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CHRISTENE JORGENSEN BBC INTERVIEW

Christine Jorgensen: 60 years of sex change ops

By Chloe HadjimatheouBBC World Service

LSTEN:   BBC

LADIES: WHILE WE'RE AT IT....

Wonder Woman and I Want To Know Where All The Awesome Women On TV Are

Geena Davis wondered why there weren't more substantive roles for women on television, so she started an institute to help figure it out. If little girls don't have anything besides supporting roles to look up to, how are they ever going to know that they can do more than just stand on the sidelines? Share this video if you think that we need more strong female characters on television.

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TEE HEE!

GRAND BARGAIN IS GRAND LARCENY

Obama and other corporate democrats are getting ready to do a reverse Robin Hood on us. Don't sleep on this: they're preparing to ROB the average person to maintain tax cuts for the top 2%. We're in a recession and have been--so this isn't 

the time to cut Medicare, Medicaid and Social Security--just raise the low tax rates on those who won't even feel the pinch. It's called equality, people! After campaigning to raise the tax rates on the wealthiest Americans, Obama said in his acceptance speech that voting wasn't our only job as citizens--we needed to stay involved. So if you don't have the gumption to get up off your butt and urge him to honor his own recent campaign promises then prepare for hard times. You're proving to the powers that be that you don't care or pay attention. Sadly, our elected officials are all such slaves to corporate cash that our own representatives no longer represent the people. Our "news" is bought by the corporate, mainstream media so all we've been warned and misled for weeks about the fiscal cliff. More liberal MSNBC anchors have taken to calling it a "fiscal curb" because it really isn't as disastrous an emergency as everyone on TV claims it is. If we do fall off of it, the Bush tax cuts expire on 1/1. Any politician is going to immediately vote to reinstate the tax cuts for the middle class or their career in politics is over. BUT SIMPLY LET THE TAX CUTS ON THE TOP 2% EXPIRE. And all most of us will have to worry about is someone filthy rich might have to skip having the very best caviar for a few nights. Look at the recent Walmart employees protesting against the retail giant's unfair practices. The six heirs of Walmart's combined wealth equals 41% of the rest of the country combined. Are we moving back towards the kings and the ruling class which which my ancestors left Europe centuries ago to escape? Feels like it--and it's a far cry from the equality that we supposedly prize so much.

I just called my representative and senators and got right through. When you call you enter your zip code, and the prompt asks you to select your representative or one of two senators. CALL ALL THREE! insist that we got what we just voted for: 60% of the country agrees that it's time to milk the fat cats for a change. An email petition won't work when the entire system is this dead set against screwing us. Do this or embrace austerity. For those of you who support Obama, you actually do support the higher taxes on the top 2% because it WAS his position JUST DAYS AGO. Now he has a republican banker Geithner negotiating with services you may desperately need when you're sick, poor or just unemployed as many of us are these days. If you voted for Obama thinking that he'd go to bat for us in his second term, why wait? He's already reaching across that aisle again--and we see how well that worked the first time around. Maybe I'm exaggerating--even though Obama's opening bid is already weak and republicans aren't exactly cooperative, are they? But even if I am--his second term is practically here and there's a brand new bunch in Congress who we need to tell quite plainly: WE ARE WATCHING YOU. We stood in long lines to vote for you.The wealthiest 2% will be just fine if they have to pay a little more. Please remind Obama what we JUST voted for! Didn't the 47% just win an election and tell Mitt Romney HELL NAW? Now we're getting what we voted against even though Obama won? If you've had the time to read this mess then you've got the time to call. And while you have them on the phone, tell them to create some more jobs! Unless you think we're on the right track, get involved now.


FROM CITIZEN ACTION OF NEW YORK:

Negotiations in Washington are happening fast. We need to keep the pressure on Congress to heed the call sent by voters on Election Day: no more tax cuts for the rich!

