West Valley City Mayor Mike Winder is quoted thus in a Rosemary Winters story for the Trib: "I'm a proud Republican and a proud American. ... When I recite the Pledge of Allegiance and say 'with liberty and justice for all,' I mean what I say."

And, when he says "for all," that includes gays and lesbians.

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Local activist/producer/filmmaker/writer/man-about-town Troy Williams posted an entry today on his Queer Gnosis blog fessing up his involvement with yesterday's brilliantly executed Capitol Hill prank.

Regardless of your feelings about the controversial event -- during which the group "Patriots for a Moral Utah" announced its phony citizens initiative calling for the out-of-state relocation of LGBT folks -- you've got to admit it was an excellent bit of political theater.

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Oh, those wacky hoaxters and their hilarious hoaxery!

A Facebook group called Patriots for a Moral Utah recently posted the text of a "citizen's initiative" calling for a Final "Fair Solution" to Utah's gay problem:

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My new hero is Russian Col. Maksim Surayev, who is currently serving onboard the ISS. Or, in other words: The man lives in space!!!

Most of us growing up in the '70s had starry-eyed visions of spending adulthood in orbit -- only to have our hopes dashed by a dreary parade of attitude adjustments and economic downturns. But Sruayev really is living that 21st-century dream.

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According to the Facebook group Friends of David James Bell, four of Bell's seven attackers have at last been arrested: Angie DiBella, Marcia Finau, Lulu Latu and Ieti Mageo face charges, along with three other accused assailants who evidently have yet to be apprehended.

Among those still at large is 30-year-old Tapululululu Latu. So please, be on the lookout for Tapululululu.

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Turns out Dudley Do-right's archnemesis Snidely from The Rocky and Bullwinkle Show isn't the only evildoing Whiplash in cartoon history.

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The Bible: There have been nearly as many adaptations of that No. 1 bestseller as filibuster threats from Republican senators since the start of the 111th Congress.

And why not? Any book that has undergone thousands of years of edits and re-writes has got to be good.

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• I support raising taxes on people who are not me.

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• Unfortunately, everybody gave up on math before covering the section on exponentiation ...

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