“The band will not use holograms to bring late members Keith Moon and John Entwistle back to digital life.”
lolz
I need me a Peacock Mantis Shrimp.
Get me one Katie… now!
^The peacock mantis shrimp was my fave! Look on your front doorstep!
[size=150]Westboro Baptist Church Military Protest Countered By Zombie Demonstrators [/size]
A Westboro Baptist Church protest was overshadowed Friday when demonstrators dressed as zombies gathered at a DuPont, Wash. military base to counter the radical group’s efforts.
After members of the controversial Kansas-based church announced plans to picket Joint Base Lewis-McChord, a military base south of Seattle, 27-year-old Melissa Neace decided to organize a counter-protest, launching a Facebook group titled “Zombie’ing Westboro Baptist Church AWAY from Fort Lewis!”
“We wanted to turn something negative around, into something people could laugh at and poke fun at,” Neace told the News Tribune. “It was the easiest way to divert attention from something so hateful.”
About 300 counter-protesters showed up in varying degrees of zombie garb, far outnumbering the picketers from Westboro. According to KIRO in Seattle, just eight protesters from the controversial group showed up.
“I think that their message is very hateful, and Jesus was not a hateful person. He loved everybody,” one of the counter-protesters told KIRO.
While it is unclear why Westboro Baptist Church targeted the DuPont military base for its latest effort, the group frequently pickets military funerals. The group believes that deaths in Afghanistan and Iraq are God’s punishment for the United States’ tolerance of homosexuality. Last year, the group announced it would “quadruple” protest efforts after the Supreme Court ruled that such demonstrations are protected by the First Amendment.
However, counter-protests like the zombie effort in DuPont are becoming increasingly popular. Earlier this month, thousands of people in red shirts formed a human wall around a fallen soldier’s funeral to block the anti-gay protesters. At a similar protest at Texas A&M University, students dressed in maroon formed a circle around a funeral and seemingly discouraged Westboro protesters from ever showing up.
[size=150]Snoop Dogg becomes Snoop Lion, announces reggae album and film[/size]
By August Brown
July 31, 2012, 4:36 p.m.
The Long Beach rapper Snoop Dogg has several iconic traits – a laid-back and menacing flow, evocatively violent lyrics and a deep affection for cannabis sativa among them. He’ll get to keep at least one of those interests in his new incarnation as Snoop Lion, an alias gleaned from a new interest in Rastafarianism and a hard pivot to traditional reggae music.
The identity change, which he first announced last week, is suprising but not unprecedented in contemporary hip-hop (Nas recorded a collaborative album of reggae-infused tunes with Damian Marley). But it is a major re-imagining of the music and image of the man born Calvin Broadus.
A forthcoming album of straightforward reggae, “Reincarnated,” is due soon on Vice Records, and features production by noted Jamaica-philes Major Lazer. A documentary film of the same title, about the trip to Jamaica that spurred Snoop’s new spirituality, will debut at the Toronto Film Festival in September.
Snoop has been wearing Ethiopian-themed clothes at recent concerts, including his headlining Coachella appearance, and the documentary suggests it’s the start of a real and profound new path for Snoop. In the trailer, he implies that the identity of Snoop Dogg is truly over.
In a statement, he described the change as a spiritual awakening. "I wanted to bury Snoop Dogg and become Snoop Lion, but I didn’t know that until I went to the temple and received the name Snoop Lion from the Nyabingi priest,” said Snoop. “From that moment on, I started to understand why I was there and was able to create something magical in this [‘Reincarnated’] project … something I haven’t done before in my career.”
View the trailer for “Reincarnated” below:
[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MTqyV5Kw9Ss[/youtube]
The Press Conference:
[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UePv182E2Ac[/youtube]
^^Snoop Lion!!!
those people are insane enough for their beliefs on gays… but to wait in line for what must be at least an hour for shitty fast food chicken is insane as well. maybe more insane.
And here’s a follow-up story:
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/08/02/chick-fil-a-has-record-setting-day-anti-gay_n_1733697.html
I don’t understand the reaction of these people. Are they showing support for the anti-gay sentiments of the ChickfilA president, or are they showing support for his right to voice those sentiments?
