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Hundreds of people gathered Saturday at the Government Center in Uptown to protest the passage of Proposition 8 in California. Read more about the national protest here and here.

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Apparently a priest in our neighboring state of S.C. forgot one of the main messages of Christianity: all are welcome. No matter who you voted for.

A South Carolina Roman Catholic priest has told his parishioners that they should refrain from receiving Holy Communion if they voted for Barack Obama because the Democratic president-elect supports abortion, and supporting him “constitutes material cooperation with intrinsic evil.”

The Rev. Jay Scott Newman said in a letter distributed Sunday to parishioners at St. Mary’s Catholic Church in Greenville that they are putting their souls at risk if they take Holy Communion before doing penance for their vote.

“Our nation has chosen for its chief executive the most radical pro-abortion politician ever to serve in the United States Senate or to run for president,” Newman wrote, referring to Obama by his full name, including his middle name of Hussein.

Who knows what this priest would have said if you had voted for one of these guys?

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Larry Kissell wrote a letter to outgoing congressman Robin Hayes and shared it with the media.
Why? I have no clue. But since he shared it with the media, I guess we’re supposed to pass it on to our readers.

The Honorable Robin Hayes
130 Cannon House Office Building
Washington, DC 20515
via Fax

Dear Congressman Hayes,

I hope this finds you well.  I’m following up on the conversation we had on Election night.  You mentioned a large casework backlog and as I assured you then, I want to make sure the constituents of the 8th district are served well through our transition.  I know we share this goal.  My staff has contacted your Chief of Staff and we understand you are sending letters to all of the people who have open cases and that it is the responsibility of those individuals to let your office know that they give you permission to pass on their files to us.  I want to do all I can to help publicize this and encourage all people with open cases to contact your office and give that permission so that we can continue to work toward solving their issues.

I’m copying our local press on this letter in hopes they will help both our offices by spreading the word about how constituents can make sure their information is transferred.

Thank you again for your service.  Please contact me if you have any other suggestions on how we can make sure this transition is smooth for the people of the 8th district.

Sincerely,

Larry Kissell

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Johnson C. Smith University has only been around since 1867 and the school has been playing football since 1892.

But UNC-Charlotte’s phantom football team is something the community can rally around? What? White people can’t get with the historically black team?

The Golden Bulls do kind of suck. Their last winning season was in 2006, but do you 49ers think your team is going to come out the gate undefeated?
Just because you put a bunch of big dudes on the field, doesn’t mean that they can out play the other team.

The TV media is basically ignoring the fact that Johnson C. Smith has a football team and that’s wrong. Especially when in 2006 the school brought the Pioneer Bowl to Charlotte. And do you think the CIAA Basketball Tournament would’ve made Charlotte its home if not for the entire athletic program at J.C. Smith? Charlotte, you’re an ungrateful ass heifer. And by the way, the hometown team won the tournament last year.

The CIAA Basketball Tournament drops millions of dollars into this city’s struggling economy. What has UNCC brought to town? An illegal racing club?

According to WBTV:

UNCC is looking to build a football stadium on campus but they are looking into retrofitting Memorial Stadium located outside Center City Charlotte for the team to use initially.

And what about Johnson C. Smith’s homecoming game? Does anyone care?

Five years from now UNCC plans to start its football program. Good for them, but Charlotte should not pretend that this is the first college football team in town. And if the school is relying on ticket sales, they need to realize that in these parts, people only support winners. So if they suck in season one, no one is going to buy tickets in season two.

Sure UNCC is a public university and J.C. Smith is private. But do you know that you’re more likely to be robbed in University City than at 100 Beatties Ford Road?

If UNCC football doesn’t start for five years and you want to see some in-town college football, go to a game at J.C. Smith. Tickets, at least this past season, were only $10.
And here’s hoping that UNCC’s football program doesn’t effect my state taxes!

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This morning ESPN was talking about former NFL quarterback on SportsCenter.

And that’s how my morning started.

Then I saw this:

Georgia, Handsome Dan, Curly and other pit bulls rescued from Michael Vick’s dogfighting operation are getting a shot at fame as stars of a line of boutique red wines.

The Vicktory Dogs Wine Collection features colorful portraits of 22 dogs confiscated from Vick’s Bad Newz Kennels that now live at Best Friends Animal Sanctuary in southern Utah.

