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- Her name is Kelly. She'll die on Monday.
- Someone Should Have Warned Kid Rock Not To Mess With Queen Bey
- HTGAWM...!!!
- HUFFPOST HILL - TSA Workers To Be Paid In Enjoyment
- India's biggest art star is NOT a pipe
- Transit Alert – Metro Fare revisions begin Sunday, March 1
- "Catwoman" is a confirmed bisexual
- Snoqualmie Pass - 2/27/2015 2:09:42 PM
- Breakfast controversy!!
- How One Community Is Kicking The Koch Brothers' Harmful Black Dust Out Of Their Neighborhood
- One Huge Reason For Netflix's Success
- Anger at UNC.. U of Oregon backs down.. Scott Walker's strange request..
- Forget #TheDress, This Is Why You Should Wear More Jumpsuits
- Snoqualmie Pass - 2/27/2015 1:07:54 PM
- 9 Killed in Missouri Murder Spree
- Pareja recorre Norteamérica en esta bella y diminuta casa rodante
- Le Figaro vient d’être publié sur tous vos écrans
- This App Is Too Good to Be Legal
- SR 520 Program update
- Nuevas imágenes de Plutón
- El hidrógeno lunar es más abundante en las pendientes orientadas hacia el polo de la Luna
- El vehículo explorador todo terreno de Marte se saca una “selfie”
- Sound Transit Report: Bi-monthly Snapshot of Procurement Solicitations Update
- Music for cats is already here, and head transplants may soon be on the way.
- Fashion Week de Milan: les poupées pastel de Prada, notre compte-rendu du défilé
| Her name is Kelly. She'll die on Monday. Posted: 27 Feb 2015 03:34 PM PST  Friday February 27, 2015 'You Deserve To Know The Truth' On Feb. 17, three teenager girls boarded a plane to Turkey from London and were subsequently smuggled into Syria with hopes of joining the militant group, according to BBC. The three follow in the footsteps of dozens of other women from Europe and the U.S. who have traveled to Syria in recent months to join the Islamic State -- a phenomenon that women's rights activist Sara Khan is out to stop. She penned a letter to the young girls considering joining ISIS, recounting the group's enticing, but empty, promises of providing women with homes, husbands and connection to God, all of which amount to lies "in the wickedest of ways." Read more.  Have you met Kelly? Not the "first woman in 70 years to be executed in Georgia," not the woman who you might think ordered too much food for her last meal. I'm talking about Kelly Gissendaner, child of God, sinner saved by grace, a minister who was known for sharing Christ's love with both prisoners and prison guards. If you haven't met Kelly you better hurry, because time is running out. On Monday the state of Georgia will execute Kelly Gissendaner, not because she killed her husband, but because she asked someone else to. Read more.  5 Things To Know About ISIS And The Theology Of Evil Evil is a term we don't normally hear in the media or politics, which is likely a good thing given our lack of public morality and civility these days. Indeed, judgmentalism was condemned by Jesus but is still often practiced by many churches -- so humility is always called for. But it is still a responsibility of the faith community to name evil where it clearly exists in the world. And by any standards, the actions of ISIS are evil. Read more.  A Homeless Man Was Buried At A Vatican Cemetery Usually Reserved For Aristocrats Willy Herteller, an 80-year-old Flemish man, died on a cold December night last year. He used to roam the streets around St. Peter's Basilica. But he's found his final resting place among bishops. Read more.  Are Black Americans the Most Religious -- and Virtuous -- of All? In a nation where rising numbers of people are dropping out of organized religion, one dynamic religious movement continues to display remarkable strength. The black church. Read more.  Here's How You Can Kick It With The Archbishop Of Canterbury Justin Welby, the senior bishop of the worldwide Anglican Communion and a self-described "spiritual magpie," is looking for a few good young men and women (aged 20 - 35) to hang out with him in London's Lambeth Palace. Read more.  It's A Vatican Whodunit: Who Took The Bishops' Books? The publisher of a book on traditional Catholic marriage is crying foul, saying someone apparently swiped upward of 100 copies of the book from the Vatican mailboxes of bishops who attended a meeting on family issues last October. Read more.  Why The Pope Is Urging People To 'Give Back' While They 'Give Up' During Lent Catholics and Christians around the world observe Lent by giving things up they enjoy as a sacrifice. But Pope Francis is urging believers to take it a step further and give back. We discuss the importance of service during this time of reflection. Read more.  Worship leader Scott Dannemiller blogs: My prayer today is this. That I stop defining myself by my doing, and start defining myself by my being. That I stop measuring time by the clock on the wall, and start measuring it by the experiences I share with those around me. And that I stop seeing my life as "busy," and instead, see it for what it truly is. Read more.  Is Biblical Marriage A House Of Cards? When a friend of mine who is an Old Testament scholar gets asked by congregations to offer an adult study on "biblical marriage," his reply is regularly and succinctly the same: "You actually don't want me to do that." Read more.     Get Huffington Post on the Go | ||||||||||||
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Posted: 27 Feb 2015 03:00 PM PST
Why 'How To Get Away With Murder' Is TV's Most Radical Show
The series is dropping jaws for more than just its twists and turns, The Daily Beast claims. Read more.
