Protesters interrupted pro-abortion Catholic Kathleen Sebelius at the Georgetown Commencement service today. Earlier this year Sebelius, the HHS Secretary under Barack Obama, passed a ruling forcing Catholic institutions to pay for birth control and abortifacients. The Examiner reported: Anti-abortion protesters … Continue reading → Broadcasting platform : YouTube Source : Gateway Pundit Discovery Date : 18/05/2012 17:28 Number of articles : 2
(John Hinderaker) The Obama administration’s record is terrible on pretty much every issue, but energy is one of the worst. Obama appointed a Secretary of Energy whose avowed goal was to raise the price of gasoline. Obama himself promised to make the price of electricity “skyrocket.” Unfortunately, those wishes have come true. One especially damaging aspect of Obama’s War on American Energy is his… Broadcasting platform : YouTube Source : Power Line Discovery Date : 17/05/2012 13:34 Number of articles : 2
Today is officially Administrative Professionals’ Day , so give your favorite office administrator a hug today (or not, depending on your company’s sexual harassment policy). This year’s theme, according to their website, is “admins, the pulse of the office,” so if you’re nostalgic for the days when the lady at the front desk was called a “secretary,” not an “office administrator” (or if you just saw it on Mad Men and thought it sounded cool), then get your pulse pumping with our Hottest Office Administratives playlist. Not only do these nasty note-takers take dictation, they also take…well, you know. Plus, give yourself a raise with hot office spanking scenes from Californication and Secretary (2002) right here at MrSkin.com!
This is a really interesting exchange from today’s briefing with White House Press Secretary Jay Carney. As Andy said, The Washington Blade, Metro Weekly, and NBC “piled on,” asking Carney why Obama had rejected an executive order which would have prohibited federal contractors from discriminating against LGBT people. This is one of those “process” things. Broadcasting platform : YouTube Source : Truth Wins Out Blog Discovery Date : 12/04/2012 20:05 Number of articles : 2
Marine To Be Dismissed After Criticizing Obama On Facebook A Marine who criticized President Barack Obama on his Facebook page has committed misconduct and should be dismissed, a military board recommended late Thursday. The Marine Corps administrative board made the decision after a daylong hearing at Camp Pendleton for Sgt. Gary Stein. The board also recommended that Stein be given an other-then-honorable discharge. That would mean Stein would lose his benefits and would not be allowed on any military base. The board’s recommendations go to a general who will either accept or deny them. If the general disagrees with the board, the case could go to the secretary of the Navy. Stein’s lawyers argued that the 9-year Marine, whose service was to end in four months, was expressing his personal views and exercising his First Amendment rights. “We’re truly surprised and disappointed but it was an honor to fight for a hero like Sgt. Stein and every other Marine’s right to speak freely,” Stein’s defense attorney Marine Capt. James Baehr said. During the hearing, the prosecutor, Capt. John Torresala, said Stein went as far as superimposing images of Obama’s face on a poster for the movie “Jackass.” Torresala argued that Stein’s behavior repeatedly violated Pentagon policy that limits the free speech rights of service members, and said he should be dismissed after ignoring warnings from his superiors about his postings. The government submitted screen grabs of Stein’s postings on one Facebook page he created called Armed Forces Tea Party, which the prosecutor said included the image of Obama on the “Jackass” movie poster. Stein also superimposed Obama’s image on a poster for “The Incredibles” movie that he changed to “The Horribles,” the prosecutor said. Torresala also said anti-Obama comments by Stein that were posted on a Facebook page used by Marine meteorologists were prejudicial to good order and discipline, and could have influenced junior Marines. Stein’s security clearance was taken away and he has no future in the Marine Corps because he can’t do his job without that clearance, Torresala said. “The Marine Corps community views the command’s lack of action as some kind of knock on good order and discipline,” Torresala said. “Our own people are questioning why this Marine is not being held accountable.” Stein has said his opinions are his own and has put a disclaimer on his Facebook page saying so. His attorneys argued service members have a right to voice their opinions as long as they do not appear to be presenting their views as being endorsed by the military. They say the Pentagon policy is vague and military officials do not understand it. The Marine Corps has said it decided to take administrative action after Stein declared on Facebook that he would not follow orders from Obama and later clarified that statement saying he would not follow unlawful orders. Stein could face other-than-honorable discharge while seeing his rank reduced to lance corporal and losing his benefits. The nine-year veteran was set to finish his service in four months. He said he was removed from his job at the Marine Corps Recruiting Depot in San Diego last month and given a desk job with no access to computers. Stein said his statement about Obama was part of an online debate about NATO allowing U.S. troops to be tried for the Quran burnings in Afghanistan. In that context, he said, he was stating that he would not follow orders from the president if it involved detaining U.S. citizens, disarming them or doing anything else that he believes would violate their constitutional rights. What do y’all think…does this man have the right to write what he wants about the President on his Facebook page?? Discuss… Source More On Bossip! Happy 4th Anniversary BeyBey And Hubby Hov: A Stroll Down Memory Lane Of The Couple’s Most Romantic Moments [Photos] Celebrity Cribs: Lil Weezy Is Sellin’ His Louisiana Glass And Chrome Home For $1.7 Milli Rihanna’s Bangin’ Spread For Elle Magazine Is Out…Plus She Talks About Breezy And Kids New Music: Kanye West Featuring DJ Khaled And DJ Pharris “Theraflu” (Talks Amber Rose, Wiz Khalifa, And Being In LOVE With Kimmy Cakes!)
