Hiroshima, Gay Jurors, Jason Bateman, Ames Straw Poll
Sabtu, 06 Agustus 2011 by Android Blackberry
As Japan and the world mark the 66th anniversary of the Hiroshima A-Bomb, and inside the wake of the Fukushima disaster, Japanese Prime Minister Naoto Kan said he would work toward ending nuclear power in his nation: "I will cut down Japan's reliance on nuclear power, aiming at making a society that will not rely on atomic power generation."
road Uniformed members of the Dutch Army, in which gays and lesbians have been serving openly since 1974, had been lastly allowed to march in Amsterdam's Gay Pride festival.
road Elsewhere in gay pride news, police say about 35,000-50,000 persons showed up for the annual event in Stockholm.
road The fight for gay jurors: "Trial lawyers should be barred from dismissing potential jurors as a result of their sexual orientation, defense attorneys argued Thursday in a case that, if successful, could extend constitutional protection from discrimination to homosexuality along with race, creed and gender."
China's state media blasts United States for credit downgrade and overall economic nightmare, saying U.S. must "come to terms with the painful fact that the great old days when it could just borrow its way out of messes of its own generating are lastly gone."
road Say so lengthy to Wisteria Lane; ABC axing Desperate Housewives immediately after season eight.
road Rise of the Planet of the Apes dominates Friday box workplace with $19 million, though new comedy The Change Up crept to fourth location with $4.6 million.
road In related news, Jason Bateman, co-star of The Change Up, was on NPR's Wait, Wait... Don't Tell Me to speak about Tarzan star Cheeta and the upcoming Arrested Development movie -- yes, it is coming -- along with the classic movie Teen Wolf Too.
road CJ de Mooi, a British television personality and president of the English Chess Federation, says he was barred from presenting awards at a chess tournament for the reason that he was wearing a t-shirt with the equality message, "Some People Are Gay, Get Over It." "An arbiter approached me saying she had 'personal reservations' about me wearing a Stonewall t-shirt when presenting prizes to juniors. It was apparently inappropriate for me to wear some thing mentioning 'sexuality' in such an environment," de Mooi wrote in a statement.
road The gay population in Washington State has grown 50 percent over the past ten years, and those couples are itching for equality.
road Thirty-one American soldiers, much more than 20 from the elite SEALTeam 6, and 7 Afghan security officials killed in Afghanistan helicopter attack.
road Filmmaker and photographer Jim Goldberg focuses on singer Robyn, giving fans "an unrestricted view of the sincere ambition behind her career" through a Super 8 lens.
road The Missouri Study & Education Network, which supplies computer software to the Show Me State's school system, will no longer censor non-sexual LGBT sites immediately after receiving complaints from the ACLU as well as the Freedom to Read Foundation: "The groups told MOREnet it was illegally censoring LGBT-related websites by way of its software when allowing access to websites that condemn homosexuality or oppose LGBT legal protections.
Pro-civil unions Republican presidential candidate Gary Johnson won't participate in symbolically important Ames Straw Poll. From his campaign's statement: "We simply cannot and will not buy into an event that has been granted far more status within the nomination process than it must have."
road Lady Gaga's male drag persona, Jo Calderone, makes an appearance for cover of new single, "You and I."
road Lastly, full length picture of Anne Hathaway as Catwoman. Thoughts on the goggles?
road Meanwhile, the first picture of Rihanna for the upcoming Battleship movie just came out, and she has a big gun.
road About four,600 Nevada households are led by two women, and an estimated 4,724 are run by two men, an 87% total increase considering that 2000.
Hiroshima, Gay Jurors, Jason Bateman, Ames Straw Poll
