http://www.usatoday.com/news/nation/2006-01-05-pastor-arrested_x.htm After years of preaching hatred of homosexuals, an Oklahoma Baptist pastor may finally have discovered how to cause gays shame – turns out he’s one of them. OKLAHOMA CITY (AP) – A pastor who has spoken out against homosexuality was arrested after propositioning a male undercover police officer outside a hotel, authorities said. Again, […]
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Matthew Shepard – Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Matthew_Shepard The basis of the Republican platform – Pro-life, anti-taxes, anti-science, pro-hate: “The Shepard case prompted President Bill Clinton to renew attempts to extend federal hate crime legislation to include gay and lesbian individuals, women and people with disabilties. These efforts were rejected by the Republican majority in the House of Representatives in 1999.”
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Life after a lonesome death | Music | The Guardian
http://www.guardian.co.uk/arts/fridayreview/story/0,,1424244,00.html A reprinted Mother Jones article that asks what became of a real-life subject in a Bob Dylan protest song: “What comes through in the stories about the march is a vast sense of relief – shared, presumably, by the reporters, the papers’ management and their readership – that the 200,000 or more assembled “Negroes” […]
New Orleans Metblogs
http://neworleans.metblogs.com/ Holy crap! *bump* I stumbled this yesterday because the sheer size of the hurricane blew me away (pun intended). On an even more puerile level, it makes the Southeast look even more anatomically correct…
BBC NEWS | Americas | Man shoots postman to get jailed
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/americas/4687073.stm Another reason to be glad I’m Canadian: “Mr Crutchfield told police that he shot the postman as a way of escaping medical debts of $90,000 (51,000). He said he feared losing his home and thought that living in prison would be better than surviving on the street. “He was saying that he wanted to […]
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http://www.tpg1.com/guestbook/cp_guestbook1.html A petition to reinstate Canada’s death penalty, written and signed in such a way as to suggest that only those who never graduated grade school support the action. Quite telling, really…
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