Canterbury in Kent reveals the truth behind a common stereotype: Gays like musicals

From the Telegraph U.K. 

A government watchdog decided that Canterbury in Kent does enough to promote homosexual culture, rejecting a complaint by local activists.

The Local Government Ombudsman – who asked for the city’s council to provide evidence of how it supported the gay community – said it was satisfied the pink pound was being catered for.

“Tolerance” is not enough. Nope, government must actively “promote homosexual culture” (and how fabulous is it that Canterbury has stepped up to the plate)!

As part of the investigation, the council had to prove its inclusiveness by giving details of "touring plays and musicals, for example, which would be of interest to the LGBT community".

And it had to show that it had "put forward suggestions for small events that it might help fund, as well as proposals for other events such as exhibitions". ..

No word on whether they will fund and promote leather & bondage days like they have in San Francisco at the Folsom Street Fair.

Rob Davies, spokesman for the council, said: "Obviously we’re delighted with the outcome of the investigation.

"We feel we do a great deal for the gay community in Canterbury and we have always tried to support various gay events and promotions."

"But at the same time it is not the duty of any council to set up a gay bar – that’s not what councils do."

No government sponsored gay bar? I’m outraged!

Chairman Andrew Brettell lodged a formal complaint with the Local Government Ombudsman claiming his initial letter to the council in November fell on deaf ears.

Mr Brettell, in his 60s, said last month: "" We do not believe the council want a thriving LGBT (Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual and Transgender) community in our city. The impression I get is that the council just doesn’t want to know.

"I get the feeling it is precious because Canterbury has a cathedral and history. I think they think the gay community will turn it into Sodom and Gomorrah."

I’m sure the fact that they have chosen Canterbury as the location to promote their gay agenda is purely a coincidence.

Calvin Klein’s “targeted demographic”: Threesomes

 

See original wcbstv.com story to get better view of trashy SoHo billboard and video of the news story.

Barbara Lippert is Ad Critic for Adweek Media Magazine, and said the billboard seems like a desperate act for Calvin Klein.
"I think he really wants to get back into the ballpark because he doesn’t seem relevant anymore," Lippert said.
"The worst thing would be to get no attention at all. So if you need to throw in another two or three dudes to get that attention so people will say, ‘what’ and really give it a second look, he’ll do that."
"Any publicity is good publicity, and people are talking about it, and that’s all he wants," Stephens said.
Asked about the message in the ad, a Calvin Klein spokesman said the "intention was to create a very sexy campaign that speaks to our targeted demographic."

Don’t buy Calvin Klein jeans and thus prove to these marketing geniuses that any publicity is not good publicity. Levis are much better jeans anyway.

 

UPDATE:

My bad.  Better picture available from Fox, and it’s not a threesome, it’s a quad. 1 girl, 3 “men”. Although one of the “men” looks like he was slipped a date rape drug or something.

 

Hey, let’s have some post-racial healing from the Communist Party USA!

Hat tip: Trevor Loudon 

 

From the perspective of Black social movements, does the triumph of Obama represent a kind of "end" to Black politics? A leader of African descent, having achieved state power, has symbolically demonstrated that no fundamental barriers now exist that deny Blacks access to political power. The paradox of integration, unfortunately, is that millions of African descendant Americans remain stigmatized and excluded from employment, quality health care, education and home ownership, relative to whites. These dire conditions, combined with the continuing incidents of police brutality and the mass incarceration of young Blacks guarantee that spontaneous local protests and grassroots mobilizations of African Americans and Latinos will continue to erupt. As during the Great Society, if Obama’s reforms are successfully implemented, new levels of activism and Black protest will emerge as a result. A new Black Panthers may soon be on the political horizon.

Oh joy!  You are about to be ruled by the black man, cracker.

 

 

"Martin Luther King did not die to have people with jack boots blocking the door, and neither did Robert Kennedy”:

 

So much for hope: Obama considers razing depressed cities to the ground

Gee, if Obama believed Government Motors and his spending initiatives were going to rescue the economy, wouldn’t he take a wait-and-see approach before sending in the bulldozers? From the Telegraph U.K.:

The government looking at expanding a pioneering scheme in Flint, one of the poorest US cities, which involves razing entire districts and returning the land to nature.

Local politicians believe the city must contract by as much as 40 per cent, concentrating the dwindling population and local services into a more viable area.

The radical experiment is the brainchild of Dan Kildee, treasurer of Genesee County, which includes Flint.

Having outlined his strategy to Barack Obama during the election campaign, Mr Kildee has now been approached by the US government and a group of charities who want him to apply what he has learnt to the rest of the country.

