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1. #1
   On December 9th, 2009 at 2:57 pm, zorro said:

   So much for American corporations standing up for good old, true blue American standards. Now it’s come to this. Pity.

   Corporate sponsors of perversion.

2. #2
   On December 9th, 2009 at 2:58 pm, cicerokid said:

   I have never intentially used any of their products, except for the past addiction to Mountain Dew.

3. #3
   On December 9th, 2009 at 3:03 pm, ackvil said:

   Hard to understand how these corps could side with such leftist organizations. First, they pull ads from Fox because of leftist pressure, now this.

4. #4
   On December 9th, 2009 at 3:24 pm, taggart said:

   Hey,cicero, I think that’s a pre-existing condition. I’ve got it, too! LOL

   On December 9th, 2009 at 2:58 pm, cicerokid said:
   I have never intentially used any of their products, except for the past addiction to Mountain Dew.

5. #5
   On December 9th, 2009 at 3:25 pm, Rogue Cheddar said:

   Here’s a contact list for eight of GLSEN’s major croporate sponsors.

   FIFY.

6. #6
   On December 9th, 2009 at 3:33 pm, tarpon said:

   To destroy people’s liberties, attack their morals.

7. #7
   On December 9th, 2009 at 3:38 pm, stillontheroad said:

   I believe you can throw Sprint/Nextel into this list as well.

8. #8
   On December 9th, 2009 at 3:42 pm, Hangfire said:

   Soooooo glad I don’t use Pepsi products. I have a taste for Dr. Pepper, Squirt, A&W, and Schweppes.

   I guess that means my money goes overseas. Sorry.

9. #9
   On December 9th, 2009 at 3:45 pm, AlohaGuy said:

   I guess that means my money goes overseas. Sorry.

   Well if the Chinese have higher moral standards…

10. #10
    On December 9th, 2009 at 3:59 pm, Hangfire said:

    On December 9th, 2009 at 3:45 pm, AlohaGuy said:
    Well if the Chinese have higher moral standards…

    Actually, it’s the Limeys. Cadbury-Schweppes, old boy.

11. #11
    On December 9th, 2009 at 4:04 pm, TigerLady said:

    Thanks for the contacts Michelle. I’ll not be sending a Christmas card to these idiots. On second thought, maybe that’s just what they need…and a huge lump of coal.

12. #12
    On December 9th, 2009 at 4:05 pm, nbarry said:

    This makes Joycelyn Elders’s advocacy of masturbation sound like a Sunday church sermon.

13. #13
    On December 9th, 2009 at 4:11 pm, Capn Ramius said:

    KPMG…
    They sponsor Phil Mikelson.
    Does he know who else they support?

14. #14
    On December 9th, 2009 at 4:16 pm, WarEagle82 said:

    Homosexual men make up about 1.5% of the population according to Battelle Human
    Affairs Research Centers in Seattle, Planned Parenthood/Alan Guttmacher Institute and the US Census.

    How is it that 1.5% of the men living in this country can cause such dislocation throughout the entire culture?

    Why do so many of these 1.5% of the population have to shove their sexuality in our faces every hour of every day?

15. #15
    On December 9th, 2009 at 4:21 pm, cicerokid said:

    The squeaky wheel gets the grease K-Y Jelly. 1.5% are making all of the noise.

    It’s time the rest of us got up and shout.

16. #16
    On December 9th, 2009 at 4:21 pm, Kingfish said:

    War Eagle:

    Well it certainly is better than them shaking their fists in our faces.

17. #17
    On December 9th, 2009 at 4:22 pm, shimauma2 said:

    Having recently worked for Citi in the mortgage collections department( I quit to save my soul from dying ) I can attest to the fact that they not only support GLSEN, they CELEBRATE their gay and lesbian employees, as though fisting and butt sex is something to be lauded. They also have ties to ACORN and La RAZA, using these organizations to “assist” people getting “fair” mortgages.

    If you have dealings with Citi, GET OUT FOR YOUR SOUL’S SAKE!!!

18. #18
    On December 9th, 2009 at 4:32 pm, Hangfire said:

    On December 9th, 2009 at 4:16 pm, WarEagle82 said:

    How is it that 1.5% of the men living in this country can cause such dislocation throughout the entire culture?

