Monthly Archives: October 2012

Tweet Of The Day

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Hi-Rise Crane Snaps In Manhattan

A crane has apparently snapped on the under-construction One57 building, which when completed at 90 stories will be the western hemisphere’s tallest residential skyscraper. Sometime this afternoon, the boom of a crane atop One57 snapped back and now hangs precariously from the cab of the crane. So far nothing has fallen from the structure. “Can’t talk now but we don’t …

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ConEd To NYC: Brace For Outages

Con Edison is robo-calling New York City customers with a warning that they may cut the power if it appears that underground equipment will be flooded.  A similar advisory has appeared on their website: The company is preparing for the possibility that it will have to shut down underground electrical equipment if the storm surge floods low-lying areas, such as …

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Frankenstorm Coverage Live-Stream

For those West Coasters who don’t have today off, the Weather Channel is live-streaming their hurricane coverage on their YouTube channel. (During the commercials you’ll just see a map.)

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Hurricane Sandy Becomes The Largest Atlantic Storm In Recorded History

Bloomberg News has the update: Hurricane Sandy has become the largest tropical system recorded in the Atlantic as it makes the transition to a superstorm that threatens to push a wall of water ashore in the Northeast and smash the eastern U.S. with wind, rain and snow.  Drenching rains are soaking the mid-Atlantic states, 3 feet of snow may fall …

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HMS Bounty Sinks Off North Carolina

The replica tall ship HMS Bounty, which was built for the 1962 movie Mutiny On The Bounty, has sunk off the coast of North Carolina. Rescuers fear that two passengers have drowned. The Coast Guard is searching for two people off the coast of North Carolina who had been passengers aboard the tall ship HMS Bounty, which lost power in …

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Frankenstorm May Delay Jobs Report

It’s an Obama conspiracy! Via The Hill: Hurricane Sandy has cast a cloud of uncertainty over the final jobs report before next week’s presidential election, with Labor Department officials scrambling to determine if the data can be finalized before Friday’s scheduled release. Officials at the Labor Department said Monday they have not yet decided whether to delay Friday’s employment report …

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Over And Over And Over And Over

Here’s a great mashup of that same ad that is running in all four contested marriage states.

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Gays Caused The Frankenstorm

“Just last August, Hurricane Isaac hit New Orleans seven years later, on the exact day of Hurricane Katrina. Both hit during the week of the homosexual event called Southern Decadence in New Orleans! Hurricane Sandy is hitting 21 years to the day of the Perfect Storm of October 20, 1991.  America has been under God’s judgment since this event. Both …

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Anti-Gay Mitt Romney Flashback

Michelangelo Signorile digs up an old clip from Mitt Romney: “Today, same-sex couples are marrying, under the law, in Massachusetts. Some gays are actually having children born to them. We’ve been asked to remove the phrase ‘mother’ and ‘father’ and replace it with ‘parent A’ and ‘parent B.’ It’s not right on paper. It’s not right in fact. Every child …

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Supreme Court Sets The Date To Review Prop 8 And DOMA Cases: November 20th

Breaking news from AFER: The U.S. Supreme Court has announced that it will consider whether to grant review in AFER’s federal constitutional challenge to California’s Proposition 8.  The Justices will meet to discuss our case, along with several challenges to the so-called Defense of Marriage Act (DOMA), at their private Conference scheduled for Tuesday, November 20. The Court is expected to either: Grant review …

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WND: God Sent The Frankenstorm Because Of US Mistreatment Of Israel

Right on wackadoodle schedule: Journalist and White House correspondent William Koenig explained to WND that some of the United States’ most catastrophic storms and events have correlated closely with the nation’s God-defying attempts to divide the land of Israel. “When we put pressure on Israel to divide their land, we have enormous, record-setting events, often within 24 hours,” Koenig told …

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New York City Live Cams

Storm junkies might enjoy the New York City Harborcam.  The cargo ships and tankers left yesterday for who-knows-where it might be safer. Upriver?  The top shot is from Times Square, where tourists are milling about with nowhere to go.  You can also drop in at SandyCam 24/7 for more live shots of the airports and highways.

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New From Washington’s Haters

These same Massachusetts douchebags are appearing in ads in all four contested states.

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TODAY: SiriusXM At 2:30PM

Today at 2:30pm I’ll be on Michelangelo Signorile’s SiriusXM show to talk about some of the latest LGBT-related news items. The gays are on channel 108 and you can listen live online if you sign up for a freebie account. What are your top five gay news items of the last week?

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Morning View – East River

I’m just a couple of blocks from the East River, where water is already topping the seawall. Even at high tide, the water level is usually about eight feet below the ledge.  I’m guessing that they’ll have to close the FDR before too much longer.

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Seawall Breached In Lower Manhattan

Hurricane Sandy is still about 12 hours away and already the seawall has been breached in lower Manhattan. CNN’s reporter described the water rise as a “slow creep” with little wave action yet.

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Joss Whedon On Mitt Romney

This clip by Buffy creator Joss Whedon has gone viral with over 800K views in just two days. (Tipped by JMG reader Jack)

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SPOILER: The Walking Dead

Stay out of the comments if you’ve not yet seen last night’s episode. Otherwise dive in and dish.

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New Much Cheaper Test For HIV?

British researchers say they may have created a new simple test for HIV that would cost a fraction of existing tests.  A cheap test which could detect even low levels of viruses and some cancers has been developed by UK researchers. The colour of a liquid changes to give either a positive or negative result. The designers from Imperial College …

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