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[Snowcone]

Ray Harryhausen has died. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ray_Harryhausen#Death_and_legacy

A pity. My family loved his Sinbad movies.

 

[Spang]

Same-sex couples in Delaware will soon be able to get married if they want.

 

[Forster]

Same-sex couples in Delaware will soon be able to get married if they want.

Good news, I think that is 10 down 40 to go, momentum will pick up. I truly think 20 years from now people will scratch their heads and go why was there even a debate about this?

 

[Spang]

Delaware makes state #11. There's also D.C. and an indigenous tribe or two.

 

[Spang]

Welcome to America:

Former South Carolina Gov. Mark Sanford has won election to the House, redeeming his political career after it was derailed by scandal four years ago.

 

[Amy SF]

http://aol.sportingnews.com/nhl/sto...boston-strong-bruins-maple-leafs-nhl-playoffs

*******.

 

[Spang]

My twitter response to people who have a problem with "dikes" being able to marry (in most recently Delaware):

 

[Spang]

Racism at the White House Correspondents' Dinner:

[...]

Like a malignancy, it had crept in when I least expected it -- this repugnant, infectious bigotry we have become so accustomed to. "White privilege" was on display, palpable to passersby who consoled me. I've come to expect this repulsive racism in many aspects of my life, but when I find it entrenched in these smaller encounters is when salt is sprinkled deep into the wounds. In these crystallizing moments it is clear that while I might see myself as just another all-American gal who has great affection for this country, others see me as something less than human, more now than ever before.

When I asked why the security representatives offered to personally escort white women without tickets downstairs while they watched me flounder, why they threatened to call the Secret Service on me, I was told, "We have to be extra careful with you all after the Boston bombings."

I explained that I am a physician, that my husband is a noted journalist for a major American newspaper, and that our guest was an esteemed, Oscar-nominated director. They did not believe me. Never mind that the American flag flew proudly outside of our home for years, with my father taking it inside whenever it rained to protect it from damage. Never mind that I won "Most Patriotic" almost every July 4th growing up. Never mind that I have provided health care to some of America's most underprivileged, even when they have refused to shake my hand because of my ethnicity.

[...]

 

[Snowcone]

Racism at the White House Correspondents' Dinner:

How infuriating. Just another chip in the shambles of my already depleted faith in humanity.

 

[Moll Flanders]

BBC News - Meteor fireball spotted in skies over Britain

I didn't see the meteor myself, people online seem to be disappointed that it wasn't as spectacular as the one that fell over Russia this year.

 

[thefadedone]

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2013/05/09/whole-foods-error_n_3249651.html

So fucked up!

 

[beancounter]

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2013/05/09/whole-foods-error_n_3249651.html

So ****ed up!

What's the problem? Everyone knows chicken is a vegetable, just like fish.

 

[Spang]

That sexy Saudi story was a sham:

You have most probably heard by now that three Emirati men were allegedly thrown out of a cultural Janadriyah Festival by the Saudi religious police (pl. mutawaeen) for “being too handsome.” Most reports, however, have claimed the three men were actually deported from the Kingdom, itself, for their ‘seductive' lure that was apparently going to send the attending women into an incontrollable hormonal flux. Fementertainment blog, Jezebel, was amongst the first to reveal the identity of one of the alleged Emirati men, Omar Borkan Al Gala – a photographer, model, actor and poet. The internet went into self-fanning mode as several images of the young man went viral and thousands clamored to follow him on social media websites.

Unfortunately, no one in the English press bothered to actually fact check the story.

 

[ledboots]

Lol at "self-fanning mode"

 

[Calliegirl]

The common tendency to take stories about incidents in Muslim countries at face value, without much (easy) fact checking (language need not be a barrier with the glory that is Google Translate), offers coverage that only fuels mischaracterizations of the role of religion in the public and legal spheres.

And having religious police has nothing to do with promoting that image.

 

[Spang]

Gay vikings will soon be able to get married.

 

[Snowcone]

Gay vikings will soon be able to get married.

Football vikings, or Alexander Skarsgård vikings?

 

[Spang]

Football vikings, or Alexander Skarsgård vikings?

Vikings who live in Minnesota.

 

[Snowcone]

Vikings who live in Minnesota.

Football vikings then.

 

[Spang]

Football vikings then.

Not all vikings play football.