Posts filed under ‘Sex’
Did MSNBC Just Get Punked?
Did MSNBC just get punked?
Take a look at the images on this man’s T-shirt:
Okaaay.
Buy Your Pink, Susan G. Komen Handgun Now
What is the Susan G. Komen Foundation thinking:
Discount Gun Sales is proud to team up with the Susan B. Koman Foundation to offer the Walther P-22 Hope Edition in recognition of Breast Cancer Awareness Month. A portion of each P-22 Hope Edition will be donated to the Seattle Branch of the Susan G. Komen Foundation.
The P-22 Hope Edition has an exclusive DuraCoat Pink slide in recognition of Breast Cancer Awareness month. Utilizing the same reliable controls and firing mechanism that has made the Walther P-22 America’s top selling handgun, the Hope Edition will be a limited production pistol offered exclusively through Discount Gun Sales.
What a strange organization. Their actions are so contradictory. On the one hand they’re trying to save women’s lives, on the other they’re selling guns.
Komen Reverses Planned Parenthood Funding Decision, Apologizes
UPDATED below.
The Komen Foundation has just released the following statement:
We want to apologize to the American public for recent decisions that cast doubt upon our commitment to our mission of saving women’s lives.
The events of this week have been deeply unsettling for our supporters, partners and friends and all of us at Susan G. Komen. We have been distressed at the presumption that the changes made to our funding criteria were done for political reasons or to specifically penalize Planned Parenthood. They were not.
Our original desire was to fulfill our fiduciary duty to our donors by not funding grant applications made by organizations under investigation. We will amend the criteria to make clear that disqualifying investigations must be criminal and conclusive in nature and not political. That is what is right and fair.
Our only goal for our granting process is to support women and families in the fight against breast cancer. Amending our criteria will ensure that politics has no place in our grant process. We will continue to fund existing grants, including those of Planned Parenthood, and preserve their eligibility to apply for future grants, while maintaining the ability of our affiliates to make funding decisions that meet the needs of their communities.
It is our hope and we believe it is time for everyone involved to pause, slow down and reflect on how grants can most effectively and directly be administered without controversies that hurt the cause of women. We urge everyone who has participated in this conversation across the country over the last few days to help us move past this issue. We do not want our mission marred or affected by politics – anyone’s politics.
Starting this afternoon, we will have calls with our network and key supporters to refocus our attention on our mission and get back to doing our work. We ask for the public’s understanding and patience as we gather our Komen affiliates from around the country to determine how to move forward in the best interests of the women and people we serve.
We extend our deepest thanks for the outpouring of support we have received from so many in the past few days and we sincerely hope that these changes will be welcomed by those who have expressed their concern.
Thank you Komen Foundation.
UPDATED @3:04 p.m. ET:
Greg Sargent adds this detail after speaking with a Komen Foundation board member:
I just got off the phone with a Komen board member, and he confirmed that the announcement does not mean that Planned Parenthood is guaranteed future grants — a demand he said would be “unfair” to impose on Komen.
New Logo for the Susan G. Komen Foundation
And here’s a heads up regarding a kickass post by a Kivi’s Nonprofit Communications Blog (Kivi is a PR consultant) about how the Komen Foundation essentially rebranded itself overnight on Tuesday. It went from what people thought of as an organization dedicated to women’s health, to what people now perceive as a right-wing political tool.
Support Christian Porn!
Hey kids, who knew there was a website dedicated to supporting “Christian porn:”
Welcome to the home of the Christian Porn movement. Our mission is to clean up that which is currently known as “pornographic” videos, movies, or films. All filmed sexual acts in the Christian Porn genre are genuine intentions to create life, performed by heterosexual married Christian couples. As acts of procreation they are not immoral, illicit, or dirty, but expressions of love between husband and wife, who are in love with each other exclusively. None of the acts are unnatural or adulterous. We feel the viewing of an expression of love shared by a married man and woman is one of the most beautiful and natural gifts bestowed to us by God. Praise God, brothers and sisters.
