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Russian opposition politician Boris Nemtsov shot dead in Moscow Former deputy prime minister and critic of Vladimir Putin who was due to take part in march on Sunday was reportedly killed near the Kremlin Shaun Walker in Moscow, Friday 27 February 2015 22.22 GMT Prominent Russian opposition politician Boris Nemtsov has been shot dead in Moscow, according to reports. Nemtsov, a former Kremlin insider and a sharp critic of the Russian president, Vladimir Putin, was reportedly shot four times in the chest by a killer who escaped in a white car. The killing took place late on Friday evening in the centre of Moscow, near St Basil’s Cathedral and the Kremlin. Nemtsov, 55, was deputy prime minister during the 1990s in the government of Boris Yeltsin. He had written a number of reports in recent years linking Putin and his inner circle to corruption. News agency Interfax confirmed Nemtsov’s death, while fellow opposition politician Ilya Yashin and the editor-in-chief of liberal radio station Ekho Moskvy also confirmed the news. Just hours before his death, Nemtsov had appeared on Ekho Moskvy calling on Muscovites to attend an opposition march planned for Sunday. The march against Putin’s government and the war in Ukraine was due to take place in a suburb of Moscow. One of the other organisers of the march, Alexei Navalny, was jailed for 15 days ahead of the march. In recent years, the Kremlin has used petty harassment and court cases against opposition figures, but there has not been an assassination of a political figure in Moscow for a decade. Russian news agencies reported that senior police officers were on the scene of the murder and a manhunt was under way for the killer.
Putin critic and Russian opposition politician Boris Nemtsov shot dead in Moscow
For some these two popped into my head the other day. James at 15 and Apple's Way(?). Do those ring a bell?
This looks salaciously and guiltily delicious. I wonder if the subject is actually slapped viciously??
He throws a mean fuck, and I don't even care that he talks to himself. He's hung like a mule, with massive low-hangers that bang against me as he furiously pounds my culo. Anyone else have carnal relations with an autistic?
The Amazing Race 26 a/k/a The Dating Edition. Two - count 'em, TWO! - gay couples, Harley & Jonathan (Knight of New Kids On The Block) and Bergen & Kurt.
For me, it's the rumor about Aretha Franklin's kids being fathered by her own father. Freaky.
Every time he's on Now with Alex Witt or Lawrence O'Donnell's show, I swoon. No mention of a wife or kids on his website. Is he family?
A Quebec judge told a woman appearing in her Montreal courtroom she would not hear her case until she removed her hijab. "Hats and sunglasses for example, are not allowed. And I don't see why scarves on the head would be either," the female judge says in the recording. "The same rules need to be applied to everyone. I will therefore not hear you if you are wearing a scarf on your head, just as I would not allow a person to appear before me wearing a hat or sunglasses on his or her head, or any other garment not suitable for a court proceeding." Do you agree? Link below for the audio recording of the Judge
HAMILTON! HAMILTON! HAMILTON! Now that that's out of the way, we can get to the real question: will the smash box-office success of 'The Last Five Years' help save 'Honeymoon in Vegas'?
Miss Warwick? Miss Warwick?
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If so, what's the point? The only place to show it off is in the change room?
Take the poll.
My boyfriend says it's turquoise, I say it's robin egg blue. We're about to kill each other.
Is she a goddess or what?!
ROSIE O’DONNELL wrecked her marriage when she “went nuts” in a Thanksgiving Day tantrum fueled by booze and drugs! In a blockbuster world exclusive, The National ENQUIRER can reveal the untold story of Rosie’s relationship-ending meltdown, which left terrified wife Michelle Rounds locked in a bathroom and fearing for the safety of both herself and their 2-year-old daughter. Multiple sources have confirmed the shocking incident took place last November at Rosie’s home on Casey Key – north of Sarasota, Fla. – with raging Rosie throwing a holiday tantrum in front of Michelle’s visiting relatives! The dinner disaster began when the former television host announced to several guests that she was planning to divorce Michelle. “Everyone was pretty much floored, after having been invited to Florida for the holiday,” said one insider. “At the meal, Rosie just remained stone silent. It was uncomfortable for everyone.” Finally, Michelle dared to confront Rosie about her talk of ending their marriage. A source said: “Rosie went into a rage. Her screaming was loud enough for everyone to hear.” That’s when Michelle locked herself in the bathroom, as her rampaging wife repeatedly screamed at her: “Where’s the Xanax, b---h?” Said one source: “Michelle knew the marriage was over right then and there. She loved Rosie, but she could no longer live this way. Michelle was scared stiff and spent the night sleeping on a towel, locked in the bathroom!” Meanwhile, Michelle’s embarrassed family was “mortified” by Rosie’s behavior. “She turned the place into a house of horrors!” said an insider. Rosie wasn’t finished ruining the holiday, though – she ended up crashing into one of the family members’ cars! “Rosie had been taking her usual meds and drinking wine all night. She decided she was going to spend the night in a hotel, but left while clearly in a drunken stupor,” said another insider. “Rosie eventually came back to the house, but – either on her way to the hotel, or when she returned – she hit one of the cars belonging to Michelle’s family.” The family then witnessed the same kind of savage mood swing that had characterized the comic’s second stint hosting “The View.” “In a bizarre ending, Rosie acted as if nothing had happened,” explained one insider. “She just mentioned that the whole group would be going on a boating expedition the next day, and instructed someone to make sandwiches for the trip. “Rosie said, ‘Make mine roast beef, but hold the mustard!’ That’s the last thing Michelle’s family heard from her.” They weren’t interested in hearing anything more. “In the morning, the family headed to the airport as fast as they could,” said a source.
She walked off the show Friday, and is apparently "done with it".
For ages now, people like myself who have tried to convince people that there is no such thing as black holes and a "Big Bang", have faced ridicule by the masses. Now we are receiving more scientific support. A new theory has bee proposed by which there is no singularities, thus no black holes and no "Big Bang". In this scenario the Universe had no beginning, nor will it have an ending.
No Such Thing As Black Holes And Big Bang - New Scientific Support
Tonight on "Rock Bottom," we go undercover at a sex farm for sex hookers.
Just thought I'd say, I was not the least bit turned on by Jamie Dornan's portrayal of Christian Grey in the trailer. He made my dick shrivel. I wish Matt Bomer or David Gandy had played Christian Grey I would have paid triple at the box office to see them in action. What do you think DL? For those who haven't seen the movie trailer watch it below.
Jamie Dornan Sucks As Christian Grey In Fifty Shades of Grey Movie Trailer!
Ryan Creed - BuzzFeed Staff - Feb. 27, 2015 Janet Jackson was the leading diva of the late ’80s and early ’90s. She sold over 140 million records in her career. She was the original Beyoncé. But she’s kept a low profile recently. In 2010 she appeared in Tyler Perry’s For Colored Girls, in 2011 she began her Number Ones, Up Close and Personal tour, and then…nothing. She is depriving the world of pure joy by dropping out of the spotlight with her billionaire husband. We need the music! We need the choreography! And most importantly, we need her cleavage back!
BUZZFEED: The World Needs Janet Jackson’s Boobs Now More Than Ever
per New York Times....
Which one of you bitches did it?!
Final Glee episode pays tribute to Cory Monteith, says Kevin McHale By Harry Fletcher Friday, Feb 20 2015, 12:27pm EST Kevin McHale has spoken about the upcoming Glee finale. The actor revealed that the final episode of the sixth and final series of the Fox show will pay tribute to his former co-star, the late Cory Monteith. Speaking to Access Hollywood, McHale said: "I think [Finn] is always remembered and especially at a time like this at the very end, there will definitely be some sort of mention of him. "He'll be involved in some way." Monteith was found dead in a Vancouver hotel room from a mixed drug toxicity on July 13, 2013, drawing tributes from fans and friends the world over. The actor and his character Finn were honored in Glee's season 5 episode 'The Quarterback', which first aired a few months after Monteith's death. McHale – who plays Artie Abrams on the show – also spoke about the series finale of Glee, saying that he was "happy" with it as a conclusion to the series. "I'm satisfied. I was reading it and the last two episodes are airing back-to-back, so it's kinda this double whammy all at the end," he explained. "I think [viewers will] be happy. I was happy. They tie up a lot of great storylines and you get to see these people in a new light and follow their journey. "These characters have gone through a lot, and I think there's a good payoff at the end."
Final Glee episode pays tribute to Cory Monteith, says Kevin McHale
What says you? I think she should die because you know that bitch will never be able to be reformed. She'll go to her grave claiming that Travis was a child molester and that she did the world a favor. It would be best to just kill her and let her sort it out in her next life. However, I think she will probably get life w/out parole as too many cowardly sapsuckers are opposed to the death penalty, or should I say opposed to the death penalty when it comes to women.
Do backrooms at clubs really exist? Do these types of rooms still exist in popular gay clubs? I figure these types of spaces served for gay culture in the 80s and before.
Part 5 thread of saga... D.C. Attorney stabbed multiple times in the back while staying in room 400 at the Donovan Hotel. Who did it? And why? is the topic of the discussion. (Poached above synopsis from part 4 thread, linked below)
What other 57-yr. old was rolling around and touching their crotch? No one wants to get old, but maybe if you're a multi-millionaire, you can straighten-up and leave the thongs to the girls?
I felt ashamed for Madonna at the Grammy awards
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With... Kim Richards (storyline to date: Using ̶̶V̶o̶d̶k̶a Brandi to gaslight Kyle into believing that it's her fault that Kim is a mentally-disturbed pill-popping loon.) Kyle Richards (storyline to date: Will fall for anyone's drama and bullshit--Kim's, Brandi's, or Lisa's. Dumb as a box of retarded rocks.) Brandi Glanville (storyline to date: countdown to self-destruction has begun. 10-9-8-7-... Don't let the door hit you on that bony ass of your, bitch!) Yolanda Foster (storyline to date: Count down to self-destruction has begun. TICK-tock, TICK-tock, TICK-tock..... May I get you another lemon purge, sweetie?) Eileen Davidson (storyline to date: The most popular and renowned Daytime Queen continues to mesmerize her ever-loving fans! Long live the Queen! Suck it, haters!) Lisa Rinna (storyline to date: the Greek chorus has absolutely NOTHING on this bitch. Guaranteed gold for a good wisecrack. Those are some multi-talented lips! Lucky Harry...) Lisa Vanderpump (storyline to date: Still loves money. Still loves pink. Still loves rosé. Still loves Pandy. Still tolerates Ken. On the fence about the adopted one.) with... the staff of Passages Malibu rearranging the furniture to make room for the RHOBH crew while they film Kim's and Brandi's rehab stint, which will no doubt be cut short and end in a binge of vodka slammers, Vicodin, and regret.
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OK, season 1 is over, and we've gotten a good look at all of them. Which one of the actors (NOT the characters) would you most like to have sex with? (I've included the top nine based on number of episodes in which they appeared.)
We wouldnt have had her wonderful catalouge of classics.
ISIS members are destroying priceless statues, some dating to 3,000 years old. The reason? They are pagan and Islam is against anything pagan, even calling for the deaths of heathens who refuse to convert. However, watch how fast some of the queens here come to the defense of ISIS in order to bash Christianity.
OMG.
Male NFL Commentator Praises College Football Player’s Unbelievable “Bubble Butt”
that are now considered outdated.
Anyone else love looking at these little jewels I'm tempted to throw it all away, downsize, retire and drop out.
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The few marriage notices I've seen always seem to be between a doctor and a lawyer or something, and it makes me suspicious it's just about money. Is there such a thing as a monogamous, forever kind of relationship or marriage between two men? After all the brouhaha about gay marriage, it's still just guys hooking-up for sex.
ISIS has killed four Americans -- in Syria. We’re not exactly talking about another 9/11. Here’s a tip: If you don’t want to be killed by ISIS, don’t go to Syria. Meanwhile, illegal aliens have killed, raped and maimed thousands of Americans -– in America. If you don’t want to be killed, raped or maimed by illegal immigrants in your own country, I have no tips for you. There’s nothing you can do. You’re on your own. Good luck.
Ann Coulter Believes Americans Should Fear 'Illegal Immigrants' More Than ISIS
Scrumptious! I''m so losing it...%0D\ He was in Tom Ford''s ''A Single Man'' %0D\ Anyone thinks he''s a bottom? Although skinny, I''m sure he''s hung like a horse.
'The allegations are completely false': Cliff Richard speaks out as police search his home amid claims underage boy was sexually abused at rally hosted by Billy Graham in 1985 Sir Cliff Richard has today vehemently the claim that he committed a sexual offence with a boy under the age of 16 in the 1980s. The 73-year-old's luxury apartment in Sunningdale, Berkshire, was searched today for five and a half hours hours by eight plain-clothes police officers. A police spokesman said the allegation involved a boy under 16 years of age and dated from the 1980s in the South Yorkshire area.
Cliff Richard: "Allegations of sexual abuse of underage boy are completely false"
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Rebel Heart release date: Friday, March 6. Roundup thus far: The tracks got leaked. Madonna got sucked into Twitter wars about her use of altered photos of black civil rights heroes to flog the album's theme. And the lead single Living For Love has so far failed to reach the Billboard Hot 100. She performed it live at the Grammys, to mixed reviews. Last time we did this (MDNA), Madonna did manage to eke out one week at the #1 spot. (Billboard album chart) Can she do it again?
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Has anyone here ever fucked him?\ \ Hung?\ \ Spill it!
This Downy Woodpecker visits every winter to a feeder outside my window. He's been coming around for about 5 years. The oldest known DW reached age 11y 11m. No evidence of a lady friend. DW comes daily but usually waits until the sparrows are finished. I don't get much variety of birds visiting here. Occasionally I get Blue Jays, who are easily spooked. I had a dove nest on my window sill recently, and I had a hawk visit once. The hawk made a God-awful screeching sound. I hope he didn't eat the dove.
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I have heard people say that a kidney stone is perhaps the worst pain a human can endure.\ \ Anyone had one?\ \ I am curious.
He's milking this for all it's worth.
I'm going with Bryant Wood
Carly Fiorina - What Leadership Is Taking a swipe at Hillary Clinton, Carly Fiorina asks “Mrs. Clinton, name an accomplishment?" “Like Mrs. Clinton, I too have traveled the globe. Unlike Mrs. Clinton, I know that flying is an activity, not an accomplishment.” Asked about Clinton’s recent use of the phrase “unlocking potential,” Fiorina -- whose Super PAC is titled the “Unlocking Potential Project” -- suggested this isn’t the first time Clinton may have copied her. “Her book cover was remarkably similar to mine, as well,” she said. “Imitation may be the sincerest form of flattery, but I could steal one of her lines and ask, ‘What difference does it make?’”
He was also a comedian and comedy writer; he coined the term "humblebrag" (or at least popularized it). Police found drug paraphernalia in his home, but too soon for the toxicology reports.
Were they both married when it was going on? Or was she single?
My eyes!
To define machismo? I still say "macho"- is that wrong?
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Thankfully, I've had to participate in just one, at my first job 20 years ago -- we had to pretend we were shipwrecked and figure out how we would survive. (Fortunately, we were in a hotel conference room, not the great outdoors.)
I love that look! Both to observe and to participate in....in fact whenever I am naked without socks, I feel a little naked.
...and Roman P didnt' seem to mind? Wouldn't you care if some ex was always hangin' on your girl?
Now filming the highly anticipated blockbuster, Henry Cavill's Gigantic Tit Muscles v. Henry Cavill's Gigantic Ass Muscles: Dawn of Justice. Tits and Tights:
Henry Cavill's gigantic tit muscles are struggling to break free, part 3
Still no homo.
She''s a very strong singer: she sings six songs in a row without lipsynching. I had no idea she had such a good voice.%0D\ %0D\ I''d guess she''s about 18-19, but true to the early 1960s, she''s wearing the clothes and hair of a 45 yr old matron. %0D\ %0D
I just read her bio and that is the one thing I don't get. He always seems slightly repulsed by her and all her kids.
One bedroom (single occupancy only, please) with semi-private entrance up a flight of stairs available in a lovely 4- bedroom, 2-bath house. The unfurnished room is approx. 12'x12 and can accommodate a bed, dresser, and desk comfortably. Windows face north and east allowing ample sunlight. Room features closet with overhead storage and new carpet. [Pics coming soon!] Ample safe, well-lit on-street parking available. We are located near two Bart stations and on multiple bus lines. Berkley Bowl is within walking distance. Additionally it is 420 friendly. Two charming cats keep us entertained as well as the home rodent-free. Sadly no more pets allowed per landlord's rules. The house has wifi, hookups for a washer/dryer, a well-supplied kitchen, garden area, fruit trees, abundant roses, space for art projects outside. We host the occasional house dinners, fire-pit fires, bbqs, potlucks, art parties, drag shows, or dance parties. The house does not have cable or satellite, any tv in the common area, a microwave, or passive-aggressive communications. Please note:*** As a house, we all try to keep the oppressive -isms outside our gate and beyond our front doors, so if you are attached to hard drugs, excessive alcohol, white supremacy, patriarchy, ableism, racism, classism, colonization, homophobia, transphobia, immigrant-bashing, victim-blaming, slut-shaming, etc, etc. best keep looking elsewhere, doubt we'd be a good fit for you. We use natural household cleaners and body products in the home and Pachamama (Grandmother Earth)- friendly toilet paper. Are very energy/water-conscious - the house is old and the electrical wiring doesn't allow excessive energy consumption. Overall we each strive to live in balance with our other Earth relatives. [Sorry, no pesticides, insecticides, or petro-chemicals used in the home or yard/garden] $650 per month plus refundable $650 deposit= $1300 due upon move-in. Utilities (internet, electricity, and water/sewer) average $30-80 depending on the month since H2o is paid every two months. Lease term is month-to-month, though we prefer a three month initial trial period which can then be extended to a longer-term arrangement if the house members agree. Your future roomies: An mid 30's Sagittarius, female-bodied two-spirit, alternatively-able bodied, conscious-omnivoire with a severe gluten/wheat allergy filmmaker/activist/culture carrier. A mid-20's Cancer, female-bodied two-spirit, mostly vegetarian full-time student, jewelery and make-up artist, caretaker of two cat companions, activist. An early 20's Libra, female-bodied, queer, writer and tech wiz who works a lot. We each can be social or secluded; have a pleasant exchange of hellos or hold an in-depth cosmic conversation; value self-actualization, authentic communications, and active decolonization. Each person cleans up after themselves and does a share of the household chores and yard work. We like each other but don't necessarily have to stay in each other's business. Still interested? Then please send us a reply with the following included: your zodiac sign- eastern, western, or other. Why living in a Queer Womyn Of Color home sounds like a fit for you? Are you gluten-free or have other dietary needs? Upon what indigenous peoples/ first nations' land do you currently live? Thanks for looking and happy home-hunting!
They always shoot in these massive houses, uh, mansions. Are these their homes? Are these porn directors rich? I mean, can they be making THAT much money from a shitty porn site? Also, if it is their house, do they have special bedrooms for the fuck scenes? I mean, do they actually let the guys fuck on their living room sofa?
But yet as much detail as the New York Times story has on so many aspects of his life, it mentions nothing about the legitimate news speculation of him being gay and closeted and him shutting down his Twitter and Instagram accounts when it was discovered that he was following 19-year old diver Tom Daley. Or why he voted against marriage equality and against the repeal of Don't Ask Don't Tell. Come on, NY Times!
Aaron Schock, a Lawmaker Used to Attention, Draws a Little More Than He Wanted
Their men''s exercise wears are so form-fitting, they border on gay fetish clothing.
Continue your foolishness.
The formerly out and now seemingly out again gay British actor Luke Evans, part huit
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She was supposed to be dead by now. Now I wouldn't be surprised if she competed in the Sochi Olympics!
You never see her drinking on the show, and during the last dinner party episode, they pointedly filmed her sipping water and putting a champagne glass off to the side, out of reach.
[bold] Maine Weighs Revoking Seat Belt Law Days After 75-Car Pileup [/bold] It's an effort that even the bill's sponsor acknowledges is poor timing. Just two days after a 75-vehicle pileup injured at least 17 people in the state, lawmakers in Maine are considering legislation that would allow adults to opt out of wearing seat belts. Sen. Eric Brakey told lawmakers on Friday that it's too bad they're considering his bill so close to Wednesday's crash on Interstate 95, which is thought to be largest in Maine history but had no fatalities. "It's very unfortunate timing that we're discussing this particular legislation two days after the 75-car pileup that took place on I-95," Brakey said. The Republican from Auburn acknowledged that people should wear seat belts and said he hopes the accident serves as a reminder of the importance to do so. But said he believes the mandate infringes on people's freedom to make personal decisions. "Government exists to protect us from each other, not to protect us from ourselves," Brakey told the Transportation Committee, which also examined measures Friday that seek to crack down on people who talk on their cellphone while driving. Opponents of the seat belt repeal — including the Maine Sheriffs' Association, Maine Chiefs of Police Association, the Maine Medical Association and several trauma surgeons — argued that repealing the law would be a dangerous move that would inevitably lead to more highway deaths. "We're asking people to swap an immediate lethal risk for the threat of a small fine," said David Burke, a surgeon at Eastern Maine Medical Center. "If that helps keep a few dozen per year out of my trauma room, I'll take the governance." If the bill passes, Maine's Bureau of Highway Safety would lose almost $500,000 a year in federal grants that pay for educational programs and child safety seats for low-income families, said Director Lauren Stewart, who also opposes the bill. The federal government encourages states to enact certain highway safety laws by tying some funding to them.
We've lived together for two years. I own the condo where we live, and he pays about 75% of what a roommate would pay, far less than half of expenses. I also usually pick-up about that same ratio of daily expenses, like dinner, movies, vacations and so forth. I paid to furnished the place, though we shopped for furnishings together. It just seems odd that he brought this up. Things seem to be going well as they are. Occasionly he tells me he did something with his money, like invested much of it in a certain mutual fund, or bought stock in the company where I work, or is researching real estate in the neighborhood. Otherwise, we don't talk about each other's money. I declined to open the joint account, and it's the only thing I've ever denied him or we've argued about. What do you think?
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Madonna on age jokes: No-one would dare say that about being gay 27th February 2015, 12:37 PM, Nick Duffy Madonna has attacked jibes about her age – claiming people wouldn’t dare make “degrading remarks” about sexuality. The singer took a tumble at the BRIT Awards on Wednesday, when a dance routine went awry during a live performance. The internet quickly filled with jokes about the 56-year-old following the mishap – when a backing dancer pulled her over by her cape. Speaking to Rolling Stone, Madonna attacked the hurtful jibes about her age – comparing it to homophobia and racism. She said: “It’s still the one area where you can totally discriminate against somebody, and talk s**t. Because of their age. Only females, though. Not males. No one would dare to say a degrading remark about being black or dare to say a degrading remark on Instagram about someone being gay.” “But my age – anybody and everybody would say something degrading to me. And I always think to myself, why is that accepted? “What’s the difference between that and racism, or any discrimination? They’re judging me by my age. I don’t understand. “I’m trying to get my head around it. Because women, generally, when they reach a certain age, have accepted that they’re not allowed to behave a certain way. “But I don’t follow the rules. I never did, and I’m not going to start.” Earlier this month, the singer joined hook-up app Grindr to chat to her gay fans.
It's about time. KLW: Keep Looking Working.
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What's up with that?? Is it an age thing?
Press photo from an upcoming "Johnathan Ross" interview.
Are they on the way out? Has the internet made their services obsolete?
The masked Islamic State militant known as "Jihadi John", who has been pictured in the videos of the beheadings of Western hostages, has been named. The BBC understands he is Mohammed Emwazi, a Kuwaiti-born British man believed to be from West London, who was known to UK security services. They chose not to disclose his name earlier for operational reasons. Emwazi first appeared in a video last August, when he apparently killed the American journalist James Foley. He was later thought to have been pictured in the videos of the beheadings of US journalist Steven Sotloff, British aid worker David Haines, British taxi driver Alan Henning, and American aid worker Abdul-Rahman Kassig, also known as Peter. Last month, the militant appeared in a video with the Japanese hostages Haruna Yukawa and Kenji Goto, shortly before they were killed. Emwazi is believed to be an associate of a former UK control order suspect, who travelled to Somalia in 2006 and is allegedly linked to a facilitation and funding network for Somali militant group al-Shabab.
She has REALLY done it now. The French are outraged over this, as is the UK, whose media has been running with this today. She really did take a blow to the head Wednesday night... "Singer says antisemitism at an all-time high and laments France’s lost tradition of welcoming diversity" Madonna has lashed out at intolerance in Europe, saying it is now so high in France and across the continent that “it feels like Nazi Germany”. Speaking to French radio station Europe 1 in an interview to be aired on Friday morning, Madonna said “antisemitism is at an all-time high” in France and elsewhere in Europe, and likened the atmosphere to the period when German fascism was on the ascent. “We’re living in crazy times,” the 56-year-old singer said, calling the situation “scary,” and lamenting what she described as France’s lost tradition of welcoming diversity and honouring freedom. “It was a country that embraced everyone and encouraged freedom in every way, shape or form – artistic expression of freedom,” Madonna said. “Now that’s completely gone. “France was once a country that accepted people of colour, and was a place artists escaped to, whether it was Josephine Baker or Charlie Parker.” In fact, Parker only visited France briefly to play concert engagements, and unlike jazz legends such as Bud Powell, Kenny Clarke and Dexter Gordon, never took up French residency. The globally acclaimed entertainer also spoke out in 2012 when she denounced the rise of xenophobia and extreme-right parties in Europe. She said her earlier comments were made when “I was receiving a lot of criticism and threats from Marine Le Pen” and her National Front party, which Madonna described as “fascist”. The singer’s spat with Le Pen began after the far-right leader threatened to sue Madonna over a video featuring an image of Le Pen with a swastika on her forehead. The offending symbol was eventually replaced with a question mark to avoid litigation. But Madonna said in the interview that the motives that led her to speak out against intolerance in 2012 were even more pressing today. “What I said two years ago is valid today,” she said. “It’s not just happening in France, it’s all over Europe. But particularly in France. “The level of intolerance is so enormous it’s scary.”
Madonna Attacks Intolerance and Says France and Europe ‘Feels Like Nazi Germany’
Watching him in Transamerica, especially in the first scene in his underwear, I fell in love.\ \ What happened?
I had to start new thread for all things Louis. Fuck that bloke is fit. Anyone still on the fence about him being gay?
Recently watched an interview she gave to the Academy of Television Arts and Sciences. Wonderful woman, and she's not afraid to look her age. (She looks good). But I get the sense that she's not interested in acting anymore. She's not fond of most current television. She would rather advocate for mental health. But there has to be one real good role out there for her, preferably in a motion picture. Something to give her a second Oscar.
Three ships will spend up to a year hunting for wreckage off Australia’s west coast. The recovery effort has been on hold for months while crews mapped out the 23,000-square mile search zone. The Boeing 777 — and all 239 people on board — vanished in March during a flight from Kuala Lumpur to Beijing. After a four-month hiatus, the hunt for Malaysia Airlines Flight 370 is about to resume in a desolate stretch of the Indian Ocean, with searchers lowering new equipment deep beneath the waves in a bid to finally solve one of the world's most perplexing aviation mysteries. The GO Phoenix, the first of three ships that will spend up to a year hunting for the wreckage far off Australia's west coast, is expected to arrive in the search zone Sunday, though weather could delay its progress. Crews will use sonar, video cameras and jet fuel sensors to scour the water for any trace of the Boeing 777, which disappeared March 8 during a flight from Kuala Lumpur to Beijing with 239 people on board. The search has been on hold for months so crews could map the seabed in the search zone, about 1,100 miles west of Australia. The 23,000-square mile search area lies along what is known as the "seventh arc" — a stretch of ocean where investigators believe the aircraft ran out of fuel and crashed, based largely on an analysis of transmissions between the plane and a satellite. Given that the hunt has already been peppered with false alarms — from underwater signals wrongly thought to be from the plane's black boxes to possible debris fields that turned out to be trash — officials are keen to temper expectations. "We're cautiously optimistic; cautious because of all the technical and other challenges we've got, but optimistic because we're confident in the analysis," said Martin Dolan, chief commissioner of the Australian Transport Safety Bureau, the agency leading the search. "But it's just a very big area that we're looking at." That area was largely unknown to scientists before the mapping process began in May. Two ships have been surveying the seabed using on-board multibeam sonar devices, similar to a fish-finder. The equipment sends out a series of signals that determine the shape and hardness of the terrain below, allowing officials to create three-dimensional maps of the seabed. The new search zone is a the 23,000-square mile area off the coast of Australia. Those maps are considered crucial to the search effort because the seafloor is riddled with deep crevasses, mountains and volcanoes, which could prove disastrous to the pricey, delicate search equipment that will be towed just 330 feet above the seabed. Two of the search ships will be using underwater search vessels worth around $1.5 million each. "You can imagine if you're towing a device close to the seafloor, you want to know if you're about to run into a mountain," said Stuart Minchin, chief of the environmental geoscience division at Geoscience Australia, which has been analyzing the mapping data. The terrain isn't the only challenge. The area is prone to brutal weather, and is so remote that it takes vessels up to six days to get there from Australia. Water depths are also tricky: They range from 2,000 feet to 4 miles. That's about the deepest the sonar equipment can go, Dolan said. "In all sorts of ways we're operating towards the limits of the technology that is available," Dolan said. With the mapping nearly complete, the GO Phoenix, provided by Malaysia's government, will begin hunting in an area considered the likeliest crash site, based on an analysis of satellite data gleaned from the plane's jet engine transmitter and a series of unanswered phone calls officials on the ground made to the plane.
