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05/19/2012 At the end of "Real Time" Friday night, Bill Maher lambasted Liberty University, the Virginia religious university that has become a mandatory stop for Republican presidential candidates. (Watch above.) "You can't expect me to believe anything Mitt Romney said last week at Liberty University, because a) he's a liar and b) Liberty University isn't really a university," Maher began. "It's not like an actual statesman visited a real college. It's more like the Tupac hologram visited Disneyland and said what he would do as president during the Main Street Electrical Parade." Maher noted that Liberty teaches "creation science," and the idea that earth was created 5,000 years ago. "This is a school you flunk out of when you get the answers right," he joked. Much as conservatives believe gay marriage cheapens their own vows, "I think a diploma from Liberty cheapens my diploma from a real school," he continued. "I worked really hard for four years and sold a lot of drugs to get that thing." Liberty's diploma may look real, Maher said, but "when you confuse a church with a school, Maher went on, "it mixes up the things you believe — religion — with the things we know — education. Then you start thinking that creationism is science, and gay aversion is psychology, and praying away hurricanes is meteorology." Watch the whole clip above.
As I watched the segment, I was attracted to him at once. Nice lips, I thought, but please don't smile with all that expensive shiny work. No wedding ring. So I looked him up. Holy smokes - a hot billionaire, available, and an oddball as well. And he even Googles gay and, occasionally, ... bawdy. Perfect. (Well, except maybe for the Christian part, but we could work that out.) So, howcum he's never come up in this place? Reminder, he's a BILLIONAIRE.
So, to save some funds after my partner and I lost our apartment in a fire, we are going to be moving in with a friend temporarily. It's a nice two-bedroom apartment. Now, the friend has asked us to split the rent 3 ways with him, as well as utilities. I am just wondering what you guys think--utilities I agree should be split three ways, but rent? We are going to be staying in a smaller guest room using our furnishings and using the guest bathroom. My friends have a spacious master bedroom with private bathroom and private patio. My partner and I were thinking more the lines of splitting it two ways, since my friend has more space then we do as we are using the smaller room and all of the friend's furnishings are in the jointly used areas (kitchen and living room). We lost most of our belongings and will start buying some new things and putting them in a storage facility, so nothing of ours will be in the joint living area. What do you think?
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There seem to be several cliches in writing crime drama/murder mysteries that make it extremely easy to figure out who the killer is. 1. The good person. In a group of extremely unpleasant and unsympathetic characters, the murderer will be the nice, good, or sympathetic character. 1a. The child. Basically a subset of "the good person" But if there is a "good" child/ teenager, he or she will be the murderer. 2.The relative of the lead character/ detective. If there is a cousin, nephew, niece or other relative of the lead investigative character, he or she will be the murderer. 3. The love interest. If the lead investigative character develops an romantic interest in a suspect, he or she will be the murder. 4. The satellite character. If there is a character that appear early in the program and the disappears for a long stretch and/or only appear in the background, he or she will be the murderer.
I often wonder if the fact that I didn't date when I was a teenager a factor in the way I see myself as a gay man now? Last night my friends -who were straight men-were talking about dating when they were teenagers. I had nothing to say. I didn't even attend my prom. This issue may be moot for the present generation-but back in the seventies and eighties I would never have been able to date anyone but a girl. I can' t believe that teenage dating would be that important in my emotional development. Is it? Or is that just another excuse to explain my piss poor relationship history?
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At Winterfell, Theon tries to hold down the fort as he waits for his sister. At Harrenhal, Jaqen is displeased by the way Arya tries to call in her final debt. North of the Wall, Jon Snow is brought to meet Mance Ryder. In Qarth, Dany chooses not to listen to Jorah's advice. Near King's Landing, Stannis and Davos approach their destination, and Davos is offered a reward. In King's Landing itself, Tyrion and Varys find common ground. And wherever the hell the Stark camp is, Robb is betrayed.
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Who'd a thunk it would be this hard?
People, places, things, stories, events, whatever.
I came to the conclusion that the only thing that kept me watching this show to the bitter end was the lead actress...even in this restrained role, there is something riveting about her. Fool me once, shame on you. ....Fool me twice, shame on me. -Gomer Pyle
Christmas wishes come true, and Harry helps out a friend.
on how they are going to manage this.
Watson
So sad.
I had my first vet visit yesterday and told her that I leave my pup in his crate from 6a when I go to the gym till 6p or 7p when I get back from work. She said that's excessive and that I should think about gating him versus crating. I just think a gate is dangerous. What do you think?
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That is all ........
looks like he is topping himself as a even bigger whore Can't wait til Thursday Does anyone know how old he really is?
I don;t think we're done with him as a comic actor, but I'm hoping he doesn't keep on appearing at awards shows "in character" pulling stupid shit anymore. I've rarely found someone more grating or more smug.
Which songs carry a sense of foreboding? When I was a kid I thought Abba's "Summer Night City" was about the end of the world, it had such an ominous tone "It's a dream, it's out of reach. Scattered driftwood on a beach." "Driver's Seat" by Sniff'n The Tears also has this menacing sound, even though the lyrics are innocuous.
He looks like the demon spawn of Tom Bianchi!
Matthew Fox's shocking physical transformation for movie role
We haven't had a thread about Nancy Kelly punching her womb in a while. Showed it to my husband for the first time this evening. He wondered how Kelly had managed to get an Oscar nomination, and seemed pretty shocked when I told him she'd won a Tony for the same part. But that doesn't surprise me. I can see those giant emotions and gestures playing well on the stage. He actually really liked Evelyn Varden playing the Penmark's land-lady. He thought someone should have made a film about her. Eileen Heckart's performance is broad as well, but works a little better, because of her emotional state. She did deserve the nomination she got. Children can be nasty, don't you think?
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It seems like they just grind up the ice cream with pieces of Oreo wafer, not the full cookie with the Oreo frosting. I know the ice cream is supposed to taste like the Oreo cream, but I want pieces of the actual Oreo frosting too.
Very touching farewell. Video:
'SNL' Scorecard: Kristen Wiig Says Goodbye With Mick Jagger's Help
The Tenga Rolling Head Cup for Male Masturbation is on sale at Walgreens for 25% off. And you can be even first to write a review.
I can always tell when someone isn''t American trying their hardest to do an authentic American accent.\ \ There are a few exceptions though: Hugh Laurie, Tracey Ullman, Nicole Kidman, and Toni Collette. That''s about it.\ \ When it''s the other way around, many American actors and actresses can do English accents effortlessly.\ \ Why is it so hard for non-Yanks to master it?
Jensen and his huge endowment will be back next season!
BREAKING NEWS!!!! Mr. Jensen Ackles Employed for One More Year!!!!!
you how important you are to them. They display idolization, then a few days later cast you aside. One minute friendship, like, or love, the next week, rejection. Anyone experience this with a BPD friend or lover?
I hate Wells Fargo! I had so many problems with that bank when they were Wachovia, and continued to have problems once they became Wells Fargo. I'm sure this is not the first person they drove to suicide, but he's getting the attention. He did everything right, but no one would help him. Now, his wife has been evicted, without the money to bury her husband [quote]“In May 2009 the bank claimed the couple had missed their April payment. They proved they had made a payment in person at the bank, using a cashier’s check and that the check had been cashed by the bank. The bank then claimed they had ordered a stop payment on the check, even though a cashier’s check payment cannot be stopped,” writes Johnson. “The runaround began. The bank began harassing them for payment, sometimes as many as six-eight calls per day, sometimes even late at night. On August 3, 2009 the bank claimed the Rousseaus hadn’t paid June or July’s payments either, demanding $3,406.50. But then on August 8 the bank assured them they were current on payments. Then the bank again claimed it had not been paid and that the bank had been trying to contact them without success, and that they now owed $3,478,25.” [quote]The Rousseaus soon learned that the loan they believed they were paying was entirely different from what they received — a loan loaded with prepayment penalties, unnecessary fees, and one that had them paying less than the amount of interest on the loan, making it reset and actually add to the cost of their debt. The longer they continued to make minimum payments, the further they fell behind, and with the “lost” check they fell into a cycle they were unable to ever get out of.
And they harvest aborted fetuses, and fetal parts, especially the brains. A hearing before congress revealed that most of the babies are 'harvested' alive, without anesthesia, to secure freshest organs. Fucking sick!
Roasted babies and thousands of pills filled with powdered human baby flesh
I'm not buying it. Olivia Williams as Eleanor is perfect though.
Who will be the final 2? What is the final task? Is it a fundraiser? Who has the better Rolodex? Who do you want to win? Find out the F2 in the first 10 minutes.
I woke up at a trick's house this morning famished so I went rummaging through his fridge and found bread inside. I've never seen anyone refrigerate bread before. It was just baffling. Wouldn't it get hard? I confronted him about it when he woke up and he said it keeps it fresh and keeps away mold. Is this true? He toasted some for me and it did taste okay with marmalade and farm-fresh butter. I couldn't tell the difference.
Most Praise President for Statement; Orthodox Still Opposed May 09, 2012 Jewish leaders praised President Barack Obama’s statement that he personally supports gay marriage. “I am pleased that the President has made a decisive statement in support of marriage equality,” said National Jewish Democratic Council chair Marc R. Stanley in an emailed statement. “President Obama has admirably continued to demonstrate the values of tikkun olam in his work to make America a better place for all Americans.” For some Jews, the reaction to Obama’s statement was deeply personal. “Tonight for the first time I’m going to be able to go home to my six month old son and tell him that the president of the United states, Our president, thinks that we’re a family,” said Alan van Capelle, chief executive officer of Bend the Arc. Van Capelle, who is gay, the former executive director of the Empire State Pride Agenda. The president told ABC News that he supports gay marriage in a May 9 interview. “Malia and Sasha, they have friends whose parents are same-sex couples,” the president told ABC, referring to his teenage daughters. “[I]t wouldn’t dawn on them that somehow their friends’ parents would be treated differently. It doesn’t make sense to them and frankly, that’s the kind of thing that prompts a change in perspective.” The interview signals a reversal in the president’s public position on gay marriage, though he told ABC news that he continues to believe that the issue should be handled by individual states. The statement comes after a week of signs that the Obama administration’s position on gay marriage was in flux. Vice President Joe Biden and Education Secretary Arne Duncan each professed support for gay marriage in recent days. A poll released in April by the Public Religion Research Institute. found that 81% of Jews support gay marriage. Some Jewish politicians were quick to applaud the president’s announcement. “This is a major turning point in the history of American civil rights,” New York City mayor Michael Bloomberg said in a statement released moments after the content of the ABC interview was made public. “ The march of freedom that has sustained our country since the Revolution of 1776 continues, and no matter what setbacks may occur in a given state, freedom will triumph over fear and equality will prevail over exclusion.” Rep. Jerry Nadler, a congressman representing a heavily Jewish district in New York City that includes the Upper West Side, also cheered the announcement. “For the first time in this nation’s history, a sitting president has shown the courage and leadership to stand up for all American families by pledging to support the fundamental right of every person to marry the person they love, and to have that marriage fully respected,” Nadler said in a statement. Others were more cautiously optimistic. Idit Klein, executive director of the Jewish gay rights group Keshet, noted that various state level efforts against gay marriage have had success in recent days, including a ballot initiative that passed on May 8 in North Carolina. “This is an incredibly tempestuous and despairing time, and a powerfully positive and uplifting time for all of us that care about LGBT equality,” Klein told the Forward. The leading ultra-Orthodox umbrella group, meanwhile, condemned Obama’s statement, which it termed an effort to “redefine marriage.” “The Torah forbids homosexual acts, and sanctions only the union of a man and a woman in matrimony,” wrote Agudath Israel spokesman Avi Shafran in an email to the Forward. “The Orthodox Jewish constituency represented by Agudath Israel of America, as well as countless other Jews who respect the Jewish religious tradition remain staunch in their opposition to redefining marriage.”
My mom said she announced it on FOX News tonight.
Some say pinning blame on Ravi ignores issues that drive teens to suicide.
The board of the NAACP, one of the nation’s oldest and largest African American advocacy organizations, has passed a resolution supporting gay marriage in the wake of President Obama’s public endorsement of same-sex unions. “The mission of the NAACP has always been to ensure the political, social and economic equality of all people,” board chair Roslyn M. Brock said in a statement following passage of the resolution on Saturday. “We have and will oppose efforts to codify discrimination into law.” The chairman emeritus, Julian Bond, had already pledged his support earlier this week as part of a coalition of black leaders trying to tamp down speculation that Obama’s support of gay marriage would divide the black community. The resolution and statement Saturday specifically noted that the group supports “civil marriage” for same sex couples, while respecting religious freedom -- something the president also mentioned when announcing his stance. “Civil marriage is a civil right and a matter of civil law,” NAACP President and CEO Benjamin Todd Jealous said in the statement. “The NAACP’s support for marriage equality is deeply rooted in the Fourteenth Amendment of the United States Constitution and equal protection of all people.” The group has taken public stances against discrimination based on sexual orientation in the past. The NAACP opposed Proposition 8 in California, the federal Defense of Marriage Act, and more recently, Amendment 1 in North Carolina.
If you watched "Girls" tonight, you saw it. Thoughts?
Would you consider the general quality of Hollywood films to be at an all-time low?
Lets wash away yesterday's amateur attempt at a BMT selection. Let me set up the scene, after a long night of the best sex in your LIFE, and falling asleep in each others arms, THIS is who you wake up next to. Now, try not to fall in love. I dare you.
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Tivo'd SNL and watching it now, as a longtime Stones fan. Jagger takes himself in stride and you gotta respect that.
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A few years ago a good friend sent me a few intriguing articles from this site, and it has changed my perspective on the banking crisis, the wars, the attacks on civil liberties and the Internet, and the profound amount of information "noise" (aka flat out lies) that come out of the mouths of the empty talking heads on TV. The basic premise is that a group of very wealthy, very powerful, and very interconnected families- no more than a few thousand people together via marriage, business deals, and/or shared interests- control the mechanisms of banking (fairly obvious), government (somewhat obvious), big business (obvious if you pay attention) and education and media (far less obvious, unless explicitly pointed out). These families/cabals/whatever can subtly (or not so subtly, as in the case of KONY, or the Tea Party, or OWS, etc.) shape the public narrative (Hegelian dialectic) in a way that prevents the majority (be they "left" or "right" or "conservative" or "liberal" or "green") from ever focusing on the larger issues. That way they can keep "the little people" fighting over trivial matters while they steal our money, our land, our civil rights and our future. If you're fighting about gay marriage and abortion, then trillion dollar wars and massive bank bailouts are off the radar. I have finally become convinced, after the latest bullshit on Greece, Osama, the TSA/PATRIOT ACT/NDAA debacles that this guy is right.
On the April 26, 2012 Your World, Michelle Malkin complained that Mitt Romney should not be calling President Obama a nice guy. Is there anything more ironic than the vicious, sneer-mongering sourpuss Malkin calling anyone else “not nice?” Neil Cavuto asked her "You're saying the President is not a nice guy?" "I judge him by his record,” Malkin sneered. “He (Romney) needs to deprogram those words from his mouth, because it is not just the Republican base that has come to realize that Barack Obama is far from a nice man. There have been many targets of the Obama administration that do not have ‘R's’ by their name. And these include victims from the Delphi non-union workers who were cut out of the UAW bailout to many independent inspectors general who’ve been run out of their jobs for telling the truth about corruption and lack of ethics over the last four years, to many whistleblowers in many agencies… chief among them of at the ATF, people who have nothing to do with partisan politics who've seen the viciousness and brutality of this administration in crushing both its political opponents and otherwise." She continued, "Not only can you judge him by his record, but also by the people he associates himself with. People like big labor thug Jimmy Hoffa, who used the most vile language last Labor Day before he introduced Barack Obama in telling the rank and file of his union that they needed to… take these sons of blankety blank out (referring to the Tea Party). That's not the kind of language that nice people use, and Barack Obama said nothing about the comments."
The comments are hystericsal. "Nana always said you could tell what God thought of money by the people He gave it to"
Newark N.J. Mayor Cory Booker (D) expressed reserve about the Obama campaign's Bain strategy against Mitt Romney, telling "Meet The Press" viewers on Sunday that he was "uncomfortable" with the line of attacks. "This kind of stuff is nauseating to me on both sides," Booker said. "It's nauseating to the American public. Enough is enough. Stop attacking private equity." Booker was referencing the Obama campaign's Monday release of a series of documentary-esque Bain videos. The clips depicted Romney as a job destroyer at places like GST steel -- a company purchased by Bain that later saw hundreds of workers lose their employment. The mayor's comments also questioned the Bain attacks' public value, noting that they diverge from the "real issues" affecting voters. It's either going to be a small campaign about this crap or it's going to be a big campaign, in my opinion, about the issues that the American public cares about," Booker said. From the conservative side, GOP strategist Karl Rove entered the conversation on Fox News Sunday. He vowed that Bain jabs against Romney will not work, calling his tenure at the company a "strength." UPDATE (1:40 p.m. ET): Booker continued the conversation on Twitter after the show, adding his thoughts on how Obama needs to elevate his efforts over partisan politics.
New Jersey Mayor Cory Booker: "Obama's Romney/Bain attack ads nauseating."
I would have killed to live in Mary Tyler Moore's and The Riccardo's and third runner up would have been The Jefferson's.
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According to this article, "On the verge of Minor League free agency last year, Anthony Recker made a deal with a buddy back home that, if things didn't work out with baseball, they'd team up for an attempt to land a job with the FBI." Would you suggest the FBI for him or something else? If something else, what would that be? Short video of him swinging at linked article.
If baseball doesn't work out for DL ass icon Anthony Recker, what should he do?
Is it called the tens or the teens...what do you say? It will be the 'twenties soon, again.
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What did the GOP learn from eight disastrous years of George W. Bush and the worst financial crisis in a half-century? Nothing good. If we’d followed their advice to shrink government spending dramatically, the US line in this chart below would be flat—much like Europe’s and the UK’s. It might even be nosediving as Italy’s is. (see link for charts and a whole lot more)
Three Years After Bush, the GOP is Still Wrong About Everything
Why on earth are all of these guys fooling around with him? His hair is absolutely atrocious!
What do they think will pay for infrastructure, military (which oddly these types usually love), etc.? I don't get these folks. Check out this comment from a blog. [quote]How much money an individual earns is a completely private matter and should be of no concern to the government.
Could just be a rogue poll, but could also be reflective of evangelical resistance to Romney. May. 20, 2012 Tennessean/Vanderbilt [Romney +7] Romney - 47% Obama - 40% Vanderbilt poll: Obama closes gap with Romney President Barack Obama has pulled into a virtual tie with presumptive Republican nominee Mitt Romney in traditionally conservative Tennessee, according to a new Vanderbilt University poll. The poll also found that Tennesseans weren’t thrilled with the Republican-led General Assembly’s frequent focus on social, cultural and religious issues this year. But Republican Gov. Bill Haslam managed to remain above the fray, winning approval from 61 percent of poll participants. “Tennessee is clearly a red state,” said John Geer, a professor of political science at Vanderbilt. “But these data show that the public is much more moderate than our state legislature.”
Interesting Tennessee Poll: Romney leads Obama by only 7
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WHEN I listen to President Obama speak to and about women, he sometimes sounds too paternalistic for my taste. In numerous appearances over the years — most recently at the Barnard graduation — he has made reference to how women are smarter than men. It’s all so tired, the kind of fake praise showered upon those one views as easy to impress. As I listen, I am always bracing for the old go-to cliché: “Behind every great man is a great woman.” Some women are smarter than men and some aren’t. But to suggest to women that they deserve dominance instead of equality is at best a cheap applause line. My bigger concern is that in courting women, Mr. Obama’s campaign so far has seemed maddeningly off point. His message to the Barnard graduates was that they should fight for a “seat at the table” — the head seat, he made sure to add. He conceded that it’s a tough economy, but he told the grads, “I am convinced you are tougher” and “things will get better — they always do.” Hardly reassuring words when you look at the reality. According to the Center for Labor Market Studies at Northeastern University, about 53.6 percent of men and women under the age of 25 who hold bachelor’s degrees were jobless or underemployed last year, the most in at least 11 years. According to the Pew Research Center, if we broaden the age group to 18- to 29-year-olds, an estimated 37 percent are unemployed or out of the work force, the highest share in more than three decades. The human faces shouldn’t get lost amid the statistics. I spent last weekend with a friend who attended excellent private schools and graduated from Tufts University two years ago. She’s intelligent, impressive and still looking for a full-time job. The women I know who are struggling in this economy couldn’t be further from the fictional character of Julia, presented in Mr. Obama’s Web ad, “The Life of Julia,” a silly and embarrassing caricature based on the assumption that women look to government at every meaningful phase of their lives for help. My cousin in Louisiana started a small company with a little savings, renovating houses. A single mom, she saved enough to buy a home and provide child care for her son. When the economy went belly up, so did her company. She was forced to sell her home and move in with her parents. She has found another job, but doesn’t make enough to move out. Family, not government, has been everything to her at this time of crisis. She, and they, wouldn’t have it any other way. Another member of my family left her job at an adoption agency just before the economy crashed. Also a single mother, she has been looking for a way back to a full-time job ever since. She has been selling things on eBay to make ends meet. Friends and family, not government, have been there at the dire moments when she has asked them to be. Again, she, and they, wouldn’t have it any other way. This is not to say that government doesn’t play a role in their lives. It does and it should. But it isn’t a dominant one, and certainly not an overwhelming factor in their daily existence. It’s obvious why the president is doing a full-court press for the vote of college-educated women in particular. The Republican primaries probably did turn some women away. Rick Santorum did his party no favors when he spoke about women in combat (“I think that can be a very compromising situation, where people naturally may do things that may not be in the interest of the mission, because of other types of emotions that are involved”); when he described the birth of a child from rape as “a gift in a very broken way”; and how, if he was president, he would make the case for the damage caused by contraception. But Mitt Romney will never be confused with Rick Santorum on these issues, and many women understand that. (I should disclose here that my husband is an adviser to Mr. Romney; I have no involvement with any campaign, and have been an independent journalist throughout my career.) The struggling women in my life all laughed when I asked them if contraception or abortion rights would be a major factor in their decision about this election. For them, and for most other women, the economy overwhelms everything else. Another recent Pew Research Center survey found that voters, when thinking about whom to vote for in the fall, are most concerned about the economy (86 percent) and jobs (84 percent). Near the bottom of the list were some of the hot-button social issues. Tiffany Dufu, who heads the White House Project, a nonpartisan group aimed at training young women for careers in politics and business, got a similar response when she informally polled young women in her organization. “The issues that have been defined as all women care about are way off — young women feel it has put them further in a box they don’t necessarily want to be in,” she told me. “Independence is what is so important to these women.” I have always admired President Obama and I agree with him on some issues, like abortion rights. But the promise of his campaign four years ago has given way to something else — a failure to connect with tens of millions of Americans, many of them women, who feel economic opportunity is gone and are losing hope. In an effort to win them back, Mr. Obama is trying too hard. He’s employing a tone that can come across as grating and even condescending. He really ought to drop it. Most women don’t want to be patted on the head or treated as wards of the state. They simply want to be given a chance to succeed based on their talent and skills. To borrow a phrase from our president’s favorite president, Abraham Lincoln, they want “an open field and a fair chance.” In the second decade of the 21st century, that isn’t asking too much.
Campbell Brown: "President Obama, STOP condescending to women."
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Holy fuck. What a film. Did any of you see this? I had heard about it during Academy Award time. The direction was insanely creative yet restrained and Tilda Swinton was excellent. (She should have had gotten a nomination for this) Totally random but I realized that other than her height, she would be a brilliant choice to play Joan Didion should there ever be a film about her. There was a scene when she was wearing sunglasses and I was thinking MY GOD she reminds me of someone. And that is who it was.
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A sentence of more than a year would also increase the likelihood that federal immigration authorities will try to deport Ravi to India, where he was born and remains a citizen, though he has lived most of his life in New Jersey.
Tyler Clementi And Dharun Ravi's Parents Prepare For Sentencing
How expensive is he?
Thread re-do. The poll didn't go through in the previous thread.
Discuss.
has any one particularly helped you in your life?
Anyone running for office on the Bush fiscal policies should have this etch-a-sketched onto their speaker’s notes.
Of The Last 2 Presidents, Which Has Caused More National Debt?
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I was a kid when this first come on, and I LOVED it. Now, not so much. But I wanted to brush up before the new series starts this summer. Things that I didn't remember about the show: Victoria Principal is beautiful, but she's a TERRIBLE actress. Charlene Tilton isn't the best actress, but she's little and cute, so I forgive her. Patrick Duffy is so fucking HOT! How did I miss this?!?! Linda Gray is pretty, and very talented. Is Jim Davis wearing a toupee? I'm on season two, and hoping it gets better...
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Am I crazy? I find him awfully sexy. Anybody else?
Now Kashi products. Who's next ?
Best written comedy on TV, though in a weird way it could be funnier. The interplay between Selina and her poor neglected unloved daughter tonight was terrific.
Well?
Select a favorite TV show, film, or book, and describe the most improbable or implausible thing the audience is asked to accept. The most ridiculous thing about The Big Bang Theory is that we're supposed to believe that these people would continue to tolerate the presence of Jim Parson's character, who has no people skills. In real life, Sheldon Cooper would probably have no friends and would need to be diagnosed and medicated. The most ridiculous thing about How I Met Your Mother is that we're supposed to believe that Ted is straight...and that Bernie is straight. I hope the show ends with the two of them getting married, and the mother turning out to be a surrogate.
Renee Simonsen, Talisa Soto, Rosemary McGrotha, Roberta Chirko, Ashley Richardson, Suzanne Lanza, Fanny Ardant, Tatjana Patitz, Karen Mulder... I loved Linda, Cindy, Naomi and Christy.. But I loved these girls too.
Anytime someone is driving a car and makes a sharp turn, the tires squeal, even if they're not going at high speeds. Anytime someone pulls away from the curb quickly, the tires squeal, even if the tires are not spinning in place. Every you're in the Great Outdoors, you'll hear the scream of a Red-tailed Hawk (always the same stock sound effect), even if one is watching a Bald Eagle or some other bird. Sometimes no bird at all is needed. And of course we all know the Wilhelm scream. What other TV conventions can we think of?
