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All the laughter all the tears! I want to see Bo and his flip-flops Mandesa and her feets Ryan's Chicklets Jennifer's weave Keith's hair Harry's Jr.. All this and more, tonight on AMERICAN IDOL!!
The victim's funeral is today & I just can't stop thinking about how disturbing this thing is...
WeHo man stabs his doctor boyfriend to death; removes organs and eats his penis
The Million Dollar Listing boys are back in New York. Million Dollar Listing New York returns with new episodes on Wednesday, April 2 at 9 p.m. and E! News has the exclusive on season three. Fredrik Eklund, Luis D. Ortiz and Ryan Serhant all return for what looks like the most dramatic season yet. There are breakups, breakdowns, fussy sellers, new babies (maybe!?) and some epic cross-country trips. This season there are penthouses at the $40 million mark, $180 million developments and huge commissions to go along with the high-priced real estate. Check out the new trailer below. We'll be here when you pick your jaw up from the floor. Here's what's up with the boys. Fredrik, now married, has baby on the brain and is taking new steps to find his zen. Meanwhile, Ryan's no longer single and on the prowl. Can he balance work and a relationship? And Luis has joined Fredrik at Douglas Elliman and is starting to grow up. Last year Million Dollar Listing New York averaged 1.4 million viewers, making it the highest-rated season yet. Will the boys bring the magic again for season three? Million Dollar Listing New York returns with new episodes on Wednesday, April 2 at 9 p.m. on Bravo.
Lawsuit alleges Singer “manipulated his power” to exploit 17-year-old boy “X-Men” director Bryan Singer is being accused of “sexual abuse” of a teenage boy in a lawsuit filed Wednesday, according to court documents obtained by TheWrap. According to the lawsuit filed in federal court in Hawaii, plaintiff Michael Egan, who was named in a press release by his lawyers, was 17 when he was forcibly sodomized by Singer, among other accusations. The suit alleges Singer provided Egan with drugs and alcohol and flew him to Hawaii for sex on more than one occasion in 1999 and claims that Egan was not the only underage boy who was abused. The abuse allegedly began in 1998, shortly after Egan was lured to parties at a house in Encino, Calif. where a high school friend lived, the lawsuit claims. The house, known as the M & C Estate, was often the site of “notorious parties” where adult males allegedly preyed on young boys, the lawsuit claims. According to the lawsuit, Egan was a model and aspiring actor. The documents claim Singer told Egan at one such party that “the adults who resided in or frequented the M & C Estate controlled Hollywood and could decide whether Plaintiff's career aspirations and hopes would be realized” and was also present when Egan was warned to keep those men “happy.” The men supposedly told Egan they were sure he was homosexual according to their “gaydar,” even though Egan told them he was straight. Attorney Jeff Herman said he planned to file more lawsuits against Singer and others involved in the alleged parties. “Hollywood has a problem with the sexual exploitation of children,” Herman said. “This is the first of many cases I will be filing to give these victims a voice and to expose the issue.” A representative for Singer did not immediately respond to TheWrap's request for comment. Herman previously represented the five plaintiffs who accused Sesame Street Elmo puppeteer Kevin Clash of sexually abusing them. Three of the suits were dismissed due to the statute of limitations running out, however, the plaintiffs vowed to appeal. One other plaintiff dropped his complaint, and a fifth plaintiff's suit is currently active. Clash resigned from Sesame Street in November 2012, after the second accuser filed suit against him. More to come…
‘X-Men’ Director Bryan Singer Accused of Sexually Abusing Underage Boy
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… but he doesnt work out and he's starting to get a little gut. Cute, now, but the shots above his head show his hair is also receding. Is he destined to be pudgy and bald and a has been at 30?
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For me, it depends on where I am. In the Caribbean, I never even think about it. In Rhode Island, I sometimes get that "Jaws" feeling. Just a little...a tinge of the cold water perhaps. Around the Cape, rarely. But in south Florida? I worry BIG TIME. It harshes me out, bro.
If you were thinking of catching Johnny Depp's latest flop this weekend: Don't. The Rating's are in and film critics are shocked at what they assumed would be an intelligent and thought provoking movie. Along with Depp, the cast for this movie is stellar. Morgan Freeman, Paul Bettany, Cillian Murphy, Kate Mara, and Rebecca Hall round out an impressive cast that simply cannot hold this steaming mess together. Check under the cut to see what some critics are saying about Depp's latest failure. Synopsis: As Dr. Will Caster works toward his goal of creating an omniscient, sentient machine, a radical anti-technology organization fights to prevent him from establishing a world where computers can transcend the abilities of the human brain. Rex Reed from the New York Obeserver: On Depp's Performance: It’s the cushiest job in one of the worst movies ever made because the star gets to stay home and blow up the world in his easy chair, phoning in the dialogue Overall: The result is a pointless nightmare of pretentious science fiction twaddle with no plot, no coherence and no heart. You couldn’t find a narrative thread with a microscope. Richard von Busack from Metro Active On the overall film: Pretty damned bad. Another example of 2014 CG used to animate 1974's science fiction ideas. On Director Wally Pfsiter: First-time director Wally Pfister is Christopher Nolan's usual cinematographer, and yet Transcendence isn't distinguished visually; Pfister seems to have absorbed all of Nolan's self-seriousness and none of his livelines Jake Coyle from UT San Diego/Associated Press : On Comparison's Between the film HER and Transcendence: ... whereas"Her" was playful and personal about familiar futuristic concepts, "Transcendence" is clunky and lifeless. It's like the movie version of a paranoid TED talk. On Rebecca Hall's Performance: "Transcendence" ultimately hinges on the relationship of Caster and Evelyn. The excellent Hall, looking a bit confused by what she's gotten herself into, does her best to emotionally ground Pfister's increasingly unfocused and heavy-handed story. Brian Bishop from The Verge On the Christopher Nolan Produced Film: It stars several Nolan mainstays, features the same kind of meticulous photography and production design we’ve come to expect, and mixes a high-concept premise with an intimate emotional core. But the comparisons end there, as the film collapses into a shambling mess of ’90s cyber-paranoia and action tropes that not even the charisma of Johnny Depp can redeem. On the Cast: Depp seems disinterested without a crazy costume or affectation to play with, and while Rebecca Hall is wonderful as his grief-stricken wife, there’s no getting around the fact that the duo have no chemistry together ... The same is true for Bettany, Morgan Freeman, and Cillian Murphy, all exceptional actors who at times feel like they’re starring in outtakes from entirely different movies Alonso Duralde from The Wrap On Plot Holes:This is the kind of film where, by the time you've reached your car in the parking lot, you find yourself asking your date questions like “Why was the nano-technology visible to the human eye?” and “If computer Will can scan Evelyn's biochemical emotional reactions, why can't it catch her lying?” On the One Good Thing About Transcendence: If there's one solid take-away from “Transcendence,” it's Rebecca Hall's performance as a computer genius (she's not just Will's wife, she's his collaborator) so blinded by grief and by the possibilities of pushing science to the next level, that she aids and abets Will's ambitious, terrifying agenda. She remains committed to the character even when the plot's logic goes 404 – Not Found. Scott Foundas from Variety On the Leads and their Performance: Depp fails to convey any real sense of the passion and curiosity that supposedly drive Will Caster to do what he does. The gravely beautiful Hall ... seems to have been directed to deliver her entire performance in an unwavering state of glassy-eyed anxiety.
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Zac Efron's new GF: Halston Sage
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Can one of you rich fuckers buy it and host a party?
Mine, the 70's. My dad listened to a lot of Donna Summer and late 70’s disco in the car when we were driving around and stuff, I still love that music. was quite a spaced out kid. The only thing I thought about was how glamorous it would be to run away from home. It wasn’t even a rebellious thing really, I would ask my mom what I should pack if I run away. I was in love with Andy Gibb and pretended he was my boyfriend.
"Another fact is the influence of hypergamy, which means that women typically choose a mate (husband or boyfriend) who earns more than she does. Men don't have the same preference for a higher-earning mate.' (Hey boys: Apparently this also applies to gay men unable to find husbands.)
Phyllis Schlafly Claims Women Paid The Same As Men Won't Find Husbands
Will Meghan still be around or will she have found fame that is tearing her marriage apart? Will Peggy finally find love? Will Pete stop being an asshole? Will Sal be at the Stonewall Riots? What do you all think??
Steve Colbert Zach Braff Julia Loiuse Dreyfuss Who else?
General bs thread and also continuation of the Louis football thread. They are all in their 20's now, they must be growing tired of this schtick... how long until the collapse begins?
Bonus points go for celebs who has serious scandals that we''ve "forgotten about" or anything, really. \ \ We can even discuss Mariska. OR Miss Kate Winslet.
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Shocked. And she looks about 17..
Business and Internet jargon ("There's no 'I' in team" and "This. So much this," respectively) are irritating in their own rights, but phrases said in day-to-day conversation can be the most grating:
Or will they? Ever since the Havenettes reported themselves to the online tabs so they could get the attention and validation they lack in real life, there has been a low-level and very silly rumor that RPattz is still in love with KStew. But "sources" say RPattz isn't interested in dating -- after KStew, he's scared of all girls forever! But is it all just a ruse to cover the fact that little Burrito Sweatpea Pattinson could be born any day now? Will Havenette Vern ever get an editor for her self-published porn? Will Traceybelle wish death on more little girls? Come with all your theories and evidence here!
Will Audra's holiday Be Ruined by Audra's Holiday? Who's That Chorus Boy Climbing the Back Stairs Of The Belasco Every Night? It's Not Valentine's Day Will Terrence McNally Finally Have a Play Run Longer Than "The Ritz"? And Who's The Real Lady Staying At Casa Valentina? Go West, Young Man.
I just invited a friend from work and his partner over to my house over to watch Game of Thrones this weekend. He was really thrilled I asked, but they have a small pug Charlie they bring everywhere (the partner even brings Charlie to work), and I added "The thing is, I'm afraid you won't be able to bring your pug. My cat just doesn't like other animals." (She hates all other dogs and cats.) His face fell, and he said, "Even though Charlie is really quiet and gentle?" I explained my cat hates other animals and would be miserable if the pug were in the house. He said, "Well, we'd love to come over, but we've got to figure out what to do about Charlie." Was I rude to make this stipulation?
Thoughts?
Boo hoo! He's a good actor but I think he's a phoney. I hope he gets the electric chair.
NYC Mayor Bill de Blasio has released his tax returns for 2013.According to WSJ. de Blasio earned $165,000 as public advocate last year and brought in an additional $52,000 in rent on a second home he owns in Park Slopes. de Blasio’s effective tax rate was, get this, 8.3%. How can you claim to be a socialist and only pay 8% in taxes? This guy is just an ignorant cunt.
De Blowsitall, the new socialist mayor of NYC paid 8.3% in taxes
I'll start: Kitty Dukakis
I'm a gay man but still madly in love with her. She won the oscar for "Darling" in 1966 and was Hollywood's "it" girl around that time and represented the swinging 60s when England could do no wrong with their actors and musicians. She was (and still is) a brilliant actress who is as beautiful and poised as she is talented. But she seemed to lose interest in acting as much when she became involved with Warren Beatty in 1967. She could have given Maggie, Helen and Judi a run for their money. What are your thoughts on her datalounge?
is because the show is watched by smart, insightful, literary people, and America has very few of us left. If the right wing had its way, we'd all be rounded up and forced to watch re-runs of Mannix.
Enough of this shit already! Some cunts set a bomb off. The brave people are the ones who fought back from their injuries and who suffered the loss of their loved ones and hunted down the bombers. Wearing tshirts and waving Red Sox banners doesn't make you "strong". What the fuck was the city supposed to do anyway, melt the fuck down and cease operations? Seriously, it's become the new "Stronger than the Storm" and "We Will Rebuild". We're going to be deluged with this crap the next 7 days so get ready. It's all going to be about how the city "came back" and is "stronger than ever" etc. etc. When did tragedies become tourism marketing campaigns and why would they make entire cities or states heroes for having lived through it when those people had nothing to do with surviving it?
Liberals and Gay male blogos who get rich by drawing sperm on women’s mouths are trashing Rashida Jones, star of Parks and Recreation, for basically saying that the state of porno today is pretty gross and for tweeting about how celebrities are gross when they flash thier vaginas in our faces. Guess Rashida doesn’t know yet that unless you are a woman spouting “I fuck therefore I am” you are the enemy amongst gays and liberals. Frankly, gays and libs really aren’t in any position to be the sexual morality police. Because it doesn’t matter how many health epidemics or pandemics, gay men will not curb their behavior: Gay men LA area die meningitis infections What more do you need to demonstrate that extreme promiscuity is not good for you when you’re dying from it? Wasn’t there just a meningitis problem killing gay men like 6 months ago? And last year it was a syphilis outbreak, and HIV numbers are up again for gay men. Liberals, gay men and fun-feminists are very much at the forefront of bashing women whenever they say boo about porno or anything that suggests ya may wanna curb your driven extremist sexual decadence.
This 20 something year old femme, Grammy-award winning songstress and sometimes actress has been a beard for a number of singers and A'listers in a desperate attempt to suppress her lesbianism. Although she is a fearless advocate, and generous supporter, she is worried how her fans would react and more importantly her record label if she were to come out. She prefers to take her girlfriends for trysts to Europe, during breaks from touring, because she thinks she would be safer.
A Competition in which you are asked to submit a familiar title or phrase, that with an added final word, takes an unexpected turn. For example: The Goldfinch: Recipes Sunday in the Park with George Zimmerman ...and so on.
Anyone else beyond sick of this expression yet?
Yeah, she's a pampered brat who cheated on her first husband. But Dean's chronic cheating has really damaged her. He used her for money and she must know that by now, after having 4 children.
I was a regular on their forums (for a?) through the 90's and into 2000's but as they stopped updating and caring it became just a few die hard regulars and I stopped going as much. Maybe I'd visit once every few months, the last time was probably a month ago. Just had an email from a pal I met through there and he said it was gone. I went and it looks like it's no longer there, or did the domain just expire? Anyone know what's going on?
Former New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg plans to challenge the National Rifle Association in a $50 million effort to galvanize voters in favor of stricter gun control laws. Bloomberg says he plans to use the tools of the NRA—political influence, organization, and a hard-line stance—in order to build a nationwide grassroots organization and sway voters and lawmakers to support gun control. “We’ve got to make them afraid of us,” Bloomberg told the New York Times.
What size is this woman? My sister says she looks to be a US size 8, but I think she is way bigger. Probably a US size 16.
I have the strong sense when I'm around women that they operate with a lot of shame. Almost all of the women I know - as direct, fun and open as they can be - seem to be hiding shame of some kind. So what are women most ashamed of? Is it their bodies - the fat, the heavy thighs, the folds, all the things that are anatomically "normal" about being a woman? Is it their genitalia, rather than their bodies in general? Like they feel "dirty" or the menses bother them or leave them feeling unclean (in some weird way)? Is it their families and background? Their lack of education - educated women almost always seem determined to let you know it as soon as they can. What are women so ashamed of? (And, no, this isn't a thread for a poll.)
A lady I know bought herself a Birkin bag last week. She's wanted one for 20 years and has been saving up for over two years to buy it. When she went into the Toronto boutique to place an order, the sales person made a big deal about putting her on a waiting list. Then a bag "magically" appeared two weeks later, and not the 10 months the sales lady stated. The only luxury item I own is a Montblanc 149 fountain pen from the 1950's. I bought it for a $200, and it's worth about $1000. So what's your luxury item?
I'm not talking a CEO living on Park Avenue, I mean a middle or working class person in the suburbs. Of all things, why the environment? I don't understand, can someone explain this culture to me?
That Jane Leeves had a serious eating disorder. If she turns sideways she becomes practically invisible. She looks like a lollipop with a flat ass, sunken tits and huge feet.
And have no plans to get insured, thus being 100% uninsured. If so why?
I just saw a photo of my ex and his new bf. They look so happy and beautiful. Oh my God, this hurts.
The IRS has been stealing tax refunds from poor people for the last 2 years, claiming that their parents got more money than they needed. I hope this will help some DL denizens get the money they stole from you back. --- Tens of thousands of Americans have been bushwhacked by a single arcane sentence in a 673-page law Congress enacted six years ago. The Internal Revenue Service is seizing both federal and state tax refunds for individuals whom the Social Security Administration accuses of having received excessive benefits years ago. Except that the government often has zero evidence of the overpayments, and the feds have held children liable for the alleged debts of their long-dead parents.
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NEW YORK (AP) %E2%80%94 Only a week after the announcement that the character Dumbledore in the Harry Potter series is gay, the fictional world is again shocked with the revelation by Steven Blanc, son of voice artist Mel Blanc, that the perennial prankster %E2%80%9CBugs%E2%80%9D Bunny of Looney Tunes cartoons is also gay. This announcement, while unexpected, give new and clearer meaning to many of the on-screen exchanges between the smart-aleck %E2%80%9Cwacky wabbit%E2%80%9D and his put-upon nemesis, Elmer Fudd. Bugs Bunny was in love with his male rival, Steven Blanc says. The author of %E2%80%9CBugs and Elmer: A Forbidden Love,%E2%80%9D stunned fans at the Academy of Motion Pictures annual Warner Brothers Looney Tunes Night, when he answered one young reader%E2%80%99s question about Bugs by saying that he was gay and had been in love with Elmer Fudd for years. %E2%80%98%E2%80%9DYou have to remember that this was Hollywood of the Golden Age, even before Rock Hudson. The studio just wouldn%E2%80%99t allow it. Instead, Bugs and Elmer expressed their love for each using homosexual codes of the day, such as Elmer pointing a gun at Bugs, and Bugs responding with a squirt of seltzer in his face. Those in the closeted gay community clearly knew that Bugs famous %E2%80%9CWhat%E2%80%99s Up, Doc?%E2%80%9D was the password to get entry into the notorious Hammer Club on the Sunset Strip.%E2%80%9D The news of Bugs Bunny%E2%80%99s homosexuality brought gasps, then applause at the Academy, and set off thousands of e-mails on Warner Brothers cartoon Web sites around the world. Some were dismayed, others indifferent, but most were supportive. %E2%80%9D %E2%80%98BUGS BUNNY IS GAY%E2%80%99 is quite a headline to stumble upon on a Friday evening, and it%E2%80%99s certainly not what I expected,%E2%80%9D added Looney Tunes fan Charlie Johnson, of Trenton, New Jersey. %E2%80%9C(But) a gay character in the most popular cartoon in the world is a big step for gay rights.%E2%80%9D
Fans Shocked at Bugs Bunny Gay Revelation (old news story but just found it today)
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The Purple Wedding is finally here. Cheers to the happy couple.
Well, I contacted a local seller with a question, and she sent a really snarky reply, which was way out of line for a person with such low feedback, and a negative. So I bid high on a few of her auctions, won them and just informed her that I have no intention of paying. To add insult to injury, I've left some horrible negative feedback, and 1 stars in her rating. Some days it feels good to be an asshole.
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Thank you Datalounge, in advance. Y'all know everything!
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I remember when it wasn't much more than Gap...now it's all posh and expensive and I rarely find anything I like in there.
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Ever had one? Like being in the grocery store and Jeremy Renner asks you to get something off the top shelf for him?
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Link to previous thread... Continue with your Kalinda worship here.
...but lived in a commune during the off season, ask me anything...
What is the worst event you have experienced and how did the pain subside?
Will he ever break into television or films? Is Queer As Folk the peak of his career. Looking at imdb, the projects he has can't be paying him much.
Will Peter and Gregg's dentures fall out during their old man fight? Is Peter going to become the 7th housewife? How long will Porsha be able to drag out the Kordell storyline? Will she be become a professional beard? Will Mama Joyce drag that pot of chitlins up the goddamn stairs? Will she come to blows with CARMON again? Will the feds arrest Apollo? Is Bullwinkle going to pull back her blonde lacefront so she doesn't look like a busted Barbie? Let's get it gurl!
Real Housewives of Atlanta, Season 6 Part 3!!!
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Does it work?
I was thinking of encouraging someone to see a doctor but I don't want to cause him financial problems.
Number 15 in a saga.
Me @ age 5 - Hershey Bar age 10 - Necco Wafers (Hershey bars all went overseas to our Fighting Forces) 15 - Hershey bar 20 - Hershey bar 25 - Milky Way 27 - ALERT!! While driving shirtless, I noticed a tiny little skin fold on my waist. 30 - Fat free & sugarless candy - UGH!! 35 to 65 - Milky Way (still with a 29 inch waist) 70 - Hershey bar (waist growing) 75 - Hershey bar (waist growing faster) 80 (next year) - Necco Wafers (probably intravenously. Waist @44 inch. You?????
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The cosmetics Mary Kay, not actress.
Whatever happened to her? I googled her and I guess nothing did. She's still around, just not in anything I've seen. She's one of the best comics around and I don't get why SNL didn't sign her. She should be bigger. This is one of my favorite ones...The Maria/Whitney "Not Insane" Medley. Debra Wilson is amazing.
Mine: The "You're a sad and pathetic man" speech from The Boys in the Band Bette Davis' "I was in love with Geoff Hammond..." speech from The Letter
He is so hot! Does he play for our team?
The old thread was closed... and there's just not enough eye candy in this world, so this thread is here to fix that! No nudes, just totally gorgeous men:
Looking to the most intelligent and aware on DL to keep me up to date on current events.
... before you start using a new one? I usually will use one for a week or so. More days in winter, fewer in summer. You?
"Good Morning America" confirmed Tuesday that Michael Strahan will be joining the show. Strahan made a quick visit to the set to announce his role as the show's new part-time correspondent. Tuesday's show confirmed earlier reports that he was slated to join "GMA" part-time while continuing to host "Live!", which Strahan himself had alluded to on "Live!" earlier this month. He high-fived cheering fans on his way to the anchor desk, where Robin Roberts, George Stephanopoulos, Amy Robach and Lara Spencer gave him a warm welcome. "We love you. We love Kelly," Roberts said. "Great friends to us over the years. So excited that you're going to join us a couple days a week." Strahan will be back on the show in his new role starting next week.
I have ordered all of my staff at work to use "My Lady" when addressing me, effective April 17,2014. Its time to bring some elegance and class to the workplace.Failure to comply can and will result in immediation termination.
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These guys really think they are straight?!
Michael Alig, the quintessential party boy who reigned supreme over New York City’s gay party scene throughout the early ’90s, is due to be released from jail on May 5, according to a personal friend reporting for BlackBook. Alig is credited with fueling the early days of the “club kid” scene and throwing some of the greatest and most historical gay events in a pre-Giuliani New York City. His life and conviction inspired the Fenton Bailey-directed movie Party Monster, which detailed the events leading up to March 17, 1996 — the day Alig murdered and dismembered the body of his drug dealer Angel Melendez in the apartment they shared. Alig’s arrest was largely credited to Michael Musto’s unrelenting reporting for the Village Voice at the time. The investigation also led to the arrest of Peter Gatien, a legendary New York club owner who is now banned from entering the United States. Alig has been up for parole several times since 2006, but was allegedly denied after his parole officers obtained and watched a copy of Party Monster. (FYI, for those interested, a more informational documentary about Alig’s life was released in 1998, called Party Monster: The Shocukmentary. It’s available to stream on YouTube.) According to BlackBook writer Steve Lewis, Alig has been recruited for creative jobs and will stay with a friend once released from prison. “There is no chance that he will return to clubs as a way of life,” he says, “but he will paint and write, and as always, try to impact the way we think.” Alig has reportedly “never used a computer or cell phone, but has remained keenly aware of the world we live in.” Furthermore, after several visits in the past few years, Lewis believes Alig has been rehabilitated: I was for many years Michael’s friend. Like so many others, I left him behind when drugs and power created a “Party Monster.” We reconnected in recent years, and during my visits to him in prison I observed the Michael Alig that I loved—the Alig prior the downfall. I believe he is ready to enter the world, and that reentering will be a good thing. No one, no act, no time, no hatred will bring back Angel, but Michael has served a great deal of his adult life in a bad place. I believe he has been rehabilitated. I believe he is forever remorseful and I look forward to his redux. To those who say nay, I respect that, but hope chances are given, and that we can move on. It is a time to remember Angel and reflect on the meaning of life. For me, forgiveness is part of it.
What sayeth the Datalounge?
Keri Russell is in it. It's all 1980s Cold War bullshit. It's a Republican lovefest. Will people just let go of the Reagan era already? For fuck's sake. The title card has a hammer and sickle in it (Communist symbol). The show was created by a retired military guy. The shit written on IMDB's message board is a Republican wankfest. Tired of seeing the promos.
Have any of you read this report from January, 2014 about the future of the city? It's pretty terrifying. I've been here nearly all my life but it's time to rethink that in the very near future. I would be interested in hearing your thoughts beyond the "L.A. is a shit hole. L.A. is a third world country." stuff. The opening paragraph: Los Angeles is barely treading water while the rest of the world is moving forward. We risk falling further behind in adapting to the realities of the 21st century and becoming a City in decline. For too many years we have failed to cultivate and build on our human and economic strengths, while evading the hard choices concerning local government and municipal finance presented by this new century. Like the hapless Mr. Micawber in Dickens’ “David Copperfield,” our wishful response to continued economic decline and impending fiscal crisis has become a habitual: “Something, my dear Copperfield, will turn up.” The City where the future once came to happen has been living in the past and leaving tomorrow to sort itself out. As a consequence, Los Angeles is sinking into a future in which it no longer can provide the public services to which our people’s taxes entitle them and where the promises made to public employees about a decent and secure retirement simply cannot be kept. City revenues are in long-term stagnation and expenses are climbing. Year by year, our City—which once was a beacon of innovation and opportunity to the world—is becoming less livable.
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I think I do. Not 100% sure. But you look at everything... climate, the economy, political disengagement, the widening income gaps, antibiotics not working, reality TV. How does it get better? Or does it get so bad people have a total shift in thinking and it DOES get better. I look around and I see a trajectory toward ruin, but all that matters is Instagram and the next iWhatever. And if you do think it's doomed... what does doom look like? I'll say this, I am kinda glad I'm closer to the end of my life than the beginning. Somebody hold me, David!
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(is there a current thread?) I received a payment from a class action law suit last year. I remember having to fill out some IRS form to get the check. Am I supposed to get a 1099 or something for this? I didn't get anything yet.
Who's seen it?! WTF was going on? They were filming their sex romp for "Alfonso's" birthday?
"I can't believe I ate the whole thing," says Smith.
Someone posted this article on Facebook, and my initial reaction was to roll my eyes viciously. What does Data Lounge think?
I loved it, will def. be watching the whole season. Anyone else watch?
For better or for worse, most of the profiles we’ve read on "Mad Men" star Christina Hendricks, 37, throw in a mention or two of her enviably curvaceous figure. Video:
It won't open ...... which one of you bitches is in there locking it up ??
Do you brush horizontally or vertically? On tv and in movies people always brush horizontally, but I was always told it's better to brush vertically.
Not sure there is much in the way of eye candy this season. But I do appreciate an entirely new cast.
Because y'know, OUT magazine is relevant....
In case you wondered who our power gays are, OUT is here to let you know.
On "Celebrity Wife Swap" he shows himself to be a hoarder- and trapped in 1984.
Just like Madonna, she will age terribly. I wonder if Donatella Versace chose her for ths shoot because she's her spitting image. Oh, and Italians should never, ever, ever go blonde (at least the ones from down south).
Now this out to be interesting! Can these ladies all get along to properly say farewell to the legendary Barbara Walters? We shall see, but here is the plan. According to The Wrap, during Walters final week on The View, circle the May 15th episode. That is when the long-running ABC morning talk show brings back all of Walters former co-hosts and mixes them in with the present ones … 11 in total! Returning for the episode will be: Meredith Vieira, Star Jones, Joy Behar, Debbie Matenopoulos, Lisa Ling, Rosie O’Donnell and Elisabeth Hasselbeck who will be hand along with present co-hosts; Sherri Shepherd, Jenny McCarthy, Whoopi Goldberg and Barbara herself. The following day, after more than five decades on the air, Walters will say farewell to daily television with her final co-host appearance on The View that morning on Friday May 16th. As previously announced, The View will commemorate Walters’ final week (May 12-16) with “ABC: A Barbara Celebration” featuring surprise guests, dedicated segments, and retrospectives of Walters’ life.
All Former THE VIEW Co-Hosts Set For Return For Barbara Walters Farewell!
Continue your foolishness.
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"The former leader of a popular Christian ministry-- who resigned from his position after confessing to an 'inappropriate' relationship-- is now the subject of a lawsuit that claims he 'methodically groomed' and made unwanted sexual contact with a young woman after serving as an authority figure in her life for more than a decade." Link is to World Net Daily, FYI, because apparently it's an exclusive interview with Torres.
Dominion Wackiness Update: Lourdes Torres Sues Vision Forum's Doug Phillips
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I follow Todd Sanfield and Justin Clynes. Any other recommendations?
I already love it just because Gunn from Angel is in this!
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So we had T-mobile and ordered a new Iphone 5S and switched to their no contract SIMPLE plan. BIG MISTAKE. After two years of having an HTC One S and using about 300-400 mb of data a month, the I phone used 500 mb in three days. We got a warning three days into it that our account would be throttled. So we decided enough was enough (they had very spotty service for us) returned the i phone per their instructions (our dime to ship back, insured and tracking number) and we cancelled our TMO service and went to AT&T ( we got a very nice discount through my job and it ended up being more data and cheaper than TMO). So I send the phone back, get an confirmation email they got it and another saying they will refund the cost. Fast forward to my final bill over 900 dollars!! I called their CS and got someone speaking bad english. After an hour on the phone they assured me when I was charged the phone would not be on it and the termination fees they charged me would not be on it. So I checked my credit card today and guess what. Charged for everything. I spend another hour on the phone with another person who tried to convince me the bill was correct. I offered to email them copies of my emails FROM tmobile verifying they got the phone and I would be credited but nope. I finally lost it and started getting angry which I hate doing to a cs person. She said she would research it and no matter what call me back in 15 mins. 1 hour later no call. So I called back again...got someone else as soon as I explained to them what was going on my second line beeps. Guess who? She explains to me, she called the handset return dept and yes they have the phone but to refund it they need to submit a handset research request?? WTF? You just verified I returned it a month ago with your own people but to refund it you need to submit a request? SERIOUSLY? You want to keep my money for a month so you can make interest off it and then give it back? I am not a fucking bank. Fuck I hate them. even better....when you get an i phone, you don't get text messaging regular - it all goes through i message. If you move off the i phone, people who have iphones....can never text you again..? WTF part 2?? I called apple and they said they deleted it off their servers but anyone with an i phone would have to delete our contact and recreate it - which they did but still fails to send...jesus what a fucking nightmare.
