Monthly Archives: September 2008

The Full Wingnut Travel Package

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Governor Coppertone

Once of the first things Sarah Palin did to personalize the governor’s mansion after she was elected was to install a tanning bed. Self-proclaimed “hockey mom” Sarah Palin had a private tanning bed installed in the Governor’s Mansion in Juneau, Alaska, Usmagazine.com confirmed on Monday. “She did. She paid for it with her own money,” Roger Wetherell, chief communications officer …

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Lynne Cheney Endorses Gay Marriage

Well, sorta. When asked by CBS’ Harry Smith if she’d like her (openly lesbian) daughter to have the right to marry, Cheney said, “I would wish my daughter to have happiness and freedom to make her own choices. The Vice President said in the debate with Joe Lieberman ever so long ago in 2000 that freedom in this country ought …

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Morning View – Above Midtown

I got this shot from Top Of The Rock a few days ago.

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Swag Tuesday

Courtesy of the publisher, today’s Swag Tuesday offering is Crisis, the new anthology edited by out furniture mogul Mitchell Gold. Subtitled 40 Stories Revealing the Personal, Social, and Religious Pain and Trauma of Growing Up Gay In America, the anthology contains essays from major gay activists and politicians to midwestern teens and out clergy. A mental health crisis faces American …

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Lehman Brothers Upside

Don’t jump out the window just yet, you hot Lehman Brothers analysts. Plenty of guys on Craigslist are offering consoling blowjobs. Leave it to teh gays to turn a financial crisis into a hookup opportunity. And check out the shenanigans behind the CNN reporter doing a standup outside of Lehman headquarters. (Via – Gawker)

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Finally, A Hard-Hitting Ad From Obama

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HomoQuotable – Ray Boltz

“I’d denied it ever since I was a kid. I became a Christian, I thought that was the way to deal with this and I prayed hard and tried for 30-some years and then at the end, I was just going, ‘I’m still gay. I know I am.’ And I just got to the place where I couldn’t take it …

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Sarah Palin: Maverick To Nowhere

Talking Points Memo exposes Sarah Palin as a liar with her own words. Wait for the end. (Via – Pam’s House Blend)

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Trickless Magician To Baffle Gotham Again

Trickless magician David Blaine will hang upside down over Central Park’s Wollman Rick for three days next week. At 8:30 a.m. on Sept. 22, he’ll be hoisted to a cable 60 feet above the ground, which will become his perch for three days and two nights. He’ll clamp on with electromagnetic boots but won’t have a safety net, airbag or …

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McCain Photo Shoot Scandal

The Atlantic hired photographer Jill Greenberg to shoot the current John McCain cover. Greenberg did the shoot, handed a very nice picture over to the Atlantic, then went home and photoshopped the fuck out of the outtakes for her personal site. The Atlantic is duly embarrassed. The right wing is outraged. The rest of world is highly amused, but you …

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I Am Jean Valjean
And I Approve This Message

From Ultimate Improv, here’s Les Mizbarack, a little something for the Obama supporter and theatre queen in you. I played this ten times in a row last night, it’s really cute.

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Wall Street Melts Down

Lehman Brothers, bankrupt. Merrill Lynch, sold. AIG, “days to survive.” In one of the most dramatic days in Wall Street’s history, Merrill Lynch agreed to sell itself on Sunday to Bank of America for roughly $50 billion to avert a deepening financial crisis, while another prominent securities firm, Lehman Brothers, filed for bankruptcy protection and hurtled toward liquidation after it …

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McCain: A One-Man Nuclear Shield

At the Voters Values Summit, evangelical nutjob Gary Bauer tried to stoke the fear of nuclear terrorism, saying the experts predict that “it is not a question of if it will happen, it is only a question of when it is going to happen. And the ‘it’ in this case, is when our enemy will detonate a dirty nuclear bomb …

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Palin’s Track Record: Vendettas & Cronyism

Yesterday the New York Times published an exhaustive and blistering review of Sarah Palin’s political history in Alaska. The report cites personal vendettas and cronyism and observes that under Palin’s governorship, a current list of top Alaskan officials can also be found by paging through her high school yearbook. Gov. Sarah Palin lives by the maxim that all politics is …

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This Week In Religious Nuttery

– Saudi Arabia’s Islamic Sharia court has ruled that satellite television operators that beam “immodest” programming during Ramadan are subject to to the death penalty. Sheikh Saleh al-Lohaidan: “What does the owner of these networks think, when he provides seduction, obscenity and vulgarity? Those calling for corrupt beliefs, certainly it’s permissible to kill them.” – Some Hassidic Jews in Brooklyn’s …

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Morning View – Broadway Esplanade

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I Can See Russia From My House!

Tina Fey did not disappoint last night, delivering an uncanny and hilarious impression of Sarah Palin. And of course, Amy Poehler (who’s about 300 weeks pregnant) was great. One of the best things SNL has done in ages. The rest of the show (especially Michael Phelps), not so much. UPDATE: The NBC video embed appeared to be borking all the …

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Anti-Obama Racism From Values Voters Summit And Family Research Council

Well, the lovely Christers at the Values Voters Summit sure don’t hide their racism very well, do they? Activists at a conservative political forum snapped up boxes of waffle mix depicting Democratic presidential candidate Barack Obama as a racial stereotype on its front and wearing Arab-like headdress on its top flap. Values Voter Summit organizers cut off sales of Obama …

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Just In Time For Halloween

WigSalon.com is hoping to capitalize on the “Sarah Palin look” which they are doing by selling their Raquel Welch “glazed hazelnut” wig with advice to pin up the back with bobby pins. But they do offer this bit of advice: No association with or endorsement from or to the Sarah Palin campaign exists. The products are those of famous wig …

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