Monthly Archives: February 2010

Walk The Dinosaur

From a Texas Tribune poll: Nearly a third of Texans believe humans and dinosaurs roamed the earth at the same time, and more than half disagree with the theory that humans developed from earlier species of animals, according to the University of Texas/Texas Tribune Poll. The differences in beliefs about evolution and the length of time that living things have …

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UK: Glenn Beck Loses 103 Sponsors

Think Progress reports that Glenn Beck’s UK radio show is in serious trouble. Today, Color of Change and StopBeck.com announced that the United Kingdom has forcefully rejected Fox News host Glenn Beck. In fact, the UK broadcast of his show “was forced to run without any advertisements” for five days in a row as of yesterday. Additionally, 103 companies have …

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Maddow Reviews The Hurt Locker

Best Picture nominee The Hurt Locker is a favorite to win.

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Gay Seniors Program Gets Federal Grant

The Chicago chapter of SAGE has been awarded $475K for program services by the federal government. The program, Services and Advocacy for GLBT Elders, or SAGE, is part of the Center on Halsted, a gay and lesbian community center in Lakeview, and was profiled by the Tribune last June. Its director, Serena Worthington, said the $475,000 grant from the U.S. …

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World Net Daily Columnist: Homosexuals Should Be Put To Death

World Net Daily columnist Molotov Mitchell says that Uganda has it right, the Bible clearly calls for homosexuals to put to death. If gay Ugandans don’t like that, they can just leave. And that America’s Founding Fathers had it right too, because was a death penalty for gays in the original colonies. Mitchell says that by being willing to kill …

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Open Thread Thursday

Tuesday’s blog swarm prompted many of you to suggest that calling one’s own representatives personally would be more effective than “lobbying readers to lobby the HRC to lobby the president to lobby Congress about DADT,” as one reader put it. I don’t disagree, but participated mostly because I was so curious as to how the HRC would react to such …

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NH Rejects Gay Marriage Ballot Push

Moments ago, the New Hampshire House resoundingly rejected an attempt to place a vote to repeal same-sex marriage on the November ballot. CACR 28 defined marriage in this state by saying it can only be between a man and a woman. It was rejected by a wide margin, 201-135, short of a simple majority and far below the three-fifths majority …

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DC Catholic Archdiocese Kills Foster Care Program Over Same-Sex Marriage

Citing the coming legality of same-sex marriage, Washington DC’s Catholic Charities today announced the end of its foster care program rather than be forced to license gay couples to care for desperate children in need. Catholic Charities, which receives $20 million from the city, had sounded alarms in the run-up to the council vote, saying programs serving tens of thousands …

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Extreme-Right Groups Launch Joint Call To Return The GOP To “True Conservatism”

Doubtlessly inspired by the anti-gay Manhattan Declaration, today a coalition of extreme-right and Christianist groups launched the Mount Vernon Statement, a call for a “return to Constitutionally-based conservatism.” A Constitutional conservatism unites all conservatives through the natural fusion provided by American principles. It reminds economic conservatives that morality is essential to limited government, social conservatives that unlimited government is a …

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Google Chrome Issue For Macs

If you are a Mac owner using Google’s Chrome browser, a recent update is causing some WordPress and Blogger sites to crash, this one included. I’m told a fix is coming “soon.”

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Palm Center: DADT Repeal In Grave Peril

The Palm Center’s Nathaniel Frank today says that the repeal of DADT is in “grave peril” and that LGBT rights groups must step up the pressure on the president. Bloggers this week called for the President to take the lead, but also focused their attention on the Human Rights Campaign (HRC), the most powerful gay rights group in the world, …

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God Hates World Net Daily

Today God smote the online sales division of World Net Daily when He crashed a small plane into their power supply. The crash of a small airplane today in a residential neighborhood in the San Francisco Bay Area that killed three people also took out a local power distribution facility, shutting down the online operations for the WND Superstore. While …

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Tonight: Homocon Happy Hour In DC

If any of our JMG peeps in DC want to swing by the former Jury’s Hotel in Dupont Circle tonight, we’d love to get some photographs of tonight’s GOProud Homocon Happy Hour. Then we can sell the photos to World Weekly News for their “Space Aliens Walk Among Us” file.

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SC State Rep. Mike Pitts: Abolish Federal Currency, Replace It Gold & Silver Coins

South Carolina state Rep. Mike Pitts (R) has filed a bill to ban the use of federal currency in his state and replace it with silver and gold coins. Pitts, a fourth-term Republican from Laurens, introduced legislation earlier this month that would ban what he calls “the unconstitutional substitution of Federal Reserve Notes for silver and gold coin” in South …

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Pet Shop Boys Play Concert In Fan’s Home

In a Brit Awards and Mastercard joint promotion, a viewer won a home concert by Pet Shop Boys. In the clip below, they are appropriately playing their classic Suburbia in the delighted Lorraine’s living room. (Tipped by JMG reader Iain in the UK)

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Wingnut Group Smears Openly Gay Mayoral Candidate In Gainseville, Florida

The Concerned Citizens of Gainesville are smearing openly gay mayoral candidate Craig Lowe by posting placards claiming that his support for the city’s recently passed transgender rights ordinance means he is pro-pedophilia. Via Equality Florida: Last year, when anti-LGBT forces tried to repeal Gainesville’s Human Rights ordinance, Craig Lowe served as Chair of the successful campaign to stop the repeal …

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Catholic Group: Openly Gay Soldiers Will Give You AIDS & STDs

The American Society for the Preservation of Tradition, Family, and Property, whom you may recall as the red-sashed wingnut Catholic group that stands on corners waving anti-gay signs, has issued a lengthy condemnation of the attempt to repeal DADT, saying that the “homosexual deathstyle” will result in gay soldiers spreading AIDS and STDs to others in their units. During wartime, …

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WATCH: Sully Vs. Maggie Debate

Today’s marriage equality debate between Andrew Sullivan and Maggie Gallagher is just beginning at the Cato Institute in DC. Their live video stream is not embeddable, watch it here. UPDATE: Oh fucking brother. Sullivan has ash on his forehead. (Screencap via Andres Duque)

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Ass Wednesday

American Apparel is looking for the best bottom in the world. Make your own jokes, this is too easy. (Tipped by JMG reader Martin)

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