Because hairy chest is a thing of beauty...
Revenge of the "Lets Post Pics of Guys Presenting Their Hairy Chests" thread
Please take my poll. Right now these are the top names being bandied about as potential Letterman replacements.Also likely being discussed as potential candidates are Amy Schumer and Chelsea Handler; I did not list them because I ran out of space and it is unlikely they would be hired. But you are wlecome to vote for them as "Other." I also did not list Jon Stewart because almost everyone agrees it is extremely unlikely he would want to leave his position on Comedy Central, where he is top banana. You could also vote for him as "Other." Amy Poehler would have to leave "Parks and Recreation," but it is expected to be over when Letterman leaves next year.
My FB page is blowing up with people who are ecstatic about them being on tour this summer. I'll be honest, I've only heard their radio singles but they are just so middle of the road and kind of lame.
Is his heart dead?
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By Outlook Ohio Some Cleveland taxi drivers are dropping out of a dedicated cab service at the city’s airport because they don’t want to drive vehicles with signs promoting the upcoming Gay Games. WOIO-TV in Cleveland reported that at least 17 drivers have refused to drive cabs with Gay Games signs. Most of the drivers are Muslim and have cited religious objections, the station said. Cleveland Hopkins International Airport hosts a dedicated service in which three local cab companies use special vehicles and preset rates. According to the airport website, the drivers who participate in the service receive “enhanced customer-service training.” Gay Games Executive Director Tom Nobbe told Outlook this morning that the cab drivers’ objections run counter to the overall reaction to the international event in northeastern Ohio. Organizers have offered to line up LGBT-inclusive diversity training for transportation, safety, hospitality and other businesses and agencies whose employees will help Gay Games visitors, he said. “This could accelerate those efforts,” Nobbe said. “It’s unfortunate they feel this way,” he said of the cab drivers. “It’s the first time something like this has happened.” The ninth Gay Games, featuring competitions in 36 sports, is scheduled for Aug. 9-16 in Cleveland and Akron. Organizers expect 30,000 participants and spectators. Airport Director Ricky Smith issued a statement confirming that two of the service’s three cab companies – Ace and Yellow Taxi Cab – had drivers drop out of the airport program because of religious reasons. He said they will be replaced within three weeks.
I'm fascinated by this era. Any film recommendations?
Seems like it. Obviously, some of them are good-looking but on the whole, Brits don't seem to require their actors to have model looks.
Who else here in America is terrified because we live in a country of mostly such incredibly stupid people? There are more of them, the incredibly stupid Republicans, than there are of us. Also they vote. For the most part we don't unless it's for president and even then... How, after everything, every lie, every thing they have tried to take away and have taken away can there still be so many fucking morons that would give them back the House, nevertheless the Senate??? Now we have to add in voter suppression that Democrats are hardly lifting a finger to fight. Unless you are very rich, white and straight how can you not be terrified? Does anyone think there is time and any kind of effort out there to stop this evil? I feel totally hopeless. How do you fight such stupidity?
I run my own business. This year was lucrative, thankfully. I pay quarterly. Just got my tax bill from the accountant and I owe four-figures despite paying every quarter. Apparently my tax bracket has changed. It sucks.
Oakland - over $2000. Let's all move to Alpine County like we were planning on doing back in the 60's. You go first.
Is this a legit non-sexual bathhouse where straight guys go to let off some steam? I remember a guy I dated a few years ago telling me that he would go there with his dad, who'' straight, on occasion for some steam and straight male bonding. Anyone ever been?
Tell me about the Russian/Turkish baths in the East Village.
His whole point is (and I'm paraphrasing, he doesn't actually say this) "What's the problem. We both like dick. I don't like pussy. Why wouldn't you want to get a Brazilian wax job from me. I mean a shave is a shave no matter who does it" Does he have a point? Story below
Which of the male judges has the biggest dick, and why did you select him.
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Organizers of this year’s GaymerX, the gaming convention described as a “safe place” for LGBT gamers, announced on Twitter this week that their sophomore event will be their last. Without the help of large corporate sponsors, the event “became too much of a burden,” they said. Founded in 2013 as a Kickstarter project that aimed to celebrate the diverse LGBT culture in the gaming world, GaymerX launched a second Kickstarter campaign to fund this year’s meeting at the InterContinental Hotel in San Francisco. The campaign raised over $24,000 — $14,000 above their initial goal — but the event couldn’t be sustained without the help of corporate sponsors. “We decided that we could no longer continue as a convention as the price of running a yearly convention downtown in San Francisco was just too high — we weren’t able to get the corporate sponsorship that we needed to make it something sustainable, and we were racking up huge amounts of debt to put this years con on,” organizer Matt Conn told Polygon. “That being said, we’re going to make the very best convention we can and we’re super eager to see a rise in more alt-cons in the future, making gaming accessible to everyone.” But it’s not the end of the line for GaymerX. Conn also says that “anything could happen” and he’s “not against it coming back in some other, more sustainable form.” Until then, gaymers will have to endure the rampant transphobic mockery at events like the Eurogamer Expo.
GaymerX Convention For LGBT Gamers Shutters After Second Year
The UK is getting more like an impoverished East Asian nation by the day. Gran is all of 27. Does the UK have Mississippi beat for human trash?
"In the as-yet-untitled film, the US actor will tell the story of Young Gay America magazine's co-founder Michael Glatze, who famously renounced his homosexuality and committed to Christianity after experiencing concerning heart palpitations."
James Franco to Star as Former Gay Activist in Gus Van Sant Movie
...at age 25.
Over the weekend I watched a PBS documentary on The DC5 and I was wondering . . . Was Dave Clark gay? He's now 71 years old and he never married. I found an article online mentioning him having a girlfriend sometime in the past, but absolutely nothing beyond that - other than the old cliché of his being too wrapped up in his business ventures to get involved in a serious relationship. He was close friends with Freddie Mercury for over 15 years and was at his death bed when he died.
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Six parks now allow you to be naked as a jaybird.
The drunk driving kid from Texas who killed 4 people and was sentenced to probation is headed to a CA facility that charges nearly half a million dollars a year. His parents are only paying $1170 a month for this "treatment" which is a typical child support payment for someone of their wealth. The kid and his parents are getting off easy, but how do insurance companies justify treatment programs that cost so much and do so little? These places essentially babysit juvenile delinquents and about once a week, they see the house shrink for 30 minutes. It's a scam.
by Allison Kinney The furor about #CancelColbert revives a memory for me: the time that Jon Stewart publicly cussed me out at “The Daily Show.” Ever since then, I’ve wondered who gets to decide what’s funny — and who needs to get a sense of humor. This happened in April 2008, when I sat in the studio audience of “The Daily Show.” I was a big fan of the way the show used comedy to expose injustice; I was psyched to see Stewart in person for the first time. But before the taping began, a comedian came out to warm up the crowd. To me, he seemed like a curious choice: This white man told racist and misogynist jokes. He joked about greedy Jews, and Caribbean women spitting before they cross the street. He singled out people in the audience as his target: a married African-American couple, and even a white lesbian in a wheelchair. It was their blackness itself that he found funny, her lesbianism, her disability. (He also picked on a white New Jersey family, but I’m originally from Jersey, and we’re fair game — also, he didn’t pick on their whiteness.) This kind of humor warms me up in the wrong way. Since I was 6, I’ve dealt with people telling jokes at my expense and expecting me to laugh: “Oh, you know I’m just kidding!” At one job interview, they told me I was a shoo-in, because one of the bosses had a thing for Asian women, ha-ha! I know all about acting tolerant, friendly and forgiving, because it’s social suicide to come off as humorless. I’ve given the benefit of the doubt to all kinds of people who were clueless, or well intentioned, whatever that means, or downright racist, so that I won’t sound like a joyless harridan. The mostly white audience laughed. Maybe they found the routine agreeable and compelling; maybe they were trying to be nice. They weren’t laughing because the jokes were witty, original or successful at doing what “The Daily Show” (and “Colbert Report”) is famous for: skewering and satirizing bigotry, to turn the joke on the bigots. And the scapegoats also laughed. Maybe they were more tolerant, friendly and forgiving than I was. But nobody should have to be that tolerant. Nobody should have to make that judgment call, while the straight white guy with the mic is disparaging you, and hundreds of straight white people are laughing at you, expecting you to be a good sport. Nobody should have to go home afterward, wondering if you had truly been amused, or if you had felt pressured to behave that way, or if you had felt too humiliated, too little, to mount your own self-defense. Then Jon Stewart came onstage to take a couple questions from the audience. I believed in him. I believed in the subversive political humor of his show; I believed that he was delivering messages in a way the mainstream news media should take notice of. I believed that somebody had to speak for the scapegoats, and that a live-audience question to the boss would change things more effectively than a letter to the network. I believed that, if Stewart knew that his warm-up comic had been making invasive, racist gibes about a black couple’s sex life, he couldn’t possibly countenance it. So I raised my hand and asked, “Why does your warm-up comedian use ethnic humor?” In retrospect, I should have phrased it more accurately: Why does your show use a comedian whose politics and belief system are so clearly at odds with the show’s? Why is this kind of prejudice being associated with “The Daily Show”? But I was nervous; I didn’t rehearse my question beforehand; I felt I had no time to lose. My tone wasn’t combative, only curious. I didn’t see Stewart as a big media producer on a schedule: I saw him as a person who cared, who asked the same kind of questions I believed in asking. Stewart’s face creased with annoyance. He said, shortly, loudly, glaring at me, “BECAUSE. IT’S. FUCKING. FUNNY.” The audience erupted into wild applause.
I always got a gay vibe from him. And in his 2004 comedy show, "I Say Nay Nay" he kept talking about "his friend" who is never named, but figures prominently in his life, along with his immediate family. He had gastric bypass surgery in 1999, and lost over 100 pounds, but then started gaining weight again, and stopped talking about "his friend" in his shows. I won't say he was just like Louis Anderson, since John wasn't blackmailed, but was he another closeted fat man, who used comedy--and food--to mask the pain?
The news: A new scientific study from Princeton researchers Martin Gilens and Benjamin I. Page has finally put some science behind the recently popular argument that the United States isn't a democracy any more. And they've found that in fact, America is basically an oligarchy. An oligarchy is a system where power is effectively wielded by a small number of individuals defined by their status called oligarchs. Members of the oligarchy are the rich, the well connected and the politically powerful, as well as particularly well placed individuals in institutions like banking and finance or the military. For their study, Gilens and Page compiled data from roughly 1,800 different policy initiatives in the years between 1981 and 2002. They then compared those policy changes with the expressed opinion of the United State public. Comparing the preferences of the average American at the 50th percentile of income to what those Americans at the 90th percentile preferred, as well as the opinions of major lobbying or business groups, the researchers found out that the government followed the directives set forth by the latter two much more often. It's beyond alarming. As Gilens and Page write, "the preferences of the average American appear to have only a minuscule, near-zero, statistically non-significant impact upon public policy." In other words, their statistics say your opinion literally does not matter. That might explain why mandatory background checks on gun sales supported by 83% to 91% of Americans aren't in place, or why Congress has taken no action on greenhouse gas emissions even when such legislation is supported by the vast majority of citizens. This problem has been steadily escalating for four decades. While there are some limitations to their data set, economists Thomas Piketty and Emmanuel Saez constructed income statistics based on IRS data that go back to 1913. They found that the gap between the ultra-wealthy and the rest of us is much bigger than you would think... Tom McKay's avatar image By Tom McKay 10 hours ago 131 Comments | 22020 Shares 23 princeton, concludes, what, kind, of, government, america, really, has,, and, it's, not, a, democracy, Princeton Concludes What Kind of Government America Really Has, and It's Not a Democracy The news: A new scientific study from Princeton researchers Martin Gilens and Benjamin I. Page has finally put some science behind the recently popular argument that the United States isn't a democracy any more. And they've found that in fact, America is basically an oligarchy. An oligarchy is a system where power is effectively wielded by a small number of individuals defined by their status called oligarchs. Members of the oligarchy are the rich, the well connected and the politically powerful, as well as particularly well placed individuals in institutions like banking and finance or the military. For their study, Gilens and Page compiled data from roughly 1,800 different policy initiatives in the years between 1981 and 2002. They then compared those policy changes with the expressed opinion of the United State public. Comparing the preferences of the average American at the 50th percentile of income to what those Americans at the 90th percentile preferred, as well as the opinions of major lobbying or business groups, the researchers found out that the government followed the directives set forth by the latter two much more often. It's beyond alarming. As Gilens and Page write, "the preferences of the average American appear to have only a minuscule, near-zero, statistically non-significant impact upon public policy." In other words, their statistics say your opinion literally does not matter. That might explain why mandatory background checks on gun sales supported by 83% to 91% of Americans aren't in place, or why Congress has taken no action on greenhouse gas emissions even when such legislation is supported by the vast majority of citizens. This problem has been steadily escalating for four decades. While there are some limitations to their data set, economists Thomas Piketty and Emmanuel Saez constructed income statistics based on IRS data that go back to 1913. They found that the gap between the ultra-wealthy and the rest of us is much bigger than you would think, as mapped by these graphs from the Center On Budget and Policy Priorities: Piketty and Saez also calculated that as of September 2013 the top 1% of earners had captured 95% of all income gains since the Great Recession ended. The other 99% saw a net 12% drop to their income. So not only is oligarchy making the rich richer, it's driving policy that's made everyone else poorer. What kind of oligarchy? As Gawker's Hamilton Nolan explains, Gilens and Page's findings provide support for two theories of governance: economic elite domination and biased pluralism. The first is pretty straightforward and states that the ultra-wealthy wield all the power in a given system, though some argue that this system still allows elites in corporations and the government to become powerful as well. Here, power does not necessarily derive from wealth, but those in power almost invariably come from the upper class. Biased pluralism on the other hand argues that the entire system is a mess and interest groups ruled by elites are fighting for dominance of the political process. Also, because of their vast wealth of resources, interest groups of large business tend to dominate a lot of the discourse. America, the findings indicate, tends towards either of these much more than anything close to what we call "democracy." In either case, the result is the same: Big corporations, the ultra-wealthy and special interests with a lot of money and power essentially make all of the decisions. Citizens wield little to no political power. America, the findings indicate, tends towards either of these much more than anything close to what we call "democracy" — systems such as majoritarian electoral democracy or majoritarian pluralism, under which the policy choices pursued by the government would reflect the opinions of the governed. Nothing new: And no, this isn't a problem that's the result of any recent Supreme Court cases — at least certainly not the likes FEC v. Citizens United or FEC v. McCutcheon. The data is pretty clear that America has been sliding steadily into oligarchy for decades, mirrored in both the substantive effect on policy and in the distribution of wealth throughout the U.S. But cases like those might indicate the process is accelerating. "Perhaps economic elites and interest group leaders enjoy greater policy expertise than the average citizen does," Gilens and Page write. "Perhaps they know better which policies will benefit everyone, and perhaps they seek the common good, rather than selfish ends, when deciding which policies to support. "But we tend to doubt it."
Princeton Concludes What Kind of Government America Really Has, and It's Not a Democracy
Johnny Weir wrote a 5-page post-nup which is part of his newfangled reconciliation package with Victor Voronov -- and Johnny makes it clear mutual masturbation will NOT be tolerated. TMZ broke the story ... Johnny and Victor agreed over the weekend to call off their divorce, but Victor wanted Johnny to sign a document apologizing for trashing Victor in the media and promising to keep Johnny's mom out of their relationship. So Johnny fired back with a document of his own, which, among other things, defines the type of cheating that will not be tolerated. The document -- obtained by TMZ -- lists the following: -- sex outside the marriage -- oral sex outside the marriage -- kissing or making out -- sexting -- aggressive flirting -- mutual masturbation -- social media/grindr/dating And it gets better. According to the document, if either one has a situation where they're "in close range or contact with someone from our past or someone to be part of the future" ... the other can veto the contact. Johnny specifically gives an example of a figure skater he dated. The document also requires joint STD tests every 6 months with the results being read with both in the room. And there's a section about splitting assets if they ultimately get divorced: "Should a gift be given, i.e., the Cartier Roadster (R.I.P.), the gift belongs to you." Someone broke the watch! And finally ... there's a section titled "Ultimatums." Johnny lists examples of Victor's ultimatums, including, "If I give you one more day to get your bank records to me, then I want to have a free fuck of anyone I want." Simply fabulous.
Johnny Weir's humiliating reconciliation contract for ex: no mutual masturbation from now on!
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Is there a point to this? Has someone been stupid enough to hire this bimbo for another movie role?
Rob Kardashian is clearly struggling with something. While the rest of his famous family is living it up in Thailand, the 27-year-old Keeping Up With the Kardashians star is on his own somewhere else -- and hurting in a big way. On Tuesday, April 1, he took to his Twitter with a cryptic, troubling message for his 4.82 million followers. As KUWTK viewers know, Kardashian has been struggling in his attempts to lose weight in recent months. He's "really depressed," an insider previously told Us, adding that he "rarely shows up" for his personal training sessions. "The family is very concerned about him."
Rob Kardashian: No one will ever understand how much it hurts
What went wrong? It was over in a year or two. Brooke is Catholic and picky and she waited to wed Mr. Right.
By a fan.
Golfer who agrees that being gay is ‘an open rebellion to God’ wins Masters 15th April 2014, 5:52 PM; Joseph Patrick McCormick A golfer who voiced his support for a sports analyst who said gay NBA player Jason Collins’ coming out was an “open rebellion to God” has won the Masters. 35-year-old Bubba Watson from Florida on 13 April won the Masters and picked up the $1.6 million (£950,000) prize. Jason Collins last year spoke about his sexuality, confirming he is gay in an article in Sports Illustrated magazine. He said: “I’m a 34-year-old NBA center. I’m black. And I’m gay. Watson then tweeted his approval when Chris Broussard, a senior writer for ESPN Magazine said on air that Jason Collins’ coming out as gay was an “open rebellion to God”. The golf star tweeted “Thanks… for sharing your faith and the bible. #GodIsGood.” He later tweeted to say that he did not think he was “better than anyone else”, and that he would go to dinner with Collins, should the NBA star ask. This week’s win for Watson was his second in three years.
Golfer who agrees that being gay is ‘an open rebellion to God’ wins Masters
I was so mad I was fuming. I finally walked right up and slapped the cunt. Bitch, that's what you get for trying to steal my man!
The Coachella music festival in California kicks off Friday, and while tickets are selling for hundreds of dollars online, Confidenti@l has learned how much celebs are being paid to attend the event. - Lea Michele will earn a cool $20,000 from Lacoste to wear its clothes - Vanessa Hudgens is being paid $15,000 by McDonald’s Some stars are still looking for companies to pony up the cash in exchange for plugging their products. - Aaron Paul is asking for $15,000 and at least 2 VIP passes - Kate Bosworth is demanding $30,000 - Joe Jonas is seeking somewhere under $20,000 - British fashion blogger Louise Roe wants $5,000 and three tickets Coachella runs this coming weekend and April 11-13, April 18-20.
I know because the lock was taken off the big window, which was ever so slightly ajar, and the front door deadbolt was turned upside down so the bolt now comes from the bottom instead of the top. Is this some freaky landlord shit or should I be calling the police, or was it a Homeland Security Sneak 'n Peek. I can't imagine a burglar bothering to replace the deadbolt and nothing was taken. I can think of some booby traps of course. I don't have time for this shit.
I'm pretty jaded when it comes to horror flicks, so if anyone knows of any good ones, feel free to post.
Double yuck.
This one frau got the okay to come in 11am now through the end of summer in order to accommodate some re-scheduling of her brat's camp schedule. Of course she still takes a full lunch break, spends all afternoon yapping with the other fraus, and doesn't stay past 5. A few months ago, when my cat was ill, I requested to leave an hour early for a week in order to get home in time to give her her medicine. I was denied, with the reason that if they make allowances for me, they'll have to do the same for other employees. If that's not a double standard, I don't know what is. These fraus who vomit up a few kids have it so easy and are master manipulators at using these brats as excuses for getting out of doing work. They actually don't get enough for credit for that. Bravo, fraus.
This has probably been covered, but I think Rhoda lied about her cancer...at least how terminal it was to make herself relevant again. She was supposed to have died nearly a year ago.
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The controversial drag queen makes use of the transphobic term 'shemale' in a segment reminiscent of Maury Povich's 'Man or Woman?' episodes. Last night's episode of RuPaul's Drag Race featured a contest many on Twitter are calling transphobic. The game, "Female or Shemale," pitted the contestants against each other in a quest to determine whether they were being shown a picture of — as RuPaul phrased it — "a biological woman or a psychological woman." In announcing the name of the game, "female" was said in a higher-pitched tone, while "shemale" was said in a low, gruff, masculine-sounding tone. The contestants laugh as they guess whether or not the body part they're being shown belongs to a cisgender (nontrans) woman. The show has a long history of using the term "shemale" in various plays on words, most notably during a segment called, "You've Got Shemail." In last night's game, contestants saw pictures of cisgender women Christina Aguilera, former WWE wrestler Chyna, and "Tan Mom" Patricia Krentcil, alongside photos of well-known drag queens. "Shemale" is a word that historically refers to transgender women, most prominent in pornography. The word originated with transgender porn and doesn't have roots in "drag culture," as some have argued is the case with the word "tranny." GLAAD's transgender media reference guide denotes two levels of terms to avoid: problematic and defamatory. "Shemale" falls under the defamatory heading, with GLAAD officials writing that the word — along with words like "tranny," "shim," and "gender-bender" — "only serves to dehumanize transgender people and should not be used." In response to a 2013 episode of CBS's Mike & Molly, GLAAD called out the sitcom for its use of the word "shemale," among other problematic portions of the episode. "The use of the derogatory term 'shemale' is offensive in and of itself," GLAAD said in response to the Mike and Molly episode. "Humor like this is unfortunately much more than 'just a joke.' When a minority group is repeatedly made the object of ridicule, the majority finds it much harder to see them as fellow human beings deserving of dignity and respect, which can have direct real-life consequences. In addition to being hurtful and dehumanizing, it's sentiments like the ones driving these jokes that fuel the disproportionately high levels of discrimination and violence faced by transgender women." When asked for comment on last night's episode of RuPaul's Drag Race, GLAAD vice president of communications Rich Ferraro responded, "While some drag queens may use the term to refer to themselves, 'she-male' is too often used by others as an offensive term to denigrate and hypersexualize transgender women. Unfortunately, most Americans are still unaware that there is a difference between gay men who perform in drag and transgender women. That's why GLAAD will continue to tell the stories of trans women like CeCe McDonald, Carmen Carrera, and CrossFit athlete Chloie Jonsson." This is far from the first time RuPaul has stoked the ire of trans people. He has famously defended his use of the word "tranny" on Drag Race and in his music, and once claimed that the only difference between a transgender woman and a drag queen was "$25,000 and a good surgeon." To date, RuPaul has not responded to The Advocate's requests to clarify his position on derogatory words used in his show.
Vicki Lawrence is still around and still in high demand as a touring act. She could easily be brought back as Thelma. They could cast a new crop of actors to play the others: I'm thinking: Amy Poehler as Naomi Will Arnett as Vint Tina Fey as Iola Ellen Page as Eunice Matthew McConaughey as Ed Jenny McCarthy as Ellen Brenda Vaccaro as Aunt Effie and Ryan Phillppe as Bubba Carol and Betty White could make cameos in the movie, maybe as senior citizen friends of Thelma's.
6-8? 5-7?
This is hilarious.
After all she was, and still is, the number one musical performer in the world. Shoot Babs singing five songs and you have a hit movie. So why didn't the producers approach her. Anyone know?
Going through all of these threads, post by post, and deleting whatever offends his delicate sensibilities?
And start wanting to be seen crying... a lot?
Are you sneaking up on one another and peering around corners to commemorate Spy Wednesday?
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I avoid Woody Allen any chance I have, but I like Turturro and the scene at link is funny. The film got a very good response at Toronto Film Festival (it got an excellent review in the Guardian). Not a shill, just interested in watching a good, light comedy.
Picture it like this: First, you'd be on your knees in front of them and have to service all 3 with your mouth. Then, they'd say "Get on all fours, you whore - we want to use your cunt", and they'd fuck you one after the other, slapping your ass and calling you names, till you had let all of them cum.
Why he could be gay/bi: 1. He hangs with the "gay posse" Colton Haynes, Matthew Morrison, JC Chasez, Chace Crawford, Penn Badgely, etc. 2. He LOVES Les Mis 3. There've been rumors about him and Penn Badgely, him and Colton Haynes, etc. 4. Not linked with any girls recently. Why he could be straight: 1. He might hang with the "gay posse" simply because they all have the same manager? 2. There's just not much evidence on his Twitter that he's into guys or into gay interested, as opposed to Jonathan Bennett, who follows EVERY hot guy on Twitter. 3. He had a fucking BEARD recently (the hairy kind, not the female kind). I don't know any gay guys that grow facial hair! How come Shawn Pyfrom hasn't been acting lately? What has he been up to?
It's 4:35 on the West Coast and I just made myself a rum and soda. Am I an alkie?
One in 12 million women suffer. Astonishing.
Tonight the moon shall turn red between 1 and 6 am. People on the west coast will have a better view of it. What will you do to commemorate this event?
Is this true? Do you think anybody you've met is an alien?
The Karen Walker thread reminded me of how many great lines the writers crafted for her. The writing was excellent in general and had hilarious bitchy one-liners; and some episodes are certainly classics (like the spelling bee at the gay bar, or the final episode where Beverly Lesley dies by being blown off the balcony).\ \ But the Will character was so dislikeable and unpleasant. And though I like Sean Hayes, the Jack character, which could sometimes be very funny, was such a collection of nasty stereotypes about gay men.
He's hot, but that basket seems to be a little on the underwhelming side.
I think they're very subtle and tasteful
He is 35,unmarried, rarely attends public events with a girl on his arm, no hint of a girlfriend. If he is gay coming out just might help his career at this point. I also think he is very handsome.
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Isn't this redundant? I am sending an email invitation out and have the compulsion to write "Please rsvp" despite knowing full well that RSVP means "respond please". But, will it seem rude to the 90% of people who don't know that to not include "please"?
I've read rumors elsewhere that he's gay and mentioned this to my boss, who is a lesbian. For some reason she got bent out of shape refusing to entertain the notion that Daniel Craig might be gay. So, IF he is gay, does anyone have some good strong evidence that Daniel Craig is gay that I can present her?
.......Enough.
As long as you get a piece of it once in a while?
Nice episode. Liked "Love is a Battlefield", but loved their take on Janet's "Let's Wait Awhile".
A few more inches......
Will he work again?
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I just think of that movie and I start laughing.
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Legit condition, or way over self-diagnosed by people who crave attention? Thoughts?
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?
Was it all you hoped it would be?
More than a 30 year age difference ..... How often does this work out ? (yah, yah, I know .... as long as he can afford to pay .... ha ha) .... but seriously, do you know of a lot of success stories ? (I know there''s a whole community out there, so there must be a lot of success .... right ?)%0D\ %0D\ I know of one couple where they met when the younger guy was in his early 20''s and the older guy was in his 40''s ..... neither is ''rich'' .... and they''re still together.
Or are they more like bus drivers? Do you know anyone who drives a train or tugboat?
Post a link please!
Other offenses referenced in the revision of capital punishment regulations reportedly include "rape, adultery, sodomy, extramarital sexual relations for Muslims, insulting any verses of the Quran and Hadith, blasphemy, declaring oneself a prophet or non-Muslim, and murder."
Last night at Barclay's. As a longtime Joan Jett fan, I thought it was fitting (and cool) that Nirvana picked her to front the band for its biggest hit when they performed at the ceremony. And, Nirvana played a full set afterwards at a small Brooklyn club with several different singers, including Kim Gordon, St. Vincent & Lorde.
Anyone go to the '14 Rock Hall of Fame induction?
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Hall posted Williams phone number at NBC and brought out Suge Knight. Apparently he was torked off he was left of the list hinting it was a racial thing. Umm no your ratings suck, your jokes are dated and you are irellevant in Late Night.
Can you imagine. I want to be in a relationship with Chris Evans, but I think the invasion of privacy would get to me. I mean paparazzi would follow us around and plus Chris would most likely not be home a lot which is kind of sad. On a different note, Chris Evans is blindingly beautiful and I want to suffer massive colo-rectal trauma trying over and over to have his babies.
Good day, Please, take look at the following offer. Transnational Deliveries incorporated has opened the vacancy of a courier employee. In the event you have received this letter, that means the online recruiting department officers have seen your CV online, as our recruiting department is searching for job applicants on the web. TND inc is a European company which is situated in Poland (Warsaw). This corporation provides retail trade and forwarding of many items (mostly modern electronics equipment) and vending it to European customers. We have been rather prosperous in this business since 2005. Your obligations will involve receiving items and forwarding them via United States Postal Service and a lot of other services. You do not have to put in anything from your pocket. The wage is $1,500 monthly minimal amount and it is based upon every task rate with unlimited peak. The requirements will be the following: - aged 18 years old minimum - be located at specified address on a regular basis - a computer equipped with web option - possess daytime contact dial number. You do not need to have any optional room for storing the products. This letter will be regarded as an official offer of employment and it does not deal with any suspicious activities. In case you are interested, do not hesitate to let us know about it via email.
What body type are you? Just read an article on this and found out I am an ectomorph. Do you like guys who have a different body type than you have?
Is this too bold and ostentatious?
I think Leonardo Di Caprio is both the better actor and better Looking than Depp. Depp's "cool" mocking tough guy look is quite campy. It's too bad Depp gets paid way more than Leo. Depp is worth 350 million; whereas, Leo is worth 200 million.
