It is my privilege for the first time to address you as chancellor of one of the 12 members of the Big Ten, rather than as one of the 10 members of the Big 12 — which proves there are three kinds of athletic conferences, those who can count and those who can't.
Tuesday, September 13, 2011
Harvey Perlman's State of the University Address puts new spin on an old joke
Perlman, Chancellor of the University of Nebraska, said:
National Organization for Marriage, Mormon front group, targets David Weprin; group bombarding New Yorkers with robocalls urging election of Bob Turner
Despite NOM's recent failure to defeat gay marriage legislation in New York (See posts here, here and here) the LDS-organized political group is again innundating New Yorkers with annoying robo calls, this time trashing David Weprin in attempt to elect Bob Turner to replace Anthony Weiner. Rabbi Zecharia Wallerstein officiates this time. And yes, that would be the same Orthodox Jew on record saying that gays cause earthquakes.
This summer, an astute AKSARBENT reader recommended a way to get NOM to leave your phone alone:
This summer, an astute AKSARBENT reader recommended a way to get NOM to leave your phone alone:
Chris said...
I found out better information - call 202-457-8060 and ask to speak to Dave Monge, with the National Organization for Marriage. I called him and very sternly told him to take me off their call list or I will be calling my local law enforcement people, because it amounts to harassment. Bloggers everywhere please post this information - and call his # to get a real person on the phone, not a full answering machine that ignores you.
Sunday, September 11, 2011
Christers disagreeing on appropriate means to imprison gay people in America
US Dominionist puppet: Ugandan First Lady Janet Museveni behind anti-gay bill and smear campaign
...the First Lady, who he described as ‘a very extreme woman,’ “is ultimately behind the bill.BTB went on to say this:
Museveni was also behind a homophobic smear campaign against the rival of one of her religious allies.The revelation that Janet Museveni is one of the driving forces behind the Anti-Homosexuality Bill once again casts a light onto the influence that American-based Dominionist movements such as the New Apostolic Reformation and its Seven Mountains Mandate exerts in Uganda. Janet Museveni has reportedly spoken at several conferences around the world hosted by Ed Silvoso, and CEO of the International Transformation Network (ITN) and an apostle in C. Peter Wagner’s International Coalition of Apostles. Silvoso has also been a guest of the Museveni’s at State House. Video of Museveni speaking at one such gathering can be seen here.
Italian television network RAI censors gay wedding episode of A Cyclone in the Convent
OnTop magazine says that Italy's public television broadcaster RAI1 refused to air Romeo and Romeo, an episode of a German television series A Cyclone in the Convent, in which two men marry in a Catholic convent, according to Italian daily La Repubblica.
“[T]he series is too long, we had to pull out one episode,” said Mauro Mazza, the station's director responsible for censorship. He added that had the marriage been held at a city hall there would have been no problem.
["Huh?" AKSARBENT opines. If the marriage had been held in a city hall, then the series would not have been too long?]
In 2008, RAI censored sex scenes in Brokeback Mountain.
Friday, September 9, 2011
Keystone XL pipeline poisoning of Ogallala Aquifer embraced by Romney, Perry, Gingrich and Santorum
Four GOP presidential candidates now support the construction of the Keystone XL tar sands oil pipeline through North America's most important fresh water aquifer. The pipeline would be an extension to the TransCanada's Keystone 1 pipeline, which has already leaked 12 times in its first year of operation. The Keystone XL pipeline will carry abrasive tar sands oil through a larger — but no thicker — pipeline at 1400-1600 PSI at temperatures up to 160 degrees.
Keystone XL pipeline leakage into the most pristeen large underground reservoir in the world will almost certainly be a question of when, not if. Even Nebraska's most important ecological slacker, Gov. Dave Heineman, has finally (and perhaps cynically) written a letter asking that the pipeline be rerouted. Heineman knows perfectly well that the federal government has no say in where pipelines are situated, because it has become a heated political issue in his state.
Despite the fact that siting authority lies with the state, Heineman refuses to do anything related to rerouting except pass the buck to other politicians and political appointees.
Here is his recent letter:
Keystone XL pipeline leakage into the most pristeen large underground reservoir in the world will almost certainly be a question of when, not if. Even Nebraska's most important ecological slacker, Gov. Dave Heineman, has finally (and perhaps cynically) written a letter asking that the pipeline be rerouted. Heineman knows perfectly well that the federal government has no say in where pipelines are situated, because it has become a heated political issue in his state.
