Monthly Archives: August 2010

Reactions To Lifting Of Prop 8 Stay

Equality California Monumental! U. S. District Court Judge Vaughn Walker has denied Yes on 8 proponents their request that he stay his decision which declared that Prop 8 unconstitutional, paving the way for couples to get married. This is an incredibly joyful moment in our history, not only for all of the committed couples who will finally be able to …

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Tweet Of The Day

Source.

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Here’s The Ruling Lifting The Stay

Final Stay Order

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Wedding Bells To Ring! Proposition 8 Stay LIFTED By Judge Vaughn Walker!!! Marriages To Resume On August 18th

IMPORTANT UPDATE: The stay does NOT expire until August 18th. The stay is LIFTED. California’s same-sex couples may begin marrying on August 18th. Stand by for the ruling, photos, videos and reactions!

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LIVE VIDEO: San Francisco City Hall

UPDATE: As many of you noticed, both the USTREAM and ABC feeds have abruptly switched to an unrelated story. I’m not finding any other embeddable live streams from SF at the moment, dammit all to hell. Stand by. UPDATE II: The below feed is back, for now. UPDATE III: The live stream is concluded.

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F5 F5 F5 F5 F5

The stay ruling will come here. Although last time the site crashed and this here website thingy scooped most of the blogosphere thanks to our courthouse insider.

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Gay Couples Lining Up At SF City Hall

From the San Francisco Chronicle: Lesbian and gay couples were lining up this morning at the San Francisco clerk’s office, hours before a judge is expected to rule on whether same-sex marriages can resume while his landmark decision in the case is appealed. Ron Wood and his boyfriend of seven years, Roger Hunt, were the first in line at San …

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Sovereign Citizens

Today the Southern Poverty Law Center issues a report on the growing “sovereign citizen” movement, a growing group of about 300,000 Americans who declare themselves completely exempt from the laws and controls of all governments, local, state and federal. They call themselves sovereign citizens, U.S. residents who declare themselves above state and federal laws. Many don’t register children’s births, carry …

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PhoboQuotable – Maggie Gallagher

“American politics are in a quasi-revolutionary phase. The people, symbolized first in the eruptions of Tea Parties, are rebelling against elites who believe they can ignore our voices and our values. “Rush Limbaugh had his finger on the truth. In the nearly half-hour speech he gave after the Proposition 8 ruling (“the American people are boiling over!”), Rush said that …

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Maddow On DADT: Why Aren’t We Holding Off On The Ruination Of Careers?

Last night Rachel Maddow devoted nearly her entire show to the repeal of DADT, interviewing several of its most high-profile victims, including Lt. Colonel Victor Fehrenbach, who has just filed suit to stop his dismissal. Here’s how Maddow closed out the show.

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GOP Sues Florida Tea Party

World Net Daily has rescinded its sponsorship of the Florida Tea Party’s 2010 convention after the GOP sued the group in state court. Because the Florida Tea Party is secretly full of Democrats. Via the Orlando Sentinel: The state Republican Party launched an attack on the Florida Tea Party on Wednesday, paying for lawsuits against several Tea candidates with the …

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Gay Porn Company Sues BitTorrent Users

As part of the industry’s continuing crackdown on piracy, gay porn outfit Lucas Entertainment has filed lawsuits against 53 users of the peer-to-peer file-swapping network BitTorrent. Lucas is asking the users’ ISPs to disclose their names and addresses. The time between the alleged infringement and the filing of the federal lawsuit was amazingly short: three or four days. The infringements …

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More Double-Speak From Sharron Angle

In this ad Angle claims to want to save Social Security (from Harry Reid, of course), but that’s certainly not what she’s said in the past: “We need to phase Medicare and Social Security out in favor of something privatized. I’m saying it can’t be fixed. It’s broken.”

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Nate Silver On Marriage Polls

Nate Silver: Something to bear in mind is that it’s only been fairly recently that gay rights groups — and other liberals and libertarians — shifted toward a strategy of explicitly calling for full equity in marriage rights, rather than finding civil unions to be an acceptable compromise. While there is not necessarily zero risk of backlash resulting from things …

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Restless People – Days Of Our Lives

Underworld meets Chicane.

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Has Glenn Beck Changed His Tune On Same-Sex Marriage?

Last night Glenn Beck dismissed gay marriage as an unimportant issue. Why doesn’t Glenn Beck cover gay marriage? Because he doesn’t believe it’s a threat to the nation. In a conversation with Bill O’Reilly on why he avoids culture war issues, Beck admitted that he doesn’t think marriage should be a political issue. “Honestly, I think we have bigger fish …

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R-71 Petition Names Remain Sealed

Even though the Supreme Court ruled in June that forcing Protect Marriage Washington to disclose the names on their petitions was not unconstitutional, yesterday a federal judge blocked the release of the names as the bigots continues their bid to show that violent homofascists will rain down retribution if R-71’s signers become known. U.S. District Judge Benjamin Settle ruled Wednesday …

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Rep. Alan Grayson Calls On President Obama To Fire Robert Gibbs

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Out-Doing Greg Gutfeld

Found on Tumblr by Dr. Jeff: Continuing the chain of imaginary offensiveness to stereotypes, I plan to open a Babies R Us next to the gay bar next to the mosque next to Ground Zero. Next to the Babies R Us I will open a pornographic bookstore, and next to that I will open a police station. Next to the …

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New From Denny’s

The fried cheese melt. Not as gross looking as the Double Down or the Donut Burger.

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