US: Louisiana House votes to keep unconstitutional sodomy law 16th April 2014, 7:14 PM, Nick Duffy The Louisiana House of Representatives has overwhelmingly voted to keep a sodomy law in the state’s penal code. A bill, sponsored by Representative Patricia Haynes Smith, would have amended outdated “crimes against nature” laws from the 1970s, to remove an unconstitutional ban on homosexuality. Despite the bill passing the House committee stage with a 9-6 vote last week, it today fell by a huge majority in the House, by a vote of 27-66. It was partly blocked by the powerful Louisiana Family Forum, who wrote in a letter to every Representative that said: ”Louisiana’s anti-sodomy statute is consistent with the values of Louisiana residents who consider this behaviour to be dangerous, unhealthy and immoral.” Last year, it was alleged that police had taken advantage of the outdated law, declared unconstitutional in 2003, to specifically target gay men by entrapment. Gay men have been arrested in the state for “attempted crimes against nature”, for discussion of consensual sex in a private place with an undercover police officer. Smith told the Times-Picayune: ”I thought it would do better. “Some of the folks who voted to get it out of committee voted against it on the floor.”
Another reality show following the uninteresting minutiae of a semi-celebrity family.
Calling all fraus!!! We are searching NATIONWIDE for TEAMS of OVERWEIGHT CO-WORKERS to compete for a BIG CASH PRIZE - and a slimmer body - on an all new WEIGHT LOSS COMPETITION SHOW for the Game Show Network! * Are you and some of your coworkers struggling to lose weight? * Do you need a cash incentive to get off the couch? * Are you ready to put your money where your mouth is and place a wager on your weight loss? Then we want to hear from you! The Game Show Network is currently searching for co-workers looking to bet on each other in the ultimate weight loss wager competition show. We are especially seeking groups of four or more employees with dynamic personalities who are ready to break the cycle of yo-yo dieting for this new series. If you're ready to play a high stakes game and compete for a cash prize and a slimmer body - now's your chance! TO SUBMIT: Email ALL the information requested below to: hsmediacasting@gmail.com Be sure to include: 1. Names & Ages of co-workers on your team (coworkers should be cc'd on email) 2. Contact phone number 3. City/State where you live 4. Brief description of your company, and each co-worker's weight issues 5. Recent photographs of you and your co-workers (jpg format please)
by: Mrs Patrick Campbell (Hollywood veteran) "Miss Keanu, along with Tammy Cruise, are two of David Geffen's 'corn-hole' sucess stories, that is, Geffen corn-holed both of them and then made them stars!" I believe you Mrs. Patrick Campbell...about Keanu and Tammy and David. But from what Van Sant said, HE had a longterm secretive affair with Keanu so, do you think David was jealous?
Award-winning investigative journalist Robert Parry has been the most consistently dogged and tenacious researcher of the incredible story surrounding the 1980 October Surprise scandal responsible for the defeat of Democrats Jimmy Carter and Walter Mondale and the election of Republicans Ronald Reagan and George H. W. Bush. His latest exploration into this arcane yet decisive story (which strikes at the mythology of American electoral democracy) reveals even more details of what really was going on then and the subsequent cover-up by craven criminal and duplicitous forces within the establishments of both political parties. This is not ancient history to be casually dismissed, especially in light of the ongoing effort to coronate Jeb Bush as the presumptive heir to the throne held by his daddy and brother. Since the enactment of the National Security Act of 1947 and the establishment of the National Security State, the United States has under gone a wrenching series of overt and covert transformations of power from one predatory group of elites to another. These extra-constitutional “deep state” actions have included -the stealing of the 1952 GOP presidential nomination by the Dwight Eisenhower forces -the theft of the 1960 presidential election by the John Kennedy forces -the assassinations of John and Robert Kennedy, the assassination of Martin Luther King, -the October Surprise of 1968, -the attempted assassination of George Wallace, -Watergate, -the October Surprise of 1980, -the attempted assassination of Ronald Reagan, the Iran-Contra scandal, the derailment by blackmail and intimidation of the Ross Perot 1992 presidential candidacy, -the GOP theft of the 2000 presidential election, 9/11, and the stealing of the 2004 presidential election. ------- Don't forget- Bush #1 was director of the CIA, Clinton was a "Rhodes Scholar" for the CIA, and Obama's mom, dad and stepdad worked for the CIA. What strange coincidence!
It's almost 4AM on the west coast, so Simon Halls will be heading off to Denny's soon. In the meantime, try and figure out how this Datalounger (see inset) happened to know Matt's personal plans months in advance, and almost a year before he talked about them in the press (photo is from this month's Hollywood Reporter).
Matt and Simon return to Denny's
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For the last month or so, my head feels "full," almost like I've been swimming and still have a little water in my ears. I get a little dizzy (dizzier than normal, lol) and hear a slight "whooshing" sounds in my head if I move it a certain way. I thought I had a viral infection, so I took antibiotics but it hasn't gone away. Trying to figure out what to do next.
They all acted sterotypically Jewish, especially the Ruth Gordon character and the Judas-like Dr. Saperstein. I also recall dialogue where Rosemary is mildly scorned for her schoolgirl Catholicism. The book was written by a Jewish man though (Ira Levin), so that makes me question if the theme was anti-semitic.
Does she need help for a drinking problem? %0D\ And how about her use of the term "the gay lifestyle"?
The other threads are full. So, to continue our discussion of the previous... Will onetime Broadway "It boy" Cheyenne Jackson ever rebound or will he continue down his wacky path in 2014? What new addictions or maladies will Jackson come down with to generate more Press - Childhood Leukemia, Fibromyalgia, Gluten Intolerance? Will Cheyenne pull a Katie Holmes and finally get away from that cult? Approaching 40, Will Cheyenne ever top tweeting like 12 year-old girls? The drugs, the cults, the social climbing fiancee, and a big Gay summer wedding to wrap it all up. Place your bets, on what other surprises Ms. Jackson has in store for us?
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I'll bray and bray and bray and you fools will lap it up, again and again and again. I bray all the way to the bank.
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Wow, he's really let himself go. If I had his money and free time I'd have a personal trainer and nutritionist with me every day and have a body to die for. What's his excuse? And how many men tie their hair into a top knot?
I hope you bitches are happy! Look at what your gossiping has done!
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What does it take to become one?
So now it's Shoegate. Clearly, the conservatives who have spent the Obama years suffering from paranoid psychosis - the "birthers" who insisted that Barack Obama was born in Kenya, the "skeet shooter truthers" who said Obama faked the photo that shows him firing at clay pigeons, the Gettysburg "truthers," the list goes on - are now primed to aim their wingnuttery at Hillary Clinton. Which makes perfect sense, since they first manifested their symptoms way back when she and Bill were national newbies. It's back to the future for the run up to 2016, and we who are sane might as well play it for laughs. Because when we're sniffing the stench of true lunacy - in this case, the allegation that Hillary conspired to have somebody throw a shoe at her - surely we can agree that humor is the best disinfectant. You probably know what happened. At a Las Vegas event last Thursday, some nutcase hurled an athletic sneaker that sailed past Hillary's head. The hurler has been charged with two federal crimes, and that should be the end of the story. But of course it isn't. Rush Limbaugh - bingo! - got an earful the other day from callers who insisted that Hillary set the whole thing up, that she staged it to gin up sympathy for herself. The callers had no such evidence, of course, but that didn't bug Rush. He trusts his fine mind more than he cares about evidence. He said: "In my subconscious, I think it was staged, or set up, or whatever...Maybe it's (her) attempt to make the Benghazi people look like nuts and lunatics and wackos." While Rush was busy communing with his subconscious, Herman Cain was keyboarding on Twitter. You may remember Cain; for a few months prior to the 2012 presidential primaries, he drove the Republican clown car. Even though he still probably knows nothing about the country he called "Ubeki-beki-beki-stan-stan," he says he knows a Hillary scam when he sees it. He tweeted: "Hmm...Fakery from the Clintons? That Hillary shoe-throwing thing does look kind of fake, huh?" Fortunately for Cain, he was saved from the burden of evidence because his 140 characters were up. Other truthers, who wrote articles at length, had no such excuse. On Bernard Goldberg's website (Goldberg is a Fox News commentator), contributing writer Arthur Louis intoned: "There is a political axiom...that when Hillary does something, or when something happens to her, she has carefully calculated it beforehand. This is almost always true....So it would not be stretching logic to suppose that Hillary arranged to have the show thrown at her...she may have calculated that this would make her seem presidential." He concluded: "I am just guessing, of course." I love that line. Naturally, some of the trolls on that blog guessed right along with him ("I would put nothing at all past the libs"), and Louis duly replied: "You don't have to be a conspiracy theorist to suppose that Hillary would phony things up....There has to be more investigation." Yes, an investigation! The bat signal has been flashed, and I hope Darrell Issa sees it. But as I was tracking this stuff (truther-columnist Dan Calabrese: "Is it outlandish to suggest Hillary Clinton would pull a stunt that is totally fake if she thinks it would help her political fortunes?"), I couldn't help but experience deja vu. Where have I seen this kind of thing before... Ah yes. Shoegate is a replay of December 2012, when Hillary got sick during GOP Benghazi hearings - and the usual right-wing suspects insisted without a shred of evidence that she was faking illness. They joked that she was suffering from "Benghazi flu." It turned out - according to the doctors - that she had a concussion and a blood clot in a vein between her brain and skull. But to this day, the truthers and trolls haven't apologized. Nor will they this time - because, hey, you never know, maybe the shoe-hurler will produce a shoe-store receipt smeared with Hillary's prints. But who needs empirical proof when all you need is a tinfoil hat?
If you had an opportunity to have sex with Bigfoot would you? Would you want him to too or bottom. Be honest please.
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?
Now what.
Colin Kaepernick being investigated by Miami Police
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Say what you want, I think that we're in deep shit with those guys.
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Well, she always did have a face for radio.
Just catching up here and watching on DVD. There really should be more homosex on Downton. With Thomas dressing Lord Grantham I would think Thomas would be taking care of His Lordship's cock as well. And Jimmy's cock is begging for attention. And of course, I volunteer to check to see if Matthew's loads are still working at full capacity.
And you know it's because of the gays.
They really tried to push us/me into it, didn't they? Personally I had no interest at all in "friends networks, even less one I was pushed into involuntarily just because I had gmail and a youtube account. Anyway the pushiness seems to have stopped. They seem to be leaving me alone now and none of my email contacts seem to have bothered with it either. Anyone here go with google+ &/or has it been a complete failure?
Rosie, Star and Elisabeth, included. This should be interesting.
11 of The View ladies reunite for Baba Wawa bye-bye on May 15th
aka "Chrisley Knows Best" a new series about a Southern family's trials and tribulations with a controlling dad who smells cookies.
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Since 1985 an Asian female figure has had at least one step on the World Championship podium 26 out of 29 years! An AMAZING feat resulting in 18 Gold medals, 9 Silver medals and 12 Bronze medals In 2007 it was a SWEEP as Miki Ando, Mao Asada and Yu-Na Kim swept the podium. Since 1992 Asian female figure has had at least one step on the Olympic Podium every Olympic games. Resulting in 3 Gold medals, 4 Silver medals, and 3 Bronze medals. Legendary skating coach Carlos Fassi said Asian women would dominate this sport when school figures were eliminated. The US women used to dominate this sport. Not anymore. The US women have not won a medal in singles at the World Championships in 8 years, the longest drought ever Fassi was right when he predicted Asian Women RULE Figure Skating. Why can't the US women falling so behind the Asian women?
Nothing sexual, just a few hours and a few rounds of cocktails. As for me, (as stated on another thread) I'd love to have a few drinks with Cameron Diaz. She doesn't take herself too seriously, and seems like a lot of fun And, she doesn't have a stick up her ass like a lot of pretentious actresses.
I am for the first time in my life. The guy is fat definitely but has a gorgeous face with penetrating blue eyes. He's also very intelligent. But I still like to laugh a big fatties such as Gail Grinds. I feel conflicted almost like I'm being a hypocrite. How can some fatties be attractive and others are well...
Just saw him at Real Food Daily in Santa Monica. He was with a very brainy looking brunette, his girlfriend (they pecked a tiny bit as they were leaving). He's not that tall. But he was very polite and friendly to the waitress.
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Was this gorgeous movie the one that made you say, "I am a gay homosexual"?
Actress Valerie Harper shared some great news about her health. “I’m absolutely cancer-free!” Harper told Closer magazine. Valerie added, “My last scans have been positive, and my doctors are very happy. The oncologist looked at the scans and said, ‘Oh my God, Valerie, this is very encouraging!’” Harper announced in 2013 that she was diagnosed with terminal cancer and only had three to six months to live. “I’m now the poster child for not believing everything I’m told,” laughed the TV star. Although her doctor does not like to use the term “remission,” Harper said, “The doctor can only say, ‘In my experience, this cancer kills people and it’s incurable.’ He likes to say, ‘I give you a treatment, and it’s either responsive or non-responsive -- and you are having a phenomenal response.’” “There may come a time when I’m not feeling good,” Valerie admitted. “But then again, that time may never come!”
Valerie Harper’s Miraculous Recovery: ‘I’m Absolutely Cancer-Free!’
Is your daughter mulatto?
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Why does it seem all the crazy stuff happens in this month?
Are all Capricorns stingy, practical tightwads? Please tell me some redeeming features of Caps.
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After Gore Vidal died, I can't think of who it would be.
Finally, someone with the balls and bucks to go up against the NRA on gun reform.
I just started watching. Fucking hilarious. Shame we can't have such a fun talk show here in America. No way celebrities would be so loose and, dare I say a bit debauched, in the US. Maybe because sometimes they drink on the show and get a bit buzzed. Anyway, I love it. The most recent one I saw was Matt Damon, Bill Murray, and Hugh Bonneville (Lord Grantham from Downton Abbey). Any other fans?
What level are you on? Let's visit each other's towns and whack each other's snakes.
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For r585 in the What books are you currently reading? thread. Just curious - what would you say are the "10 Must Read Gay Books"? I'm thinking "Dancer From the Dance", "Maurice", "At Swim, Two Boys" and the like -- if you were giving a list of the MUST read gay books, what would be on that list?
Who is this guy on the cover?
Didn't she fancy herself as Miss Mayor?
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Tom Daley: I’m definitely gay not bisexual 3rd April 2014, 10:45 AM; Scott Roberts Five months after saying he still fancied girls, Tom Daley says “I am a gay man now”. Speaking on ITV2′s Celebrity Juice the 19-year-old Olympic medalist also said his relationship with Oscar winning screenwriter Dustin Lance Black, 39, is “all good”. Explaining why he initially suggested he was bisexual, Daley said: “I came out on YouTube as I wanted to say what I wanted to say without anyone twisting it. “I told my family before I told the world. I was terrified. I did not know what the reaction was going to be. “I did it on YouTube because people were constantly digging and asking questions.” Daley’s relationship with Black was exposed days after he posted the coming out video. “It really was love at first sight,” Daley told ITV’s Jonathan Ross after going public with their romance. “I’d never felt anything like it before. We were at a party and I hadn’t even spoken to him all night. “I didn’t know what to do or if he was gay at first. I made the first move, I typed ‘call me’ in his notes with a smiley face on this phone and the next day he texted.” Celebrity Juice airs tonight on ITV2 at 10pm.
Premiers tonight... this is the new fall show I've probably been most looking forward to. Karl Urban! Premiere tonight, and then a new episode tomorrow at its regular time. Anyone watching? Anyone excited?
Qaud and Mariah no longer friends. Dr. Simone is Broke.. Dr. Jackie is fighting mad... and Kari demoted to "friend of Toya"...oh my,
If you haven't seen this, take a look. WOW! This woman has it all...style, stage presence and a fantastic talent. She is a million times better than just about any of the so-called pop "stars" out there who are raking in big bucks. Too bad talent like this has taken a back seat to crap in this country.
I mean seriously. I've been wondering for the longest time why Chris Evans looks so great in the films but not as great in real life. Then I realized, he put on lip gloss and foundation in the film. I originally thought makeup didn't look good in films, but who knew it did and appropriately so.
Looks cheap! I HATE IT.
Full House actress Candace Cameron Bure & Mark Ballas Wonder Years actress Danica McKellar & Valentin Chmerkovskiy Swimmer Diana Nyad & Henry Byalikov Real Housewives of Atlanta star NeNe Leakes & Tony Dovolani Pop star Cody Simpson & Witney Carson The Price is Right host Drew Carey & Cheryl Burke Olympic ice dancing gold medalist Meryl Davis & Maksim Chmerkovskiy Olympic ice dancing gold medalist Charlie White & Sharna Burgess Para-snowboarder Amy Purdy (who lost both her legs after contracting menigitis) & Derek Hough Former NHL player Sean Avery & Karina Smirnoff Singer Billy Dee Williams & Emma Slater Big Time Rush bandmember/actor James Maslow & Peta Murgatroyd
He is back, this time for Lucas Entertainment. Last year he said he had a bit of regret going bareback on film. But this year, he has changed his mind saying "I think that’s a complicated conflicting message to send, but at the same time I’ve never been America’s sweetheart. I don’t know where the shock comes from. But in terms of just barebacking, I definitely tell all of my friends to be safe. We definitely don’t bareback in our private life with random people at all. And so it was just for that scenario." He also says about performing for Michael Lucas "Performing for Lucas Entertainment feels like my true debut in gay porn in many ways. I have recorded most of my personal life on camera, so doing porn feels like a natural extension of that exhibitionism.” To see Chris latest BB performance go to link below.
By mainstream, I mean something that was a fairly sizable hit with the public, not artsy-fartsy indie stuff. I nominate "All I Want to Do is Make Love to You" by Heart. Ann Wilson sings the hell out of it, but who thought this song was a good idea?! It's about a woman who has sex with some random drifter to get pregnant - uh, hello, ever heard of STDs? Or sperm banks?
There is thread after thread after thread with possibly one person posting endless links. Where the hell did it come from?!
coproduced and wrote a verse to Rump Shaker.
Who saw that coming?
Captain America 2: The Winter Soldier makes $96.2 million this weekend, biggest April B.O. take ever
The American Civil Rights Union’s Robert Knight, who has been encouraging Republicans to run on social issues such as hostility to abortion rights and opposition to LGBT equality, now thinks the GOP should campaign on denying the existence of evolution. Citing a Pew poll which shows that belief in evolution has plummeted in the GOP and is now shared by only a minority of Republicans, Knight told the American Family Association’s One News Now that “Republicans have a great opportunity” to expose the “lies that liberals have told over the years” and begin “questioning evolution more than ever.” He also warns that a belief in evolution “leads to terrible things like socialism and communism and fascism and Nazism and the more extreme forms of liberalism in this country.” Knight should take heart that Republicans have been working to undercut the teaching of evolution for decades, and we here at Right Wing Watch hope the GOP embraces this foolproof political strategy. "Evolution is at the core of a left-wing, secular, humanist worldview that has been breathing down everybody's necks in America for years [and telling us that] the best we can do is empower government to make our decisions for us," he offers. "That leads to terrible things like socialism and communism and fascism and Nazism and the more extreme forms of liberalism in this country." The political commentator is encouraged that more Republicans reject the concept – and believes it could bode well for the GOP at election time later this year. "The Republicans have a great opportunity to say Look, we've witnessed the collapse of a lot of lies that liberals have told over the years, and now we're questioning evolution more than ever as a basis for people's worldviews," Knight suggests. "So the dynamics are fascinating – and I think they could add up to an enormous conservative revival in this country."
They met last summer on the set of upcoming movie, Tracers, and co-stars Taylor Lautner and Marie Avgeropoulos seem to be quite the happy couple.
It’s a bad day to be a working American in Oklahoma–and the first of many to come. On Monday, in response to the cry all across the country–and the response in some cities like Sea-Tac, a suburb of Seattle, Washington–for higher wages Oklahoma Governor Mary Fallin has signed a bill prohibiting cities in the state from establishing mandatory minimum wages or vacation and sick day requirements. Proponents of the bill echo the tired line that a higher minimum wage will hurt business owners’ profits or, as Fallin put it, “Mandating minimum wage increases at the local level would drive business to other communities and states, and would raise prices for consumers.” While she offered no evidence to support this asinine, substanceless theory, opponents have very clearly laid out what the bill is really about: Oklahoma City citizens’ effort to raise the minimum wage to $10.10 per hour from $7.25. Fallin also repeated the oft-echoed conservative lie that “most minimum wage workers are young, single people working part-time or entry level jobs” and “many are high school or college students living with their parents in middle-class families. She claimed that raising the minimum wage would “would require businesses to fire many of those part-time workers,” though no legislation proposed by anyone sets forth a requirement that businesses fire workers–not even this reprehensible piece of legal garbage. In actuality, raising the minimum wage would help get people off of food stamps. The majority of recipients are the “working poor,” largely because of an abysmally small minimum wage. Over 85% of those who would benefit from an increase in the minimum wage are over 20, and about one-third are over 40. The average age of workers who would be affected is 35, with 55% working full-time hours. This simply serves as yet another example of the GOP actively attempting to keep working families as poor as possibly, while dishing out corporate welfare in the form of food stamps and other benefits that would not be as heavily relied-upon if companies just paid workers a living wage and, of course, another shot across the bow in the GOP’s war on the poor.
Oklahoma GOP Governor BANS Paid Sick Leave, Minimum Wage Increases (Video)
She left England in about 1907 and never came back, what has she done to deserve being made a dame, the fact she's reached the age of 88? If you were British what would you think of this? Even if you're not British, what would you think of this...putting aside 'gay icon' and 'DL fave' clichés?
As you know, we wrote several blind items about how one young actor was being bullied out of his job by two other actors on an ensemble TV show. It was a really ugly situation. Well, we have just learned about a stunning development! There was SO much fan outcry about his departing the show that the producers have been forced to reverse their decision! Bullygate is over… and Our Actor won! Here’s what happened: During several sit-downs with Our Actor, the producers totally reversed course about his leaving! They apologized for trying to push him out, begged him to stay… and gave him a huge bump in pay! He will now be staying through the end of the show’s final season. The writers also asked him for his input on what to do with his character. To keep the peace on set, they all agreed that his character will break up with the character played by the bully actor who wanted him out. That means Our Actor will now get his own story lines that do not involve the bully and that will minimize the time that he has to film with both the nasty people who tried to force him out. This change will have a direct impact across the show. In fact, it throws it into a bit of turmoil. The producers and writers are now scrambling to modify locations, story lines, characters, and everything else! Of course everyone on the show will publicly deny that it has anything to do with Bullygate… but you will know otherwise! Finally, we have to emphasize that although Blind Gossip wrote the blind items, it was really the fans of the show that made this happen. YOU pushed the producers into doing the right thing. Well done, fans! We’re proud of you! Our Actor: Darren Criss TV Show: "Glee" The Bullies: Lea Michelle & Chris Colfer
Have you ever seen those drawings done by schizophrenics? This is totally what it looks like.
ATLANTA — With a lick of wheat paste, a roller and a stepladder, Tatyana Fazlalizadeh, a painter and illustrator from Brooklyn, introduced herself to the South, in an unusual way. She plastered a poster with her own face floating above the words, “Stop Telling Women to Smile” on a vacant storefront here, across from a federal courthouse. Then Ms. Fazlalizadeh and her helpers brushed on two dozen more posters she had created. Images of young faces stared back with wary, defiant and no-nonsense gazes above statements such as “My Outfit Is Not an Invitation,” or “Women Do Not Owe You Their Time or Conversation.” The words came from Ms. Fazlalizadeh’s interviews with women about “catcalling,” a form of public harassment by men who feel free to comment on their bodies and demeanor. Women around the country have begun to speak out publicly, in blogs, public writing projects and on the websites of anti-harassment groups like Stop Street Harassment and Hollaback!, which document and research the problem. Many women have said they feel objectified and demoralized by sexual comments made on the street, and Ms. Fazlalizadeh has transformed their feelings and images — she photographs the women and then creates pencil drawings — into a major public art project. Local artists, as well as the students and professors from Georgia State University who had invited Ms. Fazlalizadeh here, passed paste, steadied the ladders and even tried their hand at plastering the row of storefronts on Forsyth Street. Jessica Caldas, a visual artist, watched the posters take form. “Something a lot of people take for granted as normal and acceptable is being shown for the impact it has,” she said. Street harassment, though, is hard to define precisely and then to challenge legally, experts say. A growing body of research shows that it is a problem affecting where women live, how they get to work, when they go out and how they dress, said Laura S. Logan, an assistant professor of sociology at Hastings College in Nebraska, who has studied catcalling for years. “The challenge has been there are so many behaviors that can go into street harassment on a continuum, from ‘hey baby’ to contact,” she said. “It also presents a first amendment challenge: Offensive speech is not illegal.” Still, she said, “the negative consequences are pretty well documented: fear, anger, distrust, depression, stress, sleep disorders, shame and anxiety about being in public.” Beth Livingston, an assistant professor of human resource studies at Cornell University, said verbal harassment is “more pervasive than workplace harassment, but there are less policies and laws to deal with it.” The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, she said, “very, very recently has started to ask questions about this, to see if this could be a pervasive public health issue or problem.” Laurie A. Combo, a New York City councilwoman from Brooklyn who is the chairwoman of the Committee on Women’s Issues, said Tuesday that she is calling on the Council to revisit the issue. In 2010 the Council held a hearing on the matter. “We have evolved as a society, and there is no place for catcalls, lewd gestures, inappropriate language and unwarranted comments about the physical characteristics of a woman’s body,” Ms. Combo said in a comment her office sent by email. Ms. Fazlalizadeh did not wait for any official notice to start her art project, called “Stop Telling Women to Smile.” It took off about 18 months ago when she began making nighttime forays in her Bedford-Stuyvesant neighborhood with a brush, roller and her own self-portraits. (Though wheat pasting is illegal in some places, she has never been cited, she said.) She has since moved to Bushwick and interviewed and created portraits of about 15 women. Spread largely by social media, her poster campaign has appeared in Philadelphia, Washington, Boston, Chicago, Los Angeles, San Francisco and Atlanta. A Kickstarter campaign last fall raised $34,000, allowing her to travel the country to meet women, and create and hang new work. In March, Betti Ono Gallery in Oakland, Calif., began an exhibition of her series, featuring the original graphite-on-paper drawings, oil paintings and photographs. “This is all about how women’s bodies are consumed and are considered public property for display, comment and consumption,” said Ms. Fazlalizadeh, a soft-spoken, direct and contained 28-year-old from Oklahoma. “Women need to start talking about their daily moments because it’s the smaller stuff that affects the larger things, like rape, domestic violence, harassment in the workplace.” She has heard all manner of stories, ranging from come-on call outs of “hey baby” to a woman in Los Angeles whose friend was shot for not giving a man her phone number. She has found some broad regional differences: Female drivers in car-centered cities like Los Angeles are often approached by men also in their cars. Women in New York tend to face street harassment. “New York City is the most aggressive I’ve experienced in the country,” said Zahira Kelly, a 31-year-old visual artist and writer who lives in Savannah, Ga. “I cannot walk down the block without multiple men yelling at me or trying to grab me.” The caption on the poster with her picture reads, “I Am Not Here for You.” “I cannot put on a pair of Bermuda shorts on the hottest days,” Ms. Kelly said. “It affects your self-esteem, because you get critiques you never asked for.” While there have been many art projects on street harassment over the years, Holly Kearl, the founder of Stop Street Harassment, said, “No one else has done anything like this,” adding, “Her images are very accessible.” Ms. Fazlalizadeh, who is of black and Iranian descent, often focuses on minority women, but a previous series focused on gun violence against young black men, showing gun targets superimposed over their portraits. As she worked Friday on Forsyth Street with students and members of Eyedrum, a local art and music organization, a man from a nearby apartment building shouted, “Stop telling women to smile?” He laughed. “You don’t know some of the women I know. They need to smile.” Two people who said they were federal workers wondered what the fuss was about. “Is this some kind of feminist thing?” one, a woman, asked. The other, a man, said he wondered if women dressed to attract attention. Ms. Fazlalizadeh hung her self-portrait Friday at the Krog Street Tunnel, a site for graffiti and street art. By Sunday night, the poster had been defaced with a spray-painted smile over Ms. Fazlalizadeh’s face and the words “Force It” underneath. Posters in other cities have been defaced, and some women who had posed for her said they had been the targets of nasty comments. But Ms. Fazlalizadeh said women have also stopped her on the street to say thanks. While her message has political overtones, she is adamant that it is art, foremost. “I don’t mind being thrust into an activist role,” she said. “Art is very important for that. It’s not someone preaching to you on TV. Visual art, especially, is right in your face.” “I like that,” she said.
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Will this be an all-black remake? Dihanne Carroll and Billy Dee Williams for Roman and Minnie!
Now you can track your loved ones- wherever they stray.
She apparently had Igtay Otaronay disease.....
Ugh. How much HGH have Dawson and Connor had to inject to look like the Incredible Hulk. They're repulsive. And where the hell is Lucas, Cade, and Brent. Link NSFW
In related news, dozens of caftans flapped in the wind as people ran to their local KFC for feeding time.
Look exactly like Kurt and Courtney. It's eerie.
It seems like it's fizzled but it just got an early renewal for a 7th season, even before the 6th season premiers. Jackie will apparently go back to drugs (which she kinda already dead in the close of last season.). No more Dr. O'Hara and 'Dr. Coop' is leaving as a cast regular. I'm sure we'll be smothered with more smearing on of the "precocious and precious" Zoe. I want to see late in life nurses hook up with hot, younger boyfriends! I wanna see more cliche E.R. scenes!
Joe Flacco turns me on. I can''t find any shirtless pics, but he has a great body and sexy face. %0D\ %0D\ Who''s your favorite?
No matter how good looking the lead is, I post a thread on him and no one answers it or very few people answer it. I wonder why that is since someone like Matt Bomer and his lame-ass brainless show could get pages of responses when these superhero films which are no more brainless fail to garner responses? Especially Captain America. No one seems to care about him even though he's much better looking than Matt Bomer. And any of myriad amounts of men who are deemed good-looking on the DL?
Whoa! It's sure to be a flop, but he looks great.
Looks like people really are tired of this now self-important boring ass shit. Or could it be Jon Hamm's tiresome god complex turning people off? Or the fact that the show wanted to take year long or more breaks and expects people to keep drooling over it like lemmings?