    They are all in Hollywood and the mainstream media.

19. #19
    On December 9th, 2009 at 4:32 pm, WarEagle82 said:

    I am reconsidering my credit choices these days. I have cards from two banks that seem to be more interested in destroying the financial system in the nation than anything else.

    And I have worked for companies that discriminated against me because I was a white, male Christian. If I ever take another job I will just tell them I am African-American/Latino and transgendered and then life will be good, at least at work. Things at home might get a little confusing but that is the price you pay these days for being of European descent…

20. #20
    On December 9th, 2009 at 4:35 pm, battleaxe said:

    tac@cisco.com is their technical assistance center – they only deal with technical problems with Cisco products. You won’t get a response there.

    However, you could try their investor relations site with handy contact form:
    http://investor.cisco.com/contactUs.cfm

21. #21
    On December 9th, 2009 at 4:37 pm, WarEagle82 said:

    Yes, if you call TAC at Cisco you have to have a valid support contract number. Otherwise, they won’t help you and they really don’t set HR and corporate policies there.

    Good catch…

22. #22
    On December 9th, 2009 at 5:40 pm, Michelle Malkin said:

    Fixed. Thanks.

23. #23
    On December 9th, 2009 at 6:46 pm, emjem24 said:

    Not only have these corporations lost all sense of self, they’ve lost their minds as well. Giving in to the GLSEN is really not gonna be the self-serving achievement it will seem when they start losing customers and market share.

    What is the rationale to align one’s corporation to the likes of GLSEN? To make youself seem understanding, open, and hip when all you are doing is trying to expand a market share that’s already compromised by troubling economic times? Seriously, who are the freaks running these companies?

    No wonder India and China are eating our lunch. They aren’t so burdened by these PC considerations. Lord, how they must be laughing at us right now.

    I know if I were India or China, I certainly would be laughing all the way to the bank when I eventually gobble up such weak, rudderless, PC-restricted companies.

24. #24
    On December 9th, 2009 at 7:30 pm, purealchemy said:

    WarEagle82,

    I am with you!

    This is war, baby!

25. #25
    On December 9th, 2009 at 8:05 pm, zyzzyg said:

    It wasn’t GLSEN that handed out the booklets. Though it was their event and they do deserve some level of culpability, but definitely not ownership

    Follow the link of a contemporaneous article on the event -

    http://www.boston.com/news/education/k_12/articles/2005/05/19/explicit_pamphlets_displayed_at_school/

    Moreover, if you elect not to be more fully informed and follow the link to read the article, this passage is crucial -

    “Sean Haley, executive director of the education network, which sponsored the conference, added: ”We have very clear policies that sexually explicit material of any kind will not be made available at the conference. Had I seen the book, I would have asked them to put it away.”

26. #27
    On December 9th, 2009 at 9:32 pm, sgcwi said:

    Michelle
    Good job on Hannity
    Keep up the pressure. Proud of you!!!

27. #28
    On December 9th, 2009 at 9:43 pm, bjc said:

    *It boils down to this: Before the homosexual community asked for tolerance, whereas now they demand acceptance; And all of this is driven by political correctness; Never forget, the truth hurts(homosexuality is a deviant, perverted behavior), but political correctness kills(ultimately the demise of humankind).

28. #29
    On December 9th, 2009 at 10:02 pm, jangar said:

    This stuff has been going on for a long time. A nationwide boycott usually suffices. Let the gays float the businesses for a while.

29. #30
    On December 9th, 2009 at 10:11 pm, fulldroolcup said:

    Moreover, if you elect not to be more fully informed and follow the link to read the article, this passage is crucial -

    If zyzzyg would himself like to become more fully informed on this topic, he should go to :
    Fistgate IV:

    http://biggovernment.com/2009/12/09/fistgate-iv-obamas-safe-schools-czar-passed-out-gay-bar-guides-to-teens-at-glsen-events/#more-43962

    These perverts have been passing out their “materials” to teens in many venues.

    Did you ejukate yerself, zyzzyg???

30. #31
    On December 9th, 2009 at 10:27 pm, nbarry said:

    GLSEN stands for Gay, Lesbian and Straight Education Network. So why isn’t it handing out student guides to heterosexual pickup joints and swing clubs? Isn’t that discrimination?

