Might have to check this out... However, it will never hold a candle to the 1981 version with Miles O'Keeffe.
Thursday, June 30, 2016
Tarzan Goes Adult
The gay porn industry is really upgrading their films
Might have to check this out... However, it will never hold a candle to the 1981 version with Miles O'Keeffe.
Might have to check this out... However, it will never hold a candle to the 1981 version with Miles O'Keeffe.
Calum McSwiggan has been charged for making a false police report
So here's more about Calum's foolishness. He claimed that he was attacked and filed a police report about it.
However, it turned out to be false. Here's the report
Calum McSwiggan, who is known for his online posts and videos, is scheduled to be in court today on a charge of making a false police report, the Los Angeles County District Attorney’s Office announced.
McSwiggan (dob 5/21/90) of London faces one misdemeanor count of false report to a peace officer that a felony was committed in case 6AR31941.
Arraignment is scheduled today in Department W73 of the Los Angeles County Superior Court, Airport Branch.
On June 27, McSwiggan allegedly falsely reported to police that he had been beaten by three men, prosecutors said.
The defendant faces a possible maximum sentence of 364 days in county jail if convicted as charged.
The case remains under investigation by the Los Angeles County Sheriff’s Department, West Hollywood Station.
Wednesday, June 29, 2016
49 Celebrities Honor 49 Victims of Orlando Tragedy in Ryan Murphy-Produced Tribute - WATCH
From the HRC
For too long, a toxic combination of anti-LGBTQ hate and easy access to guns has put LGBTQ people at disproportionate risk of violence and murder. On June 12, forty-nine innocent people -- most of them Latinx -- were killed at Pulse nightclub in Orlando simply because of who they were. It's on all of us to keep their memories alive, and to ensure part of their legacy becomes meaningful action to end hate violence. Join the Human Rights Campaign and urge your legislator to support legislation that will ensure LGBTQ people are safe and equal in every community and find out how to support the survivors and families of the Orlando victims. Learn more at:
http://www.hrc.org/StopTheHate
Special thanks to Ryan Murphy, Ned Martel and their colleagues at Ryan Murphy Television for making this project possible and all of our friends in the entertainment community for their support of this project including (in order of appearance) Lady Gaga, Chris Pine, Cuba Gooding Jr., Connie Britton, Matt Bomer, Sarah Paulson, Angela Bassett, Lea Michele, Colton Haynes, Sophia Bush, Jane Fonda, Harry Shum Jr., Denis O’Hare, Rob Reiner, Melissa Benoist, Caitlyn Jenner, Édgar Ramírez, Max Greenfield, Chaz Bono, Cheyenne Jackson, Emma Roberts, Kerry Washington, George Lopez, Evan Rachel Wood, Sofia Vergara, Diego Boneta, Nina Jacobson, Demi Lovato, Tyler Oakley, Yeardley Smith, Kid Cudi, Kaitlin Olson, Kevin McHale, Jamie Lee Curtis, Lee Daniels, Chace Crawford, Evan Peters, Gerard Butler, Katey Sagal, John Stamos, Laverne Cox, Jordana Brewster, Wes Bentley, Finn Wittrock, Darren Criss, Kathy Bates, Anna Paquin, Guillermo Díaz and Joe Mantello.
Did Calum McSwiggan lie about a Hate Crime?
So, some gay YouTube star named Calum McSwiggan claimed to have been attacked at WeHo. He shared a photo of himself in the hospital, saying it was “the worst night of my life.”
I saw this float around social media and thought... Maybe this happened, maybe it didn't. It looks like it didn't.
The WeHo Sheriff’s Station are saying Calum’s claims are false. In fact, Calum was examined in the parking lot of Pavilions grocery store on Santa Monica Boulevard, and the cops saw no signs of injuries. Then, some interesting tidbits came out that shook up his story.
The cops said that Calum vandalized car, and they police arrested him. Calum was booked, photographed and placed into a cell. So, you may be asking about the injuries from the pics, well, according to the cops... he did it to himself.
The cops said that Calum by himself beat himself with the handle and receiver to a payphone inside the cell.
Here's a statement from the sheriff's department:
Lord... And then these tweets came out about his vandalism
Looks like somebody's lyin'!
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I saw this float around social media and thought... Maybe this happened, maybe it didn't. It looks like it didn't.
The WeHo Sheriff’s Station are saying Calum’s claims are false. In fact, Calum was examined in the parking lot of Pavilions grocery store on Santa Monica Boulevard, and the cops saw no signs of injuries. Then, some interesting tidbits came out that shook up his story.
The cops said that Calum by himself beat himself with the handle and receiver to a payphone inside the cell.