Search for missing Malaysia Airlines Flight MH370 resumes after 4-month hiatus
Twitter meltdown over 'racist' comments from Guilianarexic. I'm betting Melissa wouldn't be a dream to work with, either. "Im giving everyone involved 24 hours to make it right or the world will hear how I really feel. contactually Im not allowed to speak!"
Kelly Osborne Wants Out of Fashion Police?
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They all end up in sex work. Why are they so horny?
Neill Blomkamp has confirmed Sigourney Weaver will reprise her role as Ripley in the forthcoming Alien film. The writer and director has been working with the Oscar-nominated actress on new sci-fi film Chappie, and said it inspired him to cast her again in his reboot of Ridley Scott’s Alien. In an interview with Entertainment Weekly he said: “[Wanting to do this Alien movie] did have to do with having Sigourney on Chappie. It’s just something that I’ve always wanted one day to be part of. “I talked to her about her experience making those films and what she thought about Ripley and everything else, it informed and changed the film I wanted to make into something different.” Biggest blockbusters to see in 2015 Blomkamp announced the reboot last week on Instagram, posting some visual concepts of his reimagined Alien world. The writer-director, whose past films include District 9 and Elysium, said he came up with the idea for the movie a few years ago and began writing the script without Fox knowing about it. “Fox never knew. I just worked on it when I could. Before I knew it, I had this really awesome film with a lot of artwork and a lot of backstory. And then I didn’t know whether I was going to make it or not. So I just kind of sat on it for a while.”
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Continue posting on the JonBenet Ramsey murder.
Anyone here in a long-term relationship with a heavy drinker? Don't want to leave because I love him. He's functional. Holds down a high paying job, doesn't drink and drive, etc. The problems is he doesn't see his drinking as a problem for anyone else. It seem as though our lives revolve around his drinking. Vacations have been ruined because he wants to drink all the time. Says it's his business and doesn't see how it effects me. Doesn't see how his behavior changes when he drinks. Trying to distance myelf emotionally from it, but depression over this is kicking my ass. How do others handle it?
Wtf is wrong with Ariana Grande?
Zendaya has forgiven Giuliana Rancic after she issued an apology earlier this week after commenting about her 2015 Oscars hairstyle. Here’s what the 18-year-old actress wrote on Instagram: [quote]Studies have shown that even though we try to act without prejudice, sometimes it’s just hidden inside us due to our past or surrounding. That hidden prejudice is often influential in our actions. it’s our job to spot these issues within others and ourselves and destroy them before they become hurtful. I have so many people looking up to me, that I couldn’t be scared, wait it out, nor could I just stand up for me; I had to do it for WE. It is in important in this journey, to remember that just because someone has inflicted hurt upon us, it does not give us the right to do the same. [quote]Body shaming and other hurtful tactics will never get the job done. As hard as it was to stop MYSELF from being ignorant and from posting the first mean words that came to my mind because I was hurt, I had to think about the bigger picture. Instead, I sat for two hours on my phone, doing my research and formulating an educated response. [quote]Giuliana, I appreciate your apology and I’m glad it was a learning experience for you and for the network. I hope thatothers negatively affected by her words can also find it in their hearts to accept her apology as well. From a quote we all know by Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., "Darkness cannot drive out darkness, only light can do that. Hate cannot drive out have; only love can do that.’ Let’s be that light and spread that love.” - All this because someone associated her fugly dreadlocks with patchouli and weed.
Does anyone know what really happened in the JonBenet Ramsey murder case? I've read some of the older books, newer ones have been written, any recommendations? Let me know if this thread already exists.
Handsome leading man Andy Garcia has disappeared.
Continued salute to part one and two and all the guys who aren't shy about showing their bods at the beach.
Why was this such a big deal in the Seventies? is the Judith Rossner novel worth reading? Why is the film not on DVD?
They're [italic]baaack![/italic] And joining them are previous winners, Dmitry (Season 10) and Michelle (Season 11). Your thoughts?
You with your pageboy, your opera glasses, your velvet cloak, your lorgnette, your high-button shoes, your pearls -- it's so five minutes ago, I don't even know how your wife puts up with it.
Time to start a new thread…
Per the Princeton Review:
20th Century Fox has closed a deal with director Neill Blomkamp to develop a new “Alien” movie, sources confirm. The untitled sci-fi project is separate from “Prometheus 2,” which Fox is still making with Ridley Scott.
February 22, 2015 ● by Dan Avery Put Gaga in Funny Girl! Put Gaga in Gypsy! Put Gaga in Hedwig! Viewers of the 2015 Academy Awards were left speechless by Lady Gaga, whose performance of a medley from The Sound of Music honored the film’s 50th anniversary and had us all choked up. Us and Julie Andrews, who hugged and thanked Gaga for the beautiful performance and introduced the nominees for Best Score. If this angelic performance and her duets album with Tony Bennett is a sign of Gaga’s latest incarnation, we’re all for it.
Lada Gaga Owns Every Damn Thing Singing “Sound Of Music” Medley At The Oscars
The "blind date" season. Could be interesting..
Any gossip?
We ALL fart, all the time. All 7 billion of us. Why do we only rarely smell or hear them?
Well, I don't know what we did to cause Chapter Two of this thread to not open. Mr. Webmaster??? Anyway... I enjoyed that thread and I do not want to derail it at all. So, until Two reopens, if at all, let's proceed to three! It would happen anyway. Mr. Originator of that thread would you please the requirements of this thread. Thank you. Reminder: Some images are NSFW and please note--Like this first one: NSFW!
Men Showing Affection To Each Other - Chapter Three...
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until 8:30 this morning. I caught it as soon as I woke up, and instantly erased it, but I'm horrified it was up there. Should I make a joke about it, or just never refer to it again, or say security had been compromised, or what? I am incredibly mortified.
Let's post pictures of amazing balls... goose-eggs, low-hangers, or just plain amazing sacks. Whatever, as long as the focus is on the balls!
Another cast, another season. Cast revealed (at link).
Anyone know the date? Why is this a secret? It seems like I will find the nuclear code before I find out the premier of Season 7
Monroe gets raped.
The first trailer is out, and Ru looks damn good with that hair.
Supposedly kate Middleton;s mother horrified the royal family by chewing gum in their presence and using the terms "toilet" and "pardon."\ \ I understand why chewing gum would be a problem, and even the word "toilet"; but "pardon"? I don''t understand why that''s non-U. What do you say instead?
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Top, bottom? Did he ever have a black boyfriend? How bad are his issues?
So is he taking a leave of absence too?
At 57!
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Rosie O'Donnell's marriage is beyond saving. Calling her relationship with wife Michelle Rounds "irretrievably broken," the entertainer submitted divorce papers Friday in a Manhattan court, Yahoo has confirmed. The divorce will not be contested, indicating O'Donnell and Rounds will abide by their prenup and work out an amicable settlement. News of the filing was first reported by People. There was no immediate comment from either side, but today's announcement was hardly a surprise. Just three weeks ago, O'Donnell, 52, cited the demise of her relationship as one of the reasons she was quitting The View.
BREAKING: Rosie O'Donnell and Michelle Rounds file for divorce...
Openly gay, experimental filmmaker Todd Haynes burst upon the scene two years after his graduation from Brown University with his now-infamous 43-minute cult treasure "Superstar: The Karen Carpenter Story" (1987). Seizing upon the inspired gimmick of using Barbie and Ken dolls to sympathetically recount the story of the pop star's death from anorexia, he spent months making miniature dishes, chairs, costumes, Kleenex and Ex-Lax boxes, and Carpenters' records to create the film's intricate, doll-size mise-en-scene. The result was both audacious and accomplished as the dolls seemingly ceased to be dolls leaving the audience weeping for the tragic singer.
Tell us what you buy at the dollar store. Help your DL family to save money!
Returns 01/29. I wanna see Viola-sours. I wanna see Connor's feets. I wanna see Bonnie drop a few.
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but weeks like this make me think winter is here forever. Going to be -40c tonight and tomorrow with 10-15cm of snow on Sunday and then another 10cm on Tuesday. I'm at my breaking point.
The 30-year-old has served two tours in Afghanistan but has decided to spend "a significant period abroad" and pursue his interests in "conservation and wildlife." That--and he doesn't want to get beheaded. Video:
Obviously, Eddie Reymanye, Who else? Any nationalities.
Yas, the new season starts next week. I can't wait! Too bad Kelly Price left the show. She brought so much fuckery to season one that her drama will be deeply missed. But we still got Lil' Mo on the show, the breakout star, so it should be a good season.
Mo'nique claims that she now knows why the offers didn't start flooding in after her big Oscar win in 2010. The former star of The Parkers, who won the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress for her role as the title character's abusive, domineering mother in Precious, writes in an essay in the Feb. 27 issue of The Hollywood Reporter that director-producer Lee Daniels clued her in just a few months ago. Noting that an Oscar win "normally does" lead to "more respect, choices, money" in the business, Mo'Nique writes, "But I got a phone call from Lee Daniels...And he said to me, 'Mo'Nique, you've been blackballed.' I said, 'Why?' And he said, 'Because you didn't play the game.'" After steamrolling the competition throughout the 2009-10 awards season, Mo'Nique famously didn't campaign for her Oscar, going on to say in her acceptance speech that she was grateful to the Academy "for showing that it can be about the performance and not the politics." "I said, 'Well, what game is that?'" her THR piece continues. "He gave me no response." People who would say that she's "difficult," "tactless" or "tacky" would "probably be right," the actress writes. "That's why I have my beautiful husband because he's so full of tact. I'm just a girl from Baltimore. But being from that place, you learn not to let anybody take advantage of you." Since co-starring in Precious with Gabourey Sidibe, Lenny Kravitz and an unrecognizable Mariah Carey, the 47-year-old actress only has a few credits to her name, none of them major theatrical releases. Mo'Nique also writes that she was offered the role of Forest Whitaker's wife in Lee Daniels' The Butler, a part that ultimately went to Oprah Winfrey; a role in the Daniels-produced Fox hit Empire; and the role of Richard Pryor's grandmother [also now set to be played by Oprah] in the upcoming biopic Daniels is working on—but, she adds, "they all just went away." In response to Mo'Nique, Daniels said in a statement to THR: "Mo'Nique is a creative force to be reckoned with. Her demands through Precious were not always in line with the campaign. This soured her relationship with the Hollywood community. I consider her a friend. I have and will always think of her for parts that we can collaborate on, however the consensus among the creative teams and powers thus far were to go another way with these roles."
...to assert more government authority over the Internet and provide equal opportunity for Internet speeds. YAY!
BREAKING: FCC Approves "Net Neutrality" Rules!
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Also list where you live. Just trying to do a comparison.
It's a chilly day off for me. I did tons of errands this morning and was so pleased to find a two-hour block of "Bewitched" when I got home. I haven't seen it in years. It really is a great sitcom. What were your favorite episodes or aspects of the show? Apparently,according to my mother, when I was four or five I used to run around the house yelling, "Doctor Bombay! Come right away!" whenever the re-runs were on. One of my best friends told me that he would actually take out a broom from the kitchen closet and "ride" it around the living room during the opening credits. A "dialing the phone with a pencil" moment, I would say.
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Alright ladies, place your bets. Will Zsa-Zsa buy the farm or will we find out that she died years ago?
The old hag needs to take the hint.
**BREAKING NEWS** Madonna Just Took A Spill During Her Brit Awards Performance!
I use this stuff to make ham or turkey salad from leftover holiday meals. Very tasty. Tangy. Unique. My friends out West have never heard of it.
continue with the discussion...
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I'm thinking most of them would not have aged this well.
If I ran away, I'd never have the strength to go very far...
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My company would pay two-thirds of my salary until retirement age for long term disability. A friend recently told me that disability income is not taxable. I'm wondering if this is really true. Anyone know? TIA
Would anyone be surprised by this news?
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Continue talking about Kevin, Aaron, HOlivia, and everyone else
Brian Wilson. But why does John Cusack play the older Brian?
Paul Dano gets the role of a lifetime
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An aggressive owl is terrorizing the residents of a small Dutch town with a campaign of seemingly random attacks. The bird has been swooping from the sky without warning and gouging the flesh of the townsfolk using its sharp talons. “It was like having a brick laced with nails thrown at your head,” one victim, Niels Verkooijen, told the Dutch news program Hart van Nederland. The attacks are taking place in the town of Purmerend, which lies about 12 miles north of the Dutch capital Amsterdam. The vicious bird has become a media sensation in the Netherlands, where it has been dubbed the “terreuruil” or “terror owl”. The town’s authorities are advising residents to carry umbrellas if they leave their homes at night in order to fend off assaults by the bird. The town has applied for a permit to catch the owl, which is a protected species – a wild eagle owl. The Press Association news agency reports that authorities suspect the owl was once kept in captivity because eagle owls are not normally aggressive. The bird has attacked a number of residents from an assisted living complex at the town for people with disabilities. A spokesperson for the Prinsenstichting centre said the owl had attacked 20 residents there in recent weeks, with some requiring stitches.
Shades of Bodega Bay: Vengeful owl has it in for residents of Dutch town
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Getting back on the path to your natural heterosexuality.
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Is this the shake for lunch and a sensible dinner one? Or is this the points one?
Is he a girlyman?
6'5" Jared Padalecki needs bodyguard to go shopping in NY???
...and I don't see a thread. Now the queens who endless read every single thread can correct me and tell me it has already been done.
Starting from the first season. Saw some of it when it aired, but college was rough, so I missed a bit. Are there any shows like this on air today?
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It's not working out.
Which one would you sex?
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I guess I'm late to the party. I'd always heard good things about this show, and I like Elmore Leonard, so this week I sat down and watched the entire first season on Amazon Prime streaming. I must say I enjoyed it. It was not at all what I expected, however. I thought it would be all about catching moonshiners in the woods, but there was hardly anything about that-- and one episode was even set in California. I find it odd that they based it on a short story--did the story just provide the basic characters? It took me a while to figure out the Crowders, since so many of them had similar names: Bo, Bowman, Boyd. I'm ready for Seasons 2, 3, and 4. What am I in for? (No spoilers, please!)
Starts tonight on FX. Be sure to be there. It's your duty. Your country needs you. We Soviets must win this war.
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Former Florida Gov. Jeb Bush (R) said Sunday he's disappointed by a court's recent decision to allow marriage equality in the state. "It ought be a local decision. I mean, a state decision," Bush told the Miami Herald. "The state decided. The people of the state decided. But it’s been overturned by the courts, I guess." Right on, Jeb. You're a friggin profile in courage.
Do you want unisex bathrooms? Then get involved!
I am furious with my partner. I am going to confront him tonight and I don't want to become a raving nut about this situation. How should I keep my cool? Dinner with someone from work should not last until 1am in my opinion, which is what happened so he said, last night. I think I am being played.
(Heaven forfend!) how many straight men would start doing the man-up-in-the-man?
Weeks before the Oscars were handed out Sunday, studios were already taking meetings with awards consultants for next year’s best picture contenders. What movies might we be hearing about again (and again ... and again) later this year? An early stab at a top 10, in alphabetical order: “Brooklyn,” (Fox Searchlight, release TBA): Searchlight paid $9 million at Sundance for this exquisite immigrant love story — and that might end up being a bargain price. Set in 1950s New York, it follows a homesick Irish woman (Saoirse Ronan) struggling to adapt to her new life until she meets a sweet Italian plumber (Emory Cohen). It’s beautifully crafted, emotionally turbulent and sports a superb lead turn by the 20-year-old Ronan, making good on the promise she first showed in “Atonement.” “Carol,” (The Weinstein Co., fall): The latest from Todd Haynes (“Far from Heaven”), a drama about a married woman (Cate Blanchett) embarking on a lesbian romance with a younger woman (Rooney Mara) in the early 1950s, will likely premiere at Cannes this May. “Demolition,” (Fox Searchlight, fall): Director Jean-Marc Vallee (“Dallas Buyers Club,” “Wild”) knows how to win Oscar nominations for his actors, which might mean Jake Gyllenhaal will finally get his due for this drama about an investment banker widower whose world is changed when he meets a single mother (Naomi Watts). “In the Heart of the Sea,” (Warner Bros., Dec. 11): Ron Howard’s historical thriller about the 1820 sinking of the whaleship Essex was moved to a prime awards release date after being initially slated for March. The studio has a strong history of turning quality commercial movies (“Argo,” “American Sniper”) into Oscar contenders. “Joy,” (20th Century Fox, Christmas): David O. Russell. Jennifer Lawrence. They’ve been to the dance together twice before (“Silver Linings Playbook,” “American Hustle”), so why doubt this biographical dramedy about the Long Island single mom who invented the Miracle Mop? “Money Monster,” (TriStar, TBA): George Clooney plays a self-serving TV stock huckster (paging Jim Cramer!) taken hostage by a gunman on air and forced to come clean. Jodie Foster directs; Julia Roberts costars. Expect Clooney to have plenty of fun promoting this one. “The Revenant,” (20th Century Fox, Christmas): In between stocking his mantle with awards, “Birdman” director-producer-writer Alejandro G. Inarritu spent the past few months shooting this revenge-themed western about a frontiersman (Leonardo DiCaprio) mauled by a bear and left
Oscars 2016: It's not too early to consider the next best picture race
Did it help his career after starring in a movie that is a record box office hit? People know his name now, so he should be starring in better films.
I just heard this on TV. Can you name 3 movies she's been in and 3 songs of hers- in under 10 seconds? Go.
The poor thing posed for her mugshot.
I used to love her. She seemed witty, down to earth and enormously talented. Now she's just a smarmy, self absorbed asshole (see any of her acceptance speeches for the past 4 years). Plus, she's dating a man who legally changed his last name to RockNRoll. I'm just so over her at this point.
What happened to her career?
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Senator Rand Paul, of Kentucky, seems to have no problem contradicting himself. The self-proclaimed "constitutional conservative" is typically lost in libertarian thought leading him to make inflammatory sexist, racist and overbearingly hypocritical comments on nearly every issue he faces. Whether he's attempting to police women's bodies, ignoring police brutality for stingy tobacco taxes, or speaking out against vaccines and posting himself receiving booster shots only days later, Ron Paul's son is one politician you can unabashedly hate or enjoy laughing at. (see link)
21 Rand Paul Quotes That Expose What a Con Job Libertarianism Is
Mine would be that friendships will mean more than love. Make friends and other good things in life will follow. Also stop being so passive when it comes to looking for love. You're acting like a spiderweb waiting for people to come to you. Don't be afraid to be the first one to say hello.
I've been seeing a guy for nine months now and suspect he may be sleeping with other guys. In some ways he's a wonderful boyfriend. He's out and very demonstrative in public. My friends have all met him but he has not introduced me to any of his friends. We go out about two or three times a week but sometimes he inexplicably cancels on me last minute. He only wants to have sex about once a week which seems deranged we used to go at it daily. There are times when I can't reach him for a day or two he doesn't even respond to texts. I outright told him that we could mess around with other people in the beginning as long as we were open about it. My ex and I had an open relationship so I don't mind. What really pisses me off is the thought that he's fucking around while I'm being faithful and not getting any! I've missed out on a lot of hot cock because of him. Should I just start fucking around?
The old thread was full. So be nice and have fun!
He's 78 and look at this recent picture with Clint Eastwood. Yikes.
A few months ago, work hired a new guy. He's so fucking annoying-- constantly chatting me up when I'm trying to work. He's also overly macho-- good looking and straight but yuck. Recently he showed me some pictures of him and his friends at the beach. He has such a hot body (which I can't really tell with what he wears daily). Suddenly I'm attracted to him. WTF-- I hate him but want him to fuck me
Moscow (CNN)Russian opposition leader Boris Nemtsov was killed Friday night, shot several times from a car on a bridge he was walking across, the Investigative Committee of the Russian Federation said in a statement Saturday. He was deputy prime minister in the late 1990s under President Boris Yeltsin and had been one of current President Vladimir Putin's most vocal critics. Putin condemned the killing of Nemtsov, Russian state broadcaster, Russia Today, said early Saturday. "The Russian President expresses deep condolences to the near and dear of Boris Nemtsov who died tragically," a spokesman for Putin told Russian state news agency Itar-Tass. Putin ordered three agencies to put together a task force to investigate the killing, Itar-Tass reported. A criminal case has been opened for murder and weapons trafficking, the investigative committee said. The bridge was not far from the Kremlin in a part of the city normally busy on a Friday night. Police were pulling over white cars near the scene of the shooting, a CNN crew observed. Nemtsov's death comes two days before a large opposition rally is set to take place in Moscow. Nemtsov, who was in his mid-50s, had been arrested several times in the past for speaking out against the Kremlin. The most recent came in 2011 when he protested the results of parliamentary elections and in 2012 when tens of thousands protested against Putin. In a restaurant interview with CNN's Anthony Bourdain last year he lamented the situation for business owners. "This is a country of corruption. And if you have business, you are in a very unsafe situation. Everybody can press you and destroy your business. That's it," Nemtsov said. In the same interview, he did offer a bit of optimism. "This is my country. The Russian people are in bit of trouble. Russian court doesn't work. Russian education decline every year. I believe that Russia has a chance to be free. Has a chance. It's difficult, but we must do it," he said. Another one of Nemtsov's criticisms was over the 2014 Winter Olympics held in Sochi. Nemtsov published a report in 2013 describing the Sochi games as one of the most "outrageous swindles" in recent Russian history. He claimed that up to 60% of the final cost -- or $30 billion -- had been embezzled. Peter Baker, the author of "Kremlin Rising" and a New York Times reporter, told CNN that Nemtsov used to be powerful but had been marginalized since Putin was elected. "He was a person who had been fierce in his criticism of Putin. He'd clearly gotten under Putin's skin on a number of occasions. A number of people had become his enemies," Baker said Ukrainian President Petro Poroshenko said Saturday "it is hard to believe" that Nemtsov was killed. "I have no doubt that the murderers will be brought to justice. Sooner or later. Rest in peace," Poroshenko said via Twitter.
Why is there not more talk of Dom from "Looking" here on DL? The man is scorchingly hot!
Police in Massachusetts have charged an 18-year-old honor student with involuntary manslaughter for her alleged role in the death of classmate Conrad Roy, 18, who took his own life last July. According to prosecutors, Michelle Carter of Plainville, Massachusetts "strongly influenced" Roy's decision to kill himself, privately advocating he poison himself with carbon monoxide while publicly expressing concern about the missing teen's whereabouts and safety. From The Boston Globe: After writing one friend to say, "I'm losing all hope that he's even alive," Carter texted Roy, "Let me know when you're gonna do it," according to a police report. Carter, now a senior at King Philip High School, had a "full understanding" of the suicide plan, and in the days leading up to Roy's death "not only encouraged Conrad to take his own life, she questioned him repeatedly as to when and why he hadn't done it yet," the report said.
All I ever hear is everyone hates them. Press is obsessed and are featured daily. Well, apparently now they will never go away.
Add Jeremy Renner to the rash of holiday season break-ups -- his wife wants out of their marriage after just 10 months. According to docs filed earlier this month, Renner's wife Sonni Pacheco is seeking the split over irreconcilable differences -- but get this ... she's demanding he return her stolen passport, birth certificate and SS card. The couple just copped to their secret marriage back in September ... and every indication is the break-up will be nasty. In her divorce docs ... Pacheco says they have a prenup, but adds it should be torn up because it was based on fraud. There's no further detail about what she means by "fraud." Pacheco wants the moon ... she's asking for spousal support and physical custody of their 1-year-old daughter, Ava Berlin. She's also looking to use the Range Rover until the smoke clears, and for Renner to pony up her rent and moving expenses.
Say it isn't so, Jeremy! Fraud? Not again.
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At least receiving. Although I enjoy it, I can never get 'clean down there'. Always fudgy. I just can't see leaving the bed to repair to the bathroom for a dump, then a douche, then a shower. Then possible leakage. The sound of me blasting shart into the commode has to be a passion-killer.
Has there ever been a gay jewelry ad - e.g., for a same-sex couple''s wedding bands? I envision something very beautiful.
I will. I'm so sick of being nice to people because they could affect my life somehow
It should only be held by the stem, save those tumbler glasses that give you no option. Anything else is too tacky to be tolerated.
Somebody make this fucktard go away already!!!! Duck Dynasty star Phil Robertson told a CPAC crowd on Thursday that the U.S.A. should be run by Christians, and not any others — adding omniously that “we got too many ‘any others’ in the White House.” Robertson marked his receiving the Defender of the First Amendment award with a long speech that covered everything from George Washington to genital herpes. After a fawning twenty-minute introduction from the heads of Breitbart and Citizens United — who jointly presented the award for Robertson’s firm stance after his controversial comments on gay marriage nearly got his show canceled — Robertson delivered a rambling 40-minute address that nearly derailed CPAC’s tightly scheduled political pageantry. In his speech, Robertson used George Washington and James Madison to argue that CPAC attendees shouldn’t be drinking. He also marveled that 110 million Americans have sexually transmitted diseases, calling genital herpes the “revenge of the hippies!” and noting that neither the Nazis, Communists or Islamists had “any Jesus with them.” The Duck Commander, however, seemed to avoid discussion of homosexuality, the topic that originally brought him to political prominence.
Phil Robertson: There Are Too Many Non-Christians in the White House
Well, that was a great opening! Glad to have Ollie, Felicity, Roy, and Diggle back!
[quote] Start a thread series [?] on Jack [F]alahee please. He is in [G]lass [C]loset and is a part of [the show,] [How to Get Away with Murder]. I was shocked to see no thread on him while umpteen are [about] [C]olto[n] [H]ayes. Yikes. [Here's a gif from] his [I]nstagram link:
Removed from ventilator, Bobbi Kristina Brown's condition unchanged: source Thu Feb 19, 2015 3:05pm EST (Reuters) - Doctors have taken Bobbi Kristina Brown, daughter of late singer Whitney Houston, off the ventilator that has helped her breathe since she was found unresponsive in a bathtub last month, but no decisions have been made to take her off life support, a family source said on Thursday. The source, who declined to be identified, said Brown's overall condition has not changed. Removing the breathing tube was a standard course of practice to avoid infection, the source said. Family members have said Brown, 21, the only child of singers Bobby Brown and Houston, is fighting for her life at Emory University Hospital in Atlanta after she was discovered on Jan. 31 face down and unresponsive in a bathtub in her suburban home. They have said little about the aspiring singer's treatment or medical prognosis, and Bobby Brown has asked for privacy. Police in Roswell, Georgia, are treating the case as a criminal investigation and have been questioning people about the circumstances leading up to Brown being found in the tub. Brown's famous mother, a six-time Grammy Award winner and actress who battled substance abuse, drowned in a hotel bathtub in Beverly Hills, California, on Feb. 11, 2012. Authorities said cocaine use and heart disease contributed to Houston's death at age 48.
Removed from ventilator, Bobbi Kristina Brown's condition unchanged: source
Do you think that Lorna Luft thought that she would become a star from this or was she just looking for some chump change? Also, can Grease 2 be considered a camp classic? I, myself, think it's pretty campy. (See the 1:24 mark of the linked video for Lorna's part of a duet with Adrian Zmed.)
It's 2016, and Hollywood has just announced that more movies will feature full frontal nudity by male actors. BRING ON THE DONGS. So what movie will you pitch to The Powers That Be, and who will you cast in it?
Cookie slays, Andre cray cray and Boo Boo Kitty is trying to stay! Discuss the last few episodes of season 1 up in here!
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My friend is a natural businessman. He's not afraid of money and talking about it. He knows the value of money and how things should be priced. Most importantly, he knows that the majority of people ARE fearful of discussing money. He easily takes advantage of that, as do so many businessmen. What's not so great is to talk with someone for whom money trumps everything. Every conversation has money in it. My advice to those making major purchases is that everything is negotiable. Also, if you feel uncomfortable about any part of the purchase, don't pretend you completely understand everything. Stop and make the salesman slow down and explain properly. Finally, the salesman is not your friend. Stop feeling the salesman will think less of you if don't do everything he says.
I was just thinking that RHOA and RHOBH are about to end, and this was the first time Bravo would have no Real Housewives airing, as RHONJ is on hold, and RHOC and RHONY are not ready to air. Until I read that Housewives of Melbourne has been given a primetime slot on Bravo in early March. Season 2!!! In my opinion, this may be the best of them all. So keeeep your Chinese Whisp-aaas to yourselves!
Real Housewives of Melbourne! Holy fuck.
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I'm one of the gays that also love watching straight pron because of the guys. Seeing the other thread about straight pron stars, I thought I'd start one with the link to who is considered the hottest by this particular website. I would add James Dean and Seth Gamble to the list. Some of the ones listed have also done gay pron . . . for instance the ever-hot Wolf Hudson. Pics from the thread are not naked but may not be safe for work either. Enjoy!
Anyone watching this mess? Sample quote: "There is nothing more gay than Ryan Reynolds"
I'd say this one qualifies by any standard.
So people just leave loaded guns laying around for toddlers to get?
Watch what happens in this thread, and why does he like Anthony Recker?
The show is a Saturday morning thing and every week, he rescues an adorable dog and trains it so it can have its new forever home. Brandon is HOT. I would sit, stay, heel, roll over and fetch for this hot fucker any day! Hell, I might even let him put a leash on me. (Well, no, but he's fucking hot.)
Is there a better website out there covering gay men in media? AfterElton has so deviated from their initial focus and philosphy that it''s become pure crap.
Anyone else watching? Please, UK DLers DO NOT SPOIL THE ENDING FOR US!
Can she get any more obnoxious?