31. #32
    On December 9th, 2009 at 10:31 pm, jangar said:

    nbarry said:
    GLSEN stands for Gay, Lesbian and Straight Education Network

    It’s to set straight the straights about the gay and lesbian network.

32. #33
    On December 9th, 2009 at 10:41 pm, WarEagle82 said:

    As usual, zyzzyg completely missed the point while attempting to correct everyone else.

    It is like saying Hitler isn’t responsible for the the Death Camps because he only hosted them but didn’t actually run them…

33. #34
    On December 10th, 2009 at 12:01 am, jamesgreenidge said:

    Michelle — bring this issue — and names — up next time you’re on Fox or where ever!

    James Greenidge
    Queens NY

34. #35
    On December 10th, 2009 at 12:39 am, tbear44 said:

    Goodbye Pepsi…

35. #36
    On December 10th, 2009 at 1:38 am, GaMidnightRider said:

    What has happened to this country ? Is this America anymore ? Did we lose all our morals and to have someone talking or even thinking to talk about this stuff to a child who is not their parent should be banished from the country. I can not believe we have sunk so low.

36. #37
    On December 10th, 2009 at 1:48 am, cabrerski said:

    Praise be!!! Diet Dr. Pepper is not made by PepsiCo. This is one mother of an addiction I cannot break. Now if I could just get some sleep…

37. #38
    On December 10th, 2009 at 8:39 am, cicerokid said:

    Gay Bar guides for teens? Well, duh…

    Wouldn’t you have to be drunk to let someone put their fist in your butt?

38. #39
    On December 10th, 2009 at 8:45 am, jangar said:

    I think this is the right arm of NAMBLA

39. #40
    On December 10th, 2009 at 8:57 am, Rogue Cheddar said:

    On December 10th, 2009 at 8:45 am, jangar said:
    I think this is the right arm of NAMBLA

    Amos Moses: “Left arm gone clean up to the elbow!”

40. #42
    On December 10th, 2009 at 10:31 am, cheapseat said:

    isn’t it amazing how criminal behavior, child sexual abuse, can be openly advocated by numerous gay groups, and the police never bat an eye. i guarantee that if a pervert was carrying a sign in front of a school offering to teach young girls about sex, the police would definitely act.

41. #43
    On December 10th, 2009 at 10:56 am, collinb said:

    MISTAKE:
    It is no longer Daimler Chrysler.
    Correcting that would be prudent.

42. #44
    On December 10th, 2009 at 12:14 pm, Jvette said:

    On December 9th, 2009 at 4:16 pm, WarEagle82 said:

    How is it that 1.5% of the men living in this country can cause such dislocation throughout the entire culture?

    While actual numbers of homosexuals may be a minute percentage of the population, each of those has family members that love them. That makes their power go up exponentially since those family members also fight for their “rights”.

43. #45
    On December 10th, 2009 at 2:51 pm, purealchemy said:

    Why zeroangel hasn’t shown up here is beyond me.

44. #46
    On December 10th, 2009 at 2:59 pm, purealchemy said:

    This is starting to make Jocelyn Elders sound like a cloistered nun.

45. #47
    On December 10th, 2009 at 3:04 pm, purealchemy said:

    On December 9th, 2009 at 4:05 pm, nbarry said:
    This makes Joycelyn Elders’s advocacy of masturbation sound like a Sunday church sermon.

    Damn it! I’ve gotta make sure I read all the past postings.

46. #48
    On December 10th, 2009 at 7:20 pm, zyzzyg said:

    On December 9th, 2009 at 10:11 pm, fulldroolcup said: #855994

    Did you ejukate yerself, zyzzyg???

    Nope.

    There was no useful information that countered that it wasn’t GLSEN that handed out the fisting pamphlets discussed in this thread from the link you provided.

    There was no useful information that countered GLSEN’s policy, that I quoted in Post #854961, in the link that you provided.

47. #49
    On December 10th, 2009 at 7:34 pm, zyzzyg said:

    On December 9th, 2009 at 10:41 pm, WarEagle82 said: #855013

    As usual, zyzzyg completely missed the point while attempting to correct everyone else.

