Monthly Archives: July 2016

Tired Old Queen At The Movies #141 [VIDEO]

Clip recap: Norma Shearer, Joan Crawford and Roz Russell lead a bevy of MGM beauties in George Cukor’s comedy classic “The Women”. Based on a play by Claire Booth Luce, with a screenplay by Anita Loos, it also stars Paulette Goddard, Joan Fontaine, Marjorie Main, the delightful Mary Boland and an all female cast who deliver some of the wittiest …

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CLEVELAND: RNC Bans Squirt Guns Outside GOP Convention But Real Guns Are Allowed Under Ohio Law

From the New York Daily News: That’s some watered-down logic. Protesters flooding the streets outside the Republican National Convention in Cleveland won’t be allowed to come with Super Soakers — but they’ll be able to bring a loaded firearm. Strict RNC rules call for a ban on soda cans, glass bottles, tennis balls, umbrellas with metal tips and “any projectile …

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Bernie Wins Concessions In Democratic Platform: Minimum Wage, Death Penalty, Social Security

A draft version of the 2016 Democratic National Committee platform has been released with several new items pushed strongly by Bernie Sanders. The Hill reports: The platform explicitly calls for a $15 minimum wage, a position long espoused by Sanders. “Democrats believe that the current minimum wage is a starvation wage and must be increased to a living wage,” the …

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AUSTRALIA: No Clear Winner In National Election, Planned Marriage Equality Referendum Imperiled

Euronews reports: Australia woke up on Sunday (July 3) to the headache of a hung parliament and a minority government, after a general election that was too close to call. Vote counting has been paused and was so tight that Prime Minister Malcom Turnbull’s Liberal Party-led coalition may need the support of independents and smaller parties to remain in power. …

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CNN Sources: No Charges For Hillary Over Email Server

From Mediaite: According to sources that are familiar with the FBI’s investigation into Hillary Clinton‘s use of a private email server, the former Secretary of State is not expected to face charges in the probe. This, according to CNN’s Senior Producer Edward Mejia Davis, who took to Twitter shortly ago to indicate the likely announcement of “no charges.” During an …

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Nobel Peace Prize Winner Elie Wiesel Dies At 87

The Times Of Israel reports: Nobel Peace Prize laureate, Holocaust survivor and human rights activist Eliezer “Elie” Wiesel died on Saturday at the age of 87 after a prolonged illness. A survivor of the Auschwitz and Buchenwald Nazi death camps, Wiesel dedicated much of his life to Holocaust education and promoting tolerance around the world. The Romanian-born Wiesel authored 57 …

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NORTH CAROLINA: Gay Choruses Drown Out Christian Street Preachers Calling For Their Deaths [VIDEO]

Playbill reports that North Carolina’s Triangle Gay Men’s Chorus and the Gay Men’s Chorus of Washington were performing in a Raleigh park when nearby street preachers began shouting bible verses calling for their deaths. They write: A local resident, Elizabeth Breakey, captured the incident on video and posted on Facebook, where she wrote, “This particular moment in Moore Square was …

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Donald Trump Goes Anti-Semitic On Hillary Clinton

Heavy.com reports: Donald Trump is under fire this morning for a tweet echoing the visual language of many of his most extreme, anti-Semitic supporters. Trump tweeted an image saying that Hillary Clinton is the most corrupt politician ever, which is accompanied by the Star of David and hundred dollar bills. Within moments, many on Twitter expressed their shock and outrage …

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NORTH CAROLINA: Hate Laws Intact As Session Ends

After the NBA and LGBT activists objected to a “fix” to North Carolina’s anti-LGBT laws that many said was worse than the original, the clock ran out last night with only a minor change. The Charolotte Observer reports: The North Carolina legislature adjourned for the year late Friday after lawmakers gave final approval to the state budget, hammered out or …

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Rush Limbaugh: America Will See Unprecedented Levels Of Violence If Donald Trump Wins [VIDEO]

According to Rush Limbaugh, leftists will burn America to the ground if Donald Trump wins in November. Talking Points Memo has some quotes: “I want you to think: What’s going to happen that night? What’s going to happen the next day? What’s going to happen every day thereafter?” he said. “What’s going to happen the day Trump gets inaugurated? What …

