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Posted by Chelsea Kellogg on Sun, Jan 13, 2013 at 8:57 AM
Really? Again? Really? Another woman was gang raped in India after traveling on a bus.
New Miss America Nearly Forms Coherent Point About Gun Control: There are so many things wrong with the Miss America pageant I won't even begin. But last night the judges may have crowned a winner with two neurons to rub together after she tried really hard to explain why armed guards at schools is a bad idea.
Homophobes Find Strength in Numbers: A mass anti-gay rally took place in Paris overnight, with the rally's sponsor claiming half a million marched against gay couples marrying and/or adopting children.
Beijings Scores off the Charts: In terms of how bad their air pollution was at 8 p.m. on Saturday. The highest score on the air pollution index is 500, and they scored a whopping 755.
You Know if They Had Armed Guards At Movie Theaters: This guy still would have taken a gun in, but fewer people would sneak into movies.
Monopoly and Facebook Will Kill a Token: What I am going to do without the shoe?
Britain Joins the Fight Against Islamist Rebels: The first British aircraft has landed in Mali to help the French effort. How long do you think until McCain brays that America isn't a world leader anymore?
Seahawks Will Meet the 49ers: Assuming they win today. The 49ers were the only team with more team members selected for the 1st team All-Pro.
Omak Man Sentenced to 9yrs: A man who was convicted of beating an 18-year-old girl with a propane canister and pouring boiling water over her body has been sentenced to federal prison.
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I do believe the Seahawks are playing the Falcons today. In Atlanta. Just FYI.
And I don't have enough explatives to throw out there regarding the latest gang rape in India. So I'll just leave it with FFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKK
Does that cheapen the word?
And I don't have enough explatives to throw out there regarding the latest gang rape in India. So I'll just leave it with FFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKK
Does that cheapen the word?
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I note that I went to a movie recently and they had a public announcement clip about watching your belonging, looking out for "suspicious characters" and knowing where the exits are. I hadn't seen this before (it was done in a light way but you could tell this was the outcome of the theater shootings).
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L. Brent Bozell III of the "Media Research Center" and Miss America on firearms policy—two of the last people on earth whose viewpoints on the subject I would ever seek out.
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Morning news? You fucked up the biggest sports story to hit this town in 7 or 8 years, and you call it "news"?
Didn't even do a cursory google search?
Intern: Youz suck at this gig
Didn't even do a cursory google search?
Intern: Youz suck at this gig
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Four activists from Ukrainian feminist group Femen have stripped off in St Peter's Square in a protest for marriage equality. Maybe gay allies just don't get as much attention from you as they do from reputable news sources.
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Dear Troll, I dont give two shits for sports and its "news".
I suspect most of the Stranger staffers think the same. You want sports "news", you have a goddamn bajillion sports outlets available to you.
I suspect most of the Stranger staffers think the same. You want sports "news", you have a goddamn bajillion sports outlets available to you.
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Wow, in "gay" Paris in liberal Europe, there's half a freakin' million protestors on the streets? Sorry, folks, but marriage equality at the national level in the U.S. is nuthin' but a pipe dream.
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"Despite the support of the Church and political right, the organisers are keen to stress their movement is non-political and non-religious, and in no way directed against homosexuals, BBC Paris correspondent Hugh Schofield reports."
Of course it is political and religious and full of dislike towards gays.
Of course it is political and religious and full of dislike towards gays.
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To be clear, the Miss America pageant is a scholarship pageant and Miss USA (the one owned by Donald Trump) is a beauty pageant. The dopey things you hear contestants say are generally from Miss USA.
Miss America contestants are college-bound and education-focused, rather than modeling-contract focused. Thus, your characterization of Miss America contestants being stupid is largely inaccurate, despite the inclusion of a swimsuit competition.
Miss America is an outdated, sexist program to be sure. But it sends young women to college, which is laudable.
Miss America contestants are college-bound and education-focused, rather than modeling-contract focused. Thus, your characterization of Miss America contestants being stupid is largely inaccurate, despite the inclusion of a swimsuit competition.
Miss America is an outdated, sexist program to be sure. But it sends young women to college, which is laudable.
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It chills my spine that there are still beauty pageants in this country. These circuses don't enjoy nearly the support they once did, but many clearly think women should parade around in one-piece bathing suits and high heels giving "charming" answers to questions on the issues of the day.
