A Ugandan Witch Doctor’s Crazy Cure for Gayness

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A Ugandan Witch Doctor’s Crazy Cure for Gayness

Brian Moylan — Gay British radio host Scott Mills visited a Ugandan witch doctor for a television special called The World's Worst Place to Be Gay. The doctor's cure consisted of stripping Mills to the waist, beating him with a live chicken, placing a torch over his head, and then pouring water over it. Congrats, he's no longer gay!

The doctor also offered to transfer his spirit to a cow so that the gayness would be in the animal and not in Mills. Here in the U.S. they might lock you in a church and make you pray the gay away. Being beaten with a live chicken is way worse.

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Serene Branson’s Greatest Enemy Has Achieved God-Like Powers Like Bruce Almighty - Evan's Unique Broadcast

Serene Branson’s Greatest Enemy Has Achieved God-Like Powers



John Cook — Serene Branson's Greatest Enemy Has Achieved God-Like Powers Serene Branson, the reporter for L.A.'s CBS affiliate who rather scarily descended into gibberish during Grammy coverage last night, did not have an on-air stroke. According to the New York Daily News, she wasn't hospitalized, is "feeling fine this morning," and was given the OK by paramedics at the scene after inexplicably speaking in tongues during a live shot. CBS isn't feeling so great about things though: It's started systematically trying to remove clips of the glitch from YouTube, citing copyright infringement.



But if Branson didn't suffer some sort of medical emergency, there's only one explanation: Someone at the station is jealous of her. And that someone was recently granted total dominion over all the universe by its Creator, Morgan Freeman, and last night mischievously decided to use that power to humiliate Branson. Wouldn't be the first time.

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Grammy Wrap Up Show CBS 2 Epic Fail!!!

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CBS - Serene Branson's Word Salad Grammy Intro FUNNY AS HELL!!!

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Serene Branson’s Greatest Enemy Has Achieved God-Like Powers

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Serene Branson’s Greatest Enemy Has Achieved God-Like Powers

John Cook — Serene Branson, the reporter for L.A.'s CBS affiliate who rather scarily descended into gibberish during Grammy coverage last night, did not have an on-air stroke. According to the New York Daily News, she wasn't hospitalized, is "feeling fine this morning," and was given the OK by paramedics at the scene after inexplicably speaking in tongues during a live shot. CBS isn't feeling so great about things though: It's started systematically trying to remove clips of the glitch from YouTube, citing copyright infringement.

But if Branson didn't suffer some sort of medical emergency, there's only one explanation: Someone at the station is jealous of her. And that someone was recently granted total dominion over all the universe by its Creator, Morgan Freeman, and last night mischievously decided to use that power to humiliate Branson. Wouldn't be the first time. Read more at gawker.com

 

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Wild Oats Markets Founder Busted in Child Prostitution Sting

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Wild Oats Markets Founder Busted in Child Prostitution Sting

Max Read — Michael Gilliland, the founder of onetime Whole Foods rival Wild Oats, was arrested in Phoenix, Ariz. for allegedly "soliciting sex online from a girl who identified herself as a minor." According to police, Gilliland agreed to pay for sex with an underage girl (who, one presumes, was actually an FBI agent) and arranged a hotel-room rendezvous; eight men in total were arrested in the same sting.

Gilliland has since resigned his position as CEO of Sunflower Farmers Market, a chain of organic food stores in the Southwest ("Serious food... Silly prices!"). According to acting CEO Chris Sherrell, Gilliland "believes he is not guilty of the charges brought against him." Wild Oats, which you may remember as the crunchier version of Whole Foods, was bought by Whole Foods in 2007.

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Text Message Typo Leads to Murder

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Text Message Typo Leads to Murder

Max Read — Neil Brook, a 33-year-old currently on trial for murder in Manchester, England, says that he was forced to stab his neighbor Josef Witkowski to death over a misspelled text message. Yes, I know! Here is Brook's version of events:

1. Brook sends Witkowski an SMS containing the word "mutter." The phone's predictive text software changes it to "nutter." 2. Enraged by the text, Witkowski sends "a series of increasingly abusive messages" to Brook. 3. Witkowski comes to Brook's home wielding a knife. 4. But! Brook had, "in advance of [Witkowski's] visit... taped two large knives around his flat—on the door and near his bathroom." 5. Brook stabs Witkowski to death.

