Monthly Archives: April 2016

Porn Site Blocks All North Carolina IPs Over Hate Law

From the Huffington Post: There’s a new kink in North Carolina’s LGBT controversy: A popular porn website is banning all computers from “The Tar Heel State.” XHamster.com has been refusing to serve anyone from North Carolina since 12:30 p.m. EDT, Monday. Instead, users with a North Carolina IP address are just seeing a black screen on their computer — no …

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OREGON: Navy To Commission New Ship In Portland After Mayor Refuses To Travel To Mississippi

From Portland’s ABC affiliate: After Portland Mayor Charlie Hales announced he refuses to travel to Mississippi next month to commission the USS Portland over the state’s anti-gay laws, the Navy has announced the commissioning will take place in Portland. The law signed by the Mississippi governor earlier this month allows churches, religious charities and privately held businesses to decline services …

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Paul Ryan To Hold “Secret Meeting” With Top GOP Donors, Reports Paper Owned By Trump’s Son-In-Law

The Observer is owned by Donald Trump’s son-in-law Jared Kushner so regard this story accordingly: The Observer can now report that Todd Ricketts, the co-owner of the Chicago Cubs who is also the son of the founder of Ameritrade, is arranging a meeting of some of the GOP’s top financial bundlers, to be attended by Mr. Ryan. The meeting is …

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TENNESSEE: GOP Co-Sponsor Of Proposed Anti-Trans Law “Quarantined” As Danger To Female Coworkers

Tomorrow the Tennessee House Finance Committee is scheduled to hear a bill that bans public schools and universities from allowing trans students to use restrooms that align with their gender identity. As it turns out, one of the bill’s GOP co-sponsors is an ACTUAL real life danger to women according to his own party.  CBS News reports: A Tennessee lawmaker …

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Larry Flynt To Send Donald Trump Porn Parody To Every Republican Member Of Congress [VIDEO]

Politico reports: Larry Flynt, whose Hustler studio in 2008 brought the world the political pornographic satire “Who’s Nailin’ Paylin,” announced Monday that Donald Trump will be the subject of his latest porn parody video, titled simply “The Donald.” “The downward spiral of name-calling in the GOP Presidential primary campaign is a national embarrassment and an insult to the intelligence of …

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TRAILER: Game Of Thrones Season 6

Via Gothamist: We’re less than two weeks away from the premiere of season six of somewhat popular entertainment series Game Of Thrones, and HBO has released an action-packed brand new trailer to feed the flames of fandom. Watch below and check out blind Arya, the return of Walder Frey, the Night’s King, dragon shadows, badass Sansa, greyscale-infected Jorah (Ser Friendzone!), …

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Seen At The North Carolina Border

This is same group that posted a billboard in Mississippi last week. From Planting Peace: In response to North Carolina passing of HB2, Planting Peace has constructed a message to North Carolina legislators and the anti-LGBT movement. Our billboard is a reminder that laws such as HB2 move us backwards in the movement for equality and fundamental human rights for …

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CIVIL WAR: Daughter Of Phyllis Schlafly Stages Eagle Forum Coup Over Mother’s Endorsement Of Trump

Delicious, delicious infighting. Via World Net Daily: Conservative icon Phyllis Schlafly confirmed to WND that six board members of her group Eagle Forum have called a special meeting Monday that she believes is an attempt to remove her as CEO and board chairman because of her support for Donald Trump’s campaign for the White House. “This may be my Dobson …

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TEXAS: Feds Charge GOP Attorney General Ken Paxton With Fraud For Role In Tech Company Scam

From the Dallas Morning News: The U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission on Monday announced fraud charges against Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton and several others involved in promoting a north Texas tech company. Paxton and a former member of the board of Servergy, Inc., a north Texas tech firm, were charged with allegedly convincing others to buy stock in the …

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Freep This Denver Post Poll About PayPal

JMG reader David points us to today’s poll on the front page of the Denver Post, which only tells a portion of North Carolina’s sweeping anti-LGBT law. Weigh in at this link. The poll is slightly down in the right-hand column.

