Monthly Archives: September 2010

Today In Teabagger Campaign Ads

North Carolina nurse Renee Ellmers is anti-gay, anti-health care reform, anti-immigration, anti-abortion and thinks Big Oil should just drill the fuck out of her state’s pristine coastal waters. Oh…and Islam of of the devil. Or something. Renee Ellmers for Congress. (Via – Pam Spaulding)

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CONNECTICUT: Richard Blumenthal Leads Linda McMahon By Slim Margin

When professional wrestling mogul Linda McMahon first announced her candidacy for the U.S. Senate, many scoffed. (Including me.) But she won the GOP primary and now narrowly trails Connecticut Attorney General Richard Blumenthal in the race for the seat of retiring Sen. Chris Dodd.

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Tweet Of The Day – Sarah Palin

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HomoQuotable – Andrew Sullivan

“Many of us fought for years to construct a conservatism that treated gay people as individuals and as equal citizens. We fought, as GOProud does, to rebut the notion that being gay means being a socialist or a leftist. But we also fought to have core civil equality recognized – in military service and marriage, and we fought against an …

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FLASHBACK: 1980 NYC Gay Bar Guide

Just for fun, JMG reader Casey sends us the above listing of NYC-area gay bars from a 1980 edition of the long-defunct Michael’s Thing. Embiggen and reminisce.

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American Family Association Rejoices Over Ann Coulter’s Homocon 2010 Speech

“Ann took them straight on and gave them some straight talk I doubt they were ready for. There is no amount of sugar that will help this medicine go down. According to the leftwing website Politico.com, she complimented the Christian audiences before whom she speaks by telling these homosexuals that the people who get her ‘gay jokes are gays.’ Christians …

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FLORIDA: Rep. Alan Grayson Slams Opponent As “Religious Fanatic”

This is pretty severe, even for Grayson.

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Chase – Hard Candy

Here’s the latest from Michael DiMartino, who became somewhat of a YouTube sensation last year via his clever sign-language videos of hits by Lady Gaga and Britney Spears. Video possibly NSFW. DiMartino often works as an onstage ASL interpreter. (Tipped by JMG reader Andrew)

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Marriage Defender Carl Paladino Has A Love Child With A Former Employee

Teabagger loon Carl Paladino, who opposes same-sex marriage, has a ten year old daughter conceived during an affair with a staffer. And that doesn’t seem likely to hurt him in the election. That may be because Paladino has been open about his daughter, who is now 10, throughout his candidacy. She joined his other children and his wife at his …

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Marriage Equality Rallies Cross Bridges In San Francisco And New York City

More coverage of the NYC event is here.

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Bad News For Andrew Cuomo

Conservative Party candidate Rick Lazio confirmed today that he is dropping out of the New York gubernatorial race, a move that will likely throw a few more percentage points to teabagger whackadoodle Carl “Imprison The Poor” Paladino. Lazio tells The Associated Press that he wants to continue to influence the race and bring a workable job-creation program into a contest …

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Camille Paglia On Madonna

Camille Paglia defends her famous (and now 20 years old) New York Times op-ed piece announcing Madonna as the future of feminism. (Via Julie Bolcer at Advocate)

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U.S. House Forecast Update

Nate Silver’s latest forecast gives the Democrats only a 35% chance of holding their majority in the House. Republicans are assigned a 65 percent chance of taking over the House by our forecasting model, up slightly from 62 percent last week. They are projected to control 224 House seats in the new Congress, up a single seat from 223 last …

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Homocon 2010 Attendee Tells His Story

Here’s an inadvertently hilarious accounting of Homocon 2010. Listen if you can bear it. Audio only.

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IOWA: Anti-Gay Christianists Attempting Sioux City Government Takeover

According to the Des Moines Register, anti-gay Christianists are getting themselves appointed to the Sioux City Human Rights Commission and then suing pro-gay advocates for religious discrimination. Protecting rights has taken an odd turn in Sioux City, where a faction on the city’s Human Rights Commission has itself been filing religious discrimination charges with the state – against its own …

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Victory Fund Asks: What Will You Lose?

A new campaign from the Victory Fund: “Anti-gay extremists are pumping millions of dollars into campaigns across the country. Their goal: to silence fair-minded American voters by electing candidates who won’t stand up to their hate and bigotry. But what’s really at stake? If anti-gay extremists win, what will you lose?” The Victory Fund invites your own video submissions. (Via …

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CALIFORNIA: NOM Launches Statewide Bus Tour In Support Of Carly Fiorina

Here comes another NOM bus tour, this time in California where they are reaching out to Spanish-speaking voters in their campaign to defeat Sen. Barbara Boxer. Carly Fiorina believes in the right to life, from the moment of conception until natural death, and opposes same-sex marriage. Barbara Boxer is an outspoken advocate of both abortion and gay marriage. Latinos want …

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Mister Pink

A Quentin Tarantino parody to promote Lisbon’s gay film festival. Language very NSFW. (Via – Copyranter)

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Sean & David – It Gets Better

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Photo Of The Day – Football Weather

My alma mater UCF is facing some wild weather at their game against Kansas State today. More amazing photos here.

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