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Feds Fine Online Dating Company For Scamming Money Via Fake Profiles

Via The Hill: England-based company JDI Dating and its owner, Mark Thomas, were the target of the $616,165 fines. The settlement forbids the company from misrepresenting facts about the service or its cancellation policy in the future. “JDI Dating used fake profiles to make people think they were hearing from real love interests and to trick them into upgrading to …

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Barber: Executing Gays Is “Appalling” (But Brutal Anti-Gay Persecution Is Great)

I didn’t catch Matt Barber’s response to Right Wing Watch this morning, but he certainly ignored all of yesterday’s tweets from the flying monkeys who pointed out that his newest columnist has called for executing homosexuals. Barber deleted that post, but here’s an excerpt from how Right Wing Watch writer Peter Montgomery has responded to the above tweet: Here are …

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New Zach Dasher Ads: Bibles And Guns Brought Us Here & They’ll Keep Us Here

In three new campaign ads, the US House bid of Louisiana’s Zach “My Platform Begins With God” Dasher is endorsed by Phil Robertson (Dasher’s uncle), and Sen. Ted Cruz, who’s apparently OK with vertical cellphone video ads. Via NOLA.com: Fifth Congressional District candidate Zach Dasher’s new ad says he believes in guns, and he’s just unloaded the biggest gun he …

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Viral Video Of The Day

At an In-N-Out Burger in California, a man carrying a bible had been holding the door open for customers all day. Because reasons. When the staff declined to thank him for this strange behavior, the man had a screaming meltdown that was caught on a customer’s cell phone. Via Raw Story: When a manager asked the man to leave, he …

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FLORIDA: Atlas Rocket Launches Safely

After yesterday’s disaster in Virgina, all eyes were on Cape Canaveral this afternoon as an Atlas V rocket successfully launched.  The rocket carries an Air Force GPS satellite. Allegedly. Today’s was the 50th successful Atlas launch.

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HOUSTON: Mayor Annise Parker Says She’ll Withdraw Subpoenas Of Pastors

Via the Houston Chronicle: The City of Houston will withdraw its controversial subpoenas of five pastors tied to a lawsuit over the city’s equal rights ordinance, Mayor Annise Parker announced at a news conference Wednesday. The announcement came amid a national firestorm about the subpoenas, which have prompted outrage among Christian conservatives. Parker said two meetings yesterday, one with local …

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Editorial Of The Day

From Montana’s Great Falls Tribune: One after another, federal appeals courts, including the 9th Circuit that covers Montana, have thrown out gay marriage bans in other states, and Montana’s position will be overturned. Why? Because that stance discriminates against gays, lesbians and others. It is unfair to these folks, regardless of some Americans who disapprove of their sexual orientation. The …

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Sullivan Backs Matthew Shepard Truthers

“The question here is whether the crime was solely a function of the homophobic hatred of two strangers who beat up and brutally murdered someone merely because he was gay. That’s the official line of the Matthew Shepard Foundation and the Human Rights Campaign. Of course these motives could also have been involved. I’m arguing that meth can explain all …

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