    Huh? What point did I miss? Be specific. The fisting pamphlet was attributed to GLSEN and in fact it was not GLSEN that provided the pamphlet.

    It is like saying Hitler isn’t responsible for the the Death Camps because he only hosted them but didn’t actually run them…

    When you invoke Hitler, you automatically loose any argument.

    A better analogy would be that a power tool convention was held and some one rented a booth to sell vibrators because they like, drills and saws use NiCadium batteries. And, someone screening the booth rentals missed the actual tool and focused that it was battery powered.

    Yes, the screeners have a level of culpability but they do not own the fact or are responsible for presenting the vibrators at the convention.

    Are the chaperones at a High School Prom responsible if some knucklehead spiked the punch without the chaperone’s knowledge? Yes, they have a level of responsibility but they do not own the fact that alcohol got into the punch. They just did a lousy job frisking the students.

48. #50
    On December 14th, 2009 at 3:31 pm, WarEagle82 said:

    It looks like Fox News must be reading Michelle’s blog.

    http://www.foxnews.com/politics/2009/12/14/obamas-safe-schools-czar-tied-lewd-readings/

    Maxim Lott

    – FOXNews.com

    – December 14, 2009
    Obama’s Safe Schools Czar Tied to Lewd Readings for 7th Graders

    Obama adviser Kevin Jennings is under fresh attack after it was revealed that the pro-gay group he formerly headed recommends books his critics say are pornographic.

    President Obama’s “Safe Schools Czar,” already a target of social conservatives for his past drug abuse and what they say is his promotion of homosexuality in schools, is under fresh attack after it was revealed that the pro-gay group he formerly headed recommends books his critics say are pornographic.

    The group under fire is the Gay, Lesbian and Straight Education Network (GLSEN), which Kevin Jennings, now the assistant deputy secretary for safe and drug-free schools in the Department of Education, founded and ran from 1990 to 2008.

    GLSEN says it works to create a welcoming atmosphere for homosexual students in schools, and that effort includes recommending books for students of all ages.

    But critics say many of the books, particularly some that are targeted for children between Grades 7 to 12, are inappropriately explicit. A full list is available at the blog Gateway Pundit, which has published dozens of controversial passages from the books.

    One recommended book is titled “Queer 13: Lesbian and Gay Writers Recall Seventh Grade.” On pages 43 through 45, writer Justin Chin tells of how as a 13-year-old, he went along with “near-rapes” by older men, but “really did enjoy those sexual encounters.” Chin also recounts each sexual action he performed with an “ugly f*** of a man” he met on a bus.

    In another book, “Passages of Pride,” the author writes about a 15-year-old boy’s relationship with a much older man.

    “Near the end of summer, just before starting his sophomore year in high school, Dan picked up a weekly Twin Cities newspaper. Scanning the classifieds, he came upon an ad for a “Man-2-Man” massage. Home alone one day, he called the telephone number listed in the ad and set up an appointment to meet a man named Tom…. Even though Tom was older, almost twice Dan’s age, Dan felt unthreatened by him. Dan admits Tom was a ‘troll’ in every sense of the word — an older closeted gay man seeking sex with a man much younger. But Dan says he was not intimidated by the discrepancy in their ages. ‘He kind of had me in a corner in that he knew I didn’t have access to anything I wanted.’ says Dan. ‘But everything was consensual.’”

    On Page 13 of a third book, “Reflections of a Rock Lobster,” the author recounts his sexual encounters in first grade.

    “By first grade I was sexually active with many friends. In fact, a small group of us regularly met in the grammar school lavatory to perform fellatio on one another. A typical week’s schedule would be Aaron and Michael on Monday during lunch; Michael and Johnny on Tuesday after school; Fred and Timmy at noon Wednesday; Aaron and Timmy after school on Thursday. None of us ever got caught, but we never worried about it anyway.”

    “Reflections of a Rock Lobster” was recommended in 1995, the year Jennings became GLSEN’s first executive director; “Passages of Pride” made the list in 1997 and “Queer 13″ in 1999. Those are just three out of over 100 books that GLSEN has recommended for students in grades 7-12 since 1990, and all three remain on GLSEN’s recommended reading list.

