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While getting blotto at some Bayview, Idaho bar the other day, 28-year-old white supremacist Daren C. Abbey allegedly threatened and tried to fight Marlon L. Baker, an African-American and rumored “champion” of the Spokane Boxing Club. Bet he regrets that now.
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counseling clinics are actually in the business of reparative therapy for gay people – a claim that he had denied. 
Dirty Dancing Abe Sylvia remembers very clearly the first time he saw Dirty Debbie. The handsome 36-year-old Broadway dancer turned screenwriter-director was then a self-described “friendless, fat gay kid” standing by himself in the parking lot of the middle school he attended in Norman, Okla. “Out of nowhere came this girl running across the quad with her top open, and her huge breasts were bouncing up and down,” Sylvia recalls, laughing in between bites of an egg white and asparagus omelet at an al fresco French bistro in West Hollywood. “She looked so free and happy that that image stayed with me for a long time.”
July 24, the National Organization for Marriage plans to crash their weddings with a series of protests. The group, which lobbied against passage of the marriage equality bill signed by Gov. Andrew Cuomo, announced the rallies Friday on its website. Protests are so far being planned in Albany, Rochester, Buffalo and New York City.
Feds Rule Pot Has No Accepted Medical Use The federal government ruled on Friday that marijuana has no accepted medical use and should remain in the same class of drugs as heroin. The decision comes nearly nine years after marijuana supporters asked the government to reclassify the drug to take into account the growing body of research conducted across the globe that proves it’s effective in treating certain diseases,reports The Los Angeles Times.
off with a simple front page message – “THANK YOU & GOODBYE” – leaving the media establishment here reeling from the expanding phone-hacking scandal that brought down the muckraking newspaper after 168 years. Journalists crafted the newspaper’s own obituary before sending the tabloid’s final edition to the printing presses Saturday night, apologizing for letting its readers down but stopping short of acknowledging recent allegations that staff paid police for information.File this one under ” The Best” and “Fascination”. John Becker finds out the truth always wins. He went undercover equipped with a hidden camera and hiding any evidence that he was a proud, proactive homosexual and turned himself into 007. His findings are astounding and incriminating for the C]christian counseling center run by Marcus Bachmann. LIES, LIES & MORE LIES! AB
By John Becker, op-ed contributor
The date was Thursday, June 30, 2011. I turned on the television and listened half-heartedly to the commercials as I busied about doing other things. All of a sudden I heard a voice saying, “Over the past few days, NBC News has learned how Republican presidential candidate Michele Bachmann and her family have benefited from the very government programs she denounces.”
What to do now. Live and let live. What will it take for you to forgive TOMS? I may be a total push over, but I fully believe owner Blake Mycoskie. Call naive, but that would be rude. AB
(via news.change.org)
Blake Mycoskie, founder of TOMS Shoes, has issued an exclusive statement to Change.org in response to an embarrassing controversy linking the popular urban apparel company to anti-gay, anti-choice group “Focus on the Family.”
IIIIIII knew it!
Polar bears are icons of the Arctic, symbolizing the region’s stark beauty as well as its swift decline due toglobal warming. But according to a new study published in the journal Current Biology, all polar bears alive today descend from a single female brown bear that lived 20,000 to 50,000 years ago in what’s now Ireland. DNA samples from all corners of polar bear country reveal that every individual can be traced back to this single Irish ancestor, the AFP reports.
Photography: Simone Monopoli
Art direction and styling: Stefano Guerrini
Grooming: Marco Minunno@mks-Milano
Styling assistant: Angelica Pianarosa
Model: Sasha Marini@Beatrice
Location: Annapurna Showroom
Special Thanks to: Terry Trincia, Marco Zisa and Massimo Curella
Cappotto e sciarpa / coat and scarf Annapurna (female collection), pantaloni militari / trousers A.N.G.E.L.O. , anelli / rings Archivio
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Maglione / sweater Annapurna (female collection)
Maglione / sweater Annapurna (female collection), pantaloni / trousers Annapurna
Scritto da Stefano Guerrini alle 06.05 — Strike a pose
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Accidental Bear 