Currently in Puerto Vallarta for hot hubby’s birthday.
There are lots of signs like the above all over 😉
Sign Of The Time: Mexico Edition
U.S. Supreme Court Refuses Appeal Of LGBT Lambda Legal Employment Discrimination Case
From Lambda Legal:
Today, the U.S. Supreme Court announced it will not review the Lambda Legal case on behalf of Jameka Evans, a Savannah security guard who was harassed at work and forced from her job because she is a lesbian.
“By declining to hear this case, the Supreme Court is delaying the inevitable and leaving a split in the circuits that will cause confusion across the country,” said Greg Nevins, Employment Fairness Project Director for Lambda Legal.
Several federal courts have affirmed the argument that Title VII of the Civil Rights Act, when properly understood, protects LGBT employees. Most notably, the full Seventh Circuit overruled four of its precedents and ruled in April that Lambda Legal client Kimberly Hively could proceed under the Civil Rights Act with her claim that Indiana-based Ivy Tech Community College discriminated against her because she is a lesbian.
In April of 2015, Evans filed a lawsuit in U.S. District Court for the Southern District of Georgia against her former employer, Georgia Regional Hospital, arguing that the hospital violated Title VII of the Civil Rights Act by discriminating against her because of her sexual orientation and her nonconformity with gender norms of appearance and demeanor.
The district court dismissed the case. In January of last year, Lambda Legal filed an appeal on Evans’ behalf, arguing that she must have her day in court, citing rulings by several federal district courts and the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) finding that sexual orientation discrimination is a form of sex discrimination and thereby a prohibited employment practice.
On March 10, 2017, a three-judge panel of the Eleventh Circuit held that it was compelled by a 1979 ruling to reject Evans’ sexual orientation discrimination claim.
Lambda Legal asked the whole court to rehear the case so that it could reexamine the 1979 precedent, but unlike the Seventh Circuit and Second Circuit, the full Eleventh Circuit Court of Appeals declined to rehear the case on July 6. Citing a clear conflict among the circuits, Lambda Legal filed a petition asking the U.S. Supreme Court to review the case. Today, the Supreme Court denied review.
Evans is part of Lambda Legal’s efforts to establish and enforce employment discrimination protection for all LGBT people and everyone living with HIV.
Chef Mario Batali Stepping Away From THE CHEW Amid Allegations Of Sexual Misconduct
Superstar chef Mario Batali has been asked to step away from his co-hosting duties at ABC’s The Chew amid allegations of sexual misconduct.
According to Eater, four women have come forward accusing Batali of groping and inappropriate behavior going back two decades.
From Variety:
In a statement, Batali told Eater that he apologized “to the people I have mistreated and hurt.” ABC said it was reviewing the allegations and had asked Batali to step down from “Chew.”
“We have asked Mario Batali to step away from ‘The Chew’ while we review the allegations that have just recently come to our attention,” an ABC spokeswoman said. “ABC takes matters like this very seriously as we are committed to a safe work environment. While we are unaware of any type of inappropriate behavior involving him and anyone affiliated with the show, we will swiftly address any alleged violations of our standards of conduct.”
Batali has been one of four co-anchors of ABC’s daytime cooking and lifestyle series “The Chew” since its inception in 2011.
Old Guy Heads Out On The Town In Puerto Vallarta
Your friendly, neighborhood blogger in a rare selfie from Puerto Vallarta.
Happy Sunday, everyone! Thanks for sticking with me 🙂
Alabama’s Sen. Shelby: “I Couldn’t Vote For Roy Moore”
Well, this will be awkward.
Sen. Richard Shelby told CNN’s Jake Tapper today, “I couldn’t vote for Roy Moore.”
“I’d rather see a Republican win, but I hope that Republican will be a write-in,” Shelby said this morning on CNN’s State of the Union. “I think a lot of people could do that. Will they do that? I’m not sure.” “I couldn’t vote for Roy Moore,” he said. “The state of Alabama deserves better.”
According to Shelby, he voted for an unnamed “distinguished Republican candidate.”
Watch Shelby below.