So, yes, this is perhaps not the most likely scenario in the world, given that, for example, what possible text message containing the word "mutter" would then be transformed into an insult if it were changed to "nutter"? But, on the other hand, fucking autocorrect, am I right? So, who knows.

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Navy Man Arrested for Child Porn

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4Chan Navy Man Arrested for Child Porn

Maureen O'Connor — Collin Campbell, a Machinist's Mate 2nd Class in the Navy, is under house arrest after a fellow Navy guy borrowed his iPhone and discovered a bunch of kiddy porn in a folder labeled (drumroll) "porn."

The NCIS investigated (still kind of surprised they actually exist outside of the TV show) and said Campbell "admitted to downloading between 10-20 images of child pornography and alleged he obtained all those images from the website www.4chan.org," including images of children as young as "four or five" having sex with adults. If Campbell really got the images on 4chan, then his is the second 4chan-related arrest this month. If found guilty, Campbell faces up to 20 years in prison for the iPhone pictures as well as a cache of 115 more instances of child pornography discovered on his laptop computer. [TSG] Read more at gawker.com

 

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Making Sense Of Media

Just a reminder of our up coming meeting: Making sense of Media.

This will be a RARE opportunity to have representatives from Radio, TV and Newspaper available to you to ask questions on what you want to know about each of media venues. Some questions may include?



- How are stories chosen?

- What is the real difference between "opinion" and "factual"stories?

- Is the media "biased" and what does that really mean?

- How is "journalistic integrity" maintained?

- Who/how is "fact checking" done on stories?

- How are errors in corrected?

- Is it really all about "making money" when stories are chosen?



GARY SUTTON from 910 WSBA radio, SCOTT FISHER from the York Daily Record, PAUL QUINN from WGAL Channel 8 News and LORI GOODLIN from the York Dispatch will be there to answer your questions as well as discuss common misconceptions by the public by their own industries.



When: Tuesday Feb. 22nd

Meeting Time: 7:00pm-8:30pm

Place: Lighthouse Fellowship and Christian School 147 1st Ave, Red Lion Pennsylvania (Parking is in the back of the Church)



Remember, most of the parking is in the back of the Church.The link to the map showing this is below.



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Light refreshments will be served.



As continued focus on charity, we will be accepting donations for the church to assist with their local out reach programs to the community. Any contributions would be greatly appreciated as well as a way to say "Thank You" to the church for allowing us to hold our meeting there.



Will see you then :-)



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'No More Red Ink' campaign: 'Obamacare can be killed without single Democrat vote'

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'Obamacare can be killed without single Democrat vote'

'No More Red Ink' campaign: Freezing debt limit deprives Washington of funds

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WASHINGTON – While House Republicans are working hard on legislation to deprive Barack Obama of the money he needs to implement his massive health-care program, there is a way they can accomplish the same ends without a single Democrat vote and no approval by the Senate or White House, says the organizer of the "No More Red Ink" campaign.

"It's just this simple," says Joseph Farah of WND and the campaign targeting House Republicans alone to freeze the debt limit. "Republicans alone can do this. They are holding all the cards. They simply need to vote no as a bloc on raising the debt limit. At that point, the funding to implement 'Obamacare' dries up on the vine."

The campaign has already delivered 250,000 "red ink" letters to 242 House Republicans, encouraging them to defy their leadership and bring government spending and borrowing under control this year.

Shock the Washington establishment by participating in the "No More Red Ink" campaign and shut down all new plans for bailouts, "stimulus" spending and even the funding for Obamacare.

"Most people have still not figured out just how much power the Republicans have on this issue with control of just the House of Representatives," said Farah. "For some reason, House Republican leadership is determined to defy popular will and the better instincts of its own caucus to continue business-as-usual spending and borrowing in Washington. But this campaign is making a difference."

Two weeks ago, the organizer of the long-shot campaign to freeze the federal government's debt limit was not optimistic about his chances to create the biggest political earthquake to hit the nation's Capitol since Ronald Reagan's election as president.

Today, he's jubilant about what he sees as a political "tidal shift" within the House Republican majority.

The difference?

The "No More Red Ink" campaign is working.

"The latest poll from Investors Business Daily shows 70 percent of Americans opposed to raising the debt limit," says Farah. "Among Republicans, it's 86 percent opposed. Among Democrats, it's 55 percent."