"Oil from the BP spill remains stuck on the bottom of the Gulf of Mexico, according to a scientist''s video and slides that demonstrate the oil isn''t degrading as hoped and has decimated life on parts of the sea floor."
Among today''s shocking headlines: Scientist finds Gulf bottom still oily, dead
Jacques Cousteau''s illegitimate son
Kelvin Matthews’ birth certificate is probably free of homophobic slurs, but don’t tell that to Sprint customer service, who sent him an email addressed to “Sissyboy Kelvin Gay Matthews” after he reported receiving messages from a closed account. We don’t know about you, but we think we’ve just found our new Porn Star Name. Matthews, who for the record does not “live a homosexual life,” expressed his concerns to Sprint, who apologized profusely: “We have apologized to Mr. Mathews and deeply regret what happened over the weekend. Mr. Mathews should never have received this email from our representative. We have dealt with that employee appropriately.” Sprint then offered him a new business account with an iphone and two free months’ service. Hey, we’ve been called worse for less in return, and who knew that “sissyboy” would be the homophobic slur du jour for this spring?
Hetero Sprint Customer Receives Email Calling Him “Gay” and “Sissyboy”
I just watched an E! special about Bond Girls throughout the ages. I can't WAIT until I'm old enough to be tapped for that role! I'll knock you're socks off!
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We know she's going to run. Who do you think has a shot at being considered for her running mate? Who will she choose? Idea for thread came from R46 on another thread
Conservative pundit Erik Rush is linking President Obama to the shooting rampage of a former Ku Klux Klan grand dragon directed at two Jewish organizations outside of Kansas City that left three people dead. On his radio show Tuesday, Rush accused the Obama administration and the media of promoting “anti-Israel sentiment” and “fomenting racial discord between various races.” “The anti-Semitic tone that is being tolerated, in my view, by so many in this country and as a result of the tone I believe that the administration and the press have set, they’ve chosen to capitalize on every racist incident that has happened when it is in the interests of their agenda or their ratings, fomenting racial discord between various races, between blacks and whites and the anti-Israel sentiment has become pretty much epidemic,” Rush said. “I’m kind of surprised that we haven’t seen more in the way of anti-Semitic violence.”
Erik Rush Blames Obama For Anti-Semitic Kansas City Shooting
Do they have the same publicist as Henry Cavill and Kaley Cuoco?
NEW COUPLE ALERT! Matthew Rhys and Keri Russell!
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"The Contract Is Up!!" "Does David Tom Smell Cookies?" "Simon Hall....." "Footballers in Love" - - - - Seriously, ENOUGH already.
Go Colty!
Jimmy Kimmel is catching up to Fallon in the ratings. Where is Jay when we need him? "Speaking of Fallon, last night’s The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon drew a 1.4 rating among adults 18-49 with a total viewership of 4.456 million. That’s down 17% in both categories from the show’s February 26 results. While Fallon was down to his lowest number since taking over The Tonight Show, the other Jimmy was up strong and closing the 11:35 PM gap. With a much stronger Thursday primetime as a near lead-in and Scandal’s Kerry Washington as his main guest, Jimmy Kimmel Live got a 1.0 rating in the demo and an audience of 3.555 million. That’s a 100% leap up among the 18-49s from the night before for Kimmel and a 44% rise in viewership from the 2.456 million viewers of his February 26 show. Last night’s JKL was actually the show’s second most watched episode ever after the 3.642 million who watched the January 24, 2013 “Matt Damon Takeover” show. CBS’s David Letterman had a 0.5 rating with 2.710 million viewers, a slight upturn from the night before. Still the fourth show of the second week of Fallon’s new gig equaled the 1.4 rating that Conan O’Brien got on the fourth night of his second Tonight Show week on June 11, 2009. While the demo rating was on par, like the night before Fallon bested O’Brien’s comparable night’s 3.565 million viewers. Like in metered-market results, Fallon was ahead of the 1.14 rating and 4.066 million viewers that Jay Leno got on the comparable night of his Tonight Show return in 2010.)"
Late night with Jimmy Fallon ratings has dropped to it's lowest ratings since taking over.
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Or just flabby (NSFW)?
Did she ever write an autobiography? She said Michael Jackson had the worst childhood she''d ever been privy to. But that her''s was second- what did she mean? And I read that her 4 kids each got a $100 million from her estate, but what was her relationship with them?
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any suggestions for a man in his mid-40s looking to update his wardrobe?
The Ladies Of The View- past and present- will gather in May for Baba's big shove-off. But the article doesn't mention Debbie Matenopoulos.
FX just picked up the series Fargo starring Frances McDormad. Will U watch?
My friend's family was so casual and wasteful about food consumption. I remember being stunned that he would abandon a can of pop after taking a few sips. We were poor and my sibs and I had to split a can and we could do so only on Wed night after church.
The new season starts tonight... will it recover after the world's suckiest season finale last year? Will "Neverland" save this show? Will the spin-off survive? Will Henry be found and saved? Will Mr. Gold forever be evil? Does anyone in here still watch or care?
"Let’s let people live their lives and do it the way they want to do it. All the chips will fall in the end, and we’ll all be judged by a much higher power than Entertainment Weekly can." What a bitch!
So here are suggested film titles. "Californicatin' Raisin" "Brown and Serve Slut" "Hotter Than Hell"
It's kinda fun to go through the old blind items and try to solve them. For instance, this one from 1998 is obviously about Revolta: "This movie hero appears to be a loving husband and father in the Disney tradition, but when he's on location or the family's away, it's another story. He heads for the male bathhouses to seek out anonymous sex. Despite his famous face he hungrily prowls - eyeing every guy in the place. He likes fast uncommitted sex with all types, all colors. One week he was seen four nights in a row cavorting in the steam room. He's the talk of the gay community and if anyone spills the beans his career will be shattered."
They've been on the air for what, two months??
I haven't been to America for a long time now but I used to like their stuff a lot...not fantastically a lot, but quite a lot. What's it like these days? They were closing a lot of their stores-do they even have stores any more or is it all online now?
John Gotti Jr. was stabbed in a mysterious incident near the Syosset (Sigh-OS-set)train station in November of 2013, and lived. In February of 2014 Gary Melius, the owner of Oheka Castle, was shot in the head, and lived. Oheka is only about 9 minutes away from the Syosset train station. Gotti said he broke up a fight at the train station and that's how he got stabbed. Right. He clammed up at the station house. Melius couldn't think of a soul that would wish him harm, claimed he didn't see the shooter, and clammed up at the station house. Who'll be the next victim? To the Mattresses!
Their FB pages which would lead you to believe Jerry or whatever keyboardist only died yesterday. Vacations planned around Wide Spread Panic shows. Their absolute refusal to listen to any other kind of music. Their absolute insistence that the only reason you don't "get it" is because you haven't heard this 34 minute version of this song. Or seen them live, yes, I have twice. I could cut the B.O and reefer smoke with a knife. "But you should've seen them 3 days later in Tuscon, that was the show." The only other thing more annoying about them is most of them are Libertarians or even Republicans or the the type of uninformed liberal that makes people become Libertarians or Republicans.
For R186 from another thread. Have not seen last night's episode but am in love with this cast. For once I prefer the US to brit versions.
Does anybody know what''s going on with Scott Evans? I''m a huge fan and miss seeing him on my TV since he departed the Llanview program. He had a guest spot in an episode of Rubicon in September, but that''s it. In an August interview, he said he was filming a movie on Cape Cod called Dead Reckoning, but there''s no listing for it on IMDb. His twitter page is no longer. I miss him!
The Following starring Kevin Bacon started tonight on Fox. He plays a former FBI agent. James Purefoy stars as a killer. It is being called a psychological drama.
Lot's going on. German players talking about coming out/not coming out. Real Madrid in free-fall. Sevilla maybe reborn. Cristiano asks to leave. Villa a scoring machine again. Iniesta voted best player in Europe. Llorente still hot as fuck. Pep settled into fancy digs in New York. Fasten your seat belts!
Most underrated comedy of ALL TIME! Christine Baranski's character fucking kills me. You prefer ALIEN LOVE! BASTAARDDDD! BASTAARRDDDDDD! That poor dog in heels. Terrence Stamp. I find Eddie Murphy to be the weakest link of the entire film, and even he is pretty damn good. I think this is Steve Martin's best work. Criminally underrated.
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Will there be tears? Hugs? All of the View co-hosts to join together to bid farewell to Walters on May 11. Set your DVR's, bitches!
He makes the sign of the cross every 2 or 3 minutes. I think he's trying to defend against "impure" thoughts he is having toward me.
Who's your favorite? Mine is Duffman from [italic]The Simpsons[/italic]
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I knew it was coming but didn't know how or why, and then to see Chrissie, Sam and Zoe all together in a bar... with Pauline's doggie doorstop... Well, in a word, wow! And say goodbye to Andy Hunter, too...! Any other EastEnders fans care to weigh in?
Reporter for CBS Miami. What do we know about him?
Manny! Manny! MANNY!!
Being posh doesn’t seem to have done his career much harm so far. But Sherlock star Benedict Cumberbatch has complained that his privileged background and elite schooling have left him typecast. The 35-year-old actor grew up in Kensington, West London, and was educated at Harrow – where fees are £30,930 a year – before studying drama at Manchester University. As a consequence, he claims he suffers from ‘class-typing’ in his career. Cumberbatch, who also starred in this year’s film version of Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Spy, said: ‘I was brought up in a world of privilege. ‘It can ostracise you from normal codes of conduct in society. ‘Being a posh actor in England you cannot escape the class-typing from whatever side you look at it. ‘I realised from quite early on that, although I wasn’t trying to make a class specialty of it, I was playing slightly asexual, sociopathic intellectuals.’ He added that the fact that he went to one of the oldest schools in the world ‘does not make me an archetypal product of that school’. Cumberbatch told Radio Times: ‘We all want to escape our circumstances, don’t we? Especially if you are an actor. ‘It is an imaginative process that gets my juices going. ‘The further you get away from yourself, the more challenging it is. Not to be in your comfort zone is great fun.’ The actor has won plaudits for his portrayal of a brilliant but emotionally dysfunctional Sherlock Holmes in the BBC1 series, which returns in January. Earlier this year he starred as Stephen Hawking in the award-winning BBC2 biopic about the acclaimed scientist, and as spook Peter Guillam in the updated film adaptation of Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Spy. He has also played ‘toff roles’ such as Scarlett Johansson’s unbearably pompous husband in The Other Boleyn Girl, and the arrogant Edmund Talbot in the BBC adaptation of William Golding’s epic To The Ends of the Earth. He will soon be back on the big screen as Major Jamie Stewart in Stephen Spielberg’s Hollywood version of the West End theatre hit War Horse, which is released in January. In the past Cumberbatch has said his parents – the actors Wanda Ventham and Timothy Carlton – sent him to Harrow in the hope that he might not follow in their professional footsteps.
SOME people aren't fans of big-bummed reality star Kim Kardashian but one man claims to have a PHOBIA of her. By Andy Wells/Published 16th April 2014 Despite being one of the most desirable women on the planet, retail assistant Mike Amess is not in the queue for Kim's hand, and instead breaks out in a cold sweat whenever he sees or hears her. And it's not just Kim – Mike is petrified of the entire Kardashian clan and he reckons he VOMITS in disgust whenever he sees saucy pics of them. The 24-year-old from Exeter explained: "Just hearing the sound of the Kardashians' nasal voices or catching a glimpse of them on screen makes me feel nauseous and shaky. "My hands get clammy, my breathing gets heavier and I start sweating. "Sometimes, I get teary and want to retch." Gay Mike says his fear of the Kardashians started when he watched Kim's now notorious sex tape when he was just 17. He revealed: "I was raised Catholic and growing up, I tried to repress my sexuality and deny that I was gay. "Loads of the boys at school were going on about how good Kim Kardashian's sex tape was. "I thought I'd give it a watch in the hope it would turn me on. "I downloaded the video and watched it secretly in my bedroom. "But the sight of Kim writhing around with her huge bum and the sound of her horrible high-pitched wailing repulsed me. "I really wanted to be aroused by her so I kept watching it but she made me feel more and more upset. "By the end of the tape, I had burst into tears. The experience left me terrified and I never wanted to see Kim's face again. "I have come to terms with my homosexuality now but my dread towards her has never left." Unfortunately for Mike, Kim's fame has soared since the sex tape was made public and now he also has to put up with her equally-famous sisters. Describing the siblings as a "mess", Mike said: "They make my stomach churn, I hate it. "I dislike everything about them, especially their physical appearance. I don't understand how anyone could find them attractive. "I can't stand their voices either. They're so whiny and shrill - it really gets under my skin." Mike said that he now misses out on vital celebrity gossip as he has to avoid magazines that feature Kim or her sisters. And the infamous video for Kanye West's Bound 2, which features the rapper and a topless Kim, even made Mike THROW UP. He said: "Seeing Kim naked, with her boobs bouncing about like that brought back memories of that horrendous sex tape. "It was like reliving that incident all over again. "Before I knew it, I was sweating like a pig and throwing up." Mike's love life has also suffered because of his phobia – he claims the gay community are big fans of the Kardashians and he had to break up with a boyfriend after they clashed about watching an episode of Keeping Up WIth The Kardashians. Refusing to seek help for his phobia for fear of being laughed out of the doctor's surgery, Mike instead relies on the support of his friends. He added, "I have to get my friends to go through a newspaper or magazine before I read it and rip out any pages which contain pictures of the Kardashians. "Although my mates are supportive, they always make fun of my fear and play practical jokes on me... "They find it hilarious but they don't realise how traumatic it is for me. "I wish I wasn't scared of the Kardashians."
KEEP AWAY FROM THE KARDASHIANS!: Man is PETRIFIED of Kim and her clan
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I feel sorry for this kid.
A week ago, IFC ran a few of the "Friday the 13th" movie series. I didn't catch it from the beginning. But it brought back memories that, when growing up in the 1980s, this was our movie entertainment. Has anyone viewed the "Friday the 13th" movies, in the last five years, and had a very different reaction of it as an adult?
Has anyone here stopped home cable and internet service and gone totally cellular? I'm thinking of doing it because Comcast is our only local cable provider and they're expensive as hell. Do you miss anything about not having home service or has the cellular only experience been good?
Anyone else watching ?? I LOVE this show. Talented folks all around. But no one as cute as last season's Adolfo and Eddie
Anyone else get "Bradley Cooper" vibes from him?
Has anyone seen the commercials for this new reality series? I was surprised that it's a reality series when I Googled it because the commercial's production values look like it's for a standard half hour sitcom. It's supposed to be about a self-made millionaire, his wife and five kids. But, is this man not screamingly gay? And the son who comes to the door in the commercial pings to high heaven.
Early in March I hired a trainer based on a recommendation from a friend. Had the initial assessment on a Saturday. Bought 24 sessions on my credit card. $2000. No paperwork signed. Foolish - I trusted the recommendation and the friend. First work out (Saturdays and one weekday) was to start the following Saturday. Cancelled. Turned out his wife's grandmother died. First workout the following Weds., with the following Sat. scheduled. I had to bail last minute due to work. Told him he should charge me as insufficient notice. During this time he decided he would not train me as he didn't work weeknights in the summer due to family commitments. One of his other trainers would take over. A week passed before she contacted me to tell me it looked like we might be working together if our schedules could mesh and oh, btw, she was not available this Sat or the next. At this point, I want my money back, less three sessions. Original trainer thinks we can make it work. I think the money's gone and I'm either working out with a guy I think is a dickhead and disorganized or I cut my losses. I know I am a moron for not having paperwork signed... I trusted my friend's recommendation. Originally I was going to ask for advice but now I read this, I guess I am at the guy's mercy... and he's given no indication he wants to refund. He thinks we can make it work. Beat me up.
Yes, of course, I think she's cute, but I also think she's a viable candidate for "the next Meryl Streep." Anyone agree?
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As requested here is a new gym sex thread...
His face has that look.
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Tell us something that you did or didn't do, that you now regret. For example, I should have come out when I was younger or I stayed in a bad relationship too long. Hopefully this will generate some interesting discussion.
Derrick Gordon, a sophomore starter for the University of Massachusetts men's basketball team, publicly came out on Wednesday, becoming the first openly gay male NCAA Division 1 basketball player. Video:
Editor's note: Peter Bergen is CNN's national security analyst, a director at the New America Foundation and the author of "Manhunt: The Ten-Year Search for bin Laden -- From 9/11 to Abbottabad." David Sterman is a research assistant at the New America Foundation. (CNN) -- On Sunday, a man shot and killed a 14-year-old boy and his grandfather at the Jewish Community Center of Greater Kansas City and then drove to a nearby Jewish retirement community where he shot and killed a third person. Police arrested a suspect, Frazier Glenn Cross, who shouted "Heil Hitler" after he was taken into custody. Cross, who also goes by Frazier Glenn Miller, is a well-known right wing extremist who founded the Carolina Knights of the Ku Klux Klan and the White Patriot Party, according to the Southern Poverty Law Center. Now let's do the thought experiment in which instead of shouting "Heil Hitler" after he was arrested, the suspect had shouted "Allahu Akbar." Only two days before the first anniversary of the Boston Marathon bombings, this simple switch of words would surely have greatly increased the extent and type of coverage the incident received. Yet the death toll in the shootings in Kansas is similar to that of last year's Boston Marathon bombings, where three people were killed and the suspects later killed a police officer as they tried to evade capture. (Many more, of course, were also wounded in the Boston attacks; 16 men, women and children lost limbs.) In fact, since 9/11 extremists affiliated with a variety of far-right wing ideologies, including white supremacists, anti-abortion extremists and anti-government militants, have killed more people in the United States than have extremists motivated by al Qaeda's ideology. According to a count by the New America Foundation, right wing extremists have killed 34 people in the United States for political reasons since 9/11. (The total includes the latest shootings in Kansas, which are being classified as a hate crime). By contrast, terrorists motivated by al Qaeda's ideology have killed 23 people in the United States since 9/11. (Although a variety of left wing militants and environmental extremists have carried out violent attacks for political reasons against property and individuals since 9/11, none have been linked to a lethal attack, according to research by the New America Foundation.) Moreover, since 9/11 none of the more than 200 individuals indicted or convicted in the United States of some act of jihadist terrorism have acquired or used chemical or biological weapons or their precursor materials, while 13 individuals motivated by right wing extremist ideology, one individual motivated by left-wing extremist ideology, and two with idiosyncratic beliefs, used or acquired such weapons or their precursors. A similar attack to the one that Frazier Glenn Cross is accused of in Kansas occurred in August 2012 when Wade Michael Page killed six people in a shooting at a Sikh temple in Wisconsin. Page was a member of a white supremacist band and associated with the Hammerskins, a white supremacist group. Page committed suicide during the attack. Page is not, of course, the only right wing extremist to have used lethal violence to achieve political ends. In 2009, for instance, Shawna Forde, Albert Gaxiola, and Jason Bush raided a house in Arizona, killing Raul Flores and his daughter Brisenia. The three attackers sought to use the burglary to finance their anti-immigration vigilante group, Minutemen American Defense. Forde and Bush were convicted and sentenced to death. Gaxiola was sentenced to life in prison. Also in 2009, Scott Roeder murdered Dr. George Tiller, who ran an abortion clinic in Wichita, Kansas. In 2010 Roeder was convicted of first-degree murder. According to the Southern Poverty Law Center, Roeder not only had ties to the extreme anti-abortion movement, but he also had been pulled over while driving with a fake license plate bearing the markings of the Sovereign Citizens, a movement of individuals who deny that the government has authority over them. Of course, the deadliest terrorist attack on American soil prior to 9/11 was the Oklahoma City bombing, which was masterminded by Timothy McVeigh, a man with deep ties to far-right militant circles. McVeigh killed 168 people when he bombed the Alfred P. Murrah federal building on April 19, 1995. Despite this history of deadly violence by individuals motivated by political ideologies other than al Qaeda, it is jihadist violence that continues to dominate the news and the attention of policy makers. Some of this is quite understandable. After all, on 9/11 al Qaeda's 19 terrorists killed almost 3,000 people in the space of a morning. Since then al Qaeda's branch in Yemen tried to bring down with a bomb secreted on a passenger an American commercial jet flying over Detroit on Christmas Day 2009 and al Qaeda's branch in Pakistan tried to launch bombings on the New York subway system a few months earlier. Luckily those plots didn't succeed, but certainly if they had the death toll would have been on a large scale. Yet the disparity in media coverage between even failed jihadist terrorist attacks and this latest incident in Kansas is emblematic of a flawed division in the public's mind between killing that is purportedly committed in the name of Allah and killing that is committed for other political ends, such as neo-Nazi beliefs about the need to kill Jews. Part of the reason for this disconnect might be that when a Department of Homeland Security report warning of violent right wing extremism was leaked in 2009, it generated a substantial political controversy. In a 2011 interview with the Southern Poverty Law Center, Daryl Johnson, the leader of the team that produced the report, argued that following the controversy, DHS's examination of such threats suffered, stating "Since our report was leaked, DHS has not released a single report of its own on this topic. Not anything dealing with non-Islamic domestic extremism—whether it's anti-abortion extremists, white supremacists, 'sovereign citizens,' eco-terrorists, the whole gamut." The threat from al Qaeda and its associated forces has changed significantly since 9/11. Today, almost 13 years after 9/11, al Qaeda has not successfully conducted another attack inside the United States. And since 2011, no individual charged with plotting to conduct an al Qaeda-inspired terrorist attack inside the United States has acted with more than one accomplice. This demonstrates the difficulties today of forming a jihadist group sufficiently large enough to conduct a complex attack anything on the scale of 9/11, and is a tribute to the success of law enforcement agencies in detecting and deterring jihadist terrorist activity. Today in the United States, al Qaeda-type terrorism is the province of individuals with no real connection to foreign terrorists, aside from reading their propaganda online. Given this, it becomes harder to explain, in terms of American national security, why violence by homegrown right wing extremists receives substantially less attention than does violence by homegrown jihadist militants.
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Two 18 year-olds (nephews). Don't want loud and crazy but don't want staid or stuffy. We're staying on Taylor Street.
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He used to be SO incredibly sexy, dapper, seemingly nice, smiling, happy.\ \ Now, he''s just this greasy, grimy mess who may be a good actor but whose personality seems to match his physical appearance. He seems to take himself way, WAY too seriously. Oh, and needs a bathe.\ \ I know he thinks he''s super cool, etc.., but how much longer can he play this shtick before everyone tires of it?
What genetic/evironmental abnormality was this?
Continuing a great thread with fabulous pecs.
One for this sort of image.
And why?
Out TV/Radio personality Clay Cane is hot with dreds...
Here's where you can spoil and discuss everything that's coming up on the TV show for the fourth season and beyond if you've read ahead in the books.
This is the thread where we enjoy biceps.
I love them, hot and slutty!
My local Brooklyn gas station attendant is in his early twenties and he is young and spectacularly handsome. %0D\ %0D\ I go really early on Saturdays to fill my gas tank and thanks to the World Cup, which I KNEW would be an ideal conversation starter, I have found out he is Moroccan! So cool! And the French influence in Moroooco definitely enhanced his refined good looks. %0D\ %0D\ He is also VERY friendly, but I do not think he is gay. I think he just likes talking to somebody but believe me this 45 year old gay guy has no illusions about dating this hottie but it did get me to wonder about Morocco.%0D\ %0D\ Has anybody dated a real Moroccan? Has anybody traveled to Morocco, like with the military?%0D\ %0D\ Are the men in general always so very good-looking? %0D\ %0D\ Are they well-hung?
And I am not giving the address, so don''t even ask.
Who really drives you wild? No lengthy lists [bold]please[/bold]--no one wants to go through a big boring list. Name just a few. For me: Adam Killian Matt Cole Alex Marte
Dropping 4-4-4. OMG, I can't wait. It's going to be EPIC!!!!
Classic.
I think it's his bravado and plus how pure he is. And I found the chemistry between him and Iron Man awesome. I think they should get married. As for the movie, it seems to me like SHIELD's main employees the old black boss, and the Russian lady should have died several times over from being fatally hit by random artillary, but they never do, which is unfortunate.
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!
I've been watching this on Netflix, and I'm most intrigued by the people who voluntarily disappear. Apparently, Tim Carney was found after his episode aired, but asked the police not to sis cold his whereabouts. His family thinks he's in Chicago. Did he leave to get away from that cult? Was his relationship with his family not as peachy as they said?
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It's a bungalow built in 1903 and has the original wood floors but it needs lots of work. Sometime in the 1960's they "updated" it and put in wood paneling and drop down acoustical tile ceilings. Is paneling really hard to remove? Also, I'm going to have someone go in and remove the drop down ceiling and take them up possibly opening the attic. It's a 2/1 and 978 sq. ft so I need to maximize space. Good thing is it has a separate garage apt in the back on separate meters that is rented and brings in enough to pay the mortgage and I have my own garage too. Any ideas would be most appreciated.
For irritating the neighbor frau... He doesn't sound like a rose, but neither does the neighbor. Meanwhile, females who molest boys walk free.
Female judge orders 64y.o. man to hold "I'm a Bully Sign" on the street
Let me tell you about this woman that I worked with at an upscale Manhattan hotel.(Her pic is at link) Unattractive, crude, more than a few pounds overweight and very dishonest. Threw the race card out there whenever things didn't go her way. Her favorite expression if she got mad at someone is to say "They can suck my dick." Is so manly in her behavior and dress that once when she was in the public restroom in the lobby a concerned woman rushed up to the front desk to report that they had just spotted a man in the women's room. It was no man, it was this employee. Liked to have loud, threatening fights with her girlfriend Keisha on her cellphone in front of her co-workers during work time. Showed up at employee outings in appropriate attire and often swigging from liquor bottles. Got a male employee in big trouble for playfully referring to her as Whoopi because of her resemblance to Whoopi Goldberg. They both had a similar dreadlock hairstyle at the time. She ran to HR and claimed this employee was racist for calling her this.She quietly confided to some co-workers that the real reason she got the guy in trouble was because she felt Whoopi Goldberg is ugly and she was upset with the comparison. (For the record, WG is better looking than this woman.) Just stopped coming to work for more than two weeks and had her mother call in with some lame excuse for her even though she is a grown woman who should have called herself. Has only a HS education (don't even know if she ever managed to graduate) from a failing NYC public school. Every time, there was any type of managerial opening, she ran to HR to apply for it. She was totally unqualified for these posts but she felt she deserved them. Then when she didn't get the post, she'd have a chip on her shoulder blaming racism as the real reason. Finally, her suck-up boss and other cowardly powers that be gave her one of those meaningless Assnt. Mgr. titles just to keep her happy. She finally got into trouble for physically assaulting a Chinese menu guy that had been caught sneaking into the building and was slipping menus under guest room doors.The policy was to fill out a trespassing form, contact their bosses at the restaurant and if they are uncooperative then to call police. She decided instead to kick this tiny Asian guy's ass leaving him with bruises and cuts before calling the police. Management sent her home for the day but didn't end up firing her. I'm sure they didn't want it to appear that they were being racist. I could go on and on with other tales about this troublemaking walking disaster.I hate companies with spineless management that won't effectively confront these types of employees.
I see a big future for him. He's a little bit (just a little bit) fey.
The Pisces in bed thread got me wondering. In my own experience Leos, Geminis and Sagittarius' have been pretty good.
Miss Garland made Walters wait 4 hours. She is wearing one of Lorna's outfits. The interview was taped three days after daughter Liza's wedding to Peter Allen and Garland's appearance on What's My Line?
The JUDY GARLAND - BARBARA WALTERS Interview from 1967. Complete.
Who are the actresses and actors (and directors and writers) who fucked themselves the worst, and lost the potential of great careers over a long period of time? Aside from the obvious picks of psychological messes such as Marilyn, and Montgomery Clift (who didn't do too bad even if they were self-destructive), who could have been better or bigger but threw it all away? I think Mickey Rourke had a lot more going for him than he ever managed to make happen. He killed it. KZJ may have picked up an underserved Oscar for reasons beyond my comprehension, but her combined mental and substance issues really screwed what could have been a wonderful career. Just go back to her big break in ZORRO and see how great she could have been. Bening fucked herself with that marriage. What was she thinking. THE GRIFTERS alone is evidence enough of someone who should have had a huge career, not just one that has always felt like "almost" and "yeah, but." AMERICAN BEAUTY should have had a series of similar accomplishments. Some people might include Winona Ryder here, but I think she's an example of someone who did well for no reason associated with talent. Inept at every turn. Her klepto mess was just the public piece of a great disorder that spared us even more bad performances, right? Glenda Jackson is a special case - she hit the top of her niche and stayed there a while, and then walked away. A rational career destruction.
The character must die. The actor is BAD, charmless and steals the life out of every scene he is in. Oxygen leaves the room, he is that bad. I don't give a fuck who he is related to.....for the good of the series have him die in a tragic accident.
I just learned that 50s/60s sitcom star Bea Benederet of Burns & Allen/Petticoat Junction fame (and btw, Lucy's first choice for the Ethel Mertz role), is the mother of actor Jack Bannon (pictured; "Lou Grant", among many shows), who played Scott Easton, the character who stole Val's babies on Knots Landing. This is fascinating. Any others I should be aware of?
NASA creates GIF showing 60 years of climate change.
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At least three people have been shot dead in attacks at a Jewish community centre and a retirement home in Kansas City in the US Midwest.....
Whatever your opinion of her recent surgeries and hormone intake, Chaz Bono says that she is no longer a gay woman, but is, rather a straight man. Congratulations! But, if she were a Catholic who converted to Judaism, she would no longer be a member of that organization. Well, she has "converted" to heterosexuality and is no longer a member of our organization. Her presence will do nothing but confuse and alienate. For example, we are fighting to be allowed to get married. She can get married. Our agenda is no longer hers, but, because she likes the attention and the catering, she''s not gonna go anywhere. What can we do?
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Or are they titillated by this fascinating new topic coming at them? The media has seized upon us as one of the last provocative, hot button issues. Everyday it's 'gay athletes', 'gay marriage', 'gay adoption'. I have to admit, I'm a little saturated on the issue myself (though I'm old enough to find it amusing, because when I was growing up it was a taboo subject everywhere... that is, until AIDS).