The fat cats in Washington D.C. are living the high life, and they are doing it at your expense. Over the past decade, there has been one area of the country which has experienced a massive economic boom. Thanks to wildly out of control government spending, the Washington D.C. region is absolutely swimming in cash. In fact, at this point the state of Maryland has the most millionaires per capita in the entire nation and it isn’t even close. If you have never lived there, it is hard to describe what the D.C. area is like. Every weekday morning, hordes of lawyers, lobbyists and government bureaucrats descend upon D.C. from the surrounding suburbs. And at the end of the day, the process goes in reverse. Everyone is just trying to get their piece of the pie, and it is a pie that just keeps on growing as government salaries, government contracts and government giveaways just get larger and larger. Of course our founders never intended for this to happen. They wanted a very small and simple federal government. Sadly, today we have the most bloated central government in the history of the planet and it gets worse with each passing year. If you were to ask most Americans, they would tell you that the wealthiest Americans probably live in cities such as New York or San Francisco. But thanks to the Obama administration (and before that the Bush and Clinton administrations), the state of Maryland is packed with millionaires. In particular, the Maryland suburbs immediately surrounding D.C. are absolutely overflowing with government fat cats that make a living at our expense. Every weekday morning, huge numbers of them leave their mini-mansions in places such as Potomac and Rockville and drive their luxury vehicles to work in the city. As the Washington Post has detailed, at this point approximately 8 percent of all households in the entire state of Maryland contain millionaires, and the rest of the area is not doing too shabby either… In Maryland, nearly 8 out of every 100 households in 2014 had assets topping $1 million, giving the state more millionaires per capita than any other in the country, according to a new report from Phoenix Marketing International. The rest of the Beltway isn’t lacking in millionaires either: The District and Virginia ranked in the top 10 among those with the highest number of millionaire households per capita in 2014. In Virginia, which was No. 6 on the list, 6.76 percent of the state’s 3.17 million households are millionaires. And in the District, which rounds out the top 10, 6.25 percent of its more than 292,000 households are millionaires. And while not too many of them are millionaires, your average federal workers that toil in D.C. are doing quite well too. Once upon a time, it was considered to be a “sacrifice” to go into “government service”. Not anymore. If you can believe it, approximately 17,000 federal employees made more than $200,000 last year. Overall, compensation for federal employees comes to a grand total of close to half a trillion dollars every 12 months. In fact, there are tens of thousands of federal employees that make more than the governors of their own states do. Does that seem right to you? If you want to live “the American Dream” these days, the Washington area is the place to go. Just check out the following description of the region from the Washington Post… Washingtonians now enjoy the highest median household income of any metropolitan area in the country, and five of the top 10 jurisdictions in America — Loudoun, Howard and Fairfax counties, and Falls Church and Fairfax City — are here, census data shows. The signs of that wealth are on display all over, from the string of luxury boutiques such as Gucci and Tory Burch opening at Tysons Galleria to the $15 cocktails served over artisanal ice at the W Hotel in the District to the ever-larger houses rising off River Road in Potomac. (Cont inside)
Oh well! If it works for Bill...
Alan Dershowitz tried to discredit girl who accused Jeffrey Epstein of rape
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Thanks to this fucked up, entitled lesbian for giving the Pat Robertson's of this world more ammunition. Can you imagine a gay man saying this shit and getting away with it? I live in the liberal bubble of Park Slope, Brooklyn, where no yuppie would ever admit to wanting their kid to be anything in particular, other than happy. But more often than not, we define happiness as some variation on our own lives, or at least the lives of our expectations. If we went to college, we want our kids to go to college. If we like sports, we want our kids to like sports. If we vote Democrat, of course we want our kids to vote Democrat. I’m gay. And I want my kid to be gay, too. Many of my straight friends, even the most liberal, see this logic as warped. It’s one thing for them to admit that they would prefer their kids to be straight, something they’ll only begrudgingly confess. But wanting my daughter to be a lesbian? I might as well say I want her to grow up to be lactose intolerant. “Don’t you want her to be happy?” one friend asked. Perhaps he just meant that it’s easier to be straight in a homophobic culture. But this attitude complies with, even reinforces, that culture in the first place. A less-charitable interpretation is that he thinks being straight is superior. When I was a teenager, my father cautioned me against marrying a black person. “I’m just trying to protect you,” he said. But it was impossible to know whether he meant to insulate me from the world’s bias or implicitly rationalize his own. The idea that no one would choose to be gay is widely held — even in the gay rights movement. In the early ’90s, partly as a response to the destructive notion that gay people could be changed, activists pressed the idea of sexuality as a fixed, innate state. Scientists even tried to prove that there’s a “gay gene.” These concepts about sexual orientation helped justify the case for legal protections. The idea that folks are “born gay” became not only the theme of a Lady Gaga song, but the implicit rationale for gay rights. “I wouldn’t even choose for myself to be gay,” a friend once told me. It was a sad admission, because she was. Once upon a time, of course, “gay” meant “happy.” But eventually, the synonyms grew apart. Gay became an unfortunate, even pitiable status. When the gay liberation activist Franklin Kameny launched a simple effort in 1968 to proclaim that “gay is good,” it was because, at the time, it very much wasn’t. Until 1973, the American Psychological Association considered homosexuality a form of mental illness. And while gay-positive culture has flourished since, our aspirations haven’t kept pace. It’s more widely acceptable to be gay in America today, but that’s not the same as being desirable. In my house, though, it is. Here you might expect me to say something about how, if my daughter were gay, she would undoubtedly face challenges and hurdles she wouldn’t encounter if she were straight. Maybe. And maybe if I weren’t an upper-middle-class white lesbian living in a liberal city, I’d have such worries. But no matter what, I’d want my child to be herself. If I lived in, say, North Carolina, with an adopted son from Morocco, I’d like to think I would encourage him to be Muslim, if that’s what he chose. I’d do this even though his life would probably be easier if he didn’t. It’s also easier to succeed as a dentist than an artist. But if my daughter wants to be an artist, I’ll encourage her all the way — and work to destroy any barriers along her path, not put them up myself. Plus, I’ve never for a single second regretted being gay, nor saw it as anything other than an asset and a gift. My parents were ridiculously supportive from Day One, and I had a great community of friends and mentors who made me feel unconditionally accepted. By the time my daughter comes of age, she’ll have even more of a support network, including two moms, for crying out loud."
Netflix just added the full series (a bit odd since it actually hasn't finished airing). Is it any good? Reviews on IMDB seem to be good, but it looks very British.
If Bush runs for president, some of his closest aides will be individuals who support legalizing same-sex marriage. The hires led to chatter among Republicans that Bush could be positioned as "the gay-friendly Republican in the 2016 field." Bush, however, rejected that characterization Friday at the Conservative Political Action Conference during his conversation with Fox News host Sean Hannity. "No. I believe in traditional marriage," said Bush when Hannity asked him whether he's changing his position on the issue.
Have any of you attempted the 90 day No Fap Challenge? Is it worth it?
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I am way late to the game on this one. I am going to be vague as I do not want to spoil the show for anyone... I am into the 8th episode of the 2nd season.. Random observations Has Robin Wright ever been better? She is amazing. The best written character on the show. What strikes me the most is what she doesn't say. The character says very little in a sense. It is what that is left unsaid that what makes her so enticing to watch. The first season was SO MUCH better than this 2nd season. My favorite angle was the balance of the journalists and the politicians. After what happened with Zoey and then her journalist boyfriend, it appears this angle is done? Peter Russo is by far my favorite male character. What a brilliant job this guy did... The thing about this show that really pissed me off is that it tricked me. Once Francis did what he did to Peter, the show veered into pure soap opera. Then the first episode of the 2nd season with Zoey? It was brilliant and shocking, but pure soap opera.. I had no idea until late in the first season what a loon Kevin Spacey's character is. The show is almost campy.. still enjoyable, but its basically trashy fun.
The previous thread "Most annoying NPR voice" reached 600 in May 2013. When it began in May 2010, Eleanor Beardsley got the most slams. Then Zoe Chace was hired by Planet Money. There were some really funny posts about the queen of vocal fry.
How does it work and what makes it so different from a regular cell phone line?
I just believe it!
In 1968, a young girl wrote to Fave magazine about her difficulty fitting in as a mixed-race teen. Spock, aka Leonard Nimoy, was so taken by her letter that he wrote back a detailed response on how to shake the haters off.
Spock Gives Teenage Girl Advice About Bullies; Entire Internet Has A Cry
The new scripted drama premieres tonight. From the creator of "The Tudors" and starring former CK underwear model Travis Fimmel and Gabriel Byrne. I'm going to give it a shot...early reviews are encouraging, and I'm guessing many of the male characters will be hot, in an uncivilized, possibly murderous yet emotionally conflicted way. Kind of like some of the guys I've known from real life. I want to see wanton pillaging and bedroom intrigue.
When's the wedding?
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I saw the blue and black dress. He saw the white and gold dress. We're no longer compatible. We are going to divide stuff up tomorrow. Sad.
What''s up with them? Are they self-hating? Self defeating? Drama Queens?\ \ Have you ever tried to tell a female friend that you think her boyfriend or finance may be gay?\ \ Inspired by the Terry McMillan thread.
"I was getting divorced and getting sober and I had a mustache--and people's heads exploded!"
Cheyenne Jackson says he was NOT having an early midlife crisis
Been doing some online reading about meth -- a family member is currently in rehab for meth addiction. Trust me, I have no plans to now or ever try it (meth, sex on meth, or any of it), but I''m struck by the number of references to sex while high.%0D\ %0D\ I know some of you guys have done it, so is it really that much better? Or at least, that much better for a while? Does your body just become focused on the physical sensations, or what? Orgasms more intense? What?
Show canceled. What took so long? [quote]In addition to canceling Joy Reid‘s daytime show The Reid Report, which MSNBC sources confirmed to Mediaite earlier today, the network is also canceling Ronan Farrow’s show and moving Way Too Early’s Thomas Roberts back to a dayside role, anchoring a straight news show from 1-3 p.m. ET daily.
bitch didn't report her gifts!
more trouble for pocket gay congressman aaron schock!
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The 2015 season officially starts now! What do you ball kids want to see happen this year? Me: 1) Lesbian coaches Martina Navratilova and Amelie Mauresmo lead their respective pupils, Agnieszka Radwanska and Andy Murray, to slam glory. 2) Someone hires Chris Evert as a coach so she can stop commentating. 3) ATP sex tape, gay hooker, or PED scandal. That's all.
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By request. The season is about to start. Actual game discussion would be welcome too.
The old thread is full, so we start anew!
Read an anonymous comment online that claimed material whitewashed from the internet can be retrieved. True or false?
My favorite is Poirot
A lot of DL people think he was too "girly"? But there are so many hot videos that are instant hardons . . .
Seriously, I just watched the recent update with him. No passion, no chemistry. He started off bad, then improved as videos went on, but recently he has not even been bothering. He is clearly just going through the motions for a paycheck. Can we quit pretending like he is hot shit?
I want to go to St. Petersburg, Russia, but I'm a little afraid. As a tourist. I don't have anyone to go with, so I'd be on my own. My friends have no money. I have no interest in hooking up there. I just want to see the art, architecture, history via the a & a, culture, such as it is. I've been to London, Paris, Berlin, elsewhere alone, but worry I'll be in a place where there is no English spoken. Suggestions? Aside from "Grow a pair". How long is enough?
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Have you ever had sex with a coworker? Was it at work? Please regale us with your tales.
I'm 25y.o. with no debt. I have 50,000 to invest long term. As in I don't need it until retirement. And I hope to add 20,000 each year to my retirement. I just started a job with and IRA, so, I'm contributing to that too. I have no experience investing, and come from a family with no experience. I've been looking around the Vanguard/Fidelity sites over the past couple of months and keep coming back to Bond Mutual Funds. Does that sound right? Andy advice would be welcome.
It's on YouTube in HD! and it won't be there for long...so have a gander NOW!
I feel like she's supposed to be famous, but all I know about her is that she sleeps with a lot of guys.
What a mess. She's confronting her family on perceived slights from the past. Her family says she's a pathological liar.
Let's get to the bottom of this, who is the sexier brother between Chris and Liam Hemsworth . Attached are the most recent pictures of them side by side at the "Thor: The Dark World" movie premiere the other day. Who do you think looks better?
A private Christian college in South Carolina, after two gay athletes came out in the media, has very publicly banned homosexuality, and issued a threatening statement. Last year volleyball players Drew Davis and Juan Varona, both openly gay at Erskine, a rural South Carolina private Christian college founded in 1839, were featured in a very intimate Outsports article. The piece detailed how Davis was inadvertently outed by his ex-boyfriend, how his father disowned him and his mother told him he'd be unemployed for the rest of his life, and how he attempted suicide. It also told of the strong support Davis and Varona have received from their fellow teammates. This year, under the leadership of Dr. Paul Kooistra (photo), the school's new president, Erskine has just released a damning policy statement that bans homosexuality, labeling it "sin and contrary to the will of the Creator." Under a section titled "In Action," the Erskine policy notes, "We believe the Bible teaches that all sexual activity outside the covenant of marriage is sinful and therefore ultimately destructive to the parties involved." The policy statement is also foreboding and threatening, commanding, "members of the Erskine community are expected to follow the teachings of scripture concerning matters of human sexuality and institutional decisions will be made in light of this position." How are Erskine's two openly-gay students expected to interpret that statement, that "institutional decisions will be made in light of this position," and how are the students who are LGBTQ expected to feel safe in that environment? That's not an extreme question. Hidden at the bottom of a financial report to the college's trustees, a statement on the school's website reads, "the Student Services and Athletic Committee submitted and the full board approved a Statement on Human Sexuality. The administration will add the statement to its official manuals and determine how it will be integrated into campus culture and procedures." Doesn't that sound like the school is targeting its two gay players? Varona told Outsports' Cyd Zeigler he is "disappointed" by his school's statement, "sad and worried for other gay people," and added it took him "by surprise." He says, "the school took several steps back instead of progressing towards a future where everyone can be treated as an equal." "I understand the religious stand on adultery, which is part of the Ten Commandments in the Bible, and that would apply to heterosexual and homosexual people." Zeigler has a few thoughts for Erskine College's leadership. It's insightful that Varona would mention the Ten Commandments. There's another Commandment among the 10 that's given higher priority in all versions of the Bible: "Remember the sabbath day, to keep it holy." We're assuming this means that Erskine College will also ban all of its athletic teams from practicing or competing on Sundays. That's unfortunate, because on Sunday, April 19, the men's volleyball, men's golf and women's golf teams have tournament games scheduled. The following Sunday four teams - softball, women's lacrosse, women's tennis and men's tennis - have matches scheduled. For the school to ban homosexuality but not ban these competitions on the sabbath would be the highest form of hypocrisy.
Christian College Bans Homosexuality After Two Gay Athletes Come Out
So Casper Andreas, best known as creating the quasi-Colton Haynes biopic "Going Down in LA-LA Land" needs help. The movie stars DL fave Gale Harold, DL fave Van Hansis and openly gay cuties from Mad Men Kit Williamson and from Buffy Tom Lenk. It's a gay murder mystery that will no doubt become a DL camp favorite so throw them some money bitches.
Support a gay film starring DL fave Gale Harold
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I know, R1: Who gives a fuck?
D.C. Attorney stabbed multiple times in the back while staying in room 400 at the Donovan Hotel. Who did it? And why? is the topic of the discussion. Carry on.
Get her!
Woman Writes Op-Ed in NYT about Chronic Fatigue Syndrome
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"Sunday", from Sunday in the Park with George\ \ The opener from Lion King\ \ The "If I Loved You" sequence from Carousel.\ \ Oddly enough, the cacophony of "Company" is really moving to me for some reason.
I've been teaching for 15 years and can't take it any longer. It's not the kids or parents. It's the beauracracy and administration. I need out, but don't know where to go from teaching. I'm bilingual (Spanish/English) and have a special education background. Any suggestions on how I could transition quickly to another job/career? Anyone here moved on to another career after teaching? I feel stuck.
Is it true he broke up with John Palermo?
This movie is just one giant minstrel show. Watching it on HBO Family now and can't believe this ever got made.
Banksy's work is now in the Gaza Strip. The artist, who uses public spaces for his often-provocative murals, posted images that he said were of art he created in the Gaza Strip, along with a two-minute video of life in the Palestinian territory, titled "Make this the year YOU discover a new destination." Here are some of the murals, which you can also see on Banksy's own website. Banksy writes about this image: "A local man came up and said 'Please — what does this mean?' I explained I wanted to highlight the destruction in Gaza by posting photos on my website — but on the internet people only look at pictures of kittens."
giuliana rancic is going down.
Be proud and show off the little guy.
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JEFFERSON — An Ashtabula native soap opera star was charged Friday with operating a vehicle while intoxicated and vehicular assault, according to the Ashtabula County Prosecutor’s office. Freddie M. Smith, 26, was legally drunk Oct. 7 when he crashed his car on Route 84 in Kingsville Township, according to the Ohio State Highway Patrol. His girlfriend, actress Alyssa Tabit, 27, of North Hollywood, Calif., was seriously injured in the crash, according to OHP reports. Smith’s blood alcohol test result was .093, when the legal limit in Ohio is .08, according to OHP reports. Vehicular assault is a fourth-degree felony, and the OVI charge is a first-degree misdemeanor, Ashtabula County Assistant Prosecutor Cecilia Cooper said. An arraignment date has not been set, she said. Smith, who now lives in Los Angeles, Calif., lost control of the Mazda 6 he was driving on a curve in the road, just east of Dibble Road, according to the OHP report. OHP troopers suspected speed and alcohol were factors in the crash. Tabit is recovering from her injuries. Troopers received the results from Smith’s blood alcohol test on Monday. Smith plays the part of Sonny Kiriakis on the daytime soap opera, “Days of Our Lives.” According to OHP, Smith’s car crossed the center line at about 12:40 a.m. Oct. 7, traveled to the left side of the road and hit a culvert, causing the vehicle to flip end over end. When the vehicle came to rest, Tabit was temporarily trapped inside. She was flown by medical helicopter to St. Elizabeth’s Hospital and underwent surgery. She is recovering from her injuries. Smith was treated and released from UH Conneaut Medical Center for minor injuries. They were in town visiting Smith’s family. According to his fan page, Smith is back on the set in Los Angeles.
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Great title for a book, right?\ \ Anyway, does anyone not enjoy it? I really enjoy giving head, but the taste of a load is just really revolting to me. It''s not the texture, but the actual taste. It smells like bleach too. \ \ Does anyone else not care for it? Do you swallow it anyway just to please your lover?
IMHO there is nothing sexier than a big, tall East Indian guy. Where can I find one? Am I going to have to become a Hindu or Sikh and pick them up at the temple?
I'm guessing the answer is no! I think she actually started to believe that whole silly "greatest living actress" nonsense herself. Her mannered performances, self-gratifying awards acceptance speeches and that constant smirk on her face are becoming really painful to watch! And I think even her biggest fans can admit that some of her shenanigans (like that Walt Disney/Emma Thompson thing) were really embarassing. Can you imagine someone ripping Margaret Thatcher to shreds before giving her an award for The Iron Lady? Nope, but she can get away with something like this because she's Meryl fucking Streep. I just hope she'd go away, for a couple of years at least, so we can get some rest from her.
I'd take Iraq.
Facially, that is. I see her now, and with the right lighting she can still pass as a woman in her 40s, circa "Ray of Light", thanks to her latest cheeks. Sometimes she even looks the way she did when she did "Evita". The cheeks give her a more fuller, youthful look (at times). So, what age do you think she''ll be when plastic surgery can''t even make her look young anymore? She looks like she could be hitting that moment only a few years from now. Somehow, Cher was able to keep up with it, even if she looked ridiculous. She already had a boney, weird angular face. Madonna never had that. She had a gigantic Italian face that deflated a decade ago, giving her the appearance of a mummy. She seems to be getting that bloated, menopausal look to her face, even with the facelift sutures trying to hold it back.
This thread is dedicated to the Black Male Porn Star who seems never to get any recognition. Is it marketing? Lack of self drive? Or, is it something else? So, cheers to the Black Male Porn Star! Share some pics, some info, or whatever you like about them! I'll start with the first few;
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WTF! That Lilliputian scrunched up between the hulking amazons on GMA must be symbolic of the extinction or slave role of men that's on the horizon, the way they always pan out and show that petite pygmy with his gargantuan amazonian captors. You can't tell me that's not deliberate on the part of ABC because TV is nothing but a propaganda machine for the powerful. If you doubt it think about this. If you're an American man you're more likely to be unemployed than your female counterparts, not to mention, more than half of all middle management jobs in America are now held by women and the US with the highest incarceration rate on the entire globe by a very wide margin, men make up the vast majority of those that we are holding in our prisons. Let's face it. Men are not men anymore. They're a bunch of Peter Pans, totally emasculated.
Pocket-sized George and the Amazons symbolic of the rise of the fraus that's to come?
Iowa authorities arrested Jennifer Jane Olney on Tuesday after she kicked her daughter while under the influence… of hand sanitizer. Yes, hand sanitizer. The 48-year-old woman is being charged with child endangerment. Police initially arrived at Olney’s home after they received a tip regarding a possible medication and hand sanitizer overdose. (You can overdose on hand sanitizer? Mind blown.) Once inside the residence, cops noticed Olney slurring her speech and in no condition to care for her daughter. According to the report, the sloppy mother was ordered to check herself into a hospital or turn her child over to human services. That’s when she kicked her daughter’s leg and was arrested on the spot. Olney’s daughter was put in her grandfather’s care while she was taken to the Polk County jail, where she’s being held on $3,000 bond.
MOTHER ARRESTED FOR KICKING DAUGHTER WHILE DRUNK ON HAND SANITIZER
And according to nutrition charts I get only a fraction of the needed Calcium. Yet I have amazing bone density. Fuck the FDA
We haven't had one of these threads in a while. Yea, they're fake but still fun if done well. I'll get us started with a pic of Michael Phelps.
I have to say... the premiere was a bit underwhelming. It seemed awfully "forced" and "contrived". I hope it's just the nature of being a pilot that has to set up so much, and that future episodes are better. I'm still in.
Somewhere, Pat Kingsley is going Ha!
Gawker publishes several detailed Kevin Spacey stories, also outs Tom Cruise & Will & Jada
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Helium-voiced Oscar winner Graham Moore: "I'm not gay."
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Don't they know that baby is going to be nothing but a photo op! But then again if you are going to name your child Duke Zar than you really have little concern for it to begin with.
Someone is seriously trusting their newborn to the Burtka-Patrick Harrises???
Since the last thread seems to be locked up/inaccessible since last week. More about those towns we were chatting about. Don't misbehave and don't make me snap you with my fuckin' dishtowel!
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continue walking children in nature
Fox Americanized the UK Broadchurch for a US audience and it BOMBED NBC tried to put their own stamp on Australia's The Slap. That shows is circling the drain. Now ABC has imported Secrets & Lies from Australia and that has gotten horrible reviews. What went wrong?
It is over for everyone else. She is a LOCK for the Best Actress Tony Award this year. Everyone else in the category will just have to be happy with their nomination. When (not IF) but when Helen wins the Tony Award she will be one of only a handful of actors to win the triple crown of acting. Anyone disagree about Helen being a lock this year?
As requested.
Kicking in chairs and knocking down tables
I still have a crush despite having been rejected almost 3 years ago. I just can't get over it. So pathetic. You?
Sharpened labia of the night / Their breasts two strained and livid dots / Demons of piqued wicker drone...
I remember reading Debbie saying Agnes was a very glamourous woman it is too bad people would not see her that way. She must not a very good friend if she never saw Bewitched a show she was most famous for and wore many fashionable clothes. I always found that odd....
Mrs. Paul Newman was born today in 1930. I wonder how she's doing, there were reports that she was suffering from early stages of dementia.
Not that it is a surprise but Bennett has avoided ever publicly mentioning he is gay and she just blurted it out on national TV. Hell, maybe more people should start doing this to obvious closet cases. Colton Haynes your next?
I thought I had depression licked but this winter is really doing a number on me. I feel hopeless, helpless, and like life has no meaning whatsoever. Everything seems boring and impossible. I feel like I can't even bear to go outside and shovel, or make dinner. When I think about having to do anything (like get up and go to work tomorrow), I feel intense anxiety. I know that this too shall pass, but the discomfort is overwhelming.
ColtonLHaynes: Its great to have ppl to look up to who arent afraid of facing their fears and arent afraid to go against the norm. Thk You For Zachary? Gratuitous Hero magazine cover shot
Donald Trump tells strategists 'you're hired' for potential 2016 presidential run The real-estate mogul insists this time his ambitions are for real, telling the Washington Post ‘I’m doing this because the country is in serious trouble’ Tom McCarthy in New York, Wednesday 25 February 2015 21.35 GMT For once, he’s hiring. The real-estate mogul Donald Trump, as famous for firing people on reality television as for anything else, has announced that he is adding staff in what he insists is really, this time, a serious look at a presidential run. Trump described preparations he is making for a purported potential presidential run in an interview with the Washington Post. He has, he said, “enlisted several strategists”; “retained an attorney”; “alerted GOP officials”; and turned down a renewal season of Celebrity Apprentice. An early obstacle Trump would face, should he indeed decide to run for the Republican nomination for president in 2016, would be wariness on the part of voters who have heard him talk before about such a run without ever seeing one materialize. In 2008 and again in 2012, Trump touted the possibility over months of statements in the media. But then he did not run. By trusting his stated intentions once again, the electorate could risk being made a Charlie Brown, taking one more run at kicking the football only to see it, at the last minute, being pulled away again. In the past, politicians such as Newt Gingrich, Mike Huckabee and Sarah Palin have been accused of running for president or talking about running for president in order to sell books or burnish a personal brand, instead of actually to win the presidency. Trump is said to enjoy being at the center of attention, which is where his talking about running for president sometimes places him, although he has other ways of getting there. Trump told the Post he was serious this time. “Everybody feels I’m doing this just to have fun or because it’s good for the brand,” Trump said. “Well, it’s not fun. I’m not doing this for enjoyment. I’m doing this because the country is in serious trouble.” Next stop: Iowa.
Donald Trump tells strategists 'you're hired' for potential 2016 presidential run
Wow.
MIC's Louise Thompson's instagram is 'hacked' - bf's dickpic leaked
By shifting the show into the far future, they have made it hysterical. Love this.
Go ahead and hijack this one if you want.
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Did Patrick and Jen get along in real life. I feel like i heard there was tension but can't remember. She seems insufferable anyway. Does anyone remember the TV show?
Now that would have been a story.
I''ve been catching it in reruns on a new channel, KUBE, and forgotten how fun and cheesy it is. No matter what planet they visit, the all look like the quintessential sixties with big wigs, short skirts, bad fight scenes and cardboard sets. After Star Trek they have the Twilight Zone.
Kirk''s tight shirt
Continuing the tradition!
One of my favorite DC characters. Do you like her fat or skinny? The latest rumor is Viola Davis is going to play the role. Don't you think they should try to get Oprah for the part? That would be badass.
Here we go -- again!
I always have, since I was a kid. Loved when the daytime talk shows like "Donahue" and "Geraldo" would have them on. Loved when the "exercise" magazines featured male dance troupes. I almost like men wearing almost nothing than nothing at all. I love finding converted to DVD old stripper videos. Yeah, the mes are greasy and long-haired (80s) and often straight (though I don't always believe that every troupe is sooo straight and there are no gay men. Come on.) Weirdly, nowadays it seems like more and more male dancers have their dancers just in small posing straps with a full back. Makes no difference as it's still hot but anybody know why this is?
Thanks, even-less-funny-Sarah-Silverman-as-if-that-were-possible, I don't need to see your fake boobs bursting out of tank tops while you complain about how men don't take you seriously enough to think you're funny.
Continuation of the Lesbians discussion thread at the link, by request.
Because a hairy chest is still a thing of beauty...
Son of the Revenge of the "Lets Post Pics of Guys Presenting Their Hairy Chests" thread
Have you seen this show? What a piece of ghetto shit. It's an amateur, knock-off of The View with a bunch of brainless, trashy, tacky Z-listers.
The up-and-coming actor is mostly known for his role in the long-running British soap EastEnders British actor Ben Hardy has reportedly landed a key role in Bryan Singer’s upcoming movie X-Men: Apocalypse. Hardy’s part in the comic-book film sequel hasn’t yet been disclosed but the Wrap reports it will be “important.” Fans of British dramas will recognize Hardy as Peter Beale from long-running BBC soap opera EastEnders. He’ll be joining X-Men regulars Jennifer Lawrence, Michael Fassbender, James McAvoy and Nicholas Hoult.
British Actor Ben Hardy Has Landed a ‘Key Role’ in X-Men: Apocalypse
Because the last thread is just about full
Most of my Social Security check is going to tokens to keep a certain blond self-sucker in business. You?
What's wrong w/ me? Shouldn't I feel something or am I just too old to have that now (34). In my 07-11 relationship I really had serious feelings for the guy, but I've been single so long now that I almost wonder if LTR is just annoying me...or if it's the guy. He's done some stuff to get on my nerves - most notably being wrong & arguing vociferously despite being wrong (he's a lawyer & has no humility about being wrong). There are a lot of examples, but the worst is his obsession that I "gave him" this really bad sore throat because "of how many guys I slept with" and how I must be harboring pathogens on my dick. He repeated this so many times that I had to get a (negative) chlamydia/gonorrhea test just to shut him up - and lo & behold he still blames me for getting sick because he "never gets sick and I must have harbored *some* bacteria" (defying medical science here). Not to mention, I got sick after him...(meaning I caught it from him) - and then he said I just got a cold from elsewhere. The whole "I got sick from you - you're a slut" would be fine if he said it once, but he has said it about 20 times. He thinks I'm a slut bc he saw me on scruff for a few mos before he met me...meaning (to him) that I've slept with everyone in the neighborhood. So, maybe I am legitimately annoyed...I don't feel the need to "dump" him. It's just that I feel nothing.