Today, along with our progressive allies across New York State, we are taking part in a big statewide call-in day of action urging our Members of Congress not to give another $1 trillion tax cut to the wealthiest 2% at the expense of crucial programs like Social Security, Medicare and Medicaid that millions of New Yorkers need to survive.

Call your Representative today at 888.659.9401 - tell them:

1. End the Bush Tax Cuts for the richest 2%.
2. Protect Social Security, Medicare, and Medicaid.
3. Invest in good jobs to boost our economy"

CALL:   http://action.citizenactionny.org/p/dia/action/public/?action_KEY=6932

And don't believe a drag queen: here's Clinton's labor secretary and professor of public policy Robert Reich with similar thoughts:

http://robertreich.org/post/36839197826

NON-NEW YORKERS: This is very easy... look up your zip code here https://www.usps.com/ and then find your representative here http://www.house.gov/representatives/find/

A SCREAMER!

SOMEONE FOUND MY BIKE!

MALICE IN WONDERLAND

THIS IS INSANELY BRILLIANT!

THIS GOT ME GOOD!

FREE SPEECH: USE IT OR LOSE IT

WHY IS MCCAIN "ANXIOUS" TO TAKE AWAY OUR LIBERTIES? WHY DO DEMOCRATS LIKE OBAMA WANT IT? HERE'S WHAT THEY WANT TO DO:

"In order to execute this immense power, the NDAA unlawfully grants the president the absolute and unquestionable authority to deploy the armed forces of the United States to apprehend and to indefinitely detain those suspected of threatening the security of the “homeland.” In the language of this legislation, these people are called “covered persons.”

Regardless of promises to the contrary, the language of the NDAA places every citizen of the United States within the universe of potential “covered persons.” Any American could one day find himself or herself branded a “belligerent” and thus subject to the complete confiscation of his or her constitutional civil liberties and nearly never-ending incarceration in a military prison."

DO YOU WANT TO BE DETAINED FOR NOTHING? DIDN'T THINK SO. THEN TELL YOUR REPRESENTATIVES IN CONGRESS AND PRESIDENT BEFORE YOU LOSE THE RIGHT TO SPEAK UP. MCCAIN HAS JUST SHOWN HIMSELF TO BE A LYING LOSER BY CLAIMING TO WANT INFO ON BENGHAZI WHILE SKIPPING THE MEETINGS WHICH GAVE THAT INFO. IF HE'S ANXIOUS TO RENEW THIS, CHANCES ARE THAT IT'S VERY WRONG.

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BEYOND CUTE!

THINK YOU HAD A BAD THANKSGIVING?

Arteesha Donaldson, South Carolina Woman, Allegedly Assaulted Girlfriend Over Misplaced Sex Toy

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LOOK WHO OBAMA GOT TO NEGOTIATE THE "FISCAL CLIFF"

A republican banker--lotsa luck!

Will Tim Geithner Lead Us Over or Around the Fiscal Cliff? by Robert Reich

During his tenure as Treasury Secretary, Geithner has followed in Rubin's path -- engineering a no-strings Wall Street bailout that didn't require the Street to help stranded homeowners, didn't demand the Street agree to a resurrection of the Glass-Steagall Act, and didn't seek to cap the size of the biggest bank, which in the wake of the bailout have become much bigger. In an interview with the Journal, Geithner repeats the President's stated principle that tax rates must rise on the wealthy, but doesn't rule out changes to Social Security or Medicare. And he notes that in the president's budget (drawn up before the election), spending on non-defense discretionary items -- mostly programs for the poor, and investments in education and infrastructure -- are "very low as a share of the economy relative to Clinton."

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SKIP THE INAUGURATION

If corporate stooges close to the Obama campaign get their way, President Obama will spend the first day of his second term at lavish parties sponsored by multinational corporations like Bank of America, General Electric and Coca-Cola.*

Why would President Obama want to start his second term by cozying up to these profit-hoarding, progress-thwarting corporate antagonists and the same CEO hucksters that are daily distorting our democracy with legions of lobbyists and million-dollar propaganda campaigns?