An Oral History Of Laurel Canyon, The '60s And '70s Music Mecca
It's where legends like Joni Mitchell and David Crosby made music and made love. But, according to Vanity Fair, none of the scene's icons remember it quite the same way. Read more.
'The Hunting Ground' Documentary Hopes To Change The Conversation Around Campus Rape
"Let's change the zeitgeist on this. Let's stop the victim-blaming. Let's stop the stigmatization of this issue." Read more.
Will Forte Can't Stop (and He Hopes That Doesn't Bother Anyone)
Grantland learns that the star of Fox's buzzy new sitcom "Last Man on Earth" won't compromise for anything. Read more.
What Really Happened To Beans From 'Even Stevens'?
Fans may still recognize him from his time as a Disney star, but Steven Anthony Lawrence is up to a lot more these days than just scarfing bacon. Read more.
HUFFPOST HILL - TSA Workers To Be Paid In Enjoyment
Posted: 27 Feb 2015 02:51 PM PST
DHS: HOUSE, SENATE PLAYING CHICKEN - Looks like they're going to have to bok bok bok around the clock tonight. Elise Foley, Ryan Grim & Sabrina Siddiqui: "A House Republican effort to punt on Department of Homeland Security funding failed on the floor Friday, leaving the GOP leadership in a bind on whether to throw in the towel and pass a budget bill without immigration measures. It's back to the drawing board with only hours to go until a DHS shutdown. The vote failed 203 to 224, an embarrassing loss after Republican leadership had predicted they had the votes to get the three-week continuing resolution through. Fifty-two Republicans voted against funding DHS for even a matter of weeks without riders to block President Barack Obama's deportation relief and work authorization for undocumented immigrants. House Democrats could have pushed the bill over the line, but most instead opposed it in hopes that its failure would force Republicans to fund the department for the full year, free of restrictive immigration measures….
"The plan was for the House to approve the three-week funding bill and then leave town for the weekend. Now, the fate of DHS funding is uncertain. Members will likely huddle later Friday to work up another plan." [HuffPost]
We wonder if Rep. Barry Loudermilk (R-Ga.) wishes he had been quietermilk about not vaccinating his children.
HuffPost Haircuts: Sasha Belenky, Jeff Young.
DAILY DELANEY DOWNER - Seven states have spent nearly a million dollars drug testing welfare applicants and have barely turned up any drug users, according to data compiled by ThinkProgress. Go fig.
