Showing posts with label utah. Show all posts
Showing posts with label utah. Show all posts

Monday, May 17, 2010

Morning News 5/17/10



BP Sucks. BP sucking up 1,000 barrels of oil per day and will "try" to stop the leak later this week.

2 Billion, with a "B". Youtube now gets double the daily hits than all the people who tune in to the 3 major US networks every day combined.

Only her hairdresser knows for sure. Folks keep askin' about Kagan. Maureen Dowd imagines her in a "...lacy peach peignoir..." That ought to settle things.

Sestak v. Burns. Burns flogs Sestak's (former) republican status, makes headway.

Utah? Kids are coming out younger, even in... Utah?

Making The World Safe For Straight People, One Funeral At A Time. Via JMG: Minnesota Governor Tim Pawlenty (R) has vetoed a bill that would have granted domestic partners the right to make burial decision for deceased spouses.

(Pawlenty) also said that a “surviving domestic partner” should not be “afforded the same legal recognition” as a spouse. “Marriage — as defined as between a man and a woman — should remain elevated in our society at a special level, as it traditionally has been,” said Pawlenty in his veto message. “I oppose efforts to treat domestic relationships as the equivalent of traditional marriage.”
 Don't worry everyone. There's no such thing as homophobia so we can all go back to bed.

(Public domain image of double espresso by Mark Prince CoffeeGeek.com via Wikipedia.)

Saturday, April 3, 2010

Morning News 4/03/10



To paraphrase Bart Simpson: "Easter is a time when people of all faiths get together to worship Jesus Christ." Obama urges us all to come together in a "shared spirit of humanity."

Angels, I have a job for you: Actor John Forsythe shuffles off this mortal coil at age 92.

Paula Brooks over at Lez Get Real tells us that Gay rights protections in Salt Lake City are just the beginning of LGBTQ rights in Utah.

The Food police are determined to make Easter less fun, for your own good. A man who runs a string of weight loss camps for children insists that Easter isn't about candy. Good luck, fella.

(Marshmallow Peeps are a product of the Just Born Candy Company from Bethlehem Pennsylvania.)