Here's a statement from the sheriff's department:
The Los Angeles County Sheriff’s Department has an affirmative duty to fully investigate all assaults and reports of violence in our community. Deputies from West Hollywood Station responded to and investigated the report by Calum McSwiggan that he was assaulted by three males after leaving a local nightclub early Monday morning. Responding deputies were unable to substantiate the assault. Mr. McSwiggan, who had no visible injuries, was subsequently arrested after deputies observed him vandalizing a car in the 8900 block of Santa Monica Boulevard. After being booked and photographed, Mr. McSwiggan was placed into a cell by himself at West Hollywood Station. Mr. McSwiggan was then observed injuring himself with the handle and receiver to a payphone inside the cell. Medical personnel were summoned and Mr. McSwiggan was transported to a local hospital for treatment. Mr. McSwiggan’s booking photo was taken prior to deputies seeing Mr. McSwiggan injuring himself. That booking photo is attached.
Lord... And then these tweets came out about his vandalism
Looks like somebody's lyin'!
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Tuesday, June 28, 2016
In North Carolina: House leadership drafts HB2 changes amid pressure from NBA
New HB 2 revisions are happening due to pressure from NBA
Here's more
Among the draft bill’s biggest changes is the creation of an official document that would recognize a person’s gender reassignment. The new document, which is treated as the equivalent as a birth certificate in the draft legislation, is referred to as a certificate of sex reassignment.source
“An individual who (i) was born in another state or territory of the United States that does not provide a mechanism for amending a current certificate of birth or issuing a new certificate of birth to change the sex of an individual following sex reassignment surgery and (ii) resides in this State at the time of the written application may request a certificate of sex reassignment from the State Registrar,” the legislation reads. “The State Registrar shall issue a certificate of sex reassignment upon a written application from an individual accompanied by a notarized statement from the physician who performed the sex reassignment surgery or from a physician licensed to practice medicine who has examined the individual and can certify that the person has undergone sex reassignment surgery.”
The draft bill also amends portions of HB2 related to protections for employees by adding specific references to federal statutes that provide special protections for certain groups of people. Other changes in the draft legislation increase the penalties for suspects convicted of committing certain offenses in a multi-person bathroom or changing facility.
A source familiar with the inner workings of the House Republican Caucus, where legislation is typically discussed prior to being introduced for debate by the full body, said caucus members had not yet been briefed on the legislation.
James Dobson on Donald Trump’s Christian Faith
Only the Lord knows the condition of a person’s heart. I can only tell you what I’ve heard. First, Trump appears to be tender to things of the Spirit. I also hear that Paula White has known Trump for years and that she personally led him to Christ. Do I know that for sure? No. Do I know the details of that alleged conversion? I can’t say that I do. But there are many Christian leaders who are serving on a faith advisory committee for Trump in the future. I am among them. There are about 45 of us that include Franklin Graham, Robert Jeffress, Jack Graham, Ben Carson, James Robison, Jerry Johnson, and many others whom you would probably know. We’ve all agreed to serve. How will that play out if Trump becomes president? I don’t know. It is a good start, I would think.
If anything, this man is a baby Christian who doesn’t have a clue about how believers think, talk and act. All I can tell you is that we have only two choices, Hillary or Donald. Hillary scares me to death. And, if Christians stay home because he isn’t a better candidate, Hillary will run the world for perhaps eight years. The very thought of that haunts my nights and days. One thing is sure: we need to be in prayer for our nation at this time of crisis.
TRASH!!!
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Judge guts a pivotal part of Mississippi's HB 1523
Good news from the South.
A federal judge in Mississippi snatches out a silly piece of Mississippi’s HB 1523. Judge Carlton Reeves ruled that county clerks cannot cite their raggedy religious beliefs as a valid legal reason to deny marriage licenses to same-sex couples.
Here's more
Reeves is extending his previous order that overturned Mississippi's ban on same-sex marriage. He says circuit clerks are required to provide equal treatment for all couples, gay or straight.
Mississippi's religious objections measure, House Bill 1523, was filed in response to last summer's U.S. Supreme Court ruling that legalized gay marriage nationwide. That ruling is called the Obergefell case, after the man who filed it.
"Mississippi's elected officials may disagree with Obergefell, of course, and may express that disagreement as they see fit — by advocating for a constitutional amendment to overturn the decision, for example," Reeves wrote Monday. "But the marriage license issue will not be adjudicated anew after every legislative session."
Attorneys were still waiting on rulings from Reeves in two other lawsuits seeking to block all of the religious objections law, including provisions that could affect schools' bathroom policies for transgender students.
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Monday, June 27, 2016
SCOTUS Strikes Down RIDICULOUS Abortion Law
SCOTUS stands with women's rights today! They just snatched a tough restriction on abortion.
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Passed in 2013, the law said clinics providing abortion services must meet the same building standards as ambulatory surgical centers. And it required doctors performing abortions to have admitting privileges at nearby hospitals.
Since the law was passed, the number of clinics providing abortion services in Texas dropped to 19 from 42. Opponents said that number would fall to ten if the Supreme Court upheld the law.
The Center for Reproductive Rights called the law "an absolute sham," arguing that abortion patients rarely require hospitalization and that many patients simply take two pills.