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RAND PAUL GETS HUGE RECEPTION AT CPAC - Jen Bendery: "Sen. Rand Paul (R-Ky.) was the guy that everyone wanted to hear speak at the Conservative Political Action Conference, and he didn't disappoint. In a speech Friday, Paul hit on all the issues that make a young libertarian salivate. He vowed to repeal 'every last bit' of the Affordable Care Act. He wondered aloud how we can trust the government to rebuild nations abroad if it can't deliver the mail here. He criticized President Barack Obama for driving up the debt, and said Hillary Clinton was 'forever' unfit to run for office because of her 'dereliction of duty' as secretary of state in the wake of the 2012 attacks in Benghazi, Libya. Don't like the National Security Agency collecting your data? Neither does Paul. 'The phone records of law-abiding citizens are none of the government's damn business!' he said, drawing loud cheers. The 2016 presidential hopeful even had a little bit of news: He announced that in the coming weeks, he plans to unveil the 'largest tax cut in American history,' a plan that will, somehow, simultaneously cut spending and balance the budget in five years. 'I will keep the IRS out of your life and out of the way of every job creator in America,' Paul declared." [HuffPost]
Who? "Real estate developer and reality TV host Donald Trump told a group of conservatives Friday that he questions whether President Barack Obama's birth certificate is real, resurrecting an old conspiracy theory that many Americans viewed as the low point of the 2008 presidential election." [HuffPost's Christina Wilkie]
Several dozen people don't like Jeb Bush, video at 11: "A determined band of supporters of Sen. Rand Paul (R-Ky.) walked out on former Florida Gov. Jeb Bush (R) on Friday as he spoke at the Conservative Political Action Conference. A few dozen Paul backers -- many of whom donned red "Stand With Rand" T-shirts -- quietly made their way down the middle aisle and out the door during Bush's speech. Once outside the main ballroom at the Gaylord National Convention Center, where Bush was speaking, they rowdily gathered and denounced the man many see as the Republican Party's leading candidate for president in 2016." [HuffPost's Christina Wilkie and Jen Bendery]
@daveweigel: Ran into Carl Paladino, asked what he thought of Rudy's comments. "He wanted $50,000 to endorse me, so he can fuck himself."
PETE SESSIONS KIND OF AWFUL - And all of those murder victims probably love America, unlike the president. Elise Foley: "Rep. Pete Sessions (R-Texas) accused President Barack Obama and Democrats Thursday evening of continually releasing undocumented immigrants who are murdering Americans. 'Every day, all along border states, maybe other places, there are murders by people who have been arrested coming into this country, who have been released by the Obama administration, I believe in violation of the law, who are murdering Americans all over our cities,' the Rules Committee chairman said at a meeting while discussing Obama's deportation relief policies. 'We hold the Democrat Party and the president personally accountable for this action.' The comment came during a discussion of a funding bill for the Department of Homeland Security, which many Republicans believe needs to include measures to block Obama's executive actions on immigration. Congress must pass funding for DHS by the end of Friday to avoid a shutdown, and House Republicans are planning to vote on a three-week bill." [HuffPost]
RICK PERRY REALLY WANTS TO BE PRESIDENT - Jen Bendery: "In a speech that jumped between trashing President Barack Obama and allowing that some people may not believe in climate change, former Texas Gov. Rick Perry (R) warned the crowd at this year's Conservative Political Action Conference not to trust the falling unemployment figures coming out of Washington. 'I'm going to say this quite plainly. The unemployment rate is a sham,' Perry said Friday. 'It leaves millions of American workers uncounted.' Perry has made the claim before, and it stems from conspiracy theories known as unemployment or BLS trutherism, in reference to the Bureau of Labor Statistics, which is responsible for producing the unemployment rate. Theories began cropping up in 2012, when the release of some surprisingly good job numbers boosted Obama's re-election campaign. Skeptical conservatives suggested Obama was cooking the books to make the economic recovery look stronger than it was." [HuffPost]
WaPo RECONSIDERING DRUG TESTING POLICY - Though we always kind of assumed management was cool with drugs after reading their Guardian Angels piece. Dave Jamieson: "If you've ever been offered a job at The Washington Post, you know there's one undignified step in the hiring process that just about everyone goes through, no matter how many Pulitzer Prizes they've won: You have to pee in a cup. The newspaper's long-standing policy of screening job seekers for drug use has puzzled many a Postie. After all, how much could a little off-duty, recreational weed really impact your ability to report the news or sell ads? Well, Post management is now reconsidering that policy.No, a stoner hasn't taken the helm of human resources. Rather, as of midnight Thursday morn, recreational marijuana became legal in the District of Columbia, where the Post's headquarters are located. Asked if marijuana use could still preclude someone from working at the Post, a spokesperson for the paper said that the 'Washington Post is reviewing its policy in light of the changes to D.C. law,' without elaborating any further." [HuffPost]
HEY, DON'T FORGET ABOUT THE KKK - Julia Crayven: "When Sen. Angus King (I-Maine) returned home from a trip to the Middle East in October, he offered a reflection on the Islamic State, also known as ISIS, to the Bangor Daily News: 'My characterization of ISIS is that they have 14th century ethics and 21st century weapons,' he said. King and others who have reached into the Middle Ages for an apt Islamic State comparison may be going back further than they need to. The 19th and 20th centuries work just as well." [HuffPost]
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India's biggest art star is NOT a pipe
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Transit Alert – Metro Fare revisions begin Sunday, March 1
Posted: 27 Feb 2015 02:42 PM PST
Beginning Sunday, March 1, a Metro fare revision will take effect for individual riders and employer-provided Choice accounts. For businesses and schools that participate in Metro’s Passport or U-Pass programs, the changes will take effect as contracts are renewed.
