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Joe My God Asks People To Caption Photo Of Pope

Joe My God Asks People To Caption Photo Of Pope

12/23/09-by Bridgette P. LaVictoire The folks at Joe My God have unearthed a rather..um…interesting photograph of Pope Benedict. They have put out the photo as Caption This and solicited comments. Please go here to add your own comment captioning this particular photo. Our comment here at LGR is- One papal kiss, hold the tongue. Permission [...]

CSPAN Caller Asks If Senator Prayed Hard Enough For Death of Senator Byrd

CSPAN Caller Asks If Senator Prayed Hard Enough For Death of Senator Byrd

12/23/09-by Bridgette P. LaVictoire “We are all floating in the same boat. We may certainly try to push one another over the side, but only a maniac…would make a hole in the bottom.”- Terry Pratchet, The Fifth Elephant When Senator Tom Coburn seemed to wish for the death or major illness of a fellow Senator, [...]

Rep. Waters Asks FBI To Help Find Missing Mitrice Richardson

Rep. Waters Asks FBI To Help Find Missing Mitrice Richardson

12/22/09-by Bridgette P. LaVictoire Mitrice Richardson may now have the FBI looking for her. That is, at least, the hope of Representative Maxine Waters. Rep. Waters has asked the FBI to step in to help find Ms Richardson who has been missing now for three months. Rep. Waters stated in a letter released to reporters [...]

Senator Gillibrand Benefits From Mayor Giuliani’s Bow Out of Politics

Senator Gillibrand Benefits From Mayor Giuliani’s Bow Out of Politics

12/22/09-by Bridgette P. LaVictoire It is finally looking as if Kirsten Gillibrand is in the clear for her first run for Senate. Ever since Rudy Giuliani crashed like Eddie “the Eagle” in his his Presidential bid, speculation has swirled around his potential run for the Presidency, the Senate, the Governorship of New York, but the [...]

Dublin Archbishop Will Ask For Bishops’ Removal If They Refuse To Step Down

Dublin Archbishop Will Ask For Bishops’ Removal If They Refuse To Step Down

12/22/09- by Bridgette P. LaVictoire The Archbishop of Dublin has issued an ultimatum to four bishops over the Murphy Report. Either they step down or he will ask the Vatican to remove them. The Murphy Report was the long awaited report going into the sexual abuses perpetrated by Catholic Priests throughout Ireland and the subsequent [...]

Marriage Equality Comes To Mexico City

Marriage Equality Comes To Mexico City

12/21/09-by Bridgette P. LaVictoire Marriage Equality has arrived in Mexico City. By 39-20 with 5 abstentions, Mexico City became the first Latin American city or nation to legalize marriage between two people of the same sex. Currently, civil unions are permissible in the Mexican state of Coahuila, just south of Texas. Uruguay is the only [...]

State Senator Wants New Mexico To Enshrine Marriage Discrimination Into State Constitution

State Senator Wants New Mexico To Enshrine Marriage Discrimination Into State Constitution

12/21/09-by Bridgette P. LaVictoire New Mexico Republican State Senator wants to make it so that the Constitution of that state includes a provision redefining marriage as being between one man and one woman. Marriage, as an institution, has only been socially assumed to be between a man and a woman if one happens to be [...]

Polish Police Recover Auschwitz Sign From Five Thieves

Polish Police Recover Auschwitz Sign From Five Thieves

12/21/09-by Bridgette P. LaVictoire Arbeit Macht Frei- or Work Makes You Free is what the sign over Auschwitz’ entrance said until it was stolen by a small group of thieves, cut into three pieces, and was going to be sold, apparently for scrap. The five men who stole the sign do not appear to have [...]