New Zealand’s parliament has legalised same-sex marriage, the first country in the Asia-Pacific region to do so.
Lawmakers approved the bill, amending the 1955 marriage act, despite opposition from Christian lobby groups.
The bill was passed with a wide majority, with 77 votes in favour and 44 against.
Hundreds of jubilant gay-rights advocates celebrated outside parliament after the bill was passed, calling it a milestone for equality.
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Mike Goetz
We live in a society that can watch 20 children get their heads blown off and do nothing.
Have a nice day.
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Jim, Foolish Literalist
@Mike Goetz: The worst are full of passionate intensity, while the best lack all conviction. Sullivan has a post up from a gay guy saying he’s ready to vote Republican over taxes, with a long anecdote about his welfare queen niece, livin’ high off the hog on his tax dollars.
I don’t live in AZ, but with all the publicity Jeff Flake is getting for his vote, is there some truth that we were one incredibly stupid remark away from Senator Carmona?
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Davis X. Machina
@Mike Goetz: Any god worth its name can demand, and receive, human sacrifice, and of children if need be. We may not have a state religion in theory, but we have one in practice.
“For those of us who don’t draw a check from an operation dedicated to starfking the hotties at the American Enterprise Institute, this is what we call daily life, which is uncertain and made up of a great number of people who don’t owe us a damn thing. These latter especially include the people trying to figure out who tried to commit mass murder up here on Monday.”
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JPL
Let the games begin. AP is reporting that a letter addressed to the President had a mysterious substance.
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JPL
Let the games begin. AP is reporting that a letter addressed to the President had a mysterious substance.
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Davis X. Machina
@JPL: Complete sentences? Subject-verb agreement? Logic? (I’d hate to see Obama’s mail…)
@gogol’s wife: I think they’re publicly stating intentions to vote one way or another. I say we hang them with this and the Newtown families haunt them with it until their next election.
Shit. The FPS is gonna be crawling all over work today when I get there.
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JPL
@Davis X. Machina: There’s not a log of logic after a major terrorist event. Secret Service has the letter and is examining the evidence. It would be rude not to speculate that it’s the NRA.
At least your security is being attended to by people with the right training.
On the first anniversary of OKC, beefed-up perimeter security was provided in Laguna Niguel by calling in all the CI people from the field. Was a miracle that those idiots didn’t shoot a Social Security claimant, an Archives visitor, or each other.
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Roxy
My brother’s family had a pointer named Levi and watching him run was such a joy.
When I would come and visit I would take Levi over to the orchards next to my brother’s place. As soon as the leash came off he would stand still, point, start a little quiver and then break out into his run and run he did.
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beltane
Bomb squads have been deployed to both the Hart and Russell Senate office buildings https://twitter.com/politico
@Mike Goetz: Okay, the vast mumping middle who say they support all kinds of reasonable safety measures but then vote their petty, parochial, short-sighted and frequently delusional self-interest lack all intensity.
May Bloomberg and the 2014 mid-terms prove me wrong.
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Jim, Foolish Literalist
Dear lord in heaven, sweet fancy Moses and a Great Googly Moogly. I don’t really know Savannah Guthrie’s work, but this just proves Lily Tomlin’s old adage, no matter who cynical (or in this case, contemptuous) you get, you just can’t keep up.
he president did not communicate with Jay-Z over this trip” — but of course that did not stop Today’s Savannah Guthrie from asking the president himself (in an interview taped before the Boston bombings). So here is Obama’s official comment on the Cuba controversy: “I wasn’t familiar that they were taking the trip … You know, this is not something the White House was involved with. We’ve got better things to do.”
Italicized for fairness. Even before the Boston bombings, even without gun safety and budget issues and North Korea and everything else,
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NickM
Politico, I know, but apparently a letter to Pres. Obama contained ricin and there are police out for bomb threats on Capitol Hill.
@Jim, Foolish Literalist: I don’t know why he even bothers to answer the stupid questions. His standard response should be ‘do you have another question that is relevant to the country?’