Mr Kildee said he will concentrate on 50 cities, identified in a recent study by the Brookings Institution, an influential Washington think-tank, as potentially needing to shrink substantially to cope with their declining fortunes.

Most are former industrial cities in the "rust belt" of America’s Mid-West and North East. They include Detroit, Philadelphia, Pittsburgh, Baltimore and Memphis.

In Detroit, shattered by the woes of the US car industry, there are already plans to split it into a collection of small urban centres separated from each other by countryside.

"The real question is not whether these cities shrink – we’re all shrinking – but whether we let it happen in a destructive or sustainable way," said Mr Kildee. "Decline is a fact of life in Flint. Resisting it is like resisting gravity."

Karina Pallagst, director of the Shrinking Cities in a Global Perspective programme at the University of California, Berkeley, said there was "both a cultural and political taboo" about admitting decline in America.

"Places like Flint have hit rock bottom. They’re at the point where it’s better to start knocking a lot of buildings down," she said…

You know what I think? I think these initiatives should be left to the States and local governments and Obama and his Master Planners at the Federal Government should sod off.

UDPATE:

1. At Ace’s place, Slubog asks, So, How About that Stimulus, Huh?.  What are the odds that Barack will admit failure, scratch his profligate spending/deficit plan, and listen to some voices from the other side of the aisle?  He could start with slashing the corporate tax rate, but I don’t think his ego can take it.

2.  I missed this in the original story:

Flint’s recovery efforts have been helped by a new state law passed a few years ago which allowed local governments to buy up empty properties very cheaply…

The city is buying up houses in more affluent areas to offer people in neighbourhoods it wants to demolish. Nobody will be forced to move, said Mr Kildee.

I wonder what price they are being offered to move into “more affluent” areas, and what their affluent neighbors think of people moving in next door with the help of subsidies they themselves did not benefit from.

The Atlantic’s Jeffrey Goldberg plays the blame game but fails to get his facts straight

In a criticism of a column by Judith Warner about James von Brunn’s act of murder at the Holocaust Museum, Jeffrey Goldberg of the Atlantic tries to be oh so fair, but ends up spreading more misinformation.

He begins:

Reading Judith Warner’s column this morning on the recent upsurge in hate crimes, I was struck by what she left out. Two weeks ago, a Muslim extremist shot two soldiers, killing one, outside a recruiting station in Arkansas. Abdulhakim Mujahid Muhammad acted alone, just as James von Brunn apparently did. He was, like von Brunn, captive to a supremacist ideology that, in his mind, justified the murder of an innocent man. Like von Brunn, authorities said, he had mapped out Jewish targets for potential attack.  And yet, no mention of the hate crime committed by a Muslim; only hate crimes committed by white, right-wing extremists were worthy of mention in Warner’s column. This is true for other columnists on the liberal side of the spectrum. The murder of Private William Long seems to be of no concern, and without larger meaning.

All well and good, but he ends with this :

The attacks in Arkansas and Washington are both manifestations of a radical type of intolerance, and they are linked in very deep ways. The left, generally speaking, doesn’t want to acknowledge Muslim intolerance, and the right, generally speaking, doesn’t want to acknowledge white, Christian intolerance. But they both exist, and they should both be acknowledged.

Except that Von Brunn was not a Christian, as evident in one of his mad screeds (h/t Moonbattery):

…These dangerous, imbecilic, concepts, tenets, and teachings, often treasonous, DESTROYED the Roman Empire and drenched the soil of Europe with Aryan blood for almost 2000 years!

The Big Lie technique, employed by Paul to create the CHRISTIAN RELIGION, also was used to create the HOLOCAUST RELIGION … CHRISTIANITY AND THE HOLOCAUST are HOAXES.

Whatever evidence Goldberg has about “white Christian intolerance” cannot be traced to Von Brunn, so he’ll have to look elsewhere to provide examples of “intolerance” so evil that it results in cold-blooded murder.  Meanwhile, as a point of comparison, here’s a tally of 13,363 acts of Muslim “intolerance” and murder since 9/11 (as of today).

By the way, the link provided by Moonbattery to Von Brunn’s insane rant on Christianity and the Holocaust is no longer available.

