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One of the easiest ways to lower your carbon footprint is to eat lower on the food chain. While you may not want to follow in Gregory's footsteps (we are awed by his commitment to eating vegan for the last month), if we all centered our meals around grains and vegetables instead of meat just one day a week it would have a significant impact on the planet (not to mention your wallet). Our sister site, the Kitchn, is an incredible resource for tasty gastronomic delights. Links to a few ideas to get you started, after the jump...
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Don't forget chalupas! (w/o meat of course... just put some frijoles refritos and pile on the veggies)
Veganism isn't as difficult or disgusting as everyone seems to think it is. I've been vegan for 8 years and it was a natural way of life after maybe 2. There's a learning curve, as there is with every new thing, that makes it seem daunting. But it is harmless & fun & healthy & yummy & when you eat junk food like hamburgers & ice cream & cookies, you don't feel disgusting!
I went mostly vegetarian last November. I do sometimes eat meet when I get the desire to (maybe once or twice a month). Although it initially takes a bit more thought, it really isn't difficult. Now it is strange for me to think that I used to eat meat several times a day. I feel better and am happy that I am helping the environment (I also try to buy local when possible to help even more).
As a foodie and omnivore, I've been delighted to discover that adopting a vegan diet isn't as difficult as one would expect. It does require an open mind and a willingness to adopt new seasonings, widen your selection of produce, and also be aware of what ingredients are included in some very common foods. I personally don't believe in having to become an every day vegan as a lifestyle (though I've become the most regular non-vegan, vegan diner in my neighborhood), but by eating 75-90% vegan, you're almost sure to live a healthier and happier life.
My own lifestyle change began as a New Year's resolution to eat vegan (no refined sugar either) for one month on a quarterly basis. I've now completed this goal twice and it's been a lot of fun learning about vegan foods (I approach it as another cuisine rather than a whole lifestyle). I am noticeably healthier, more fit. And the days I do choose to eat sugar, butter or meat, I thoroughly enjoy and appreciate. There's a satisfaction and joy in moderation...an appreciation that we relearn when we do without for awhile. Of course, it's easy for an Angeleno with all the vegan-vegetarian ethnic restaurants and market selections, so I do feel like that's been both a big help and incentive to change my diet to primarily a non-meat eating one.
That all being said: VIVA LA BACON y SUSHI!
um I meant meat (not meet)...I really wish we could get a spell checker and/or edit option on our posts...
hey, can anyone cite any scientific sources to the statement that eating less meat impacts the environment positively? i totally agree, but my scientist boyfriend always wants substantial proof.
The idea that anyone could possibly think that eating meat on a daily basis is healthy is ridiculous.
I don't know any "scientific sources" to support this, but if you read a book on the topic such as Animal, Vegetable, Miracle, it will quickly seem like common sense.
Evamae - check out this link. It goes into some scientific facts your BF would be interested in.
Went quasi vegetarian last year. (I say quasi, because I still eat fish - no more than twice a week - as well as eggs and cheese). As a former rib eye steak addict, I thought my "vegetarian" lifestyle would be hard to stick with. But it hasn't. I have absolutely no craving for chicken, fish, beef, or pork.
Now, if I could only resolve my white wine and vodka martini cravings . . . .
i'm vegan and loving it!
I'm not a vegetarian, but I eat chicken or fish only about twice a week. I think vegetable dishes have more flavor, cost less, and are better for you. Except fried okra. :-) YUM!
was vegetarian for 2 years -my family is from india - its the land of vegetables and vegetarians - if the food is tasty - its not too hard - though i'm now back to fish and chicken a few times a week...
I'm mostly veg but I do eat a little tuna here and there because I think I need the protein.
Forget the bamboo placemats, fluorescent bulbs, Priuses and burlap shopping bags. If you are TRULY sincere about doing something for the environment, you would stop eating meat. Today. It's the single most important (and healthy) thing you could do for yourself and for the world.
Yes, eat less meat, but do not eat a vegan diet endlessly, for it will be detrimental to your health in the long run--I know, for it ruined mine.
Eat the meat of animals that have not been raised in confinement, that have not been fed grains. Ruminants are grass eaters. Chickens and pigs are omnivores. Also, eat food from the sea--not farm-raised seafood. Eat full fat foods, so that you will eat less of any food. Eat animal products: eggs from chickens that have been pastured; raw milk dairy products. Do not eat processed foods. Do not eat white foods such as sugar and things made with white flour, this includes pasta. If you eat a traditional diet and eat in moderation, you will do a helluva lot more for the planet and you will have good health.
Grass-fed cows do very little damage to the environment in comparison to the millions of acres that are used to grow [the poisonous] soybeans and corn.
For more information: www.westonaprice.org
Do not believe the vegan hype!
This is a great idea. Removing meat from your diet one day a week can't hurt, and it's only beneficial for the environment at large.
Paul McCartney recently asked this of the British public and it inspired me to take this on with a campaign: https://www.thepoint.com/campaigns/meatless-mc-cartney-mondays
We want 150 people to commit to be vegetarian on Mondays, and hopefully it'll encourage others to join and push vegetarianism into the mainstream in American diets.
Everyone should check it out and tell your friends!


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Kelly Brook (born Kelly Ann Parsons;Playboy model.23 November 1979) is an English model, actress, entrepreneur, television presenter and
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Brook attended the Thomas Aveling School in Warren Wood, Rochester. She then studied at the Italia Conti Academy of Theatre Arts in London for three years before becoming a professional model.
Brook's modelling career began at 16 after winning a beauty competition, in which she was entered by her mother. She later worked on a range of advertising campaigns, including for Foster's Lager, Renault Mégane, Walker's crisps, Piz Buin and Bravissimo, a company that specialises in bras and lingerie for large-breasted women. Her figure eventually caught the eye of the editorial team of the Daily Star tabloid, which began featuring her as a Page Three girl.