Anderson...calling Obama out on his position on gay marriage? While the "evolving" excuse is pretty pathetic, a fucking closet case has no right calling someone else to task for their views on gay marriage. I officially loathe that pasty-faced weasel. His cunty co-worker, Erin Burnett, needs to do a "Seriously?" segment on him.
ecretary of State Ken Bennett now says he’s not convinced Barack Obama was really born in the United States and so he is threatening to keep the president off the ballot in November. Bennett’s comments came in an interview late Thursday with conservative radio talk show host Mike Broomhead on Phoenix station KFYI. Bennett said he was following the lead of the state’s eccentric Sheriff Joe Arpaio, a fellow Republican who ordered an investigation into the president’s birth certificate last year and concluded the document released by the White House is a forgery. Bennett said he is now trying to get verification from state officials in Hawaii that the certificate is authentic. On Thursday, Bennett said he sent his request to Hawaii officials eight weeks ago but has yet to get the proof he was hoping for. He said he didn’t want another copy of the birth certificate. He wants Hawaii to give him what he described as “a verification in lieu of a certified copy of a birth certificate.” In the weeks since then, Bennett said, Hawaii officials have forced him to provide proof that he is who he says he is. They asked him to send them copies of the Arizona laws that prove the secretary of state really is the person in charge of handling the ballots. Admittedly, Bennett said they told him they were “tired of all the requests.” But he is continuing anyway. Broomhead, the radio host, pressed Bennett on what he would do if he didn’t get the right response back from Hawaii. “If they won’t comply, if they refuse to comply with this, will you remove the president from the ballot?” Broomhead asked. “Will you exclude him from the ballot?” “That’s possible,” Bennett said. “Or the other option would be I would ask all of candidates, including the president, maybe to submit a certified copy of their birth certificate. But I don’t want to do that.”
Arizona Secretary of State may take Obama name off November ballot
Post your stories. A complete douche at my office lost the person at the office who was propping him up. Yesterday, I heard that his wife has kicked him out. He really has lost everything.
An interesting article from right-wing Australian journalist Miranda Devine (whose work I usually dislike!): In part, it says: [quote] The hostility was symptomatic of a female entitlement mentality (FEM), which means always getting what you want, when you want it, even in defiance of reality and other people's wishes. Increasingly in our narcissistic age we see this deluded self-belief and inflated sense of importance, from baby boomers to 13-year-old princesses. At its extreme, it manifests in the stars of reality shows such as The Real Housewives of Orange County, women whose lives are an epic monument to selfishness. FEM is the end product of a culture that places self-esteem and empowerment above fairness and common sense.
I know she's a pothead and pretty stupid when it comes to parapsychology; but other than that I'm a bit bewildered about the constant running in-jokes making fun of Dionne Warwick. Why is she so particularly mocked on Datalounge?
She's still at it, still thinks she is "it" and it is still 1991 and Madonna has a limo waiting outside for her. So much of her act was bashing "has been's". Now her own "sell by" date is over 20 years old. Sometimes you do get what you deserve - she is now the very person she made fun of all those years ago. Her biggest gig of recent was as a dinner guest on The Food Network at Rocco's de Whatever's apartment. She tried to get snippy, "funny" words in at every turn, but it was all the same old yarn. She couldn't merge into the dialouge traffic from the off ramp. Everyone else was there to just talk about food, be nice, have a good time and NOT put on a "greatest hits" show. She sank! My freind put it on to DVD for me because it ws so sad/funny to watch her. Never call anyone a "has been" Miss Sandrah B. YOU wear the crown so very well and snug now.
Kharma sometimes REALLY does "git" ya.
I usually assume they have things to do and lose contact with them
Aaannnndddd... Mad Men jumps the shark.
Judi Dench Maggie Smith Bill Nighy Tom Wilkinson Dev Patel Celia Imrie Penelope Wilton ** Anyone here seen it? What are your thoughts?
I am supposed to be working around the house and yard, but instead am alternating between watching "Caught on Camera" with Contessa Brewer, and watching "Ice Pilots".
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There was a mini-scandal when she was seen running around Venice with him, holding hands. She said at the time: 'The true nature of our relationship is that it is a very good friendship. ‘I hold hands with all my friends. I don’t think that’s being intimate at all. I’m a very tactile person – I do it all the time.’' Now he's dead as a dodo.
My San Fran friends say NYC is expensive, but not San Francisco expensive. True?
In this 2007 video of Republican Mitt Romney's exchange with a wheelchair bound man suffering from a rare and deadly form of muscular dystrophy, Romney's compassionate conservatism takes an icy cold form, as he turns his back on the ill young man, Clayton Holton, and walks away without answering his question. This exchange, and others like it, will no doubt keep cropping up to haunt Romney throughout his campaign. His complete inability to relate to, or show anything resembling empathy towards mainstream Americans is stunningly on display here. If his position on medical marijuana was due to something he believes is a greater good, as a contender for president of the United States, he should certainly be able to articulate that.However this is likely due to the fact that Romney has no real solutions for real people's problems. Transcript of the exchange at the link.
...for a Diamond Jubilee tour in honour of the Queen. Prince Harry has already toured Belize, the Bahamas and Jamaica, while the Earl and Countess of Wessex have visited other Caribbean islands and the Princess Royal travelled to South Africa.
Anyone know what country they are in?
With proper viewing masks, of course...
I'd prefer responses from ancient history rather than recent history (such as the truth behind the Kennedy assassination).
The Rialto has never been hotter! BLONDES is a much-needed hit for Encores, people are rushing to see all the Tony nominees - it's almost like a real season! Broadway, alive and vital! Shocker! Lorna Luft out of North Shore "Dolly," replaced by Jackie Piro Donovan - does the cast at North Shore know what a major bullet they've dodged? Central Park "Into the Woods" still missing its Baker? Raul's available come Sunday ... will he be flippin' and floppin' in the park this summer? Transfer talk already of "Gentlemen Prefer Blands," - excuse me, Blondes - when could Hilty even do it? Her only free time to rehearse is now till July. Idina and Kristin - bestest buddies in reality? All those nasty rumors untrue? If GCB goes down this week, will Idina send Kristin her a big black wreath? Tony, Tony - Jeremy Jordan? Or Danny Burstein? Jan Maxwell, Audra, or overdue Kelli? Judy Kaye, Da'Vine Joy, or Jessie Mueller? And - NEWSIES or ONCE? Peter and the Starfucker - Chin up, Christian! You're probably going to win! Stockard Channing vs Linda Lavin! Would anyone want to go to rounds with either of them? May the best bitch win! (I wonder who Christian Hoff is rooting for?) Does the LA Follies suddenly work with Vicki Clark? Was that the missing ingredient? An actual frump playing a frumpy ex-showgirl? Leap of Streep! Obviously the hot ticket for the summer - but for all the wrong reasons? Anya - Vodka! Vodka! Elaine Stritch's favorite flop musical. We're off to the races. Place your bets here, kids.
How do you get back on track in life when you just want to curl up and mope? Professional setback has really knocked me off balance.
I dug out my old DVDs and I''m quite enjoying it.%0D\ %0D\ Wow, Felicity was such a psycho nut. I love when they ''by accident'' play one of her psycho tapes at a dorm party, talking about how she''s ready to have sex for the first time.%0D\ %0D\ Scott Speedman was adorable. Smiles his great smile all the time.%0D\ %0D\ But, I can only handle watching one episode at a time or I get a headache from the teenage triteness.
With Mick Jagger. Opening skit featured Jon Hamm
The Canadian Government is expressing its outrage over a sex exhibit at Canada's Science and Technology Museum in Ottawa. They say 'Sex has nothing to do with science' Government spokesperson Dean Del Maestro says sex belongs in the adult video store. Is sex part of science?
Robin Gibb dead at 62- and then there was 1
With all the conversations we have about porn around here I was wondering if anyone here has actually done porn, either as a professional porn star, or just a one-off amateur video for a website. Share your experiences . . .
Taylor Kitsch is kind of fugly. Rihanna was fine. Alexander Skarsgard and Liam Neeson were barely in it. The aliens were stupid. Fun movie.
as seen from L.A.
First Donna Summer, now Robin Gibb. It's been a bad week for disco.
Robin Gibb of the Bee Gees dies after long battle with cancer
Post examples.
Who knew?
... which started the whole world living. My life begins today !
1. Marvel’s The Avengers (Disney) NEW [4,349 Theaters] PG13 Friday $80.5M, Weekend $175M 2. Think Like A Man (Screen Gems/Sony) Week 3 [2,010 Theaters] PG13 Friday $2.6M, Weekend $8.0M, Cume $76.1M 3. The Hunger Games (Lionsgate) Week 7 [2,794 Theaters] PG13 Friday $1.9M, Weekend $6.7M, Cume $381.7M 4. The Lucky One (Warner Bros) Week 3 [3,005 Theaters] PG13 Friday $1.8M, Weekend $5.5M, Cume $47.9M 5. The Five-Year Engagement (Universal) Week 2 [2,941 Theaters] R Friday $1.8M (-47%), Weekend $5.8M, Cume $19.7M 6. Pirates! Band of Misfits 3D (Aardman/Sony) Week 2 [3,358 Theaters] PG Friday $1.3M (-50%), Weekend $5.9M, Cume $19.1M 7. The Raven (Relativity) Week 2 [2,209 Theaters] R Friday $950K (-62%), Weekend $2.8M, Cume $12.3M 8. Safe (Lionsgate) Week 2 [2,271 Theaters] R Friday $900K (-66%), Weekend $2.7M, Cume $13.1M 9. Chimpanzee (Disneynature) Week 3 [1,531 Theaters] PG Friday $707K, Weekend $2.2M, Cume $22.8M 10. The Three Stooges (Fox) Week 4 [2,174 Theaters] PG Friday $480K, Weekend $1.8M, Cume $39.6M
Avengers Sets Box Office Record: $80.5M Friday On Pace For $175M Biggest Domestic Weekend, $575M WW
May 01, 2012 President Obama’s family ties to Hawaii and Indonesia are paying off big among Asian voters. In the first of its kind poll of Asian American and Pacific Islander voters, he not only owns the heavily Democratic group, but their surging population could vault him to reelection wins in Virginia, Florida, Illinois and Nevada, all but locking down a second term. Powerhouse Democratic pollster Celinda Lake found that about three-quarters of voters with roots to China, India, the Philippines, South Korea, Vietnam and Japan favor Obama, the rest Mitt Romney. Obama scores highest among Indian-American voters, with an 86 percent favorable rating. What’s more, Lake found that on every major issue of the day, Asians say Democrats are better managers. While he has family ties to Asia, Obama has also expanded political ties to the region, even using Hawaii as his Christmas vacation spot and hosting an Asian summit there last year. He recently visited South Korea. And today he named May Asian American and Pacific Islander Heritage Month. Their vote could have a huge impact in two states Romney needs to win the White House, Florida and Virginia. Christine Chen, acting executive director of Asian & Pacific Islander American Vote, said they could bring 47,000 votes in Virginia and 33,000 more in Florida. The problem she said: the parties aren’t reaching out to Asian voters, possibly opening the to Republicans if they woo them more. Added Lake, “They haven’t been engaged by either party. There’s a real opportunity there to define the debate.”
By CHARLES BABINGTON, ASSOCIATED PRESS (via Huffington Post) WASHINGTON -- Are Republican lawmakers deliberately stalling the economic recovery to hurt President Barack Obama's re-election chances? Some top Democrats say yes, pointing to GOP stances on the debt limit and other issues that they claim are causing unnecessary economic anxiety and retarding growth. The latest Democratic complaint came after House Speaker John Boehner said Tuesday that when Congress raises the nation's borrowing cap in early 2013, he will again insist on big spending cuts to offset the increase. Boehner, R-Ohio, continues to reject higher tax rates, which Democrats demand from the wealthy. That led Sen. Chuck Schumer, D-N.Y., to say Boehner is virtually assuring another debt-ceiling crisis as bad or worse than the one that shook financial markets nine months ago. "The last thing the country needs is a rerun of last summer's debacle that nearly brought down our economy," Schumer said in a statement. In an interview, Schumer added: "I hope that the speaker is not doing this because he doesn't want to see the economy improve, because what he said will certainly rattle the markets."
Top Democrats Suspect Republicans Try To Sabotage Economy To Hurt Obama
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Whitney Houston, Amy Whinehouse, Donna Summer, Adam Yauch, Robbin Gibb. Crazy.
Sometimes my eyelids grow heavy listening to Obama's opponents lecture us about how he's only doing things for "political reasons." I vote for political reasons. I see no reason why my president should be judged for doing the same. Rachel Maddow does a nice job of spelling this out. And so does the fancy graphic the President's team made.
Obama Hasn't Done Anything For Gay People, Other Than 3 Years Of Major Policy Shifts. WHATEVER.
I'll be happy to help them pack their bags.
They Need to Go Away
Are they finished, or will they start occupying things again now that the weather is nice?
The thread on Garry McCarthy made me want to start a thread so DL'ers can post photos of those hot men in uniform types. And no, it doesn't need to be R rated or X - most city websites don't show those photos, of course! LOL
1 cup of quinoa 3 times/day Unlimited green tea Nothing else. How soon will I lose 30 pounds?
NSFW
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"Battleship" is a flop. Rihanna! Bring me the ax!!!
It's a decent show. Sad they canceled it. It makes me feel good about being young, struggling, and in the city trying to make it big.
"Staying Alive," obviously.
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Is Shaunie O'Neal involved with Baseball Wives, the Basketball Wives spinoff? What do we think of Shaunie, anyway?
Do the student at either school learn business skills, or is it all about the artistry of fashion?
The point of a gay gossip board is not that certain stars you like are off limits. How many times must this be explained to you? EVERYONE is fair game.
NPH & kin
Initially, the Japanese government wanted to evacuate Tokyo but didn't because they didn't want to deal with the fear and the panic. And now that the reactors are in "cold shutdown", supposedly, the temps are spiking higher than ever. The mayor lost all of his body hair from his neck down, and has had constant nose-bleeds since Fukushima started. Many of the Japanese feel that they should stay even though they know the risks because they feel it is their "duty" to absorb the radiation because it is their fault so they have to bear it and not leave. It's even their children's "duty" to endure it. So, lot's of Japanese are committing suicide, getting cancer, nosebleeds, and all sorts of radioactive symptoms and diseases. Where the fuck is the media on this?
Fukushima reactors are at highest temperatures they've ever been!
05/18/2012 “I think it is fair if someone wants to highlight the Reverend Jeremiah Wright and his relationship with Barack Obama because, quite frankly, it wasn’t highlighted enough in 2008 when he was running for president the first time. “ [...T]he reason that the liberals are going to call it racist is because President Obama is black and Jeremiah Wright is black. They’re going to call it racist. It is not racist! They hide behind the race card any time that someone wants to attack the president on grounds that he would freely and liberally attack somebody else. “[...] So why not expose the truth? Because the president, as you know, back in 2008, denied and disowned Jeremiah Wright, when, in fact, how could he have been in his church for 20 years and not assimilated some of the things that he was talking about?”
Will Kat shed a tear for her dirty panties? Will the Playgirl model finally show some sashay? Will the hot blond layer win Fan Favorite? Will Colton knock Leaf back to Oz? Will Tarzan operate on Chelsea's botched boobs? Will Jonas make sushi for the wrap party? Will Alicia loose her job? Will Christina win? All this and more on tonite's bumpuzzling season finally of Survivor!
Survivor One World: Thread 4. Let's not forget the hotness that is Jay. RIP.
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Not really, but my nephew and his bride-to-be asked me to officiate their wedding in the fall. I am thrilled, but I also suffer a bit from stage fright. I am determined to make this day a success, so I've got to overcome this obstacle. What do DLers suggest? Improv class? Toastmasters?
Dearly%20Beloved....
WTF is this?
Can anyone recommend something to read or watch that gave you a new perspective on how to live your life? I need a motivator to improve myself. Thanks for any responses.
Just curious.
...as daughter marries mega-wealthy Jewish boy.
It looks like it's going to be refreshingly different.
The pilot for "Awake" Is here.
Richard
I'm afraid she's startin' to turn.
Apparently suggesting that the ruling party in South Africa is corrupt is fine as long as you don't make a mockery out of President Jacob Zuma's penis. You see, there's a collection of works called "Hail to the Thief" being shown at the Goodman Gallery in Johannesburg, and according to Reuters' Peroshni Govender one image, by artist Brett Murray, goes a little too far in exposing Zuma. "The African National Congress wants the Goodman Gallery to remove a painting of Zuma called 'The Spear', which depicts the president with his genitals exposed, and another work that has a 'For Sale' sign superimposed over the party logo," reports Reuters. It's a little silly, yes, and considering the types of artistic outrage that galleries have experienced over controversial pieces of art--maybe we shouldn't be laughing. "It's making a mockery of the highest office," ANC spokesman Jackson Mthembu told Reuters. Mthembu said the artist was within his rights to express himself but said "The Spear" was "vulgar" and ridiculed President Zuma's stature. You'd think since Mthembu felt so strongly, he'd have the whole collection banned right? After all, isn't the whole collection pretty much ridiculing the president? Obviously (thankfully?), the gallery isn't stepping down. "We feel it is censorship to take the image down,” gallery spokeswoman Lara Koseff said in a report from The Mail & Guardian. Gallery director, Liza Essers, added: "It is a sad day for South Africa when creative production is being threatened with censorship from our ruling party." And people like it! Reuters is reporting it's already been sold! A copy of the painting is at the link. Personaly I don't see the problem, it's not like the artist painted the president with a micro-penis
Painting of South African President's Penis Creates Controversy
Jumping off the Gawker article, which actor or actress do you revile so much you avoid seeing anything they are in? It''s irrational, they''ve never done anything horribly offensive, you can''t really explain it, but you just absolutely HATE them.
Are there some gay men who prefer the sorts of gay men who are like the infamous ladyboys of Thailand and the Philippines? I just don't get it--why wouldn't you just want a woman if you wanted that?
Anyone have one? What do you like or dislike about it?
Mother nature or Miss Clairol?
Does it really work? Or is it just stupid? Or somewhere in between? Any personal experiences with it?
so%20many%20questions....
Tuesday, May 15, 2012 HOUSTON CHURCH TO MARRY GAYS If Episcopal Diocese OK’s Gay "Blessing" By JOE GOMEZ The Bishop of the Texas Episcopal Diocese named St. Stephens Episcopal Church as the first in Houston to be allowed to offer ceremonies for same-sex covenants. It's a move that anti-gay activist Pastor Tom Brown, thinks goes against the teachings of the bible. "The first thing Jesus said about marriage is that god made us male and female so this would be completely contradictory to our lords own teaching," says Brown. Brown thinks that many people will be leaving the Episcopal Church if it approves same sex marriages, but Noel Freeman with Houston's GLBT caucus disagrees. "I think it's a perfect exercise of freedom of religious expression," says Freeman. The State of Texas does not recognize same sex marriages legally so this would be solely a ceremonial move.
Is it wrong? (NSFW)
(1) Didn't know he was married. (2) He's mine bitches! Mine, I say!!
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Lysol Allegedly Sprayed At Prom By Chaperones These prom chaperones are accused of both saying it and spraying it. Two parents allegedly doused dirty-dancing teens at Manitou Springs High School with Lysol and called female students "whores" and "sluts," according to the Denver Channel. The parents, Jennifer Farmer and Hannah Rockey, deny the accusations about conduct that allegedly took place during the Colorado school's prom in April. A police report obtained by the Smoking Gun says students complained that the Lysol spray got into their mouths and eyes and forced some of them to leave the dance. The report also says a student told police that Farmer and Rockey said some dancers "were advertising butt sex.” In a press release sent to The Huffington Post, the Manitou Springs School District said, "The alleged actions by parent chaperones during the high school prom are in no way condoned by the school district." "It is unfortunate that the parent chaperones did not report to school personnel their concerns regarding what they believed to be inappropriate dancing," the release states.
Colorado women accused of spraying "sluts and whores" at high school prom
It concerns me that the archivists are letting Paula touch all of the original documents (i.e. letters from her 3x Great Grandfather) with all that butter on her fingers.
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I know there was an existing thread, but I can''t seem to pull it up so...\ \ which male celebrities, past and present, have taken advantage of the casting couch to get into Hollywood, get their first big break or to continue getting parts?
I''m in love with Peter, of course, but Walter and Olivia are fun too.
She goes hard in this one
I really want something that's smooth, luxurious, and powerful.
I kind of liked the Petries' on Bonny Meadow Road in New Rochelle.
Channel 5 debuted this new show last night about British marines in Afghanistan. Here's a video clip of them washing naked together:
Naked cocks in Royal Marines: Mission Afghanistan
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I found it to be enjoyable but deeply flawed. Never having seen it before, I only knew the basics of the story. I was not aware that this was basically Phyllis and Sally's story, and all the other showgirls were merely supporting characters with hardly any depth or character development whatsoever. I was particularly surprised that the character of Carlotta, who sings the most famous song in the show, was so unimportant to the main story. While "I'm Still Here" is a great song, it didn't resonate with me in the way I thought it would, because she sings it with hardly any context at all. The lyrics should be poignant, but we hardly care about Carlotta because we don't know her. Except for Phyllis and Sally and their husbands, the rest of the cast may as well been in a production of "Cats" where every character hangs around doing nothing, waiting for their turn for center stage. After their solo, they fade back into the scenery.
What says Datalounge?
Post your pictures of men showing affection to each other... like this:
May 17 is the International Day Against Homophobia, with events being held all across Canada. At a IDAHO event at the Fairmont Hotel Vancouver, city councillor Tim Stevenson made an official proclamation for the day in Vancouver. Even Toronto mayor Rob Ford, who has previously insulted his city's queer community by neither attending the Pride parade nor raising the rainbow flag for IDAHO at Toronto's city hall, surprised everyone by making a last-minute appearance at an official Toronto IDAHO event. Meanwhile in Ottawa, Liberal MP Justin Trudeau delivered a statement in English and French in the House of Commons about why this day continues to have importance. Trudeau observed that in Canada, many gains have been made for queer rights, including the decriminalization of homosexuality and the national legalization of same-sex marriage. But he pointed out that the battle is not over. He emphasized the continuing need to recognize ongoing discrimination against and bullying of queer people.
International Day Against Homophobia: MP Justin Trudeau reminds Canadians the fight continues
Who got the "table" ....the little round plastic thing in the middle of the delivered pizza.
Guys 2, 3 and 4 can line up for their blowjobs.
Surfers in the Boston Globe Magazine 5/20/12
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Seriously? A plane crash...where everyone survives, but the plane is RIPPED apart over a large area, but there's no fire... Good lord.
Mitt Romney’s prep school classmates recall pranks, but also troubling incidents By Jason Horowitz, Updated: Thursday, May 10, 8:02 AM BLOOMFIELD HILLS, Mich. — Mitt Romney returned from a three-week spring break in 1965 to resume his studies as a high school senior at the prestigious Cranbrook School. Back on the handsome campus, studded with Tudor brick buildings and manicured fields, he spotted something he thought did not belong at a school where the boys wore ties and carried briefcases. John Lauber, a soft-spoken new student one year behind Romney, was perpetually teased for his nonconformity and presumed homosexuality. Now he was walking around the all-boys school with bleached-blond hair that draped over one eye, and Romney wasn’t having it. “He can’t look like that. That’s wrong. Just look at him!” an incensed Romney told Matthew Friedemann, his close friend in the Stevens Hall dorm, according to Friedemann’s recollection. Mitt, the teenaged son of Michigan Gov. George Romney, kept complaining about Lauber’s look, Friedemann recalled. A few days later, Friedemann entered Stevens Hall off the school’s collegiate quad to find Romney marching out of his own room ahead of a prep school posse shouting about their plan to cut Lauber’s hair. Friedemann followed them to a nearby room where they came upon Lauber, tackled him and pinned him to the ground. As Lauber, his eyes filling with tears, screamed for help, Romney repeatedly clipped his hair with a pair of scissors. The incident was recalled similarly by five students, who gave their accounts independently of one another. Four of them — Friedemann, now a dentist; Phillip Maxwell, a lawyer; Thomas Buford, a retired prosecutor; and David Seed, a retired principal — spoke on the record. Another former student who witnessed the incident asked not to be named. The men have differing political affiliations, although they mostly lean Democratic. Buford volunteered for Barack Obama’s campaign in 2008. Seed, a registered independent, has served as a Republican county chairman in Michigan. All of them said that politics in no way colored their recollections. “It happened very quickly, and to this day it troubles me,” said Buford, the school’s wrestling champion, who said he joined Romney in restraining Lauber. Buford subsequently apologized to Lauber, who was “terrified,” he said. “What a senseless, stupid, idiotic thing to do.” “It was a hack job,” recalled Maxwell, a childhood friend of Romney who was in the dorm room when the incident occurred. “It was vicious.” “He was just easy pickins,” said Friedemann, then the student prefect, or student authority leader of Stevens Hall, expressing remorse about his failure to stop it. The incident transpired in a flash, and Friedemann said Romney then led his cheering schoolmates back to his bay-windowed room in Stevens Hall. Friedemann, guilt ridden, made a point of not talking about it with his friend and waited to see what form of discipline would befall Romney at the famously strict institution. Nothing happened. [more at link]
you know, like Megashark vs. Giant Octopus
05/18/2012 MOST RELIGIOUS: Salt Lake City (74% religious adherents) LEAST RELIGIOUS: Portland, OR (32% religious adherents) A study measuring religious bodies in the United States called the, “2010 U.S. Religious Census: Religious Congregations & Membership Study (RCMS)” was recently released by the Association of Statisticians of American Religious Bodies (ASARB). The most comprehensive study of its kind, it provides detailed county by county information on congregations, members, adherents and attendance for 236 different faiths groups. (The survey differentiates between specific denominations within the same tradition.) Of metropolitan areas with population greater than a million, the researchers found Salt Lake City to be the most religious city with close to 74 percent identifying as a religious adherent. The researchers found the greater area of Portland, OR-WA to be the least religious city with about 32 percent identifying as a religious adherent. The researchers define adherents to be those with an affiliation to a congregation including children, members and attendees who are not members, and believe that the adherent measure is the most complete and comparable across religious groups. As the chart below shows, more than 54 percent of adherents were from metropolitan areas with population of a million and above. In general, cities where more than 75 percent identified as a religious adherent were in the deep South and in the Midwest. Cities where less than 35 percent identified as a religious adherent were in the West and in the Northeast.
I mean one where you cannot have personal calls at all and your cell phone better not ring and absolutely no internet access. I temped once between jobs for a small family owned company that had been in business for years. It was a miserable, boring job. I was stuck in a room with 3 other women with an office immediately behind it with a female manager who was like a benign dictator. She was nice but there was minimal chit chat allowed and absolutely nothing personal. We had no internet access at all when most companies at least allow some for business purposes. I got out after two weeks. I hated it anyway but one of the fat gals in the room with me started shit. She was a backstabbing, bitter bitch who was desperate to be a big fish in a small pond.
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If you kicked a narcissistic, manipulative, ungrateful leech out of your apartment and you know that he is going to move in with another single, middle-aged gay man, would you warn the next victim? I'm considering it for two reasons. I'd have appreciated a warning myself, and I'd like to screw the leech out of his next free place to live. But reason tells me to be grateful he's gone and let him fade away.
Anyone ever find a hot gay tormented mormon?
"What was the purpose of Bain, to make money for its investors or to create jobs?"
Here are pics of Gale and Yara at the HFPA Instyle Party:
Or is he destined to live the life of a has-been?
A very entertaining college performance.
Like farting on a elevator just before the door opens then escaping to leave your victims. My farts are like bubbles that burst after a few seconds. I'm gone by the time the damage is done.
