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-Editorial: Mr. Bush's Health Care Legacy
This page has criticized the Bush administration's weak performance on many important health care matters: its failure to address the problem of millions of uninsured Americans or stem the rising costs of health care, its refusal to expand eligibility for the State Children's Health Insurance Program, its devious maneuvers to cut Medicaid spending, its support of unjustified subsidies for private health plans, to name a few.
http://www.nytimes.com/2009/01/03/opinion/03sat1.html?scp=2&sq=Gay&st=cse
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-UN battles over sex and rights
The Gleaner - Jamaica
Shirley Richards, Contributor
Much has been made of the Declaration on Human Rights and Sexual Orientation, which was tabled on December 18, 2008 at the United Nations.
This declaration, which was sponsored by France, had the support of approximately 65 countries, including western and eastern European states, Latin America, the Central African Republic and Cuba. Essentially, the declaration, a non-binding document, sought to expand the existing human rights concept to include 'sexual orientation'. What is less known is that a counter-declaration sponsored by Egypt and Uganda and supported by approximately 60 countries was presented to the United Nations at the same time. Support came from the Islamic countries, many African countries and St Lucia.
Serious concern. This declaration expressed serious concern at the "attempt to introduce to the United Nations, notions that have no legal foundation in any international human rights instrument". Reference was made in the counter-declaration to Article 29 of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights, which affirms the right of member states to enact laws that meet "the just requirements of morality, public order and the general welfare in a democratic society". Concern was also expressed over "the attempts to create 'new rights' or 'new standards' by misinterpreting the Universal Declaration and international treaties to include such notions that were never articulated nor agreed by the general membership". Along with these 60 or so countries, Russia, Belarus and the Holy See also made statements critical to the French-led declaration.
http://www.jamaica-gleaner.com/gleaner/20090102/cleisure/cleisure3.html
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-French UN "Sexual Orientation" Push Linked to Radical Yogyakarta Principles
Catholic Family and Human Rights Institute
By Piero A. Tozzi, J.D.
A statement promoted by the government of France and issued jointly in December by 66 United Nations (UN) member states on "sexual orientation and gender identity" advances an agenda set forth in a highly controversial 2006 document called the "Yogyakarta Principles." The Yogyakarta Principles claim to govern "application of international human rights law in relation to sexual orientation and gender identity." Proponents assert the Yogyakarta Principles bind States to new legal standards even though the Yogyakarta document is the creature not of governmental agreement but of homosexual pressure groups and UN bureaucrats. European delegates told the Friday Fax that the original draft of the French statement debated internally among European Union (EU) nations explicitly referenced the Yogyakarta Principles, but that Ireland, Malta and Poland insisted the reference be removed.
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-The Obama-Biden Transition Team has organized a conference call for Tuesday evening, January 6th with AIDS advocates throughout the nation in order to educate them on President-elect Obama's plan to combat HIV/AIDS globally, and nationally. You may have received an invitation to join the call, if you did not and have any specific questions or concerns to be asked of the next Presidential Administration, please e-mail me your questions and I will attempt to have them answered on your behalf. Participating on the call from the Presidential Transition Team will be:
* Liz Engel, Agency Review Team Lead for U.S. Department of Health & Human Services
* Karen Richardson, Public Liaison for Health Care
* Parag Mehta, Public Liaison for LGBT Americans
According to the transition team, the conference call will be recorded and made available to the public. To learn more about President-elect Obama's plan, visit:
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NATIONAL & WORLD DIGEST - January 02, 2009
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-Obama's View on Power Over Detainees Will Be Tested Early
By ADAM LIPTAK
Just a month after President-elect Barack Obama takes office, he must tell the Supreme Court where he stands on one of the most aggressive legal claims made by the Bush administration - that the president may order the military to seize legal residents of the United States and hold them indefinitely without charging them with a crime.
http://www.nytimes.com/2009/01/03/washington/03scotus.html?_r=1&hp
-In Obama's Team, 2 Camps on Climate
By JOHN M. BRODER
In the fall of 1997, when the Clinton administration was forming its position for the Kyoto climate treaty talks, Lawrence H. Summers argued that the United States would risk damaging the domestic economy if it set overly ambitious goals for reducing carbon emissions.
http://www.nytimes.com/2009/01/03/washington/03enviro.html
-Democrats Debate Methods to End Stem Cell Ban
By CARL HULSE
Thwarted by President Bush in their efforts to expand federal spending on embryonic stem cell research, Democrats are now debating whether to overturn federal restrictions through executive order or by legislation when they assume full control of the government this month.
http://www.nytimes.com/2009/01/03/washington/03stem.html
-Generation Faithful: Preaching Moderate Islam and Becoming a TV Star for Youths
By ROBERT F. WORTH
JIDDA, Saudi Arabia - As Ahmad al-Shugairi took the stage, dressed in a flowing white gown and headdress, he clutched a microphone and told his audience that he had no religious training or titles: "I am not a sheik."
http://www.nytimes.com/2009/01/03/world/middleeast/03preacher.html?hp
-Op-Ed Contributor: G.M.'s Secret Success
By WILLIAM J. HOLSTEIN
WITH billions of federal dollars flowing to General Motors, and with the incoming administration likely to discover that still more assistance is required, we can expect renewed calls for G.M.'s chief executive, Rick Wagoner, to lose his job as the price of failure. This view presupposes that Mr. Wagoner has not been willing to bring G.M. into line with the new global reality, that he has not designed cars Americans want to buy and that the company is a "dinosaur," to quote Senator Richard C. Shelby, Republican of Alabama.
http://www.nytimes.com/2009/01/03/opinion/03holstein.html?ref=opinion
-Egypt, Feeling Pressure From the Arab World on Gaza, Also Feels It From Within
By STEVEN ERLANGER
CAIRO - Egypt is the crucial, if reluctant, intermediary between Israel and Hamas, which is no great friend of this moderate secular state. Still, a sustained Israeli ground operation in neighboring Gaza would sharply increase public pressure on President Hosni Mubarak of Egypt to do more to help the Palestinians there.
http://www.nytimes.com/2009/01/03/world/middleeast/03egypt.html
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-For Russia, A Dark Horizon
By Masha Lipman
MOSCOW -- Uncertainty is creeping up on Russia. For the first time since Vladimir Putin's rise to power, Moscow confronts the prospect of real political instability. One of Russia's savviest politicians, Anatoly Chubais, said last month that the likelihood of serious turmoil -- economic, social and even political -- is 50 percent.
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2009/01/02/AR2009010202080.html
-Mr. Sarkozy's Model
Is this how a real European president would behave? AS 2008 DREW to a close, French President Nicolas Sarkozy basked in a continental wave of praise for his service in the European Union's presidency during the past six months. The frequent rotation of the job (which now moves on to the Czech Republic) and the difficulty of coordinating common positions among 27 member countries have typically made the European president a feckless figure on the international stage. But Mr. Sarkozy was a bold blur of activity. Filling the vacuum left by the exhausted Bush administration and frequently overstepping his nominal authority, the French leader brokered the cease-fire between Georgia and Russia, presided over Europe's unusually quick and coherent response to the financial crisis and, at a final summit last month, pushed the union to adopt an aggressive plan for reducing carbon emissions.
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2009/01/02/AR2009010202088.html
-Six Vying To Become The Next RNC Chair
Party Has Much At Stake in Choice
By Perry Bacon Jr.
Following an election that has left Republicans with no clear vision about how to regain power, the normally low-profile race to head the GOP's national committee has turned into a six-man showdown that has opened rifts along racial, regional and ideological lines.
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2009/01/02/AR2009010202377.html?hpid=topnews
-Australia tells US it won't accept Gitmo detainees
By ROD McGUIRK
CANBERRA, Australia -- Australia has told the United States for a second time that it will not resettle detainees freed from the Guantanamo Bay military prison in Cuba, the acting prime minister said Saturday.
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2009/01/03/AR2009010300310.html?hpid=moreheadlines
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Wall Street Journal
http://online.wsj.com/public/us
-Russian Gas Cutoff Results in Some EU Supply Disruptions
By ANDREW OSBORN
Countries in the European Union began to record slight natural-gas supply disruptions late Friday after Russia's OAO Gazprom halted deliveries to Ukraine, a key transit country, amid a price dispute. The developments came as Russia and Ukraine traded recriminations and lobbied to persuade the international community that the other was to blame.
http://online.wsj.com/article/SB123092507441049631.html
-Time to Step Up for Credit Score
By MARY PILON
A Higher Number Is Needed for Some Loans; How to Improve Your Chances
It used to be that a 720 credit score or higher would get you the best interest rates. With lenders suddenly focused on credit risk, that isn't necessarily the case anymore.
http://online.wsj.com/article/SB123094542526250689.html
-Harry Reid v. the Constitution
If Roland Burris isn't fit for the Senate, how is Chris Dodd? An Illinois court will eventually decide if Governor Rod Blagojevich is guilty of corruption. But on at least one issue he is more law-abiding than Majority Leader Harry Reid and fellow Democrats: the seating of Roland Burris to replace Barack Obama in the U.S. Senate.
http://online.wsj.com/article/SB123094461932550595.html
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Sun-Sentinel
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-Cuban-American Jorge Labarga of Palm Beach County named to Florida Supreme Court by Gov. Charlie Crist
Jorge Labarga, 56, wins out in process full of controversy
By Josh Hafenbrack
Veteran Palm Beach County Circuit Judge Jorge Labarga was elevated to the Florida Supreme Court Friday, becoming the second Cuban-American named to the state's highest legal panel.
http://www.sun-sentinel.com/news/politics/elections/sfl-flfsupco0103sbjan03,0,5856050.story
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Miami Herald
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-ABSTINENCE
`An experiment gone awry'
BY ELLEN GOODMAN
I hate to bring this up right now when the ink is barely dry on your New Year's resolution. But if history is any guide, you are likely to fall off the assorted wagons to which you are currently lashed. I don't say this to disparage your willpower. Hang onto that celery stick for dear life.
http://www.miamiherald.com/opinion/other-views/story/835802.html
-Restore firearms ban in national parks
OUR OPINION: Administration uses waning days to pander to the NRA In addition to making it easier for coal miners to pollute rivers and streams, allowing more mining in lands adjacent to national parks and implementing rules that weaken the Endangered Species Act, the Bush administration this month gave the National Rifle Association a parting gift by lifting a decades-long ban on concealed weapons in national parks.
http://www.miamiherald.com/opinion/editorials/story/832169.html
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-Obama's View on Power Over Detainees Will Be Tested Early
By ADAM LIPTAK
Just a month after President-elect Barack Obama takes office, he must tell the Supreme Court where he stands on one of the most aggressive legal claims made by the Bush administration - that the president may order the military to seize legal residents of the United States and hold them indefinitely without charging them with a crime.
http://www.nytimes.com/2009/01/03/washington/03scotus.html?_r=1&hp
-In Obama's Team, 2 Camps on Climate
By JOHN M. BRODER
In the fall of 1997, when the Clinton administration was forming its position for the Kyoto climate treaty talks, Lawrence H. Summers argued that the United States would risk damaging the domestic economy if it set overly ambitious goals for reducing carbon emissions.
http://www.nytimes.com/2009/01/03/washington/03enviro.html
-Democrats Debate Methods to End Stem Cell Ban
By CARL HULSE
Thwarted by President Bush in their efforts to expand federal spending on embryonic stem cell research, Democrats are now debating whether to overturn federal restrictions through executive order or by legislation when they assume full control of the government this month.
http://www.nytimes.com/2009/01/03/washington/03stem.html
-Generation Faithful: Preaching Moderate Islam and Becoming a TV Star for Youths
By ROBERT F. WORTH
JIDDA, Saudi Arabia - As Ahmad al-Shugairi took the stage, dressed in a flowing white gown and headdress, he clutched a microphone and told his audience that he had no religious training or titles: "I am not a sheik."
http://www.nytimes.com/2009/01/03/world/middleeast/03preacher.html?hp
-Op-Ed Contributor: G.M.'s Secret Success
By WILLIAM J. HOLSTEIN
WITH billions of federal dollars flowing to General Motors, and with the incoming administration likely to discover that still more assistance is required, we can expect renewed calls for G.M.'s chief executive, Rick Wagoner, to lose his job as the price of failure. This view presupposes that Mr. Wagoner has not been willing to bring G.M. into line with the new global reality, that he has not designed cars Americans want to buy and that the company is a "dinosaur," to quote Senator Richard C. Shelby, Republican of Alabama.
http://www.nytimes.com/2009/01/03/opinion/03holstein.html?ref=opinion
-Egypt, Feeling Pressure From the Arab World on Gaza, Also Feels It From Within
By STEVEN ERLANGER
CAIRO - Egypt is the crucial, if reluctant, intermediary between Israel and Hamas, which is no great friend of this moderate secular state. Still, a sustained Israeli ground operation in neighboring Gaza would sharply increase public pressure on President Hosni Mubarak of Egypt to do more to help the Palestinians there.
http://www.nytimes.com/2009/01/03/world/middleeast/03egypt.html
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-For Russia, A Dark Horizon
By Masha Lipman
MOSCOW -- Uncertainty is creeping up on Russia. For the first time since Vladimir Putin's rise to power, Moscow confronts the prospect of real political instability. One of Russia's savviest politicians, Anatoly Chubais, said last month that the likelihood of serious turmoil -- economic, social and even political -- is 50 percent.
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2009/01/02/AR2009010202080.html
-Mr. Sarkozy's Model
Is this how a real European president would behave? AS 2008 DREW to a close, French President Nicolas Sarkozy basked in a continental wave of praise for his service in the European Union's presidency during the past six months. The frequent rotation of the job (which now moves on to the Czech Republic) and the difficulty of coordinating common positions among 27 member countries have typically made the European president a feckless figure on the international stage. But Mr. Sarkozy was a bold blur of activity. Filling the vacuum left by the exhausted Bush administration and frequently overstepping his nominal authority, the French leader brokered the cease-fire between Georgia and Russia, presided over Europe's unusually quick and coherent response to the financial crisis and, at a final summit last month, pushed the union to adopt an aggressive plan for reducing carbon emissions.
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2009/01/02/AR2009010202088.html
-Six Vying To Become The Next RNC Chair
Party Has Much At Stake in Choice
By Perry Bacon Jr.
Following an election that has left Republicans with no clear vision about how to regain power, the normally low-profile race to head the GOP's national committee has turned into a six-man showdown that has opened rifts along racial, regional and ideological lines.
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2009/01/02/AR2009010202377.html?hpid=topnews
-Australia tells US it won't accept Gitmo detainees
By ROD McGUIRK
CANBERRA, Australia -- Australia has told the United States for a second time that it will not resettle detainees freed from the Guantanamo Bay military prison in Cuba, the acting prime minister said Saturday.
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2009/01/03/AR2009010300310.html?hpid=moreheadlines
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Wall Street Journal
http://online.wsj.com/public/us
-Russian Gas Cutoff Results in Some EU Supply Disruptions
By ANDREW OSBORN
Countries in the European Union began to record slight natural-gas supply disruptions late Friday after Russia's OAO Gazprom halted deliveries to Ukraine, a key transit country, amid a price dispute. The developments came as Russia and Ukraine traded recriminations and lobbied to persuade the international community that the other was to blame.
http://online.wsj.com/article/SB123092507441049631.html
-Time to Step Up for Credit Score
By MARY PILON
A Higher Number Is Needed for Some Loans; How to Improve Your Chances
It used to be that a 720 credit score or higher would get you the best interest rates. With lenders suddenly focused on credit risk, that isn't necessarily the case anymore.
http://online.wsj.com/article/SB123094542526250689.html
-Harry Reid v. the Constitution
If Roland Burris isn't fit for the Senate, how is Chris Dodd? An Illinois court will eventually decide if Governor Rod Blagojevich is guilty of corruption. But on at least one issue he is more law-abiding than Majority Leader Harry Reid and fellow Democrats: the seating of Roland Burris to replace Barack Obama in the U.S. Senate.
http://online.wsj.com/article/SB123094461932550595.html
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Sun-Sentinel
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-Cuban-American Jorge Labarga of Palm Beach County named to Florida Supreme Court by Gov. Charlie Crist
Jorge Labarga, 56, wins out in process full of controversy
By Josh Hafenbrack
Veteran Palm Beach County Circuit Judge Jorge Labarga was elevated to the Florida Supreme Court Friday, becoming the second Cuban-American named to the state's highest legal panel.
http://www.sun-sentinel.com/news/politics/elections/sfl-flfsupco0103sbjan03,0,5856050.story
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Miami Herald
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-ABSTINENCE
`An experiment gone awry'
BY ELLEN GOODMAN
I hate to bring this up right now when the ink is barely dry on your New Year's resolution. But if history is any guide, you are likely to fall off the assorted wagons to which you are currently lashed. I don't say this to disparage your willpower. Hang onto that celery stick for dear life.
http://www.miamiherald.com/opinion/other-views/story/835802.html
-Restore firearms ban in national parks
OUR OPINION: Administration uses waning days to pander to the NRA In addition to making it easier for coal miners to pollute rivers and streams, allowing more mining in lands adjacent to national parks and implementing rules that weaken the Endangered Species Act, the Bush administration this month gave the National Rifle Association a parting gift by lifting a decades-long ban on concealed weapons in national parks.
http://www.miamiherald.com/opinion/editorials/story/832169.html
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FLORIDA DIGEST - January 03, 2009
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~~FLORIDA GENERAL NEWS~~
Fort Report
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-Editorial: Stop raiding trust fund to balance budget on backs of needy children
Health of children essential in keeping Florida's economy, finances sustainable
Funny, but when Florida is looking for a good fiscal conservative, it finds one in a liberal Democrat's son, Bud Chiles. Chiles has threatened to sue the state if it continues to raid the $1.2 billion state trust created in the name of the late Gov. Lawton Chiles to sustain health programs for the young and elderly.
http://www.tcpalm.com/news/2009/jan/02/our-03/
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Fort Report
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-Editorial: Stop raiding trust fund to balance budget on backs of needy children
Health of children essential in keeping Florida's economy, finances sustainable
Funny, but when Florida is looking for a good fiscal conservative, it finds one in a liberal Democrat's son, Bud Chiles. Chiles has threatened to sue the state if it continues to raid the $1.2 billion state trust created in the name of the late Gov. Lawton Chiles to sustain health programs for the young and elderly.
http://www.tcpalm.com/news/2009/jan/02/our-03/
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GLBT DIGEST - January 02, 2009
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Washington Post
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-Portland: Largest US city with openly gay mayor
By MARY HUDETZ
Portland became the nation's largest city with an openly gay mayor Thursday as a longtime City Hall insider took the oath of office. Sam Adams, 45, was sworn into office at 12:01 a.m. New Year's Day at City Hall during a ceremony attended by a crowd of about 40 that included his mother and his partner.