I think it's so strange when people act like torture and lies by the government is some new thing. FDR knew that Japan was going to bomb Pearl Harbor, but kept it secret so he had an excuse to enter WW2. He allowed thousands of innocent men and women to die so he could convince the "average person" to enter WW2. Fuck him, and the people that love his bullshit. You are the same moronic thug assholes that allowed Bush to invade and bomb the Middle East based on bullshit.
Anyone watching this show? Fucking hilarious.
So I was at Steamworks last Friday and there were several fellows dressed in their leather duds. Chaps, straps, caps, etc. They strutted around the joint like they owned it. A few of them even put on a bit of a show in front of the DJ booth. They stood on the bench and proceeded to perform on each other for the delight of those gathered to watch.%0D\ %0D\ It occured to me then and there that leather men are really no different than drag queens. It''s just another kind of dressing up, acting out, and performing. It''s a bit of fun and fantasy for a night. "Dress up and put on a show" kind of thing. %0D\ %0D\ And the sense of entitlement they have is similar to that of drag queens in bars. %0D\ %0D\ I''ve never been to a leather fair but I can only assume it''s similar in purpose to a drag ball.%0D\ %0D\ So, am I right or am I right?
I've never come across even one Amish male of any age who pinged, and living in PA, I've come across plenty of Amish. What's that about?
I see this all the time. For example a white friend of mine inevitably bring into the conversation with someone he is talkinh that his wife is black. He usually starts by showing a picture of his kid and mentioning how the kid got his looks from his African American wife. Another white man I know will mention his black wife whenever he interacts with another black person. We were out to lunch and it brought it up with the restaurant manager. A third always says, "When you have an Caribbean girlfriend, (insert knowing look about how fiery they are)" JUST STOP IT!
Arrow creators Greg Berlanti, Andrew Kreisberg and Marc Guggenheim are working on a team-up series that will feature Brandon Routh, Victor Garber, Wentworth Miller, and Caity Lotz. So given that these actors will be crossing over to the spin-off, that means Ray/Felicity will end on Arrow pretty soon, Martin Stein will successfully stop being Firestorm, Wentworth Miller won't be on The Flash anymore and Caity Lotz? Will she be playing a new character or are we actually spoiled that Sara will be brought back to life? This is supposed to be a superhero team-up show, and it will include more superheroes that haven't appeared on The Flash and Arrow.
The CW Developing Gay DC Comics Team-up Series as ‘The Flash’ and ‘Arrow’ Spin-Off
New Kids on the Block's Jonathan Knight Will Compete on The Amazing Race By Patrick Gomez, 12/19/2014 AT 09:05 PM EST Does Jonathan Knight have the right stuff to win The Amazing Race? The former New Kids on the Block member and his boyfriend, Harley Rodriguez, have been revealed as one of 11 couples competing on the next season of the CBS reality competition. Knight, 46, and his personal trainer boyfriend, 41, have more than six years' experience traveling together as a couple, which they can draw on as they race around the world, but not all of the competitors will have that same advantage. For the first time in the show's 13 years on the air, five of teams will be comprised of strangers who have been paired together by the show for the ultimate blind date.
New Kids on the Block's Jonathan Knight Will Compete on The Amazing Race
I've tried it on three different devices and it takes forever to load a new thread. Once you've clicked a thread to read a new response it's fine. Maybe it is just me, but I thought that I would put it out there in case I wasn't alone.
He's a singer who people keep dating: gay or straight. Any dirt?
I'm in my 30s and I have never understood why they are so revered. What did they bring to the music scene that changed everything? For example, if someone asked me how did Nirvana change music, I can give a reasonable explanation. I have listened to The Beatles and their sound wasn't exactly revolutionary for the time. What am I missing?
I don't see any difference between the way she sings and the way Mandy Moore sings. And at least Mandy Moore knows how to dance somewhat. It seems to me like she's been blessed by an awful a lot of good luck. Why do so many good song writers want to give her their songs is what I like to know. "Please don't stop the music" and "We found love" are extremely catchy songs that would make anyone who can sing decently popular. What do you think?
Will it become a DL Fave?
Illinois Rep. Aaron Schock, a rising Republican star already facing an ethics inquiry, has spent taxpayer and campaign funds on flights aboard private planes owned by some of his key donors, The Associated Press has found. There also have been other expensive travel and entertainment charges, including for a massage company and music concerts. Being a closeted gay guy isn't Schock's only problem. Video:
Aaron Schock, Lawmaker With Lavish Office Decor, Used Taxpayer Funds For Private Planes, Concerts
SO much drama. SO many children. SO many exes who are still in the picture. [quote]Rosie and Michelle were having problems since April,” said an insider, referring to the 43-year-old wife Rosie, 52, married in June 2012 – just two months before her near-fatal heart attack. [quote]The couple soon adopted an infant girl named Dakota, with Rosie then inviting her ex-wife, Kelli Carpenter, to help them raise the little child! [quote]“Shelly reluctantly agreed to the idea,” said the source. “But Kelli was becoming a big-time buttinski and part of the family fabric, so to speak. It ended up being one three-way that Shelly wasn’t enjoying at all!” [quote]Michelle also had to deal with Rosie’s ex-girlfriend Tracy Kachtick-Anders, a Texas artist with six kids who remain active in the lives of Rosie, Kelli and the four kids the former couple was already raising together. [quote]And now Rosie is trying to cope with her continuing warm feelings for Kelli!
Enquirer: "Rosie O'Donnell's Tangled, Tormented Life!"
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How sadly banal! ********* "We seemed to have a normal relationship inside of a crazy world," Gordon says of her marriage. "And in fact, it ended in a kind of normal way—midlife crisis, starstruck woman." Some years ago, a woman Gordon declines to name became a part of the Sonic Youth world, first as the girlfriend of an erstwhile band member and later as a partner on a literary project with Moore. Eventually, Gordon discovered a text message and confronted him about having an affair. They went to counseling, but he kept seeing the other woman. "We never got to the point where we could just get rid of her so I could decide what I wanted to do," Gordon says. "Thurston was carrying on this whole double life with her. He was really like a lost soul."
Sonic Youth's Kim Gordon on why she and Thurston Moore split up after 28 years of marriage
Any DLers undergoing it? What are you using? Androgel? How's it going? Any skin problems?
As predicted, the fans are leaving in droves. But what of the faithful staples, Prue, Fern et. al.? They can't leave because the voices won't let them! But we will remember the lost: The Reverend; Mimi "fake husband" Collens; Lisa "the photo is old" Homes ... The list goes on and on - who will remain? Oh, the suspense!!! Let the mocking begin in 3, 2, 1 ...
Fashion plate or serious actress?
Spock!
R60, (from the Clooney getting married thread) I'm on FB under my name. I've just arranged for professional pics; what's there now is another amateur shot. I'm also on Gmail. Again, it's under my name (first&middle.) I'm calling your bluff. I'm in discussion for a few new "faux" reality series, and just left one because of the pay. I've also responded to another local comedy performance opportunity. I am NOT looking to be a star, as I'm a comedy/character actress. Right, the ditzy blond that everyone else teases. At least I'm told that I have "excellent, excellent sense of timing." We know casting isn't based on talent or even looks. Since I'm not bi or a super slut, I never expected to have a major career. Too bad I'm not related to Hal Kanter, as everyone asks. Whoever he was. I hinted at what Mr. Clooney promised to help me reveal, on last night's free question to a psychic thread. It would have been polite if he had told me to look elsewhere for representation, after I was told not to sign with a different manager. Obviously I must have totally misjudged his character and level of honesty. I've now moved on. There are those on DL that will always insult evryone else. I accept that fact.
(Because this deserves its own thread). Pictures at link show what teen girls (and a few boys) wore to school at a California public high school in 1969. Do you remember the young fashions of that era? Do these pictures ring true?
Great moments with Meryl - the dingo movie! Worth DVR-Ing this morning at 3:45 (or only 12:45 for West Coastsrs)!
Gay couple serving life sentences to marry in prison Convicted murderers Mikhail Gallatinov and Marc Goodwin are to get married at Full Sutton prison near York, but will not be able to share a cell Helen Pidd, northern editor, and Eric Allison, prisons correspondent; Friday 20 February 2015 17.28 GMT A gay couple detained in one of the UK’s toughest prisons are to marry after conducting an illicit relationship in the library. Both men are serving life sentences for murder in Full Sutton prison near York, which houses some of the most dangerous offenders in the country. Mikhail Gallatinov, a convicted paedophile, was jailed in 1997 for the murder of Adrian Kaminsky – who he had met through a gay chat line. He will soon marry Marc Goodwin, who in 2007 was sentenced to life behind bars for a homophobic killing on Blackpool seafront. He kicked and punched to death his victim, Malcolm Benfold, 57. The pair will wed in a ceremony inside the prison next month, the Mirror reported. It is believed to be the first same sex marriage or civil partnership to occur on the prison estate since the equal marriage act came into force last year. A source who visits Full Sutton regularly told the Guardian the relationship was well known inside the jail. “These two guys were on separate wings at Full Sutton and used to meet – and have sex – in the prison library. Then they managed to get on the same wing and had sex regularly,” she said. Since submitting their application for marriage, the men have been split up and housed on different wings, the source claimed. Full Sutton has a “Rainbow” group, where gay, bisexual and transgender prisoners can meet to discuss issues and problems. Heterosexual prisoners are also allowed to join the discussions, which are chaired by a prison officer. Though not official policy, health care staff distribute condoms to prisoners who ask for them, the source said. According to the Mirror, the couple gave their jobs as bar staff on the notice of marriage, which was posted at the register office in Beverley, East Yorkshire. The notice, which also describes Gallatinov as a chef, says the wedding will take place at “Sutton View, Moor Lane, Full Sutton” – neglecting to mention that it is a prison. A Ministry of Justice spokesman refused to comment on the marriage, saying: “We do not comment on individuals. “Prisoners are entitled to apply to be married in prison under the Marriages Act 1983. This would take place at no cost to the taxpayer and there is no possibility they would share a cell.” Under the terms of the Marriage Act 1983, all prisoners can exercise their right to marry under civil law in the place of their detention, and this right is reinforced by the Human Rights Act. When passed, the 1983 law was intended to allow heterosexual prisoners to marry their partners from the outside world. The logic was that prisoners should largely enjoy the same human rights as their free counterparts, and that building and retaining family ties can help with the rehabilitation process. But with the introduction of the Civil Partnerships Act 2004 and the Marriage (Same Sex Couples) Act coming into force last year, gay inmates are now legally allowed to marry each other inside jail, causing logistical issues for prison staff. There is no rule prohibiting sex or relationships between prisoners, but prison officers do not allow inmates to have sexual relationships, according to the Commission on Sex in Prison, carried out by the Howard League for Penal Reform. Frances Crook, the Howard League’s chief executive, supports marriage in prison, saying: “As a general principle, I think that prisoners should be allowed the same civil rights as people outside. They are in prison for public safety reasons, not to stop them asserting their civil rights.” But she said it would be fair for the couple in Full Sutton to be split up, so as not to give them a privilege heterosexual prisoners cannot enjoy. She wants to see prisons build private family rooms where prisoners can meet their families in private. “That’s what they do in Norway, and in long-term prisons in France there are little cottages where families can spend two or three days together,” said Crook. Access to such facilities should also be extended to inmates married to each other, she suggested. It is impossible to accurately assess the prevalence of same-sex relationships in prison, according Roger Ingham, professor of health and community psychology at the Centre for Sexual Health Research at the University of Southampton. He said he had never heard of a gay marriage or civil partnership between prisoners inside a jail, but predicted this would not be the last. “Given the increasing acceptance of same sex relationships in society at large, one would imagine that there are more of these relationships going on in prison too. The authorities will have to respond to these changes,” he said. The Guardian spoke to one man who was recently released after serving a long sentence at a high security jail. He said: “Paradoxically, given that legal and cultural progressions have almost rendered the ‘gay liberation front’ redundant in the UK, the situation in prisons for homosexual men is arguably more difficult now. “Though engaging in consensual sexual activity is no longer illegal, when prisoners do so other institutional sanctions and disciplinary actions are deployed to obstruct, punish and deter. The easiest pretext for the authorities is always to pretend that ‘security’ or ‘good order and discipline’ are threatened when two men are momentarily beyond the panoptic disciplinary gaze of authority – actually a legal necessity since legalisation enjoins that ‘acts’ be ‘in private’, a rare commodity indeed in prison.”
Psychopath Mikhail Ivan Gallatinov, 40, will next month tie the knot with gay-bashing killer Marc Goodwin, 31 One of the killers preparing for Britain’s first same sex marriage in jail is serving life for battering a homosexual to death and the other for strangling a male lover. Psychopath Mikhail Ivan Gallatinov, 40, will next month tie the knot with gay-bashing killer Marc Goodwin, 31. The pair, who met inside, have been given permission to wed at Full Sutton Prison, East Yorks. But justice chiefs have said they will not share a cell afterwards and the ceremony will not be funded by taxpayers. A notice of their marriage was posted at the register office in nearby Beverley. Convicted paedophile Gallatinov was 23, when he was jailed in 1997 for throttling Adrian Kaminsky, 28. Judge Rhys Davies QC branded the murder “a cold-blooded, well planned, callous, chilling and apparently motiveless killing”. Locking the brute up for a minimum of 20 years, he told him: “You are a dangerous young man and you present a considerable risk to the public. “The defendant acted without pity, concern or remorse. He was described by one of the psychiatrists as a dangerous man. "He does not suffer from mental illness but is wholly devoid of moral judgment. “He has already served a substantial sentence for offences against children.” Gallatinov of Moston, Manchester, will be eligible for parole next year. He was under surveillance by police when he murdered Mr Kaminsky. He even took photos of his victim with a camera detectives lent him. After the killing he was stopped on a motorway by officers who found Mr Kaminsky’s near-naked body in the boot of his car. The victim’s terrified mother told a review hearing she believes Gallatinov “would do something” to her and her daughter if he is ever released. They sat through the trial in Manchester, Goodwin, of Airdrie, near Glasgow, was 23 when ordered to serve a minimum of 18 years in 2007 for the shocking murder of Malcolm Benfold, 57, on Blackpool promenade. He was the leader of a three-strong gang who roamed the Lancashire resort looking for homosexuals to beat up. Mr Benfold’s sister Wendy Bridge visited the killer in jail. She revealed: “He said he was really sorry and wished there was still the death penalty as he would be dead too.” It is believed Goodwin will serve at least another 10 years. The two lags describe their jobs on the marriage notice as bar staff. There is no mention of the ceremony being in a jail. The Ministry of Justice said: “Prisoners are entitled to apply to be married in prison under the Marriages Act 1983. "This would take place at no cost to the taxpayer and there is no possibility they would share a cell.” Prison marriages Prisoners have had the right to wed in jail since the Marriages Act in 1983. They are also backed by EU human rights law. Marriage is considered a basic human right, alongside access to education, health care and freedom of religion. Since the law changed, some notorious prisoners have tied the knot with brides from outside while doing time. Gangster Reggie Kray wed English graduate Roberta Jones, then 38, in Maidstone jail, Kent in 1997. The Kray Twin was serving a life sentence for the murder of Jack “The Hat” McVitie. And Mickey McAvoy, leader of the gang which carried out the £26million gold bullion robbery at the Brink’s-Mat warehouse, married his second wife Kathy in the gym of Leicester prison in 1986. He was serving a 25-year sentence for masterminding the raid three years earlier. Since gay marriage became legal in March last year, the authorities cannot deny gay prisoners the right to wed in jail.
Killers to marry in first gay prison wedding and one was jailed for a homophobic murder
Once education, marital status and occupations are considered, the 'gender wage gap' all but disappears. April 8 is "Equal Pay Day," an annual event to raise awareness regarding the so-called gender wage gap. As President Obama said in the State of the Union address, women "still make 77 cents for every dollar a man earns," a claim echoed by the National Committee on Pay Equity, the American Association of University Women and other progressive groups. The 23% gap implies that women work an extra 68 days to earn the same pay as a man. Mr. Obama advocates allowing women to sue for wage discrimination, with employers bearing the burden of proving they did not discriminate. But the numbers bandied about to make the claim of widespread discrimination are fundamentally misleading and economically illogical. In its annual report, "Highlights of Women's Earnings in 2012," the Bureau of Labor Statistics states that "In 2012, women who were full-time wage and salary workers had median usual weekly earnings of $691. On average in 2012, women made about 81% of the median earnings of male full-time wage and salary workers ($854)." Give or take a few percentage points, the BLS appears to support the president's claim. But every "full-time" worker, as the BLS notes, is not the same: Men were almost twice as likely as women to work more than 40 hours a week, and women almost twice as likely to work only 35 to 39 hours per week. Once that is taken into consideration, the pay gap begins to shrink. Women who worked a 40-hour week earned 88% of male earnings. Then there is the issue of marriage and children. The BLS reports that single women who have never married earned 96% of men's earnings in 2012. The supposed pay gap appears when marriage and children enter the picture. Child care takes mothers out of the labor market, so when they return they have less work experience than similarly-aged males. Many working mothers seek jobs that provide greater flexibility, such as telecommuting or flexible hours. Not all jobs can be flexible, and all other things being equal, those which are will pay less than those that do not. Education also matters. Even within groups with the same educational attainment, women often choose fields of study, such as sociology, liberal arts or psychology, that pay less in the labor market. Men are more likely to major in finance, accounting or engineering. And as the American Association of University Women reports, men are four times more likely to bargain over salaries once they enter the job market. Risk is another factor. Nearly all the most dangerous occupations, such as loggers or iron workers, are majority male and 92% of work-related deaths in 2012 were to men. Dangerous jobs tend to pay higher salaries to attract workers. Also: Males are more likely to pursue occupations where compensation is risky from year to year, such as law and finance. Research shows that average pay in such jobs is higher to compensate for that risk. While the BLS reports that full-time female workers earned 81% of full-time males, that is very different than saying that women earned 81% of what men earned for doing the same jobs, while working the same hours, with the same level of risk, with the same educational background and the same years of continuous, uninterrupted work experience, and assuming no gender differences in family roles like child care. In a more comprehensive study that controlled for most of these relevant variables simultaneously—such as that from economists June and Dave O'Neill for the American Enterprise Institute in 2012—nearly all of the 23% raw gender pay gap cited by Mr. Obama can be attributed to factors other than discrimination. The O'Neills conclude that, "labor market discrimination is unlikely to account for more than 5% but may not be present at all." These gender-disparity claims are also economically illogical. If women were paid 77 cents on the dollar, a profit-oriented firm could dramatically cut labor costs by replacing male employees with females. Progressives assume that businesses nickel-and-dime suppliers, customers, consultants, anyone with whom they come into contact—yet ignore a great opportunity to reduce wages costs by 23%. They don't ignore the opportunity because it doesn't exist. Women are not in fact paid 77 cents on the dollar for doing the same work as men. Administration officials are (very) occasionally challenged on their discrimination claims. The reply is that even if lower average female pay is a result of women's choices, those choices are themselves driven by discrimination. Yet the choice of college major is quite free, and many colleges recruit women into high-paying science or math majors. Likewise, many women prefer to stay home with their children. If doing so allows their husbands to maximize their own earnings, it's not clear that the families are worse off. It makes no sense to sue employers for choices made by women years or decades earlier. The administration's claims regarding the gender pay gap are faulty, and its proposal to make it easier for women to sue employers for equal pay would create a disincentive for firms to hire women. Mr. Perry is a scholar at the American Enterprise Institute and professor of economics and finance at the University of Michigan's Flint campus. Mr. Biggs is a resident scholar at AEI.
Hours before he was to testify against her. What a coincidence!
Prosecutor who accused Cristina Fernández de Kirchner of Iranian bomb cover-up shot dead
LOS ANGELES (AP) — Model Sonni Pacheco has filed for divorce from actor husband Jeremy Renner after 10 months of marriage, according to court documents filed in Los Angeles on Dec. 5. The petition cites irreconcilable differences as the reason for the separation. Pacheco, in the petition, also seeks return of her stolen passport, birth certificate, and Social Security card as well as invalidation of their prenuptial agreement based on fraud. Pacheco and Renner have one child, Ava Berlin Renner, who is 20 months old. The two wed in secret on Jan. 13, 2014, and only confirmed their union to the press in September. Renner has 30 days to file a response to the summons and petition.
In early October, U.S. officials accused Iranian operatives of planning to assassinate Saudi Arabia’s ambassador to the United States on American soil. Iran denied the charges, but the episode has already managed to increase tensions between Washington and Tehran. Although the Obama administration has not publicly threatened to retaliate with military force, the allegations have underscored the real and growing risk that the two sides could go to war sometime soon -- particularly over Iran’s advancing nuclear program. For several years now, starting long before this episode, American pundits and policymakers have been debating whether the United States should attack Iran and attempt to eliminate its nuclear facilities. Proponents of a strike have argued that the only thing worse than military action against Iran would be an Iran armed with nuclear weapons. Critics, meanwhile, have warned that such a raid would likely fail and, even if it succeeded, would spark a full-fledged war and a global economic crisis. They have urged the United States to rely on nonmilitary options, such as diplomacy, sanctions, and covert operations, to prevent Iran from acquiring a bomb. Fearing the costs of a bombing campaign, most critics maintain that if these other tactics fail to impede Tehran’s progress, the United States should simply learn to live with a nuclear Iran. But skeptics of military action fail to appreciate the true danger that a nuclear-armed Iran would pose to U.S. interests in the Middle East and beyond. And their grim forecasts assume that the cure would be worse than the disease -- that is, that the consequences of a U.S. assault on Iran would be as bad as or worse than those of Iran achieving its nuclear ambitions. But that is a faulty assumption. The truth is that a military strike intended to destroy Iran’s nuclear program, if managed carefully, could spare the region and the world a very real threat and dramatically improve the long-term national security of the United States. DANGERS OF DETERRENCE Years of international pressure have failed to halt Iran’s attempt to build a nuclear program. The Stuxnet computer worm, which attacked control systems in Iranian nuclear facilities, temporarily disrupted Tehran’s enrichment effort, but a report by the International Atomic Energy Agency this past May revealed that the targeted plants have fully recovered from the assault. And the latest IAEA findings on Iran, released in November, provided the most compelling evidence yet that the Islamic Republic has weathered sanctions and sabotage, allegedly testing nuclear triggering devices and redesigning its missiles to carry nuclear payloads. The Institute for Science and International Security, a nonprofit research institution, estimates that Iran could now produce its first nuclear weapon within six months of deciding to do so. Tehran’s plans to move sensitive nuclear operations into more secure facilities over the course of the coming year could reduce the window for effective military action even further. If Iran expels IAEA inspectors, begins enriching its stockpiles of uranium to weapons-grade levels of 90 percent, or installs advanced centrifuges at its uranium-enrichment facility in Qom, the United States must strike immediately or forfeit its last opportunity to prevent Iran from joining the nuclear club. Some states in the region are doubting U.S. resolve to stop the program and are shifting their allegiances to Tehran. Others have begun to discuss launching their own nuclear initiatives to counter a possible Iranian bomb. For those nations and the United States itself, the threat will only continue to grow as Tehran moves closer to its goal. A nuclear-armed Iran would immediately limit U.S. freedom of action in the Middle East. With atomic power behind it, Iran could threaten any U.S. political or military initiative in the Middle East with nuclear war, forcing Washington to think twice before acting in the region. Iran’s regional rivals, such as Saudi Arabia, would likely decide to acquire their own nuclear arsenals, sparking an arms race. To constrain its geopolitical rivals, Iran could choose to spur proliferation by transferring nuclear technology to its allies -- other countries and terrorist groups alike. Having the bomb would give Iran greater cover for conventional aggression and coercive diplomacy, and the battles between its terrorist proxies and Israel, for example, could escalate. And Iran and Israel lack nearly all the safeguards that helped the United States and the Soviet Union avoid a nuclear exchange during the Cold War -- secure second-strike capabilities, clear lines of communication, long flight times for ballistic missiles from one country to the other, and experience managing nuclear arsenals. To be sure, a nuclear-armed Iran would not intentionally launch a suicidal nuclear war. But the volatile nuclear balance between Iran and Israel could easily spiral out of control as a crisis unfolds, resulting in a nuclear exchange between the two countries that could draw the United States in, as well. These security threats would require Washington to contain Tehran. Yet deterrence would come at a heavy price. To keep the Iranian threat at bay, the United States would need to deploy naval and ground units and potentially nuclear weapons across the Middle East, keeping a large force in the area for decades to come. Alongside those troops, the United States would have to permanently deploy significant intelligence assets to monitor any attempts by Iran to transfer its nuclear technology. And it would also need to devote perhaps billions of dollars to improving its allies’ capability to defend themselves. This might include helping Israel construct submarine-launched ballistic missiles and hardened ballistic missile silos to ensure that it can maintain a secure second-strike capability. Most of all, to make containment credible, the United States would need to extend its nuclear umbrella to its partners in the region, pledging to defend them with military force should Iran launch an attack. In other words, to contain a nuclear Iran, the United States would need to make a substantial investment of political and military capital to the Middle East in the midst of an economic crisis and at a time when it is attempting to shift its forces out of the region. Deterrence would come with enormous economic and geopolitical costs and would have to remain in place as long as Iran remained hostile to U.S. interests, which could mean decades or longer. Given the instability of the region, this effort might still fail, resulting in a war far more costly and destructive than the one that critics of a preemptive strike on Iran now hope to avoid. A FEASIBLE TARGET A nuclear Iran would impose a huge burden on the United States. But that does not necessarily mean that Washington should resort to military means. In deciding whether it should, the first question to answer is if an attack on Iran’s nuclear program could even work. Doubters point out that the United States might not know the location of Iran’s key facilities. Given Tehran’s previous attempts to hide the construction of such stations, most notably the uranium-enrichment facilities in Natanz and Qom, it is possible that the regime already possesses nuclear assets that a bombing campaign might miss, which would leave Iran’s program damaged but alive. This scenario is possible, but not likely; indeed, such fears are probably overblown. U.S. intelligence agencies, the IAEA, and opposition groups within Iran have provided timely warning of Tehran’s nuclear activities in the past -- exposing, for example, Iran’s secret construction at Natanz and Qom before those facilities ever became operational. Thus, although Tehran might again attempt to build clandestine facilities, Washington has a very good chance of catching it before they go online. And given the amount of time it takes to construct and activate a nuclear facility, the scarcity of Iran’s resources, and its failure to hide the facilities in Natanz and Qom successfully, it is unlikely that Tehran has any significant operational nuclear facilities still unknown to Western intelligence agencies. Even if the United States managed to identify all of Iran’s nuclear plants, however, actually destroying them could prove enormously difficult. Critics of a U.S. assault argue that Iran’s nuclear facilities are dispersed across the country, buried deep underground and hardened against attack, and ringed with air defenses, making a raid complex and dangerous. In addition, they claim that Iran has purposefully placed its nuclear facilities near civilian populations, which would almost certainly come under fire in a U.S. raid, potentially leading to hundreds, if not thousands, of deaths. These obstacles, however, would not prevent the United States from disabling or demolishing Iran’s known nuclear facilities. A preventive operation would need to target the uranium-conversion plant at Isfahan, the heavy-water reactor at Arak, and various centrifuge-manufacturing sites near Natanz and Tehran, all of which are located aboveground and are highly vulnerable to air strikes. It would also have to hit the Natanz facility, which, although it is buried under reinforced concrete and ringed by air defenses, would not survive an attack from the U.S. military’s new bunker-busting bomb, the 30,000-pound Massive Ordnance Penetrator, capable of penetrating up to 200 feet of reinforced concrete. The plant in Qom is built into the side of a mountain and thus represents a more challenging target. But the facility is not yet operational and still contains little nuclear equipment, so if the United States acted quickly, it would not need to destroy it. Washington would also be able to limit civilian casualties in any campaign. Iran built its most critical nuclear plants, such as the one in Natanz, away from heavily populated areas. For those less important facilities that exist near civilian centers, such as the centrifuge-manufacturing sites, U.S. precision-guided missiles could pinpoint specific buildings while leaving their surroundings unscathed. The United States could reduce the collateral damage even further by striking at night or simply leaving those less important plants off its target list at little cost to the overall success of the mission. Although Iran would undoubtedly publicize any human suffering in the wake of a military action, the majority of the victims would be the military personnel, engineers, scientists, and technicians working at the facilities. SETTING THE RIGHT REDLINES The fact that the United States can likely set back or destroy Iran’s nuclear program does not necessarily mean that it should. Such an attack could have potentially devastating consequences -- for international security, the global economy, and Iranian domestic politics -- all of which need to be accounted for. To begin with, critics note, U.S. military action could easily spark a full-blown war. Iran might retaliate against U.S. troops or allies, launching missiles at military installations or civilian populations in the Gulf or perhaps even Europe. It could activate its proxies abroad, stirring sectarian tensions in Iraq, disrupting the Arab Spring, and ordering terrorist attacks against Israel and the United States. This could draw Israel or other states into the fighting and compel the United States to escalate the conflict in response. Powerful allies of Iran, including China and Russia, may attempt to economically and diplomatically isolate the United States. In the midst of such spiraling violence, neither side may see a clear path out of the battle, resulting in a long-lasting, devastating war, whose impact may critically damage the United States’ standing in the Muslim world. Those wary of a U.S. strike also point out that Iran could retaliate by attempting to close the Strait of Hormuz, the narrow access point to the Persian Gulf through which roughly 20 percent of the world’s oil supply travels. And even if Iran did not threaten the strait, speculators, fearing possible supply disruptions, would bid up the price of oil, possibly triggering a wider economic crisis at an already fragile moment. None of these outcomes is predetermined, however; indeed, the United States could do much to mitigate them. Tehran would certainly feel like it needed to respond to a U.S. attack, in order to reestablish deterrence and save face domestically. But it would also likely seek to calibrate its actions to avoid starting a conflict that could lead to the destruction of its military or the regime itself. In all likelihood, the Iranian leadership would resort to its worst forms of retaliation, such as closing the Strait of Hormuz or launching missiles at southern Europe, only if it felt that its very existence was threatened. A targeted U.S. operation need not threaten Tehran in such a fundamental way. To make sure it doesn’t and to reassure the Iranian regime, the United States could first make clear that it is interested only in destroying Iran’s nuclear program, not in overthrowing the government. It could then identify certain forms of retaliation to which it would respond with devastating military action, such as attempting to close the Strait of Hormuz, conducting massive and sustained attacks on Gulf states and U.S. troops or ships, or launching terrorist attacks in the United States itself. Washington would then need to clearly articulate these “redlines” to Tehran during and after the attack to ensure that the message was not lost in battle. And it would need to accept the fact that it would have to absorb Iranian responses that fell short of these redlines without escalating the conflict. This might include accepting token missile strikes against U.S. bases and ships in the region -- several salvos over the course of a few days that soon taper off -- or the harassment of commercial and U.S. naval vessels. To avoid the kind of casualties that could compel the White House to escalate the struggle, the United States would need to evacuate nonessential personnel from U.S. bases within range of Iranian missiles and ensure that its troops were safely in bunkers before Iran launched its response. Washington might also need to allow for stepped-up support to Iran’s proxies in Afghanistan and Iraq and missile and terrorist attacks against Israel. In doing so, it could induce Iran to follow the path of Iraq and Syria, both of which refrained from starting a war after Israel struck their nuclear reactors in 1981 and 2007, respectively. Even if Tehran did cross Washington’s redlines, the United States could still manage the confrontation. At the outset of any such violation, it could target the Iranian weapons that it finds most threatening to prevent Tehran from deploying them. To de-escalate the situation quickly and prevent a wider regional war, the United States could also secure the agreement of its allies to avoid responding to an Iranian attack. This would keep other armies, particularly the Israel Defense Forces, out of the fray. Israel should prove willing to accept such an arrangement in exchange for a U.S. promise to eliminate the Iranian nuclear threat. Indeed, it struck a similar agreement with the United States during the Gulf War, when it refrained from responding to the launching of Scud missiles by Saddam Hussein. Finally, the U.S. government could blunt the economic consequences of a strike. For example, it could offset any disruption of oil supplies by opening its Strategic Petroleum Reserve and quietly encouraging some Gulf states to increase their production in the run-up to the attack. Given that many oil-producing nations in the region, especially Saudi Arabia, have urged the United States to attack Iran, they would likely cooperate. Washington could also reduce the political fallout of military action by building global support for it in advance. Many countries may still criticize the United States for using force, but some -- the Arab states in particular -- would privately thank Washington for eliminating the Iranian threat. By building such a consensus in the lead-up to an attack and taking the outlined steps to mitigate it once it began, the United States could avoid an international crisis and limit the scope of the conflict. ANY TIME IS GOOD TIME Critics have another objection: even if the United States managed to eliminate Iran’s nuclear facilities and mitigate the consequences, the effects might not last long. Sure enough, there is no guarantee that an assault would deter Iran from attempting to rebuild its plants; it may even harden Iran’s resolve to acquire nuclear technology as a means of retaliating or protecting itself in the future. The United States might not have the wherewithal or the political capital to launch another raid, forcing it to rely on the same ineffective tools that it now uses to restrain Iran’s nuclear drive. If that happens, U.S. action will have only delayed the inevitable. Yet according to the IAEA, Iran already appears fully committed to developing a nuclear weapons program and needs no further motivation from the United States. And it will not be able to simply resume its progress after its entire nuclear infrastructure is reduced to rubble. Indeed, such a devastating offensive could well force Iran to quit the nuclear game altogether, as Iraq did after its nuclear program was destroyed in the Gulf War and as Syria did after the 2007 Israeli strike. And even if Iran did try to reconstitute its nuclear program, it would be forced to contend with continued international pressure, greater difficulty in securing necessary nuclear materials on the international market, and the lurking possibility of subsequent attacks. Military action could, therefore, delay Iran’s nuclear program by anywhere from a few years to a decade, and perhaps even indefinitely. Skeptics might still counter that at best a strike would only buy time. But time is a valuable commodity. Countries often hope to delay worst-case scenarios as far into the future as possible in the hope that this might eliminate the threat altogether. Those countries whose nuclear facilities have been attacked -- most recently Iraq and Syria -- have proved unwilling or unable to restart their programs. Thus, what appears to be only a temporary setback to Iran could eventually become a game changer. Yet another argument against military action against Iran is that it would embolden the hard-liners within Iran’s government, helping them rally the population around the regime and eliminate any remaining reformists. This critique ignores the fact that the hard-liners are already firmly in control. The ruling regime has become so extreme that it has sidelined even those leaders once considered to be right-wingers, such as former President Ali Akbar Hashemi Rafsanjani, for their perceived softness. And Rafsanjani or the former presidential candidate Mir Hossein Mousavi would likely continue the nuclear program if he assumed power. An attack might actually create more openings for dissidents in the long term (after temporarily uniting Iran behind Ayatollah Ali Khamenei), giving them grounds for criticizing a government that invited disaster. Even if a strike would strengthen Iran’s hard-liners, the United States must not prioritize the outcomes of Iran’s domestic political tussles over its vital national security interest in preventing Tehran from developing nuclear weapons. STRIKE NOW OR SUFFER LATER Attacking Iran is hardly an attractive prospect. But the United States can anticipate and reduce many of the feared consequences of such an attack. If it does so successfully, it can remove the incentive for other nations in the region to start their own atomic programs and, more broadly, strengthen global nonproliferation by demonstrating that it will use military force to prevent the spread of nuclear weapons. It can also head off a possible Israeli operation against Iran, which, given Israel’s limited capability to mitigate a potential battle and inflict lasting damage, would likely result in far more devastating consequences and carry a far lower probability of success than a U.S. attack. Finally, a carefully managed U.S. attack would prove less risky than the prospect of containing a nuclear-armed Islamic Republic -- a costly, decades-long proposition that would likely still result in grave national security threats. Indeed, attempting to manage a nuclear-armed Iran is not only a terrible option but the worst. With the wars in Afghanistan and Iraq winding down and the United States facing economic hardship at home, Americans have little appetite for further strife. Yet Iran’s rapid nuclear development will ultimately force the United States to choose between a conventional conflict and a possible nuclear war. Faced with that decision, the United States should conduct a surgical strike on Iran’s nuclear facilities, absorb an inevitable round of retaliation, and then seek to quickly de-escalate the crisis. Addressing the threat now will spare the United States from confronting a far more dangerous situation in the future
White House adviser had to walk back the oft-repeated myth that women make 77 cents on the dollar that men make after being questioned about the figure during a conference call Monday. While detailing executive actions President Obama plans to take Tuesday regarding equal pay for women, Betsey Stevenson, a member of the White House Council of Economic Advisers, said very defiantly that despite women contributing 44 percent of their household incomes, they continue to make less than men. Obama has declared Tuesday "Equal Pay Day" to highlight his administration's focus on that issue. “They’re stuck at 77 cents on the dollar, and that gender wage gap is seen very persistently across the income distribution, within occupations, across occupations, and we see it when men and women are working side by side doing identical work.” That sounds awfully specific. Stevenson certainly sounds like she’s saying men and women doing the exact same job are earning very different pay. Myth debunked. Women, we are oppressed. I take back everything I wrote about the 77-cent claim being a myth. Except, as soon as Stevenson was actually questioned about the statistic by McClatchy reporter Lindsay Wise, the White House adviser crumbled, admitting her earlier comments were inaccurate. “If I said 77 cents was equal pay for equal work, then I completely misspoke,” Stevenson said. “So let me just apologize and say that I certainly wouldn’t have meant to say that.” Oh, I’m sorry, I guess when Stevenson said “we see it when men and women are working side by side doing identical work” — that was an accident? “Seventy-seven cents captures the annual earnings of full-time, full-year women divided by the annual earnings of full-time, full-year men,” Stevenson clarified. “There are a lot of things that go into that 77-cents figure, there are a lot of things that contribute and no one’s trying to say that it’s all about discrimination, but I don’t think there’s a better figure.” No one’s trying to blame discrimination? Isn’t that what the entire Paycheck Fairness Act and Equal Pay Day are based on? And while we're at it, let's not forget that the White House pays women less than men. But that's okay, said White House press secretary Jay Carney, because they still pay "better than the national average."