Sign up to receive “free Christian porn clips and trailers!”
Oh, and go to Cafepress for your very own T-shirt:
Michael Bloomberg Pledges $250,000 to Planned Parenthood
This is cool:
Mayor Michael R. Bloomberg, responding to the controversy over a breast cancer advocacy group that cut off most of its grants to Planned Parenthood for breast cancer screening, said on Thursday that he would make up a large part of the missing money.
Mr. Bloomberg, a billionaire with a long-term interest in public health, said he would give Planned Parenthood Federation of America a $250,000 matching gift — he will donate $1 for every new dollar Planned Parenthood raises up to $250,000.
“Politics have no place in health care,” he said in a statement. “Breast cancer screening saves lives and hundreds of thousands of women rely on Planned Parenthood for access to care. We should be helping women access that care, not placing barriers in their way.”
Bravo! I think that is what most of us thought the Komen Foundation’s philosophy was too, until yesterday.
If you want to donate to Planned Parenthood and take advantage of Bloomberg’s matching-funds pledge, go here.
Senators Call on Komen Foundation to Reverse Planned Parenthood Decision
I’m glad to see at least some Democrats making noise about the Komen Foundation’s hit job on Planned Parenthood. Maybe they learned something after having gone along with Republicans, like spineless sheep, in destroying ACORN.
Raising the stakes, the letter explicitly raises the possibility of “thousands” of women losing access to “potentially life-saving screenings because of a politically motivated attack.”
The pressure on the Susan G. Komen For The Cure Foundation to reverse its decision to cut funding to Planned Parenthood for breast cancer screenings for poor people — a decision which has caused an uproar among women’s groups and on social media — is about to get significantly more intense. Nearly two dozen Senators are set to enter the fray.
I’m told that some 22 Dem Senators have signed on to a very toughly worded letter urging Komen to reverse its decision, which Komen has justified by citing a new rule prohibiting it from funding any group under investigation by the government. (This has conferred legitimacy and signficance [sic] on the probe into Planned Parenthood that has been launched by anti-abortion GOP Rep. Cliff Stearns of Florida.)
More, including the letter, here.
Lingerie Bowl This Weekend!
Don’t forget, the Lingerie Bowl is this weekend!
(The background on this pic is here, which I wrote during my days at the NewsHounds.)
More on family values Fox News Porn here.
USA Wins Again — We’re #1 in the Developed World in Teen Pregnancies
The U.S. teen birth rate is the highest in the developed world with about 400,000 infants being born to mothers ages 15-19 every year, federal officials say.
Researchers at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention in Atlanta analyzed data from the 2004 to 2008 Pregnancy Risk Assessment Monitoring System — self-reported pre-pregnancy contraceptive use among white, black and Hispanic females ages 15-19 with unintended pregnancies resulting in live birth involving 27 states and approximately 75 percent of all live U.S. births.
Fifty percent of these teens were not using any method of birth control when they got pregnant, and of these 31.4 percent said they believed they could not get pregnant at the time.
Twenty-one percent said they used a highly effective contraceptive method, 24.2 percent used the moderately effective method of condoms and 5.1 percent used the least effective methods, such as rhythm and withdrawal.
About Those “Family Values”
I know it’s early but this would be our Tweet of the Day:
Seems to me one of two things are going on here. Either values don’t matter anymore or the pro-Gingrich crowd thinks Gingrich’s adultery (which he admitted to for God’s sake) was concocted by the “liberal media.” You know, that well honed victimhood.
Limbaugh Will Defend a Republican on Things He’d Massacre a Democrat For
Imagine for a second if President Obama’s or another prominent Democrat’s ex-wife came out and said the reason they divorced was because he wanted to have an “open marriage” and she couldn’t agree to that. Imagine the reaction from the right, especially ol’ Rush Limbaugh (who’s on his fourth marriage). They would chew on it in unison for months.