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Dallas turns out to be HQ for Backpage.com
I noted last week on the blog that the New York city council passed a resolution blasting Village Voice Media for it's association and deep financial relationship with Backpage.com, which has been linked to gobs of smutty online ads that include sites that offer the prostitution services of teen sex slaves. The Dallas Observer is owned by Village Voice Media and posts tens of thousands of ads every day using Backpage.com. If you check them out, you'll find no shortage of "massage" ads that leave little to the imagination of what they're really selling.
I wondered aloud whether the Dallas City Council had any intention of taking a bold stand similar to that of the New York city council, or would it simply be business as usual here. An interested reader, William Hayes of VillageVoicePimps.com, emailed me to note that my business-as-usual remark was ironic because Backpage.com is actually based in Dallas. Backpage's own website lists Dallas and Phoenix as its two headquarter cities. I called the corporate number and, in fact, it has a Dallas area code. The person who answered my call announced, "Backpage.com" as her greeting. I asked if her offices were in the Observer building, and she responded with "uh, yes."
Gulp. So all that fuss in New York, and all of those columns by Nicholas Kristof complaining of those smutty ads on Backpage.com, and it turns out that Dallas is ground zero. We're Smut Central.
Don't get me wrong, I'm not a prude. The Dallas Observer is a great newspaper, and I love their blog. Heck, we like what they do so much, we hired away their online guru. The Observer has an edginess that definitely appeals to a different market from our newspaper. There's room in this town for both. And God knows we need the journalism jobs both provide. The Observer's edginess has lots to do with its much-looser code on language, it's much bolder approach to sexual topics and, of course, it's much, much, much looser standards on permissible advertising. That's how the Observer, a free newspaper, pays its bills. We don't allow massage parlor ads in this newspaper.
I don't know, maybe some women like giving "stress-relieving" massages like the ones advertised by Backpage.com. Maybe some women like stripping in front of men. Maybe some women like being prostitutes. My guess is that most of them don't like it and would much prefer some other line of work. When they were little girls, I don't think that's the life they dreamed of for themselves. And when they got into that line of work, I imagine it was a pretty icky experience for the first dozen or two-dozen times they did it. For lots of them, it's probably still icky, and they would love to find an escape route to get as far away from it as possible.
For teen sex slaves, it's a different issue altogether. Under the law, they are victims. The people victimizing them — including their pimps and the people advertising their illegal services — must be caught and prosecuted. Some teen sex slaves were lured into the business and cannot escape. Some were runaways. Some were victims of abuse at home. In fact, the Observer currently has a story profiling the life of a runaway who easily could have fallen into exactly this type of victimization. The teens are essentially being held against their will, which makes them tantamount to kidnapping victims. There are lots of stories about how Backpage.com adds to their victimization by giving over ad space to the pimps selling the services of these children.
I would urge our colleagues at The Observer and their sister publications to take a serious look at who funds their paychecks. Take a serious look at the innocent lives destroyed by these "massage" parlors and other prostitution sites. Is that really why you got into journalism? Have you ever sat down to calculate what portion of your paycheck comes from these ads?
I would urge the Dallas City Council also to take a serious look at what's going on right under our noses here in Dallas. If Backpage.com's services are offensive enough for the New York city council to take action against it, then certainly the Dallas City Council should cast a skeptical eye at it, considering that Dallas is Backpage's headquarters.


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The Washington Examiner's Paul Bedard reported on the Obamacare application yesterday. "Boustany, a Louisiana Republican, said the application raises two alarming issues: What does HHS plan to do with all the information it collects on each applicant and will pro-Obama groups like AARP and Families USA that might be tapped as "navigators" to sign people up to Obamacare, steer them to register as Democrats," Bedard wrote. "Others have indicated that groups like Planned Parenthood and ACORN could also act as a navigator."


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Hate Crimes and Domestic Terrorism
Rob Tisinai
May 6th, 2014
What should we call perpetrators of hate crimes? "Hate criminals" hasn't caught on. "Perpetrator of a hate crimes" is a mouthful. So what's an alternative?
I vote for "terrorist." Or, if you prefer, "domestic terrorist." It's blunt. And it has legal justification.
I've spent too much time on message boards correcting our opponents' understanding of hate crime legislation and explaining that bias crimes don't just affect the immediate victim, but intimidate victimize an entire class of people. I've had the best luck with anti-gay conservatives by laying out a scenario where someone is targeting elderly women on their way home from church. A pattern like that, or even a single attack backed up with some graffiti, could intimidate a whole community of elderly women from attending services. That expanded group of victims is why hate crime legislation — which doesn't actually make anything illegal — is justified in giving heavier penalties to traditional crimes when they're committed out of bias.
That's where domestic terrorism comes in. It has a legal definition in the US:
(5) the term "domestic terrorism" means activities that—
(A) involve acts dangerous to human life that are a violation of the criminal laws of the United States or of any State;
(B) appear to be intended—
(i) to intimidate or coerce a civilian population;
(ii) to influence the policy of a government by intimidation or coercion; or
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(C) occur primarily within the territorial jurisdiction of the United States.
(A) applies. (C) applies. And (B)(i) is exactly what we've been talking about. (The "or" at the end of (ii) indicates that any of those subbullets are sufficient.)
This works for the man who tried to burn down a bar full of gay patrons — even if, mind-bogglingly, he's been charged with neither a hate crime or terrorism.
And it works for those vandalize homes with graffiti saying, "You are not welcome here," and "We cannot coexist with Third World scum."