I must be suffering under an illusion because I live too closely to NYC where people have learned to be accepting of one another’s lifestyles. I thought the majority of people in this country support gay marriage or at least legal equality of gay partnerships.
Maybe these articles are statistical abberations meant to once again grab our attention from more important things. I wonder if the outcry indicated is really that widespread or maybe this is an directed anti-conservative news campaign to help the president’s re-election. Hmmmmm.
The South and the Breadbasket are laughing right now.
Eh, I think most people do support gay rights but it’s a long road and the bigots will always be more vocal.
But, yeah… those mile long lines of anti-gays waiting for deep-fried, processed chicken sure do make me proud to be American!!
GO AMURICA!!!
Hey! Don’t be ripping on deep-fried, processed chicken! Leave them out of this!
And let’s be fair, Chick-Fil-A is wimpy white-meat healthy fad crap chicken. It’s KFC that stays true to the glory of deep-fried processed chicken. God bless the Colonel.
Lollapalooza evacuated due to weather:
lollapalooza.com/news-events … vacuation/
chicagotribune.com/news/loca … 2040.story
Fillet says they support family values, though they sell deep fried unhealthy crap that will kill you.
I wish I felt that optimistic. I don’t think most people do at this juncture in time; however, a change is gonna come…soon.
Standing in lines that long, outside in the summer, in the deep south, just to show you support the blindly biased hate of a corporation? OK, if that’s what you want to do, what do I care? It’s your personal choice. It certainly didn’t change my August 1st in any way. See how easy that is?
Hehe, we already had this discussion. 
http://forum.ohkeepa.com/t/phish-shirts-official-and-unofficial/438/1
Not in the United States.
“Marriage” is a legal thing here in the U.S. There are civil unions as well, in some states, but civil unions do not provide the same rights as marriage. It really has nothing to do with the churches. Churches can recognize or not recognize whatever the heck they want (I’m sure they wouldn’t have liked my wedding ceremony, that’s for sure! ) but we’re just saying that in the eyes of the law-- when it comes to government-- everyone should have the same rights. As of now, they do not. The United States federal government does not recognize same-sex couples in the same way they would recognize “married” ones and there is no way for a same-sex couple to get “married” in a non-religious way, via justice of the peace or something like that.
^Yeah, you would think so right? But our churches over here are pretty powerful and there’s a lot of debate over exactly what separation of church and state really means.
But, yeah, I do think the British way would be acceptable, the problem is that the word “marriage” is used as a legal term over here instead of just a religious one. We would really be best off taking the word “marriage” away from government entirely and making every union a civil union in the eyes of the law. But, for some reason, that has never been discussed by either side.
The funny thing is, we have nothing available to non-religious straight couples either. We are forced to use the same religious definition as Christianity if we want marriage rights and there is no non-denominational option for us when it comes to the law.
Until it gives the exact same legal rights as regular marriage for straight folks then it’s likely not good enough. I doubt the “do it in a church” thing is a big hang up for most gay folks…in fact it’s not like a government can legislate that the church HAS to do a ceremony. I’m not sure about the UK but here the ceremony in the church means nothing in a “legal” sense. You could do the ceremony but if you don’t sign the legal marriage license then it means nothing. Obviously the battle is over the license.
Because the whole separation thing is total BS. The Christian Coalition is a powerful division of the Republican party, there’s tons of religious talk and debate in government and too many politicians can’t separate these things. If their Christian voters complain about it then they make it an issue and make up things that make it political. The tactic now is the “we’ll let the states decide” cop-out that most guys on the Federal level say so they don’t have to stand on one side of the other (they don’t want to be a bigot by being against it and don’t want to piss off their anti-gay voters by being for it). And, of course waiting for 50 states to be on one page with legalizing it will take forever and eventually it will come down to the Federal level anyway. All delaying the inevitable.
Also, it’s strange that it’s not getting more hype here locally but the city of Detroit has something on tomorrow’s ballot to legalize pot in the city up to individuals being allowed to have an ounce on them. It’s up for a vote so we’ll see how it goes.