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Dexter's new approach
There’s a Regal here in Chicago that’s extremely convenient for me and would normally be my go-to theater form mass-market movies. But my girlfriend and I recently swore it off (after Hunger Games I recall). The scene is exactly how you described, and it makes going to the movies a depressing experience.
We’re getting good data now and it’s pretty clear that the level of bitching about the AVA is inversely correlated with the quality of their product.
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Dexter's new approach
There’s a Regal here in Chicago that’s extremely convenient for me and would normally be my go-to theater form mass-market movies. But my girlfriend and I recently swore it off (after Hunger Games I recall). The scene is exactly how you described, and it makes going to the movies a depressing experience.
We’re getting good data now and it’s pretty clear that the level of bitching about the AVA is inversely correlated with the quality of their product.
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Dexter's new approach
There’s a Regal here in Chicago that’s extremely convenient for me and would normally be my go-to theater form mass-market movies. But my girlfriend and I recently swore it off (after Hunger Games I recall). The scene is exactly how you described, and it makes going to the movies a depressing experience.
We’re getting good data now and it’s pretty clear that the level of bitching about the AVA is inversely correlated with the quality of their product.
32.
Dexter's new approach
There’s a Regal here in Chicago that’s extremely convenient for me and would normally be my go-to theater form mass-market movies. But my girlfriend and I recently swore it off (after Hunger Games I recall). The scene is exactly how you described, and it makes going to the movies a depressing experience.
We’re getting good data now and it’s pretty clear that the level of bitching about the AVA is inversely correlated with the quality of their product.
33.
Dexter's new approach
There’s a Regal here in Chicago that’s extremely convenient for me and would normally be my go-to theater form mass-market movies. But my girlfriend and I recently swore it off (after Hunger Games I recall). The scene is exactly how you described, and it makes going to the movies a depressing experience.
We’re getting good data now and it’s pretty clear that the level of bitching about the AVA is inversely correlated with the quality of their product.
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Dexter's new approach
There’s a Regal here in Chicago that’s extremely convenient for me and would normally be my go-to theater form mass-market movies. But my girlfriend and I recently swore it off (after Hunger Games I recall). The scene is exactly how you described, and it makes going to the movies a depressing experience.
We’re getting good data now and it’s pretty clear that the level of bitching about the AVA is inversely correlated with the quality of their product.
35.
Dexter's new approach
There’s a Regal here in Chicago that’s extremely convenient for me and would normally be my go-to theater form mass-market movies. But my girlfriend and I recently swore it off (after Hunger Games I recall). The scene is exactly how you described, and it makes going to the movies a depressing experience.
We’re getting good data now and it’s pretty clear that the level of bitching about the AVA is inversely correlated with the quality of their product.
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beltane
@NickM: The month of April is like wingnut Mardi Gras.
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Kurzleg
Man, this video reminds me how much I miss taking our dogs to the dog park and seeing them rollick with other dogs. Unfortunately, Alaskan Malamutes have a bigger prey instinct than most breeds, and it was maddening trying to keep them away from the small dogs.
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Jim, Foolish Literalist
Jesus, some idiot reporter just asked Carney three times if there were any connection between the letters and Boston. He said three times he couldn’t comment on an on-going investigation, which seems pretty fucking elementary. Is the legendary Russert-ist “bulldog” reporting, or is this reporter especially stupid? /redundant and rhetorical
Mandalay
Another one bites the dust….
Mike Goetz
We live in a society that can watch 20 children get their heads blown off and do nothing.
Have a nice day.
Jim, Foolish Literalist
@Mike Goetz: The worst are full of passionate intensity, while the best lack all conviction. Sullivan has a post up from a gay guy saying he’s ready to vote Republican over taxes, with a long anecdote about his welfare queen niece, livin’ high off the hog on his tax dollars.
I don’t live in AZ, but with all the publicity Jeff Flake is getting for his vote, is there some truth that we were one incredibly stupid remark away from Senator Carmona?
