Monthly Archives: February 2015

More Net Neutrality Sadz From Drudge

At this writing the Drudge Report is completely blank.

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Google Backs Down On Porn Ban

Via the Guardian: Google has backtracked on plans to ban sexually explicit images from its blogging platform Blogger, in the face of widespread opposition from users. The company had initially announced a ban on “sexually explicit or graphic nude images or video”, with just a few exceptions for content which offered “a substantial public benefit, for example in artistic, educational, …

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Crackpot Brent Bozell To CPAC 2015: Cultural Fascism Has Arrived In America

This is the guy who called President Obama a “skinny ghetto crackhead” during an appearance on Fox News in 2011.

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Obama Thanks Reddit On Net Neutrality

A longer message was sent to the Reddit blog: “Earlier today, the FCC voted to protect a free and open internet — the kind of internet that allows entrepreneurs to thrive and debates over duck-sized horses and horse-sized ducks to persist. This would not have happened without the activism and engagement of millions of Americans like you. And that was …

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Viral Video Of The Day

1.4M views in three days. (Tipped by JMG reader Paul)

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MISSOURI: Leading GOP Gubernatorial Candidate Dies In Apparent Suicide

CNN reports: A leading Republican candidate for Missouri’s governor’s office died in an apparent suicide on Thursday morning. ​Thomas Schweich, the 54-year-old state auditor who’d just won a second term while running unopposed in 2014, was pronounced deceased from a single gunshot wound, possibly self-infliction, according to a Clayton Police Department press release. Detectives are conducting an investigation and an …

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Madonna Ties Billboard Chart Record

Via Billboard: The Queen of Pop reigns again with ‘Living for Love,’ tying with George Strait, the King of Country, for the most leaders on a single Billboard chart. Madonna makes Billboard chart history, as she earns her 44th No. 1 on Dance Club Songs, where “Living for Love” lifts 2-1. With the coronation, Madonna equals George Strait, who’s logged …

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Matt Baume: The Map To Rights Bans

Clip recap: “Scheming villains thirst to rollback the progress our nation has attained toward full LGBT equality. But, could they actually do it? Insidious laws like Arkansas’ innocent-sounding Intrastate Commerce Improvement Act (sb202) may provide the roadmap.”

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RUSSIA: Police Raid Nightclub Owned By Lesbians Who Trolled Anti-Gay Lawmaker

Early this month I reported that the owners of a lesbian nightclub in St. Petersburg had an in-flight encounter with infamous anti-gay politician Vitaly Milonov: When two Russian lesbians noticed notorious anti-gay lawmaker Vitaly Milonov sitting behind them on their Moscow to St. Petersburg flight, they decided to Instagram some photos of themselves kissing with Milonov in the shot. After …

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Nebraska Revises Marriage Applications

Last Thursday a federal judge promised a quick ruling following oral arguments in Nebraska’s marriage equality case. That ruling hasn’t come yet but the state has already revised its marriage license forms, which now say “Applicant #1” and “Applicant #2.” (Via Equality Case Files)

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Sen. James Inhofe Conclusively Disproves Climate Change By Tossing A Snowball Across The Senate Floor

Via Slate: During rambling remarks Thursday afternoon, James Inhofe of Oklahoma, the chairman of the Senate Environment and Public Works Committee, used a snowball as a prop on the Senate floor. The apparent purpose of this stunt: to show the recent spate of cold weather in the Northeast is a sign that human activity isn’t causing climate change. The snowball …

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Scott Walker At CPAC: If I Can Beat Union Protesters Then I Can Beat ISIS

The DNC reacted immediately: “If Scott Walker thinks that it’s appropriate to compare working people speaking up for their rights to brutal terrorists, then he is even less qualified to be president than I thought. Maybe he should go back to punting.”

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Seen At CPAC 2015

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WEST VIRGINIA: GOP Senate Leader Says “No Way” To Ban On LGBT Rights

Via the Associated Press: Majority Leader Mitch Carmichael says there’s “no way” the Senate will consider a proposal to nullify local ordinances that protect gay and transgender people from housing and employment discrimination. The Jackson County Republican made the remarks Thursday to the AP. The West Virginia Intrastate Commerce Improvement Act would prohibit any local nondiscrimination ordinances stricter than state …

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NRA Guns Giveaway At CPAC 2015

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Homocon Tammy Bruce Tells CPAC How To Expand The Conservative Base

Opening with the music of Avicii (How au courant, Francine!), homocon radio shrieker Tammy Bruce joined today’s CPAC panel on how to expand the conservative base. Her bit starts at 13:00 with the declaration that she used to be a liberal, but now knows the truth.

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Matt Drudge Has The Net Neutrality Sadz

UPDATE: All the homocons have the sadz.

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Sen. Ted Cruz Rants At CPAC 2015

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FCC Approves Net Neutrality

Via TechCrunch: As expected, the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) passed new net neutrality regulations today on a vote of 3-2, with the Commission’s two Democratic appointees joining Chairman Tom Wheeler in voting yes. The Commission’s two Republican-appointed members both voted no. Notably, the FCC’s plan is now known to have undergone a last-minute revision to remove a potential weakness in …

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MEXICO: Marriage Rights On The March

Buzzfeed reporter J. Lester Feder today examined the complex and rapidly changing status of same-sex marriage across Mexico’s 31 states. Courts in more than two-thirds of Mexico’s 31 states have granted same-sex couples the right to marry over the past two years in a series of rulings that will likely make marriage equality a reality nationwide in the near future. …

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