Monday, November 07, 2011

Boxer Joe Frazier Dies At 67

The New York Times reports:
Joe Frazier, the former heavyweight champion whose furious and intensely personal fights with a taunting Muhammad Ali endure as an epic rivalry in boxing history, died Monday night. He was 67. His business representative, Leslie Wolff, told The Associated Press in early November that Frazier had liver cancer and that he had entered hospice care.

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Herman Cain's Fourth Accuser Surfaces

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Quote Of The Day II - Linda Harvey

"Special rights for homosexual behavior are not needed. This makes me very sad for every child in our schools who will be subjected to this deception. There is a very well-traveled path out of homosexuality that every child deserves to hear about. But no, this will become like California in every state, a bigoted mandate to force everyone to accept and approve of homosexuality. Please call our Ohio senators, Rob Portman and Sherrod Brown, tell them in that in the upcoming, big education bill, we don’t want the federal government using bullying prevention as a tool to force approval of homosexuality and gender bending on children, teachers and families." - Linda Harvey, on pending federal anti-bullying legislation.

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MSNBC Interviews Texas Bashing Victim

Last week I reported on the Texas gay man who was burned, stabbed, and beaten at a party. Today he told his story to MSNBC's Thomas Roberts.

(Via - Think Progress)

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VIRGINIA: Anonymous Flyer Smears Democrat As Enabler Of Gay Pedophiles

Towleroad has the disgusting details.

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Tea Party Ted Says...

It was hard to pick a single panel from Buzzfeed's Tea Party Ted meme, so I just went with the first one. Hit the link for the rest.

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Protester Dangles From Major NY Bridge

At this writing a man is dangling below New York's Tappan Zee Bridge in some kind of chair harness with a giant sign attached to it. News helicopters report that the sign bears some kind of accusation against the politicians of Rockland County, which is connected to Westchester County by the bridge. For the first hour of the protest, reporters speculated that the action was linked to Occupy Wall Street.

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If You Don't Work, You Don't Eat

More of that Christian Love™ from Michele Bachmann.

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John Leguizamo For Marriage

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New Maine Poll On Marriage

Public Policy Polling reports (PDF):
Maine’s gay marriage law failed 47-53 at the polls just two years ago, but now, as nearlyeverywhere, public opinion is shifting rapidly towards same-sex marriage rights. 51% of Maine voters want it to be legal and only 42% illegal, a 15-point reversal from 2009.That is up even seven points from when PPP last polled the state in March; then 47% saidgay couples should be allowed to legally marry, and 45% said they should not. If a proposed referendum were on the ballot to re-legalize gay marriage while respecting the right of churches to not perform the ceremonies, it would pass even more handily, 48-35.

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Crazy Eyes: Pray To End Obamacare

"We all need to consider that in God’s timing that he may have allowed us, as members of Congress, to be in the position that we’re in just for this specific issue right now. Everything that all of us have worked together and labored for over the years, all of it could be undermined with this one bill. President Obama realizes that. The radicals that are on the pro-abortion left, they realize that. They could win it all. And the unborn, and the vulnerable, the disabled and those at the end of life could lose it it all. That’s really where this battle will be won — on our knees in prayer and fasting. Remember: faith without works is dead. So we’re asking you to do all of it: pray, fast, believe, trust the Lord, but also act." - Rep. Michele Bachmann, asking followers to pray that the president's evil demand for death panels is never realized.

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Homocons Are Crazy, Part 67

We haven't heard much from Hillbuzz and its editor Kevin DuJan since his failed attempt to freep Dancing With The Stars on behalf of Bristol Palin. But as you can see by today's entry, he's still tilting at homocon windmills. At least he's no longer posting daily predictions of President Sarah Palin.

RELATED: Last year DuJan whined that nobody will date him because of his homocon politics and his love for the baby Jeebus.

