Disclaimer: I have no idea what Jersey Shore is all about, or like. But this amuses me anyway, as TV vs Books (a long, long love/hate relationship for me…)
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[Audio: some music (Born This Way, I think?); Subtitles: English]
Gay activists protest at Bachmann’s “pray away the gay” (a discredited therapeutic method) offices. Looks like such fun, and this, THIS, is the way to protest things. Amusingly enough, Michele Bachmann has since insisted that her husband is “off limits” for criticism while she runs for Prez. Funny thing is, she was freely slagging Michelle Obama during the 2008 campaign, adn even more recently, too. Hmmm…
From the YouTube site:
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Stop taxpayer funds to Bachmann’s anti-gay clinic: http://bit.ly/rkViU8Today a horde of gay barbarians descended upon Michele and Marcus Bachmann’s “pray away the gay” clinic and demanded that Marcus come out and discipline them for their “deviant” behavior.
Marcus Bachmann, who conducts “reparative therapy” at the clinic intended to convert homosexuals, has said that gays are “barbarians who need to be disciplined.” The horde requested to speak directly with Bachmann and experience some “discipline” for themselves.
When Marcus was no where to be found, the barbarians glittered the empty waiting room and reception area while chanting, “You can’t pray away the gay — baby, I was born this way!”
The action was organized by the same young man who threw glitter on Newt Gingrich, starting a national trend in political protest of anti-LGBT sentiments from political candidates and campaigns.
“Michele and Marcus Bachmann think gay people are barbarians?” asked LGBT activist Nick Espinosa. “I think its clear to everyone who the real barbarians are, based on the Bachmanns’ archaic views on LGBT equality.”
A Controversial Past:
Michele Bachmann has a long history of controversial anti-gay politics, and has compared the gay lifestyle to “bondage and slavery.” In 2005, she was infamously caught lurking in the bushes during an LGBT rally. That same year, she attempted to file a police report when two constituents — a lesbian and an ex-nun — tried to talk with her about marriage equality following a townhall event. The police department refused to file a report, citing that she was in no danger.Her anti-gay views have been a focal point of her career as a politician, but lately she has shied away from reporters’ questions about her controversial comments and taxpayer-funded “reparative therapy” clinic. While Michele Bachmann has long railed against federal safety net programs like Medicaid, the Bachmann & Associates clinic has received over $137,000 in Medicaid funds and over $27,000 in other state and federal funds.
Last week an undercover investigation confirmed that the Bachman’s clinic is, to this very day, providing discredited “ex-gay” reparative therapy.
For years the scientific and medical communities, including groups like the American Psychology Association, have dismissed “reparative therapy” (also known as “conversion therapy” or “ex-gay therapy”) as dangerous and unethical.
“Its time for Michele Bachmann to stop running away and to take responsibility for her destructive clinic. She, of all people ,should not be abusing medicare and wasting taxpayer dollars to practice quack science that endangers her patients,” Espinosa said.
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These are really cool. Although I think that women’s hair blowing & skirt blowing and foot twiddling are overrepresented, there’s some really good ones here, like this one:
photo by Jamie Beck & Kevin Burg (Cinemagraph © 2011)
And this one is awesome.
I’ve actually played a little with this concept, for example making a short 5 second video clip of a waterfall in which only the water moves, and that’s my “picture”, but these gifs do it properly (and take a fair amount of work to produce, actually). Very cool. See From Me To You, Cinemagraph
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While we appear to have dodged the bullet (provided the next set of votes go through, that is), I thought it was still of importance to understand why this whole thing has been so important and why it has taken up an extraordinary amount of media attention (while at the same time, barely being properly explained). So here’s a pretty good overview from Senator Coons:
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Besides current updates on Proposition 8 (a hearing on jurisdiction, a fairly narrow question and separate from the other issues recently heard by the California court), an overview of other states & gay marriage views & legislation. I’m just tickled pink to find this all captioned!
ETA: I really was not, I repeat not, going for the awful pink pun there deliberately *smacks self on head*
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Wow!
From BBC’s Day in pictures, 27 July 2011. Many great images here, but I really loved this one.
h/t Laura (thanks, sweetie!)
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Photographer comments: “Chicago is a great city for walking. Most mornings I start my day with a walk to the nearest Starbucks…directly under the brown line.”
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[Audio: English (?); Captions: English; Languages: ASL (small bit), English]
This is perfect! All of it rings so very true
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White Point Beach Resort in Liverpool, Nova Scotia, Canada.
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