in New York City for 20 years, four of which he served as an Assistant United States Attorney where he worked with Rudolph Giuliani.

He spent every spring teaching at Columbia Law School since 1993. He has served several years as a Federal District Court Judge, appointed by Ronald Reagan. He retired from that position in 2006, after which he returned to private practice. As an attorney general, he has served his country honorably.

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Roseanne Barr calls out bigots on her blog. It appears that her definition of bigots is anyone who doesn’t agree with her view of the world. Read about it below and see photos and a video.

Roseanne Barr

It seems we have another one time comedian who is needing some attention. Roseanne Barr was once kind of funny with her schtick about being a low-rent housewife calling herself a ‘domestic goddess’. Then she had a situation comedy on television that was sort of funny until she decided to start making societal and political statements through her show. People soon lost interest in her show just like other shows that forget their purpose is to entertain rather than indoctrinate.

Well, she’s been on a roll of political outrage and running off at the mouth every since the cancellation of her show. Most people don’t listen. I guess that’s why periodically she has to get outrageous enough to draw attention back to herself. Sure enough, she’s done it now. Its not really that newsworthy other than the fact that its just jaw droppingly convoluted and defies rational thought.

Roseanne blogs. She has written on her blog the way to bring peace in the Middle East after millenniums of turmoil between the Jews and the Arabs who occupy the area. Her solution is brilliant in its simplicity.

ISRAEL MUST CONCEDE

ALL TERRITORY PRE 1967 AND JERUSALEM TOO, TO A THREE WAY SPLIT UNDER INTERNATIONAL AND VATICAN CONTROL IN ORDER TO AVOID WW3!!!

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Rosie O’Donnell made some unkind statements about her former employer, Barbara Walters, and the show that got her some attention for a while, ‘The View’. Barbara Walters responded in much less obnoxious fashion, but she did respond. Read about it here and see photos and the video of Walters’ response to Rosie.

Rosie O’Donnell

It seems that Rosie O’Donnell hasn’t been getting the attention she had become accustomed to by being completely obnoxious using her bully pulpit to spout her often bizarre views on the television show ‘The View’. She must have been missing the attention because she’s back in the news today. This time she’s in the new for bashing Barbara Walters, her former employer and ‘The View’. It seems they all did her wrong.

Rosie is promoting her upcoming NBC Thanksgiving Eve variety special that is also a pilot for her new talk show. She promises she won’t talk politics on her new show.

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As Governor of Alaska, Sarah Palin pardoned a turkey prior to its demise for the Thanksgiving holiday. All went well, except for one thing. Read about it below and see photos and a video. Video is not for those with a weak stomach, vegetarians or others who have never been on a farm or know where their food comes from.

Sarah Palin

Only a few Presidents have kept up a tradition of pardoning turkeys at Thanksgiving. John F. Kennedy did it in 1963 starting the sort of tradition. No one else did it until President George H. W. Bush did it in 1993. President George W. Bush has pardoned a turkey every year of his Presidency. Its a lovely tradition even though we all know that thousands upon thousands of the sad birds are slaughtered every year so we can gorge our gluttonous selves on their tender meat on Thanksgiving Day. And, of course, give Thanks for the bounty we have been blessed with in this land of plenty. Yada, yada … lets eat.

Apparently, some Governors around the country have taken up the cause to give a formal pardon to one lone turkey prior to Thanksgiving. Its ceremonial and basically meaningless, but its still kind of … well … kind.

Alaska Governor Sarah Palin did just that this year. However, instead of having a big, fat, juicy gobbler brought to her for a formal ceremony under controlled circumstances, she went to the turkey. That seems like her style after all. She held the ceremony at the turkey’s home at Triple D Farm and Hatchery in Wasilla, Alaska. News crews were at hand to film the whole event, of course.

She did the whole pardoning thing with the backdrop of the birds milling around in the big bird house. When she finished with the ceremony a worker sliced off the head of a turkey right behind her … in full view of the camera crew. As might be expected liberals, vegans and people who think their food originates in grocery stores were horrified. In fact, there is a warning that the video is just too grisly to watch.

Many have actually used this as yet another opportunity to deride her. The fact that they go to this extreme to find something to damage her image is just further proof of the power she has over them. They are terrified of her. Its also further proof that they really do live in a bubble. I mean, where do they think their food comes from? Most people have at least visited farms.

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The Humane Society is trying to raise awareness of the abuse puppies suffer in puppy mills so that they can be sold in pet shops. They are currently trying to put pressure on Petland to stop selling puppies from puppy mills. Read about it and see photos and a video below.

Puppy Mill Puppies

One good thing that might come out of an Obama administration is a raised awareness of the need to adopt dogs in need of a home as opposed to buying dogs that have been raised in puppy mills. A few weeks ago the Obamas announced that they were going to give their daughters the dog they had promised if Obama won the election. Since he did, that is one campaign promise he is probably going to have to keep. Obama mentioning the use of the Humane Society to adopt rather than buying an animal is an excellent way to increase awareness. While that decision has yet to have an impact, there is hope now that more people will pay attention to where their pets come from.

