Fishbowl America Round-Up #2

July 6, 2008 in Alabama, Humor, International, LGBT, News & Opinion, Politics & Government, Pop Culture, Religion, Science & Technology, Sports, Style, Video
Tags: 1960, 2008, AC360, ACLU, Ad, affairs, Anderson, anti-gay, As, Barack, bigot, cable, California, Carolina, Celestino, center, chancellor, CNN, College, conservative, Convention, Cooper, denver, DNC, Eau-Claire, facebook, Fox, Gant, Gay, GLBT, Good, Greta, Hands, Harvey, Helms, HRC, invesco, Jesse, John, Keith, Kennedy, LGBT, Limas, marriage, McCain, Mike, MSNBC, News, NGLTF, North, Obama, Olbermann, oratory, outdoor, pepsi, PFLAG, Rogers, SLDN, speech, stadium, Staver, student, Susteren, university, Van, wars, Washington, Wisconsin, You

Fishbowl America Round-Up for July 6th from 01:20 to 02:00:

• College is what you make of it – Opinion –
• Changing college courses can also change the course of lives – Lumina Foundation: Helping People Achieve Their Potential –
• Candidate stressed student involvement – News – Wrapping up a series of four visits by candidates for vice chancellor of student affairs and dean of students, Celestino Limas outlined his goals for the position Monday afternoon in Davies Theatre.
• DemConWatch: A look back at the last outdoor speech – As Oreo noted below, this “give a speech outdoors” thing has been done before – by John F. Kennedy in Los Angeles in 1960. Here are two articles from the NY Times. The first notes the venue was planned more than a year in advance, but it may not have help
• LA Times: Obama Invesco Speech Confirmed – The LA Times is the first to just say that Barack Obama’s acceptance speech at the 2008 Democratic Convention in Denver will be moved from the Pepsi Center to Invesco Field at Mile High, as opposed to it being just under consideration:
• Obama Campaign Not Happy With Convention Preperations – Oh dear. The NY Times reports that the Obama campaign is not pleased with what they’ve found in Denver:
• Ding Dong… Jesse Helms Still Dead – <object width=”425″ height=”344″><param name=”movie” value=”http://www.youtube.com/v/KIyewCdXMzk&hl=en&fs=1″></param><param name=”allowFullScreen” value=”true”></param><embed src=”http://www.youtube.com/v/KIyewCdXMzk&hl=en&fs=1&#8243; type=”application/x-shockw
• In a perfect world, it’d be Mr. Staver who’s encouraged to stay out of court – Speaking about the memo released by nine national LGBT groups encouraging folks to cool their jets before taking their newly-minted California marriage licenses back to their home states and fighting in the courts to have their unions recognized, one of t
• TIME TO KEEP CNN HONEST!! – Greta Van Susteren, worst news anchor ever, bad mouths Coop about “keeping them honest”
• Facebook the Fishbowl – Pretty please?
• McCain works hard to polish skills as orator – While unveiling his energy plan here recently, Sen. John McCain was performing relatively smoothly.

PFLAG Protests “Ex-Gay” Conference In Orlando

June 10, 2008 in Elections, Gay, McCain, Obama, Politics, Religion, Video
Tags: civil, ex-gay, Florida, Gay, GLBT, LGBT, Orlando, PFLAG, protest, rights

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PFLAG Protests “Ex-Gay” Conference In Orlando

June 10, 2008 in Politics & Government, Religion, Video
Tags: civil, ex-gay, Florida, Gay, GLBT, LGBT, Orlando, PFLAG, protest, rights

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PFLAG Protests “Ex-Gay” Conference In Orlando

June 10, 2008 in Politics & Government, Religion, Video
Tags: civil, ex-gay, Florida, Gay, GLBT, LGBT, Orlando, PFLAG, protest, rights

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