CNN reports: Her name is Susan Bennett and she lives in suburban Atlanta. Apple won’t confirm it. But Bennett says she is Siri. Professionals who know her voice, have worked with her and represent her legally say she is Siri. And an audio-forensics expert with 30 years of experience has studied both voices and says he is “100%” certain the …

FEMA has recalled furloughed workers in advance of Tropical Storm Karen. A hurricane watch is in effect from Grand Isle to Indian Pass in the Florida Panhandle. A tropical storm watch also was in effect for parts of the Louisiana coast west of Grand Isle, including the New Orleans area. “Based on applicable legal requirements, and consistent with its contingency …

The Tea People are furious. Good.

Zack Ford writes at Think Progress: In an interview Friday morning with WHP-TV, Pennsylvania Gov. Tom Corbett (R) demonstrated that his own impressions of marriage equality are just as offensive as those of his lawyers that he tried to distance himself in August. Arguing against a county clerk who’d begun issuing marriage licenses to same-sex couples, they suggested that those …

Kazakhstan, which has already seen an attempt to copy Russia’s ban on “homosexual propaganda,” might be taking things a step further. Kazakhstan’s Parliament deputy Bakhytbek Smagul has suggested drafting a law to ban same-sex relationships in Kazakhstan, Tengrinews reports from the plenary meeting of the Majilis (lower chamber of the Parliament). “I believe it necessary not only to enhance the …

This thing has been a gold mine for him.

“President Bush did not merely attend the wedding. He also served as an official witness, signing the legal documents for the ceremony and the Maine wedding license. Under a photograph with the former president the couple added the words, ‘Getting our marriage license witnessed!’ The news coverage of the Bushes’ attendance at the same-sex wedding points to a reality that …

Talk about ridiculous lies. The Washington Post points out that the man hasn’t had insurance in 14 years and therefore had no premium to increase 300%.  Check out the great take down of this entire fiction over at Mediaite.

“We are appreciative and grateful to the governor and the attorney general for waging a vigorous defense. Our position is that the good people of New Jersey be trusted with this decision. Let’s have a conversation, a dialogue, a debate. [However our coalition] is not unified in its position on the consequences of same sex marriage. I personally do not …

It’s an AIDS fundraiser calendar out of Europe. (Tipped by JMG reader Tom)

Right Wing Watch reports that at the invitation of Russia’s legislature, NOM president Brian Brown traveled there with a group of far-right French Catholic anti-gay activists to collaborate on the bill that bans gay couples from adopting.  The DUMA passed the bill five days after Brown’s visit. On June 13, 2013, just days after the Russian Duma passed laws banning …

Towleroad has the transcript of Sims’ speech. An excerpt: “The majority of Pennsylvanians now support marriage equality, and that support continues to grow,” Sims said. “Neighboring states, including New York, Maryland and Delaware, have all decided to be on the right side of history and have granted equal rights to their LGBT citizens. The time has come for Pennsylvania’s legislature …

Singapore’s High Court has affirmed a ban on sodomy. In a ruling issued Wednesday, Singapore High Court Judge Quentin Low dismissed a challenge to Singapore’s law criminalizing sex between men. In a ruling issued Wednesday, Singapore High Court Judge Quentin Low dismissed a challenge to Singapore’s law criminalizing sex between men. “The fact that there is plausible evidence in support …

Griffin was elected to the House in the 2010 Tea Party wave. (Via Gawker)

According to the Daily Mississippian, members of the University of Mississippi football team disrupted a campus production of the Laramie Project and shouted “fag” during the show. Cast members of the play, which is about an openly gay male who was murdered in Laramie County in Wyoming, said members of the audience became so disruptive at times that they struggled …

Members of Congress ordered to shelter in place… #BREAKING: Source says female suspect reported dead on scene at U.S. Capitol. — ABC News (@ABC) October 3, 2013 UPDATE: It appears that the shooting was related to a car chase that ended near the Capitol Building. DC police have now lifted the lockdown. I’ll update this post if this incident was …

Illinois already includes gay people in its public accommodation laws, but that hasn’t stopped the local Catholic stormtroopers from lying about what the pending marriage equality bill will mean for busineses. (Which is nothing, of course, since that law is long established and has nothing to do with same-sex marriage.)  Freep the fuck out of this.

Republican National Committee chairman Reince Priebus sparred with MSNBC host Thomas Roberts today and Roberts didn’t not back down. Talking Points Memo recaps: “Why do we need to attach the solutions or changes that go along with the law that has been vetted by the Supreme Court, by a mandate by the people reelecting the president and both houses of …