They want to return to an ideal vision of womanhood set forth in the '50s of the last century? I can only be embarrassed and hang my head in shame.
They want to return to an ideal vision of womanhood set forth in the '50s of the last century? I can only be embarrassed and hang my head in shame.
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Uhhhhh, Paris isn't gay..
Amsterdam is gay. Places that are predominately Catholic are short on gayness, IMHHO.
Amsterdam is gay. Places that are predominately Catholic are short on gayness, IMHHO.
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Anti Gay marches
I was swimming at 24 Hour Fitness and thinking what if sexual preference was really that...a preference. Like, a man prefers blondes. No one condemns him for that. No one marches..in fact, they celebrate him. They say, he has an eye for blondes.
Peking Smog
Global justice for sending over lead infused wooden blocks for our 2 yr olds to suck on.
I was swimming at 24 Hour Fitness and thinking what if sexual preference was really that...a preference. Like, a man prefers blondes. No one condemns him for that. No one marches..in fact, they celebrate him. They say, he has an eye for blondes.
Peking Smog
Global justice for sending over lead infused wooden blocks for our 2 yr olds to suck on.
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@16: Oh please, sexual orientation drives the preference (better word is passion) instead of the preference driving the the orientation.
Test: Try to be gay.
Test: Try to be gay.
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@17
Confine your diatribes to Wallingford, where the topics are jacking up a Craftsman to add a second floor and rock wall gardens.
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Aaron Swartz, R.I.P.
There is nothing more sad, more disheartening, than the death of a decent person.
I didn't know Aaron Swartz, although I had communicated with him online on several occasions; a highly intelligent young man with a prodigious mind and noble spirit.
Aaron evidently reached the decision, to spare his family and friends future pain, he would forfeit his own life; in ancient Rome they referred to it as "Falling on one's sword."
Yet another fatality of Obama's War On Whistleblowers, the dramatic extension and expansion from the Bush administration.
Today, Gov. Don Siegelman sits in a penitentiary, his only "crime" was wishing to increase educational access for the many; an authentic democrat, so very rare today.
Today, an Iraqi immigrant, Shakir Hamoodi, who sent small sums of money to his close relatives back home for medical and food emergencies, also sits in a penitentiary, yet another humanist, or "criminal" in America?
Today, a brave CIA whistleblower of the criminal and barbaric torture taking place, John Kiriakou, faces two years in jail, thanks to Obama and life in the land of the lawless.
Aaron Swartz, Bradley Manning, Gov. Don Siegelman, Shakir Hamoodi, John Kiriakou and others, too many others, a roster of the best of America, wasted lives in others pursuit of never-ending corruption.
A bizarre BBC report the other day --- and bizarre is the only accurate description for both BBC and their news report --- ran an attack piece on WikiLeaks' Julian Assange, nonsensically juxtaposed against the newspaper strike in China!
They --- the BBC and Australian news --- once again perpetrated lies of "sexual assault of two women" against Assange?
Having read all the legal documents, in both English and Swedish, I observed NO verification of such lies, only that Sofia Wilen, the younger woman who first approached Julian Assange, wanted nothing to do with such false allegations, and that the government-affiliated Anna Ardin (one of her many aliases), appears to have been the driving force in stirring up such vicious stories! (When the publicity became too much for Anna Ardin, she was spirited off to Israel, where a member of the Bonnier family was ambassador at that time.)
http://www.nnn.se/nordic/assange/suspici…
The one common factor, known to Americans, which is evident in both the attacks on Wikileaks/Assange and the illegitimate and amoral incarceration of Gov. Siegelman, is Karl Rove.
Rove appears again and again in the background, as the puppet master pulling the strings to take out Gov. Siegelman, and was financed in his multiple trips to Sweden, around the beginning of the WikiLeaks' episode, financed by the Bonnier family, one of the media giant families of Europe and among the top ten media corporations in existence. (Virtually everyone on the Swedish side who has been attacking Julian Assange is financially connected to the Bonnier family: the attorneys, Anna Ardin, the Bonnier-employed reporters, the Justice Minister, etc., the only exception would be Sofia Wilen, the young lady who quickly distanced herself from the horrendously unfolding events.)
Aaron Swartz, both believed in, and fought for, free speech and freedom of the press, an incredibly shrinking freedom which has been all but co-opted by the ruling oligarchs through their corporations today --- does anyone really know who owns AT&T, after all?
