June 30, 2011
June 29, 2011
WHEN GRIFFIN MET BACHMANN
FROM JEZEBEL:
Kathy Griffin had the extreme pleasure of bumping into Michele Bachmann at a political event; the two ladies recognized one another and when they started to speak an assistant filmed the exchange, supposedly for Bachmann's website. Kathy, always on top of her game, decided to ask the tea party princess if she'd attend a rally to repeal DADT...
WATCH: JEZEBEL
Kathy Griffin had the extreme pleasure of bumping into Michele Bachmann at a political event; the two ladies recognized one another and when they started to speak an assistant filmed the exchange, supposedly for Bachmann's website. Kathy, always on top of her game, decided to ask the tea party princess if she'd attend a rally to repeal DADT...
WATCH: JEZEBEL
A CURE FOR BITTERNESS
This past Sunday, HMI youth celebrated who they are by marching with HMI in the New York City PRIDE Parade! Here is what they had to say:
"I love Pride with HMI because it feels like I'm celebrating with family" - Aleksandrov
"It feels amazing to hear everyone cheering for you " - Maria
"I love that I can express myself for one day" - Justin
Help continue the celebration: we only have 3 days left to have your gift to HMI doubled by the Board of Directors for the June Match. Please give generously to support the at-risk LGBTQ youth of HMI by clicking below!
MORE: HMI
"I love Pride with HMI because it feels like I'm celebrating with family" - Aleksandrov
"It feels amazing to hear everyone cheering for you " - Maria
"I love that I can express myself for one day" - Justin
Help continue the celebration: we only have 3 days left to have your gift to HMI doubled by the Board of Directors for the June Match. Please give generously to support the at-risk LGBTQ youth of HMI by clicking below!
MORE: HMI
PORCELAIN BLACK: THIS IS WHAT ROCK 'N' ROLL LOOKS LIKE
I love Porcelain Black's hair, but I think I speak for my friends who like rock when I say that rock 'n' roll never looks like this. The song is catchy and her voice has a gruff edge, but would rock ever include rotten techno synths and a crap rap saying "I don't like bull shit but I like Red Bull?" PRODUCT PLACEMENT!
June 26, 2011
VICTORY!
GAY MARRIAGE PASSES IN NEW YORK STATE! I know this is gonna put a spring in marcher's steps--especially all the straight bodybuilders hired to dance on the Sprint and premium vodka floats. It's not only a victory for gays but a step towards equal rights for all. And also a loss for gay's enemies in the traditional church.
CARL BEAN: I WAS BORN THIS WAY
Fantastic gay anthem from Motown by openly gay (in 1978!) artist Carl Bean. No slight intended to Lady Gaga's Born This Way, but I flew out of my skin when I first heard this one!
HAPPY GAY PRIDE DAY!
This thing is so off that it can't even spell bananas! However, I was a brat just like this once!
June 25, 2011
June 24, 2011
OUT VOICES AT STONEWALL INN
I took part in this interesting project. Photographer Carsten Fleck photographed 18 New Yorkers from Amanda Lepore to Michael Lucas to Mark Nelson to Jack Mackenroth and then i'viewed us on our coming out stories. And our advice to young GLBT kids. My advice was F#CK ME, YOU STUPID BRATS!
WATCH VIDEO FROM THE EVENT: NY1
WATCH VIDEO FROM THE EVENT: NY1
THIS IS HOW YOU ANNOUNCE NOMINEES!
The only I think could really pull this off today is Britney Spears. KIDDING! But don't count out Willow Smith, Ashlee Simpson or Rebecca Black.
OU@T VOICES AT THE STONEWALL INN
I took part in this interesting project. Photographer Carsten Fleck photographed 18 New Yorkers from Amanda Lepore to Michael Lucas to Mark Nelson to Jack Mackenroth and then i'viewed us on our coming out stories. And our advice to young GLBT kids. My advice was F#CK ME, YOU STUPID BRATS!
MORE: NY1
MORE: NY1
June 23, 2011
SO UGLY!
A caller asks a NJ gov Christie why he defunds public education while sending his own kids to private school, which is clearly hypocritical. His answer is "None of your business." Chris Matthews on MSNBC claimed that men like this kind of mean, from the hip response. I think it's heartless. Schools are clearly important to this constituent so stop being such a pig. I mean, why take calls at all if you're this hateful. Christie was considered the great GOP hope for president--I think because he's mean enough to take swipes at Obama, which is a good enough platform for many republicans.
June 22, 2011
MUSTO ZINGS IT!
