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Breaking: CA Supreme Court Overturns State’s Same-Sex Marriage Ban

Thu, 15 May 2008 18:55:58 GMT

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clipper's remarks: Justice triumphs!

The California Supreme Court has overturned the state’s controversial ban on same-sex marriage (decision .pdf). As NBC’s Pete Williams states, there are already groups in California trying to put anti- same-sex marriage amendment initiative on the November ballot. This makes California the second state in the union to allow same-sex couples to marry along with Massachusetts. More from the San Francisco Chronicle:

The justices’ 4-3 decision Thursday says domestic partnerships are not a good enough substitute for marriage. Chief Justice Ron George wrote the opinion.

The city of San Francisco, two dozen gay and lesbian couples and gay rights groups sued in March 2004 after the court halted San Francisco’s monthlong same-sex wedding march.

The case before the court involved a series of lawsuits seeking to overturn a voter-approved law that defines marriage as a union between a man and a woman. Read on…

Tags: liberty, equality, justice

How Healthy Is John McCain?

Thu, 15 May 2008 22:37:08 GMT

clipped by: reimers
clipper's remarks: Losing the G.O.P. nomination in 2000 gave McCain time to catch and treat the cancer at an early stage, which possibly saved his life. "If it was left alone, the risk was high that that melanoma would not just have become thicker but would also almost certainly have spread to the lymph nodes," says Dr. Jeffrey Lee, a cancer physician at the M.D. Anderson Cancer Center, who did not participate in McCain's care. "And the assumption would be that could occur within a period of a few months, if it hadn't happened already."

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It was the size of a dime and as thick as a nickel—a discolored blotch on John McCain's left temple. He didn't pay it much mind during the heat of the 2000 Republican primary campaign. But after losing the nomination to George W. Bush, the Arizona Senator found himself with time to spare. So as Bush celebrated victory, McCain headed to the National Naval Medical Center in Bethesda, Md., to have the spot checked out.

Less than three weeks later, McCain endured 5½ hours of surgery to remove a patch of skin including the blemish, roughly 5 cm (2 in.) wide. The diagnosis: Stage 2A melanoma, an invasive form of skin cancer that claims the lives of up to 34% of those diagnosed within 10 years. Doctors also made an incision down his left cheek to remove lymph nodes in his neck in case the cancer had spread; they found it had not. The surgery left a large scar, and for weeks McCain retreated from public view to recover.

Chris Matthews vs. Kevin James

Thu, 15 May 2008 23:49:11 GMT

clipped by: reimers
clipper's remarks: MATTHEWS: You don’t know what you’re talking about, Kevin. You don’t know what you’re talking about. Tell me what Chamberlain did wrong.

JAMES: Neville Chamberlain was an appeaser, Chris. Neville Chamberlain was an appeaser, all right? […]

MATTHEWS: I’ve been sitting here five minutes asking you to say what the president was referring to in 1938 at Munich.

JAMES: I don’t know.

MATTHEWS: You don’t know, thank you.

You don’t understand there’s a difference between talking to the enemy and appeasing. What Chamberlain did wrong, most people would say, is not talking to Hitler, but giving half of Czechoslovakia in 1938. That’s what he did wrong. Appeasement is giving things away to the enemy.

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On MSNBC’s Hardball tonight, right-wing radio host Kevin James attempted to defend President Bush’s comments comparing Sen. Barack Obama (D-IL) to Nazi appeasers because he favors talking with our enemies. James compared Obama to Neville Chamberlain, about whom James could only cry: “He’s an appeaser!”

Matthews pressed James at least 19 times over five minutes to simply explain what Chamberlain had done in 1938 and 1939 to make him an “appeaser.” James could only shout his talking point over and over, prompting Matthews to threaten to end the interview:

Watch it:

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Did Bush just enter the ’08 race?

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Matthews was trying to prompt James to explain that Chamberlain signed the Munich agreement with Hitler in 1938, which allowed Hitler to occupy part of Czechoslovakia in exchange for peace with Britain.