Despite the fact that siting authority lies with the state, Heineman refuses to do anything related to rerouting except pass the buck to other politicians and political appointees.
Here is his recent letter:
Dear President Obama and Secretary Clinton:
I am writing to you today regarding a very important issue to the State of Nebraska and to our citizens- the Keystone XL Pipeline. I am opposed to the proposed route of this pipeline. The Final Environmental Impact Statement compares a potential spill in the Sand Hills region to a 1979 Bemidji, Minnesota spill and concludes that “the impacts to shallow groundwater from a spill of a similar volume in the Sand Hills region would affect a limited area of the aquifer around the spill site.” I disagree with this analysis, and I believe that the pipeline should not cross a substantial portion of the Ogallala Aquifer.
Of the current proposed route, 254 miles of the pipeline would come through Nebraska and be situated directly over the Ogallala Aquifer. The aquifer provides water to farmers and ranchers of Nebraska to raise livestock and grow crops. Nebraska has 92,685 registered, active irrigation wells supplying water to over 8.5 million acres of harvested cropland and pasture. Forty-six percent of the total cropland harvested during 2007 was irrigated. Maintaining and protecting Nebraska’s water supply is very important to me and the residents of Nebraska. This resource is the lifeblood of Nebraska’s agriculture industry. Cash receipts from farm markets contribute over $17 billion to Nebraska’s economy annually. I am concerned that the proposed pipeline will potentially have detrimental effects on this valuable natural resource and Nebraska’s economy.
I want to emphasize that I am not opposed to pipelines. We already have hundreds of them in our state. I am opposed to the proposed Keystone XL Pipeline route because it is directly over the Ogallala Aquifer.
Therefore, I am asking you to disapprove TransCanada’s pending permit request. Do not allow TransCanada to build a pipeline over the Ogallala Aquifer and risk the potential damage to Nebraska’s water. Thank you for your consideration of this matter.
Moose drunk on fruit cocktails ensnared by tree in Saro, Sweden
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| Photo: Gustav Johannson |
This cow was finally freed by bending the apple tree, immediately after which she collapsed and went to sleep.
The property owner, Per Johannson, expects her to be back.
Thursday, September 8, 2011
Marcellus Andrews beating death suspect arrested: Paris Akeem Anding, 19
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| Paris Akeem Anding, via wcfcourier.com |
The Waterloo-Cedar Falls Courier reports that officers have arrested Paris Akeem Anding, 19, of 310 Crescent Place, Thursday on charges of second-degree murder. He was taken to the Black Hawk County Jail, where he is being held without bond.
Here is the Waterloo Police Department press release:
Thursday, 08 September 2011 16:52
This afternoon, Thursday, September 8, 2011 the Waterloo Police Department arrested 19 year old Paris Akeem Anding of 310 Crescent Place, Waterloo in connection with the death of 19 year old Marcellus Andrews. Anding was booked into the Black Hawk County Jail on a charge of Murder in the second degree. No bond was set. The charge stems from an incident that took place in the early morning hours of August 19, 2011 in the 200 block of Cottage Street which resulted in the death of Marcellus Andrews.
Anding was also booked on an outstanding warrant for Aggravated Assault on a non-related charge.
Bond was set at $10,000.00 for that warrant.
No further details are being released at this time as this is an on-going investigation.Lieutenant Michael McNamee
Waterloo Police Department
Investigations Division
Wednesday, September 7, 2011
Matt Baume: Marriage News Watch 9/5/11
More courtroom drama over Prop 8, with new arguments and a new judge. Recent surveys have been so encouraging for our side that this week our opponents resorted to creating a fake survey to spread misinformation. And civil unions are poised to make way for full marriage equality in Scotland and New Zealand.