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Minnesota Bigots For Bigotry


(Via - Good As You)

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Major Austerity Measures For France

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Quote Of The Day - Ken Blackwell

"The Obama administration is lending support to Congress in an effort to repeal the Defense of Marriage Act. The president, instead, is backing something called the 'Respect Marriage Act.' The latter measure, quite simply, would abolish marriage. While calling for 'respect' in the Orwellian sense, it would offer true marriage the same 'respect' President Obama showed to the body of Osama bin Laden-a hasty burial at sea after summarily being put to death." - Family Research Council senior asshat Ken Blackwell, writing for World Magazine.

According to Blackwell, the repeal of DOMA will absolutely lead to the legalization of polygamy. We know this because one time, three years ago, some law professor you've never heard of said that.

RELATED: Blackwell is the former mayor of Cincinnati and the former Ohio Secretary of State. In 2004 he led the successful effort to ban same-sex marriage in Ohio, an amendment championed by George W. Bush's campaign manager, Ken Mehlman. In 2006 he was the failed GOP candidate for Ohio governor. He is reportedly considering running for the U.S. Senate in 2012.

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Anonymous: Occupy Iowa's Caucus

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White House Denies Alien Contact

The White House has formally responded to two petitions demanding that the federal government finally come clean about all those aliens they're hiding at Area 51 or wherever.
"The U.S. government has no evidence that any life exists outside our planet, or that an extraterrestrial presence has contacted or engaged any member of the human race," Phil Larson from the White House Office of Science and Technology Policy reported on the WhiteHouse.gov website."In addition, there is no credible information to suggest that any evidence is being hidden from the public’s eye." The petition calling on the government to disclose any knowledge of or communication with extraterrestrial beings was signed by 5,387 people, and 12,078 signed the request for a formal acknowledgement from the White House that extraterrestrials have been engaging the human race.
According to the petitioners, 80% of the American public believes the government is lying about alien contact.

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UK Gay Blood Ban Lifted

The lifetime blood donation ban for gay men in the United Kingdom ends today. But only if you've not had sex in a least one year.
Dr Lorna Williamson, NHS Blood and Transplant’s medical and research director, said: “Our priority as a blood service is to provide a safe and sufficient supply of blood for patients. This change gives us an opportunity to broaden our donor acceptance on the basis of the latest scientific evidence. "The Sabto review concluded that the safety of the blood supply would not be affected by the change and we would like to reassure patients receiving transfusions that the blood supply is as safe as it reasonably can be and amongst the safest in the world. There has been no documented transmission of a blood-borne virus in the UK since 2005, with no HIV transmission since 2002.”

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Pipeline Protest At The White House

An estimated 25,000 protesters encircled the White House yesterday in protest of the proposed Keystone XL pipeline which would run from Alberta, Canada to Texas.

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Catholic Bishops: We're Being Oppressed!

"Redefining marriage also threatens the fundamental human right of religious freedom. Those who refuse on moral and religious grounds to accept or accommodate the redefinition of legal marriage are already being wrongly accused of bigotry and hatred, bias and prejudice. They are being stigmatized and marginalized precisely because they are exercising their religious freedom to teach and practice their values.

"In places where marriage’s core meaning has been altered through legal action, officials are beginning to target for punishment those believers and churches that refuse to adapt. Any non-conforming conduct and even expressions of disagreement, based simply on support for marriage as understood since time immemorial, are wrongly being treated as if they harmed society, and somehow constituted a form of evil equal to racism. DOMA represents an essential protection against such threats to faith and conscience." - Bishop Salvatore Cordileone, in a message to Congress on behalf of the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops.

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San Francisco Bans Naked Dining

It's still legal to walk the streets of San Francisco while nude, but dropping in somewhere for a bite is now verboten.
The city's Board of Supervisors has adopted new rules that ban naked people from eating in restaurants, and forces nudists to place a cover on public chairs and benches before they sit down, the San Francisco Examiner reported. Supervisor Scott Wiener, who introduced the legislation, said, "We did hear from folks in the neighborhood that these are actually tangible issues that are happening in the Castro and so the legislation is important for that reason."
The above-linked Fox News report claims that public nudity is "particularly popular" in the Castro. Uh-huh.