Knock it off you homophobic asshole
What's known about her beyond this? I recall when she first came to Chicago, she got publicized in a big Tribune story that's linked in this article. Had totally forgotten about the Ricketts until this election since I no longer live in Chicago. Laura Ricketts is one of President Obama’s bundlers, or super-fundraisers, tapping her network of wealthy, influential friends, colleagues and peers to raise an unlimited amount for his 2012 campaign. So far, the openly gay lawyer and mother has raised hundreds of thousands of dollars for the cause. She is one of 27 high-profile gay and lesbian ‘bundlers’ for Obama, according to investigative work by the Center for Responsive Politics. Laura is a well-known figure in her adopted hometown of Chicago, both for being the first openly lesbian owner of a major sports franchise and for her work in pushing for marriage equality. She was, until recently, a board member at Lambda Legal, the group responsible for filing the initial suit that resulted in Iowa’s same-sex marriage win. Laura told the Chicago Tribune in 2010 that after George W. Bush’s election in 2004, she knew she needed to fight for equal rights: “People were talking about trying to change the Constitution to discriminate against me. I just felt like I had to get more involved.” Since then, she’s been outspoken in the need to pursue marriage equality nationwide. In fact, when she introduced the President at a Washington, D.C. fundraiser in February, she said the event was being held “to show the president that the LGBT community stands strongly behind his re-election Despite their extreme political differences, Laura Ricketts has always said her father Joe and three brothers Tom, Peter and Todd have been “unflinchingly” supportive of her sexuality. And despite this morning’s news of an anti-Obama attack proposal, Joe Ricketts appears to remain on his daughter’s side when it comes to social issues. Said Baker in his statement: Mr. Ricketts intends to work hard to help elect a President this fall who shares his commitment to economic responsibility, but his efforts are and will continue to be focused entirely on questions of fiscal policy, not attacks that seek to divide us socially or culturally. Forbes tried to reach Laura Ricketts for comment to no avail.
Laura Ricketts -- Joe Ricketts' lesbian daughter and Obama super-fundraiser
Clearer screencaps are now out. #1
Wonder who he was taking the pix for.
What is going on here?
European football.
I am cleaning out my parents house, which they have lived in since the early 1950s. I have found a lot of things still in their original packaging and have been looking up the prices in today's dollars on an inflation calculator. While it is great to find out that 1.50 in 1955 equals 12.00 in 2010 dollars, it doesn't help with context. For example, I found a cheap, dime store, plastic doll in it's original box. The sort of doll one bought to crochet or knit clothing for. It was originally 1.50. It would be 12.00 in today's money, but the same doll would not sell for 12.00 today. It would probably be under 5.00 (made in China). It seems that an inflation calculator appear to compare apples to apples, but it is actually comparing apples to pancakes. It also raises the question of what would happen in products were at 1950s prices? Would everything be more expensive? Just certain items?
I started a part time job working with teenage girls. I read some of their twitter feeds and they are mostly just constant self-hate and insecurity. I was alarmed about how often they say "I'm going to kill myself." I showed the supervisor but she said that's how girls are nowadays. What happened. I don't remember all this angst when I was a teen.
What the hell happened to his career? He was smoking hot for a nano second.
Why is this off-limits in the campaign. For those of us who value this country and what it stands for - Black Liberation Theology is an existential threat to American values. Why is this considered off-limits in the campaign while a whisper campaign about Romney's Christian Mormonism is not? I mean just look at all the nasty comments about Mormonism on this site - it's disgusting. I though liberals were supposed to be tolerant of others.
Do we really have to deal with the drip,drip,drip here ? Can't everyone who ever had sex with John, just file their lawsuits, give their interviews, and confess now, so we can get this all overwith.
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After all why should tax payers have to pay for criminals getting free food, free accomidations, free laundry, free TV? So now all prisoners, male or female, will have to pay rent and board for their stay in jail. This is not a vacation, the Government of Canada says. Why treat criminals so well, and let victims suffer? This all according to the Canadian Government.
What are your monthly sales? Did you try to get published with a big publishing house first or just go straight to self-publishing? Pros and cons of self-publishing?
Obama On Gay Marriage: It 'Doesn't Weaken Families;' It 'Strengthens Families' He's going for broke!
Obama calls for repealing the Defense of Marriage Act (DOMA)
Michelle Caruso Cabrera. Who is this ignorant slut? Joel Stein is straight?! Not that I want him on our team. What a tool.
Gavin Smith Missing: 20th Century Fox Executive Disappears In Los Angeles The Los Angeles Sheriff's Department as put out a missing persons alert for Gavin Smith, a longtime 20th Century Fox employee. Smith disappeared Tuesday and has not been seen or heard from since. Smith has worked in Fox's distribution department for 18 years and is based in Calabasas, California. Police say there is no reason to believe any trouble preceded Smith's disappearance, and that he was last seen driving his Mercedes-Benz near his family's home. Smith's son Evan Smith plays basketball for the University of Souther California and has been trying to get the word out as much as possible via Twitter: Please help me find my dad Gavin Smith. More people looking the better. My family and I thank you do much The Sheriff's Department asks that anyone with information call (800) 222-TIPS or text "TIPLA" with the information to 274637. The bulletin is available below.
And I am more and more convinced that the people featured on NYSD's "House" pay for the privilege, since he has a furniture show coming up that is shilled in the column.
Tasteful Friends: Former monk with old money shows off his space.
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Okay, so no model''s going to date me, unless my whole "going to business school this fall" thing somehow leads me down a road to riches. I''m a whole lotta ugly, but maybe - maybe - a billion bucks is going to make up for that. Maybe I''ll get my own Jeremy Lingvall.\ \ Anyways. I know there are some hotties on DL. Have any of you dated male models (you might be one yourself)? What are they (you?) like? I imagine they''re pretty happy and sweet. TIA for helping me flesh out a future to which I can aspire (that is, making some money to cover up my ugly and then finding a model, following in Howard Stern''s footsteps).
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Including a picture of George Zimmerman the night of the shooting (seemingly unscathed)
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Trending on Twitter right now "#LouisHasABetterAssThanKimK", which means that Louis Tomlinson of the band one direction has a better ass than Kim Kardashian. He went surfing at Manley Beach in Australia yesterday, and several pictures of him in his wetsuit were taken prominently featuring his ass. See link. He also had a wardrobe malfunction in which his wetsuit tore at the crotch. He had to cover it while getting out of the water.
This is a serious question. Does it seep out right away or a couple of hours or does it come out when she pees? Is it "absorbed"? One of you has to know.
What will Uncle Bill say? Or, better yet, Queen Latifah?
Previously on the Matt Bomer thread... *Simon got a sexy makeover. *The happy couple posed for their first photos together since Matt came out. *We continued to post and admire pictures of Matt's face. Other than that, just your standard fangurling and nitpicking.
Will Susan fall out a window to her death? Will Tom will hook up with Carlos? Will Bree bake a cake? Will Gaby have kids who aren't fat? Will the gay neighbors have more than two lines for the entire season? Will this thread reach 600 posts? *sigh* Not likely...
I just got to the halfway point of this season's 4th episode and turned it off. I think I'm done. It's gone from being pretty silly to outright stupid, and I totally love Laura Linney. Anybody else here watch it? Who the hell is writing this dumb shit? I might be able to stick with it if they matured the writing a little and killed off the stupid brother and fat chick characters but I don't think that's gonna happen.
E! News caught up with John Legend at the EW-ABC party on Wednesday night, and when they asked the singer his thoughts on the recent news that Britney Spears and Demi Lovato are joining FOX's singing competition, "The X-Factor" as judges, Legend said the news was "interesting." "It should be very interesting. I don't have much to say," said Legend, who is set to star in ABC's new singing competition, "Duets." "It's interesting when people, you know, are judging singing competitions when they aren't really singers." Ouch! We don't know who John has been listening to, but Demi is absolutely a singer! Has he heard her amazing vocals on "Skyscraper" or the pitch-perfect "For the Love of A Daughter?" We love you, John Legend. But, perhaps you need to give Demi a second listen.
John Legend: "Britney Spears and Demi Lovato aren't really singers."
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With Donna's unfortunate passing, I have the urge to dig up this little gem and watch it again. "On the Radio" is a fantastic song and should have been nominated for the oscar. The piano opening fit in nicely with the movie. Such a great time capsule of late 70's teenage life in LA.
Where is it? Nothing has been built or even started, except that most of the track between Chicago and St. Louis was upgraded...but only to a 110mph standard and WITHOUT urban connections in St. Louis, Chicago, and Springfield.
Anyone see it tonight? I always found him kind of sexy.
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Who would it be? For me: Ser Jorah Mormont, khaleesi's hot blond daddy retainer in Essos.
You can determine what immediate family means for the purposes of this thread.
When did they get so expensive? $166 from London to Paris $167 from Paris to Amsterdam $170 from Paris to Zurich We were planning a 3 week country hopping trip, but we had no idea how expensive it is to travel by train. Is it because it's country to country? I have taken trains all over Italy. From Rome to Venice and everywhere in between, and it was never this much. I'm guessing because it was all within the same country..? If it's going to be this expensive, maybe we should stick to London/Paris or London/Amsterdam. My partner has business in London, so that first stop is mandatory. Any advice??
A friend from work, my partner, and myself are getting together the Sunday before Memorial Day. We're all gay men. He has never met my partner. He lives in the city, and my partner and I live in the suburbs. Should I invite him to the suburbs? Maybe he is tired of life in the big city and might want to spend an evening in suburbia? If so, should we invite him to our home? Or is that too personal? Or should my partner and I go the city? Thanks in advance!
Homophobe.
Will Smith SHOVES and SLAPS another man for kissing him.
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My current roommate is moving out, so I am working on getting a replacement to move in next month (I live in NYC). Today a young man, in his 20's came to see the apartment, and he is about to start work at a hedge fund. In my initial response about the apartment, I told him about myself, including that I was gay. He comes to the apartment, seems to like it, and when I ask if he has any final questions, he asks me if I have AIDS. He then goes on to say that he did some research online, and does not think he could get it from casual contact living with me. I was floored, and reminded of the "Golden Girls" episode where Rose thought she might have HIV and Sophia marked her coffee cup. How would have you reacted? I am still pretty floored by the whole exchange.
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I want to get my boyfriend something absolutely sure fire, and I'd be willing to spend quite a bit. I was wondering if one of the really old and upscale fragrance houses, like Creed or Penhaligon's, would be the best bet.
Any particularly bitchy/fabulous/snarky witticisms?
Leading Psychiatrist Apologizes for Study Supporting Gay ‘Cure’ By BENEDICT CAREY PRINCETON, N.J. — The simple fact was that he had done something wrong, and at the end of a long and revolutionary career it didn’t matter how often he’d been right, how powerful he once was, or what it would mean for his legacy. Dr. Robert L. Spitzer, considered by some to be the father of modern psychiatry, who turns 80 next week, lay awake at 4 o’clock on a recent morning knowing he had to do the one thing that comes least naturally to him. He pushed himself up and staggered into the dark. His desk seemed impossibly far away; Dr. Spitzer suffers from Parkinson’s disease and has trouble walking, sitting, even holding his head upright. The word he sometimes uses to describe these limitations — pathetic — is the same one that for decades he wielded like an ax to strike down dumb ideas, empty theorizing, and junk studies. Now here he was at his computer, ready to recant a study he had done himself, a poorly conceived 2003 investigation that supported the use of so-called reparative therapy to “cure” homosexuality for people strongly motivated to change. What to say? The issue of gay marriage was rocking national politics yet again. The California State Legislature was debating a bill to ban the therapy outright as being dangerous. A magazine writer who had been through the therapy as a teenager recently visited his house, to explain how miserably disorienting the experience was. And he would learn later that a World Health Organization report, released on Thursday, calls the therapy “a serious threat to the health and well-being — even the lives — of affected people.” Dr. Spitzer’s fingers jerked over the keys, unreliably, as if choking on the words. And then it was done: a short letter to be published this month, in the same journal where the original study appeared. “I believe,” it concludes, “I owe the gay community an apology.” Disturber of the Peace The idea to study reparative therapy at all was pure Spitzer, say those who know him, an effort to stick a finger in the eye of an orthodoxy that he himself had helped establish. In the late 1990s as today, the psychiatric establishment considered the therapy to be a nonstarter. Few therapists thought of homosexuality as a disorder. It wasn’t always so. Up into the 1970s, the field’s diagnostic manual classified homosexuality as an illness, calling it a “sociopathic personality disturbance.” Many therapists offered treatment, including Freudian analysts who dominated the field at the time. Advocates for gay people objected furiously and in 1970, one year after the landmark Stonewall protests to stop police raids at a New York bar, a team of gay rights protesters heckled a meeting of behavioral therapists in New York to discuss the topic. The meeting broke up, but not before a young Columbia University professor sat down with the protesters to hear their case. “I’ve always been drawn to controversy, and what I was hearing made sense,” said Dr. Spitzer, in an interview at his home last week. “And I began to think, well, if it is a mental disorder, then what makes it one?” He compared homosexuality with other conditions defined as disorders, like depression and alcohol dependence, and saw immediately that the latter caused marked distress or impairment, while homosexuality often did not. He also saw an opportunity to do something about it. Dr. Spitzer was then a junior member of on an American Psychiatric Association committee helping to rewrite the field’s diagnostic manual and he promptly organized a symposium to discuss the place of homosexuality. That kicked off a series of bitter debates, pitting Dr. Spitzer against a pair of influential senior psychiatrists who would not budge. In the end, the psychiatric association in 1973 sided with Dr. Spitzer, deciding to drop homosexuality from its manual and replace it with his alternative, “sexual orientation disturbance,” to identify people whose sexual orientation, gay or straight, caused them distress.
Psychiatrist behind "cure" for homosexuality apologizes to gay community
Whom will it be?
Joanna Johnson and Emmy winner Crystal Chappell to play a Lesbian couple and the two mommies of Caroline Spencer.
Diving begins on July 29th.
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Makes ya think, huh!
Will Amanda kill off someone good tonight? Who will be shirtless? Will there be the homosex?
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What about with the added challenge of doing it as a Diabetic? Mario Battali is doing the NY Food Stamp challenge this week and Chef Karl Wilder is joining him and doing is as a diabetic. I suggested we go to the Harlem benefit next week as a meet up, but I think we should be doing it also to collect food for the food bank. If the gays show up the event becomes golden. More links inside.
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Just wondering if any of you bitches might have had a similar experience….and this is for the DL'ers who have gone back to school in the last several years - not sure this would apply to the 18-to-22 year olds. My partner and I have been together almost 5 years. We haven't yet made it legal (we are in a state that recognizes civil unions) but we want to, etc. We bought a home last year. At the same time I returned to school. I worked until fall, socked away a shit load of money and did a year of community college. Now I'm ready to go to a 4 year school. Said home is only in his name at the moment - it needed to be to close, and until I'm done with school I don't want it in my name or it will count as an asset. The problem is, they can't figure out at my school what I am living on. I don't pay rent or mortgage, and although I have some savings, that's mostly for school. We pay some things from a joint account. He is paying for most of what would be our monthly expenses, and will for the duration of my time back at school. My question is - has anyone else had to give their school their partner's income info? I thought it only "counted" if it was a recognized spouse, but I'm wondering if they would still take his info into account anyway, even if he is only technically a "boyfriend" on paper? Does the relationship/gender status not matter? Anyone? Thanks in advance.
Here it is!
Weak, weak, weak. And the whitest season ever. I love me some soul and a big black girl voice. Nothing this year. Hard to believe.
Well, that was anticlimactic. After all the hullabaloo about Facebook’s IPO, this is how it ends, with a mere $0.23 jump in share price? That kind of movement is what happens after Procter & Gamble announces a more absorbent type of Pampers.
She's leaving Today and NBC. Any queens know where she's headed?
Mmm...
May 19, 2012 MANILA, Philippines — Christian youths in the Philippines are continuing to protest against Lady Gaga's upcoming concerts despite organizers' assurances that her performances will not threaten morality. Some 200 Christian youths marched in Manila for the second straight day Saturday, chanting "Stop the Lady Gaga concerts." They held placards urging the pop diva to "respect our faith, stop the blasphemy." The Biblemode Youth Philippines members also plan to hold a vigil starting Sunday near the seaside concert venue. They say they are offended by Lady Gaga's music, particularly her song "Judas," which they say mocks Jesus Christ. Authorities have approved the concerts, which are set for Monday and Tuesday, but say they won't allow lewd acts. Sold-out crowds and angry protests have followed Lady Gaga's "Born This Way" Asian tour.
The Young Turks host Cenk Uygur rips Richard Grenell and all self-loathing gay Republicans:
Cenk Uygur of The Young Turks rips self-hating gay Republicans a new one!
Does she mall walk through her mall in the morning?
I'm 38 next month. I've been a hard drinker for the better part of ten years, and started ten before that. I've been in rehab, AA, taken several medications, I've been in therapy for most of my life including currently, and of course...I've tried stopping hundreds of times on my own, only to relapse within a short time. I think I will never be able to give up alcohol. Or maybe I will, but until then, I wonder how I can maximize the looks I have left? I decided to make this a shallow/silly post instead of a crying, whining, alcoholic thread. Does anyone feel like this? That you know you will likely always drink, so what do you do to try to keep up your looks AND consume a lot of alcohol? I've noticed I'm getting one or two broken capillaries across one cheek, and my hair isn't what it used to be. My face is definitely bloated most of the time. Otherwise I try to dress great, eat as well as I can which isn't saying much, not smoke, and stay out of the sun. I doubt my insides are doing as well but I guess it will have to kill me eventually.
is it all about academics and musical instrument? Sports?
Reporter for CBS Miami. What do we know about him?
My health plan does not cover propecia. But it seems readily available for purchase online. Can you trust the medicine you buy online? Has anyone had experience with a reputable site? And has propecia worked for you?
How many of you were OA when you were in high school/college? I remember this ceremony from when I was a scout in NC 30 years ago. I don't remember the loincloths, though.
While Donna DID become a born again Christian in the early 80s, she denied ever having said anything about AIDS being God's punishment against us. I'm inclined to believe her, that something was taken out of context. Either way, she more than made up for it by being an advocate for gay rights. What say you, DL?
Obama Hate Literature is practically a genre of itself. Who buys this shit? Birthers (if there are any left)?
Can someone figure out if this is real, or just another hit piece on him? If so, it looks pretty good to be a fake. I am NOT a "birther". I think spending so much energy investigating and reporting on whether Obama is of US birth is bullshit. His connections to the TBTF banks, Mil-Ind complex and big businesses is far more troubling and relevant. His major economic and foreign policy decisions have been identical to GWBush (and Clinton, and Bush 1, Reagan, Ford...well, since JFK) and he's basically a big phony, his recent comments on Gay Marriage (the only crumb he had in his pocket for real liberals) notwithstanding. Here is the text of a promo brochure by Barack Obama's then-literary agency, Acton & Dystel, which touts Obama as "born in Kenya and raised in Indonesia and Hawaii." Another person pointed out this- The bio is interesting for another, even more important reason: It mentions his employment with Business International Corporation, a known CIA front organization. His mother, father and stepfather all worked for CIA front companies too, and Tim Geithner' s father was also a close associate through CIA front companies. Here is the text of the bio ------------ Barack Obama, the first African-American president of the Harvard Law Review, was born in Kenya and raised in Indonesia and Hawaii. The son of an American anthropologist and a Kenyan finance minister, he attended Columbia University and worked as a financial journalist and editor for Business International Corporation. He served as project coordinator in Harlem for the New York Public Interest Research Group, and was Executive Director of the Developing Communities Project in Chicago’s South Side. His commitment to social and racial issues will be evident in his first book, Journeys in Black and White. -------- Is this legit?
Sources speculate that it was suicide, according to radar.com. It's so sad, after all of her battles with alcoholism.
I mean I don't want to get an STI from sucking. But guys don't want to wear a condom. How do I convince them otherwise?
Well alrighty then
I did this last year. It seemed to help.
From what you''ve heard. Especially insiders, spill!
Well darlings, we have maxed out the other Madonna threads. 1,800 posts altogether. Can there be more to say, on matters MDNA? Flop on! xo
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If so why would you choose a career like that? Did you just fall into being an accountant? Or did you decide to pursue a career as an accountant? Share your stories here, as it would be interesting to hear from gay accountants.
I'm about to go to Home Depot for some paint for my very small 5 X 6 bathroom, which has a shower stall in one corner and a tiny pedestal sink. There is a white floor cabinet next to the shower, a window, and the trim is white. I wanted to go with a charcoal but have been talked into Dusty Olive. The argument is that a dark color makes a small room even smaller. I say it can make a a dramatic statement with the right accessories. I have a very large beveled mirror with a dusty metallic greenish bronze frame to go over the sink. I have no idea what to do with window treatments. I don't have anything up now because I'm in the woods out here. What would Martha do?
If Meg Ryan''s mom died, do you think she would go to the funeral?\ \ Meg hasn''t spoken to the woman in THIRTY years, didn''t call her mother when she was diagnosed with breast cancer and has even threatened family members from showing her mom pictures of her son.\ \ So if Meg''s mom dropped dead tomorrow you think she would go to her own mother''s funeral?
If you want Fuck You Money, you have to take serious risks. True?
Missing FBI agent armed and suicidal, police believe May 13, 2012 | 7:19 am A missing FBI agent from Burbank, believed to be suicidal and possibly carrying a handgun, has become the subject of a major manhunt this weekend. Stephen Ivens, 35, a Los Angeles-based agent specializing in national security, was last seen Friday at his home in the 1700 block of Scott Road in Burbank. He may have headed into the rugged Verdugo Mountains, officials said. Also missing from the home he shared with his wife and 1-year-old son is his handgun, officials said. Officials would not reveal why they believe Ivens may be suicidal. “He’s been a valuable member of our office,” said FBI Special Agent Steve Gomez. A 40-member search-and-rescue team from the Los Angeles County Sheriff's Department along with a dozen Burbank police officers were assisting about 100 FBI agents in the search, officials said. It was the largest search in Burbank in 20 years, said Capt. Denis Cremins of the Burbank Police Department. Ivens has been with the FBI for more than three years and before that spent eight years with the Los Angeles Police Department. Ivens, an avid hiker, left his house on foot. Bloodhounds tracked his scent toward the Verdugo Mountains, Gomez said. Officials are also searching other areas of the county. They do not believe Ivens is a danger to anyone but himself, but they warned people not to approach him if they spot him and urged people to call authorities. Ivens is white, 6-feet tall and weighs 160 pounds. He has receding brown hair and wears prescription glasses, according to a police report. Contact Burbank police at (818) 238-3000 or the FBI at (310) 420-6441.
One of us?
No doubt they're going to make a mountain of money, but all this hype, and no doubt Zuckerberg's private expectations they'll sell billions and billions on opening week, I just hope it deflates. FaceBook has only become weirder, scarier, riskier..and they produce absolutely nothing tangible.
It's not her best but it does feature some hot guys.
Enjoy the has been parade of failed pilots:
They all look like shit. They have a horrible selection.
What do we think of her?
Sweet Jesus, I just watched this on Showtime. If any of you guys liked Showbiz Moms and Dads on Bravo, this one is for you. It is like that series but without the semi talented kids (Well, with the exception of that godawful Shane Kligensmith!) combined with Day of The Locust. It is about the hundreds (thousands) of kids and their idiot parents who come to LA for pilot season to find their children stardom. This doc takes place at the Oakwood Apartments which is a Melrose Place of Child Actors. I have never seen so many delusional pathetic adults in my life. It was extremely depressing to watch. The neurotic overweight mother and her equally neurotic and eccentric daughter are the showstopppers of this bio. You have a parent lured into Scientology, you get to see these scumbag child agents putting the hard sell on these moronic parents. The last 30 minutes really sheds some light on Hollywood and would probably prevent anyone from taking their kids out there. You realize you are watching adults with serious issues and it is a shame that the kids pay the price. I can only imagine how these horrific casting agents must laugh hysterically at some of these desperate people behind their backs. Really sad piece. Highly recommended.
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Forget everything that's come before: these data-driven butt plugs are far and away the best use of 3D-printing technology on this side of the 2012 presidential campaign. [quote]Grand Ole Party is a data visualization of voter approval rates, amongst registered republicans, for each of the GOP candidates. It's also a set of butt plugs. To make them, Matthew Epler culled data from Gallup's website and used it to create line graphs that represent the fluctuating vote-approval rating of each GOP candidate. Longer plug = longer campaign. Next, the line graphs were imported into a 3D program that turns them into renderings of solid shapes, then a prototype of each one was 3D printed. From the prototypes, molds were made and filled with black silicone: and voila! For $350, you can own the full set of GOP butt plugs. A single unit costs $65 ($45 for Perry or Bachmann, as their campaigns—and thus plugs—were shorter than the rest). Somewhere, I hope, someone is telling Romney: You can take yer approval ratings and shove 'em straight up yer ass! (Which, if you take a gander at his plug, better be a gaping, Goatse-sized hole.) (See link for pics of plugs)
A Custom-Made, Data-Driven Butt Plug for Each GOP Presidential
Discuss. Do I need to say NSFW?
First those Winklevoss twins and now these senators!!
Mirror, Mirror, who is the fairest movie of them all? Why, it's Mirror, Mirror, of course. For those of you unfamiliar, it's the story of Snow White and the 7 Dwarfs. Julia Roberts has never been eviler, Nathan Lane has never been gayer and Arm and Hammer has never been more handsome. But it's Lily Collins, who's been fucking Zac Efron, who steals the show as Snow White. Pure as snow, she really lights up the screen. This is the original Snow White, not some lame Huntsman reinterpretation. And the movie is so funny too. Just the puppy love scene would have you howling (no pun intended) and begging (no pun intended again, LOL) for more! That scene and watching Army act like a dog is worth the price of admission alone. Sit, heel, go fetch. LOL! Go and see what I'm talking about!!!
I'm just about done with Season...er...SERIES 2 of Downton Abbey (only the Christmas Special to go), and one thing that strikes me is how loathsome a lot of the characters are. The only consistent feelings I've had from the first episode to the second-to-last episode: - Anna is the only consistently likable character - O'Brien, Thomas, and Vera Bates might be the worst of the villains, but they aren't alone in their assholishness Anyone else find a good number of the characters on DA to be varying degrees of horrible? Of course I'm not including the Dowager Countess in my comments because she's typically the voice of reason (delivered in a wonderfully bitchy way...at the end of any scene she's in).
He is Gay, right? The Rock Hudson rumor was nonsense, but despite this Wikipedia paragraph, he is of the homosexual persuasion, no?\ \ [quote]As he was "never without a job" for four decades, Nabors has never married: according to him, he was "really more married to his career". Consequently, he has been the target of rumors alleging he is gay. In the 1970s, a rumor began circulating that Nabors and then-closeted actor Rock Hudson were to marry. Though supposedly intended as a joke (with the punchline being that Hudson would then be known as "Rock Pyle"), the rumor was picked up by media and spread across the country. Nabors was "horrified" by the rumor, as he felt that it hindered his ability to portray himself as something other than a comedic character.\ \ He hasn''t had a career in 30 years, WTF is he still doing in the closet?
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Which I guess shows how off kilter they really are.
Well, I'm just asking.
