A newspaper in rural Mississippi is defending its decision to run a cover story on what it called the first same-sex marriage in the county it serves.
On Feb. 7, the Laurel Leader-Call published the story Historic Wedding: Women wed in Laurel through smiles, tears about the wedding of Jessica Powell and Crystal Craven. Craven has been battling brain cancer. The women exchanged vows earlier this month at a ceremony in Laurel, Miss., attended by family, friends and Craven’s doctors.
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Jim Cegielski, the paper’s owner: We were well aware that the majority of people in Jones County are not in favor of gay marriage. However, any decent newspaper with a backbone can not base decisions on whether to cover a story based on whether the story will make people angry.

There’s so much awesome going on here.

A newspaper in rural Mississippi is defending its decision to run a cover story on what it called the first same-sex marriage in the county it serves.

On Feb. 7, the Laurel Leader-Call published the story Historic Wedding: Women wed in Laurel through smiles, tears about the wedding of Jessica Powell and Crystal Craven. Craven has been battling brain cancer. The women exchanged vows earlier this month at a ceremony in Laurel, Miss., attended by family, friends and Craven’s doctors.

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Jim Cegielski, the paper’s owner: We were well aware that the majority of people in Jones County are not in favor of gay marriage. However, any decent newspaper with a backbone can not base decisions on whether to cover a story based on whether the story will make people angry.

There’s so much awesome going on here.

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Right wing bullies scare off Susan Rice

Susan Rice Withdraws Name From Secretary Of State Consideration

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Look at this racist ignorant anti-American fuck of the day.

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An ABC News affiliate in Denver says that while attempting to report on the resignation of former CIA Director David Petraeus, the station mistakenly aired a photoshopped version of his mistress’ book with the raunchy title “All Up In My Snatch.”

KMGH-TV producer Deb Stanley told Raw Story that the wrong book cover had been “mistakenly picked up off the Internet” and aired during their 5 p.m. broadcast on Monday. Instead of displaying the actual book cover of Paula Broadwell’s Petraeus biography, “All In,” KMGH-TV aired the parody cover, “All Up In My Snatch.”

“That actually happened and it was a mistake,” Stanley explained. “And it was not something we created. We don’t want that mistake out there.”

While the KMGH-TV did not post the segment on its website, a viewer captured video of the broadcast and provided it to Americablog.

And it was clear from comments posted on KMGH’s TheDenverChannel.com that several other viewers also caught the mistake.

“Not sure at all where you got your picture of Broadwell’s book for your 5pm news cast,” one viewer wrote. “I AM sure the title is NOT ‘ALL up IN my snatch’ ‘the education of General David Patraeus’ as you showed. I believe it is simply titled “All In”. Clever photoshopping by someone – - not so clever use of sources for a news cast!”

“I saw it too!” another viewer added. “I have been looking for, at the very least, an apology from 7 News. I hope someone’s head is on the chopping block; this was inexcusable behavior.”
Raw Story (http://s.tt/1tfJa)

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Nancy Pelosi > Jesus

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Rep. Paul Broun, R-Ga., is against evolution, and he sits on the House Science Committee too.

The Affordable Care Act and Governor Romney's Plan: A Comparison →

Check out this interactive map that lets you compare candidates healthcare plan results.

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Today, Mitt Romney Lost the Election →

s4mmich:

You can mark my prediction now: A secret recording from a closed-door Mitt Romney fundraiser, released today by David Corn at Mother Jones, has killed Mitt Romney’s campaign for president.

On the tape, Romney explains that his electoral strategy involves writing off nearly half the country as unmoveable Obama voters. As Romney explains, 47 percent of Americans “believe that they are victims.” He laments: “I’ll never convince them they should take personal responsibility and care for their lives.”

So what’s the upshot? “My job is not to worry about those people,” he says. He also notes, describing President Obama’s base, “These are people who pay no income tax. Forty-seven percent of Americans pay no income tax.”

bwahahahaha, Mitt Romney complaining about people who pay no taxes, that’s a FUCKING LAUGH.

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8 months ago | 21 notes | Reblog |
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Not to get all conspiracy theorist, but…

…does it seem likely to anyone else that what really is going on is that all these overseas attacks have almost nothing to do with that movie. Maybe a few people protested or complained and al-Qaida is using it as a front to make it look like this is some natural, grassroots uprising?

See where I’m going with this?

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Several brave Democrats at this week’s convention stood up against Christian-, Israel-apologist bullies by loudly voting against putting unconstitutional, religiously-charged language into the platform.

I see this as a huge step. 20 years ago a reaction like this would have made the party look like the party of Satan. 12 years ago it would have been a scandal at least. 4 years ago it would have been discussed as a problem within the party and this year, the only ones who give a shit are Fox News. Who knows? Maybe in another 8 years, they really will stop talking about there sky daddy and start getting down to business.