And that's just the beginning, says Farah.

His campaign has managed to ship 250,000 messages to House Republicans who wield the power to accomplish this mission without any help from Democrats or the consent of the Senate or Barack Obama. That's during a two-week period in which there was virtually no media coverage of the campaign or even a hint that House Republicans were taking the protest seriously.

That has all changed, he says.

"This campaign is now getting help from tea party activists across the country," he said. "We're getting lots of support from Republicans in the House who don't approve of their leadership's concession on this issue. This is about to explode on the nation as the most important vote Congress will hold this year or any year – one that can completely break the chain of business as usual in Washington."

House Speaker John Boehner is still ignoring legislation introduced to forgo an increase in the debt limit as well as the campaign promises of 87 House Republican freshmen to stop further borrowing by the federal government, says the organizer of a campaign to freeze the debt limit at $14.3 trillion. But the pressure on him is growing, Farah says.

"There's a real division brewing between the House Republican leadership and most of the rest of the 242 members," said Farah, the force behind the "No More Red Ink" campaign that has catapulted the issue to the front burner in the Capitol. "We are getting their attention."

The "No More Red Ink" campaign demands House Republicans stop all deficit spending this year by freezing the debt limit at $14.3 trillion and forcing major cuts in so-called "entitlements" and all non-essential spending.

The growing controversy within the House Republican majority about the debt limit is being called Boehner's defining moment as speaker. And with 70 percent public opposition to "his go-along-to-get-along notion," Farah says Americans have a real chance of ending business as usual in Washington.

"I honestly feel like we are winning the biggest congressional battle of the decade – bigger even than health care, because freezing the debt limit will deprive Obama of the funds he needs to implement his socialist nightmare on the country," says Farah.

Boehner repeatedly has signaled to Barack Obama's administration that he intends to play ball and raise the limit – even explaining in one media appearance that refusal to do so would cause the U.S. to default on its obligations.

But the House Republican Study Committee, whose membership represents two-thirds of the Republican majority, is pushing a bill that would forestall a vote to raise the debt limit, authorizing the Treasury Department to prioritize debt payments when the ceiling is reached.

The legislation "assures lenders that their investments in the United States government are entirely safe," said Rep. Tom McClintock, R-Calif., the lead House sponsor. "Congress will still have to deal with the issue of the debt limit. It simply takes a default off the table."

At least a half-dozen House members, including Rep. Michele Bachmann of Minnesota and Ron Paul of Texas, are outspokenly opposed to raising the debt limit. But the plan is catching on with many more as the avalanche of red paper messages pours into offices of the Republican majority

The campaign bringing attention to the debt limit vote – and particularly the House Republicans' critical role in that vote – is an effort called "No More Red Ink." Farah has repeatedly pointed out that Republicans were swept into power in November with the expectation they would stand up to more deficit spending.

The campaign got an unexpected boost from Treasury Secretary Timothy F. Geithner recently when he said an unexpected increase in tax revenues has postponed the necessity of such a vote because the debt limit is not expected to be reached until May 16, rather than earlier projections of the end of March.

"This is a gift for all those who understand what's at stake in this vote," said Farah. "We now may have a little more time to make our case with House Republicans, who can unilaterally deny Obama any more wild spending plans and actually force Washington into making dramatic cuts in so-called 'entitlements' and other wealth- redistribution schemes."

Farah's plan empowers America citizens to send messages to every member of the House Republican caucus inexpensively and efficiently – with guaranteed delivery by Fed Ex.

"Unfortunately, if the House Republicans do not hear from the American people in strength, they will vote for business-as-usual deficit spending for the next two years and surrender the power they have to force fiscal responsibility on Barack Obama and the Democrats in the Senate," says Farah. "House Speaker John Boehner says he wants to use the debt limit to wrangle concessions out of the Democrats, but when he signals, as he did last weekend, that Congress must raise the debt limit to keep the government solvent, he has already waved the white flag of surrender on the most important vote to be cast in Congress over the next two years."

With the Republicans holding 242 seats in the House, only 218 votes are needed to freeze the debt limit right where it is.

However, the House Republican leadership says it will trade a hike in the debt limit for a promise by Obama and the Democrats to cut the budget.

