Today’s is the 39th and final launch of the space shuttle Discovery. I was there at the Cape for the Discovery’s first launch in 1984 as a lowly news assistant/gopher for WMFE-PBS in Orlando. It was a terrible gig and my first real post-college jobby-job, but I did get to attend three shuttle launches in the six months I lasted. …
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Sharpton Gets Abortion Billboard Yanked
Rev. Al Sharpton says he’s convinced an outdoor advertising company to pull the controversial anti-abortion billboard that went up in Soho earlier this week. Sharpton: “The billboard was offensive, especially during Black History Month, and I had intended to hold a press conference Friday in front of the billboard to protest the message of racial profiling and against a woman’s …
Read More »Vampire Forecloses On Bank
Alternate headline: Bloodsucker Vs. Bloodsucker. (Via – Daily What)
Read More »HATE GROUP ALERT: Family Research Council Launches DOMA Petition
The Family Research Council has just launched a DOMA petition, asking its millions of followers to demand that Congress do “what the president will not” and authorize intervention in DOMA litigation. The petition reads in part: Now that President Obama has tossed aside federal law, it is up to Congress to intervene and defend DOMA. Congress will be under political …
Read More »NYC LGBT Center Israel Flap Continues
Earlier this week the NYC LGBT Center canceled a planned Israel Apartheid Week meeting after gay porn kingpin Michael Lucas threatened to have the Center’s wealthy donors pull their support. Immediately after the event’s cancellation, a petition went online with a demand that the Center not let “wealthy bigots censor free speech.” Among the petition’s sponsors are well-known activists Cleve …
Read More »Rick Santorum Defends The Crusades
“The idea that the Crusades and the fight of Christendom against Islam is somehow an aggression on our part is absolutely anti-historical. And that is what the perception is by the American left who hates Christendom. They hate Western civilization at the core. That’s the problem.” – Former Sen. Rick “Frothy Mix” Santorum, who says that Christians have never persecuted …
Read More »ILLINOIS: Bed & Breakfasts Turn Away Gay Couple’s Civil Union Ceremony
Two Illinois bed and breakfast hotels have turned away a gay couple’s request to hold their civil unions ceremony, with one lodging manager emailing the couple to tell them to repent. “We will never host same-sex civil unions. We will never host same-sex weddings even if they become legal in Illinois,” Timber Creek operators told [Todd] Wathen in an e-mail. …
Read More »Open Thread Thursday
Oscar picks, let’s have ’em. Do you throw one of them there big fabulous gay Oscar watching parties?
Read More »A Day Made Of Glass
Yeah I want pretty much everything in this ad. And a flying car. We were all promised flying cars, you know.
Read More »Sign-Bombing CNN
The CNN reporter was unaware of the man parading back and forth behind her with his “Walker sucks Koch” sign. I had to dive for my camera and take a screen shot.
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