Chaz Bono Honored For Promoting Transgender Visibility
Activist and Dancing With The Stars contestant Chaz Bono has been commended for working since 1995 to make “our movement stronger” and will be honored with the prestigious Board of Directors award by the L.A. Gay & Lesbian Center.

A man in a canoe paddles around a sculpture created by Oliver Voss on Alster lake in Hamburg in the late evening August 3, 2011. The four-metre-high sculpture dubbed “Riesen-Nixe” (grand mermaid) will be on display until August 12.

While I admit to not being as up on my mythical creatures as I should, from my recollection mermaids don’t have knees….

Laugh or Cry? Video Shows D.C. Tourists Can’t Answer Basic Civics Questions

Remember, some of these people vote.

Have at it!

I always thought one had to have an inkling of talent to qualify for celebrity status. Obviously, in our reality-television driven society, talent isn’t a prerequisite.

PopEater’s Celebrity of the Year: Kim Kardashian
She dominates social media, with a Twitter following of 5.4 million and a Klout score of 86 out of 100 (that means people are actually paying attention to what she tweets). She can command more than $100,000 for a personal appearance and $50,000 for just one tweet.

And to think if not for her late father Robert Kardashian’s being part of O.J.’s “Dream Team” (not to mention the Hollywood connections he had), the world might be a better place.

Absolutely nothing gets in front of our entertainment-consuming faces without the blessing of Hollywood execs, and I believe it’s also a reflection of their personal preferences.

According to a new study conducted by the Parents Television Council (PTC), Hollywood is shockingly obsessed with sexualizing teen girls, to the point where underage female characters are shown participating in an even higher percentage of sexual situations than their adult counterparts: 47 percent to 29 percent respectively.

“The results from this report show Tinseltown’s eagerness to not only objectify and fetishize young girls, but to sexualize them in such a way that real teens are led to believe their sole value comes from their sexuality,” said PTC President Tim Winter.

Of course, Hollywood-types tend to make sure their own kids don’t absorb their products but our kids are sacrificed for ratings, prestige, and personal financial gain. And as far as the effect on young girls, they apparently could care less.

In the land of Madonna, Britney, Miley, Gossip Girl, other public figures and shows that have pushed the envelope and challenged the levels of comfort in their viewers and fans…we are not the first. Now, in perpetuating the type of images that evoke these kind of emotions, I am sorry. If you are hurt or these photos make you uncomfortable, it was never our intention. And if your eight-year-old has a copy of our GQ cover in hand, again I am sorry. But I would have to ask, how on earth did it get there?… I understand that in today’s world of advanced technology, the internet, our kids can be subject to very adult material at the click of a button. But there are parental locks, and ways to get around this. I am twenty-four years old. I have been a pretty tame and easy-going girl my whole life. Nobody is perfect, and these photos do not represent who I am… Glee is a show that represents the underdogs, which is a feeling I have embraced much of my own life, and to those viewers, the photos in GQ don’t give them that same feeling. I understand completely… For GQ, they asked us to play very heightened versions of our school characters. A ‘Hit Me Baby One More Time’ version. At the time, it wasn’t my favorite idea, but I did not walk away…I’m moving forward from this one, and after today, putting it to rest… These aren’t photos I am going to frame and put on my desk, but hey, nor are any of the photos I take for magazines.
— Dianna Agron, Glee

Yeah, everybody does it so shut the fuck up.

Maybe the public should stop watching their programming so it tanks their ratings and they’ll go off the air. That would see to it racy pics don’t make it into eight-year-old’s hands.

With Disney star Demi Lovato being the latest to take time off for personal issues, are young celebrities using “rehab” as a crutch to excuse their bad behavior?

Not for the easily offended.

h/t Jeff B

In the movie disaster flick “2012″, producer Roland Emmerich destroyed a Buddist temple, the Vatican, the Jesus statue overlooking Rio, but because he didn’t want a fatwa on his head, declined to mess with anything Muslim.

Trey Parker and Matt Stone should have appreciated the fact there are places even they shouldn’t go…

A radical Islamic website is warning the creators of “South Park” that they could face violent retribution for depicting the Prophet Muhammad in a bear suit during an episode broadcast on Comedy Central last week.

RevolutionMuslim.com posted the warning following the 200th episode of Trey Parker and Matt Stone’s “South Park,” which included a caricature of the Prophet Muhammad disguised in a bear suit. The Web posting also included a graphic photo of Theo van Gogh, a Dutch filmmaker who was murdered in 2004 after making a documentary on violence against Muslim women.

As I’ve said many times before, if you insult Christians, they pray for you. If you insult Muslims they behead you. The South Park boys probably now know they’re in deep shit as radicals usually only accept a head as an apology.

No one is immune from satire, but you don’t go looking for killers either.