American Psychiatric Association president responds to Fox News shrink Keith Ablow's comments on Chaz Bono
First, WikiPedia's remarks:
Now it seems that Fox News has quietly and without explanation removed Ablow's written commentary from its web site. Finally, the President of the American Psychiatric Association had this to say in response to Ablow's unprofessional diatribe:On September 2 2011, Keith Ablow admitted he has never interviewed, diagnosed and treated Chaz Bono in a professional setting. Dr. Keith Ablow wrote in his opinion piece on FoxNews.com this statement, "Chaz Bono didn’t come to me for help, though. She didn’t ask me for my opinion. But when she decided to promote gender reassignment surgery in the media as a happy triumph, she ended up getting my attention, anyhow." http://www.foxnews.com/opinion/2011/09/02/dont-let-your-kids-watch-chaz-bono-on-dancing-with-stars/Ablow's professional opinion of Chaz Bono contradicts the American Psychological Association's diagnosis and treatment of Transgendered individuals. The APA recommends, "Be aware of your attitudes concerning people with gender-atypical appearance or behavior. Use names and pronouns that are appropriate to the person’s gender presentation and identity; if in doubt, ask their preference. Don’t make assumptions about transgender people’s sexual orientation, desire for surgical or hormonal treatment, or other aspects of their identity or transition plans. If you have a reason to need to know, ask. Read more, http://www.apa.org/topics/sexuality/transgender.pdf
"...There is no evidence that viewing a television game show with a transgender contestant would induce Gender Identity Disorder in young people."
Monday, September 5, 2011
Marcellus Andrews killing: now Waterloo newspaper is getting flak; defends itself in Sunday editorial
Waterloo's newspaper is, so far, deferring to the police and those friends and family members of Marcellus Andrews who insist that his fatal beating was not a hate crime. Some of the Courier's readers are livid. Yesterday the newspaper defended its position:
Here's what Grinnell College says about how Iowa law views hate crimes and bias-motivated incidents...The Courier has received communications from people outraged that Andrews' death is not being referred to as a hate crime. The police department is being criticized in some of them. They're not the only ones, as evidenced from an excerpt from one letter to the editor:"The killers of Marcellus Andrews reportedly screamed foul, anti-gay epithets. In not specifically condemning anti-gay bigotry, The Courier failed to enunciate that Waterloo is not a hate-accepting city. This is a civil rights battle, one for which all must stand. That some choose to remain seated is unconscionable."Let's be very clear. The Courier stands strongly for civil rights as they are outlined in our state and federal constitutions. We decry bigotry in its many forms...In the meantime, what transpired leading up to Andrews' death is unclear - or at least not yet public knowledge.And we have thought it wise to give some deference to those a little closer to the case. That includes those investigating the event, as well as the victim's family...
Saturday, September 3, 2011
Sarah Palin at Tea Party of America rally in Indianola, Iowa proposes abolition of all corporate income tax; playfully says 'Like you, I'm not for sale!'
Minutes ago at a Tea Party of America rally, she ignored the fact that S&P 500 companies are sitting on $1.13 trillion in cash and short-term investments (two-thirds more than they had heading into the recession in 2007, according to Capital IQ) and still are not hiring.
Her solution: a proposal to exempt U.S. companies from all corporate income tax (but course she would cut loopholes, whatever that means.)
This complete capitulation to corporatism was, astonishingly, preceded by a prolonged attack on "crony capitalism" and Washington's "permanent political class."
Once again, Palin proved herself to be both funnier and more bizarre than the warm-up comedian, in this case Eric Golub.
There was backstage drama, too, chronicled by Jennifer Jacobs of the Des Moines Register.
The Tea Party of America, founded by two Iowans, invited Christine O’Donnell, then uninvited her yesterday after getting hammered with emails criticizing her. Later yesterday, they reinvited her, citing her grace in dealing with being uninvited. Then Palin’s staff called this morning.
Short takes: Burlusconi badmouths Italia, Utah hospitals ignore HRC, no agreement why Larry King DA failed
Google digital certificate hackers may have stolen 200 others too
Six of Utah's top hospitals were sent an HRC Foundation's 2011 Healthcare Equality Index and none of them bothered to return it
DA in Larry King case may have alienated jury by prosecuting him as an adult
No, DA in Larry King case may have alienated jury by prosecuting him for a hate crime
Rob Tisinai dissects the stoner argument against same-sex marriage
Glee creator to produce The Normal Heart for Brad Pitt's Plan B Entertainment
Italian prime minister calls Italy a shitty country
Critically-injured youthful pedestrian may have damaged Omaha police car in collision
Did Apple borrow SFPD plainclothes officers to frighten homeowner into house search by its security staff?
Some furious backpedaling by the San Francisco Police Department regarding the intimidation of a Bernal Heights homeowner and a search of his home by Apple's corporate "security" in search of another prototype iphone left in another bar.
