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All Dead Mormons are Now Gay – The Website
- 11 Mar 2012
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“The movement is in reaction to the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints practice of baptizing the dead of different religions without the consent of their surviving family members. Many Holocaust victims, former football star Pat Tillman and President Barack Obama’s late mother are among those who’ve been baptized posthumously by the church.”
“The Mormon Church said it would stop this practice years ago and yet it keeps on happening. They simply don’t care how offensive this. They’re saying someone else’s religion doesn’t matter,” said a coalition leader who asked to be identified only as Rabbi Feinberg. “They’re taking away my people’s Jewishness so we’re doing the same to them. Last night we gave bar mitzvahs to Joseph Smith, Brigham Young and John Taylor. Then we gay married the three of them together, since they all believed in polygamy. Now, in the eyes of the Lord they’re three dead gay Jews.”
From The Website: “Sadly, many Mormons throughout history have died without having known the joys of homosexuality. With your help, these poor souls can be saved. Simply enter the name of your favorite dead Mormon* in the form below and click Convert! Presto, they’re gay for eternity. There is no undo. Don’t know any dead Mormons? Click the “Choose-a-Mormon” button and we’ll find one for you. You’re welcome!”
http://alldeadmormonsarenowgay.com/
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Museum Of Broken Relationships: Croatian Museum Showcases Post-Split Mementos
- 11 Mar 2012
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“ZAGREB, Croatia — What becomes of a garden gnome hurled in fury at a windscreen during a stormy breakup? Or a teddy bear that was once a Valentine’s Day present? A wedding dress from a marriage gone awry? An ax that smashed through household furniture? All are on display at the Museum of Broken Relationships in the Croatian capital, each with written testimonies telling tales of passion, romance and heartbreak. On Valentine’s Day, the museum sees its visits almost double. ”The objects that are here represent all the stages of a breakup … and how people go through love,” said Drazen Grubisic, a designer and artist who co-founded the museum in 2010 in the Croatian capital. ”We might say it’s a love museum, just upside down,” he said.”
Read More: http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/02/13/museum-of-broken-relationships_n_1273656.html
The Official Site: www.brokenships.com
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Gotcha Videos Gone Wild – James Carter – Andrew Kaczynski
- 10 Mar 2012
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“A new wave of opposition researchers is harnessing the power of the web to upend campaigns and reshape the political conversation this election season.
James Carter, grandson of former Democratic President Jimmy Carter, always assumed that he would go into the family business, until he ruled out running for public office. But the 35-year-old graduate student may have inadvertently found his political calling earlier this year after he noticed that former House Speaker Newt Gingrich was gaining ground in the Republican primaries.
On a spur, Carter decided to embark on a digital dig, starting with a broad Google search: “Newt controversy.” Several pages in, he stumbled upon an incident where Gingrich clumsily implied that Spanish was “the language of the ghetto.” To Carter’s surprise, the provocative comment had received little play in the blogosphere and talk radio circuit. So he made a beeline for the C-SPAN video archives, and found the footage from the March 31, 2007 conference for the National Federation of Republican Women, where Gingrich said, “We should replace bilingual education with immersion in English so people learn the common language of the country and so they learn the language of prosperity, not the language of living in a ghetto.”
Using free video editing software, Carter stitched Gingrich’s “ghetto” comment together with his subsequent mea culpa (delivered in Spanish). He then uploaded this video pastiche to his YouTube channel, and headed off to class.
Hours later, the video was discovered by enterprising political bloggers and went into heavy rotation on the cable news shows, and was even linked to by the Pulitzer Prize winning fact-checking website PolitiFact. Carter’s amateur video garnered more than 10,000 views and went on to become part of the larger political dialogue for several days.”
Read More : http://www.pbs.org/wnet/need-to-know/culture/video-gotcha-goes-viral/13297/?
Watch Andrew Kaczynski: Political wunderkind and threat on PBS. See more from Need to Know.
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Neil DeGrasse Tyson’s ” Most Astounding Fact Will Turn Your Universe Inside Out”
- 09 Mar 2012
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Astrophysicist Neil DeGrasse Tyson’s official jobs might include things like serving as a research scientist for the American Museum of Natural History and as director of the Hayden Planetarium, but it seems his real work is to turn your mind inside out.
Read More: http://www.slate.com/blogs/browbeat/2012/03/07/neil_degrasse_tyson_s_most_astounding_fact_
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KONY 2012 – Invisible Children
- 09 Mar 2012
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WHY ARE WE MAKING JOSEPH KONY “FAMOUS”?
INVISIBLE CHILDREN’S KONY 2012 CAMPAIGN AIMS TO MAKE JOSEPH KONY FAMOUS, NOT TO CELEBRATE HIM, BUT TO RAISE SUPPORT FOR HIS ARREST AND SET A PRECEDENT FOR INTERNATIONAL JUSTICE. IN THIS CASE, NOTORIETY TRANSLATES TO PUBLIC SUPPORT. IF PEOPLE KNOW ABOUT THE CRIMES THAT KONY HAS BEEN COMMITTING FOR 26 YEARS, THEY WILL UNITE TO STOP HIM.
SECONDLY, WE WANT KONY TO BE FAMOUS SO THAT WHEN HE IS STOPPED, HE WILL BE A VISIBLE, CONCRETE EXAMPLE OF INTERNATIONAL JUSTICE. THEN OTHER WAR CRIMINALS WILL KNOW THAT THEIR MASS ATROCITIES WILL NOT GO UNNOTICED OR UNPUNISHED.
Read More: http://kony2012.s3-website-us-east-1.amazonaws.com/
Invisible Children Addresses it’s Critics: http://abcnews.go.com/International/kony-2012-charity-invisible-children-
KONY 2012 from INVISIBLE CHILDREN on Vimeo.
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