Now take a look at what Limbaugh said about Newt today:
I got a great note from a friend of mine. “So Newt wanted an open marriage. BFD. At least he asked his wife for permission instead of cheating on her. That’s a mark of character, in my book. Newt’s a victim. We all are. Ours is the horniest generation.” [...] That’s from a good friend of mine, “Newt’s slogan ought to, ‘Hell, yes, I wanted it.’” (laughing) I’m sharing with you how some people are reacting to this.
Amazing. And it’s astonishing his listeners don’t seem to notice his blatant hypocrisy and double standards. Lemmings.
Pedophiles Investigating Pedophiles
You know, sometimes you just want to take your head off, put it in a box and set it on a shelf in a dark and quiet closet:
Catholic Church’s Pedophile Investigator Jailed for Kiddie Porn
A Catholic Church child safety co-ordinator who was in charge of investigating sexual abuse allegations was jailed for 12 months today for internet peadophile offences.
Christopher Jarvis, 49, a married father-of-four, investigated historic claims of child abuse, interviewing the victims when they were adults.
Let’s See Near-Naked Men in 2012
Insofar as photos like this
are ubiquitous, come 2012, I want to see photos like this everywhere I look too:
All or none.
Enough of this:
Come on men. Show how big or small or toned (or not) you are.
Need Botox? Got Botox? Dye your hair? Need a Brazilian? Got one? On a diet? Excercise? No? Why not? Got fat? Why can’t you lose it? Eat too much? What’s your problem? No self-control? Let me see your nails. What! No pedicure? You’re letting yourself go. Lazy thing!
“Objective” NBC Reporter Arrested After Kissing Up to Jerry Sandusky’s Lawyer
Here’s the back story:
NBC News reporter Jay Gray was arrested last weekend for DUI after a party at the home of Joe Amandola, Jerry Sandusky‘s lawyer, according to TMZ.
Gray is a national reporter for NBC who appears frequently on its affiliated stations. He was one of a group of reporters invited to Amandola’s home for the December 11 Giants-Cowboys matchup, reportedly because the attorney is shopping a Sandusky interview around to the major networks.
Gray has been in State College since November 5 covering the Sandusky story. According to police records obtained by TMZ, Gray was arrested at 1:45 a.m. on December 12 by a Pennsylvania State Police officer.
This isn’t a story about a guy getting arrested for DUI. It’s a story about a “news” reporter, a supposed journalist, kissing up to get a scoop.
Here’s the Society of Professional Journalists’ Code of Ethics. The number one rule is: “Seek Truth and Report It.”
Beyond that, “news” reporters who pass themselves off as “journalists” are supposed to be neutral and objective. They shouldn’t have a personal relationship with anyone they cover (they should disclose it if they do) because that might taint or influence what they report. They should “avoid undercover or other surreptitious methods of gathering information.” They should “always question sources’ motives,” and they should “distinguish between advocacy and news reporting.”
So the crux of this story is what was an NBC “news” reporter doing hanging out with Joe Amandola, essentially kissing up to him so he might be the one Amandola “shops” a Sandusky interview to?
Gee. If Gray had in fact been the one to get that interview, do you think it would have been a fair and objective one? I don’t because Gary would undoubtedly have hoped for another (and another and another) interview and he wouldn’t have wanted to piss Amandola or Sandusky off because, after all, it’s all about him generating ratings for his network.
Ah yes. “New$” circa 2011 in the United States of America.
8-Year-Old Boy Tells Michele Bachmann His Mommy is Gay
Michele Bachmann has no freakin’ idea what to do with this:
Video of Michele Bachmann trying to get her photo op in with my 8 year old son. It’s hard to hear but he leans in and tells her that his mom is gay and she doesn’t need fixing. GO ELIJAH! Love that look of shock she gets.
We were there for an Occupy Myrtle Beach event to mic check Michele Bachmann on another issue. The lgbt issue came up separately.
(Via.)
Geez. Couldn’t Bachmann have said something like, “Thanks for coming Elijah?” I mean, come on.
CALM DOWN AMERICA!