There was a time when children were “seen and not heard”. Once Generation X started putting kids up on an unearned pedestal, we have what we’re stuck with today: punks who won’t think twice about telling off adults they don’t know, not only believing it’s all about them but that it’s supposed to be.

Today, though, young people regard fame as a birthright. They have a sense of entitlement the size of one of my houses.

I recently heard about the work of an American psychologist who discovered that in the Fifties only 12 per cent of youngsters agreed with the statement, ‘I am an important person’. By the end of the Eighties, that figure had risen to 80 per cent. I think we can all guess what it is now.

There is an epidemic of fame-obsessed youngsters – aged between ten and 25 – who wrongly believe celebrity is a shortcut to wealth and happiness, and who are convinced it will bring them everything they want. An entire generation that doesn’t understand that nothing worth having comes easily.
— Sharon Osbourne, The Daily Mail

The real problem stems from these kids now being in charge of the entertainment industry. The think the juvenile is hip, they think bad taste is cutting edge, and there’s not much that can be done about it outside of raising your own kids with values and discipline; something our ideological opponents abandoned long ago.

But it’s what an Obama-loving affiliate leaves out that’s also important…

Paratrooper’s Mom Begs Obama: ‘End It’
As family and friends mourn a fallen U.S. paratrooper on Veteran’s Day, his mother made an emotional plea to President Barack Obama that it’s time to either bring home the troops or end the war in Afghanistan.

“It’s time we do something. This has gone on too long. They either need to come home or we need to end it,” a tearful Denise Sherman said.

I wonder why WCVB Boston would opt to leave that segment out…?

And on a lighter note…

Notable Quotables, Episode 3

Keeping with the Halloween theme…

Now that we’re down here in Fairfax County, Virginia, what’s up with The Bunny Man?

One problem with being an unsympathetic figure is that people don’t hesitate to rat you out.

Can we attract UFO’s with a homemade flying saucer? We will modify a weather balloon, so that it resembles a UFO and will electrically charge the skin of the craft (Biefield-Brown Effect). We will capture the footage on film, and will utilize the media as a means with which to make our presence known to the masses. This will not only provide us with incredible footage, but will also generate a tremendous amount of controversy among the public, as well as publicity within the mainstream media. This will be the most significant UFO-related news event to take place since the Roswell Crash of 1947, and the result will be a dramatic increase in local and national awareness about The Heene Family, our Reality Series, as well as the UFO Phenomenon in general.
— Robert Thomas, researcher, to Gawker how earlier this year he and Richard Heene drew up a master plan to generate a massive media controversy using a weather balloon. To get famous, of course.

Is Wife Swap still doable with conjugal visits?

Disney’s not too happy about this pic.

The x-rated advertisement, for Jamieson’s Raspberry Ale, depicts the fairytale heroine blowing smoke rings while lying in bed with seven semi-clad dwarves. Campaign creators The Foundry claimed the idea was to convince Australian drinkers that the fruit-flavoured beer was “anything but sweet”.

Given the current themes in American pop culture, does anyone think Disney would be making a stink if Ho White was black and this ad was a music video that ran on BET?

No, this isn’t a Jersey middle school….

The runway set has always loved that unrealistic “thin” look, but going Manute Bol is just bit too far, especially when you cheat and use Photoshop to achieve that look.

In recent years an ongoing debate has brewed over advertisers and fashion magazines using photographs, particularly photographs of women, that have seemingly been altered, or “retouched,” by airbrushing and photo editing software such as Photoshop.

The latest such image to cause an uproar is one featured in a new Ralph Lauren advertisement that shows a model, Filippa Hamilton, so emaciated that her waist actually appears to be smaller than her head.

Ya gotta remember it’s all proportional.

The Hollywood left is almost unanimous in their support of child-rapist but liberal-film-icon Roman Polanski. With that, the following editorial comes as a bit of a shock…

After being indicted in 1977, didn’t Mr. Polanski, now 76, confess to having sex with a 13-year-old girl after plying her with Quaaludes and Champagne? Didn’t he flee the United States when the plea bargaining seemed to fall apart, raising the prospect of prison time? Isn’t there a warrant for his arrest?

… we were glad to see other prominent Europeans beginning to point out that this case has nothing to do with Mr. Polanski’s work or his age. It is about an adult preying on a child. Mr. Polanski pleaded guilty to that crime and must account for it.

The previous are excerpts from an editorial in today’s New York Times. It could be because the editors involved may have kids and know how they’d feel if the rape victim was any one of their daughters; the victim of a rapist/elitist who could afford to flee.

h/t Newsbusters

First he said President Bush didn’t care about black people, then he butchered his “duet” with Sting during an Earth Day-type broadcast (because he can’t sing), and now he makes a liquored-up fool of himself.

Kanye West gave a performance that will never be forgotten at the MTV Video Music Awards, but unfortunately for him, it had nothing to do with his music.

