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hey dudes and dudettes! .. welcome to the reX.
booth sHow! ...moNday 21, 2000 it's pResidents day! .
leTs
sit back and haVe a cup of coFFy with reX. ..and "cHat-it-up"...
leTs raP about wHat's happening in our quEEr liFe.. and liFe in
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FORTUNE COOKIE OF THE DAY!
LEFTOVER VD stuff: tHis wHas sent to me by someoNe
from thier forTune cookie:
"An argument had with a spouse is a loving moment lost forever."
- send me your quotes.. thoughts.. for my forTune cookie! .. or
i might hear you say something that i might quote! .. rex@gaybc.com
QUESTION OF THE DAY RESULTS!
the polls were stuffed! .. people voted more tHan once.. guess
i should have said you should vote once.. so please.. just one vote
each.. so we can get some accurate results..
wHat cHarity should the reX.caM. support?
ALL PROFIT to aids hospice or grocery, not just 20 percent: 52.02%
( ithink this one wHas the one that someone cheated on)
*** aids hospice or grocery program: 16.14%
*** Matthew Shepard Foundation: 8.50%
*** BAY (Bay Area Youth Positives): 2.92%
gaY youTh gRoups: 1.37%
aiDes research: 1.12%
saFer seX. organiZations: 0.60%
http://www.glsen.org/: 0.43%
skaterboyz fund!: 0.26%
AMFAR: 0.17%
http://www.scoutingforall.org/: 0.17%
American Heart Association: 0.09%
Zillafag for world leader fund!: 0.09%
Total Votes: 1165
am going to take the three that have the astricks neXt to them
to donate to! ..
QUESTION OF THE DAY!
wHo is your faVorite president?
wRite in your oWn nominee! ..
reSults tommorrow!
go to www.rexsworld.com/rexcam/polls/
to put in your vote! ..
remember .. each day . i will be announcing the results on the
reX. booth show.. and also asking a new question!
ANNOUCEMENTS: :
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- reX.'s thought of the day.. .yeP! .. i put my tWo brain cells
together and upload a new tHOught of the day.. monDay tHrogh friday
on my weBsite.. look for the "thought of the daY" link
sCattered all over the pLace! .. or just use these links! you must
have reaL auDio
to hear them.. pre-G2
or G2
-bRuce TV (www.brucetv.com)
will be here.. tHIs week! .. for wild weBcaM. weD.! on reX.'s ranTs!
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piX.. or calendar! ..
- reX. to sell his old wHite batHrobe? .. a wHole reX. bathroom
set? .. complete with boXers.. duCky.. a REX shirt and a baThtowl!
.. moRe on tHat later! ..
- Hey guys have your voted in reX's voting booth? .. well if have
not go to http://www.rexsworld.com/rexcam/polls/
and cast your vote. Every weekday there is a new question of the
day and you can cast your vote.
- new on reX'sworld is the Classifieds Section on his site. go
to http://www.rexsworld.com/rexcam/classifieds/
and you can post your own personal.
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last fRiday: toDay:
katshup or catchup fRiday! ...
toDay: pResidents day! .
wHo's in reX.'s beD. today? ... aHHH... again we haVe aRizonna!
"guRl! .. we are gonna sTart getting a reputation!" ..heh!
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we get .. well most of us get the day off! .
- what does this day mean for you? .. are we forgetting wHat the
holidays are all about? or is it all about sleeping in and . presidents
day sales?
- wHat the hell is president's day anyway?
Until 1971, both February 12 and February 22 were observed as federal
holidays to honor the birthdays of Abraham Lincoln (Feb. 12) and
George Washington (Feb. 22).
In 1971 President Richard Nixon proclaimed one single federal holiday,
the Presidents' Day, to be observed on the Third Monday of February,
honoring all past presidents of the United States of America.
- wHo is your faVorite president? .. why? ..
- toniTe on reX. ranTs! wHat would you do if you were president?
- who would you like to see as president?
- wHo is the seXiest president?
- any gossip about the presidents for our gossip.. gossip.. gossip
sHow? .. like aBe linColn wHas gay and having an affair with his
buddy.. Joshua Speed joshua.. wHas a gay name in
the 1800's .. like christian is today... heh! .. funny ! . linColn
and joshua liVed together at one time.. and is rumoured that lincoln
wHas in loVe with joshua..
- linColn wHas always my faV. maybe i just senSed this as a child?
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- winners of the VD chocolate ! ..
- bea
- zillafaG
- cHirs - kaNsas.. call in! .. we need your address to send your
ccanDy!
- teXas kidd
eMails! ..
President's Day Websites for Teachers, Parents, and Students
http://www.mcps.k12.md.us/curriculum/socialstd/Presday.html
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A Day in the Life of the President
This online exhibit allows the viewer to examine the daily diary
(a log of the President Gerald R. Ford's meetings and activities)
for April 28, 1975. By selecting links from certain activities,
you can view documentation (documents, photographs, and even a short
video clip) on them.
http://www.lbjlib.utexas.edu/ford/library/exhibits/daylife/dayinthe.htm
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how much do you know about the presidents? presidents' day quiz!
http://www.kckpl.lib.ks.us/ys/Presquiz.htm
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Monday, February 15, 1999
It’s Washington’s Birthday--
Presidents Day doesn’t honor all presidents
You might think Presidents Day is a day set aside to commemorate
the birthdays of George Washington and Abraham Lincoln simultaneously.