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2009/01/01/AR2009010101993.html
-Obama's Team Rankles the Right
To Some Conservatives, Advisers Are Alarmingly Liberal
By Carol D. Leonnig
To some staunch conservatives watching President Bush relinquish the reins of power to President-elect Barack Obama, a few too many ardent liberals are now crashing the gates.
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2009/01/01/AR2009010101832.html
-Former R.I. Senator Claiborne Pell, 90; Sponsored Grant Program
Claiborne Pell, 90, a six-term Rhode Island Democrat who rose to be chairman of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, died Jan. 1 at his Newport, R.I., home. He had had Parkinson's disease since 1994. [...] In 1993, amid a debate over the nomination of Roberta Achtenberg, who was gay, to be an assistant secretary in the Department of Housing and Urban Development, Sen. Pell impressed his colleagues when he took to the Senate floor to announce that one of his daughters, Julia L. W. Pell, was gay. "I would not want to see her barred from a government job because of her orientation," he said.
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2009/01/01/AR2009010101521.html
-In 2009 Religion Will Cause More Trouble and Be In More Trouble
by Deepak Chopra
Organized religion has been in decline in every developed country for decades. It has lost the culture wars, the scientific wars, and as the schism in the Episcopal Church over gay bishops evidences, quite a few moral wars. The best that religion can hope for is to live comfortably side by side with secular society. Other than that, 2009 will witness the same decline in status and membership as in previous years, with intermittent increases in the sector of fundamentalism. Now that fundamentalism has become a dreaded word in every troubled part of the globe, the taint of extremism may harm that movement as well.
http://newsweek.washingtonpost.com/onfaith/deepak_chopra/2008/12/in_2009_religion_will_cause_mo.html
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-2 men, 2 teens held in gang rape of lesbian near San Francisco; authorities call it hate crime
By Associated Press
Two men and two teens have been arrested on suspicion of gang-raping a woman last month in the San Francisco Bay area while allegedly taunting her for being a lesbian, police said Thursday.
http://www.sun-sentinel.com/news/nationworld/nation/wire/sns-ap-lesbian-rape,0,4873181.story
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-Saudis beheaded for raping a man
RIYADH: Two Saudis were beheaded by the sword in Saudi Arabia yesterday after being convicted of raping a man, the interior ministry said. Nasser Al-Harby and Majid Al-Sibeiy entered a room of the unidentified man while he was sleeping before beating him, tying him up and raping him, the ministry said in a statement carried by the official SPA news agency. The beheadings in the capital Riyadh bring to 100 the total number of executions this year in the ultra-conservative Gulf kingdom.
http://gayswithoutborders.wordpress.com/
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Gay American Heroes Foundation Update.
www.GayAmericanHeroes.com
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-7 GAY MURDERS IN DECEMBER 2008.
1 LGBT MURDER EVERY 9 DAYS IN 2008.
19 States Do NOT Report LGBT MURDERS.
-Please watch Christine Oleary, 2 minute video.
www.iamgay.tv/video/2108675:Video:7295
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Richmond police investigate rape as hate crime.
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-Nevada: 2 Teens Murder Gay School Teacher "Gay Panic "
A 17-year-old who told police that he and his brother strangled a high school choir teacher said the teacher made him uncomfortable with sexual advances the night the teens killed him, according to an arrest report. The juvenile and his 18-year-old brother were being held Tuesday in the Dec. 21 slaying of Matthew Cox, 32, who taught at Basic High School in Henderson. The youth told police that he and his brother were at Cox's home in Henderson, with his brother downstairs playing video games while he was upstairs with Cox. The 17-year-old told investigators that while upstairs Cox "started to get sexual with him," making him uncomfortable. The youth said in the report that he and his brother strangled Cox in his Volkswagen Beetle after Cox drove the boys home.
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Truth Wins Out - TWO
by Wayne Besen
http://www.truthwinsout.org/
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-It is hard to believe that another year has passed. Thanks to your help, Truth Wins Out (TWO) had a significant impact in 2008. When our community was attacked with anti-gay lies, Truth Wins Out was consistently there to passionately defend us. We stood up to the "ex-gay" myth and educated America about these dangerous programs that prey on GLBT youth. The Henry Van Ameringen Foundation has generously awarded Truth Wins Out a matching gift of $20,000 - thus, doubling the impact of your dollars. If you are considering a tax-deductible New Year's contribution, here are a few of Truth Wins Out's accomplishments to remember: http://www.truthwinsout.org/
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South Florida Blade
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-Gay couple dreams of adopting daughters
Milestone case chisled away at Florida ban on gay adoptive parents
By Dan Renzi
Years before Frank Martin Gill successfully challenged Florida's ban on gay people adopting children, a Tampa Bay couple made a legal precedent of their own, by winning long-term parenting rights of their two foster daughters.
http://www.floridablade.com/blog/index.cfm#23262
-A Year of Wins and Losses
GLBT Floridians enter 2009 bruised, determined for change
By JUAN CARLOS RODRIGUEZ
"Change" was a buzzword that hovered over much of 2008, but for gay people across America defeats in gay marriage amendment were the same-old-same-old. In South Florida the rough and tumble year brought unsettling realities in the wake of the Amendment 2 battle. Political matters remain front and center as the struggle for real equality becomes a rallying cry for the increasing numbers of gay families and political leaders throughout the state. These are just a few of the stories that mattered to South Florida's LGBT community.
http://www.floridablade.com/2008/12-25/news/localnews/5400.cfm
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The Advocate
http://advocate.com/
Go to this link for the following articles:
-NYT Columnist Calls Out Obama on Warren Selection
New York Times columnist Frank Rich took to the op-ed pages Sunday to rail against President-elect Barack Obama for his selection of conservative pastor Rick Warren to deliver the opening prayer at January's inauguration.
http://www.advocate.com/news_detail_ektid69755.asp
-The Sissy Awards
By Alonso Duralde
Among many gays, "sissy" is a distinction worthy of honor, sort of like the red badge of courage. But among closed-minded straights, it's a devastating insult, which is why?The Advocate ?bestows the word on the following irritants of 2008.
Click the byline to view more stories by this author.
http://www.advocate.com/issue_story_ektid67108.asp
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Pink News - UK
http://www.pinknews.co.uk/
Go to this link for the following articles:
-Man becomes Australia's first recognised gay war widow after 10 year struggle
By Rachel Charman
Sydney pensioner Edward Young has won a decade-long legal battle to receive his deceased partner's pension. Mr Young's partner of 38 years Larry Cains served with the Australian Army in Borneo during World War II, the Sydney Morning Herald reports.
http://www.pinknews.co.uk/news/articles/2005-10220.html
-Catholic agencies turn on gay adoption rights as exemption period runs out
By Rachel Charman
50% of the Catholic adoption agencies that threatened to close if forced to work with gay couples have adopted the new equality law. 11 agencies were given a 21 month exemption period from the Equality Act in April 2007, which forbade discrimination in the provision of good and services on the grounds of sexuality.
http://www.pinknews.co.uk/news/articles/2005-10216.html
-Three black gay men gunned down in New Orleans
By Rachel Charman
New Orleans police are searching for the killers of three black gay men after they were found dead at their home on December 18th. Felix Pearson, 19, Kenneth Monroe, 27, and Darriel Wilson, 20, lived together in New Orleans, all from Mississippi.
http://www.pinknews.co.uk/news/articles/2005-10196.html
-Transgendered woman shot in Memphis as violence is blamed on lack of jobs
By Jessica Green
Another transgender woman has been shot in Memphis, becoming the third transgender shooting victim in the city in just six months. Campaigners have blamed the murders on a lack of job opportunities for transgender people, saying that some have no option other than working on the streets where they are at risk from attacks.
http://www.pinknews.co.uk/news/articles/2005-10167.html
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Washington Post
http://www.washingtonpost.com/
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-Portland: Largest US city with openly gay mayor
By MARY HUDETZ
Portland became the nation's largest city with an openly gay mayor Thursday as a longtime City Hall insider took the oath of office. Sam Adams, 45, was sworn into office at 12:01 a.m. New Year's Day at City Hall during a ceremony attended by a crowd of about 40 that included his mother and his partner.
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2009/01/01/AR2009010101993.html
-Obama's Team Rankles the Right
To Some Conservatives, Advisers Are Alarmingly Liberal
By Carol D. Leonnig
To some staunch conservatives watching President Bush relinquish the reins of power to President-elect Barack Obama, a few too many ardent liberals are now crashing the gates.
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2009/01/01/AR2009010101832.html
-Former R.I. Senator Claiborne Pell, 90; Sponsored Grant Program
Claiborne Pell, 90, a six-term Rhode Island Democrat who rose to be chairman of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, died Jan. 1 at his Newport, R.I., home. He had had Parkinson's disease since 1994. [...] In 1993, amid a debate over the nomination of Roberta Achtenberg, who was gay, to be an assistant secretary in the Department of Housing and Urban Development, Sen. Pell impressed his colleagues when he took to the Senate floor to announce that one of his daughters, Julia L. W. Pell, was gay. "I would not want to see her barred from a government job because of her orientation," he said.
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2009/01/01/AR2009010101521.html
-In 2009 Religion Will Cause More Trouble and Be In More Trouble
by Deepak Chopra
Organized religion has been in decline in every developed country for decades. It has lost the culture wars, the scientific wars, and as the schism in the Episcopal Church over gay bishops evidences, quite a few moral wars. The best that religion can hope for is to live comfortably side by side with secular society. Other than that, 2009 will witness the same decline in status and membership as in previous years, with intermittent increases in the sector of fundamentalism. Now that fundamentalism has become a dreaded word in every troubled part of the globe, the taint of extremism may harm that movement as well.
http://newsweek.washingtonpost.com/onfaith/deepak_chopra/2008/12/in_2009_religion_will_cause_mo.html
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Sun-Sentinel
http://www.sun-sentinel.com/
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-2 men, 2 teens held in gang rape of lesbian near San Francisco; authorities call it hate crime
By Associated Press
Two men and two teens have been arrested on suspicion of gang-raping a woman last month in the San Francisco Bay area while allegedly taunting her for being a lesbian, police said Thursday.
http://www.sun-sentinel.com/news/nationworld/nation/wire/sns-ap-lesbian-rape,0,4873181.story
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Forwarded from Gays Without Borders
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-Saudis beheaded for raping a man
RIYADH: Two Saudis were beheaded by the sword in Saudi Arabia yesterday after being convicted of raping a man, the interior ministry said. Nasser Al-Harby and Majid Al-Sibeiy entered a room of the unidentified man while he was sleeping before beating him, tying him up and raping him, the ministry said in a statement carried by the official SPA news agency. The beheadings in the capital Riyadh bring to 100 the total number of executions this year in the ultra-conservative Gulf kingdom.
http://gayswithoutborders.wordpress.com/
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Gay American Heroes Foundation Update.
www.GayAmericanHeroes.com
Go to this link for the following articles:
-7 GAY MURDERS IN DECEMBER 2008.
1 LGBT MURDER EVERY 9 DAYS IN 2008.
19 States Do NOT Report LGBT MURDERS.
-Please watch Christine Oleary, 2 minute video.
www.iamgay.tv/video/2108675:Video:7295
-See the 1 minute 3-D Video of our Memorial
www.vimeo.com/2334727
-$11,000 REWARD
Richmond police investigate rape as hate crime.
www.gayamericanheroes.info/Rewardrape.html
-Nevada: 2 Teens Murder Gay School Teacher "Gay Panic "
A 17-year-old who told police that he and his brother strangled a high school choir teacher said the teacher made him uncomfortable with sexual advances the night the teens killed him, according to an arrest report. The juvenile and his 18-year-old brother were being held Tuesday in the Dec. 21 slaying of Matthew Cox, 32, who taught at Basic High School in Henderson. The youth told police that he and his brother were at Cox's home in Henderson, with his brother downstairs playing video games while he was upstairs with Cox. The 17-year-old told investigators that while upstairs Cox "started to get sexual with him," making him uncomfortable. The youth said in the report that he and his brother strangled Cox in his Volkswagen Beetle after Cox drove the boys home.
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Truth Wins Out - TWO
by Wayne Besen
http://www.truthwinsout.org/
Go to this link for the following articles:
-It is hard to believe that another year has passed. Thanks to your help, Truth Wins Out (TWO) had a significant impact in 2008. When our community was attacked with anti-gay lies, Truth Wins Out was consistently there to passionately defend us. We stood up to the "ex-gay" myth and educated America about these dangerous programs that prey on GLBT youth. The Henry Van Ameringen Foundation has generously awarded Truth Wins Out a matching gift of $20,000 - thus, doubling the impact of your dollars. If you are considering a tax-deductible New Year's contribution, here are a few of Truth Wins Out's accomplishments to remember: http://www.truthwinsout.org/
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South Florida Blade
http://www.floridablade.com/
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-Gay couple dreams of adopting daughters
Milestone case chisled away at Florida ban on gay adoptive parents
By Dan Renzi
Years before Frank Martin Gill successfully challenged Florida's ban on gay people adopting children, a Tampa Bay couple made a legal precedent of their own, by winning long-term parenting rights of their two foster daughters.
http://www.floridablade.com/blog/index.cfm#23262
-A Year of Wins and Losses
GLBT Floridians enter 2009 bruised, determined for change
By JUAN CARLOS RODRIGUEZ
"Change" was a buzzword that hovered over much of 2008, but for gay people across America defeats in gay marriage amendment were the same-old-same-old. In South Florida the rough and tumble year brought unsettling realities in the wake of the Amendment 2 battle. Political matters remain front and center as the struggle for real equality becomes a rallying cry for the increasing numbers of gay families and political leaders throughout the state. These are just a few of the stories that mattered to South Florida's LGBT community.
http://www.floridablade.com/2008/12-25/news/localnews/5400.cfm
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The Advocate
http://advocate.com/
Go to this link for the following articles:
-NYT Columnist Calls Out Obama on Warren Selection
New York Times columnist Frank Rich took to the op-ed pages Sunday to rail against President-elect Barack Obama for his selection of conservative pastor Rick Warren to deliver the opening prayer at January's inauguration.
http://www.advocate.com/news_detail_ektid69755.asp
-The Sissy Awards
By Alonso Duralde
Among many gays, "sissy" is a distinction worthy of honor, sort of like the red badge of courage. But among closed-minded straights, it's a devastating insult, which is why?The Advocate ?bestows the word on the following irritants of 2008.
Click the byline to view more stories by this author.
http://www.advocate.com/issue_story_ektid67108.asp
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Pink News - UK
http://www.pinknews.co.uk/
Go to this link for the following articles:
-Man becomes Australia's first recognised gay war widow after 10 year struggle
By Rachel Charman
Sydney pensioner Edward Young has won a decade-long legal battle to receive his deceased partner's pension. Mr Young's partner of 38 years Larry Cains served with the Australian Army in Borneo during World War II, the Sydney Morning Herald reports.
http://www.pinknews.co.uk/news/articles/2005-10220.html
-Catholic agencies turn on gay adoption rights as exemption period runs out
By Rachel Charman
50% of the Catholic adoption agencies that threatened to close if forced to work with gay couples have adopted the new equality law. 11 agencies were given a 21 month exemption period from the Equality Act in April 2007, which forbade discrimination in the provision of good and services on the grounds of sexuality.
http://www.pinknews.co.uk/news/articles/2005-10216.html
-Three black gay men gunned down in New Orleans
By Rachel Charman
New Orleans police are searching for the killers of three black gay men after they were found dead at their home on December 18th. Felix Pearson, 19, Kenneth Monroe, 27, and Darriel Wilson, 20, lived together in New Orleans, all from Mississippi.
http://www.pinknews.co.uk/news/articles/2005-10196.html
-Transgendered woman shot in Memphis as violence is blamed on lack of jobs
By Jessica Green
Another transgender woman has been shot in Memphis, becoming the third transgender shooting victim in the city in just six months. Campaigners have blamed the murders on a lack of job opportunities for transgender people, saying that some have no option other than working on the streets where they are at risk from attacks.
http://www.pinknews.co.uk/news/articles/2005-10167.html
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NATIONAL & WORLD DIGEST - January 02, 2009
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New York Times
http://www.nytimes.com/
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-Bigger Than Bush
PAUL KRUGMAN
Forty years ago the G.O.P. decided, in effect, to make itself the party of racial backlash. And everything that has happened in recent years is a consequence of that decision.
http://www.nytimes.com/2009/01/02/opinion/02krugman.html?_r=1&ref=opinion
-Iran: The Woman the Mullahs Fear
We urge the United States, Europe and other powers to keep pressure on Iran to ensure that human rights activist Shirin Ebadi remains free to do her essential work.
http://www.nytimes.com/2009/01/02/opinion/02fri2.html?ref=opinion
-The Next World Order
By GURCHARAN DAS
Both the Chinese and the Indians are convinced that their prosperity will only increase. In China it will be induced by the state; in India, it may well happen despite the state.
http://www.nytimes.com/2009/01/02/opinion/02das.html?ref=opinion
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Washington Post
http://www.washingtonpost.com/
Go to the links for the following articles:
-Cuba: Fifty Years of Failure
Eugene Robinson
It is time to bring five decades of counterproductive Cuba policy to a definitive end.