Out of all the homophobic actors out there--and I’m sure their numbers are legion--Jensen Ackles irritates me the most. I don’t understand the gay men who worship him. He’s undeniably good looking but he can’t open his mouth without making a homophobic comment. What kills me is that gays everywhere take up for him just because of his looks. “Oh, he didn’t mean it that way;” or “Oh, it was just a joke;” or “Oh, you’re taking his comments too literally;” bullshit like that. Are you fuckin’ kiddin’ me??? I’m sorry but affecting a lispy high-pitched voice while ineffectually slapping at someone OVER AND OVER AND OVER, TIME AFTER TIME AFTER TIME, IN EVERY POSSIBLE CONTRIVED SITUATION isn’t funny. It isn’t a joke. And, similarly, using the word “gay” or “pansy” as a derogatory adjective in interviews isn’t okay either. Those things are evidence of a belief, people, an attitude toward gays, and I’m sick of guys lusting over him. I’m 46 and own my own architectural firm, and I have 6 architects working for me. Two of them are gay and about 10 years younger than me, and I had listen to them all goddam night go on about this guy. Even on DataLounge his name pops up constantly. It’s like a bunch of freakin’ yeshiva boys jonesin’ to blow motherfuckin’ Hitler. I don’t know what Ackles makes per episode, but word is that he clears 40k to 50k for an appearance at a “Supernatural” convention. So far this year he’s done twelve. On top of that, once he’s there he charges for meet-and-greets and photo ops, and it’s gays who are putting a lot of that money in his pocket. (Unless you’re [i]too[i/] gay. Then there’s no photo because he won’t pose with you.) Gays are also the ones glued to their tv sets each week, boosting his show’s ratings while they queer every gaze between him and his on-screen brother. [i]Idiots.[i/] This guy doesn’t even have the testicular fortitude of Sabrina the Teenage Witch! He won’t just come out and say what he thinks about gays, gay marriage or even politics because he knows it would hurt his career. In fact, his wife will re-Tweet stuff showing mild LGBT support just to muddy the waters and throw people, most likely Hollywood producers, off their GOP scent. However, the latest is that Stone Park Trust, the same trust that owns his Brentwood property--the same trust for which he’s the trustee--has allegedly made past donations to NOM, Prop 8 and Romney’s campaign, so anyone who thinks Ackles isn’t a Republican is nuts. His wife’s Twitter page practically spells it out, along with their very devout “I love me some Jesus” status. “Jensen’s favorite book is the Bible;” “His favorite actor is Jim Caviezel;” “His favorite time of year is Easter.” Blah, blah, blah. Man, I got nothing against anyone’s religion or their personal beliefs about gays and lesbians. Everyone, and I mean everyone, is entitled to their own opinions, but that doesn’t mean that I have to buy their product or watch their show. I’m not going to further any actor’s career so they can fight harder against my rights. And I’m sure not going to give someone like Ackles a starring role in my fantasies. I mean, compare his douchebaggery with the incredibly respectful and classy comments George Clooney made about constantly being called gay. Night and day. Night and day. WAKE UP AND SMELL THE HOMOPHOBIA, PEOPLE. STOP LUSTING OVER ASSHOLES.
Shades of Snowpiercer. I know global warming gets all the attention, but global cooling would be far worse. We are living in an interglacial era. Every time the world gets closer to our current peak, it quickly plunges into another ice age. These interglacial periods appear to have some correlation with sunspot activity. The latest news on sunspot activity is similar to other cold spells. Although sunspot data only goes back a few hundred years, the "mini-ice age" from 1250-1850 leads to this detail- [quote]…if history is a guide, it is safe to say that weak solar activity for a prolonged period of time can have a negative impact on global temperatures in the troposphere which is the bottom-most layer of Earth’s atmosphere - and where we all live. There have been two notable historical periods with decades-long episodes of low solar activity. The first period is known as the “Maunder Minimum”, named after the solar astronomer Edward Maunder, and it lasted from around 1645 to 1715. The second one is referred to as the “Dalton Minimum”, named for the English meteorologist John Dalton, and it lasted from about 1790 to 1830. Both of these historical periods coincided with below-normal global temperatures in an era now referred to by many as the “Little Ice Age”. In addition, research studies in just the past couple of decades have found a complicated relationship between solar activity, cosmic rays, and clouds on Earth. This research suggests that in times of low solar activity where solar winds are typically weak; more cosmic rays reach the Earth’s atmosphere which, in turn, has been found to lead to an increase in certain types of clouds that can act to cool the Earth. Here is the link that got me thinking. Notice how the planet is at the peak temperature. Hundreds of thousands of years of data, all showing that we are on the cusp of a new ice age.
She will be receiving the Lifetime Achievement Award at the Brit Awards. She will also be singing a medley. How embarrassing.
The Daily Mail Publishes Horrifying New Pix of Madonna Holding A Respiratory Inhaler
Does anyone even care? I think they really blew it thinking they should do a drawn out final season a la Breaking Bad.
Prince Harry to leave the army after 10 years Surprise move by prince who is said to be planning ‘a significant period abroad’ on field projects in Africa Press Association, Friday 27 February 2015 13.35 GMT Prince Harry is expected to leave the army this year after 10 years in the British military, according to widespread reports. He is understood to have decided to end his active military career, during which he took two tours of duty in Afghanistan. The move comes as a surprise as Harry is a passionate member of the armed forces who appeared to be focused on a long career serving as a British army officer. Kensington Palace would not comment on the news, first reported in London’s Evening Standard, issuing a short statement highlighting his current role. It said: “Prince Harry is currently focused on his work supporting the Ministry of Defence’s recovery capability programme to ensure those who are wounded, injured or sick have appropriate recovery plans and the necessary support they require. It’s a natural progression from the work he did organising the Invictus Games. “This involves working alongside case officers in London District’s personal recovery unit and visiting various recovery centres and partner agencies (like forces charities and the NHS) around the country.” A source close to the royal household said: “This work is helping Prince Harry develop his knowledge of how the system works. “The military will always play a very important part in Prince Harry’s life and especially supporting those who have served or are serving in the armed forces. It is a topic he is passionate about, both personally and professionally, and he will always want to use his position to help, regardless of his military role.” The Standard said the 30-year-old prince plans to focus on his charity work and aims to spend “a significant period abroad” on field projects in Africa. He is keen to pursue his interests in conservation and wildlife and to continue helping the rehabilitation of injured service personnel. Before his active military duties end, he is expected to move to Australia for “several weeks”, seconded to serve with units there, the newspaper said. Later he will spend time in New Zealand but not be involved with the military there, it added.
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He's got a nice ass. What you think DL?
Video: UK Gymnast Louis Smith Shows Bare Butt While Stepping Into A Whirlpool!
Technology mogul Carly Fiorina muscled her way into the crowded field of Republicans positioning for a 2016 White House bid with a blistering attack Thursday on Hillary Rodham Clinton and an appeal to Republicans to consider nominating a woman. It was a reboot for Fiorina, whose last foray into national politics did not go well. The former Hewlett-Packard chief executive failed in her 2010 effort to defeat California's Sen. Barbara Boxer, the Democratic incumbent. Despite GOP excitement around Fiorina at the outset, her race was beset with missteps and a muddled message. Boxer ultimately skated to reelection. But the Conservative Political Action Conference crowd, meeting here just outside Washington, found lots to like in Fiorina's remarks. She has spent the last few years engaged in conservative activism and burnishing her foreign policy credentials. “Like Mrs. Clinton, I too have traveled" the globe, Fiorina said of the former secretary of State. “Unlike Mrs. Clinton, I know that flying is an activity, not an accomplishment.” Fiorina, knowing that there was no room for her political aspirations in the Democratic Party, given Elizabeth Warren's and Hillary Clinton's dominance, has fashioned herself into what she believes is a convincing right-winger. She lit into the Obama administration’s foreign policy, characterizing it as wishy-washy. The crowd rose to its feet when she praised the government of Jordan for swiftly executing two convicted terrorists after Islamic State militants burned alive a captured Jordanian pilot in a cage. Then she moved onto Russia. “I met Vladimir Putin and I know his ambition will not be deterred by a gimmicky reset button,” she said. Fiorina pleased the crowd by declaring every foreign policy move by the Obama administration and its former secretary of State had weakened America's standing around the world. “Mrs. Clinton, please name an accomplishment,” she said. Although the field of aspiring GOP presidential candidates is crowded, including 10 speaking here this week, Fiorina is the only prominent woman. She is unsubtly positioning herself as the anti-Hillary. “I think our party needs to be as diverse as the nation we hope to represent,” she said. Still, it became clear what she is up against moments after she left the stage. It was Sen. Ted Cruz’s turn. Dozens of fans rushed the stage, jockeying to capture a photo of the tea party favorite from Texas on their smartphones. That did not happen when Fiorina took the podium. Nor when she left.
Carly Fiorina, eyeing 2016, reboots, takes aim at Hillary Clinton at CPAC
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Discuss as this would be interesting to read.
The fifth installment in the legendary series of hot black guys. Let us celebrate fine ass brothas in the heart of Black History Month, and all year around!
"Jon's my second male kiss... ON SCREEN" says Ashton carefully. I wonder how many guys he's kissed OFF screen?
Ashton Kutcher encourages men to explore their sexuality by 'kissing a dude'
Anything new with Jonathan? He's been in LA filming Glee then apparently he has no roles until A New Brain at City Center in June. I find him very, very talented as an actor and a singer. That said, I'm not sure if I find him hot or not. He's definitely good looking. No question about that; but I go from "he's hot" to "he's not that hot" on a daily basis. Thoughts? Anything new? Is he hot?
Continue the discussion of this apparent Christian closet case with a pretty face and nice ass. Discuss his "people's" attempts to suppress the DudeTube pics and videos. Go on then!
A song of theirs came on the radio and reignited my love for this band. We'll never see rock at such a level again. Any stories or gossip beyond the usual (underage groupies, stole from blues musicians) or encounters? It's hard for me to believe that Robert Plant or Jimmy Page never fucked a guy.
OMG this is sexy. Even if it's about straight people. "Poison in our veins but we don't even care." There's also a reference to anal sex!
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I have to say honestly that it seems to be a myth. If anything, they're normal size for the most part. I don't know where this stereotype came from. I've seen one study where the black penis was half an inch larger than the white, but that's not saying much. I've seen white guys with humongous cocks. I have seen black guys with really big dongs, but not as a rule. It's sad that it seems to be that black guys can only get jobs in porn if they live up to their stereotype, while white guys can be all different shapes and sizes in the genital department. For the whores out there, what's been your experience with white vs. black cock? Is one bigger? The same? It should be noted that whites come from all different backgrounds. That could be where the discrepancy comes from. On and off topic, they've found that gays have bigger penises on average than their straight counterparts. I call bullshit on that one too, but that's another topic.
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Do the things that Naruto can do? Wouldn't that impress your friends, if you were able to save them from baddies?
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I mean I buy makeup and it is pretty done expensive. I honestly kid you not. I think that is the one industry that makes the most money. I have to constantly refill my powder, foundation, eyeliner which cost $$$.
Serious question. Is there?
Is there any legal profession more full of damaged people than the Catholic priesthood?
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For those of you who have one night stands, do you use a condom for blow jobs with a total stranger?
Did any of you know Cary Leeds? He had the biggest cock in New York, lived in a penthouse on the West side, then moved to Florida, Delray then Miami. Did porn. Into orgies, black men. Any of you knew him, any stories?
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There is a new position opening up at work (someone is leaving) and the hiring manager asked me to apply. I have functioned in that role in a seasonal capacity for 2 seasons. The position is also at another site which I have previously worked at and know how the facility operates and who is who. The position hasn't been posted yet but do you think I have a good shot at it? Anyone? HR???
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Chopped Canada is all sorts of more weird for me concerning not just the food baskets, but they have the most unappetizing, uninteresting, and soberest judges on a food competition show.(and a boring judge, as well) FFS, to hear these unhappy, uninvolved, and uneuthuezed (sic?) and horribly nitpicky judges, one would need an evening show to "leak" their circumstances under the best but we know about "the best." I can;t be bothered for spelling if they can't be bothered for taste or feeling) judges makes one want to start some sort of a rebellion (how would that go?; kidnap Scott Conant and MAKE him judge?)
Do you believe that he planted the bloody glove in the O.J. Simpson trail?
I feel like an idiot for not having heard of this until this week. Sounds mysterious and a bit scary. I guess it's the internet equivalent of shortwave radio. Has anyone here explored this part of the web? What have you found?
Is everybody aware of the "deep web" but me?
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According to the latest Harper's, the number of opioid pain prescriptions in Alabama is 1.43 times the total population. Is this really what drives the republican south? Poppies? They have all been put to sleep?
The new TV show "Constantine" premiers tonight! And unlike the Keanu Reeves movie, it looks like they're trying to get this one right! (well, except for expunging the character of his casual bisexuality). Anyone else going to be watching? I hope it's as good as I want it to be!
She should have shut the fuck up, driven home, and stayed home.
A full 65 percent of American adults believe in the four of primary elements of the Christmas story -- the virgin birth, an angel announcing the birth of Jesus to shepherds, the magi following a star to bring gifts to Jesus and that the baby Jesus was laid in a manger -- according to a recent survey by Pew Research. Woah, look at these percentages. Do you believe in magic?
73 Percent Of Americans Believe Jesus Was Born To A Virgin
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I need a playlist the next time I have sex with this extremely hot 26 y.o. guy. He like country and EDM. DLers, would you please help?
I was an only child and I grew up loving films about families. Here my list of top ten family pictures( my opinion). 10. Yours, Mine, and Ours (1968) 9. Please Don't Eat the Dasies ( 1960) 8. Parenthood ( 1989) 9. Auntie Mame ( 1958) 8. Lion in Winter( 1968) 7. The Family Stone ( 2005) - family is better in it's modern way to Lion in Winter- though not as well written. 6. Giant ( 1956) - my mother's favorite film 5. Norma Rae ( 1979) 4. The Yearling( 1947) 3. Shadow of a Doubt( 1943) 2. It's a Wonderful Life ( 1946) 1 tie: Meet Me In St. Louis.( 1944) and the Godfather Part 1 & 2 ( 1972 and 1974)
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ISIS ate the last donut out of the Entenmann's box and didn't tell anyone, sources tell us. This comes only weeks after ISIS ate all of the Fruit Loops and used the last drop of skim milk without replacing either one, nor did they tell mom that they did it. Mom would have bought more at the store, but instead we had to eat breakfast the next day without milk and we had to eat Thomas's "Everything" mini bagels, which give some of us a stomach ache. "This is why we cant have nice things," cried ISIS's grandmother, who was a WAC during the Vietnam war. "I fought for my country and this is how I get treated!" Dad pointed out that grandma had been a nurse, and thus was not a combatant during the war. She was stationed at Fort Bragg. ISIS snickered and deliberately stepped on the cat's tail.
do you think it feels the same way for them or do their lady parts figure in and make it a totally different feeling?
I didn't realize how shitty mine was until I went on vacation. I felt great every morning, as opposed to waking up in my bed with an achy back and hips. Any advice? I'd like to keep it under $1500 if I can. However, if it's a huge difference, willing to pay more.
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Calling All Lesbians! Calling All Lesbians! 2015 is the 40th Anniversary of MichFest, and due to some financial struggles, it is most likely going to be the final Fest in its current form. This means it is the last year we have to get a mole on the Land. I propose we attempt to crowdfund a brave soul to willing to venture into the wild of Hart, MI. We can arrange to pay for tickets, travel, and if our volunteer is unemployed, perhaps recompense for the job she might theoretically have. Think of all the exciting activities in which you'll be able to partake: -Work side by side with Fat womyn on garbage detail! -Enjoy delicious vegan food, like the world-famous nutloaf! -Sneak aboard the DART bus with claims of an individual disability and know that the sisterwomyn are judging you! -Smoke a fattie with Denise! -Have a breast cast made, yours to treasure forever!* -See how far you get in the cheeseball competition! -Visit the renowned Menstrual Hut! -After a long day, unwind with a shame-reducing shower! -All this, and more! Serious (or at least sassy) replies only. *Womyn of color only, please.
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Taiwanese man burns himself to death after his father told him to stop gaming.
[italic]Perth teen idol Troye Sivan had a Hollywood gig at age 13, a lead role opposite John Cleese at 14 and a recording contract on his 18th birthday - all after a career "failure" at 12. How, exactly?[/italic] To most shoppers out at Perth's Murray Street Mall, 19-year-old Troye Sivan probably looks like any other local teenager - albeit an elvishly pretty one - out running errands with his mum and little brother. But to girls of a certain age (say, 12 to 17), Sivan seems to exist on a different plane altogether. Sporting his trademark quiff and oversized T-shirt promoting Tumblr, he could be a good 100 metres away and still the girls somehow sense him, the way birds detect unseen disturbances in their immediate environment. Soon enough - in Topshop and City Beach; outside Fossil and the newsagency - Sivan is surrounded by teenage girls in the process of thoroughly losing their minds. To be fair, most of them are lovely and sane, asking Sivan to pose with them in selfies before running off for a private group squeal. [bold]But on other days, Sivan's fans have proper, pituitary-induced meltdowns. Some scream at his face point blank, while others shed hot, silent tears.[/bold] Last Halloween, fans tracked down Sivan's home address and waited outside the front door, calling out tauntingly, "Trick or treee-eeat?" Troye's younger brother Tyde - who has a face that belongs in Dolly magazine and is fast becoming famous in his own right - deadpans that it was more like "Troye or Tyyy-yyde?" The brothers spent the evening hiding indoors, held hostage in their own home. [bold]Later, Sivan tells me that this kind of behaviour is why he avoids being near local schools after 4pm.[/bold] Sivan's mother, Laurelle, adds that she's in the process of having their home de-listed from the White Pages. [bold]As Laurelle and her sons go up the escalators at David Jones, she whispers to Sivan, "Look." Down by the fragrance section, a primary school-aged girl clutches her mum's hand, staring at Sivan as if she's seen Jesus, or a well-groomed unicorn. Ever the vigilant teen celebrity, Sivan runs back down the escalators to beckon her over, as if to say, "It's okay."[/bold] As Sivan and the girl pose for a photo, her mother smiles at us, happily baffled. "Sorry, I don't have any idea who you are," she says. "But clearly you're someone very exciting for my children." If you don't know who Troye Sivan is, either - never heard of the guy - then congratulations. You are officially old. (Don't worry: I fell into this category before writing this story, too.) [bold]Or, at the very least, you're not a teenage girl or young gay man living in the developed world, the two main demographics obsessed with this South African-born, modern-day triple-threat (singer-songwriter, actor, vlogger) from Perth.[/bold] You're also not one of Sivan's 3.1 million-plus YouTube subscribers who follow his weekly vlog updates, 2.4 million Twitter followers, 2.1 million Instagram fans, 1.3 million Facebook followers or his myriad fans who bought [bold]his first major record label EP (the über-catchy yet infuriatingly unpronounceable TRXYE), which rocketed to No. 1 in the iTunes charts in 58 countries.[/bold] (Note: 58 countries roughly represents a third of the countries in the world.)
as she gets older. She no longer has a husband, so she''s definitely going to be vulnerable in that area, and we all know how she''s reacted from it. She''s going to continue to age, and the result is tons of plastic surgery. She''s in a weird spot now. She can sell out tours, but her musical relevancy is waning. She is again turning to the hottest producers to ensure a hit, mainly producers that are 30 years younger than her.\ \ How bad do you think it''s going to be for her in the upcoming years? Will we see another "Sex" book, something where she REALLY gets desperate for attention?\ \ I have a feeling there will be.
Henry Cavill seems to really be singing high note praises for his male trainer in this new interview he gave. He spoke about his trainer "crushing me in the gym" where he can barely walk afterwards. What do you all think is the trainer getting some of that Superman Cavill booty? Boy, would I LOVE to be a fly on the wall.
Recently bought one. My first in more than 35 years. I went from vinyl to eight-track to cassette to CD to digital and have stayed there. I'm amazed how much better vinyl sounds. Richer and deeper. Now I'm combing old record stores on a mission to obtain all the albums I remember having at one time. Right now I'm listening to Joni Mitchell's [italic]Ladies of the Canyon[/italic]. I don't think anyone listens to albums anymore all the way through. That's a shame.
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If you''re over a certain age, you remember all those cheesy, smarmy hosts from the ''70s and ''80''s.\ \ Wink Martindale, Gene Rayburn, Chuck Woolery, et al.\ \ I can''t think of anyone today who would could follow in their footsteps.
The ratings will go through the roof even higher. Plus she has the acting and vocal chops. Plus she knows what its like to be part of a fuked up entertainment family.
Sorry, I'm the obsessed Brenton Thwaites troll, but I've GOT to know what the consensus is!
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Bravo's first scripted series premieres tonight. I'm loving it already: funny, quick-paced, and SOOOOO many gorgeous guys! LOVE IT!
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"Thunderbirds back in action" The first image of characters from the rebooted Thunderbirds series has been released, with the former marionettes now replaced by trim and toned animations. Fan reaction has been mixed, with some embracing the update and others missing the traditional look (and visible strings, apparently) of the original. Produced by ITV Studios and Pukeko Pictures with CGI produced by Weta Workshop, who did the effects for Lord Of The Rings, The Hobbit and Avatar, the 26-part series commissioned for ITV is due to air this year. See photographic evidence at link.
Have there been any repercussions from her sloshed Election Night performance? Any ABC insiders in the house?
Another thread said it was common knowledge in Hollywood.