President Obama should start his second and final term as a fighter for the people — NOT as panderer-in-chief.

Urge President Obama to refuse corporate contributions for his inauguration.

Corporate contributions are being considered, according to The Wall Street Journal, because the political mega-donors that politicians typically hit up to help pay for inauguration day fanfare are feeling “drained” after spending so much during this year’s record-breaking, $6 billion election.

But the fact is, an inauguration without excess fanfare and without funding from corporations or the ultra-rich will do just fine.

A corporate-sponsored inauguration — which, coincidentally, will fall on the third anniversary of the U.S. Supreme Court’s infamous Citizens United ruling — would fundamentally undermine the Obama administration’s efforts to rein in the damage caused by that decision.

Public Citizen’s Craig Holman, a longtime expert on the corrupting influence of corporate money in politics, warned in The Wall Street Journal that allowing corporations to pay for Obama’s inauguration would “essentially codify this idea that corporations should be financing politics.”

To his credit, President Obama refused corporate money for his first inauguration back in 2008.

It was the right decision then. And it’s the right decision now.

Tell Obama: Don’t allow your inauguration to be bought by Corporate America.

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SO CRAZY AND CUTE!

YETH, GURL!

NO MORE MEDIA FOR MURDURCH

Rupert Murdoch — the guy who’s under investigation in England for phone hacking, influence peddling and bribery — wants to get his mitts on the Los Angeles Times and the Chicago Tribune. These are the major papers in the nation's second- and third-largest cities (where, incidentally, Murdoch already owns TV stations).

Federal Communications Commission Chairman Julius Genachowski is trying to change the agency’s ownership rules to pave the way for Murdoch to get exactly what he wants. Worse, Genachowski and Murdoch are keeping this all very hush-hush, hoping you won't notice.

These changes wouldn’t just benefit Murdoch. If the FCC proposal passes, one company could own the major daily newspaper, two TV stations and up to eight radio stations in your town. And that one company could be your Internet provider, too. What is the FCC thinking?!?

We can still stop the agency from taking this perilous step — but we have less than a month to do it.

By taking action, you’re joining a movement of millions who are working to stop big media from getting even bigger. Please take action today.

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MY DOGS ARE LITERALLY BARKING!

LAWANDA PAGE RULES!

Her incredible voice is the intro to RuPaul's hit Supermodel.

MAKE PROTESTING FUN!

50 YEARS OF CHER'S MUG!

SHE'S SO FISH..

THAT SHE COMES WITH A BUILT-IN FLOATATION DEVICE!

BAD OBAMA!

OBAMA SUPPORTERS: HELP ME FIGURE THIS ONE OUT. Obama's Grand Bargain is cutting tax deductions for mortgages, medicare, medicaid and possibly Social Security--but wait for it--NOT raising taxes on the rich and lowering corporate taxes. As Cenk says, "This is not what we voted for" and this "Grand Bargain is grand larceny." Sorry to burst your bubble about Obama becoming more liberal in his second term when he doesn't face another reelection. He's also put his top aide (republican financier) Geithner in charge of the negotiations to ensure that the hardest hit Americans will be robbed as Obama pushes for Romney-like tax reform which benefits the wealthiest. Don't you clearly remember what Obama saying over and over again on the campaign trail that he'd raise taxes on the rich?

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SICK OF CUTE CAT PICS?

HILARIOUS AND SPOT ON!

Bill Maher on WhoSay

A SCREAM!

THIS QUEEN IS NAILING THIS!

HOW TASTEFUL!

SUM TING WONG

LOVE ALL OF THESE!

INSANE!

LOL!

Brazilian christians warn against the use of lol--since it stands for Lucifer My Lord!

DO ASK! DON'T KILL!

                           SEEN IN SAN FRANCISCO'S CASTRO STREET AREA!

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WORD

RIGOR MORTIS SPREADS TO THE MOURNER?