You would be wrong.
Or you might think it’s a day the federal government has designated
to honor all American presidents. You’d be wrong again.
As a matter of fact, Presidents Day isn’t Presidents Day at
all, at least not according to the legislation passed in Congress
more than a quarter of a century ago. It’s Washington’s
Birthday. All that the legislation did was say the birthday would
be recognized as an official federal holiday to be observed on the
third Monday of February instead of the actual day that George Washington
was born, Feb. 22.
So why all the confusion? Partly it derives from a bill that would
have combined the celebration of the Lincoln and Washington birthdays.
That bill, however, failed. Then, there are a couple of dozen states
in the land that have done their own thing, figuring that if they
want to call the holiday Presidents Day, they will, by golly, call
it that.
For many Americans, it makes little difference. They are too busy
enjoying themselves and taking advantage of the various Presidents
Day sales. Some historians are upset, though. Several are campaigning
to have a day that celebrates Washington, Lincoln and Franklin D.
Roosevelt. But throwing in Roosevelt’s name is not such a great
idea, seeing as how his administration is close enough to us in
time to arouse all sorts of partisan arguments about whether he
belongs in that pantheon.
The real shame is that George Washington gets so little attention
on the day officially set aside to recognize his contributions to
this country.
Despite their most assiduous efforts, the revisionists have yet
to tarnish him. His courage, steadfastness, honor and dignity helped
win the war that established our independence, helped direct a convention
that wrote our Constitution and helped establish precedents in the
presidency that have played a role in keeping us free.
Today, all of that is worth thinking about.
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Bringing gay history out of the closet
AIDS activist says writing these chapters of American history
is vital to the strength of the gay community
By John Nichols, Feb. 26, 1999
Larry Kramer has an interest in Abraham Lincoln's sex life
that is neither prurient nor academic. It is political.
"Lincoln is the gay president I'm out to get for us,''
says the internationally acclaimed writer and gay activist.
"Us'' is the gay community. And Kramer makes no bones
about his certainty that America's gays and lesbians would benefit
tremendously if historians were to establish that Lincoln had in
fact fallen in love with his friend Joshua Speed -- as Kramer speculates
was the case in the late 1830s, when the two men lived together
in Springfield, Ill.
To be sure, Lincoln and Speed were close, as is evident
from their voluminous and lifelong correspondence -- which has been
reproduced in a number of volumes. But lovers? Well, even Kramer,
an avid student of history, admits that he is still piecing the
story together.
The runner-up for the Pulitzer Prize, whose Broadway plays
and film scripts have swept top honors in American theater and film
circles, admits that he does not know where his exploration of the
story of the man he refers to as "our gay president'' will
ultimately lead.
That's fine by Kramer.
As D.H. Lawrence -- for whose classic novel "Women
in Love'' Kramer wrote the screenplay -- once said, "It is
better to travel hopefully than to arrive.'' And, at 63, Kramer
is traveling hopefully into the history of his nation and its sexuality.
He is writing a book, "The American People,'' which
began as a story of the AIDS crisis but has evolved into an epic
study of the history that dare not speak its name.
"History is about possession,'' says Kramer, who was
in Madison this month to deliver a series of lectures and workshops
associated with the Midwest Bisexual Lesbian Gay Transgender College
Conference at Monona Terrace. "History is about claiming what
is ours.''
What Kramer is claiming, among other things, is that there
is a hidden history that must be found if gays and lesbians are
to claim their rightful place in the American mosaic.
"No one has found our history. Not yet. But it is
there. It must be,'' he says. "How can so many of us have lived
upon this Earth for so long and left no history? How could we not
have been here?''
The truth, as a great many contemporary historians now
admit, is that gays and lesbians were written out of history. Walt
Whitman, a man who wrote some of the most evocative homoerotic poetry
ever put to paper, was for the better part of a century portrayed
as asexual. Herman Melville's wife destroyed letters that almost
certainly contained details of a more adventurous sexual history
than his early biographers acknowledged. And what of the closeness
of Ralph Waldo Emerson and Henry David Thoreau, Kramer asks: Why
has that relationship not been explored? Again and again, the playwright
suggests, the stories of gays and lesbians were expunged from the
official record.
"Gays and lesbians never appear in (mainstream) history
books,'' Kramer says. "It's hard to believe that so many books
are filled with so many lies. This isn't history, this is opinion.''
Is it any coincidence, asks Kramer -- the founder of the
Gay Men's Health Crisis, the world's largest provider of services
to those with AIDS -- that a society willing to deny the existence
of gays and lesbians in its history would respond inadequately to
the threat of AIDS, a disease that initially killed so many gay
men?
