Openly gay MSNBC anchor Thomas Roberts had some very harsh words for Michele Bachmann and the GOP on Friday. Roberts was speaking to Jimmy DeSalvia, the head of GOProud, a gay Republican organization, about Bachmann. DeSalvia said it was important to “replace” a “failed president,” and that his organization had reached out to all the GOP presidential candidates. (Bachmann is known for her ferocious opposition to gay rights, and video footage has shown that a clinic she co-owns practices so-called “conversion therapy” on gay people.) “You will replace [Obama] with a person who would extinguish you,” Roberts said to DeSalvia. He adding that Bachmann is someone who “doesn’t believe that you have a right in this country to get married, that believes you don’t even have a right in this country to be gay because she co-owns a clinic that will convert you.” Roberts has proved to be a tough questioner when it comes to gay issues. In June, he had a feisty conversation with the head of the National Organization for Marriage, which opposes gay marriage. He’s also scrutinized Bachmann’s record on gay rights before. Watch (via Daily Caller):
Continue reading …Details are emerging about Anders Behring Breivik’s months of planning for the Norway terror attacks—from Breivik himself. Included in his 1,500-page manifesto is a meticulously detailed diary that begins on May 1. He writes that his preparations began years earlier, but got truly serious in April when he…
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It’s been nearly 24 hours since the terrible news of Amy Winehouse’s passing broke, and even though we’ve re-watched her strongest performances and peeped her most stunning photos, we’re no closer to being able to say good-bye. It’s all too easy to remember Amy by her recent concert debacles, in which she appeared too inebriated … More » Broadcasting platform : YouTube Source : Idolator Discovery Date : 24/07/2011 17:58 Number of articles : 2
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It’s been nearly 24 hours since the terrible news of Amy Winehouse’s passing broke, and even though we’ve re-watched her strongest performances and peeped her most stunning photos, we’re no closer to being able to say good-bye. It’s all too easy to remember Amy by her recent concert debacles, in which she appeared too inebriated … More » Broadcasting platform : YouTube Source : Idolator Discovery Date : 24/07/2011 17:58 Number of articles : 2
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Our Afghanistan correspondent Jon Boone survived dozens of embedded missions unscathed. Then, one morning, his luck finally ran out . . . Just as I thought things couldn’t get much worse, they did. The decrepit Humvee, a hand-me-down from the US Army, juddered to a halt and smoke billowed from the air vents below the bulletproof windscreen. I was now stranded in a broken- down Afghan National Army (ANA) vehicle in the middle of a deadly stretch of highway where only two days earlier there had been a small firefight between the Taliban and the security forces. More to the point, I also had a broken leg. My right fibula had snapped at the ankle at around 8am that morning after I fell into a flooded irrigation canal near the town of Kandalay in the district of Zhari, the neighbourhood of Mullah Omar (in the days when the one-eyed cleric was gathering his forces for what would ultimately lead to the Taliban conquest of almost the entire country). I really needed to be in hospital. Instead I was crammed into the front seat of a baking-hot armoured vehicle watching a bunch of Afghan soldiers running back and forth to a nearby puddle, scooping up water into their helmets to cool the engine. Despite the quantum leap the ANA has made in recent years, they are still not the people to help you when you are in serious difficulties. And it had arguably been more than a little unwise to hitch a lift with the ANA to get back to the relative civilisation of Kandahar City, from where I hoped to get a flight to Dubai or Kabul. Or anywhere with a decent hospital prepared to treat a wounded civilian. A few days previously, sitting in the comfort of the ANA’s 205th “Hero” Corps headquarters on the outskirts of
Continue reading …Our Afghanistan correspondent Jon Boone survived dozens of embedded missions unscathed. Then, one morning, his luck finally ran out . . . Just as I thought things couldn’t get much worse, they did. The decrepit Humvee, a hand-me-down from the US Army, juddered to a halt and smoke billowed from the air vents below the bulletproof windscreen. I was now stranded in a broken- down Afghan National Army (ANA) vehicle in the middle of a deadly stretch of highway where only two days earlier there had been a small firefight between the Taliban and the security forces. More to the point, I also had a broken leg. My right fibula had snapped at the ankle at around 8am that morning after I fell into a flooded irrigation canal near the town of Kandalay in the district of Zhari, the neighbourhood of Mullah Omar (in the days when the one-eyed cleric was gathering his forces for what would ultimately lead to the Taliban conquest of almost the entire country). I really needed to be in hospital. Instead I was crammed into the front seat of a baking-hot armoured vehicle watching a bunch of Afghan soldiers running back and forth to a nearby puddle, scooping up water into their helmets to cool the engine. Despite the quantum leap the ANA has made in recent years, they are still not the people to help you when you are in serious difficulties. And it had arguably been more than a little unwise to hitch a lift with the ANA to get back to the relative civilisation of Kandahar City, from where I hoped to get a flight to Dubai or Kabul. Or anywhere with a decent hospital prepared to treat a wounded civilian. A few days previously, sitting in the comfort of the ANA’s 205th “Hero” Corps headquarters on the outskirts of
Continue reading …High nutrient pollution levels have caused the Chesapeake Bay’s underwater “dead zone” to expand unusually quickly this year: It covers a third of the bay and will likely become the bay’s largest-ever area of oxygen-starved water. The dead zone, which sucks oxygen from deep waters and kills any marine life…
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Emma Stone says the next ‘Spider-Man’ movie is ‘more intimate’ while Andrew Garfield talks about the superhero’s popularity at Comic Con in San Diego. (July 25)
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Emma Stone says the next ‘Spider-Man’ movie is ‘more intimate’ while Andrew Garfield talks about the superhero’s popularity at Comic Con in San Diego. (July 25)
Continue reading …The NFL Players Association executive board and 32 team reps voted unanimously Monday to approve the terms of a deal with owners to the end the 4 month long lockout. (July 25)
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