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 DADT Repeal Passed
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| Hypatia |
Posted on 12/18/2010 17:24
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w00t! [url]http://www.politico.com/news/stories/1210/46576.html[/url] [quote]The Senate voted Saturday afternoon to repeal the ban on gays serving openly in the military, marking a major victory for gay rights and an end to the 17-year-old "don't ask, don't tell" policy. The bill now heads to President Barack Obama, who plans to sign it into law, overturning what repeal advocates believed was a discriminatory policy that unfairly ended the careers of thousands of gay members of the military over the years. The 65-31 Senate vote marked a historic |
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| Photon |
Posted on 12/19/2010 05:50
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It's about damn time. |
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| seeker |
Posted on 12/19/2010 10:56
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Hooray, now gay people have the right to openly die in wars. This is a great step forward?
"Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it." - George Santayana
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| Bob of QF |
Posted on 12/19/2010 14:38
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About bloody time the USA took a step into the 21st century... and caught up with the rest of the modern ethics.
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Reality is that which is left, after you stop believing. |
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| Doubting Thomas |
Posted on 12/20/2010 11:18
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I wonder if the Republican House will try to do something to reinstitute DADT next year, but it would be a losing battle if they tried.
You're just jealous because the voices are talking to me and not you.
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| catman |
Posted on 12/20/2010 14:59
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I wouldn't be too sure. One should never make assumptions involving fair-mindedness or intelligence, especially where Congress is involved. As my cousin said, "There's Pro-gress, and then there's Con-gress."
"If I owned both Hell and Texas, I'd live in Hell and rent out Texas." - General Sheridan
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| Skeeve |
Posted on 12/20/2010 20:30
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This will sting for quite awhile. I'm curious to see how petty they can be, now that teh gay are almost citizens. |
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| Skeeve |
Posted on 12/20/2010 20:50
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Oh look [url=http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2010/12/20/dont-ask-dont-tell-oppone_n_799238.html]Don't Ask, Don't Tell Repeal Opponents Taking Revenge On Russian Arms Treaty[/url] Now that DADT has been repealed, Graham is signaling he'll no longer vote for the treaty. "If you really want to have a chance of passing START, you better start over and do it in the next Congress because this lame duck has been poisoned," Graham said on CBS's "Face the Nation" on Sunday. |
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| catman |
Posted on 12/20/2010 23:32
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Just like a petulant spoiled child, except that this idiot is playing for high stakes.
"If I owned both Hell and Texas, I'd live in Hell and rent out Texas." - General Sheridan
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| JohnH |
Posted on 12/21/2010 16:37
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I have no great love for US politicians of any stripe. I will admit a certain fondness for Ron Paul for his ideological purity (most of which I disagree with on a very fundamental level) and his common sense on foreign relations. But, the pettiness of the current republican party is scary. The fact that the american public have not condemned them for it is even more scary. Why don't people care that those who represent them are not presenting logical and considered reasons for their actions but resorting to petty and irrational explanations for their actions. I could understand, if not agree with, arguments against START along the lines that we would put our defense at risk. An argument against START that is basically they shoved repeal of DADT down our throats so we will resist START is not rational on any level. How can anyone accept this. The whole thing is particularly weird since the military and the public were so much in favor of repeal of DADT that the republican party had to go along. It had nothing to do with the opposition party. |
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| Photon |
Posted on 12/22/2010 02:31
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We won't get rid of our nuclear weapons unless the gays are cast out of the military? How is that not extortion, and irrational idiocy? |
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