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2009/01/01/AR2009010101784.html
-Moral Clarity in Gaza
Charles Krauthammer
Some geopolitical conflicts are morally complicated. Not the Israel-Gaza war. Late Saturday, thousands of Gazans received Arabic-language cell-phone messages from the Israeli military, urging them to leave homes where militants might have stashed weapons. {...} For Hamas, the only thing more prized than dead Jews are dead Palestinians.
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2009/01/01/AR2009010101780.html
-Folding Blago's Big Top
By E. J. Dionne Jr.
Political circuses just don't get any better than this -- unless you happen to care about a new administration taking power in the midst of national and international catastrophes.
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2009/01/01/AR2009010101779.html
-A Clue to Ancient Extinction?
Discovery suggests a comet strike 13,000 years ago caused Earth to revert to glacial conditions.
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2009/01/01/AR2009010101490.html?hpid=topnews
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Sun-Sentinel
http://www.sun-sentinel.com/
Go to the links for the following articles:
-Gas tax is best way to end U.S. addiction
How many times do we have to see this play before we admit that it always ends the same way? Gasoline prices go up, pressure rises for more fuel-efficient cars, then gasoline prices fall and the pressure for low-mileage vehicles vanishes, consumers stop buying those cars, the oil producers celebrate, we remain addicted to oil and prices gradually go up again, petro-dictators get rich, we lose.
http://www.sun-sentinel.com/news/opinion/sfl-01friedmansbjan01,0,16374.story
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Newsweek
http://www.newsweek.com/
-The Top of the Class
The complete list of the 1,300 top U.S. high schools in U.S. Search by school, city, or state.
http://www.newsweek.com/id/39380/?q=2008/rank/1/
-The Public Elites
Some schools didn't make our list because their students are too good. The best of the best.
http://www.newsweek.com/id/137421/page/1
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Fort Report
http://www.fortreport.com/
Go to the links for the following articles:
-Obama sparks hope in young men
Teen says president-elect will do good things for young black males.
By Jessie-Lynne Kerr
Brian Baham hopes the election of Barack Obama will set an example for young black males that they can "survive, strive and succeed in life." Cameron Fowler believes the next president can help improve the plight of young black males "because he came from a place where he didn't have everything."
http://www.jacksonville.com/news/metro/2009-01-02/obama_sparks_hope_in_young_men
-2009 brings hard choices over the future of capitalism
Either a large part of humankind has to be excluded from the happy benefits of growth or our way of life has to change
Timothy Garton Ash
Happy new year? You must be joking. 2009 will begin with a wail, and then get worse. Millions of people have already been put out of work, across the world, by this first truly globalised crisis of capitalism. Tens of millions more will be made jobless soon. Those of us lucky enough still to have work will feel poorer and less secure. To celebrate his Nobel prize in economics, Paul Krugman promises us months of "economic hell". Thank you, Paul, and a happy new year to you too.
http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/2009/jan/01/economics-credit-crunch-recession
-A Trillion Dollar Recovery
posted by Katrina vanden Heuvel
Poverty is on the rise, record numbers of people are relying on food stamps and we've seen no relief for the foreclosure crisis. There are increasing rates of child abuse and domestic violence linked to this recession. State governments don't have financial resources to cope at the exact moment when those resources are most needed. Nineteen states and the District of Columbia have lowered Medicaid payments or eliminated people from eligibility. The senior economist of the International Monetary Fund recently warned of another Great Depression
http://www.thenation.com/blogs/edcut/392672/a_trillion_dollar_recovery?rel=hp_picks
-Another brutal year for liberty
By Glenn Greenwald
The good news is that it's clear what the Obama administration must do to end the decade-long war on the Constitution.
http://www.salon.com/opinion/feature/2009/01/01/civil_liberties/
-GOP plans to crash economy
Libby Spencer
Senate minority leader Mitch McConnell announced on Monday that he intends to block President Obama's stimulus bill, before he's seen it. He said, "As of right now, Americans are left with more questions than answers about this unprecedented government spending, and I believe the taxpayers deserve to know a lot more about where it will be spent before we consider passing it."
http://info.detnews.com/redesign/blogs/politicsblog/index.cfm?blogid=13921
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New York Times
http://www.nytimes.com/
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-Bigger Than Bush
PAUL KRUGMAN
Forty years ago the G.O.P. decided, in effect, to make itself the party of racial backlash. And everything that has happened in recent years is a consequence of that decision.
http://www.nytimes.com/2009/01/02/opinion/02krugman.html?_r=1&ref=opinion
-Iran: The Woman the Mullahs Fear
We urge the United States, Europe and other powers to keep pressure on Iran to ensure that human rights activist Shirin Ebadi remains free to do her essential work.
http://www.nytimes.com/2009/01/02/opinion/02fri2.html?ref=opinion
-The Next World Order
By GURCHARAN DAS
Both the Chinese and the Indians are convinced that their prosperity will only increase. In China it will be induced by the state; in India, it may well happen despite the state.
http://www.nytimes.com/2009/01/02/opinion/02das.html?ref=opinion
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Washington Post
http://www.washingtonpost.com/
Go to the links for the following articles:
-Cuba: Fifty Years of Failure
Eugene Robinson
It is time to bring five decades of counterproductive Cuba policy to a definitive end.
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2009/01/01/AR2009010101784.html
-Moral Clarity in Gaza
Charles Krauthammer
Some geopolitical conflicts are morally complicated. Not the Israel-Gaza war. Late Saturday, thousands of Gazans received Arabic-language cell-phone messages from the Israeli military, urging them to leave homes where militants might have stashed weapons. {...} For Hamas, the only thing more prized than dead Jews are dead Palestinians.
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2009/01/01/AR2009010101780.html
-Folding Blago's Big Top
By E. J. Dionne Jr.
Political circuses just don't get any better than this -- unless you happen to care about a new administration taking power in the midst of national and international catastrophes.
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2009/01/01/AR2009010101779.html
-A Clue to Ancient Extinction?
Discovery suggests a comet strike 13,000 years ago caused Earth to revert to glacial conditions.
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2009/01/01/AR2009010101490.html?hpid=topnews
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Sun-Sentinel
http://www.sun-sentinel.com/
Go to the links for the following articles:
-Gas tax is best way to end U.S. addiction
How many times do we have to see this play before we admit that it always ends the same way? Gasoline prices go up, pressure rises for more fuel-efficient cars, then gasoline prices fall and the pressure for low-mileage vehicles vanishes, consumers stop buying those cars, the oil producers celebrate, we remain addicted to oil and prices gradually go up again, petro-dictators get rich, we lose.
http://www.sun-sentinel.com/news/opinion/sfl-01friedmansbjan01,0,16374.story
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Newsweek
http://www.newsweek.com/
-The Top of the Class
The complete list of the 1,300 top U.S. high schools in U.S. Search by school, city, or state.
http://www.newsweek.com/id/39380/?q=2008/rank/1/
-The Public Elites
Some schools didn't make our list because their students are too good. The best of the best.
http://www.newsweek.com/id/137421/page/1
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Fort Report
http://www.fortreport.com/
Go to the links for the following articles:
-Obama sparks hope in young men
Teen says president-elect will do good things for young black males.
By Jessie-Lynne Kerr
Brian Baham hopes the election of Barack Obama will set an example for young black males that they can "survive, strive and succeed in life." Cameron Fowler believes the next president can help improve the plight of young black males "because he came from a place where he didn't have everything."
http://www.jacksonville.com/news/metro/2009-01-02/obama_sparks_hope_in_young_men
-2009 brings hard choices over the future of capitalism
Either a large part of humankind has to be excluded from the happy benefits of growth or our way of life has to change
Timothy Garton Ash
Happy new year? You must be joking. 2009 will begin with a wail, and then get worse. Millions of people have already been put out of work, across the world, by this first truly globalised crisis of capitalism. Tens of millions more will be made jobless soon. Those of us lucky enough still to have work will feel poorer and less secure. To celebrate his Nobel prize in economics, Paul Krugman promises us months of "economic hell". Thank you, Paul, and a happy new year to you too.
http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/2009/jan/01/economics-credit-crunch-recession
-A Trillion Dollar Recovery
posted by Katrina vanden Heuvel
Poverty is on the rise, record numbers of people are relying on food stamps and we've seen no relief for the foreclosure crisis. There are increasing rates of child abuse and domestic violence linked to this recession. State governments don't have financial resources to cope at the exact moment when those resources are most needed. Nineteen states and the District of Columbia have lowered Medicaid payments or eliminated people from eligibility. The senior economist of the International Monetary Fund recently warned of another Great Depression
http://www.thenation.com/blogs/edcut/392672/a_trillion_dollar_recovery?rel=hp_picks
-Another brutal year for liberty
By Glenn Greenwald
The good news is that it's clear what the Obama administration must do to end the decade-long war on the Constitution.
http://www.salon.com/opinion/feature/2009/01/01/civil_liberties/
-GOP plans to crash economy
Libby Spencer
Senate minority leader Mitch McConnell announced on Monday that he intends to block President Obama's stimulus bill, before he's seen it. He said, "As of right now, Americans are left with more questions than answers about this unprecedented government spending, and I believe the taxpayers deserve to know a lot more about where it will be spent before we consider passing it."
http://info.detnews.com/redesign/blogs/politicsblog/index.cfm?blogid=13921
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FLORIDA DIGEST - January 02, 2009
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~~FLORIDA GLBT NEWS~~
From DERRICK HANKERSON For Dania Beach City Commission Campaign
-Campaign Kickoff - Tuesday, January 6 - 6:30pm
Paolo's 3's Company Restaurant
242 E Danbia Beach Blvd.
RSVP - 954-374-9199
http://derrickhankerson.com/
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From Steve Glassman for Ft. Lauderdale City Commission Campaign
Fort Lauderdale now has an opportunity to look at a more positive future.
Please join host Alan J. Levy and meet Steve Glassman, one of Broward County's major supporters of quality growth and the creative industries.
Monday, January 12, 2009 - 5:30pm - 7:30pm
Office of Alan Levy - 11 SW 15th Street
Fort Lauderdale, FL 33315
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From Dean Trantalis for Ft. Lauderdale Mayor CVampaign
Rally for Dean - Partnership for Change
Wednesday, January 7 - 6pm
ArtServe - 1350 E Sunrise Blvd., Ft. Lauderdale
We're starting off the new year with a strong push and we need support from all of you. As you all know, we have an "all hands on deck" call for the rally on January 7 at 6pm at ArtServ. In addition, we have a number of upcoming events that need your help.
Please let me know by responding to this email if you can help at any of the following:
January 13th at the Four Seasons from 5:30 - 9pm;
January 14th at Drake Towers from 5 - 8:30pm; or
January 17th at La Rive from 5 - 8:30pm.
If you can make any or all of them, let me know and I'll place you where you're the most needed. To reiterate something for the newer volunteers, if you can't make it exactly at 5 since we know some of you, like me, work, don't sweat it. Sign up anyway and we'll place you where you're needed when you're available. Thank you so much for a great 2008. Now let's make sure we win in 2009!
Chip Clapp
Volunteer Coordinator
Dean Trantalis for Mayor Campaign
volunteer@deanformayor.com
(954) 701-2902 cell
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National Gay News
http://nationalgaynews.com/component/option,com_frontpage/Itemid,1/
Go to this link for the following articles:
-Jim Stork: Voters Who Fought Gay Marriage Can Kiss My A--
Former Wilton Manors Mayor Jim Stork was on vacation in Mexico on Christmas when the Miami Herald wrote about his $30,000 election fine related to his 2004 Congressional race. The Federal Election Commission concluded that Stork's ads about pie and coffee at his bakeries were essentially campaign ads paid for with corporate dollars -- a big no-no for candidates. Stork emailed us a colorful response to the article. Here are some highlights: "I guess it is a compliment that the federal government believes that the quality of my Stork's food can somehow influence voter decisions,'' he wrote. He added that rather than spend more money to fight the charge he decided to contribute money to those in need instead. Stork, a Democrat, had mysteriously dropped out of his race against Republican Clay Shaw in 2004, claiming an unspecific heart ailment. He now says it was bacterial endocarditus and that he ''poorly handled communication.'' Shaw easily won the race against a replacement candidate though he lost to Ron Klein two years later. This past year, Stork was involved in the Florida Red and Blue campaign, which failed to defeat Amendment 2 which banned gay marriage in the Constitution. About this issue he says: "I have no more tolerance for those who voted for Amendment 2 or those who want to take my rights away ... which includes dumb rednecks, bible thumping white folks, bible thumping Hispanics, self-centered educated people who are so self bsorbed that they don't bother to look into an issue, lazy gay people who don't get involved or are too weak to come out of the closet, and am now most disappointed in African Americans who should be the least likely group of folks to judge others, but are the ones who judge others the most ... all of these folks can kiss my a--.'' And for those folks who miss eating apple pie and lemon blueberry biscuits at Stork's on Las Olas which closed a few months ago, Stork says the future of the spot is ''pending, but it will not be called storks.'' The Wilton Manors location, which Stork sold to his baker, remains open.
http://nationalgaynews.com/content/view/4342/
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DOLPHIN DEMOCRATS CAMPAIGN COMMITTEE NEEDS YOUR HELP !!
GET OUT THE VOTE TABLE
GLCC 1717 N. ANDREWS AVENUE
SATURDAY JANUARY.3, 2009 - 8AM TO 2 PM
TWO HOUR SHIFTS 7AM- 9AM; 9AM-11AM; 11AM-1PM- 12 NOON TO 2PM ONLY YOU CAN
MAKE IT HAPPEN; WE NEED TO INFORM THE PUBLIC OF THE VARIOUS MUNICIPAL RACE'S
IN BROWARD COUNTY: FORT LAUDERDALE;OAKLAND PARK; WILTON MANORS; DANIA BEACH
PLEASE LET MICHAEL ALBETTA KNOW WHAT TIME YOU AND ASSIST ON THIS MATTER- IF YOU PLAN TO ATTEND TO HELP - PLEASE CALL AT 954-390-6537 OR E-MAIL TO PRESIDENT@FLORIDAGLBTDEMOCRATS.ORG
REMEMBER> ENOUGH OF THE HOMOPHOBES- AWAY WITH THE NAUGLES, MANN'S AND HATERS- DR. FRED PHLEPS IS IN OAKLAND PARK ON JAN. 16TH IT IS TIME TO INFORM THE PEOPLE OF THE UP-COMING ELECTIONS FEBRUARY 10TH TUESDAY, MARCH.10TH, TUESDAY
~~FLORIDA GENERAL NEWS~~
From Scott Newton for Wilton Manors City Commission Campaign
YOU ARE CORDIALLY INVITED TO ATTEND A CAMPAIGN FUNDRAISER
Monday January 5th - 6-8pm
Georgie's Alibi - Manchester Room
2266 Wilton Dr. - Wilton Manors
http://votenewton.com/
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Steve Rothaus
www.MiamiHerald.com/gay
Go to this link for the following articles:
-'God Hates Fags' church threatens to picket Rising Action Theatre
Westboro Baptist Church under the direction of self proclaimed "fag hater" Reverend Fred Phelps has scheduled a picket of the Rising Action Theatre located in Oakland Park, Florida on Friday Jan 16 from 7:15 to 8 pm according to the church's website (www.westborobaptistchurch.com) and an anonymous phone call to the theatre's Artistic Director, David Goldyn, because of he current production of Paul Rudnick's, "The Most Fabulous Story Ever Told." "The Most Fabulous Story Ever Told" has been produced numerous times across the country and Off Broadway in New York. According to the forward of the play, Paul Rudnick penned the play because he was tired of hearing that God Made Adam and Eve; not Adam and Steve. The writer in him asked what if God made Adam and Steve? What if God made Jane and Mabel? What if God made Adam and Eve AND Adam and Steve? What if the stories of the bible were written from a different point of view? Isn't God for everyone?
That is the theme behind "The Most Fabulous Story Ever Told"-seeing the world from a different perspective and making sense of God and spirituality for all people in modern society. [...] Rising Action Theatre is a not for profit charitable organization "dedicated to educating the public in diversity and tolerance for all people." Recent productions include: "Six Dance Lessons in Six Weeks", "The Sisters' Rosensweig", "Confessions of a Mormon Boy" and "Some Men". Rising Action Theatre also recently started a Seniors' Readers Theatre that has gay, straight, black, and white seniors working proudly together.
http://miamiherald.typepad.com/gaysouthflorida/
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Miami Herald
http://www.miamiherald.com/
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-Crist promotes Labarga to Florida Supreme Court
Gov. Charlie Crist on Friday appointed Jorge Labarga to the Florida Supreme Court, filling his third of four vacancies on the state's highest tribunal. Labarga was only last week elevated from the circuit court in Palm Beach County to the Fourth District Court of Appeal. Labarga, 56, of Wellington, is a native of Cuba whom Crist only last week elevated from the circuit court in Palm Beach County to the Fourth District Court of Appeal. Labarga replaces Harry Lee Anstead, 71, who must step down from the high court because of the state's mandatory retirement age of 70. Labarga is not without controversy: He made some off-the-cuff remarks from the bench in 2007 that raised questions about his judicial temperament.
http://miamiherald.typepad.com/nakedpolitics/2009/01/crist-promotes.html
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Newsweek
http://www.newsweek.com/
Go to this link for the following articles:
-The Top of the Class
The complete list of the 1,300 top U.S. high schools in U.S. Search by school, city, or state. 19 of the top 100 are in Florida.
http://www.newsweek.com/id/39380/?q=2008/rank/1/
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Fort Report
http://www.fortreport.com/
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-Liquor, tobacco shielded from lawmakers' special session
By MYRIAM MARQUEZ
Tax sin, or squeeze kids and tax justice? The Legislature meets for special session next week to figure out how to close a $2.3 billion budget hole in this fiscal year's $65 billion budget. House Speaker Ray Sansom and Senate President Jeff Atwater have proclaimed that any fix to Florida's sales-tax-dependent budget can't include increasing taxes on booze or cigs or even giving the nod to the governor's deal with the Seminoles to get more than $100 million from their casino operations.
http://www.miamiherald.com/news/5min/story/834507.html
-Market booms for male nurses
By Hillary Copsey (Contact)
Shawn Blouin started nursing school because he wanted to help people, to share the compassion he witnessed on a missionary trip last summer down the Amazon River. Job security in a sour economy is just an added bonus for the 22-year-old newlywed from Jensen Beach. It's a factor attracting more men to the still predominately female field of nursing.
http://www.tcpalm.com/news/2009/jan/02/nursing-isnt-just-women-anymore/
-Our views: Consumer beware
New cut-rate Florida health insurance plans could be recipe for bankruptcy Cut-rate health insurance plans to be introduced Monday in Florida are being sold by Gov. Charlie Crist as offering a "robust set of benefits." Crist won approval from the Legislature in 2008 for the Cover Florida initiative - which uses no taxpayer dollars - saying it would make affordable health care available to the state's 3.8 million uninsured residents.
http://www.floridatoday.com/article/20090102/OPINION/81231024/1004/capitolnews
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~~FLORIDA GLBT NEWS~~
From DERRICK HANKERSON For Dania Beach City Commission Campaign
-Campaign Kickoff - Tuesday, January 6 - 6:30pm
Paolo's 3's Company Restaurant
242 E Danbia Beach Blvd.
RSVP - 954-374-9199
http://derrickhankerson.com/
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From Steve Glassman for Ft. Lauderdale City Commission Campaign
Fort Lauderdale now has an opportunity to look at a more positive future.