Fares will increase by 25¢ per trip in all Metro fare categories — adults, youth, seniors and people with disabilities — for regularly scheduled transit services, and by 50¢ per trip for Access paratransit service.
Also on March 1, the ORCA LIFT program will take effect, providing a reduced fare of $1.50 per trip for qualifying riders. ORCA LIFT fares can be used on Metro Transit buses, Sound Transit Link light rail, the Seattle Streetcar, King County Water Taxi and Kitsap Transit buses. The reduced fare must be paid with a valid ORCA LIFT card, which is registered and issued to each individual user.
The March 1 fare changes are intended to strike a balance between generating revenue that will support Metro service and keeping bus trips affordable for people with low incomes. Fares are the second-largest source of revenue for Metro, after sales tax, and were last changed in 2011.
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"Catwoman" is a confirmed bisexual
Posted: 27 Feb 2015 02:39 PM PST
Homophobes Have Invented a Scary New Tactic to Undo Equal Rights
Conservative lawmakers and religious fundamentalists have disguised their new strategy so well that you might not even have noticed what they're up to. Or at least, you won't notice until you get fired, or evicted or thrown out of school just for seeming too gay. Read more.
Jeb Bush Reaffirms He Does Not Support Marriage Equality
The former Florida governor stood by his opposition to same-sex marriage Friday, despite some speculation in recent days that he may be warming to the idea of marriage equality. Read more.
Selina Kyle Is Bisexual Says 'Catwoman' Writer
The world of comics has long been known as an affirmative landscape for queer characters. And now, another iconic character is joining the lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender family. Read more.
You Soon Could Be Able To Charge Your iPhone... By Masturbating
Finally, a way to love the planet...while loving yourself. Read more.
See The First Photo Of Eddie Redmayne Playing Transgender Pioneer
The Oscar winner reveals a radical new look for his forthcoming movie. Read more.
Raven-Symone To Play Gay Character On 'Black-ish'
She will appear in an episode titled "Please Don't Ask, Please Don't Tell." Read more.
Why Zachary Quinto May Never Marry
"Love is defined by two people in an intimate and personal way, and superimposing an institution on that isn't necessarily, for me, the most exciting idea." Read more.
Christian College Student Attacked With Apple For Questioning Treatment Of Gays
After a student at a prominent evangelical college questioned his school's stance against homosexuality in an all-school forum on Monday, another student allegedly threw an apple at him "as a warning against insulting the Spirit of grace." Read more.
These Two Gay Moms Share The Beautiful Story Of How They Came To Celebrate Chinese New Year
Sometimes LGBT foster-adoptive families feel concerned that their child's biological family won't accept them, but Maureen and Marianne felt especially welcomed. Read more.
A First Look At The Hot New Gay Dramas You'll Soon Be Talking About
"Cucumber" and "Banana" are set to "sneak premiere" on Logo TV March 2 -- and we've got an advance peek at the steamy opening sequence of the latter series. Read more.
Snoqualmie Pass - 2/27/2015 2:09:42 PM
Posted: 27 Feb 2015 02:34 PM PST
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The Mistake You're Almost Definitely Making With Scrambled Eggs
This may sound controversial, but you shouldn't be adding milk. Read more.
31 Beautiful Images That Show What Single Fatherhood Really Looks Like
Everyone should see these. Read more.
Turns Out You CAN Unclog A Toilet Without A Plunger
Learn this trick and prepare to overflow with joy. Read more.
How One Community Is Kicking The Koch Brothers' Harmful Black Dust Out Of Their Neighborhood
Posted: 27 Feb 2015 02:12 PM PST
One Huge Reason For Netflix's Success
Posted: 27 Feb 2015 01:57 PM PST
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Anger at UNC.. U of Oregon backs down.. Scott Walker's strange request..
