The federal government is expected to take steps today to close a legal loophole that could have undermined thousands of gay marriages around the world.
The governing Conservatives are expected to detail changes to the Civil Marriage Act to ensure the marriages are recognized.
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Showing posts with label justice. Show all posts
Showing posts with label justice. Show all posts
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Tuesday, November 22, 2011
The Steven J. Baum P.C. law firm: Karma's a bitch, eh f*ckers?
A law firm that had become a lightning rod in the controversy over mortgage-foreclosure practices has shut down, costing 89 employees their jobs.
The Steven J. Baum P.C. law firm, which has offices in Amherst, N.Y., and Westbury, N.Y., has filed papers with government agencies notifying them that it plans to close. It made the filings under a federal law requiring employers to provide notice before mass layoffs...
...the firm’s fortunes worsened this month after The New York Times published photos of a Halloween party at the Baum firm showing employees wearing costumes mocking people who had lost their homes.
After those photos surfaced, the mortgage giants Freddie Mac and Fannie Mae cut off the Baum firm, forbidding servicers of their mortgages from using Mr. Baum and his colleagues. That effectively served as the firm’s death knell.
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The Steven J. Baum P.C. law firm, which has offices in Amherst, N.Y., and Westbury, N.Y., has filed papers with government agencies notifying them that it plans to close. It made the filings under a federal law requiring employers to provide notice before mass layoffs...
...the firm’s fortunes worsened this month after The New York Times published photos of a Halloween party at the Baum firm showing employees wearing costumes mocking people who had lost their homes.
After those photos surfaced, the mortgage giants Freddie Mac and Fannie Mae cut off the Baum firm, forbidding servicers of their mortgages from using Mr. Baum and his colleagues. That effectively served as the firm’s death knell.
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Wednesday, September 21, 2011
Rick Santorum's dog comes back to bite him
The life of a rabid homophobe is so difficult..
Why does mean Google allow Rick Santorum's name to be linked to a messy anal sex byproduct? Rick Santorum wants to know! He called out the search engine yesterday over his well-known "Google problem."
Read more here.
Why does mean Google allow Rick Santorum's name to be linked to a messy anal sex byproduct? Rick Santorum wants to know! He called out the search engine yesterday over his well-known "Google problem."
Read more here.
Wednesday, March 16, 2011
Ta-Nehisi Coates completes misses the point of Little Zangief
The Disappointing Taste of Revenge
Disappointing you say? Nonsense, it is one of the most satisfying videos ever made.
That kid--the aggressive one--was out of his head, and there was no one to put the right kind of hands on him.
Out of his head? I think not. He seemed the model of the preening bully, fully in control. And hands were put on him, of a most effective kind.
And now he's famous.
And rightly so, as he is now world famous as The Rat, a celebrity manufactured of his own making (it was the Rat and Co. doing the video recording that day).
Read more here.
Disappointing you say? Nonsense, it is one of the most satisfying videos ever made.
That kid--the aggressive one--was out of his head, and there was no one to put the right kind of hands on him.
Out of his head? I think not. He seemed the model of the preening bully, fully in control. And hands were put on him, of a most effective kind.
And now he's famous.
And rightly so, as he is now world famous as The Rat, a celebrity manufactured of his own making (it was the Rat and Co. doing the video recording that day).
Read more here.
Monday, March 14, 2011
Justice
Casey Heynes of Australia, Crusher of Rats*. Crude but effective.
Youtube is seems is not on the side of Right, as it keeps taking this one down.
* aka Ritchard Gale, proud new owner of a dislocated knee, 22 day suspension, plus eternal and universal internet scorn. Not bad for 41 seconds work.
Friday, October 29, 2010
Clint McCance: I'm sooo sorrry....I got caught
Translation: I still believe in what I said, but will be careful in future to who I say it to.
Death threats against him and his family are completely inappropriate though.
A school board district member in Arkansas who came under fire for an anti-gay post on a social networking site regrets the comments and will resign his seat, he told CNN's Anderson Cooper on Thursday.
"I'm sorry I've hurt people with my comments," Clint McCance, vice-president of the Midland School District in Pleasant Plains, Arkansas said. "I'm sorry I made those ignorant comments and hurt people on a broad spectrum."
McCance wrote on his personal Facebook page that he wanted gay people to commit suicide, according to The Advocate, a newspaper focusing on gay news.
McCance used the terms "queer" and "fag" repeatedly, promised to disown his own children if they are gay and stated that he enjoys "the fact that [gay people] give each other AIDS and die."
On Thursday, he disowned the comments.
Que the "gays have hounded a good man out of a job" crowd in 3...2...
Such as, via CNN:
milo55 God.. I hate gays.. really really .. hate..
9 minutes ago | Like | Report abuse
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Wednesday, March 31, 2010
Bill O'Reilly does the right thing
I never thought I'd say this, but Bill O'Reilly has done something good, going a long way to undo a very unethical ruling.
No. 1 cable news host Bill O'Reilly said Tuesday that he will personally write a check to cover $16,500 in legal costs for the father of a fallen U.S. Marine who sued the members of a church who picketed his son's funeral.
According to news reports, the members of the Westboro Baptist Church, located in Topeka, Kan., believe that God is punishing the United States because of its acceptance of gay people. The church garners attention for its views by protesting high-profile funerals.
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No. 1 cable news host Bill O'Reilly said Tuesday that he will personally write a check to cover $16,500 in legal costs for the father of a fallen U.S. Marine who sued the members of a church who picketed his son's funeral.
According to news reports, the members of the Westboro Baptist Church, located in Topeka, Kan., believe that God is punishing the United States because of its acceptance of gay people. The church garners attention for its views by protesting high-profile funerals.