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Call it survival of the slowest: Extraordinarily old, bizarrely low-key bacteria have been found in sediments 100 feet below the sea floor of the Pacific Ocean, far removed from sunlight, fresh nutrients and what humans would consider anything interesting to do. Some of these organisms, scientists say, could be at least 1,000 years old. Or maybe millions of years. Their strategy for staying alive is to be barely alive at all. Their metabolism is dialed down to almost nothing, an adaptive advantage in a place with so few resources. The bacteria that survive are the ones that can satisfy themselves with minute traces of oxygen and a parsimonious diet of organic material laid down millions of years ago. Such buried bacteria have been found before, but a new study, published Thursday online by the journal Science, has provided the clearest look at their glacial pace of existence. The conclusion, in short, is that microbes can putter along at extremely low rates of oxygen respiration, their numbers limited only by the paucity of energy available in the buried sediment. “These organisms live so slowly that when we look at it at our own time scale, it’s like suspended animation,” said Danish scientist Hans Roy, a biologist at Aarhus University and the lead author of the study. “The main lesson here is that we need to stop looking at life at our own time scale.” An ancillary message is that human beings should not be too chauvinistic about what constitutes, or characterizes, a living thing. There are a lot more nuances to nature than scientists realized just a few decades ago. The ingenuity of life gives hope to researchers looking for evidence of life beyond Earth. Extraterrestrial life could conceivably be detected by robotic probes, for example, in the Martian subsurface, or in an ice- covered ocean on a cold moon farther out in the solar system. ‘Life in the slow lane’ Scientists now believe that much of the life on Earth is barely able to fog a mirror, as it were. The deep-sea microbes may be an extreme example of a laid-back norm. Most of Earth life, measured by numbers, is not rambunctious and charismatic like life in the sunshine, nor is it akin to the microbes that grow quickly in a laboratory petri dish. Rather, it’s kind of boring — living out of sight, below the surface, in total darkness, using energy slowly and efficiently. NASA research scientist Tori Hoehler, who was not involved with the new study but who has investigated such microbes, said, “I think this is a window into life in the slow lane, which, far from being a niche thing, is probably the average condition on Earth.” Only in recent decades have scientists come to realize that life on the surface is but the flashy veneer of the biosphere. Life, we now know, will find a way to survive in the unlikeliest places, from deep-sea hydrothermal vents and ancient salt deposits to Yellowstone’s hot springs. There are microbes living on aerosolized particles high in the atmosphere. But the subsea, buried bacteria demonstrate a form of extremophiles that are at the end of the spectrum of vibrancy.
Ancient life, millions of years old and barely alive, found beneath ocean floor
I'm from the South but haven't tried this Derby drink. Of course I'm not much of a bourbon drinker unless it's very good quality.
First clips from film version of current Broadway show directed by Hairspray's Adam Shankman. Mary J. Blige does a great "Any Way You Want It". Actual Oscar buzz for Tom Crusie and Catherine Zeta Jones. Possible last chance for the future Mrs. Ryan Secrest to become a movie star after the disasters "Footloose" & "Burlesque"
I like to review my posts!
The prettiest mess ever.
Why have they been targeting Obama's campaign HQ all week? It seems as though.... conservatives might be behind it. Three Floridians arrested for terror plot.
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I couldn't find the new thread, so I posted this. If the search function has made me look like an ass, I apologize (it wouldn't be the first time).
Evil bitch.
Yikes...last seen on skid row. This can't be good.
Did she feel like she was slumming?
Very much anticipated. But dear god what a piece of crap. If you were thinking of buying it, don't. If you've bought it and haven't opened it, save yourself the frustration and disappointment, and return it. If you've already opened it or installed it... I'm sorry. A rare swing-and-a-miss by Blizzard.
As I get older, I know that I really, really, really need to lose weight. As of this morning, I weighed 85 kg/187 pounds (which is far too much for someone who is only 160 cm/5''3"). I''ve already made some changes to my life over the past couple of months, losing 4 kg/9 pounds in the process (without even trying to lose weight!). So now I''m on a mission - perhaps down to 80kg/176 pounds by the end of the year. Feel free to join me, DataLoungers!
Pudgy Pisces #1
Jesus, it's turning into a fucking epidemic!
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She's taking on a hell of a responsibility. Angela Corey, the special prosecutor appointed to investigate the shooting death of Trayvon Martin, said on Monday that the case will not go to a grand jury. The decision does not rule out the possibility that George Zimmerman, Martin's shooter, could be arrested. The grand jury had been set to meet Tuesday in Sanford, Fla., where the Feb. 26 shooting occurred. "From the moment she was assigned, Ms. Corey noted she may not need a grand jury," a statement from Corey's office read. "The decision should not be considered a factor in the final determination of the case. At this time, the investigation continues and there will be no further comment from this office." According to the Associated Press, Corey has "a reputation for not presenting cases before grand juries if it wasn't required." (Only first-degree murder cases require the use of grand juries in Florida, the AP noted.) The lawyer for Martin's family, Ben Crump, said in a statement that he was hopeful the announcement by the special prosecutor would be followed by the announcement of Zimmerman's arrest. "We had hoped she had enough evidence without the need to convene a grand jury," Crump said. "The family is trying to have patience and faith through all of this. We know we want that day to come. We want a very public trial so the evidence can come out and show people that the justice system works for everybody." According to Orlando's WFTV, Zimmerman could be arrested as early as this week. Meanwhile, Zimmerman's attorneys called Corey's decision not to involve a grand jury "courageous on her part." Earlier Monday, lawyers for the neighborhood watchman said that if Zimmerman is not charged, he would speak out. Zimmerman has not spoken to the media since the shooting.
My own MOTHER shared this on FB with everyone. She didn't write it, it was a forward, but I know that my mother thinks she knows stuff about politics, but she's basically a Fox sheep. *** This tells the story, why Bush was so bad at the end of his term. Do not just skim over this, read it slowly and let it sink in. If in doubt, check it out. The day the democrats took over was not January 22 2009; it was actually January 3 2007 the day the Democrats took over the House of Representatives and the Senate, at the very start of the 110th Congress. The Democrat Party controlled a majority in both chambers for the first time since the end of the 103rd Congress in 1995. For those who are listening to the liberals propagating the fallacy that everything is "Bush's Fault", think about this: January 3rd, 2007 was the day the Democrats took over the Senate and the Congress. At the time: The DOW Jones closed at 12,621.77 ...continued on next post
Was it the 60s? Anyone know the first actor to become a free agent?
Anyone watch this? There was a marathon on a couple of weeks ago and it was a little addicting/ I''m assuming Seth is gay right?? You guys seem to know these things
TCM celebrating Katharine Hepburn's birthday starting with the fabulous "Bringing Up Baby" with the equally fabulous Cary Grant.
Oh I get it. Just like Deb and I....
Hugh, practicing my Tony Speech!!!
He poignantly tweeted tonight "I did feel sad seeing BEAUTIFUL THING 20 yrs on, knowing what happened with me and my Ste, which only ended recently." I love his scripts for CORONATION STREET and would love to have seen his West End play EUROVISION. I loved BEAUTIFUL THING, of course. GIMME, GIMME, GIMME was pretty mean-spirited, though.
All the outdoor scenes were poorly lit. But it is a creepy movie.
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Would you like to share it with the class?
Tell us about the first time you saw a cock... where? \ \ Me- my friend''s dad used to take us camping. Saw him shower... nice bod and beautiful cock.\ \ God I wanted him in my sleeping bag...
Unlike other long-time anchors who, after stepping down from the anchor desk, continue to stay with a network. CNN has decided to cut ties with Larry King. King did four specials for CNN within the past year. But CNN said in a statement on Wednesday the network decided to end the specials and release King from his contract. The 78-year-old King says he has "nothing but respect for CNN." He says he's "looking forward to all the wonderful business opportunities" to which he'll now dedicate his time.
Beenie Man releases YouTube video proclaiming support for gay rights Controversial dancehall star becomes the latest in a string of formerly hypermasculine musicians to evolve on gay rights Posted by Brian Braiker; Friday 18 May 2012 14.40 EDT, guardian.co.uk [quote]"I respect each and every human being, regardless of which race or creed, regardless of which religious belief you believe in, and regardless of which sexual preference you are, including gays and lesbian people." [quote]"There is no one in this world is the same as they were 20 years ago – I know I am not. I was a kid and I come from Waterhouse, which is a small community. I never know what the world is like and what the world is all about. But now I know that people live in this world that live their life differently from my life. I still have to respect and love human beings."
Beenie Man releases YouTube video proclaiming support for gay rights
EOnline] As we’ve established, the yummy ‘n’ handsome star Nevis Devine likes both girls and boys (what fool who wants to keep all his options open doesn’t?), mostly avoids little spats with costars and doesn’t mind having some of his male BFFs double as daytime nookie partners, whenever Nevis is so inclined. But basically, Nevis is as happy as he is horny in life! With one small exception… Recently, Nevis has been giving some eyebrow-raising press interviews. It’s not his usual jovial and aw-shucks stuff—which Nevis has always been most excellent at delivering. Also, it’s no secret Mr. D.’s been hitting the sauce a lot, as of late. Partying too much, as well. And the latter reasons are why most folks seem to think Nevis has gotten more melancholy lately—publicly, at least. But it ain’t the reason. The real culprit behind Nevis’s more bummed-out moods these days has to do with a good friend becoming pregnant. It started getting Nevis much more sadface than he usually is. Why? Well, not just because he loves kids and wants his own one day, but more specifically, because there was a private tragedy in his family a few years back involving a child—and few know about it. And Nevis doesn’t like to think about this unfortunate chapter in his life—in fact he makes an absolute point not to. But his pal’s good news has just brought it all crashing back down on him again, and N.D. just doesn’t know what to do besides screw around and get high—and avoid it all. Sorry you’re feelin’ down, Nevis. But cheer up, we’re sure you’ll have your own family one day soon! AND IT AIN’T: Adrian Grenier, Patrick Dempsey, Josh Brolin
It's real.
Conservative MP Ted Opitz's 2011 federal election win last year in Etobicoke Centre was declared null and void today in a challenge by former Liberal MP Borys Wrzesnewskyj. Opitz won the May 2011 election by 26 votes, but Wrzesnewskyj challenged the results over voting irregularities. The case required more than 26 votes be thrown out for it to be declared void. Conservative Party spokesman Fred Delorey said they're disappointed with the court decision after 52,000 people in Etobicoke Centre "followed the rules, cast their ballots and today had their democratic decision thrown into doubt." "The judge has found problems with the way that Elections Canada ran the election in this riding," he said in an emailed statement. "As the judge took care to point out in the decision, Ted Opitz and the Conservative campaign team followed the rules. Wrzesnewskyj told CBC News that the riding needs a by-election to restore democracy. "Something broke in the last federal election," he said. "It's a terrible thought not to know whether or not someone who is in the House of Commons, voting on laws by which we govern ourselves, whether those individuals are actually an expression of the will of the people." He and the Conservatives seem to agree there's a need for more training for the volunteers and temporary workers the election agency takes on in advance of voting day. "Elections Canada has to have the resources to properly train their officials, to make sure that people who vote are — it's as basic as making sure that they actually are Canadian citizens." Interim Liberal Leader Bob Rae wrote a celebratory message on Twitter. "Borys wins ! And now for round 2...," he tweeted. Justice Thomas Lederer set aside 79 ballots in his decision Friday in Toronto. Opitz has eight days to appeal. If he does, the case would be heard as soon as possible by the Supreme Court of Canada. Wrzesnewskyj's lawyer had argued up to 181 ballots were in dispute. The voting irregularities included some people who weren't on the list but cast ballots after being vouched for by others at the polling station, some people without the proper paperwork completed, and others in which voters cast ballots when they were registered at other polling stations or didn't live in the riding. Lederer said the core of the case was about the "confidence that Canadians must have in our electoral process." "If that confidence is diminished, it follows that our interest in, and respect for, government will be similarly diminished. It surely follows that if people who are not qualified to vote were permitted to do so, or if there is a concern that people may have been permitted to vote more than once, confidence in our electoral process will fade." Lederer noted that it seemed the election was conducted by responsible public officials and well-intentioned individuals who were motivated by nothing less than a desire to do the job properly. But it can't be good enough to accept some people voted by registration and without registration certificates, without poll books recording who vouched for whom, and without having their names on the final list of voters. "Our system requires more," Lederer wrote in the 40-page decision. Elections Canada wouldn't comment on the decision in case there's an appeal. Under a court order, Wrzesnewskyj's lawyers were able to examine the ballots at 10 polling divisions, as well as poll books and electors' lists at Elections Canada's office in Ottawa. The test to declare the election invalid, and trigger a byelection (after any appeals are exhausted), was a finding that more than 26 ballots, the losing margin, should not have been counted. Particularly outstanding is what went on in Polling Division 31, located in a church in Etobicoke. Eighty-six people voted by registration certificate on May 2, meaning they showed up without a voter identification card. Wrzesnewsky's lawyers claim that 68 of those voters actually lived in another polling division and should never have been allowed to vote at polling station 31.
Conservative victory in Toronto district overturned by judge
05/18/2012 Mississippi state Rep. Andy Gipson (R) weighed in on President Barack Obama's gay marriage decision last week, invoking a bible passage that calls for gay men to be "put to death." In a May 10 Facebook post, Gipson called homosexuality a "sin," citing Leviticus 20:13 and Romans 1:26-28 Leviticus 20:13 reads: "If a man has sexual relations with a man as one does with a woman, both of them have done what is detestable. They are to be put to death; their blood will be on their own heads." On the same thread, he responded to a follower, calling same-sex relationships "unnatural" and suggesting that they will inherently "result in disease" UnityMS flagged the post and issued a response to Gipson's comments: Mr. Gipson needs to realize he represents all of his constituents. He should not cherry-pick which constituents he wants to work for. He should also realize his positions are neither popular nor Republican. LGBT individuals, couples, and families help pay Gipson’s salary. It’s important that he remember that. While the nation's approval of gay marriage has trended upward, topping out at over 50 percent in a recent poll, a November 2011 survey found that only 13 percent of Mississippi voters thought it should be legal, while 78 percent said it should remain illegal. Even among Democrats, only 19 percent expressed support.
GOP Lawmaker Cites Bible Passage Calling For The Death of Gays
[bold]Before You Embark On A Journey Of Revenge, Dig Two Graves.[/bold] Original thread at link
A male massage therapist is accusing John Travolta of jerking off in front of him and making sexual advances. No happy ending here.
John Travolta Gets Sued By A Male Massage Therapist!
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Elizabeth Stoddard and her brother Roger Collins journey from Collinsport to see if SCDP can come up with a catchy new slogan for their cannery, while Megan takes up a new career as governess to troubled little Davey Collins, not realizing there is something horrible hiding in the Old House. PLUS: Barnabas realizes Betty will be the next to be visited by the Dream Curse.
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Holy shit, what a character! That cannot be real. No one could be that clueless not to mention crusty...ugh!
Well they're still better than British teeth, but they aren't nice at all.
Discuss....
It seems the Democrats have lost the steam and the national level party is not interest.
I just want to say that this is one of the BEST films I have ever seen. I was 7 when it came out and had never heard of it- I only rented it because of watching the Oscar clips on Youtube and Jane Alexander was nominated for Best Actress. And an amazing musical score (even though it wasn't much of one) The scene with the mother and daughter (the wonderful Roxanna Zal) discussing what is like to make love to someone is absolutely devastating. How the FUCK Shirley Maclaine won the Oscar over Jane Alexander for this film actually shocks me. It reminds me of Julia Roberts vs. Ellen Burstyn back in 2000 or so. The film actually made me think about the people in Japan more than anything..
She was everywhere in the 80's- specials, TV show, played Mae West, in TV movie, was in "Mr. Mom". Then......nothing.
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I have Netflix, and I can stream all of the "Watch Instantly" movies to my television through my XBOX 360. The picture and audio are crystal clear. The selection of movies is limited, though. However, there are tons of foreign horror movies I have not seen. I watched one called "The Red Shoes" the other day that wasn''t great, but it wasn''t awful either. Anyway, if we have some cinephiles here who can name me a great movie to watch, that would be helpful. I even like old movies like Alfred Hitchcocks''s 1938 "The Lady Vanishes" (which I watched yesterday). Thanks.
I was watching online and came across this. Even though the guys aren't my type, the fact that the guy getting fucked stayed hard through the whole thing turned me on. Also, the end where they kiss really got me hot. What in porn is a turn on?
Prove that he isn't.
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They kept going back and forth. If it does well, he says that a new Alien film will happen. Sigourney Weaver wants to do another one.
Wow, just wow! What a thrill ride. It's just like Buffy in NYC... avenging. Christ Evans is so hot. Liam Helmsworth is to die for. Mark Buffalo is getting better with age. Amy Acker is better than ever. Jeremy Renner is not so gay. Amber Benson is adorbs. Charisma Carpenter has it to spare and Eliza Dushku is simply delicious. A must for any Joss fan! 99% on Rotten Tomatoes, baby! That's unpresidented for a superhero film.
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I'm watching season 7, thinking that I've seen all the rest, but, come to find out Larry and Cheryl are split. Did they even explain it, or did I miss a season?
Is it okay to sleep for a woman to sleep with a married woman if the husband okays it?
The board of the NAACP, the “nation’s oldest and largest civil rights organization,” endorsed marriage equality at a meeting this afternoon. The move comes 10 days after President Obama announced his support of same-sex marriage. The NAACP’s move comes as attitudes about gays and lesbians in the African American community are changing rapidly. A recent poll found that 54% of African Americans supported President Obama’s recent decision. Maxim Thorne, formerly of the NAACP, broke the news over Twitter: [quote]The NAACP Board of Directors has just endorsed Marriage Equlality unequivocally. Only two opposed. An Historica Moment! Since Obama’s announcement, numerous influential political figures — including Senate Minority Leader Harry Reid and House Assistant Minority Leader James Clyburn — have joined him in supporting marriage equality.
"Injustice anywhere is a threat to justice everywhere": Today, the NAACP endorsed marriage equality
Restaurant/Tours/Historic Homes. TIA.
On May 17, 2004, the first legal same-sex marriages in the United States began taking place in Massachusetts. In the eight years since then, 18,462 same-sex couples have wed in the state, according to MassEquality. As of 2009, 28 percent of Massachusetts married same-sex couples were raising children, and 93 percent of them reported that their children were happier and better off as a result of their marriage.
More news from the Daily News (quoting the National Enquirer): ANOTHER FORMER massage therapist has come forward — this one with compliments — claiming John Travolta has a magical set of lips. “He’s a great kisser,” Luis Gonzalez, now living overseas, told the National Enquirer. “I know because I had sex with him, and he loved it.” Gonzalez told the Enquirer he found the “Saturday Night Fever” star “very experienced” in bed. He told the newspaper he spent an afternoon having passionate sex with Travolta at the posh Ritz-Carlton hotel in Laguna Niguel, Calif., in 1997. The former masseur claimed the randy rendezvous started shortly after he set up his massage table in the actor’s room. Travolta reportedly stripped down and said it was too warm for a top sheet, Gonzalez said. “I gladly let him lay on the table naked . . . and within five minutes, Travolta spread his legs and I could see an erection,” he told the Enquirer. “He moved around and started to breathe heavily. He’d say, ‘Oh, yeah, that feels so good! A little higher, please!’ ” Gonzalez said Travolta made it clear he wanted more than a regular massage, so the couple hopped into the sack. “We got into the bed that was right next to the massage table and had a really good time,” he claimed. “Travolta may not identify himself as a gay man, but it doesn’t dismiss the fact that he likes sex with men,” Gonzalez said. Travolta’s lawyer, Marty Singer, dismissed the new accusations. “When it comes to claims about my client in supermarket tabloids, consider the source,” Singer said in a statement to the Daily News. “This spate of recklessly published tabloid stories is just part of a malicious tabloid agenda to boost lagging sales by running outrageous, defamatory stories about my client sourced by people seeking notoriety or a payday.” Meanwhile, John Doe No. 1, a former masseur who accused Travolta of groping him at the Beverly Hills Hotel in January, has hired Gloria Allred as his new legal muscle. That accuser appears to be in damage-control mode after withdrawing his graphic claims from federal court. “I represent John Doe No. 1,” Allred said in a statement obtained by The News. “Mr. Doe’s lawsuit was dismissed without prejudice, which means that he is still legally entitled to file a lawsuit against John Travolta if he chooses.” “We are in the process of conferring with him regarding the next steps which he may wish to take,” Allred said. Flight records, photographs and an eyewitness later placed the “Pulp Fiction” star almost 3,000 miles away in New York working on a movie at the time of the alleged attack. Faced with the star’s alibi, the man claimed he simply screwed up the exact date. “My client is completely vindicated by Doe No. 1 dropping his claims and dismissing his lawsuit,” Singer said in a statement. The Oscar-nominated actor remains the subject of a related $2 million lawsuit brought by an Atlanta masseur identified as Doe No. 2. Singer has denounced the claims of both Does and also blasted a similar allegation by a former Royal Caribbean staffer who said Travolta propositioned him with a naked hug and the offer of $12,000 cash during a 2009 cruise. The News revealed Saturday that New York masseur Michael Caputo, a former masseur at Manhattan’s posh Peninsula Hotel, claims Travolta was blacklisted from its rooftop spa for inappropriate conduct. ndillon@nydailynews.com
Siân turned 79 on Monday.
Happy 79th Birthday to Siân Phillips!
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Whitney Houston's family, including her daughter, Bobbi Kristina, and mother, Cissy, will be featured in a new reality show, "The Houston Family Chronicles," which will air 10 hour-long episodes on Lifetime.
I vote for Theresa Russell. Sometimes she lined up with roles that were perfect for her (Black Widow anyone?), but she is absolutely terrible. Your vote?
Lately I''ve noticed an increasing number of people with script tattoos on the sides of their neck, up high enough to make them pretty hard to hide -- like the one on the douchebag in the link. What the fuck are these people thinking?\ \ Granted, the tattooees are universally trash (from what I''ve seen), but I just don''t understand this trend. I wouldn''t hire someone with that shit visible, and I doubt many people would. Instead of fancy script, they should just get "LOSER" branded there instead. It''s faster, I''d imagine.\ \ Discuss.
Is she a lesbian? Is she really dating Garrett Hedlund (who used to 'date' Taylor Swift)? And then of course she dated Toothy Tile himself, Jake Gyllenhaal.
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“You know my wife – I wish she were here today. ... She has said someday, who knows, we might move to Florida. You never know. Someday, way down the road.” “We had the chance during the primaries to be able to go all over the country and see a lot of places, and she said 'You know what? If we are going to move, one place I love [is] Jacksonville, Florida,’” Romney told the crowd, which cheered. “She knows a good thing when she sees it.” Later, on his charter flight from Jacksonville to West Palm Beach, a reporter asked Romney what he and his wife found most appealing about Jacksonville. "We love California," he replied. "But there are attractions to Florida. It has the right tax rates, among others."
Mitt Romney: " We might move to Florida, it has the right tax rates."
I've never met one I like. Discuss please.
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In deference to the poster who wanted a politics thread, I will post this inside.
"You Keep Me Hanging On" -- Diana Ross and the Supremes "Theme from M*A*S*H* (Suicide is Painless)"
Hasn''t she been in prison long enough?
employment insurance recipients may be forced to take jobs that would otherwise be filled by temporary foreign workers. The federal government wants to reduce disincentives to work and create a "greater connection" between the EI program and the temporary foreign worker program, Immigration Minister Jason Kenney told the National Post editorial board this week. "If you don't take available work, you don't get EI," he said. "That's always been a legal principle of that program." Under the proposed reforms, unemployed Canadians who are receiving EI would be required to accept local jobs that are currently being filled by temporary foreign workers. "What we will be doing is making people aware there's hiring going on and reminding them that they have an obligation to apply for available work and to take it if they're going to qualify for EI," Kenney said. "It makes no sense to bring in people from abroad when there are Canadians just across the street willing to do the work," Kenney's spokeswoman Alexis Pavlich told Postmedia News Thursday. So if you are a secretary, a teacher, a hairdresser or a actor and you are collecting unemployment insurance. To get it you might have to work for it by cleaning toilets.
BANGKOK, Thailand -- Six roasted fetuses covered with gold for black magic rituals were found in a Bangkok hotel room, Thai police said. Chow Hok Kuen, a 28-year-old British citizen of Taiwanese origin, faces charges of hiding and covering dead bodies and a jail term of up to a year, police said. The arrest came after police were tipped off about a website advertising the sale of the fetuses. Police searched Chow's hotel room and found the fetuses packed in a box inside Chow's baggage, they said. Chow said that he planned to sell fetuses in Taiwan and that one could be worth up to 200,000 Thai baht, or $6,300, police said. He told police that the black magic rituals with fetuses are believed to bring good fortune for businesspeople. Police say it's unclear where the fetuses came from. The British Foreign Office confirmed the arrest and will provide consular assistance if necessary.
Roasted Fetuses Found Hidden in Luggage
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May 16th, 2012 This week, Newsweek dubbed President Obama the “first gay president,” but it is difficult to believe that anyone would take them seriously. Enter Paul Cameron, expert on homosexuality for the Family Research Institute, who won’t say he completely believes President Obama is gay, but told the Voice of Christian Youth radio show Crosstalk last week that his declaration “lends credence” to “various people” who claim the President “has at least participated at times with them in homosexual acts.” “Homosexuality is the one sin, the one habit, that is 24/7,” Cameron explained on the program. “While I’m not sure about the claims by the various people who have reported that Obama has at least participated at times with them in homosexual acts, this certainly lends some credence.” He did not elaborate on who the “various people” are, but the most “reliable” source a Google search could turn up on this is World Net Daily, so perhaps it’s best he didn’t try to justify this one. He then went on to explain the “homosexual movement,” with which he appeared to be intimately acquainted (as an expert of course): Mark my words clearly; the long term goal of the homosexual movement is to get every little boy to grab his ankles and every little girl to give it a try. They will not rest until every one of our children at least gets to try, has the opportunity and maybe is forced to at least once experience homosexual acts. There is no retreating from that, they made it very clear earlier on—now they don’t take about it—but that’s what they want, they will not be happy until they get it, marriage is just a step along the way. It isn’t hard to see how this happened– how the more fringe anti-Obama elements decided that his declaration was a confirmation that he was secretly gay (hey, Newsweek did the same thing, albeit less maliciously and more metaphorically). The clip from the Crosstalk program below:
Family Research Institute Pastor: Obama Possibly ‘Has Participated… In Homosexual Acts’
It''s not an original thought, I''m sure, but just what the hell is this song supposed to be about anyway?\ \ Who left the cake out in the rain?\ \ Why were they so careless?\ \ Why didn''t she write down the recipe?\ \ What is the significance?\ \ So many questions!!\ \ Any thoughts you have are gratefully received in advance.
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Is there anyone left we want to win?