Posted: 27 Feb 2015 01:52 PM PST
Protests Erupt Over UNC Board's Decision To Shutter Poverty Center
University of North Carolina students and faculty raucously protested the board of governors' vote Friday to disband a poverty-focused think-tank led by a critic of Republican Gov. Pat McCrory and the GOP-controlled state legislature. Approximately two-dozen protesters disrupted the meeting to voice their disapproval of the board's decision to close the Center on Poverty, Work and Opportunity at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. Some were escorted out by campus police at UNC Charlotte, according to the Associated Press. The proposal to close the poverty center incited controversy after a working group charged with reviewing the system's research centers advanced it last week. Closure supporters on the board argued that the center did advocacy and therefore was inappropriately associated with an academic institution and that it "did not provide a wide range of alternatives for addressing poverty." Read more.
College Coach To Player: 'I'll F*****g Kill You'
ometimes coaches have to learn the hard way that if they don't watch their language, somebody else will. Vanderbilt University men's basketball coach Kevin Stallings was caught on camera profanely berating one of his players after the athlete taunted a member of the opposing team following a win Thursday night against Tennessee, outlets reported. Stallings was seen trailing guard Wade Baldwin IV, yelling, "You fucking apologize" and "I'll fucking kill you." ESPN noted that a Tennessee coach had informed Stallings that Baldwin clapped in the face of a Tennessee player at the end of the game. Stallings pulled Baldwin out of the handshake line and yelled at him. "Wade's got some things to learn, some growing up to do," Stallings said in post-game remarks. The coach later apologized for his own behavior via the team's Twitter account. Read more.
Scott Walker Budget Deletes College Rape Reporting Requirements
Wisconsin Gov. Scott Walker's (R) nearly $70 billion budget proposal deletes language requiring colleges to report their sexual assault statistics to new students and to the Department of Justice, Jezebel reported on Friday. The budget, unveiled earlier this month, removes a requirement that directs "each institution and college campus to incorporate oral and written or electronic information on sexual assault in its orientation program for newly entering students and to supply all students enrolled in the institution or college campus with the same information in either printed or electronic form." It also deletes the requirement that any university employee who witnesses a sexual assault must report that assault to the dean of students, the requirement that each school report sexual assault statistics annually to the DOJ, and the requirement compelling the DOJ to include those statistics in crime reports. Read more.
Christian College Student Attacked With Apple For Questioning Treatment Of Gays
After a student at a prominent evangelical college questioned his school's stance against homosexuality in an all-school forum on Monday, another student allegedly threw an apple at him "as a warning against insulting the Spirit of grace." The incident, which college administrators are now addressing, took place on Monday at Wheaton College, Billy Graham's alma mater outside Chicago, during the campus' traditional "Town Hall Chapel," a campuswide question and answer session where the college president, currently Philip Ryken, takes questions from the student body. Read more.
University Of Oregon Decides Not To Sue Rape Survivor
The University of Oregon dropped a countersuit Thursday against a student who had reported being gang-raped by three of the school's basketball players and who subsequently sued UO for the way it handled her case. UO sparked outrage among students and faculty this month when it filed a counterclaim against a lawsuit from a current student known only as Jane Doe, demanding that she or her attorneys pay for the university's legal fees and any other damages the court is willing to issue. Last month, Doe filed a lawsuit against the university and against men's basketball coach Dana Altman, alleging that they'd recruited a student athlete despite knowing about his previous sexual assault allegation, and that they'd later created special arrangements for the accused assailants based on their athlete status. In its updated response to Doe's suit, the school maintains that it did not know about the athlete's previous sexual assault case during recruitment, and says it did not violate any laws in how it responded to Doe's sexual assault report. However, UO retracted the line that her "claims are frivolous, unreasonable, and without foundation," and is no longer suing Doe. Read more.
What the Keystone Pipeline Means to Millennials
Obama speaking our language doesn't necessarily mean iMessages full of emojis, though his recent experiment with a "selfie-stick" suggests that it may not be far behind; instead we are seeing an Executive that is acting on our issues. Read more.
Forget #TheDress, This Is Why You Should Wear More Jumpsuits
Posted: 27 Feb 2015 01:47 PM PST
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