MICHAEL'S LATEST LA DOLCE MUSTO COLUMN FOR THE VOICE IS BITTER AND HILARIOUS!
Why I Being Gay
You spend your whole life fighting for rights you don't even want for yourself. (Marriage and the military? No thanks!)...Gym was the bane of your entire childhood, but now you spend $1,350 a year on it. ... You gym all day and unsafe all night. ... It's not even called "barebacking" anymore. It's just "sex."... You think "modern dance" means Britney.
MORE: VILLAGEVOICE
Why I Being Gay
You spend your whole life fighting for rights you don't even want for yourself. (Marriage and the military? No thanks!)...Gym was the bane of your entire childhood, but now you spend $1,350 a year on it. ... You gym all day and unsafe all night. ... It's not even called "barebacking" anymore. It's just "sex."... You think "modern dance" means Britney.
MORE: VILLAGEVOICE
FLORENCE HENDERSON GETS SULTRY!
This is a full-fledged butchering of the George Benson classic, but at least someone knew to bump it up with masked disco guests. And I love Flo's teeny waist!
PLEASE SIR, MAY I HAVE SOME MORE?
So Obama will the first pres in history to speak for a gay group--at a fundraiser for himself! He's been the strongest pres yet on gay issues, but no one can get elected who openly supports marriage equality. What do you think? Is he waiting for his second term to legalize gay marriage or stringing us along as they all do? He says his thoughts on this are "evolving."That's better than a solid no.
It's sad that equal rights for all is considered a way left position in 2011, possibly too liberal for our supposedly liberal president. I guess that makes the official GOP position Equal rights for some. For those of you who make gay marriage a priority, do you hold tight with the one candidate who is at least considering it or jump up and down screaming that of all people, our first president of color should understand the need for equal rights for all only too well.
It's sad that equal rights for all is considered a way left position in 2011, possibly too liberal for our supposedly liberal president. I guess that makes the official GOP position Equal rights for some. For those of you who make gay marriage a priority, do you hold tight with the one candidate who is at least considering it or jump up and down screaming that of all people, our first president of color should understand the need for equal rights for all only too well.
June 21, 2011
IS AFGHANISTAN FINALLY GOING OUT OF STYLE?
Proving that they stand for nothing, GOP talking heads are now claiming that Afghanistan is suddenly Obama's war. He IS the president during war time. But except for the dying/dead breed of fiscal conservatives, Republicans ALWAYS want more war unless Obama's involved. So republican core principles mean nothing when someone in a different party agrees with them before an election. Absurd!
I guess all politicians have to take the popular position or not get re-elected. New polls suggest that 56% now frown on this war--the highest percentage ever. But I puke to hear pols say that the people are war-weary so we should now exit. No, we should get out because we have no collective clue what the fuck we're doing over there and it we did, few would support it. Poor us! We never cared to familiarize ourselves with the fact that our "surge" was lasting a really long time and not working but now we're tired of it.
Even worse? The notion that we should leave Afghanistan because we can't AFFORD the war anymore. Poor us! We're too broke to "play death" right now.
Even worse? We're now too weary and broke to carry on in Afghanistan but at least we had a reason to go in THERE--catching Al Qaeda. With Osama caught in Pakistan, we now want out of Afghanistan's "forgotten war." But we need some ginkgo biloba in the water supply if we've forgotten the other war over in Iraq--the one we started based on lies, remember? Some serious loss of memory around here.
Obama will speak on his Afghanistan policy update tomorrow night at 8PM. Ron Reagan claimed on MSNBC tonight that we're occupying Afghanistan and Iraq because both flank our enemy Iran. I don't know if that's true, but it's time to start discussing this frankly if it's keeping us in a war we no longer care for and can't afford. Ron asked if anyone actually thought it'd be worth it for us to build schools over in Afghanistan when we're hurting over here. I doubt if Obama will be so open. But we all know that we haven't been paying attention to the progress of these two long, questionable occupations. Not only are they being fought with your money, they're being fought in your name. So while we're at it, let's get out of both! You wouldn't want to be the last sucker featuring war, now would you?
THE SHITTIEST BURGER I EVER HAD!
JAPANESE SCIENTIST SYNTHESIZES MEAT FROM HUMAN FECES!
Or, why do my burps smell like farts?
FROM YAHOO.COM:
Somehow this feels like a Vonnegut plotline: population boom equals food shortage. Solution? Synthesize food from human waste matter. Absurd yes, but Japanese scientists have actually discovered a way to create edible steaks from human feces.
