Monthly Archives: December 2011

NJ Gov. Chris Christie Gets Mic Checked

In other news, Christie has endorsed Romney.

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Open Thread Thurday

Tell us your favorite and most hated Xmas tunes.

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NEW YORK CITY: JMG Wins Village Voice 2011 Web Award For “Best Politics Blog”

Tonight my loyal companion Dr. Jeff accompanied me to some new hipster nightclub on the Lower East Side where this here website thingy was feted as the 2011 Village Voice Best Politics Blog! Squee! Just like last year! Re-squee! Like last time, I wasn’t told who the other blogs in my category were. So I can’t congratulate anybody just for …

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Hacked Or Epiphany?

I vote “hacked”.

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NIGERIA: Worsened Anti-Gay Bill Seen As Slap At Obama’s Intl’l Rights Push

In what is seen as a reaction to yesterday’s move by the Obama administration, today Nigeria’s House introduced a version of the bill passed last week by that nation’s Senate. One lawmaker vowed to make the bill even worse that it already is. Box Turtle Bulletin tips us to this report: A spokesman for the House of Representatives and a …

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AFA’s Poll Of The Day

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If You Don’t See Merry Christmas In The Window, Then Don’t Go In That Store

Soon to be a treasured holiday classic.(Tipped by JMG reader Jeremy)

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Alan Grayson Vs. Newt Gingrich

Burn!

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ILLINOIS: Fourteen Years For Blago

Disgraced former Illinois Gov. Rod Blagojevich and the beaver on his head will join his predecessor in prison after having been sentenced to 14 years for attempting to sell Barack Obama’s seat in the U.S. Senate. George Ryan, who had the job before Blago, has been locked up since 2006.

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Pat Robertson: God Will Punish America For Obama’s Int’l LGBT Rights Policy

“When the blow comes, it’s going to be horrible.” Maybe Pat needs to find himself a better dealer.

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MASH’s Harry Morgan Dies At 96

You probably know him best as Col. Sherman T. Potter. Unless you’re my age, in which case he’s Detective Bill Gannon. Morgan’s ability to play a variety of roles, dramatic and comedic, made him an actor in demand for half a century. He starred in about a dozen U.S. TV series starting in the 1950s and appeared in movies with …

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Beck And Bachmann Lose Their Shit:
Obama Endorses Animal Fucking

Bachmann: “So the big question is, is there anything that’s wrong? That’s my question. If that’s not wrong, Glenn what IS wrong? Is there anything that’s wrong?”(Via – Think Progress)

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Asshat Of The Day – Mat Staver

“This was a man, everyone recognized it’s a man, going into the women’s restroom. Now whether that person has good or ill intentions towards women, no one knows, but the fact of the matter is when you defy common sense and when it says ‘women’s fitting room’ and you allow people other than women in that fitting room, you’re just …

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Today In The GOP’s War On Poverty

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Rick Perry: I’m Not Ashamed To Admit That I’m A Christian Who Hates Gays

Three days in a row on the same theme. Rick Perry appears to be completely hanging his hat on anti-gay hate. Move over Frothy. Make room Crazy Eyes.

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Afternoon View – First Towards Harlem

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JMG Post Generates $100K Donation To Ali Forney Center For Homeless LGBT Kids

Just about the time I was perusing the below Wall Street Journal report, one of its subjects, Frank Selvaggi, emailed me on Facebook to reveal that he and his partner were initially inspired by the Thanksgiving Day guest post made here on JMG by Ali Forney Center executive director Carl Siciliano. It just “clicked” for Frank Selvaggi and Bill Shea …

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Changes For SF’s Castro Theater?

Roger Ebert just tweeted that San Francisco’s magnificent and legendary Castro Theater is changing its focus away from movies. Others on Twitter report that some of the employees have already been let go. (The theater’s online calendar still shows a full schedule through the end of December.) The blog that Ebert links to says that the venue will still host …

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Lesbian Singer/Songwriter Lauro Nyro Named To 2012 Rock & Roll Hall Of Fame

The Rock & Roll Hall of Fame has announced its 2012 inductees. For the fourth time, multiple Grammy winner Donna Summer had been nominated, but was not selected. Of slight solace (to me), late lesbian singer/songwriter Laura Nyro made the cut on her first nomination. More than a quarter century after they brought hard rock back to the top of …

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When Airport Lounge Acts Hit The Pulpit

This is actually awesome in a sick, sick way.(Source)

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