gg livejournal

I can't see my friend's page or my own journal, but i can see the main page and even the "edit entry" screen. Does anyone know what's going on? Is this an S2 problem? This went on for half the day yesterday and i'm tired of this.

If i had spent $150 for a permanent account i'd be really ticked off right about now...

ETA: On the Support Page i see several people from the same cluster (Steaksauce) reporting the same problem.

why was isaiah washington fired?

Until recently, Isaiah Washington was an actor on the popular TV show "Grey's Anatomy" (which i have never seen BTW).

It's likely that he was released from his contract because of an event in October 2006 when he grabbed co-star Patrick Dempsey by the throat during an argument on the set, making the comment, "I'm not your little faggot like T.R. [Knight, another co-star]."

Most of the news stories about this event have an interesting and skewed focus. See, for example, this item in today's news:

"Grey's Anatomy" star Isaiah Washington said racism was a factor in his firing from the hit ABC series after he twice used an anti-gay slur.

Washington, who initially used the epithet during an onset clash with a co-star, told Newsweek magazine that "someone heard the booming voice of a black man and got really scared and that was the beginning of the end for me."

... Washington, who used the slur against co-star T.R. Knight during a confrontation with Patrick Dempsey, repeated the word backstage at the Golden Globes in January in denying the first incident. A public apology to Knight and others followed.

The event is referred to as "using an anti-gay slur," "an onset clash," and "a confrontation." Unless you already know that an act of physical violence occurred, there's no way you'd glean it from this story.

I don't doubt that racism, as Washington charges, is a factor here. But the media has portrayed this for months with focus on the slur, forming the impression that it is a case of "political correctness" run amok -- a man fired for using a bad word. Gosh, he even apologized and went to a sensitivity training camp and everything! But if people on the set are scared of him, it can't possibly be because, you know, they saw him attack someone.

big gay news part two: massachusetts edition

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Charming, eh? This is Diane Steele, an activist with MASSResistance who was arrested for assault and battery June 14 outside the Massachusetts State House, when the Constitutional Convention met to take up the issue of same sex marriage. Note the tortured logic she promotes: "gays are pedophiles who were responsible for the Nazi Party." Uh huh. Here is how the compassionate and concerned MASSResistance is portraying the incident.

Mother with 9-year-old son charged with assault and battery after reacting to sexual-laced verbal attack by homosexual activist.

OMIGOSH she's a mother, how could the police do such a thing? All mothers are made of angel food cake and have hearts of the purest gold.

The homosexual movement's strategy of vicious harassment and provocation continues, with the full cooperation of the police and judiciary.

The GAYS are using the POLICE to oppress us! GAYS control EVERYTHING, why are WE the only ones who can see this so clearly?

Diane Steele, a mother from western Massachusetts, came to the Constitutional Convention with her 9-year-old son on June 14 along with hundreds of others to hold a sign and support the Marriage Amendment. In front of the State House, the pro-family people were on one side of the street and the homosexual activists on the other.

See, GAYS are ANTI-family. OUR side is PRO-family. By PRO-family, we mean that some families are inherently sinful and we want to stop them from having equal access to economic and social resources available to other families. If children are harmed because adults raising them don't have equal rights, why, that's just a logical result of their sinful lifestyle.

Diane was peaceably standing on the pro-family side of the street with her son, inside the blue police barricade. Her sign (see below) was provocative but nothing like the hate-filled anti-Christian signs the homosexual activists were waving. Even a little dissent isn't tolerated.

Comparing GAYS to NAZIS is provocative but not hateful.

It's very clear that they set her up.

GAYS emit mind-control beams out of their eyes that force helpless innocent pro-family activists into acts of violence. How dare they get in the way of our fists with their faces? ( Read more... )