Saturday, August 18, 2007
Friday, August 17, 2007
Mr. Gay Europe 2007 is of Indian Descent
HELLO! Let's move to Europe!
2007 is Jackson Netto from Germany!
United Kingdom (from the left), Germany, Nandi who was the former Mr Gay Europe and Ireland It was Jackson Netto (25) from Germany who Saturday evening took home the crown of Mr. Gay Europe in the building of the Hungarian State Circus in Budapest, hosted by the fabulous Desiré Dubounet. 21 Delegates from The Canary Islands in the south to Lapland in the north were all in the battle for the crown.
Gays for Giuliani
August 17, 2007
Watch CNN's Jeanne Moos report on Giuliani's latest "endorsement."
WASHINGTON (CNN) – It may not be an endorsement Rudy Giuliani will embrace with open arms as he campaigns for the Republican presidential nomination.
"Gays for Giuliani," a satirical organization aiming to highlight the New York Republican's support of gay rights when he was mayor, is the creator of a popular YouTube video that features testimonials from gay New Yorkers on why they "support" the former mayor's White House bid.
"If Rudy Giuliani were here right now I'd want to take his hand and thank him for supporting civil unions because without that I wouldn't have a domestic partner right now," a man says in the video.
"I'm also grateful for domestic partnership plan he implemented in the city cause I've had no less than 5 domestic partners," another man says.
Ryan Davis, a gay New York City theater director and the creator of "Gays for Giuliani," told CNN he wants to highlight, in Davis' view, how Giuliani has backtracked on gay issues.
"He's completely done a 180 on his beliefs," Davis told CNN. "I'm just trying to remind people, hey this is the guy I knew when he was my mayor in NY."
"I would be hard pressed to think of any conservative politician who embraces the gay community like Giuliani does," he added. "I don't know how he can connect that with new persona as friend of the Christian Right."
Giuliani has said he is opposed to same-sex marriage, but supports domestic partnerships and legal benefits for same-sex couples.
Eternal Light - Religious Joke of the Day
A woman went into a church with her little daughter for a short prayer. The short meditation turned into a long one. The young dauther got restless, looked around, and saw the eternal light at the altars. She pulled at her mother's sleeve and flustered, "When it turns green, we can go, can't we?"
Thursday, August 16, 2007
Pakistani Drag Queen Defies U.S.
Begum Nawazish Ali - Drag Queen Defies U.S.Lahore, Pakistan - "I'm a drag queen, darling…not an extremist…and I still say if Pakistanis had more self-respect, we'd be even more anti-American," says Ali Saleem, who glosses his lips and dons a sari each week to interview celebrities and politicians on his TV program Begum Nawazish Ali, a talk show sensation in Pakistan. "I'm not speaking religion; it's common sense."
From politics to culture, Ali says American intervention in Pakistan has “brought nothing but sadness” by supporting dictators and rendering Pakistan’s people impotent, constantly looking to the outside world, particularly the U.S., for help solving its own problems.
Article and video here.
Cowboy from India - Funny Video of the Day
The Indian stock market is soaring. A cowboy from India is confused about which stocks to buy.
Chinese Couple Try to Name Their Love Child "@" - Bizarre Story of the Day
Chinese officials not amused @ name
Beijing - A Chinese couple tried to name their baby "@", claiming the character used in email addresses echoed their love for the child, an official trying to whip the national language into line said on Thursday.
The unusual name stands out especially in Chinese, which has no alphabet and instead uses tens of thousands of multi-stroke characters to represent words.
"The whole world uses it to write email, and translated into Chinese it means 'love him'," the father explained, according to the deputy chief of the State Language Commission Li Yuming.
While the "@" character is familiar to Chinese email users, they often use the English word "at" to sound it out - which with a drawn out "T" sounds something like "ai ta", or "love him", to Mandarin speakers.
Li told a news conference on the state of the language that the name was an extreme example of people's increasingly adventurous approach to Chinese, as commercialisation and the Internet break down conventions.
Another couple tried to give their child a name that rendered into English sounds like "King Osrina."
Li did not say if officials accepted the "@" name.
But earlier this year the government announced a ban on names using Arabic numerals, foreign languages and symbols that do not belong to Chinese minority languages.
Sixty million Chinese faced the problem that their names use ancient characters so obscure that computers cannot recognise them and even fluent speakers were left scratching their heads, said Li, according to a transcript of the briefing on the government website www.gov.cn.
One of them was the former Premier Zhu Rongji, whose name had a rare "rong" character that gave newspaper editors headaches.
Published on the Web by IOL on 2007-08-16 10:19:34
Wednesday, August 15, 2007
Bizarre Story of the Day!
Mississippi Monkey Escapes AgainTUPELO, Miss. — Oliver apparently has learned to pick locks, making his second breakout from behind bars in less than a month.
On Wednesday, however, the white-faced capuchin monkey was back at the Tupelo Buffalo Park and Zoo, and this time his cage has been secured with triple chains and locks.
"There's one on top, one on the bottom and one in the middle," park manager Kirk Nemecheck said. "If he gets out again, someone is letting him out."
Oliver's cage was standing open Monday morning and the lock was lying on the ground. Oliver and another capuchin named Baby were still in the area, and workers easily recaptured Baby, but Oliver took off, Nemecheck said.
The 9-year-old primate was found Tuesday in a yard about four miles from the park.
"The police showed up and helped us," Nemecheck said. "We surrounded him, a guy jumped on him and got his hand bit, but we got him."
The capuchin, a species of monkey native to South and Central America, also freed himself July 31 and wasn't apprehended until Aug. 6.
This is Oliver's third escape. His first was about six years ago.
Nemecheck is getting fed up.
"I'm getting titanium locks next time," he said. "I'm tired of chasing a monkey."
Family Bible - Religious Joke of the Day
A little boy opened the big family bible. He was fascinated as he fingered through the old pages. Suddenly, something fell out of the Bible. He picked up the object and looked at it. What he saw was an old leaf that had been pressed in between the pages. "Mama, look what I found", the boy called out. "What have you got there, dear?" With astonishment in the young boy's voice, he answered, "I think it's Adam's underwear!"
Tuesday, August 14, 2007
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