MORE: YAHOO
Or, why do my burps smell like farts?
FROM YAHOO.COM:
Somehow this feels like a Vonnegut plotline: population boom equals food shortage. Solution? Synthesize food from human waste matter. Absurd yes, but Japanese scientists have actually discovered a way to create edible steaks from human feces.
MORE: YAHOO
"GOD MADE US QUEER"
I picked up the NY Post yesterday. I try not to buy the Post to feed the Fox News/Rupert Murdoch hate machine but this copy had been left at a local Starbucks so I felt less guilty--I was only fueling an aggressive coffee chain's coffers this time. There was an article about a gay marriage rights protest in Manhattan yesterday which described the group assembled as "droves." I read on to see that around 300 protesters showed up. That's a little slim for droves, I thought, but at least the conservative Post wasn't low-balling the attendees.
Tom Duane had a good line: (quoting from memory) "If Lady Gaga can call me, then you can call your senators." It's nutty logic but it involves a heroine to the gays so it kinda works. But another slogan quoted really bugs the hell out of: "God made us queer."
I'm glad that 300 were out in the heat protesting but this is a dreadful argument. I don't believe in god and maybe you do. I'm not going to argue that point here. But I do support marriage for gays--so shouldn't advocates of gay marriage have a better point than "God made us this way" if they're going to win? No one knows precisely why we're gay. But I can guarantee that no credible scientists conducting research into this field are considering god as a catalyst in their laboratories. God is subject to interpretation, so the obvious retort to "God made us queer" is "Not my god!" The Bible is the main weapon used to tell homosexuals that we're sinners and therefore we should have no rights to marry, teach school or anything else if the religious right has their way. Why can't we do away with any value system which denounces us? It's positively self-loathing! Because religion is wide scale brainwashing which defies logic, if you ask me. Did you wake up today as a sinner? I didn't, and I hereby rebuke anyone who dares to suggest such lunacy.
I'd like to address the faith-based community from the fact-based community. The US was founded on a separation of church and state because early settlers came here to escape religious persecution. This concept must be vigorously protected from freaks like Palin who would even discredit evolution. Marriage is a religious institution. I don't want to ever say to my enemies in the church "I validate you who oppose me with so much hate by seeking out something you've created." I'd prefer to discredit the church and all that it represents--and then it's arguments can never, ever be used against me. Seeking the approval of the church strengthens it's ability to bash us. You'll no doubt agree that anyone who denounces gays as undeserving of equal rights is wrong--so why not slam the very belief system which makes them mistakenly think that they're superior and gives them most of their ammo against us? You'll see how easy it is to laugh away religious objections to homosexuality the same way that ALL modern christians have been forced by common sense to reject the Bible's insane claims that shellfish, tattoos, divorce and football are abominations.
If all of the rights that a couple has in marriage were applied to civil unions I'd gladly take them. If you step outside the nightmare that organized religion often is, how can we maintain our core American principle of separation of church and state if we're trying to legislate which ceremonies churches can or can't perform? I wouldn't expect success if lobbying a muslim country for the right to wed because the muslim faith is anti-gay. Christianity as it's often practiced in this country is also anti-gay. But this can't be a christian country if we truly uphold the separation of church and state. So why should christianity or it's ceremonies ever enter into the discussion of our laws? It should be ignored and practiced privately with no influence whatsoever on our government, just as our forefathers so wisely intended. The repubublican front-runner for president is a member of a bizarre christian cult of Mormon, so this an excellent time to help renew our commitment to keep religion out of our government. Anything else would be un-American.
I understand that many of you are christian and seek a religious ceremony to validate your relationships. Fine. Go lobby your church and best of luck to you in seeking acceptance from that backward, science-denying, holier than thou and often hateful crew.
Tom Duane had a good line: (quoting from memory) "If Lady Gaga can call me, then you can call your senators." It's nutty logic but it involves a heroine to the gays so it kinda works. But another slogan quoted really bugs the hell out of: "God made us queer."
I'm glad that 300 were out in the heat protesting but this is a dreadful argument. I don't believe in god and maybe you do. I'm not going to argue that point here. But I do support marriage for gays--so shouldn't advocates of gay marriage have a better point than "God made us this way" if they're going to win? No one knows precisely why we're gay. But I can guarantee that no credible scientists conducting research into this field are considering god as a catalyst in their laboratories. God is subject to interpretation, so the obvious retort to "God made us queer" is "Not my god!" The Bible is the main weapon used to tell homosexuals that we're sinners and therefore we should have no rights to marry, teach school or anything else if the religious right has their way. Why can't we do away with any value system which denounces us? It's positively self-loathing! Because religion is wide scale brainwashing which defies logic, if you ask me. Did you wake up today as a sinner? I didn't, and I hereby rebuke anyone who dares to suggest such lunacy.