From Queerty: [italic]Today’s Page Six brings us the strange, lurid tale of a budding bromance between abstinent Denver Broncos QB Tim Tebow and wangsta ex-Limp Bizkit front man Fred Durst. Says Page Six: [bold]The two dined at Craig’s restaurant in West Hollywood on Wednesday night. A source said the unlikely friends met while Tebow was a star quarterback at the University of Florida: “Fred has been a fan of Tim’s since he played at Florida. Fred is from Florida and used to go watch Tim play. They stayed in contact and ran into each other at the ESPY Awards a few years ago.”[/bold] In WeHo? That’s pretty gay. And, as previously noted, the Internet has confirmed that Tim Tebow is the proud owner of gay hands and gay lisp. So, naturally, we conjecture: did the 24-year-old Tebow fall in love with the 42-year-old Durst while Durst was worshiping him from the bleachers in Florida, only to share a furtive backstage kiss at the ESPY Awards—Tebow tearing away from Durst, whispering a “I can’t do this” as he runs off to his beard. Flash forward to a hypothetical today, and Fred has finally popped the question to Tim at Craig’s. “We can do it in Washington or Maryland—it’s legal there now, too,” smiles Fred. “You know my answer, Fred,” says Tim with a smile. “And I’ve always wanted to have a Seattle wedding.” And scene.[/italic]
Ian Curtis died.
It'll be for the CW! Premiering this fall! I'm so proud I could burst!
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Replacement in Sunset Boulevard Revival of Follies That's it??
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In less than two months. Career. Over.
Fans of truly explosive political fireworks may have been disappointed when the seemingly unflappable Mitt Romney all but clinched the Republican nod to face the famously no-drama President Obama. But flashes of Romney's well-guarded temper have made cameo appearances on the campaign trail, and BuzzFeed's Andrew Kaczynski just unearthed a gem from Romney's past: A three-decade-old arrest for clashing with a law officer. Here, a look at that tale and four classic "Mitt-frontations" (as his family calls them): 1. Facing a "disorderly conduct" arrest This story first surfaced in Romney's doomed 1994 bid to unseat Sen. Ted Kennedy, Kaczynski says: In 1981, Romney was putting the family boat into Lake Cochituate, an hour outside of Boston, when a park officer told him he couldn't because the license looked painted over. If he launched, he'd face a $50 fine. "I was willing to pay the fine," Romney told The Boston Globe. But the officer returned as Romney put the boat in and, visibly angry at being ignored, handcuffed Mitt, who was "dripping wet in a bathing suit," and booked him for disorderly conduct. Romney contested the arrest in court, threatened to sue, and got the arrest dismissed and sealed. "He did not have the right to arrest me because I was not a disorderly person," Romney told The Globe. Right, I guess "laws are [just] for little people and suckers, aren't they?" says Kaili Joy Gray at Daily Kos. 2. Tangling with a traffic cop at the Olympics During the 2002 Winter Olympics, says Alec MacGillis at The New Republic, Romney, who was the Games' chief organizer, pushed local sheriff's deputies out of the way to personally manage a traffic snarl outside the downhill ski area. He also lit into an 18-year-old security volunteer, Shaun Knopp, who told reporters that Romney rudely asked "who the fuck" he was and "what the fuck" an amateur like him was doing at the Olympics. Romney denied dropping f-bombs, saying the worst he broke out was "H-E-double hockey sticks." I find the idea of Romney directing traffic and dropping f-bombs "immensely humanizing," says Tommy Christopher at Mediaite. "I like that guy" — why isn't he running? 3. Putting Rick Perry in a "Vulcan neck pinch" In a GOP debate last October, Romney had an "odd and unexpected moment" with Texas Gov. Rick Perry, says The New Republic's MacGillis. Perry interrupted Mitt, and Romney appealed to the moderator. But "when no help arrived, he turned on Perry, his voice rising to a shout and his eyes flashing with anger." He even condescendingly put his hand on Perry's shoulder, shocking observers used to Mitt's "robotic self-control." Romney's "attempted Vulcan neck pinch on Rick Perry" was actually "a very strong bit of power politics," says Mediaite's Christopher, except for the part where "he tried to complain to the ref." 4. Sparring with party rockers LMFAO In February 2010, Romney was on a flight from Vancouver to Los Angeles when he had his "most unusual altercation," says MacGillis. He and wife Ann were seated behind Sky Blu (Skyler Gordy) of the party-rock duo LMFAO. Gordy leaned back before takeoff, Romney told him to return his seat to an upright position, and Gordy wound up being escorted off the plane. As Romney tells it, after he politely asked Gordy to sit up, then "tapped him on the shoulder," Gordy "gave me a good swat and he broke my hair." In Gordy's version, told on YouTube, Romney yelled, "Sir, sir put your seat up!" then reached up and "put a condor grip on me. ... It was pretty hostile."
He's about to blow up big time thanks to the record Friday opening of this Joe Carter thing. I hope the kid is ready for this. Mr. Kitsch, you have arrived.
Is anyone going to see this? I think they're making a huge mistake opening this right after Avengers. Everyone's still going to go see Avengers instead of this. They need at least one month of breathing room in between.
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It's never been this bad. I'm crying all the time and have difficulties focusing on work. Distraction doesn't really work. What can and shall I do?
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and why are so many of my Facebook friends using it?
I'm following him on Twitter and one word comes to mind---MARY!!!
Who wouldn't want to see Bill Murray as FDR? But it sounds like he can't do the voice right. But I'll see it just for Olivia Williams (my favorite character actress) as Eleanor...
New trailer for "Hyde Park on Hudson," w/ Bill Murray as FDR
The first "Big balls" thread got mysteriously closed for no known reason, so let's start another!
Let's post pictures of Guys and their Balls, REDUX!
It's all about the balls!
Anyone here a member? Are the groups any good?
While African Americans are generally less supportive of marriage equality as a whole, a growing number of black leaders and community members have come to embrace the issue since President Obama endorsed the freedom to marry last week. As Rep. John Lewis (D-GA) explained during an appearance on MSNBC Thursday afternoon, “Dr. [Martin Luther] King took a simple position. When people would ask him about interracial marriage, he would simply say races don’t fall in love and get married, individuals fall in love and get married.” “So if two men or two women want to fall in love and get married it’s their business,” he added: [quote]My position is very, very simple. That I fought too long and too hard against discrimination based on race and color, not to stand up and fight against discrimination based on sexual orientation. [bold]If you’re going to provide civil rights and equality for everybody, you cannot draw a line, you cannot build a wall. We must respect the dignity and the worth of every human being whether they are gay or straight.[/bold]
THE OBAMA EFFECT: Growing Number Of African Americans Come Out For Marriage Equality
Since the "Grimm" and "Once upon a Time" thread is mostly a "Once..." discussion, I wanted to have a place to discuss Grimm. Any fans out there? I think it's getting better but I have a feeling it won't last long.
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Scam? or Finally, A Product That Actually Works And Is Good For The Skin? Well?
How many people can you fit in a West Village townhouse?
SJP hosting Obama fundraiser in her home?
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Wendy Williams asked Arsenio if he is a queen. He didn't deny it and just smiled, giggled and just said, stop.
Gossip please.
Mine is Shakedown Street.
I'm given to believe that many gay Republicans post here -- many of the anti-Obama threads certainly give that impression. I have a question for you and I hope you'll take the time to answer it. I'll refrain from name-calling and insulting you -- I'm really interested in a serious answer. The Republican Party has declared war on The Gay. A look at the evidence: Nationally -- all the major Republican candidates for President have signed a pledge supporting an amendment to the US Constitution that would specifically discriminate against gay people. They have also pledged to investigate pro-gay groups and appoint judges who would not find a right for same-sex marriage. A gay man found it impossible to work for the Romney campaign. Do any gay people work for the Romney campaign at all? It's impossible to say because if they do, they're afraid to self-identify as gay. In Romney's first major speech after successfully wrapping up the nomination, he goes to Liberty University and speaks out against gay equality. And keep in mind, a decade ago, Romney said he was more pro-gay than Ted Kennedy. Kansas, Texas, and Wyoming -- Republicans in all three states prevented the repeal of anti-gay sodomy laws. Colorado -- Republicans, using political chicanery, prevented the state from enacting a Civil Union law. California and New Jersey -- both states would now have marriage equality except for vetoes by supposedly 'moderate' Republican governors. Virginia -- Republicans refused to consider the appointment of an out gay man as judge just because he's in a 'marriage-like' relationship with a man. North Carolina -- the only southern state to avoid an anti-gay amendment falls, but only after the Republicans take over both state houses and pass Amendment One. Nebraska -- The city of Lincoln passes its first gay discrimination law. All the Republicans on the council refuse to vote for it, however. This leads to my question: When the Log Cabin Republicans began -- I believe in the 70's to help fight the Briggs initiative in CA -- it was argued, well I think, that they could influence the party from within to be more accepting of diversity. But hasn't the experiment failed? The party seems to be less accepting of gay equality than ever. Gays can't even work openly for Republican campaigns anymore. That seems to be more extreme than ever. And compare the Republican Party to the Conservative party in Great Britain. Gays there have largely succeeded in fostering a sense of inclusion and fairness in their party. But here the results are disastrous. I guess my question is, when do you concede defeat? Do you keep fighting even though it seems to be getting worse? And related: why is it so different in the UK?
I would have never expected that, I thought Clint was a bit more respectable and seems like they don't need the money.
In the past month or so, I''ve noticed a marked drop-off in the number of posts in my newsfeed. Used to be that people posted multiple times per day.
Is Google Plus the answer?
After fighting the neighbors for two decades over his desire to build a movie studio on a piece of land he owns in Marin County, he's decide to partner with an affordable housing development instead.
George Lucas' "Fuck You" to Marin County
The Voice of the Night
They just prop me up and I say what they want me to and I go home. Most of the time I don't even read the script.
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She is such a bitch.
Does that make me sound old? I don't want to have to wear gear to watch a movie. And wasn't this a fad back in the 50s? Have they improved the 3-D technology since then? What does 3-D give you, that 2-D doesn't?
With all the talk of "Coal Miner's Daughter" heading for Broadway, there's a bump in the road regarding her age in that story. It looks as if her tale of marriage at 13 was off by several years. Records indicate she got married just before her 16th birthday, not an unusual age in Kentucky in those days. Her husband was 21 at the time.
Why do all the episodes of "The Honeymooners" on TV look like they're been filmed by Man Ray via ray-o-grams? If you watch them on youtube they look normal. Did people think it was funny that Ralph Kramden was always threatening to beat up his wife? Wasn't wifebeating a problem in the 1950s the way it was later? Why were there never any pictures on the Kramdens' walls? And how come they had so little furniture and absolutely no knickknacks? Were they in the direst poverty?
or however the fuck we spelled it when Lost was on. what fuckery will McKinley High come up with tonight? how 'bout those wacky 35 year old HS students? Whose song will suck the most? they're doing Selena gomez and Berlin.
Sock it to them! Two naked 'Indignados' confront riot police during a demonstration of the 15M Outraged movement on the first anniversary of the against austerity measures at Puerta del Sol in Madrid
High-profile attorney Gloria Allred is now set to represent two of the alleged victims to come forward with claims they were sexually harassed by John Travolta. TMZ reports that Allred is now representing John Doe #2, the second of two anonymous masseurs to charge Travolta with sexual battery and assault, but notes "it's unclear exactly what Allred is doing with him." The news comes one day after Allred confirmed she'd taken on the case of John Doe #1, who is described in court documents simply as a Texas-based masseur. Late last week, John Doe #1 was dropped by his legal counsel, Los Angeles-based attorney Okorie Okorocha, after the alleged victim revealed he'd gotten the date of his supposed encounter with the "Pulp Fiction" star wrong when filing suit. As TMZ reported earlier, John Doe #2 -- said to be a masseur at an undisclosed Atlanta-based resort -- followed suit by firing Okorocha, and announcing plans to dismiss the original case. Okorocha, who previously suggested that there were other alleged victims seeking to bring cases against Travolta, is quoted by the site as saying he didn't know why his second client called it quits. "We believe that the lawsuit should be filed in another court and, therefore, the lawsuit was dismissed without prejudice," Allred is quoted by TMZ as saying. "We will be conferring with our client regarding what will happen next in this case." Both John Doe #1 and John Doe #2 had reportedly been seeking $2 million in damages. Unfortunately for Travolta, the Allred news arrives the same day as a National Enquirer report, which claims the actor once tried to perform oral sex on a sleeping Jeff Conaway, his co-star in the 1978 classic "Grease," who died in 2011. (That report is not available online, but has been excerpted by The New York Post). "Jeff told me that John and Kelly’s marriage was an arrangement," Conaway's former fiancée, Vikki Lizzi, is quoted by the Post as saying. "Jeff said that Kelly knows that John is gay, and that’s why she’s OK with it." The Enquirer also apparently cites another massage therapist, Luis Gonzalez, who claims to have willingly had sex with Travolta at the Ritz-Carlton hotel in Laguna Niguel, Calif. after giving the actor a massage in 1997. "He’s a great kisser,” Gonzalez gushed to the publication. "Travolta may not identify himself as a gay man, but it doesn’t dismiss the fact that he likes sex with men... and he’s experienced at it. I know because I had sex with him, and he loved it." Meanwhile, Travolta's attorney Marty Singer blasted the fresh round of allegations. "This spate of recklessly published tabloid stories is just part of a malicious tabloid agenda to boost lagging sales by running outrageous defamatory stories about my client sourced by people seeking notoriety or a payday," he told to E! Online. Allred, of course, is no stranger to high-profile clients. Among those who've sought her legal advice are transgender beauty queen Jenna Talackova, who was initially disqualified from the Miss Universe pageant, Melanie "Scary Spice" Brown, Britney Spears' former bodyguard and Scott Peterson's mistress Ambey Frey.
What a dumb whore! Eleven different women and 4 in one year.
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John Edwards Trial: Testimony Reveals Elizabeth Edwards' Dramatic Confrontation With Husband Over Affair 05/2/12 GREENSBORO, N.C. — A former adviser to John Edwards recounted Wednesday how the former presidential candidate's now-deceased wife indignantly confronted her husband, baring her chest in front of staff members the day after a tabloid reported that he was cheating on her. During a session at Edwards' corruption trial that saw his 30-year-old daughter flee the courtroom in tears, Christina Reynolds described how a very upset Elizabeth Edwards stormed away from her husband in October 2007, then collapsed in a ball on the pavement outside a private airplane hangar. Reynolds and another woman guided the anguished wife into a nearby ladies room to compose herself, but she soon returned to the private hangar to again confront her husband. In front of several staff members, the woman who had endured grueling treatments for breast cancer took off her shirt and bra, exposing her chest. "'You don't see me anymore,'" Reynolds quoted Elizabeth Edwards as screaming. "He didn't have much of a reaction." As staffers scrambled to cover up Edwards' wife and huddle her into a car, Reynolds heard the Democratic candidate use a cell phone to call his wife's doctor to ask for help. Edwards then boarded a waiting jet and took off for his scheduled appearance in South Carolina, Reynolds said. She testified that Elizabeth Edwards had known about her husband's affair with Rielle Hunter before The National Enquirer made it public. Hers was the most stirring testimony of the day at Edwards' trial on corruption charges, as prosecutors worked to build a timeline of the affair and efforts to cover it up. Shortly before Reynolds began her account of what happened that day at the Raleigh airport, Edwards turned to his daughter Cate, a lawyer who has been seated in the front row for much of her father's trial. "I don't know what's coming," Edwards was heard saying. "Do you want to leave?" She responded to him in a whisper, grabbed her purse and walked out, wiping away tears. Edwards was heard saying, "Cate, Cate" as she left. She returned to court about a half hour later, after a brief recess. Shortly before her testimony about the airport argument, Reynolds recounted that Elizabeth Edwards asked her over to the couple's gated estate near Chapel Hill in the summer of 2007 to tell her that her husband had confessed to an affair the prior year. "I was very surprised by what she told me and I didn't want it to ever become public so the kids wouldn't have to know about it," the former aide said. Reynolds, now 37, had worked on John Edwards' successful U.S. senate campaign in 1998 and had quickly bonded with his wife. Both women grew up in military families and had moved around a lot as children. Reynolds worked as the research director and a senior communications adviser to the 2008 presidential campaign and recently joined the board of the educational foundation named for Elizabeth Edwards, who died in December of 2010. Edwards has pleaded not guilty to six counts related to campaign-finance violations. He faces up to 30 years in prison and $1.5 million in fines if convicted on all counts. At issue are payments from wealthy donors used to help keep his pregnant mistress out of public view. Edwards' attorneys have said he didn't know about the money.
An unusually large man in Wisconsin called the police recently after an all-you-can-eat buffet restaurant decided he’d had enough fried fish and cut him off at 20 pieces. Standing 6-foot-6 and weighing 350 pounds, Bill Wisth certainly looks like trouble for any buffet restaurant. Chuck’s Place in Thiensville, Wisconsin recently learned this the hard way, according to Wisconsin news station Today’s TMJ4. After watching Wisth devour 12 individual pieces of fried fish on Friday, May 11, the management decided that was quite enough. They intervened, explaining the restaurant was running out of fish and simply could not allow him to stay any longer. Giving him eight more pieces as a courtesy, for a total of 20, the restaurant’s management sent Wisth on his way in hopes that the costly episode was behind them. That hope, however, was severely misplaced. According to reporter Annie Scholtz, Wisth left the restaurant incensed, then he called the police. He returned two days later with a protest sign, and the television cameras were soon to follow. “It’s false advertising,” he explained in a local news segment broadcast Monday night. “I think people have to stand up for consumers.” A waitress at the restaurant told Scholtz that Wisth has been a problem customer before, and that he’s even been allowed to carry a tab with them that remains unpaid. Despite their prior generosity, Wisth said he still plans to picket the restaurant every Sunday until his demand for a truly endless supply of food is met.
Overweight Man Calls Police After Being Cut Off by All-You-Can-Eat Restaurant
And he's winning!
...if she had not gotten the part of Nellie Oleson. I mean, look at her in this video taped in her young adulthood; she is glamorous and beautiful. One can easily imagine her on one of the nighttime soaps of the late Eighties.
I Wonder What Kind of Career Alison Arngrim Might Have Had...
I Know, Get a Life
London DLers, can you please explain? Aside from the Lord Mayor, who in the world thought this was a good idea? Despite everything, I've been trying to root for London 2012, but you're making it really hard.
The Voice of the Night
Anyone watch this HBO series? The owner looks like Rush Limbaugh.
Zsa Zsa Gabor's ninth husband Frederic Prinz von Anhalt has put her home on the market. The 8,878-square-foot Hollywood Regency-style house on Bel Air Road has seven bedrooms and a beautiful swimming pool on more than an acre of land. The Prince's asking price is $14.9 million. No doubt, the money will go into his personal bank account. Past visitors to Zsa's home include Queen Elizabeth, Ronald Reagan and George H.W. Bush.
Is it a good school?
Oh my God!
Mrs. Barbara Bush
What was her name? Trudy? Check out the article for pics of the model she's living with.
She pulled in 1 million plus in total viewers at 8PM on CNN. Compare that to Anderson Cooper's 300,000 viewers he gets at that same hour, on the same network.
No one seems to be paying ANY attention to his new movie about his stripper past.
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Her disdain for men, her rage and anger at them, her fascination with the pretty girls...her sexless husband.... OMG I'm buying her the Merideth Baxter Birney story!
Freddie gives improv comedy a try. The audio quality is poor; but he does generate a laugh or two. He even causes one of the professionals to break character shortly after 29:00.
Another scandal, another day. He is too beautiful to be a priest but that is what he chose, along with fathering a kid and showing us all what the height of hyprocasy is. Dick.
Nikki Sixx of Mötley Crüe isn’t feeling good about President Obama anymore. The heavy metal band’s bassist was an Obama supporter but now says POTUS has been a disappointment. Knocking Obama for keeping up with celebrities, Sixx tweeted on Saturday, “Our president is commenting on Kanye, having Lindsey at his party and failing our economy.I used to believe in him but it's time for change!” Sixx was referring to remarks that Obama has made about rapper Kanye West and the presence of actress Lindsay Lohan at the White House Correspondents’ Dinner last month.
How did we miss this? Motley Crue's Nikki Sixx tweets he's finished with Obama.
My laptop is plugged in, but it's not charging the battery. Is the problem that the battery must be dead? Is there anything else that it could be?
Serious replies only. If so, have you had an experience with one?
[quote]Recently lesbians have been transitioning to become ‘gay men.' This does seem to be a new development and is particularly common amongst lesbians who have spent years practising sadomasochism, often with gay men. Pat Califia, the most famous US proponent of lesbian SM has become Patrick and her partner (who bore a child before she 'transitioned') was also involved in SM and is now a ‘gay man.' Linnea Due, co-editor of the anthology Dagger: On Butch Women (1994), notes that at a 1995 conference for FTMs about half were 'gay-identified.’ I understand transitioning to become 'gay men' to illustrate the almost total dominance of gay male culture and gay male versions of masculinity within ‘queer' communities. In Drag King shows, now sweeping Australia as they have the US and the UK, lesbians tend to dress up specifically as masculine gay men and seek to outdo each other in the imitation. Gay masculinity has become the highest good and reflects gay men's superior financial status and other resources and glamour. 'Butch' lesbians who choose to be gay men do not have functioning penises, phalloplasties are very expensive, enormously painful and do not erect, thus they become 'bottoms' in gay male sexual practice
Lesbians who transition to gay males. Are you one or do you know one?
Who's this rancid cunt on Bill Maher tonight.
Just curious if ANY of you actually find this arousing. Clearly not safe for work.
IT'S OFFICIAL!! MatchboxTwenty's new album title is NORTH, & it comes out sept. 4th! The first single is "SHE'S SO MEAN", to come in the next couple weeks! YAY!!
I nominate, in a fight to the fuck, Jon Hamm versus Bryan Cranston
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Dear GOD it's horrible. What was she thinking? I know Bravo is desperate to put anything on the air, but doesn't she have people to sheild her from these types of mistakes? If you haven't seen it, it's just... weird. All around awkward. She's awkward, her guests (which are just random friends by the way, no famous guests) are awkward... the bizarre, embarrassing theme song. Can't wrap my head around why she's doing this.
He really is becoming the 21st century's Dick Clark. Ugh.
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it seems very clear that the GOP will cause another "debate" regarding increasing the national debt limit BEFORE the election - once again the US credit rating might lowered - or at least the treat will exist - which can cause concern in an already shakey economy. No doubt, as all the pundits seem to agree, the problem will be resolved in the lame-duck session AFTER the election. Even though it will be a problem created by the repub congress, the blame or credit for the national economy generally falls to the incumbent. Any thoughts abaout this issue; can the administration successfully fight this; how can the Obama campaign effectively neutralize this issue. Thanks for your serious imput.
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Out of all of Rachael Ray's shows, this one was my favorite. I used to love seeing her trot around to different cities, 40 bucks in hand, trying to make that money last through breakfast, lunch and dinner (and oftentimes a snack). Sometimes she'd make it down to the penny, other times she'd go a little over budget. Her critics noted how she never tipped, and if she did it was very little, but hey, she had monetary constraints.
MONEY MONEY MUNNAYYY!!
Exhibit 1: Cillian Murphy
Not Eddie Murphy with his van
Gun range targets meant to resemble dead Florida teen Trayvon Martin are offensive enough. But what’s more disturbing is that the Florida entrepreneur’s distributor reportedly sold out his entire stock in two days. “The response is overwhelming,” the unidentified seller told Oralando’s WKMG news team via e-mail. The station found the targets, which feature a figure in a hoodie holding a bag of skittles and iced tea, on a popular firearms auction site. WKMG’s were not able to identify of the distributor, but when the seller was emailed and told that the local news team was investigating the online business, he claimed the targets would no longer be sold. The description of the product says: Everyone knows the story of Zimmerman and Martin. Obviously we support Zimmerman and believe he is innocent and that he shot a thug. Each target is printed on thick, high quality poster paper with matte finish! The dimensions are 12”x18” (The same as the Darkotic Zombie Targets) This is a Ten Pack of Targets. Martin, 17, was shot and killed by neighborhood watch volunteer, George Zimmerman, after a trip to a local convenience store. Martin was unarmed but carried a bag of skittles, a can of iced tea and his wallet. For protestors nationwide, the hoodie has become symbolic of the Trayvon Martin tragedy. Mark O’Mara, Zimmerman’s attorney told WKMG that “it’s this type of hatred—that’s what this is, it’s hate-mongering—that’s going to make it more difficult to try this case.” According to WKMG, the Trayvon Martin targets have sent many gun enthusiast websites abuzz with discussion, however, the majority of individuals are disgusted. “Even though I fully believe Zimmerman was justified in shooting, Trayvon was still a human being and does not deserve that kind of disrespect in death,” wrote one member of a firearm owners association. The seller told the news station that the main motivation was to make money off the controversy, but as of Friday, the online advertisements have been taken down.
...and the networks have formally announced next season's schedules at their upfronts (and consequently confirmed every remaining cancellation), which now-cancelled shows will you miss? Personally, I was starting to get into "Ringer," and I liked "Alcatraz" and "Terra Nova" as well. I'm glad "Fringe" is getting a final season to wrap everything up, even given its shitty ratings.
Malawi president vows to legalise homosexuality Joyce Banda's promise to repeal homosexuality laws welcomed by gay rights campaigners across Africa David Smith in Johannesburg and Godfrey Mapondera in Blantyre; guardian.co.uk, Friday 18 May 2012 18.05 BST Malawi's new president has pledged to lift the country's ban on homosexuality, breaking ranks from much of Africa where such activity remains a crime. Joyce Banda, who came to power in April on the death of her predecessor, said in her first state of the nation address on Friday: "Indecency and unnatural acts laws shall be repealed." She described the measure as a matter of urgency. Elsewhere in the speech, Banda said her government wanted to normalise relations with "our traditional development partners who were uncomfortable with our bad laws". But repealing a law requires a parliamentary vote and, although Banda's party commands a majority, it is unclear how much support the move would have in this socially conservative nation. Malawi was widely condemned for the conviction and 14-year prison sentences given in 2010 to two men who were arrested after celebrating their engagement and were charged with unnatural acts and gross indecency. The president at the time, Bingu wa Mutharika, pardoned the couple on "humanitarian grounds only", while claiming they had "committed a crime against our culture, against our religion, and against our laws". Mutharika died from a heart attack in April. Banda, who was vice-president, stepped in to serve out his term, which ends in 2014. She has hit the ground running with a cabinet reshuffle, the sacking of the police chief and sweeping reforms to break from Mutharika's autocratic rule. Her audacious plan to legalise homosexuality was welcomed by the campaigner Gift Trapence, executive director of the Centre for the Development of People. "If that's what the president said, Malawi is going in the right direction in terms of human rights and meeting international human rights standards, and saying people are equal irrespective of sexual orientation," he said. Banda has previously demonstrated her liberal attitudes on the issue, he continued. "When she was vice-president she was invited to address a group of religious leaders and she spoke in favour of including LGBT communities in HIV interventions." Trapence said Banda's stand offers hope in a continent where homosexuality is criminalised in 37 countries. "It has come at the right time as the African Union is coming to attend a summit in Malawi. This sends a good message to the African heads of state who will attend." Trapence said the gay couple whose engagement caused a storm, Tiwonge Chimbalanga and Steven Monjeza, were no longer together. Chimbalanga gained asylum in Cape Town, South Africa, while Monjeza is serving a three-year prison sentence for theft. "They will be happy at this decision," he added. "They will look back at how they suffered and were incarcerated and have a smile that at least they did something to influence the sodomy laws under which they were convicted." Wapona Kita, one of Malawi's leading human rights lawyers, said he welcomed the president's announcement. "She has done the right thing. The repeal of this bad law is long overdue." The law is "unconstitutional against international human rights standards", he added. Undule Mwakasungula, executive director of the Centre for Human Rights and Rehabilitation, said: "This is good news for us as we have been advocating for these sodomy laws to be reviewed or repealed as part of all the bad laws. Now that president Joyce Banda has indicated that the sodomy laws will be part of the laws to be repealed, this is very welcome development." In South Africa, the only African country with laws protecting gay rights, activist Mark Heywood said Banda would have international support. "I hope that she is persuasive enough in her own country," he told the Associated Press. "It's really important for other African countries other than South Africa to move in this direction. Symbolically, I think it is very important for Africa." A report this week from Kenya and Uganda by the watchdog Human Rights First found that African homosexuals who fled persecution in their countries were abducted, beaten and raped in the places where they sought asylum. It cited examples including two refugee women in Uganda who were abducted and raped because they had been assisting LGBT refugees, five cases of "corrective rape" of lesbian or transgender male refugees in Uganda and a gay Somali teenager in Kenya who was doused in petrol and would have been set on fire if not for the intervention of an older Somali woman. Human Rights First, a US-based non-governmental organisation, called on Hillary Clinton, the secretary of state, to help make sure that LGBT refugees gain access to safety and protection from violence.