The rapper stormed on stage to unleash an astonishing rant during an acceptance speech by country starlet Taylor Swift at the MTV Video Music Awards last night. The 19-year-old singer, who was collecting Best Female Video for You Belong To Me, was left humiliated as West snatched the microphone from her hands.

He turned to the audience and shouted that the gong should have gone to his big friend Beyonce, for Single Ladies.

See for yourself…

If there’s one person in what’s now called “R&B” or rap that has one once of class, please let us know. For Kanye West’s drunken exhibition, he gets the first B&R “Negro, please” of the day.

We all know the template the left today recites: all opposition to Barack Obama emanates not from an honest disagreement of his policies, but out of primal racism.

It’s not about bashing Democrats, it’s not about taxes, they have no idea what the Boston tea party was about, they don’t know their history at all. This is about hating a black man in the White House. This is racism straight up. That is nothing but a bunch of teabagging rednecks.
— Janeane Garofalo, Countdown, 4/16/09

In the proud tradition of liberalism, this kind of talk was not issued to inspire dialogue but to force the other side to just shut up. If you listen to the left today, they are defending the president and his agenda, not on their merits, but solely against people who just don’t like the color of his skin.

Like they should talk….

Liberals hardly have any credibility here because it must be nice to believe you can make the rules that everyone else has to live by while exempting yourself whenever convenient.

According to their rules, you can’t say anything negative about blacks in politics, that is, unless they’re not Democrats. Prominent liberals were left virtually unscathed after racially attacking Dr. Condoleezza Rice. Syndicated political cartoonists like Jeff Danzinger and Thomas Oliphant never lost their jobs, and never had to issue a mea culpa to the nation (and/or Al Sharpton). So, the umbrella of liberal compassion has its limitations.

Danzinger seemingly speaks for all white liberals with his justification (excuse) as well as the template on how they operate today on behalf of Barack Obama.

Nothing racist about it at all. Just the standard lies told by a political operative, out of her depth, who happens to be African-American. Whenever this administration is in trouble they send out Condi Rice because the press, which is mostly white and male, gives her a far easier treatment than they would a white male.
— Jeff Danzinger, Ramblings’ Journal

That’s how it’s supposed to work: send in a Barack Obama and not only the press, but the American people should stand down and give him far easier treatment than they would a white male.

But I think this justified racism on the left goes even deeper.

Jigaboos and Wannabes in Spike Lee’s “School Daze”

Despite what they say, the left doesn’t really like “black” people. They seem to prefer the “non-threatening” types and for the sake of this argument, the wannabes won.

Liberals in the entertainment business have already told us who their preference is. Look at almost all the black singers and actresses out there today.

I’m not dissing these women because most are talented, but they’re also eye candy talent agents assume the industry executives could jerk off to.

Now look at the administration. Hardly a threatening face in the bunch, then again Van Jones was dark and he’s still under the bus.

Some of these people violate (with immunity) the very rules some conservative blacks pay for daily. The administration’s  light skinned blacks tended to work in white academia, seldom lived in the hood, and inter-racially married. This is more than acceptable to the Janeane Garofalos on the left, and she has their back.

There’s a light-skinned Democrat governor in Massachusetts, Jesse and Al aren’t dark, and neither is the leadership of the NAACP. Can you name me a couple of prominent dark-skinned blacks, high up within the Democrat ranks? I’m sure some can, even though I seem to be suffering from a block. Republicans don’t really have a preference based on skin color as do the progressive left.

So according to their rules, that is as of today, you can’t bash Barack Obama because to do so means your a black-hating redneck racist. Of course the president knows this is just a shallow tactic and if he didn’t condone it, he’d speak out against it. But since he’s also the preferred liberal tint, he’s just going along for the ride.

But there are perils.

To the left, racism has qualifiers. In their minds, there are times when it’s perfectly okay to be a racist. There are no apologies demanded and non given, in fact liberal racism against black Republicans is encouraged.

If you’re a dark black Republican, you’re fair game. If you think that’s overly selective, don’t forget that the left now tolerates Colin Powell.

If Barack Obama starts making life uncomfortable for the liberal elite, is there a chance their innate racism may be turned on him? This is a serious possibility. As we all know, what the press builds up, the press tears down. They’ve put everything into promoting Barack Obama’s race and made his qualifications secondary; not a good idea when the position is the President of the United States.

And let’s break it down. If liberals really gave a damn about blacks as they claim, Margaret Sanger would not be an icon and Planned Parenthood would not exist. But since she is and it does, we’re dealing with people who are using Obama and his race for political expediency, and you don’t use people you respect.

So while the left is screaming racism in his defense today, it could get really ugly should they turn on him. Notice how liberals call Republicans rednecks but not Klan members?

That would be hitting too close to home.