Please join host Alan J. Levy and meet Steve Glassman, one of Broward County's major supporters of quality growth and the creative industries.
Monday, January 12, 2009 - 5:30pm - 7:30pm
Office of Alan Levy - 11 SW 15th Street
Fort Lauderdale, FL 33315
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From Dean Trantalis for Ft. Lauderdale Mayor CVampaign
Rally for Dean - Partnership for Change
Wednesday, January 7 - 6pm
ArtServe - 1350 E Sunrise Blvd., Ft. Lauderdale
We're starting off the new year with a strong push and we need support from all of you. As you all know, we have an "all hands on deck" call for the rally on January 7 at 6pm at ArtServ. In addition, we have a number of upcoming events that need your help.
Please let me know by responding to this email if you can help at any of the following:
January 13th at the Four Seasons from 5:30 - 9pm;
January 14th at Drake Towers from 5 - 8:30pm; or
January 17th at La Rive from 5 - 8:30pm.
If you can make any or all of them, let me know and I'll place you where you're the most needed. To reiterate something for the newer volunteers, if you can't make it exactly at 5 since we know some of you, like me, work, don't sweat it. Sign up anyway and we'll place you where you're needed when you're available. Thank you so much for a great 2008. Now let's make sure we win in 2009!
Chip Clapp
Volunteer Coordinator
Dean Trantalis for Mayor Campaign
volunteer@deanformayor.com
(954) 701-2902 cell
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National Gay News
http://nationalgaynews.com/component/option,com_frontpage/Itemid,1/
Go to this link for the following articles:
-Jim Stork: Voters Who Fought Gay Marriage Can Kiss My A--
Former Wilton Manors Mayor Jim Stork was on vacation in Mexico on Christmas when the Miami Herald wrote about his $30,000 election fine related to his 2004 Congressional race. The Federal Election Commission concluded that Stork's ads about pie and coffee at his bakeries were essentially campaign ads paid for with corporate dollars -- a big no-no for candidates. Stork emailed us a colorful response to the article. Here are some highlights: "I guess it is a compliment that the federal government believes that the quality of my Stork's food can somehow influence voter decisions,'' he wrote. He added that rather than spend more money to fight the charge he decided to contribute money to those in need instead. Stork, a Democrat, had mysteriously dropped out of his race against Republican Clay Shaw in 2004, claiming an unspecific heart ailment. He now says it was bacterial endocarditus and that he ''poorly handled communication.'' Shaw easily won the race against a replacement candidate though he lost to Ron Klein two years later. This past year, Stork was involved in the Florida Red and Blue campaign, which failed to defeat Amendment 2 which banned gay marriage in the Constitution. About this issue he says: "I have no more tolerance for those who voted for Amendment 2 or those who want to take my rights away ... which includes dumb rednecks, bible thumping white folks, bible thumping Hispanics, self-centered educated people who are so self bsorbed that they don't bother to look into an issue, lazy gay people who don't get involved or are too weak to come out of the closet, and am now most disappointed in African Americans who should be the least likely group of folks to judge others, but are the ones who judge others the most ... all of these folks can kiss my a--.'' And for those folks who miss eating apple pie and lemon blueberry biscuits at Stork's on Las Olas which closed a few months ago, Stork says the future of the spot is ''pending, but it will not be called storks.'' The Wilton Manors location, which Stork sold to his baker, remains open.
http://nationalgaynews.com/content/view/4342/
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DOLPHIN DEMOCRATS CAMPAIGN COMMITTEE NEEDS YOUR HELP !!
GET OUT THE VOTE TABLE
GLCC 1717 N. ANDREWS AVENUE
SATURDAY JANUARY.3, 2009 - 8AM TO 2 PM
TWO HOUR SHIFTS 7AM- 9AM; 9AM-11AM; 11AM-1PM- 12 NOON TO 2PM ONLY YOU CAN
MAKE IT HAPPEN; WE NEED TO INFORM THE PUBLIC OF THE VARIOUS MUNICIPAL RACE'S
IN BROWARD COUNTY: FORT LAUDERDALE;OAKLAND PARK; WILTON MANORS; DANIA BEACH
PLEASE LET MICHAEL ALBETTA KNOW WHAT TIME YOU AND ASSIST ON THIS MATTER- IF YOU PLAN TO ATTEND TO HELP - PLEASE CALL AT 954-390-6537 OR E-MAIL TO PRESIDENT@FLORIDAGLBTDEMOCRATS.ORG
REMEMBER> ENOUGH OF THE HOMOPHOBES- AWAY WITH THE NAUGLES, MANN'S AND HATERS- DR. FRED PHLEPS IS IN OAKLAND PARK ON JAN. 16TH IT IS TIME TO INFORM THE PEOPLE OF THE UP-COMING ELECTIONS FEBRUARY 10TH TUESDAY, MARCH.10TH, TUESDAY
~~FLORIDA GENERAL NEWS~~
From Scott Newton for Wilton Manors City Commission Campaign
YOU ARE CORDIALLY INVITED TO ATTEND A CAMPAIGN FUNDRAISER
Monday January 5th - 6-8pm
Georgie's Alibi - Manchester Room
2266 Wilton Dr. - Wilton Manors
http://votenewton.com/
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Steve Rothaus
www.MiamiHerald.com/gay
Go to this link for the following articles:
-'God Hates Fags' church threatens to picket Rising Action Theatre
Westboro Baptist Church under the direction of self proclaimed "fag hater" Reverend Fred Phelps has scheduled a picket of the Rising Action Theatre located in Oakland Park, Florida on Friday Jan 16 from 7:15 to 8 pm according to the church's website (www.westborobaptistchurch.com) and an anonymous phone call to the theatre's Artistic Director, David Goldyn, because of he current production of Paul Rudnick's, "The Most Fabulous Story Ever Told." "The Most Fabulous Story Ever Told" has been produced numerous times across the country and Off Broadway in New York. According to the forward of the play, Paul Rudnick penned the play because he was tired of hearing that God Made Adam and Eve; not Adam and Steve. The writer in him asked what if God made Adam and Steve? What if God made Jane and Mabel? What if God made Adam and Eve AND Adam and Steve? What if the stories of the bible were written from a different point of view? Isn't God for everyone?
That is the theme behind "The Most Fabulous Story Ever Told"-seeing the world from a different perspective and making sense of God and spirituality for all people in modern society. [...] Rising Action Theatre is a not for profit charitable organization "dedicated to educating the public in diversity and tolerance for all people." Recent productions include: "Six Dance Lessons in Six Weeks", "The Sisters' Rosensweig", "Confessions of a Mormon Boy" and "Some Men". Rising Action Theatre also recently started a Seniors' Readers Theatre that has gay, straight, black, and white seniors working proudly together.
http://miamiherald.typepad.com/gaysouthflorida/
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Miami Herald
http://www.miamiherald.com/
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-Crist promotes Labarga to Florida Supreme Court
Gov. Charlie Crist on Friday appointed Jorge Labarga to the Florida Supreme Court, filling his third of four vacancies on the state's highest tribunal. Labarga was only last week elevated from the circuit court in Palm Beach County to the Fourth District Court of Appeal. Labarga, 56, of Wellington, is a native of Cuba whom Crist only last week elevated from the circuit court in Palm Beach County to the Fourth District Court of Appeal. Labarga replaces Harry Lee Anstead, 71, who must step down from the high court because of the state's mandatory retirement age of 70. Labarga is not without controversy: He made some off-the-cuff remarks from the bench in 2007 that raised questions about his judicial temperament.
http://miamiherald.typepad.com/nakedpolitics/2009/01/crist-promotes.html
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Newsweek
http://www.newsweek.com/
Go to this link for the following articles:
-The Top of the Class
The complete list of the 1,300 top U.S. high schools in U.S. Search by school, city, or state. 19 of the top 100 are in Florida.
http://www.newsweek.com/id/39380/?q=2008/rank/1/
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Fort Report
http://www.fortreport.com/
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-Liquor, tobacco shielded from lawmakers' special session
By MYRIAM MARQUEZ
Tax sin, or squeeze kids and tax justice? The Legislature meets for special session next week to figure out how to close a $2.3 billion budget hole in this fiscal year's $65 billion budget. House Speaker Ray Sansom and Senate President Jeff Atwater have proclaimed that any fix to Florida's sales-tax-dependent budget can't include increasing taxes on booze or cigs or even giving the nod to the governor's deal with the Seminoles to get more than $100 million from their casino operations.
http://www.miamiherald.com/news/5min/story/834507.html
-Market booms for male nurses
By Hillary Copsey (Contact)
Shawn Blouin started nursing school because he wanted to help people, to share the compassion he witnessed on a missionary trip last summer down the Amazon River. Job security in a sour economy is just an added bonus for the 22-year-old newlywed from Jensen Beach. It's a factor attracting more men to the still predominately female field of nursing.
http://www.tcpalm.com/news/2009/jan/02/nursing-isnt-just-women-anymore/
-Our views: Consumer beware
New cut-rate Florida health insurance plans could be recipe for bankruptcy Cut-rate health insurance plans to be introduced Monday in Florida are being sold by Gov. Charlie Crist as offering a "robust set of benefits." Crist won approval from the Legislature in 2008 for the Cover Florida initiative - which uses no taxpayer dollars - saying it would make affordable health care available to the state's 3.8 million uninsured residents.
http://www.floridatoday.com/article/20090102/OPINION/81231024/1004/capitolnews
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Tuesday, December 30, 2008
GLBT DIGEST December 30, 2008
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New York Times
http://www.nytimes.com/
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-The Doctor's World: Leaving Platform That Elevated AIDS Fight
By LAWRENCE K. ALTMAN, M.D
Dr. Peter Piot, the only head of the United Nations AIDS program in its 13-year history, is retiring on Wednesday. He is credited as the person most responsible for making heads of state understand the political, economic and social ramifications of a pandemic that rivals the worst in history.
http://www.nytimes.com/2008/12/30/health/30docs.html?scp=6&sq=gay&st=cse
-The Early Word: Administration Preview
By Michael Falcone
Though the economic crisis, along with renewed tensions in the Middle East, are likely to loom large as the curtain goes up on President-elect Barack Obama's first 100 days, it's not too early to take a look at the new administration's policies on issues that have attracted fewer headlines lately, starting with education.
http://thecaucus.blogs.nytimes.com/2008/12/30/the-early-word-previewing-the/?scp=3&sq=gay&st=cse
-Lesbian Pair Wins Ruling Over Refusal of Ceremony
By THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
A lesbian couple from New Jersey who were barred from holding a civil union ceremony last year at a beachfront pavilion owned by a church group won a legal victory on Monday.
http://www.nytimes.com/2008/12/30/nyregion/30ocean.html?scp=2&sq=gay&st=cse
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Washington Post
http://www.washingtonpost.com/
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-Maine bishop threatens to punish vocal activist
By DAVID SHARP
The leader of Maine's Roman Catholics has taken the unusual step of threatening to punish an outspoken advocate for people who were sexually abused by priests, possibly by denying him communion. Paul Kendrick of Freeport has been banned from the Cathedral of the Immaculate Conception in Portland, and warned in a letter that if he tries again to contact Portland Bishop Richard Malone he risks losing any right "to participate fully in the sacramental life of the church."
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/12/29/AR2008122901797.html?hpid=sec-religion
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Sun-Sentinel
http://www.sun-sentinel.com/
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-Teens' sexuality struggles go with them to school
Identity struggles require understanding and support, activists say
By Akilah Johnson
http://www.sun-sentinel.com/news/schools/sfl-flbglbteens1230sbdec30,0,7124184.story
-Miami chorus for gay men has big dream
Group aspires to be premier regional chorus
By Sarah Larimer
When Craig Fashbaugh was dying, he decided to spend his last years in South Florida. When doctors told him he still had time, Fashbaugh, who has a bass voice, decided to sing. About 20 years after an HIV diagnosis, Fashbaugh is on stage with about 80 other men, belting out holiday carols to an audience of 400. As founder of the Miami Gay Men's Chorus, he says the group is looking to build its reputation as a premier South Florida chorus - and an organization brimming with both acceptance and talent.
http://www.sun-sentinel.com/news/local/miami/sfl-flsbchorus123008sbdec30,0,7742651.story
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Miami Herald
http://www.miamiherald.com/
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-ON THE TUBE: Celebrities are adopted, too
Jamie Foxx, Faith Hill and Keyshia Cole hope to help children find homes for the holidays. Speaking backstage last month after filming their appearances for the CBS special A Home for the Holidays, Foxx, Hill and Cole shared how they coped with being adopted.
http://www.miamiherald.com/entertainment/people/story/830733.html
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South Florida Blade
http://www.floridablade.com/
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-Opponents weigh lawsuit over adoption, foster ban
News conference expected Tuesday
Opponents of an Arkansas law that bans unmarried couples from fostering or adopting children may be moving closer toward suing over the new restriction.
http://www.floridablade.com/thelatest/thelatest.cfm?blog_id=23208
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The Advocate
http://advocate.com/
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-HIV Skeptic Christine Maggiore Dead at 52
The Los Angeles Times has confirmed with the Los Angeles County coroner's office that 52-year-old HIV skeptic Christine Maggiore died Monday, December 29.
http://www.advocate.com/news_detail_ektid69838.asp
-Man Avoids Hate Crime Charge, Gets 5-1/2 Years in Prison
A 25-year-old New York State man was sentenced Tuesday to 5-1/2 years behind bars after pleading guilty to attacking a gay man in March. Judge Richard Keenan added a year and a half to the sentence that Jesse Parsons was originally expected to receive after he made a plea agreement in September, according to the Rochester Democrat and Chronicle. He pleaded guilty to second-degree assault, which, as a hate crime, would have landed him up to 15 years in prison.
http://www.advocate.com/news_detail_ektid69534.asp
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Pink News - UK
http://www.pinknews.co.uk/
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-Catholic leader claims Pope's homophobic outburst "misrepresented"
By Rachel Charman
Cardinal Cormac Murphy-O'Connor, head of the Catholic Church in England and Wales and Archbishop of Westminster, has defended Pope Benedict XVI's controversial comments about gay people.
http://www.pinknews.co.uk/news/articles/2005-10145.html
-Top legal website predicts gay marriage to be hot topic for 2009
By Rachel Charman
FindLaw, the most-visited legal site on the web, today released its Top Ten Legal Predictions for 2009. The list is a breakdown of what are expected to be next year's legal hot topics. In amongst the predictions is an expectation that gay marriage, civil partnership and the chaos caused by California's Propostion 8 will continue well into the new year, with both conservative and liberal groups still impassioned about the issue.
http://www.pinknews.co.uk/news/articles/2005-10153.html
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Forwarded from Victoria Lavin
Daily Queer News
www.dailyqueernews.com
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-Gay Quakers to Meet in Oregon
Just Out
A nationwide Quaker organization, Friends for Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgender, and Queer Concerns, will hold its meeting in Oregon for the first time on Valentine's Day weekend. The 2009 Midwinter Gathering will be held at Camp Adams in Molalla. Local organizers include historian and artist Mitchell Santine Gould, and Bonnie Tinker of Love Makes a Family. The weekend offers sexual minorities and allies worship, education, entertainment, administrative duties, play and socializing. Click here for updates.
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Forwarded from Gays Without Borders
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-The Top Five Heroes and Heroines in LGBT rights in 2008
by Michael A. Jones
http://gayrights.change.org/blog/view/the_top_five_heroes_and_heroines_in_lgbt_rights_in_2008
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Forwarded from Kenneth Sherrill - Ken's List
Kenneth.Sherrill@hunter.cuny.edu
kenslist@groups.queernet.org
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Contact rays.list@comcast.net if can't access the article
-Help GLAAD Thank Campbell's for LGBT-Inclusive Ads
While GLAAD has been hard at work fighting defamation against our community in media this year, anti-gay activists continue to put time and money into targeting media that show our lives and community in a fair and accurate way. This month, the anti-gay American Family Association showed their "holiday spirit" by demanding their constituents respond to a LGBT-inclusive advertising campaign released by the Campbell Soup Company. The ads for Swanson broth ran in the national LBGT news magazine The Advocate. The campaign, entitled "Home for the Holidays," features a lesbian couple with their son and lists Swanson broth as a key element in the family's annual Feast of the Seven Fishes Christmas Eve celebration (see below). The ad was met with an alert from the AFA that called for e-mails and phone calls attacking the Campbell Soup Company, which owns Swanson's, for acknowledging that gay people "constitute a family and are worthy of support."
http://www.glaad.org/2008/Eblasts/campbells_blast.html
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From Steve Krantz
stevek@bipedinfo.com
PFLAG Director, Southern Pacific Region, and National Board Member,
http://www.pflag.org
Jews for Marriage Equality Founder,
http://www.jewsformarriageequality.org
-Parents' response key to health of gay youth
Kids with parents who reacted negatively 8 times more likely to try suicide
By LISA LEFF
Young gay people whose parents or guardians responded negatively when they revealed their sexual orientation were more likely to attempt suicide, experience severe depression and use drugs than those whose families accepted the news, according to a new study. The way in which parents or guardians respond to a youth's sexual orientation profoundly influences the child's mental health as an adult, say researchers at San Francisco State University. The findings appear in the January issue of Pediatrics and are being released Monday. "Parents love their children and want the best for them," said lead researcher Caitlin Ryan, a social worker who directs the university's Family Acceptance Project. "Now that we have measured all these behaviors, we can see that some of them put youth at extremely high risk and others are wellness-promoting."