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Bryan Fischer: Bryan Adams Has Declared War On Jesus

American Family Association spokesdouche Bryan Fischer this morning declared that cancelling rock concerts in states with anti-LGBT laws is an act of war against White Jesus. This is an ACTUAL FACT, people. Meanwhile the AFA has launched a boycott of PayPal. Walker Wildmon writes: It is astounding that Fortune 500 companies are ruining their reputation over a law that ensures …

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John Oliver Skewers Credit Report Agencies [VIDEO]

TIME recaps: This week, Last Week Tonight tackled credit reports, or as John Oliver calls them, “the basis for the single most important three digit number in your whole life other than 311, the Beatles of rap-rock.” Credit reports can affect many aspects of your life, including whether banks will lend you money or whether a landlord will rent you …

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New Hillary Ad: I’m Tough Enough To Stop Trump

Watch below. The Hill reports: Democratic presidential front-runner Hillary Clinton early Monday released a new ad in New York claiming she is the only candidate strong enough to stop Donald Trump. The 30-second ad, titled “Stronger Together,” references comments made by Trump, starting with abortion. He says we should punish women who have abortions,” a narrator says, flashing pictures of …

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WaPo: Trump’s Charity Donations Are Zero

From the Washington Post: Since the first day of his presidential campaign, Donald Trump has said that he gave more than $102 million to charity in the past five years. To back up that claim, Trump’s campaign compiled a list of his contributions — 4,844 of them, filling 93 pages. But, in that massive list, one thing was missing. Not …

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Donald Trump’s Kids Aren’t Even Registered To Vote

Via Talking Points Memo: While plenty of New Yorkers say they’ll cast their votes for native son Donald Trump in next week’s Republican primary contest, two of Trump’s own kids won’t be among them. Trump confirmed in a Monday call-in to Fox News his children Ivanka, 34, and Eric, 32, never registered to vote in New York’s closed primary. Asked …

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John Corvino Vs Alliance Defending Freedom [VIDEO]

Media Matters reports: ABC’s This Week with George Stephanopoulos hosted Kristen Waggoner, senior counsel for the extreme anti-LGBT group Alliance Defending Freedom (ADF), who hyped the debunked “bathroom predator” myth to defend a discriminatory law recently passed in North Carolina. ADF is an multi-million dollar anti-gay Christian legal organization known for its work defending discriminatory “religious freedom” laws, which allow …

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CIA Director John Brennan: We Will Never Waterboard Again Even If Ordered To By Trump Or Cruz

NBC News reports: CIA Director John Brennan told NBC News in an exclusive interview that his agency will not engage in harsh “enhanced interrogation” practices, including waterboarding, which critics call torture — even if ordered to by a future president. “I will not agree to carry out some of these tactics and techniques I’ve heard bandied about because this institution …

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Watch Tony Perkins Lie About Hate Laws [VIDEO]

Tony Perkins took to Fox News yesterday to once again lie about the anti-LGBT hate laws in Mississippi and North Carolina, which he claims actually prevent discrimination against Christians, who are now free to refuse to refuse LGBT customers without penalties. Watch below.

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Los Angeles Pulls Out Of Charlotte Transit Convention

Early this month the American Public Transportation Association, which was founded in 1882 and has 1500 member organizations, said they really wish they could cancel their May convention in Charlotte over North Carolina’s hate law, but are unable to nullify their contract. On Friday, the head of Los Angeles Metro announced that his employees are banned from attending. From his …

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Trump Slams “Stupid Worthless” Boston Globe [VIDEO]

“How about that stupid Boston Globe? It’s worthless. Sold for a dollar. Did you see that story? The whole front page — they made up a story that Trump — they pretended Trump as the president. And they made up—the whole front page is a make believe story, which is really, no different from the whole paper for the whole …

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