More news than you can handle!

First stop today: Missouri.
In Tuesdays election, voters chose to support the gay marriage ban in their state constitution. They chose to put in their own FMA, if you will, with 71% of the voters (not population) voting for it. Mind you, this is a conservative state, and there were 29% voting against it already. This shows that my statements that the gay marriage movement has moved a bit fast in many states. If it went slower, more people might be in tune with it eventually. [Every cloud has a silver lining, but this one might be mercury]

Second Stop: Yorba Linda, CA
Here, we have a celebration of the 30th aniversary of Nixon's resignation. (Hey, kids, I cannot make this stuff up). During the celebration, many hald panel discussions of Nixon, and sometimes he was compared to Nixon. Interestingly, Stepher Spruiell at the National Review has extended the comparisons to a national article, and did so. The Republicans are now getting desperate by using what democrats consider to be an evil president against them by comparing their candidate to him. Also, the republicans, at least a decent majority of them, liked Nixon and think he was a good President. The irony of the article ist tha Bush has been similarly compared to Nixon previously for the exact same methods, only by the left, and has been derided for doing so. Sadly, the left didn't have the same base for irony as the right does.

Third stop: New York City and New Jersey
Homeless people everywhere, and only one leader for them: Cheri Honkala. Apparently Cheri has read up on her Nazi history and has created a veritable army of homeless people who are down-on-their-luck and desperate. These people, who have little more than their freedom to lose, according to the article, have become devout followers, minions if you will, of Honkala and her cause. She is currently marching through New Jersey with her band of homeless, and will hit NYC when the RNC comes rolling into town, permit or not. She has finally tapped into a resource which has been long ignored: the desperate people. (ed's note: I have supported Honkala, unwittingly, by seeing Storytelling in theaters and buying it on DVD, as her son, Mark Webber, played Scooby and gives profits to his mother's charity)