That seems shockingly paltry for "veteran 60 Minutes journalist" of 20 years or so? $1 million of that is the value of an estate in East Hampton. It all sounds very fishy.
Photog shoots naked people covered in bee shit.
With apologies to person who first shared this deep within the "He says he is straight. We have no evidence to the contrary" thread -- this deserves its own discussion. ++++++++ The Rayburn House Office Building is a labyrinth of beige offices. And then, there’s . . . Rep. Aaron Schock’s new digs. Bright red walls. A gold-colored wall sconce with black candles. A Federal-style bull’s-eye mirror with an eagle perched on top. And this is just the Illinois Republican’s outer office. “It’s actually based off of the red room in ‘Downton Abbey,’ ” said the woman behind the front desk, comparing it to the luxurious set piece at the heart of the British period drama.
A Closet as Grand as Downton Abbey: Cockgobbler Aaron Schock's New Capitol Hill Office
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Has anyone caught this shit on Youtube? I am obsessed. It is way better than any RHO in the US because they all got fabulous OZZY accents. And there are some real cunts on there.
Homosexual pardon delayed as officials say it could benefit paedophiles Liberal Democrats pledge to pardon 49,000 men convicted before 1967 in any future coalition, while campaigners say warning about paedophiles is an excuse Nicholas Watt, chief political correspondent; Friday 27 February 2015 17.38 GMT A campaign to pardon nearly 50,000 men convicted under a 19th-century law for homosexual activity is being delayed amid concerns in Whitehall that a small number of paedophiles could be included. Campaigners who had hoped that the royal pardon for the Enigma codebreaker Alan Turing would be extended across the nation have been dismayed by a warning from Whitehall officials that a blanket pardon could benefit gay men who had sex with a minor. “There is huge frustration that the deal breaker now appears to be a fear that a general pardon might see what are being described as some paedophiles pardoned,” one source familiar with the Whitehall negotiations told the Guardian. “This sounds like an excuse and is driving people to despair.” Simon Hughes, the justice minister, will on Saturday pledge that the Liberal Democrats would demand in any future coalition negotiations that a pardon is offered to the estimated 49,000 men convicted of gross indecency before homosexuality was decriminalised in 1967. Hughes will say that the men, of whom 15,000 are believed to be alive, are “morally innocent” of any crime. The former Lib Dem deputy leader, who will indicate that the Tories have yet to agree to the pardon, will speak up after concerns were raised in Whitehall that paedophiles could benefit from the proposed pardon. Officials have said that there may be no record of whether a minor was involved in a pre-1967 prosecution because homosexuality was illegal regardless of age. Homosexuality was initially decriminalised in 1967 for consenting adults aged 21 and over. The age of consent was eventually equalised in Great Britain in 2001. Campaigners believe that the objections about benefiting paedophiles could be overcome by introducing two amendments to the relevant legislation to make clear that the men would have acted wholly lawfully under today’s law. The amendments would say that the sex took place between men aged over 16 and that they were both consenting adults. Turing’s relatives have presented a petition to Downing Street, signed by more than half a million people, calling for a pardon for the estimated 49,000 men prosecuted for homosexual activity. Turing was prosecuted for gross indecency under section 11 of the Criminal Law Amendment Act of 1885, which imposed a maximum prison sentence of two years, after he admitted to having sex with a man. The mathematician, played by Benedict Cumberbatch in the film the Imitation Game, was believed to have taken his own life two years later after avoiding a prison sentence by agreeing to the process known as chemical castration. He was granted a posthumous pardon in 2013 under the Royal Prerogative of Mercy by the Queen after a request from Chris Grayling, the justice secretary. Hughes will say that the time has come for gay men who did nothing wrong under the law of today to be pardoned. Speaking at a Pride event at Westminster University in central London, the justice minister will say: “There are thousands of men, just like Alan Turing, who have convictions for consenting activity between adults which were only taken to the courts because of the laws of the time which criminalised homosexuality. They are morally innocent of crime and it is time we righted that wrong.” The justice minister will indicate that the Tories have yet to agree to the pardon. He will say: “If we cannot reach agreement across government before the election, Liberal Democrats will make a commitment in our election manifesto to grant an official pardon to all those convicted in the past of sexual activity which today would be perfectly legal.” Grayling has supported Hughes as he works with officials in the Ministry of Justice on drawing up plans for a change in the law. Hughes has praised the work of the officials although some campaigners believe that Downing Street is dragging its feet. Downing Street has pointed out that the coalition changed the law – in the Protection of Freedoms Act 2012 – to allow men convicted of homosexual activity to apply for a “disregard” to make their conviction “spent”. But campaigners say it is wrong that the onus should be on people who committed no offence under today’s law to make an application to the state.
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Could someone please explain what the little bumps on this (hot) guy's body are? A hookup had them too, but I was too embarrassed to ask. Are they contagious?
Randy Johnson (97.3%) was a five-time Cy Young Award winner. Pedro Martinez (91.1%) won three Cys and led MLB in ERA five times. John Smoltz (82.9%) amassed 213 wins to go with 154 saves. Craig Biggio (82.7%) racked up 3,060 hits while playing three positions up the middle. Together, they make up the Hall of Fame's Class of 2015. The induction ceremony is scheduled for July 26 in Cooperstown, N.Y.
He's an odd guy, but his cock is insanely thick and he's really cute. I'm sort of annoyed about having to prep so I can get fucked, but I haven't been fucked in like 2 weeks, so I need it really bad.
His house next door is under contract.
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THIS is how you handle a staircase during a performance--JANET JACKSON Edition
I know the Scientology angle seems attractive, but don't forget her brother Larry Cohen and her recent employers the Zanucks have just as much pull around town. Maybe there was something else to it.
What do you think is going to happen?
I'm in charge of the Hospitality Suite for a week at a big corporate event this summer. Money isn't a huge issue, but delicious, interesting food and unique theme|decor is. Fully-stocked bar with all top-shelf liquor, so that's covered. Event will be at a 5-star hotel, with talented catering staff eager to do whatever. Per our contract, I'm allowed to bring in outside items, be it decor or food. Attendees will be upper middle class, mostly college-educated professionals, age range from 25-75ish, about 60% female, about 40% gay males, mixed ethnic diversity...smart, interesting, eclectic group, many of whom are well-traveled and entertain frequently. The bulk of this will occur from 9PM-1AM nightly. I need to nail this, guys...and you're the experts! All suggestions are greatly appreciated, no matter how minor. Best hors d'oeuvres? Most memorable theme? Classiest party-related concept? Favorite dessert? Unique serving ideas? Thanks!
Some guy in snow-deluged Boston is selling the stuff for "only $89" and guarantees you'll receive authentic snow from Boston, enough to make 10-15 snowballs with! I ordered my supply today! Hope it doesn't come in yellow.
Anyone watching? I'm busy with other stuff so can't watch for awhile.
Whatever will she do?
A Texas congressman introduced a bill Thursday that would ask the president to posthumously award the Medal of Honor to Chris Kyle, a Navy SEAL whose life was chronicled in the movie “American Sniper.” Rep. Roger Williams, Texas Republican, said Kyle should receive the Medal of Honor for his actions during Operation Iraqi Freedom that saved “countless American lives.” “There is no doubt that this true American hero is worthy of our nation’s highest military honor,” Mr. Williams said in a statement. “While the Medal of Honor will not bring back a husband, father, son and a model Texan, we owe Chris Kyle and his family a great deal of gratitude for his relentless devotion to his country.” Kyle is credited with being the deadliest sniper in American history. He was killed two years ago when a veteran he brought to a gun range who was suffering from post-traumatic stress disorder turned the gun on Kyle. The veteran, Eddie Ray Routh, was found guilty earlier this week and sentenced to life in prison. The Medal of Honor must be awarded by the president, but there is historical precedent for members of Congress offering legislation to encourage the president to award the medal to certain individuals, Mr. Williams‘ office said in a statement.
Congress launches Medal of Honor campaign for ‘American Sniper’ Chris Kyle
Despite disapproval from the American people and his own country, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu still intends to speak before Congress on March 3rd in an effort to sabotage President Obama. But the White House isn’t going to let him get away with it and Israel stands to lose big time. For years, Netanyahu has constantly whined that Iran is seeking a nuclear weapon to wipe Israel off the face of the Earth, which is pretty ironic considering Israel has made an effort to exterminate Palestinians. Rather than commit US blood and treasure to a catastrophic war against Iran, President Obama has slapped them with sanctions and has opened diplomatic relations in the hopes of maintaining peace by preventing Iran from getting a nuclear weapon while allowing the use of nuclear power to generate energy. Clearly, however, Netanyahu isn’t pleased by this. He would rather see American troops start World War III and risk their own lives while American taxpayers foot the bill for it instead of Israelis. Republicans are also hawkish when it comes to Iran and they have pledged allegiance to a foreign leader instead of their own president. The GOP hates President Obama so much that House Speaker John Boehner blatantly broke US law to secretly invite Netanyahu to speak to a joint session of Congress so they could embarrass the president together. In turn, the White House promised that there would be a price to pay for this total lack of respect. “There are things you simply don’t do,” a White House official said in January. “He spat in our face publicly and that’s no way to behave. Netanyahu ought to remember that President Obama has a year and a half left to his presidency, and that there will be a price.” And now, the White House is bringing the hammer down. According to the AP, President Obama is considering multiple options to fire back against Netanyahu. Among them: a presidential interview with a prominent journalist known for coverage of the rift between Obama and Netanyahu, multiple Sunday show television appearances by senior national security aides and a pointed snub of America’s leading pro-Israel lobby, which is holding its annual meeting while Netanyahu is in Washington, according to the officials. … But the White House is now doubling down on a cold-shoulder strategy, including dispatching Cabinet members out of the country and sending a lower-ranking official than normal to represent the administration at the annual policy conference of the American Israel Public Affairs Committee (AIPAC), the officials said.” Among the high level executive officials giving Netanyahu the cold-shoulder includes Vice-President Joe Biden, who would usually attend such a speech as part of his Senate President duties. However, Biden basically told Netanyahu to go f*ck himself by announcing his intention to be out of the country on that particular day. And that’s not all. The White House is also considering snubbing AIPAC, which would be huge since administrations usually send top foreign policy officials to represent the White House. The White House isn’t just angry about Netanyahu’s speech and his effort to sabotage diplomatic talks, they are also furious about Israel leaking details of the talks in an effort to demonize and derail them, even though nothing has been finalized, and won’t be until at least the end of March when a framework is tentatively scheduled to be in place. That’s why Israel is now being left out of the loop on negotiations. The White House and State Department have both publicly accused Israeli officials of leaking “cherry-picked” details of the negotiations to try to discredit the administration. And, in extraordinary admissions this week, the administration acknowledged that the U.S. is withholding sensitive details of the talks from Israel, its main Middle East ally, to prevent such leaks. Netanyahu needs to cancel this speech or his country needs to intervene and cancel it for him before it is too late. This act of disrespect is an effort to undermine President Obama’s authority on US soil, even though voters elected Obama to be their leader, NOT Netanyahu. This violation of protocol is so bad that even Fox News expressed shock and outrage that Republicans would disrespect President Obama in this way. This is a deliberate attempt to wreck crucial diplomatic negotiations with Iran that could peacefully prevent them from getting a nuclear weapon. But Netanyahu and Republicans oppose peace because what they want is a bloody and costly war. Only Netanyahu would rather Israel not be the country to fight it or pay for it. President Obama is done taking sh*t from the GOP and Netanyahu. After all, we are Israel’s greatest ally. They NEED us. We do NOT need them. Netanyahu is directly threatening our own national autonomy. Republicans seem to think Netanyahu is our real president, and frankly, it appears Netanyahu thinks he is as well. But he is overplaying his hand and crossing a line that should result in far steeper consequences for him and his tiny nation. It’s time to re-evaluate the “friendship” between our nation and Israel. Israel receives $3 billion in defense spending every year from the pockets of American taxpayers. This should be terminated immediately. Furthermore, if Israel wants to act like a bully, we should treat them like one. We’re talking about a nation that deliberately killed innocent Palestinian children in multiple attacks that killed thousands of human beings while multiple Israeli officials called for committing actual genocide. You know, like Hitler did to Jews during World War II. Last time I checked, we went to war with Germany and prosecuted Nazi officials for committing these atrocities. We didn’t send them billions of dollars and call them our friends. The talks with Iran are crucial to keeping American troops from having to sacrifice their lives in yet another pointless war in the Middle East. A war, I might add, that hasn’t even started yet and won’t be started unless a war monger named Benjamin Netanyahu gets his way because of the temper tantrum he is about to throw in front of Congress and the American people. Israel is also committing hypocrisy. As Netanyahu whines about Iran, the fact is that Israel has a nuclear weapons program of their very own. And Israel has repeatedly refused to allow the International Atomic Energy Agency to inspect their nuclear facilities. They’ve already demonstrated their willingness to commit genocide Muslims. A nuclear weapon only makes it easier to do so. It’s no wonder why Iran would want a nuclear weapon of their own. They fear a strike by an aggressive neo-con dominated Israel. How can we be sure Israel won’t be the nation that pushes the button to set the world on fire? If we are going to insist that Iran not have a nuclear weapon, then we should also insist that Israel give up their own in the interest of international security, safety, and peace. And if they don’t comply, they should be hit with the same sanctions Iran has been subject to. Israel and Netanyahu need to learn the hard way that you can’t insult a sitting US President and abuse the far too close relationship between our two governments without consequences. President Obama is the elected leader of the United States. Netanyahu is not. By disrespecting our president, Israel disrespects us and that cannot be allowed to stand.
The White House Prepares To Bring The Hammer Down Against Netanyahu Speech
"Honey-Rae", really?
Idiotic fame-whore parents disfigure themselves to "match" defective daughter
Kid should milk this to a tee. First advice contact the Kardashians. Major new cute fresh meat, Crest should hire him.
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He could play Aunt Rosamund in the Downton prequel!
The St Louis Rams have cut Michael Sam.
What kind of name is "Dirk"? I've never heard of it before. It's on Golden Girls (Blanche dates a younger guy).
Chase Merritt was Joseph McStay's business associate, he has been arrested and charged with the murders of the McStay family. Some are speculating that there was something more than friends going on between Joseph and Chase. The way he talks about Joseph seems kind of intimate to me. I think Chase might have been into him. What's your take on him? Some video footage of Merritt:
California couple, married 67 years, die holding hands Reuters, 27 Feb 2015 at 08:46 ET A California couple, married 67 years, died hours apart while holding hands this month, their daughter said on Thursday. Floyd Hartwig, 90, and wife Violet, 89, died on Feb. 11 in their home in Easton, California, outside Fresno, their family said. The couple had known each other since they were children and married in 1947 while Floyd was on leave from the Navy, going on to settle in a ranch in Easton. “They enjoyed working side by side their entire lives,” said daughter Donna Scharton. “They were very loving. Very hard-working. Not into materialistic things.” Each had battled illnesses in recent years. Violet had dementia and had suffered strokes. Floyd, who survived bladder and colon cancer, had been diagnosed with kidney failure, family said. Floyd and Violet had been given hospice care in the last weeks of their lives, and with the end near, family members pushed their beds together, Scharton said. Floyd died first, holding Violet’s hand. She passed away five hours later, she said. “They were very devoted to each other and had a lot of respect for each other,” Scharton said of their long marriage. The couple had three children, four grandchildren and 10 great-grandchildren, family said. Violet, known as “Vi,” would wake up at 4 a.m. through much of her life to tend to her family and the ranch, “sewing, cooking, gardening, and volunteering for the PTA,” according to her daughter and her obituary. Floyd spent six years in the Navy and served in World War Two, his obituary said.
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Well? A fellow DLer mentioned it but wouldn't name him.
In a wide-ranging interview with Rolling Stone, timed before the release of his new album, singer-musician Kid Rock talked about buying guns before “Obummer” banned them, pop diva Beyoncé, and called 2012 Republican presidential nominee Mitt Romney “the most decent motherf*cker I’ve ever met in my life.” Rock, whose real name is Bob Ritchie, invited Rolling Stone writer Patrick Doyle out to his 500-acre Alabama estate — situated right near a property owned by Hank Williams Jr. — where he discussed his career and his ‘Red State’ values. Prior to traversing the property where Rock had trapped three wild pigs he intended to shoot (“We’re about to do some murderous shit”), he showed off his gun collection, including a .22 rifle, two custom .45 pistols with ivory handles displayed in a case reading “American Badass Set,” and a semiautomatic with a silencer. According to Rock, the semiautomatic is similar to the ones the Secret Service carries and he purchased it using a loophole after President Obama came into office. “You have to get these pre-1985 with a silencer. I bought it when Obummer came into office, because I’m thinking, ‘What if he f*ckin’ bans guns?’ ,” he explained. Showing the writer the three wild pigs he had trapped in a pen — explaining that they are not native to the area and over-reproduce — Rock and his girlfriend Audrey proceeded to shoot the penned animals, with Rock exclaiming, “His ass is done,” after shooting one. Turning to the music scene, Rock related how his father, – a owned a Lincoln-Mercury dealership in his native Michigan — didn’t approve of his son’s career choice, asking him, “‘Why would you want to be a n****r?” Rock admitted that has last album, Rebel Soul, was a flop, and seemed bewildered by the popularity of Beyoncé. “Beyoncé, to me, doesn’t have a f*cking ‘Purple Rain,’ but she’s the biggest thing on Earth. How can you be that big without at least one ‘Sweet Home Alabama’ or ‘Old Time Rock & Roll’?” he said. “People are like, ‘Beyoncé’s hot. Got a nice f*cking ass.’ I’m like, ‘Cool, I like skinny white chicks with big tits.’ Doesn’t really f*cking do much for me.” The rocker, who is now 43 with a son in college, admits that he has settled down from his hard partying days when he admits, “I’d be driving the field trip Monday after I banged, like, four hookers. Well, not hookers, but, you know, four nice girls on Saturday night in Cincinnati.” Now he hobnobs with conservative politicians; describing Mitt Romney as “the most decent motherf*cker I’ve ever met in my life,” and texting with former Alaska governor Sarah Palin. Rock even admitted he has a membership at golfer Jack Nicklaus’ private Bear’s Club, near Palm Beach, Florida, saying, “If you told me five years ago I’d have to take my hat off and tuck my shirt in, I’d have slapped the taste out of your mouth. Now I’m like, ‘Look at me, hair slicked back, shirt tucked in.’ I’m like, ‘What a fag!’” Rock intends to go out on the road promoting his new album, First Kiss, saying he plans to keep ticket prices down — blaming Ticketmaster and calling them “F*ckin’ whores” — and saying he is fully aware who his audience is these days. “45-50-year-old girls wearing extra-large T-shirts — they’re my bread and butter,” He said. ” They know how to f*cking party — ‘I don’t give a f*ck, I’m making a T-shirt and putting sequins on it. I’m saving my money for beer and having a good time.’”
Kid Rock puts his Obama-hating right-wing jackassery on full display ahead of new album
For all you sissies that love to ask questions about the female anatomy and how to works. Listen up motherfuckers.
What are your thoughts now that its been in play for a while?
(Part six was 3:00'ed) Continue your foolishness.
The formerly out and now seemingly out again gay British actor Luke Evans, part sept
The Simon Halls Squirrel
Recent celebs/figures saluted include Charlie Sheen, Donald Trump, and Roseanne. [bold]Who would you suggest should be roasted soon?[/bold] (I'm ready for Rush Limbaugh.)
2/26/15 6:15 PM EST Bill O'Reilly has been accused by former colleagues of fabricating his experiences at the 1992 Los Angeles race riots, the fourth instance in the last week in which the Fox News host has been accused of embellishing or lying about his past. In a new report, The Guardian cites six of O'Reilly's former 'Inside Edition' colleagues who said they did not recall an incident in which, as O’Reilly has claimed, “concrete was raining down on us” and “we were attacked by protesters”. “It didn’t happen,” Rick Kirkham, Inside Edition's lead reporter on the riots, told The Guardian. “If it did, how come none of the rest of us remember it?” In 2006, O'Reilly said rioters "were throwing bricks and stones at us... Concrete was raining down on us. The cops saved our butts that time.” Earlier this week, O'Reilly told radio host Hugh Hewitt, “We were attacked, we were attacked by protesters, where bricks were thrown at us.” A spokesperson for Fox News responded to The Guardian's report with the same statement the network has issued in response to previous reports. "Bill O’Reilly has already addressed several claims leveled against him," the spokesperson said. "This is nothing more than an orchestrated campaign by far left advocates Mother Jones and Media Matters. Responding to the unproven accusation du jour has become an exercise in futility. Fox News maintains its staunch support of O’Reilly, who is no stranger to calculated onslaughts." This is the fourth report to allege that O'Reilly fabricated his experiences as a reporter. The first, published last week by the left-leaning magazine Mother Jones, alleged that O'Reilly lied about being in "a war zone" and seeing people "killed" during the Falklands War in 1982. O'Reilly called the report "garbage," defended the characterization of a violent protest in Buenos Aires as "combat zone," and said a precise casualty count was impossible to come by. The second report, published earlier this week by the liberal watchdog group Media Matters, alleged that O'Reilly repeatedly lied about being present at the suicide of Lee Harvey Oswald associate George S. de Mohrenschildt. O'Reilly did not respond directly to that report. The third report, published Thursday by Media Matters, charged that O’Reilly repeatedly lied about witnessing nuns being shot in El Salvador. In a statement, O'Reilly said that he was referring to images of the murdered nuns when he said, "I saw nuns get shot in the back of the head."
Will he ever redeem himself? Should he even try or just go off in a corner and die?
Continuing his work as a safe-sex advocate, Corrigan does a fun and instructional video about the proper use of a condom. \ \ Take that, haters!
Something nice? Practical? Frivolous?
This one is cute too! NSFW!
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I thought he was not any better than Seth McFarlane and yet Seth got chewed a new one. KPH was bland and worst of all boring. He thinks he's cute with all his singing but all his little skits fell flat. And the opening was embarrassing for all involved. The less said about that the better. The only good thing was his obvious flub that he tried to disguise. So pretentious. Glad who won Best Actor and Best Picture. What a gracious bunch of people unlike that ungrateful bitch Best Supporting Actress speech. It was like she was trying to pull a Mo'Nique!
Which do you prefer and why?
Because some ASSHOLE is posting spoilers on the other Amazing Race thread and ruining the show for everyone. Anyone who posts spoilers on this thread will get banned immediately. Moving to Fridays. With Bethanny Frankel and Survivor veterans. No more Brenchal :(
Share your preferences between these pairs: Honda or Toyota? Subaru or Mazda? Cadillac or Lincoln? Mercedes or Lexus? Scion or Kia? Hyundai or Buick? Chevrolet or Ford? BMW or Audi? Maserati or Lamborghini? Aston Martin or Bugatti Lastly, what will be the next automobile you will most likely buy?
Cybill Shepherd''s son, Cyrus Zacharia Shepherd-Oppenheim, will enroll in a pretrial diversion program after he was arrested in January for allegedly trying to rob sleeping passengers on an overnight flight from San Francisco to Philadelphia. \ \ \ Shepherd-Oppenheim, whose father is Cybill Shepherd''s ex-husband Bruce Oppenheim, appeared in Philadelphia Municipal Court on Tuesday, according to local reports. Prosecutors say his record will be cleared if he abides by all conditions of the program, which is designed for first-time offenders. \ \ \ The law student at the University of Pennsylvania, 22, was charged with stealing a camera, cash and other items from passengers'' carry-on luggage. Another hearing is scheduled for June 4.
I feel violated!
Adam Scott and Tig Notaro
Sorry, girls. He's gonna be a blimp when he hits 40.
PLEASE Call you mother!! (I know you're gay. Your sister told me)
It's getting pretty good reviews. Entertaining soapy drama. [quote]A music mogul plans for the future of his empire after learning he has a disease in the series premiere of this drama, which follows his struggle to choose an heir as his three sons and his ex-wife battle each other to take over the hip-hop throne. One of his three sons is apparently gay, and it has his diva wife played by the awesome Taraji P. Henson. Anyone else gonna be tuning in?
This was touched on in another thread. The Golden Girls were in their 50s. That's what 50 looked like back then. Old-ish, matronly. Compare that to Julianne Moore and Sandra Bullock today. My grandmother was in her 50s 30 years ago. She looked far older than Julianne Moore or even Rue McClanahan. What's changed? Why is 50 so much younger now?
Every black guy I've been with talks about his cock like its the greatest thing since sliced bread. They ask me shit like if I've ever been with a black guy and make comments about how big it and how sore I'll be. Usually when the zipper comes down I'm very disappointed. Most of the black cock I've seen has been average to small. One guy from Martinique had one nearly as big as my forearm. Seriously. So I guess my question is why do these tinymeat black guys all lie? Are they hoping I'll just accept their dick as big because they say it is?
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Did his two films split the vote?
Links to examples preferred.
81% at Rottentomatoes so far. Anyone going to see it? If not, can we at least discuss any hanky panky on the set?
Tom Cruise: 1983 Madonna: 1984 Cher: 1965 Barbra Streisand: 1963
Musclebound, thuggish looking black guys get me weak in the knees. There, I said it. I just think that these guys are the ultimate in masculinity and hotness. Is my fetishizing racist or does it make me open-minded? I debate this within myself constantly, and I never get a clear answer. What do you think? The guys in the SFW pic are the types I''m talking about.
Does objectifying muscular black men make me a racist or open-minded?
Well?
I''m thinking about doing this. There''s this guy at the gym I''m obsessed with. He seems totally narcissistic and I suspect he would love to have another guy worship him. Has anyone attempted this?
Seriously, eat a sandwich.
Kelly Ripa Dressed As Miley Cyrus Is As Awful As You Would Imagine
Yum!
If you did this every morning the lbs. would melt away, and you'd have better heart health.
Are there now charging facilities on the plane? What if you're on a 13 hour flight and want to use your machine the whole time?
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Cheap Air now allowing users to book flights online (through Mexico for now). Which of the 12 reasons are you choosing?
I want one. What are they like in bed?
“When straight couples have children, the majority of them want their children to be straight as well,” Dr. William Strider at the Fertility Center of Chicago tells Daily Buzz Live. “That is why most straight parents have trouble accepting it when their children announce to them that they are gay.” Um… OK? “So it only makes sense,” Strider continues, “that same-sex couples would want children that carried out their same family values of homosexuality.” Strider claims he has the unique ability to help same-sex parents biologically produce gay children or “gaybies.” The procedure is called Human Germline Manipulation. It allows doctors to genetically engineer a fetus’ X-chromosome gene by tinkering with the sperm and ovum during a surrogate conception. The X-chromosome is believed to have some impact on a person’s sexual orientation. According to Strider, gay couples will soon have the option to change their straight baby into a gayby and “guarantee their same family values and acceptance throughout the next generation.” But don’t think producing a gayby isn’t going to cost you. The rate for Human Germline Manipulation ranges from $12,000 to $15,000. Also, the procedure isn’t guaranteed. So you might be better off putting that 15K towards your kid’s college fund and then keeping your fingers crossed he turns out gay.
Want A Gay Child? This Doctor Says He Can Inject Your Baby With A Gay Gene!
A social and economic system that respects the right of each human being to be free to guide his own life as he chooses, that requires of men respectful and courteous conduct toward their fellow human beings, and which fosters a modesty of belief against any presumption against paternalism is surely the most ethical system of social cooperation ever stumbled upon my mankind.
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.
Jack Falahee 'Fascinated' People Want To Know Whether He's Gay By On Top Magazine Staff; Published: February 27, 2015 Jack Falahee, who plays gay law student Connor Walsh on the ABC hit drama How To Get Away With Murder, says he's fascinated that people are curious about his sexuality. Falahee's steamy sex scenes have received plenty of attention – negative and positive – and in an Out cover story last month, the 25-year-old created headlines when he refused to answer whether he's gay. As the series wraps up its first season next week, Falahee still isn't talking. “We don't ask the actor playing James Bond what his sexual preference is,” Falahee said during a SiriusXM Progress interview this week. “So I don't know what it is, really, with trying to out actors who portray gay characters on television. But it is some sort of fascination in society.” “I think we're projecting onto actors in a way,' he said. “I think we're expecting them to be their characters when, at the end of the day, this is my job and I'm an actor portraying a role on a fictitious television show.” “I just think it's interesting,” Falahee continued, “because I have a body of work before Connor Walsh that is primarily heterosexual and yet people want to ask – you know, no one asks any other man, or woman, on my show, about their sexuality, and that's what fascinates me.”
Jack Falahee 'Fascinated' People Want To Know Whether He's Gay
He doesn't just sing it- he acts it.
John Travolta: "Whenever I'm Away From You"
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Former Glam-Rock Star Gary Glitter Jailed for 16 years February 27, 2015 | 06:01AM PT, Leo Barraclough LONDON — Former glam-rock star Gary Glitter, best known for his hit song “I’m the Leader of the Gang (I Am),” has been jailed for 16 years for sexual assaults against young girls committed between 1975 and 1980. Glitter, whose real name is Paul Gadd, was found guilty of attempted rape, four counts of indecent assault, and one of having sex with a girl under 13, according to the BBC. His youngest victim was just 10 years old when Glitter crept into her bed as she slept and tried to rape her. Judge Alistair McCreath told Gadd, who is 70 years old: “You did all of them real and lasting damage and you did so for no other reason than to obtain sexual gratification for yourself of a wholly improper kind.” Gadd was jailed in Vietnam in 2006 for molesting two girls aged 11 and 12. Glitter was a star of the U.K. glam-rock scene in the early 1970s. His breakthrough single was “Rock ‘n’ Roll (Parts 1 and 2)” in 1972, which topped the U.S. charts. In 1973, he had a string of hits, including “I Didn’t Know I Loved You (Till I Saw You Rock and Roll),” “I Love You Love,” “Do You Wanna Touch Me” and “I’m the Leader of the Gang.” Glitter had sold 18 million records by 1975.