Matthews rebuked his clueless guest — and the entire Bush administration — for being “blank slates in terms of history”:

Matthews Smackdown

Fri, 16 May 2008 02:33:55 GMT

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Navy accidentally bombs Ocala National Forest

Thu, 15 May 2008 21:01:06 GMT

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clipper's remarks: Even America's not safe from America. Burns down 250 acres.

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JACKSONVILLE, Fla. -- During what was supposed to be a routine training exercise, a bomb landed off-target, landing and igniting a fire in the Ocala National Forest this week.

The 500-pound, laser-guided bomb was released from an F/A-18 Super Hornet on Tuesday, and detonated about 1 mile east of the Pinecastle target range, WJXT-TV in Jacksonville reported.

About 250 acres of forest and swampland were burned, according to Mike Drayton, a fire management officer with the U.S. Forest Service

Tags: military

Strange Things Afoot-Run For Your Life!

Tue, 13 May 2008 23:47:36 GMT

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clipper's remarks: 3) Papers falling into the trashcan. Please refer your boss to appropriate experts in astronomy, mechanics, and theoretical physics. During this dangerous time, it is essential that all soul-deadened middle-managers understand it is simply not your fault your assignments won't stay on the desk.

4) Fat people falling off diets. Please refer to your body in that high-school bikini you can still "fit into."

5) Ice-cream falling off cones. This only happens when you are derelict in your ice-cream eating duties. Have you no shame?

6) Time falling off clocks. Despite the widespread transition to digital, this is expected to remain a significant problem in the coming months, as the minute and hour hands alike are pulled down swiftly toward the poles of 6 and 12 (6 + 6). Inconclusive data is leading some scientists to conjecture the end of the world is near, and to encourage their lab assistants to experiment further with observed phenomenon No. 1.

Katelyn Sack is The Wasteful Amer

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Strange Things Afoot

Warning! Physicists at Princeton's Institute for Advanced Studiousness have discovered a sudden increase in gravity concurrent with the nearer phase of the Earth's elliptical path around our Sun. They believe this heightened gravity explains a sharply increasing incidence of the following alarming phenomena, which if observed should be reported to your local law enforcement or physics department immediately:

1) Clothes falling to the floor.

1) Clothes falling to the floor. Shoes and trousers are often the first to go, but bras may display a disturbing propensity to fall out of shirtsleeves as the Earth speeds closer and closer to the Sun.

2) Cats falling to the pavement. All household animals may seem louder during this time of peak gravity, but cats in particular will beg to be thrown promptly out the window during the heat of this rare solar event.

Gay Marriage Ban Overturned By Cal Supreme Court

Thu, 15 May 2008 18:55:12 GMT

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clipper's remarks: IN THE SUPREME COURT OF CALIFORNIA
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) S147999
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In re MARRIAGE CASES. ) Ct.App. 1/3 Nos. A110449,
) A110450, A110451, A110463,
[Six consolidated appeals.]1 ) A110651, A110652
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) San Francisco County
) JCCP No. 4365
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In Lockyer v. City and County of San Francisco (2004) 33 Cal.4th 1055
(Lockyer), this court concluded that public officials of the City and County of San
Francisco acted unlawfully by issuing marriage licenses to same-sex couples in the
absence of a judicial determination that the California statutes limiting marriage to
a union between a man and a woman are unconstitutional. Our decision in
Lockyer emphasized, however, that the substantive question of the constitutional
1 City and County of San Francisco v. State of California (A110449 [Super.validity of the California marriage statutes was not before this court in that
proceeding, and that our decision was not intended to reflect any view on that
issue. (Id. at

Clip Source: www.latimes.com

California Supreme Court overturns gay marriage ban

Associate Justice Carlos R. Moreno, Associate Justice Joyce L. Kennard, Associate Justice Kathryn Mickle Werdegar, Chief Justice Ronald M. George, Associate Justice Ming W. Chin, Associate Justice Marvin R. Baxter, and Associate Justice Carol A. Corrigan.