"Terrorist" (or, as W would say, "trrrrrist") is a word conservatives love. But just as they've co-opted much of our language, I feel comfortable doing the same to them. Every time one of our opponents makes a mocking comment about hate crimes, I'll have no trouble doubling down and calling these "perpetrators" exactly the name they deserve. Terrorists they are, and terrorists they should be called.
City to Gay Bar Owner, Site of Anti-Gay Attacks: Stop Calling 911
Jim Burroway
September 12th, 2013
Cocktails Lounge, on Cleveland's West Side, has been the scene of at least two designated hate crimes in less than a week and at least six attacks on patrons since spring. Two weeks ago, Jared Fox was surrounded by a gang of juveniles, beaten and robbed while they shouted anti-gay epithets. These things are the kind of attacks that can happen in any American city, but they're happening in Cleveland now, where the City's Director of Public Safety, Martin Flask, is on the case: he sent a letter to the bar's owners demanding that they stop calling 911 so often:
Our records indicate from September 02, 2012 through September 01, 2013 Cleveland Police Officers and/or Dog warden have been dispatched and responded to your property located at 9208 Detroit Avenue inns for various Calls for service. Repeated calls to the same property place an and inappropriate burden on the taxpayers of the City of Cleveland and on our safety forces. The estimated cost for the city safety forces to respond to your property is approximately $100.00 per call for service.
l am confident that we share the same goal and that you will take the necessary steps to eliminate the repeated calls for police services to your property. Therefore, within 10 days of the date of this letter, you will be required to submit your action plan to the First District Neighborhood Police Commander (623-5105), outlining your strategy to eliminate the problems at this location.
Cocktails Lounge manager James Foster was appalled at the letter.
Foster said what's most frustrating is that the majority of those police calls didn't have to do with the lounge itself. Instead, managers and patrons called about incidents happening near the lounge.
"It's your neighborhood bar, everybody knows everybody, everybody's got nicknames," said Mary Wishar, a regular at Cocktails who describes the lounge as friendly and safe.
Outrage erupted on social media yesterday after the letter went public. City Councilman Jay Westbrook, who represents the ward where Cocktails is located, said, "Just when we thought we were turning a corner with these incidents, the safety director shot us in the foot." Mayor Frank Jackson ordered Flask to rescind the letter:
"If I had to do it over again, I would have handled this particular situation differently," Flask said. "After reviewing this issue with Mayor (Frank) Jackson, he has directed me to rescind the letter and instead set up a meeting with the District Commander and the property owners so that we can work together to address the issues raised by the calls for service to 9208 Detroit Avenue."
Lyons could not be reached for comment Wednesday night. The letter said 13 police reports were filed over the one-year period for everything from fights to robbery. None of the calls, Flask said, involved hate crimes currently being investigated by police.
"(I)t is an early warning letter that the Department of Public Safety sends to property owners to help prevent a location from becoming a 'nuisance property'" Flask said. "224 such letters have already been sent to various property owners this year."
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Peru legislature votes not to protect gays from hate crimes.
Timothy Kincaid
July 5th, 2013
El congresista Carlos Bruce propuso en 2011 una modificación al Código Penal para que las agresiones por discriminación de orientación sexual y la identidad de género fueran castigadas con penas agravadas. El proyecto de ley estuvo en la Comisión de Justicia del Legislativo hasta hace un mes, cuando se descartó para evitar el ruido de los lobbies religiosos.
Sin embargo, la noche del jueves el Congreso votó la cuestión: 56 parlamentarios se pronunciaron en contra, entre ellos 26 del oficialista Gana Perú y 16 fujimoristas. "No pensé que la resistencia a este grupo social era tan grande. Es una muestra clara de la homofobia que existe en el Congreso, una homofobia escondida, porque ganamos el debate pero perdimos la votación", ha declarado Bruce este viernes a EL PAÍS. Durante el debate, dos parlamentarios de confesión evangélica – uno de ellos fujimorista, Julio Rosas – fueron los más reticentes. "No había congresistas que abiertamente expresaron su discrepancia. Salvo dos evangélicos con argumentos débiles, todos los otros se pronunciaban a favor. Pero había una mayoría silenciosa que al momento de la votación se expresó (en contra), en particular la bancada de Gana Perú", añadió Bruce.
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Congressman Carlos Bruce proposed in 2011 an amendment to the Criminal Code so that the assaults of discrimination sexual orientation and gender identity were punished with severe penalties. The bill was in the Legislative Judiciary Committee until a month ago, when it was discarded to avoid the noise of the religious lobbies.
However, on Thursday night Congress passed the question: 56 MPs voted against, including 26 of the ruling Gana Peru and 16 Fujimori. "I never thought that resistance to this social group was so large. It is a clear example of the homophobia that exists in Congress, hidden homophobia, because we won the debate but lost the vote, "Bruce said Friday at HOME. During the debate, two MPs of evangelical confession – one of them Fujimori, Julio Rosas – were the most reluctant. "There was Congress who openly dissented. Except for two evangelical weak arguments, all others were in favor. But there was a silent majority that when the vote was expressed (against), including the bed of Gana Peru "added Bruce.
Arrest made in gay church arson; Sheriff sides with arsonist
Timothy Kincaid
August 28th, 2012
From 10TV.com
They caught the guy who burned the historic South Bloomingville Christian Church to the ground. And when confronted by the Sheriff's department he told them that it wasn't a hate crime against the gay-friendly church, but in response to his being sexually assaulted by one of them there homos "connected with" the church.
And that was good enough for the Sheriff:
"I believe it brings some closure to the area that wasn't, per se, a hate crime, as the bishop portrayed it to be," North said. "It was more a revenge crime for what the suspect had endured in 2011.
Now if the arsonist was assaulted last year then I support prosecution against whomever assaulted him. After all, if true then "what the suspect had endured in 2011″ should be punished. And the Sheriff didn't mention whether there was going to be an arrest for sexual assault.