Recently, some technically astute friends ran a series of tests, and observed that the most heavily censored sites: Huffington Post, boingboing.net, Naked Capitalism, The Guardian, etc., are considered to be some of the more "liberal" sites on the 'net --- nothing could be further from the truth!
The most heavily censored English-speaking countries on the Web? Canada, the UK and the USA.
Most despicably, network neutrality appears as dead as Aaron Swartz --- and we should all mourn the passing of both noble personages.
In Memoriam
Aaron Swartz
November 8, 1986 – January 11, 2013
http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/co…
Notes and Sources
http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2012/oct…
"Kiriakou was a CIA veteran who played a role in the agency's capture of the al-Qaida terrorist Abu Zubaydah in Pakistan in 2002. Abu Zubaydah was waterboarded by government interrogators and eventually revealed information that led to the arrest of the "dirty bomb" plotter Jose Padilla and exposed Khalid Sheikh Mohamed as the mastermind of the 9/11 terror attacks. Accounts conflict over whether the waterboarding was helpful in getting intelligence from Zubaydah."
. . . .
"The CIA director, David Petraeus, sent a memo to agency employees noting Kiriakou's conviction, saying: "It marks an important victory for our agency, for our intelligence community, and for our country. Oaths do matter, and there are indeed consequences for those who believe they are above the laws that protect our fellow officers and enable American intelligence agencies to operate with the requisite degree of secrecy."
(Tell that to the wifey, Davey boy! --- sgt_doom)
http://www.democracynow.org/2012/9/11/fo…
http://www.donsiegelman.org/
http://news.silobreaker.com/the-case-of-…
More...
There is nothing more sad, more disheartening, than the death of a decent person.
I didn't know Aaron Swartz, although I had communicated with him online on several occasions; a highly intelligent young man with a prodigious mind and noble spirit.
Aaron evidently reached the decision, to spare his family and friends future pain, he would forfeit his own life; in ancient Rome they referred to it as "Falling on one's sword."
Yet another fatality of Obama's War On Whistleblowers, the dramatic extension and expansion from the Bush administration.
Today, Gov. Don Siegelman sits in a penitentiary, his only "crime" was wishing to increase educational access for the many; an authentic democrat, so very rare today.
Today, an Iraqi immigrant, Shakir Hamoodi, who sent small sums of money to his close relatives back home for medical and food emergencies, also sits in a penitentiary, yet another humanist, or "criminal" in America?
Today, a brave CIA whistleblower of the criminal and barbaric torture taking place, John Kiriakou, faces two years in jail, thanks to Obama and life in the land of the lawless.
Aaron Swartz, Bradley Manning, Gov. Don Siegelman, Shakir Hamoodi, John Kiriakou and others, too many others, a roster of the best of America, wasted lives in others pursuit of never-ending corruption.
A bizarre BBC report the other day --- and bizarre is the only accurate description for both BBC and their news report --- ran an attack piece on WikiLeaks' Julian Assange, nonsensically juxtaposed against the newspaper strike in China!
They --- the BBC and Australian news --- once again perpetrated lies of "sexual assault of two women" against Assange?
Having read all the legal documents, in both English and Swedish, I observed NO verification of such lies, only that Sofia Wilen, the younger woman who first approached Julian Assange, wanted nothing to do with such false allegations, and that the government-affiliated Anna Ardin (one of her many aliases), appears to have been the driving force in stirring up such vicious stories! (When the publicity became too much for Anna Ardin, she was spirited off to Israel, where a member of the Bonnier family was ambassador at that time.)
http://www.nnn.se/nordic/assange/suspici…
The one common factor, known to Americans, which is evident in both the attacks on Wikileaks/Assange and the illegitimate and amoral incarceration of Gov. Siegelman, is Karl Rove.
Rove appears again and again in the background, as the puppet master pulling the strings to take out Gov. Siegelman, and was financed in his multiple trips to Sweden, around the beginning of the WikiLeaks' episode, financed by the Bonnier family, one of the media giant families of Europe and among the top ten media corporations in existence. (Virtually everyone on the Swedish side who has been attacking Julian Assange is financially connected to the Bonnier family: the attorneys, Anna Ardin, the Bonnier-employed reporters, the Justice Minister, etc., the only exception would be Sofia Wilen, the young lady who quickly distanced herself from the horrendously unfolding events.)
