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A group of Missouri Republicans introduced a legislation last week called the “Don’t Say Gay” bill.
The bill, if you didn’t already know, would prevent schools from teaching any type of gay history.
The purpose … to prevent teachers from teaching it because those against it believes it’s a choice and not a sexual preference you are born with.
NewsOne columnist Michael Arceneaux wrote his thoughts on the issue in a column. Below is an excerpt:
I was introduced to AIDS, and subsequently, gay people at the age of 6, following the death of a relative. The words gay or homosexual weren’t the terms used to describe same-sex lovers, though. The word faggotwas, which from its very utterance of the word in all its hate-filled tone, instilled a great fear in me that would last well into early adulthood.
It would be years before someone bothered to declare that gay people, which I knew secretly included myself, were just folks with a sexual orientation outside of the norm. Such is a lesson I wish was instilled in me much sooner in my life, which is why I find it rather pathetic that Republican lawmakers in Missouri are going out of their way to prevent such not-so-outlandish facts from being shared with school children – particularly at a time when little by little gay Americans are inching toward wider acceptance.
What was going on in that prison? Mike Tyson says during his three years in jail for rape, he got a prison official pregnant. He says she did not have the baby. Tyson, who recently performed a one-man show in Las Vegas, mentioned this to ESPN as one of the subjects he left out of the show. Back in 1992, Tyson was sentenced to 10 years in prison for raping an 18-year old woman. He was released in 1995 after serving three years.
Congrats to Tamera Mowry-Housley and her husband Adam. They are expecting their first child. The former Sister Sister co-star is currently featured on the Style Network reality show Tia & Tamera with her twin sister Tia Mowry-Hardrict. Tamera and Adam were married last May. Tamera’s pregnancy comes ten months after her sister Tia gave birth to her first child Cree. Tamera is due in November.
Congrats to Basketball Star Chris Paul. He and his wife Jada are expecting their second child, a daughter. The college sweethearts already have a three-year old son Chris, Jr.
Get well wishes go out to NBC 10’s Glenn “Hurricane” Schwartz. The bow-tied meteorologist is currently recovering from successful double bypass surgery. Get well soon Glenn!
Changes are coming to The Real Housewives of Atlanta. First, Sheree Whitfield won’t be back on the show. She says she wasn’t happy, but sources say the producers weren’t happy with her diva attitude and demands for more money. Kim Zolchiak may not be returning either. She is in talks to get a spinoff show featuring her wedding, pregnancy and nine-month old baby. Meanwhile, NeNe Leakes is launching a shoe line with her new BFF Kim Kardashian.
The Hudson family murder trial got underway this week in Chicago. Oscar Winner Jennifer Hudson took the stand and broke down to testify against her ex brother-in-law William Balfour, who is accused of killing her mother, brother and 7-year old nephew. Among other things, Jennifer testified about warning her sister Julia not to marry Balfour.
Former Football Star Terrell Owens and all his babymommas are coming to the Dr. Phil show. Owens, who used to play with the Eagles, Cowboys and 49ers, is having major babymomma and child support drama. If he doesn’t pay his back child support, and it is in the thousands, he could wind up in jail. Owens needs a football gig because he can’t make the payments. Well here comes Dr. Phil to the rescue. Can he, Owens and the babymommas sort things out.
Look for major changes on America’s Next Top Model. Tyra Banks is shaking the show up for the 19th season. Nigel Barker, Miss J (Jay Alexander) and Mr. J (Jay Manuel) have been let go. No word yet on who will replace them. Banks said even though she loves her guys, it was time to give the show a lift. The ex-America’s Top Model judges have been making the rounds in the press, and for now, they say they’re ready to move on to other things.
Beverly Johnson’s daughter, Anansa Sims, is expecting her second child with her husband David Patterson. The new baby will join her nine-month old sister Ava. Beverly Johnson and her family recently launched their reality show, Beverly’s Full House. The supermodel’s cable show airs on Saturdays nights at 10pm on OWN.
61-year old Robin Gibb has come out of a coma. Gibb is battling colorectal cancer. He has been ill for most of the year. Doctors had warned his family he may not come out of the coma, but he did. Gibb is responding to his family. Sources say he came out of the coma to the music of his group The Bee Gees, including his brother, Barry, singing to him.
Singer Ledisi is writing her first book entitled Better Than Alright: Finding Peace, Love and Power. She is also coming to town Sunday, June 24th at the Keswick with Eric Benet.
RETIRED/BORED HUSBAND
After I retired, my wife insisted that I accompany her on her trips to Target.
Unfortunately, like most men, I found shopping boring and preferred to get in and get out. Equally unfortunate, my wife is like most women – she loves to browse.