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IOWA: Dem Leads In Special Election Poll

Public Policy Polling reports on tomorrow's special election which will determine control of the Iowa state Senate:
This election has been framed to some extent as a battle over gay marriage, but our poll suggests voters aren't seeing it that way. They're planning to vote for Mathis even as 46% of them say gay marriage should be illegal, compared to just 42% who think it should be legal. Although voters in the district may oppose gay marriage, only 11% say that issue is the most important factor guiding their vote compared to 86% who say it's something else. It's also worth noting that 66% of voters do support either gay marriage or civil unions with only 30% opposed to all legal recognition for same sex couples.

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SPOILER: The Walking Dead

Stay out of the comments if you've not yet seen last night's episode. Otherwise dive in and dish!

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New From Obama 2012

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Sunday, November 06, 2011

One Year From Today

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Afternoon View - Guggenheim Museum

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Church Sign Of The Day

JMG reader Trent tips us to the above Ohio sign and his petition to have it removed.

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Herman Cain Hates The Nitpickiness Of The Media Regarding Pesky Little Facts

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Drunk Rick Perry On SNL

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Morning View - Marathon Ready

The barricades are up, the cops are in position, and any minute the leaders in the NYC Marathon will hit their half-way point as they pass my block on the Upper East Side. Bleachers and band stages have been erected all along this portion of the route, where UES hospital employees will cheer on their teams. The music and screaming will continue for most of the day. I just turn up the television.

RELATED: Stats and factoids about the NYC Marathon.

UPDATE: Television coverage showed the men's leaders on the Queensborough Bridge, so I went back down to the corner to grab a photo as they passed in a pack of about eight.

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HomoQuotable - Sergio Viula

"Today I know that I was deceiving myself. But back then, I thought that every sentiment or attraction was a mere case of ‘temptation’ and that it could be overcome with prayer and dedication to god. In the group, we used to think, basically speaking, that being gay was a sin, which should be confessed and abandoned and, therefore, we would proselytize, counsel, pray, preach, recommend certain books, read the Bible – things that believers usually do, but focusing on homosexuality itself; unfortunately, always demonizing homogenic love. Nobody really quit being gay. There were relationships even within the group, between an activity and another, they would always find time for that." - Brazilian "ex-gay' leader Sergio Viula.

NOTE: Viula is the third major figure of the "ex-gay" movement to come clean in the last several weeks. All three now admit that they never once saw anybody actually convert to heterosexuality.

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Trolling Westboro

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Did You Turn Your Cocks Back?

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Saturday, November 05, 2011

Posted Today On Christwire

From today's top story on Christwire:
Hell hath no spitfire like a lisping gay scorned, so it’s no surprise today to see legions of gays angrily sassafrasshing and sashaying all around their demigod Joe My God in heated fury and trying to scratch the skin off GOP Presidential Candidate Herman Cain. For years now gays have tried to become the new black. If you listen to their political rhetoric, it is focused on becoming the ‘scapegoated victim’ of America when in reality it is the knuckleclenched-up-the-intestines reverse ploy opposite. Gays are trying to sodomize the morality of America, trying to make us feel deep guilt that we stand against a woman having her privates mangled until it resembles a proper pickler, the surgery being shown at “Family Time Hours” on MSNBC.
Read the entire piece.

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Today In Creepy Robots

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FINALLY: Potties For OWS

After 54 days, the protesters in Manhattan's Zuccotti Park finally have potties.
Despite denials of permits by the City, Occupy Wall Street participants have worked diligently with the help of local officials to secure 24/7 access to toilets within reasonable distance of Liberty Square. Starting today, OWS is providing access to porta-potties in a private, well-lit space with 24-hour security, only 2 blocks away from the square. The portable toilets will be maintained by a professional service, and OWS volunteers are blanketing Liberty Square with fliers directing people to the facilities.
Prior to today, protesters have relied upon the increasingly put-upon fast food outlets that ring the park.