But somehow I very much doubt it. There's just something in his voice that suggests to me that any accusation against one of them there homos was proof enough – not enough for arrest, of course, but enough to justify arson.
Larry King's Killer Pleads Guilty In Exchange for 21 Year Prison Term
Jim Burroway
November 22nd, 2011
Brandon McInerney, who was a fourteen-year-old Oxnard Middle School student when he shot Larry King in school at point blank range in 2008, pleaded guilty to second-degree murder, voluntary manslaughter and the use of a fire arm in a plea deal which will result in a 21 year prison term in addition to time served. Under the terms of his plea deal, McInerney, who is now 17, will be released shortly before his 39th birthday. McInerney will be formally sentenced on December 19.
McInerney's plea deal comes after a mistrial was declared in his first trial after jurors were unable to reach a verdict. They had deadlocked at 7 to 5 in favor of finding McInerney guilty of voluntary manslaughter, with the five holding out for either second or first degree murder.
The Gay and Lesbian Education Network's Executive Director Eliza Byard applauded the plea deal:
"The plea deal announced today ends a tragic chapter in Ventura County. Holding Brandon McInerney accountable for his actions is necessary and right, but putting him behind bars does not solve the problems that led a boy to become a bully, and then a murderer. Homophobia and transphobia, compounded by the lack of counseling and other supports for struggling young people, resulted in Larry King's death and the effective end of Brandon McInerney's life. As adults and as a society, we must find the resolve to fix the broken systems that lost two young lives to hate and fear.
I echo Byard's sentiments. I've always felt very uncomfortable with sending a fourteen-year-old to prison for the rest of his life. This, I think, strikes the right balance.
Teen Attacked, Video Posted On Facebook. Why Wasn't His Attacker Arrested?
Jim Burroway
October 27th, 2011
You will have to go to WSYX's web site to see the video, but a fifteen-year-old student at Chillicothe, Ohio's Union-Scioto High School was attacked because he was gay, and the attacker posted the video on Facebook. This was two days after the attacker left anti-gay comments on the victim's Facebook page. The teen has a chipped tooth and possible concussion, and the attacker was suspended from school for three days.
There are two things wrong with this. Number one: a "possible concussion"? Let's get him to a doctor and find out.
And number two: suspension for three days? Of course that's not enough, but what can a school do but suspend a student? The mother is considering pressing a criminal complaint. That is exactly what neesd to happen, and it should have been the first response, not a backup plan. We have video evidence of a crime taking place. We have a Facebook account. We have a victim with injuries. We have witnesses who can be identified and possibly investigated as accessories to the crime. We have everything we need for someone to call 911 and launch a criminal investigation. This should not have been brought to the school's attention first. The first step should have been to call the police.
Apropos of this post yesterday, if we really want for things to get better, then we need to start treating crimes as crimes. It's not the school's job to enforce the law. All they can do is suspend students, and sometimes expel them under extreme circumstances. But it's law enforcement's job to, you know, enforce the law. And it's everyone's job to call the police first when a crime takes place.
Police Say Stuart Walker "Was Victim of Sex Attack"
Jim Burroway
October 25th, 2011
More details are emerging of last weekend's murder of a gay Scottish man who was found beaten and burned outside of Cumnock in Ayrshire last weekend. Initial reports said that Stuart Walker's body was found tied to a lamp post, but police say that those reports were incorrect. They do however say that the 28-year-old was the victim of a "violent and sustained" attack and that he may have been sexually assaulted. There are now reports that his charred body was partially undressed when it was found. According to the Daily Mail:
At a press conference at Kilmarnock police office, (Divisional Commander John Thomson) confirmed Mr Walker – a former assistant manager at the Royal Hotel in Cumnock – had almost certainly known those who killed him at Caponacre industrial estate.
Mr Thomson said: 'I don't think it was a random attack by someone who will strike again. I suspect Stuart may have known this individual or met this individual shortly before his death.'
Mr Thomson, who described the murder as a 'vicious attack', said there was a 'possibility of a sexual assault'.
The Telegraph says that Walker suffered "horrific" injuries and may have been burned alive. Police have told the local Cumnock Chronicle that they are following a "'significant' line of inquiry" and believe that Walker may have known his killers. The Daily Record says that "names of suspects already understood to have been flagged up to detectives." Police are not yet ruling in or out the possibility that the murder was a hate crime.
Gay Man's Body Found Beaten, Tied To Lamppost And Burned in Scotland
Jim Burroway
October 24th, 2011
A small town in Scotland is mourning the brutal murder of a "popular and well-known" man, whose burned body was found on the side of a road at an industrial park outside of Cumnock in Syrshire. Stuart Walker, 28, was found beaten, burned, and tied to a light pole early on Saturday morning after he failed to show up for his grandmother's 80th birthday.
Detectives say that they have not ruled out Walker's sexuality as a factor in his murder. The Scottish Sun quotes "a police insider" as saying, "Stuart was a gay man and this will be one of the things that is looked at, but by no means the only thing." The Guardian says that police are refusing to speculate on motive or possible suspects:
Detective Inspector John Hog said Walker was last seen alive about two hours before he was killed.
He said: "Stuart had been out with friends in the Cumnock area earlier during the night and was last seen alive by a family friend near to the fire station in Glaisnock Street around 2.30am on Saturday morning – nearly two-and-a-half hours before he was found.
"It is imperative that we find out where he was between 2.30am and 4.50am, who he was with and why this happened to him.
"From our inquiries so far, we understand that there may have been a number of house parties in the nearby Netherthird housing estate in the early hours of the morning.
"At this time we do not know if these parties are linked to our investigation or not, so, again, any information on that is important."
Police are reviewing closed circuit security video tapes and are carrying out door-to-door investigations in the area to try to piece together Walker's last hours. A Facebook page has been set up in Walker's memory.
