Monthly Archives: January 2009

Obama Express En Route To DC

Barack Obama’s Lincoln-esque whistle-stop train tour is about to reach DC’s Union Station after stops in Wilmington, DE to pick up Joe Biden and a stop in Baltimore for a giant rally.

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Canadian Geese Blamed, U.S. To Invade Botswana In Retaliation

The New York Post is calling for an intifada against the Canadian geese who are wrongfully occupying the Gotham Strip. It’s time to kill the geese. It’s especially time to kill those geese most likely to wreck another jet airliner, much as a gaggle of Canada geese seems to have brought down US Airways Flight 1549 Thursday. This time, all …

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Celebrate Obama With An Abortion Donut!

The anti-abortion mob is going wacko-ballistic because Krispy Kreme is celebrating Obama’s inauguration by giving away “Freedom Of Choice” donuts. From the Catholic-run American Life League: KRISPY KREME CELEBRATES OBAMA WITH PRO-ABORTION DOUGHNUTS“The next time you stare down a conveyor belt of slow-moving, hot, sugary glazed donuts at your local Krispy Kreme you just might be supporting President-elect Barack Obama’s …

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Icy Hudson Hinders Plane Removal

The NTSB is attempting to remove the US Airways jet from the Hudson River, but the plane is now anchored in the ice. The jet is tied up to a seawall at Battery Park City at the southern tip of Manhattan about three miles downriver of the crash. More on the salvage effort and a photo gallery at Gothamist. JMG …

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Wingnuts Win, Doubletree Hotel Cancels MAL Party

Apparently due to pressure from Peter LaBarbera of the Americans For Truth About Homosexuality, the Doubletree Hotel in DC has reportedly canceled tonight’s sex party to be held in conjunction with Mid-Atlantic Leather. I can’t confirm this independently at the moment, but several JMG readers have reported getting emails from the party’s organizers announcing the cancellation. LaBarbera has another post …

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#1 This Week In 1991

This week in 1991, Love Will Never Do (Without You), the seventh and final single from Janet Jackson’s Rhythm Nation 1814, topped the Billboard pop chart for one week. It was written and produced by the now legendary team of Jimmy Jam and Terry Lewis, both formerly of Prince’s opening act, The Time. The video was directed by famed fashion …

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San Francisco Begins Issuing ID Cards To All, Regardless Of Immigration Status

To howls of protest across the wingnut blogosphere and talk radio, today the city of San Francisco began issuing photo ID cards to all residents who can provide proof of living in the city, regardless of their legal immigration status. The cards, also available in New Haven, Conn., and being considered in other cities, have sparked fury among advocates of …

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My Goodbye Letter From Hillary

Dear Friend, I wanted to take this opportunity to thank you for the honor of serving you in the United States Senate and to share with you some of the work and accomplishments of which we can all be proud. As I look back on eight years of service in the Senate, I am gratified by all we’ve been able …

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Ohio’s Former Faith-Based Programs Head Busted On Pimping Charge

Pimpin’ ho’s makes dat baby Jeebus cry, yo. The former head of faith-based programs in Ohio was arrested Wednesday on charges he promoted prostitution, local news organizations report. WCMH-TV reports that Robert McFadden, director of the Office of Faith-Based and Community Initiatives under Democratic Gov. Ted Strickland until October 2007, faces seven felony charges, including promotion of prostitution. He is …

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Circuit City To Close Remaining Stores

Just two months after they announced the closure of selected locations around the country, today Circuit City says that they are closing down the entire chain. Circuit City Stores Inc., the bankrupt consumer-electronics retailer, named four liquidators to sell the remaining merchandise in 567 U.S. stores before it goes out of business. Liquidators Great American Group WF LLC; Hudson Capital …

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Rick Warren: Be Like Hitler Youth

Making the blog rounds today is this 2005 speech from Rick Warren in which he urges a stadium full of his followers to emulate the actions of the Hitler Youth in their fanatical devotion to creating a theocracy in the United States, “whatever it takes.”

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AFA Goes After Sordid Lives

Via WickedGayBlog we learn that the Florida chapter of the American Family Association is calling for an advertiser boycott of one of my favorite shows, LOGO’s Sordid Lives. From a Christian newswire press release: A pro-family activist says LOGO, an advertiser-supported homosexual cable channel owned by MTV, is taking another shot at Christians. David Caton of Florida Family Association is …

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Friendly Voices – Tom Hanks

“The truth is this takes place in Utah, the truth is these people are some bizarre offshoot of the Mormon Church, and the truth is a lot of Mormons gave a lot of money to the church to make Prop-8 happen. There are a lot of people who feel that is un-American and I am one of them. I do …

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Maddow On Dubya’s Farewell Speech

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Former Civil Rights Commission Chair Mary Frances Berry: Fire Them All

In a NYT op-ed column today, Mary Frances Berry, the chair of the Commission On Civil Rights from 1993-2004, calls for the “abolishing” of the commission she headed for 11 years and its replacement with one that will fully address LGBT rights. To help resolve the issue of gay rights, President-elect Obama should abolish the now moribund Commission on Civil …

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Sundance: Free LGBT Films On iTunes

For the duration of the Sundance Film Festival, you can download two of their LGBT short films for free on iTunes. One of the offerings is Countertransference, which won the Jury Award for Best Dramatic Short at Los Angeles’ OutFest, the other is James – which I don’t know anything about.

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Another $20B For Bank Of America

Un-fucking-real. After a marathon negotiating session, the Bush administration agreed early Friday to give Bank of America an additional $20 billion worth of fresh capital to help it stomach the losses at Merrill Lynch, which the company acquired Jan. 1. The funds are in addition to $25 billion in TARP rescue funds Bank of America has already received. The new …

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15 Months In Prison For Boy George

Boy George has been sentenced to 15 months in prison on last year’s conviction for false imprisonment. The judge at Snaresbrook Crown Court said the star, real name George O’Dowd, has used “gratuitous violence.” He was convicted last month of false imprisonment by a jury at Snaresbrook Crown Court on December 5th but was bailed to await sentence. O’Dowd denied …

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Caption This

Caption this changing of the guard at Madame Tussauds in Amsterdam.

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Chesley Sullenberger

Chesley Sullenberger, 57, the pilot of the plane that crashed into the Hudson River yesterday, accomplished something never done in over 50 years of commercial aviation. When he brought his Airbus 320 to an as-perfect-as-possible landing, it was the first ever non-fatal emergency ditching for a passenger jetliner. Often, one of the wingtips will graze the water and cause the …

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