Monthly Archives: December 2012

The Biblical Right To Assault Weapons

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Quote Of The Day

Yesterday, as an older couple situated themselves poolside at the Island House in Key West, I overheard a young, muscular handsome boy say something quite disparaging regarding their arrival.  Those ugly words had hardly left his lips when the apparent leader of his coterie of five equally beautiful men chastised him angrily, poking a finger in the subject’s chest: “Darling, …

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Morning View

Image via JMG reader and Island House patron Ed, who found this strange tableau during a Key West walkabout. It appears to be Barbie Thigh-Cut Levi’s Jeebus surrounded by apparently bad dogs.

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Farmer Style

You might recall the Peterson Brothers from their viral hit earlier this year, I’m Farming And I Grow It. Ten million hits on the below clip in two weeks.

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The Bulletproof Backpack

John Aravosis notes that you can also get the Disney Princess and Avengers versions. One website is actually selling them as the “Amendment II Ballistic Backpack.” Our ballistic backpack provides built-in ballistic protection in a backpack that weighs just ounces more than a non-armored backpack. RynoHide carbon nanotube armor is lined in the back panel of the backpack. Sewn into …

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Afternoon View

Embiggens nicely.

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Anthony Antoine – Secret Lover

I sense the dawn of a new genre: “Slow-jam down-low love song.” It’s pretty great. What do you think of the ending of the video?

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New Gallup Poll On LGBT Issues

Gallup reports: While 53% of Americans support legalizing same-sex marriage, significantly higher percentages support the idea of equal rights for partners or spouses of gays or lesbians when it comes to inheritance rights and employee benefits, and making it legal for gays and lesbians to adopt children. Support for all three issues is up at least slightly from three years …

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RUSSIA: Gay Activists Roughed Up At Protest Outside DUMA

Via press release from the Russia LGBT Network: In Moscow 20 activists from Russian LGBT network and Equality March gathered for a series of one-man pickets with banners “We are against article 6.13.1”, “For freedom of views and believes, against totalitarian law” and other. The pickets took place from 9:00 till 11:00 near the Russian State Duma building. And although …

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House Republicans Push Bill Allowing Soldiers To Harass Gay Comrades

Rep. Todd “Legitimate Rape” Akin got booted out of Congress last month, but he’s not leaving without one last attempt to insert a clause into the Defense Authorization Act that would allow anti-gay members of the military to harass gay soldiers without retribution. Via Chris Johnson at Washington Blade: Under the language, the U.S. military would have to “accommodate the …

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VIRGINIA: State GOP Rep Floats Bill Requiring Teachers To Carry Guns

Wackadoodle Virginia state Rep. Bob Marshall wants to introduce a bill that requires public schools to arm some of their teachers. Gov. Robert F. McDonnell (R) said this week that there should be a discussion about whether school staff should be allowed to carry concealed weapons to protect children against intruders. Marshall’s proposal goes beyond the governor’s comments, which were …

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All You Need Is Love: Times Square Crowd Drowns Out Pastor Terry Jones

Source.

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New HIV Figures From The CDC

Via press release from the CDC: Overall, the number of new HIV infections in the United States has remained stable at ~50,000 per year over the last decade. This is the first CDC incidence report to show a statistically significant decline in new infections among African American women (21% comparing 2008 to 2010). While additional years of data are needed, …

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Today’s Gay Etiquette Question

From Steven Petrow’s NYT column Civil Behavior: Q: My wife and I each gave birth to one of our two children, born a year apart, using the same donor. We then legally adopted each other’s biological child. We are both loving, committed parents to both children, who are now 10 and 11 – we’re a family. Still, my in-laws clearly …

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Photo Of The Day

That’s a prefabricated escalator being hoisted to the top of the 1 World Trade Center, where it will one day ferry tourists to the observation deck. More photos here. (That’s 4 World Trade Center under construction in the background.)

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Fifty Shades Of Takei

Oh, my! (Tipped by JMG reader Darren)

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The NRA Breaks Its Silence

Today the NRA finally issued a brief statement in reaction to Sandy Hook. The National Rifle Association of America is made up of four million moms and dads, sons and daughters – and we were shocked, saddened and heartbroken by the news of the horrific and senseless murders in Newtown. Out of respect for the families, and as a matter …

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NEW YORK CITY: Gay Man Attempts Suicide After Child Porn Arrest

New York City resident Shawn Klein, who wed his partner atop the Empire State Building in February after winning the landmark’s Valentine’s Day contest, yesterday attempted suicide by throwing himself in front of a subway train after being charged with possession of child pornography. Shawn Klein was in critical condition at New York Presbyterian Hospital Weill Cornell, where he was …

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AIDS Activist Spencer Cox Dies At 44

Groundbreaking AIDS activist Spencer Cox, who was profiled in the documentary How To Stop A Plague, has died of HIV-related complications at the age of 44. Cox is widely credited with helping create the drug testing protocols that rushed life-saving medications to a desperate community.  ACT UP sends us his obituary: From 1994 to 1999, he was Director of the …

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Federal Appeals Court Upholds Firing Of Anti-Gay College HR Director

The Sixth Federal Court of Appeals has upheld the firing of former University of Toledo human resources director Crystal Dixon, who was canned in 2008 after a local newspaper published her op-ed column in which she denounced LGBT rights and promoted the “ex-gay” movement. In a ruling handed down on Monday, a three-judge panel of the U.S. Court of Appeals …

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