Justice Stephen G. Breyer in writing the majority opinion said "neither of these provisions offers medical benefits sufficient to justify the burdens upon access that each imposes. Each places a substantial obstacle in the path of women seeking a pre-viability abortion, each constitutes an undue burden on abortion access, and each violates the Federal Constitution."
Breyer was joined in the majority by Justices Ruth Bader Ginsburg, Elena Kagan and Anthony M. Kennedy. Chief Justice John G. Roberts Jr., Samuel A. Alito Jr. and Clarence Thomas dissented.
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READ Jesse Williams' Full Speech from the 2016 BET Awards
There was a lot that went down on the BET Awards last night. Mostly good stuff (which is a first) but anywho, one of the night's biggest moments was Actor Jesse Williams winning the BET’s Humanitarian Award for his activism.
Jesse laid out a one-two punch of a speech that was truthful, harsh but inspiring. Here's the transcript of his speech.
Before we get into it, I just want to say I brought my parents out tonight. I just want to thank them for being here, for teaching me to focus on comprehension over career, and that they make sure I learn what the schools were afraid to teach us. And also thank my amazing wife for changing my life.
Now, this award - this is not for me. This is for the real organizers all over the country - the activists, the civil rights attorneys, the struggling parents, the families, the teachers, the students that are realizing that a system built to divide and impoverish and destroy us cannot stand if we do.
It's kind of basic mathematics - the more we learn about who we are and how we got here, the more we will mobilize.
Now, this is also in particular for the black women in particular who have spent their lifetimes dedicated to nurturing everyone before themselves. We can and will do better for you.
Now, what we've been doing is looking at the data and we know that police somehow manage to deescalate, disarm and not kill white people everyday. So what's going to happen is we are going to have equal rights and justice in our own country or we will restructure their function and ours.
Now... I got more y'all - yesterday would have been young Tamir Rice's 14th birthday so I don't want to hear anymore about how far we've come when paid public servants can pull a drive-by on 12 year old playing alone in the park in broad daylight, killing him on television and then going home to make a sandwich. Tell Rekia Boyd how it's so much better than it is to live in 2012 than it is to live in 1612 or 1712. Tell that to Eric Garner. Tell that to Sandra Bland. Tell that to Dorian Hunt.
Now the thing is, though, all of us in here getting money - that alone isn't gonna stop this. Alright, now dedicating our lives, dedicating our lives to getting money just to give it right back for someone's brand on our body when we spent centuries praying with brands on our bodies, and now we pray to get paid for brands on our bodies.
There has been no war that we have not fought and died on the front lines of. There has been no job we haven't done. There is no tax they haven't leveed against us - and we've paid all of them. But freedom is somehow always conditional here. "You're free," they keep telling us. But she would have been alive if she hadn't acted so... free.
Now, freedom is always coming in the hereafter, but you know what, though, the hereafter is a hustle. We want it now.
And let's get a couple things straight, just a little sidenote - the burden of the brutalized is not to comfort the bystander. That's not our job, alright - stop with all that. If you have a critique for the resistance, for our resistance, then you better have an established record of critique of our oppression. If you have no interest, if you have no interest in equal rights for black people then do not make suggestions to those who do. Sit down.
We've been floating this country on credit for centuries, yo, and we're done watching and waiting while this invention called whiteness uses and abuses us, burying black people out of sight and out of mind while extracting our culture, our dollars, our entertainment like oil - black gold, ghettoizing and demeaning our creations then stealing them, gentrifying our genius and then trying us on like costumes before discarding our bodies like rinds of strange fruit. The thing is though... the thing is that just because we're magic doesn't mean we're not real.
Thank you.
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Game of Thrones snatched my Wig
OMG!
Game of Thrones was too much, just too much!
Cersei, Arya, Dorne... So much happened last night and I'm here for it!
Do you watch? What did you think?
Friday, June 24, 2016
Former House Speaker and child molester Dennis Hastert goes to prison
Former House Speaker Dennis Hastert is heading to prison for basically molesting young boys. He's about to begin a 15-month sentence in the big house.
CNN report
Hastert, 74, entered the Federal Medical Center in Rochester, Minnesota. He is not facing sexual abuse charges because the statutes of limitation have expired. But he pleaded guilty to hiding money transactions, admitting that he paid $3.5 million to keep one victim quiet.
The incidents allegedly happened when he was a teacher and wrestling coach in Illinois in the 1960s and '70s.
Hastert also acknowledged misleading the FBI last year when the agency was investigating the claims. Judge Thomas Durkin called Hastert "a serial child molester" when he handed down the sentence in April, CNN affiliate WGN reported.
In addition to his prison term, the former Republican lawmaker was ordered to pay $250,000 to a victims' fund and enter a sex offender treatment program.
New Anti-Trump Ad: Donald Trump is Full of Hate
This is from Stop Hate
Stop Hate is a campaign to Save America from Donald Trump.
Stop Hate is a campaign to Save America from Donald Trump.
Thursday, June 23, 2016
Pulse holds 'Latin Night' Block Party
They can't hold us down!