Davis X. Machina
@Mike Goetz: Any god worth its name can demand, and receive, human sacrifice, and of children if need be. We may not have a state religion in theory, but we have one in practice.
Our Moloch, by Garry Wills.
gogol's wife
@Mike Goetz:
What, did they do something? I thought the vote was at 4:00 today.
gogol's wife
Lovely video. Just what I needed. I wuv Max.
ellie
I miss my dog.
amk
max is a fucking alpha dog, always showing off, isn’t he?
Davis X. Machina
@gogol’s wife: Last few fence-sitters came off this morning. The rest is just arithmetic.
grape_crush
Pierce:
JPL
Let the games begin. AP is reporting that a letter addressed to the President had a mysterious substance.
JPL
Let the games begin. AP is reporting that a letter addressed to the President had a mysterious substance.
Davis X. Machina
@JPL: Complete sentences? Subject-verb agreement? Logic? (I’d hate to see Obama’s mail…)
beltane
Richard Shelby’s office has just been evacuated, and the a letter containing a “suspicious substance” addressed to the President was intercepted yesterday http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2013/apr/17/boston-marathon-bombings-investigation-live#block-516eb786e4b0b434f8243d25
Is April loon breeding season?
Yutsano
MAXPUPPEH!!
@gogol’s wife: I think they’re publicly stating intentions to vote one way or another. I say we hang them with this and the Newtown families haunt them with it until their next election.
@beltane: I hope it’s just Cheeto dust…
Shit. The FPS is gonna be crawling all over work today when I get there.
JPL
@Davis X. Machina: There’s not a log of logic after a major terrorist event. Secret Service has the letter and is examining the evidence. It would be rude not to speculate that it’s the NRA.
beltane
@JPL: Or a proud NRA member.
burnspbesq
The Fourth Amendment isn’t ready to go on the cart.
http://www.supremecourt.gov/opinions/12pdf/11-1425_cb8e.pdf
Mike Goetz
@Jim, Foolish Literalist:
But in this case, the best also had passionate intensity, and it mattered not. We get nothing.
Gin & Tonic
@Mike Goetz: Oh, come on, they don’t do nothing. They put pictures of candles on their Facebook status page, like for Boston as well.
burnspbesq
@Yutsano:
At least your security is being attended to by people with the right training.
On the first anniversary of OKC, beefed-up perimeter security was provided in Laguna Niguel by calling in all the CI people from the field. Was a miracle that those idiots didn’t shoot a Social Security claimant, an Archives visitor, or each other.
Roxy
My brother’s family had a pointer named Levi and watching him run was such a joy.
When I would come and visit I would take Levi over to the orchards next to my brother’s place. As soon as the leash came off he would stand still, point, start a little quiver and then break out into his run and run he did.
beltane
Bomb squads have been deployed to both the Hart and Russell Senate office buildings https://twitter.com/politico
burnspbesq
@grape_crush:
Pierce = blind squirrel.
Byers = nut (in both senses of the word).
Jim, Foolish Literalist
@Mike Goetz: Okay, the vast mumping middle who say they support all kinds of reasonable safety measures but then vote their petty, parochial, short-sighted and frequently delusional self-interest lack all intensity.
May Bloomberg and the 2014 mid-terms prove me wrong.
Jim, Foolish Literalist
Dear lord in heaven, sweet fancy Moses and a Great Googly Moogly. I don’t really know Savannah Guthrie’s work, but this just proves Lily Tomlin’s old adage, no matter who cynical (or in this case, contemptuous) you get, you just can’t keep up.
Italicized for fairness. Even before the Boston bombings, even without gun safety and budget issues and North Korea and everything else,
NickM
Politico, I know, but apparently a letter to Pres. Obama contained ricin and there are police out for bomb threats on Capitol Hill.
http://www.politico.com/story/2013/04/obama-suspicious-substance-letter-90209.html?hp=t1
amk
@Jim, Foolish Literalist: I don’t know why he even bothers to answer the stupid questions. His standard response should be ‘do you have another question that is relevant to the country?’