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Family Research Council Honors Deadbeat Dad Rep. Joe Walsh As "Pro-Family"

The Family Research Council has named Rep. Joe Walsh (R-IL) as their "True Blue" pro-family leader, even though Walsh owes over $100,000 in unpaid child support.
"We thank Cong. Walsh who has voted consistently to defend faith, family and freedom,” said FRCA President Tony Perkins. “Cong. Walsh and other ‘True Blue Members’ have voted to repeal Obamacare, de-fund Planned Parenthood, end government funding for abortion within the health care law, uphold the Defense of Marriage Act, and continue support for school choice. I applaud their commitment to uphold the institutions of marriage and family."
Walsh responded to the honor by crowing, "Defending American values have always been one of my top priorities, and this reward reaffirms my dedication to that fight."

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NOM's Brian Brownshirt Praises Michigan Law To Legalize Anti-Gay Bullying

"Are some major political players openly now asserting that protecting gay children from bullying—a worthy goal—requires giving the government the right to prohibit thoughtful and civil expressions of religious or moral viewpoints? What would become of our democracy if we accepted this reckless premise? I hope Michigan's effort to civilize children by repressing bullying becomes a landmark of a new effort to genuinely address the legitimate concerns of parents—including parents with gay teens—without heavy-handed use of government power to repress and exclude Christian views on sex and marriage." - NOM president Brian Brown, applauding the Michigan state Senate for approving a bill which allows bullying which has a "religious or moral" purpose.

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CHICAGO: Wisconsin Gov. Scott Walker Heckled By Occupy Wall Street Protesters

"Mic check! Mic check!"

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Asshat Of The Day - Rudy Giuliani

"I believe that Barack Obama owns the Occupy Wall Street movement. It would not have happened, it would not have happened but for his class warfare. And remember, as it gets worse and worse because it's going to get worse and worse, where it came from. Barack Obama. He praised it. He supported it. He agrees with it. He sympathizes with it. And as it gets worse and worse, I believe this will be the millstone around Barack Obama's neck that will take his presidency down. How about you occupy a job. How about working? Working. I know that's tough." - Rudy Giuliani, speaking at an event called Defending The American Dream.

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SPAIN: Ricky Martin Granted Citizenship In Possible Bid To Legally Marry

Spain has granted citizenship to Puerto Rico-born Ricky Martin, who may be seeking a legal venue to marry his boyfriend.
Spokesman Jose Blanco told a news conference that ministers had agreed to grant him a “letter of naturalization”, issued in special circumstances, because of his “personal and professional links with Spain”. Spanish newspaper El Pais reported that Martin sought citizenship in order to marry boyfriend Carlos Gonzalez Abella, with whom he is bringing up his twin three-year-old sons. Spain passed legislation allowing same-sex marriages in 2005, only the third country to do so at the time, with 20,000 gay couples entering into marriage since.

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(Possibly) Madonna - Dirty Liar

Boy Culture tips us to this "purportedly" leaked track from Madonna's upcoming album. Does this sound like her?

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Andy Rooney Dies At 92

The New York Times reports:
Andy Rooney, whose prickly wit was long a mainstay of CBS News and whose homespun commentary on “60 Minutes,” delivered every week from 1978 until 2011, made him a household name, died Friday in New York City. He was 92 and lived in Manhattan, though he kept a family vacation home in Rensselaerville, N.Y., and the first home he ever purchased, in Rowayton, Conn. CBS News said in a statement that Mr. Rooney died after complications following minor surgery.

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Concerned Women Are Concernstipated About Free Diapers For Poor Families

"There already are programs in place through welfare that actually do provide for the very indigent and that's important, but this was a giveaway through daycare centers and really a bail-out for daycare centers -- and we just strongly believe that this is inappropriate. I call that cheap grace. You're meeting one little issue, but there's an overall issue that is requiring these folks to so desperately need diapers that they're either taking a government hand-out or calling at the ninth hour." - CWA president Penny Nance, who doesn't want the government providing free diapers to the impoverished.

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Tony Perkins: Atheists Hate Children

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Friday, November 04, 2011

The Cain Scandal In 100 Seconds

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NEW JERSEY: Superior Court Judge Allows Marriage Equality Lawsuit To Proceed

A New Jersey Superior Court judge today granted permission for Lambda Legal to proceed with its marriage equality lawsuit on behalf of Garden State Equality and seven same-sex couples. Via press release:
"We are delighted that the New Jersey Superior Court will allow this case to continue and permit us to demonstrate how the legislature's crafting of a status other than marriage for same-sex couples has failed to provide them the equality promised by the New Jersey Constitution. Civil union relegates New Jersey's same-sex couples to a second-class status that keeps them and their families vulnerable," said Hayley Gorenberg, Lambda Legal Deputy Legal Director.

