Human Rights: A California Judge Is Challenging @BarackObama - "ordering an Executive Branch agency to stop interfering with a court employee's efforts to secure health insurance coverage for her wife." (cc @ACLULGBT) - http://www.time.com/time...
"Obama Administration lawyers are likely still scratching their heads over how to respond to an extraordinary ruling in San Francisco. Last week, the chief judge of one of America's most prominent federal courts ordered an Executive Branch agency to stop interfering with a court employee's efforts to secure health insurance coverage for her wife. "The Office of Personnel Management...
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- sofarsoShawn
Nice to see this though I'm struck that it still seems early days to be disappointed with the administration. He's not killed nearly as many people as the other guy so I'm still thinking he's ahead :)
- winckel
"Riki "Garfunkel" Lindhome and Kate "Oates" Micucci sing a pro-gay marriage song in response to a Pat Robertson quote that legalizing gay marriage would lead to legalizing sex with ducks."
- Carmen
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When I try selecting service icons to display on my profile, the list of services scrolls off the bottom without any way for me to scroll down the list.
Try scaling down text size to a minimum, though it may not be enough anyway. It will have to be solved in some other fashion, though preferably not with simple scrolling list
- ianf ⌘
Eric, yep lots of people have raised this issue, so hopefully FF will fix this soon. :-) But agree with Ian above and give that a go as a workaround.
- Kol Tregaskes
Thanks guys. I have tried shrinking the text size, but then I can't tell which service is which. I hope FF fixes this soon.
- Eric Geller
Eric, there's another workaround, though it is taking the problem to the extremes: acquire a second, preferably portrait-form screen and reconfigure main + auxiliary displays as virtually stacked on top of one another [they don't have to be in RL]. Then render the page on both ;-)) I don't know how long is your list of services, but it ought to suffice for 100+ lines.
- ianf ⌘
I saw one of these mistaken tweets, followed its link and saw that it was an old article. I did do a double take though. I dismissed it as a lone nitwit who'd jumped the gun. I didn't think the false story would have wings. I simply rolled my eyes and moved on. I wonder if there's a way to stop these twitter wild fires?
- Patrick Yaeger
"We’re not quite sure what it is about the game of soccer that causes players to keep getting boners, but we’re all for it. Thanks to Lloyd for sending us this photo of Raul about to get brought onto the pitch. I guess he’s just excited to join the game."
- Derrick
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This ignites all my ancient inner procreation drives at full blaze. That ass. Why don't we have Star Trek's virtual reality deck's yet? I know what I'd use it for. ;)
- Patrick Yaeger
MSNBC's David Shuster and Brian Brown -- the executive director of the gay-marriage-panicking National Organization For Marriage -- hashed it out on the teevee this afternoon, and unfortunately for Brown, Shuster pointed out that NOM has basically been in the business of bowdlerizing other people's statements:
- Darryl
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The Trevor Project, which is a non-profit organization established to promote acceptance of lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender and questioning youth, and to aid in suicide prevention among that group.
"There is one country whose past rivals even that of ancient Greece for their open acceptance of homosexuality. Surprisingly, that country is Japan. Almost everyone knows of the ferocious warriors known as Samurai. But did you know that the entire samurai class, from lowly warrior to exalted lord, took young male lovers and believed that the love between a warrior and his young male apprentice was the purest and most noble form of love?"
- Lindsey is Fierce!
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Bill O’Reilly was desperately in search of a good argument for torture, but thanks to Cato Institute legal analyst David Rittgers — a former Army Captain — he came up empty.
- Darryl
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I guess inefficiencies like creating tons of fictional threats that tie up hundreds of agents is a small price to pay for Bill O. {shakes head}
- Andrew C
O'Reilly joins other GOP apologists in their ongoing attempt to err on the side of evil/torture.
- Patrick Yaeger
This was great. It shows he's not actually a journalist, because he's not asking for opinions and information. He knows what answer he wants, and he keeps interrupting them looking for that answer. His frustration at the end is priceless.
- Alejandro
MoveOn.org is set to launch an aggressive new ad campaign calling on Attorney General Eric Holder to investigate the use of torture during the Bush administration and even raising the specter of targeting former Vice President Dick Cheney.
- Darryl
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Speaking publicly for one of the first times since the end of the presidential campaign, John McCain's campaign manager Steve Schmidt painted a dire portrait of the state of the Republican Party, arguing that the GOP has largely been co-opted by its religious elements.
- Grant Gochnauer
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