Dexter's new approach
There’s a Regal here in Chicago that’s extremely convenient for me and would normally be my go-to theater form mass-market movies. But my girlfriend and I recently swore it off (after Hunger Games I recall). The scene is exactly how you described, and it makes going to the movies a depressing experience.
We’re getting good data now and it’s pretty clear that the level of bitching about the AVA is inversely correlated with the quality of their product.
Dexter's new approach
There’s a Regal here in Chicago that’s extremely convenient for me and would normally be my go-to theater form mass-market movies. But my girlfriend and I recently swore it off (after Hunger Games I recall). The scene is exactly how you described, and it makes going to the movies a depressing experience.
We’re getting good data now and it’s pretty clear that the level of bitching about the AVA is inversely correlated with the quality of their product.
Dexter's new approach
There’s a Regal here in Chicago that’s extremely convenient for me and would normally be my go-to theater form mass-market movies. But my girlfriend and I recently swore it off (after Hunger Games I recall). The scene is exactly how you described, and it makes going to the movies a depressing experience.
We’re getting good data now and it’s pretty clear that the level of bitching about the AVA is inversely correlated with the quality of their product.
Dexter's new approach
There’s a Regal here in Chicago that’s extremely convenient for me and would normally be my go-to theater form mass-market movies. But my girlfriend and I recently swore it off (after Hunger Games I recall). The scene is exactly how you described, and it makes going to the movies a depressing experience.
We’re getting good data now and it’s pretty clear that the level of bitching about the AVA is inversely correlated with the quality of their product.
Dexter's new approach
There’s a Regal here in Chicago that’s extremely convenient for me and would normally be my go-to theater form mass-market movies. But my girlfriend and I recently swore it off (after Hunger Games I recall). The scene is exactly how you described, and it makes going to the movies a depressing experience.
We’re getting good data now and it’s pretty clear that the level of bitching about the AVA is inversely correlated with the quality of their product.
Dexter's new approach
There’s a Regal here in Chicago that’s extremely convenient for me and would normally be my go-to theater form mass-market movies. But my girlfriend and I recently swore it off (after Hunger Games I recall). The scene is exactly how you described, and it makes going to the movies a depressing experience.
We’re getting good data now and it’s pretty clear that the level of bitching about the AVA is inversely correlated with the quality of their product.
Dexter's new approach
There’s a Regal here in Chicago that’s extremely convenient for me and would normally be my go-to theater form mass-market movies. But my girlfriend and I recently swore it off (after Hunger Games I recall). The scene is exactly how you described, and it makes going to the movies a depressing experience.
We’re getting good data now and it’s pretty clear that the level of bitching about the AVA is inversely correlated with the quality of their product.
beltane
@NickM: The month of April is like wingnut Mardi Gras.
Kurzleg
Man, this video reminds me how much I miss taking our dogs to the dog park and seeing them rollick with other dogs. Unfortunately, Alaskan Malamutes have a bigger prey instinct than most breeds, and it was maddening trying to keep them away from the small dogs.
Jim, Foolish Literalist
Jesus, some idiot reporter just asked Carney three times if there were any connection between the letters and Boston. He said three times he couldn’t comment on an on-going investigation, which seems pretty fucking elementary. Is the legendary Russert-ist “bulldog” reporting, or is this reporter especially stupid? /redundant and rhetorical
scav
@Jim, Foolish Literalist: Has it slipped to “Whatever I ask three times is True?”
grape_crush
@Jim, Foolish Literalist:
Lots of idiots, apparently. I just saw one ask a mother of two kids hurt in the bombing – located in two separate Boston hospitals – how she feels.
Mom was understandably between aghast and speechless. I wouldn’t have blamed the woman for beating the fuck out of that reporter, ‘tho.
Sister Rail Gun of Warm Humanitarianism
@grape_crush: Get the widow on the set!
PurpleGirl
Max! I love Max. That’s a cute clip of the two doggies playing. He reminds me of Hugo.