Original Buffy the Vampire Slayer Kristy Swanson doesn''t agree with Joss Whedon that revisiting the 1992 movie is a bad idea.\ \ In fact, the 40-year-old actress is touting for a role in Warner Brothers'' remake.\ \ "If they wanted me to be a part of it, I think that would be fantastic and that it would be a blast," she told Entertainment Weekly.\ \ Her enthusiam isn''t shared by Buffy creator Whedon, whose response to the remake announcement came via a sardonic written statement to E! Online, in which he called it "a sad, sad reflection on our times, when people must feed off the carcasses of beloved stories from their youths."\ \ But Swanson has no such reservations, adding: "There are die-hard Joss Whedon fans who absolutely love him to death, and rightly so; he''s a brilliant man, no doubt. I love everything Buffy. I don''t care who''s doing it."\ \ Swanson''s co-star Luke Perry has so far declined to give his reaction.
Original Buffy Kristy Swanson Fishes for a Job with the Buffy Reboot
Okay granted I am not from the south but is it typical for late forties and early fifties men to social friends with 20-30 somethings? Case #1 Thomas Ravenel who is 51 years old, been indicted for selling cocaine and forced to step down as state treasurer now wants to run for congress as a "Libertarian"." Episode two showed a picture of his father with a very large confederate flag draped across the steps of the state capitol. Racist much? Case #2 Whitney Sudler Smith - 41 year old "film maker" who lives with his mother. The rest of the cast seem in the late 20's to early 30's. Thomas seems to think he is quite the stud man about town....given he is handsome and rich he is also racist and vile.
Since the other threads are closed, here's a new one!
The "actor" will be starring in Spinning Gold, a biopic of Neil Bogart, the infamous record executive who was closely aligned with the rise of disco. A poor kid from Brooklyn, Bogart went on to define the pop-music culture of his time. In his day, Bogart, who died in 1982 at age 39, was credited with discovering and launching the careers of a generation of superstars, including Curtis Mayfield, Bill Withers, Gladys Knight, KISS, Parliament, Donna Summer and The Village People. He was the founder of Casablanca Records. Spike Lee is being courted to direct.
We will never give up on box office poison, Justin Timberlake, vows Hollywood
Continuation. As requested:
Is Greg Kinnear the next Kirk Cameron?
... or do they work? I've resisted for a really long time, thinking they are just a fad and another way for the supplement industry to bleed our bank accounts. After recurrent nosocomial (meaning: contracted in a hospital/clinical setting) Group B Strep infections (not debilitating, but annoying ...), my doc is suggesting this approach. Antibiotics work for a while, then GBS is back within a short period of time. What's been your experience with probiotics? Thanks in advance!
I have one and a half more days to relax and I can't find anything to do in terms of entertainment. Yesterday I went to watch a movie with a friend. I come home and I really want to watch another movie but there really aren't any movies I want to watch. I could watch Thor: the Underworld or Ironman 3 but they are kind of boring; the big explosions and the violence, not much substance. Anyway, I soon came to realize, I don't watch another film except Nolan films. What are your thoughts on this? I think I'll go play chess or something.
Yes, I know I should quit them BUT I've had the same email my whole life!!!
to make teenagers forget he's a pathetic junkie who got beat up on Skid Row last week.
It's been a week, and I'm still getting off 3 times a day. Is this the future of sex? I'm starting to feel weird about it.
It was the season finale, and what a car wreck they were! Amy's Baking Company Bakery Boutique & Bistro, in Scottsdale, Arizona, featured two owners who were so frustratingly outrageous that Gordon Ramsey left them in the lurch. They refused to acknowledge that anything was ever their fault. Though that's nothing compared to what has been going on since then. Tucson Weekly: [bold]The Folks at Amy's Baking Company In Scottsdale Have Gone Insane[/bold]
People who go apeshit about spoiler warnings on forums: "Thanks for posting a spoiler warning first, asshole! You just ruined the movie for me!" Hey dipshit, if you're reading a forum or message board about a particular movie, it's pretty much a given that most people will have already seen the movie and assume that everyone else has too. If you haven't seen it yet, don't read the damn thing! It's just common sense for anyone with an IQ above room temperature.
This is like the US Postal Service doing a commemorative set of Casey Donovan stamps. Link NSFW.
They seem notorious. Also, why is Oakland so dangerous?
Started on request at end of Season Two thread. Enjoyed the first episode. Back to Season 1 style drama. But what the hell happened to Madeleine Stowe? I guess she's aging naturally. But boy is she aging.
Be afraid. Be very afraid.
Name Some Actors, Celebrities, Politicians Who You Might Have Confused For Another Either Lately Or Years Ago. Whether It Was Because They Look Similar Or Had Similar Jobs, Roles Etc ..... I used to confuse: Jack Carson and Don DeFore Merv Griffin and Mike Douglas Spring Byington and Fay Bainter Barbara Rush and Pat Crowley Rhonda Fleming and Arlene Dahl
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Was she an alcoholic in real life or was it just her character on C&L?
I saw Hellbent a few years ago but it was just okay. Can anyone recommend some good gay horror that's not horror-comedy? (I hate that sub genre)
Why do fashion hipsters do this ? It must be uncomfortable. It must be unhygienic. It doesn't look good.
I can't afford to buy anything but I like to shop and dream of the day. I have wish lists all over the place and keep adding to them knowing I will probably never buy one thing on any of the lists but it's still fun to add them and dream. Most of the things aren't even expensive items, mostly, nice pots and pans, some clothes, some moderate bedding, gadgets, some only a few dollars but things being so tight even those would be too much of a luxury right now. Stupid or good way of having fun?
At least there aren't any stacked books...
It's a brownish red. Very intense. I've seen a ring around the asshole many times, but never a red one. I'm on the East Coast.
Dana McCallum, a senior engineer at Twitter who speaks and writes about women's and transgender-rights and technology issues, was arrested Jan. 26 and booked into County Jail on suspicion of five felonies, according to the Sheriff's Department. McCallum, 31, who was born a male, openly identifies as a female and whose legal name is Dana Contreras, was charged Jan. 29 with five felonies, including three counts of spousal rape, one count of false imprisonment and one count of domestic violence, according to the District Attorney's Office. She has since pleaded not guilty.
Have there been rumors about any celebrities having it?
Michael Bay to produce remake of Alfred Hitchcock's The Birds The horror returns as Transformers director revealed as man behind new take on Hitchcock's 1963 frightener, with Naomi Watts set to take Tippi Hedren role Xan Brooks; Thursday 13 March 2014 06.58 EDT Alfred Hitchcock's film The Birds told the story of a rustic seaside town that finds itself menaced by hellish flocks of seagulls and crows. Now the 1963 classic looks set to suffer its own form of molestation courtesy of a Hollywood remake by Transformers director Michael Bay. Loosely adapted from a 1952 short story by Daphne du Maurier, The Birds cast Tippi Hedren in the role of Melanie Daniels, a San Francisco socialite who comes horribly unstuck on a visit to northern California. Reports suggest that Bay's version will return to tale to its original English setting, while Naomi Watts is rumoured to be considering the Hedren role. Variety reports that the film will be directed by the Dutch film-maker Diederik Van Rooijen, with Bay serving as a co-producer. The film looks set to be a co-production between Mandalay Pictures, Universal and Bay's Platinum Dunes production house. It remains to be seen whether the birds will be giant, man-eating birds, or possibly armed with guns. Hitchcock's original film spawned a poorly-received 1994 sequel, The Birds 2: Land's End, which screenwriter Rick Rosenthal later disowned. The idea of a big-budget remake was first mooted in 2007, with Casino Royale's Martin Campbell pencilled in to direct. On hearing the news, Tippi Hedren appeared to be unimpressed. "Why would you do that? Why?" she asked.
Michael Bay to produce remake of Alfred Hitchcock's The Birds
Sony Pictures is looking to replace David Fincher as director of its highly anticipated Steve Jobs movie due to his aggressive demands for compensation and control, according to several sources. Fincher is said to be seeking a hefty $10 million up front in fees, as well as control over marketing, in negotiations with the studio. Sony allowed him considerable input into the marketing of the 2011 film The Girl With the Dragon Tattoo, including honoring his request to use the tagline "The feel bad movie of Christmas" in its campaign. A source says Fincher also had the studio create metal, razor-blade-shaped one-sheet materials for the film that cost hundreds of thousands of dollars to produce but were not suitable for display in theaters. Sony declined to comment. Fincher's reps did not immediately respond to requests for comment. A source with ties to the studio says Fincher potentially could re-enter negotiations but that the fee he is seeking is “ridiculous,” adding, “You’re not doing Transformers here. You’re not doing Captain America. This is quality — it’s not screaming commerciality. He should be rewarded in success but not up front.” The Jobs movie, based on Walter Isaacson's acclaimed best-selling biography Steve Jobs, would have reunited the team behind The Social Network, including producer Scott Rudin, writer Aaron Sorkin and Fincher. That film grossed $225 million worldwide in 2010 and scored Sorkin a best adapted screenplay Oscar. Fincher had wanted Christian Bale to star in the Jobs film, though the actor is not attached to the project. The negotiation comes at a key time for Sony, which is attempting to enforce greater fiscal responsibility after a lackluster summer 2013 that included such disappointments as After Earth and White House Down. The studio previously had been known for spending more freely than its rivals.
David Fincher Flounces from Jobs Biopic after not getting 10M Upfront and Marketing Control
An Alabama woman has been charged with murder after allegedly fatally shooting her son’s boyfriend. Tuscaloosa County Deputies said that 51-year-old Anita T. Hill’s son was “involved in a long-term relationship” with 36-year-old Jamie R. Johnson. According to deputies, the three agreed to meet at Love’s Truck Stop in McCalla on Monday to talk. Investigators determined that the group talked for a while and then Hill’s son returned to his vehicle. Hill and Johnson continued speaking for a few more minutes. When Johnson turned to walk away, Hill shot him in the back, WBRC reported. Police also said that they believed that Hill shot Johnson because he had been “violent” and abusive with her son. But no criminal records were immediately available to back up that story. “We don’t see this in any way being a hate crime,” Sgt. Dale Phillips noted. “We see this being a family having issues in this. All the people involved in this were either related or had been acquaintances for several years.” Phillips said the he did not believe Hill went to the truck stop with the intention of killing Johnson. Hill was being held in lieu of a $75,000 bond in the Tuscaloosa County Jail. Watch the video below from WBMA, broadcast April 15, 2014.
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Post your pictures of men showing affection to each other... like this:
Since the spoiler in the "official thread" states that his spoilers are wanted, can we have a thread that doesn't say what happens in each episode until it has aired? I like all the teams in this All-Stars season. I will hate to see all of them get eliminated. I can't believe Team YouTube just let their taxi go while they were in the middle of no-where. They knew they had blown it and were good sports about it. They must have really been behind because even in the edit, they never crossed paths with Brandon and Rachael.
Mother wanted me to post on Goop in a kimono so we had quite a fight.
Premieres Feb. 23 on CBS. Brendon/Rachel Mark/Bopper Cord/Jet (cowboys) Dave/Connor Flight Time/Big Easy (Globetrotters) Jennifer/Caroline Joey/Meghan John/Jessica Leo/Jamal Margie/Luke Natalie/Nadiya
Jenn. 23. Cisgendered white female. Tortoisekin. Disabled. Singlet. Gainer. Vegan. Feminist. Fat activist. Pansexual. Demiplatonic. Aromantic. Asensual. This has to be a parody.
Damn boy!
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Does Henry Cavill''s ass qualify as a bubble butt?
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This is a new ABC-Family series about a lesbian couple (one white one black) raising the white woman's son from a previous marriage, two Hispanic adopted twins, one a boy and the other a girl, who had been fosters before they were adopted, and two white foster kids who are brother and sister. The older foster kid just got out of Juvie. The white woman is a cop and in the pilot her new partner is her ex-husband, the father of her son. (Yeah--that would so happen). Oh--And the family name is Foster. Get it? Despite this ridiculous set-up (and despite being produced by J-Lo) the show is pretty good so far. The lesbian parents' relationship is realistic. The elder son is attractive in a geeky way and the male twin is stunning. The show was created by Peter Paige (Yes, that Peter Paige.) I did a search and nothing showed up so please don't yell at me if there is already a thread on this.
Baywatch, Melrose, and then?
I can't take her seriously. She's a mess! Am I the only one that sees it???
And her job is to critique fashion? Bitch, please!
This was NEVER cute.
Is anyone watching this highly enjoyable show? Smart and funny.
Wow, no thread yet. Vicki: "What do people in Utah eat anyways?" Eddie: "I better butch it up for this gym class." Heather: "I simply know everything!" Shannon: "You fuckin' eat when I say you fuckin' eat!" Tamra: "Fancy pants. Fancy pants. Fancy pants!!!" Brooks: "Forgive me, baby." Will Ryan lose it and murder his family? Will Tamra have Mexi babies? ...plus the return of babyfat Briana!
This kid's a star!
WATCH: 12-year-old with two moms in Utah speaks out for the freedom to marry
the other one maxxed out. now Carole is accusing Reid of beign a crook? What would Ramona do, and will Sonja wear underwear?
New Thread on Real Housewives of NY
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It's actually pretty funny.
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I'm afraid to fill out the one for my writing teacher. She teaches writing!!! She'll recognize my tone!!!
What are your thoughts?
Yes or no? Why does everyone talk like it's so impressive if someone has a 6-figure salary?
I hate him even more now!!!! He never thinks about whether his films are successful or not?!? Really? Then why the bitchface at the Golden Globes?
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I like it so far. Almost as addictive as DOWNTON ABBEY.
MR. SELFRIDGE with Jeremy Piven on Masterpiece Theatre. Anyone watching?
Note I said [italic]openly[/italic] gay. James Buchanan doesn't count, and neither does Abraham Lincoln. I think it's way past time we had a gay President, but how long do you think it will take before we actually get one?
This friend I've known all my life as suddenly become obsessed with talking about the poor and downtrodden of other countries. (Darfur, Africa etc.) She doesn't actually do anything to help but seems to want to be considered a humanitarian now. It all just seems like attention seeking. I mean if you are actually going to help great but sitting at dinner berating people for discussing Mad Men when children are suffering elsewhere just seems a bit mad.
The Bill Condon thread had a link to a funny choreographed dance party scene in a 80s horror movie. The song everyone was dancing to was 'Lightin' Strikes', which I haven't heard in years, so I youtubed it and found the live clip linked below ... Okay, I am hideously bad at crotchwatching, but am I right in thinking that he's majorly packing?
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Islam Does NOT Deserve Tax Exempt Status Because islam is NOT a Religion (Please note that in the body of my piece I deliberately do NOT capitalize islam, muslims, mohammad, or the qur’an in this paper as I believe to capitalize those words gives credence to them, and I give NO credence to islam, muslims, mohammad, or the qur’an.) Our Constitution allows for freedom of religion. Along with that come all the modern perks including tax exemption and other special privileges. If it can be proven that islam does NOT qualify as a religion according to our laws, then islam will lose its religious designation, it’s very wanted but misguided protection under the guise of our First Amendment along with its tax exempt status, and thus its foothold in America. With that said, what I will try to do here is present a feasible argument that the special rights and privileges afforded islam were given in error and hopefully will be reversed, thus helping to save our Judeo-Christian nation from the islamization being forced on us by the Obama administration. First, it must be stated how religion, in a theological sense, is defined in America. Simply, it is a belief in, and reverence for, a singular, supernatural power (or being) who is both creator and ruler of the universe and one who controls man’s destiny; what we commonly refer to as God. (Deuteronomy 6:4: ‘...Hear Israel, the Lord is our God, the Lord is one.). Religion in America is based upon a set of beliefs, values, morals, ideals, and practices following the teachings of God the Father, Jesus the Son, and the Abrahamic God of the Jews; in other words a living, loving God (1 John chapter 4 verse 8 ‘He that loveth not knoweth not God; for God is love’) put forth as God’s word in The Holy Bible. (2 Timothy 3:16: ‘All scripture is given by inspiration of God’.) America was founded upon the holiness and supremacy of this God, thus at its inception America became a Judeo-Christian society; as in ‘One nation under God’, because of these very beliefs, values, morals, and ideals. Legal definitions of religion usually appear in the complicated contexts of either protecting freedom of religion, or prohibiting discrimination or persecution of religion. Legal definitions do not describe the nature of religion, they establish rules for regulating social and legal relations among people who themselves may have sharply different attitudes about what religion is, and what parts of it are entitled to protection. Legal definitions, therefore, may contain serious inefficiencies when they include particular social and cultural attitudes towards ‘accepted’ religions, or when they fail to account for social and cultural attitudes against ‘not accepted’ religions. However, legally, The Supreme Court has interpreted religion to mean a sincere and meaningful belief that occupies in the life of its possessor a place parallel to the place held by God in the lives of other persons. The religion or religious concept need not include a belief in the existence of God or a supreme being to be within the scope of the First Amendment. The Supreme Court has deliberately avoided establishing an exact definition of religion because freedom of religion is a guarantee that was written in such a manner as to ensure adaptability as the United States grew. As a result, religion is not limited to traditional denominations, and this is where islam falls for it is anything but traditional. The First Amendment of the U.S. Constitution provides that "Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof." The first part of this provision is known as the Establishment Clause, and the second part is known as the Free Exercise Clause. Although the First Amendment only refers to Congress NOT to individuals or groups, The U.S. Supreme Court has held that the Fourteenth Amendment (this amendment was first introduced to secure the rights of former slaves but has since been expanded to include other groups such as senior citizens, women, children, and people with disabilities and is the center of Equality in America) makes the Free Exercise and Establishment Clauses also binding on states (Cantwell v. Connecticut, 310 U.S. 296, 60 S. Ct. 900, 84 L. Ed. 1213 [1940], and Everson v. Board of Education, 330 U.S. 1, 67 S. Ct. 504, 91 L. Ed. 711 [1947], respectively). This is extremely important because each state issues tax exemptions also. However and here is where the problem lies, some define religion as an individual or group conviction, a belief tied in with societal and cultural traditions, along with man’s impact on them. But this definition of religion is wrong, for this in actuality is the definition of a ‘cult.’ A cult’s followers and members swear an allegiance to and/or worship in total submission to an unknown deity, or to a made-up god-like figure invented to further someone’s personal ambitions (as was the case with mohammad), and add the fact that the word ‘cult’ often suggests extreme beliefs and bizarre behavior, and you have just described islam to a tee. It’s extremely important to note that one of the main things separating a true religion from a cult is that NO true religion instructs its followers to kill in God's name, but many a cult instructs its followers to kill in the name of their leader. Such is the case with the cult known as islam. When a muslim declares that islam is a religion of peace, he is either ignorant of the qur'an or is deceitfully (taqiyya) thinking of this ‘peace’ as it applies only to those within the muslim community. (According to the qur'an Surah 48:29: "Muhammad is the Apostle of Allah. Those who follow him are merciful to one another, but ruthless to unbelievers." Surah 9:5: "Kill the Mushrikun (unbelievers) wherever you find them, and capture them and besiege them, and lie in wait for them in each and every ambush..." Also see Surah 9:29: PICKTHAL: "Fight against such of those who have been given the Scripture (Christians & Jews) as believe not in Allah nor the Last Day, and forbid not that which Allah hath forbidden by His messenger, and follow not the Religion of Truth, until they pay the tribute readily, being brought low.") Remember, there is NOT a single verse in the Old or New Testaments that contains this command to kill unbelievers. It must also be noted that religion does NOT suppress or stop free speech and dissent, but cults do. Again, such is the case with islam. If islam really holds the ‘Ultimate Truth’ (Koran 4:82: Do they not consider the Qur'an (with care)? Had it been from other than Allah, they would surely have found therein much discrepancy.) and ‘Final Revelation’ as it claims (islam teaches that the qur'an is the final revelation from God), then islam should not fear challenge, questioning, or free speech. islam’s leaders should be able to defend islam with only words, because its appeal should be evident to everyone. Therefore, people should want to come to islam willingly and without fear of violence. If some choose to leave this so-called faith, then they should be allowed to leave without persecution or worse…..death. But that is not the case. (Hadith Al Buhkari vol. 9:57: ’Whoever changes his Islamic religion, kill him.’) This command from the Hadith is practiced in almost all Islamic countries today, and just reeks of being a cult NOT a religion. It must always be remembered that islam came into existence thousands of years after the birth of Judaism, and 600 hundred years after the birth of Christianity. Was islam the answer to those who doubted the living, loving God as set down in the Old and New Testaments? Was islam the antidote to the harsh instructions and rules that both Judaism and Christianity demanded of its followers? Or was islam nothing more than the mad rantings of a Bedouin sheepherder who had visions of grandeur and immortality and thus NOT a religion at all? I believe it is the later, and I will explain why. Islam literally means submission. And herein lays a very crucial deviation from what religion is supposed to commutate. True religion worships a living, loving God and allows for the free will of man, (Deuteronomy 30:19: ‘I call heaven and earth to record this day against you, that I have set before you life and death, blessing and cursing: therefore choose life, that both thou and thy seed may live.’), (Joshua 24:15: ‘And if it seem evil unto you to serve the LORD, choose you this day whom ye will serve; whether the gods which your fathers served that were on the other side of the flood, or the gods of the Amorites, in whose land ye dwell: but as for me and my house, we will serve the LORD.’), (Proverbs 3:3: ‘Envy thou not the oppressor, and choose none of his ways.’) however, islam by its very name does not. Tawhid, the oneness of allah, is an essential belief for all muslims. Without the free will to either follow Tawhid or leave the so-called religion of islam, islam becomes nothing more than a cult where one must follow blindly or pay severe consequences. (Qur'an 8:12: ‘I shall terrorize the infidels. So wound their bodies and incapacitate them because they oppose Allah and his Apostle’) Remember, anyone can join islam, but the only way one can ever really leave islam is by death NOT by one’s free will to do so. (Sura 5:33, commands mutilation and crucifixion for striving against Allah and Muhammad) muslims erroneously claim their religion to be the oldest and the only truth, and that all human beings are born muslim, but practice religion according to their upbringing. (Sahih Muslim, Book 033, Number 6426: mohammad said "No baby is born but upon Fitra (as a Muslim). It is his parents who make him a Jew or a Christian or a Polytheist.") Because islam means complete submission to the one and only ‘true god’ allah, muslims believe that anyone who is truly submitting himself to god (allah), according to what has been revealed from god (allah) and not simply according to his own whims, is a muslim. muslims believe that islam is the religion of all Prophets, Adam to muhammad, and that children are not born out of any sin, original, inherited or derived, so therefore, they are born of the religion of their nature…..islam. muslims claim all people eventually revert back to islam and, therefore, are not converted to it, so if one does not follow islam and abide by its rules during their lifetime, then they must be killed. A simple premise yes, but one upon which muslims use to justify jihad upon non-believers (Qur'an 8:39: ‘Fight them until all opposition ends and all submit to Allah’), and lends more credence to the fact that islam is a cult NOT a religion of peace, as all religions are supposed to be. The qur'an asserts that the god of islam is the God of Christians and Jews. (Sura 29:46: “Do not argue with the people of the scripture (Jews, Christians, & Muslims) except in the nicest possible manner—unless they transgress— and say, "We believe in what was revealed to us and in what was revealed to you, and our god and your god is one and the same; to Him we are submitters.") Nothing could be farther from the truth. About 578 years before islam began, Christians were warned against islam by both Jesus and the Apostle Paul. In Matthew 16:11-12 Jesus warned about many false prophets who would follow Him. Paul also warned of this when he wrote in Galatians 1:8: “But even if we (or an angel from heaven) should preach a Gospel contrary to the one we preached to you, let him be condemned to hell!” muslims claim, without providing proof positive, that Christians and Jews have corrupted the Scriptures, and teach that everyone must instead accept the teachings of the qur'an. However, the Christian Bible predates muhammad and islam by more than 575 years and the Jewish Torah predates muhammad and islam by 1,000 - 3,000 years. muhammad said for muslims to read the Bible for ‘Guidance and Light’ (Surah 29:46 Muslims are told by Allah, not to question the authority of the scriptures of the Christians, saying, "And dispute ye not with the People of the Book, but say, "We believe in the revelation which has come down to us and in that which came down to you; Our Allah and your Allah is one”), so for islam to say that the Bible is corrupted, is to call muhammad a liar for recommending it, therefore taqiyya is being practiced here also. In addition, islam teaches that only muslims will be admitted to Paradise or what we refer to as Heaven (Sura 5:72: Unbelievers are those that say: "God is the Messiah, the son of Mary." For the Messiah himself said: "Children of Israel, serve God, my Lord and your Lord. "He that worships other gods besides God, God will deny him Paradise, and the fire shall be his home. None shall help the evil-doers.), even though Jews and Christians are considered 'People of the Book' (5:68 AYA). And when compared with the Jewish and Christian scriptures, islam teaches that ‘Unbelievers’ are those that say that allah is not the true and only god (Sura, 14:9: Has not the news reached you, of those before you, the people of Nuh (Noah), and 'Ad, and Thamud? And those after them? None knows them but Allah. To them came their Messengers with clear proofs, but they put their hands in their mouths (biting them from anger) and said: "Verily, we disbelieve in that with which you have been sent, and we are really in grave doubt as to that to which you invite us.” [islamic monotheism]), thus proving that allah is NOT the same god worshiped by Jews and Christians because allah is strictly a vengeful god, while the God of the Bible is a living, loving, and forgiving God (2 Corinthians 6:16: As God has said: "I will live with them and walk among them, and I will be their God, and they will be my people.") The bears out the premise that the true God strives to be one with man, while the false god allah wants all men enslaved to him. NOT the premise of a religion…..most definitely the premise of a cult. muslims claim the qur’an is the verbatim word of God, and that muhammad is the last prophet of God (Quran, 33:40: ‘Muhammad is not the father of any of your men, but (he is) the Apostle of God, and the Seal of the Prophets: and God has full knowledge of all things’ and is also stated in the first of the Five Pillars of islam: I bear witness that there is no god but Allah and that Mohammed is His messenger’), and according to mohammad himself the first muslim, (Al-An’am, 6:162,163: “Say (O Muhammad): ‘Verily, my prayer, my sacrifice, my living, and my dying are for Allâh alone, the Lord of all that exists. He has no partner. And of this I have been commanded, and I am the first of the Muslims.’”) They also believe in the authority of the sunnah—the examples and teachings of mohammad (Yusuf 12:108 : “Say (O Muhammad) : ‘This my way; I invite unto Allâh ...”). Add to that their belief in the hadith, the record of the prophet’s actions and statements relating to life, personal conduct, morals and manners, and you have one vile contradiction to the definition of a religion. muslims believe their sole purpose in life is to worship allah that nothing else matters (qur’an 51:56: "I have only created jinns and men, that they may serve Me."), while Jews and Christians believe in the sanctity and purpose of life while at the same time serving the living God’s will (Job 19:25: ‘I know that my Redeemer lives’). Again, the free will to serve or not serve is laid upon the believer in a true religion but is demanded of people in the cult known as islam (qur’an 2:155-156e: "Be sure we shall test you with something of fear and hunger, some loss in goods or lives or the fruits, but give glad tidings to those who patiently persevere—who say when afflicted with calamity: 'To ALLAH we belong, and to Him is our return.' "). And remember, the living, loving God wants man to be happy in this life (Ps37:4: Delight yourself in the Lord; 1Thesilonians 5:16 Rejoice always; Jm1:3: Consider it all joy my brethren when you encounter various trials...), NOT to be a blind following, unquestioning servant. And here is another premise allowed for in a religion but NOT in a cult, that is the right to question. True religions allow for questions, a cult does not. The punishment for questioning in the cult of islam is death, there is NO punishment for questions in the religions of Judaism or Christianity, in fact, questioning is encouraged for through questions comes understanding and acceptance, something NO cult, especially the cult of islam, accepts or allows. muslims also mistakenly believe that islam is the only true version of faith (Qur’an,112: ‘In the name of God, the Merciful, the Compassionate. Say (O Muhammad) He is God the One God, the Everlasting Refuge, who has not begotten, nor has been begotten, and equal to Him is not anyone’.), and that it was revealed many times before there was an actual islam, including to Abraham, Moses and Jesus (whom muslims do consider prophets, however, Jesus is NOT recognized as the Son of God nor is the Trilogy given any credence), but was not heeded by those men (qur’an 4:171: O people of the scripture, do not transgress the limits of your religion, and do not say about GOD except the truth. The Messiah, Jesus, the son of Mary, was a messenger of GOD, and His word that He had sent to Mary, and a revelation from Him. Therefore, you shall believe in GOD and His messengers. You shall not say, "Trinity." You shall refrain from this for your own good. GOD is only one god. Be He glorified; He is much too glorious to have a son. To Him belongs everything in the heavens and everything on earth. GOD suffices as Lord and Master.). muslims say that past revelations, as for example those in the Holy Bible, have been changed, corrupted, or compromised, thus their belief that the qur'an is the unaltered, untouched, and final revelation of God, (allah promises in the qur'an, in Surah Al Hijr, chapter 15 verse 9: "We have, without doubt, sent down the Message; and We will assuredly guard it (from corruption) something we know not to be the case. To them The Holy Bible is nothing more than a fairy tale. The qur'an teaches that islam is the continued faithful religion in the same line as the Prophets who were before muhammad (42:13 AYA: the same religion has He established for you as that which He enjoined on Noah ... and that which We enjoined on Abraham, Moses, and Jesus). The result of this view is that the scriptures given by these prophets are considered to be genuine scriptures from God (29:46 AYA: ‘We (Muslims) believe in the Revelation which has come down to us and in that which came down to you (Jews & Christians); our Allah and your Allah is One’.), and that allah and our Lord are the same but we know this to not be the case, because muslims believe the qur’an is the word of their god allah, when in reality The Holy Bible is the word of God. While the hadith acts as a supplement to the qur’an, it still demands that Sharia be followed. Sharia literally means ‘way’ or ‘path’ and is the code of conduct and religious law of islam. Most muslims believe sharia is derived from two primary sources of islamic law: the precepts set forth in the Quran, and the example set by the Islamic prophet muhammad in the sunnah. Sharia deals with many topics addressed by secular law, including crime, politics, and economics, as well as personal matters such as sexual intercourse, hygiene, diet, prayer, and fasting. Sharia is applied by Islamic judges, or qadis. The imam has varying responsibilities depending on the interpretation of Sharia. While the term is commonly used to refer to the leader of communal prayers, the imam may also be a scholar, religious leader, or political leader. And herein is the sticking point. Because the imam is both a spiritual and political leader, and because sharia is applied by islamic judges, Sharia itself becomes a political system instituted as the definitive way of existence touching upon virtually every aspect of daily life and society. Since Sharia is indeed a political system then islam, what Sharia is part of, therefore becomes a political system, as well as being a cult. While Sharia may have been inspired by the qur'an, it has developed and evolved through the efforts of mortal men. Sharia wraps its tentacles around every fiber of its followers being until life’s choices we take for granted are forbidden to islam’s followers. This is something a true religion does not do. While the ‘Golden Rule’ (Matthew 7:12: ‘Therefore all things whatsoever ye would that men should do to you, do ye even so to them’.), or some derivative of said Rule, might be the hoped for basis for daily living, it is NOT demanded of a true religion’s followers, because of free will to either follow or not follow its tenets. Yet, islam demands Sharia Law be followed with NO exceptions. Sharia Law denies the right of muslims to leave and thusly, is in contravention of one of the most fundamental principles of human rights (free will to leave a group of one’s own volition). But on the other hand, one of the reasons for the growth of islam has been that becoming a muslim is a one-way street. Whether by birth or conversion (likely to have been a forced conversion) once you are a muslim the only way out, under Sharia Law, is death. Another example of Sharia is shown in how muslim men are instructed to practice the total subjugation of women, who are viewed as property and in reality as slaves, to be disposed of at will at the whim of their husbands. They are, for all intents and purposes, actually lord and master over both their wives and their children, with the authority to actually take their lives if they feel the need to do so under the guise of ‘honor killings,’ something a true religion would never allow nor condone. Also used by the followers of islam is the practice known as teqiyya, which is basically the obligation to lie and cheat if it promotes the spread of islam. The word ‘taqiyya’ means to protect against or conceal. Taqiyya is the islamic justification for lying and deceiving. (qur'an 66:2: "Allah has already ordained for you, (O men), the dissolution of your oaths") Taqiyya is drawn explicitly from the words of muhammad, and from the examples he and his successors set. muslims are actually instructed and encouraged to lie, and told to lie to all non-believers just to spread islam. (qur'an 16:106 - establishes that there are circumstances that can "compel" a muslim to tell a lie.) Due to this fact alone, islam removes all integrity from its followers. Once again, this is a tactic used by a cult to obtain blind, unquestioning followers NOT by a religion trying to secure followers to the way of the living, loving God. In addition to taqiyyqa, ‘kitman,’ known as lying by omission, is also allowed and encouraged. An example would be when muslims quote only a fragment of a verse (qur’an 5:32: that if anyone kills "it shall be as if he had killed all mankind") while neglecting to mention that the rest of the verse, (and whoso saveth the life of one, it shall be as if he had saved the life of all mankind. Our messengers came unto them of old with clear proofs (of Allah's sovereignty), but afterwards lo! Many of them become prodigals of the earth.") and those that come after (qur’an 5:36: "As for those who disbelieve, lo! If all that is in the earth were theirs, and as much again therewith, to ransom them from the doom on the Day of the Resurrection, it would not be accepted from them. Theirs will be a painful doom.") mandate murder in undefined cases of ‘corruption’ and ‘mischief.’ Again, lying by omission is another tactic used by cults to gain followers by concealing the whole truth of what they are or do. To understand the true nature of the cult of islam you have to understand the beginnings of islam and hopefully this will show why islam is NOT a religion. muslims believe that in the beginning their god (or allah as muslims call him, which comes from the Arabic word ‘elah’ meaning 'a god' or something that is worshipped) sent prophets to all nations to tell the people to worship Him and Him alone. Abraham called upon his people to reject the worship of idols. muslims claim their god called Abraham and his people to islam, but the people rejected islam, becoming the Children of Israel (Jews) instead. God put Abraham through many tests, and he passed all of them. For his many sacrifices, God proclaimed that he would raise from amongst his progeny a great nation. Whenever people from his progeny started to stray away from the Truth, which was to worship none but their god alone and to obey His commandments, their god sent them another prophet steering them back to his will. Many prophets were sent amongst the progeny of Abraham, for example his two sons Isaac and Ishmael, along with Jacob, Joseph, David, Solomon, Moses, and of course, Jesus. Each prophet was sent to the Children of Israel (the Jews) when they went astray from the true religion of the god (allah), and it became obligatory for them to follow the messenger who was sent to them and to obey their commandments. All of the messengers came with the same message, to reject worship of all other beings except the god (allah) Alone and to obey His commandments. Some disbelieved the prophets, while others believed. Those that believed the prophets became followers of islam and allah, henceforth to be known as muslims. This goes against everything Jews and Christians believe in. The made-up concept of allah is really just a bastardized version of the pagan moon god, Hubal, and as such the word ‘allah’ is simply a title. It means ‘the god’. It can be any god, and since muslims claim allah is the same as Yahweh (one of the Hebrew names for God), why is there no mention of allah in the Old or the New Testaments? It is ridiculous to believe that the biblical prophets were muslims and believed in allah, yet that is what muslims believe. When the Arabic Bible mentions allah it is referring to al lah Yahweh but when the qur’an talks about allah, it is referring to al lah Hubal. While Christians and Jews are mentioned in the qur'an as the custodians of scripture, they are believed by muslims to be the custodians of the qur’an’s scripture NOT the scripture of The Holy Bible, because muslims do NOT believe The Holy Bible to be the word of God (5:47 AYA/44 MP: ‘For to them was entrusted the protection of Allah's Book). islam teaches that their god (allah) gave the scripture to the Jews and Christians so that they could make known to the whole world the true knowledge of their god, being allah, not the living, loving God the Jews and Christians believed in. And remember allah took a Covenant from the ‘People of the Book’ (an islamic reference to Jews and Christians), to make the qur’an known and clear to mankind, and not to hide it (3:187 AYA). muslims also believe the unbelieving behavior of so-called unfaithful is to conceal the truth of the qur’an’s scripture (2:140 AYA: ‘Who is more unjust than those who conceal the testimony they have from Allah?'). Simply, the Bible (from the Greek: Biblos meaning 'books') was given by God to man. The Bible writers were inspired by God in their writings. Thus Christians refer to the Bible as the ‘Word of God’. (2 Timothy 3:16) The Jewish and Christian religions are based on legitimate, proven historical events of divine intervention and revelations from God. Jews and Christian's believe The Holy Bible is the word of the living, loving God, (Exodus 34:6: the real God revealed Himself as "merciful and gracious, longsuffering, and abundant in goodness and truth". He is the Creator of the Universe, the God of Love, and Lord of Life. The God of Israel is this true God. He insists "Thou shall not kill the innocent and just".) while muslims believe the qur’an (Arabic meaning 'recitation'), revealed to mohammed over a period of about 20 years, to be the final revelation given by allah to mankind. In reality, the qur’an is the rantings and writings of a mortal, mad man (mohammed), nothing more, nothing less. The Jewish and Christian religions teach us to peacefully spread God's word. muhammad taught his followers to murder people who refused to follow him, a characteristic of a cult NOT of a peaceful religion. (Qur'an 9:5 – ‘Fight and kill non-muslims wherever you find them, take them captive, harass them, lie in wait and ambush them using every strategem of war.’). Also, only a cult would instruct people to hide the truth about themselves and not spread that truth, because the foundation of a true religion IS to spread the ‘Good News’ to everyone. And lastly, The Holy Bible speaks of, ‘A new commandment I give unto you, That ye love one another; as I have loved you, that ye also love one another. By this shall all men know that ye are my disciples, if ye have love one to another.’ Jesus Christ, (John 13:34-3). This is truly what the definition of religion is, and that is love (Romans 5:5: Now hope does not disappoint, because the love of God has been poured out in our hearts by the Holy Spirit who was given to us.) NOT hate, NOT subjugation, NOT blind allegiance, NOT fear of leaving, NOT torture, NOT perversion, NOT murder…….for those are the makings of a cult, and those describe islam to a tee. ****************************************** Based on the premise that the so-called religion of islam is nothing but a totalitarian political cult, along with being an economic, social, and legal system hiding behind religious garb, it should then NOT be allowed tax exempt status under our laws. Many states, in addition to the federal government, give exemption from taxes for certain recognized organizations, like ‘churches’ (under which falls synagogues and mosques) and charities, but all applying for exemption must serve public purposes, and what purpose can a cult, as I’ve shown islam to be, possibly serve…..the answer is NONE! To show why mosques, and hence islam, do NOT meet the criteria for tax exemption we must start at the legal beginning, and that is with the fact that many people make the interpretative mistake that the First Amendment grants us individual or group rights. As written, “Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof; or abridging the freedom of speech, or of the press; or the right of the people peaceably to assemble, and to petition the Government for a redress of grievances,” the First Amendment doesn’t grant any rights to anybody. All the amendment does is prohibit Congress from making laws about religion, speech, the press, or assembly. Therefore, muslims do NOT have a First Amendment ‘right’ to build mosques, proselytize, or implement Sharia anywhere in our country; therefore, islam is NOT protected under the First Amendment of the Constitution of the United States of America. This leads into the actual rules that a religious entity has to obey in order to become a tax exempt entity under our laws, thus gaining a 501-C-3 status. To qualify, the church, synagogue, or mosque, must be in operation for a specific purpose (see below). This is where the problems with mosques come into play, because as of this date our government still deems islam a legitimate religion, which I have proven it is not. So, as of now, to qualify for tax-exempt status a mosque must meet the following requirements: 1. a mosque must be organized and operated exclusively for religious, educational, scientific, or other charitable purposes 2. net earnings may not inure to the benefit of any private individual or shareholder 3. no substantial part of the mosque’s activity may be attempting to influence legislation 4. a mosque may not intervene in political campaigns 5. a mosque’s purposes and activities may not be illegal or violate fundamental public policy. All mosques are in violation of our tax laws, and actually violate the public policy of our country that assures Americans that “We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty and the Pursuit of Happiness.” Let me go over this point by point. 1. a mosque must be organized and operated exclusively for religious, educational, scientific, or other charitable purposes. muslims, while inside mosques, engage in recruiting terrorists and jihad training within their confines, and none of this is for religious purposes or for charity but is for the singular purpose of killing or hurting those they consider infidels. 2. net earnings may not inure to the benefit of any private individual or shareholder. muslims, while inside mosques, raise monies to bail terrorists out of jail, and to send monies overseas to support recognized terrorist organizations like The Muslim Brotherhood and Hamas. 3. no substantial part of the mosque’s activity may be attempting to influence legislation. muslims, while inside mosques, hold meetings to organize, push for, and write papers and such to prepare their case for Sharia Law to be implemented in this country. 4. a mosque may not intervene in political campaigns. muslims, while inside mosques, actively work for, and campaign for, muslim or pro-muslim leaning candidates so they win their elections and thus can infiltrate our government and influence legislation in their favor, and 5. a mosque’s purposes and activities may not be illegal or violate fundamental public policy. And here in number 5 is the hoped for sticking point, for a mosque to openly speak out, or organize in opposition to anything that our government declares ‘legal,’ that mosque has jeopardized its tax exempt status. Once again, American mosques are actively preaching jihad in violation of their tax-exempt status and, a direct violation of public policy guaranteeing our right to ‘life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness.’ in our daily lives. Here’s an interesting fact that some might not know, there are over 3000 mosques, each granted tax exemption, in American today, and to me there is something inherently wrong with that. Since islam is NOT a religion (it is a cult) how is this being allowed to happen and what are our rights as Americans that the intrusion of islam into our society is not allowing us to have? Our rights come from the living, loving God of The Holy Bible, the book our nation was founded upon, NOT upon the false god allah, and NOT upon the vile book known as the qur’an. And our rights, spelled out in our Declaration of Independence, are Life, Liberty and the Pursuit of Happiness, the very things islam goes against. islam is a cult of oppression and death, instead of a religion of life, as noted in its oppression of women, its condoning of murder and its honor killings for even the most mild of transgressions. The qur’an actually instructs muslims to torture (Sura 4:56: Surely, those who disbelieve in our revelations, we will condemn them to the hellfire. Whenever their skins are burnt, we will give them new skins. Thus, they will suffer continuously. GOD is Almighty, Most Wise.), and kill non-believers. islam allows NO liberty for its followers for it is a cult of slavery and submission. Women are forced to cover their faces and bodies (qur’an: 24:31: And tell the believing women to subdue their eyes, and maintain their chastity. They shall not reveal any parts of their bodies, except that which is necessary. They shall cover their chests with their ‘khimar’, and shall not relax this code in the presence of other than their husbands, their fathers, the fathers of their husbands, their sons, the sons of their husbands, their brothers, the sons of their brothers, the sons of their sisters, other women, the male servants or employees whose sexual drive has been nullified, or the children who have not reached puberty. They shall not strike their feet when they walk in order to shake and reveal certain details of their bodies. All of you shall repent to God, O you believers, that you may succeed.), and are at the total command and will of their husbands. Children are often raped and molested, homosexuality is not frowned upon, especially with young boys (Sura LII:24 "And there shall wait on them [the Muslim men] young boys of their own, as fair as virgin pearls." - Sura LXXVI:19: "They shall be attended by boys graced with eternal youth, who will seem like scattered pearls to the beholders."), and conversion to another religion, if caught, ends in death. Islam allows no happiness because it is an all-consuming way of life that does NOT allow for any individuality or free will at all. You either follow its tenets to the letter, you NEVER question or speak out against islam or you will die. So how can anyone be happy under islam…..they can’t. So, if islam goes against our inalienable right to ‘Life, Liberty, and the Pursuit of Happines,’ guaranteed to us under our Constitution and Declaration of Independence, if islam goes against what God the Creator has set down for us, how can islam be what our Founding Fathers meant by religion…..it can’t be. And if it’s NOT a religion as set down by the writings of our Founders, no matter what The Supreme Court says (remember they must uphold the Constitution), how can it be given religious tax exemption status…..it can’t! It really is that simple.
Does anyone know why Dr. Lisa Masterson has left the show? They have a new season starting and she is gone, baby, gone. Wiped from the show's website, too. Two new women have been added. Did she just get tired of the "boy's club" of all the male docs on the show? They act so stupid and sophomoric, all fist bumps and nervous homophobia.
He's so cute. I want to put my finger inside him. Is that wrong? I know that I would be able to open him up if he wanted it. He pings in a very, very, very, very, very, very small way. What do you think?
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Allegations have surfaced suggesting that eccentric late writer Gore Vidal was a pedophile. The claims have been made by his half-sister, author Nina Straight, and his nephew, Hollywood actor and director Burr Steers, who are in the process of contesting the essayist's will. Vidal died last year, aged 86, from pneumonia and left his entire estate, estimated at $37 million, to Harvard University. In a feature that appeared in the New York Times, Ms Straight - who had a 'turbulent though close relationship' with Vidal - said the openly-gay author had had sex with underage men. She described the alleged circumstances as 'Jerry Sandusky acts', referring to the former Penn State assistant football coach convicted of child molestation. Mr Steers - who directed the Zac Efron film Charlie St Cloud - said that conservative columnist William F. Buckley - who had a long-running public feud with Vidal, which also played out in court - had evidence linking Vidal to the alleged crimes. Vidal was said to be 'terrified' about the information Buckley had against him. 'I know Buckley had a file on him that Gore feared,' Mr Steers said in the New York Times article. 'It would make sense if that material was about him having underage sex. 'Gore spent alot of time in Bangkok, after all.' The Thailand capital is known for child prostitution, with an estimated 2000 children said to be forced into the industry. In 2012, Buckley's son Christopher wrote in an essay for New Republic that he had disposed of a file his father kept on Vidal. 'When WFB [William F. Buckley] died, in 2008, I found in his study, more cluttered than King Tut's tomb, a file cabinet bursting to the seams, labeled 'Vidal Legal',' Christopher wrote. 'Into the dumpster it went, and I still remember the sigh of relief upon heaving it in.' The New York Times article also says that the ever-opinionated Vidal had a strange and controversial take on the abuse perpetrated by Catholic priests. 'He would say that the young guys involved were hustlers who were sending signals,' Mr Steers said. However the author of the article, Tim Teeman, wrote that 'other friends of Mr. Vidal told me they doubted he had sex with underage men'. In 2009, Vidal hit headlines for referring to the 13-year-old victim in the Roman Polanski rape case as a 'young hooker'. Vidal suffered from dementia and alcoholism towards the end of his life. Mr Steers said he would drink single male scotch 'until he collapsed'. Vidal also had 'wet brain' - proper name Wernicke-Korsakoff - a syndrome characterized by a number of symptoms, including confusion and hallucination. It is this illness that Ms Straight is using in challenging Vidal's will, saying he was not mentally competent when he filed it. Vidal changed his will the year before his death to give his entire estate to Harvard University, where he once gave guest lectures but was never a student. Having written 25 novels and 26 non-fiction works, Harvard also receives profits from the continued sales of Vidal's books. Ms Straight said she is owed around a million dollars by her half brother after she paid his legal fees for his court battle with Buckley. Mr Steers, who claims that Vidal had promised him his Los Angeles house, said Vidal's 'brain had gone'. He accused his nephew of being a C.I.A. spy who was trying to kidnap him.'He had all this fluid that was filling up inside him,' Mr steers said. 'They'd drain him every day. 'He had congestive heart failure.'It was really miserable.'Gore was on a planet all his own.'
Gore Vidal's Family Challenge His Will And Say He Was A Pedophile
I want to retroactively go there.
Continue talking about Aaron and his "turtle" Kevin Lanflisi!
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is on TCM tonite at 8.
Seth Rogan is the host and Ed Sheeran is the musical guest. I hope Rogan's co-star in the upcoming film Neighbors Zac Efron comes on to do a sketch centered on his feets again.
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Have you smoked or otherwise consumed the "spirit molecule"? What was your experience like? Did your life change after the experience? Did you see *them*? I really want to try it, but I'm a tiny bit scared.
About gay men and meth. (Viewer Discretion Advised)
Monday Night Documentaries presents "Rock Bottom"
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That's Dame Angela, my dears. Ms. Lansbury if you're nasty.
Or something. He just needs to get his legs in the air. He can keep the pout.
I would say mine has to be Marvin Hamlish's score to "Sophie's Choice." It is so evocative and depressingly beautiful; I remember it took me the longest time to find the cd, but eventually did at Boston's Tower Records. BTW, the film comes out on blu ray at months end.
Quiverfull at the bottom of this.
In jeans:
Ana Gasteyer's career ...
Do you think he's hoping to find a wealthier, less controversial suitor? The partner of the Guardian journalist who has written a series of stories revealing mass surveillance programmes by the US National Security Agency was held for almost nine hours on Sunday by UK authorities as he passed through London's Heathrow airport on his way home to Rio de Janeiro. David Miranda, who lives with Glenn Greenwald, was returning from a trip to Berlin when he was stopped by officers at 8.05am and informed that he was to be questioned under schedule 7 of the Terrorism Act 2000. The controversial law, which applies only at airports, ports and border areas, allows officers to stop, search, question and detain individuals. The 28-year-old was held for nine hours, the maximum the law allows before officers must release or formally arrest the individual. According to official figures, most examinations under schedule 7 – over 97% – last less than an hour, and only one in 2,000 people detained are kept for more than six hours. Miranda was released, but officials confiscated electronics equipment including his mobile phone, laptop, camera, memory sticks, DVDs and games consoles. Since 5 June, Greenwald has written a series of stories revealing the NSA's electronic surveillance programmes, detailed in thousands of files passed to him by whistleblower Edward Snowden. The Guardian has also published a number of stories about blanket electronic surveillance by Britain's GCHQ, also based on documents from Snowden. While in Berlin, Miranda had visited Laura Poitras, the US film-maker who has also been working on the Snowden files with Greenwald and the Guardian. The Guardian paid for Miranda's flights. "This is a profound attack on press freedoms and the news gathering process," Greenwald said. "To detain my partner for a full nine hours while denying him a lawyer, and then seize large amounts of his possessions, is clearly intended to send a message of intimidation to those of us who have been reporting on the NSA and GCHQ. The actions of the UK pose a serious threat to journalists everywhere. "But the last thing it will do is intimidate or deter us in any way from doing our job as journalists. Quite the contrary: it will only embolden us more to continue to report aggressively." A spokesperson for the Guardian said: "We were dismayed that the partner of a Guardian journalist who has been writing about the security services was detained for nearly nine hours while passing through Heathrow airport. We are urgently seeking clarification from the British authorities." A spokesperson for Scotland Yard said: "At 08:05 on Sunday, 18 August a 28-year-old man was detained at Heathrow airport under schedule 7 of the Terrorism Act 2000. He was not arrested. He was subsequently released at 17:00." Scotland Yard refused to be drawn on why Miranda was stopped using powers that enable police officers to stop and question travellers at UK ports and airports. There was no comment from the Home Office in relation to the detention. However, there was surprise in political circles and elsewhere. Labour MP Tom Watson said he was shocked at the news and called for it to be made clear if any ministers were involved in authorising the detention. He said: "It's almost impossible, even without full knowledge of the case, to conclude that Glenn Greenwald's partner was a terrorist suspect. "I think that we need to know if any ministers knew about this decision, and exactly who authorised it." "The clause in this act is not meant to be used as a catch-all that can be used in this way."
Glenn Greenwald's Brazilian boyfriend detained for nine hours at Heathrow.
Has anybody watched this show? I'd never heard of it until yesterday when an acquaintance suggested I would like it due to my interest in history and westerns. It sounds intriguing. I don't watch much TV (I'm more of a cinephile), but I'm thinking of checking it out. Also, anything gay in it?
For those in PA, will Corbett win another term? He's such a buffoon.
for r598 in the last theatre thread
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Here is a thread in which to discuss all aspects of London theatre. What have you seen or are planning to see? What do/did you like/not like? Feel free to discuss plays, musicals, actors, director, etc.
Final episode will 'Honor' Finn.
If you want representation with one of the top agencies, you have to indicate that you're willing to put out when a very wealthy man's representative calls and asks your agent to arrange for you to come over as an escort.
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Also an ex-Mormon. I DEFINITELY would...
Tossing away plastic drives me insane, and it's still something most businesses don't do. Offices, smaller retail stores, coffee shops, etc. A perfect example is my own office: we're encouraged and provided blue receptacles for tossing paper, and are told we can toss in cans and bottles if we want since the cleaning crew wants those, but everything else must go into a garbage can. That includes all those plastic cups, forks, take out containers, microwave meal trays, etc. Is there a potential, successful business model where someone could have contracts to provide receptacles to these companies in exchange for picking up the waste therein once or twice per week (with exclusivity of course)? I know it would be laborious and entail some investment and sales, but do you know of any business which does this? I know nothing of this sort of thing, but I've always had the idea and I'm wondering if it could work for me. Thanks DL business minds!
How do they feel about us?
I wish the FCC could make sob stories an automatic disqualification. I don't know what's more obnoxious. "Three weeks from now is the eighth anniversary of when my next-door neighbor found out her grandmother was going for a cancer biopsy." Or... "My mother is being taken off the respirator today, but I know that she'd want me to be here for the audition." "Queen for a Day" hasn't been on the air for years. Give it a rest.
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Spent $150k to look like a Ken doll. Anybody had him?
They are twins. I just refer to them as the male and the female.
Damn! That Nikko is hung. K.Michelle called Nikko gay on the show...well...she was wrong! Maybe Bi but not gay.
I thought some of you bitches were exaggerating, but I now humbly apologize for having had those doubts. Christ on a cracker! I tuned into CNN at three different times today, and on each occasion, they were discussing the missing Malaysian plane. That's it. No mention of the economy, no mention that Russia is probably going to do some more invasions, nothing whatsoever. Obviously, money talks and bullshit walks, so they must still be getting high viewership and ratings from this, but how long will this go on? The guests are bored as they provide their commentary, the reporters have this "please shoot me" expression, and yet they are not budging off the story at all. This could take months or even years to find--if ever. When will they blink?
He is exactly the man we want representing us. He's highly intelligent, monogamous, courageous, confident, and just a great poster boy for gay men. Unlike Anderson Cooper, he's always been out and proud, yet the fact that he's gay is just a part of who he is. He doesn't have to flaunt the gay, yet he's not afraid of it either, and because of his attitude, people just accept him for who he is. I love him.
Is he married? Gay? What? He''s not my type physically, but I fell in love with him before I saw him, and despite the fact that he''s not my type, I''m still in love. I think I fell in love with his brain and personality to the degree that it comes through his writing.%0D\ %0D\ The Internet''s totally screwed me up. I spend way too much time on here.
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I was just reading an article by William Grigg regarding a case where a mentally ill homeless man was beaten to death by 6 cops while dozens of bystanders looked on in horror. When the internal affairs officer in charge of the investigation of the officers was forced to retire because he wanted the DA to press criminal charges. All of the cops were returned to duty, but the IA officer lost his job and pension. \ \ Last week I read an article about a veteran of the Iraq war who heard people breaking into his house so he put his wife and baby in the closet and grabbed a gun. It was a "no knock" raid by cops who had the wrong house, and they shot him a dozen times. He was still alive, but the cops wouldn''t let the paramedics in to help him, and he died 45 minutes later. The cops had the wrong house, and no drugs were found.\ \ There are stories virtually every day about abuses by the police, and they are never fired or prosecuted, when it is obvious that they abused their power. Are there any honest cops left?
...... really ?? WHAT is so important that it can't wait until after you've taken a dump ? Christ.
I''ll start
Let''s post pics of guys with treasure trails
Roy & Dale
Because the original was so popular. Original thread at link.
He probably gave the kid AIDS, as well.
Bareback Porn Star Mike 'Condoms are for Pussies' Dozer Arrested for Raping 14 Year Old Boy
I love that look! Both to observe and to participate in....in fact whenever I am naked without socks, I feel a little naked.
Let's try not to get this thread closed down too...
Her ass is obscene, worse than looking at a splayed pussy.
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!
Apparently, the finale is this Monday but, the show just started up again at the end of February. WTF, a 7 episode season?
I don't get it.
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He's supposed to be playing Bucky Barnes, a major badass in captain america but he's so abnormally subdued in interviews. Can anyone think of a reason why that is? What does he appear like to you?
I vote for Greed.
A great weekend and now snow after midnight. Man, Mother Nature is a bitch this winter. WTF
And why?
The most recent episode, where Sherlock mourns his dead gay friend. Are we meant to wonder about what the nature of the relationship was?
Millionaire Freeloader Defies Federal Government - this "victim" has lost in court twice. But he's ginned-up the yahoos to bring their guns to protect his land or cattle or whatever, and he's seeming going to get away with not paying the fees he owes for grazing his cattle on Federal land for twenty years. I don't think I could get away with not paying rent for twenty years.
Another Wally smackdown. Why don't they just erect a ring in the center of the store?
I would drink his bubblebath water.
He has filled out in all the right places.
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LaBare is Dallas's for-ladies-only male strip club.
Joe Manganiello went to LaBare Dallas this weekend, for some reason
The Foodroom vs The Newsroom This cracked me the hell up.
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The $10,000 Sunday T-dance Iconic VIP Package is still available. Hurry!
Fierce.
.. maybe they should start by having their wallets already fished out of their luggage size purse BEFORE they get to the check out line. CUNTS!
Watch: Anti-gay activist Peter LaBarbera arrested in Canada for homophobic leaflets 15th April 2014, 10:42 PM, Nick Duffy Anti-gay activists Peter LaBarbera and Bill Whatcott have been arrested in Canada for distributing homophobic leaflets, days after LaBarbera was detained at the border. LaBarbera, who is president of ‘Americans for the Truth about Homosexuality’, was first detained at Regina International Airport on Friday, while on his way to speak at an anti-abortion conference. However, after Customs officials decided they did not have grounds to deny him entry, he was eventually allowed into the country. Today, he was arrested alongside Canadian activist Whatcott for distributing “graphic” homophobic literature at the University of Regina, Saskatchewan, and refusing to leave peacefully. According to the Leader-Post, LaBarbera and Whatcott were asked to leave by security the moment they arrived on campus and set up a stand with the material When they refused to leave the police were called, and the pair were eventually arrested. A crowd of students and onlookers cheered as they were led away in handcuffs. The Unviersity’s vice president, Thomas Chase, said: “The materials were graphic and the materials were disturbing. “The materials, we felt, could harm members of this campus community who we have a duty to protect and support.” Leah Keiser, president of Pride Centre at the university said: “I think freedom of speech has its limits, and when it starts inciting hatred and violence, as I personally believe this has been, that’s a line I think we should stop crossing, because we’re not talking about opinions anymore — we’re actually hurting human beings.” The men were charged with mischief, and have May 26 court dates. Watch the pair’s arrest, via CJME below: (video at link)
Watch: Anti-gay activist Peter LaBarbera arrested in Canada for homophobic leaflets
can situational depression be overcome without meds? what's the best way to feel strong and healthy again? after a massive kick in the nuts.
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I did not go to Europe until I was 42. I did not read "The Diary of Anne Frank" until I was 40. I just tried cranberry juice this week at 48, and I liked it!
Better late than never...
Continue your foolishness.
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I just saw him fantastic four where he played a sort of Brian Kinney-type character. I feel like he's better looking and he probably would have made the role more fun than Harold. Thoughts?
Does it take a high IQ to accomplish this?
Was he always evil? I mean, was he always a Republican asshat?
Kirstie Alley is fat again. Is this her career now?
Starring Robbie Benson
Let's play.
Would you have sex with Paul Rudd?
40-yr. old virgin
I think this is my new calling.
What the hell was going on?
...but some members of the original cast might not be asked back! (...in other words, not if they ask for raises!)
"Magic Mike XXL" announced, director signed, will shoot this fall...
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From the bowels of OWN
In what ways are they different?