Gay Couple Assaulted — At Church
Jim Burroway
October 4th, 2011
Jerry Pittman, Jr., and his boyfriend, Dustin Lee, were attacked when they tried to go to church at Grace Fellowship in Fruitland, Tennessee:
I went over to take the keys out of the ignition and all the sudden I hear someone say 'sick'em,'" said Gibson County resident, Jerry Pittman Jr.
Pittman said the attacked was prompted by the pastor of the church, Jerry Pittman, his father.
"My uncle and two other deacons came over to the car per my dad's request. My uncle smash me in the door as the other deacon knocked my boyfriend back so he couldn't help me, punching him in his face and his chest. The other deacon came and hit me through my car window in my back," said Pittman. He said bystanders did not offer assistance. He said the deacon yelled derogatory homosexual slurs, even after officers arrived. He said the officers never intervened to stop the deacons from yelling the slurs.
The younger Pittman says that there were about twenty people standing around the front of the church when the assault took place, but no one intervened to stop the assault or call the police. He also says that the sheriff's deputy refused to take a statement from the victims or allow them to press charges. Gibson County Sheriff Chuck Arnold said, "If I was on the scene I would not have allowed that. The deputy should not have allowed it if he did,… I haven't talk to him but that would be out of character for my deputy to say unless they were causing a problem themselves."
The couple later filed assault charges against Deacons Billy Sims and Eugene McCoy. The younger Pittman is also pressing charges against his father and Deacon Patrick Flatt. They are due in court today. The pastor and his wife are also going through a divorce.
Seattle Couple Threatened
Jim Burroway
September 26th, 2011
God Hates F*gs!
Get the f**k out of our neighborhood.
The bible says God forbids men committing indecent act with other men.
Pack up your sh*t and get you gay sh*t out.
That's the note that wrapped a rock which was thrown through the windshield of a Seattle gay couple. Lyle Evans and Chris Ilovar were woken by the noise sometime after midnight Saturday morning.
We thought it was the cat. We thought it was sprinklers going off," he said.
Ten minutes later, they heard the same sound again.
"I flew open the blinds in our bedroom and that's when I saw shadows running down the street," Ilovar said, "And I went, 'Okay, something's up.'"
While police reports officially call this an act of property damage and malicious harassment, the Evans and Ilovar said it's pretty clear from the message left behind that this was a hate crime.
The suspect or suspects slashed all the tires on both men's cars, as well as throwing two baseball-sized rocks — one through Ilovar's passenger-side window, one through Evans' rear windshield.
The couple have reportedly installed a new security system in their home the very next day. They have also installed a flagpole adorned with a rainbow flag.
DC Gay Man's Death Ruled A Homicide
Jim Burroway
September 21st, 2011
Earlier reports that a Gaurav Gopalan, a Washington, D.C., man who was found dead September 10 while dressed in drag, died of natural causes appears to be wrong. The district's Medical Examiner has ruled his death a homicide with the cause of death being blunt force trauma to the head.
Washington has seen a rash of shootings and attacks against transgender people, with four people shot since July and more than a dozen attacks against transgender women in the district this year. One woman died from the shootings. While Gopalan wasn't transgender, his attack certainly fits the bill for an attack against gender variance.
DC Police Register Alarm Over Transgender Shootings
Jim Burroway
September 13th, 2011
A transgender woman was shot in the neck around 2:00 a.m. Monday in the Southeast section of Washington, D.C., making the incident the fourth reported shooting of a transgender person in D.C. since July. The woman, whose name is not available, suffered a non-fatal wound and walked into a district police station to report the attack. She is reportedly in stable condition at a local hospital. A suspect has been identified in that shooting and D.C. police expect to make an arrest soon.
The latest incident prompted the D.C. police to call a news conference yesterday to discuss the attacks. Transgender advocates Earline Budd and Ruby Corado, who also spoke at the media event, said the latest shooting was among more than a dozen attacks against transgender women in the district this year.
The latest rash of shootings began on July 20 when another transgender woman, 23-year-old Lashai Mclean, was shot to death at about 5:00 a.m. in Northeast Washington. Another transgender woman who was with Mclean told police that two men approached Mclean to ask a question, and shot her with a semiautomatic handgun before she could answer. Police do not yet have a suspect.
On July 31, an unidentified male shot at a transgender woman just a block away from where Mclean was shot. The woman was uninjured, but police say the shooting may point to a "potential emerging pattern."
On August 26, an off-duty Police officer shot his service revolver at three transgender women and two male friends. Two of the women and one male were injured. Officer Kenneth Furr had reportedly proposition one of the transwmen for sex earlier that morning. Furr is being held without bail and has been charged with assault with a dangerous weapon.
One August 31, two transgender women were threatened by a man in Northeast Washington, who told them they had five minutes to leave before would come back and shoot them.
On Sept 10, three other transgender women were threatened by a man with a gun in D.C.'s Chinatown. Police have arrested a suspect and are preparing to charge him with assault with a dangerous weapon with hate crime enhancements. The suspect's name has not been released.
During the conference, police discussed the death, also on September 10, of an unidentified person who may be a transgender woman, although transgender advocates say that the person may be a man dressed in drag rather than someone identifying as female. The person was found dead in the Columbia Heights neighborhood at about 5:20 a.m. on September 10. Police are awaiting toxicology tests before determining the cause of death. There were no signs of trauma or external injuries. The deceased was found with money and jewelry, which rules out robbery as a motive for the possible crime.
Two Men Attacked In Wichita, KS
Jim Burroway
September 6th, 2011
Sgt. Jesse Boomer said two cars pulled up beside the 18- and 19-year-olds walking in the 1700 block of east Douglas, near Hydraulic, around 2:30 a.m. Six men, all in their late teens or early 20s, got out of the cars, accused the two men of "being homosexuals" and attacked them, Boomer said. The victims drove themselves to a local hospital, where they were treated for minor injuries and released.
