Monthly Archives: September 2012

Premature Aging Hits Longtime HIV+

The San Francisco Chronicle reports that some longtime HIV patients are experiencing symptoms of aging long before those ailments normally appear.  Such reports have been appearing for several years. Patients are coming down with diseases and conditions most associated with aging even when their HIV is well controlled – even when the antiretroviral drugs used to treat it make the …

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NYC To Get World’s Biggest Ferris Wheel

Well, that’s one way to get people to visit Staten Island. It will be 200 feet taller than the London Eye, which was the world’s biggest until taller ones were built in China and Singapore.

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Today’s Silly Lie From Matt Barber

Hate group watchdog Jeremy Hooper points out that the photo is actually from an Obama rally in 2008. Snork!

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Samuel L. Jackson Reads A Pro-Obama Bedtime Story: Wake The Fuck Up!

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Austin To Endorse Marriage

Today Austin will be become the first city in Texas to endorse same-sex marriage when its city council will approve a symbolic resolution. The feel-good proposal on Thursday’s City Council agenda (Sept. 27) is Item 77, an endorsement of marriage equality in the state of Texas. Sponsored by Mayor Pro Tem Sheryl Cole and co-sponsored by Mayor Lee Leffingwell and …

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SF Plans “End Of Prop 8” Party

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Billboard Of The Day

NOM has placed 25 of these around Minnesota’s major cities.

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IOWA: Jindal Shills For NOM’s Hate Tour

As always, the audience is in the tens. (Via Good As You)

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Now Appearing In Swing State Papers

The above full-page repulsive ad from the Government Is Not God PAC has been appearing in newspapers in Florida and Ohio. The Herald-Tribune in Sarasota, Florida ran the ad but then published an apology: The Sunday, September 23rd edition of the Herald-Tribune contained an opposing political advertisement against President Obama. After reviewing our political advertising policy we have concluded that …

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Christian Groups To Protest Obamacare Outside The White House

Via press release: For the faith community, we can never be silent or indifferent when it comes to matters of justice, human rights and religious freedom. As people of principle and faith, we must purpose in our hearts that we will never comply with an unjust or immoral government mandate which would require us to violate our conscience, the teachings …

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DNC Remixes Mittens

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Tasmania’s Marriage Bill Fails

Tasmania’s upper legislative chamber has rejected its marriage equality bill.   Last month a similar bill passed in the state Assembly. Gay marriage advocates have vowed to keep campaigning as numbers mount against them in the first attempt at pioneering state-based same sex marriage. The numbers for reform in Tasmania were lost tonight when the eighth voice against the bill was …

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Open Thread Thursday

How have your movie-watching habits changed in the last ten years?

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Two Minutes Of Minnesota Hate, Vol. 39

Think of the children!

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Mona Eltahawy Is Out Of Jail

Mona Eltahawy was released from the NYPD’s Central Booking this afternoon after being held for 22 hours following her arrest for defacing one of Pam Geller’s anti-Islam billboards in the Times Square subway station. She’s been charged with criminal mischief and making graffiti. Her tweets since being released are interesting.

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Jimmy Fallon Sings TV Theme Songs

There hasn’t been a good TV theme song in many years. Maybe the theme to Big Bang Theory is an exception.

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In-Home HIV Test Now On Sale

Just in time for tomorrow’s HIV Awareness Day, the first-ever in-home testing kit is now available online.  The kit will be on the physical shelves of drugstores next month.  If you don’t want to spend $40, virtually all major cities offer free and confidential testing. (Via Box Turtle Bulletin)

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Linda Harvey: Gay Rights Kills People

“This [gay rights], friends, is the rotten fruit of ungodly values. Obama’s open support for homosexuality as marriage is very unpopular once the truth is known; the same is true of his new contraceptive mandate. Again, as this election campaign unfolds I am reminded of the Scripture verse that has been on our homepage at Mission America since 1995, it’s …

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Baldwin Opponent Caught Boasting: I’m The Guy To End Medicaid & Medicare

Tammy Baldwin’s Senate opponent has been caught on tape bragging to a Tea Party audience that he’s the best man to end Medicare and Medicaid. The Atlantic wonders: “Will this video sink Tommy Thompson?” The clip has already been turned into a pro-Baldwin ad.

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Dirty Jobs With Mitt Romney

RELATED: Five years ago Mike Rowe posted a now-deleted video message expressing disgust about fawning emails from male fans who said they had a “man-crush” on him. A year later he softened his tone and issued playful remarks about a Gay.com survey that named him the man readers would most like to cheat on their boyfriends with.

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