An anti-gay hate group leader who was barred entry into Canada has won his appeal and will be allowed into the country. Peter LaBarbera, the leader of Americans For Truth About Homosexuality (AFTAH), reportedly was detained on the grounds he might break Canada’s hate speech laws while attending a pro-life conference in Weyburn. “We didn’t even really have to make the case,” LaBarbera told LifeSiteNews. “She just said they were unsubstantiated allegations.” A group called Intolerance-Free Weyburn, which today is holding a rally opposing LaBarbera and the conference, posted a petition to Change.org requesting LaBarbera be denied entry. That petition has over 1300 signatures. In response to the commotion, the mayor of Weyburn will be investigating a grant the city gave to the pro-life group for its conference. It’s unknown if Canadian authorities will be observing to ensure LaBarbera does not break Canadian hate speech laws. Peter LaBarbera @PeterLaBarbera Canadian Border Security cites "unsubstantiated allegations" to apply "hate propaganda" law against me + AFTAH. #tcot #p2 @jmattbarber Peter LaBarbera @PeterLaBarbera Canadian customs officials reverse earlier dec. + let me stay in country to give my speech on Saturday. Win for true tolerance + diversity.
Canada Flips, Anti-Gay Hate Group Leader Wins Appeal, Allowed Entry
on Queerty....
Male tourist raped in Philadelphia - Grindr hookup gone wrong
Bill O'Reilly is still not done going after Stephen Colbert. The Fox News host took another stab at Colbert Monday night, this time in response to the news that Colbert will replace David Letterman as the host of the "Late Show." "It'd be hard to fathom that 40 percent of Americans that describe themselves as conservative will watch Colbert,” he said. "And that's a lot of folks to lose." Shortly before it was announced last Thursday that Colbert would take over for Letterman, O'Reilly told his viewers that Colbert was an "ideological fanatic" and a "deceiver," and suggested that Colbert was behind the destruction of America. But O'Reilly toned it down a bit Monday night, this time saying that Colbert was an "interesting choice" to replace Letterman. He questioned whether Colbert would be able to compete with the "high-energy guys" on late night like Jimmy Kimmel and Jimmy Fallon. "Place your bets now," O'Reilly said.
How is he spending his Christmas?
Oh, God! I knew the film was famous for its awfulness but I didn't think it was that bad. It's hard to believe they spent 33 million bucks on this piece of crap. It turned out to be so awful they didn't even release it in the cinemas. And apparently most actors who signed up for it thought the dinosaur would be computer animated, not played by some guy wearing a cheap costume.
Let's say you were invited to a wedding of a close friend. And the person said you had to wear a cultural or religious garment to attend, as it is their custom. Some examples include wrapping your head in a scarf or wearing a yamaka or wearing a robe or even painting your face with war paint. The point is, it is culture to don a certain garment to respect the person's culture. So would you don this cultural garment, without hesitation? Vote below and discuss.
This profile has got to be a parody... even the writer seems to realize how ridiculous these two are and subtly takes the piss out of them. Some key highlights: - Their children's names are "Force Hanley Mellon" and "Olympia Drexel Mellon". They also have a teacup Yorkie named "Tuleh" - The money quote: “I’ve never been to Africa, but I feel like I have this deep affinity for it,” Ms. Hanley Mellon said. “I’ve read every Hemingway, we collect Peter Beard, I’ve watched ‘Out of Africa.’ It touches your soul to visit and smell the smells, and you can’t recreate the experience without immersing yourself.”
N.Y. Times Profiles the Ultra-WASP Couple Behind the Hanley Mellon Clothing Line
What in HOLY FUCKING HELL are they thinking???!!
I guess mine would have to be Clint Walker. Those shoulders and that hairy chest. He was exactly the type I used to fantasize about when I was a kid.
Over the past several weeks, popular reality show "RuPaul's Drag Race" landed itself in hot water over the use of terms some activists claimed were transphobic or disrespectful to transgender people. During a mini-challenge on the show titled "Female or She-male," contestants were asked to identify whether a photo showed a cisgender (non trans) woman or a former "Drag Race" contestant after viewing a cropped portion of the photo. Some transgender people claimed that the segment was transphobic, as "she-male" is considered by many to be a violent word used against trans bodies and lives. Following an initial statement regarding the use of the word posted after the segment aired, "RuPaul's Drag Race" and Logo TV are now making a huge change to their programming in order to address the allegations of transphobia. A new statement sent to The Huffington Post by Logo reads: We wanted to thank the community for sharing their concerns around a recent segment and the use of the term 'she-mail' on Drag Race. Logo has pulled the episode from all of our platforms and that challenge will not appear again. Furthermore, we are removing the 'You've got she-mail' intro from new episodes of the series. We did not intend to cause any offense, but in retrospect we realize that it was insensitive. We sincerely apologize. Earlier this month, The Huffington Post reached out to two former contestants on the show that later came out as transgender to seek their perspective surrounding the controversy. Transgender model Carmen Carrera responded with a statement she made on her Facebook, claiming, "Drag Race should be a little smarter about the terms they use and comprehend the fight for respect trans people are facing every minute of today. They should use their platform to educate their viewers truthfully on all facets of drag performance art." Transgender former contestant Monica Beverly Hillz also told The Huffington Post that she found the use of the term "not cute at all" and that "people don't understand the daily struggle it is to be a transgender woman." "RuPaul's Drag Race" airs on Logo TV Monday nights at 10:00pm ET.
Yesterday, the LOGO network announced that they would shelve the Drag Race episode featuring the "Female or She-male" contest. They also stated they would no longer include the "you've got she-mail" segment at the beginning. GLAAD, who had been urging LOGO to address the issue, applauded the move. "Logo has sent a powerful and affirming message to transgender women during a pivotal moment of visibility for the entire transgender community. GLAAD is committed to continuing to shape the narrative about the lives of transgender people with fair and accurate media images." RuPaul was less than amused. He tweeted shortly after the announcement: @RuPaul Orwell's book ANIMAL FARM: The revels eventually forgot the purpose of the revolution #LibraryIsOpen His supporters on Huffington Post responded quickly too, decrying the "over-policing of language." Are we policing language? Of course we are, because part of that's how you win in civil rights movements. We have known this for more than 50 years. Bayard Rustin wrote in his autobiography: "It is to recognize that the job of the gay community is not to deal with extremist who would castrate us or put us on an island and drop an H-bomb on us... Our job is not to get those people who dislike us to love us. Nor was our aim in the civil rights movement to get prejudiced white people to love us. Our aim was to try to create the kind of America, legislatively, morally, and psychologically, such that even though some whites continued to hate us, they could not openly manifest that hate. That's our job today: to control the extent to which people can publicly manifest antigay sentiment." Republicans understand this as well: Control the language, control the debate. The coining of the word "Obamacare" is considered a masterstroke of political language engineering. Which is why when RuPaul and his supporters defend the use of the words "tranny" and "she-male," it gives the power of those words to those who would "castrate or put us on an island and drop an H-bomb on us." Defending those words is tacit permission to others to use those words as weapons, to openly manifest their hate, against people who lack the ability to fight back. We police words, because they have the power to drive us to despair when we live under an unending torrent of hate. There are real life consequences to that implicit permission. One of my closest friends, a transgender woman and veteran, works for the same industry I do but at a different location. She is constantly called she-male, faggot, shim, it, and tranny freak. When she reports the abuse, she is simply told, "You need to grow a thicker skin." It's killing her slowly, but she can't quit. She needs the job, and the money. Finding work that pays well in your own field as a transgender woman is often next to impossible. So she puts up with it, day after day. I'm watching her sink slowly into a strangling morass of internalized transphobia in that soul killing hell. I hope she finds work somewhere else. Before it does finish her, spiritually or physically. I'm not certain which would be worse some days. She suffers in ways no one should have to. For everyone out there defending RuPaul and these words, you are partly responsible. You are giving the people using them against us permission. You're contributing to the world's attitude that we should just "toughen up" when they're used as weapons against us. It's slowly destroying one of my closest friends. The woman my son runs, screams, and leaps at to hug, and brings stories to read every time she visits. The woman I watched teach my girls how to low crawl across the lawn "army style". If RuPaul were doing this simply out of ignorance, I would be inclined to forgive. But he has done this over and over again, never backed down from it, never apologized. At this point, he cannot be ignorant of the harm this language causes, and I am forced to conclude he simply does not care if people different than him are hurt. The excuse that they're reclaiming the language does not hold water: you can't reclaim it while it's still actively being used against you, and especially if the words are being used against some other group than your own. I can't accept the excuse that policing language is somehow a greater moral wrong than the harm of that language on the people it is being used against. RuPaul is not transgender, and does not define himself as such. Yet, he has decided that he can unilaterally dictate what language is offensive to transgender people, a group that isn't his own. Imagine for a moment if one of the most popular and prominent members of the transgender community was encouraging straight people to use the word ****** when describing gay men. Imagine if they refused to step back from the use of this word. Would there be a similar debate? Of course not. Yet here we are because people are still conflating drag and transgender. But, every time you defend those words, every time you defend RuPaul, you let others use them against us. Against my friends. My troops. My family. Me.
Sticks and Stones May Break My Bones.. But Words Can Kill the Soul
I know a woman that used to constantly talk about how her father swore at her, beat the crap out of her & raped her. In fact one of the first things she ever told me was that she had multiple personality disorder because of him. She got married super young to escape his household and apparently avoided contact after. He died recently and now she's always making status updates about how much she misses him and posting these bizarre photo tributes that are tacky under the best of circumstances. WTF? Am I missing something?? Are these people just gluttons for punishment?
Peter LaBarbera reportedly has been arrested in Canada after refusing to leave a university campus. Last week, LaBarbera had been detained and initially barred entry into the country — based on the belief he might violate Canada’s hate speech laws — after officials learned he is the head of a U.S. anti-gay hate group. He was later allowed to enter the country after appealing the ruling of Canadian customs officials. LaBarbera and activist Bill Whatcott had attended a small, local anti-choice conference. The pair, wearing tee shirts that read, “No to hate crimes against Christians who disagree with homosexuality,” were arrested and charged with “mischief” after distributing anti-gay hate propaganda on campus. The CBC reports: Before their arrival, the university issued a news release saying the pair would be monitored to ensure they did not engage in any activity that would promote hatred. At one point, with news cameras rolling, an unidentified university official approached Whatcott and LaBarbera and asked them to leave. During that encounter, Whatcott said he had attempted to get permission to set up an information table and, since he was denied, proceeded to set up a table anyway. “I’m not leaving,” Whatcott told the official, “You guys are intolerant and should be ashamed of yourselves for shutting down our message without even considering it.” A short while later, several Regina police officers arrived and Whatcott and LaBarbera were handcuffed and taken off campus. “The idea that you can’t have an open debate on homosexuality on a college campus and some speech code is brought in, to kick people off … seems to me to be pretty undemocratic,” LaBarbera said. As can be seen in the image below, LaBarbera was standing with or near demonstrators who had large signs with what appear to be images of aborted fetuses, and one small sign that reads: “sodomy is sin.” LaBarbera is the head of a small organization which appears on the Southern Poverty Law Center’s list of active anti-gay hate groups. Canada’s free speech laws are not as generous as the First Amendment of the U.S. Constitution. LaBarbera will likely return the America a right-wing hero and play the victim card for all it’s worth. As LaBarbera was handcuffed and taken away by law enforcement, onlookers cheered his arrest.
Breaking: Anti-Gay Hate Group Leader Arrested In Canada (Video And Photos)
I'm visiting my elderly parents on the other side of the country this Easter weekend for a few days. Normally, I would post this info on facebook (which includes only family and REAL friends, not strangers). On these trips to see my parents I would normally post updates, photos, observations, etc. But I don't think I'm going to do that this time. Previously, when I travel, I always get questions about where I'm going, why, how long I'm staying, do I have time to meet so and so for lunch, etc. I feel like I have to answer a bunch of questions and justify the reasons for my trip. This time I don't even want anyone aside from my siblings and parents to even know I'm in town. And even in general terms I'm sick of sharing everything on social media. Nothing is private anymore. Everything is everyone else's business. I feel like I need to regain control of my personal life. Start closing some doors. Is that unreasonable?
The most recent forecast by Fivethirtyeight gives Republicans a sixty percent chance of winning a majority of the Senate in November’s elections. Given that any bill already has to pass the Republican-controlled House, the effect of a Republican Senate upon President Obama’s legislative agenda can be calculated at zero, with a margin of error of zero. You can’t kill something that is already dead. On the other hand, what is currently alive, albeit barely, is a fragile peace that has enabled the functioning of the traditional separation-of-powers relationship between the branches of government. The survival of that peace depends entirely on a Democratic Senate. Almost nobody seems to be thinking about the potential chaos that could lie ahead. The Constitutional crises of 2013 were numerous enough to blur together. The most easily resolved took place when Senate Republicans began wholesale barricading of various judicial and executive branch appointments by the Obama administration. Previously, the Senate tended to block candidates in rare and particular circumstances — say, if they were unusually radical or unqualified, or sometimes in response to a particularly bitter fight over a previous candidate. Last year, Senate Republicans declared they simply would not allow any Obama nominees for various positions in the executive branch whose functioning (like enforcing labor law or regulating Wall Street) they did not care for. They likewise announced that they would not permit any new judges to the powerful D.C. Circuit because the court was balanced between the two parties and Republicans wanted to keep it that way. This escalation amounted to a major revision of the balance of powers — if it held, a hostile Senate could paralyze any agency it desired, or prevent a president from appointing anybody to the federal bench. Senate Democrats resolved the standoff by changing the Senate’s rules to ban filibusters for executive branch nominees and federal judges. This was the “nuclear option” — a dreaded unilateral alteration of the chamber’s rules. Republicans and respectable centrist observers alike predicted the nuclear option would unleash terrible and indescribable consequences. The nuclear option turned out to defuse the conflict. Obama has gone ahead filling administrative and judicial appointments, none of them especially offensive to the Republican minority, and the crisis dissipated, as if into thin air. But the solution turned out to hinge on particular, and likely temporary, circumstances. The first, of course, is a Democratic Senate majority. The nuclear option stops a Senate minority from wantonly blockading vacant posts, but it does not stop a Senate majority from doing so. A prospective majority Leader Mitch McConnell may use his power to reimpose or even expand the blockade of 2013. Just what level of havoc this would wreak is hard to figure; Obama has filled his major executive branch vacancies and steadily appointed judges to vacant posts. Perhaps the administration could muddle through a final two years of total paralysis. Perhaps not. The potential for true crisis lies in the smaller possibility of a Supreme Court vacancy. The Democrats’ nuclear option allowed them to fill a regular judicial seat with a straight majority vote, but did not allow them to fill Supreme Court seats this way. Imagine 75-year-old Stephen Breyer, or 81-year-old Ruth Bader Ginsburg, decides to retire. Perhaps they suffer a health setback, or simply grow tired of the grinding conflict, or perhaps warm to the logic of stepping down when an ideologically friendly jurist is likely to replace them. Would the Republican majority let Obama appoint a mainstream center-left nominee to the seat? The last vacancy occurred in 2010, before Republicans swept into control of the House. Even though Obama’s nominee, Elena Kagan, possessed sterling bipartisan support, a mere five Republican senators voted for her confirmation. Three of them — Richard Lugar, Olympia Snowe, and Judd Gregg — have departed, and the GOP caucus emerged from the 2010 Tea Party wave filled with terror at any vote that could even hint at ideological treachery. Now imagine a different possibility. Suppose one of the five Republican-appointed seats opened up. None of them would voluntarily surrender a seat at the end of a Democratic president’s tenure, of course. But when the hypothetical gavel transfer to Mitch McConnell takes place next January, Antonin Scalia and Anthony Kennedy will both be 78 years old. The actuarial odds of a 78-year-old man dying within a given year are approximately 5 percent — we will have two of them, with two years of Obama’s term each. (The odds of death rise to 5.6 percent at age 79, for those morbidly inclined.) We are not talking about a freak occurrence. What would happen then? Would a Republican Senate let Barack Obama — fundamental transformer of America, shredder of the Constitution — appoint a new swing justice? Given a backdrop in which conservatives, having grown deeply pessimistic about their political future, have invested deeply in a legal movement that uses aggressive readings to roll back the state? With every conservative interest group mobilizing for battle, with a vast array of social and economic policy hanging in the balance? It may seem implausible that Republicans would simply refuse to allow Obama to appoint any justice to such a vacancy. That is only because things that haven’t happened before are hard to imagine. But such a confrontation is not only a logical outcome but the most logical outcome. Voting to flip the Supreme Court would be, if not a political death warrant for a Republican Senator, then certainly taking one’s political life into one’s own hands. Politicians do not like political death warrants — certainly not for the benefit of the opposing party’s agenda. The modern pattern in American politics is that tactics that are legally available, but never used for reasons of custom, eventually become used. The modern pattern is also that the Republican Party, which is the most ideologically cohesive and disciplined party, leads the way. McConnell did not create this pattern, but he is an important innovator. McConnell was among the first political leaders to grasp that Republicans had everything to gain and nothing to lose from withholding support for every major element of Obama’s agenda — that the old Beltway folklore, which warned the opposition party that voters would punish them if they appeared obstructionist, had no basis in reality. Most people pay no attention to the details of policy, and form rough judgments on the basis of how much noise and controversy rises out of Washington. “It was absolutely critical that everybody be together because if the proponents of the bill were able to say it was bipartisan, it tended to convey to the public that this is O.K., they must have figured it out,” he confessed. Political scientists understood this reality perfectly well, but it was utterly strange to the old-line purveyors of Washington conventional wisdom. McConnell moneyballed the Senate. It stands to reason that if and when new powers are laid at his disposal, McConnell will once again deploy them creatively. A potential Supreme Court crisis, in which the Senate simply refuses to let the president fill a vacancy on any remotely normal terms, is one possibility. Others may be brewing at this moment deep within McConnell’s extensive imagination.
Supreme Court Crisis Looms As Republican Majority In The Senate Looks Likely
They're getting... FINGER BLASTED!!!
Is this one person, or two individuals who seem to obsess over two, for the most part, obscure and little known people?
I bought a 2.5 lb. tub of lard today on sale at my local international market. The label is bilingual, English and Spanish. "Lard" = "Manteca" Besides pie crusts, what are some recipes that use lard? Do DLers have any ideas to use up this lard? (And please save lube jokes ....)
I think I want to fuck him.
I don't get it.
..will be the commencement speaker. Memo to self: Never encourage anyone to send their kids to Howard University
I'm hardly old (ancient in gay terms) but even five years ago 20 somethings seemed no different than I was at that age. But now it seems they're all a bunch of uneducated twats who think the world owes them everything. And this has nothing to do with being rejected or anything like that. I'm happily in a ten year long relationship. And it's not even about gay 20 somethings. I'm talking about all of the dumb cunts.
Dear Tom seems to have come a cropper with his new tv series, which began here in the UK last weekend, on a minor channel - not even on one of the top 5. On ITV2 he is going global for 6 weeks, travelling around with his fag hag Sophie, the first programme had them backpacking in Thailand - cue lots of spiders and cheap beach huts before they scarper off to a hotel. This is cheap rubbish televsion which Tom should not be wasting his time or brand on. Next week they are in Japan ....then where? its hardly breaking new ground as travel documentaries, but is a good chance to look at Tom travelling around. I imagine though his Chinese fellow divers like Qui Bo are not wasting them time on rubbish like this ! I will be watching them all though ...
"No mutual masturbation!" I don't follow ice skating, but this queen seems to be damaged.
TMZ exposes ice skater Johnny Weir's bizarre post-nup agreement
How do I pick a good surgeon when I don't know anyone who can recommend one? Should I go to a surgeon in the tony, expensive part of town? Anyone leave the US for a lift? Your experiences? Ooops, no I meant your acquaintances' experiences.
How partisan is the Congressional Budget Office? It seems pretty bipartisan to me. Which is pretty surprising. Congress critters, the President, governors, etc. are easily bought off. I don't see how it'd be too hard to buy off the top guys at the CBO.
Irish Spring and Brylcreem for me. I actually rub both the Irish Spring deodorant on my neck. Do the same thing with Brylcreem. (A little dab'll do ya...just a small amount in the palm and rub it into your neck area. I turn myself on, actually.
All these blocks on TV shows etc...are such a drag. Everyone sneaking around to watch stuff that isn't being shown in their country is so annoying.
First Kaepernick is involved in a "suspicious incident." Now this bozo. And what the fuck kind of NFL player flies Southwest? [quote]According to witnesses, some of whom videotaped Smith being taken into custody, tension began at the Southwest Airlines ticket counter where Smith, 24, got into an argument with a ticket agent. When he went through security, airport police said, Smith said he had a bomb. [quote]“The suspect then became belligerent and uncooperative with the process and with the TSA agent, making a comment indicating that he was in possession of a bomb before proceeding towards the gate area,” LAX police spokeswoman Sgt. Karla Ortiz said in a statement. “Los Angeles Airport Police made contact with him at the gate, and he was positively identified as the person in question. Once again, the male subject became uncooperative, and he was detained and taken into custody.” [quote]Smith is charged with making a false report of a bomb threat, punishable by up to a year in jail. [quote]According to Ortiz, it appeared Smith had been drinking earlier in the day. Police, however, did not check Smith’s blood-alcohol content, Ortiz told The Bee, because “it was not an issue that would affect the detention or the arrest.” [quote]Still, whether Smith had been drinking likely will be a major question for the 49ers and the Santa Clara County District Attorney’s office. Smith is facing a DUI charge stemming from an incident in September. He had a hearing on Friday, and his next court date is April 29.
'49ers off season goes from bad to worse -- Aldon Smith arrested at LAX for bomb threat
Sad
The Atlanta Braves are getting racist hate mail about Hank Aaron
Such a mix of camp. Nancy Kelly's playing it to the last row performance, Patty's steely eyes, Nosy neighbor Monica, Miss Fern, crazy Leroy, William Hopper ( Hedda's gay son), and the amazing Eileen Heckart, playing one of the best drunks ever put on film.
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Is this the 'gay look' of today?
Why do all of DL's 'cute/hawt guys' always have...short dark hair, dark eyes and facial hair?
Describe your degree of "outness". This is for primarily homosexually-inclined people. If you are not attracted to the same sex, click "show results" to see the poll. I want to explain the poll options before you vote: 1) "I don't hide it from anyone" means exactly that. You never edit pronouns, obscure facts, omit details or deflect questions that might reveal that you're gay. If you're ever mistaken for straight, you correct them. 2) "Everyone knows except acquaintances and strangers" means you're out to "everyone that matters": family, friends, co-workers, except you might just let strangers and acquaintances assume you're straight, just because it's less awkward and often unimportant. 3) "Out to everyone except one specific group": this means roughly the same as #1 and #2, except for personal reasons you exclude one group. Most often these are people who are not out at work (for fear of descrimination) or people who choose not to tell parents or siblings and limit or cut off contact instead. 4) "Out to friends, but no one else". This is vague, but a sort of catch-all for people who are closeted in more than one area of life. This would be people who are closeted at work and among at least some family, or people who are only out to their gay/gay-friendly friends. You must have gay friends or very gay-friendly friends for this category. 5) "I don't identify as gay, but I don't hide my same-sex attraction". This is tricky but I know some of you will demand this option. This could include g0ys, "post-gay" hipsters, genuine bisexuals and anyone who avoids the gay label but still is open about their same sex attraction. To answer this category, you must be open with at least the majority of your friends and family. 6) "I neither discuss it much nor hide it". In this category, some of the people that you're genuinely close to know that you're gay, but to the world at large, most people that you know and just whenever it's convenient, you're ambiguous or silent about your sexuality. You avoid pronouns and keep your "private life" private. Still, you have gay friends, but you're likely to introduce a love interest as just a "friend" in some situations. 7) "I've only told some/certain people". This would describe people who've come out to some people under very personal circumstances, but are still mostly closeted at large or ambiguous to most people. You may or may not have gay friends but you compartmentalize them and never mix them with your straight friends. 8) "I've told very few people". The difference between this and #7 is a matter of degrees. You've told one or two people, excluding sexual encounters. Maybe you've told one co-worker and swore them to secrecy, and one sibling but made them promise not to tell Mom and Dad. Maybe you let it slip out once while drunk with a friend. You have no platonic gay friends that you socialize with regularly. You pretend to be straight in mixed company but don't actively date or pursue the opposite sex. 9) "I lead a double life". You have a straight life and a gay life, and they never mix. You are meticulous about keeping it all "straight". You actively date or are in a LTR with a member of the opposite sex (who may or may not know the truth), but you also have gay friends on the side, sexual or platonic. You enjoy homosexual pleasure in secret and project a straight image at all other times. 10) "I tell no one". You believe that no one knows that you're gay, or you desperately wish it were so. You have secret sexual encounters but no connection to gay people or gay life. You never plan to come out.
I think the fucking bastard needs to die in the most horrible way possible. When it comes to hate crimes, there is no such thing as cruel and unusual punishment. But what do you think?
A new labour agreement in France means that employees must ignore their bosses' work emails once they are out of the office and relaxing at home – even on their smartphones Just in case you weren't jealous enough of the French already, what with their effortless style, lovely accents and collective will to calorie control, they have now just banned bosses from bothering them once the working day is done. Well, sort of. Après noticing that the ability of bosses to invade their employees' home lives via smartphone at any heure of the day or night was enabling real work hours to extend further and further beyond the 35-hour week the country famously introduced in 1999, workers' unions have been fighting back. Now employers' federations and unions have signed a new, legally binding labour agreement that will require employers to make sure staff "disconnect" outside of working hours. Under the deal, which affects around 250,000 employees in the technology and consultancy sectors (including the French arms of Google, Facebook, Deloitte and PwC), employees will also have to resist the temptation to look at work-related material on their computers or smartphones – or any other kind of malevolent intrusion into the time they have been nationally mandated to spend on whatever the French call la dolce vita. And companies must ensure that their employees come under no pressure to do so. Thus the spirit of the law – and of France – as well as the letter shall be observed.
The New York City boutique’s store manager is allegedly responsible for the caption, which has since been removed. Three days ago, the official Instagram account for Patricia Field, a fashion boutique, captioned a photo with “Come get your #Adidas Streetball Tranny Football platforms.” On the official Patricia Field website, however, the shoes are listed simply as “Streetball Platform Wedges.” Emmy Award winning Designer Patricia Field, who is most well-known for her work on Sex and the City, has owned the Patricia Field boutique in New York City for over 40 years. Field told BuzzFeed that she was unaware of the word “tranny” being used in the Instagram caption: “We were not aware that Barbie, who is our manager, put out this caption. She misnamed them because it’s the adidas Blue Collection, not Adidas – that was the first mistake. The second mistake, I don’t know why she used that word […] Barbie says she used the word in a sense of ‘fierce’ and not literally ‘tranny’ – this is the kind of lingo that goes on. [Barbie] didn’t realize the rest of the world wouldn’t recognize that meaning of the word.” Field then said that the Instagram photo would be taken down immediately and re-posted with the proper caption. The Instagram photo has since been deleted. According to Patricia Field’s press office, the boutique’s store manager was responsible for the caption on the Instagram photo. The store’s blog states that manager Barbie Beach has been working at Patricia Field for nearly five years, acting as General Manager and Studio Services Manager for the past year and a half. BuzzFeed reached out directly to Beach for comment, who would not provide a statement at this time.
Patricia Field Deletes Instagram Post After Her Store’s Account Uses 'Tranny' In Caption
"Oklahoma is a forgotten state! I don't even know what kind of FOOD they eat in Oklahoma!" Go girl!
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No extra charge for book stacking.
Tasteful friends, Michael Chabon and Ayelet Waldman in a Berkeley abortion doctor's house
A study, to appear in the Fall 2014 issue of the academic journal Perspectives on Politics, finds that the U.S. is no democracy, but instead an oligarchy, meaning profoundly corrupt, so that the answer to the study’s opening question, "Who governs? Who really rules?" in this country, is: "Despite the seemingly strong empirical support in previous studies for theories of majoritarian democracy, our analyses suggest that majorities of the American public actually have little influence over the policies our government adopts. Americans do enjoy many features central to democratic governance, such as regular elections, freedom of speech and association, and a widespread (if still contested) franchise. But, ..." and then they go on to say, it's not true, and that, "America's claims to being a democratic society are seriously threatened" by the findings in this, the first-ever comprehensive scientific study of the subject, which shows that there is instead "the nearly total failure of 'median voter' and other Majoritarian Electoral Democracy theories [of America]. When the preferences of economic elites and the stands of organized interest groups are controlled for, the preferences of the average American appear to have only a minuscule, near-zero, statistically non-significant impact upon public policy." To put it short: The United States is no democracy, but actually an oligarchy. The authors of this historically important study are Martin Gilens and Benjamin I. Page, and their article is titled "Testing Theories of American Politics." The authors clarify that the data available are probably under-representing the actual extent of control of the U.S. by the super-rich: Economic Elite Domination theories do rather well in our analysis, even though our findings probably understate the political influence of elites. Our measure of the preferences of wealthy or elite Americans – though useful, and the best we could generate for a large set of policy cases – is probably less consistent with the relevant preferences than are our measures of the views of ordinary citizens or the alignments of engaged interest groups. Yet we found substantial estimated effects even when using this imperfect measure. The real-world impact of elites upon public policy may be still greater. Nonetheless, this is the first-ever scientific study of the question of whether the U.S. is a democracy. "Until recently it has not been possible to test these contrasting theoretical predictions [that U.S. policymaking operates as a democracy, versus as an oligarchy, versus as some mixture of the two] against each other within a single statistical model. This paper reports on an effort to do so, using a unique data set that includes measures of the key variables for 1,779 policy issues." That’s an enormous number of policy-issues studied. What the authors are able to find, despite the deficiencies of the data, is important: the first-ever scientific analysis of whether the U.S. is a democracy, or is instead an oligarchy, or some combination of the two. The clear finding is that the U.S. is an oligarchy, no democratic country, at all. American democracy is a sham, no matter how much it's pumped by the oligarchs who run the country (and who control the nation's "news" media). The U.S., in other words, is basically similar to Russia or most other dubious "electoral" "democratic" countries. We weren't formerly, but we clearly are now. Today, after this exhaustive analysis of the data, “the preferences of the average American appear to have only a minuscule, near-zero, statistically non-significant impact upon public policy.” That's it, in a nutshell.
Scientific Study; U.S. is an oligarchy, no democratic country, at all
I received The American Community Survey from the U.S. Census Bureau. It was addressed to Occupant (Apt #). The survey is 15 pages with questions about my salary, rent, relatives etc etc. It claims there is a legal penalty for not returning the survey. Can I ignore it?