Iowa Teen Beaten To Death By Anti-Gay Attackers
Jim Burroway
August 22nd, 2011
A nineteen-year-old youth died Sunday afternoon following an attack and severe beating early Friday morning. Marcellus Richard Andrews was officially pronounced dead after life support was removed at an Iowa City Hospital.
According to friends, it all began when Andrews was at a friend's house late Thursday night:
She said the problems started at about 12:45 a.m. Friday when she and Tudia Simpson, her cousin, went for a walk down the street. Andrews opted to stay behind, waiting on the enclosed porch, she said.
The two women hadn't made it as far as Adams Street a block away when they heard yelling back at the house. They ran back and found a truck stopped in the street, and the occupants were taunting Andrews, calling him "faggot" and "Mercedes," a feminization of his first name, Simpson said.
The arguing and name calling continued, said Simpson, who admitted throwing the first punch, striking a girl.
"She kept saying it, and I hit her," Simpson said.
At one point in the ensuing melee, Andrews fell to the ground. Simpson tried to help him up but another male kicked him in the face. She tried to help him back up again after the fight ended, but he wasn't able to get up. Another girl called 911. When paramedics arrived, they found Andrews with severe head trauma and had him flown to Iowa City for treatment.
Police are investigating. No arrests have been made.
LA Times joins "gay panic" smear of Lawrence King
Timothy Kincaid
July 5th, 2011
From the beginning, reporters covering the murder of Lawrence King have had difficulty in finding the right tone and delivery. Few stories are more challenging than that of a 14 year old boy shooting his schoolmate in the back of the head at point blank range in the middle of his classroom.
Two young lives have been destroyed. Lawrence King is dead, and Brandon McInerney will spend much of his life behind bars. And reporters have sought to make that point rather than just tell the tale of a murderer and his victim. Sadly, this effort has evolved in some media from telling both stories to a cover-up of the facts and a retelling in which King was the culprit and McInerney an innocent who defended himself in the only way he knew how.
I will concede that it is difficult for a reporter to tell the victim's side of the story. While defense lawyers invariable seek to influence public opinion (and a jury pool) with press conferences full of alternative possibilities, prosecutors are generally more circumspect. And while Ventura County senior deputy district attorney Maeve Fox did finally release information about McInerney to counter the defense's fairy tale, it is not her job to defend King's reputation.
That role is often filled by family of the victim. But Lawrence King's adoptive parents were estranged and more interested in trying to find a way to make a buck off of King's murder. They had no interest in defending the reputation of the weird kid who had "never bonded with them" and whom had been shipped off to a youth facility. Which leaves no one – no one at all – speaking for Lawrence.
But that is no excuse for shoddy journalism, deceptive reporting, and homophobic insinuation.
Perhaps the worst example was the hit piece on Lawrence King penned by Ramin Setoodah, a celebrity interviewer, for Newsweek. Setoodeh's piece was the first to characterizate King as a bully and sexual aggressor who tormented Brandon McInerney. Parroting McInerney's attorneys, Setoodeh laid out the gay panic defense, tossing in stereotypes and insinuations and "a lesbian vice principal with a political agenda."
But while Newsweek's article was unforgivable, one expects that hard news media will avoid such tactics. So it is even more disturbing to see the LA Times join in on the character assassination of Lawrence King.
But today's article by Catherine Saillant about the start of the trial does just that. It seeks to minimize Brandon McInerney's crime by diminishing the value of the life of his victim. Saillant does not see one child shooting another in the back of the head in his classroom but rather a sexual abuse victim acting in self defense against a sexual aggressor, a tormentor, a homosexual menace.
I don't claim that Saillant has an anti-gay bias. Her use of the somewhat ominous phrase "young homosexuals on school campuses" instead of "gay youth" may be accidental or out of ignorance. For all I know, she is an ardent supporter of equality.
But her article is a textbook example of journalistic gay panic: the presumption that heterosexuals are entitled to live a life free of gay people, and that a gay person acknowledging their own existence is such a threat to heterosexuals that it justifies murder (or, at least, is a mitigating circumstance).
In the presumptions of journalistic gay panic, it is relevant to their murder whether a child was or was not effeminate or sometimes wore "women's accessories". In the presumptions of journalistic gay panic, the flirtations of a girl to a boy are very very different from the flirtations of a boy to a boy.
Take this paragraph from the article:
Fellow students say the two had clashed for days over King's expressing his attraction to McInerney. King, who was living in a children's shelter because of problems at home, had recently gone to school wearing eye makeup and women's accessories.
The first sentence is a false presentation of the issue. "Fellow students" may have said just about anything, but based on the fuller coverage we know that King had been picked on by McInerny for a long time, long before the "flirting" began, and this eventually became his way of fighting back. But Saillant presents this as though it was out of the blue. She sets up King as the unprovoked aggressor.
And this cannot be chalked up to a lack of information. In a February 2009 Times article written by Saillant herself:
"Witnesses said King was usually not the aggressor. But after months of teasing by McInerney and other male students who called him "faggot," he had began to retort, according to prosecutors."
But it is in the second sentence that Saillant steps from being a reporter of a one-sided version of the story to active manipulator. Here she introduces an irrelevant comment to tie two separate ideas together. She's reporting (not repeating what "fellow students" say) that King went to school in makeup. And – without any reason to mention it – she also says he was "living in a children's shelter because of problems at home."
Tying the two unrelated comments into a single sentence, Saillant has achieved the presentation of King who was so out of control with his crazy cross-dressing that he couldn't even get along with his parents.
But the worst was just previous:
…provoked by King's repeated sexual advances.