The owners of the Pulse nightclub will hold a block party or rather a "Latin Night" street party tonight.
The party will take place a couple of miles away from Pulse, and there will be performers, dancers and surprises. I'm glad to see the community coming together and standing strong! The energy of Pulse will keep going and I'm so here for it!
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SCOTUS Upholds Affirmative Action Program at University of Texas
Justice was served!
SCOTUS dumped the challenge to the affirmative action piece in admissions at the University of Texas at Austin.
The vote was 4-3 and only seven justices voted due to Justice Elena Kagan stepping aside and Antonin Scalia... Well, dead.
Here's more
The case challenged a second part of the admissions program. Under it, remaining students from Texas and elsewhere are considered under standards that take into account academic achievement and other factors, including race and ethnicity. Many colleges and universities base all of their admissions decisions on such holistic grounds.Abigail must be mad.
In Grutter v. Bollinger in 2003, the Supreme Court endorsed free-standing admissions programs, saying it was permissible to consider race as one factor among many to achieve educational diversity. Writing for the majority in that case, Justice Sandra Day O’Connor said she expected that “25 years from now,” the “use of racial preferences will no longer be necessary.”
The case, Fisher v. University of Texas, No. 14-981, was brought by Abigail Fisher, a white woman who said the university had denied her admission based on her race. She has since graduated from Louisiana State University.
When the court last considered Ms. Fisher’s case in 2013, supporters of affirmative action were nervous. But the court deferred conclusive action in what appeared to be a compromise decision.
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80 percent of LGBT people killed are People of Color
This hits so hard
According to the most recent report by the National Coalition of Anti-Violence Programs, 80 percent of the LGBT people killed in America are people of color.
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"We are still closeted within our community that, unfortunately, may still deny we still exist," says Ari Gutiérrez with the Latino Equality Alliance. "We've seen bullying in the school environment, and then take that out to the community-level."source
Gutiérrez says many pockets of cultures – including here in Southern California – still harbor fearful and violent views towards LGBT people, and she talks with communities in their native tongue to open up their minds.
"I think we're a vulnerable target," she says.
LGBT people are also less likely to trust law enforcement to help them, believing it will lead to more harassment by officers.
Just last week, for example, a transgender woman in Santa Ana was shot in the back by an assailant. She survived her injuries, but also didn't cooperate with authorities to find the perpetrator.
But Gutiérrez says the tragedy in Orlando should serve a wake-up call – to LGBT people and others – that this should not continue.
"It just happens so often," she says. "You see these young people being victimized, not because of what they were doing or they were in the wrong place, it's just because of who they are."
Roland Emmerich says "Stonewall was a white event"
So, Roland Emmerich is still trash.
After the gays drag him for that bullshit movie STONEWALL, he still thinks it was a great film. Here's the quick and dirty about the film. STONEWALL was a whitewashed version of the real Stonewall riots. Roland created some white pretty boy to go to NYC and free the enslaved LGBT community. The critics, gays and others slammed the film and it tanked at the box office.
Well, Roland's feelings were hurt and he still feels some type of way about it.
“My movie was exactly what they said it wasn’t. It was politically correct. It had black, transgender people in there. We just got killed by one voice on the internet who saw a trailer and said, this is whitewashing Stonewall. Stonewall was a white event, let’s be honest. But nobody wanted to hear that any more.”
A white event? Really, sir? You are trash! It was not a white event and to say that is pure ignorance at its peak. Get the frak out of here with that crap. In fact, go to hell!
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Interesting Quote: Zayn Malik
“If girls find me attractive, then that’s a cool thing,” he says. “If guys find me attractive, then that’s a cool thing as well. It’s sick. It’s a compliment. I’m blessed by whoever was up there to be who I am and be able to do what I do. I genuinely mean that.”
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Wednesday, June 22, 2016
In Tennessee: Congressional Idiot wants to 'Make America White Again'
LORD...
Some f**khead independent candidate posted this sign with the slogan "Make America White Again"
Rick Tyler wants things to go back to the 1960s because whiteness was King and unchallenged.
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Some f**khead independent candidate posted this sign with the slogan "Make America White Again"
Rick Tyler wants things to go back to the 1960s because whiteness was King and unchallenged.
Here's more
Tyler told Channel 3, he has no hatred in his heart for "people of color." He says the sign's message is that America should go back to a "1960s, Ozzie and Harriet, Leave it to Beaver time when there were no break-ins; no violent crime; no mass immigration."source
Several Channel 3 viewers have called or sent messages to our newsroom, saying the signs do not reflect the feelings of the entire county and that they want them down.
Tyler said, "I respect their right to have an opinion. I believe the majority of the people in the county like it."
"I saw people taking pictures beside it right after I posted it," added Tyler.
Channel 3 asked Tyler if he feared for his safety or backlash from the campaign sign. He said, "I don't fear it. I welcome it, and I will respond with the application of truth."
