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San Francisco Gay Pride Grand Marshal Lt. Dan Choi, the Army National Guard officer translator and West Point alum who came out as queer "to protest the military's 'don't ask, don't tell' policy," could become the first New York National Guard member discharged for breaking the military's inane and bizarre policy on homosexuals. Or, as the military defines it, ousted "for 'moral and professional dereliction.'" A hearing today in Syracuse, NY at the headquarters of the 27th Brigade Combat Teamwill decide whether or not to rid the service of his esteemed and education, albeit gay, presence. According to AP, "Choi served as one of the grand marshals of last Sunday's LGBT Pride Parade in San Francisco, marching with a group called Knights Out, which supports gay military members."

A photo of Iraq war opponents Sean Penn and Carol Migden

-Police say they're taking a bite out of crime in the Western Addition. -And today's minor earthquake was in Lafayette. We still think there has been way too many of these minor quakes lately.

It's all about sex and land use around here in San Francisco, as kink.com (probably NSFW) moves into the Mission Armory and gets the official not-very-welcome wagon greeting from fifty community members yesterday, who braved the rain to protest the online porn industry. Much to the protestors' chagrin, though, it turns out kink.com has already moved in and started filming, and they didn't need to get permission from anyone to do so.

The California National Guard has quietly disbanded a group that has been accused of spying on anti-war protestors. The two person unit, called the Information Synchronization, Knowledge Management and Intelligence Fusion program, or ISKMIFP, an orgaization so sneaky they didn't even want to give it a cool acronym (and one with more titles than members) was given broad range to sniff out possible terrorist threats. Like a Mother's Day Anti-War rally led by a Peninsula anti-war group.

Well, even though the DHS has lowered the threat level to sunny 'yellow,' BART's staying tough in the War Against Global Extremeism, so they're sticking to 'orange.' But they did open the bathrooms!

Hey, remember the kids rampaging through the streets of the Mission, smashing the state one window at a time? Well, it ain't quite over yet. First off, at least one protestor who's still in custody needs help coming up with the $5,000 needed to post bail -- you can send a donation! Us, we would call Bad Boy Bail Bonds (they speak our language -- funky-fresh rappin').