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Bill Maher Compares Financial Result Of States Under Democratic Control: Scoreboard, Bitches [VIDEO]

The Huffington Post recaps: Bill Maher ripped into the GOP’s policy of cutting taxes for the rich on Friday night. The “Real Time with Bill Maher“ host said the state of California was proof that doing the reverse, and instead raising taxes on the most wealthy, could actually lead to a booming economy. The comedian gloated about how The Golden …

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Panti Bliss On Orlando And Homophobia [VIDEO]

JMG reader Gerard tips us to the below speech from legendary Irish activist Panti Bliss, who this week headlined ILGA-Europe’s Equality Gala in Brussels. Watch as Panti speaks stirringly about homophobia and the Orlando massacre. A key quote: “I’ve never been to Pulse nightclub in Orlando, Florida, but that doesn’t matter because I know it like the back of my …

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Tony Perkins Has The Mississippi Sadz

Hate group leader Tony Perkins is ever so pissed that “intolerant liberals” have a problem with legalized discrimination. He writes: While most Mississippians were getting ready for bed, Judge Carlton Reeves’s office was buzzing. The controversial judge, responsible for striking down the state’s marriage amendment, was busy working on an encore. Under the cloak of darkness, he released a 60-page …

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Contest Winner To Nominate Hillary At Convention

NBC News reports: A Hillary Clinton supporter will have a chance to give a speech on stage at the Democratic National Convention later this month to formally nominate Clinton as the party’s presidential nominee, an honor typically reserved for Democratic officials. Clinton’s campaign is holding a contest to select the supporter, who will be flown to Philadelphia to speak at …

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MISSISSIPPI: Dem Attorney General Jim Hood Might Not Appeal Anti-LGBT Laws Struck Down By Court

Mississippi News Now reports: Mississippi Attorney General Jim Hood says he doesn’t know if his office will appeal a federal judge’s ruling that blocked a state law dealing with religious objections to gay marriage. Hood is the only Democrat in statewide office, and his staff had defended the law that was passed by the Republican-majority Legislature and signed by a …

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The Liberal Redneck Sounds Off On Trump Supporters Who Want To Make America White Again [VIDEO]

YouTube’s viral Liberal Redneck (a real-life comedian named Trae Crowder) is back with his take on Trump supporters who want to make America white again. As always, I won’t give away the best lines with a recap. Just watch below.

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Today In Headlines You Never Thought You’d See: Navy Celebrates LGBT Pride On The USS Ronald Reagan

The US Navy Office of Community Outreach sent us two emails today noting the recent celebration of LGBT Pride Month aboard the nuclear-powered aircraft carrier USS Ronald Reagan, which upon its launch in 2001 was the first-ever ship named for a then-still living former US president. The photo above is captioned: PHILIPPINE SEA (June 25, 2016) Yeoman 2nd Class (SW/AW) …

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Christian Mingle Ordered To Allow Gay Matches

From the Wall Street Journal: The owner of online dating site ChristianMingle.com has agreed to let gay and lesbian users search for same-sex matches under a judge-approved settlement of discrimination claims. Two gay men filed class-actions claims against Spark Networks Inc. in California courts in 2013 alleging that ChristianMingle.com and several other sites in the company’s portfolio of niche dating …

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Sarah Palin: It’s Really Funny How Liberal “Splodey Heads Keeping Sploding” Over Donald Trump [VIDEO]

Splodey heads! Via Mediaite: Former future Vice President and current Donald Trump-backer Sarah Palin was at her verbal slap-chopping best Friday afternoon as she appeared at the Western Conservative Summit in Denver, Colorado to stump for the real estate mogul. The former Alaska governor showed true frontier resourcefulness when she decided to just use made-up words when she ran out …

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GAWKER: Trump Might Be Tweaking On Diet Pills

Today Gawker published a claim from an unnamed source that resurrects long-running speculation that Donald Trump’s erratic behavior is fueled by an addiction to prescription diet pills. From their piece: According to our source, the Donald Trump of today is on a diet drug called phentermine—and has been since at least April of 2014. Phentermine first gained notoriety in the …

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