Tyler posted a second sign on Highway 64 with Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.'s famous "I Have a Dream" quote written over a White House surrounded by Confederate Flags.
Other candidates in the District 3 race include incumbent Chuck Fleischmann, who's facing Allan Levene and Geoffery Suhmer Smith for the GOP nomination.
Michael Friedman, George Ryan Love and Melody Shekari are vying for the Democratic nomination.
Tyler is running as an independent candidate along with Topher Kersting and Cassandra Mitchell.
So This is Happening
Now there's a Captain America gay porn parody coming soon
These are usually boring, but we'll see
These are usually boring, but we'll see
Donald Trump's Evangelical Advisory Board is Trash
Donald Trump has announced his evangelical advisory board yesterday and girl...
26 members of this bullshit board are nothing less than garbage, but then again, it's Donald Trump.
Here are some of them:
Michele Bachmann, crackhead
Ralph Reed, founder of the Faith & Freedom Coalition
James Dobson, founder of Focus on the Family.
Harry Jackson, pastor of the Maryland-based Hope Christian Church
Robert Jeffries, pastor of the First Baptist Church of Dallas
These freaks are very anti-LGBT and very crazy.
Lynda Carter is President of United States in Supergirl
So excited!
My generation's Wonder Woman Lynda Carter will be the President of the United States on the second season of Supergirl on the CW.
It only fitting for the her to be in this role. Lynda will stay in the comic home roots at DC, so it should be an interesting homecoming. I can't to see her in action.
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Tuesday, June 21, 2016
In Orlando: Son pays tribute his Mother who sacrificed her life
There are so many stories on the lives loss in the Orlando shooting, but this one...
Brenda Lee Marquez-McCool and her son Isaiah Henderson were known at Pulse nightclub. She was the mother many of us would love to have in our lives. She loved her son for so much and was there for him always.
That night, they went out dancing and then shots rang out in the club. Brenda shielded her son from bullets. He survived, but she didn't.
Brenda died for her son.
WATCH as Isaiah speaks out about his mother
READ Frank Ocean's Emotional Response to the Orlando Tragedy
I read in the paper that my brothers are being thrown from rooftops blindfolded with their hands tied behind their backs for violating sharia law. I heard the crowds stone these fallen men if they move after they hit the ground. I heard it’s in the name of God. I heard my pastor speak for God too, quoting scripture from his book. Words like abomination popped off my skin like hot grease as he went on to describe a lake of fire that God wanted me in. I heard on the news that the aftermath of a hate crime left piles of bodies on a dance floor this month. I heard the gunman feigned dead among all the people he killed. I heard the news say he was one of us. I was six years old when I heard my dad call our transgender waitress a faggot as he dragged me out a neighborhood diner saying we wouldn’t be served because she was dirty. That was the last afternoon I saw my father and the first time I heard that word, I think, although it wouldn’t shock me if it wasn’t. Many hate us and wish we didn’t exist. Many are annoyed by our wanting to be married like everyone else or use the correct restroom like everyone else. Many don’t see anything wrong with passing down the same old values that send thousands of kids into suicidal depression each year. So we say pride and we express love for who and what we are. Because who else will in earnest? I daydream on the idea that maybe all this barbarism and all these transgressions against ourselves is an equal and opposite reaction to something better happening in this world, some great swelling wave of openness and wakefulness out here. Reality by comparison looks grey, as in neither black nor white but also bleak. We are all God’s children, I heard. I left my siblings out of it and spoke with my maker directly and I think he sounds a lot like myself. If I being myself were more awesome at being detached from my own story in a way I being myself never could be. I wanna know what others hear, I’m scared to know but I wanna know what everyone hears when they talk to God. Do the insane hear the voice distorted? Do the indoctrinated hear another voice entirely?
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Senate rejects Gun Measures
The tragedy in Orlando didn't stop the GOP in the senate from being assholes.
The other day, they voted against any means to regulate gun control.
This is how they voted
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The other day, they voted against any means to regulate gun control.
This is how they voted
The measures Monday each went down in succession on largely party line votes. The 60-vote threshold required for passage prevented even Republicans, who control the chamber, from pushing through their favored measures.
The Senate rejected first a Republican proposal to update the background check system for gun purchases, which would have required states to add more information on mental health records to a national database. It also included a provision to alert law enforcement agencies when an individual who was on a government terror watch list in the last five years buys a gun.
The proposal, sponsored by Iowa GOP Sen. Chuck Grassley, failed to get the 60 votes for passage. The vote was 53-47, largely along party lines. Some Senate Democrats warned that the legislation's revised definition of who would be considered mentally ill could potentially still allow those with significant psychological issues to legally purchase guns.
A second proposal to expand the background check system for those buying guns to require checks at gun shows and for online purchases went down 44-56. Murphy, the Democrat who launched a nearly 15-hour filibuster last week to press for new gun restrictions after the Orlando massacre where 49 people were killed, sponsored the proposal.
