E.J.
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I thought at first this was by the onion
I admit to watching with the sound off...... -
no foul play suspected.
nobody knows anything
http://today.msnbc.msn.com/id/46355482/ns/today-entertainment/#.TzcsibR7R8E
http://www.guardian.co.uk/music/2012/feb/12/whitney-houston-dies-aged-48
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One Town's War on Gay Teens
In Michele Bachmann's home district, evangelicals have created an extreme anti-gay climate. After a rash of suicides, the kids are fighting back.
Every morning, Brittany Geldert stepped off the bus and bolted through the double doors of Fred Moore Middle School, her nerves already on high alert, bracing for the inevitable."Dyke."
Pretending not to hear, Brittany would walk briskly to her locker, past the sixth-, seventh- and eighth-graders who loitered in menacing packs.
"Whore."
Like many 13-year-olds, Brittany knew seventh grade was a living hell. But what she didn't know was that she was caught in the crossfire of a culture war being waged by local evangelicals inspired by their high-profile congressional representative Michele Bachmann, who graduated from Anoka High School and, until recently, was a member of one of the most conservative churches in the area. When Christian activists who considered gays an abomination forced a measure through the school board forbidding the discussion of homosexuality in the district's public schools, kids like Brittany were unknowingly thrust into the heart of a clash that was about to become intertwined with tragedy.
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It actually hit while I was doing a google search for a spare tire kit for my car (new car didn't come with a spare). Pretty boring stuf.
The only downloads I have done recently have been software updates, and I always do those directly from the program.
apparantly the auto spell checker isn't working anymore.....I'll have to remember where that option was.
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I just got hit by this:
http://www.spywarevoid.com/remove-security-shield-2011-securityshield2011-removal-guide.html
similar to system check. when in normal mode it would not allow me to open any specialty anti-virus or spyware programs, including malmarebytes (sp). microsoft security esentials could not locate the program (it let it in, so not a suprise). the program also would not allow me to open any web browsers.
Ended up rebooting into safe mode with networking enabled. Malwarebytes was able to run, but could not find anything (probably because security shield was not loaded). ended up doing a system restore to 3 days prior. Problem solved....for now.
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the address of the restaraunt is 807 South Gay Street
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frothy mix was second in Iowa. Kinda scarry
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Today Justice Jeffrey White heard testimony as to whether the federal Defense of Marriage Act (DOMA) was in violation of the US Constitution when it was applied to deny spousal benefits to Karen Golinski, a legally married federal employee. In advance, White, a George W. Bush appointee, provided a list of questions that he wanted addressed.
Full story here:
http://www.boxturtle.../39827#comments
Full list of questions here:
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check out this video response (not on YouTube yet):
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Is this the same person?
http://www.youtube.c...ser/RandomTV201
Making the mainstream news here:
http://abcnews.go.com/blogs/health/2011/12/05/gay-teen-jonah-mowry-says-bullying-made-him-stronger/
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seams they pulled the response video...probably because of the vicious negative comments.
some people need to get a life
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Massachusetts Rep. Barney Frank announced that he would retire in early 2013, citing his redrawn district boundaries and his desire to write as reasons.
find the full story here:
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High school students: don’t say mean things about Kansas’s Gov. Sam Brownback on Twitter, unless you like going to the principal’s office.
That’s what happened to Emma Sullivan, who according to NBC Action News joked on Twitter after a field trip to the state Capitol with her class and found herself in trouble.
The rest here:
http://slatest.slate.com/posts/2011/11/25/sam_brownback_s_office_get_s_tweeting_teen_in_trouble.html
More here:
http://www.chron.com/news/article/Clamor-erupts-over-Kan-teen-s-tweet-about-gov-2291436.php
and here:
http://www.kansascity.com/2011/11/26/3287998/many-urge-teen-not-to-apologize.html
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She should have asked, "And who was standing at the bathroom door with their ear pressed tightly thereto so they might hear my offending syllable?"
Colin
the person listening was probably the same person watching the video
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Except the video doesn't have the fellow plucking in time to the music, and so looks very strange indeed. He needs to work on maximizing his plucking.
He is using a digital delay, so only some of the notes are in time with his plucking. the rest of the notes are delayed...digitally.
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Pretty much the best option right now for anti-virus is to simply install the free, fully integrated, and surpisingly
good Microsoft Security Essentials A/V software.
That's what i'm running.
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nuking firefox and reinstalling did the trick. I did a backup of my bookmarks first, and restoring was simple.
this all started with the upgrade to 7.01, but obviously something else found it's way onto my computer.......maybe it's time to start paying for antivirus software
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none of the web sites I go to will load properly (i'm using chrome right now, but don't like it)
This started a week ago and has been getting worse
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or someone is really PROUD of themselves
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my favorite lines:
Just give everybody the chance to have the life they want.Because what I really believe is, let's spend a little more time leaving everybody alone.wish that the republicans, who appear to be in charge right now, felt this way.
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Background story HERE
Find the book at amazon HERE
this was brought to light by a very critical review on Rain Taxi which totally slams the book.
Some of my favorite comments:
Card has completely removed the dramatic stakes and haunting questions posed by the play, and the threadbare result is a failure of narrative craft on every level.Neither does Card’s prose retain the flavor of Elizabethan English—or any other kind of flavor. These words taste like saltines without saltThe extent of the novella's failure is surprising—and embarrassing, given that Card is a skilled veteran novelist and Subterranean a well-respected press. The most polite thing for us to do would be to walk away and quietly forget the whole painful exercise. But Card does not deserve our polite amnesia. His failures should be known and remembered, because the revelation in his "revelatory new version" turns out to be a nightmare of vitriolic homophobia.Here's the punch line: Old King Hamlet was an inadequate king because he was gay, an evil person because he was gay, and, ultimately, a demonic and ghostly father of lies who convinces young Hamlet to exact imaginary revenge on innocent people. The old king was actually murdered by Horatio, in revenge for molesting him as a young boy—along with Laertes, and Rosencrantz, and Guildenstern, thereby turning all of them gay. -
A judge declared a mistrial in the case of Brandon McInerney, who was accused of killing 15-year-old Larry King at their junior high school in 2008. Judge Charles Campbell declared the mistrial after jurors were unable to reach a verdict, deadlocking at 7 to 5 in favor of finding McInerney guilty of voluntary manslaughter. To reach a verdict, the jury would have had to reach a unanimous conclusion.
More HERE
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He's certainly got some balls on him.
If he skims tree tops like in the video on a regular basis......he may not.
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Only in Texas
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The reason that the spokeswoman for the Texas State Commission on Judicial Conduct had no comment was since performing marriages is not an official duty of Judges serving on the civil district court, Judge Parker isn't doing anything wrong. Judges (on this particular court) still have the ability to conduct marriage ceremonies if they wish, she doesn't.
I guess this is a symbolic protest.