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/28420846/
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Anything but Straight
http://www.waynebesen.com/
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-Religion and Morals
If 2008 taught the world one lesson, it is that religious people are not morally superior to those who are non-religious. Indeed, faith often shelters the shameless and provides cover for the most corrupt among us. Sanctimony was the sanctuary of Bernard Madoff, the con artist who bilked fellow Jewish people who never imagined this man of piety would mastermind a Ponzi scheme. A New York Times article summed it up: "...Jews all over the country are already sending up something of a communal cry over a cost they say goes beyond the financial to the theological and personal." The article quoted Rabbi David Wolpe of Sinai Temple in Los Angles who said, "I'd like to believe someone raised in our community, imbued with Jewish values, would be better than this."
http://www.truthwinsout.org/blog/religion-does-not-mean-morality/
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Detroit News
http://detnews.com/
-Americans embrace gay-friendly proposals
by Deb Price
Gay Congressman Barney Frank likes to tell the tale of the mother who reacts with love and acceptance to the news that her son is gay, but warns him:
"Just don't tell your father. It would kill him." Frank's story illuminates a misimpression, even among gay-friendly Americans -- that other folks' internal thermometer toward gay people and our rights is stuck close to freezing. But as the nation prepares for a new Congress and president, a recent Newsweek poll indicates that politicians shouldn't run from gay-friendly feelings. What makes the Newsweek poll especially valuable is that the responses to its wide range of questions underscore that, other than on same-sex marriage, most Americans would embrace steps to pass laws to treat those of us who're gay equally.
http://detnews.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20081229/OPINION03/812290326
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New York Times
http://www.nytimes.com/
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-The Doctor's World: Leaving Platform That Elevated AIDS Fight
By LAWRENCE K. ALTMAN, M.D
Dr. Peter Piot, the only head of the United Nations AIDS program in its 13-year history, is retiring on Wednesday. He is credited as the person most responsible for making heads of state understand the political, economic and social ramifications of a pandemic that rivals the worst in history.
http://www.nytimes.com/2008/12/30/health/30docs.html?scp=6&sq=gay&st=cse
-The Early Word: Administration Preview
By Michael Falcone
Though the economic crisis, along with renewed tensions in the Middle East, are likely to loom large as the curtain goes up on President-elect Barack Obama's first 100 days, it's not too early to take a look at the new administration's policies on issues that have attracted fewer headlines lately, starting with education.
http://thecaucus.blogs.nytimes.com/2008/12/30/the-early-word-previewing-the/?scp=3&sq=gay&st=cse
-Lesbian Pair Wins Ruling Over Refusal of Ceremony
By THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
A lesbian couple from New Jersey who were barred from holding a civil union ceremony last year at a beachfront pavilion owned by a church group won a legal victory on Monday.
http://www.nytimes.com/2008/12/30/nyregion/30ocean.html?scp=2&sq=gay&st=cse
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Washington Post
http://www.washingtonpost.com/
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-Maine bishop threatens to punish vocal activist
By DAVID SHARP
The leader of Maine's Roman Catholics has taken the unusual step of threatening to punish an outspoken advocate for people who were sexually abused by priests, possibly by denying him communion. Paul Kendrick of Freeport has been banned from the Cathedral of the Immaculate Conception in Portland, and warned in a letter that if he tries again to contact Portland Bishop Richard Malone he risks losing any right "to participate fully in the sacramental life of the church."
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/12/29/AR2008122901797.html?hpid=sec-religion
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Sun-Sentinel
http://www.sun-sentinel.com/
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-Teens' sexuality struggles go with them to school
Identity struggles require understanding and support, activists say
By Akilah Johnson
http://www.sun-sentinel.com/news/schools/sfl-flbglbteens1230sbdec30,0,7124184.story
-Miami chorus for gay men has big dream
Group aspires to be premier regional chorus
By Sarah Larimer
When Craig Fashbaugh was dying, he decided to spend his last years in South Florida. When doctors told him he still had time, Fashbaugh, who has a bass voice, decided to sing. About 20 years after an HIV diagnosis, Fashbaugh is on stage with about 80 other men, belting out holiday carols to an audience of 400. As founder of the Miami Gay Men's Chorus, he says the group is looking to build its reputation as a premier South Florida chorus - and an organization brimming with both acceptance and talent.
http://www.sun-sentinel.com/news/local/miami/sfl-flsbchorus123008sbdec30,0,7742651.story
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Miami Herald
http://www.miamiherald.com/
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-ON THE TUBE: Celebrities are adopted, too
Jamie Foxx, Faith Hill and Keyshia Cole hope to help children find homes for the holidays. Speaking backstage last month after filming their appearances for the CBS special A Home for the Holidays, Foxx, Hill and Cole shared how they coped with being adopted.
http://www.miamiherald.com/entertainment/people/story/830733.html
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South Florida Blade
http://www.floridablade.com/
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-Opponents weigh lawsuit over adoption, foster ban
News conference expected Tuesday
Opponents of an Arkansas law that bans unmarried couples from fostering or adopting children may be moving closer toward suing over the new restriction.
http://www.floridablade.com/thelatest/thelatest.cfm?blog_id=23208
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The Advocate
http://advocate.com/
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-HIV Skeptic Christine Maggiore Dead at 52
The Los Angeles Times has confirmed with the Los Angeles County coroner's office that 52-year-old HIV skeptic Christine Maggiore died Monday, December 29.
http://www.advocate.com/news_detail_ektid69838.asp
-Man Avoids Hate Crime Charge, Gets 5-1/2 Years in Prison
A 25-year-old New York State man was sentenced Tuesday to 5-1/2 years behind bars after pleading guilty to attacking a gay man in March. Judge Richard Keenan added a year and a half to the sentence that Jesse Parsons was originally expected to receive after he made a plea agreement in September, according to the Rochester Democrat and Chronicle. He pleaded guilty to second-degree assault, which, as a hate crime, would have landed him up to 15 years in prison.
http://www.advocate.com/news_detail_ektid69534.asp
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Pink News - UK
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-Catholic leader claims Pope's homophobic outburst "misrepresented"
By Rachel Charman
Cardinal Cormac Murphy-O'Connor, head of the Catholic Church in England and Wales and Archbishop of Westminster, has defended Pope Benedict XVI's controversial comments about gay people.
http://www.pinknews.co.uk/news/articles/2005-10145.html
-Top legal website predicts gay marriage to be hot topic for 2009
By Rachel Charman
FindLaw, the most-visited legal site on the web, today released its Top Ten Legal Predictions for 2009. The list is a breakdown of what are expected to be next year's legal hot topics. In amongst the predictions is an expectation that gay marriage, civil partnership and the chaos caused by California's Propostion 8 will continue well into the new year, with both conservative and liberal groups still impassioned about the issue.
http://www.pinknews.co.uk/news/articles/2005-10153.html
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-Gay Quakers to Meet in Oregon
Just Out
A nationwide Quaker organization, Friends for Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgender, and Queer Concerns, will hold its meeting in Oregon for the first time on Valentine's Day weekend. The 2009 Midwinter Gathering will be held at Camp Adams in Molalla. Local organizers include historian and artist Mitchell Santine Gould, and Bonnie Tinker of Love Makes a Family. The weekend offers sexual minorities and allies worship, education, entertainment, administrative duties, play and socializing. Click here for updates.
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-The Top Five Heroes and Heroines in LGBT rights in 2008
by Michael A. Jones
http://gayrights.change.org/blog/view/the_top_five_heroes_and_heroines_in_lgbt_rights_in_2008
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-Help GLAAD Thank Campbell's for LGBT-Inclusive Ads
While GLAAD has been hard at work fighting defamation against our community in media this year, anti-gay activists continue to put time and money into targeting media that show our lives and community in a fair and accurate way. This month, the anti-gay American Family Association showed their "holiday spirit" by demanding their constituents respond to a LGBT-inclusive advertising campaign released by the Campbell Soup Company. The ads for Swanson broth ran in the national LBGT news magazine The Advocate. The campaign, entitled "Home for the Holidays," features a lesbian couple with their son and lists Swanson broth as a key element in the family's annual Feast of the Seven Fishes Christmas Eve celebration (see below). The ad was met with an alert from the AFA that called for e-mails and phone calls attacking the Campbell Soup Company, which owns Swanson's, for acknowledging that gay people "constitute a family and are worthy of support."
http://www.glaad.org/2008/Eblasts/campbells_blast.html
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From Steve Krantz
stevek@bipedinfo.com
PFLAG Director, Southern Pacific Region, and National Board Member,
http://www.pflag.org
Jews for Marriage Equality Founder,
http://www.jewsformarriageequality.org
-Parents' response key to health of gay youth
Kids with parents who reacted negatively 8 times more likely to try suicide
By LISA LEFF
Young gay people whose parents or guardians responded negatively when they revealed their sexual orientation were more likely to attempt suicide, experience severe depression and use drugs than those whose families accepted the news, according to a new study. The way in which parents or guardians respond to a youth's sexual orientation profoundly influences the child's mental health as an adult, say researchers at San Francisco State University. The findings appear in the January issue of Pediatrics and are being released Monday. "Parents love their children and want the best for them," said lead researcher Caitlin Ryan, a social worker who directs the university's Family Acceptance Project. "Now that we have measured all these behaviors, we can see that some of them put youth at extremely high risk and others are wellness-promoting."
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/28420846/
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Anything but Straight
http://www.waynebesen.com/
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-Religion and Morals
If 2008 taught the world one lesson, it is that religious people are not morally superior to those who are non-religious. Indeed, faith often shelters the shameless and provides cover for the most corrupt among us. Sanctimony was the sanctuary of Bernard Madoff, the con artist who bilked fellow Jewish people who never imagined this man of piety would mastermind a Ponzi scheme. A New York Times article summed it up: "...Jews all over the country are already sending up something of a communal cry over a cost they say goes beyond the financial to the theological and personal." The article quoted Rabbi David Wolpe of Sinai Temple in Los Angles who said, "I'd like to believe someone raised in our community, imbued with Jewish values, would be better than this."
http://www.truthwinsout.org/blog/religion-does-not-mean-morality/
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-Americans embrace gay-friendly proposals
by Deb Price
Gay Congressman Barney Frank likes to tell the tale of the mother who reacts with love and acceptance to the news that her son is gay, but warns him:
"Just don't tell your father. It would kill him." Frank's story illuminates a misimpression, even among gay-friendly Americans -- that other folks' internal thermometer toward gay people and our rights is stuck close to freezing. But as the nation prepares for a new Congress and president, a recent Newsweek poll indicates that politicians shouldn't run from gay-friendly feelings. What makes the Newsweek poll especially valuable is that the responses to its wide range of questions underscore that, other than on same-sex marriage, most Americans would embrace steps to pass laws to treat those of us who're gay equally.
http://detnews.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20081229/OPINION03/812290326
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New York Times
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-Blagojevich to Name Obama Senate Replacement
By Monica Davey
Gov. Rod R. Blagojevich of Illinois will name Roland Burris, a former Illinois attorney general, to replace President-elect Barack Obama in the United States Senate, someone with knowledge of the governor's plans confirmed on Tuesday. Mr. Blagojevich, who faces federal corruption charges including allegations that he tried to sell Mr. Obama's former senate seat for a high-paying job or money, had not been expected to try to fill the seat. As recently as ten days ago, his lawyer, Edward Genson, said he would not attempt to make an appointment, since Senate leaders had indicated they would not accept anyone whom the beleaguered Mr. Blagojevich had appointed.
http://thecaucus.blogs.nytimes.com/2008/12/30/blagojevich-to-name-obama-senate-replacement/?hp
-No End in Sight in Gaza Battle
By ETHAN BRONNER and TAGHREED EL-KHODARY
JERUSALEM - Israel launched airstrikes against Hamas targets in Gaza for a fourth consecutive day on Tuesday as Prime Minister Ehud Olmert called the bombardment "the first of several stages," suggesting that the conflict was far from resolution.
http://www.nytimes.com/2008/12/31/world/middleeast/31mideast.html?hp
-Secular Party Wins Landslide Victory in Bangladesh
By SOMINI SENGUPTA and JULFIKAR ALI MANIK
NEW DELHI - After two years of army-backed emergency rule, democracy returned to Bangladesh as the secular Awami League party secured an overwhelming victory in election results announced on Tuesday.
http://www.nytimes.com/2008/12/31/world/asia/31bangladesh.html
-The Doctor's World
Leaving Platform That Elevated AIDS Fight
By LAWRENCE K. ALTMAN, M.D
Dr. Peter Piot, the only head of the United Nations AIDS program in its 13-year history, is retiring on Wednesday. He is credited as the person most responsible for making heads of state understand the political, economic and social ramifications of a pandemic that rivals the worst in history.
http://www.nytimes.com/2008/12/30/health/30docs.html
-Op-Ed Columnist: Add Up the Damage
By BOB HERBERT
Does anyone know where George W. Bush is? You don't hear much from him anymore. The last image most of us remember is of the president ducking a pair of size 10s that were hurled at him in Baghdad.
http://www.nytimes.com/2008/12/30/opinion/30herbert.html?ref=opinion
-Op-Ed Contributor: Why Israel Feels Threatened
By BENNY MORRIS
Li-On, Israel
MANY Israelis feel that the walls - and history - are closing in on their 60-year-old state, much as they felt in early June 1967, just before Israel launched the Six-Day War and destroyed the Egyptian, Jordanian and Syrian armies in Sinai, the West Bank and the Golan Heights.
http://www.nytimes.com/2008/12/30/opinion/30morris.html?ref=opinion
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Washington Post
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-Group sues to reinstate firearms ban
By JESSE J. HOLLAND
The Brady Campaign to Prevent Gun Violence sued the Bush administration Tuesday in hopes of stopping a new policy that would allow people to carry concealed, loaded guns in most national parks and wildlife refuges.
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/12/30/AR2008123001373.html?hpid=moreheadlines
-Soldier alleges military pattern of Christian bias
By JOHN HANNA
An atheist soldier suing over prayers at military formations claims a larger pattern of religious discrimination exists in the military, citing attempts to convert Muslims in Iraq and Afghanistan and an evangelical bias in a suicide prevention manual.
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/12/29/AR2008122901924.html?hpid=sec-religion
-Has Israel Revived Hamas?
By Daoud Kuttab
JERUSALEM -- In its efforts to stop amateur rockets from nagging the residents of some of its southern cities, Israel appears to have given new life to the fledging Islamic movement in Palestine. For two years, the Islamic Resistance Movement (known by its Arabic acronym, Hamas) has been losing support internally and externally. This wasn't the case in the days after the party came to power democratically in early 2006; despite being unjustly ostracized by the international community for its anti-Israeli stance, Hamas enjoyed the backing of Palestinians and other Arabs. Having won a decisive parliamentary majority on an anti-corruption platform promising change and reform, Hamas worked hard to govern better than had Fatah, its rival and predecessor.
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/12/29/AR2008122901901.html
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Wall Street Journal
http://online.wsj.com/public/us
-Franken Leads by 50 Votes With Absentees Left to Count in Minnesota Democratic candidate Al Franken now holds a 50 vote lead over Republican Sen. Norm Coleman with almost all of the counting in Minnesota's Senate race done. Mr. Franken's lead grew by a few votes Tuesday when the state Canvassing Board finished allocating thousands of ballots that had been held up due to candidate challenges.
http://online.wsj.com/article/SB123064841953142469.html
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Sun-Sentinel
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-Best of 2008: World photography
Some of the stories that made compelling images in 2008: A magnitude 7.9 quake rocked China's Sichuan province. Georgian cities came under attack by Russian troops. The citizens of Nepal cast votes in national elections. The poor residents of Dharavi, the largest slum in India, struggled to hold on to their valuable land.
http://www.sun-sentinel.com/features/yearinreview/la-fg-bestofforeign-pg,0,1380234.photogallery?track=yir-nl-compellingphotos
-Best & Worst 2008: Most shocking headlines
Heath Ledger, Madonna, Britney Spears and Herbie Hancock topped the news this year.
http://www.sun-sentinel.com/entertainment/la-et-headlines08-pg,0,5798506.photogallery?track=yir-nl-shockingheadlines
-What they said: Best quotes of 2008
A Yale lecturer and editor of the Yale Book of Quotations has compiled a list of 2008's most memorable quotations. Fred R. Shapiro said picking the best quotes this year was challenging because the presidential race and financial crisis provided so much material. He relies on suggestions from quote-gatherers and his own choices from songs, the news and movies.
http://www.sun-sentinel.com/features/yearinreview/sfl-2008-best-quotes.pg,0,3469183.photogallery?track=yir-nl-topquotes
-Businesses that failed in 2008
http://www.sun-sentinel.com/business/sfl-failedbiz-pg,0,3949586.photogallery?track=yir-nl-failedbus
-From Orlando Sentinel
Florida lands 28 of top 500 hotels in the world
Travel + Leisure magazine has come out with its annual list of the 500 best hotels in the world and Florida has landed 28 on the list from the Panhandle to Disney to the Keys.
http://www.sun-sentinel.com/travel/orl-top-500-hotels-florida-story,0,3634803.story
-Ellen Goodman: Bush leaving a mess with little regret, no remorse
My Bush-bashing was in remission. But then the senior staff of Bush enablers gave two rocking chairs to the man who described himself as "an old sage at 62...headed to retirement."
http://www.sun-sentinel.com/news/opinion/sfl-30goodmansbdec30,0,6735504.story
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Miami Herald
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- Alligator Alley must remain a public asset
BY GINA DOWNS
South Floridians were handed a present last week just in time for Christmas. We get to hold on to our national treasure, Alligator Alley, for a few more months. The proposed sale of our asset has been postponed. Why? Because the economy has come to a screeching halt or, perhaps some would say, has taken a nose dive. In other words, no $25,000 proposal deposit was received by the Florida Department of Transportation on Dec. 22. No bidders. No takers. No deal.
http://www.miamiherald.com/opinion/other-views/story/830744.html
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Fort Report
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-Kucinich criticizes Israel; wants U.N. probe
By Ian Swanson
Rep. Dennis Kucinich (D-Ohio) is calling for a United Nations investigation into Israel's attacks on Gaza, criticizing Israel for a disproportionate response to Hamas rocket attacks. The criticism stands in stark contrast to the statements of other Democrats, who have offered near-unanimous support for Israel amid the latest violence in the Middle East.
http://thehill.com/leading-the-news/kucinich-criticizes-israel-wants-u.n.-probe-2008-12-29.html
-Study: Black-on-black homicides rising among teens
JAY LINDSAY
Black teenagers are killing each other in rising numbers but the troubling trend has been masked by a falling crime rate in the United States, according to a study released Monday by Northeastern University. FBI crime statistics show overall decreases in murder and other violent crimes. But a report by criminal justice professors James Alan Fox and Marc Swatt uncovers other disturbing trends within that data.