    Peter Sprigg, a senior fellow at the Family Research Council, says the content of the books is shocking, and it raises concerns about Jennings’ judgment.

    “The graphic sexual content of these books is so extreme that I think any average parent or citizen, regardless of how they feel about homosexuality, would be shocked at these books being recommended to young people,” Sprigg said.

    GLSEN Executive Director Eliza Byard defended her group’s recommendations, telling FoxNews.com in a written statement:

    “Some of the books that might be used with young adult audiences contain mature content, as is true of many memoirs and works of literature. Because of the presence of mature content in some of the works, GLSEN provides very clear guidelines throughout, recommending that adults review each book to make sure the book is suitable.”

    Those guidelines, listed on each book recommendation page, read: “All BookLink items are reviewed by GLSEN staff for quality and appropriateness of content. However, some titles for adolescent readers contain mature themes. We recommend that adults selecting books for youth review content for suitability.”

    But critics say the guidelines themselves are damning, because they confirm that GLSEN staff have checked the books for appropriateness. And Jennings, they point out, was in charge at the time.

    “It’s like Jennings just doesn’t realize he’s working with kids here…. You need a totally different set of rules when you’re working with kids,” said Peter LaBarbera, president of Americans for Truth About Homosexuality.

    LaBarbera said the books should be seen in light of other recent controversies surrounding Jennings.

    In September it came out that, when he was a teacher in Massachusetts, Jennings did not report an incident in which a 16-year-old boy told him that he was having sexual relations with an older man he met in a bus station bathroom. After that, 53 Republican members of the House publicly called for Jennings to be dismissed.

    But Alvin McEwen, who runs a blog called “Holy Bullies and Headless Monsters” and has commented extensively on the Jennings case, said GLSEN’s book recommendations should be seen in a different light.

    “GLSEN is saying that parents should decide. They are saying these books may be a good idea to read, but ultimately it is up to parents,” he told FoxNews.com.

    McEwen said that even though Jennings was the director of GLSEN when the books were recommended, there was no evidence that he personally selected the books.

    “This is ridiculous guilt-by-association … just another moral panic thought up by people who don’t have any legitimate reason to oppose Jennings, so they’ve made a mountain out of molehill,” he said.

    Department of Education spokesman Justin Hamilton declined to comment about Jennings’ role in recommending the books.

    But critics say Jennings, as GLSEN’s first full-time employee and first executive director, must be held responsible.

    “He was at GLSEN from the beginning and was in charge during the time when these books were approved,” said Warren Throckmorton, a professor at Grove City College.

    The blogger at Gateway Pundit, Jim Hoft, wrote elsewhere concerning a “black book” that contains a gay bar guide and explicit sexual references that was handed out at a GLSEN event.

    But McEwen said it’s not clear that Jennings — or GLSEN — knew about the guide, which was distributed by Fenway Community Health officials at a GLSEN event, which they later said had been a mistake.

    Hoft has also alleged that Jennings and GLSEN were involved in Planned Parenthood’s purported distribution of “fisting kits” [fisting involves forcing one's hand into another person's rectum or vagina] at at least one GLSEN event. The kit was actually for making a “dental dam” — designed to prevent STD transmission during oral sex.

    McEwen said that the attacks on Jennings and GLSEN were motivated largely by homophobia.

    “There are a lot of heterosexual books that are just as explicit. In the first page of ‘The Color Purple’ [a 1982 novel that has caused controversy when assigned in schools], the character talks about being raped in graphic terms… what’s in [GLSEN's] books is no different from what’s in The Color Purple.”

    But Sprigg disagrees that books like “The Color Purple” are comparable to those recommended by GLSEN.

    “We are not talking about ‘The Great Gatsby’ or ‘The Grapes of Wrath’ here,” he said. “A lot of people who have only read the news and opinion pieces on this story, without reading the actual excerpts, may think that we are talking about the kind of sexual content that might, in a film, earn a PG-13 or R rating. We are not.

    “This is material that, if portrayed visually, would be a triple-X hard-core porn film, and quite possibly meet the legal definition of obscenity. In fact, I think the homosexual content is the only thing preventing the outcry from being even greater, because some people fear being labeled as ‘anti-gay.’ If the content were heterosexual in nature, there would be no one defending it at all.”