Shut Up Fool! Awards- Oops, I Forgot Edition

Been juggling so much stuff over the last few days Friday slipped by without me making my weekly TransGriot Shut Up Fool! award post.

Oops, my bad.

As usual there were a plethora of idiots to choose from.  Sharron Angle, Christine O'Donnell, Sarah Palin, Glenn Beck, Bill O'Reilly, Sean Hannity, Lynne Cheney,  Rand Paul,  Megyn Kelly, Michele Bachmann, Faux News...


But the fool that gets it this week is  Jeffrey Lord of the American Spectator.   This conservafool in his and the conservative movement's desperation to try to smear Delaware Democratic senate candidate Chris Coons so that the hideously unqualified loon Christine O' Donnell can look less scary to the Delaware electorate, wrote a lie filled attack piece that mischaracterized Coons' work for the South African Council of Churches.

Our SUF winner tried to say that Coons was “emerging as a leftist,” and thus “decided he had some sort of obvious attraction to the work of SACC,” which “support[ed] Black Liberation Theology.

And who was the head of the SACC which at the time Coons was in school was during the apartheid era?  

Nobel laureate Archbishop Desmond Tutu.

He's already on my caca list for working in the Raygun administration and the lies he wrote about Shirley Sherrod..

Jeffery Lord, shut up fool!

Team USA Women 2010 FIBA Worlds- USA 108-Senegal 52

Team USA shook off a slow 1 for 7 shooting start to wake up and start blistering the nets for another Group B blowout win against FIBA African champ Senegal 108-52.

Maya Moore came off the bench to lead six USA players in double figures with 15 points as all 12 USA players scored for the second time in this 2010 FIBA World Championship tournament.

Candice Dupree and Swin Cash contributed 14 points apiece, Tina Charles chipped in 11 points with Sylvia Fowles and Lindsay Whalen on 5 for 5 shoot tallying 10 points apiece.  Three more players, Diana Taurasi (8 points), Angel McCoughtry (9 points) and Tamika Catchings (9 points) narrowly missed joining the double digit scoring party.

"It's funny because we have so much talent on this team, and at any point any player can go off," said Sue Bird. "But that's where our advantage lies, where we don't have the training, we have the depth. So, we can go 12 deep, and it could be anybody in double figures. It could be six people, seven people, and that's really where our strength is."
Team USA eventually shook off the slow start to eventually finish the game shooting 61.1% for the game on 44 for 72 shooting. They also outrebounded Senegal 44-25 and forced 28 turnovers that they converted into 28 points.   

Team USA went on 17-0 and 11-4 runs to break open the game and go up 30-11 at the end of the first quarter and expand the lead to 58-25 at halftime.  

They came out of the locker room determined to get off to a good second half start and a 14-5 run over the first 5:25 of that quarter helped expand their lead and build it to 86-36 by the end of the third period.

Senegal never quit and played Team USA hard the entire game, but the American squad had too much talent. 

And more bad news for FIBA world, they're getting better.

"Our chemistry is building," said Jayne Appel.  "It's kind of the same mindset every night, in the sense that each game that goes on, everyone is getting more comfortable, starting to trust each other a little more. So everything is definitely starting to work, and we're getting more and more pieces of the puzzle."

They play France in their final Group B preliminary game before the crossover round starts September 27-29 in Ostrava to form Group E.   Team USA will play against the top three teams in Group A.  The medal rounds will be played in Karlovy Vary, with the quarterfinals scheduled for October 1, the semifinals on October 2 and the medal games played on October 3. 
  
Two games down, seven to go.

Commenting on GetEqual's FB Page

One of the things that has irritated myself and many non-white TBLG people is the increasingly nasty rhetoric aimed the Democratic Party and the borderline bigoted and sometimes racist rhetoric aimed at President Obama coming from LGBT peeps frustrated about the stalled GLBT political agenda.

GetEqual is one of the orgs trumpeting their direct action confrontations interrupting President Obama's speeches and protests on issues such as DADT, marriage equality and ENDA    

But something we have noticed in the African-American LGBT/SGL community and discuss is that predominately white dominated GetEqual and many of the people visiting their FB page are only focusing their anger on the Democrats instead of targeting their real oppressors in the Republican Party.

Since there's been some chatter in the GLBT Afrosphere about this glaring imbalance in GetEqual's focus in terms of their direct action efforts, decided to stroll over to their FB page this morning and ask the question they've been tap dancing around.

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Monica Roberts so when is GetEqual going to do more protests of their GOP oppressors?

56 minutes ago · 

GetEQUAL Right now, they all look alike to us.

47 minutes ago ·

Monica Roberts Not to me or the AA GLBT community...The GOP are the ones that have used the GLBT community as a political football for 20 years.. So why no protests on them unless GetEqual, you aspire to BE like the GOP?

Monica Roberts The GOP are ones who have people in their senate offices shouting 'Kill the gays' Why no bumrushing of Sen Saxby Chambliss (R-GA) office?

GetEQUAL Sen. McCain is a Republican. Our last two posts have BEEN about Republicans. RE: Saxby - We would love to, but with only 5 employees, none of which live in GA., our hands are full at the moment. Are you offering to organize a contingent to do just that, because it's a worthy cause!

Monica Roberts Saxby Chambliss does have a Senate office in Washington DC.

I'm pointing out that your direct actions in the eyes of many in the AA GLBT community have been too one sided. Until that balance changes to where GetEqual is doing more to highlight the fact that it is the Republican Party that have been the obstacles to (GLBT equality and enable) the oppression of the GLBT community instead of hate on a president that is still very popular with my AA community, why should I lift a finger or spend any time to help an org that is deliberately ignoring that point?

GetEQUAL ‎@Monica - we understand what you mean. @Chris in the post above explained why we have taken this path at the moment. We feel that pestering Dems is our only chance before the mid-terms. (Then, all bets are off!) If you have suggestions ...on how we can do better, please send them in to info@getequal.org . All thoughts are welcome.

On a side note - we're ALL Democrats! Disappointed Dems though.

Monica Roberts And I'm a Democrat too...but I also see the Republican intransigence component of why the GLBT political agenda is stalled and attention has to drawn to that point.

What has to happen is GetEqual has to be just as hard on the GOP as it is on the Democratic party. I'm not saying back off on the Dems, keep putting the pressure on,. All I and the AA GLBT community are asking for is balance in your efforts. 



All attacking President Obama does is while it make white gays happy, it pisses off Black gay peeps and makes our job to try to garner support for GLBT rights issues inside our community, when we already have to battle sellout fundie Black hate ministers, more difficult

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The point that I and the non White GLBT community is making about GetEqual and other GL orgs is that they have been less than evenhanded in their protests, and their monoracial leadership makeup probably is a factor in why that has been the case.  .  

It has not escaped our attention that the GOP and its inside the Beltway leadership is overwhelmingly monoracial as well.  Because protests draw media coverage, it is important that the GOP be hit with them as well to get it into the MSM chattering class discussion that the GOP has been an obstacle to LGBT progress.    The lack of protests aimed at the GOP is leading to the ludicrous perception in some quarters of the GLBT community that the Republican Party is 'more friendly' to GLBT.issues.  

Yeah, right.    The current GOP fights to take rights away, not expand them.  The sooner people in the GLBT community get that through their thick heads, the better.