Does Vick get a cut of the profit? He is bankrupt, you know.

Yes, dogfighting is wrong, and like Michael Vick, I reject it. (I found Jesus too, he was hiding behind my sofa)

I have yet to understand America’s obsession with dogs. Vick’s punishment was overboard when you have men in the NFL (and currently in the White House–George W. Bush) who have killed PEOPLE.

In some states, you get more time in prison for killing a dog than killing a woman or a baby. That shit is crazy.

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Yahoo Movies posted the latest trailer today for Watchmen, the film adaptation of the critically acclaimed graphic novel of the same name. This new trailer will debut on the big screen tonight before the new James Bond flick Quantum of Solace.

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Columnist Dan Savage (author of your favorite syndicated sex column Savage Love) is speaking out on Proposition 8, which amended the California state constitution to restrict the definition of marriage to a union between a man and a woman.

Here here he is on The Colbert Report

And here he is on Anderson Cooper 360

In related news, Savage and others are calling for a boycott on the state of Utah (the passage of the same-sex marriage ban in California was heavily funded by the Mormon Church). In response, the Salt Lake City Weekly has stopped running Savage’s sex advice column.

But we haven’t. Click here for his latest.

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Friday, Nov. 14

Arts: Dance Charlotte!
Booth Playhouse
Charlotte Dance Festival brings the moves to Blumenthal with a variety of acts from N.C. and beyond.

Film: A shaken, but not stirred, Bond is back in Quantum of Solace, and Matt Brunson has the review.

Music: Ala Muerte brings haunting tones to the Milestone.

Saturday, Nov. 15

Food: Soul Food
All over
Discover the best soul food in the Queen City, just in time for some comfort on cold autumn days.

Arts: The play Cell Phone Blues is about Charlotte, so show love for your city at the Afro-American Cultural Center.

Music: The Re-Rapture Party, featuring the best alternative and obscure music from the’80s, rocks it at the Visulite.

(more…)

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It would be hard to watch the fall of the Republicans if it weren’t so damned funny.

Since the election, the GOP has been nipping at itself. Want proof?

Here’s a sample of an e-mail that I received from a decidedly right-wing group:

War In The GOP & John McCain’s Blame Game

November 12, 2008

by William Gheen
President of Americans for Legal Immigration PAC
www.alipac.us

The top brass in the Republican Party that the public blames the most for perpetual wars, the next Great Depression, and trying to give Amnesty to millions of illegal aliens that they let into the country in the first place are circling the wheel of the GOP ship with their rapiers out!

Blue collar and middle class Republicans are advancing on the once proud captains of the GOP hoping to see Bush, McCain, and their most ardent supporters walk the political plank, in an effort to save the party from decades of fallout. Let’s face the truth. Bush, McCain, Senators Graham and Martinez have not only led the GOP to destruction, they have run the great ship called America upon the rocks, with their brand of ‘leadership’ in the US Senate and the White House.

The GOP lost any real chance of retaining the White House the day John McCain won the primary. Due to election dynamics, a Ted Kennedy loving, Amnesty pushing, Free Trade pushing, Globalist, Democrat in Republican clothing named John McCain won. On election day, the resounding message and historical example became “You can’t screw over the conservative base and still win as President!”

The turnout level for the 2008 elections was no where near the created media hype massive turnout forecast by the pro-Obama media. In fact, according to the American University‚s Center for the Study of the American Electorate, Democratic turnout was only up a few percent points. The problem for McCain was that less Republicans showed up than in 2004’s Presidential race and many of those Republicans either voted for Obama, voted third party, or left his race blank.

Take heart, dear Republicans, there is always Sarah Palin to bail you out. Just make sure you dress her up real nice.

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Backers of Proposition 8, the California Constitutional measure defining marriage as between a man and a woman, barely had a moment to enjoy their victory before opponents began filing lawsuits. Several groups — religious organizations, gay-rights advocates, and even local governments — have joined in efforts to overturn the measure. On Monday, a state Supreme Court spokeswoman said the court could rule as early as this week on one of the lawsuits. Proposition 8 won’t be overturned easily. Support was widespread in much of the state. That hasn’t stopped countrywide grassroots protests. Several protests are planned for Saturday in North Carolina and elsewhere. More than 270 people have indicated on a Facebook event page that they plan to attend the protest … we’ll see how it turns out.

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