GOP AL Sen. Richard Shelby: “I couldn’t vote for Roy Moore, I didn’t vote for Roy Moore… so many accusations, so many cuts, so many drip, drip, drip. When it got to the 14-year old story, that was enough for me. I said, ‘I can’t vote for Roy Moore’.” https://t.co/WirsPtfziV— Kyle Griffin (@kylegriffin1) December 10, 2017
Out Music: Eli Lieb “Next To You”
Randy Report favorite Eli Lieb drops his latest single, “Next To You.”
Creative use of video projections here as the woofy object of Eli’s affections doesn’t even see the handsome singer.
As always, top-shelf production and a strong hook make this another winner from Eli.
I’ve shared Eli’s music often on The Randy Report – check out more of his music here.
Watch below.
Sexy Elf Sets The Bar For Holiday Hunks
Check out Italy’s Domenico Vaccaro, hunky elf supreme.
Domenico’s acrobatic pole dance to Mimi singing “All I Want For Christmas” will give you all kinds of holiday feels.
Just hit play below and get merry merry.
“Traveling Butts” Couple Released From Jail In Thailand
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The two Instagram idiots known as Traveling Butts have been released from a Thailand jail after pressure from friends and family
The two were arrested at the Bangkok Airport after posing for and posting the above pic baring their butts in a temple while visiting the country.
Disrespectful idiots.
The duo immediately resurrected their Instagram account including the pic that caused the uproar.
Joseph Dasilva, 38, and Travis Dasilva, 36, faced up to 7 years in jail for for breaching Thailand’s strict Computer Crimes Act.
Christmas Music: The Carpenters “Merry Christmas, Darling”
Richard Carpenter composed the music for this song when he was a mere 19 years old.
He and his sister Karen were singing in the choir at California State University Long Beach, and they had grown tired of the same holiday songs, year in year out.
Richard asked his choir director is there were something else to sing, and his director – Frank Pooler, recalled a lyric to an unfinished song he’d begun 20 years earlier for a girlfriend.
Remembering the lyrics, he gave them to Richard to work on for a new Christmas song.
The legend goes that it took Richard Carpenter only 15 minutes to come up with the melody that would become a holiday classic.
First released as a single on November 20,1970, the song was the inspiration for a Christmas album by The Carpenters, and on October 13, 1978, “Christmas Portrait” was released with a newly recorded version of the song. The song was also presented on their TV Christmas special in 1978 and became a hit all over again.
NY Times: Trump Watches Up To 8 Hours Of TV News Daily
The New York Times has a fascinating piece up chronicling Donald Trump’s daily television viewing habits.
You know – the television he says he has no time to watch.
Around 5:30 each morning, President Trump wakes and tunes into the television in the White House’s master bedroom. He flips to CNN for news, moves to “Fox & Friends” for comfort and messaging ideas, and sometimes watches MSNBC’s “Morning Joe” because, friends suspect, it fires him up for the day.
Energized, infuriated — often a gumbo of both — Mr. Trump grabs his iPhone. Sometimes he tweets while propped on his pillow, according to aides. Other times he tweets from the den next door, watching another television. Less frequently, he makes his way up the hall to the ornate Treaty Room, sometimes dressed for the day, sometimes still in night clothes, where he begins his official and unofficial calls.
As he ends his first year in office, Mr. Trump is redefining what it means to be president. He sees the highest office in the land much as he did the night of his stunning victory over Hillary Clinton — as a prize he must fight to protect every waking moment, and Twitter is his Excalibur. Despite all his bluster, he views himself less as a titan dominating the world stage than a maligned outsider engaged in a struggle to be taken seriously, according to interviews with 60 advisers, associates, friends and members of Congress.
Before taking office, Mr. Trump told top aides to think of each presidential day as an episode in a television show in which he vanquishes rivals. People close to him estimate that Mr. Trump spends at least four hours a day, and sometimes as much as twice that, in front of a television, sometimes with the volume muted, marinating in the no-holds-barred wars of cable news and eager to fire back.
Check this tweet from July, and remember Trump said he’d have “no time” for golf if he was elected president… #liar
The W.H. is functioning perfectly, focused on HealthCare, Tax Cuts/Reform & many other things. I have very little time for watching T.V.— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) July 12, 2017