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[Toughy]

Originally Posted by dykeumentary

And did you see that they are stopping the M and F stickers on bus passes?!

Huh???? what are you talking about???

[dykeumentary]

These stickers gave the whole bus, and the driver, an opportunity to discuss a rider's gender presentation. This happened a few times to me, humiliating.

http://phillyrage.org/2012/04/12/wer...nder-stickers/


Trans and Gender Non-Conforming Philadelphians Win Historic Victory;
RAGE Announces SEPTA Concedes Gender Stickers Must Go by 2013

PHILADELPHIA – Riders Against Gender Exclusion (RAGE) is pleased to announce that, after a lengthy grassroots campaign by transgender and gender non-conforming Philadelphians and our allies, the Southeastern Pennsylvania Transit Authority (SEPTA) plans to remove the gender stickers from all monthly transit passes by 2013. A fare policy proposal will be submitted to SEPTA’s board of directors that includes this change beginning in the second half of 2013.

[AtLast]

http://usnews.msnbc.msn.com/_news/20...e-scandal?lite

This is such bullshit! The Secret Service is funded by taxes and is is supposed to not only guard the safety of the president, but countless elected and appointed officials of the US government. Also, the spouses & children of officials.

And the big question is- were there under-age sex workers involved? It isn't like this was some small group of folks, it involves over 200 people (last count as of today) and was organized- fees collected, room arrangements made, etc. doesn't sound to me like this is the first time this has happened.

I have always viewed the Secret Service with great respect... but now... ?? I think this is going to be much bigger and more serious than was first expected.

I don't give a flying hooray about any adult engaging in sexual activity of any kind (other than without consent or with a minor), but do it on your own time and pay your own way to where ever to do it. And could this be involved with any other type of sex traffic activity?

[UofMfan]

Summitt Steps Aside


"After 38 seasons, 1,098 wins and eight NCAA titles, Pat Summitt will step aside as head coach but will serve as an adviser for the Lady Vols."

[suebee]

Do you think that the fact that she's the first and only female officer AND she's gay might have anything to do with this? LINK

[AtLast]

Originally Posted by UofMfan

Summitt Steps Aside


"After 38 seasons, 1,098 wins and eight NCAA titles, Pat Summitt will step aside as head coach but will serve as an adviser for the Lady Vols."

As I watch my brother-in-law travel down the path of Alzheimer's, my heart just goes out to Summitt in a big way.

She is and always has been something!

[AtLast]

Woman Recounts Quarrel Leading to Agent Scandal

http://www.nytimes.com/2012/04/19/wo...e-scandal.html

Wonder how many divorces there will be after this is all said and done?

[Kobi]

BALTIMORE (AP) — Two brothers accused of beating a black teenager while patrolling an Orthodox Jewish neighborhood are set to go on trial Monday in a case with similarities to the Trayvon Martin shooting.

The brothers, who are white and Jewish, have claimed self-defense, saying the teen was holding a nail-studded board. Local civil rights activists hope the Martin case will draw more attention to what they believe was racial profiling by neighborhood watch vigilantes.

Eliyahu and Avi Werdesheim are accused of beating a 15-year-old boy who was walking through a Baltimore neighborhood in November 2010. The brothers pulled up next to the teen in a vehicle, then got out and "surrounded him," according to charging documents. The passenger threw the teen to the ground and the driver hit him in the head with a hand-held radio and patted him down.

The teen remembered the driver yelling, "You wanna (mess) with us, you don't belong around here, get outta here!" according to court documents, which do not identify which brother was driving.

While the teen struggled, a third man got out of a van and kneed the teen, pinning him to the ground. The teen told police that he stopped struggling and the third man continued to search him, while the teen insisted he didn't have anything on him.

