I’ve never been contacted to participate in a threesome. Just wanted to canvas the board.

What a warmongering complete POS. No kids but would love to send your kids to die for him and his rich friends. Makes me sick along with all deep state MIC on both sides. Fvck these people they want war so bad they should the first in line

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What should activist groups such as GLAAD do after they fulfill their goals?
By James Kirchick


When Sarah Kate Ellis was named president of GLAAD more than a decade ago, the LGBTQ advocacy organization was in dire financial straits. “I was given a scary mandate,” she told The New York Times in 2019: “Fix it or shut it down.”

She should have done the latter.

Founded in 1985 as the Gay and Lesbian Alliance Against Defamation, the nonprofit originally had the mission of promoting more empathetic media coverage of people with AIDS. Over the years, its remit expanded to countering negative portrayals of gay, lesbian, bisexual, and transgender people in advertising and entertainment. Today, the proliferation of LGBTQ characters on our screens, largely sympathetic coverage in mainstream media, and the ubiquity of same-sex couples in advertisements and commercials all suggest that GLAAD achieved its mission. The group should have long ago taken the win and dissolved—just as the organization Freedom to Marry announced it would do shortly after the Supreme Court legalized same-sex marriage in the summer of 2015.

Read: How GLAAD won the culture war and lost its reason to exist

Accepting victory, however, can be difficult for people who devote their lives to a cause, and not only for emotional reasons. The impulse among activists, once successful, to keep raising money necessitates that they find things to spend it on. Recently, the Times published a devastating exposé revealing how GLAAD succumbed to this temptation, enabling Ellis to live luxuriously at the expense of the group’s donors.

The trouble at GLAAD, however, is more than just a story of individual or organizational corruption. It’s also a story about how—in the years since LGBTQ people earned the right to serve openly in the U.S. military, get married, and not be discriminated against in housing and employment—an entire movement has gone tragically adrift.

According to documents obtained by the Times reporter Emily Steel, Ellis signed a contract two years ago enabling her to earn up to $1.3 million a year, far higher than the salaries of CEOs at charitable organizations of comparable size. She racked up nights at a Waldorf Astoria and other posh hotels and took 30 first-class flights in 18-months. A trip with a colleague to the Cannes Lions advertising festival, the purpose of which, according to GLAAD’s spokesman, was to “speak directly to companies about not turning their backs on the LGBTQ community,” cost $60,000. GLAAD also gave Ellis an annual $25,000 allowance to rent a summer house in Provincetown, Massachusetts, and $20,000 to remodel her home office.


“The pattern of lavish spending is really despicable,” William Waybourn, GLAAD’s director from 1995 to 1997, told me. “I can remember crawling underneath beds in cheap motels trying to find a telephone connection to get on AOL.”

Today, GLAAD’s own statistics speak to its obsolescence. In 2013, GLAAD began publishing its “Studio Responsibility Index,” a meticulous tabulation of gay, bisexual, and trans characters in film and television. According to its latest report, surveying the year 2022, 28.5 percent of films released by the top 10 movie distributors contained an overtly LGBTQ character. For having an LGBTQ character in only 17 percent of its films, the studio Lionsgate was given a “failing” score. GLAAD has gone from criticizing negative media portrayals—once pervasive, now vanishingly rare—to demanding quotas for positive ones.

Like a censor in the days of the film industry’s Hays Code, GLAAD reviews film and television scripts for what it considers offensive content. At the same time, the group seeks out “strategic partnerships” (nonprofit-speak for corporate sponsorship) with some of the same companies whose content it ostensibly “monitors.” This practice creates an obvious conflict of interest. “We monitored all media and never took a dime from any of them,” Waybourn said. “Now it’s almost like blackmail. Either you support GLAAD or we’re going to come after you.” (In response to a request for comment for this article, GLAAD provided a lengthy statement asserting that the Times report “excludes much of our critical advocacy work and grossly mischaracterizes the organization” and citing three instances in which GLAAD had criticized “LGBTQ representation/other LGBTQ issues by a company that is also a financial sponsor.”)