I'd like to address the faith-based community from the fact-based community. The US was founded on a separation of church and state because early settlers came here to escape religious persecution. This concept must be vigorously protected from freaks like Palin who would even discredit evolution. Marriage is a religious institution. I don't want to ever say to my enemies in the church "I validate you who oppose me with so much hate by seeking out something you've created." I'd prefer to discredit the church and all that it represents--and then it's arguments can never, ever be used against me. Seeking the approval of the church strengthens it's ability to bash us. You'll no doubt agree that anyone who denounces gays as undeserving of equal rights is wrong--so why not slam the very belief system which makes them mistakenly think that they're superior and gives them most of their ammo against us? You'll see how easy it is to laugh away religious objections to homosexuality the same way that ALL modern christians have been forced by common sense to reject the Bible's insane claims that shellfish, tattoos, divorce and football are abominations.
If all of the rights that a couple has in marriage were applied to civil unions I'd gladly take them. If you step outside the nightmare that organized religion often is, how can we maintain our core American principle of separation of church and state if we're trying to legislate which ceremonies churches can or can't perform? I wouldn't expect success if lobbying a muslim country for the right to wed because the muslim faith is anti-gay. Christianity as it's often practiced in this country is also anti-gay. But this can't be a christian country if we truly uphold the separation of church and state. So why should christianity or it's ceremonies ever enter into the discussion of our laws? It should be ignored and practiced privately with no influence whatsoever on our government, just as our forefathers so wisely intended. The repubublican front-runner for president is a member of a bizarre christian cult of Mormon, so this an excellent time to help renew our commitment to keep religion out of our government. Anything else would be un-American.
I understand that many of you are christian and seek a religious ceremony to validate your relationships. Fine. Go lobby your church and best of luck to you in seeking acceptance from that backward, science-denying, holier than thou and often hateful crew.
LIFE WITh BUNION
Had my a/c fixed and the guy installing it asked me for pliers. I'm not too handy but as I went to look under the sink, I realized that this is also where I keep dildos I now use in my act. He walked over to help look and mortified, I slammed to door shut. But not before he clocked the 2 ft black dildo with an afro glued on top which I used for CeCe's Finally--"with brown cocoa skin and curly black hair."
June 20, 2011
A SONG I LOVE PLAYING!
Moto Blanco has given Jennifer Hudson's new jam their signature re-work which hit the mark so beautifully with her Spotlight and Mary J.'s Be Without You. I think soulful chords are exactly what are missing on Katy Perry/Gaga/Rihanna-infected dance floors. Are the lyrics a little mindless? Yes, and for a fun-lovin' summer anthem I wouldn't have it any other way!
June 17, 2011
June 15, 2011
June 10, 2011
AN ACOUNTANT WITH VERY STICKY FINGERS!
Brazilian Woman Has Right to Masturbate at Work, Court Rules
Unless your name is Ana Catarian Bezerra, don't get all handsy at work just yet. The Brazilian woman masturbates up to 18 times a day due to a strange medical condition. After filing suit against her bosses, a Brazilian court has now given her the okay to masturbate at work.
MORE: FINDLAW
Unless your name is Ana Catarian Bezerra, don't get all handsy at work just yet. The Brazilian woman masturbates up to 18 times a day due to a strange medical condition. After filing suit against her bosses, a Brazilian court has now given her the okay to masturbate at work.
MORE: FINDLAW
EVEN FOR $ REASONS. END THE WAR IN AFGHAISTAN
Obama is contemplating steeper troop reductions in Afghanistan than his national security advisers contemplated. 1 factor is the cost of America's longest war. "We have a $1.5 trillion deficit. We're spending $100 billion a year on Afghanistan. A lot of it goes to rebuild that country," Bernie said. "You know what? I know a great country that needs to rebuild its roads, bridges and schools. That country is the USA."
If you watch this, listen to the bogus reasoning form the military guy who warns that drawing down troops would would undo the gains made in Afghanistan at such a high price to the troops. HUNGH? What gains? We caught Osama in a different country! And if the troops' are so precious to this guy, send them home! Why keep them there to get shot down and bombed while trying to build schools? If they want a military base over there then just say it. Don't pretend you value what the troops' sacrifice in a pointless military occupation where they are using them as construction workers.