DR. DEALER

This is a long but informative article about painkiller abuse--starting with heroin, which wasn't even a Schedule 1 substance until 1970. As several states move towards legalizing the relatively harmless marijuana, it's fascinating to learn how unscrupulous doctors, pharmacists, insurance companies and our "trusted" medical organizations like the FDA and AMA band together to permit and even fuel the epidemic since there's money to be made in this mainly white, middle class trend which destroys the lives of users and suppliers. Yet we outlaw harmless and inexpensive drugs like weed that simply grow in the dirt because no pharma giants are involved and you don't need a doctor for a prescription. The very organizations and insurance companies which should be concerned about the abuse prefer to reap massive profits from it and the doctors who are monitoring our health are often lured by cash into overprescribing very dangerous drugs.

The author even suggests that painkillers are not that effective for all kinds of pain. I remember being prescribed some of these drugs after a knee surgery. My mom asked if they worked and I had to tell her that they didn't actually alleviate the pain at all--they just made me so high that I didn't care about it. While healing and unable to get around, it was pleasant to have an escape hatch buzz, but at what point does that make your doctor a dealer? I'm not suggesting that these drugs not be prescribed, but if you've read this post this far and are interested, this article will blow your mind.



WHOLE ARTICLE:   VILLAGEVOICE

CHARLIE CHAPLIN--WHO KNEW?

HEE HEE!

GOT MY DECORATIONS UP EARLY!

VERY CUTE XMAS SONG

I could live without the autotune in the break and I can't believe that the singer puts on hand sanitzer during the video but this song is as catchy as cold and flu germs!

NEW MUSIC FROM CHER

THE POOP ON BLACK FRIDAY

THE RAW STORY: Brown Friday: Why do people poop in retail stores?

"Unless you’ve worked in retail, you’ve probably never heard of it. If you have worked in retail, then you know that sometimes, if you will, shit gets real. For some unfathomable reason, people poop in retail clothing stores, particularly in fitting rooms and inside the circular clothing racks called “rounders,” but other times they’ll just do it in a corner or, perversely, on the floor right next to the toilet.

As a former employee of Gap, Inc. and Borders Books, this reporter can confirm that the phenomenon exists. With depressing frequency, often during the busiest and most hectic times of the year — Black Friday weekend and the weeks before Christmas — sales employees or managers will open a fitting room door, or brush aside a pile of clothes to find that some shopper, large or small, has defecated and left the results behind."

Raw Story (http://s.tt/1uBQW)

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DAMN RIGHT!

GO, SOLEDAD!

You don't usually expect hard-hitting journalism from CNN, but Soledad O'Brien simply can't make sense of the republican braying nonsense about Susan Rice vs Condo-loser Rice. So she holds his feet to the fire and repeated asks him to explain his nonsensical talking point. It happens so rarely on CNN that it's heavenly!

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NEVER GET A SEX CHANGE FROM A VETERINARIAN

OU CAN VOTE UNTIL 11/28

The end of digital democracy? Facebook wants to take away your right to vote

"(CNN) -- Unless Facebook users fight back, the days of the social network's experiment with democracy may soon come to an end.The company on Wednesday proposed to take away its users' right to vote on major issues concerning the governance of its 1 billion-member online network. The reaction online has been less than welcoming."Facebook now argues that it is too big for democracy, much like the Chinese government might," writes Michael Phillips on the site BuzzFeed. "Call this new regime Facebook with Authoritarian Characteristics." Since 2009, in what Facebook calls an experiment with digital voting rights, Facebook has allowed users to vote on major changes to the way it manages user data and privacy, if the online community expressed enough interest. If 7,000 people commented on a particular proposal, that triggered a vote. And if 30% of the site's active users -- which would be 300 million people at this point -- voted against the change, Facebook would abandon it. Now the company says it wants to ditch that system, replacing it with new ways for users to submit questions to Facebook's privacy team. The company lists two primary reasons for the shift away from digital democracy: Facebook has become extremely large, with more than a billion users; and it's a publicly traded company now, which means it is "accountable to regulators around the world."