First the SFPD denied that police were involved. Now Lt. Troy Dangerfield (future television private eye!) says "My understanding is that they stood outside. They just assisted Apple to the address."
You know — the way Boy Scouts assist helpless old blind people across the street.
AKSARBENT is truly inspired by the lieutenant's use of the word "understanding" and would like to make clear our "understanding" that Apple is a wealthy corporation which employs outlaw tactics to get its way and ruthlessly covers its tracks when the press gets too close.
But of course, this is only our "understanding." Like Lt. Dangerfield, we wish to make it clear that we are not necessarily responsible for anything we say.
First the SFPD denied that police were involved. Now Lt. Troy Dangerfield (future television private eye!) says "My understanding is that they stood outside. They just assisted Apple to the address."
You know — the way Boy Scouts assist helpless old blind people across the street.
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| Anthony Colon (facebook picture), "Senior Investigator" at Apple, whose linkedin entry has suddenly disappeared but which used to look like this |
AKSARBENT is truly inspired by the lieutenant's use of the word "understanding" and would like to make clear our "understanding" that Apple is a wealthy corporation which employs outlaw tactics to get its way and ruthlessly covers its tracks when the press gets too close.
But of course, this is only our "understanding." Like Lt. Dangerfield, we wish to make it clear that we are not necessarily responsible for anything we say.
Sarah Palin to deliver keynote speech at Tea Party rally in Indianola, Iowa — home of Michele Bachmann's Iowa campaign director; live on C-SPAN
UPDATE: C-SPAN's webcast is here:
Kent Sorenson, Michele Bachmann's Iowa Campaign Chair, and a prominent Iowa Tea Party politician, lives in Indianola.
The Des Moines Register reports that today's rally will be from 11 a.m. to 2 p.m. at the National Balloon Classic Field, 15335 Jewell St., Indianola. Parking is $5 per car, even though the rally is "free."
Palin is supposed to speak at 1:15 p.m.
Kent Sorenson, Michele Bachmann's Iowa Campaign Chair, and a prominent Iowa Tea Party politician, lives in Indianola.
The Des Moines Register reports that today's rally will be from 11 a.m. to 2 p.m. at the National Balloon Classic Field, 15335 Jewell St., Indianola. Parking is $5 per car, even though the rally is "free."
Palin is supposed to speak at 1:15 p.m.
C-SPAN will broadcast live for the entire three-hour Tea Party of America rally in Indianola today...
The speaking lineup includes a number of Iowa tea party activists, including Ken Crow, co-founder of the Tea Party of America, and Ryan Rhodes, founder of the Iowa Tea Party.
National speakers include Tony Katz of Pajamas Media and Eric Golub, a Los Angeles-based political comedian.
GLAAD 2011 Advertising Awards announced
GLAAD has announced its 2011 Amplifier Awards, which:
We at AKSARBENT got the biggest kick out of the Outstanding Print Campaign – Mainstream Market winner, Kaiser Permanente, for its "Stick Around. Things Get Interesting." print ad encouraging mammograms, as seen in National Geographic Magazine.
The elderly female model in the ad has an interesting backstory of her own, and is apparently the great aunt of a real life Texas gay couple
We also liked Allstate's ad, a winner for Outstanding Outdoor Campaign.
(Earth to Warren Buffet: your competitor, Allstate runs ads like this instead of hiring homophobic hitmaker Charlie Daniels, a GEICO spokesman.)
...elevate and promote images in advertising that include fair and accurate representations of the lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender (LGBT) community and the issues that affect their lives. The GLAAD Amplifier Awards also fund GLAAD's work to amplify stories of LGBT people and issues that build support for equality.As you might expect, Google Chrome's "The Web is What You Make of It: It Gets Better Project" won Outstanding TV Campaign – Mainstream Market.
We at AKSARBENT got the biggest kick out of the Outstanding Print Campaign – Mainstream Market winner, Kaiser Permanente, for its "Stick Around. Things Get Interesting." print ad encouraging mammograms, as seen in National Geographic Magazine.
The elderly female model in the ad has an interesting backstory of her own, and is apparently the great aunt of a real life Texas gay couple
We also liked Allstate's ad, a winner for Outstanding Outdoor Campaign.
(Earth to Warren Buffet: your competitor, Allstate runs ads like this instead of hiring homophobic hitmaker Charlie Daniels, a GEICO spokesman.)