"By moving to dismiss, the government was trying to prevent us from showing exactly how the current classification system based on sexual orientation harms families. New Jersey’s exclusion interferes during medical crises, denies them health insurance, and leads to discrimination against them even in funeral homes. These families need marriage equality and should not have to live with a law that treats them as inferior."
The judge's ruling squashed the attempt by the state Attorney General to have the case dismissed entirely.

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Herman Cain: I Am The Koch Brothers' Brother From Another Mother

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ILLINOIS: Complaints Filed Against Two Inns For Refusing Civil Union Events

Windy City Times reports that formal complaints have been lodged against two Illinois bed-and-breakfast inns for refusing to host civil union ceremonies.
Todd and Mark Wathen of Mattoon, Ill., allege that both the Timber Creek Bed and Breakfast and Beall Mansion Bed and Breakfast discriminated against them by refusing to host their legally recognized ceremony. The Wathen's attorneys—Betty Tsamis of Chicago, and John Knight and Harvey Grossman of the American Civil Liberties Union of Illinois—announced the filing Nov. 2 in a news release. In August, the Department of Human Rights announced it had found "substantial evidence" supporting their claims and gave the couple three months to file complaints. According to the complaints, filed individually on behalf of both Mark and Todd, the Wathens inquired with the inns in February, in anticipation of having a ceremony when civil unions went into effect in June. Both of the inns turned them away, they said.
The couple is requesting monetary damages and an end to the discriminatory practices.

RELATED: NOM's blog commenters weigh in.

-"So much for religious freedoms in the US. We now have Lords and Ladies."
-"Why don't people understand that all these poor, down-trodden gays want is to simply be left alone?"
-"Equality..what a joke. It's superiority."
-"Tolerance? Diversity? No, this is bullying."

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God Sent Jeebus To Die On The Cross So You Would Vote For Christians Only

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Architect Of Anti-Gay State Amendments Named To Out Magazine's "Out 100"

Because Ken Mehlman finally came out as a millionaire gay banker and then played a "quietly instrumental role" in New York's marriage equality battle, the folks at Out Magazine have forgiven his days as the head of the Republican National Committee, where he orchestrated numerous successful statewide campaigns to demonize and make illegal the lives and loves of LGBT people.

For all those millions of people made miserable by Ken Mehlman? Forgiven. The kids who killed themselves because of relentlessly vicious campaigns spawned by Ken Mehlman? Forgotten. The anti-gay politicians funded last year by Ken Mehlman? Ignored.

UPDATE: On their blog, Out Magazine notes this post and asks for feedback.
"We also announced Tom Duane and Daniel O'Donnell, two politicians essential in the fight for same-sex marriage in New York State. Should we only recognize the steadfastly positive and not the ones who may have a more complicated track record?"
UPDATE II: The Advocate (Out's sister publication) notes this post and quotes Out editor Aaron Hicklin.
Hicklin contends that Mehlman, and people like him, are necessary to advance marriage equality nationwide. "He is a savvy political operator, and we need people with his experience and influence to help our fight," Hicklin said. "I expected his inclusion to elicit some protests, but ultimately it’s up to readers themselves to decide how they feel about his record. The media’s role is to provoke conversation, and in this we clearly succeeded."

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Did He Jump Or Was He Pushed?

Yesterday the Archdiocese of Boston retracted and apologized for their newspaper article claiming that gay people are created by Satan. Today comes word that the author of that piece has "resigned." David Avila was the official defender of marriage for the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops. Watch for Avila to land at NOM any minute.

REACTIONS...