Are we to believe that snuff films are truly a myth? Surely by now, even if they WERE a myth, the mythology has led to the real thing, especially with the advent of the internet.
...in NYC...where? what bars or clubs? Sunday used to be such a great gay night.. What do you think?
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Last week, OWN announced that Oprah got Lindsay Lohan to agree to an interview and an 8-part reality shit show. The “docu-series” will follow LiLo as she tries to rebuild her career while trying not to fuck up again. Yeah, they’re calling it a “docu-series.” TMZ says that OWN paid Lindsay Lohan $2 million for the interview and the reality show. The deal was signed while LiLo was drying out at Betty Ford. Oprah’s also giving LiLo two assistants and a stylist. If you work for Oprah and wonder if she hates you, you’ll know for sure if she calls you up and says, “I’m reassigning you to Lindsay Lohan.” Surprisingly, Dina Lohan found the time to talk to E! News about LiLo’s deal with Oprah I say “surprisingly,” because I figured she’d be too busy dreaming about all the booze and pill money that’s about to drop into LiLo’s checking account. Top shelf booze days are here again! “Oh, it’s fantastic. If anyone is going to help mentor you, it’s going to be Oprah,” Dina told us over the weekend. Asked whether she’ll appear on the program, the elder Lohan hinted that was a likely scenario. “Possibly! It’s about family…and I’m family,” she said. As for how LiLo is doing as she finishes up her last few weeks in treatment, Dina noted her daughter’s in a really good place. “She’s happy, she’s healthy and she’s amazing. She’s doing really well,” she said. You can say that Oprah has said “fuck it” to making her network a beacon of serious journalism and is embracing trash just to get viewers. But let’s look at the positive. Lindsay Lohan getting $2 million is good news for the back alley pharmacy industry.
I just discovered that ESPN Classic (a channel I would NEVER otherwise watch) seems to be re-running these classics from the 70s and 80s. Today I saw the swimming competition featuring Daniel J. Travanti, Mark Harmon, Heather Thomas, Cristina Raines, Telma Hopkins, Doug Barr, et. al. and featuring Broadway star Brian Stokes Mitchell! (From when he was on "Trapper John, MD," I assume.) And hosted by .... Howard Cosell!
Berlin: What may be Europe's first lesbian-only burial place has opened in a forested Christian Lutheran graveyard in the German capital. The final resting place will give gay women a place to share in the afterlife.
Every fame fucker this side of Paris Hilton attends this thing. Is this the place that the celebrities go to be seen to be 'cool' and 'hip' and 'just one of the crowd'. It sounds nauseating.
Describe it. I'll go first: surprisingly long, but proportionately thick. Bigger than mine, but still in average range. Circumcised. Milky white in color. Nice low-hangers.
A few days ago, a friend called to tell me one of her good friends had suddenly passed away the day before. I only met him a few times, but I was still sad. He was older than me, but still way too young to be gone. He was just a nice, quiet, talented man. What I didn't tell her--he had popped into my thoughts the day before. The day he died. I didn't know him well and never thought about him, but for some reason I was thinking about the last time I saw him--we ran into each other at Whole Foods. I know it's just one of those unexplained coincidences, but it still gave me goosebumps.
He has signed a contract with a gay porn studio. NSFW link.
****BREAKING NEWS STRAIGHT PORN SUPERSTAR ROCCO REED COMES OUT AS GAY****
Victor Voronov has reportedly agreed move back in with Weir only if he signs papers pledging he'll tell the world he's sorry for the high profile digs.
These two threads were one after the other: Does anyone believe Oscar Pistorius? Boo hoo! Which famous men, including actors and athletes, would be most likely to be raped in prison?
He's taking the internet by storm. With his piercing blue eyes, gelled jet black hair and natty fashion sense, the aspiring supermodel is burning up the web at a startling rate. He's so beautiful he's already gotten over 1 million likes on his Facebook and his portfolio has been viewed over 1 million times. He's a medical student and his Facebook page consists of over 400 photos of himself posted within albums titled "very HOT!" and "the most beautiful face ever." His adoring fans have taken their obsession to a new level. One said: 'It's your planet. Thank you for allowing us all to live on it.' Another wrote: 'You should be king of all the Earth.'
US Airways apologized for an extremely graphic photo that it shared earlier today, depicting a naked woman in a sexual position with a toy plane. Photo:
US Airways Tweets Out VERY NSFW Photo Of Woman With Toy Plane
Hottest, most handsome, studliest... You get the drill. Post a pic to backup your claim.
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Alert From Madonna's Instagram
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I have to pay taxes tomorrow. I have just enough in my savings account to cover it. BUT I HATE not having money in my savings. My tax guy says it's no biggy to send in payments, but I also hate owing money. Can't decide whether to have some money in the bank and just send out a payment every month.
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Astrological people of Dl what does that mean for most of us? Tia.
Have any of you read it yet? Donna Tartt is the kind of writer who makes other writers, in the words of her fellow Southerner Scarlett O’Hara, pea green with envy. Donna Tartt’s novel “The Goldfinch” is partly set in Manhattan. She is so thoroughly well read that she is known to quote entire poems and passages from French novels at length in her slight Mississippi twang. In photos, she projects a ghostly mystery, her porcelain skin and black bob suggesting a cross between Anna Wintour and Oscar Wilde. And her self-confidence is so unshakable that it wouldn’t occur to her to fret that her novels, all three of them, only come out every decade or so. Ms. Tartt, 49, is making a rare emergence from her writerly cocoon for the publication on Tuesday of “The Goldfinch,” perhaps the most anticipated book of the fall season, a 771-page bildungsroman that has been called dazzling, Dickensian and hypnotizing. She avoids most interviews and has zero desire to be a regular on the book-world circuit of panels, readings and award galas. Arriving for lunch last week at a restaurant in Greenwich Village, Ms. Tartt shrugged off her tiny jacket and immediately lamented her discovery on the way over: the Barnes & Noble nearby had closed. “I saw William S. Burroughs there once,” she said, sounding mournful, then jumped into a rat-a-tat history of the book business from before the Internet to the current age of e-books, recalling that when her first novel was published, it was typeset in the old-fashioned, pre-computerized way. “It’s very weird,” she said. “The odd thing about it is that it’s so long between books for me that the publishing world changes completely every time I’m out, so it’s like I’ve never done it before.” Ms. Tartt became an instant celebrity with the publication of “The Secret History,” her 1992 novel about a pack of murderous classics scholars at a private college in New England. The book has sold more than five million copies and has been translated into dozens of languages. It was about two weeks before the publication of that novel that she became spooked by all the attention. The release was accompanied by a profile in Vanity Fair proclaiming that Ms. Tartt was “going to be famous very soon — conceivably the moment you read this.” “I learned pretty early on that I wasn’t cut out for sort of the public, literary....” she said, her voice trailing off, and her light green eyes darting to the side. “Too much noise, too much hubbub, too much.” To her relief, the publicity subsided, and Ms. Tartt went back to her writing, rarely granting interviews or discussing her private life. (For the record, she is unmarried, has no children, and divides her time between Manhattan and the Virginia countryside.) Ten years after “The Secret History,” Ms. Tartt and her publisher, Knopf, released “The Little Friend,” a story set in the South that received much less enthusiastic reviews but still sold briskly. She got back to work on a new novel that had its beginnings during trips to Amsterdam more than 20 years ago. Ms. Tartt is a lifelong keeper of notebooks, and some of the earliest scenes in “The Goldfinch” were taken from notes dated 1993. “I was writing for a while not knowing what I was writing,” she said. “That’s the way it’s been with all my books. Things will come to you and you’re not going to know exactly how they fit in. You have to trust in the way they all fit together, that your subconscious knows what you’re doing.” The book was centered on a 1654 painting by the Dutch artist Carel Fabritius — the “Goldfinch” — that Ms. Tartt, speaking with the authority of an art historian, said is the “missing link” between Rembrandt and Vermeer.
Provide your rationale please.
A judge has ordered Johnny to pay Victor just $1000/month. And they both agreed to sell their Faberge egg and wedding rings and put the money in a trust, of which $15,000 will go to their attorneys. No more Birkins or furs for Victor!
The rumors about "Dawson" and his "dad" having a real life affair were rampant circa 2000/2001. But since then there really hasn't been any indication that James Van Der Beek is gay or bi. Was there ever any truth to that story? Or was the whole thing just slash fiction gone wrong?
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More: "Robin Roberts has revealed that it took her ten years to reveal her girlfriend Amber Laign's identity because she preferred keeping her private life out of the spotlight." Really? Because we heard about her medical issues ad nauseum every single day for months. I call bullshit. Picking and choosing which part of your life is private and which is public obviously depends on what will mobilize fans.
"Newsflash! Some people like their anonymity!" - Robin Roberts on why she didn't come out sooner
Really? That is what the dentist's people said. They said they will call to check too. But I'm finished at 9am!! I figured I'd just go back to bed. Someone has to sit there and watch me? I'm not even getting anesthesia. Just Valium.
Serious question here. I have been thinking about swallowing here and am curious what to expect. I know I am going to get a lot of BS answers but I am a younger guy and have always wanted to try.
but he's so skinny
Just started watching the new season of Dallas. So far after only five minutes in they have done two very big things right. One, they showed John Ross's bulge in some tight undies. Two, they have cast photos in the opening credits. For me that was what was missing from the first two seasons. Now it's Dallas!
I'm really tired of her. I keep hoping she'll end up like Radcliffe, which is to say obscure (so I would not have to suffer through another Lawrence film) once the Hunger games end. Harry Potter was a huge franchise but it guaranteed Radcliffe nothing. Maybe the same will happen to Lawrence and hallelujah to that. I find her overly pretentious and annoying; she tries to hard to come off as charming and adorable.
Do you like the feeling of the warm water squirting against your anus and then when you insert the anal nozzle the feeling of fullness inside your rectum as the water goes up in there? Do you love it? Tell us how much you love it.
A paperback by Nathan Pyle who arrived from Ohio six years ago. How accurate are his suggestions?
I read this shit and I get really nervous. A bunch of rightwing lunatics rise up in an illegal militia-esque thug gang and attack Federal Agents while resisting arrest. Is there a person on the planet that doesn't think that were these black men they wouldn't have been immediately arrested and thrown in the county jail? And just so that some homesteading rancher can graze his cattle on Federal land without paying rent or just compensation... you know, when the government gives sustenance to living beings at taxpayer expense, otherwise called WELFARE? My fear is that we're going to end up living in a culture so infused with guns that everyone will have to own a gun. I could see the tri-cornered hat crowd defending the fascist state when our elected leaders pass a law to require everyone to own a gun. There are already more guns than people in the United States, and gun violence just seems to get worse and worse. Two mass shootings in less than a week -- although that's not how the media is portraying it, interestingly. Not identifying the perpetrators doesn't seem to be helping, either. Maybe the consensus is wrong; they're not doing it for the instant fame. They're doing it because they want to kill people.
So Vicki emerges as the most sympathetic character this season? And Gretchen is fast on her way to becoming the least-liked non-housewife on a Housewife franchise. Of course, she's proposing to Slade with that lovely "will you marry me" song that not even auto-tune will be able to save. It amazes me that Gretchen continues to see herself as anything but talent-free.
I want one. What are they like in bed?
Any suggestions? I'm fucking honry!
$40k for 9 scenes - around $10k a scene. And if you''re thinking of doing porn and no-one will ever find out, read on...\ \ He''s gay, but says a lot of guys on Sean Cody are straight because the money is so much better than straight porn.
Is there anything hotter?
People who do facials, waxes, microdermabrasion, peels, etc.? Thinking of this as a career change. It will be quite a cut in pay for me, but I think doing it would make me happy. It's only a 16 week program which is a plus. Anyone?
Over the past several weeks, popular reality show "RuPaul's Drag Race" landed itself in hot water over the use of terms some activists claimed were transphobic or disrespectful to transgender people. During a mini-challenge on the show titled "Female or She-male," contestants were asked to identify whether a photo showed a cisgender (non trans) woman or a former "Drag Race" contestant after viewing a cropped portion of the photo. Some transgender people claimed that the segment was transphobic, as "she-male" is considered by many to be a violent word used against trans bodies and lives. Following an initial statement regarding the use of the word posted after the segment aired, "RuPaul's Drag Race" and Logo TV are now making a huge change to their programming in order to address the allegations of transphobia. A new statement sent to The Huffington Post by Logo reads: We wanted to thank the community for sharing their concerns around a recent segment and the use of the term 'she-mail' on Drag Race. Logo has pulled the episode from all of our platforms and that challenge will not appear again. Furthermore, we are removing the 'You've got she-mail' intro from new episodes of the series. We did not intend to cause any offense, but in retrospect we realize that it was insensitive. We sincerely apologize. Earlier this month, The Huffington Post reached out to two former contestants on the show that later came out as transgender to seek their perspective surrounding the controversy. Transgender model Carmen Carrera responded with a statement she made on her Facebook, claiming, "Drag Race should be a little smarter about the terms they use and comprehend the fight for respect trans people are facing every minute of today. They should use their platform to educate their viewers truthfully on all facets of drag performance art." Transgender former contestant Monica Beverly Hillz also told The Huffington Post that she found the use of the term "not cute at all" and that "people don't understand the daily struggle it is to be a transgender woman." "RuPaul's Drag Race" airs on Logo TV Monday nights at 10:00pm ET.
'RuPaul's Drag Race' To Refrain From Using 'Transphobic Slur' In Wake Of Controversy
Leo better watch out or he'll end up the next Val Kilmer. The douche hair bun isn't helping.
Anybody watch it? I remember my dad addictively watching the original Cosmos and I love anything that brings knowledge of science and history to the masses. I enjoyed the first episode, though I thought the "spaceship" was kinda silly. The CGI effects and animation were terrific, Neil is a great host and I love that, right out of the gate, it tells religion to stuff it.
I see thread after thread expressing that sentiment, yet they're terrific in oatmeal cookies, toast, meatballs ... and all sorts of things. Do you folks hate cranberries, too?
Wasn't Julia Bowen (and even Ty and Jesse) more famous when the show started? I'd never heard of Vergara prior to MF.
Woody Allen adopting his beloved comedy for Broadway to premiere next year!
and commentaries?
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It was tweeted out in response to a customer complaint. "We don't like to hear this, Alex." Please provide feedback to our Customer Relations team here:" followed by the link to the picture. Really something to behold.
US Airways Tweets photo of plane crash landed in woman's vagina (Really, REALLY NSFW)
It's important, and the other thread got closed... so present away, men!
She is so smug and likes to insert herself into the stories she''s discussing on GMA. She also needs to come out of the closet. Anyone agree?
It was reality television before there was reality television. It had soap-opera drama and intrigue, a crime of competition that captivated a world-wide audience and gave figure skating, well, center ice. And it started in Detroit on Jan. 6, 1994, with the “whack heard around the world.” Nancy Kerrigan, among the favorites to represent the United States at the Lillehammer Olympics, had just completed a practice session at Cobo Hall in advance of the U.S. Figure Skating Championships at Joe Louis Arena. Kerrigan walked through the curtains just before 3 p.m. when Shane Stant, lurking behind the curtain, struck her under the right kneecap with a metal baton before fleeing. “All I could see was this guy swinging something,” Kerrigan told reporters less than 24 hours later. “I didn’t get a good look (at the assailant). It happened so fast.” A videotape showed Kerrigan, with medical personnel surrounding her, grabbing her knee and leg crying out, “Why? Why? Why?” Stant was part of a poorly planned and executed plot involving rival skater Tonya Harding’s ex-husband Jeff Gillooly. Later, Harding would plead guilty to conspiring to hinder prosecution of the case and was barred from amateur skating for life. After Kerrigan was unable to finish the competition, U.S. skating officials would grant Kerrigan a spot on the Olympic team. She would earn a silver medal at the Games. Harding finished eighth. “Watching anything sort of horrific, it’s disturbing to see anybody in pain,” Kerrigan said after watching the video in 2013 during an interview on NBC’s “Today Show.” “To think it’s me — it’s a lifetime ago. It hurts to see anybody in such pain. It’s a long time ago. I just moved on.” Kerrigan’s late father, Dan Kerrigan, gathered his daughter in his arms after she had been treated, and took her away from the scene that knocked her out of the U.S. Championships.
Nancy Kerrigan, Tonya Harding drama unfolded 20 years ago Monday in Detroit
Lookin' good, Tony Mikey!
Someone posted his pic another thread. One fine piece of hairy ass!
It just doesn't make sense. If you're gay you should have seen it by now. It was so dark and so funny and so totally unapologetic about the gay sexual content. I'd never seen anything like it. No one had. I was thrilled with the film when it came out and went on to read his brilliant and hilarious diaries and the biography...I even went to find his house in London when I went there. I don't think Gary Oldman has been as good in anything since.
Sigh...the ultimate DILF with a great rear end.
Each decade year has me wishing I was ten years younger. Of course that number has increased in my 50's 60's and 70's. Too bad I wasn't bright enough to really enjoy each year as I lived it.
All made in the '60s and '70s, according to Robert Hofler. Some controversial choices.
I guess you all love me again and realize how brave I am to have come clean. I am ready to accept your homage once again as America's greatest hero! LIVE STRONG!
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Are other DLers watching this wild show on LIFETIME? It's hilarious.
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Their photos are public because they want the whole world to know how amazing they are!! These kind of people fascinate me for some reason. Blogs and other websites also welcome.
It was very disconcerting. I can't believe someone would ever talk to me in that way. I've never been criticized like this before. I thought I was doing great. I was going into the office everyday thinking I was killing it. If they didn't think I was killing it, why didn't they sit me down and talk to me about it instead of letting me walk around everyday thinking I was made of awesome? I really don't know what more they want from me. I'm already giving 100%. Isn't it enough that I come in everyday and try my best? If that's not good enough for them then I don't know what is. And the worst part is that they not only did this to me on a Friday, thus ruining my weekend, but they also did this to me during my birthday month. Now every time I think of my birthday I'm going to think of this. Thanks for ruining my special day, work. The only person more mad about this than me is my mom. She's going to call my manager first thing Monday morning to have a talk with him. Hopefully they can arrange a face-to-face conference and get my grade changed. Ugh, this is so frustrating. I've never felt this bad before. My self confidence has really taken a hit. I don't know if I can even go back to work to face everyone if this doesn't get sorted out :( Is this what all performance reviews are like? If so, I don't think I can endure another one. This is my first one and I never thought it would go like this. I hate work. I don't ever want to work again.
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Tyler Glenn — lead singer for Provo, Utah New Wave-pop quartet Neon Trees and a Mormon his entire life — reveals he is gay in the new issue of Rolling Stone (on stands Friday, March 28th). "I've always felt like I'm an open book, and yet obviously I haven't been completely," he tells RS' Caryn Ganz. But he is now: Glenn speaks candidly about his first gay experiences, his band's reaction to his coming out and his complicated relationship with his conservative religion in our new story. Glenn says he's known he was gay since he was a young child, but kept his sexuality a secret — until now. "I had my crushes on guys throughout high school, but it was never an overwhelming thing until my twenties," he admits. "Then I'd be dating girls and in love with my straight friend and it was the worst feeling in the world."
Neon Trees frontman Tyler Glenn Comes Out
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This will put her back on top!
Kathrine Heigl sues Duane Reade Pharmacies for $6 million for tweeting her photo without permission
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[quote]A spy told InTouch that the actress, whose self-destructive tendencies have been well-chronicled on her OWN reality show (as well as Radar), “looked completely out of it” while mingling with her sister Ali, 20, and others following Kid Cudi’s set. “She couldn’t stand up straight and she was frantically chain smoking cigarettes,” the witness said. “In one of her hands she had a plastic cup with a clear liquid in it.” [quote]“The group [of Lohan and her pals were] standing in a small cabana, booth-type thing and one of the friends was making regular trips to the bar. I overheard the friend order four vodka sodas and when he carried them back to the group,” the source said. “He handed one to Lindsay and she started drinking it. “She didn’t seem to care who saw and none of the group seemed concerned.”
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For fuck's sake, somebody make it stop! It's everywhere. I can avoid it. Who the fuck is behind driving every person in the U.S. insane by playing this shit on everything? It was cute for five minutes but it's become seriously irritating and you can't get away from it.
Is it because he played a gay role?
It’s not uncommon for conservative media to put a very different spin on current events than major news organizations. For example, news consumers who surround themselves with nothing but conservative media might believe right now that the Affordable Care Act is in a death spiral, the IRS “scandal” is heating up; the nation is facing a debt crisis; the Benghazi conspiracy will soon rock the White House; etc. But once in a while, conservative media doesn’t just put a unique spin on the news, it also identifies stories that exist largely below the radar. Over the last week, for example, far-right news consumers have been captivated with coverage of Cliven Bundy, while for much of the American mainstream, that name probably doesn’t even sound familiar. If you don’t know the story, it’s time to get up to speed. U.S. officials ended a stand-off with hundreds of armed protesters in the Nevada desert on Saturday, calling off the government’s roundup of cattle it said were illegally grazing on federal land and giving about 300 animals back to the rancher who owned them. The dispute less than 80 miles northeast of Las Vegas between rancher Cliven Bundy and the U.S. Bureau of Land Management had simmered for days. Bundy had stopped paying fees for grazing his cattle on the government land and officials said he had ignored court orders. Anti-government groups, right-wing politicians and gun-rights activists camped around Bundy’s ranch to support him. By any fair definition, this was an intense standoff with a very real possibility of significant casualties. But to understand how and why the crisis unfolded as it did over the weekend, we have to start with how it started in the first place. Ian Millhiser did a nice job summarizing the backstory. This conflict arises out of rancher Cliven Bundy’s many years of illegally grazing his cattle on federal lands. In 1998, a federal court ordered Bundy to cease grazing his livestock on an area of federal land known as the Bunkerville Allotment, and required him to pay the federal government $200 per day per head of cattle remaining on federal lands. Around the time it issued this order, the court also commented that “[t]he government has shown commendable restraint in allowing this trespass to continue for so long without impounding Bundy’s livestock.” Fifteen years later, Bundy continued to defy this court order. Last October, the federal government returned to court and obtained a new order, providing that “Bundy shall remove his livestock from the former Bunkerville Allotment within 45 days of the date hereof, and that the United States is entitled to seize and remove to impound any of Bundy’s cattle that remain in trespass after 45 days of the date hereof.” A third federal court order issued the same year explains that Bundy did not simply refuse to stop trespassing on federal lands – he actually expanded the range of his trespassing. According to the third order, “Bundy’s cattle have moved beyond the boundaries of the Bunkerville Allotment and are now trespassing on a broad swath of additional federal land (the “New Trespass Lands”), including public lands within the Gold Butte area that are administered by the BLM, and National Park System land within the Overton Arm and Gold Butte areas of the Lake Mead National Recreation Area.” The third order also authorizes the federal government to “impound any of Bundy’s cattle that remain in trespass.” So, on the one hand we have Bundy, who’s said, “I don’t recognize [the] United States government as even existing.” It led him to repeatedly ignore federal law, repeatedly blow federal court rulings, and refuse to pay federal fines for his transgressions. On the other hand we have the United States government – which does, in fact, exist – showing considerable restraint in trying to resolve the problem. All of this started to come to a head last week, with federal officials going to the area late last week to enforce the law and seize the cattle Bundy has been illegally grazing. Except this proved to be problematic – Bundy’s heavily-armed allies, egged on by conservative media, showed up from a variety of Western states to confront U.S. officials. Facing the very real possibility that the anti-government forces might open fire, U.S. officials backed off in the interest of maintaining public safety. “Based on information about conditions on the ground and in consultation with law enforcement, we have made a decision to conclude the cattle gather because of our serious concern about the safety of employees and members of the public,” U.S. Bureau of Land Management Director Neil Kornze, said in a statement. Bundy’s cattle, which had been rounded up, were released. The Bundy supporters and assorted militia members were pleased, the crowds dispersed, and no one was shot. But you probably see the problem: it’s unsustainable to think a group of well-armed extremists can simply block the enforcement of American laws in the United States. It’s perfectly understandable that the Bureau of Land Management saw a crisis unfolding and pulled back to prevent bloodshed, but there’s an obvious problem with establishing a radical precedent: you, too, can ignore the law and disregard court rulings you don’t like, just so long as you have well-armed friends pointing guns at Americans. To put it mildly, that’s not how the American system works. Indeed, that’s not how any system of government can ever work. Tensions eased over the weekend, but it seems likely that this story isn’t over yet.
I'm in the process of condensing all my belongings down to a single suitcase and a box. It's surprisingly liberating.
What does she know that we don't?
[quote]Was it all just for the cameras? Lindsay Lohan abruptly fired her sober living coach, Michael Cormier, after completing filming for her self-titled reality show for OWN, RadarOnline.com has exclusively learned. Viewers of Lindsay have seen Cormier on camera supporting Lohan as the show chronicles the troubled actress’ life after her 2013 rehab stint. “But as soon as the cameras were packed up, Lindsay gave Michael the pink slip, and he hasn’t heard from her since,” a source close to the production told Radar. The guy got paid $1,500 a day to say things like "When Lindsay feels like she has been tricked… it’s really intensely triggering for her.”
Lindsay shitcans her "sober living coach" as soon as Oprah show ends
Is it about the rape rapes? He touched me, he put his hand near mine And then he touched me I felt a sudden tingle when he touched me A sparkle, a glow He knew it, it wasn't accidental No, he knew it He smiled and seem to tell me so all through it He knew it, I know He's real, and the world is alive and shining I feel such a wonderful drive t'wards valentining He touched me, I simply have to face the fact He touched me Control myself and try to act As if I remember my name But he touched me, he touched me And suddenly nothing is the same 'Cause he touched me, he touched me And suddenly nothing, nothing, nothing is the same
Any word as to how it's currently doing?
I nominate Larry Matthews from "The Dick Van Dyke Show." Absolutely the most annoying kid ever on TV. He alternately shouted or whined his lines. Thankfully, the show never lost focus and kept him mostly off-screen. The Olsen twins on "Full House" were a close second, though.
The Last Word host Lawrence O’Donnell will be off the air as he recovers from a weekend car accident. MSNBC confirmed the news today in a statement: “Lawrence O’Donnell and his brother Michael were injured in a taxi accident on Saturday while vacationing out of the country. They were transported back to the US — Lawrence to NYC and Michael to Boston. They are both under the care of doctors and expected to make a full recovery. Lawrence will be off from MSNBC for several weeks as he recuperates. Our thoughts and support are with the O’Donnell family and we look forward to having Lawrence back on the air soon.” No word on their specific injuries. MSNBC says Alex Wagner is expected to fillv in for O’Donnell during the 10 PM ET time slot Monday and Tuesday of this week with Ari Melber taking Wednesday and Thursday.
Lawrence O’Donnell Will Be Off MSNBC “For Several Weeks” After Car Accident
Well?
I didn't.
Will real women become obsolete?
Melva
Is it nice?
Either because of societal changes, the fact that we just now know better, etc. I'll start. This was the 80s and my 12th grade government teacher, routinely fucked students. It was an open secret and no one cared or stopped it. In fact, it was kind of expected and laughed about.
And why don't they realize it?
They are currently hot n heavy together. In a joint statement the couples says "We thank you for your support and for respecting our privacy. We want to continue our relationship, privately, as an ordinary couple and continue to compete as athletes."
They are incredibly passionate, but not at all dominant.
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Who else thinks some mommies are behind this?
A street, a block, whatever. I nominate 9th Ave. between 46th and 54th, in Hell's Kitchen in NYC - there is literally a gay bar on every block along the way (either directly on 9th or right off it) - Barrage, the Ritz, 9th Ave. Saloon, Boxers HK, Atlas Social Club, Posh, Industry, Therapy, Flaming Saddles, etc. - and now that spring is here and restaurants are opening their windows, the place is overflowing with brunching gays. The funny thing is that the street is otherwise pretty non-gay during the daytime on weekdays.
I don't want to start a fight about the existence of bisexuality. I just want to know what bisexuals feel.
He is pretty awful on this show. Playing the same old schtick he has played for twenty years, his role as the wedding planner, Pepper, is just plain bad. His acting is sorely out of place, too BROAD for the show. And it sticks out like a sore thumb. He was brilliant in The Nance but he belongs on stage, on Broadway. Television and film are not his best mediums.
Even Simon is on his feet. Great audition song too.
It really is a wonder drug isn't it? Anyone here use it?
Have more sex and save the world. How to determine your condom size:
I'm sure there will be absolutely NO disagreements!!
If ever there was an incident made for DL. I did a search and could not find a previously posted thread. Atlanta — Legendary singer Patti Labelle arrested and charged with assault and battery after attacking Aretha Franklin. The singers were in Atlanta for an R&B/Soul concert on March 20th when they ran into each other backstage. Labelle was still fuming from a recent run-in with Franklin at the White House for the “Women of Soul” concert. While Aretha Franklin was making her way to the stage, Labelle extended her hand to greet the “Respect” singer, when she threw epic shade in an effort to avoid her. The two exchanged obscenities after the event and parted ways. While at the concert in Atlanta, Labelle attempted to approach Franklin to resolve their outstanding issues, but Franklin once again turned up her nose. Onlookers say Labelle quickly removed her wig and earrings as she approached Franklin. Aretha, knowing that the removal of earrings is a tell-tale sign that a fight is about to ensue, attempted to prepare herself for the confrontation. Franklin was quickly struck with a Mayweather style right and left and stumbled backwards, landing awkwardly. Bystanders subdued Labelle and escorted her outside of the venue. Franklin suffered only minor injuries.
Patti Labelle Arrested after Fist Fight with Aretha Franklin
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How is Cinderella coping with the loss of its Prince Charming to ACT ONE?
I'm watching this shitfest for Rebel.
My elegant granny used to shop there. She smelled like baby powder.
I'm too old and make too much money to be shopping at Express. I'm a 30 year old woman in NYC. Where should I be shopping that's better quality than Express, but cheaper than Gucci? I don't care about trendy brand names, I'm just tired of my clothes barely lasting a year or two. Price range, say, around $100-$150 range for shirts, $300-$500 for a coat...
quality over quantity
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