As gay people have become more fully integrated into the mainstream of American life, prominent activist groups have excelled at perpetuating themselves. The Human Rights Campaign, the nation’s leading LGBTQ advocacy organization, issues a highly publicized Corporate Equality Index and, like GLAAD, accepts donations from the businesses it scrutinizes. It and other groups constantly gin up publicity on the faulty premise that life in the United States keeps getting worse for LGBTQ people. Last year, HRC declared, for the first time in its more than four-decade history, a “national state of emergency for LGBTQ+ Americans”—an absurd pronouncement that diminishes not only the suffering of the thousands of gay men lost to AIDS but also the terrible treatment endured by LGBTQ people in the 64 countries where homosexuality is illegal and in some cases punishable by death.


Flailing about for relevance since the legalization of same-sex marriage, many gay-rights groups pivoted to a related but fundamentally different cause: transgender rights. Rather than emulate the movement’s past approach—seeking allies across the political spectrum and accepting compromise as a precondition for legal and social progress—they have taken hard-line left-wing positions. LGBTQ groups repeat the mantra “the science is settled” on the extremely complex and fraught subject of youth gender medicine and insist that anyone who questions the provision of puberty blockers to gender-dysphoric children is transphobic. They continue to spread this message even as many European countries have backed away from such treatments after concluding that the evidence supporting them is weak. The reflexive promotion of major medical interventions for minors should be a red flag for gay men and lesbians, considering the research indicating that many gender-distressed and gender-nonconforming children grow up to be gay.

I was driving on the Shirley Highway heading to work in SC on the morning rush hour in my VW Gulf and the fj comes on and says “here’s a new song from the Cranberries and it rocks hard!” And I looked down at the radio and said “rocks?”
And it did.
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OMG - This might be mug shot of the year candidate.

57KG Spencer: Throughout this whole process, about as good a result as one could hope for except for getting the W against a tough opponent. No knee issues, no weight cut issues...just a chance to wrestle the best at the top of his game and he lost a close one. I mentioned earlier that this is just how he is wired. I also think that his body has betrayed him in one form or another since he was a junior in high school. I don't know that Spencer has had a year where he wasn't rehabbing something. As far as I know, this was it. And we could tell...he got bigger and looked great. But as far as he knows, this was his shot; it's a heckuva lot easier to be grateful when you've accomplished your goals or have a clear cut place in this sport for the next 4 years. To this fan, Spencer did great and I hope he finds peace with it.

57KG RBY: I think the cut hurt him but I also think his style does as well. He might of been the quickest (him or Higuchi) at the weight but needs to be able to apply it like Higuchi can. We've seen that he can be good at freestyle. I'd like to see him at his normal wt next year before making an informed decision

65KG Zain: There are reports today of a concussion in the first match? I do think cutting a crap ton of weight didn't help. Would have loved to see Zain go out with a medal. Injuries, weight issues etc has really made me appreciate John Smith's 6 year run.

65KG Rivera: Great run for Seabass. He gave the eventual winner (Japan) all he could handle before losing by 2 and then wrestling back for 3rd.

74KG Dake: Is this the last run for Kyle? If so, he has been one of our GOATS...just ask JB who said as much on the broadcast. I do think Dake somewhat forgot what got him here...his elite defense. He just didn't seem ready for Japan because his guy was ready for him. We got out coached here and didn't make adjustments in the second in relation to going for the chest wrap. Just an odd situation...he looked like the 20 year old Dake we all know and love in the match before that and suddenly looked his birth certificate age against Japan. IMO, that was perhaps the most shocking result of the men's tourney.

86KG Brooks: Aaron had a great tourney except for maybe a lapse in the last minute or two of his semis match. Rumor is he is going up to 92KG to eventually make 97 for LA. He will do well but it will be tough wrestling taller guys that are just as powerful or more than he is. He may end up being a tweener like Cox.

86KG Amine: I know he didn't medal but love this guy's fight.

97KG Snyder: I started writing a whole thing about KS dropping levels and is now the really tough "gate keeper" that finalists have to get through to win gold. But this is just an overreaction to the Iranian loss and not placing on my part because I remembered that this is his first senior tourney where he didn't medal since he started in 2015. He has earned a mulligan.

125KG Parris: He had about a good a draw as you could ask for but the Olympic lights shine pretty bright. MP looked totally gassed in the first period...almost like an adrenaline dump.

