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The Knoxville church shooter, David Adkisson, was a fan of FoxNews personalities like Bill O’Reilly and Sean Hannity, so I thought it would be interesting to see how that network covered the story. It was. See for yourself (as of 11:55 Thursday night):

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Australian Ian Roberts is best known as a rugby league football player. Although he was well-known in the gay community long before, he didn’t “officially” come out until 1995. Retiring from football in 1998, Roberts earned a degree in performing arts in 2003. He has since appeared in at least nine films, the most notable [...]

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It went more smoothly than I dared to hope. The Massachusetts House debated for 45 minutes, then voted, 118 to 35, to repeal the law that prevents out-of-state same-sex couples from marrying in Massachusetts. The repeal will be official when Governor Deval Patrick signs it, which he has promised to do. Massachusetts, the first state [...]

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On Sunday, Jim David Adkisson took his shotgun to the Tennessee Valley Unitarian Universalist Church in Knoxville, Tennessee, planning to kill liberals until the police killed him. The decorated Vietnam veteran managed to get off three rounds before members of the congregation subdued him. Adkisson killed Greg McKendry and Linda Kraeger and wounded seven others. [...]

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PolitickerMA.com reports that today the Massachusetts House will take up debate on whether to repeal the 1913 law that prevents out-of-state same-sex couples from marrying in the Bay State. The Senate has already voted to repeal the law, and Governor Patrick has said that if the House agrees, he’ll sign the bill. The legislative session [...]

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Gail Russell Chaddock, Congress deadlocked over offshore drilling (Christian Science Monitor)
“The GOP blocked three energy bills last week to force Democrats to lift a drilling ban.”
Pema Chödrön, Buddhist Meditation is Relaxing with the Truth (Shambhala Sun)
“It is only when we begin to relax with ourselves as we are that meditation becomes a transformative process.”
Joe Churcher, [...]

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I know a place …

Stupid crooks:

I can’t remember where I got this:

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South Carolina State Senator Kevin Bryant (R-Anderson) is still living up to his deeply-held Christian principles by lying like a rug on his blog. Yesterday, Bryant ― a close personal friend of Jesus ― posted the following:
As I’ve said from the beginning, I wanted to create a local discussion of Sen. Obama’s weak commitment to [...]

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Three natives of the Isle of Lesbos, including publisher Dimitris Lambrou, filed suit in April to prevent the Gay and Lesbian Union of Greece (OLKE) from using the word “lesbian” to refer to gay women. They also sought to prohibit that use of the word in the media. The islanders claimed that calling gay women [...]

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South Carolina State Senator Kevin Bryant (R-Anderson) has removed this from his blog:

The blog entry (18 July) in which the pic originally appeared has been changed to read:
Thank you for your interest in the picure recently posted on this site. As this picture has gotten plenty of attention, I would rather change the focus of [...]

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