If you watch this, listen to the bogus reasoning form the military guy who warns that drawing down troops would would undo the gains made in Afghanistan at such a high price to the troops. HUNGH? What gains? We caught Osama in a different country! And if the troops' are so precious to this guy, send them home! Why keep them there to get shot down and bombed while trying to build schools? If they want a military base over there then just say it. Don't pretend you value what the troops' sacrifice in a pointless military occupation where they are using them as construction workers.
June 09, 2011
June 08, 2011
AND THIS SUMMER'S FAMILY FLICK IS...
THE SEQUEL TO THE HUMAN CENTIPEDE! What makes them Dutch so kinky?
GUARDIAN:
"One scene involves him wrapping barbed wire around his penis and raping the woman at the end of the centipede, having become aroused by the sight of his victims being forced to defecate into each others' mouths."
MORE: GUARDIAN
GUARDIAN:
"One scene involves him wrapping barbed wire around his penis and raping the woman at the end of the centipede, having become aroused by the sight of his victims being forced to defecate into each others' mouths."
MORE: GUARDIAN
June 07, 2011
AFGHANISTAN: THE WAR NO ONE WANTS
"The American people are ahead of the Congress on this issue, and they're way ahead of the administration." Obama! Here's your chance to prove that you aren't a war pres whose goal is endless war. And removing troops has the bi-partisan support you've been dying for. You got Osama and he wasn't even in Afghanistan. So why are we still there with our soldiers building schools? WE NEED THOSE HERE!! Not to mention the fortune we'd save so that maybe Medicare didn't have to hit the chopping block.
HUFFPO:
Opposition to the conflict is now mainstream, with the vast majority of the American public favoring a substantial drawdown of U.S. troops. With the death of bin Laden, the growing cost of operations and frustrated constituents, an increasing group of congressional lawmakers is also voicing concerns. Even within the Obama administration, there are reports of some aides pushing for a strong drawdown.
The most dramatic display of this shift came in the House last week when 204 lawmakers -- 178 Democrats and 26 Republicans -- voted for Rep. Jim McGovern's (D-Mass.) legislation requiring President Obama to present a plan "with a timeframe and completion date" for the transfer of military operations to Afghan authorities. The measure fell just 12 votes short of passage. A similar amendment in the last Congress received 138 votes in support and only seven supporting votes cast by Republicans.
MORE: HUFFPO
HUFFPO:
Opposition to the conflict is now mainstream, with the vast majority of the American public favoring a substantial drawdown of U.S. troops. With the death of bin Laden, the growing cost of operations and frustrated constituents, an increasing group of congressional lawmakers is also voicing concerns. Even within the Obama administration, there are reports of some aides pushing for a strong drawdown.
The most dramatic display of this shift came in the House last week when 204 lawmakers -- 178 Democrats and 26 Republicans -- voted for Rep. Jim McGovern's (D-Mass.) legislation requiring President Obama to present a plan "with a timeframe and completion date" for the transfer of military operations to Afghan authorities. The measure fell just 12 votes short of passage. A similar amendment in the last Congress received 138 votes in support and only seven supporting votes cast by Republicans.
MORE: HUFFPO
June 06, 2011
RUTARDED!
RU CHATS WITH THE DEMENTED DAMIANA GARCIA ABOUT HER NEW ALBUM, GLAMAZON. I can't believe Ru is on twitter now. I can't get down with it yet but maybe it's coming. Old folks like me tend to avoid anything new as long as they possibly can...
June 04, 2011
HMMMM...
IF ALL OF HER TEETH CAME OUT, SHE MIGHT HAVE A GROUP OF GUYS FOLLOWING HER FOR A DIFFERENT REASON!
WHOOPS!
This is too rich. Bank Of America tried to foreclose on a home which was bought with cash--ie no mortgage. The couple (which includes a transgendered female unless I'm mistaken) retaliated by having their lawyer bring movers and a deputy to seize bank property!
GLAMAMORE AND JUANITA MORE: ISN'T IS A SHAME?
Two of San Fran's fav queens add a campy twist to one of Labelle's prettiest songs. Glamamore has more talent in that one arm than most queens have in their whole body! And the dolman in bone! And here's to San Fran gays for cheering a drag show with no Ke$ha, Gaga, Rihanna, Katy Perry, Beyonce etc. Maybe the brainwashing isn't complete there yet.
PLEEEEEASE SIGN!