Friday, September 2, 2011
Stop SB48 extremists: What it will take to defeat them
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| Roland Palencia. Photo: Rex Wockner |
Rex Wockner has published a glimpse into what Roland Palencia, head of Equality California, thinks will be necessary to defend SB48 from the organizations which want to repeal it.
Looks like Sean Chapin is already on the case..."I think that one of the things that we're going to take on is defining them (the opponents)," Palencia said Aug. 25 in a telephone interview with five journalists.
"Who gets to paint whom?" he asked. "We want to start engaging the conversation about painting them in the corner about how dangerous these people are to the people of California, and really expose their agenda — how these campaigns are persecution. ... We need to define them as the extremists that they are."
Changing the game:
In The Life examines homophobia in sport
Program description:
Iowans may request this program by sending emails or surface mail to the addresses provided below.
KDIN Des Moines, ch 11
IOWA PUBLIC TELEVISION/IPTV
P.O. Box 6450
6450 Corporate Drive
Johnston, IA 50131
webcomm2@iptv.org
phone: (515) 242-3100
fax: (515) 242-4113
website: www.iptv.org
Professional athletes are models of strength and endurance, and heroes to the young athletes who look up to them. Unfortunately, the macho and homophobic world of sports doesn't breed model behavior. IN THE LIFE examines the message homophobic athletes send to young people on courts and fields across the country, and speaks with allies in professional sports who are standing up to put an end to it. Then, we follow a gay teenager on his journey from homelessness to college and meet the mentors who provide support on his way.Changing the game will air on NET2 at 11 pm Sunday, September 4, but not on Iowa Public Television according to the program's website.
Iowans may request this program by sending emails or surface mail to the addresses provided below.
KDIN Des Moines, ch 11
IOWA PUBLIC TELEVISION/IPTV
P.O. Box 6450
6450 Corporate Drive
Johnston, IA 50131
webcomm2@iptv.org
phone: (515) 242-3100
fax: (515) 242-4113
website: www.iptv.org
Thursday, September 1, 2011
One Iowa to Iowa Family Leader: Release your records or return to taxpayers the $2,200,000 you took
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| Bob Vander Plaats |
Bob Vander Plaats, head of the Iowa Family Leader (Bad Santa to its juvenile delinquent stepchild, the Iowa Family Policy Center) is probably much too busy to worry about the misappropriation of part of $2.2 million of taxpayer funds; he is doubtless much too busy shaking the right-wing money tree (Mike "Bluebunny" Wells, can you spare $100,000?) for attack ads in his upcoming jihad against Iowa Senate Majority Leader Mike Gronstal of Council Bluffs.
Besides, not apologizing for his "Good one!" response to a lame fag joke told to him in Audubon seems to have worked out for him just fine, so who's to say he won't get away with ignoring this issue either?
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PRESS RELEASE: Family Leader, give our money back!
Submitted by matty on Wed, 2011-08-31 13:42
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
Statement
August 31, 2011
Contact:
Molly Tafoya, Communications Director
One Iowa
Office: 515.288.4019 x207
Cell: 808.256.7064
molly@oneiowa.org
Connie Ryan Terrell, Executive Director
Interfaith Alliance of Iowa
Office: 515.279.8715
Cell: 515.577.3636
connie@interfaithallianceiowa.org
Statement
August 31, 2011
Contact:
Molly Tafoya, Communications Director
One Iowa
Office: 515.288.4019 x207
Cell: 808.256.7064
molly@oneiowa.org
Connie Ryan Terrell, Executive Director
Interfaith Alliance of Iowa
Office: 515.279.8715
Cell: 515.577.3636
connie@interfaithallianceiowa.org
Statement from One Iowa and the Interfaith Alliance of Iowa
DES MOINES – Today, One Iowa and the Interfaith Alliance of Iowa called on the Family Leader, parent organization of the Iowa Family Policy Center (IFPC), to return the $2.2 million in federal grants it received over the past four years to counsel and educate married couples. The call comes after recent reports uncovered the unethical actions of the Iowa Family Policy Center’s use of federal funds. The IFPC refused to counsel same-sex couples while using the funds to pay for salaries, telephones, internet, and other expenses at a time the organization was helping to lead the fight to unseat three state Supreme Court justices last fall. In addition, a portion of the funds was used to pay $10,000 in rent to one of its board members.