A Republican proposal to delay gun sales to individuals included on a government terror watch list failed in a mostly party-line vote of 53-47. The measure was sponsored by Texas GOP Sen. John Cornyn. The bill would allow a judge to permanently block a purchase if the court determined probable cause that the individual is involved in terrorist activity.
And a Democratic option that sought to bar all gun sales to those individuals on the terror watch list failed 47-53, the second time the proposal went down to defeat after a mass shooting. California Democratic Sen. Dianne Feinstein originally pushed the proposal in December after a shooting in San Bernardino, and revived it after the horrific Orlando nightclub shooting by a gunman who pledged allegiance to the terror group ISIS.
Feinstein's plan did garner the support of some Republicans, including Sen. Kelly Ayotte of New Hampshire who is facing a fierce re-election bid this year.
Sen. Mark Kirk, another vulnerable Republican up for re-election, voted with Democrats on all of the four amendments.
On the flip side, Sen. Heidi Heitkamp of North Dakota, a moderate Democrat, voted with Republicans to oppose the two amendments offered by Murphy and Feinstein.
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Interesting Quote: Tom Hiddleston
“I’m here to tell you that my butt is not dangerous. And there are many, many more dangerous things that people are happy to broadcast. I don’t know what that says about the world we live in, but it probably says something.”
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Monday, June 20, 2016
Broadway's Finest join together for “Broadway for Orlando”
This is really amazing.
So, the big Broadway superstars got together to create a hopeful version of Burt Bacharach’s song “What the World Needs Now is Love”. The benefit single is a tribute to the victims the mass shooting in Orlando.
Here are some of the actors/performers involved
Sara Bareilles, Kristen Bell, Wayne Brady, Matthew Broderick, Andréa Burns, Ann Hampton Callaway, Liz Callaway, Len Cariou, Paul Castree, Michael Cerveris, Joshua Colley, Lilla Crawford, Carmen Cusack, Darius de Haas, Fran Drescher, Gloria Estefan, Christopher Fitzgerald, Kimiko Glenn, Whoopi Goldberg, Renée Elise Goldsberry, Joel Grey, Sean Hayes, Heather Headley, Nina Hennessy, Megan Hilty, James Monroe Iglehart, Bill Irwin, Carole King, Judy Kuhn, Nathan Lane, Anika Larsen, Jennifer Lewis, Zachary Levi, Jose Llana, Rebecca Luker, Andrea Martin, Audra McDonald, Idina Menzel, Janet Metz, Lin-Manuel Miranda, Brian Stokes Mitchell, Jessie Mueller, Donna Murphy, Rosie O’Donnell, Kelli O’Hara, Rory O’Malley, Orfeh, Sarah Jessica Parker, Rosie Perez, Bernadette Peters, Billy Porter, Alice Ripley, Chita Rivera, Keala Settle, Kate Shindle, Jennifer Simard, Will Swenson, Rachel Tucker, Tommy Tune, Jonah Verdon, Lillias White, Marissa Jaret Winokur, B.D. Wong and Tony Yazbeck.
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Hot TV Trailer: Still Star-Crossed
“Still Star-Crossed,” a period drama from Shondaland, picks up where the famous story of Romeo and Juliet ends, charting the treachery, palace intrigue and ill-fated romances of the Montagues and Capulets in the wake of the young lovers’ tragic fate.
Rumor Alert: Justice Thomas Considers Retirement
The streets are talking... And the word is Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas may be retiring after the presidential election.
Now, it's only a rumor. All sources are unnamed, so who knows how true this is. But hopefully, this is true because if he leaves, the Supreme Court loses one of their most conservative voices. And if Hillary gets in, we will be in the clear.
So let's hope Thomas is out by 2017.
Interesting Quote: Donald Trump
“I think profiling is something that we’re going to have to start thinking about as a country. And other countries do it; you look at Israel and you look at others and they do it, and they do it successfully. You know, I hate the concept of profiling. But we have to start using common sense and we have to use, you know, we have to use our heads. We really have to look at profiling. We have to look at it seriously. And other countries do it, and it’s not the worst thing to do. I hate the concept of profiling, but we have to use common sense. We’re not using common sense.”
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Friday, June 17, 2016
The Other Massacre at a Gay Bar in Mexico
This happened about a month ago
At least five people are believed to have been killed in a mass shooting at a gay bar in Mexico, reports have emerged. Three gunmen entered La Madame, a LGBTI bar in Xalapa, and carried out a mass shooting on 22 May.
In a statement by the state prosecutor, it said five people were killed, 14 injured, of which 12 have been discharged from hospital. However, contradictory reports claim there were many more deaths.
Regeneración reports a witness who entered the bar at the time of the shooting says he took refuge in a cupboard as soon as he heard the shootings. He says three males with weapons entered the bar, and soon started massacring people. He could hear screams.
Photos are said to show at least seven killed.
Luis Donaldo Rivera Calderon was one of the victims named by the media. A promising athlete and student, he had gone to the bar with his uncle Luis Manuel Rivera Aguilar.
