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As part of its review of ‘Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell’ the US military is conducting a survey of members of the Armed Services, apparently trying to collect various information, including just how many members of the military are gay (Question: “Are you gay? Do you want to be?”) and how many really, really don’t like gays.
The survey has reportedly already been sent out to 400,000 service members. And we’ve been trying to find out details on just what’s being asked. But the Pentagon isn’t talking and we’ve not been able to find anyone who’s actually seen it. If you have seen it or can shed any light on what’s in the survey, please drop us a line.
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Fox News brings back “death panels” for special Summer 2010 engagement.
This is really not the stance I would expect the federal official who oversees the National Marine Fisheries Service’s Office of Protected Resources — the office that enforces the Endangered Species Act and the Marine Mammal Protection Act — to take on the BP blowout’s effect on endangered wildlife:
“Spills of this magnitude are really rare events, like airplane crashes are really rare. But people still keep getting on planes every day,” Jim Lecky told our Rachel Slajda today. If they stopped a project because of any small chance of disaster, Lecky said, “then we really wouldn’t do much.”
Recall that NMFS woefully underestimated the impact of a major spill when it greenlighted the 2007 round of leases in the deep waters of the Gulf, including what became the BP well. It will be revisiting that opinion in light of current events.
Are you a Senate Republican getting on the run from a Tea Party challenger? Then you better be voting against Elena Kagan.
Our own Steve Clemons explains his own cameo role in the Russian spy scandal.
The funny thing about this scandal is that since I guess it was their job to circulate, the dozen or so alleged spies are turning into a sort of espionage 6 Degrees of Kevin Bacon. I’ve already been in touch with various acquaintances who had some contact with one of them. Indeed, one of our readers who works near TPM told us a week ago how he and a rather smitten colleague once had drinks with the ubiquitous ‘Anna Chapman’ (the one you’re seeing all the pictures of) who treated them to a mini-diatribe of Russian nationalism and railed against Jews. Read More
CNN says Octavia Nasr violated the network’s secret social media policy. They just won’t say what the policy is or even that they fired her for violating it.
I’m wondering if Sen. Vitter means something different from everyone else when he says an aide is assigned to “women’s affairs.”
Obama on anxiety some Israelis feel toward him: “some of it may just be the fact that my middle name is Hussein, and that creates suspicion.”
Just yesterday Nevada Senate candidate Sharron Angle called BP’s $20 billion escrow account a “slush fund,” echoing Rep. Joe Barton’s comments a few weeks back. But she’s apparently realized that that’s too toxic even for Sharron Angle. She’s now released a statement saying she was wrong and taking it back.