32,000 couples will marry today simply because of the date: 10/10/10.
Gareth Thomas on the two codes of rugby: "People don't even think – they just say it automatically because it's been bred in them. A lot of them don't even know what they're talking about. They're just sayin' it because everybody says it."
This girl makes a hot Jared Leto.
A report from the Toronto Sun on homophobia in the Netherlands: "If you think Amsterdam is the gay capital of Europe, you’re half-right, but 10 years out of date. Today it’s the gay-bashing capital of Europe. Because Amsterdam isn’t just gay. Now it’s Muslim, too."
Mariah Carey shows up at her husband's 30th birthday party amidst baby rumors.
Daniel Radcliffe's wardrobe gets autumnal.
A federal judge has ruled that the Chippendales look of a shirtless guy with wrist cuffs and a bow-tie collar cannot be trademarked.
It looks light the iPad might go on sale at Wal-Mart.
The argument for the self-driving car currently being tested by Google sounds like a good one: "Robot drivers react faster than humans, have 360-degree perception and do not get distracted, sleepy or intoxicated."
Like we need another reason to be afraid to fly: air traffic controllers are apparently getting more careless.
People really like the new Facebook movie.
Why isn't george Bush on the campaign trail; this election season? No one wants him.
Tank are u willing to cut the funding to organized islamic violence?
it would require u to stop using plastics, driving a car, riding in a taxi, and stop using any electricity generated by oil
I am not disagreeing with u or rat on the threat of jihadist islam violence whether small scale youths attacking gay men (though lilly white neo nazis do the same)or large scale islamic jihadist terrorist orgs who recieve a large chunk of their funding from oil profits and specifically the saudi royal family
The disagreement is on how to deal with the issue. Wars only create larger pools of violent people whether the ilamic youths beating on gay men in the streets or jihadists bombing buildings
Hell, the birth of jihadist political islam was the Iranian revolution and other muslims seeing the success of the mullahs............ BUT we the britts and the usa created that. We overthrew the democratic Iran parliamentary system and supported the shah as a dictator who outlawed gatherings and the only place to express political outrage safely was in mosques and thus political jihadist islam was born.
round ups, shootings, walls, wars dont work and only create larger groups of violent jihadist muslims
if people r going to bitch about the problem then also propose productive ways to manage the situation for managing it
Posted by: mstrozfckslv@yahoo.com | Oct 10, 2010 9:27:17 PM
@Max
"In the U.S., the left is responsible (along with big business / corporate interest) for championing vast mass immigration [much illegal] from backward 3rd world societies, which has likewise greatly diluted secular humanist ideals and created a dangerous, often violent conflict at the street level, even in places like NYC, S.F., Boston, etc.,'
POSTED BY: RATBASTARD | OCT 10, 2010 6:18:28 PM"
Uh huh, nothing to say about that, eh?
Why don't you two love birds take your Tea Party electioneering to the Christine O'Donnell rally.
Posted by: John | Oct 10, 2010 9:30:09 PM
MSTROZFCKSLV:
I, thank God, DO NOT have the INFAMOUS white liberal European post WW2 generation guilt complex.
No, no concentration camps. Round up ILLEGAL 'migrants'? YES! Deport them? YES! They are a HUGE problem in America....statistically actually far worse than in the EU. I don't feel any guilt for the holocaust,concentration camps, NAZIS, fascists, communist, millions and millions killed, etc., Neither I nor my ancestors were responsible for any of that. They weren't imperialists, in fact they were oppressed by imperialists. That's why they came to America. They weren't members of the 'master' race. Neither were they one of the 'chosen' people. Neither am I on both counts
[Before someone accuses me of being anti-semitic, I'm certainly am not. However the phrases and titles some people, as groups, give themselves (like La Raza) I find personally offensive; the implication being you are above or better than others by simple virtue of race,ethnicity,creed]
Make hiring illegals a crime? YES! Criminally [not just civilly] businesses responsible for hiring illegals? YES! Genuinely reform how social services function? YES! There are MANY in America who shouldn't be collecting any social services or who are part of multi-generational welfare addicts. They have bankrupted and corrupted the whole system.
I'm quite open minded and liberal on many issues like of course gay rights. I believe people should have the maximum amount of freedoms and the government shouldn't stick it's nose into so many facets of people's lives. But, I'm not stupid. There are A LOT of things so-called 'progressives', i.e. leftists, 'liberal' push that I totally disagree with. Just because I'm homosexual doesn't mean my commonsense goes out the door.
And there are many 'conservative' ideas I disagree with.
And, sorry if my 'bad' language bothered you. I'm sure you've heard the F-word before. I doubt if I've corrupted you.
Posted by: ratbastard | Oct 10, 2010 9:36:10 PM
John,
What I said in that quote is 100% true.
Posted by: ratbastard | Oct 10, 2010 9:38:26 PM
rat
just how do u propose to round up possibly 20 million people in the USA?
That is not an easy task and a case could be made that it is an impossible task
Please reveal ur ethnic background. U still haven't. Im hoping its not an easy one like Scots , The Antonine Wall and the hadrian wall anyone??? Both stretched from coast to coast and the antonine was 15 ft thick and 10 feet high manned by many garrisons that did not work
Posted by: mstrozfckslv@yahoo.com | Oct 10, 2010 9:46:45 PM
I live in Amsterdam, and have done for 10 years.
That article is hysterical and biased.
Amsterdam is a far safer city to live in as an openly gay person, than any city in North America.