Human Rights Campaign:
"Mr. Avila’s dangerous view that Satan causes people to become gay has no place in any credible news publication, whether it be mainstream or religious press. He ignored not only the widely accepted science that same-sex attraction is normal, but also the modern thinking of many religions. I am pleased the Conference of Catholic Bishops accepted his resignation and I ask them to speak up and denounce his dangerous rhetoric.”
Truth Wins Out:
"Daniel Avila's column was hurtful and deeply offensive so we are grateful he quickly resigned," said Wayne Besen, executive director for Truth Wins Out. "Demonizing never creates a healthy dialogue and Avila represented a major obstacle to the church's claim to respect all people."

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Rick Perry Supports Israel Making A Preemptive Missile Attack On Iran

Because the inevitable resultant global thermonuclear holocaust will bring about the return of Jesus Christ! Right? That's how works!

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Trader Dumps Hundreds Of McDonald's Job Applications On OWS Protesters

A member of the Chicago Board of Trade yesterday dumped hundreds of McDonald's job applications on the Occupy Wall Street protesters. Two weeks ago employees of the CBOT mocked protesters by posting the message "We Are The 1%" in their office windows. Wanna bet somebody steps this up pretty quick?

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Cain's Chief Of Staff: The Media Is A Cesspool For Reporting Scandal

Mark Block says Herman Cain is considering suing Politico for revealing the sexual harassment charges brought against him. Which is hilarious, considering that Cain himself doesn't deny that the cases actually occurred.

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Morning View - First & East 69

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FRC's Peter Sprigg To Join NARTH's Luggage Lifters At Phoenix Confab

NARTH's annual convention of closeted gays and open fascists takes place in Phoenix this weekend where they'll be joined by Family Research Council spokesbigot Peter Sprigg. Last year gay activists had a blast picketing outside of the NARTH convention in Philadelphia as we marched around with pink luggage in mockery of FRC co-founder George Rekers' exposure as a patron of young, lithe, Latino male prostitutes. I especially enjoyed chasing a few of NARTH's douchebags out to their cars as they sputtered and flitted their dainty "ex-gay" paws at my homofascist camera.

RELATED: After Rekers was exposed as a fan of erotic nude male massage, his name vanished from FRC's website as Tony Perkins pretended to have no memory of the man who co-founded his organization.

TAKE ACTION: There will be a local counter-protest of NARTH's convention this weekend.
Over the course of two days during the NARTH convention, a collective of organizations and individuals -- including No Longer Silent: Clergy for Justice, Human & Equal Rights Organizers (H.E.R.O.), and Parents, Families & Friends of Lesbians and Gays (PFLAG) of Phoenix -- will host press conferences, presentations, protests, and discussions during an “alternative convention” at the Phoenix Airport Marriott Hotel – the same venue as the NARTH convention

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A Very Gaga Thanksgiving

Via the Hollywood Reporter:
ABC has scheduled A Very Gaga Thanksgiving to air on Thanksgiving day, Nov. 24. The telecast will feature eight performances in front of a small crowd by the singer and a sit-down interview with Katie Couric. The special, conceived and directed by Lady Gaga, will also feature appearances by Tony Bennett and chef Art Smith. Lady Gaga will perform a duet with Bennett ("The Lady Is a Tramp") and a slew of her songs, including "Marry the Night," "You and I" and "The Edge of Glory." She will also sing holiday songs like "White Christmas."

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Frothy Mix: God's Law Supersedes Civil Law When It Comes To Same-Sex Marriage

Yesterday Rick Santorum told an apparently tiny Iowa audience that Biblical laws supersede the laws of man. So feel free to commit any crime allowed in the Bible, such as slavery, stoning women, etc etc! Go crazy for Jeebus!

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About Those FRC Ads...

You've probably noticed that banner ads from the Family Research Council have been popping up here on JMG. There's no need to send me anguished emails, those ads are merely prompted by my usage of keywords tied to their desired audience. Anyway, I no longer try to block such ads from appearing here as it's probably good for us to see what the enemy is being served.