The perky, puffy-yet-erect, tweaky-twisty, super-chewy, don'tcha-wanna-just-BITE-em nipples of Davey Wavey. Davey says he has never had a threesome. The fact that he has never experienced two guys sucking hungrily and simultaneously on his erect gumdrops makes me sad. You can turn the volume down if you like.
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Discuss!
This shit scares me! How can we keep this from happening??!
Flesh-eating bacteria attacks student
Ugh
Boy, they sure don't make sluts and whores like him any more!
The sensational Season 14 two-hour season premiere tonight at 8:00-10:01 p.m. ET!
They made a movie of this book? Can they make a more obnoxious cast? Jen Lopez, Cam Diaz, Anne Kendrick, Liz Banks, Matt Morrison and Chase Crawford. Are you seeing it?
They are really trying hard to counter the truth of his man love
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Kathy Griffin To Elisabeth Hasselbeck: 'Take It Down A Notch B***H'
Arizona's Top Election Official Goes Birther, Threatens To Keep Obama Off The Ballot
Why not Doris Day, or Shirley Jones, or Shirley Maclaine, or Debbie Reynolds, or Jane Powell, or Marilyn Monroe? Why Mitzi?
He is up for Best Talk Show Host and Best Daytime Talk Show. Will he bring Ben, or will he bring a woman again as his date?
looked hot as hell last night on the premier of "Melissa & Joey". I don''t care for the shaved head, but that body and ass looked fine.
[bold] A 9-year-old displayed a sign reading ‘God hates no one’ at a protest by the Westboro Baptist Church, known for its ‘God hates fags’ signs. [/bold] The mother and son were at the Washburn University in Topeka when they witnessed the protest by the church, which regularly pickets funerals to protest against homosexuality, abortion and other issues. Ms Akrouche posted the photo of her son to Facebook and wrote: “After our walk around Washburn campus, we ran into the Phelps… Josef was determined to make his own statement so we went to the car and with pencil and his sketch pad, he made up his own little sign that reads “GOD HATES NO ONE”. “I have never been prouder. Those people are scary but he stood strong, was respectful and stood by his convictions. He will be a good man, I have no doubt. I got my Mothers Day present early.” In a video posted to Facebook after the event, Ms Akrouche’s son said: “I stood up to the Westboro Baptist Church and there are some things I want to say about it. One, why I did it: I hate those signs, I hate them and I want to stop them. Two, the way I feel about it is that I can do anything if you let me. And three, we should all respect each other, even if our ideas are not the same.”
Nine-year-old tells ‘God Hates Fags’ church ‘God hates no one’
May 12th, 2012 Washington (CNN) – Rick Santorum is urging Mitt Romney to "step up" and weaponize the issue of same-sex marriage. "This is a very potent weapon, if you will, for Governor Romney if he's willing to step up and take advantage of a president who is very much out of touch with the values of America," Santorum said in an eye-opening live interview with Arkansas TV station KARK, a CNN affiliate. The former presidential candidate made the remarks before appearing at the Benton County Republican Lincoln Day Dinner in the northwest corner of the state Friday night. Santorum's comments also came the night before Romney's speech before the Christian conservative Liberty University in Virginia on Saturday. Romney's one time rival noted the recent results of a ballot issue in North Carolina where voters approved a constitutional amendment banning same-sex marriage. "Hopefully Governor Romney will continue to stand tall for his position on this issue and understand how detrimental it would be for society for it to have this changed," Santorum also told the Arkansas station. "Governor Romney has to talk about his values," he added. "That's the most important thing." On Wednesday, President Obama stated his support for same-sex marriage in reversal of his stance on the sensitive issue. Following the president's comments, Romney seemed hesitant to take on what he called a "tender" subject, though he did reiterate his view that marriage should be between a man and a woman. Santorum's remarks also indicate the former Pennsylvania senator is not fully on board Romney's team. After a bitter primary season battle, Santorum endorsed Romney in a lengthy email to his supporters. But Santorum did not actually state his endorsement until the tail end of the message. When asked whether he would be interested in running as Romney's running mate, Santorum demurred. "It's one thing you don't campaign for – at least I'm not campaigning for," Santorum said.
"Considering that Scott Walker has already spent $30 million and we're even in the polls, this is a winnable race," the Wisconsin Dem continues. "We can get outspent two to one or five to one. We can't get outspent 20 to one."
Wisconsin Dems Furious with DNC for Refusing to Invest Big Money in Walker Recall
...stopped eating fast food breakfasts every morning, haven't had coffee in over a week (I usually drink it every morning), I've been drinking more water, eating more veggies and salads, and have been walking and exercising. How long before I notice results?
Actor-turned-rapper Jaden Smith was desperate to use his mother Jada Pinkett Smith’s new Madagascar movie to boost his music career and begged her to convince studio boss Jeffrey Katzenberg to include one of his new songs on the film’s soundtrack. The Karate Kid star, 13, has already established himself in Hollywood and now he’s hoping to follow his sister Willow in to the pop charts with his first solo song Give it to Em. Smith was eager to have a track featured in Madagascar 3: Europe’s Most Wanted, in which his mum voices Gloria the hippopotamus, but Pinkett Smith was forced to reject his desperate plea because it came just days before the animated family comedy’s world premiere at the Cannes Film Festival in France today. The Matrix Reloaded actress reveals her kids loved the first two installments of the DreamWorks Animation franchise, and she was “flattered” the teen even asked to be included in the project. Speaking from Cannes today, she told America’s Today breakfast show, “They’re much older (now), but I was very, very proud and flattered when my son called me the other day and asked me to make a call to Jeffrey Katzenberg to put one of his songs at the end of Madagascar, not realizing that it’s coming out in two weeks! “I was like, ‘Listen, it’s done, it’s over, OK?’ He’s like, ‘I know you can call Jeffrey and get it done mommy, I can put a song on there.’ I’m like, ‘No, baby, you can’t.’ But I was actually really flattered that he thinks it’s still cool.”
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04/30/2012 In our Monday Fix column, we argued that former Massachusetts governor Mitt Romney faces a very narrow path to the 270 electoral votes he needs to claim the presidency in November. What we were most struck by while writing the piece was the fact that it’s been more than two decades since the Republican presidential nominee broke 300 electoral votes. During that same time, Democratic presidential nominees — Bill Clinton in 1992 and 1996 and President Obama in 2008 — have won more than 350 electoral votes. It’s also a remarkable turnaround from the three successive elections in 1980, 1984 and 1988 in which Republican presidential nominees received more than 400(!) electoral votes. Here’s a chart we put together detailing the electoral map up and downs for each side in the past three decades:
Republicans’ electoral map problem — in one chart
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Interesting note from an American expat, with chilling implications. The noose tightens... ____________ I was approached recently by a member of our Sovereign Man community who filed the paperwork to relinquish US citizenship some time ago. Long story short, after an incomprehensibly long wait, the US government finally sent him a reply: Application DENIED. Absolutely shocking. That you even have to ‘apply’ to relinquish what you never signed up for is intellectually insulting. That you cannot do so freely, and immediately, is nothing short of totalitarian. It’s still an embryonic movement, though more and more US citizens are being driven to divorce their country. Last year nearly 1,600 people gave up US citizenship, up from 1,485 in 2010, 731 in 2009, and 226 in 2008. While some renunciants have philosophical misgivings about being American, most do it for tax reasons. There’s a growing number of expats who, despite living abroad for years, are still paying huge portions of their income to Uncle Sam. What’s more, the filing requirements are getting more and more onerous. US citizens living overseas have to keep up with all sorts of changes to the tax code that they may not be privy to, and the penalties for noncompliance are severe. I can’t tell you how many friends I have who are US citizens living abroad that had no idea they were supposed to file the Report of Foreign Bank Account (FBAR) form every year; or the new FATCA form 8938; or those with businesses that must file form 8858 or 5471. Usually these things come with pretty nasty penalties, possibly up to $10,000 per instance of failure to file. Then there’s the latest, greatest tax target: accidental US citizens. This group consists of foreigners who happen to be dual nationals because they were born in the US or have an American parent. These foreigners have spent their entire lives outside the US. They know absolutely nothing about US tax code. Now they’re getting Dear John letters from the US government saying- “I see you are a US citizen but have never filed your taxes. Please enclose a check for the following absurd amount of money, which includes interest and penalties for the last 20-years…” Such tactics smack of desperation… typical of the same sorts of cannibalistic moves that failing, bankrupt governments throughout history have exacted upon their people. Citizenship is nothing more than accident of birth. Yet in the modern nation-state paradigm, governments lay claim to citizens from the time they’re born as if we’re property. Children are saddled with obligations that they never signed up for– taxes, compulsory military service, a debilitating national debt, etc. Most countries at least have procedures to voluntarily surrender citizenship for those who choose to opt out of the system; in the United States, it is contained in section 349 of the Immigration and Nationality Act. The process usually takes place overseas at a US consulate– you have to fill out a series of forms, swear an oath in front of a government official, and eventually file a final tax return. Some people even have to pay a steep ‘exit tax’ on the value of their assets. I know dozens who have done this, and from what my friends tell me, many of the consular officials attempt to impugn, insult, or otherwise intimidate people looking to surrender their citizenship. It’s their last-ditch effort to keep the milk cows from escaping the dairy farm. For example, one official tried terrorizing a friend of mine last year in South Africa, saying, “This smells like TAX EVASION to me!” Despite all the forms, the bureaucracy, and the intimidation tactics, I had never heard of a case where someone’s properly submitted ’application’ to surrender citizenship has been denied (bar Ken O’Keefe). Until now. But in what may be the most distinguishing mark of a totalitarian state, the US government has now officially prevented someone from freely leaving the system. The Soviet Union comes to mind. It certainly does make one wonder to what desperate lows they will sink to next.
I am both glad and saddened to hear that others have had a similar experience with their parents/friends etc regarding the closed mouthed secrecy of parents and other relatives when it comes to molestation, alcoholism and other "dirty laundry". I am of Irish heritage, 2nd generation, and found it to be prevelant in that community. Do not air dirty linen in public was the motto. Believe the all mighty church - a priest or nun would NEVER harm a kid! Oh yeah - how many kids were hit, not spanked, in school? I remember one kid who was beaten senseless by a priest in the elevator of our high school. The kid ran home, shirt ripped, tie askew, bleeding from the nose and lip. The priest was going to get his when his dad came up to kick his ass. Of course the school protected the priest who was shortly transferred to another school. Disgraceful. The nuns were no strangers to whooping kids either with their pointers, erasers and bare hands. When you got home, you were hit again for sassing the good sister blah blah blah. Not all were bad, just enough to build distrust and hatred in a kids eyes toward the church and its holy people.
I don't think I can breathe anymore
Madge
Thoughts?
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Girls Directed by Lena Dunham Written by Lena Dunham Created by Lena Dunham Executive Producer Lena Dunham Starring Lena Dunham I like the show but I kind of want to stick a fork in her eye.
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Remember him? He played James Evans on Good Times. It shocked me to find out there are gay rumors about him. He was my first crush when I was just a little tyke. Never in my wildest dreams did I imagine him gay. I mean, he signed with the Denver Broncos and he was a Golden Gloves Boxing champ. He just seems so straight. NTM, he has two kids. So, where do the gay rumors come from? Is he really gay? Another one is Earl Holliman. Is he really gay?
President Obama cannot risk an election that becomes a referendum on his record. Fairly or not, that's a framework for defeat. So the task of his handlers is to make the election a referendum on his opponent. Since even my dogs know that Mr. Romney is going to frame the election as a referendum on President Obama's stewardship of the economy, the Obama handlers must do everything they can to make people imagine that President Romney's stewardship of the economy would be worse; an assault on the interests and values of "average" Americans. Thus yesterday's 2-minute ad on Bain Capital's unsuccessful turn-around of GST Steel in Kansas City. The ad's thrust is that Romney was (and is) an economic "vampire." What's remarkable about the ad is not its content (mis-leading though it may be). Anti-Bain ads have been used against Romney in 1994 (by Ted Kennedy's handlers), 2002 (by Shannon O'Brien's campaign) and 2012 (by New Gingrich). What's remarkable about the ad is that it raised at least as many questions about the Obama campaign as it did about Mr. Romney. On the very day that the ad was released, President Obama attended a fund-raiser in New York City hosted by a senior executive at the Blackstone Group, a leading private equity firm and frequent co-investor with Bain Capital on turn-around projects. And, it further turns out that a 2008 and 2012 campaign finance bundler for President Obama, one Jonathan Lavine, was a managing director at Bain Capital during the time that GST Steel was being “run into the ground” by the evil Bainiacs. And, just to put some icing on the cake, it turns out that Mr. Romney was off fixing the Salt Lake City Winter Olympics during the time that Romney and Bain were allegedly “vampiring” GST Steel. It makes you wonder. Did Team Obama think that no one would notice? Did they assume that only right-wing bloggers would care? Had this been an isolated event, Democrat campaign professionals might not be all that concerned. Mistakes, after all, are made. But this was hardly a "one off." There are, in the view of many Democratic pros, far too many other examples of the Obama campaign making a hash of fairly straightforward political matters. Most recently, for instance, Vice President Biden previewed the president's "evolution" on the issue of same sex marriage on NBC's "Meet The Press." The press, predictably, made it the next day story. Two days later, the voters of North Carolina, in large numbers and by a wide (61-39%) margin, voted against same-sex marriage. As messages go, it was hard to misread. The very next day, President Obama told the North Carolina knuckleheads to take their referendum and shove it; he endorsed same sex marriage, although he didn't make a federal case out of it. He left it for the states to work out the legislative details (conveniently enough). The mishandling of the President’s endorsement of same sex marriage sent the president's re-election prospects into a tailspin; electoral college handicappers busily moved North Carolina from “toss-up” to “likely Republican.” And it necessitated today’s "let's-get-the-media-talking-about-something-else” news event (the Bain attack ad). Because we have been told for so long that Team Obama is the very model of the modern campaign operation, we have come to sort of believe it. In reality, they’ve been surprisingly inept since they set up shop last year. They've been through three slogans and four over-arching re-election "themes." They've made a big deal out of Romney's dog. They've introduced us to "Julia," which seemed like a right-wing parody of the perfect constituent of the nanny state. One could on (and on). So far, the president's re-election campaign measures up poorly, in terms of its execution, against the Alan Cranston re-election effort of 1986. Imagine that.
Worth watching?
I can't tell the difference except that maybe Duke's is a little tangier. Does it really make potato salad better?
Wilmer is exactly my type, physically. And on Stern, he acknowledged his cock is massive. Even better. But he seems to have such a lacluster career. Is it his straight boy dilemma - he's trying to fuck every actress in Hollywood, and for that, no one will take him seriously ? Like a male Tara Reid.
May 14, 2012 HUGE Victory! The ABC series "GCB," which is known for its controversial title and nasty portrayal of Christians, has been canceled! "GCB" got axed by ABC and won't be coming back for a second season. Praise the Lord! Jesus Christ will not be mocked! God is using OneMillionMoms.com to help remove this filth from television. As the hands and feet for the Lord, we are making a real difference. These accomplishments are the result of the Lord's blessing on the prayers, action alerts, email letters, and gifts from concerned and generous supporters. Would you help us to continue these important efforts? What kind of country are we going to leave our children and grandchildren if we don't fight for our values? We may not win all the battles, but we will win some. But I sure don't want to give our country over without a fight and I know you don't either. We depend heavily on donations. Your gift is greatly needed for OMM to remain strong! As you know, we are a non-profit organization that relies on financial support from concerned parents like you! OMM can never thank you enough for your generosity, but we will always try. In appreciation or your donation of $25 or more, we will send you a Paper Dream DVD as our gift to you. Paper Dream is the first dramatic film produced by American Family Studios, a new division of AFA. Paper Dream is a short feature film that explores the life of a Christian couple facing an unexpected and troubling challenge. This new film tugs on heartstrings and encourages our devotion to Christ. More about Paper Dream: Christy had a dream... For as long as she can remember, Christy Davis has wanted to be a mom, but things haven't worked out the way she imagined them. When hopes of getting pregnant fall through, she and her husband Matt turn to adoption, but will that be enough to fill their longing for a child? American Family Studios is proud to present a story of hope in the midst of difficult circumstances. Do unfulfilled dreams define who we are, or is God enough to give us fulfillment? Runtime: Approximately 40 minutes BONUS: The Paper Dream DVD also includes American Family Studios original documentaries "Flame On" and "Divorcing God."
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Just wondering if anyone here is following. Who's ahead, who's behind, who 'should' win in your opinion?
Just Me
Watching a cable show on Amish who left - most are young men, and a couple of them are hot to death. I''m sure they are straight but I wonder if any DLers have had any experience sexually with Amish men?
I don't want to. I've been planning this for some time (about a year) and I'm down to about two months left. Then I'm moving five states away. He will be left here with family and friends - none of which I had here. I tried telling him a couple of times that I'm leaving. He literally won't accept it. He almost shuts down completely - not before the inevitable meltdown/blowup. Then we don't talk about it, for weeks, but I have to believe that in the back of his mind he must realize I'm leaving. For example, I've put my house on the market. He is a mid-stage alcoholic, but probably won't ever stop. That's one of the reasons I'm leaving. The other is that I have lots of issues on my own, things I need to work on, people that need me as well (family in the other state)...there are a lot of positives to leaving. And no, he can't come with me. I just feel so horrible about it. I love him with all my heart. I don't think he will really get it that I'm leaving up until I'm pulling out of the driveway. God.
I am under a lot of stress and want a massage. An actual massage, though the happy ending part is welcome too. Who would you pick? San Francisco gays who have used one of these guys, feel free to make suggestions.
In the interest of equality let''s make assumptions about straight women too! Why do a lot of them hate sucking cock, refuse to do it and/or get no pleasure from it. Most of my female friends enjoy it for its own sake but if what I read is correct a lot of straight guys have a hard time getting a blow job.\ \ Discuss.
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God, I hope so. I''ve always had a male stripper "thing." Something about a hot guy stripping fully nude for a group of other guys in public-guys who are getting all sweaty and breathing shallow and getting obvious hard-ons-makes my precum drip!!!\ \ I see in other countries-particularly in South America and Europe, that fully nude male strippers WITH BONERS (!!) is a common sight.\ \ I love my internet porn and relationships are great but sometimes I just want to see a hot body IN THE FLESH gyrating just for me with no strings attached. Is that so wrong? Give me strip clubs across America with boners!!
On one hand, I think it's way over-valued at $38 a share, but on the other, I'd really hate to miss the boat. I bought 20 shares of Apple at $99/share and sold them at $300/share---thinking they had made out like a bandit. Meanwhile, I kick myself when I think about all the money I COULD'VE made had I been a bit more patient. I'm prepared to buy 25 shares of FB, regardless of the price. However, I often question how viable the company truly is and it'd be a shame to bet on a losing horse. What's the verdict from DL?
God, he's hot!
Check out the master bathroom.
Can we just acknowledge John's gay, and get over it
Joey
"But in real life he can’t take a fucking joke." Joanie also says the Scientology spaceship picked up Tom in Fire Island. Lawsuits!
This story was posted in The Libertarian Review nearly three weeks ago. Gosh, why do you suppose it’s been all but ignored by the mainstream media? Excerpts from the article: [quote]Several weeks ago, we reported that Romney would certainly be disqualified or discredited as a Presidential candidate for the 2012 election due to fraud and other crimes against the American Taxpayer and the US Government. [quote]As far back as 2009, nearly concurrent with the Bernie Madoff Ponzi scandal, the GOP knew, beyond any doubt, that Mitt Romney was seriously involved with a Ponzi scheme, to the tune of $8.5 BILLION dollars. [quote]Mitt Romney, his son Tagg, and Romney’s chief fundraiser, Spencer Zwick, have extensive financial and political ties to three men who allegedly participated in an $8.5 billion Ponzi scheme. A few months after the Ponzi scheme collapsed, a firm financed by Mitt Romney and run by his son and chief fundraiser partnered with the three men and created a new “wealth management business” as a subsidiary. [quote]According to the indictment, which also seeks forfeiture from all the defendants (18 U.S.C. §§981(a)(1)(c) and 982(a)(1)), Stanford and his co-defendants engaged in a scheme to defraud investors who purchased approximately $7 billion in certificates of deposit administered by Stanford International Bank Ltd. (SIBL), an offshore bank controlled by Stanford and located on the island of Antigua. Stanford and his co-defendants allegedly misused and misappropriated most of those investor assets, including diverting more than $1.6 billion into undisclosed personal loans to Stanford himself, while misrepresenting to investors SIBL’s financial condition, its investment strategy and the extent of its regulatory oversight by Antiguan authorities. [quote]The revelation about Romney’s ties to the Stanford ponzi scheme unmask the risks associated with removing new investor protections. The Dodd-Frank Wall Street Reform law, a reform Romney says he will repeal if he wins the presidency, attempts to address future Ponzi schemes by enacting new protections for whistleblowers to alert authorities when they find evidence of fraud. The law also creates a new Investor Advocate and Investor Advisory Committee within the Securities and Exchange Commission to detect and investigate future Ponzi schemes. [quote]As early as 2009, with the scandal of a major PAC being involved with leading Republican Mitt Romney, an honest vetting by the GOP would certainly have disqualified him from GOP support for the Presidential elections. However, if the GOP, who in 2008 adopted the identical platform as the Democratic Party reworded, WANTED to throw the election to Barack Obama, they could hardly do more to guarantee it for 2012. [quote]So to review, we have Mitt Romney coughing up $10 million to help start a firm that hired three brokers who sold bogus CDs for Stanford Financial and made some decent money on the deal, too. Not only that, but Spencer Zwick the lead fundraiser for Romney’s campaign is a principal in the Solamere Capital firm along with these Stanford brokers. Spencer Zwick does business as SJZ, LLC, and has been paid over $2 million in fees by the Romney campaign.
"Good evening, America. My name is Chloe Sevigny. It has recently come to my attention that I do NOT like..."
OK Minnelli fans, start ripping Pat apart
As requested, discuss
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Trust the instinct... it's comming:
A Sacramento Superior Court jury convicted a one-time gay porn star Tuesday of attempted murder for smashing his girlfriend over the head with a toilet tank lid. Marc Anthony Donais, 47, known in his x-rated movies as Ryan Idol, was taken into custody and held without bail after his conviction for the Sept. 5, 2009 attack in the woman's home on 48th Street in Sacramento. According to testimony at trial, the 41-year-old woman had broken up with Donais, who claimed to be bisexual. She testified she moved out of their West Sacramento condo when he knocked on her door the night of the attack while she was taking a bath. She told jurors she let Donais into the house and that he immediately told her he wanted to kill her. He testified at trial that he thought she had pulled a knife on him during their discussion in her bathroom and that he grabbed the toilet tank lid and hit her with it out of self defense. Donais is a former model who once appeared as a centerfold in Playgirl magazine, according to assorted web sites. Several of the sites described him as a popular actor in gay pornograhic films who appeared in several movies in the 1990s under his stage name of Ryan Idol.
From celebrity net worth.com.%0D %0D %0D Alison Krauss $16 million %0D %0D Jennifer Warnes $35 million %0D %0D Tracy Chapman $38 million %0D %0D Carnie Wilson $24 million %0D %0D Amy Grant $55 million %0D %0D Anita Baker $80 million %0D %0D Tori Amos $55 million %0D %0D Loretta Lynn $60 million %0D %0D Annie Lennox $45 million %0D %0D Patti Labelle $40 million %0D %0D Wynonna Judd $35 million %0D %0D Tanya Tucker $50 million %0D %0D Pat Benatar $32 million%0D %0D Donna Summer $75 million %0D %0D Olivia Newton-John $40 million %0D %0D Dionne Warwick $4 million %0D %0D Whitney Houston $80 million %0D %0D Martina McBride $38 million %0D %0D %0D Gloria Estefan $500 million %0D %0D Carole King $15 million %0D %0D Trisha Yearwood $40 million %0D %0D Cyndi Lauper $6 million %0D %0D KD Lang $15 million %0D %0D Reba McIntyre $65 million %0D %0D Marie Osmond $17 million %0D %0D Debbie Gibson $15 million %0D %0D Diana Ross $160 million (and she tours A LOT!) %0D %0D Toni Braxton $15 million %0D %0D Carly Simon $44 million %0D %0D Kylie Minogue $200 million %0D %0D Jennifer Hudson $15 million %0D %0D Norah Jones $25 million %0D %0D Brandy Norwood $60 million %0D %0D Shania Twain $350 million %0D %0D Dolly Parton $225 million %0D %0D Barbra Steisand $140 million %0D %0D LeAnn Rimes $38 million %0D %0D Avril Lavinge $45 million %0D %0D Alanis Morissette $45 million %0D %0D Stevie Nicks $65 million %0D %0D Tina Turner $90 million %0D %0D Alicia Keyes $35 million %0D %0D Sheryl Crow $40 million %0D %0D Bette Midler $175 million %0D %0D Amy Winehouse $8 million %0D %0D Carrie Underwood $35 million %0D %0D Kelly Clarkson $24 million %0D %0D Fergie $30 million %0D %0D Faith Hill $75 million %0D %0D Cher $200 million %0D %0D Pink $70 million %0D %0D Lady Gaga $110 million %0D %0D Taylor Swift $50 million %0D %0D Jessica Simpson $100 million %0D %0D Christina Aguilera $60 million %0D %0D Miley Cyrus $120 million %0D %0D Beyonce $300 million %0D %0D Britney Spears $155 million %0D %0D Jennifer Lopez $110 million %0D %0D Janet Jackson $150 million %0D %0D Mariah Carey $500 million %0D %0D Celine Dion $260 million %0D %0D Madonna $500 million%0D
Poor Dionne Warwick
Mine are Curve by Liz Claiborne, Jo Malone's Nutmeg and Ginger (I read that it's Gerard Butler's favorite colonge, decided to sample it myself and LOVED it), and Fierce by Ambercrombie & Fitch.
