Monthly Archives: October 2012

Newt Gingrich Slams Mitt Romney For Flip-Flopping On Tax Cuts For Wealthy

Via Talking Points Memo: “I think it’s clear he changed,” Gingrich said on NBC’s “Meet The Press” roundtable, admitting that Romney had shifted from wanting to lower taxes on all Americans to promising that his reform plan would not lower taxes paid by the wealthy. Romney’s pledge is to cut tax rates across the board by 20 percent and recover …

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SF Rated America’s Best City 2012

So says Business Week: With assistance from Bloomberg Rankings, Businessweek.com evaluated 100 of the country’s largest cities based on leisure attributes (the number of restaurants, bars, libraries, museums, professional sports teams, and park acres by population); educational attributes (public school performance, the number of colleges, and graduate degree holders), economic factors (2011 income and June and July 2012 unemployment), crime, …

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Tap Tap Tap

Is anybody working today?

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Frothy Mix: I’d Kill Big Bird

“I’ve voted to kill Big Bird in the past. So, I have a record there that I have to disclose. That doesn’t mean I don’t like Big Bird. I mean, you can kill things and still like them, maybe to eat them, I don’t know.” – Rick Santorum, endorsing Romney’s call to defund PBS.

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Afternoon View – Castro Street Fair

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Jon Stewart Vs Bill O’Reilly

Andrew Belonsky reports at Towleroad: Move over Mitt and Barack, because there’s a far more rambunctious, exciting debate duo in town: Jon Stewart and Bill O’Reilly. The men met at George Washington University in DC last night for “O’Reilly v Stewart 2012: the Rumble in the Air-Conditioned Auditorium,” an event moderated by CNN’s ED Hill and that featured the men …

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Longtime JMG Reader Weds In NYC

Father Tony performed the wedding of another JMG reader this weekend in NYC! Tony writes: Last night at City Winery, I joined in marriage long time JMG reader and past NYC Pride March director Maurice Michaane (right) and Dr. Michael Owen.  I spoke to the two families—Brooklyn Jewish and Kentucky Presbyterian — about how this ceremony represents the fruition of …

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Press Release Of The Day

Now being promoted by Christian Newswire: Announcing Free DVD’s for all U.S. Pastors of the irrefutable evidence that HIV AIDS is being healed and lepers are being cleansed. These HIV AIDS healing miracles are verified and certified by our very own Atlanta, Georgia based Centers for Disease Control (CDC) and a myriad of medical doctors. In addition, the drama continues …

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Why Obama Now

(Tipped by JMG reader Sean)

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Morning View – Castro Theater

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NAACP Head Speaks To HRC

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HomoQuotable – Rex Wockner

“In this age of YouTube and Facething and the Twitter, is it possible to ‘win’ a presidential debate and then turn around and lose the same debate once the stupid stuff you said is replayed and replayed on-demand? It’s all about Big Bird now. And poor Jim Lehrer, he winced. Maybe that’s why Jim was so off his game. Mittens ran over him …

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Evening View – Castro Trolley

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Debate Highlights Songified

Another winner from Brooklyn’s Gregory Brothers.

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New E-Book About Dan Savage

New York Times reporter Mark Oppenheimer has published a short e-book about Dan Savage.  You might recall that Oppenheimer moderated the debate between Savage and Brian Brown. From the book’s Amazon description: There are many Dan Savages: the author of the Savage Love advice column, syndicated around the country; the radio essayist beloved by This American Life fans; the author …

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Take The ‘R’ Train

The Third Eagle Of the Apocalypse and Co-Prophet Of The End Times wants you to take the “R Train.” Because Obama is a gay. Source.

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Birdmosque

JMG reader Bill tips us to this item selling on Fab.com: “Products have a habit of disappearing because of their functionality,” Frederik Roijé has notably said. To prevent this, he breathes life into his characteristically rigid, monochrome creations by emphasizing the process that led to their fruition. This Holy Homes Birdmosque provides a sleek space for your feathered friends to …

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Jason Gould – Morning Prayer

Barbra Streisand’s openly gay son Jason Gould is about to issue his first EP, which becomes available on iTunes and Amazon next Tuesday.  Gould will be touring with his mother and makes his live stage debut with Babs on Monday at Philadelphia’s Wells Fargo Stadium.   Click over to Stargayzing for David Munk’s in-depth and frank interview with Gould.

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Fox News: Jobless Numbers Are Faked

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UK Psychology Group Tells Members That “Ex-Gay” Therapy Is Forbidden

Britain’s largest psychotherapy group has told its members that “ex-gay” or “reparative therapy” is now officially forbidden. Via James Watkins at Law On The Web: The British Association for Counselling & Psychotherapy (BACP) wrote to its near 30,000 members to inform them that so-called gay conversion therapy was now officially off-limits to them, after discovering that some members were still …

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