‘He’s a bit of a wiseass, and he thinks he’s above them all,’ Neal McDonough tells MTV News about playing the bleach-blond big bad on the show. By Josh Wigler Neal McDonough on “Justified” Photo: FX ” Justified ” lawman Raylan Givens has faced no shortage of memorable nemeses in his days as a Lexington, Kentucky-based U.S. marshal: hoodlums with “four kidneys,” an “apple pie”-brewing and weed-slinging mama crime boss, not to mention the born again and born again and born again Boyd Crowder. But Robert Quarles? In a sea of backwoods Kentucky killers and thieves, this bleach-blond mobster may very well take the cake. Television veteran and “Captain America” actor Neal McDonough has graced the FX drama “Justified” with his formidable presence for the show’s currently airing third season, and viewers are better off for it — even if deputy Givens, the modern-day cowboy played by lead actor and producer Timothy Olyphant , is ruing the day that McDonough’s Quarles first set foot in Harlan County. “It’s like two great chess players in the same room,” McDonough told MTV News about this season’s ongoing battle between Quarles and Givens. “We both learn about each other. We’ve done our background checks on each other. So we both know we’re worthy opponents — but when we get in front of each other, it’s pretty awesome, because we’re on the opposite sides of the spectrum, but there’s a respect level for what each of us does. We’re both really good at what we do. But there’s also that ultimate disrespect from both of us: ‘Don’t think you’re going to beat me. I’ll let you dance with me for a while, but I’m going to crush you.’ ” Quarles has already dished out some crushing blows. In just eight episodes, the Detroit mobster has dropped by Raylan’s home unannounced, executed the deputy’s ex-wife’s ex-husband (it’s complicated), framed Raylan for the murder and set him up as a dirty cop. None of that mentions Quarles’ other atrocities, such as fatally shooting a businessman and his secretary mainly to prove a point, as well as brutally torturing a prisoner while simultaneously fielding a phone call from his very young son. What kind of monster can commit such crimes, you ask? According to McDonough, a very funny one. “He has a bit of a sense of humor,” said McDonough, who has played other villains with significantly fewer wisecracks to their names, including those in “Walking Tall” and “Street Fighter.” “This one, Quarles, his tongue is firmly in cheek in a lot of scenes. He’s a bit of a wiseass, and he thinks he’s above them all. To play that, and then have him unravel, trying to keep that veneer up, is what makes it really fun for me to play.” Indeed, the walls are closing in on Quarles. Raylan Givens is not his only obstacle: Quarles is now completely cut off from the Detroit crime syndicate he once worked for, and is starting to abuse the illicit pain pills he’s been pushing in Harlan County. “He’s a lot like me in a lot of ways: a businessman, but family first,” McDonough said of his character. “But Quarles gets addicted not just to the rush of power, but worse, to OxyContin. We all know how bad that gets when you’re hooked on junk like that.” Just how bad will Quarles’ addiction get? The actor teased, “The only thing I’ve asked of [‘Justified’ executive producer and show-runner] Graham Yost is that by episode 10 or 11, I’d like to be naked and hopped up on my own stuff. He goes, ‘Already thought of that, trust me!’ ” “Justified” marks the third collaboration between McDonough and Yost, having previously worked together on “Boomtown” and “Band of Brothers.” In fact, Quarles was written specifically with McDonough in mind, said the actor, who added that he would happily work with Yost on any project, anytime, anywhere. “If Graham Yost called me and said, ‘I have a three-minute infomercial to shoot in Bulgaria, are you in?’ I’d say, ‘Yes, what time is the flight?’ ” he said. “Graham tells me what to do and I do it. He gives me the juiciest stuff I can imagine as an actor.” The juicy stuff isn’t always cruel and unusual, either. McDonough teased an upcoming scene that shows a “beautifully altruistic” side of Quarles that he described as one of his top moments of the season. “There’s one scene in particular where a young boy comes into my trailer threatening to kill me,” said McDonough. “How I disarm him, not just physically but emotionally … it was maybe my favorite scene of the year. It’s just simple, emotional, truthful acting. Graham lobbed it in the air for me and I hit it out of the ballyard for him.” In short, to say that Quarles is an astounding addition to the “Justified” rogues’ gallery would be a tremendous understatement — and given where the character is headed in the back half of season three, it appears that we haven’t seen anything yet. “The first half of the season was great,” McDonough said. “But the second half … the second half is money. It’s fantastic for me as an actor.” Freshly renewed for a fourth season, “Justified” airs on Tuesdays at 10 p.m. ET on FX.