MORE:   CNN

WELL?

WOMAN TAKES A BATH AT CAR WASH!

SO CUTE!

SPEAK UP AGAINST CUOMO'S SELL-OUT

New Yorkers voted for change this fall, and Democrats won upset victories and a historic majority in the State Senate.

But a group of rogue Democrats is discussing an alliance with Republicans in the State Senate that would squash the progressive agenda and keep Republicans in control.

And Gov. Cuomo? He's saying he "won't get involved."

Join us in calling on Gov. Cuomo to stand up for a Democratic Senate Majority that can pass the progressive agenda we voted for.

Please click here to email Governor Cuomo right away.

And scroll to the bottom for details about a series of upcoming rallies throughout the state.

The Governor says he stands for progressive values. He claims to support public financing of elections, raising the minimum wage, gun control and protecting women's health.

But Republicans in the State Senate have bottled up our issues for years, or even decades!

So now, when rogue Democrats are ready to join the Republicans and throw our progressive values under the bus, why is Governor Cuomo is willing to stand by and let it happen?

This is no time to stay out of the fray – if Gov. Cuomo truly shares our values, he's got to fight for them.

Click here to tell Governor Andrew Cuomo to speak up for a Democratic Senate majority in Albany.

GOTTA GET ME ONE!

EVERY FRIDAY AT XL

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IS THIS EDITED OR DOES THIS DOG HAVE RHYTHM?

POST-TURKEY DAY BLOW OUT

FUN WITH BABIES!

GREAT NEWS!

Video Here: http://goo.gl/9LE3v

During their 6 p.m. newscast last night, Bangor-based TV news anchors Cindy Michaels and Tony Consiglio resigned on air, citing, as the Bangor Daily News has described it, "a longstanding battle with upper management over journalistic practices at their Bangor TV stations."

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AT LEAST THEY REMOVE THE PICKLES!

ANYONE ELSE FEELING LIKE THIS TODAY?

THIS IS HOW YOU ACCEPT AN AWARD!

Thorgy Thor at the recent Glam Awards:

WHAT'S RACHEL RAY COOKING?

HAPPY THANKSTAKING!

SPINNING 11/21 IN MIAMI AT SCORE!

TEE HEE!

And elsewhere in the world of penis size humor...

HEALTH officials in Thailand have rushed to reassure men that size isn't everything after a 50-year-old man was forced to have his penis removed following a botched enlargement attempt using olive oil.


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YMA SUMAC CAFTANS!

TODAY IS INTERNATIONAL TRANS REMEMBRANCE DAY

SLIDESHOW OF 50 TG NOTABLES:   HUFFPO

MY NEW DIET PLAN

THE POUNDS JUST MELT AWAY!

NEXT MAG'S STATE OF DRAG ISSUE

RPDR Season 5's Ivy Winters, seen here with a serious boner, is featured on the cover of Next's drag-themed issue. Lotsa new girls with crazy names like Betty Betty Nice and Leo Gugu. So if you wanna see what's going on in the NYC drag scene, here ya go!

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THIS CROOK STILL GAINING INFLUENCE

Rupert Murdoch is about to get all the goodies on his holiday wish list.

Murdoch has set his sights on the Los Angeles Times and the Chicago Tribune — the major papers in the nation's second- and third-largest cities (where, incidentally, he already owns several TV stations).^1,2

And get this: The Federal Communications Commission — the Obama FCC, no less — is trying to change the rules so Murdoch can get exactly what he wants. Worse, FCC Chairman Julius Genachowski is hoping the agency can pass these changes without you noticing.

Murdoch's media grab would be illegal under the current rules. But Chairman Genachowski is pushing the other commissioners for changes that would translate into a giveaway for Rupert and other media barons.³

Murdoch and Genachowski think no one is watching. It's time to raise hell:

Take a Stand: No More Media for Murdoch

Rupert Murdoch is the guy who’s under investigation in England for phone hacking, influence peddling and bribery. U.S. officials should be cross-examining him — not giving him more power and influence. 

