International Firefighters Day
Somehow, I missed the fact that Friday, May 4th, was International Firefighters Day!
How that happened I can’t begin to imagine, but I want to make sure I urge you all to thank a firemen for what they do. They keep our communities safe and risk their lives doing it.
Happy belated International Firefighters Day!
Plus, who doesn’t like looking at firemen?
Borowitz Report: Romney pays surprise visit to his money in Cayman Islands
Andy Borowitz just kills me….
“In an uncharacteristically emotional scene for the presumptive GOP nominee, Mitt Romney today paid a surprise visit to his money in the Cayman Islands.
Speaking in a bank vault surrounded by stacks of cash, Mr. Romney praised his money for “the brave work you have done in the never-ending fight for freedom from Federal income tax.”
“Thanks to your hard work, losers around the world are envious of me,” he added. ”For that I salute you.”
Stressing that his money’s mission in the Caymans was “far from over,” he refused to set any timetable for withdrawal.
In a reference to his bid for the Presidency, Mr. Romney told his money, “It would be an honor and a privilege to have my face on you someday.”
After plunging into the stacks of cash to touch many of the dollar bills individually, Mr. Romney boarded his private jet to pay a surprise visit to Switzerland.
In other political news, Newt Gingrich suspended his presidential bid today, telling reporters: “A campaign is like a wife. When it’s on life-support, it’s time to leave.”
THE AVENGERS movie grosses over $200 million in three days
THE AVENGERS movie grossed an unprecendented $200.3 million in its Friday-Sunday box-office debut, its studio estimated.
The film is the first to break $200 million in three days. It smashed the mark held by the previous weekend record-holder, “Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows: Part 2.”
I loved the film. It was exactly what it needed to be. The action sequences were fantastic and the use of humor between the characters made the movie that much better.
I may go back again but at an IMAX theater.
Go see it if you haven’t already.
Billboard on Sunset Blvd: No kisses for Hershey
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The billboard is part of a boycott of Hershey candy to protest the refusal of a boarding school with ties to the company to admit a teenager because he is HIV-positive.
The AIDS Law Project of Pennsylvania sued the school in U.S. District Court in Philadelphia last year, contending that the school violated the Americans with Disabilities Act in denying admission to the boy, whose name has not been made public.
Lawyers for the group say the boy is an honor roll student who controls the HIV with medication and poses no health threat to the other students. A person can have the virus that causes AIDS but not have the disease.
Ronda Goldfein, attorney for the AIDS Law Project, said she is not involved with the boycott effort but the protests have been a morale booster for the boy and his mother.
“For a 14-year-old to hear that he’s danger, he’s a threat, that has really been hard for him,” Goldfein said.
Turtle sex with a shoe
Who knew turtles even had “voices”?
Vice Pres Joe Biden: “comfortable” with marriage equality
Vice President Joe Biden became the highest-ranking official in the Obama administration to signal support for same-sex marriage on Sunday during an interview with “Meet The Press.”
Biden stopped just a touch short from outright saying that he backs marriage equality. But the implication was beyond clear that he has completed the so-called evolution on gay marriage that President Obama has yet to finish.
“And you’re comfortable with same-sex marriage now?” “Meet the Press” host David Gregory asked.
“I am vice president of the United States of America,” Biden replied. “The president sets the policy. I am absolutely comfortable with the fact that men marrying men, women marrying women, and heterosexual men and women marrying another are entitled to the same exact rights, all the civil rights, all the civil liberties. And quite frankly, I don’t see much of a distinction– beyond that.”
A spokesperson for the vice president emailed over further clarification on the “Meet the Press” remarks, stating in part that Biden had not fully endorsed same-sex marriage.
“The vice president was saying what the president has said previously – that committed and loving same-sex couples deserve the same rights and protections enjoyed by all Americans, and that we oppose any effort to rollback those rights. That’s why we stopped defending the constitutionality of section 3 of the Defense of Marriage Act in legal challenges and support legislation to repeal it. Beyond that, the Vice President was expressing that he too is evolving on the issue, after meeting so many committed couples and families in this country.”
LGBT Advocacy groups responded:
“I’ve known Vice President Biden since interning for him in the Senate in 1976. The personal and thoughtful way he has spoken about his coming to support the freedom to marry reflects the same journey that a majority of Americans have now made as they’ve gotten to know gay families, opened their hearts and changed their minds. President Obama should join the Vice President, former Presidents Clinton and Carter, former Vice Presidents Gore and Cheney, Laura Bush, and so many others in forthright support for the freedom to marry.” – Evan Wolfson, president of Freedom To Marry.
“We are encouraged by Vice President Biden’s comments, who rightly articulated that loving and committed gay and lesbian couples should be treated equally. Now is the time for President Obama to speak out for full marriage equality for same-sex couples.” – Human Rights Campaign
Libertarian Party chooses former NM Gov. Gary Johnson as presidential candidate
The Libertarian Party on Saturday chose former New Mexico Governor Gary Johnson, who was once a Republican White House hopeful, as its presidential candidate in the November 6 election.
Johnson, who announced in December he would run for president as a Libertarian after mounting a long-shot candidacy for the Republican nomination, won 70 percent of the votes cast by 632 delegates at the party’s convention in Las Vegas, Libertarian Party spokesman Stephen Gordon said.
Johnson, who became the front-runner after winning straw polls at 12 previous state debates, beat Air Force veteran R. Lee Wrights, after the field narrowed to two candidates from six at the start of the convention on Thursday.
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EVITA – Requiem for Evita/Oh, What a Circus
I was really in the mood to hear this today…
Patti Lupone and Mandy Patinkin from the original Broadway cast recording of EVITA
Don’t miss the super moon tonight
The super moon makes it’s once a year appearance tonight at 11:34pm EST, at which point it will be at it’s closest to the earth as it gets.
Because of that closer proximity, the moon will appear 14% bigger tonight and 30% brighter.
Grab your camera and check it out.