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Monday, November 16, 2009
To Skip, friend of Doug Lambert
"Skip" has penned a blog post, not so much defending his friend Doug Lambert as expressing frustration that his "apology" has not been accepted in certain circles (Many on the Left / Democrats).
Now, while standing up for a friend is an admirable thing to do, his reasons are less so. Calls for Mr. Lambert's punishment and firing are only "political correctness". It never enters his head that perhaps words can wound, or worse.
No, to Skip it just seems certain things can't be said anymore, and it's a darn shame. Where are the good old days when abuse could be hurled at minorities without any consequences? The pressure not to isn't because they are wrong, but only because it is not PC to state them publicly. Would Skip defend the use of "Nigger" as a PC issue? I doubt it. But "Faggot", sure, bring it on.
As an Canadian observer, the Right in the U.S. is the best at coming up with slogans to hide the real meaning of things: friendly fire, collateral damage, enhanced interrogation techniques, the sanity of marriage. More often than not they conceal something uglier (God help us if our conservatives get as crafty).
Doug, I'm afraid, was not that eloquent.
I do agree with Skip here though: For folks like you, and your brethren in CA who have literally have had people fired and businesses shut down merely for supporting CA's Proposition 8, it seems that NO apology will ever be sufficient.
The difference is Prop 8 was a legally sanctioned vote (however spiteful, I come from Quebec and know just how spiteful a majority can be), and voters did speak (with no apology). The ballot though was not worded "Do you support the suppression of the rights of those uppity faggots?", even *if* that was the message behind it.
The other side doesn't have to like the outcome, and should boycott business etc that went along if they choose to. Beyond that is to become as bad as the Prop 8 supporters: spiteful, mean spirited and poking their nose into other peoples lives.
An apology is not the end game they seek
True Skip, so true. There comes a point when the name calling has to stop, and your friend is a good a point as any to begin. He seems to have had no problem in inflicting pain on millions of his fellow citizens (and probably delighting millions of others), so a little time of self reflection while he awaits his next gig is a small price to pay.
Do you think Doug will turn over a new leaf? No, I don't think so either....
Read more here.
Now, while standing up for a friend is an admirable thing to do, his reasons are less so. Calls for Mr. Lambert's punishment and firing are only "political correctness". It never enters his head that perhaps words can wound, or worse.
No, to Skip it just seems certain things can't be said anymore, and it's a darn shame. Where are the good old days when abuse could be hurled at minorities without any consequences? The pressure not to isn't because they are wrong, but only because it is not PC to state them publicly. Would Skip defend the use of "Nigger" as a PC issue? I doubt it. But "Faggot", sure, bring it on.
As an Canadian observer, the Right in the U.S. is the best at coming up with slogans to hide the real meaning of things: friendly fire, collateral damage, enhanced interrogation techniques, the sanity of marriage. More often than not they conceal something uglier (God help us if our conservatives get as crafty).
Doug, I'm afraid, was not that eloquent.
I do agree with Skip here though: For folks like you, and your brethren in CA who have literally have had people fired and businesses shut down merely for supporting CA's Proposition 8, it seems that NO apology will ever be sufficient.
The difference is Prop 8 was a legally sanctioned vote (however spiteful, I come from Quebec and know just how spiteful a majority can be), and voters did speak (with no apology). The ballot though was not worded "Do you support the suppression of the rights of those uppity faggots?", even *if* that was the message behind it.
The other side doesn't have to like the outcome, and should boycott business etc that went along if they choose to. Beyond that is to become as bad as the Prop 8 supporters: spiteful, mean spirited and poking their nose into other peoples lives.
An apology is not the end game they seek
True Skip, so true. There comes a point when the name calling has to stop, and your friend is a good a point as any to begin. He seems to have had no problem in inflicting pain on millions of his fellow citizens (and probably delighting millions of others), so a little time of self reflection while he awaits his next gig is a small price to pay.
Do you think Doug will turn over a new leaf? No, I don't think so either....
Read more here.
WEMJ 1490 AM fires dancing bigot Doug Lambert
Yes!
A local radio station has terminated a talk show after its host called New Hampshire's Democratic Party chairman a derogatory name.
WEMJ 1490 AM owner Nassau Broadcasting terminated its contract to air conservative radio host Doug Lambert's "Meet the New Press" show. Lambert called Democratic Party chairman Raymond Buckley, who is gay, derogatory names while a webcam was streaming to the Internet last weekend.
But of course the brain dead in the comments have to chime in...
So Mama, does this mean that animal fornicators (beastiality), corpse molesters (necrophilia), and old men in trench coats who expose themselves to passers-by in the park, also get the same rights as the rest of us? I mean, as long as their paying their "American taxes" like the rest of us...as you said. After all, wouldn't it be kind of hypocritical to discriminate against one sexual preference over another? And I'm intentionally leaving out the catagory of pedophiles just to keep the discussion simple.
The only thing simple in this discussion is you.
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A local radio station has terminated a talk show after its host called New Hampshire's Democratic Party chairman a derogatory name.
WEMJ 1490 AM owner Nassau Broadcasting terminated its contract to air conservative radio host Doug Lambert's "Meet the New Press" show. Lambert called Democratic Party chairman Raymond Buckley, who is gay, derogatory names while a webcam was streaming to the Internet last weekend.
But of course the brain dead in the comments have to chime in...
So Mama, does this mean that animal fornicators (beastiality), corpse molesters (necrophilia), and old men in trench coats who expose themselves to passers-by in the park, also get the same rights as the rest of us? I mean, as long as their paying their "American taxes" like the rest of us...as you said. After all, wouldn't it be kind of hypocritical to discriminate against one sexual preference over another? And I'm intentionally leaving out the catagory of pedophiles just to keep the discussion simple.
The only thing simple in this discussion is you.
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