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2008/12/29/study-blackonblack-homici_n_154077.html
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New York Times
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-Blagojevich to Name Obama Senate Replacement
By Monica Davey
Gov. Rod R. Blagojevich of Illinois will name Roland Burris, a former Illinois attorney general, to replace President-elect Barack Obama in the United States Senate, someone with knowledge of the governor's plans confirmed on Tuesday. Mr. Blagojevich, who faces federal corruption charges including allegations that he tried to sell Mr. Obama's former senate seat for a high-paying job or money, had not been expected to try to fill the seat. As recently as ten days ago, his lawyer, Edward Genson, said he would not attempt to make an appointment, since Senate leaders had indicated they would not accept anyone whom the beleaguered Mr. Blagojevich had appointed.
http://thecaucus.blogs.nytimes.com/2008/12/30/blagojevich-to-name-obama-senate-replacement/?hp
-No End in Sight in Gaza Battle
By ETHAN BRONNER and TAGHREED EL-KHODARY
JERUSALEM - Israel launched airstrikes against Hamas targets in Gaza for a fourth consecutive day on Tuesday as Prime Minister Ehud Olmert called the bombardment "the first of several stages," suggesting that the conflict was far from resolution.
http://www.nytimes.com/2008/12/31/world/middleeast/31mideast.html?hp
-Secular Party Wins Landslide Victory in Bangladesh
By SOMINI SENGUPTA and JULFIKAR ALI MANIK
NEW DELHI - After two years of army-backed emergency rule, democracy returned to Bangladesh as the secular Awami League party secured an overwhelming victory in election results announced on Tuesday.
http://www.nytimes.com/2008/12/31/world/asia/31bangladesh.html
-The Doctor's World
Leaving Platform That Elevated AIDS Fight
By LAWRENCE K. ALTMAN, M.D
Dr. Peter Piot, the only head of the United Nations AIDS program in its 13-year history, is retiring on Wednesday. He is credited as the person most responsible for making heads of state understand the political, economic and social ramifications of a pandemic that rivals the worst in history.
http://www.nytimes.com/2008/12/30/health/30docs.html
-Op-Ed Columnist: Add Up the Damage
By BOB HERBERT
Does anyone know where George W. Bush is? You don't hear much from him anymore. The last image most of us remember is of the president ducking a pair of size 10s that were hurled at him in Baghdad.
http://www.nytimes.com/2008/12/30/opinion/30herbert.html?ref=opinion
-Op-Ed Contributor: Why Israel Feels Threatened
By BENNY MORRIS
Li-On, Israel
MANY Israelis feel that the walls - and history - are closing in on their 60-year-old state, much as they felt in early June 1967, just before Israel launched the Six-Day War and destroyed the Egyptian, Jordanian and Syrian armies in Sinai, the West Bank and the Golan Heights.
http://www.nytimes.com/2008/12/30/opinion/30morris.html?ref=opinion
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Washington Post
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-Group sues to reinstate firearms ban
By JESSE J. HOLLAND
The Brady Campaign to Prevent Gun Violence sued the Bush administration Tuesday in hopes of stopping a new policy that would allow people to carry concealed, loaded guns in most national parks and wildlife refuges.
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/12/30/AR2008123001373.html?hpid=moreheadlines
-Soldier alleges military pattern of Christian bias
By JOHN HANNA
An atheist soldier suing over prayers at military formations claims a larger pattern of religious discrimination exists in the military, citing attempts to convert Muslims in Iraq and Afghanistan and an evangelical bias in a suicide prevention manual.
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/12/29/AR2008122901924.html?hpid=sec-religion
-Has Israel Revived Hamas?
By Daoud Kuttab
JERUSALEM -- In its efforts to stop amateur rockets from nagging the residents of some of its southern cities, Israel appears to have given new life to the fledging Islamic movement in Palestine. For two years, the Islamic Resistance Movement (known by its Arabic acronym, Hamas) has been losing support internally and externally. This wasn't the case in the days after the party came to power democratically in early 2006; despite being unjustly ostracized by the international community for its anti-Israeli stance, Hamas enjoyed the backing of Palestinians and other Arabs. Having won a decisive parliamentary majority on an anti-corruption platform promising change and reform, Hamas worked hard to govern better than had Fatah, its rival and predecessor.
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/12/29/AR2008122901901.html
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Wall Street Journal
http://online.wsj.com/public/us
-Franken Leads by 50 Votes With Absentees Left to Count in Minnesota Democratic candidate Al Franken now holds a 50 vote lead over Republican Sen. Norm Coleman with almost all of the counting in Minnesota's Senate race done. Mr. Franken's lead grew by a few votes Tuesday when the state Canvassing Board finished allocating thousands of ballots that had been held up due to candidate challenges.
http://online.wsj.com/article/SB123064841953142469.html
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Sun-Sentinel
http://www.sun-sentinel.com/
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-Best of 2008: World photography
Some of the stories that made compelling images in 2008: A magnitude 7.9 quake rocked China's Sichuan province. Georgian cities came under attack by Russian troops. The citizens of Nepal cast votes in national elections. The poor residents of Dharavi, the largest slum in India, struggled to hold on to their valuable land.
http://www.sun-sentinel.com/features/yearinreview/la-fg-bestofforeign-pg,0,1380234.photogallery?track=yir-nl-compellingphotos
-Best & Worst 2008: Most shocking headlines
Heath Ledger, Madonna, Britney Spears and Herbie Hancock topped the news this year.
http://www.sun-sentinel.com/entertainment/la-et-headlines08-pg,0,5798506.photogallery?track=yir-nl-shockingheadlines
-What they said: Best quotes of 2008
A Yale lecturer and editor of the Yale Book of Quotations has compiled a list of 2008's most memorable quotations. Fred R. Shapiro said picking the best quotes this year was challenging because the presidential race and financial crisis provided so much material. He relies on suggestions from quote-gatherers and his own choices from songs, the news and movies.
http://www.sun-sentinel.com/features/yearinreview/sfl-2008-best-quotes.pg,0,3469183.photogallery?track=yir-nl-topquotes
-Businesses that failed in 2008
http://www.sun-sentinel.com/business/sfl-failedbiz-pg,0,3949586.photogallery?track=yir-nl-failedbus
-From Orlando Sentinel
Florida lands 28 of top 500 hotels in the world
Travel + Leisure magazine has come out with its annual list of the 500 best hotels in the world and Florida has landed 28 on the list from the Panhandle to Disney to the Keys.
http://www.sun-sentinel.com/travel/orl-top-500-hotels-florida-story,0,3634803.story
-Ellen Goodman: Bush leaving a mess with little regret, no remorse
My Bush-bashing was in remission. But then the senior staff of Bush enablers gave two rocking chairs to the man who described himself as "an old sage at 62...headed to retirement."
http://www.sun-sentinel.com/news/opinion/sfl-30goodmansbdec30,0,6735504.story
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Miami Herald
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- Alligator Alley must remain a public asset
BY GINA DOWNS
South Floridians were handed a present last week just in time for Christmas. We get to hold on to our national treasure, Alligator Alley, for a few more months. The proposed sale of our asset has been postponed. Why? Because the economy has come to a screeching halt or, perhaps some would say, has taken a nose dive. In other words, no $25,000 proposal deposit was received by the Florida Department of Transportation on Dec. 22. No bidders. No takers. No deal.
http://www.miamiherald.com/opinion/other-views/story/830744.html
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Fort Report
http://www.fortreport.com/
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-Kucinich criticizes Israel; wants U.N. probe
By Ian Swanson
Rep. Dennis Kucinich (D-Ohio) is calling for a United Nations investigation into Israel's attacks on Gaza, criticizing Israel for a disproportionate response to Hamas rocket attacks. The criticism stands in stark contrast to the statements of other Democrats, who have offered near-unanimous support for Israel amid the latest violence in the Middle East.
http://thehill.com/leading-the-news/kucinich-criticizes-israel-wants-u.n.-probe-2008-12-29.html
-Study: Black-on-black homicides rising among teens
JAY LINDSAY
Black teenagers are killing each other in rising numbers but the troubling trend has been masked by a falling crime rate in the United States, according to a study released Monday by Northeastern University. FBI crime statistics show overall decreases in murder and other violent crimes. But a report by criminal justice professors James Alan Fox and Marc Swatt uncovers other disturbing trends within that data.
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2008/12/29/study-blackonblack-homici_n_154077.html
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~~FLORIDA GLBT NEWS~~
Dean Trantalis for Fort Lauderdale Mayor Campaign
-RALLY FOR DEAN
We're excited that the Rally for Dean/Partnership for Change preparations are underway! Please mark Wednesday, January 7 at 6pm on your calendar.
We're kicking off the final month of the campaign with a rally for all of Fort Lauderdale. Our goal is to sign up 100 volunteers to knock on 100 doors - that's 10,000 Fort Lauderdale homes who need to know about my campaign!
We'll also be signing up volunteers for phone banking, hosting fundraisers, and being condo captains. We can do it! Bring your friends, and tell everyone you know - we'll see you there! Better yet, click here to volunteer.
Details:
Rally for Dean/Partnership for Change
Wednesday, January 7 - 6pm
ArtServe - 1350 E. Sunrise Blvd., Fort Lauderdale
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Steve Rothaus
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-Anderson to perform in Fort Lauderdale
From Tsunami Recordings: Singer-songwriter-comic Jamie Anderson will appear in Ft. Lauderdale on January 17 at 8 pm, with In Harmony at the MCC Sunshine Cathedral, 1480 SW 9th Ave, www.inharmonyproductions.org, 954-717-9494.
http://miamiherald.typepad.com/gaysouthflorida/
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Florida Blade
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-'Avenue Q' at Broward Center
Sesame Street goes awry in this hilarious (and very gay!) Broadway musical
By Dan Renzi
The Broadway touring production of "Avenue Q" returns to SoFla this week, opening at the Au Rene Theater in the Broward Center for the Performing Arts. With songs like 'Everybody's a little bit racist' and 'It's okay to be gay,' this is not your run-of-the-mill musical.
http://www.floridablade.com/blog/index.cfm#23194
~~FLORIDA GENERAL NEWS~~
Sun-Sentinel
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-Broward County school district streamlines Web site for parents
By Kathy Bushouse
It's now easier for parents with children in Broward County Click here for restaurant inspection reports's public schools to find what they need on the school district's Web site. Gone are the days when parents had to hunt through numerous pages and click on multiple links. The district recently rolled out a new site for parents, with important information, dates and advice. It includes grief counseling for parents and students affected by the shooting at Dillard High School and what teachers wish parents would do more often.
http://www.sun-sentinel.com/news/schools/sfl-flbtraffic1230sbdec30,0,2200900.story
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Miami Herald
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-POLITICS: Drama dominates Broward municipal elections
Though turnout for municipal races is low, city races can be lively and often involve choosing officials who must make crucial budget decisions during difficult financial times.
BY AMY SHERMAN
Who says municipal elections are boring? In Deerfield Beach, longtime Mayor Al Capellini -- suspended in December after an arrest on a corruption charge -- is running for reelection. His potential opponent, Commissioner Steve Gonot, recently resigned after his own corruption charges.
http://www.miamiherald.com/news/broward/story/830725.html
-MIAMI BEACH: Income disparity on Miami Beach is highest in nation
BY TRENTON DANIEL
The working class and fixed-income retirees view wealth with inspiration and frustration in Miami Beach, which has the highest income gap in the United States.
http://www.miamiherald.com/news/miami_dade/beaches/story/830748.html
-Almost one in 10 Floridians on food stamps
BY JOSE PAGLIERY
Unemployed and strapped for cash, Floridians are asking for state assistance to feed their families in record numbers.
http://www.miamiherald.com/news/florida/story/829187.html
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-Sansom hires attorney Richard Coates to handle ethics complaint
By Alex Leary
House Speaker Ray Sansom has hired a well-known Tallahassee lawyer to defend him against an ethics complaint filed in connection with him taking a $110,000 job at his local college.
http://www.tampabay.com/news/politics/state/article952456.ece
-Shy, rich farmers thrust in spotlight as players in U.S. Sugar deal
By SUSAN SALISBURY
The buzz in the close-knit Florida grower crowd started in 2000: A wealthy Missouri farmer was buying groves. Lots of groves. Almost nine years later, many still haven't met Gaylon Lawrence Sr., 74, or his son, Gaylon Lawrence Jr., 46.
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Dean Trantalis for Fort Lauderdale Mayor Campaign
-RALLY FOR DEAN
We're excited that the Rally for Dean/Partnership for Change preparations are underway! Please mark Wednesday, January 7 at 6pm on your calendar.
We're kicking off the final month of the campaign with a rally for all of Fort Lauderdale. Our goal is to sign up 100 volunteers to knock on 100 doors - that's 10,000 Fort Lauderdale homes who need to know about my campaign!
We'll also be signing up volunteers for phone banking, hosting fundraisers, and being condo captains. We can do it! Bring your friends, and tell everyone you know - we'll see you there! Better yet, click here to volunteer.
Details:
Rally for Dean/Partnership for Change
Wednesday, January 7 - 6pm
ArtServe - 1350 E. Sunrise Blvd., Fort Lauderdale
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-Anderson to perform in Fort Lauderdale
From Tsunami Recordings: Singer-songwriter-comic Jamie Anderson will appear in Ft. Lauderdale on January 17 at 8 pm, with In Harmony at the MCC Sunshine Cathedral, 1480 SW 9th Ave, www.inharmonyproductions.org, 954-717-9494.
http://miamiherald.typepad.com/gaysouthflorida/
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-'Avenue Q' at Broward Center
Sesame Street goes awry in this hilarious (and very gay!) Broadway musical
By Dan Renzi
The Broadway touring production of "Avenue Q" returns to SoFla this week, opening at the Au Rene Theater in the Broward Center for the Performing Arts. With songs like 'Everybody's a little bit racist' and 'It's okay to be gay,' this is not your run-of-the-mill musical.
http://www.floridablade.com/blog/index.cfm#23194
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Sun-Sentinel
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-Broward County school district streamlines Web site for parents
By Kathy Bushouse
It's now easier for parents with children in Broward County Click here for restaurant inspection reports's public schools to find what they need on the school district's Web site. Gone are the days when parents had to hunt through numerous pages and click on multiple links. The district recently rolled out a new site for parents, with important information, dates and advice. It includes grief counseling for parents and students affected by the shooting at Dillard High School and what teachers wish parents would do more often.
http://www.sun-sentinel.com/news/schools/sfl-flbtraffic1230sbdec30,0,2200900.story
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Miami Herald
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-POLITICS: Drama dominates Broward municipal elections
Though turnout for municipal races is low, city races can be lively and often involve choosing officials who must make crucial budget decisions during difficult financial times.
BY AMY SHERMAN
Who says municipal elections are boring? In Deerfield Beach, longtime Mayor Al Capellini -- suspended in December after an arrest on a corruption charge -- is running for reelection. His potential opponent, Commissioner Steve Gonot, recently resigned after his own corruption charges.
http://www.miamiherald.com/news/broward/story/830725.html
-MIAMI BEACH: Income disparity on Miami Beach is highest in nation
BY TRENTON DANIEL
The working class and fixed-income retirees view wealth with inspiration and frustration in Miami Beach, which has the highest income gap in the United States.
http://www.miamiherald.com/news/miami_dade/beaches/story/830748.html
-Almost one in 10 Floridians on food stamps
BY JOSE PAGLIERY
Unemployed and strapped for cash, Floridians are asking for state assistance to feed their families in record numbers.
http://www.miamiherald.com/news/florida/story/829187.html
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-Sansom hires attorney Richard Coates to handle ethics complaint
By Alex Leary
House Speaker Ray Sansom has hired a well-known Tallahassee lawyer to defend him against an ethics complaint filed in connection with him taking a $110,000 job at his local college.
http://www.tampabay.com/news/politics/state/article952456.ece
-Shy, rich farmers thrust in spotlight as players in U.S. Sugar deal
By SUSAN SALISBURY
The buzz in the close-knit Florida grower crowd started in 2000: A wealthy Missouri farmer was buying groves. Lots of groves. Almost nine years later, many still haven't met Gaylon Lawrence Sr., 74, or his son, Gaylon Lawrence Jr., 46.
http://www.palmbeachpost.com/news/content/business/epaper/2008/12/29/a1a_lawrence_1230.html?cxtype=rss&cxsvc=7&cxcat=6
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Monday, December 29, 2008
GLBT DIGEST December 29, 2008
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New York Times
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-Letters: What the New School Was, and What It Should Be
To the Editor: As alumni of Eugene Lang College of the New School University, we would like to offer a different interpretation of the college from that presented in "To New School Critics, Their Leader Lacks Focus" (news article, Dec. 21). While SAT scores may be "considerably lower" than those of Columbia and New York University, students come to Lang not as a substitute for these universities but for a completely different experience.
http://www.nytimes.com/2008/12/29/opinion/lweb29newschool.html?scp=10&sq=gay&st=cse
-Op-Ed Columnist: George, Abe, Rick & Barack
By WILLIAM KRISTOL
I'm leaving the country the day of Barack Obama's inauguration. It's nothing personal. Nor, I hasten to add - lest some people get too excited - is it anything permanent. It's just that I happen to have a speech to give in Canada.
http://www.nytimes.com/2008/12/29/opinion/29kristol.html?scp=2&sq=gay&st=cse
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Washington Post
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-Study: Family behavior key to health of gay youth
By LISA LEFF
Young gay people whose parents or guardians responded negatively when they revealed their sexual orientation were more likely to attempt suicide, experience severe depression and use drugs than those whose families accepted the news, according to a new study.
