Cute one minute video: vacuuming Corbin the Corgi.
My dogs run for the hills when they hear a vacuum cleaner.
(via AmericaBlog)
Vanessa Williams & Charles Mesure – last table read of “Desperate Housewives”
Felicity Huffman just tweeted this pic of Charles Mesure and Vanessa Williams at the table read of the final episode of “Desperate Housewives.”
It’s been a good season this year. I’ve enjoyed the show muchly – especially the first few years and the last two with Vanessa.
Looking forward to seeing how they tie it all up.
Gallup daily tracking poll: Mitt Romney leads President Obama 47%-45%
Gallup has begun it’s presidential general election daily tracking poll for 2012.
At this point, at the start of the general election (now that Santorum has suspended his campaign Mitt Romney is the sure-to-be GOP candidate) Mitt Romney leads President Obama 47%-45%. Both candidates show 90% support from their respective parties.
From Gallup: “History shows that the candidates’ positioning in the spring of an election year is not necessarily good at forecasting the election outcomes. For example, in an April 20-22, 1992, Gallup poll, incumbent President George H.W. Bush was ahead with 41% of the vote, compared with 26% for Bill Clinton and 25% for Ross Perot. And in an April 11-14, 1980, poll, incumbent President Jimmy Carter led Ronald Reagan by 42% to 34%, with John Anderson receiving 18% support. Both Bush and Carter, of course, ultimately lost their re-election bids.”
UPDATE: President Barack Obama holds a nine-point lead over Romney in a new CNN/ORC International poll, thanks in part to the perception that the president is more likeable and more in touch with the problems facing women and middle class Americans.
According to the poll, 52% of registered voters say if the presidential election were held today, they would vote for the president, with 43% saying they would cast a ballot for Romney, the former Massachusetts governor who is making his second bid for the White House.
George Zimmerman’s lawyer requests new judge
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George Zimmerman’s attorney, Mark O’Mara, filed papers Monday to request a new judge in Trayvon Martin case.
The current judge assigned to the case, Jessica Reckseidler, revealed she may have a conflict of interest. Her husband is a partner at the firm of well-known local lawyer Mark NeJame.
NeJame has been hired by CNN to provide analysis on the case.
Zimmerman, meanwhile, is expected to be back in court on Friday to learn if he’ll be allowed out on bond before his trial.
(source)
Marriage News Watch: April 16, 2012
Bernadette Peters & Lea Michele in upcoming “Dorothy In Oz”
Check out this interview video with Lea Michele, Megan Hilty and Bernadette Peters talking about their character work for the DOROTHY OF OZ animated film.
(source)
Fox News calls out Mitt Romney for “accounting trick” regarding women’s unemployment statement
Fox News host Chris Wallace on Sunday called out presumptive Republican presidential nominee Mitt Romney for using an “accounting trick” to assert that women had lost 92.3 percent of the jobs during President Barack Obama’s first term.
“The number of jobs — this is an amazing statistic — the percentage of jobs lost by women in the president’s three years — three and a half years — 92.3 percent of all the jobs lost during the Obama years have been lost by women!” Romney had said while surrounded by a group of women in Hartford, Connecticut last week.
“You know, 858,000 women have lost their jobs since President Obama took office,” Mitt Romney’s Senior Advisor Gillespie declared. “Ninety-two percent of the job losses in this recession or this recovery — slow stifled recovery — have fallen on women.”
“Wait,” Wallace interrupted. “You know that it is true that more women have lost jobs and it’s true that more women are without jobs now, but it is not true that 90 percent — they did under Obama, but many, many more men — because they are in the job sectors that people lose jobs first — lost jobs under President Bush.”
“So, it’s a little bit of an accounting trick,” Wallace added. “And all of the independent fact finders have said it’s misleading.”
Ben Cohen in the new issue of Metrosource
Metrosource has a new interview and photo shoot with straight LGBT ally Ben Cohen.
As many of you may know, Ben Cohen is a world-class, top ranked rugby player who left his career in rugby to create the StandUp Foundation, an organization created to combat homophobia and bullying among schoolkids. I can him a hero.
Here’s just an excerpt from the interview:
Ultimately, Cohen doesn’t have a definite explanation for what initially drew his gay fans to him over other sports stars, but he’s immensely grateful that they were. “If it wasn’t for the gay community finding me attractive in the first place,” says Cohen, “I wouldn’t have the opportunity to do this.”
Cohen was in the midst of a Q&A session with a gay-positive student group called True Colors. “The interesting thing about True Colors — it was 14 women and one gay chap,” Cohen says. The kids let him know that their group was not well respected by their fellow students. Cohen asked them, “Who would give credibility to your organization?” The kids named two of the school’s star athletes, and Cohen decided to meet with them.
So Cohen decided to meet with these particular athletes — along with a group of their fellow teammates. “I’m not here to point fingers,” he explained to them, “but as a sportsman, you need to know how to be a role model whether you like it or you lump it.”
By the time Cohen finished with them, the school’s sports teams had agreed to wear not only the StandUp Foundation’s patches on their jerseys but also patches supporting the True Colors group. He hopes the patches will help them continue the conversation. “We are leaving that little bit of legacy behind,” he says.
Read the rest of the interview at Metrosource.
You can support Cohen at standupfoundation.com
The Candi & Randy Show: “Educate Me” – Current Events
It’s that time again, kids: we’re into the general election cycle.
Candi and I will talk about politics and current events: Santorum’s out, Romney says it’s on, Newt is still in it to win it, George Zimmerman was charged and North Carolina is wrestling with Amendment One to ban marriage equality… Fun show!
And you know there will be a whole lot more as well – Isn’t there always?
We love callers – opinions and intelligence make us happy – tonight at 11pmEST/8pmPST
Call in at 818/495-6931 or hit the link: http://tobtr.com/s/3134741
Willy Wonka: Stay at home moms