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Google To Trawl Web Comments

According to Web Monkey, a new Google algorithm will connect your name to comments made on blog posts, web articles, and Facebook pages.
The new indexing plan isn’t just about Facebook comments, but applies to nearly any content that’s previously been accessible only through an HTTP POST request. Google’s goal is to include anything “hiding” behind a form — comment systems like Disqus or Facebook and other JavaScript-based sites and forms. Typically when Google announces it’s going to expand its search index in some way everyone is happy — sites get more searchable content into Google and users can find more of what they’re looking for — but that’s not the case with the latest changes to Google’s indexing policy. Developers are upset because Google is no longer the passive crawler it once was and users will likely become upset once they realize that comments about drunken parties, embarrassing moments or what they thought were private details are going to start showing up next to their names in Google’s search results.
A commenter notes on the above-linked article: "So in a nutshell, Google is going to publicly display public messages I intentionally left in a public place? I like privacy as much as the next guy, but in this case I can't imagine how any semi-intelligent person could have had a reasonable expectation of privacy in the first place."

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WND Polls Readers On OWS

Today's World Net Daily poll reveals what Teabagistan is being told about Occupy Wall Street.

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Admiral, There Be Whales Here

Clip description:
A woman floating on a surfboard near Santa Cruz, California almost ended up on the lunch menu for a humpback whale over the weekend. Barb Roettger had her camera rolling as two hefty whales popped out of the calm waters not far from the unsuspecting surfer and a pair of kayakers. A pod of humpback whales has been hanging out off the Santa Cruz coast, noshing on anchovies that flock to the area to feed on plankton. The woman found herself in the middle of a feeding frenzy called lunge feeding, which occurs when whales herd anchovies and shoot straight up out of the water with their mouth wide open to catch the fish.
YouTube commenters point out that humpbacks don't have teeth and the woman was in no danger of actually being eaten.

Undercover Cops To Work SF Bars

This weekend undercover San Francisco cops will be working the bars of the Castro in a campaign to stem a renewed wave of pick-pocketing incidents.
San Francisco Police Sergeant Chuck Limbert, Mission Station's liaison to the LGBT community, said the operation would begin this week, but he wouldn't specify when. Officers would be "specifically looking for individuals that target bars for theft of property or criminal activity," such as pickpockets and purse snatchers, he said. He said the operation would continue "until the problem is solved." Limbert said overall crime in the area is down over the last three years, but he wants to see further decline. "If we're getting two reports out of a bar on a specific night, that's two too many," he said. Limbert acknowledged Castro bar-goers might be nervous about undercover police visiting nightspots, but he suggested that would be good in the case of people with nefarious intentions.
Unsurprisingly, bar managers report that the most-stolen items are iPhones.

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Women Breed Babies Just So They Can Be Sacrificed To Satan On Halloween


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Polls Unaffected By Cain Scandal

Yesterday's ABC/WaPo poll shows Herman Cain continuing to ride high among the GOP presidential field.

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NOM's Brian Brown Tweets The Wrong Cindy Golding And She Is SO Not Happy

One Cindy Golding is a NOM puppet running for state office in Iowa on the platform of denying Americans the civil rights guaranteed to them by the Constitution. The OTHER Cindy Golding is a decent, equality-loving woman who is SO not having her Twitter account dragged into the NOM mud by Brian Brown. Suh-NAP! (Via - Aksarbent)

NOTE:
NOM's Twitter accounts are likely run by their blogger and "Cultural Affairs" director Thomas Peters, who also runs a "papist" blog for Catholic Vote.

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Fort Lauderdale Goes Tea Party: It's Not What You Make, It's What You Keep

Fort Lauderdale is plugging Florida's lack of a state income tax with a campaign tag-lined, "It's not what you make, it's what you keep." In the clip playing hourly on cable news networks, that line is spoken by Wayne Huizenga, the former garbageman who founded Waste Management and Blockbuster Video and who ended up owning most of Florida's pro sports franchises.

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Slaggie Gilamonster On Kim Kardashian

"I'm reluctant to criticize any given individual who divorces because moral judgments are hard without more information that it is my business to know – and celebrity divorces are too common to warrant special notice. Hollywood in general and Kim Kardashian in particular support gay marriage. Perhaps that makes sense, if the speed of her divorce reflects a reduced commitment to the marriage." - Maggie Gallagher, speaking to the Christian Post.