What are your thoughts on him?
As of March 23, 2015, Blogger will no longer allow sexually explicit material on any blog it hosts. Any blog that is found to possess sexually explicit material, i.e. porn, will automatically be made private, meaning that nobody will be able to find it in search engines and only those people whom the blog owner gives the link to will be able to find the blogs. So if you have a favorite gay porn blog that is hosted on blogger, make sure you bookmark everything. I'm hoping that's all you have to do because if you need a special new link then you will be screwed.
You're welcome.
I understand he became truly insufferable once Star Trek re-runs went into syndication and he became perceived internationally as a larger-than-life figure--he completely bought into his own hype then. But what was he like before then? I know he was a big player during his years shooting Star Trek and was fucking every single beautiful female guest star. Was he more normal despite being an enormous pussyhound? And what was he like before Star Trek?
Inspired by the "I find magic tricks so annoying and such a turn-off" thread. They can be great for 10 minutes or so when you meet someone new, particularly a kid.
Sorry, girls, I mean, Johnathan.
Jeez, this year I've gotten invites to TONS of trivia nights. Everybody and their uncle is doing one. WTF?
FBI kept 250-page file on ‘God Hates Fags’ hate preacher 27th February 2015, 3:47 PM, Nick Duffy The FBI has revealed that it kept an extensive file on hate preacher Fred Phelps, the man behind the notoriously anti-gay Westboro Baptist Church. Mr Phelps – who founded the anti-gay hate group and began its traditioning of homophobic pickets – died in March 2014. After a Freedom of Information request submitted by The Hill, it has been revealed that the Federal Bureau of Investigation kept extensive tabs on the preacher, starting in the 1960s. In 1967, he was labelled “in need of psychiatric care” by the FBI – and later described as a “radical extremist” and “zealot” as he began the group’s now-famous protests in the 90s. The records grew more extensive as time grew on, with the group’s activities monitored every year between 1993 to 2006. The intelligence bureau also kept copies of the group’s inflammatory press releases and copies of reports regarding its protests – as well as information regarding threats made against Phelps. The church last month protested a Christian conference, over the performance of openly gay singer Vicky Beeching. The singer was not deterred by the group when appearing at the event – even stopping to pose for a picture with them. She tweeted: “Arrived just now at #GCNConf to a loud crowd of Westboro Baptist protesters..and to a giant rainbow above them. “I smiled, said hello & told the Westboro Baptist folks we loved each of them. Love wins over judgement.”
WOOF!
He's gay, right? I'm watching him give the forecast on Good Day NY in my doctor's office. He's incredibly muscular, really well-groomed, and has a certain "pingy" quality about him. So what's the verdict on this gorgeous weather hottie?
She is just odd.
Weird video of Demi Moore kissing a a boy who looks about 12 when she was 19
Greg Plitt is one of the millionaires. It says that he is worth $5m. Wasn't he seen in PTown years ago with an older gentleman?
Just like in a Chorus Line Is Donna that desperate for gigs, that she would now take an understudy position?
They''re all so ridiculously good looking and hot. And don''t get me started on their thick, meaty bubble butts. They REALLY get my boihole all atwitter. Many of them are bi too. Most of the guys in my gym are Dominican, and I''ve slept with at least six of them in the past year. %0D\ %0D\ %0D\ I moved to Inwood last year, and they''re all around. They''re everywhere. It''s like a wet dream come to life. I never want to live anywhere else. Seriously addicted to these men. Surely there must be a 12-step program for me. Anyone else totally in awe of Dominican men?
A great many narratives invoking Greece are being tossed around, but only one really encapsulates the unvarnished truth: the Oligarchs blew it. The oligarchs in both Greece and the European Union/ECB had the opportunity a few years ago to trade some of their outsized wealth and political power for stability and sustainable expansion. Instead, they chose to not just cling to every shred of their outsized wealth and power but to actively increase it. Their greed and hubris has now put their entire system of parasitic wealth extraction at risk of collapse. Their political stranglehold on power has been weakened, and there's no going back: they blew it, and now it's too late. The debt-serfs have finally had enough. If you enter Greece in the custom search box on this site, six pages of blog entries come up. I have addressed the situation in Greece many times; this summarizes my conclusion: Greece, Please Do The Right Thing: Default Now (June 1, 2011) Thankfully, many in Greece have reached the same conclusion, for the same reasons: Greece's New FinMin Warns "We Are Going To Destroy The Greek Oligarchy System" The basic problem is that Greece Is a Kleptocracy (June 28, 2011). Greece has shown the world how oligarchies can expand their wealth and power even as their populace slides deeper into poverty. A recent article, Misrule of the Few: How the Oligarchs Ruined Greece, lays out the key dynamics. Writer Pavlos Eleftheriadis pulls no punches: "Greece has failed to address (rising wealth/income inequality) because the country’s elites have a vested interest in keeping things as they are. Since the early 1990s, a handful of wealthy families -- an oligarchy in all but name -- has dominated Greek politics. These elites have preserved their positions through control of the media and through old-fashioned favoritism, sharing the spoils of power with the country’s politicians. Greek legislators, in turn, have held on to power by rewarding a small number of professional associations and public-sector unions that support the status quo. Even as European lenders have put the country’s finances under a microscope, this arrangement has held." The vested interests have obscured the cold reality of rising inequality by focusing obsessively on "growth" as the fix-all to inequality. But this is exactly backward. As Eleftheriadis observes: "The fundamental problem facing Greece is not slow economic growth but political inequality. To the benefit of a favored few, cumbersome regulations and dysfunctional institutions remain largely unchanged, even as the country’s infrastructure crumbles, poverty increases, and corruption persists. Greek society also faces new dangers. Overall unemployment stands at 27 percent, and youth unemployment exceeds 50 percent, providing an ideal recruiting ground for extremist groups on both the left and the right. Meanwhile, the oligarchs are still profiting at the expense of the country -- and the rest of Europe." All the blather about "growth" is just propaganda to misdirect our attention from the real problem: the total domination of governance and finance by a class of vested interests and mega-wealthy cartels/oligarchies. The solution is straightforward: default on all debt by no longer making interest payments. There is no way Greece can pay back the $240 billion of current debt, and sooner the delusion that this can be renegotiated to preserve the oligarchy is smashed, the better. As for the big threat of kicking Greece out of the euro currency--since most Greeks are already impoverished, how can they get any poorer? The reality is poor countries prosper by making their goods and services cheaper via currency devaluations, and by paying a healthy rate of interest on capital so capital is attracted and invested productively, as high interest rates make speculative, marginal gambles soberingly risky. The only people with enough wealth left to worry about a return to a sovereign currency are the wealthy who own the assets and who depend on handouts from the E.U. As the old saying has it, you can't get blood from a turnip. The impoverished face little downside from leaving the stranglehold of the euro, and only upside from a return to a sovereign currency controlled by the Greeks rather than the E.U. or the European Central Bank (ECB). The threat of expelling Greece from the euro is hollow. A return to a sovereign currency puts the responsibility for prudent management of government expenditures and debt back in the hands of the Greek people and the leaders they elect. Why is that something terrible? If the new leadership of Greece pursues policies of fiscal prudence, high interest rates, zero-tolerance for corruption and freeing up the Greek economy to encourage small-scale enterprise, any decline in Greece's sovereign currency will be brief. If they pursue meet the new boss, same as the old boss policies, then the Greek people will remain shackled in poverty. We have to remember that the lenders who entrusted capital to marginal borrowers took the risk and therefore have to absorb the losses. In this case, the irresponsible lenders include sovereign nations that acted to protect their own oligarchies. Why? Once one oligarchy falls, it will threaten to topple a long line of oligarch dominoes.
The row began on April 19, when Morrissey published an anti-seal hunting screed on his website in which he lashed out at the Canadian Government for the characterization of the hunt as humane. Here is the back-and-forth Morrissey “If she (the Fisheries Minister) considers such butchery to be so ‘humane’, why doesn’t she place herself amongst the tens of thousands of grey-coated harp seals that will be slaughtered within the next few weeks? She could then test the humane aspect of having her head blown off for herself. Only then could she be thought to speak with any authority on the subject.” Canada Government Spokesperson Sophie Doucet "I would urge Mr. Morrissey to consider the impact that his ignorant and inflammatory statements have on the livelihoods of thousands of hard-working men and women in rural communities" Morrissey "I should remind Sophie Doucet that building and maintaining the Concentration Camps of Auschwitz also provided livelihoods, but this hardly made the Camps warranted.” Canada Government Spokesperson Sophie Doucet “Morrissey a millionaire celebrity, desperate for a hobby, shamelessly regurgitating misinformation” Morrissey “whether a challenge comes from a millionaire or from someone who is homeless is a remark that would only be made by someone of imperious ignorance, who cannot develop the moral debate, and whose own personal financial agenda comes before the lives of thousands of healthy beings,” “In Western culture, there is no acceptance of the Canadian seal slaughter, and simply because someone bears the badge of Minister does not insulate them from being a disreputable thug.” Canada Government Spokesperson Sophie Doucet Morrissey’s statements are “ignorant,” “Anyone who takes a careful look at the seal hunt will see that it is humane, sustainable, and well-regulated.” “Mr. Morrissey and his Hollywood buddies have been brainwashed by decades of propaganda from fringe animal rights groups and radical environmentalists.” Now waiting for the next volley from Morrissey
It's on Netflix now, directed, written, and starring Xavier Dolan. For those who saw it, what did you think? I'm sad to say that it seems unpleasantly familiar to me as a kid. It's Dolan's semi-autobiographical film. Did anyone have this sort of relationship with their mother?
Still so many questions- Viola-to wig or not to wig? Is Jack Falahee family? Has Oliver hit the gym between episodes?
I wish had went to a HBCU! Particularly Morehouse, because the guys there are super hot!
Rejected!? How Why
WWE superstar Darren Young just dropped a bombshell, telling TMZ, he's gay ... and no, this isn't part of the act. Darren was at LAX Wednesday when we asked whether a gay wrestler could succeed in WWE, and Darren laughed, saying, "Absolutely. Look at me. I'm a WWE superstar and to be honest with you, I'll tell you right now, I'm gay. And I'm happy. I'm very happy." For the record, Darren is now the first openly gay wrestler ever at WWE ... and the first headlining wrestler ever to come out while still signed to a major promotion. Other pro wrestlers have been rumored to be gay, but that's it ... just rumors. Bottom line: this is big, big news. For all its chauvinism and testosterone-driven bravado, coming out in WWE is tantamount to coming out in the NFL. Of course, wrestling is a little different, particularly because of how physical it is, and how little clothing is involved -- but Darren is completely unfazed.
Or just a rumor? I''m sure her stuff is gade-A sweet puss to straight guys, but I hope her handlers are in enough control to keep her away from that diseased douche.
My favorite Instagram fitness model, Max Emerson:
I'm guessing she was more into Margot than her hubby.....
Jada loved watching Will's sex scenes with Margot Robbie in his new film
I saw an antique writing desk at a store today and it was priced ridiculously low. I checked it over and decided it was legit, but when I was about to buy it I stared doubting myself and walked away. I did some research at home and realized I was correct the first time. I went back to buy it but it was already sold. I always do this to myself--doubt my instincts. I've done it all my life and sadly it's really held me back Has anyone been able to crush their self-doubt?
He has signed a contract with a gay porn studio. NSFW link.
****BREAKING NEWS STRAIGHT PORN SUPERSTAR ROCCO REED COMES OUT AS GAY****
Was old time feminism a creation of the CIA? In a review of Karen Paget's "Patriotic Betrayal" Adam Hochschild says "in 1959, for example, it (the CIA) recruited Gloria Steinem, a recent Smith College graduate, to lead some one hundred Americans in disrupting proceedings and distributing pro-Western literature at a Soviet-sponsored youth festival in Vienna."
Is it an aesthetic thing, or is it because they feel better when they''re inside you?\ \ I don''t have enough experience with bottoming to judge if it feels better to get fucked by a big dick than by a medium one, but I find medium(-to-smallish) dicks much more aesthetically pleasing.\ \ To say nothing of the fact that they''re much more comfortable to suck. But then I have a very small mouth - do all size queens have a mouth like Julia Roberts?
OH GOD!
Monitor your keystrokes. So that hate mail that you typed but never sent your boss? He saw it.
And Arron Rodgers too. Do they not care that everybody knows what a sham this is?
Here is what Olivia Munn looks like when she is madly in love
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I used to really like him, but it just seems like he's everywhere. I saw a pop-up add on IMDB today and it said something about a new show on NBC starring Neil. Overexposed much?
The most damning TV report yet on Schock, the closeted douchebag. This time close to home from WGN TV in Chicago. Video:
I've seen a number of insomniac / sleep problem threads, so I know this isn't gay pointless bitchery - but I thought it would be interesting. The drug is called Belsomra (Suvorexant). It works on the "Orexin" pathway, unlike any existing drug right now. Orexin is responsible for keeping you awake (narcoleptics don't have normal orexin receptors). It essentially shuts down the "wake" system rather than promote the sleep system via GABA (like benzos). I took my first dose yesterday...i'm not sure how I feel about it yet. I slept ok... and earlier than I would have normally, but I felt tired today. It's too early to say much. Also, Merck had a huge fight with the FDA over the dose - and the FDA forced them to market a lower dose than what Merck found effective in the trials because of all the ambien controversy...so there might be some tinkering with the dose coming up. Anyway - for the insomniacs out there - here's some food (or drug) for thought. I've been on a LOT to deal with sleep issues, but nothing works for very long.
Premiere tonight, 7:30PM CBS I have high hopes for this. Is anybody else going to watch?
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He's getting ready to bolt, isn't he?
Someone check on her mother.
Republican Senate environment chief uses snowball as prop in climate rant Senator James Inhofe, who has famously claimed global warming is a hoax, wields snowball on Senate floor to in stunt against climate change evidence Nicky Woolf in Washington, Thursday 26 February 2015 17.08 EST James Inhofe, the US senator who famously claimed that global warming was “the greatest hoax ever perpetrated on the American people”, attempted to underscore his climate denial on the Senate floor Thursday by brandishing a snowball. “I ask the chair: do you know what this is? It’s a snowball,” said Inhofe, hefting the icy globe in his right hand, before tossing it at a Senate page. The snowball stunt was part of a rambling speech to America’s most august deliberative body in which, among other points, Inhofe took aim at evidence by scientists that 2014 was the warmest year on record due to climate change. (According to detailed research Nasa and the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, two of the top bodies of government scientists, it was.) In 2010, during another record-breaking snowstorm, Inhofe and his grandchildren built an igloo near the Capitol building in Washington, affixing signs to it that said “Al Gore’s New Home” and “Honk If You Love Global Warming”. Inhofe, a Republican from Oklahoma, is chair of the Senate environment committee. “I think it’s lovely that Senator Inhofe enjoys the winter weather so much,” said Gavin Schmidt, a climate scientist and director of Nasa’s Goddard Institute for Space Studies. “I’m a winter sports fan myself. But there’s a big difference between people playing with the snow, and global climate change.” Schmidt told the Guardian that, despite Senator Inhofe’s views, 2014 had indisputably been the warmest year on record, and January 2015 had been one of the warmest Januaries on record. “Europe was toasty warm. Alaska was toasty warm. Australia was toasty warm. All these things cancel out the fact that it happens to be cold in Washington DC this week,” he said. Inhofe’s office could not be reached for comment.
Republican Senate environment chief uses snowball as prop in climate rant
The damn thing was getting out and climbing all over my car, leaving paw prints, and shitting in my flower beds. So I called animal control and they brought me a trap, I trapped it, called them back, and they came out to pick it up. Neighbor came home just in time to see the animal control van driving away. Now, I had never mentioned that I was going to call animal control or trap the cat, but I had told her about the cat prints and cat shit and asked her to keep her animal off my property. She offered some lame excuse and went on her sweet way. But yesterday, she sees the animal control van and starts running down the street after it. Then she starts back toward the house, screaming at me "You'll pay for this!" as she runs in and slams the door. Not 15 minutes later, she sends her sniveling little crotch dropping over to tearfully ask me why I took his cat away. I told him to go home. This morning, I hear a big ruckus next door, car doors slamming, etc. So I peek out the curtain to see her and her son getting out of the car with the cat, making a big show of having gone and gotten it out of kitty jail, so I'd come out and see. I simply opened the door and waved at them, making sure they saw that I saw. I'm sure I've started WWIII with these people now. Goddamn, they are tedious.
Long story short, I have a bipolar neighbor in my apt building who is driving me and the rest of the tenants up the wall. Over the past 3 years, the pattern seems to be that things are quiet for a while and then she goes through screaming and crying spells that are very loud and stressful to hear. Even the tenants in the apt building next to ours have complained and called the police. She told our landlord she is embarrassed and that she is bipolar. She wanted to write a letter to the tenants which she gave to him but at the last minute she told him not to distribute it. She seems either 'on' or 'off'. A few weeks will go by where it's very peaceful and then there are weeks where she is constantly crying, yelling loudly, slamming doors and causing a ruckus. Us tenants come out into the hallways during the really loud episodes that she has and we all stare at each other but we're too afraid to confront her to tell her to shut up. if it gets really bad someone calls the police. Long story short, There are 8 units in my building and I have lived in here for over 10 years. It was a great, peaceful environment. Then this bipolar tenant, a woman who looked to be in her late 20s, moved in a few years ago(fall 09) and it's been disruptive off and on ever since. The police have come out at least every other month, particularly when she gets in knockdown verbal screaming matches with her boyfriend. (He is not a tenant but stays over regularly). They have both been arrested or taken away for 5150/72 hour supervision in a psych ward a few times over the past few years. He scares us more than she does when he goes into rages. A few weeks ago he was screaming at her and tried to break down the front door to our bldg until the police arrested him. Now he's back and I heard them screaming this morning. Our landlord is tearing his hair out. He got an atty and tried to evict her but she fought back and said that under the Fair Housing Act you can't evict someone with a disability (her bipolar condition being a disability). We have had some tenants leave because of her. I don't want to move because the rent is really reasonable in a great neighborhood and it's close to my work. I looked for other options in this neighborhood but couldn't find anything affordable. (My building is cheaper because it's older and seen better days but the location is great). My landlord said if one of us tenants would testify in court against her that's our best chance to evict her. We are all too scared to do it. (Yea, I know) I wrote a letter to my landlord with extensive dates of incidences where the police had to come over but he says it's not enough. He has police records of their visits out here as well but says we need someone to testify to evict her. Again, no one wants to go to court as they are too scared in case we lose. So we are stuck with this woman who yells, slams doors, screams in our common hallway that we are 'bad people' for calling the police, etc. She is also paranoid and says we broke her mailbox (there's nothing wrong with it) and other random things. She has no concept of how her ongoing episodes are ruining the quality of life for people not only in this building but in the one next door as well. We are all waiting for the day when she or her boyfriend end up shooting or beating each other up, their arguments are escalating. I realize this sounds like some bad drama queen journaling but I'm sick of it. She just had another episode this afternoon and the police came out again to investigate. This time she was not taken away but was given another warning. I don't know if she voluntarily goes off her meds or if her meds aren't working but I'm just burnt out on being sucked into the yelling, screaming, etc. Sorry for the long novel. I'm just hoping someone will offer some insight or maybe just tell me to pull up my socks and move. But I don't want to be pushed out of a place I love because of this woman. Are there any attys out there who have insight on how to work around the Fair Housing Act?
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DO NOT move to Arkansas.
Arkansas Senate passes bill banning pro-LGBT protections statewide
She just told a guy that if any woman ever tells him that his uncut penis is beautiful, she's lying. What a fucking cunt! Reason #101 why I can't stand this tore up, beat down, blown out bitch.
Tavis Smiley. GAY! Saw him a couple of weeks ago at a performance of "Porgy & Bess." Sitting in the orchestra next to an other African American guy. They were dressed identically. Both had scarfs tied in the Euro knot. I mean do the math! Over 40, openly against gay marriage "for religious reasons" and seeing a MUSICAL WITH ANOTHER MAN. Gay.
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In the movies cars trail practically on the bumper, but that can't be how it works in real life. How can you tell if you are being watched?
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It's not something I've wanted to do since I switched to Mac. & I can't figure it out. TIA
I'm not shading her either. I'm legitimately curious due to an old interview I read about her brother. He talks about the book he wrote on her. The article said this: "When Ciccone was asked if it was true he had received seven figures for the book, he laughed and coyly repeated, 'I'm not unhappy with it.' He added that he is sure his sister was worried about exactly how much he would reveal to the world when she learned of the book. 'I know that her reaction was like many people's — she went to the very worst place,' Ciccone said. 'That I was going to discuss very private medical matters, that I was going to tear her apart, that, you know, she was very upset. And she — since I wasn't responding to her, she was calling my father and trying to get him to choose sides, which I thought was of -- on the low side, if you ask me.' What could "very private medical matters" be? I can't think of a major disease or illness that the public would really care about other than HIV
Well, this is embarrassing for her, innit?
Does it sound promising?
From President Obama's speech today, see below. This is why it's important to vote Democratic in the November election. We need more representatives who will fight for the working man and woman, to keep these gains from being reversed and to move forward with more gains. When President Obama was elected, businesses where laying off 800,000 people a month; today, they are hiring 200,000 people a month. The unemployment rate has dropped from 10.9% in 2009 to 6.1% today. Over the last 4.5 years, businesses have created 10 million new jobs. This is the longest uninterrupted stretch of job creation in our nation's history. There are more job openings now than anytime since 2001. During the Obama Administration, the US has put more people back to work than in Europe, Japan, and every other advanced economy COMBINED. Of course, there are people who are still struggling, that is why we need to vote Democratic in all offices this November, to elect people who will fight for the working man and woman. We can't afford to have these gains reversed.
I don't get it? We loved her for years and years. What's just changed?
...all saying that they are "bi" or in some cases "straight?" These guys are as gay as me--and I'm 100 percent gay. Nothing bi or straight about me at all. They're on camera all the time having sex with other men. And the 'gay for pay' line is bullshit.
Yes. That's really his excuse.
Do you agree? It still creeps me out thinking about it.
This full page ran in yesterday's New York Times. What do we know about the couple?
Not for the faint of heart.
JonBenet Ramsey Crime Scene Photos, Including Photos Of Her Body
Did he give up trying to be famous?
I have no desire to see it, despite the raves, and despite the fact Miles Teller is hot in an offbeat way. "Full metal Jacket" in Viet Nam was bad enough: why would I want to see it transposed to Julliard?
Her last album "MDNA" bombed, selling only 1.8 million worldwide, the worst-selling album of her career. They gave the album away with tour tickets and perfume too. The album's three singles all flopped. The first single, a critical disaster, "Give Me All Your Luvin'" got to #10 on the charts thanks to Live Nation paying for airplay. It still only got to #10 even after the Super Bowl promotion, and giving the single away with pre-orders. The next two singles bombed, even in places like the UK, one of her most dedicated markets. "Give Me All Your Luvin'" charted at #37, "Girl Gone Wild," "MDNA"'s second single, charted at #73, and the third and last single "Turn Up The Radio" chart at #175. It didn't even chart in the US. Then there was horrible film "W.E." in 2012, which cost $29 million to make, and only made $868,439 at the box office. Does she understand that she's musically irrelevant now? Should she just stick to performing "Greatest Hits" tours? I'm betting she lives in a bubble with a whole load of Yes Men. Her last tour didn't pull in the same amount of $$$ as the previous one, although it didn't remarkably well. Why? She's still having to sing "Vogue" and "Like A Virgin". Her personal life is a disaster as well - all the plastic surgery, 20-year-old bought and paid for boyfriends, etc. Then she's still in that freaky cult. Oh, let's not forget her taking her tits and showing her ass and vagina at 54, she trying to prove that she's hot and trying to shock people. Do you think she can accept simply being a touring artist, a nostalgia act? That's all she has now. Her directing career, which she was aiming for, is never going to happen. We're seeing and discussing child stars and over-the-hill celebs in crisis non-stop today. I imagine Madonna's going to be added to the list.
Message from me to oscar winning screenwriter Graham Moore: Gurl, you are GAY. Also, I can see Uranus.
I've been watching these on Roku/YouTube before bed. In the last few years of the show, after Dorothy Kilgallen died, the show rotated different people to fill the second woman panelist slot. Most of them were actresses or famous writers, but one of them seemed to have no credits at all: "Miss Sue Oakland," who was always introduced as studying for her Ph.D. at Columbia University (and nothing else). Sue was smart, and as pretty as a model, but had no reason for being there. Arlene Francis clearly could not stand her -- she usually had fun with other women on the panel, but never acknowledged Sue Oakland's existence five feet away (that I've ever seen). Does anyone know who Sue Oakland was? The logical conclusion is either the daughter of a sponsor or the mistress of either Goodson or Todman, but there's almost nothing on the web about the mysterious Miss Oakland (and nothing turns up in Google image search).
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I haven't followed it for a while, maybe I'll try again this season.
First she''d insult your hands, then she''d put them into a bowl of liquid soap "to soften them" while she butted into your business. What an unmitigated cunt!\ \ No wonder people abandoned Madge the Manicurist for Vu Thuy the Manicurist.
We used to have people who spent time on the site and posted some of the more interesting articles/blogs from Huffpo. They were attacked by the vicious old queens who think they own this board. Attacked to the point where they went away, and now it is rare that we get a link. I miss them. I hate scrolling through page after page to find the concise, worthy bits of that site. Use this thread to post your favorite bit from Huffpo and fuck the vicious queens. (on second thought maybe if the were getting fucked they would not be such controlling hall monitors.)
I'm sure some of you have been abducted and probed by aliens. Please share your stories here.
No more Real Housewives. No more Harry Stiles and One Direction. No more Soap threads. No more NPH. No more Jane Jackson and no more Jabba. No more baseball threads. No more Gale Harold. No more Madonna bashing. No more Frankel or Vanderpump.
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I was young when this happened. I don't remember much the older people around me were pretty bummed out. Everyone said what a humanitarian Dianna was. Do most people in England believe it was a conspiracy? Is there any evidence of conspiracy?
Or from the west to the east? How long did it take you, assuming that you drove the entire time and only stopped for food, bathroom, and sleep breaks.
How do you do it? I have always, always carried a balance most of my adult life. Right now I am 4k or so in debt and can only afford to chip away at it. Then last weekend I had to use it again as my car broke down and needed a repair. :(
Massachusetts Senator Elizabeth Warren has made it perfectly clear she isn’t running for president in 2016, despite the ongoing and vigorous attempts to draft her into the race. But if Warren isn’t running, where do her supporters go? Are they committed to voting for anyone running against presumed front-runner Hillary Clinton? Do her voters flock to one of the other contenders for the nomination, like Joe Biden, Martin O’Malley, or Bernie Sanders? Nope. Warren captures about 10-15% of Democrats’ support in most polls of the potential 2016 field that include her name. With Warren removed, the “lionshare” of her voting bloc appears to go to Clinton, said Lee Miringoff, the director of the Marist Institute for Public Opinion, which conducted the poll with NBC. “There’s no sense that they’ve gone anywhere other than to the well-known Clinton,” Miringoff said. “She’s cornered the market on liberal Democrats.” And that’s ultimately the challenge the anyone-but-Hillary activists face: there just aren’t that many of them. Let’s be clear: there are plenty of reasons progressive activists have not wanted to leap directly into Hillary’s arms. They have genuine concerns about her hawkishness, her ties to Wall Street, and her lackluster 2008 campaign. It’s reasonable to want a challenger who focuses on the populist issues Warren has championed. But ultimately, any challenger for the nomination has an uphill battle. Hillary Clinton is popular — with the general populace, with Democrats, and with liberals.
I couldn't if I tried!
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I will watch to see his furry body in underwear.
The only conference with Captain America, Sarah Palin and Nigel Farage - in pictures Ukip leader joins variety of speakers at the US Conservative Political Action Conference (CPAC) in Maryland
My God, it was SLOW. There's one scene where the father moves into his new apartment and they spend several minutes just watching him unpack his shopping from the supermarket. The kids seems so lifeless. In fact the whole thing lacks life and lacks editing. It should be fascinating to watch over forty years later, but watching it feels like drowning. Say what you like about reality TV today-it generally moves along and has some energy.
I've been looking at an episode of 'An American Family' (1973) on YT
Ronaldo was attending the official launch of his new underwear range, CR7, and anyone wondering what his debut collection looks like didn’t have to look too far - a 19-metre tall campaign image featuring the chiseled winger in all his glory was suspended above in the landmark building’s renaissance courtyard. Meanwhile the man in question, never shy about coming forward, was clearly delighted as he posed for photos between its legs. ‘I am very proud to officially launch CR7 today and especially to see my campaign image displayed in this beautiful building, one of the most famous landmarks in Madrid,’ he said.‘I put a lot of passion and dedication into creating this new underwear line and I am delighted to finally launch it globally today. ‘ Ronaldo has previously modelled for Armani Jeans, but his latest campaign marks an inaugural brand venture and his first attempt at fashion designing. His design debut was aided by Richard Chai – best known for his collaborations with Marc Jacobs and Donna Karen.‘Fashion and design are two passions of mine and I have wanted to launch my own brand for a long time. Working on this collection alongside Richard has given me a great creative outlet and I have loved every part of collaborating on the range, from selecting the colours and designs to testing the styles and fits myself,’ he said. ‘I am very proud that the collection is launching worldwide today.’ Ronaldo's new underwear range will be available to buy via www.cr7underwear.com from November 1.