Screech… slam on the brakes.
Ask yourself – outside of this case, just in conversation – when you hear the term "repeated sexual advances", what do you think of? Is is, oh say, "Will you be my valentine?"
Or is it perhaps an advance that is sexual in nature and repeated?
And again, this is not unfamiliar territory to Saillant. From that 2009 article:
In her statement of facts, Fox contends that King and McInerney had an acrimonious relationship for months prior to the shooting. They sparred with "typical 8th grade, back-and-forth insults; some sexual, some not," she wrote.
But today, those "back and forth insults, some sexual, some not," have become one-way "repeated sexual advances". If Saillant is going to just parrot the accusations of McInerney's defense, she has an obligation to inform that King's "advances" consisted of flirting, at most, and did not consist of acts of adult sexual aggression. On the other hand, King's "death" consisted of death.
This is not journalistic balance. This is advocacy for the defense's gay panic strategy.
And look at how McInerney is discussed:
The defense could face a challenge in portraying McInerney as a naive youth. At the time of the shooting, he looked young and sweet-faced. In court recently, the defendant was a tall, lanky young man dressed in crisp Oxford shirts and khaki pants.
Salliant doesn't talk about the difficulty of his defense having to deal with Nazi materials, racist symbols, or McInerney's long history of terrorizing King. No, no, it's his current age that is a problem.
I don't know Saillant's motivations. It may be that she is among those who think 14 is too young to be tried for murder. Maybe she wants to look at "all the circumstances" and see McInerney as "a victim too". Perhaps wants to "present both sides".
And the easiest way to do that – as McInerney is a pretty nasty neo-Nazi with white supremacist connections who ran in a pack of bullies – is to paint King as some sort of monster, a horrifying gay drag queen monster – worse even than McInerney. Besides, who is going to complain?
Generally character assassination of the victim is left to the defense team. But it seems to me that Saillant, has joined the cause.
Now, there is a legitimate case to be made that McInerney was too young and immature to be fully cognizant of the consequences of his actions. But it is unethical and immoral to take the shortcut of bashing King to exonerate McInerney.


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BEAVERTON, Ore. (KWSN) – Augustana men's basketball opens the 2013-14 season ranked No. 22 in the Division II Bulletin Preseason Top-25 Poll.
The Vikings are one of three teams from the NSIC listed on the preseason poll. Minnesota State is ranked eighth and Winona State 25th.
Augustana opens the 2013-14 season with an exhibition game against the University of Arizona on Oct. 28 in Tucson, Ariz. The Vikings will take on the Wildcats in an exhibition contest for the third time since 2009-10.
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Reebok supports date rape by supporting Rick Ross ... that's the way a leading women's group and scores of rape survivors see it.
UltraViolet -- a women's rights group 400,000 strong -- is incensed the company is not dumping Ross in the wake of his new song, which fantasizes about date rape.
The song -- "U.O.E.N.O." -- has a line, "Put Molly all in the champagne. She ain't even know it. I took her home and I enjoy that. She ain't even know it."
Molly is slang for Ecstasy.
The group -- along with 150 rape survivors -- grouses, "Every single day that Reebok continues rewarding Rick Ross with a lucrative endorsement deal, Reebok is condoning rape."
We reached out to Reebok today, but we got crickets.
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Reebok is not condoning rape. Rick Ross is an idiot & the lyric is in poor taste but you can't make the leap to "Reebok condones rape". They are not responsible for every single thing that someone says or does.
Rick Ross and Madonna's MDNA "jokes" are not funny in any way and of course they both meant what they meant and stop trying to say it doesn't mean what you wanted it to mean. Man up, Ross, and own it.
Good luck on that.
Horrible lyrics period. It shows his vast knowledge of proper English.
Hate crime!
He has a right to sing it but everyone has a right to boycott Rebok that finds this offensive. Im boycotting.
Reebok's PR department is probably scrambling right now. They shouldn't be focusing on Reebok though, focus on Rick Ross. Things like this undermine groups like this, it's too much of a stretch (and looks like a ploy for attention) and the real issue gets ignored because of it.
people still wear Reebok?
Guys that want to drug a person before they have sex with them is because they have a problem with their dix. Can't get it up or herpes or something. F U Reebok. Shameful. If the MEN at Reebok don't do something about this and take a stand, then they probably fantasize about it too. What else are we supposed to think? You both endorse each other, PIGS.
what a disgusting thing to say.
never heard this so called song and never will,
I've also heard em&Em say the most horrible things
about women and children and he still is the biggest rap person around.....dont get it....
That way you act and spew your thoughts are a reflection of yourself.
I'm sorry, drugging women is wrong, but you don't date rape people with Molly, you still retain a lot of your wits on mdma, so if you had sex with a guy on it, the drugs might of made you "more likely to go straight to sex" as it does make you feel like you "love everyone" but the choice was still yours, its not like doing Molly makes you have uncontrollable sex with everyone.
I'd be ok if these ladies were "anti drugs" or a organization which educates people against drugging people, but the fact they will go straight to date rape with molly shows their lack of education about drugs period.
LMFAO ohh well. :P


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Cary, N.C.-based Ply Gem Holdings, a manufacturer of exterior building products, announced plans to launch its initial public offering of nearly 16 million shares of its common stock.
Ply Gem plans to use the proceeds from the public offering to pay off debt, to pay transaction fees and for general corporate purposes, according to the announcement.
The stock has been approved for listing on the New York Stock Exchange under the symbol "PGEM."
Ply Gem Holdings, a manufacturer of exterior building products, reported net sales of $242.4 million for its fourth fiscal quarter, a 3.9% increase over sales of $220.5 million in the fourth quarter of 2010.