Think back to when you were 12-years-old and imagine (or maybe you don’t have to imagine) that you kissed a boy or girl on the school playground. A teacher saw you, reported the incident to the assistant principal and the assistant principal called the Department of Children and Families and then she called the f**king sheriff’s department because she saw shades of a possible “sex crime!”
Two 12-year-olds faced a police investigation for a sex crime after being caught kissing at school.
[...]
The incident took place at Orange River Elementary School in Fort Myers, Florida.
According to local reports two girls who had a crush on a boy were talking about which of them liked him the most.
One of the girls approached the boy and briefly kissed him.
A teacher on duty noticed the kiss and reported it to the assistant principal Margaret Ann Haring.
She said it was a ‘possible sex crime’ and called social workers at the Florida Department of Children and Families [DCF].
They told her to report the matter to the Lee County Sheriff’s office who responded by sending deputies to the school.
Fortunately, the Sheriff’s Department didn’t take any action but there is “ongoing involvement with the DCF.”
For God’s sake America, calm the hell down!
Bradley Cooper is NOT the “Sexiest Man Alive”
It’s break time!
People magazine just blew it big time. They named Bradley Cooper the “Sexiest Man Alive.”
No way. The sexiest man alive — hands down — is Ryan Gosling:
Six-or-so months ago I spent a week on the couch with a cold and I saw Gosling in the girly flick, “The Notebook” and ugh, he was/is gorgeous:
The New York Times Lies for Herman Cain
Again, the next time you hear a winger complain about the “liberal media” being unfair to Republicans, remember this headline from the penultimate liberal news organization, the New York Times:
Woman Accuses Cain of Groping; He Denies Charge:
Memo to the New York Times:
What’s with this headline? Sharon Bialek didn’t use the word “groping.” She said Herman Cain put his hand on her thigh and moved it toward her GENITALS. Then he pushed her head down toward his CROTCH.
You call that “groping?”
Oh, wait. The article was written by two men: Jim Rutenberg and Michael D. Shear.
Really? REALLY?
Fox Downplays Blockbuster Development in Herman Cain Sex Scandal
Check out Fox News‘ home page as of 2:56 p.m. ET:
Notice the picture of Cain in the lower left-hand corner under the caption: “Celeb Lawyer: New Cain Accuser Goes Public.”
If Cain was a Democratic presidential candidate, you can bet your life this page would look a whole lot different. There would be a huge headline that included words like “genitals” and “crotch,” words used by Sharon Bialek today in her press conference. In other words, it would look more like this:
This is what Fox does. It just is. They’re sleazebags.
This Whole Sex Scandal Thing is Really Getting to Herman Cain
Naked man walks around terminal of Washington-area airport; taken to hospital for evaluation.
Just kidding!
Bob Beckel — Fox’s Badass “Liberal”
This is Bob Beckel, the guy who Fox tout as their badass “liberal:”
[B]ut can I just make one point about this principle, besides [inaudible]. Um, the idea that somehow kids can’t, ah, the whole idea of dressing up, yeah, it’s good. The whole idea of dressing up at Halloween; what’s wrong with that. I mean, I don’t, I don’t get it. First of all, if you go past any high school today they all look, they look like a bunch of hookers hanging outside, a lot of these girls, so maybe they have costumes [on?] all the time…
(Video here.)
Excuse me Bobby boy. The” girls” you ogle in front of high schools aren’t hookers, or as you imply, whores. You are.
Hey Girls, Being Pretty is All That Matters
Check out this new shirt (for girls ages 7 – 16) that J.C. Penny is peddling:
In other words, hey young girls, being pretty is all that matters.
Poor kids. I would hate to grow up in the environment young girls are growing up in today. Be thin. Be beautiful. Be sexy. Period. And what if you happen to be born with a body that isn’t any of those things?