Monica Lewinsky has tried to keep a low profile after her role in President Bill Clinton’s impeachment scandal, but she’s become a trending topic of discussion again. All thanks to PBS’ two-part, four-hour documentary, titled Clinton . The documentary, which premieres Monday as part of PBS’ “American Experience” series, sheds new light on Clinton’s Oval Office affair with his then-23-year-old intern through interviews with some of Clinton’s closest advisers. Some of whom had never spoken publicly about the affair until now. Among the former White House staffers appearing on film are Secretary of Labor Robert Reich and Clinton’s former reelection campaign manager, Dick Morris. In the film, Morris reveals, “When the Lewinsky scandal broke the President paged me and I returned the call. And he said to me, ‘Ever since I got here to the White House I’ve had to shut my body down, sexually I mean.” “But I screwed up with this girl. I didn’t do what they said I did, but I may have done so much that I can’t prove my innocence.'” Though she plays a huge role in the story of Bill Clinton’s presidency, Monica Lewinsky herself was not interviewed for the movie. Producer Barak Goodman said that, “We felt it would tilt [the documentary] toward sensationalism.” After the scandal, Lewinsky went through a period of alternately embracing and avoiding her celebrity, but in recent years has been off the media grid. In 2005, she left the U.S. and moved to London, attending the London School of Economics and graduating with a masters in social psychology in 2006. While she has given interviews on the subject, most notably in an HBO special titled “Monica in Black and White,” she has kept an extremely low profile. Clinton is the latest in a series of in-depth documentaries PBS has produced over the years focusing on the often tumultuous careers of U.S. presidents. The TV premiere takes place Monday, but PBS has made the first part of the documentary available on its website. A trailer for the film appears below: Clinton Documentary Preview
**Written by Doug Powers It’s Friday afternoon, which means we’re sitting around waiting to see which documents get dumped out a second floor window of the White House before everybody heads off for the weekend. Until that happens, Jay Carney’s taken it upon himself to keep everybody entertained: WH reporter: “Do you understand the optics Broadcasting platform : YouTube Source : Michelle Malkin Discovery Date : 20/01/2012 19:44 Number of articles : 2
Photo: AP USCCB President, Cardinal-designate Timothy Dolan, came out swinging after HHS Secretary, Kathleen Sebelius stated that church groups must provide contraception . Archbishop Timothy Dolan on HHS Conscience Regulation from Rocco Palmo on Vimeo . Here is what accompanied the video: WASHINGTON—Cardinal-designate Timothy Dolan of New York, president of the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops… Broadcasting platform : Vimeo Source : Te Deum laudamus! Discovery Date : 21/01/2012 01:01 Number of articles : 2
Obama Returns To Bush Plan for Cutting U.S. Troops In Europe — SFGate/Bloomberg Jan. 6 (Bloomberg) — The Obama administration plans to revert to a Bush-era plan to cut the number of U.S. Army combat brigades in Europe in half as part of the Pentagon budget cuts to be announced within weeks, U.K. Defense Secretary Philip Hammond said. The decision is a retreat from the administration’s previous determination,… Broadcasting platform : YouTube Source : War News Updates Discovery Date : 06/01/2012 08:15 Number of articles : 2