"Our enemies treat us as worthy of denial and death,''
he says.
But the enemies of the gay and lesbian community are not
solely responsible for the lack of historical inquiry, argues Kramer.
"Practically everything that is being taught in gay studies
courses around this country is full of s--t,'' he gripes.
Rather than devoting time to "finding our history,''
Kramer says, scholars who research and teach gay studies seem to
be lost in a haze of obscure questions and internal debates that
do little to advance the interests of the community that is supposed
to be their fascination.
"Nobody's studying our history,'' Kramer says. "Nobody
is studying the possibility that Lincoln was gay.
"Why have we found it so difficult to dig up our past?''
His answer is as poignant and honest as the language in
the plays, such as "The Normal Heart'' and "The Destiny
of Me,'' for which he is so acclaimed. "I suspect there is
much less joy than sorrow buried in our graves,'' he says.
There has been sorrow. Discrimination. Hatred. Grief. Death.
Kramer is certain of that. But the study of these traumas is worthy,
he says, indeed vital to the future strength of the gay and lesbian
community.
The founder of the militant AIDS advocacy and protest group
ACT-UP wants to see the day "when we care enough about the
murder of our own family -- day after day, year after year, century
after century -- to demand retribution.''
It is for the living, Kramer says, that the stories of
the dead and gone must be recounted. And reclaimed.
This, he says, he learned from a great man who once said
on the battlefield at Gettysburg: "It is for us, the living,
rather to be dedicated here to the unfinished work that (the dead)
have thus far so nobly carried on. It is rather for us to be here
dedicated to the great task remaining before us -- that from these
honored dead we take increased devotion to that cause for which
they here gave the last full measure of devotion -- that we are
here highly resolved that the dead shall not have died in vain.''
John Nichols is the editorial
page editor of The Capital Times.
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DEAD PRESIDENTS
Written By: Hitch Larsen & Paul Scott
©1995
1) IT'S MONDAY MORNING AND I GET OUT OF BED
TRY'IN TO SHAKE THE WEB'S FROM MY HEAD
SUNS ABOUT TO COME UP FROM OVER THE HILL
I QUESS I'M GONNA NEED A FEW MORE PILLS
CAUSE I'VE BEEN WORK'IN EIGHTEEN HOURS A DAY
JUST TO KEEP THE BILL COLLECTORS AWAY
WHEN THE TAX MAN COMES KNOCK'IN AT MY DOOR
I HAVE TO TELL HIM I AIN'T GOT NO MORE....
DEAD PRESIDENTS
I AIN'T GOT NO MORE... DEAD PRESIDENTS....DEAD PRESIDENTS
LONG LEAD
2) AS I'M DRIV'IN TO WORK I SEE THE BUSY DRONES
WALK'IN DOWN THE SIDEWALKS USE'IN CELLULAR PHONES
THEY SAY COMMUNICATIONS WHAT WERE AFTER TODAY
ALL THEY REALLY CARE ABOUT IS WHEN THEY GET PAID
CAUSE THEY'VE BEEN WORK'IN EIGHTY-TWO HOURS A WEEK
THE MIGHTY DOLLAR IS THE GOD THAT THEY SEEK
THEY CALL THEIR BROKERS ON THE WALL STREET FLOOR
CAUSE THEIR TRY'IN TO MAKE A WHOLE LOT MORE.....
DEAD PRESIDENTS
TRY'IN TO MAKE A WHOLE LOT MORE..DEAD...PRESIDENTS...DEAD
PRESIDENTS
3) I SEE A CASINO AS I DRIV'IN HOME
WALK IN SIDE LIKE I'M A CELLULAR DRONE
PUT MY MONEY DOWN ON THIRTEEN RED
HOPE TH LUCKY WHEEL WILL GET ME AHEAD
CAUSE I'VE BEEN WORK'IN EIGHTEEN HOURS A DAY
JUST TO KEEP THE BILL COLLECTOR AWAY
I LOST MY MONEY WHEN IT LANDED ON BLACK
AND I'LL NEVER, EVER GET THEM BACK
DEAD PRESIDENTS...
AND I'LL NEVER, EVER GET THEM BACK...
DEAD PRESIDENTS...
DEAD PRESIDENTS.
other sTuff!
gaybc neWs! .. the dude caRRol who faked his rape to cover up an
affair he wHas having! ..ugggh! .. pisses me off..! .. how far do
people go to cover thier tracks? .. to cover up infedelity... ?
.. do you have a sTroy to sHare with me? ..
- pet cloning: see spot reRun! .. yeeks! ..
See Spot rerun: Pet cloning offered Company plans to duplicate
dogs and other pets
By Rick Weiss WASHINGTON POST Feb. 16 Ń The math was simple, Lou
Hawthorne said: There are 55 million pet dogs in America, and about
10 percent of them die every year. If just a tenth of 1 percent
of dog owners are willing to fork over $1,000 each for a chance
to get their dear dying pets cloned, then thatŐs tens of millions
of dollars to be made.
http://www.msnbc.com/news/370894.asp?0m=O18M&cp;t=1
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