This message (from  wwwdotantichristdotnet) is all that’s left:

With a heavy heart, the webmaster has, as of today, decided to self-sensor this website for the first time since it was created more than a decade ago and, for the first time, remove contributed content.Those of you who know me, know this is one of the toughest decisions I have ever had to make, as I am a Ron Paul Republican who firmly believes in our First Amendment RIGHT to Freedom of Speech and Freedom of Religion. This freedom is especially important for extreme minority groups, such as anti-Christians, atheists and other minority groups.Obviously I do not condone the actions of Mr. Von Brunn, all day yesterday I kept coming here, trying to bring myself to remove the page on anti-Christianity which Mr. Von Brunn had contributed to this site several years ago. Given the severity of this case, I now feel that it MUST come down. Nothing hurts me more than to censor another man's words, even if that man (at the end of his life) became so violent.This website does not condone violence, it was created for one purpose only -- to be as obnoxious as possible in dealing with the issue of god or gods, as well as many other topical interests which catch our fancy. We laugh at people who believe in magical thinking, in things which do not exist, but WE ARE NOT laughing at the tragedy in Washington DC.

Note to Jeffrey Goldberg: The webmaster is clearly not a Christian either.

“Republicans are having this meeting and you need to let all of your clients know if they have someone there, that will be viewed as a hostile act’”

More Cram Down politics, Via Roll Call:

Top aides to Senate Finance Chairman Max Baucus (D-Mont.) called a last-minute, pre-emptive strike on Wednesday with a group of prominent Democratic lobbyists, warning them to advise their clients not to attend a meeting with Senate Republicans set for Thursday.

Russell Sullivan, the top staffer on Finance, and Jon Selib, Baucus’ chief of staff, met with a bloc of more than 20 contract lobbyists, including several former Baucus aides.

“They said, ‘Republicans are having this meeting and you need to let all of your clients know if they have someone there, that will be viewed as a hostile act,’” said a Democratic lobbyist who attended the meeting.

“Going to the Republican meeting will say, ‘I’m interested in working with Republicans to stop health care reform,’” the lobbyist added.

Republican leaders have been meeting with health care stakeholders for months, with those sessions occurring “more frequently than once a month,” according to a senior Senate GOP aide.

The stated purpose of Thursday’s meeting, organized by Sen. John Thune (R-S.D.), is to discuss proposals for how to pay for health care reform.

But the underlying motivation for the get-together is to encourage health care lobbyists and stakeholders concerned about the Democrats’ health care reform plans to speak out publicly.

They must be silenced! 

“They need to speak up,” one Senate Republican leadership aide said. “They need to help us help them.”

Thune said Democrats are using threats and intimidation to keep unhappy stakeholders silent.

More…

But with Baucus’ office still warning dissenters that anyone who makes their opposition public could be permanently excluded from future negotiations, the groups representing businesses, health care providers, hospitals and similar stakeholders are still wavering on whether to voice their concerns publicly.

Visions of horse’s heads danced through the night…

UPDATE:

1.  Ezra Klein notes that the American Medical Association is backing off from original reports that it opposes the public health option for Obamacare, and wonders if their new position has a connection to Max Baucus’s game of “hardball”.

2. Ed Morrisey explains how “Government insurance will kill private insurance” here.

3. Morrisey reports on the Baucus intimidation tactics and thuggery coming from the office of Democratic Rep. Ed Markey (D-Mass.) here

China, U.S. fight over nothing; reach impasse

Oh what a tangled web the Global Warming alarmists weave over a non-existent problem. F/T reports:

China and the US failed to achieve a breakthrough at their latest round of climate talks on Wednesday raising the stakes in the global effort to fight world climate change.

The two countries responsible for 40 per cent of the world’s greenhouse gas emissions ended three days of negotiations in Beijing…

But the two countries’ positions on what they could and should contribute show an almost ideological divide which observers say carries the risk of antagonising the rest of the world along the lines of developing and developed nations…

Not to mention antagonizing Americans who will vote the people responsible for this travesty out of office, should it come to pass.

Meanwhile, China has raised the stakes by demanding that rich countries should in future commit to cutting greenhouse gas emissions by 40 per cent by 2020 from 1990 levels – the upper end of the range that Beijing has named for years – and be required to pay 0.5 to 1 per cent of their annual economic worth to help pay for carbon emission reduction schemes in poorer nations including China.

Everybody’s looking for reparations. As for being a “rich country” at the rate things are going with Obamanomics, the U.S. won’t even make the list.

“I think it is perfectly fair for China and other developing countries to hold their stand in this issue,” said Lin Erda, a senior scientist at the Chinese Academy of Agricultural Sciences. He added: “Now cutting 40 per cent by 2020 is just one goal. We also expect an 80 per cent cut by 2050.”

Good luck with that! 

China’s comparatively hard stance is not directed at the US alone. Yu Qingtai, Beijing’s climate envoy, criticised Japan’s target to cut its emissions by 15 per cent below 2005 levels by 2020 as too little.