Eliyahu Werdesheim told the Baltimore Jewish Times that he was acting in self-defense because the teen was holding the piece of wood. The teen picked up the board during the encounter, but put it back down, said J. Wyndal Gordon, an attorney for the teen's family. He said the family did not want to speak publically.

http://news.yahoo.com/md-neighborhoo...140920015.html

[LeftWriteFemme]

Gay Rabbis Approved In Israel, Conservative Judaism Makes Decision


http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/0...r=Gay%20Voices

[Reader]

Originally Posted by UofMfan

Summitt Steps Aside


"After 38 seasons, 1,098 wins and eight NCAA titles, Pat Summitt will step aside as head coach but will serve as an adviser for the Lady Vols."

Pat Summitt is and always will be a force to reckon with. Just a great woman.

[Andrea]

Is this yet another way to invade our privacy?

"Infowars' Paul Joseph Watson, reading through Section 31406 of the "Moving Ahead for Progress in the 21st Century Act" (MAP-21) bill that's currently making its way through Congress, made a nice catch: The bill calls for "Mandatory Event Data Recorders" to be installed in new vehicles starting in the year 2015.

Yes. If the bill becomes law, cars manufactured in the U.S. will have black boxes -- similar to the recording devices that are standard inclusions on aircraft."

http://www.theatlantic.com/technology/print/2012/04/meet-the-bill-that-wants-to-put-plane-like-black-boxes-in-our-cars/256164/

[Andrea]

Outrage as Egypt plans 'farewell intercourse law' so husbands can have sex with DEAD wives up to six hours after their death.

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2135434/Outrage-Egypt-plans-farewell-intercourse-law-husbands-sex-dead-wives-hours-AFTER-death.html

[~ocean]

i respect other cultures... even tho i DONT agree w. them )) just saying ... that is soo bizarr andrea

[Toughy]

Originally Posted by Andrea

Outrage as Egypt plans 'farewell intercourse law' so husbands can have sex with DEAD wives up to six hours after their death.

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2135434/Outrage-Egypt-plans-farewell-intercourse-law-husbands-sex-dead-wives-hours-AFTER-death.html

sooooooooooooooooooo

those out there who think we should respect cultural practices that are different..............

what say you?

[AtLast]

http://abcnews.go.com/US/jersey-auti...6#.T5p4JbN8B2A

[Andrea]

Originally Posted by Andrea

Outrage as Egypt plans 'farewell intercourse law' so husbands can have sex with DEAD wives up to six hours after their death.

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2135434/Outrage-Egypt-plans-farewell-intercourse-law-husbands-sex-dead-wives-hours-AFTER-death.html

Thank all that is good.... This is a fake story. Sorry everyone.

[LeftWriteFemme]

Radio DJ tells father he should have daughter 'raped' straight


http://www.gaystarnews.com/article/r...m_medium=email

[Kobi]

http://newsfeed.time.com/2012/04/30/...activity-bill/

[suebee]

Another beautiful young transperson lost to hate, and then lost again to racism and indifference.


LINK

[Nat]

North Carolina Pastor Sean Harris: Parents Should 'Punch' Their Gay-Acting Children

"So your little son starts to act a little girlish when he is four years old and instead of squashing that like a cockroach and saying, 'Man up, son, get that dress off you and get outside and dig a ditch, because that is what boys do,' you get out the camera and you start taking pictures of Johnny acting like a female and then you upload it to YouTube and everybody laughs about it and the next thing you know, this dude, this kid is acting out childhood fantasies that should have been squashed.
Dads, the second you see your son dropping the limp wrist, you walk over there and crack that wrist. Man up. Give him a good punch. Ok? You are not going to act like that. You were made by God to be a male and you are going to be a male. And when your daughter starts acting too butch, you reign her in. And you say, 'Oh, no, sweetheart. You can play sports. Play them to the glory of God. But sometimes you are going to act like a girl and walk like a girl and talk like a girl and smell like a girl and that means you are going to be beautiful. You are going to be attractive. You are going to dress yourself up.'"