Monthly Archives: November 2009

The Decade In Seven Minutes

Newsweek unspools the major stories of the last ten years. From Y2K, 9/11, and Dubya to Obama, the swine flu and Michael Jackson. RELATED: Calling this last decade “the noughties” (or “the naughties”) never really caught on, did it? What the heck will we call the decade that starts in five weeks? The “teens” don’t get here for three years.

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Teabaggers Fistfight Counter-Protesters

A teabagger rally on a Fort Lauderdale street corner turned violent when counter-protesters from the pro-immigrant ANSWER group showed up. From the below clip shot by a teabagger (hence the inflammatory title), it’s hard to tell who started what, but this is just the latest in a recent spate of tea party protests that have gotten physical.

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First Nationwide Atheism Campaign Launches In Washington DC

The above ad campaign from the American Humanist Association kicks off on DC’s transit system this week and expands to bus and subway systems in New York, LA, SF, and Chicago next week. This is the first ever nationwide campaign promoting atheism in America. Roy Speckhardt, executive director of the American Humanist Association, explained, “We’re hoping this campaign will build …

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NJ: NOM Launches $500K Anti-Gay Blitz

Yesterday the National Organization for Marriage launched a $500,000 campaign against marriage equality in New Jersey. From their press release: The National Organization for Marriage (NOM) announces a new $500,000 voter outreach campaign in New Jersey highlighted by the release of a new radio ad, “Give Me a Break,” which will begin running on targeted New Jersey radio stations today …

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A Counterpart To PETA?

UK-based environmentalists Plane Stupid are objecting to plans to expand airports and add flights over Europe. This gruesome ad is how they try to make their point about jet emissions. You may not want to watch this.

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Dissecting Gaga

“Chic. Freak. Sister. Fierce. Work those bitchy gams. Those were just some words that only gay men understand.” Random stuff, random stuff.

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PhoboQuotable – Star Parker

“According to DC’s HIV/AIDS office, three percent of the local population has HIV or AIDS. The Administrator of this office notes that this HIV/AIDS incidence is “…higher than West Africa…on par with Uganda and some parts of Kenya.” And the principal way that HIV is transmitted continues to be through male homosexual activity. Amidst this dismal picture, the DC City …

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NBC Turns Down PETA’s Attempt To Ruin Everybody’s Thanksgiving

NBC has turned down PETA’s request to ruin Thanksgiving. Hey, NBC: We’d like to know … if a family-friendly announcement against abusing turkeys (who live in dark, ammonia-filled sheds where workers clip their beaks, break their legs and wings, and crush their heads) doesn’t meet your standards, then what does? When we first submitted our newest commercial to NBC in …

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GOP: Agree With Us On 8 Out Of 10 Positions Or Lose Your Funding

The GOP is considering addressing internal dissent on important issues by creating a list of ten position points. Oppose the party line on more than two of those items and you’re totally no longer BFFs with the RNC and will lose funding and endorsements. On that list of ten is same sex marriage. Republican leaders are circulating a resolution listing …

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Rihanna’s Dollar Store

A music industry friend of JMG tips us that Rihanna is selling her complete new album, Rated R, on Amazon for only $3.99. He points out that if you apply Amazon’s $3.00 off coupon promotion, which runs until November 30th, you get the full album for 99 cents. Something tells me that a certain music industry friend of JMG is …

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Quote Of The Day – Billy Arnone

“If they were put in front of me I’d probably watch it.” – Billy Arnone, the brother of Miss Ladyfingers USA, telling Radar Online that he’d watch her sex tape. What IS it with that family? (And note Billy’s “Loose Lips” t-shirt.) He goes on to slam same-sex unions, saying, “I’m all the way against gay marriage. I don’t feel …

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Martha Stewart: Sarah Palin Is Dangerous

Martha Stewart thinks Sarah Palin is “dangerous and boring.” It’s a good thing.

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The Joans – Mad At The Dirt

On YouTube since September, missed it until now. (Tipped by JMG reader Calvin.)

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HomoQuotable – Jarrett Barrios

“I think most people are fair-minded. I think that in sports, what matters most is someone’s talent and his or her ability to help a team win. Sports are about people competing together on a team. It’s not about what divides us or what makes us different. It’s about what we all share in common, and what an athlete brings …

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Australia’s Labor Party Challenges Its Own PM To Approve Same-Sex Marriage

The Labor Party of Australia is challenging its own Prime Minister Kevin Rudd to pass marriage equality legislation. Rudd has threatened to veto a recently approved law making same-sex marriage legal in the Australian Capitol Territory. The Australian Labor Party in the state of Victoria passed a resolution in support of marriage equality last weekend. It is supported by ministers …

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Katie Couric Drops It Like It’s Hot

Gawker has posted a gallery of photos of Katie Couric getting on down with her bad self. (And with another lady dancer.) Wingnuts will probably screech about this un-anchorly behavior, but Katie seems like a fun gal to take to a party.

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Massachusetts: Openly Gay GOP State Sen. Richard Tisei To Run For Lt. Governor

Moderate GOP candidate for governor of Massachusetts Charlie Baker has named openly gay state Sen. Richard Tisei as his running mate. “Richard has years of experience fighting for the taxpayer on Beacon Hill and I’m thrilled to have him on the team,” Baker said in a statement posted on his campaign Web site. The Web page contained on CharlieBaker2010.com included …

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DC’s Catholic Charities Complains About Bad Press Over Same-Sex Marriage Threat

Good As You reports that DC’s Catholic Charities placed a message in yesterday’s Sunday bulletin of St. Peters’s Cathedral to complain that the press was misreporting their threat to suspend social services if same-sex marriage is approved. Take it away, Jeremy Hooper: It would be one thing if they came right out and said, “Look, we simply don’t wanna serve …

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Mark DeMoss Calls Me A Liar

Yesterday I posted that the DeMoss Group, the powerful Christian right publicity firm hired to promote the anti-gay Manhattan Declaration, had also been hired to work on the 2008 presidential campaign of Mitt Romney. I wrote the post after finding numerous accountings of DeMoss’ work on behalf of Mittney. Today DeMoss Group founder Mark DeMoss writes to call me a …

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Thousands Of Anglican Priests Defect To Vatican Over Gay-Friendly Policies

Last month Pope Palpatine invited the world’s Anglican priests to join the Catholic Church if they disagreed with new gay-friendly Anglican policies. This weekend the first avalanche of thousands of defecting priests was announced. Over 4,000 Anglican priests all over the world, including married ones, are expected to join the Catholic Church, Bishop Matthias Ssekamanya announced on Friday. Ssekamanya, who …

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