Tag Archives: Nevada

Burning Man Sues Over Fee Tripling

The operators of Burning Man, which begins next week, are suing their Nevada county hosts who have tripled their charge to provide police protection for the event. Though this year’s event, which runs Aug. 27 to Sept. 3, will not be affected, the 2013 festival is in jeopardy after Pershing County allegedly hiked the fees from $154,000 in 2011 to …

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Brothel Family Values

Public Policy Polling notes an “interesting take on family values.” There’s one thing Nevada voters across party lines can agree on: they love them some brothels. 64% think brothels should be legal to only 23% who think they should be illegal. The most striking thing in these numbers is that an equal 66% of Democrats and Republicans each think that …

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Matt Baume: Marriage News Watch

“The attack on DOMA just intensified with eight couples filing suit in Nevada. Meanwhile, President Obama weighs in on an anti-gay Constitutional amendment, and signature-gathering efforts are off to a very slow start.”

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NEVADA: Lambda Legal Sues For Marriage

Working on behalf of eight couples, Lambda Legal has filed a federal lawsuit demanding marriage equality in the state of Nevada. Chris Geidner reports at Metro Weekly: The lawsuit, Sevcik v. Sandoval, marks the first time that Lambda Legal has sought equal marriage rights for gay and lesbian couples in federal court, although a staff attorney with the group, Tara …

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Trans Activist Runs For NV Assembly

Transgender activist Lauren Scott has filed to run for the Nevada Assembly. If elected, she would be the first transgender state legislator in the nation. Formerly a Democrat, Scott registered as a Republican for the first time last year. She decided that as a Republican she can more effectively work to overcome the gridlock in Carson City. Scott was as …

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Romney Wins Nevada Caucus

All those sister-wives add up!

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Oh The Places You’ll Go At Burning Man

A new take on Dr. Seuss.(Tipped by JMG reader Jeffrey)

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Burning Man To Launch Ticket Lottery

In 2011, Burning Man sold out for the first time in 25 years. Next year, there will be a new way to get tickets. The process will require ticket seekers to register by price tier during a two-week period that has yet to be announced. They will then go through several lottery rounds for each pricing tier, and the ones …

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Burning Man Sells Out

For the first time in the long-running event’s history, tickets to this year’s Burning Man have sold out. Shortly after tickets started selling at the fastest pace ever on Jan. 20, officials with Black Rock City LLC, the SF-based company that staged Burning Man in Nevada’s Black Rock Desert, privately warned that they may sell out this year. The event, …

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GOP Sen. John Ensign To Resign

Last month beleaguered GOP Sen. John Ensign announced that he wouldn’t seek reelection in 2012. But today his aides revealed that Ensign will resign tomorrow. Ensign has fallen under investigation by the ethics committee in the wake of an alleged sexual relationship with an aide and accusations that he steered business to her lobbyist husband. His departure could clear the …

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Sharron Angle Backs GOProud At CPAC

“I think that as Americans, we like the open forum of discussion. That’s what freedom of speech is, that’s what freedom of assembly is — we have an assembly here of people coming together to exchange ideas — and I think that’s what we like is the discourse and exchange of ideas. I am always in favor of freedom. As …

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NEVADA: Nutjob Anti-Gay Teabagger Racist Sharron Angle LOSES To Harry Reid

I am touching ALL of the Flying Spaghetti Monster’s noodly appendages in joy as the networks have just declared Sen. Harry Reid as the winner in Nevada’s freakazoid Senate race. Never before (I don’t think) have I loathed a political candidate so fiercely with every gay fiber of my being as I do Sharron Angle. (OK, maybe Ruben Diaz.) Congratulations …

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NEVADA: Sen. Harry Reid In Toss-Up In Final Polls Against Sharron Angle

The two final polls in Sen. Harry Reid’s battle against Sharron Angle show him only 1-3 points behind, which is essentially a tie in the famed “margin of error” game. Nate Silver continues to call the seat as “likely GOP.” This is the race that will have the nation up very late tomorrow night.

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It’s Us (Christians) Vs Them (Heathens)

Right Wing Watch tips us to this Sharron Angle spot produced by friend-o-Jeebus Ralph Reed’s Faith and Freedom Coalition.

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Sharron Angle: The Wicked Ways Of Gay Marriage & Medicare Are Destroying Us

Speaking to a Nevada church, Sharron Angle got all caught up in Jeebus and denounced social programs, abortion, divorce, and gay marriage as the “wicked ways” that are destroying America. “I confess that we are a nation who has killed our children. I confess that we are a nation who has walked away from the family and allowed divorce even …

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Joy Behar’s Blowup About Sharron Angle

As I noted in a post early today, Joy Behar called Sharron Angle an “evil moron” and “bitch” for her racist ad about immigration. Tonight Behar is being digitally tarred-and-feathered by the teabaggers and is getting a bit of criticism from the left as well. Below is the original View clip. Not embeddable here but equally worth watching is Behar’s …

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Sharron Angle Breaks New Racist Ground

Joy Behar just opined on The View: “Yikes! It’s like a Hitler Youth commercial! Let me tell you how stupid she is: 25% of the voters in Nevada are Hispanic and 80% of them are Mexican. She is a moron, on top of being evil. I’d like to see her try this ad in the South Bronx. Come here, BITCH! …

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NEVADA: Conservatives Launch Campaign Urging Latinos Not To Vote

A conservative group astroturfing themselves as “Latinos For Reform” have launched an ad campaign urging Nevada’s Latino residents not to vote. The ad was widely seen as an effort to hurt the campaign of incumbent Sen. Harry Reid, a Democrat, who is working hard to turn out Latino voters. Mr. de Posoda, who has long worked with the Republican Party, …

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New From Sharron Angle

Notice how rarely the teabaggers mention themselves?

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Tweet Of The Day – Reid Wilson

Here’s the full quote from Sharron Angle: “So that’s what we want is a secure and sovereign nation and, you know, I don’t know that all of you are Latino. Some of you look a little more Asian to me. I don’t know that. [Note: it’s the Hispanic Student Union. The whole room is Hispanic teenagers.] What we know, what …

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