"At the very least, this raises serious questions about whether the Iowa Family Policy Center illegally used taxpayer dollars to fund and support their political efforts," said Troy Price, Executive Director of One Iowa. "Taxpayers count on any organization which receives public money to use it for its given purpose, not to abuse it to further a political agenda. If the Iowa Family Policy Center has nothing to hide, then they should release their complete financial information and show once and for all how they used these dollars. But if one dollar of this funding was used to help remove the Supreme Court Justices or push their anti-equality political agenda, then they should give our money back, and give it back now."
"Grants from the federal government do come with strings. An organization cannot discriminate in providing a service and the money cannot be used for purposes other than agreed to by the government. Did the Iowa Family Policy Center discriminate against legally married, same-sex couples? Did they use the federal funds for political purposes outside of the scope of the grant? The people of Iowa have a right to know," stated Connie Ryan Terrell, Executive Director of the Interfaith Alliance of Iowa. "If either occurred, IFPC and The Family Leader are ethically bound to return the funds. We would hope their values would compel them to do so."
DES MOINES – Today, One Iowa and the Interfaith Alliance of Iowa called on the Family Leader, parent organization of the Iowa Family Policy Center (IFPC), to return the $2.2 million in federal grants it received over the past four years to counsel and educate married couples. The call comes after recent reports uncovered the unethical actions of the Iowa Family Policy Center’s use of federal funds. The IFPC refused to counsel same-sex couples while using the funds to pay for salaries, telephones, internet, and other expenses at a time the organization was helping to lead the fight to unseat three state Supreme Court justices last fall. In addition, a portion of the funds was used to pay $10,000 in rent to one of its board members.
"At the very least, this raises serious questions about whether the Iowa Family Policy Center illegally used taxpayer dollars to fund and support their political efforts," said Troy Price, Executive Director of One Iowa. "Taxpayers count on any organization which receives public money to use it for its given purpose, not to abuse it to further a political agenda. If the Iowa Family Policy Center has nothing to hide, then they should release their complete financial information and show once and for all how they used these dollars. But if one dollar of this funding was used to help remove the Supreme Court Justices or push their anti-equality political agenda, then they should give our money back, and give it back now."
"Grants from the federal government do come with strings. An organization cannot discriminate in providing a service and the money cannot be used for purposes other than agreed to by the government. Did the Iowa Family Policy Center discriminate against legally married, same-sex couples? Did they use the federal funds for political purposes outside of the scope of the grant? The people of Iowa have a right to know," stated Connie Ryan Terrell, Executive Director of the Interfaith Alliance of Iowa. "If either occurred, IFPC and The Family Leader are ethically bound to return the funds. We would hope their values would compel them to do so."
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UPDATE: AKSARBENT has reprinted One Iowa's press release verbatim except that we removed the link connected to the word petition in the last paragraph.
Because we suspect that the "petition" is primarily a means to build One Iowa's mailing list, and because One Iowa does not say what else it will do with the names sent to them (much less what the homophobes at the Family Leader might do with them) AKSARBENT will leave it to to its readers to find the petition on their own without our assistance.
AKSARBENT respectfully wonders why One Iowa is sending a petition to the perps, rather than to the branch of government which gave the Iowa Family Leader the dough in the first place.
High-rez satellite pics of Irene's damage to Outer Banks; video of I-680 turned into jigsaw puzzle by summer-long Missouri river flooding
The scene below is what is left of Interstate 680 between Omaha, Nebraska and Crescent, Iowa, (proud home of the Pink Poodle restaurant!) now that the summer-long Missouri River flooding has receded.
To see what I-680 looked like earlier this summer, simply look up at the AKSARBENT banner, which looks west from Iowa at the intersection of I-680 and I-29 and which was taken back in June, hours before I-680 was closed. Normally, the lake of the water seen in the AKSARBENT banner is a small pond.
On the East Coast, Wired reports that the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration is using aerial photographs like the one below to assess Irene’s destruction.
Depicted is Hatteras Island in North Carolina taken Aug. 28; the largest breach of Highway 12, which runs along the Outer Banks, can be seen. Water is flowing between Pamlico Sound and the Atlantic Ocean, stranding at least 2,500 residents of the island.
Wired says the local Island Free Press reported an estimate that the breach shown above is more than 100 feet wide and 8 feet deep.
(Check out a really stunning high resolution version here and NOAA's interactive index map of Irene's path here.