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Creepy Boy Scouts Ad

Copyranter has more.

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Conan Marries Two Gay Men

Far lovelier than you would believe. WATCH THIS.

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HomoQuotable - Larry Kramer

"At the height of the Holocaust, when Jews were being shoveled into the ovens by the trainload, a great woman by the name of Hannah Arendt, who was a political philosopher – Jewish, obviously, and German – said, in essence, to all of the Jews in the world, 'Why are you allowing this to happen? Where is your army?' She thought the Jews should actually have their own army, which was an unbelievable thing for a woman to say. And, in essence, she was saying, 'You brought all this on yourselves. You get what you deserve. You're not fighting back. And you've never fought back, ever, in your whole history.' And I say that about us, too. People don't want to hear it." - Larry Kramer, speaking to Metro Weekly's Chris Geidner.

Read the entire interview.

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Carbon Emissions

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Huntsman: Mittens Is A Pretzel

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CEASE & DESIST: Chaz Bono Tells National Enquirer To Stop Lying About Him

Celebrity PR guru Howard Bragman emailed us a copy of the above demand that the National Enquirer stop lying about the health of Chaz Bono.

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Thursday, November 03, 2011

NY Post To Bloomberg: End OWS

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KapoQuotable - Jimmy LaSalvia

"The gay left is the most hateful, intolerant, disgusting group of people I’ve ever come across in my lifetime, and everything we do is criticized by them. They hate gay conservatives more than anything in the world, and I don’t know why. - GOProud president Jimmy LaSalvia, talking to the Dallas Voice.

LaSalvia goes on to express outrage that anybody would suspect that either he or GOProud member Taylor Garrett had staged the hate crimes both allegedly suffered. Garrett claimed to have had a rock thrown though his window during the launch week of his Logo reality series A-List: Dallas. LaSalvia claimed to have scared off a group of black teenaged would-be gay-bashers by pretending to have a gun. He turned that alleged incident into a week-long round of media appearances to promote GOProud's positions on gun rights.

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Santa Died For Your Sins

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Photo Of The Day

The Village Voice's Steven Thrasher notes that the half-built One World Trade is (for the moment) providing New Yorkers with a spooky flashback as viewed from uptown with the Trump Soho tower.
Of course, these towers are much lower than the original twin towers. The Trump SoHo is only 46 stories, and it's not even that close to the WTC site. But for the next couple of weeks, while One World Trade stays at this height, the scale of the two of them next to each other is quite reminiscent of what we recall the old World Trade Center looking like from this intersection a decade ago.

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Ten With Ten Or More

Rihanna has just her scored eleventh pop chart topper, prompting an update in Billboard's list of acts with ten or more #1 pop singles.

1. Beatles - 20
2. Mariah Carey - 18
3. Elvis Presley- 17
4. Michael Jackson - 13
5. Madonna - 12
6. The Supremes - 12
7. Whitney Houston - 11
8. Rihanna - 11
9. Janet Jackson - 10
10. Stevie Wonder - 10

NOTE: Paul McCartney has nine additional #1 singles as a member of Wings and as a part of duets with Stevie Wonder and Michael Jackson. Similarly, Diana Ross had six number one pop singles as a solo act.

ALSO NOTE: Mariah Carey's initial string of consecutive #1 singles is highly questioned by some, as at the time she was romantically involved with Sony president Tommy Mottola, who dumped millions of Carey's singles into the retail market at hugely discounted prices. Those singles often sold for 99 cents at retail when other releases were selling for three to four times that much.

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Recapping The Cainwreck

Business Insider FTW. Go read it.

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VIDEO: Today's Senate DOMA Hearing

It didn't last very long, but Sen. Diane Feinstein got to say her piece. The committee vote is now scheduled for November 10th.

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APPEALS COURT: 70 Corporations & Others File Brief In Support Of DOMA Suit

Filed in the First Circuit Court of Appeals in support of Massachusetts' DOMA suit against the federal government. View the entire list, which also includes trade groups, employee associations, and civic organizations. (Via - GLAD)

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