Ohio Family Values GOPer Busted With a Stripper
Ah yes, another example of Republicans practicing their “family values:”
Most Americans will be familiar with Janet Porter’s “Heartbeat Bill,” an anti-Women’s Reproductive Rights law out of Ohio, which criminalizes abortion and which was backed by Newt Gingrich and Michele Bachmann, and passed the Ohio State House on June 28, 2011. The law prohibits abortion after only six weeks. Many women don’t even know they’re pregnant at this point, as Democrats pointed out.
[...]
One of the heartbeat bill’s staunch advocates is Ohio Rep. Robert Mecklenborg, a Catholic from Cincinnati who represents western Hamilton County. Mecklenborg loved the bill so much he was one of its nearly 50 co-sponsors. In fact, he led the fight to get it passed. He is all about family you see: he is a married father of three.
[...]
He gave an impassioned speech on behalf of the war on women last Tuesday. Two days later, as 10TV.com reports, his fellow legislators found out this moral paragon was facing “one count of operating a vehicle while intoxicated.” Of an arrest made two months before. But that’s not all.
You see, Rep. Mecklenborg was driving through Dearborn County, Indiana in the very early hours of the morning of April 23 in a car with temporary Kentucky plates when an Indiana state trooper pulled him over. The trooper observed that the car had a burned-out headlight, the reason for stopping this champion of Republican morality. In his report the officer said that he suspected Mecklenborg was intoxicated because he smelled alcohol and the representative had “glossy, bloodshot eyes.”
[...]
His passenger was a 26-year-old woman, Tiona Roberts, a local stripper who works nearby in Lawrenceburg, Indiana. And then there is the little matter of Viagra in his system. I’m sure it must improve night-vision, or some such. It couldn’t possibly have anything to do with the young woman sitting with the intoxicated 59-year-old paragon of morality in the wee hours of the morning, far away from his wife and children.
The thing Republicans are the best at is sheer, unmitigated hypocrisy.
Anthony Weiner’s Biggest “Sin” Was Taking Photgraphs
Hendrik Hertzberg over at The New Yorker has a good piece up about “Weinergate:”
The bad things Weiner did do—his sins, let’s call them for convenience, without embracing the churchy implications—were, once revealed, a hundred per cent visible. And a hundred per cent of them were visible. They were a hundred per cent documented. No he said/she said this time, no need for witnesses, no need for testimony. No need for “evidence”—because the evidence wasthe sin, and the sin the evidence.
Weiner’s sins consisted of nothing but his own documentation of them. The documentation was the sin, not the acts documented. Without the documentation, not only could no sin be proved, no sin could be committed. Is flexing one’s pecs in the mirror a sin? Is baring one’s penis when there is no one else in the room? Unlike, say, adultery, these become sins only when they are converted to pixels. I suppose flirtation may be considered a sin, especially when it consists of sharing (as distinct from enacting) an explicit sexual fantasy with a person not one’s spouse. But what if the person is hundreds or thousands of miles away, and what if the sharing isn’t even in real time? It’s a sin to lie, but is it a sin to tweet? Apparently.
[...]Imagine, though, that nothing had been left to the imagination in certain other cases. In one such case, there was a blue dress with a stain on it. But what if there had been a video, or even a snapshot, of the moment the dress received the stain? What if the picture itself had been the whole point? What if every detail of every sex scandal of the last quarter-century, every word and every scene, had been photographed and archived, available for global retrieval at the click of a mouse? How high would Weinergate rate on the shock-o-meter? Not very, is my guess.
Says it All
Watch this amazing video compilation from TalkingPointsMemo showing how all three cable “news” networks cut away from a presser being given by Nancy Pelosi immediately after she announced she was there to talk about jobs, and would not comment on Anthony Weiner:
I just heard MSNBC’s Andrea Mitchell say that Weiner had to resign because coverage of other news “just stopped” and Democrats couldn’t get any other messages out (about the deficit, Medicare, etc.).
Well Andrea, given that ya’ll cut away from Pelosi when she wanted to talk about jobs, you tell me who has control over that.
This is such clear proof that if it bleeds it leads and our 24/7 cable “news” organizations don’t deserve the privilege of being called that.