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/12/29/AR2008122900003.html
-Premarital Abstinence Pledges Ineffective, Study Finds
Teenagers Who Make Such Promises Are Just as Likely to Have Sex, and Less Likely to Use Protection, the Data Indicate
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/12/28/AR2008122801588.html?hpid=moreheadlines
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Wall Street Journal
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-Same-Sex Adoption Debate Rages on in Sunshine State
Posted by Dan Slater
Florida, according to Florida's News-Press, is the only state with an outright ban on gay people adopting children. But the state's Supreme Court could change that. Last month, a Miami-Dade judge declared that Florida's 1977 law violated equal protection rights. "It is clear that sexual orientation is not a predictor of a person's ability to parent," Judge Cindy Lederman wrote in a November 25th ruling. "The exclusion causes some children to be deprived of a permanent placement with a family that is best suited to their needs." Lederman said there is no moral or scientific reason for banning gays and lesbians from adopting, despite the state's arguments otherwise. Here's a CNN report on the ruling.
http://blogs.wsj.com/law/2008/12/29/same-sex-adoption-debate-rages-on-in-sunshine-state/
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Sun-Sentinel
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-Obama keeps word by inviting Warren
Some of president-elect Barack Obama's supporters are upset that he chose Rick Warren to give the invocation at his inauguration. They should not be surprised. He promised as a candidate that he would try to change the divisive tone of U.S. politics.
http://www.sun-sentinel.com/news/opinion/sfl-29pagesbdec29,0,2354830.story
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Pink News - UK
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-Campbell Soup's gay ads attacked by American Family Association
By Rachel Charman
An ad for Campbell's Soup Company appearing in gay magazine The Advocate has been condemned by the American Family Association (AFA). The double-page ad features two female restaurateurs and a young boy. The text accompanying the picture identifies the women as a couple and the boy as their son.
http://www.pinknews.co.uk/news/articles/2005-10121.html
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New York Times
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-Letters: What the New School Was, and What It Should Be
To the Editor: As alumni of Eugene Lang College of the New School University, we would like to offer a different interpretation of the college from that presented in "To New School Critics, Their Leader Lacks Focus" (news article, Dec. 21). While SAT scores may be "considerably lower" than those of Columbia and New York University, students come to Lang not as a substitute for these universities but for a completely different experience.
http://www.nytimes.com/2008/12/29/opinion/lweb29newschool.html?scp=10&sq=gay&st=cse
-Op-Ed Columnist: George, Abe, Rick & Barack
By WILLIAM KRISTOL
I'm leaving the country the day of Barack Obama's inauguration. It's nothing personal. Nor, I hasten to add - lest some people get too excited - is it anything permanent. It's just that I happen to have a speech to give in Canada.
http://www.nytimes.com/2008/12/29/opinion/29kristol.html?scp=2&sq=gay&st=cse
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Washington Post
http://www.washingtonpost.com/
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-Study: Family behavior key to health of gay youth
By LISA LEFF
Young gay people whose parents or guardians responded negatively when they revealed their sexual orientation were more likely to attempt suicide, experience severe depression and use drugs than those whose families accepted the news, according to a new study.
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/12/29/AR2008122900003.html
-Premarital Abstinence Pledges Ineffective, Study Finds
Teenagers Who Make Such Promises Are Just as Likely to Have Sex, and Less Likely to Use Protection, the Data Indicate
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/12/28/AR2008122801588.html?hpid=moreheadlines
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Wall Street Journal
http://online.wsj.com
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-Same-Sex Adoption Debate Rages on in Sunshine State
Posted by Dan Slater
Florida, according to Florida's News-Press, is the only state with an outright ban on gay people adopting children. But the state's Supreme Court could change that. Last month, a Miami-Dade judge declared that Florida's 1977 law violated equal protection rights. "It is clear that sexual orientation is not a predictor of a person's ability to parent," Judge Cindy Lederman wrote in a November 25th ruling. "The exclusion causes some children to be deprived of a permanent placement with a family that is best suited to their needs." Lederman said there is no moral or scientific reason for banning gays and lesbians from adopting, despite the state's arguments otherwise. Here's a CNN report on the ruling.
http://blogs.wsj.com/law/2008/12/29/same-sex-adoption-debate-rages-on-in-sunshine-state/
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Sun-Sentinel
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-Obama keeps word by inviting Warren
Some of president-elect Barack Obama's supporters are upset that he chose Rick Warren to give the invocation at his inauguration. They should not be surprised. He promised as a candidate that he would try to change the divisive tone of U.S. politics.
http://www.sun-sentinel.com/news/opinion/sfl-29pagesbdec29,0,2354830.story
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Pink News - UK
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-Campbell Soup's gay ads attacked by American Family Association
By Rachel Charman
An ad for Campbell's Soup Company appearing in gay magazine The Advocate has been condemned by the American Family Association (AFA). The double-page ad features two female restaurateurs and a young boy. The text accompanying the picture identifies the women as a couple and the boy as their son.
http://www.pinknews.co.uk/news/articles/2005-10121.html
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NATIONAL & WORLD DIGEST December 29, 2008
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New York Times
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-Axelrod Puts Stimulus Plan at $675 Billion to $775 Billion
By SHARON OTTERMAN
The last Sunday of the year was a quiet one on the network's morning talk shows, with David Axelrod, President-elect Barack Obama's political adviser, looking ahead to the new administration while Laura Bush and Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice reflected on the past eight years.
http://www.nytimes.com/2008/12/29/us/politics/29talkshows.html?scp=5&sq=gay&st=cse
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-A One-Word Explanation? Try 'Greed'
by Jay Bookman
The secret to capitalism's success is its ability to take one of mankind's most powerful emotions - greed - and harness that emotion to drive economic progress. By greedily pursuing our own individual self-interests, the theory goes, each of us contributes almost accidentally to greater prosperity for everybody.
http://www.commondreams.org/view/2008/12/27-0
-Southern strategy backlash
BY DAVID S. BRODER
As a rule, a new president's choice of a secretary of transportation makes few headlines, even when the appointee is a member of the opposition. In 2001, George W. Bush decided to name as transportation secretary Norman Mineta, a former congressman from California, to be the token Democrat in his Cabinet, and no one noticed. And no one except for Mark Shields, who lavishly praised the appointment, paid much attention last week when Barack Obama made Ray LaHood, the retiring representative from Peoria, Ill., the second Republican in his Cabinet.
http://www.miamiherald.com/opinion/other-views/story/829455.html
-Israeli Aircraft Continue Raids on Gaza; Arab Anger Rises
By TAGHREED EL-KHODARY and ISABEL KERSHNER
GAZA - In a third straight day of deadly air strikes against the emblems and institutions of Hamas on Monday, Israeli warplanes pounded targets in Gaza including the Interior Ministry while the Israeli Army declared areas around the beleaguered enclave a "closed military zone."
http://www.nytimes.com/2008/12/30/world/middleeast/30mideast.html?_r=1&hp
-Bernie's funda-mental defense
If you thought Bernard Madoff's $50 billion investment scheme was audacious, get ready for his alibi. Lawyers for the accused scammer are exploring an insanity defense, we hear.
http://www.nydailynews.com/gossip/2008/12/28/2008-12-28_bernies_fundamental_defense.html
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-Axelrod Puts Stimulus Plan at $675 Billion to $775 Billion
By SHARON OTTERMAN
The last Sunday of the year was a quiet one on the network's morning talk shows, with David Axelrod, President-elect Barack Obama's political adviser, looking ahead to the new administration while Laura Bush and Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice reflected on the past eight years.
http://www.nytimes.com/2008/12/29/us/politics/29talkshows.html?scp=5&sq=gay&st=cse
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Fort Report
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-A One-Word Explanation? Try 'Greed'
by Jay Bookman
The secret to capitalism's success is its ability to take one of mankind's most powerful emotions - greed - and harness that emotion to drive economic progress. By greedily pursuing our own individual self-interests, the theory goes, each of us contributes almost accidentally to greater prosperity for everybody.
http://www.commondreams.org/view/2008/12/27-0
-Southern strategy backlash
BY DAVID S. BRODER
As a rule, a new president's choice of a secretary of transportation makes few headlines, even when the appointee is a member of the opposition. In 2001, George W. Bush decided to name as transportation secretary Norman Mineta, a former congressman from California, to be the token Democrat in his Cabinet, and no one noticed. And no one except for Mark Shields, who lavishly praised the appointment, paid much attention last week when Barack Obama made Ray LaHood, the retiring representative from Peoria, Ill., the second Republican in his Cabinet.
http://www.miamiherald.com/opinion/other-views/story/829455.html
-Israeli Aircraft Continue Raids on Gaza; Arab Anger Rises
By TAGHREED EL-KHODARY and ISABEL KERSHNER
GAZA - In a third straight day of deadly air strikes against the emblems and institutions of Hamas on Monday, Israeli warplanes pounded targets in Gaza including the Interior Ministry while the Israeli Army declared areas around the beleaguered enclave a "closed military zone."
http://www.nytimes.com/2008/12/30/world/middleeast/30mideast.html?_r=1&hp
-Bernie's funda-mental defense
If you thought Bernard Madoff's $50 billion investment scheme was audacious, get ready for his alibi. Lawyers for the accused scammer are exploring an insanity defense, we hear.
http://www.nydailynews.com/gossip/2008/12/28/2008-12-28_bernies_fundamental_defense.html
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FLORIDA DIGEST December 29, 2008
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~~FLORIDA GLBT NEWS~~
From Dean Trantalis for Fort Lauderdale Mayor Campaign
-OUR CITY WANTS YOUR SUPPORT ...
AND SO DOES DEAN!
To Everyone who has shown their support for this campaign, The time is now!!!
Until now, we've been raising funds for this final push. We are only a little over 6 weeks out from the election and we are honored and humbled to have the outpouring of support we have received so far. Now it's time for everyone supporting this campaign to let the rest of Fort Lauderdale know why they should vote for Dean. On Wednesday, January 7th, 2009, we'll be holding a rally at ArtServ at 6pm. We need each and every one of you to commit to attending the rally and bringing at least 1 friend. It's time to step up and make our united voices heard. If you have volunteered previously, we ask you to volunteer again. And please attend. If you have given money or helped us raise funds, we ask that you give your time and help us raise volunteers and attend. If you have wanted to help but haven't been able, we ask that you take the time to attend. This a call for "ALL HANDS ON DECK". Tell everyone you know and send this to as many people as possible. We want everyone. Thank you for your dedication. Thank you for your time. Thank you for your support. Thank you.
Chip Clapp
Volunteer Coordinator
Dean Trantalis for Mayor Campaign
volunteer@deanformayor.com
(954) 701-2902 cell
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PFLAG FT. LAUDERDALE BILINGUAL
THURSDAY.... JANUARY 15TH, 2009 - 7 - 9 PM
SUNSHINE CATHEDRAL
1480 S W 9th AVENUE
FT. LAUDERDALE
OPEN TO ALL LGBT PEOPLE YOUR FAMILIES, FRIENDS AND ALLIES
Bring your favorite dessert to share - Carole Benowitz will be facilitating our first meeting
NEXT TO CHURCH IN TWO STORY BLDG - 1ST DOOR....FIRST FLOOR
95 TO DAVIE BLVD, GO EAST, GO OVER BRIDGE AND MAKE RIGHT ON 9TH AVE
PLEASE JOIN US AND MAKE A DIFFERENCE AT OUR RAP GROUP PFLAG is a non-sectarian National Organization that helps to promote the health and well being of all lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender people through support, education and advocacy. We have over 500 Chapters in the U.S. and aboard. ALL meetings are confidential.
FOR INFO: Carole Benowitz, PFLAG Florida State Coordinator - National Board
of Directors - 561-716-9464 pflag@pobox.com
~~FLORIDA GENERAL NEWS~~
From Scott Newton for Wilton Manors City Commission Campaign
-CAMPAIGN FUNDRAISER FOR SCOTT NEWTON
A Voice for ALL of Wilton Manors
Monday January 5th @ Georgie's Alibi
Manchester Room
2266 Wilton Dr. - 6:00- 8:00 pm
Includes 2 drinks and appetizers
$25.00 minimum contribution suggested with a maximum of $500.00
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Fort Report
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-When new employer asked, lawmaker delivered
By Alex Leary
More than a year before accepting a controversial job with his hometown college, House Speaker Ray Sansom was regularly taking direction from the man who later would become his boss.
http://www.tampabay.com/news/politics/article950433.ece
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From Dean Trantalis for Fort Lauderdale Mayor Campaign
-OUR CITY WANTS YOUR SUPPORT ...
AND SO DOES DEAN!
To Everyone who has shown their support for this campaign, The time is now!!!
Until now, we've been raising funds for this final push. We are only a little over 6 weeks out from the election and we are honored and humbled to have the outpouring of support we have received so far. Now it's time for everyone supporting this campaign to let the rest of Fort Lauderdale know why they should vote for Dean. On Wednesday, January 7th, 2009, we'll be holding a rally at ArtServ at 6pm. We need each and every one of you to commit to attending the rally and bringing at least 1 friend. It's time to step up and make our united voices heard. If you have volunteered previously, we ask you to volunteer again. And please attend. If you have given money or helped us raise funds, we ask that you give your time and help us raise volunteers and attend. If you have wanted to help but haven't been able, we ask that you take the time to attend. This a call for "ALL HANDS ON DECK". Tell everyone you know and send this to as many people as possible. We want everyone. Thank you for your dedication. Thank you for your time. Thank you for your support. Thank you.
Chip Clapp
Volunteer Coordinator
Dean Trantalis for Mayor Campaign
volunteer@deanformayor.com
(954) 701-2902 cell
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PFLAG FT. LAUDERDALE BILINGUAL
THURSDAY.... JANUARY 15TH, 2009 - 7 - 9 PM
SUNSHINE CATHEDRAL
1480 S W 9th AVENUE
FT. LAUDERDALE
OPEN TO ALL LGBT PEOPLE YOUR FAMILIES, FRIENDS AND ALLIES
Bring your favorite dessert to share - Carole Benowitz will be facilitating our first meeting
NEXT TO CHURCH IN TWO STORY BLDG - 1ST DOOR....FIRST FLOOR
95 TO DAVIE BLVD, GO EAST, GO OVER BRIDGE AND MAKE RIGHT ON 9TH AVE
PLEASE JOIN US AND MAKE A DIFFERENCE AT OUR RAP GROUP PFLAG is a non-sectarian National Organization that helps to promote the health and well being of all lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender people through support, education and advocacy. We have over 500 Chapters in the U.S. and aboard. ALL meetings are confidential.
FOR INFO: Carole Benowitz, PFLAG Florida State Coordinator - National Board
of Directors - 561-716-9464 pflag@pobox.com
~~FLORIDA GENERAL NEWS~~
From Scott Newton for Wilton Manors City Commission Campaign
-CAMPAIGN FUNDRAISER FOR SCOTT NEWTON
A Voice for ALL of Wilton Manors
Monday January 5th @ Georgie's Alibi
Manchester Room
2266 Wilton Dr. - 6:00- 8:00 pm
Includes 2 drinks and appetizers
$25.00 minimum contribution suggested with a maximum of $500.00
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Fort Report
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-When new employer asked, lawmaker delivered
By Alex Leary
More than a year before accepting a controversial job with his hometown college, House Speaker Ray Sansom was regularly taking direction from the man who later would become his boss.
http://www.tampabay.com/news/politics/article950433.ece
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Sunday, December 28, 2008
GLBT DIGEST December 28, 2008
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New York Times
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-Op-Ed Columnist: You're Likable Enough, Gay People
IN his first press conference after his re-election in 2004, President Bush memorably declared, "I earned capital in the campaign, political capital, and now I intend to spend it." We all know how that turned out. Barack Obama has little in common with George W. Bush, thank God, his obsessive workouts and message control notwithstanding. At a time when very few Americans feel very good about very much, Obama is generating huge hopes even before he takes office. So much so that his name and face, affixed to any product, may be the last commodity left in the marketplace that can still move Americans to shop.
http://www.nytimes.com/2008/12/28/opinion/28rich.html?_r=1&scp=2&sq=Gay&st=cse
-Chief Judge Is Retiring, Leaving Trail of Successes for Women on the Bench
By JOHN ELIGON
It was no secret that Gov. Mario M. Cuomo wanted a woman on the New York State Court of Appeals. When a seat opened in 1983, Judith S. Kaye was one of two female finalists. But the road was not exactly rising up to meet Ms. Kaye. She had no judicial experience, and a bar group - a women's group, in fact - urged the governor not to give her the job.
http://www.nytimes.com/2008/12/28/nyregion/28kaye.html?scp=6&sq=Gay&st=cse
-Mildred Loving | b. 1940
The Color of Love
In June 1963, Mildred Loving, the 22-year-old wife of Richard Loving, a bricklayer, sat down with a piece of lined loose-leaf paper and wrote a letter in neat script to the Washington branch of the A.C.L.U. "My husband is White," she wrote, "I am part negro, & part indian." Five years earlier, they married in Washington, she explained, but did not know that there was a law in Virginia, where they lived, against mixed marriages. Upon arriving back home, the two were jailed, tried and told to leave the state, which is how she ended up back in Washington. Her request to the A.C.L.U. was heartbreakingly humble: "We know we can't live there, but we would like to go back once and awhile to visit our families & friends." A judge had told them that if they set foot, together, in the state again, they would be jailed for one year. She hoped to hear from the lawyer there "real soon."
http://www.nytimes.com/2008/12/28/magazine/28loving-t.html?sq=Gay&st=cse&adxnnl=1&scp=4&adxnnlx=1230472804-P1s0umPa8k6m3mFyFqPWbQ
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-Spain: big pro-family rally in Madrid
By DANIEL WOOLLS
MADRID, Spain -- Tens of thousands of people attended a Mass in central Madrid on Sunday designed to promote traditional family values in a predominantly Roman Catholic country that has legalized gay marriage and made it easier for people to divorce.