Yesterday my dear wife received the following letter from the local Target:
Dear Mrs. Harris,
Over the past six months, your husband has caused quite a commotion in our store. We cannot tolerate this behavior and have been forced to ban both of you from the store. Our complaints against your husband, Mr. Harris, are listed below and are documented by our video surveillance cameras:
1. June 15: He took 24 boxes of condoms and randomly put them in other people’s carts when they weren’t looking.
2. July 2: Set all the alarm clocks in Housewares to go off at 5-minute intervals.
3. July 7: He made a trail of tomato juice on the floor leading to the women’s restroom.
4. July 19: Walked up to an employee and told her in an official voice, ‘Code 3 in Housewares. Get on it right away’. This caused the employee to leave her assigned station and receive a reprimand from her Supervisor that in turn resulted with a union grievance, causing management to lose time and costing the company money.
5. August 4: Went to the Service Desk and tried to put a bag of M&Ms on layaway
6. August 14: Moved a ‘CAUTION – WET FLOOR’ sign to a carpeted area.
7. August 15: Set up a tent in the camping department and told the children shoppers he’d invite them in if they would bring pillows and blankets from the bedding department to which twenty children obliged.
8. August 23: When a clerk asked if they could help him he began crying and screamed, ‘Why can’t you people just leave me alone?’ EMTs were called.
9.. September 4: Looked right into the security camera and used it as a mirror while he picked his nose.
10. September 10: While handling guns in the hunting department, he asked the clerk where the antidepressants were.
11. October 3: Darted around the Store suspiciously while loudly humming the ‘ Mission Impossible’ theme.
12. October 6: In the auto department, he practiced his ‘Madonna look’ by using different sizes of funnels on his chest.
13. October 18: Hid in a clothing rack and when people browsed through, he yelled ‘PICK ME! PICK ME!’
14. October 22: When an announcement came over the loud speaker, he assumed a
fetal position and screamed ‘OHNO! IT’S THOSE VOICES AGAIN!’
15. Took a box of condoms to the check out clerk and asked where the fitting room was?
And last, but not least:
16. October 23: Went into a fitting room, shut the door, waited awhile, and then yelled very loudly, ‘Hey! There’s no toilet paper in here.’
One of the clerks passed out.
ENJOY YOUR WEEKEND AND KNOW THAT YOU ARE LOVED!
Sure, the weather’s getting warmer and you can have an outside gazebo wedding, but the majority of June falls under the sign of Gemini – a mentally based air sign not known for fullness of feeling and the hot diggity dog of what love is supposed to be. So, when should a person get married according to the stars? Here’s how to use astrology to pick the best wedding date.
A few general rules apply on how to pick your wedding date based on the stars.
First, avoid Mercury retrograde at all costs. These intervals of Mercury’s apparent wrong way street pop up three or four times a year for roughly three weeks at a time. These Mercury eras may mar wedding plans in a plethora of ways from the wrong names frosting the wedding cake to a traffic jam preventing the minister from getting to the church on time.
Pick a Sun sign that matches why you’re getting married. If you want love and romance and good gooey feelings, you could consider Libra (but it can be a bit aloof and abstract) but certainly the water signs: Cancer, Scorpio and Pisces. If you want someone with whom you have banter and the mental stimulation that can carry a relationship well after the honeymoon is over, give Sagittarius a look as well as the air signs: Gemini, Libra and Aquarius, which all love mental exchanges.
Should it be stability you’re after, you could go with security-based Cancer for a summer wedding (and it gives you the last week of June) or the resourceful earth signs: Taurus, Virgo and Capricorn. Of course, weddings performed during earth signs might require a pre-nuptial document to carve details in stone. Finally, if you want adventure, go for it-ness and a likely work out partner, get married while enjoying the spark of the one of the fire signs: Aries, Leo and Sagittarius.
The Moon sign of the day of marriage offers a huge consideration as well. Using the sign guide in the Sun sign paragraph above, apply those ideas remembering that the Moon offers the emotional tone and sets the standard for how the partners will support, honor, adore and care for the other.
Since Venus classically represents the female and Mars bears the masculine archetype, these two planets crave a happy place with respect to each other. Here’s a tricky wicket to navigate with Venus and Mars: traditionally astrology seeks relationships of ease between planets and signs. That’s just nifty for a long walk and sitting on the porch watching sunset. But to get the… you know… hot steamy stuff percolating to the brink of spontaneous combustion, you’ll need a tense and friction-based aspect between the ‘her’ planet and the ‘him’ planet (the same principle applies to same sex unions, by the way). Bear in mind that such a tense pattern might get a little testy later on in matters of money and emotional need.
It’s always best to contact a professional astrologer to assist you with the best wedding date. While there is no ‘perfect’ date, your astrologer can set you up with a horoscope that supports your relationship. Before contacting your astrologer, check with your intended venue for available dates. No point in getting chart forecasts for unavailable dates.
One final point to keep in mind, an astrologer may recommend an impossible wedding date, such as Wednesday at 11:37 P.M. Vows can be privately, legally and ceremonially exchanged at such a time, with all the hoopla and regalia at an ‘unofficial’ time convenient for family, relatives and venue to occur later.