‘They opened the doors violently and drew their guns. There were shouts,’ the uncle told local media. ‘They had no mercy. Bullets ricocheted everywhere. The white tiles were stained red. Those who wanted to escape slipped in puddles of blood.’
‘It was a slaughterhouse,’ he added.
A 24-year-old employee told reporters at El Noreste she witnessed an armed group enter the bar and shot into a crowd of more than 200 people. She said there were at least 15 dead and multiple wounded, who were taken to various hospitals.
Police said they launched a search for the gunmen, implementing ‘special security protocols for several hours’, but no arrests were made.
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Amelia Gapin is the first trans woman on the cover of 'Women's Running' magazine
"You know, I grew up through the 90s and there was never any positive representation. I just remember growing up thinking, 'I guess there’s nobody else like me. I’m the only person who feels the way that I do.' It was really, really alienating because I didn't know you could actually transition and live those things you felt and be the person you knew you were."
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Two US Marines under Investigation for Threats against Gay Clubs
These fools....
Two dumbasses thought it would be cute to threaten us on Snapchat and Facebook. These active-duty Marines are under investigation due this pic
The picture was posted recently to Camp Mendleton resale, a closed Facebook group for male Marines with more than 25,000 members. The person who purportedly posted it also wrote “Too soon?”
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Two dumbasses thought it would be cute to threaten us on Snapchat and Facebook. These active-duty Marines are under investigation due this pic
The picture was posted recently to Camp Mendleton resale, a closed Facebook group for male Marines with more than 25,000 members. The person who purportedly posted it also wrote “Too soon?”
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First Lt. Thomas Gray, a spokesman for I MEF, told Marine Corps Times that the command has identified the Marine in the picture and the one who posted it on Facebook.I hope this doesn't start a trend.
“We cannot discuss details of an ongoing investigation, but I can tell you the command is taking this incident seriously,” Gray said.
Marine officials have vowed to take “appropriate action” in response to the social media post, according to a statement released by I MEF.
"The Marine Corps does not tolerate discrimination based on sexual orientation, race, gender or religion," the statement says. “...This type of behavior and mindset will not be allowed, and it is not consistent with the core values of honor, courage and commitment that are demonstrated by the vast majority of Marines on a daily basis."
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Thursday, June 16, 2016
'Real O'Neals' Star's Rant may end the Show
So remember the Real O'Neals actor Noah Galvin, running off at the mouth about Colton Haynes, Eric Stonestreet and Bryan Singer about a week ago?
Well, looks like his ass is about to get tossed out in the street.
Sources with knowledge of the events say ABC was blindsided by the interview, which was set up by Galvin's personal publicist, Maria Candida, as part of an Emmy push for the young star. (She declined comment.) Galvin quickly apologized for his "brazen and hurtful comments" on Twitter, but how all of this bad press affects the low-rated bubble series — which, after an "abusive" waiting period (Galvin's word), was renewed by the network May 12 — remains to be seen. As the controversy raged, the specter of a reduced episode order arose at ABC, according to one source. An executive producer who had spent four years getting the series on the air was "begging the network not to take action," says this source. (Reps for ABC declined comment on the situation.)See, his head got too big and now look.
And this was not the first such incident involving the actor's behavior. Insiders say Galvin — a New York native who had only a couple of small acting credits before landing the starring role on Real O'Neals, which is based on sex columnist Dan Savage's childhood — has been warned multiple times about matters of "ego and entitlement." One show source says the set likely will be awkward when the cast returns to film season two later this summer: "He caused a grade-A shit show. ABC screamed at him all afternoon."
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Tyler Hoechlin Cast as Superman In CW's Supergirl Series
Teen Wolf fans!
Tyler Hoechlin is the new Superman for the CW's Supergirl. He's been a fan favorite for years so I'm sure this will go over well.
Deadline reports
“Greg [Berlanti] and I have wanted to work with Tyler for ages, so this worked out perfectly because Tyler is Superman,” said Andrew Kreisberg, executive producer of Supergirl. “We are so thrilled and humbled to add another amazing actor to the legacy of this iconic character.Congrats, Tyler!
Oprah endorses Hillary Clinton
She did it!
Oprah is here for Hillary Clinton for president. She said this during an interview on “Good Morning America.”
“I will get behind the one. I’m with her. I have to say I’m with her. I would also say, that regardless of your politics, you cannot be a woman in the world and not see that this is a monumental time for women breaking the ceiling. Talk about breaking the ceiling!”
Wands Raised in Tribute to Luis Vielma at the Wizarding World of Harry Potter
On Monday, hundreds of folks raised their wands for Luis Vielma, the 22-year-old ride assistant for the Harry Potter and the Forbidden Journey ride at the Universal Orlando Resort. He along with 48 others were killed at Pulse nightclub over the weekend.
Luis loved his job and loved life. Please watch this video of his friends and strangers celebrate him.
Something to Think about
What if he was gay?
What if his self-hatred got the best of him?
How would we feel if this was true?