Aaron Swartz, both believed in, and fought for, free speech and freedom of the press, an incredibly shrinking freedom which has been all but co-opted by the ruling oligarchs through their corporations today --- does anyone really know who owns AT&T, after all?
Recently, some technically astute friends ran a series of tests, and observed that the most heavily censored sites: Huffington Post, boingboing.net, Naked Capitalism, The Guardian, etc., are considered to be some of the more "liberal" sites on the 'net --- nothing could be further from the truth!
The most heavily censored English-speaking countries on the Web? Canada, the UK and the USA.
Most despicably, network neutrality appears as dead as Aaron Swartz --- and we should all mourn the passing of both noble personages.
In Memoriam
Aaron Swartz
November 8, 1986 – January 11, 2013
http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/co…
Notes and Sources
http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2012/oct…
"Kiriakou was a CIA veteran who played a role in the agency's capture of the al-Qaida terrorist Abu Zubaydah in Pakistan in 2002. Abu Zubaydah was waterboarded by government interrogators and eventually revealed information that led to the arrest of the "dirty bomb" plotter Jose Padilla and exposed Khalid Sheikh Mohamed as the mastermind of the 9/11 terror attacks. Accounts conflict over whether the waterboarding was helpful in getting intelligence from Zubaydah."
. . . .
"The CIA director, David Petraeus, sent a memo to agency employees noting Kiriakou's conviction, saying: "It marks an important victory for our agency, for our intelligence community, and for our country. Oaths do matter, and there are indeed consequences for those who believe they are above the laws that protect our fellow officers and enable American intelligence agencies to operate with the requisite degree of secrecy."
(Tell that to the wifey, Davey boy! --- sgt_doom)
http://www.democracynow.org/2012/9/11/fo…
http://www.donsiegelman.org/
http://news.silobreaker.com/the-case-of-…
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18, I don't always agree w/ Phoebe, but she stays on topic and obviously thinks about what she's writing. Two things you're still struggling with.
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#19
Far be it from me to speak ill of the dead, but I'm having trouble understanding the guy's "legacy".
RSS. Who ever used it? I set up RSS like 10 times and never did use it. The blog post, email notification combo seems far more used...and now the Facebook feed.
Reddit...he didn't found Reddit he got bought up by them. Again another sign that RSS was a dead end. And reddit is just another post an article and comment on it website. The real Internet way to do this is nntp anyway.
Freedom of documents. So here we have another Assange. A guy who does something he wants us to consider brave, by pulling the tiger's tail, and then who runs around screaming help me, help me! Look you either go up against these guys or not, and if you lose you take the fall...alone.
I have never supported all this free content anyway as I think it robs writers and knowledge workers blind (take that Wikipedia).
Far be it from me to speak ill of the dead, but I'm having trouble understanding the guy's "legacy".
RSS. Who ever used it? I set up RSS like 10 times and never did use it. The blog post, email notification combo seems far more used...and now the Facebook feed.
Reddit...he didn't found Reddit he got bought up by them. Again another sign that RSS was a dead end. And reddit is just another post an article and comment on it website. The real Internet way to do this is nntp anyway.
Freedom of documents. So here we have another Assange. A guy who does something he wants us to consider brave, by pulling the tiger's tail, and then who runs around screaming help me, help me! Look you either go up against these guys or not, and if you lose you take the fall...alone.
I have never supported all this free content anyway as I think it robs writers and knowledge workers blind (take that Wikipedia).
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@7 Wth are you on about? You do know that there is a right wing wave through Europe now? You do now that the catholic church is doing a push in France? You do know that even half a million at a march in France is like 500 in the US?
Its nothing and to be honest they are according to all other sources greatly exaggerating.
@21 ... I wish I could explain it but since all the information is only a simple search away I guess your just ignorant or make stuff up fit your world view - so its no point
Its nothing and to be honest they are according to all other sources greatly exaggerating.
@21 ... I wish I could explain it but since all the information is only a simple search away I guess your just ignorant or make stuff up fit your world view - so its no point
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Phoebe giving the smackdown to Bailo? What idiot mush did he post now?
P.s. to Phoebe, I take back some of the mean things I've said about you.
P.s. to Phoebe, I take back some of the mean things I've said about you.
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