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Hahahaha! I've got to pass that one around!

Damn copyright claims, second video I've clicked on to do with the Grammys that's gone. Cool that Book of Mormon won too!

I was kinda wondering how Romney could win with the arch-conservative Christians right in the middle of a surge in Santorum--which seems to be continuing it's slow, viscous spread across several states, I think I just heard in a poll. Oh god, Santorum covering polls, hurugfh, just threw up a little! (And KyleRaw probable got aroused!)

Goodman's been amazing in a crapload of things these last couple years! First really noticed him in a great guest spot on West Wing, but his part in the 1st season of Treme was amazing. He was also great in Red State, easily the best thing about that movie. I don't really have any need to hear from Roseanne Barr again though...

Ok, if Stephen Fry hosted I'm gonna see if I can track it down somewhere and watch!

Yeah, looks like you were right about Adele cleaning up! Mumford didn't get a single nod...

Jon Stewart had brought this up weeks ago, but seeing this brought it back: And not just for me, it would appear. My opinion is have one now and have another if we ever pull out of Afghanistan. But I don't live in NY, so I'm interested in how people with ties to the city feel. Which does make me wonder about one in LA, but we're really not much of a parade city... I can't imagine an LA-wide parade, just community based ones like Pride or Rose.

Yes, it's 'shopped, but it is the perfect campaign photo for ( R )-Money...

So I made a shameful admission in another thread, and that got me to wondering. Since so many LGBT movies are god-awful (yet many watch them religiously anyway...), what are the very best? I'm guessing Brokeback is fairly high on the list? I've also heard good things about A Single Man, I think... but the first time I tried to see it I bought A Serious Man instead... @#$%! That I've actually seen, and especially in the realm of big budget and mainstream appeal, I'd suggest V for Vendetta has an incredibly touching story tucked inside it, though it may be more powerful in the original comic. Of course Philadelphia; And the Band Played On (seen those two too!). But do all great gay movies have to be fucking depressing? I never did get the appeal of To Wong Fu; also saw one or two things like Jeffrey, utterly forgettable at best. I guess Birdcage was amusing, but I wouldn't put it anywhere near great... So, what say you??

I'm pretty far behind on my LGBT movie watching. Still haven't watched Brokeback Mountain! But I found this list of 2011 movies and thought some here may be interested...

But this animated .gif changes that!

Looked up the movie: Sparkle. Will be interesting to see how they handle it with her death.

She was *just* in a movie, still in post-production I believe.

+1 if it was without warning.

Finally watched, that was great. Sheesh, this week JC Penny, Howard Stern, and a republican state rep have all spoken eloquently on our behalf. I guess it really does get better!

I didn't bother keeping up with the thread initially and kinda appreciated it all being kept in one place, but looking at it now and imagining where the breaks were in the first big post, it doesn't seem especially egregious. Each post had words and a cute, related pic--clearly some effort was put in and several people were replying and entertained. Just my $0.02*. *actual value may vary

Damn, almost certainly only one more month of the circus then!

Wow, that's kinda surprising. Damn, if Mormon elite Romney can convince the CPAC whack-jobs then I'd guess the primaries will be winding down soon. Damn it.

Yep! But notice the hypocrisy--even given 20% off the top they know it'd be *very* hard to compete with medicare. Even though they'd be able to turn people down (but *not* dump them and not invalidate the coverage if they dig up something way after the fact...). But of *course* they all prefer the current system with 10-20% of the money going right into their profits and all they have to do to increase that is screw a couple thousand more people out of coverage... Every time one of these asshat politicians has something to say about medicare, I wish somebody in the audience would stand up ask if it's so bad, why is it good enough for your parents/grandparents? Mitt's probably the only one so rich none of his family is in it!

Yep, I think feeling like I was the only person in town (when I lived in the rural south as a kid) that had a problem with the everyday casual racism... I'm not sure if that's what she meant by that, but it certainly liberalized me! Watched The Help with family over x-mas, not old or wealthy enough to be of that period, but it really resonated. And looking at my mom like, what the hell are you crying for--that was you less than 20 years ago!

Just wanted to bump this once more as it's one of the more powerful things I've read. I was hearing something about skyrocketing suicide rates in Russia just yesterday and wondering if it was at all related, as they're also repressing any acknowledgement of LGBT over there, last I heard...

Wait, you sure you're a male?

Here's what I don't get... *Everybody* hates the mandate. Can somebody please tell me what the fuck the objections are to *this* modest proposal...? Everybody is eligible for Medicare. There's a scale where the very poorest can get it free/steeply discounted--just like Medicaid now, from there to a reasonable percentage above the poverty line can get it for cost, and everybody above that can get it for cost plus 20%. That 20% pays for any expansion of the medicaid total, but provides much more, back-filing the deficits caused by the baby boomer generation, making the entire system solvent, even providing room to make improvements. The 20% also gives private companies room to compete. The crux of this whole damn argument is that private enterprise can do it better--despite plenty of evidence to the contrary, so here they go! If they can honestly provide better value to people for less than the medicare mark--or better faster service for more, godspeed! But you do need apples to apples regulation to make sure they're not promising more than they're actually providing. What *the fuck* is wrong with this plan?

You will pay for it one way or another, it's just this horrible Republican tendency to focus only on short term gain for the very few while entirely ignoring the clear long-term good for everybody--themselves included--which somehow fools people. Until their precious daughter dies needlessly in a car accident on the 10 because all the advanced trauma centers on that side of town went under! But that's the dirty filthy immigrants fault! Because a nationality and means test should come before triage and stabilization! Remember that on your next vacation! And when they get called on that, it's time to break out the Fear, Uncertainty and Doubt. Medicare Fraud! Boooga booga boooga! 5% of Medicare funds go to administration and fraud. Over 20% of private insurance funds go to administration, profit, advertising, etc.

Except that often prices aren't directly reimbursed by the government, they are passed on to paying customers of the hospital via bs like $7 Tylenols. Insurance negotiates it down to $1, but people who don't have insurance are faced with an unpayable bill--that may well drive them into bankruptcy, passing the cost of their care onto others as well. Eventually the Ponzi-scheme of for-profit medicine collapses on itself and you end up with large areas entirely without emergency rooms and ever-escalating costs.