Having said that, it is less safe these days to be openly gay in Amsterdam, than it was 10 years ago. Homophobic attacks are certainly on the increase, but nowhere near the levels they are occurring at in the US
But the idea that there are marauding gangs of muslim youths terrorising the gay population is simply untrue. This isn't a backward city like New York or San Francisco, where gay people are denied the right to marry
For starters the gay community is by far the biggest minority population in the city - about 20% of adults in Amsterdam are gay.
The rise in homophobic attacks is openly discussed in the country. It is not being swept under the carpet as happens in many places.
Posted by: SteveC | Oct 10, 2010 10:06:14 PM
John, I don't understand what you are asking me about Rat's quote. There is a strong correlation between the increase of immigrants from Muslim countries to the Netherlands and anti-gay attacks in Amsterdam.
I'm not sure why you ignore this reality and attack Utah, Montana, Kansas, white people, the Tea Party, and O'Donnell. Stop looking for excuses for Islamic violence. The attackers alone are responsible for their actions.
Posted by: Max | Oct 10, 2010 10:26:39 PM
And I'd also like to point out that homophobia in the Netherlands certainly does exist. But not to the toxic level, where Dutch gay teens feel so isolated and alone that they feel that their only option is to end their own lives. Gay teen suicide seems to be at epidemic levels in the US. The US does not seem to be a good place in which to be a young gay person. Sort your own hideous suicide level out before passing judgement on the Netherlands, where gay teens are able to come out without the hysterical condemnation of the mainstream churches and political parties.
Posted by: SteveC | Oct 10, 2010 10:27:11 PM
mstrozfckslv:
My ethnicity is American. I was born, raised and now live in the United States of America. My passport says citizen of the United States of America. I served in the Armed Forces of the United States of America.
STEVEC:
Are you an American living in Europe?
I don't doubt the article contains it's share of hyperbole, but it also contains plenty of truth.
BTW: America and American cities are on average not dangerous for people just because they're gay. That is also an exaggeration. It's not the wild west many Europeans fantasize the U.S. is. The U.S. is a big place. Example: the Oklahoma town the gay teenager just killed himself in is further away from me than London is from Moscow. Many things that occur here get magnified and spread all over the world quickly.
Posted by: ratbastard | Oct 10, 2010 10:37:01 PM
@Max
No, you certainly don't understand. But I suppose we can forgive you for that minor impediment. You do trust the Toronto Sun after all.
Posted by: John | Oct 10, 2010 10:46:27 PM
Gareth Thomas isn't talking about homophobia -- he's referring to the divisions between Rugby League and Rugby Union.
Posted by: PeteS | Oct 11, 2010 4:18:52 AM
Why do Rat, Max etc have an opinion on a frigging continent you don't leave in?
How peculiar.
John etc agree. As a person who has lived in Europe my whole life, it's all hysterics and I wish they wouldn't try and make us sound as mad as Americans or Canadians.
No offence but the ancestors purposefully left Europe because Europe wasn't religiously zealous enough, so really everyone in the Americas are pretty mad and extreme people.
Posted by: Rowan | Oct 11, 2010 8:40:09 AM
Yes I'm an American living in Amsterdam.
yAnd yes I know that there are certain grains of truth in the original article.
The article doesn't point out that the police and the local government take any rise in homophobia VERY seriously here.
It is routine to see same sex couples holding hands in this city.
It is routine to see a million people line the streets for Amsterdam Gay Pride.
It is almost inconceiveable that a Dutch politician would be in the closet.
Muslim youth may be causing some minor skirmishes, but the idea that Amsterdam has suddenly become dangerous for gay people is simply not true.
Mexicans immigrants seem to be the bogeymen in the US at present. The Dutch far-right like to paint Muslim youth in Amsterdam in the same way.
Posted by: SteveC | Oct 11, 2010 9:41:19 AM
STEVEC:
Mexican immigrants? ILLEGAL [MILLIONS Steve, tens of millions] Mexican and others, are the problem. Do you understand the difference?
BTW Steve, the prisons in southwest states are overflowing with VIOLENT repeat offenders many [30% and above] ILLEGAL 'immigrants'. L.A. and other places are over-run [no exaggeration] by 'ethnic' gangs with many illegal 'immigrant' members. The U.S., Steve, has a very big problem along our southern border with human trafficking, drug trafficking, and other illegal and VIOLENT activity. It makes the EU's illegal immigrant problem pale by comparison. It's no joke Steve.
Posted by: ratbastard | Oct 11, 2010 2:10:59 PM
ANDY - GARETH THOMAS IS NOT TALKING ABOUT HOMOPHOBIA. PLS READ PAST THE FIRST PARA. He is talking about RUGBY! I quote: "He (GT)could be talking about the homophobic chants he endured during a game at Castleford last year, but he's not. He's talking about the antipathies that exist between the two codes of rugby".
Posted by: Atheist | Oct 11, 2010 2:11:30 PM
Rowan:
My country, the U.S., doesn't have an official state sponsored religion, unlike yours. Never has. There is strict separation of church and state.
I am not religious Rowan [not that that is necessarily a bad thing]. I live in a part of the country with few 'religious' people. MOST Americans [and Canadians] are not religious fanatics Rowan.
You need to travel more Rowan. Get out of 'Europe' [I assume you mean the UK, i.e. England, Wales, Scotland and N. Ireland?]
Posted by: ratbastard | Oct 11, 2010 2:15:39 PM