LGBTQ news and entertainment
The Backstreet Boys were back on Good Morning America today for their first TV appearance all together since 2006! While they’ve been touring for a while, they’ve done it without Kevin Richardson who decided to retire a few years back. But now they’re back together and sounding great.
Famous for always wearing shades, AJ McLean stayed true to his style being the only “boy” to wear cool John Varatos sunglasses for the performances. I’m a Backstreet fan and a Varatos fan!
The story is going around that Condoleezza Rice, former Secretary of State, was passed over as a running mate to Mitt Romney due to her support for abortion rights and civil unions.
According to Towleroad:
“Condi was fully vetted to become Mitt Romney’s running mate and turned over financial records, including tax returns,” a source told the site. “However, Mitt’s advisers talked him out of it because Condi is pro-choice and she isn’t willing to change her position on the controversial issue. Condi also supports same sex civil unions which again, put her at odds with Romney. Mitt had a hard time getting the ultra conservative support of the GOP and was told if he picked Condi that would immediately be lost and so he ultimately picked Congressman Paul Ryan to be his running mate.”
I think it speaks volumes that Condi Rice appears to be TOO middle of the road politically to be on the ticket. Even with her experience and credentials as former Secretary of State.
Rumor has it she may make a run for Governor in California soon.
Nine years after he won the U.S. Open, Andy Roddick announced Thursday that he’ll retire after this year’s tournament.
“I just feel like it’s time. I don’t know if I’m healthy or committed enough to go another year,” he told reporters.
Roddick plays Bernard Tomic tomorrow night. Winning 32 career titles, his only major title was earned at the U.S. Open.
The Obama campaign has sued the state of Ohio in federal court – to restore the three day early voting period that Republicans in the state legislature eliminated – and won.
A federal judge in Ohio on Friday restored early voting rights in the three days before the election, ruling in favor of the Obama campaign.
U.S. District judge Peter C. Economus ruled that “restoring in-person early voting to all Ohio voters through the Monday before Election Day does not deprive UOCAVA (Uniformed and Overseas Citizens Absentee Voting Act) voters from early voting.”
“Instead, and more importantly, it places all Ohio voters on equal standing,” Economus ruled. He said the state “fails to articulate a precise, compelling interest in establishing the 6 p.m. Friday deadline as applied to non-UOCAVA voters and has failed to evidence any commitment to the ‘exception’ it rhetorically extended to UOCAVA voters.”
Mitt Romney earlier had falsely tried to rewrite the issue: “President Obama’s lawsuit claiming it is unconstitutional for Ohio to allow servicemen and women extended early voting privileges during the state’s early voting period is an outrage,” Romney said in a statement.
Actually, the Obama campaign’s lawsuit, filed by the campaign in mid-July, explicitly asks a federal court to restore in-person early voting rights to ALL eligible Ohio voters on the three days preceding Election Day.
“This lawsuit seeks to treat all Ohio citizens equally under the law,” Obama for America attorney Bob Bauer said in a statement. “We want to restore the right of all to vote before Election Day.”
Under the Obama administration, the Justice Department has filed 10 lawsuits and reached nine settlements with various states to protect military voters under the Uniformed and Overseas Citizens Absentee Voting Act (UOCAVA).
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From Australian mining tycoon Gina Rinehart, who inherited $30 billion from her daddy.
“There is no monopoly on becoming a millionaire. If you’re jealous of those with more money, don’t just sit there and complain. Do something to make more money yourself — spend less time drinking or smoking and socialising, and more time working. Become one of those people who work hard, invest and build, and at the same time create employment and opportunities for others.”
Rinehart says Australia needs to do away with the minimum wage “unless we want to end up like Greece.”
Via JoeMyGod