"I don't understand this?" says Farah. "If you are holding a winning hand, why fold? Why trade away the power you have to force the first real cuts in the budget and the end of deficit spending for yet another promise that will not be kept?"

For his part, Farah has made it easy for the public to make their voices heard in Washington in a powerful way.

The "No More Red Ink" campaign has two facets:

Sign a petition directed exclusively to all 242 House Republicans calling on them not to bargain away their "nuclear option" that can stop any further deficit spending for the next two years. Flood their offices with "red ink" letters that remind them they are holding all the cards in getting government spending under control and that all they have to do is vote "no" on raising the debt limit.

"This is a plan to separate the real economic conservatives from the pretenders," said Farah. "If you want to reduce the debt that is destroying this country's economy we have a chance right now to slam on the brakes. Once the debt limit is raised, it's back to business as usual." House Speaker John Boehner

House Speaker John Boehner

Republicans in the House hold all the cards, Farah points out, because of their majority. They don't need a single Democratic vote to side with them to shut down borrowing.

"At that point, Barack Obama can't implement Obamacare," he said. "From that moment onward, there will be no more spending initiatives by Obama for the next two years. There will be no more bailouts, no more 'stimulus' spending. It's all over. In fact, the most significant budget cuts in modern American history will have to be made – and the Republican House will still have to approve them."

Farah says he can't understand why so few conservatives and Republicans are pushing the idea.

"I have to believe that most Americans are simply unaware of what is about to transpire," he said. "Everyone is talking about the debt crisis – even Obama. But no one is talking about the opportunity we have to start reversing it right now. It's always tomorrow, next year, next decade. That is a recipe for an even bigger disaster. Borrowing more is never a solution to a debt problem."

The "No More Red Ink" campaign allows Americans to send a "red ink" letter to every member of the House majority urging them to vote "no" on raising the debt limit. The letters are individually addressed to each member, with guaranteed delivery by Fed Ex for a cost of just $29.99. It would cost an individual more than $100 in postage alone to send the 242 letters with no guaranty of delivery and certainly nowhere near the impact.

A similar campaign organized by WND last year delivered more than 9 million "pink slips" to members of the House and Senate. Farah is hoping a similar response by Americans in the next few weeks will persuade House Republicans to oppose raising the debt limit.

Last week, the Heritage Foundation also responded to the dire warnings from Treasury Secretary Timothy Geithner that if he doesn't get his way with the debt ceiling, "our soldiers and veterans wouldn't be paid, Social Security checks wouldn't go out."

The analysis by J.D. Foster, the Norman B. Ture senior fellow in the economics of fiscal policy at the Heritage Foundation, calls that warning alarmism.

"If the federal government runs up against the debt limit, then the Treasury has tools to manage cash flow for a time before severe measures will be necessary to align the federal spending set in law with the receipts available to the Treasury," Foster wrote in his report.

"Treasury almost certainly will not default on its publicly issued debt. Nor will Congress imperil the standing of U.S. government debt in the credit markets, risking America's 'full faith and credit,' as the president's chief economic adviser has said," he said.

For his part, Farah is encouraged.

"When we started this campaign two weeks ago, almost no one was talking about freezing the debt limit," he said. "Few Americans understood what a powerful weapon the House Republicans had in their hands. Now the pressure is mounting on those who were elected in November promising an end to business as usual in Washington. That's exactly what the debt-limit vote is all about – whether Washington is going to continue borrowing and overspending or whether new leadership will exert fiscal responsibility beginning this year."

Farah predicts this will soon become the biggest issue in the nation – something that everyone is talking about.

"This is the moment to join this campaign and shake up the Washington borrowing-and-spending machine like it has never been shaken up before," he said. "Remind the Republicans in the House why they were elected to lead."

Previous reports:

70 percent of Americans oppose raising debt limit 87 House Repubs promised opposition to raising debt limit 'Don't let House Republicans wimp out on promises' Feds change guess on debt ceiling 'crisis' Keyes attacks House Repubs for capitulation on debt Debt or alive: Obama 'pushing panic button' Republicans about to betray November shellacking? Secret weapon unveiled to slay dragon of Obama's scheming Remember 'pink slips'? Now it's red ink slips How Republican House can dry up red ink with 1 vote 'House Republicans alone can downsize Washington' The Republicans' nuclear option Oxymoron: 'Fiscal conservative' Read more at www.wnd.com

 

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