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Yes it’s true, he loved the women, and they loved him. He could never get enough sex with women almost like a nimph. Benjamin Franklin was a owner of slaves. Also he did not fly the kite in the storm he was so famous for it was a lie, it was a young kid that accomplish that. He was an accomplish inventor, so he gets credit for that.
All this and more: Comcast TV, on demand – History & Nature, H2. The 10 things about Benjamin Franklin that you didn’t know.
SANTIAGO, Chile (AP) — A magnitude-7.1 earthquake struck central Chile Sunday night, the strongest and longest that many people said they had felt since a huge quake devastated the area two years ago. There were no immediate reports of deaths or major damage.
The quake struck at 7:30 p.m. about 16 miles (27 kilometers) north-northwest of Talca, a city of more than 200,000 people where residents said the shaking lasted about a minute.
Buildings swayed in Chile’s capital 136 miles (219 kilometers) to the north, and people living along a 480-mile (770-kilometer) stretch of Chile’s central coast were briefly warned to head for higher ground.
Residents were particularly alarmed in Constitucion, where much of the coastal downtown at the mouth of a river was obliterated by the tsunami caused by the 8.8-magnitude quake in 2010.
Panic also struck in Santiago and other cities, with people running out of skyscrapers, and many neighborhoods were left partly or totally without electrical power. Phone service was disrupted by heavy use.
“There are some injuries but nothing serious,” said Interior Minister Rodrigo Hinzpeter, who was serving as acting president while Sebastian Pinera is on tour in Asia.
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One game is a grudge match between teams that know each other all too well. The other is a rare rematch between virtual strangers.
The Final Four is set. In one game Saturday, Kentucky will play Louisville in an intrastate rivalry that puts Cardinals coach Rick Pitino against the school he once coached, then later alienated by returning to the Bluegrass to lead its archrival.
In the other semifinal, it will be Ohio State and Kansas, meeting for only the ninth time in their history but for the second time this season. The Jayhawks won the first game 78-67 in Lawrence, Kan., back on Dec. 10. Ohio State’s Jared Sullinger sat out of that game with back spasms. It was the first time the teams had met since 1999-2000.
The winners will play for the national title April 2. Kentucky already has seven national titles but none since 1998, the year after Pitino left. Kansas has three championships, Louisville has two and Ohio State, better known as a football power, won its lone title in 1960 and is making its third trip to the Final Four since 1999.
Absent from this year’s ultimate hoops weekend, taking place at the Superdome in New Orleans, are the longshots and little guys who have made March Madness so special over the years. Although there are no Butlers, VCUs or George Masons, there are plenty of good stories to tell. That list starts with Pitino vs. his old school.
It was Pitino who restored Kentucky to its former greatness when he arrived there in 1989 and the Wildcat program was coming off the sting of NCAA violations. Pitino took the program to three Final Fours and won one championship, but left in 1997 to take a second shot at the NBA, where he had previously coached the New York Knicks.
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The Prime Minister said he believed the Leveson Inquiry, rather than a separate probe, is the right way to investigate the Government’s exchanges with News Corp as it is ‘far tougher than anything the civil service could arrange’.
Mr Cameron admitted discussing matters with Mr Murdoch’s son and top News Corp executive James Murdoch at a Christmas party at the Oxfordshire home of then News International chief executive Rebekah Brooks.
Asked whether he was embarrassed that he was even at the party, Mr Cameron said: ‘Clearly, after all that’s been written and said about it, yes of course one might do things differently.
Asked whether he was embarrassed that he was even at the party, Mr Cameron said: ‘Clearly, after all that’s been written and said about it, yes of course one might do things differently.’
Mr Cameron said he did not recall the exact details of his conversation with Mr Murdoch but that it concerned the recent controversy over Business Secretary Vince Cable’s comments that he had ‘declared war’ on News Corporation.
‘What I recall saying, although I can’t remember every detail of the conversation, is saying something like: clearly that was unacceptable, it was embarrassing for the Government, and to be clear from now on this whole issue would be dealt with impartially, properly, in the correct way, but obviously I had nothing to do with it, I recused myself from it,’ he said.
Mr Cameron admitted that he courted Murdoch newspapers in opposition, but said it was ‘no great mystery’ as he had tried to win over many media outlets.
‘The thing that people are asking is was there some big deal, some big agreement between me and Rupert Murdoch or James Murdoch that in return for support for the Conservative Party I would somehow help their business interests or allow this merger to go through,’ he said.
‘That is not true. Rupert Murdoch said it under oath at the Leveson Inquiry, James Murdoch said it under oath, I will say it under oath.
‘I did want the support of as many newspapers and television commentators for the Conservative Party because I wanted to take the country in a different direction.
‘When it comes to the Murdoch newspapers, I was trying to convince a set of newspapers with largely centre-right, conservative views anyway, that they would be better off with the Conservative Party running the country.
‘There is no great mystery here – that is what I was trying to do.’
Mr Cameron said it would be ‘wrong’ to sack Mr Hunt because his special adviser Adam Smith – who quit on Wednesday as the row grew – had been ‘too close’ to the Murdoch empire and ‘acted inappropriately’.