Please help remind Obama that he's a democrat. He's lost his way. It's bizarre that this petition should come from a website called actboldprogressives. Not touching Medicare ever is not bold or progressive--it's a core democratic principle. What is this man thinking? He's ready to capitulate on an issue that every democrat wants him to stand strong on. And he does so at his own peril.
A special election in NY State just elected a democrat in an extremely red part of NY State. (It was so red that they even voted for Carl Palladino!) Why did Hochul (D) win? She said she'd never cut Medicare. Democrats can win on this even in the reddest districts because no one wants to cut benefits in a recession. So whose interests is Obama supporting if not the people's? The election should not boil down to HE GOT OSAMA SO HE GETS MY VOTE.
NY STATE SENATOR KATHY HOCHUL, WHO WE HOPE WILL TALK SOME SENSE BACK INTO DEMOCRATS IN DC.
President Obama: If you cut Medicare and Medicaid benefits for me, my parents, my grandparents, or families like mine, don't ask for a penny of my money or an hour of my time in 2012. I'm going to focus on electing bold progressive candidates -- not Democrats who help Republicans make harmful cuts to key programs.
SIGN: BOLDPROGRESSIVES.COM
A special election in NY State just elected a democrat in an extremely red part of NY State. (It was so red that they even voted for Carl Palladino!) Why did Hochul (D) win? She said she'd never cut Medicare. Democrats can win on this even in the reddest districts because no one wants to cut benefits in a recession. So whose interests is Obama supporting if not the people's? The election should not boil down to HE GOT OSAMA SO HE GETS MY VOTE.
NY STATE SENATOR KATHY HOCHUL, WHO WE HOPE WILL TALK SOME SENSE BACK INTO DEMOCRATS IN DC.
President Obama: If you cut Medicare and Medicaid benefits for me, my parents, my grandparents, or families like mine, don't ask for a penny of my money or an hour of my time in 2012. I'm going to focus on electing bold progressive candidates -- not Democrats who help Republicans make harmful cuts to key programs.
SIGN: BOLDPROGRESSIVES.COM
WATERMELON ALERT
Ever think about taking human growth hormones but were scared to? GOOD NEWS! Now they're in your food so the decision's made for you. Exploding watermelons from China? The US must really be importing everything and producing nothing if we it's cost-efficient to import produce that's as cheap and heavy as watermelon. Though I'm not an expert on international trade--except when "trade" refers to penis.
Mercola.com: THE WATERMELON YOU SHOULD NEVER, EVER EAT.
Watermelon fields in eastern China are covered in exploded fruit. Farmers used growth chemicals to make their crops bigger, but ended up destroying them instead.
The farmers used the growth accelerator forchlorfenuron. Even the melons that survived tended to have fibrous, misshapen fruit with mostly white instead of black seeds.
MSNBC reports:
“Chinese regulations don't forbid use of the substance. It is also allowed in the United States for use on kiwi fruit and grapes ... About 20 farmers and 115 acres of watermelon around Danyang were affected ... Farmers resorted to chopping up the fruit and feeding it to fish and pigs”.
MORE: MERCOLA.COM
Mercola.com: THE WATERMELON YOU SHOULD NEVER, EVER EAT.
Watermelon fields in eastern China are covered in exploded fruit. Farmers used growth chemicals to make their crops bigger, but ended up destroying them instead.
The farmers used the growth accelerator forchlorfenuron. Even the melons that survived tended to have fibrous, misshapen fruit with mostly white instead of black seeds.
MSNBC reports:
“Chinese regulations don't forbid use of the substance. It is also allowed in the United States for use on kiwi fruit and grapes ... About 20 farmers and 115 acres of watermelon around Danyang were affected ... Farmers resorted to chopping up the fruit and feeding it to fish and pigs”.
MORE: MERCOLA.COM
'ROID RAGE!
This is an interesting clip but it doesn't show his arms exploding which I have seen online before. I can't believe that steroids are the most popular drug in the U after exstacy! Clrly this guy is still on them. And I love how they gloss over the fact that his girlfriend is a transsexual.
ATTENTION: RIHANNA, KE$HA, BRITNEY, KYLIE, GAGA
BEYONCE, KATY PERRY, J-LO...THE LIST GOES ON. POP MUSIC WAS ONCE GREAT. IT EVEN HAD A GREAT MESSAGE OF PEACE. THEN CAME YOU!
GAG! THERE ARE REALLY YOUNG BLACK MALE GARLAND FANS?
