Hillary Clinton seems poised to blow Barack Obama out of the electoral water.

The Senator's campaign today confirmed a report that they plan to use their pals on the party's Rules and Bylaws Committee to validate Michigan and Florida's previously invalidated primary counts. Those state weren't meant to count because they broke rank and held their primaries early.

Both Clinton and Obama previously wagged their finger at those states, and Obama even yanked his name from the Michigan ballot. Now that she's down, however, Mrs. Clinton's hoping her allies can push her over the edge:

With at least 50 percent of the Democratic Party's 30-member Rules and Bylaws Committee committed to Clinton, her backers could — when the committee meets at the end of this month — try to ram through a decision to seat the disputed 210-member Florida and 156-member Michigan delegations.

Such a decision would give Clinton an estimated 55 or more delegates than Obama, according to Clinton campaign operatives.

The former first lady's campaign initially refused to publicly comment on this "nuclear" tactic, but have no released a statement confirming their backstage dealings.

Some wonder whether such a move would create the oft-referenced "rift" with black voters, but others suggest that Mrs. Clinton will attempt to quell anger by taking Obama on her ticket.

Florida's young gays can breathe a little easier.

The state's Senate yesterday passed unanimously a comprehensive, queer inclusive anti-bullying bill, which has been either years in the making. And you can be sure gay group Equality Florida's leading lady, Nadine Smith, celebrated in epistolary style:

Thanks to the thousands of messages you sent to the Florida Senate and a last minute lobbying effort in Tallahassee, Senators heard our call and brought the long overdue Anti-Bullying bill up for a vote and passed it. Governor Crist has expressed support for the bill many times in the past and it now awaits his signature.

Equality Florida's goal has always been to provide the strongest protections possible for Florida's students, including LGBT students. Because of your commitment and persistence over the years, all of Florida's students will be protected under this bill. In passing the bill the sponsors repeated again and again that this law protects LGBT students.

And they all lived happily ever after…

Floridian politician Brian Blair's the latest voice in the outcry against Day of Silence.

The annual event, which will be held on April 25th, commemorates queers who have lost life and limb as a result of anti-gay violence. This year's will honor Lawrence King, the 15-year old whose classmate shot him in the head soon after King asked him to be his valentine.

Social conservatives are continuing their tradition of boycotting the event, as the American Family Association made clear with last month's hateful radio ad. And now they've enlisted Blair, who's running against an openly gay man, Kevin Beckner for Hillsborough County's Commissioner seat. So, like a good little soldier, Blair, pictured on the left sent out an email of solidarity, which we've included below…

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Florida's lost children got a Senatorial ally this week. Nan Rich, a Democrat from Weston, put forth a bill that will effectively overturn the Sunshine State's ban on gay adoption. Under Rich's law, judges are told to rule in the child's best interest, rather than along ideological lines:

Under Rich's bill, gay foster parents would be allowed to adopt children if a judge rules it's in the child's best interest. Also, a gay adult would be considered a potential adoptive parent if he or she were the legal guardian of the child whose parents had died.

Rich's proposal has received support from a number of groups including the National Council of Jewish Women, ACLU and Planned Parenthood.

Those who have opposed changing the ban include Governor Charlie Crist, who has publicly supported civil unions between gay couples, and state Senator Ronda Storms of Brandon, who ran for office on a pledge to prevent gays from being foster parents.

Storms currently heads the committee considering Rich's bill and has vowed not to vote or debate the matter. Ah, democracy in action!

We gays are an industrious lot! Rather than mooning over slain 25-year old Ryan Skipper, gay activists decided to make a documentary celebrating his life.

Skipper died last year after being shot by William David Brown Jr. and Joseph Bearden, both of whom will soon stand trial for hateful first degree murder.

Though they didn't personally know Skipper, Vicki Nantz and her partner, Mary Meeks made the film to raise awareness of anti-gay violence and homo alienation. And it's already changing some minds:

Until Skipper's death, Wally Mulder hadn't given homosexuality much thought. Now the Mulders share their opinions freely.

"Some people might want to sleep in the cornfields and some people might want to sleep in the wheatfields," Wally Mulder said of his position on gay rights. "There's no need to meet at the line and fight over who's going to sleep where."

So, do we gays like corn or wheat?

Fort Lauderdale mayor Jim Naugle's got egg on his face yet again.

After hearing from scads of activists, Focus on Fort Lauderdale has removed his offensive column from their website. In that column, the gay panicked politico revives his calls for vigilance against gay public sex. That mission garnered Naugle all sorts of press last year, most of it bad, and a national campaign forced him into silence.

Naugle refuses to apologize for the latest outburst, of course, and gripes about the piece's tardy publication: "[Naugle] said that he, too, 'was outraged,' because he wrote it in October 'when all of that was timely.'" Journalist Brittany Wallman informs readers, however, that Naugle addressed the issue just last month in his State of the City address. Naugle's memory has apparently gone down the crapper.

Jim Naugle simply can't quit. The Fort Lauderdale mayor used his column in the latest tax-funded Focus On Fort Lauderdale to again take on toilet trolling.

Naugle, who famously proposed robo-toilets to curb cruising, writes:

Imagine my dismay this past summer when I learned that a tourism website was listing one of our main children's parks as a location for men to meet for sex. And then, we discovered that other parks and public places were listed on other websites on the Internet.

Some denied that these activities were taking place. The Police Department made arrests, but I know the problem is not completely eliminated. I am hopeful that we are successful in curtailing these illegal activities in the future.

Floridian gay activists aren't having it - Fight Out Loud say Naugle's comments lead "to an atmosphere of hate and violence."

The men of College Boys Live are going to be living on the street. The Homeowners Association of Lake Brantley, Florida, successfully petitioned against the porn site's presence in their neighborhood:

"When you're living in a house and required to be nude eight to nine hours a day to be on the internet cameras, it became a problem with parties and other activities. You've got a 9-year old girl who can't look out her bedroom window," said neighbor Mike Towers.

But the owners of the home and the website contend that their house was like every other house on the street, except for the business that went on privately within its walls. No performers were outside or in the view of neighbors, and their social activities remained largely unchanged and quiet since they moved in in 2002.

A few neighbors agree with the business. Robert Holland is one of them. "I think the guys could have been just left alone. They weren't running around the neighborhood or in the front yard naked, and I think it was because they weren't afraid to say they are gay," he said.

Yeah, that's what we're thinking, too.