JKane

Just found a hilarious parody online!

Well, the article details how all the in-school adult role-models were effectively muzzled for fear of losing their jobs, which is pretty diabolical.

One extra benefit to consider is any mileage multiplier. My understanding, on American at least, is each tier ups the miles earned per miles flown. Though I may be mistaken. Still, if you can get that benefit at the start of a year you're flying a lot you can rack up a nice savings account of miles for the future, and keeping the status becomes easier...

This should do it, plus a couple software tweaks...

Good point, by sabotaging others we gain a better chance in the pool ourselves! Hey Expat, would you like me to optimize your computer for you? I can guarantee it'll be free from and immune to malware/viruses!

In April, Justin came home from school and found his mother at the top of the stairs, tending to the saltwater fish tank. "Mom," he said tentatively, "a kid told me at school today I'm gonna go to hell because I'm gay." "That's not true. God loves everybody," his mom replied. "That kid needs to go home and read his Bible." Justin shrugged and smiled, then retreated to his room. It had been a hard day: the annual "Day of Truth" had been held at school, an evangelical event then-sponsored by the anti-gay ministry Exodus International, whose mission is to usher gays back to wholeness and "victory in Christ" by converting them to heterosexuality. Day of Truth has been a font of controversy that has bounced in and out of the courts; its legality was affirmed last March, when a federal appeals court ruled that two Naperville, Illinois, high school students' Day of Truth T-shirts reading BE HAPPY, NOT GAY were protected by their First Amendment rights. (However, the event, now sponsored by Focus on the Family, has been renamed "Day of Dialogue.") Local churches had been touting the program, and students had obediently shown up at Anoka High School wearing day of truth T-shirts, preaching in the halls about the sin of homosexuality. Justin wanted to brush them off, but was troubled by their proselytizing. Secretly, he had begun to worry that maybe he was an abomination, like the Bible said. [...] "Justin?" Tammy Aaberg rapped on her son's locked bedroom door again. It was past noon, and not a peep from inside, unusual for Justin. "Justin?" She could hear her own voice rising as she pounded harder, suddenly overtaken by a wild terror she couldn't name. "Justin!" she yelled. Tammy grabbed a screwdriver and loosened the doorknob. She pushed open the door. He was wearing his Anoka High School sweatpants and an old soccer shirt. His feet were dangling off the ground. Justin was hanging from the frame of his futon, which he'd taken out from under his mattress and stood upright in the corner of his room. Screaming, Tammy ran to hold him and recoiled at his cold skin. His limp body was grotesquely bloated – her baby – eyes closed, head lolling to the right, a dried smear of saliva trailing from the corner of his mouth. His cheeks were strafed with scratch marks, as though in his final moments he'd tried to claw his noose loose. He'd cinched the woven belt so tight that the mortician would have a hard time masking the imprint it left in the flesh above Justin's collar. http://www.rollingstone.com/politics/news/one-towns-war-on-gay-teens-20120202#ixzz1lwMwSdan

Linked it in the Howard Stern thread but wanted to link again for those who won't read something about Stern (though a listen may change your mind!). No one at school had seen her suicide coming. No one saw the rest of them coming, either. Sam's death lit the fuse of a suicide epidemic that would take the lives of nine local students in under two years [...] Read more: http://www.rollingstone.com/politics/news/one-towns-war-on-gay-teens-20120202#ixzz1lwIID5nN

Hot damn! He's 18+?

Sorry, was doing my best all morning!

I believe this is the Rolling Stone article Howard Stern is talking about.

Holy shit, listening to this and loving Howard Stern!

http://www.towleroad.com/2012/02/romnglitt.html Meanwhile, Santorum is still getting glitter stuck in it.

Trying again...

God damn it, can't figure out how to imbed the direct Youtube clip. http://www.towleroad.com/2012/02/stern.html

(Also, sorry about the title, but I saw it in the Wikipedia link and figured it'd be most likely to draw viewers to this post!)

Found on a website almost as odd as the movie inspiring this thread!

Goggling the spelling of his name, came upon this... How'd that hunk get typecast as a Nazi/Vampire?

Udo Kier, haven't seen him in a while. Can't wait to see that!

Apparently Christopher Walken has also played the part! That would be interesting!

I've thought about picking this up, I love well thought out time travel stuff! Now I'm more tempted... But I have always avoided King because I'm not much into creepy/horror, I know his writing tends to be very uneven, and because I tend to be a completest--so avoiding prolific authors when I know some of their stuff sucks is a good idea!

Went to a screening recently, nothing makes you feel quite as under educated as going unawares into a movie set in modern times but *entirely* in Shakespearean dialect. Still, Coriolanus grew on me, and the portrayals of the public and the politicians who cynically pander to their worst instincts has quite a few parallels. And as always when exposed to Shakespeare, I eventually enjoy it and get the feeling that a little more effort and familiarity will bring it much further into grasp... then I usually set it down for 10+ years... All in all a pretty good movie for a work I don't even remember having heard of before. (Yep, American education!)

Wonder if there's a betting pool or something for the most nauseating thing to come out CPAC...? Eck, in finding that link I got an earful of Boehner. At least there wasn't also Santorum...

It's called Truth Wins Out, links to their press release/website. Hahahaha!

Unfortunately, especially as a CPAC action, smearing Santorum would've been the better play. Eeeewwww.

JC Penny seems to be doubling down. I love that it's not just a tepid "we don't want to fire our expensive spokesperson"! Now if only somebody would stand up for Planed Parenthood this strongly and tell people they are NOT a controversial organization!