I'm not a Judy fan but I prefer it to most rap!
June 03, 2011
WHEN DID EUROPE BECOME A BAD WORD?
Yesterday, Mitt Romney kicked off his presidential campaign by slamming Obama's "European answers" and accusing him of drawing inspiration from European capitals. Europe is being demonized because they criticize the US. Remember freedom fries? That's what republicans dubbed french fries after the French blasted our war on Iraq. Turns out that they were right on that one, n'est-ce pas? Rumsfeld, in his quest for perpetual war, urged America to ignore France and Germany because they were just "Old Europe." (I guess we should focus instead on the advice of the newer nations on that continent--like Bosnia and Herzegovina.) And Germany's Chancellor Merkel recently warned the US from taking military action in Libya. Hmmm. I don't care where they're from--I'm prone to listen to anyone who advocates not attacking someone else when we're in two long, pointless wars which we're losing despite having the largest military budget on earth.
Of course I know what Mitt was getting at. He's trying to paint Obama as foreign and capitalize on republican's prejudice against our first black president and his "socialist" health care. And he has to make that distinction since he governed Massachusetts with a similar plan to Obamacare. But can't Obama's detractors at least stay on message? So the president is not Kenyan, not Indonesian, not even Hawaiian, but European now? Can he still be a muslim terrorist, though? I guess European would fit in with the "czars" accusations levelled at him a year ago. Dunces whining about an imagined threat from Obama's czars when they have no idea what the word even means--it just sounds foreign and commie so it makes for appropriate ammo when you're grasping at straws. And of course, the whiners weren't concerned at all that Bush had more czars than Obama ever did. If Obama's ideas and identity are so poisonous and the complete opposite of apple pie, couldn't the GOP at least spell out their problems with him without using button-pushing words which don't even make sense to use?
I suppose sense doesn't really come into play often with GOP voters, who are proven to be less intelligent than democrats. If it did, they might want to ask themselves if they valued democracy, which this country was founded on. That radical, seditious concept hails from Greece. The last time I checked, that was still a country in the dreaded Europe! Very old Europe! And a country also known for it's butt-fucking!(I imagine that very few readers of this blog would have an issue with that foreign concept either.)
How can Mitt expect us to follow him when he's deriding the very continent from which we derive most of our culture and ideas? We saw how Bush's doctrine of "You're either for us or against us" worked out. Maybe the people who are criticizing us are actually right. If anything, Americans need a broader world view for a much-needed reality check to tell us that the rest of the world views US as terrorists thanks to our occupations of Afghanistan and Iraq. Besides, this attitude of "We're the US, we're #1 and we listen to no one" only works when you are actually #1. And republican policy sent this country into the dog house under Bush. Now the US can't even pay it's bills! Third World here we come! How can more of the same policies from Mitt or any other republican ever help get us back on track?
Once, the US was a brash new colony cutting it's ties with the old world and asserting it's independence. Now we're asserting our buffoonery and resistance to the truth! With it's state-run health care, safety nets for the poor, and greater emphasis on clean energy which we admitted we need here, Europe is not the continent to ignore. The whole world needs to come together to combat global warming since it affects every race, creed, color and political party on the planet. Unless, of course, you're a republican who denies science in favor of fairy tales from the Bible.
But take heart, Obama. Many of this country's most illustrious talents, from Josephine Baker to Miles Davis, never got the respect they deserved until they moved to Europe. So there's still hope for you.
Of course I know what Mitt was getting at. He's trying to paint Obama as foreign and capitalize on republican's prejudice against our first black president and his "socialist" health care. And he has to make that distinction since he governed Massachusetts with a similar plan to Obamacare. But can't Obama's detractors at least stay on message? So the president is not Kenyan, not Indonesian, not even Hawaiian, but European now? Can he still be a muslim terrorist, though? I guess European would fit in with the "czars" accusations levelled at him a year ago. Dunces whining about an imagined threat from Obama's czars when they have no idea what the word even means--it just sounds foreign and commie so it makes for appropriate ammo when you're grasping at straws. And of course, the whiners weren't concerned at all that Bush had more czars than Obama ever did. If Obama's ideas and identity are so poisonous and the complete opposite of apple pie, couldn't the GOP at least spell out their problems with him without using button-pushing words which don't even make sense to use?
I suppose sense doesn't really come into play often with GOP voters, who are proven to be less intelligent than democrats. If it did, they might want to ask themselves if they valued democracy, which this country was founded on. That radical, seditious concept hails from Greece. The last time I checked, that was still a country in the dreaded Europe! Very old Europe! And a country also known for it's butt-fucking!(I imagine that very few readers of this blog would have an issue with that foreign concept either.)