In a 4-3 ruling, the justices rule that state marriage laws are unconstitutional.

A Grain of Sand: Nature's Secret Wonder

Wed, 14 May 2008 21:11:05 GMT

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Clip Source: www.sciam.com

Gary Greenberg photographs the world, one grain of sand at a time, in A Grain of Sand: Nature's Secret Wonder

(magnification 40X)

Maui Sand:

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Star Sand:

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Namibia:

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Minnesota:

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Six Sand Grains:

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Ireland:

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Lahaina Maui:

Tags: nature, sand, photography

How the Bicycle Emancipated Women

Thu, 15 May 2008 15:53:07 GMT

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clipper's remarks: "The National Woman Suffrage Association was formed by Susan B. Anthony and Elizabeth Cady Stanton 139 years ago today. To mark the anniversary, Chris Connolly is here to discuss the role of the bicycle in the women’s movement."

Highly recommended article at the source...clipped only a very small portion of the entire article: http://www.mentalfloss.com/blogs/archives/14985

I didn't mean to place the photo of the woman running the Triathlon after the text "Clearly, women needed to change their underwear." I don't know how it ended up that way....

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Susan B. Anthony once said, “I think [bicycling] has done more to emancipate women than anything else in the world.” A woman on a bicycle, the equal rights champion observed, presents “the picture of free and untrammeled womanhood.”

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Susan and her fellow 19th-century women had been severely trammeled their entire lives. Forget the glass ceiling; women in those days were trapped under the glass floor.

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Foremost, the Victorian lady rarely exercised or engaged in physical activity, which left her poorly conditioned. Secondly, it was fashionable to be frail.

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Eventually, some women began to take a stand, and, in 1888, a letter published by The Rational Dress Society—a group of women who argued for reasonable clothing—stated, “the maximum weight of under-clothing (without shoes) approved by The Rational Dress Society, does not exceed seven pounds.”

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Seven pounds of underwear? An improvement?

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Clearly, women needed to change their underwear.

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And that’s where the bicycle came in.

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Tags: woman, suffrage, bicycles

Superheroes - if they aged at all

Thu, 15 May 2008 19:52:12 GMT

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clipper's remarks: Spiderman and his adult diapers.

Clip Source: donaldsoffritti.blogspot.com

08 aprile 2006

Superman decadence

posted by Donald Soffritti at 3:06 PM | Permalink | 8 comments

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15 aprile 2006

Spider-Man decadence

posted by Donald Soffritti at 12:51 AM | Permalink | 7 comments

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19 aprile 2006

Wonder Woman decadence

posted by Donald Soffritti at 6:04 PM | Permalink | 21 comments

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11 maggio 2006

Supergirl decadence

posted by Donald Soffritti at 12:10 PM | Permalink | 10 comments

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16 maggio 2006

DareDevil decadence

posted by Donald Soffritti at 5:30 PM | Permalink | 17 comments

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24 maggio 2006

Thor decadence

posted by Donald Soffritti at 7:50 PM | Permalink | 10 comments

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30 maggio 2006

Galactus & SilverSurfer decadence

Grazie Gabriele per il suggerimento!

posted by Donald Soffritti at 11:23 AM | Permalink | 17 comments

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14 giugno 2006

Batman & Robin decadence

posted by Donald Soffritti at 1:06 PM | Permalink | 28 comments

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02 luglio 2006

Hulk decadence

posted by Donald Soffritti at 2:34 PM | Permalink | 17 comments

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Tags: comics, art, illustration, donald soffritti, marvel, dc

Federal Judge Rules Iraq KBR ‘Rape Victim’ Can Seek Trial In US

Mon, 12 May 2008 23:16:33 GMT

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Clip Source: www.commondreams.org

An American woman who claims that she was gang-raped by coworkers in Baghdad while employed by Halliburton/KBR, a defence contractor, can take her case to trial, a federal judge has ruled.