Wednesday, June 15, 2016
Former president of GOProud stumps for Trump
Chris Barron... y'all remember him?
He's the former president of the horrid GOProud, that sad ass group of confused gays. Anywho, he's out here championing Trump as a true leader.
He spoke to CNN and said:
Girl, bye
He's the former president of the horrid GOProud, that sad ass group of confused gays. Anywho, he's out here championing Trump as a true leader.
He spoke to CNN and said:
“I have no doubt that Donald Trump would be better for LGBT Americans. Hillary Clinton wants to continue a reckless foreign policy that has made the world less safe for all Americans, including LGBT Americans. She can find plenty of time to crucify Christians in the U.S. for perceived anti-gay bias, but when we’ve got ISIS throwing gay people off of buildings, when we have Muslim states that are prescribing the death penalty for people who are gay, I would think this would be something that a friend of the LGBT community would be able to speak out on, and Hillary Clinton finds it unable to do so.”
Girl, bye
Tuesday, June 14, 2016
House Democrats erupt in protest; some walk out during moment of silence
This drama
The Hill reports
See for yourself
The Hill reports
Some lawmakers walked out of the House chamber before the moment of silence began in protest, including Rep. Jim Himes (D-Conn.). Earlier in the day, Himes declared he would not participate in any more moments of silence as a form of protest of the lack of legislative responses to mass shootings.
“The fact is that a moment of silence is an act of respect, and we supported that. But it is a not a license to do nothing,” House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.) told reporters off the House floor afterward.
“Members have just had enough of having one minute, a moment of silence on the floor, and then take no action,” she said.
After the moment of silence ended, Assistant Minority Leader James Clyburn (D-S.C.) tried to seek recognition, a request Ryan denied.
Clyburn told reporters that he wanted to speak about the upcoming anniversary — this Friday — of the shooting at a historically black church in his district a year ago in Charleston, S.C.
“I think that we have some appalling silence taking place in this body when we ought to be responding,” Clyburn said.
See for yourself
Day after shooting, House Democrats erupt in protest; some walk out during moment of silence https://t.co/l5g73n1fS6https://t.co/PrsT9B8V9y
— ABC News (@ABC) June 14, 2016
See all 49 names of the Victims of the Orlando Mass Shooting
All 49 names have now been released. #OrlandoUnited pic.twitter.com/TWvoFE0KRc
— John Colucci (@johncolucci) June 14, 2016
Omar Mateen visited Gay Bars and Gay Dating Apps
This is interesting news, folks.
Omar Mateen has been on gay apps and present at Pulse for several months. Witnesses say that Omar was at the club, sitting in a corner by himself, And other times, he would get really drunk and shout at people.
Then, here is the interesting part... Others have seen him on the gay apps
Kevin West said the shooter, 29-year-old Omar Mateen, contacted him three months ago through a dating app called Jack'd.Some say that Omar was on Adam4Adam and other apps. It makes me wonder if he was dealing with his own demons. Not excusing this at all, but I wondering if his "self-hatred" led to this.
"When he first contacted me, he was saying things like, 'What clubs are popping and things of that sort, what are good places to go?'" West said. "And I remember telling him, 'Oh, you can just look it up online because I don't go out that much."
West said he didn't think anything of it at the time. On Sunday morning, he said he met with FBI agents and showed them his communications with Mateen.
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Monday, June 13, 2016
Donald Trump: "If you had guns in that room ... you wouldn't have had this same kind of a tragedy"
"If people in that room had guns, with the bullets flying in the opposite direction right at right at his head, you wouldn't have had the same tragedy that you ended up having. And nobody even knows how bad that tragedy is, because I think probably the numbers will get bigger and bigger and worse and worse."
Donald Trump: "If you had guns in that room ... you wouldn't have had this same kind of a tragedy" #OrlandoShooting https://t.co/uLKStQPm0E
— CNN Politics (@CNNPolitics) June 13, 2016
Hillary Clinton's Statement to the LGBT Community
“I join Americans in praying for the victims of the attack in Orlando, their families and the first responders who did everything they could to save lives.
“This was an act of terror. Law enforcement and intelligence agencies are hard at work, and we will learn more in the hours and days ahead. For now, we can say for certain that we need to redouble our efforts to defend our country from threats at home and abroad. That means defeating international terror groups, working with allies and partners to go after them wherever they are, countering their attempts to recruit people here and everywhere, and hardening our defenses at home. It also means refusing to be intimidated and staying true to our values.
“This was also an act of hate. The gunman attacked an LGBT nightclub during Pride Month. To the LGBT community: please know that you have millions of allies across our country. I am one of them. We will keep fighting for your right to live freely, openly and without fear. Hate has absolutely no place in America.
“Finally, we need to keep guns like the ones used last night out of the hands of terrorists or other violent criminals. This is the deadliest mass shooting in the history of the United States and it reminds us once more that weapons of war have no place on our streets.
“This is a time to stand together and resolve to do everything we can to defend our communities and country.”
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