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Two groups that push so-called "reparative therapy" for gay people in the United States and abroad have teamed up to make a documentary explaining their junk science in an attempt to counter efforts to ban the practice for minors. Family Watch International - a group affiliated with the World Congress of Families that supports the criminalization of homosexuality abroad and retains Uganda anti-gay crusader ...
According to Counterpoint's Monthly Market Pulse report for October 2013, Apple's iPhone 5s continued to be the bestselling phone globally during October. Apple's iPhone 5s sales saw an upward sales momentum as Apple continued expansive roll-out for its flagship model thus further widening the gap with its arch rival's flagship model Samsung's Galaxy S4. Apple's iPhone 5s topped the best-seller's list despite the component ...
Whatever the likelihood of Amazon delivering by drone anytime soon, the concept certainly captures the imagination. This is what the future is supposed to look like, right? A century of science fiction can't be wrong. Tapping into the current frenzy stoked by Amazon's Prime Air experiment, DHL released video footage this week of its own delivery drone in action. The German shipper one-upped Jeff ...
Even those who may not be persuaded that our surveillance technologies have dangerously outpaced democratic controls should agree that in democracies, surveillance of the public must be debated by the public. No official may decide the limit of our rights in secret. This choice nugget of farcical altruism is the money shot of Snowden's statement on being added to the list of Foreign Policy's ...
The Hawaiian health official who verified the authenticity of President Obama's birth certificate died in a small plane crash. The plane, carrying a pilot and eight passengers, went down Wednesday in the water off the Hawaiian island of Molokai, the Maui Fire Department said. The Honolulu Star-Advertiser was among the first outlets to report that the lone fatality was Loretta Fuddy. Tom Matsuda, the ...
By Sibel Edmonds More: BFP Breaking News- Omidyar's PayPal Corporation Said to Be Implicated in Withheld NSA Documents The U.S. Government, An Implicated Billionaire, Fortune-Seeking Journalists & A Public in the Dark The 50,000-pages of documents obtained by NSA whistleblower Edward Snowden contain extensive documentation of PayPal Corporation's partnership and cooperation with the National Security Agency (NSA), according to three NSA veterans. To date, ...
Russia's largest government-owned news agency has warned defiantly of "a tightening of state control" over the country's media after Vladimir Putin announced plans to close it down and replace it with a new organisation headed by a controversial anti-Western television talk show host. In a surprise decree published on the Kremlin's website on Monday, Mr Putin "liquidated" the RIA Novosti news agency and created ...
He was in his late teens and still some years away from entering the Jesuit Order. She was in her mid-30s, a revolutionary and a feminist far ahead of her time. They met around 1953 or 1954 in the most unlikely of places - a laboratory where she worked as a pharmaceutical biochemist and he as an apprentice chemical technician. The two could not ...
The Michigan Republican legislature is forcing women to buy separate insurance for abortion, believing that it shouldn't be covered under regular medical insurance. And once you become pregnant, even that won't be available for purchase under any circumstances. For that reason, it's being referred to as "rape insurance." More: 'Rape Insurance' for Women in Michigan, Thanks to GOP Legislature
There are already 2 Bryan Fischer pages going, may as well make it a trifecta. YouTube On his radio broadcast yesterday, Bryan Fischer spent two segments laying out his argument that, when the founders of this nation used the word "religion," what they really meant was "Christianity." As such, authorities in Oklahoma have every right to reject an effort by Satanists to erect a ...
MUSKEGON, MI - The president of the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops calls "misguided" and unfounded an ACLU-backed federal lawsuit stemming from a woman's alleged experience at Muskegon's Mercy General Health Partners before she miscarried in 2010. The ACLU lawsuit against the U.S. bishops' conference, filed on behalf of Tamesha Means of Muskegon, claims the conference's religious-based policy banning abortions prevented her from getting ...
Federal authorities are seeking to expand their jail misconduct investigation by convincing sheriff's deputies to provide evidence against colleagues and higher-level officials in the Los Angeles County Sheriff's Department, according to interviews. Some sheriff's officials are already cooperating with federal investigators, including at least one who agreed to become a confidential informant earlier in the inquiry. Legal experts who reviewed the indictments unsealed this ...
Esther Inglis-Aakell over at over at Io9 takes a look at some of the strangest bible passages and their meaning. The Bible has been called an historical document, a guidebook for moral living, and a work of fiction. No matter how you view it, there is no question that certain parts are confusing. We'll take a look at the possible meanings of the nine ...
More: Religion in America's States and Counties, in 6 Maps It goes without saying that religion is big in America. It played a starring role in the founding of the nation and continues to be the source of policy fights. Just this week, a group of Satanists launched a donation drive to erect a monument on Oklahoma's Capitol grounds, in what some see as ...
Previous posts:Family-Friendly RPGs - Teach Your Kids RoleplayingUPDATE/SIGNAL BOOST: Family-Friendly RPGs Bundle of HoldingUPDATE #2: Family-Friendly RPGs Bundle of Holding Allen Varney, leader of this effort, says: Owing to the huge surge in sales yesterday after Wil Wheaton's plug -- US$10,000+ in 18 hours! -- I'm extending the Family-Friendly RPGs run by a little over one day, until 1PM Eastern US time (GMT -4) ...
Russia's top court ordered a review of the two-year prison sentence of two members of the all-female punk band Pussy Riot convicted of hooliganism for a protest against President Vladimir Putin. Nadezhda Tolokonnikova and Maria Alekhina have young children, entitling them to defer their sentences, which lower courts didn't take into account, according to a ruling posted late yesterday on the Supreme Court's website. ...
Retired NFL quarterback Brett Favre helped coach Oak Grove High School to the Mississippi Class 6A state fotoabll championship Friday night. The former Super Bowl winner and three-time NFL Most Valuable Player is the offensive coordinator at Oak Grove, which won its first state title with a 14-7 win over Tupelo. More: Brett Favre's High School Team Wins State Championship In a hilarious coincidence, ...
There are indeed things we don't talk about and it's long past time we do talk about it, share it and stop feeling it's our fault. Mental, emotional and financial abuse is widespread. It may not leave bruises, but the injuries run deep. Women from all walks of life can be subject to it. It happens to people of all races, all faiths, all ...
Posting this as a San Diegan and why I haven't bought that fish rag called the Union Tribune in years. I've literally turned down free copies of it, its that worthless a paper: Recently Papa Doug has taken time out from cheerleading for a new football stadium that will cost the local taxpayers upwards of around $300 to 500 million (the same taxpayers who ...
Weedley-Weedley-Wee -- Specifically, the small fret guitar-playing technique that musicians have a tendency to display while in pursuit of a cross between a waitress and a hoover vacuum... This, of course, from his book.
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