June 27, 2008 in LGBT, News & Opinion, Politics & Government, Religion, Science & Technology, Style, Video
Tags: 20/20, ABC, Barbara Walters, Gay, GLBT, joy behar, lesbian, LGBT, sherri shepherd, The View, trangender, transgender children, Whoopi, whoopi goldberg
ABC’s 20/20 followed up on their previous report on transgender children, a truly unbiased and fascinating account of a realm of sexuality that is both misunderstood and not talked about. The ladies at “The View” discuss transgender issues, much to the shi-grin of co-host Sherri Shepherd.
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June 27, 2008 in International, News & Opinion, Pop Culture, Video
Tags: 007, action, bond, bond 22, book, columbia pictures, Daniel Craig, franchise, Ian Fleming, James Bond, Judi Dench, mgm, olga kurylenko, Quantum, Quantum of Solace, Solace, suspense, trailer
Here’s a very brief clip of the trailer for the upcoming 22nd installment in the James Bond film franchise, Quantum of Solace. The film is described as a direct continuation of Casino Royale.
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June 27, 2008 in International, News & Opinion, Politics & Government, Religion
Tags: Afghanistan, Baghdad, Barack Obama, Bush, David Cameron, France, Germany, Gordon Brown, Iraq, John McCain, McCain, Nicolas Sarkozy, Sarkozy, trip, United Kingdom
Telegraph: Senator Barack Obama, the presumptive Democratic nominee, is to fly to Britain next month as part of an ambitious foreign trip that will also take him to war zones in Iraq and Afghanistan as well as to France and Germany.
Only skeleton details of Mr Obama’s trip have been agreed but an announcement [...]
June 27, 2008 in Humor, News & Opinion, Politics & Government, Video
Tags: Barack Obama, Clinton, Democrats, Hillary Clinton, McAuliffe, Obama, Terry McAuliffe
Seriously, Terry McAuliffe is completely insane.
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June 27, 2008 in International, LGBT, News & Opinion, Politics & Government, Religion
Tags: 60 Minutes, Army Sergeant Darren Manzella, Barry Winchell, DADT, Darren Manzella, Don't Ask Don't Tell, Gay, GLBT, Iraq, LGBT, Manzella, military, SLDN, veteran, War
PageOneQ: Army Sergeant Darren Manzella, profiled on 60 Minutes, has been let go under the military’s “Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell” policy.
Manzella has been twice deployed to Iraq since his enlistment in 2002. Military awards he has received during his service include the Combat Medical Badge. He also received the Barry Winchell Courage Award at the [...]
June 27, 2008 in International, News & Opinion, Politics & Government, Science & Technology
Tags: Axis of Evil, IAEA, Kim Jong Il, North Korea, nuclear, Pyongyang, U.S., United Nations, weapons, Yongbyon
AP: The gray cooling tower crumbled behind billowing dust clouds in seconds Friday, reducing the structure at North Korea’s nuclear reactor into a pile of rubble. It was a choreographed show by the communist regime meant to affirm an intention to stop making atomic bombs.
From a distance, smiling diplomats from the United States and other [...]
June 27, 2008 in International, News & Opinion, Pop Culture, Style, Video
Tags: academy award, academy awards, Batman, batman begins, Christian Bale, Christopher Nolan, Dark Knight, Film, Heath Ledger, Joker, movie, nomination, Oscar, review, Rolling Stone, trailer
Rolling Stone: Heads up: a thunderbolt is about to rip into the blanket of bland we call summer movies. The Dark Knight, director Christopher Nolan’s absolute stunner of a follow-up to 2005’s Batman Begins, is a potent provocation decked out as a comic-book movie. Feverish action? Check. Dazzling spectacle? Check. Devilish fun? Check. But Nolan [...]
June 27, 2008 in International, News & Opinion, Politics & Government
Tags: Barack Obama, Bill Clinton, Clinton, event, Hillary Clinton, John McCain, McCain, New Hampshire, Obama, rally, Unity
Politico: Obama’s advance staff is very good at the visuals, and the Unity event is flawless on TV.
Even better: It’s dominating the news cycle without making any news.
And that’s one of the key things Hillary (and Bill) bring to Obama: Whenever he wants to deliver some unadulterated message to the American people, he just needs [...]
June 27, 2008 in International, News & Opinion, Politics & Government, Science & Technology
Tags: arctic, Bush, global, Gore, ice, ice caps, McCain, melting, Obama, Space, warming
The North Pole may be briefly ice-free by September as global warming melts away Arctic sea ice, according to scientists from the National Snow and Ice Data Center in Boulder, Colorado.
“We kind of have an informal betting pool going around in our center and that betting pool is ‘does the North Pole melt [...]
June 27, 2008 in International, News & Opinion, Politics & Government
Tags: Barack Obama, Cochran, Coleman, Colorado, Cornyn, Farleigh Dickinson, Fleming, Franken, John McCain, Lautenberg, McCain, Michigan, Minnesota, Mississippi, Musgrove, New Jersey, Noriega, Obama, poll, Polls, quinnipiac, Schaffer, Senate, Tennessee, Texas, Texas Lyceum, Udall, Wicker, Wisconsin, Zimmer
Politics1: Barack Obama and Hillary Clinton hold their first unity event on Friday in — fittingly — Unity, New Hampshire. Also, conservative columnist Robert Novak reports that former Secretary of State Colin Powell is poised to break with GOP and endorse Obama for President some time this summer. Meanwhile, here are the latest independent polls [...]
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