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Chris Blackwell has done some math. He says there are 2,500 people in the world for every one Jamaican. "I just divided it," he says with a smile, "and when you look at that ratio and all this country has done, it's amazing." We are having breakfast at Strawberry Hill, one of his storied properties, this one endlessly high in the mountains above Kingston. What Blackwell doesn't say is the impact he himself has had on thrusting this lush island onto the global consciousness. When he was 22, in 1959, he opened Island Records in Kingston and would of course go on to give the world one of its most roaring voices: Bob Marley. His own influence is not short of astounding, but the day after Jamaica celebrated a remarkable half-century of Independence, he wants to expound upon the people. "Nothing here is a flash in the pan," he says, "it's lasted for 50 years."
Across the island, Blackwell owns several boutique hotels and markets more under the umbrella of his company, Island Outpost. When asked about the music-rooted mystique he lends the brand, and his own enviable island lifestyle, he looks perplexed and finds something he likes in the table's breadbasket. But once the conversation turns back to Jamaicans and their unrivaled, innate abilities, the anecdotes flow.
"Jamaicans are very industrious," he explains, "sometimes you see a job happening, like digging a trench—and there might be four people working and only one actually digging. One is moving the dirt in a wheelbarrow, one is telling jokes and keeping the vibe going…you know how it goes. And you'd think the digger would complain, but they're a team—and he just loves to work."
In his 75 years, Blackwell has worked hard to show a lot of people this land—from giving the world a soundtrack to life here, to literally inviting people down. His hotels serve as a unique vehicle to get people involved in the culture. A recent success story is with Win and Régine from Arcade Fire. "Bono recommended Goldeneye to them and they came and stayed," he explains, "Win went to play basketball in town every day and they got to know people in the community. Now they're recording their next album in Jamaica. They will come back because they started to understand the language—well, not the language, but you know what I mean," he says and smiles again. Blackwell says he doesn't know what makes Goldeneye, his crown-jewel property, so special, but he wishes there could be 100 more like it.
His mission is to do away with the island's negative connotations, and it's not easy: "A bad rep is hard to shake and a good one you can lose in minute. It's not like I can send out a press release to say Jamaica is safe and great." Although the reality is, he probably could. We finish the French Press of Blue Mountain coffee, and he tells me to make myself at home.
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Subaru's redesigned Forester won't make things any easier.
Subaru has gone to great lengths to make sure the Forester is still a capable off-road or at least "off-pavement" vehicle — but it shines in everyday driving, too.
At a national introduction hosted by Subaru in Arizona, I tested both the standard 2.5-liter four-cylinder that most shoppers will choose as well as the significantly more powerful turbocharged 2.0-liter four-cylinder found in XT models. The Forester will go on sale in March.
The engine Subaru expects nearly 95 percent of Forester buyers to opt for is a 170-horsepower four-cylinder teamed to a continuously variable automatic transmission. Doesn't sound like a powerhouse, does it? But the top-sellers in the class aren't far removed. The Honda CR-V, new Toyota RAV4, Ford Escape and Mazda's CX-5 get 185, 176, 173 and 155 hp, respectively.
Look at torque figures, though, and the Forester's 174 pounds-feet of torque compares well against the same group at 163, 172, 184 and 150 pounds-feet, respectively.
In the real world, when merging onto the highway, passing and accelerating from a dead stop, I put the Forester on par with the CR-V and Escape. Its one fault in these areas is the high level of noise during hard acceleration, which is partly due to the CVT.
Once up to speed, though, the Forester is remarkably quiet. Most of today's Subaru vehicles, including the outgoing Forester, allow too much road and wind noise into the cabin. Subaru says this Forester is the quietest vehicle it's ever made, and impressive aerodynamics helps the seemingly boxy SUV's fuel economy, too. Considering how tall the cabin is — with lots of tall windows — the noise level is even more impressive while still delivering terrific visibility.
The one advantage Subaru clearly has over the competition is its standard all-wheel-drive system. That's not just because of how much less a Forester costs than all-wheel-drive versions of the competition — they come standard with front-wheel drive — but just how capable the system is itself.
I took the Forester up a steep — if not extensive — off-road course on the side of an Arizona hill and had few issues with traction. Only while making a turn to descend did it require a second and third attempt to accelerate through the maneuver. The 8.7 inches of ground clearance helps in situations like this, as does a new X-Mode system in higher level trims and the XT turbo. X-Mode allows for more control in certain driving conditions and when equipped, adds hill descent control.
My co-driver and I also traveled more than 50 miles of unpaved public roads of loose dirt and rock at decent speeds ranging from 40 to 60 mph in both versions of the Forester. While the ride had been comfortable on paved roads, we were both a bit surprised at how the little SUV handled these surfaces with barely any jarring effects to the passengers.
Generally you think of people in Northern regions opting for all-wheel-drive vehicles like the Forester, but the trip showed that there are quite a few warm-weather areas that could benefit from the technology. We even passed a previous-generation Forester pulling into a driveway on our unpaved route.
Of course, all-wheel-drive systems generally hurt fuel economy, but Subaru has done wonders with the 2.5-liter's efficiency. It's rated 24/32 mpg city/highway and 27 mpg combined.
Those are excellent numbers even against front-wheel-drive competitors. The combined rating tops the CR-V, the Escape 1.6 and the four-cylinder Chevy Equinox at 26 mpg. Only the underpowered CX-5 outshines the field at 29 mpg combined. Highway mileage is right in line with the CR-V's 31 mpg, RAV4's 31 mpg, Escape's 33 mpg, CX-5's 32 mpg and Equinox's 32 mpg.
With optional all-wheel drive, the above models' combined ratings drop 1 mpg, except for the Chevy, which drops 3 mpg, to 23 mpg.
Our Forester's trip computer relayed 27 mpg during our test of combined and relatively spirited driving on Arizona streets, highways and unpaved roads.


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