Overall, not our best year to say the least. We medaled at only 3 weights with no gold and this was without the Russian team (no lack of Russians tho). Japan and Iran looked great Japan's depth at 57KG and 65KG is crazy considering that they have world golds there. Iran hit a lull for a few years but it looks they are more complete.

Reffing sucked and I'm not just talking about American matches. It seems they were missing basic stuff. In Spencer's semis match, they gave Spencer 4 to end it. As quick as the sequence was, I was sitting at home thinking it wasn't his 4 even before the replay. Got texts from others saying the same. A few other guys got robbed. I wonder if there will be stats on how many times a challenge was won because it seemed like a lot. The one positive is that reviews were fairly quick.

Walz doing bang up job.

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Knee...dang!

Anyone had it.

What to expect?

Enjoy.

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Pretty solid analysis. I'm happy to see the badgers at the bottom of the league (14th).

11. Iowa (19-15 last season)​

Eligibility remaining: Payton Sandfort, Brock Harding, Josh Dix, Owen Freeman, Pryce Sandfort, Ladji Dembele, Even Brauns, Riley Mulvey
NBA Draft/professional route/out of eligibility: Ben Krikke
Transfer portal: Tony Perkins (to Missouri), Patrick McCaffery (to Butler), Dasonte Bowen (to St Bonaventure)
Arriving: Drew Thelwell (from Morehead State), Seydou Traore (from Manhattan), Cooper Koch (247Composite top 80), Chris Tadjo

The case for Iowa: Sandfort, one of the top players in the conference, is back for his senior season and could be an All-Big Ten first-team player.

The case against Iowa: Losing Perkins to Missouri sets back the backcourt and Iowa didn’t do enough to improve upon a roster that missed the NCAA tournament last spring.

Democratic vice presidential nominee Tim Walz is facing massive backlash for hosting a Muslim cleric who celebrated Hamas‘s October 7 attack on Israel last year and abandoning his National Guard unit before they were deployed to Iraq.

Knewz.com has learned that in May 2023, Asad Zaman, head of the Muslim American Society of Minnesota, joined other Muslim leaders for a meeting about mosque security with Walz’s office in Minnesota.

Zaman also spoke at a May 2020 event to call for peaceful protests with the governor during the riots in Minnesota sparked after George Floyd’s death.

In the last few years, Imam Asad Zaman has used his Facebook page to share official Hamas press releases, blog posts from antisemitic sites, and a 2015 link to a pro-Hitler film, “The Greatest Story Never Told.”

According to the Anti-Defamation League, the neo-Nazi propaganda film is infamous for being antisemitic and popular among fringe anti-jewish groups.

According to state records reviewed by the Washington Examiner, Walz’s administration has also donated over $100,000 to Zaman’s group, the Muslim American Society of Minnesota.

Federal prosecutors have described the Muslim American Society as “founded as the overt arm of the Muslim Brotherhood in the U.S.”

Zaman, who is from Bangladesh, said he “stands in solidarity with Palestinians against Israeli attacks,” after the coordinated strike on October 7.

He also shared an image of a Palestinian flag on Facebook in response to a post by Yusuf Abdi Abdulle, director of the Islamic Association of North America, declaring that “Palestine has the right to defend itself.”

The Biden-Harris administration wrote in a social media post that Abdulle was “on the wrong side of history” in “supporting the extremist Zionist regime and its illegal settlements.”

Walz is also facing backlash after retired Capt. Corey Bjertness, a member of the governor’s former National Guard unit, told the New York Post that Harris’ VP pick was a “coward.”

He told the outlet: “In our world, to drop out after a WARNORD [warning order] is issued is cowardly, especially for a senior enlisted guy.”

“Running for Congress is not an excuse,” Bjertness said of Walz’s decision to quit. “I stopped everything and went to war. I left my wife with three teenagers and a 6-year-old, and I was gone for 19 months.”




Besides being a coward, Walz is a known associate of a Muslim Cleric who supports terrorists and terrorism.

Social media is BRUTAL for her this morning.

Far right violence fueled by racism and misinformation has found a home on Twitter, leading to attacks on Muslims and immigrants as the new government struggles to react. One of the biggest accounts behind the violence had been banned by Twitter, but was reinstated after Musk loosened controls.