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/12/28/AR2008122800274.html
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Wall Street Journal
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-Rick Warren, Obama and the Left
The left's intolerance of Rick Warren could slow Obama's progress
The most thoughtful and interesting debate of the two-year-long presidential campaign occurred last August at Saddleback Church between John McCain and Barack Obama, moderated by Saddleback pastor Rick Warren. So it is notable that President-elect Obama's choice of Rick Warren to give the invocation at his Inauguration next month has brought forth hyperpartisan invective from the Democratic left. It has spent the past week conveying to the world its disappointment and disgust with the choice of Pastor Warren because he opposes gay marriage and abortion.
http://online.wsj.com/article/SB123033836308436501.html
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Sun-Sentinel
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-Same-sex couple win birth certificate fight
By Janet McConnaughey
A same-sex couple in California has won a federal court ruling that their adopted son's Louisiana birth certificate must bear the names of both adoptive fathers. The facts are so clear that no trial is needed, U.S. District Judge Jay Zainey wrote.
http://www.sun-sentinel.com/news/nationworld/sfl-flatwodads1228sbdec28,0,6474573.story
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-Jesse's Journal | In Praise of Books
By JESSE MONTEAGUDO
Recently I saw Mark Doty accept the National Book Award (NBA) in Poetry for his book Fire to Fire: New and Collected Poems (Harper Collins). During his acceptance speech Doty, an openly gay man, thanked his husband Paul (they were recently married in Massachusetts). Like Augusten Burroughs's memoirs, and David Sedaris's humor, Mark Doty's poetry appeals to all readers regardless of their sexual orientation. Needless to say, it is a great distinction for an openly gay poet to be honored, not as the best American gay poet, but as the best American poet period. And Doty's honor was well-deserved.
http://miamiherald.typepad.com/gaysouthflorida/
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South Florida Blade
http://www.floridablade.com/
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-Miami finalist for Gay Games in 2014
The 'gay Olympics' could bring thousands of people, millions of dollars to South Florida
By Dan Renzi
Is Miami ready to host the world's largest gay sporting event that will bring in an estimated 15,000 gay visitors spending beaucoup gay bucks in less that six years? The city is a finalist for the 2014 Gay Games, the largest gay and lesbian sporting event in the world. Three other cities--Boston, Cleveland, and Washington--are also finalists for the bid.
http://www.floridablade.com/blog/index.cfm#23184
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365Gay.com
http://www.365gay.com/
Go to this link for the following articles:
-What you can do to help appoint a gay Secretary of the Navy
By Emma Ruby-Sachs
I just received a press release about a campaign from December 31st until January 2nd aimed at encouraging Obama to choose William White, an openly gay man.
http://www.365gay.com/blog/ruby-sachs-what-you-can-do-to-help-appoint-a-gay-secretary-of-the-navy/
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Forwarded from Gays Without Borders
Contact rays.list@comcast.net for the full article
-The Swedish Humanist Association, like other Humanist organizations, promotes secularism, rationalism, a non-religious life-stance and human rights. It has always fought homophobia. In recent years, it has had a major break through in public debate, and tripled its number of members, which has made it the fastest growing Humanist association in the world! Now, the SHA has collected its TV and video films and put them on its website. A couple of them are interviews with gay and lesbian persons, made by the SHA chairman, Christer Sturmark. Although most of the films are in Swedish, a few are in English. Maybe they are of some interest to you.
http://www.humanisterna.se/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=414:audio-och-video&catid=14:humanisterna&Itemid=154
-KATHMANDU: Sexual minorities mark SC verdict anniversary
"Here is something important for us parliamentarians," stressed Sunil Babu Panta, while explaining the Supreme Court ruling that ensured equal rights to sexual minorities. "The apex court has already given a ruling [to the government] to formulate appropriate laws and also bring about amendment to the existing laws so as to ensure the separate identity and rights of people with a different sexual orientation."
http://www.myrepublica.com/portal/index.php?action=news_details&news_id=628
-Gay & Lesbian Humanist, December 2008
If you'd rather read G&LH than spend time with the in-laws, the December issue is now online. Alternatively, if you've already done the festive thing and are now stuffed with mince pies and sherry, why not take a look now!
The new issue of Gay & Lesbian Humanist is now available at http://www.gayandlesbianhumanist.org/ and we end the year with controversy, courtesy of the human-rights campaigner and G&LH contributor Peter Tatchell.
If you're gay and in the UK, your blood is tainted, he says. That, anyway, is the view of the organisation that spends much of its time and budget appealing for that precious commodity: blood. "We all now carry the mark of the HIV 'Anti-Christ'," writes Tatchell in our special feature on blood donation, and why gays are not allowed to donate
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Forwarded from Kenneth Sherrill - Ken's List
Kenneth.Sherrill@hunter.cuny.edu
kenslist@groups.queernet.org
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Contact rays.list@comcast.net if can't access the article
-A New Iranian Queer Magazine
The First Issue of Neda Magazine is available online Neda is a monthly online magazine in Farsi. In this issue we published some articles about sexual orientation, Harvey Milk, 60th anniversary of UN Human rights declaration, and few community issues.
you can read online or download PDF/Word file on
www.nedamagazine.net
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Gay American Heroes Foundation Update
www.GayAmericanHeroes.com
-Dear Friends,
I'm sorry to report to you that we have had two more LGBT hate crime murders in December and now we have possibly three more. This would bring the total for LGBT hate crime murders in 2008 to 37 human beings whose lives have been stolen from all of us senselessly. This equates to one LGBT hate crime murder every 9 days in the USA in 2008. And, this number only represents those that we know about since 19 states still do not report LGBT hate crimes. Our HEROES are being stolen from us and their family and friends because of hate and those who teach and promote hate. We cannot live in fear for even one more second! Gay American Heroes is here to face head-on the ongoing violence against Gay, Lesbian, Bisexual and Transgender people and fight those who otherwise seek to enslave us in their belief system.
So, until we, as the LGBT community, are extended the same rights, freedoms, and protections that every other American enjoys, Gay American Heroes will be united in the fight for respect, dignity, and equal protections under the law as defined in our Constitution. We will win this civil rights and human rights battle through awareness, education, perseverance for justice for all humanity. Please join us. Help Honor our Heroes and put an end to the Hate.
Show your support by going to www.GayAmericanHeroes.com and Adopting a Hero Today!
Thank you.
Scott Hall
Founder
Email GayAmericanHeroes@yahoo.com
www.GayAmericanHeroes.com
-December 18,2008 Three Black Gay Men Murdered in New Orleans, Police Hunt for Suspects
Thanks to Lisa Moore, the fab editor of black LGBT-themed Redbone Press, for the heads up. New Orleans police have identified three black men who were gunned down in a 7th Ward home. The men were apparently gay, one possibly transgender, and police "believe the three victims knew their killers." The victims were all from Mississippi and living together in a home on the 2500 block of Pauger Street. They are identified as Felix Pearson, 19; Kenneth Monroe, 27; and Darriel Wilson, 20. Nola.com reports the men were found Saturday afternoon after the building manager "said he saw the lower half of a man's body through a window and called 911."
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Pink News - UK
http://www.pinknews.co.uk/
Go to this link for the following articles:
-Mother admits abusing 16-year-old son for being gay
A woman in Scotland has admitted in court that she sent homophobic text messages and shouted abuse at her own child because he is gay.
http://www.pinknews.co.uk/news/articles/2005-10065.html
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New York Times
http://www.nytimes.com/
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-Op-Ed Columnist: You're Likable Enough, Gay People
IN his first press conference after his re-election in 2004, President Bush memorably declared, "I earned capital in the campaign, political capital, and now I intend to spend it." We all know how that turned out. Barack Obama has little in common with George W. Bush, thank God, his obsessive workouts and message control notwithstanding. At a time when very few Americans feel very good about very much, Obama is generating huge hopes even before he takes office. So much so that his name and face, affixed to any product, may be the last commodity left in the marketplace that can still move Americans to shop.
http://www.nytimes.com/2008/12/28/opinion/28rich.html?_r=1&scp=2&sq=Gay&st=cse
-Chief Judge Is Retiring, Leaving Trail of Successes for Women on the Bench
By JOHN ELIGON
It was no secret that Gov. Mario M. Cuomo wanted a woman on the New York State Court of Appeals. When a seat opened in 1983, Judith S. Kaye was one of two female finalists. But the road was not exactly rising up to meet Ms. Kaye. She had no judicial experience, and a bar group - a women's group, in fact - urged the governor not to give her the job.
http://www.nytimes.com/2008/12/28/nyregion/28kaye.html?scp=6&sq=Gay&st=cse
-Mildred Loving | b. 1940
The Color of Love
In June 1963, Mildred Loving, the 22-year-old wife of Richard Loving, a bricklayer, sat down with a piece of lined loose-leaf paper and wrote a letter in neat script to the Washington branch of the A.C.L.U. "My husband is White," she wrote, "I am part negro, & part indian." Five years earlier, they married in Washington, she explained, but did not know that there was a law in Virginia, where they lived, against mixed marriages. Upon arriving back home, the two were jailed, tried and told to leave the state, which is how she ended up back in Washington. Her request to the A.C.L.U. was heartbreakingly humble: "We know we can't live there, but we would like to go back once and awhile to visit our families & friends." A judge had told them that if they set foot, together, in the state again, they would be jailed for one year. She hoped to hear from the lawyer there "real soon."
http://www.nytimes.com/2008/12/28/magazine/28loving-t.html?sq=Gay&st=cse&adxnnl=1&scp=4&adxnnlx=1230472804-P1s0umPa8k6m3mFyFqPWbQ
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Washington Post
http://www.washingtonpost.com/
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-Spain: big pro-family rally in Madrid
By DANIEL WOOLLS
MADRID, Spain -- Tens of thousands of people attended a Mass in central Madrid on Sunday designed to promote traditional family values in a predominantly Roman Catholic country that has legalized gay marriage and made it easier for people to divorce.
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/12/28/AR2008122800274.html
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Wall Street Journal
http://online.wsj.com
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-Rick Warren, Obama and the Left
The left's intolerance of Rick Warren could slow Obama's progress
The most thoughtful and interesting debate of the two-year-long presidential campaign occurred last August at Saddleback Church between John McCain and Barack Obama, moderated by Saddleback pastor Rick Warren. So it is notable that President-elect Obama's choice of Rick Warren to give the invocation at his Inauguration next month has brought forth hyperpartisan invective from the Democratic left. It has spent the past week conveying to the world its disappointment and disgust with the choice of Pastor Warren because he opposes gay marriage and abortion.
http://online.wsj.com/article/SB123033836308436501.html
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Sun-Sentinel
http://www.sun-sentinel.com/
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-Same-sex couple win birth certificate fight
By Janet McConnaughey
A same-sex couple in California has won a federal court ruling that their adopted son's Louisiana birth certificate must bear the names of both adoptive fathers. The facts are so clear that no trial is needed, U.S. District Judge Jay Zainey wrote.
http://www.sun-sentinel.com/news/nationworld/sfl-flatwodads1228sbdec28,0,6474573.story
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Steve Rothaus
http://www.MiamiHerald.com/gay
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-Jesse's Journal | In Praise of Books
By JESSE MONTEAGUDO
Recently I saw Mark Doty accept the National Book Award (NBA) in Poetry for his book Fire to Fire: New and Collected Poems (Harper Collins). During his acceptance speech Doty, an openly gay man, thanked his husband Paul (they were recently married in Massachusetts). Like Augusten Burroughs's memoirs, and David Sedaris's humor, Mark Doty's poetry appeals to all readers regardless of their sexual orientation. Needless to say, it is a great distinction for an openly gay poet to be honored, not as the best American gay poet, but as the best American poet period. And Doty's honor was well-deserved.
http://miamiherald.typepad.com/gaysouthflorida/
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South Florida Blade
http://www.floridablade.com/
Go to this link for the following articles:
-Miami finalist for Gay Games in 2014
The 'gay Olympics' could bring thousands of people, millions of dollars to South Florida
By Dan Renzi
Is Miami ready to host the world's largest gay sporting event that will bring in an estimated 15,000 gay visitors spending beaucoup gay bucks in less that six years? The city is a finalist for the 2014 Gay Games, the largest gay and lesbian sporting event in the world. Three other cities--Boston, Cleveland, and Washington--are also finalists for the bid.
http://www.floridablade.com/blog/index.cfm#23184
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365Gay.com
http://www.365gay.com/
Go to this link for the following articles:
-What you can do to help appoint a gay Secretary of the Navy
By Emma Ruby-Sachs
I just received a press release about a campaign from December 31st until January 2nd aimed at encouraging Obama to choose William White, an openly gay man.
http://www.365gay.com/blog/ruby-sachs-what-you-can-do-to-help-appoint-a-gay-secretary-of-the-navy/
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Forwarded from Gays Without Borders
Contact rays.list@comcast.net for the full article
-The Swedish Humanist Association, like other Humanist organizations, promotes secularism, rationalism, a non-religious life-stance and human rights. It has always fought homophobia. In recent years, it has had a major break through in public debate, and tripled its number of members, which has made it the fastest growing Humanist association in the world! Now, the SHA has collected its TV and video films and put them on its website. A couple of them are interviews with gay and lesbian persons, made by the SHA chairman, Christer Sturmark. Although most of the films are in Swedish, a few are in English. Maybe they are of some interest to you.
http://www.humanisterna.se/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=414:audio-och-video&catid=14:humanisterna&Itemid=154
-KATHMANDU: Sexual minorities mark SC verdict anniversary
"Here is something important for us parliamentarians," stressed Sunil Babu Panta, while explaining the Supreme Court ruling that ensured equal rights to sexual minorities. "The apex court has already given a ruling [to the government] to formulate appropriate laws and also bring about amendment to the existing laws so as to ensure the separate identity and rights of people with a different sexual orientation."
http://www.myrepublica.com/portal/index.php?action=news_details&news_id=628
-Gay & Lesbian Humanist, December 2008
If you'd rather read G&LH than spend time with the in-laws, the December issue is now online. Alternatively, if you've already done the festive thing and are now stuffed with mince pies and sherry, why not take a look now!
The new issue of Gay & Lesbian Humanist is now available at http://www.gayandlesbianhumanist.org/ and we end the year with controversy, courtesy of the human-rights campaigner and G&LH contributor Peter Tatchell.
If you're gay and in the UK, your blood is tainted, he says. That, anyway, is the view of the organisation that spends much of its time and budget appealing for that precious commodity: blood. "We all now carry the mark of the HIV 'Anti-Christ'," writes Tatchell in our special feature on blood donation, and why gays are not allowed to donate
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Forwarded from Kenneth Sherrill - Ken's List
Kenneth.Sherrill@hunter.cuny.edu
kenslist@groups.queernet.org
Go to the links for the following articles:
Contact rays.list@comcast.net if can't access the article
-A New Iranian Queer Magazine
The First Issue of Neda Magazine is available online Neda is a monthly online magazine in Farsi. In this issue we published some articles about sexual orientation, Harvey Milk, 60th anniversary of UN Human rights declaration, and few community issues.
you can read online or download PDF/Word file on
www.nedamagazine.net
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Gay American Heroes Foundation Update
www.GayAmericanHeroes.com
-Dear Friends,
I'm sorry to report to you that we have had two more LGBT hate crime murders in December and now we have possibly three more. This would bring the total for LGBT hate crime murders in 2008 to 37 human beings whose lives have been stolen from all of us senselessly. This equates to one LGBT hate crime murder every 9 days in the USA in 2008. And, this number only represents those that we know about since 19 states still do not report LGBT hate crimes. Our HEROES are being stolen from us and their family and friends because of hate and those who teach and promote hate. We cannot live in fear for even one more second! Gay American Heroes is here to face head-on the ongoing violence against Gay, Lesbian, Bisexual and Transgender people and fight those who otherwise seek to enslave us in their belief system.
So, until we, as the LGBT community, are extended the same rights, freedoms, and protections that every other American enjoys, Gay American Heroes will be united in the fight for respect, dignity, and equal protections under the law as defined in our Constitution. We will win this civil rights and human rights battle through awareness, education, perseverance for justice for all humanity. Please join us. Help Honor our Heroes and put an end to the Hate.
Show your support by going to www.GayAmericanHeroes.com and Adopting a Hero Today!
Thank you.
Scott Hall
Founder
Email GayAmericanHeroes@yahoo.com
www.GayAmericanHeroes.com
-December 18,2008 Three Black Gay Men Murdered in New Orleans, Police Hunt for Suspects
Thanks to Lisa Moore, the fab editor of black LGBT-themed Redbone Press, for the heads up. New Orleans police have identified three black men who were gunned down in a 7th Ward home. The men were apparently gay, one possibly transgender, and police "believe the three victims knew their killers." The victims were all from Mississippi and living together in a home on the 2500 block of Pauger Street. They are identified as Felix Pearson, 19; Kenneth Monroe, 27; and Darriel Wilson, 20. Nola.com reports the men were found Saturday afternoon after the building manager "said he saw the lower half of a man's body through a window and called 911."
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Pink News - UK
http://www.pinknews.co.uk/
Go to this link for the following articles:
-Mother admits abusing 16-year-old son for being gay
A woman in Scotland has admitted in court that she sent homophobic text messages and shouted abuse at her own child because he is gay.
http://www.pinknews.co.uk/news/articles/2005-10065.html
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