I''m going to go with Mike from You Bet Your Garden. I detect Philly, but more than that he seems to speak forced perky. \ \ Other than that, he really seems to know his stuff and I like him but something about his voice grates on me big time.\ \ And I''m from Philly (suburbs), but I don''t sound like that.
Where is it?
Damron Fodor
I meet you all the time. You hate Obama. You hate gay people. You hate black people, immigrants, Muslims, labor unions, women who want the right to make choices concerning their bodies, you hate em all. You hate being called racist. You hate being called a bigot. Maybe if you talked about creating jobs more than you talk about why you hate gay people we wouldn't call you bigots. Maybe if you talked about black people without automatically assuming they are on food stamps while demanding their birth certificates we wouldn't call you racist. You hate socialism and social justice. You hate regulations and taxes and spending and the Government. You hate. You like war. You like torture. You like Jesus. I don't know how in the hell any of that is compatible, but no one ever accused you haters of being over-committed to ideological consistency. You like people who look like you or at least hate most of the things that you hate. You hate everything else. Now, I know you profess to love our country and the founding fathers (unless you are reminded that they believed in the separation of church and state), but I need to remind you that America is NOT what Fox News says it is. America is a melting pot, it always has been. We are a multi-cultural amalgamation of all kinds of people, and yet you still demonize everyone who is not a rich, white, heterosexual christian male or his submissive and obedient wife. You hate liberals, moderates, hell, anyone who disagrees with Conservative dogma as espoused by Fox News and Rush Limbaugh. You hate em. Well, here are the facts, Jack. If you hate the Government then you are unqualified to manage it. If you hate gay people more than you love America than you should take your own advice and get the hell out. There are several countries that are openly hostile to gay people, but they are full of brown people and you don't like them much either from what I understand. It looks like you are screwed, but that's not what I am here to tell you. (continued)
An open letter to the people who hate Obama more than they love America
BJ will play Michael Urie's partner in the new series "Partners" from the creators of "Will & Grace."
No more fat bitches, as if I needed to remind anyone of that fact. That's what Us Weekly's for. "She is one of the world's most popular singers, has a four times platinum album, and today added two Ivor Novello gongs to the groaning shelves of her awards cabinet. But for all her popularity in the music world, it would seem that Adele's popularity does not translate to the fashion industry. The Vogue cover featuring the British singer proved to be one of the worst sellers of all time, the fashion magazine's editor Alexandra Shulman has revealed
Obese Singer Adele's Vogue Cover a Huge Flop
Anna Wintour
God, Jerry Orbach was a genius - that role was so good. I still watch the episodes now.
I'm going to Rome soon, have never been there. Anyone here that has been there, did you run into any problems?
I love the ones in St Mary Mead with Miss Marple best. I find Hercule Poirot and his tagalong, Hastings, tiresome and pompous. Give me a good old-fashioned small-town murder any day!
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Why couldn't Albert find a proper gold-digger, one who wouldn't let her feelings interfere with a lucrative arrangement? "Scandal is swirling around the house of Grimaldi again after Voici magazine in France reported this week that she was coaxed back from Nice for the wedding after she struck a deal that if she provides Albert with an heir, she can get divorced and receive a generous financial settlement. "The 34-year-old, whose post-nuptial kiss with Albert was astonishingly awkward, is now 'depressed' at her failure to get pregnant, the magazine added."
Is there anything hotter?
90s funniest underrated movie....
There are SOOOO many choices. I'm leaning towards Joey T.
Love him? Hate him? What's his deal?
Has anyone tried it for depression? Results? Good, bad, neither? I have to find something to help out, and none of the standard anti-depressants have worked.
Isosceles
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Liza and Streisand take notes.
Released on Wednesday by OpinionWorks, an Annapolis-based polling firm, the survey shows that 43 percent of the respondents favored overturning same-sex marriage, against 40 percent who want to uphold the law.
Maryland Gay Marriage Law: New Poll Shows Voters Narrowly Favor Repeal
It says not to, but a friend says that he''s done it and I''ve seen it online other places. They''re on the base of my cock, none on my ass. Don''t want these hanging around but I also don''t have health insurance to pay for the doctor''s trip. Would those freeze-off things work, do you think?
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I am on day 3 of antibiotics for a sinus infection, and have the worst diarrhea of my life. I feel so gross. I would rather just deal with the sinus pressure and headaches. Anyone else react this way to antibiotics?
He gets nothing but flak because of that unfortunate nose. But he wants order, he's very talented, he despises weakness, he collects beautiful objets d'art (like Salazar Syltherin's locket and Rowena Ravenclaw's diadem), he despises weakness, and he loves high birth--just like many gay men here do. Plus he;s a pet lover. He should be the hero of Datalounge.
No matter how old you are. No how beautiful or ugly you are.
The most universally flattering hairstyle for ALL women.
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Scientists have found a drug-resistant strain of gonorrhea in Japan they say could transform a once easily treatable infection into a global public health threat, Reuters is reporting: The new strain of the sexually transmitted disease — called H041 — cannot be killed by any currently recommended treatments for gonorrhea, leaving doctors with no other option than to try medicines so far untested against the disease. Magnus Unemo of the Swedish Reference Laboratory for Pathogenic Neisseria, who discovered the strain with colleagues from Japan in samples from Kyoto, described it as both “alarming” and “predictable.” “Since antibiotics became the standard treatment for gonorrhea in the 1940s, this bacterium has shown a remarkable capacity to develop resistance mechanisms to all drugs introduced to control it,” he said. Unemo will present findings at a conference of the International Society for Sexually Transmitted Disease Research in Quebec on Monday. Author Maryn McKenna writes at Wired.com that the superbug strain of gonorrhea could be filed under the Department of Unintended Consequences: It’s the cheap rapid STD tests that are ultimately to blame, she says: In my latest column at Scientific American, I take a look at the recent rapid increase in antibiotic resistance in gonorrhea. I’ve explored this problem in two earlier posts here: Resistance to cephalosporins, the last class of antibiotics that are reliable, cheap, and effective enough to not require a follow-up visit. …. But what turns out to be worse — and here is where the unintended consequences come in — is that public health’s attempts to track STDs, as an important public health priority, may have enabled the spread of resistant gonorrhea. That’s because the cheap rapid tests that allow the disease to be diagnosed quickly don’t detect resistance.
What Hollywood Jews think the Midwest is like. Not even the accent is right. And where are all the blonde bitches? The Midwest is so much more complex than what the Hollywood Jews think we are.
It's like the topic says: which male actors and celebrities are bisexual? I don't mean out bisexual like Alan Cumming but the ones who you know or who are rumored to be bisexual.
Brightened up so you can see it, and animated!
Just how stupid does Mitt Romney think we are? If you’ve been following his campaign from the beginning, that’s a question you have probably asked many times. But the question was raised with particular force last week, when Mr. Romney tried to make a closed drywall factory in Ohio a symbol of the Obama administration’s economic failure. It was a symbol, all right — but not in the way he intended. First of all, many reporters quickly noted a point that Mr. Romney somehow failed to mention: George W. Bush, not Barack Obama, was president when the factory in question was closed. Does the Romney campaign expect Americans to blame President Obama for his predecessor’s policy failure? Yes, it does. Mr. Romney constantly talks about job losses under Mr. Obama. Yet all of the net job loss took place in the first few months of 2009, that is, before any of the new administration’s policies had time to take effect. So the Ohio speech was a perfect illustration of the way the Romney campaign is banking on amnesia, on the hope that voters don’t remember that Mr. Obama inherited an economy that was already in free fall. How does the campaign deal with people who point out the awkward reality that all of the “Obama” job losses took place before any Obama policies had taken effect? The fallback argument — which was rolled out when reporters asked about the factory closure — is that even though Mr. Obama inherited a deeply troubled economy, he should have fixed it by now. That factory is still closed, said a Romney adviser, because of the failure of Obama policies “to really get this economy going again.” Actually, that factory would probably still be closed even if the economy had done better — drywall is mainly used in new houses, and while the economy may be coming back, the Bush-era housing bubble isn’t. But Mr. Romney’s poor choice of a factory for his photo-op aside, I guess accusing Mr. Obama of not doing enough to promote recovery is a better argument than blaming him for the effects of Bush policies. However, it’s not much better, since Mr. Romney is essentially advocating a return to those very same Bush policies. And he’s hoping that you don’t remember how badly those policies worked. For the Bush era didn’t just end in catastrophe; it started off badly, too. Yes, Mr. Obama’s jobs record has been disappointing — but it has been unambiguously better than Mr. Bush’s over the comparable period of his administration. This is especially true if you focus on private-sector jobs. Overall employment in the Obama years has been held back by mass layoffs of schoolteachers and other state and local government employees. But private-sector employment has recovered almost all the ground lost in the administration’s early months. That compares favorably with the Bush era: as of March 2004, private employment was still 2.4 million below its level when Mr. Bush took office. Oh, and where have those mass layoffs of schoolteachers been taking place? Largely in states controlled by the G.O.P.: 70 percent of public job losses have been either in Texas or in states where Republicans recently took control. Which brings me to another aspect of the amnesia campaign: Mr. Romney wants you to attribute all of the shortfalls in economic policy since 2009 (and some that happened in 2008) to the man in the White House, and forget both the role of Republican-controlled state governments and the fact that Mr. Obama has faced scorched-earth political opposition since his first day in office. Basically, the G.O.P. has blocked the administration’s efforts to the maximum extent possible, then turned around and blamed the administration for not doing enough.
Even though his hair is a big sponge ball and his face is so-so -- I'd love to see this guy's unit!!!
Jonny "The Unit" Manfre From Jersey Shore To Pose In Playgirl?
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Any dish on them?%0D\ %0D\ I''ve heard Teller is gay. I hope its true, he''s so sexy.
Which of the Manson Family was the worst? I''ve always thought Susan Atkins was the most despicable and evil.
Those who used the drugs recreationally were less confident about their abilities.
Does he have a boyfriend?
Wentworth wants his thread back
Will Tamra & Gretchen bury the hatchet? Will Peggy fuck Jimbo again? Will Jesus torment Alexis? Is Vicki's asshole still bleeding?
Ohh... too soon?
Have you ever met one? I did. He told me it hurt. Well, he was huge and it hurt me too. Anyway, he let me fuck him and he said, yeah, he didn't like it. It hurts too much. I felt the same way. Since then, we're both tops. People say I'm a control freak. But I just don't like the way it feels. Only time I ever enjoyed it was on poppers. And that was a long time ago.
If Romney doesn't get 1144 delegates at the GOP convention in Tampa, Ron Paul will get the nomination Just finished chatting at a dinner party with a friend who is an executive at one of the Big News-oganda Networks. Very cute, great body, "straight" but flirts outlandishly. Think hairy dark haired Chris Evans. We had talked about Ron Paul a few years ago, and he wanted to know if I still thought he had a chance. I told him I would rather vote for Satan than Romney, so if he didn't get the nomination I would just say fuck it. He put his hand on my shoulder and said that he had some interesting news. Behind the scenes they've started looking at how the various delegates are pledged, what happens when Santorum and Gingrich pull out, the laws around each delegate, etc. Unless Romney has 1,144 of them legally bound to vote for him, and he wins the nomination outright, then the delegates are free to vote for whomever in the next round. According to him, Ron Paul has been getting delegates elected to various local GOP hqs over the last four years, and many of them are run by his people. As many as 8 out 10 delegates in any district are Ron Paul supporters. Romney keeps fucking up (by opening his mouth) and even die-hard Republicans hate him. Paul has enough money to stay in until August, but Gingrich doesn't. He said The Big News-oganda Network is looking for angles to downplay it should some of the other networks start jumping on the "Mitt vs Ron in Tampa" meme, but a couple of his bosses were NOT happy at this turn of events. When I asked him why, he said "they're afraid they will be out of a job!"
this should make FReeper heads explode
I'll be in London for a few days at the end of May. I really was hoping to see "We Will Rock You," but got out voted by my other friends (3 to 1). So far they haven't come up with an alternative though. Any ideas?
I had a couple of odd experiences this past week when I drank tea (PG Tipps) in the morning. Last Wednesday, I brewed a cup and rignt after drinking it a nausea welled up in my stomach. It happened so quickly that I still had the cup in my hand when I threw up. I thought that I might have made it too stout or drank it too fast. This morning I had another cup (first one since) and was careful not to let the bag steep too much and drank it slowly. I had the same reaction. From beginning to end it was less than two minutes. I normally don't drink much caffeine, but beyond getting a bit agitated, I've never had reactions to it even when I drank coffee on a regular basis. I've had the box for about seven or eight months and it's about half full. Strange...
In a candid new interview with Playboy magazine, nothing is off limits, as Cruise opens up about his belief in Scientology, his love for wife Katie Holmes and taking on the rumors that target him in the media.
...on Ed Schultz' show. Um, is it just me, or does she ping louder than Jaye P. Morgan whacking the Gong Show gong? Lordy!
All are hot. All are brave. Hell, even include Everett in that list. But....DLers, who is HOTTEST? And can you even believe this is a serious poll? Look how far we've come. Come out Come out Wherever You Are!
Applying for a state job. Thanks.
“I’ve slept with women and I’ve fallen in love with them and I’ve felt wonderful things,” the hunk says. “There was love, passion. I don’t regret anything, any of the relationships I’ve lived, they taught me a lot, both men and women equally.”
Ricky Martin Has Slept With Women!
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He will be busy!
Pollster Estimate Democrat 36.1% Independent 30.6% Republican 30.5%
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...and he can make Lautner''s nipples hard.\ \ I like Pattinson a lot more after reading those comments. He''s bitchy.
Robert Pattinson makes it clear that his dick is bigger than Taylor Lautner''s...
Before she turns 40 this November, Jenny McCarthy will be posing nude for Playboy one more time.
From her 1982 album "Silk Electric". Michael Jackson wrote and produced the song for Diana, and named it after his pet snake "Muscles".
Was a twink in the '80s, and slowly morphed into a hulking he-man. What else do we know about the General Hospital star?
I'd take an Ambien but then I'd sleep eat!
Did you "burp" your bowl?
It didn't get picked up by ABC, not even for midseason. Why? Is Cherry too much of a hot potato because of the Nicolette Sheridan brouhaha? Was casting Susan Lucci as one of the leads a mistake? Was it racially offensive to Mexicans? Or do you think it just sucked?
My first film to be viewed will be "I Vitelloni".
Spoilers Inside: For those who have seen the movie, let's discuss. What made sense, what didn't. Did you see the twist coming? Did you like the cameos? What did everything mean? DO NOT click on this thread if you have not seen the movie!
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Carry on, bitches.
Rafa''s fine ass!
Traditionally, veterans tend to vote Republican. Fifty-four percent of veterans voted for John McCain in 2008 and 57 for George W. Bush in 2004, as Business Insider points out. But this year, veterans are splitting for President Barack Obama. According to a new poll by Reuters/Ipsos, “If the election were held today, Obama would win the veteran vote by as much as seven points over Romney, higher than his margin in the general population:” Romney, along with his primary rivals Rick Santorum and Newt Gingrich, had also accused Obama of “appeasement” toward U.S. enemies – a charge that drew a sharp Obama rebuttal. “Ask Osama bin Laden and the 22 out of 30 top al-Qaeda leaders who’ve been taken off the field whether I engage in appeasement,” the president shot back. He has reproached GOP candidates: “Now is not the time for bluster.” If the election were held today, Obama would win the veteran vote by as much as seven points over Romney, higher than his margin in the general population. The shift in support could stem in part from the fact that Romney has no specific plan to address veterans’ issues. On top of that, Romney-backers are working hard to “swiftboat” the president and claim he does not support American troops. But Obama has done his share to earn the support of veterans. He released a plan to help save the homes of foreclosed-on veterans, started an initiative to get soldiers into jobs when they return from wars, and the First Lady has started a series of programs to ensure job opportunities to military spouses.
Poll: Veterans Favor Obama Over Romney ‘By As Much As Seven Points’
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Why did she not learn from "Coco?"
Herr Don, Herr Draper Beware Beware. Out of the ash I rise with my bouffant hair And I eat men like air.
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What underwear is "in" now, what not to wear?
By William Saletan | May 17, 2012 Mitt Romney wants to make the 2012 election a referendum on the economy. Facing an electorate that likes Barack Obama personally, Romney has said again and again that Obama is a nice guy who just doesn’t know how to create jobs. The last thing Romney needs is a rogue, richly funded right-wing campaign to change the subject from Obama’s job performance to his character, particularly a rerun of the 2008 attack on Obama’s ties to the Rev. Jeremiah Wright. But that’s what Romney will get, if Republican donors and operatives can’t control their rage. The latest sign of trouble is a proposal for a $10 million ad campaign, commissioned by TD Ameritrade founder Joe Ricketts and drafted by advisers to John McCain’s 2008 presidential candidacy. The plan proposes to fund television, newspaper, and outdoor ads, starting with an already scripted five-minute video. The script and proposal, leaked to the New York Times—and subsequently renounced by Ricketts after the ensuing uproar—are politically insane. But they offer an instructive psychiatric portrait of the rage in Romney’s party. Too many conservatives are too angry to think straight. The ad campaign proposal begins with a problem for Republicans: Voters “still aren’t ready to hate this president.” The word ready makes clear that this is where the plan’s authors eventually want to go. The dilemma with regard to voters and Obama, they write, is “how to inflame their questions on his character and competency, while allowing themselves to still somewhat ‘like’ the man.” The plan’s stated challenge is an emotional tension in the electorate. But the tone conveys an emotional tension among the authors: how to express their contempt for Obama in a way that doesn’t alienate the public. Revulsion oozes from every frame of the video script, though the authors try to pin the hatred on Obama. “Week after week, year after year, he heard the hatred,” the script says of Obama’s attendance at Wright’s sermons. It says Obama “attacked and inflamed,” leaving us a world “wracked with hate-filled passions.” At one point, the script depicts Obama pushing a gurney (symbolizing Obamacare) past a family whose “eyes follow him with disgust.” Why must we hate Obama? Because he hates America. The insertion of Obama’s middle name in the title of the video script booklet—“The Defeat of Barack Hussein Obama”—signals the message. Beside a picture of Obama with Wright, the script alleges, “There’s simply a fundamental difference between his view of America and ours.” It adds: “He was taught for years that America WAS the problem, so how could he ever believe that America could be the solution?” Beneath the hatred, humiliation boils. “Our plan,” the authors write, is to show how Obama and his left-wing mentors “brought our country to its knees.” Accompanied by images of Obama bowing to foreign heads of state, the script asks: “How can our president stand up for America when he’s bowing, begging, kneeling and apologizing for America?” Later, it repeats that Obama “compulsively bowed and apologized to foreign leaders.” Even on the economy, the script says Obama “brought us to our knees.” A caption placeholder calls for an image of a struggling American “literally on his knees in shame.” Hilary Rosen’s recent crack about Ann Romney reminded Democrats that it’s nearly always a bad idea to target the candidate’s wife. But authors of the proposed anti-Obama video can’t resist strafing the First Lady. Their frame introducing Wright calls him “the pastor who married Barack Obama to Michelle.” They can’t even restrain their language. After showing Wright’s “God DAMN America” quote—twice—the script retorts that Obama “promised change. But it damn sure wasn’t the change we expected.”
New Attack on Obama & Jeremiah Wright Exposes the Right’s Rage
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And this is beyond dispute.
With Richard Chamberlain as Father Merrin!
What is wrong with being young and beautiful and ambitious and willing to learn at the feet of a master?
And boom goes the dynamite. The racists will be pounce and say, see, Zimmerman was right!. Martin family et al will defend, That doesn't justify his murder
The co-pilot who flew alongside John Travolta on Oprah Winfrey's famous audience trip to Australia has filed suit against the "Pulp Fiction" star. The plaintiff, who will only identify himself as "John Doe #22", claims Mr. Travolta asked him to reach over and hold his rudder while Travolta, in the captain's seat, removed something from his eye. As the plaintiff held his arm out for the rudder, Mr. Travolta allegedly grabbed his arm and placed it on the star's exposed and erect genitalia. The actor is then accused of forcing the plaintiff to masturbate him until climax, threatening to grab the aircraft's rudder and crash the Qantas jumbo jet into the Pacific unless the sex act was completed. The copilot, a married father of two, complied with Travolta's demands in order to ensure the safety of the jet's 146 passengers and crew. After completing the humiliating task, he accuses Travolta of spending the next six hours of the flight going into excruciating detail of what sex with Alan Carr was like.
He said he was: "Nude but not lewd." Brennan remained nude and “exposed to all passengers including children.” Some passengers covered their eyes and their children's eyes. Others stepped out of the screening lanes to “look, laugh and take photos.”
Man protests TSA, strips naked at Portland International Airport
Did you believe him?
just saw the movie...catching up with the 80's!!
The Associated Press MEXICO CITY - Two decapitated bodies were found inside a burning SUV early Wednesday at the entrance to one of Mexico's most luxurious malls, feeding fears drug violence is infiltrating privileged realms previously thought safe. Police recovered the mutilated bodies before dawn off a toll highway at a shopping mall entrance in the heart of the Santa Fe district that's a haven for international corporations, diplomats and the wealthy. The heads and a threatening message were dumped a few yards (meters) away, Mexico City prosecutors said in a statement. Hours later, the government released a drug war body count recording more than 47,500 victims in five years, echoing independent death tolls tabulated by Mexican media. Local media published images of the charred car and reported that a note written on hot pink paper was signed by the drug gang Mano con Ojos, or Hand with Eyes. Mexican police had said the gang was weakened by the arrest of its leader, Oscar Osvaldo Garcia, in August. The victims, a man and a woman in their 30s, had not been identified, prosecutors said. They said the SUV with license plates from neighbouring Mexico state had been stolen. The Centro Santa Fe mall where the charred car was found is one of the country's largest and most glamorous, housing high-end retailers like Coach, Prada, Hugo Boss, Saks Fifth Avenue and Mexican department store Palacio de Hierro. The dump scene was cleaned up so quickly that shoppers weren't even aware anything had happened. The car was left only hours before Mexico City Mayor Marcelo Ebrard guided a tour of a bridge construction site 300 yards (meters) away. Ebrard spokesman Diego Gutierrez said there was nothing to indicate the bodies were a message to the mayor. Mexico's sprawling capital has been something of a haven from the brutal cartel violence that has claimed thousands of lives along the U.S. border and in outlying states. But gangs have been fighting over an increasingly lucrative local drug market for more than a year, mainly in the capital's working class outer neighbourhoods and suburbs. The Santa Fe district has been spared much of that violence and managed to maintain its reputation as a manicured bubble built atop a former landfill on the western edge of Mexico City. The financial district houses the Mexican headquarters of major corporations, Hewlett Packard and IBM among them, and Iberoamerican University, one of Mexico's top private schools. Modern, heavily guarded high-rises where wealthy Mexicans and foreigners live dot the hilly landscape. But as the fight among splintering drug cartels intensifies, brazen attackers have reached even into the country's most guarded districts. "If they don't put an end to this, it could become more frightening here," said Christian Falbi, a 24-year-old college student who lives in an apartment building within walking distance of the mall.
Is this a normal thing to do? Did McCain or Obama do this back in 2008?
How come the Romney campaign won't let reporters ask him any questions?
I would assume a person can do this? And of they can, does anyone know how they would go about it? I was left money that there is absolutely no way I can, or will, accept. I can't accept it and donate it to charity either.
Has anyone else heard of this site? CNet has become a whore for Kickstarter as well. It's site where hundreds of tousands, if not millions of gluttonous, spending rubes will buy nifty gadget from supposed 'startups', only said gadgets haven't been released yet. The idea is that you're "funding" them and you get one of said gadgets for the funding amount...WHEN they come out. i.e., you're actually paying them for their R&D process and all the bullshit marketing they do. One starter project may be seeking $100,000 to get their product out; however, as you'll see at the link, they'll often keep accumulating, over $7 million dollars in this one case, without the nifty, cool, hip, hot now gadget even hitting the market. I almost fell for it last week by "funding" an iPad keyboard folio until I realized what was going on. Anybody else have any experience with this site? If not, stay clear of it!
And would she have looked better if she ate?
You're welcome, guys:
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My current butt is not big or round enough.
What happened to the thread? Only six responses, and poof! gone. I didn't even get a chance to read it.
Andrew Christian has an underwear video with six hot guys (white and latin) washing a car (and each other.) It's supposed to sell underwear, but just makes me horny instead. Link below. There was a racier version on the AC website, but there were so many hits the site crashed. It really does all come down to wanting a hot guy in his underwear washing your car, doesn't it?
Andrew Christian underwear car wash ad
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I did a Google search and didn't find a thread specific to this topic. I am going with my boyfriend to Paris later this year. While I've been there several times on business and by myself, I've never been there on a romantic trip. We'd prefer something relatively central (within half an hour or so walking distance of the 1er). We like to walk and ramble. We'd prefer something smaller, such as a boutique or maison hotel, that is romantic, as opposed to the large luxury hotels, such as the Ritz, Plaza Athenee, George V, etc., but still something special.
Does anyone else think that her drag name is distasteful? After all sharing needles led to the death of thousands of IV drug users who contracted the AIDS virus. Perhaps a gay man should be more conscious of how mean spirited and vicious that "funny" nickname is. It is like a sick deranged "joke" that a right wing homophobe would come up with. There should be certain topics that are off limits for mockery and I think that should be people who died of AIDS.
Photos and story at link. God, this bitch is fucked up. Daddy issues?
Peaches Geldof denies being involved in new sex scandal after ''five in bed pictures emerge''
...with a new line of "mandles." Scents include "First Down," "Riding Mower," "2X4," and "Man Town."
The Yankee Candle Company Tries to Lure Male Customers...
That Last One was a Village People Song, Wasn't It?
Someone I know was arrested for illegally downloading music and films.\ \ He wasn''t reproducing them and selling, just downloading for personal use.\ \ I know it''s illegal, but I''m pretty shocked he was arrested.\ \ So just a heads up....
I know a lot of people think he is, but he seems so comfortable with his sexuality and is so gay-friendly that I kinda think he wouldn't have a problem coming out, if he were gay..