He told a story last night on Letterman in which he was on a few pills and whiskey for a performance he did and was still a little loopy when he went backstage. There, he ran into Tony Goldwyn who was with a few people including two children. The little girl asked if he would autograph her Playbill which he did, then the little 9-year-old boy took off his Croc shoe and asked, "Would you autograph my Croc?" Sean, still a little whacked out on pills and booze, replied, " Thank God there's an "r" in that," at which point Tony Goldwyn looked horrified and they all left. I don't believe that story for a minute. Who asks someone to autograph a shoe, let alone a plastic shoe? The story does not make sense. If he's going to make up stories for late night shows which many people do, can't he make up something more believable? Or one that doesn't involve a little boy and his Croc?
From 20 years ago in an interview with vibe magazine. Where she played a lesbian in the film Set It Off "I'm not a dyke. I knew what was in that script before I took the job. That's why it was even more of a challenge to me."
Was that bearding or was she fooled?
From 2001-2005, Datalounge was overwhelmed with the Ponyprancers, Lord of the Rings fans who were obsessed with spinning out fantasies about the sex lives of Elijah Wood and Dominic Monaghan. Now for the last few years we've been overwhelmed with fans obsessed with speculating about Richard Armitage and Lee Pace. What is it about Tolkien films that leads to this fevered slash speculation? It's not the quality of the films, because the three Hobbit movies have been pretty much shit.
President Obama vetoed the Keystone XL pipeline bill today, with a short message to Republicans in Congress that should serve as a warning that this president is won’t be bullied by anyone. In his veto message the president said: I am returning herewith without my approval S. 1, the “Keystone XL Pipeline Approval Act.” Through this bill, the United States Congress attempts to circumvent longstanding and proven processes for determining whether or not building and operating a cross-border pipeline serves the national interest. The Presidential power to veto legislation is one I take seriously. But I also take seriously my responsibility to the American people. And because this act of Congress conflicts with established executive branch procedures and cuts short thorough consideration of issues that could bear on our national interest — including our security, safety, and environment — it has earned my veto. The president’s message accurately accused Republicans in Congress of trying to circumvent processes while also undercutting the powers of the president. Keystone XL was an attempt by Republicans to take power away from the president. The American people strongly support the president’s position of allowing the process to play out on Keystone XL. This veto is about more than a piece of legislation that was passed only for the benefit of a foreign oil company. Congressional Republicans tried to bully the President on the pipeline, and he pushed back. Obama’s veto message was short, but it layered with the broader political conflict that will be contested over the last two years of his presidency. Republicans thought that they were going to show the dominance of their congressional majority. Instead, they have run into a president who is going to stand tall, and fight for what he believes is the right thing for the country until the day that he leaves office.
President Obama Vetoes Keystone XL With Blistering Veto Message
Frigging molar. Frigging root canal is scheduled for three weeks away. Advil ain't cutting it. Ice pack on cheek.
2am
The other thread is full, and we need to provide emotional support to Brandon, Cameron and Abe the only studs left whose taints are untouched by dick or dildo (at least on film). Stay strong and whatever you do don't sign up with Men.com!
Employee monitoring may be the cause.
Well, duh! Introduction of peanut products into the diets of infants at high risk of developing peanut allergy was safe and led to an 81 percent reduction in the subsequent development of the allergy, a clinical trial has found. "Food allergies are a growing concern, not just in the United States but around the world," said an expert. "For a study to show a benefit of this magnitude in the prevention of peanut allergy is without precedent. The results have the potential to transform how we approach food allergy prevention."
Peanut consumption in infancy prevents peanut allergy, study finds
How do you say his last name?
Someone wrote on the recent Goodbar thread that "Looking For Mr Goodbar" is "Part of the DL pantheon, along with "Rosemary's Baby," "The Birds" and "The Exorcist." I wonder why gays seem to love these movies so much...any ideas? Also, can you name any other "Women in trouble" movies that gays love?
Just watched him do push-ups with Terrence Howard and Kelly. The man is without a doubt one of the sexiest men I've ever seen. Is he gay? If so, I'm going to start circulating in his circles.
I like binge watching and have seen the ones that get a lot of publicity like House of Cards and OITNB. I would love to have new show to binge on. Anything on Starz? Amazon? Netflix... What have you enjoyed that went under the publicity radar?
I don't wear jeans.
Who's going to binge watch?
Abercrombie & Fitch case: justices set to side with Muslim woman over headscarf US supreme court hears arguments in religious discrimination case involving woman who was not hired because she wore a black headscarf to interview Dan Roberts in Washington, Wednesday 25 February 2015 12.09 EST Abercrombie & Fitch’s rejection of a Muslim job applicant for wearing a headscarf was sharply criticised in the US supreme court on Wednesday, as even conservative justices ridiculed the fashion chain’s “mythical preppy” rules on how employees can dress. In a landmark religious discrimination case, brought by Oklahoma shop worker Samantha Elauf, lawyers for the store argued it need not have taken her religion into account when applying a rule against headwear because managers only guessed she was Muslim. But a majority of justices on the nine-strong bench appeared sympathetic to arguments made by the US Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) that they should have asked Elauf or at least told her of the ban so she had an opportunity to volunteer the information. “I am not only standing up for myself, but for all people who wish to adhere to their faith while at work,” said Elauf in a statement issued from the steps of the court after the hour-long hearing. “Observance of my faith should not prevent me from getting a job.” If it eventually rules in favour of the EEOC and Elauf, the supreme court will clear up a disagreement among lower appeal courts about whether employers have to know for sure that an applicant is seeking a religious exemption under existing anti-discrimination rules. Questions raised during the oral argument suggest many are leaning this way. Justice Elena Kagan compared the case to an employer deciding it did not want to hire Jewish people and then looking out for names that looked Jewish as a way to screen applicants. “That’s gotta be against the law, right?” she said, incredulously. Samuel Alito, known for more conservative views, also said Abercrombie must have suspected Elauf’s headscarf was permanent, otherwise it would have simply assumed she would not wear it again once at work. “[Or] maybe she was just having a bad hair day?” he asked to laughter from the court after describing the store’s list of rules as “mythical preppy”. Justice Stephen Breyer also joked about the store’s attempt to make everyone look like they had gone to Princeton University. Only Antonin Scalia, the most conservative justice on the bench, appeared sympathetic to the store’s argument that it could not know for sure what Elauf’s religion was, even though a manager suspected she was Muslim. “Would you tell us what it is you want here,” he asked EEOC lawyer and deputy US solicitor general Ian Gershengorn. “Understand, know, believe, suspect – what other verbs do you suggest?” “If you want to sue me, the burden is on you to tell me,” added Scalia. Briefly, chief justice John Roberts appeared sympathetic. “Let’s say you have someone of Middle Eastern appearance who shows up with a beard,” he said. “Do you think it is better for him … to be asked questions that that they would not ask any other applicant?” But Roberts and others appeared swayed by Alito, who suggested employers simply tell applicants what their rules are and then ask “Do you have a problem with that?” as a way around making assumptions about their religion. Abercrombie’s lawyer Shay Dvoretzky questioned whether this would mean the company would have to “deviate from a religion-neutral policy based on mere suspicion”. “Having that kind of standard will inevitably lead employers to stereotype,” he added. He also rejected the suggestion that the store should have told Elauf it did not allow headscarves. “It was a matter of common sense that Abercrombie & Fitch requires employees to wear clothes that look like Abercrombie style,” said Dvoertzky. “It does not sell headscarves.” But the majority of the bench appeared to agree with Gershengorn’s assertion that “this is a particularly straightforward case”, because the store had admitted it suspected Elauf was Muslim and still rejected her due to her headscarf. “This is an unusual case because it is very rare that you have an interviewer like [Abercrombie manager Heather] Cooke that is honest,” said Justice Sonia Sotomayor. “The only reason you have a suit here is because she was honest.” “Most of the time applicants never find out why they were not hired and this is what makes this a very important case,“ concluded Gershengorn.
Abercrombie & Fitch case: justices set to side with Muslim woman over headscarf
How is your house decorated? Do you adhere to one type of style or is it a mish mash? If you had an unlimited budget, how would you decorate? (Assuming same dwelling)
He's pissed about American Sniper's snub. "Are you kidding me?!! Birman wins Best Picture over American Sniper???!!! Insane. But just shows you the politics of Hollywood to give the award to a movie that deals with dysfunctional characters and not to the story of a great American hero. Once again, I should not be surprised. Welcome to La La Land! Clint Eastwood once again did an amazing job, but he is a conservative, so that pretty much knocks him out."
Variety: "Meh." Hollywood Reporter: "Meh." Sorry Luke, I hope Jon is there to console you.
When a guy sees your dick - at the gym, at a urinal, as you take off your clothes to get into bed with him.... What's the best/funniest/most unusual comment that anyone's ever made about your junk?
After all wouldn't it make more sense to have the blond in the middle, between the two brunettes? Or how about having the Asian guy in between the two Caucasian men. But it is Freddie Smith smack dab in the middle, while the other two are on either side like an after thought, Why?
Copied this from another thread. What does the DL think of this statement?
It was on a ghastly cable show called "Repeat After Me." He now has tattoos all up and down both arms and some kind of a line on his neck. New hairdo, new hair color. He looks 30. He appears wooden and dimwitted. I no longer want to fuck Justin Bieber.
Human rights campaigners have slammed a decision by award-winning musician John Legend to perform at a state-backed event in Bahrain next week. The Grammy Award-winning singer, who won an Oscar on Sunday for Best Original Song for “Glory” from the film Selma, is set to perform on Monday at the country’s Spring of Culture festival in Arad Fort, which is organised and part funded by the Bahrain Authority for Culture and Antiquities, the country’s ministry of culture. However, campaigners in the country have attacked the singer for agreeing to perform at a government-backed event in a country where the Sunni-dominated regime has been accused of widespread human rights abuses, including the use of excessive force against protesters, extra judicial killings, arbitrary detention and torture. Mr Legend’s performance – tickets have already sold out – comes after he spoke out for human rights at the most politically charged Academy Awards in recent memory on Sunday night. Accepting his award for his contribution to Selma, which depicts Dr Martin Luther King’s momentous battle to pass the 1965 Voting Rights Act, Mr Legend quoted Nina Simone, saying that “it’s an artist’s duty to reflect the times in which we live.” His speech also touched on several social justice issues, including the United States’ high incarceration rates, sparking fierce political debate. However the outspoken musician now faces charges of hypocrisy after Bahraini campaigners said he was being used to “burnish” the “bloodied reputation” of the regime. Dr Ala’a al-Shehabi, a prominent human rights activist from Bahrain Watch, said: “Bahrainis have been enduring a civil rights struggle for decades. Having John Legend sing in Bahrain should be in honour of the people who have lost life and limb in this struggle. Not in honour of the regime that wants to use him to burnish its bloodied reputation.” He added: “Bahrain is facing a human rights calamity given its small size and small population… Scores of ageing and peaceful political leaders are behind bars. If Martin Luther King was Bahraini today, he'd be serving a long prison sentence, for all of the island's leaders are in prison, on trial or in exile. This call for Mr Legend to reconsider the performance was echoed by Sayed Yousif Almuhafdah, the vice president of the Bahrain Center for Human Rights. He said: “I’d like to tell John Legend that my people, the people of Bahrain, are fighting the same injustice and discrimination African Americans suffered in the United States. They’re living under a dictatorship that has stripped them from their most basic human rights, democracy, justice, and freedom of speech. Bahrainis democracy campaigners are being attacked on daily basis, arrested, tortured, and unjustly detained. The people of Bahrain are paying their lives as a price for their freedom.” Mr Legend’s performance will also embarrass Amnesty International after he lent his name to a high-profile freedom of expression campaign by the charity in November. At the time the singer said he was “proud” to support the “Write for Rights” campaign which seeks to empower people “to write, tweet and speak out on human rights abuses.” His performance in Bahrain on Monday will be doubly embarrassing for Amnesty International after it issued a damming report this week on human rights violations in the country. The report found that Sunni-dominated government “continued to stifle and punish dissent” in the wake of political unrest in the country in 2011 when troops from neighbouring Saudi Arabia help the it smash protesters who were calling to end the domination of the ruling al-Khalifa dynasty, which has controlled the country for more than 200 years.
John Legend to play gig in Bahrain - days after speaking out on human rights at the Oscars
Harrison Ford will star in "Blade Runner 2".
Did anyone else find this year's Oscars to be a bit... lacking in star power? There were a bunch of A-listers who apparently weren't at the ceremony (at least from the pictures I've seen). The most obvious explanation is they weren't nominated or attached to nominated films, but that's not a requirement for attending and I'm assuming many have standing invitations to attend or could have presented if they wanted. Since they're all working and have projects to promote it seems weird to avoid an appearance which keeps them in the public eye. So why weren't the following there? (or were they there and I missed them?) Jennifer Lawrence Angelina & Brad (heck, Jennifer Aniston was there and she wasn't nominated, and Angelina was attached to both Unbroken and Maleficent, which were up for technical awards) Sandra Bullock George & Amal Clooney Amy Adams Hugh Jackman etc. I feel like the camera kept on cutting to Meryl because there wasn't a lot of Hollywood royalty to cut to otherwise...
And why do they start cleaning so early when they know a room is occupied? Housekeeping gripes thread. Go!
I've had many so it's hard to choose. I think it's a toss up between Burger King in high school and the phone surveying job I had in college where one day I came in and they wanted me to call people up and ask what brand of toilet paper they used. I just couldn't bring myself to do it. My fight-or-flight response kicked in & I told my manager I needed to go use the Coke machine…walked out and ended up being fired for it. Yours?
This poll is not about looks or likability, just about talent.
Did anyone see this in The Enquirer? In 2000 Jer was arrested for trespassing in a Beverly Hills park known for gay hookups
The wife of this foreign born A-/B+ list mostly movie actor who is a very recent Academy Award winner/nominee told one of her friends that our actor spends a great deal of time preparing for his next role and wears women’s clothes everywhere. Of course what she left out is that he has been doing this for much longer than the past few months. It has been going on for years. She doesn’t seem to mind, but at least this way she can talk about it a little. Eddie Redmayne
Endora's age for example. In earlier episodes, it was suggested that Endora "admits to 1000" years old. Serena refers to the Witches' Council, saying you can "never trust someone over 2000 years old!" Uncle Arthur looks at Endora and says, "Make that 3000!". But in the Henry VIII episode, Endora says that she can't use her witchcraft because she hadn't been born yet! That annoyed me. The writers were getting lazy at that point
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Ed Snowden is an American Hero and not only should Obama pardon him, Obama should praise him.
I want to hear about Awards Shows and exclusive A list parties. Please tell us the following: 1) The Event 2) How you got on the list/an invite 3) Who did you see 4) What was it like 5) Anything memorable happen
I was discussing the the subject of gentrification with my boyfriend, who's 39 and I'm 35, and he asked me what gentrification was. I looked at him like he's an idiot then explained it to him. I could tell he was embarrassed and I felt a little bad, but seriously- how the fuck does a grown man not know these things?
Is there any reason whatsoever that I should care?
Has this been the quickest Oscar failure ever?
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Primary psychopathy is the affective aspects of psychopathy; a lack of empathy for other people and tolerance for antisocial orientations. Out of 5, I scored 1.8 Secondary psychopathy is the antisocial aspects of psychopathy; rule breaking and a lack of effort towards socially rewarded behavior. Out of 5, I scored 2.9 Conclusion: I'm not a psychopath. What about you?
Vote for your favorite you want to see go to series. The one with the hot yoga instructor seems interesting. He shows lots of nudity. And the show about Cocks with Jason Lee.
Based on the life of comedian Jermaine Fowler, who stars as a millennial with big ideas, but very little drive who moves in with his estranged grandmother (Whoopi Goldberg) — a strict, football-loving, former D.C. cop who needs his youthful enthusiasm in her life as much as he needs her old-school parenting. Cast: Jermaine Fowler, Whoopi Goldberg Team: W/EP Danny Chun (The Office), Jermaine Fowler; EP Michael Rotenberg, Avi Gilbert; EP Whoopi Goldberg, Tom Leonardis Studio: ABC Studios, 3 Arts Format: Multicamera Location: New York Dr. Ken. Logline: Ken Jeong stars in the semi-autobiographical comedy as a frustrated HMO doctor juggling medicine, marriage and parenting — and succeeding at none of them. Cast: Ken Jeong (Community), Albert Tsai (Trophy Wife), Dave Foley Team: W/EP: Jared Stern; W/co-EP: Mike O'Connell, Ken Jeong; EP John Davis, John Fox, Mike Sikowitz; D Scott Ellis Studio: Sony Pictures Television, ABC Studios, Davis Entertainment Format: Multicamera Family Fortune. Logline: A popular gym teacher in North Carolina comes out of the closet to her close-knit group of family and friends. What she doesn't realize is that she will also have to deal with her bickering and happily divorced parents also "coming out" that they are sleeping together again. Based on comedian Fortune Feimster's life. Cast: Fortune Feimster, Annie Potts, John Carroll Lynch Team: W/co-EP Fortune Feimster; W/EP Matt Hubbard; EP Robert Carlock, Tina Fey, David Miner Studio: Universal Television, 3 Arts Format: Multicamera Family of the Year (aka untitled Dan Savage). Logline: Dan Savage's semi-autobiographical revolves around a picture-perfect family turned upside down when the youngest son comes out of the closet. What seems like the end of their idyllic life turns out to be the beginning of a bright new chapter when everyone stops pretending to be perfect and actually starts being real. Cast: Jay R. Ferguson, Bebe Wood, Mathew Shively Team: W/EP David Windsor, Casey Johnson; P Dan Savage, Brian Pines, Dan McDermott; D Todd Holland Studio: ABC Studios, Hypomania Content, DiBonaventura Pictures Television Format: Single-camera The 46 Percenters. Logline:An anti-romantic, romantic comedy about the 46 percent of the population who choose to stay married. Told through the point of view of three couples. Cast: Angela Kinsey Team: W/EP Sherry Bilsing-Graham (Friends, The New Adventures of Old Christine), Ellen Kreamer (The New Adventures of Old Christine); D/EP Andy Ackerman Studio: Warner Bros. Television, Gavin&Roxie&Hap Productions Format: Multicamera Irreversible — rolled from 2014-15 (pilot order hinges on finding a female lead). Logline: Based on the Israeli series Bilti Hafich, the comedy centers on Andy and Sarah, a somewhat eccentric, self-absorbed couple, and their trials and tribulations, many of which they bring on themselves. The original ranks as the No. 1 original comedy on Israeli broadcast TV. Cast: Justin Long Team: W/EP/D Segahl Avin (Bilti); EP Peter Tolan, Michael Wimer Studio: Reshet TV (Divorce: A Love Story), Sony Pictures Television, Fedora Entertainment Format: Single-camera Location: New York The King of 7B. Logline: An agoraphobic recluse ventures outside for the first time in 20 years when he spies what could be his soul mate moving into the building across the street. Prentiss Porter will embark on an incredible journey of discovery right outside his front door in this ensemble comedy.
I was checking it out where I live in Palm Springs. There aren't a lot of drivers here, but the fare quotes seemed to be no better Than a taxi. Might be different in LA. What's your experience?
Strange lights on dwarf planet Ceres have scientists perplexed By Chris Taylor,20 hours ago A dwarf planet is shining two bright lights at a NASA spacecraft right now, and our smartest scientists are unsure what they are. As bizarre as that sentence sounds, that's the situation with Ceres — the largest object in the asteroid belt between Mars and Jupiter, officially designated as a dwarf planet (the same category as Pluto). NASA's Dawn spacecraft is approaching Ceres ahead of a March 6 rendezvous. The picture above was taken February 19, from a distance of just under 29,000 miles, and shows two very shiny areas on the same basin on Ceres' surface. Previous Dawn images from further away showed a single light on Ceres, which was just as mysterious. Then, to the amazement of every astronomy geek, the one light turned out to be two — reflecting roughly 40% of the light hitting them. "This is truly unexpected and still a mystery to us," said Andreas Nathues, lead investigator for the framing camera team at the Max Planck Institute for Solar System Research in Gottingen, Germany, in a NASA statement. "The brightest spot [of the two] continues to be too small to resolve with our camera, but despite its size it is brighter than anything else on Ceres." So what could the bright spots be, other than alien castaways signaling at us with flashlights? The most obvious contender is ice, although ice would reflect more than 40% of all light hitting it. The difference may be accounted for by the resolution limit of Dawn's camera at this distance. Scientists have previously detected water vapor coming from the surface of the dwarf planet, making ice a more likely option. Scientists have also suggested the bright areas could be patches of salt. On the other hand, the location of the two bright spots so close together may be an indication that they have a geologic origin, such as some sort of volcanic process, possibly even ice volcanoes. According to Chris Russell, principal investigator for the Dawn mission, the positioning of the bright spots within the same area may indicate "a volcano-like origin of the spots," but scientists will have to wait for higher resolution images before making such interpretations. Scientists don't think the spots comprise lava similar to that seen on Earth, since that would shine more brightly. We'll find out more as Dawn approaches Ceres next week and more imagery comes in during the next 16 months, according to NASA. In the meantime, here's more on Dawn and its eight-year mission: (Video at link)
Strange lights on dwarf planet Ceres have scientists perplexed
Various conservatives claim that Obama is: Socialist Gay Muslim Foreign-Born Hater of America Hater of the Rich Black (actually no one ever dares to claim that one) Elitist Don't people reading conservative BS ever wonder: Wow, what a coincidence that Obama is absolutely everything we hate. He has no redeeming quality at all that we can admire. What are the chances that he ended up President? Could it be at all possible that Obama isn't those things? Could it be that the Con talking heads are lying? Cons throws absolutely every hateful thing at him and their minions lap it up.
I'm a total night person. I can sleep to noon every day and stay up until 3 or 4 in the morning. During the day I'm always dragging and sleepy. I would love to be one of those morning people, but it's too late. Has anyone ever successfully changed from a night person to a morning person? I blame my parents. My bedtime was 9:00 growing up and I hated it.
I saw the video at the link via Seduced by the New, and immediately fell in love. Apparently he is a HUGE star in Ireland, and his US debut is being pushed hard. He was on SNL last week, but I didn't watch it yet. I literally heard the song 2 hours ago, and just heard it again featured in a Beats by Dre commercial. The song is called "Take Me To Church" and the videos features a hate crime against two gay men. It's a brutal, fantastic song and the video pushes it over the edge. The singer is gorgeous, and his view of gay rights is excellent. Oh my god, I just mentally compared him to Jeff Buckley. He's that good.
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he was the bitchy one in Cycle 21, Guys vs. Girls who gave everyone attitude and dumped on cutie Matt. She was killed by the boyfriend she was cheating on with Denzel while in the house. Sympathies to Tyra and Mirjana's family.
On Starz, and in the great tradition of the groundbreaking show, Spartacus, once again we get another hyper-masculine gay character. This time, he's one of the main protagonists: a gay pirate! There are some hot men on the show who are not afraid to show some peen, the cinematography is stunning, the story is rich and engrossing, and the character development puts Game of Thrones to shame. Love this show! Anyone else watching?
Has she poked her head out spouting her stupidity in any threads? Or is she quite while mourning her "great loss"?
New York-based photographer David Williams set out to challenge the way society “genderises” animal ownership and debunk the myth of the “crazy cat lady”. As his series of captivating photos with male cat owners - aptly titled Men & Cats - shows, you certainly do not need a vagina to appreciate a feline companion, or indeed be “crazy”.
Photographer takes pictures of men and cats to crush gender stereotypes
Seth is being unusually cold and bitchy toward him, although they worked together for eight years. I bet they fucked. Will, 44, never married, etc.
Wow! The man looks good for 63. (Although the whole being an idiot thing sort of detracts from the package.)
How does she get by?\ \ Where does her money come from? She left "Alice" 30 years ago and it''s not in re-runs or on DVD, so she''s not getting residuals from that series, and certainly not from "Flo", which lasted only a season and a half.\ \ She''s worked only sporadically since then, and couldn''t have banked all that much money.\ \ Poor dear is 73 and I''m worried about her. It''d be horrible if ol'' Flo was homeless and eating cat food!
Anyone know why BBC America dropped "The Graham Norton Show"? They are well into the series (season) and the website says no shows are scheduled. It was really the only thing on the channel worth watching. Of course this is a channel that shows Star Trek only because the lead actor is British (though plays a Frenchman).
From Oscar winner Jessica Lange to the girl who wore a meat dress. Sure, why not?
Better looking as a woman than as a man?
With Jaden's sexy ass daddy.
(After Suffering Flu-Like Symptoms) RUSHED to ER for the flu??
The owner shot and killed himself in an apparent suicide as authorities raided it. Crazy shit.
Cops Claim to Uncover Maraschino Cherry Tycoon's Drug Lair!!
Before Edith Massey died, John Waters said he wanted to write her a role where she was a preeminent Shakespearean actress, and dreamed of having her onscreen with Meryl Streep. I would love to have seen her in one of the American Horror Story seasons, having it out with Jessica Lange, Kathy Bates, and Angela Bassett. What other film or TV projects would be improved by one of Edith's ra-sha-sha performances?
Improve a modern project by casting Edith Massey
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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."
Fucking adorable.
We're told it's a high class school, not a charm school as it were, but now we find out it has a "Division of Perceptual Studies" that studies ESP, past life regression, out of body experiences, and near-death experiences. Hocus Pocus U.! Somebody should yank their accreditation.
So what does the DL think of this? I saw the Portlandia episode recently, and I noticed a Powerlifter I follow on FB drinks it. I don't think that I could drink it.
Is he really the face of Hugo Boss...or is he a poser?
If I'm honest with myself, I kind of envy them. I'm strictly same-sex, but there's something sort of noble about being able to fall in love with people regardless of their gender.
Another fair English rose gets drunk and vomits and shits in the theater.
I'm watching this on a Dateline rerun. Tied up to an anchor and thrown overboard still alive. Awful way to die.
A former bf had a circle of friends and one of the guys had a crazy ex-gf who ended up with a bullet between the eyes. They think she got involved in some hard core cocaine dealing or owed someone money and was executed.
This is way before Wal-Mart But which store did your mother prefer to do her shopping? Which store did she take you to as a kid?
I think he just came out.
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The Real Housewives of Atlanta, Season 7 Part 2!
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26? Really? Oh dear.
He sure is hot. He seems really smart, too.
It''ll be happening to me this weekend. My bf of three months and I are going to a B&B in the Berkshires to consummate our relationship. I''m 23 and have never topped or bottomed before. I''ll be bottoming this weekend. We decided that at my age it was time to give up my virginity. I''m crazy in love with him, so this is a natual progression. He''s got a very large penis. We''ve done tons of oral, and I''ve had trouble getting my mouth around it it''s so thick. I''m worried about it hurting like hell when he penetrates me. I''ll be all douched and lubed up to accept him, but I''m scared it''ll just be too much. I''m not THAT tight. I use rather large dildos regularly, so although it''s not the Holland Tunnel back there LOL, it''s wide enough. I hope! Should I expect a lot of pain during and after the "event." What was your first time like?
A google search on the lyrics did not turn up the song. It was a house song that got a lot of play around 1993 - it was not a mix. The singer was female, black. This was definitely before Ultra Nate. The lyrics went: "......[italic]I gave my heart....now here I am again[/italic]" and then that would break into the chorus that went "[italic]So special[/italic]" over and over again. Any help?
The new Season is on! Will Renee cry and freak out junior is coming to kill her? Will Big Ang get more silicone in her lips? And what are the names of the rest of the cast?? Discuss.
hair? Some say lemon curd, some say three-day-old spittle puddle. Or, for that matter, what color is this lesbian? I'd do a survey but, well, you know. After all, it's all about the trending frau fads being dumped into the DL. (And color that caftan DIVINE!)
I find Joan Didion overrated -- her prose cold, her manner stiff. Breaking Bad bored me to tears. I like rainy weather.
I have an HP envy m6 (model m6-1225dx to be exact) laptop. My power cord frayed and I can't charge it. Does anyone know if a universal power charger is safe to use as a permanent replacement or is it best to use an original HP power charger, an exact replacement for the one that came with the laptop. HP wants 83 with shipping dollars for the replacement. Staples says they can order an original HP one for 75 dollars with shipping and tax and Radio Shack has a universal one called Enercell for $39.99 plus tax (I'll post a link to the Radio Shack one.) I've been Googling around and some say the universal ones can damage your laptop or the battery but this Radio Shack one is 90 watts and 19 volts. So it should be powerful enough. HP won't give me free tech advice since my computer is over a year old. They want 100 bucks just to talk to me so screw them. Has anyone had any experience with universal power cords, pro or con? I'd appreciate any advice given.
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I''m neg and want to stay that way. But I went on a date with a guy who is poz but awfully sweet. We are planning to ''go all the way'' but I''m a bit apprehensive. I know not to do ANY barebacking, and kissing is more than fine (no bleeding gums or cuts in the mouth). But how about sucking cock? What''s the consensus?
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Gov. Greg Abbott, Lt. Gov. Dan Patrick and anti-gay friends in the Texas legislature prematurely celebrated 10 years of Texas' same-sex marriage ban by cutting a hate-filled cake at the Texas Capitol.
Beckner said police should have separated JonBenet's parents and gotten full statements from Patsy and John Ramsey that day
Ex Police Chief says Jon Benet Ramsey crime scene mishandled
I have the opportunity to take a position with one. I've observed that non-profits are often a mess internally, with organizational issues from bad communication to crazy employees (since few ever get fired). But, I've never worked for one directly. Have any of you? I reached out to them because they serve the LGBT population, and it was something I thought I wanted to do. But, as I've talked with more people there, I felt like I might not entirely fit in...though I haven't necessarily fit in with every employer I've had. The pay is not good - and not why I'm considering it. I just wanted to mention the money because, unlike bad corporate jobs, the pay wouldn't make up for anything negative.
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