And these rule changes wouldn’t just benefit Murdoch. If the FCC changes the rules, one company could own the major daily newspaper, two TV stations and up to eight radio stations in your town. And that one company could be your Internet provider, too. 

Sound familiar? It should. The FCC is pushing the same Bush-era media consolidation policy we rallied millions against in 2003 and 2007. It's the same policy we beat in court two years ago — and before that, back in 2005. This is the same policy the Senate voted to overturn back in 2008 — a rebuke to runaway media concentration led by, among others, then-Sen. Barack Obama.⁴

But like some villain in a zombie movie, this policy is now back from the dead. We need to kill this thing for good — and remind the FCC that 99 percent of the public opposes media consolidation, no matter who’s in the White House or the chairman's seat. 

No More Consolidation: Stop the Murdoch Media Empire

If Genachowski and Murdoch get their way, the first big policy change after Obama's reelection will be a huge handout to the biggest media companies. These changes will show the FCC doesn't care about diversity — and will push more women and people of color off the airwaves. And Genachowski wants to ram these rules through without holding a single public hearing attended by all five FCC commissioners.  Genachowski doesn’t even want to hold the vote in public.

We can still stop them from taking this perilous step — but we have less than a month to do it. By taking action, you’re joining a movement of millions who are working to stop big media from getting even bigger.

We need to hear from you today.

SIGN:   FREEPRESS

SAHARA DAVENPORT MEMORIAL SHOW

Plenty of divas band together to bid farewell to their sister at XL on 12/14. With Manila Luzon, Dwayne Milan, Harmonica Sunbeam, Sugga Pie Koko, and more! Followed by Hot Mess, this is a special early show. And bring a handkerchief!

NYC DJ HONEY DIJON MENTIONED ON ABFAB

Honey moved her in the late 80's and was even a Wigstock dancer at one time. She's gone on to tour internationally playing massive venues from Chile to Iceland! Hurray for her! And here she is modelling in Vogue Italia!

GAWKER: ON THE ROAD WITH RIHANNA

‘Rihanna Is Keeping Us From Sleeping or Eating or Going Outside or Using a Bathroom’: an Anonymous Rihanna Plane Captive Speaks Out

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HEAVENLY DEMENTIA!

HOW TO COOK SAUSAGE WHEN YOUR GAS BEEN CUT OFF

HOW THEY ROLL IN FINLAND!

NEW YORKERS: PLEASE CALL CUOMO

I GOT THROUGH INSTANTLY!

FOOD AND WATER WATCH'S ALEX BEAUCHAMP:

"By now you've likely seen that Governor Cuomo has made some encouraging comments about the dangers that climate change poses to New York. You'd think this would mean that this administration wouldn't even think of furthering our dependence on dirty fuels by allowing fracking in New York. Sadly, with an important deadline looming, there is no word from the C

uomo Administration on fracking.

Now, it's time to call the Governor and tell him to take real action to protect New York by calling for a ban on fracking. Make the call today at 866-961-3208.

I was excited when I heard Governor Cuomo talk about the negative effects of climate change — it's all too rare to hear elected officials even mention the issue these days. But it's time to go beyond just words. New York is at a key decision point. The state will either show leadership and keep fracking out, or it will further our nation's reliance on dirty fossil fuels and their damage to our planet by allowing fracking. Governor Cuomo has a real chance to lead here, but he must hear from New Yorkers if he's going to make the right decision. Call Governor Cuomo today at 866-961-3208 and demand a ban on fracking!

With the election over, we have to make it clear that the movement against fracking will persist. The opposition to this destructive drilling process will follow Governor Cuomo wherever he goes — until he makes the right decision and bans fracking. You can help us make that happen. Pick up the phone, right now, and call Governor Cuomo at 866-961-3208."

TRUST ME, THE "CODE" FOR DRAG ADS IS WORSE!