Oz
...and you have to pay to play. That he wasn't gay before all of this pay to play stuff began when he was on Welcome Back Kotter, and the taste of cum made him gag. (Travolta) began screaming at Plantiff, telling Plantiff how selfish he was, that (Travolta) got where he is now due to sexual favors he had performed when he was in his ‘Welcome Back Kotter’ days; and that Hollywood is controlled by homosexual Jewish men who expect favors in return for sexual activity.” -”Plaintiff moved away from Defendant, who then lumbered to his feet and began to move towards Plaintiff with erect penis bouncing around is [sic] stride.” - (Travolta said) he had done things in his past that would make most people throw up. - When (Travolta) he started he wasn’t even gay and that the taste of ‘cum’ would make him gag. - He was smart enough to learn to enjoy it, and when he began to make millions of dollars, that it all became worth it.
OMG OMG OMG OMG OMG OMG OMG OMG OMG OMG OMG OMG OMG OMG OMG OMG OMG OMG OMG OMG OMG OMG OMG OMG OMG OMG!
Original "Blade Runner" screenwriter to script Ridley Scott's sequel!
This thread will be maxed out by noon tomorrow.
I typed this sentence, but it sounds wrong. Help? "There are five male heirs left. None of us five is going to have any male heirs. The surname will die with me."
There was a list here. The Search Box is of no help. So far every one online includes photos.%0D\ Anyone know where I can find a plain old alphabetical list of unmutilated stars?
Anyone catch CNBC this morning? Sean Conner rang the opening bell at the NY Stock Exchange, and he was shaking hands on his way out when the CNBC guy stopped him. Connery thought he was just a guy shaking his hand, but the CNBC guy had a mic on him and you could hear Connery's voice for a few seconds before his handler raced over in a panic and urgently pulled him away. Anyway, his voice seemed very thin and raspy, like he was missing some vocal cord or something. I know he had throat cancer years ago, is it back? Is that why he officially retired?
I bet the Gay Mafia are throwing him around like a rag doll
Damn boy!
Ridiculous site, right?\ \ They never fuck.\ \ You''re lucky if they wank.\ \ What a scam.\ \ Who''s paying for this shit?
Here's an article about diva-of-the-moment Adele and her list of demands for her concerts. In addition to all the booze and junk food (surprise, surprise) she requires her room to be stocked with Malboro Lights. Correct me if I'm wrong, but isn't smoking a really, really bad thing for your throat and lungs? Given this is how she makes her living, I would have thought she'd have more sense than to damage her throat and lungs with cigarette smoke. This is a woman who has just cancelled a series of concerts because of throat problems. This seems insane to me, but apparently a lot of singers (or those, like Britney, who pass for singers in some circles) smoke.
A gift for dataloungers, obsessed with recognizing and identifying psychological disorders.
WOOP DE OOP
I want to hear more stories about people''s experiences with carnies and the circus world in general. TIA.
They''re such a hot mess, they give me a good laugh. I''m in the library, and this one specimen, thugged out beyond redemption with his TIMs and the vomit-yellow hoodies they all seem to be fond of this season, approaches this one girl he knows and is just so flaming my computer screen nearly caught on fire. I mean, really, you can thug yourself out, but who do you think you''re kidding.
"As most of you know, I ate my twin in utero...and on my birthday I celebrate extra because I'm a WINNER...."
Chang
'America's sweetheart may refer to: *America's Sweetheart (musical), a Rodgers and Hart Musical *America's Sweetheart (album), an album by Courtney Love *America's Sweethearts, a 2001 film *Mary Pickford, silent film actress *Meg Ryan, modern Hollywood actress *Julia Roberts, a modern American actress *Betty White, a modern American actress *Jennifer Grey, a modern American actress who starred in Dirty Dancing *Loretta Lynn, American country singer *Kurt Russell, American actor"
"America's Sweetheart" may refer to...Kurt Russell? WTF???
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Latest from Michael Lucas is that he tops "retiring" Matthew Rush. Though Rush is a former top who has, in recent years, bottomed there are some tops who just won't give it up. Lucas is one of them. Who else has been holding out for too long?
Who's next , Mariah, Liza, Barbra, Areatha, Bette ? I'm scared
Is it ever coming back?
This show was rarely funny, but the theme song was the best ever. Once you hear it, you can never get it out of your head. RIP Nell Carter.
Show the love people! Show the love!
My ex took me to court. We ended up on the Judge Judy show. She raked him over the coals for several minutes, then turned to me and said "is there anything you want to add?" I said "no maam." And she said "Good. Case dismissed. Goodbye."
Oh, dear. I love me some Mick, but...
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Anyone else have a fascination with it and/or climbing in general? It's one of my oldest dreams to at least see Mount Everest once in my life.
And what the fuck is she doing at #1 on the itunes album chart?!
BELMONT, Mass. — Don't bet on Republican presidential candidate Mitt Romney winning his home state or even trying. "That's not been a topic of discussion," Romney campaign adviser Kevin Madden said when asked if the former Massachusetts governor would compete in the heavily Democratic state. Aides say there are other ways he can win the White House and deny President Barack Obama a second term without banking on Massachusetts' 11 electoral votes. That political reality illustrates the degree to which Romney's efforts to curry favor with conservative Republicans in the primaries has alienated the moderate base that launched his political career. If Romney were lose Massachusetts and still defeat Obama, he would be the first presidential candidate elected without carrying his home state since 1916, when Democratic President Woodrow Wilson retained the White House despite New Jersey's absence from the win column. In 2000, Democrat Al Gore, who had spent years in Washington as a senator and vice president, fell short of winning Tennessee in his losing White House bid. Other notable home-state losers include Democrats Hubert Humphrey of Minnesota in 1968 and Adlai Stevenson of Illinois in 1952 and 1956. Republicans need to go back to 1936 to find a nominee who didn't carry his home state: Kansas Gov. Alf Landon. Romney aides argue that it would be a waste of money to run TV ads and compete in a state Obama carried by 25 percentage points in 2008. Some Massachusetts residents agree, feeling that Romney used the state as a springboard for his national political ambitions. Some seem to resent him for it. "He doesn't know where he lives," said Mike Egan, a retired independent sitting at a Dunkin' Donuts in Belmont, near Romney's home. While Romney's permanent address is the home he keeps in this upscale Boston suburb, he spends considerable time, including holidays and vacations, at his homes in California and New Hampshire. Egan and others say Romney seemed to have his eye on the White House as soon as he arrived at the Massachusetts State House in 2003. The following year, he made his first trip to Iowa, home of the leadoff presidential caucuses, to speak at the state GOP's fall banquet some weeks before President George W. Bush's re-election. He would visit Iowa three times in 2005 and nine times in 2006. That year, Romney spent 212 days outside of Massachusetts. One trip included a visit to Iraq and Afghanistan to enhance his international credentials, just as his state grappled with a devastating flood. "By the time he left, it became clear to everybody that he was committed to national politics," said Massachusetts Republican Sheldon Binder, a retiree who supported Romney, as he sat near Egan. Republicans had held the governorship for 12 straight years by the time Romney took office in 2003. Voters were comfortable supporting candidates with right-of-center fiscal profiles. Romney's moderate profile, including support of abortion and gay rights, fit in with other Republicans. But some in Massachusetts were turned off by what they saw as Romney's effort to project a more conservative profile on hot-button issues, in part to prepare to court socially conservative activists in states such as Iowa that hold early nominating contests in election years. Romney reversed his position on abortion while in office. After advocating full equality for gay and lesbian couples, he publicly condemned the Massachusetts Supreme Court decision in 2003 to allow gay marriage. "He's a moderate. He's not a conservative Republican in the true sense of the word," said Matt Walsh, a 36-year-old advertiser from Mansfield who sat with his mother at the doughnut shop. "That's why he played well at first. He won the voters in the middle." Romney was elected governor with 50 percent of the vote. His approval ratings, while never soaring, topped 50 percent in public opinion polls at times during his one term. But by the October before he left office in 2007, Romney's approval had dipped to 34 percent in a Boston Globe poll.
Mitt Romney Giving Up On Home State Of Massachusetts
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Mitt Romney is catching up in the race for campaign cash. Romney and the Republican National Committee, which is spending money on behalf of the Republican candidate, brought in $40.1 million during April, according to a campaign statement. That’s just shy of the $43.6 million raised by the Obama campaign and the Democratic National Committee during the same period. The figures represent a turn of fortune for Romney in comparison with the previous month. When Romney became the presumptive nominee, he started raising money for the RNC at his fundraisers and collecting checks of $40,000 or more from one person. In March, he raised $12.7 million, compared with $35.1 million for the president’s campaign. Romney has stepped up fundraising in recent weeks with events every day or two. On Thursday, he held a $50,000-a-plate lunch fundraiser at the Epping Forest Yacht Club in Jacksonville, Fla., decrying President Obama’s plans to let tax cuts on the wealthy expire. A day earlier, Romney said he raised $2 million during at an event in Coral Gables, Fla. The Romney campaign appears to have had a boost in small-dollar contributions, a crucial sign of support from donors of average means who will drive the volunteer efforts on his behalf. Until now, Romney has had weak fundraising from such small donors, lagging behind his rivals for the Republican nomination and far behind Obama’s campaign. The Romney campaign reported $10.1 million coming in donations under $250, including funds for the RNC. “We are pleased with the strong support we have received from Americans across the country who are looking for new leadership in the White House,” Spencer Zwick, the campaign’s national finance chairman, said in a statement. Obama campaign manager Jim Messina said in an online video that 169,500 new donors gave to Obama in April, “putting us within reach of 2 million donors this election cycle. . . . That makes our campaign different, and it’s how we’re going to build a winning organization across the country.” Campaign spending in the presidential race is heating up, especially on the airwaves. Obama’s campaign has begun its first significant television ad buys, announcing plans to spend $25 million during May. The campaign unveiled spots this week attacking Romney’s record as the head of Bain Capital. The conservative group Crossroads GPS announced its own $25 million round of advertising over the next four weeks, attacking Obama over job creation, his signature health-care law and the national debt. Obama’s push onto the airwaves is not enough to match what conservative interest groups are spending. Obama spent $3.6 million on broadcast television for the week ending Sunday, according to Kantar Media/CMAG. Two conservative groups, Americans for Prosperity and the Romney-backing super PAC Restore Our Future, spent a combined $4 million that week. Romney’s campaign has not started running ads since he effectively secured the GOP nomination. But Obama’s campaign appears to be far ahead in mobilizing voters on the ground, opening 42 field offices and hiring 120 staffers in April.
Mitt Romney's April fundraising comes up just shy of Obama campaign
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For me, homeless animals.
This is not normally of gay interest, but...my God...these guys were almost perfect live. Ultra professionalism. So goddam good.
A new book claims that the infamous Zodiac killer is still alive and living in Northern California. "The Zodiac Killer Cover Up" was written by a former California Highway Patrol officer, Lyndon Lafferty, and adds another theory to the much-discussed serial killer case in Northern California. The Zodiac killer is blamed for at least five slayings in 1968 and 1969. There was never an arrest in the case. Three killings occurred in Vallejo. Teenagers David Farraday and Betty Lou Jensen were shot to death in December 1968. Darlene Ferrin, 22, was shot and killed seven months later at Blue Rock Springs Golf Club. Her companion, Michael Mageau, 19, survived. In "The Zodiac Killer Cover Up," Lafferty claims the killer is now a 91-year-old man living in Solano County. The book uses aliases and does not identify the alleged killer by name. Lafferty claims he and other lawmen investigated the suspect in the early 1970s but were stymied by "power brokers" in Solano County. According to the San Francisco Chronicle, the book has stirred new debate among those who have followed the famous killings. The San Francisco police formally closed the case in 2004. The Zodiac killer got his name by taunting newspapers and the police with letters and puzzles. "The police shall never catch me, because I have been too clever for them," he wrote in a letter sent to the San Francisco Chronicle. "I enjoy needling the blue pigs," he wrote. Detectives thought they might have had a break two years ago, when a partial DNA profile was taken from envelopes containing the letters. The genetic evidence seemed to clear the only suspect ever named by police -- Arthur Leigh Allen of Vallejo. Allen, who was never charged, died of a heart attack in 1992.
Is she still super skinny?
Fred
As Rebecca Duvall quits, we are back where we started - will Ivy or Karen be Marilyn? Will Ellis survive?
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What a weird little thriller. Creepy, funny, sexy, violent and heavy on the Hitchcockian undertones. Craig Wasson, Melanie Griffith and Deborah Shelton are perfect in their roles.
Scarlett Johansson will be the actress who was famously murdered in the classic film, with Brit thesp James D'Arcy ("W.E.," "Cloud Atlas") also on aboard as Anthony Perkins. Penned by John McLaughlin and Tom Thayer, the film will chronicle the production of the seminal thriller, which Hitchcock pursued despite the odds stacked against him." According to Variety, ScarJo's role is said to be awards bait in the vein of Michelle Williams' turn in "My Week With Marilyn." Johansson an Oscar nomination? Please.
Scarlett Johansson To Play Janet Leigh In 'Alfred Hitchcock And The Making Of Psycho'
Has she perked up yet?
The Arizona Charter Athletic Association state championship baseball game wasn't played Thursday night because Mesa Prep's second baseman is a girl. Paige Sultzbach, a freshman, is playing baseball because her high school doesn't offer girls softball. But the school Mesa Prep was to face in the final, Our Lady of Sorrows Academy, said its boys would not compete against a team with a girl and forfeited the game - and the state title - to Mesa Prep. "As a Catholic school, we promote the ideal of forming and educating boys and girls separately during the adolescent years, especially in physical education, Our Lady of Sorrows said in a statement, according to CNN affiliate KTVK. "It takes tremendous moral courage to stand by what it is you believe, and they are doing what they think is right," Mesa Prep Headmaster Robert Wagner told KTVK. But Sultzbach's mother, Pamela Sultzbach, said her daughter and the Mesa Prep team were being done a disservice. "This is not a contact sport. It shouldn't be an issue. It wasn't that they were afraid they were going to hurt or injure her, it's that (they believe) that a girl's place is not on a field," Pamela Sultzbach told the Arizona Republic. "I respect their views, but it's a bit out of the 18th century," Amy Arnold, Mesa Prep's athletic director, told the Republic. Mesa Prep and Our Lady of Sorrows played twice during the regular season, but Sultzbach sat out, as they were away games for her team. "It was on their field, and I felt the need to respect their rules," she told KTVK. The final would have been on a neutral field, and Sultzbach wanted to play. Now, despite being hailed as state champions, Mesa Prep will feel like they've missed something, Pamela Sultzbach said. "This team has worked so hard," she said. "They're undefeated. They had one game left. At our school, we're taught that when you start something, you complete it, and they weren't done."
Baseball Team Forfeits Championship, Won't Play Against Girl
Idiots
newest Andy Cohen creation - thought it was pretty good - like Travel version of Top Chef, with mixes of Amazing Race and Survivor. Any DLers watch?
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Thread 1 is 600 posts full and linked herein. Can there possibly be anything more to discuss, as MDNA wends its way down the album chart?
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It was in another election year, less than 20 years ago, when the Republican-controlled Congress, eager to engage in the kind of “culture war” that electrified the party’s supporters, saw an opportunity to push Bill Clinton into a corner. It passed the Defense of Marriage Act, a bill that made same-sex marriage illegal. It was signed by Mr Clinton, quelling a potentially disastrous political controversy that terrified Democrats. Today it is Barack Obama who is hoping to use his recently announced support for gay marriage as a weapon in this year’s presidential election, stoking an issue that many Republicans, including his presumptive rival, seem to wish would simply go away. The role reversal highlights how rapidly views on social issues that once polarised the nation – from gays in the military to single parent households – are changing in America and how the Obama campaign is seeking to exploit the shifting landscape. Political pundits and strategists are divided on what, if any, real impact Mr Obama’s announcement in support of gay and lesbian marriage will have on the 2012 race. Voters’ rejection of statewide efforts to legalise same-sex marriage in North Carolina and California indicate that Mr Obama’s embrace of the issue could hurt him by firing up conservatives’ support for the presumptive Republican nominee, Mitt Romney. But some Democrats see Mr Obama’s move as part of a broader strategy to paint Mr Romney – and his party – as extremists who are not only anti-gay, but anti-immigrant and anti-woman. That goal was – fairly or unfairly – helped this week after an article in the Washington Post said that Mr Romney bullied a classmate at his prep school who was believed to be gay. Ruy Teixeira, a senior fellow at the Center for American Progress think-tank – who predicted in 2009 that generational and other shifts in the US would bring an end to the “culture wars” – says that while Democrats are not likely to use social issues in the “extremely aggressive” way Republicans once did to motivate voters, they will “pick and choose fights” when they believe they have an advantage. “What a contrast. It’s dizzying how fast things have changed,” he says. But there are plenty of Republicans who say that the Obama campaign’s strategy will not necessarily win him votes on November 6. Tom Davis, a former Republican congressman from Virginia, says that far from hurting Mr Romney, the Obama campaign seems to be making the race a contest to mobilise its supporters instead of winning over independents. And while Mr Davis acknowledges that in the long term Republicans will have to confront certain social issues, especially immigration, portraying Mr Romney as an ideologue will be challenging. “He’s Harvard educated. He doesn’t wear cowboy boots. He’s an accomplished person.” But the campaign is trying. A new Obama online campaign ad titled “Mitt Romney: Backwards on Equality” accuses Mr Romney of wanting to “deny rights” to gay couples and states that his position is even to the right of former president George W. Bush, who had expressed support of civil unions. “The liberal progressive base of voters is not as scared of Mitt Romney as they were of Michele Bachmann or Rick Perry,” says Steve Clemons, Washington editor at large for The Atlantic. “So I think Obama is trying to create a split, forcing Romney to the right with evangelicals or make him out to be a ‘northeastern’ [moderate] Republican that alienates conservatives.” Mr Obama, he says, is saying “bring it on” to those who believe he is in a weak position when it comes to social issues. The trap Democrats will keep trying to set for Mr Romney, adds Mark Schmitt, a senior fellow at the Roosevelt Institute, is to try to make the Republican look too conservative, a retrograde”. “It’s not really about hammering it home. It’s more like you want to set up situations where Republicans talk about social issues, instead of what they want to do,” he says, which is to frame economic issues in the same polarising way that once was reserved for social issues.
The greatest 3 seconds on TV.
Woof.
Have we seen these before? Even if so, they definitely bear re-viewing.
The Conservative Government says anti-bullying initiatives popping up across the country should also apply to fetuses. Government spokesperson Maurice Vellacott says "The most common bullying of all is the bullying and ultimate death of unborn children." Vellacott says there is research that proves fetuses feel pain, and there should be a law to protect them from what he refers to as bullying. The Government's official position is that abortions are far worse than any case of schoolyard or neighbourhood bullying.
I've been coming here a long time, and even with all of the bullshit that has gone on (Political shit, racism, trolls, etc), there have also been some wonderful posts and threads. I've noticed that the really are many people here who have been kind and helpful when some of us were down, in need of advice or a few laughs. I remember about a year ago someone posted about feeling hopeless. I was in the same situation, and the thoughtful replies that were posted are very much one of the reasons I'm still here. So, thanks.
Simon Halls accepted an award last night and looks like he walked off the set of White Collar himself! He's ditched the rumpled suits and horn-rimmed glasses and now looks like the Hollywood shark one would expect to find on the arm of one of the world's most beautiful men. Well played, Mr. Halls. Well played.
Hunky carpenter/host of While You Were Out and, more recently, Man Caves and Desperate Landscapes. He's as skillful as he is hot.
Any suggestions for a healthy vacation destination? Not interested in going to a party atmosphere like P-town, Fire Island, Key West, cruises, etc. I''d like to go someplace with a focus on health & fitness, recreation, adventuring, etc.
Obama Maintains 3-Point Advantage Post Gay Marriage Announcement Published on Thursday, 17 May 2012 Q: If the 2012 election for United States President were held today and the following were candidates for whom would you vote? IBD/CSM/TIPP [Obama +3] Obama - 43% Romney - 40% In the latest Investor's Business Daily/Christian Science Monitor/TIPP Poll conducted after President Obama announced his support for gay marriage, the President continues to maintain a 3-point lead over Governor Romney. In the poll, 44% said gay marriages should be recognized and 45% said gay marriages should not be recognized. In our poll conducted early May, Romney had a 9-point advantage with Independent voters which has narrowed to 4-points in the current poll.
Investor's Business Daily/Christian Science Monitor: Obama Ahead by 3
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It's on DVD. Has anybody seen it lately? A hoot and Liz' mad slasher scene at the end is great.
Anyone ever bring it through an airport?
Does anyone here have any experience with this?
and the article mentioned that Joaquin Phoenix requested that Franco not show the film anymore. What is with the Phoenix family? Are they the biggest bullshitters since the Kardashians? Is it all about money with them? What exactly are they ashamed of? Are they ashamed of River? Quoting from the article... "In reality, Phoenix and Reeves (who also co-starred in "I Love You to Death") were incredibly close and this is abundantly clear when watching the film. Franco's "My Own Private River" adds a brand new take (literally) on the dynamic between the two. "...In a question-and-answer session following the film, Franco revealed that his original cut was 12 hours long. That version is now being kept from the public at the request of Joaquin Phoenix (River's Oscar-nominated brother). For now, the film has been shelved but for a few exclusive showings. Franco has no plans to distribute the film as he does not want to compete with the original or face legal action from New Line Cinema, which distributed 'Idaho'...." Now anyone with a thinking brain knows that River was deeply in love with Keanu...20 years later, it still has to be a secret?
Outlaws of Love, from his new album, Trespassing, out next week. The album is getting great reviews so far. Four stars from Rolling Stone. So happy for him.
While in the U.S. it's common for people to return to further their education throughout their adult lives, the typical (or at least stereotypical) university attendee is straight out of high school without pause except for summer break. I'm curious how this tradition developed in the UK. Are students obligated by universities to sit out a year or is up to them and their parents? Is it considered advantageous to do it in terms of creating a more "mature" product for universities? Do some kids get a taste of freedom and drop out even before they get there? I learned about gap year from reading coverage about the royals. They go off on trips to Africa and little charity PR trips. What does the average kid whose parents can't finance these excursions do? I can't imagine they'd be able to find much available work in this economy... TIA.
I just found out that the reason I passed out in the middle of Sixth Avenue and ended up in the emergency room with some serious damage about ten years ago is that someone put rohypnol in a beer I was drinking. Needless to say the asshole is psychotic. How can I fuck up his life? Serious replies only.
under suggested tags for this book I was given "borderline personality disorder" "full of lies" "grifter" "liar" "manipulator" "shame on publisher"
Andy Cohen's new book: is Amazon trying to tell us something
Bee and Bear (the vegan marrieds) Nick Carter and the Muse Kelli Six in the City ..any other DL favorites that we need an update on??
Anyone here have any thoughts regarding the future of Facebook? Will people grow bored with it? Will the next generation rebel against it? I never took to it, but I'm in the minority.
Do most Republicans REALLY believe this shit?
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My new boyfriend gave me a CD of his to listen to. I grudgingly did and am completely transfixed. This man's voice is unreal. Absolutely stunning.
How many massage therapists does it take to rub John Travolta down?
Has Donna Summer now passed the torch to Gloria?
UGH!
Nothing sung by Streisand, I presume.
This might be dumb and flameworthy, but ... whatever. I'm scared, Datalounge. I have had diarrhea and strange rumblings on the left side of my chest, beneath my ribs, for a few days now. A couple days of this was fine, but...multiple days? I called a friend who's a GI doc and he told me that if it didn't go away by tomorrow, I would need a culture to examine what's going on. This just freaks me out. I guess I am terrified of pancreatic cancer and the rumbling/gas on the left side has me worried. I know, I know, get a blog. :( I just needed to vent.
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Manager here. I have a direct report who is on a "performance improvement plan." He took a medical leave for stress, returned to work, and now I'm supposed to be enforcing this plan. I've dragged my feet because I fear he's suicidal and I don't want to put even more pressure on him. What fucking job is worth that? So today I get "feedback" from my own mgr that I'm not being a strong manager/leader in this situation. Trying to protect him too much, blah blah blah. She's right about that. But is it right to potentially push the guy over the edge? Fuck work. Fuck it right in the ass. (Apologies to the unemployed, please understand my frustration.)
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Supposedly the breakout star of the show. Levi: "A-List New Yorkers would never survive in Dallas."
And he has chest hair! The Lord has heard my call!!
Zeb Atlas in new Raging Stallion release!!
Jamie from HR
I want to wear a ring-finger ring. Rubedo at Tiffany is pretty. Suggestions?
Fuck!
Madge raised her well.
** BREAKING - Madonna's daughter Lola Leon is for Marriage Equality
Mariah
Discuss.
I have an absolute fetish for guys that wear necklaces. Gold or silver chains around a neck turn me on. Do you wear a necklace? What type is it? What is the story behind the necklace you wear? Did you buy it for yourself or was it a gift? How long have you had your necklace? Do you ever take your necklace off? Do you wear it while showering and during sex? Tell me everything!!!!!
I went to South Korea recently for two weeks. How the hell did it become so wealthy? Sure, not everyone's wealthy, but it's nicer there than maybe Italy! And no, I'm sure it's not because of "a boom in dogmeat prices".
he's been fighting same-sex attraction all his pathetic, homophobic life.
James Dobson's bff "Dr." Paul Cameron admits what I always knew was true...
Tonight! On my PBS station.
What part of the UK might he be from? His accent is one I could listen to all day. Might anyone in the UK steer to the right area of the UK so I might find my own little prince to enjoy?
Can anyone confirm?
This is not me complaining, mind you.
When Did Russell Tovey Get So Ripped?
The Voice of the Night
This is the new underwhelming thread. I'm thinking about dinner. Carry on.
Frankly I was hoping for more eye candy. The football player caught my eye but his hair was goofy. Emily seems rather bland but I don't think it matters to most of these guys since she has the looks they like. Where does she get the money to live in that huge house and drive a new SUV? Ricky's grandparents? Anyone else watching? I wasn't going to but I have been spending Mondays with a friend who also watches so it will be nice to have company watching this mess.
I was just looking at a friend's daughter's tweets....I can't believe the stuff she says about her teachers and she names the names too! I'd give her a bad grade so fast!!!
Country Strong: Karlie Kloss Teams Up with America's Top Male Olympians photographed by Annie Leibovitz
"I don't know whether Barack Obama was born in the United States of America. I don't know that. But I do know this, that in his heart, he's not an American. He's just not an American." Coffman apologized on Wednesday night, completely walking back from his original statement about Obama's citizenship. "I misspoke and I apologize," Coffman said about the comments in Elbert County in a written statement. "I have confidence in President Obama’s citizenship and legitimacy as President of the United States."
Rep. Mike Coffman, Colorado Republican Congressman, Says Obama Is 'Not An American'
JP Morgan Chase CEO Jamie Dimon, the one who told us it was "unpatriotic" to criticize American business, admitted to a huge loss on a mishandled derivatives hedge. One he probably didn't understand even after it was explained to him. And our wonderful free-trade partner China has said that all senior partners of American accounting firms in China must be Chinese by 2017, with the total number of foreign partners limited to 40% now and 20% by 2017. I guess they missed the whole "borderless world" and "finance must be free travel" memo.
The new Gallup poll shows that he will be losing more votes than gaining them. And I'm pretty sure the Obama campaign has their own internal polling, which may show the same thing.
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