To comply with sharia law. What a ****ed up barbaric culture.
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Looks like another feather in the cap of women's professional basketball and their leadership. One mistake after another.

Harris has not given interview or held formal press conference since becoming Democratic nominee​

Vice President Kamala Harris' team declined an interview with Time as it continued to deny media access, according to the magazine's glowing cover story about her rise to the top of the Democratic ticket.

Harris has gone 22 days as of Monday without holding a formal press conference or sit-down interview since emerging as the Democratic Party's nominee after President Biden announced he had dropped out of the race. Both Biden and former President Trump sat down for lengthy interviews with TIME as candidates for president.

The Monday cover story briefly noted that Harris refused to sit down for an interview for the highly favorable story: "Harris has yet to do a single substantive interview or to explain her policy shifts. (Her campaign denied a request for an interview for this story.)"

Harris answered a handful of questions while campaigning in Michigan last week, including one about criticism of her not speaking to the press.

A California sheriff was less than pleased to find out he was featured in a new political ad for Kamala Harris in which she touts border security, which he says distorts the record.

"In light of a recent political ad put out by Kamala Harris featuring Sheriff Boudreaux, as well as other local law enforcement, the Sheriff wants to make it abundantly clear that his image is being used without his permission, and he does NOT endorse Harris for President or any other political office," Tulare County Sheriff Mike Boudreaux said in a statement issued to Fox News Digital.

Boudreaux, who has spent 37 years in the Tulare County Sheriff's Office and is currently president of the California State Sheriffs’ Association, described a visit Harris made to the Central Valley in 2013 when she was serving as the California attorney general.

The video features Boudreaux and other local and state law enforcement when Harris was in the Central Valley under circumstances that he couldn't recall, but he did remember her attitude during the visit.

"As a matter of fact, I would like to point out the misleading information projected in that same political ad. In the ad, Harris claims to have spent decades fighting violent crime as a ‘border state prosecutor.’ The facts are that ‘then California Attorney General Kamala’ came to the Valley in 2014 touting a years-long investigation into a multi-national drug operation, with ties to Mexican drug cartels and prison gangs," Boudreaux said.

Boudreaux said in that particular case, 11 people were arrested, including suspected "kingpin" Jose Magana of Dinuba.

"The truth is, Harris never cared about the cartels and did nothing to stop people from illegally crossing the border," Boudreaux said.

Boudreaux added that the appearance by Harris was all "smoke and mirrors."

"We were in the green room. She never came in and said hello to any of us. She walked up front, gave her presser, literally walked out, never said hi to any of us," Boudreaux said. "I'm disgusted because, you know, she didn't shake hands. She didn't say hello. And she's taken credit for all this work that the locals did."

Boudreaux's political action committee, Golden State Justice, also issued a statement about the new campaign ad.

"As Attorney General, Kamala Harris undercut efforts by California law enforcement officials to stop criminals from flooding our state with guns and drugs across the border," the statement read.

"She repeatedly defunded and shuttered task forces designed to protect our residents, leaving the Valley and our state vulnerable," the statement continued. "Kamala's sad attempt to paint herself as tough on the border by implying my support – and the support of neighboring law enforcement leaders – is pathetic."

The statement finishes by stating that "a politician crowding the podium at a press conference clearly hasn't solved our border crisis. Neither has Kamala Harris."

The new ad, which promotes Harris' work as a border state prosecutor, claims she will "hire thousands more border agents and crack down on fentanyl and human trafficking."

"How can you go in and promote that you were this tight border person when all the troops are coming across the border, and you literally are eliminating all these task forces? I mean, that completely made us mad," Boudreaux said.


Boudreaux said at the time there were many layoffs and people looking for jobs because the Department of Justice was eliminating people.

"When you see that advertisement, if you do a little research, you'll find that what she's (Harris) touting goes completely against what was happening at the time, so when she put that picture out there with me in it, I got really upset, that ad is all smoke and mirrors," Boudreaux said. "I do not support her."


Not sure which one is the bigger phony, Harris or Walz both are as phony as you can get.

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South Park #NailedIt

Also how is this real life lol

Generally, you get what you pay for, so what are pros/cons of each and does either have deal killers for you? If it matters, I would only consider beach front. Tia.