The decision has opened the door for other American women who have reported sexual assaults in similar circumstances to challenge clauses in their employment contracts restricting such claims to private arbitration and keeping them out of court.

It comes at a time when the US Congress is examining whether the Government is adequately protecting contractors who allege sexual assault.

In Britain, MPs are investigating allegations of sexual harassment and abuse at the Embassy in Baghdad. The allegations also concern employees of KBR, which was hired to maintain the Embassy’s premises. The Commons Foreign Affairs Select Committee has written to the Foreign and Commonwealth Office to ask for a full explanation.

McCain Had former Myanmar Lobbyist on His Campaign

Mon, 12 May 2008 05:31:37 GMT

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clipper's remarks: Imagine a Presidential candidate has a lobbyist on his campaign whose job it was to whitewash one of the most brutal and repressive dictatorships in the world.

Clip Source: www.mydd.com

John McCain nailed down the Republican nomination in March, his campaign began wrestling with a sensitive personnel issue: who would manage this summer's GOP convention in St. Paul, Minn.? The campaign recently tapped Doug Goodyear for the job, a veteran operative and Arizonan who was chosen for his "management experience and expertise,"

Goodyear is CEO of DCI Group, a consulting firm that earned $3 million last year lobbying for ExxonMobil, General Motors and other clients.

Potentially more problematic: the firm was paid $348,000 in 2002 to represent Burma's military junta,

Justice Department lobbying records show DCI pushed to "begin a dialogue of political reconciliation" with the regime. It also led a PR campaign to burnish the junta's image, drafting releases praising Burma's efforts to curb the drug trade and denouncing "falsehoods" by the Bush administration that the regime engaged in rape and other abuses.

it was only a matter of hours before Goodyear had left the campaign.

Tags: john mccain, myanmar

Origami: 15 Most Amazing Paper Sculptures

Thu, 15 May 2008 21:04:29 GMT

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Clip Source: www.oddee.com

Origami: 15 Most Amazing Paper Sculptures

World's biggest origami. Width: 215 feet and 8 inches; height: 120 feet.

Biden: Bush Knesset comment "bullsh*t"

Thu, 15 May 2008 18:42:46 GMT

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clipper's remarks: "He’s the guy who’s weakened us. He’s the guy that’s increased the number of terrorists in the world. " Gates and Rice call for dialog with Iran; Bush likens Dems to appeasers of the Nazis for advocating the same thing. It is bullsh*t.

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(CNN) — The chairman of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee Joe Biden, D-Delaware, called President Bush’s comments accusing Sen. Barack Obama and other Democrats of wanting to appease terrorists "bulls–t” and said if the president disagrees so strongly with the idea of talking to Iran then he needs to fire his secretaries of State and Defense, both of whom Biden said have pushed to sit down with the Iranians.

“This is bullsh**t. This is malarkey. This is outrageous. Outrageous for the president of the United States to go to a foreign country, sit in the Knesset…and make this kind of ridiculous statement,” Biden said angrily in a brief interview just off the Senate floor.

Tags: biden, bush, foreign policy, war, iran

it's only "a mob" if you disapprove - otherwise it's "the voice of the people"

Mon, 12 May 2008 17:19:16 GMT

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Clip Source: coffeeandink.livejournal.com

Critcizing "dogpiles" as inherently "moblike," destructive, negative, and childish without considering the content which has evoked this response has the same in-built political and structural issues as the demand that oppressed, discriminated, or harassed groups moderate their tone before their objections will be considered. Both actions attempt to codify behavior while treating speech content as empty; they ignore power differentials; they treat actions or speech acts as if they take place in a vacuums free of social circumstances, historical knowledge, or political influences, rather than as if they are what constitutes or destroys communities.

There is no polite way to tell someone you do not care about the genocide or oppression of their people. There is no polite way to make rape jokes. There is no polite way to use "gay" or "girl" as a synonym for "bad," "weak," or "ugly." There is no polite way to blame a victim for their own harassment or abuse.