Monthly Archives: November 2011

First National TV Ad From Mittens

And it wrongly attributes a McCain quote to Obama, who was quoting the McCain campaign when he said it. Which Mittens knows.

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Best Buy Co-Opts OWS

Anybody with a Facebook account knows how “occupy” has become a pervasive meme applicable to just about any situation. But this may be the first such usage in a national advertising campaign. And just yesterday I was snickering at a press release touting a porn movie titled Occupy My Throat.

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GEORGIA: Church That Revolted Over Gay Bishop Must Surrender Historic Building

Members of a Savannah, Georgia church voted to leave their denomination over the ordination of a gay bishop. Says the state Supreme Court: “See ya. Now hand over that $3M historic building.” In 2007, after the national Episcopal Church affirmed its first openly gay bishop in New Hampsire, 87 percent of the Savannah congregation voted to cut off its affiliation …

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4.74 Degrees Of Separation

The original “six degrees” researchers used a sample of only 296 people. But that was before social media came on the scene. The new research used a slightly bigger cohort: 721 million Facebook users, more than one-tenth of the world’s population. The findings were posted on Facebook’s Web site Monday night. The experiment took one month. The researchers used a …

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Two Great Rights Clips From Argentina

(Via – Blabbeando)

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Global HIV Rate Stabilizes

As the number of AIDS-related deaths in the United States continues its decade-long decline, the pandemic appears to be stabilizing in the rest of the world. There were 2.7 million new HIV infections last year, approximately the same figure as in the three previous years, said the report from UNAIDS, the joint United Nations program on HIV and AIDS. The …

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Limbaugh: Michelle Obama Is Uppity

Well, that’s about as plain as racism gets.

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9th Circuit Consolidates Prop 8 Appeal With Complaint On Judge’s Gayness

Yesterday the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals announced that it would simultaneously consider the appeal of the overturn of Prop 8 alongside a separate complaint that Judge Vaughn Walker should have recused himself for being gay. Chris Geidner reports at Metro Weekly: With today’s order, all of the questions relating to the validity and merits of the constitutionality of Proposition …

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Here’s A Shocker

Michele Bachmann’s just-published memoir is so crammed with outrageous lies that it “reads like the greatest hits of Politifacts.” The lies start on page one with a made-up story about how Bachmann decided to enter politics.

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If We Allow Gay Marriage, Some Woman Will Marry The Eiffel Tower

So says Michele Bachmann’s Iowa campaign chair, who also can’t pronounce “polyamory.”

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Concerned Women Are Concernstipated About DOMA Repeal In Congress

They know it isn’t happening, but they sure don’t mind riling up their followers with an easily Google-able lie.

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FRC: There Are Three Stages Of The Gay

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21 Years In Prison For Brandon McInerney

Teenage murderer Brandon McInerny has been sentenced to 21 years in prison in a plea agreement for the shooting of openly gay classmate Larry King. Brandon McInerney, who was 14 when he pulled a gun out of his backpack and shot Larry King twice in the head in 2008, has already served nearly four years in jail and would be …

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Pope: People With Poor Ethics Get AIDS

“Above all, it is an ethical problem. The change of behavior that it requires – for example, sexual abstinence, rejection of sexual promiscuity, fidelity within marriage – ultimately involves the question of integral development, which demands a global approach and a global response from the Church. For if it is to be effective, the prevention of AIDS must be based …

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2011 American Music Awards

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Manhattan Migration

Blue lines are inbound, red lines are outbound. Manhattan is currently getting lots of folks from Southern California. And we’re sending high numbers to South Florida. (That’s nothing new.) Forbes has an interactive map with all U.S. counties.

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“I’m Christian, Unless You’re Gay”

I don’t do a lot of blind linking on this here website thingy, but go read this. Then read the follow-up. (Tipped by JMG reader Lauren.)

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Perry Signs Hate Group’s Anti-Gay Pledge

Days after he appeared at their GOP presidential debate, Rick Perry has signed the anti-gay pledge of Iowa’s Family Leader, the hate group that gained prominence when leading the successful campaign to remove pro-gay state Supreme Court justices. The pledge, which has already been signed by Frothy Mix and Crazy Eyes, gained national attention this summer for a now-stricken clause …

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Rioting Returns To Cairo

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Quote Of The Day – Joanne Highley

“Why wouldn’t it be reasonable that if people crawl around on the floor of bars and have homosexual sex, that they would pick up demonic power? We definitely cleanse and bind demonic powers out of females’ uterus cavities, out of genitals and, of course, out of anal canals and out of intestines, out of throats and mouths if there’s been …

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