The Humane Society sent out the following email to members today and hopefully is being forwarded to every decent human with an email address.

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Henry Waxman, long-time democratic Congressman from California, has won the backing of the democratic caucus to be the chair of the House Energy and Commerce Committee. Read his biography and see photos and a video below.

Henry Waxman

Congressman Henry Waxman (D-Calif) has won the backing of the democratic caucus to be the House Energy and Commerce Committee Chairman. Waxman beat out long time chairman democrat from Michigan Representative John Dingell. This signals changes coming in anticipation of the Barack Obama Administration. Waxman is known to be one of the most liberal Congressmen in the House of Representatives.

John Dingell had been the Chairman of the committee since 1981. He has also been a powerful supporter of Michigan’s automobile industry. This upset in the traditional methods democrats have used to choose committee chairmen has created a rift within the party between the far left liberals and the more moderate and fiscally conservative democrats.

The House Energy and Commerce Committee is a powerful committee that oversees health care, energy issues and telecommunications policy. Its generally thought that Waxman will support Obama’s legislative agenda of imposing environmentally friendly modifications in the production of vehicles. Dingell had spared with the liberal wing of the party over these issues. Waxman lobbied for the position by hammering home that Obama would have to work around Dingell to move forward with his ‘progressive’ agendas.

Waxman is known to be one of the most far left Congressmen in the House. He supported Code Pink and went with that Marxist anti-war group to Yeman to facilitate them donating $600,000 to insurgents fighting our Soldiers in Iraq at the hight of the violence in the Iraq front of the Global War on Terrorism.

Henry Arnold Waxman was born on September 12, 1939 in Los Angeles, California. He is 69-years-old. He earned his bachelor’s degree in political science from UCLA in 1961 and a law degree from UCLA in 1964. He worked briefly as an attorney before he was elected to the California Assembly in 1969. He served there for six years. He was elected to Congress to represent the Los Angeles area (30th congressional district) of California on January 14, 1975.

Waxman lists his own legislative priorities as health and environmental issues. He is involved in legislation that has to do with universal health insurance, medicare and medicaid coverage, tobacco, AIDS, air and water quality standards, pesticides, nursing home quality standards, women’s health research and reproductive rights, prescription drugs, pollution issues.

When the democrats took control of Congress in 2006, Waxman became chairman of the House Oversight and Government Reform Committee.

Waxman is married to Janet Kessler Waxman. They have a son and a daughter and several grandchildren.

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Meet Penny Pritzker, Barack Obama’s campaign finance chairman and rumored to be his top choice for Secretary of Commerce. Read her biography and see photos and a video about her below.

Penny Pritzker

Billionaire money maven Penny Pritzker was the national finance chairman for Obama’s presidential campaign. Under her care, his campaign raised record breaking amounts of money believed to be as much as $640 million. Now ’sources’ are reporting that she is his choice to be his Commerce Secretary.

Pritzker is denying the rumors saying that she feels she can best serve the administration by helping to create jobs. As an heiress to the Hyatt Hotel fortune she is a billionaire which is at odds with Obama’s theory that jobs and wealth are created from the bottom up, not from the top down. Pritzker is in the top 150 wealthiest people in America.

Her appointment to this position would not be without controversy considering her history as the mother of subprime lending practices.

Penny Sue Pritzker was born in 1959 in Chicago, Illinois. She is 49-years-old. She was born into the Pritzker family which is one of America’s wealthiest families as heirs to the Hyatt Hotel empire. Her brother is Jay Robert “J.B.” Pritzker.

Her grandfather was Abram Nicholas Pritzker (1896 - 1986), the founder of the Hyatt Hotel chain. The hotel chain was taken over by and built into a major hotel chain by his son and Penny’s uncle was Jay Pritzker (1922 - 1999). Her parents are Mr. and Mrs. Donald Pritzker. Penny Pritzker attended Castilleja School until her graduation in 1977. She earned her BA in economics from Harvard University in 1981 and her JD and MBA from Standford University in 1984.

She grew up in a politically active home that supported democratic candidates over the years. Her mother helped Nancy Pelosi get elected. They supported Bill Clinton in his presidential campaign and John Kerry when he ran for President.

She is one of three cousins who run the Hyatt empire throughout the world. Pritzker founded and is the chairman of Classic Residence by Hyatt, a chain of luxury senior living communities. She runs four companies and serves on the boards of numerous charities. She served as Barack Obama’s National Finance Chair. She estimated to be the 135th richest person in the United States according to Forbes 400 list of ‘America’s Wealthiest. She’s estimated to have a net worth of $2.8 billion.

Pritzker is married to Dr. Bryan Traubert, an ophthalmologist. Pritzker and her husband live in the Lincoln Park neighborhood of Chicago. They have been close friends with the Obamas since the 1990s when their children were on coached in summer basketball by Michelle Obama’s brother, Craig Robinson. They have a teenage son and daughter.

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