To see what I-680 looked like earlier this summer, simply look up at the AKSARBENT banner, which looks west from Iowa at the intersection of I-680 and I-29 and which was taken back in June, hours before I-680 was closed. Normally, the lake of the water seen in the AKSARBENT banner is a small pond.
On the East Coast, Wired reports that the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration is using aerial photographs like the one below to assess Irene’s destruction.
Depicted is Hatteras Island in North Carolina taken Aug. 28; the largest breach of Highway 12, which runs along the Outer Banks, can be seen. Water is flowing between Pamlico Sound and the Atlantic Ocean, stranding at least 2,500 residents of the island.
Wired says the local Island Free Press reported an estimate that the breach shown above is more than 100 feet wide and 8 feet deep.
(Check out a really stunning high resolution version here and NOAA's interactive index map of Irene's path here.
Wednesday, August 31, 2011
Apple lost another prototpe iPhone at a bar?
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That's what CNET is reporting.
It says Apple never filed a police report, according to the SFPD, but company representatives contacted the cops, said the device was priceless and then showed up at a Bernal Heights home (to which Apple had electronically traced the phone) accompanied by police.
When San Francisco police and Apple's investigators visited the house, they spoke with a man in his twenties who acknowledged being at Cava 22 on the night the device went missing. But he denied knowing anything about the phone. The man gave police permission to search the house, and they found nothing, the source said. Before leaving the house, the Apple employees offered the man money for the phone no questions asked, the source said, adding that the man continued to deny he had knowledge of the phone.
Short takes: gay kisscam, a century of fashion, Jerry Lewis, cat bully, Gadhafi's son, Hangover 2 stunt suit
A century of fashion in 101 seconds
Cat bullying: one feline stuffs another into a box, then sits on it as the prisoner tries to escape
A perceptive rumination about the end of Jerry Lewis' 45-year tenure as host of the Muscular Dystrophy telethon
Tonight: ABC News 'Primetime Nightline' Wednesday night to feature families of three transgender youths
Queerty thinks the gay porn found in the house of Moammar Gadhafi's 38-year-old son Al-Saadi was planted and that the story is bunk
Warner Bros. sued over Hangover 2 stunt that left Ed Helms Stunt double, Scott McClean, with brain injuries
Did SF Giants Jumbotrons show first kisscam gay kisses during Monday's 7-0 rout by Cubs? Facebook posters and Sean Chapin say yes
Zombie porn film made by Spanish soccer team with sagging attendance to breed new fans via DVD distribution to sperm donor clinics
This is not from the Onion. It is from AdWeek. And it's probably not suitable for work.
Waterloo, Iowa Human Rights Commission holds 'Community Conversation' after beating death of Marcellus Andrews
The Waterloo Courier covered the meeting.
His sister, Nichella Andrews, 22, supports the police in ruling out a hate crime. Witnesses' accounts of what allegedly happened have been blown out of proportion, she said. A cousin, Renicia Haywood, 18, noted that a person who displays perceived feminine actions is not necessarily gay.
"They didn't come to beat him up because he was gay," Haywood said. "There's more to the story."
"Gay or not, perceived as gay still ends up being a hate crime under those conditions," said Jim Day, vice president of the Black Hawk County branch of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People. "Perception of gay and being gay still both qualify."
Ed 'Al Bundy' O'Neil gets Hollywood Walk of Fame star
AKSARBENT loved Married With Children and Al's whatever take on his gay acquaintances. Co-star Katy Segal once said that the show was the most popular sitcom in prisons. Really? Since when do advertisers care about the buying preferences of people who can't go shopping? Who would take such a survey, we wonder.
UPDATE: Why yes, Ed O'Neil's star is outside a shoe store.
UPDATE: Why yes, Ed O'Neil's star is outside a shoe store.
Family Research Council FAIR Education Act propaganda busted by Equality California
EQCA:
Last week the Family Research Council, a virulent anti-LGBT organization with ties to the Ku Klux Klan and recognized as a hate group by the Southern Poverty Law Center, joined the effort to overturn the FAIR Education Act in California and released a video message to fundamentalist churches on behalf of the campaign. In it, the group's executive director, Tony Perkins, blatantly lied about and grossly misrepresented the FAIR Education Act, which requires California schools to include factual, age-appropriate information about the contributions, social movements and current events of, people with disabilities, Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual and Transgender (LGBT), and Pacific Islander people in already existing social studies lessons.
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