“It would be much below what Japan as a [developed] country would need to do to meet its obligations,” Mr Yu told Reuters in Bonn. “Developing countries are victims of global warming created by many years of cumulative emissions by the developed countries in their process of industrialisation.” But given the weight China and the US carry, this was exactly the wrong message, said a diplomat. “You couldn’t expect that much, given that these were the first such US-China talks on climate change,” he said.

Waaah. Everyone’s a victim. But hey, we’ll be happy to take our I.M.F. dollars back, along with everything else we do to raise the standard of living of these ungrateful whiners.

UPDATE:

Heartache. Prospects for passing CO2 hoax dim as China refuses to get on board.

“100 Black Men of America” to watch over News Corp as part of “diversity council”

Oh, the irony. It never ends, does it?  The race-baiting, the unadulterated crap from groups whose entire identity is defined by their race.

From the Associated Press:

News Corp. is forming an external diversity council in response to pressure over a New York Post cartoon that critics said compared President Barack Obama to a dead chimpanzee.

The cartoon appeared in February. News Corp. chairman Rupert Murdoch published an apology in the Post, but civil rights and community organizations demanded further action.

NAACP President and CEO Benjamin Todd Jealous said Wednesday that News Corp. had agreed to form a “diversity community council” that will meet semiannually with company executives.

The council will include members of the NAACP, 100 Black Men of America, the National Action Network and the National Urban League.

The letter also said that the company will include a “diversity statement of commitment” in its annual report.

Here’s a list of their sponsors the groups they hustle money from.

Here’s their original “official statement” about the cartoon:

We respect the First Amendment of the US
Constitution….both the right of speech and the right to object to what is
spoken. We find, as we have the right to do, Mr. Delonas’s cartoon published
in the February 18th, 2009 issue of the New York Post appalling, irresponsible
and completely insensitive. The mission of the 100 Black Men of America, Inc.
is to establish and reinforce positive images for young black men throughout
the world. Unless Mr. Delonas’s education and experiences make him completely
unaware of the historical racism associated with his caricature, his claimed
ignorance, shock and surprise are all without merit. More importantly, even
if he alone was ignorant to the obvious racial overtones, it is equally
apparent that no one responsible for reviewing and approving this cartoon for
print possessed any degree of reasoned sensibilities.
It may be as Hartley Engel has suggested that, “…[the] Post cartoon is
not implying that President Obama is a chimpanzee, but, rather, that the
stimulus bill is so weighted down with pet projects and out-of-control
spending, that it is so non-stimulative, if you will, that it couldn’t have
been cobbled together by President Obama and his team of wildly intelligent
economic advisors. No, it must have been written by a deranged chimp.” But it
seems to us, if this is the case, there is a plethora of ways to graphically
express that idea, and the way chosen shows, at best, very poor judgment in
both its creation, and it publication.
The New York Post and its leadership must reevaluate its priorities and
standards in journalism and retract and apologize for its tasteless
interpretation of current events. Despite race, creed and culture, many
Americans would and have perceived this as an act fueled by racist innuendos
and degrading characterization. More importantly, the New York Post must
never permit this to happen again.
This inappropriate depiction goes far beyond satire by reopening wounds of
deep-rooted racist stereotypes. It mocks our image as Black Americans, it
mocks our struggles as a nation and it mocks the standard of journalism
worldwide. It is improper, tasteless and unacceptable.

Blah, blah, blah….

Did I mention that Obama didn’t even write the stimulus bill?  Don’t let facts get in the way of the outrage and cash register.

Rush Limbaugh at the golden microphone: Obama is destroying the economy

 

If any Libs want to refute this with irrefutable data, and without comments about pills, weight, or failed marriages, go at it.

 

G.O.P. fundraiser: Competing headlines in an alternate universe

Sarah Palin showed up for a brief appearance at the G.O.P. fundraiser led by keynote speaker, Newt Gingrich, with Jon Voight in a supporting role. Here’s a sampling of the dueling headlines from the MSM:

Politico: Palin makes little splash at dinner

CNN:  Palin center of attention at big GOP dinner

New York Times:  In Palin’s Shadow, Republicans Collect Cash

ABC News:  Republican Dinner Raises Questions About GOP Leadership

U.P.I.:  Palin attends GOP fundraiser – really

WaPo:  Keynoter or Not, Palin Steals Spotlight at GOP Fundraiser

 

Meanwhile, Fox focuses correctly on Newt:  Gingrich Tells GOP Obama Has ‘Already Failed’

The best part?   Notorious right wing-conspiracist Neanderthal hillbilly, Jon Voight, on the “false prophet” Obama.

 

UPDATE:

Here’s some Newt for ya -

 

Great story about Jon Voight here.