How can Mitt expect us to follow him when he's deriding the very continent from which we derive most of our culture and ideas? We saw how Bush's doctrine of "You're either for us or against us" worked out. Maybe the people who are criticizing us are actually right. If anything, Americans need a broader world view for a much-needed reality check to tell us that the rest of the world views US as terrorists thanks to our occupations of Afghanistan and Iraq. Besides, this attitude of "We're the US, we're #1 and we listen to no one" only works when you are actually #1. And republican policy sent this country into the dog house under Bush. Now the US can't even pay it's bills! Third World here we come! How can more of the same policies from Mitt or any other republican ever help get us back on track?
Once, the US was a brash new colony cutting it's ties with the old world and asserting it's independence. Now we're asserting our buffoonery and resistance to the truth! With it's state-run health care, safety nets for the poor, and greater emphasis on clean energy which we admitted we need here, Europe is not the continent to ignore. The whole world needs to come together to combat global warming since it affects every race, creed, color and political party on the planet. Unless, of course, you're a republican who denies science in favor of fairy tales from the Bible.
But take heart, Obama. Many of this country's most illustrious talents, from Josephine Baker to Miles Davis, never got the respect they deserved until they moved to Europe. So there's still hope for you.
DRAG FESTIVAL THIS SUNDAY!
For those of you who miss Wigstock, there's a similar event this Sunday in Tompkins Square Park from 5-7 and with a similar cast of crazies. The Jackie 60 crew are spotlighting East Village drag through the years. FREE! So is NYC no longer fun or or YOU no longer fun? Throw on a wig and go!
MORE INFO/THE LINE-UP: MOTHERNYC
June 02, 2011
June 01, 2011
HERE WE GO AGAIN
Rihanna is gorgeous. But here she goes with the violence in relationships theme again. If she was a real artist trying to work out her real life abuse issues in song, more power to her. But this seems like a cheap trick to make a dull song explosive. She's gone from S&M to murder. Wheeeee!
I HELD BACK ON MEMORIAL DAY, BUT...
Why bleat SUPPORT THE TROOPS like a sheep when you have no idea what they are currently doing? They're up to no good in Iraq and Afghanistan and as we whine about the bloated deficit, we're paying out the nose to keep this sham alive. Sending troops to this region have inflamed muslims worldwide, guaranteeing generations of terror attacks on us. Feel safer? PLEASE read this enlightening letter.
An Open Letter to the Troops: You’re Not Defending Our Freedoms by Jacob G. Hornberger,
Dear Troops:
Yesterday — Memorial Day — some people asserted, once again, that you are “defending our freedoms” overseas.
Nothing could be further from the truth. Those people are just repeating tired old mantras. The reality is that you are not defending our freedoms with your actions overseas. In fact, it is the exact opposite. Your actions overseas are placing our freedoms here at home in ever-greater jeopardy.
Consider your occupation of Iraq, a country that, as you know, never attacked the United States, making it the defender in the war and the United States the aggressor. Think about that: Every single person that the troops have killed, maimed, or tortured in Iraq had absolutely nothing to do with the 9/11 attacks.
Yet, the countless victims of the U.S. invasion and occupation of Iraq have friends and relatives, many of whom have become filled with anger and rage and who now would stop at nothing to retaliate with terrorist attacks against Americans.
Pray tell: How does that constitute defending our freedoms?
MORE: FFF
An Open Letter to the Troops: You’re Not Defending Our Freedoms by Jacob G. Hornberger,
Dear Troops:
Yesterday — Memorial Day — some people asserted, once again, that you are “defending our freedoms” overseas.
Nothing could be further from the truth. Those people are just repeating tired old mantras. The reality is that you are not defending our freedoms with your actions overseas. In fact, it is the exact opposite. Your actions overseas are placing our freedoms here at home in ever-greater jeopardy.
Consider your occupation of Iraq, a country that, as you know, never attacked the United States, making it the defender in the war and the United States the aggressor. Think about that: Every single person that the troops have killed, maimed, or tortured in Iraq had absolutely nothing to do with the 9/11 attacks.
Yet, the countless victims of the U.S. invasion and occupation of Iraq have friends and relatives, many of whom have become filled with anger and rage and who now would stop at nothing to retaliate with terrorist attacks against Americans.
Pray tell: How does that constitute defending our freedoms?
MORE: FFF