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Amateur video shows the gulf bleeding

ILO — Thu, 13 May 2010 04:42:25 +0000

What is happening in the gulf is truly heartbreaking and this video makes it painfully clear. Watch:

www.youtube.com/watch?v=uG8JHSAVYT0

Dolphins and other animals are beginning to wash up on shore, and more photos of the disaster are available at The Big Picture.

Frasier helps launch new Teabagger cable channel

ILO — Tue, 20 Apr 2010 06:08:30 +0000

Kelsey Grammer is lending his celebrity to the launch of RightNetwork, a new cable channel dedicated to putting all of us lefties in our place.

www.youtube.com/watch?v=ehMl-CztpnA

Where’s Lilith when we need her?

Who knew that Ellen DeGeneres doesn’t like our country very well?

ILO — Thu, 08 Apr 2010 04:11:24 +0000

Or so suggested Mike Sutton of the Sutton family on a recent airing of the Family Feud. Watch:

Mike, with all those daughters, there’s a good chance one of them doesn’t like your country very well either.

Obama gets schooled by 11-year-old demanding equality for all

ILO — Tue, 16 Mar 2010 00:09:26 +0000

Eleven-year-old Will Phillips, who last year refused to stand up in class for the Pledge of Allegiance until there was “liberty and justice for all,” received a GLAAD Media Award for his activism on behalf of the gay community. In his acceptance speech he called for President Obama to use the bully pulpit of his office to affect change. Amazing stuff. Watch:

New National Organization for Marriage ad targets Campbell, Boxer over Prop 8

ILO — Mon, 15 Mar 2010 06:52:24 +0000

In an obvious nod to U.S. Senate candidate Carly Fiorina, the National Organization for Marriage has released a new ad attacking her Republican opponent Tom Campbell and incumbent Democrat Barabara Boxer. The ad attacks Campbell and Boxer for being too liberal and for being against Prop 8. Watch:

Fiorina voted in favor of Proposition 8 in 2008. When she announced her bid for Boxer’s seat last November, Fiorina reiterated her stance against gay marriage saying she “believes in the sanctity of a marriage between a man and a woman.” Fiorina has been relatively quiet on the issue since.

Archbishop Desmond Tutu: “I would never worship a homophobic God”

ILO — Fri, 12 Mar 2010 18:57:54 +0000

In a strongly worded op-ed in the Washington Post published today, Nobel Prize winner Archbishop Desmond Tutu condemned the anti-gay legislation under consideration in Uganda and Rwanda.

Gay, lesbian, bisexual and transgendered people are part of so many families. They are part of the human family. They are part of God’s family. And of course they are part of the African family. But a wave of hate is spreading across my beloved continent. People are again being denied their fundamental rights and freedoms. Men have been falsely charged and imprisoned in Senegal, and health services for these men and their community have suffered. In Malawi, men have been jailed and humiliated for expressing their partnerships with other men. Just this month, mobs in Mtwapa Township, Kenya, attacked men they suspected of being gay. Kenyan religious leaders, I am ashamed to say, threatened an HIV clinic there for providing counseling services to all members of that community, because the clerics wanted gay men excluded.

Uganda’s parliament is debating legislation that would make homosexuality punishable by life imprisonment, and more discriminatory legislation has been debated in Rwanda and Burundi.

These are terrible backward steps for human rights in Africa.

Our lesbian and gay brothers and sisters across Africa are living in fear.

And they are living in hiding — away from care, away from the protection the state should offer to every citizen and away from health care in the AIDS era, when all of us, especially Africans, need access to essential HIV services. That this pandering to intolerance is being done by politicians looking for scapegoats for their failures is not surprising. But it is a great wrong. An even larger offense is that it is being done in the name of God. Show me where Christ said “Love thy fellow man, except for the gay ones.” Gay people, too, are made in my God’s image. I would never worship a homophobic God.

Archbishop Tutu has a long standing record supporting LGBT human rights. In 2008 he was honored in San Francisco by the International Gay and Lesbian Rights Commission for that support. Watch:

Whoopie shows “Poise” for unexpected wetness..

ILO — Tue, 09 Mar 2010 19:43:03 +0000

No. Really. It’s not a parody. More at the Poise website.

H/T JMG

Rachel Maddow tells Glenn Beck to “Back off!”

ILO — Wed, 17 Feb 2010 03:17:44 +0000

Game on.

Poor Mr. Beck doesn’t stand a chance.

Stop multitasking and watch this video! I said STOP!

ILO — Wed, 03 Feb 2010 21:20:50 +0000

No seriously, it’s worth your time. An episode of Frontline called the Digital Nation aired last night exploring how the internet and related technologies have touched our lives, for the both good and ill. The segment on multitasking in the 8 minute clip below is particularly telling. Not because the conclusions reached aren’t obvious, but because it so succinctly describes the state most of us find ourselves in when we are “connected.” Watch:

The entire episode is 90 minutes definitely worth the time and can be watched at PBS.com.

Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell hearings begin

ILO — Tue, 02 Feb 2010 18:06:59 +0000

The historic Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell hearings began today. Entire hearing is below.