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AOL News reports standing atop a giant wedding cake float, Aubrey Loots and Danny Leclair exchanged vows New Year's Day in the first same-sex marriage during the Tournament of Roses Parade.


Throngs of spectators cheered as the men, dressed in dark suits, faced each other and held hands before the Rev. Alfreda Lanoix, who officiated the ceremony aboard the AIDS Healthcare Foundation float.

Days earlier, a San Diego woman launched a Facebook page urging people to boycott the 125th Rose Parade after learning of the couple's plans. But some like Jennifer Adair, who cheered along with her girlfriend, lined the streets just for this moment.
"We're a modern-day society, so accept it. Don't worry about

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The Tournament of Roses Parade is not the place for a political agenda, it was degrading, disgusting and totally out of place. The Tournament of Roses Officials should be ashamed of themselves. I do not have to accept it as suggested, I can turn off the parade very easily and will do so if this is the type of parade they continue to have.
I just keep wondering "How do gay marriages impact the lives of those who oppose them so much"? Live and let live. They're hurting no one by marrying. If you're saying it goes against God's teachings, let God deal with it - not you.
Everyone who disagrees with this needs to stand up and speak out, because otherwise the PC police and politicians will think everyone approves of such disgusting behavior!

NEWS FLASH ----- You can try to shove it in our faces all you want, but we will NEVER EVER accept it NOR condone it. Of that you can be 100% sure.
Vile, disgusting and distasteful!!! Why wouldn't you depict something honorable, like our military, or even a survivor of cancer..has a hetrosexual couple ever been granted this moment. I will never watch the Rose parade again!!!!
This is the kind of response the gay community wants to their salacious ideas of a healthy union.
A big fat in your face kiss on national tv intimidates the masses which really floats their boat. This country has gone to pot.
Disgusting and uncalled for
This is what marriage is to liberals a float in a parade once the parade is over its nothing...
At what point in time does the homosexual mafia stop bullying America into thinking they are 'normal'?
Great comment..well said!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
disgusting.
This was just simply disgus

NBC Chicagoreports several people were wounded in a police-involved shooting early New Year's Day in Chicago's Roseland neighborhood, but accounts of exactly what happened and even the number of victims remained in dispute nearly 12 hours later.

In a statement to the media, police said three people were shot at a house party on the 100 block of West 105th Street. The family in the home said four people were wounded.

It was just before 2 a.m. when police say they heard gunshots on the block while chasing someone on foot. Officers said they approached one house and saw someone on a back porch holding a gun.

An officer shot that person when he or she refused to drop the weapon and pointed it at the officers, they said. Two other people were wounded in the incident, but it was unclear whether they had been shot by police, according to police News Affairs Officer Michael Sullivan.

But the homeowner said his cousins had just walked out the back when shots were fired by police.

"They went out that door to go smoke," said Charles Lewis. "No sooner did that door close I heard shots. The door opened back up. They were coming this way ... and the police stood in my doorway and continued to shoot."

Lewis said the wounded were all siblings: Michael Williamson, 26, who is a sailor in the United States Navy; Princeton Williamson, 24, who was possibly hit in the stomach; Kierra Williamson, 22, who was shot in the stomach; and Thaddeus Williamson, 24, who was shot in the face.

Two of the men were taken in critical condition to Advocate Christ Medical Center in Oak Lawn, Fire Media Affairs Spokesman Juan Hernandez said. A woman was taken to Northwestern Memorial Hospital in critical condition, he said.

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by: Les Carpenter
Rational Nation USA
Purveyor of Truth

Hear Ye, Hear Ye, Hear Ye! Phil Robertson, the extreme right's new hero. Yep, a bible thumping racist and bigot. You go Phil!

Just in from Mediate - The controversy surrounding Duck Dynasty star Phil Robertson has now taken a step beyond his comments about homosexuality and bestiality, along with his assertion that black people in the Jim Crow South were happier and equating Muslims with Nazis.

Now with yet another video that’s surfaced, we’re once again reminded that this is nothing new for Robertson, who explained to an Arkansas congregation in 2008 what would “do in the Muslims,” as well as “the Chinese,” and that Muslims are “famous for murder.”

“What will do the Muslims in?” Robertson asked in the middle of his speech before the Hillsboro Church of Christ in El Dorado.

“Violations of the law, that’s what’ll do ‘em in,” he said waving his bible in the air.

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What is stacking?  Investing? Hedging your stack?  Of all the COMMODITIES this GOLD and SILVER shit is really getting ridiculous.  You never hear this about oil, natural gas, wheat, corn, oats, soybeans, cocoa, coffee, and other commodities.  It's only this unusual fetish over GOLD and SILVER.  Jim Comiskey asks this question:

"How is it that people (muppets) can accumulate metals and they keep getting smoked and you got central banks the world over scooping it up all over and yet the price continues to be suppressed?"
--Jim Comiskey

Come on Jim.  You work in Chicago right by the Chicago Board of Trade and the Chicago Mercantile Exchange.  You don't know what's going on?  You do know what's going on.  Is this entertainment?  

Jim Comiskey makes no sense here.  I'm wondering about this information being presented now because I'm even starting to see real analysts who work in firms dishing out unusual information.  Jim has a history of videos when silver was falling from around $40 down to where it is now below $19 and he's always said "Keep stackin'." 

GOLD and SILVER product and coins whether bullion, numismatic or otherwise is none other than collectibles.  As Ben Bernanke pointed out they are not money but they are a tradition.  When President Nixon removed the nation from the gold standard what was created was unconstitutional money.  And some how this became law through the Federal Reserve Bank, and all manner of IRS enforcement besides.  Tricky isn't it?


So what's the verdict on GOLD and SILVER?  I don't even think they are a useful gauge of market conditions anymore.  I think it's all a big mess in the markets.  The best thing to do is to trade stocks.  Go long and short and just basically gamble.  This GOLD and SILVER isn't a gamble at all because no one ever cashes out.  At least at a real casino you cash out.  Some people don't do that either but I do.  I always cash out.  Cash is not trash! :-)

I think if you own physical GOLD and SILVER you might want to CASH OUT and go play a local slot machine.  You'll find that your cash is much safer in physical form than in those other elements on the PERIODIC TABLE known as Au, Ag, Pt, and Pd.  It's even safer in the banks of the banksters.

Metals are a currency that cannot be debased?  Are you serious!  What are you talking about?  The metals have been getting debased all along.  What is this you're saying Jim?  Who are these people anymore?  What am I missing here?  This is both strange and beyond unreal!

Dude I don't want to put you in the same stack with the stackers and pumpers.  Maybe you can clarify all this nonsense?  I'll leave it up to you.

I will say this much about this stacking:  The prices are looking more reasonable but the returns on the DJIA, NASDAQ 100, and S&P 500 are much more positive.  Would you agree?




Those of us who have any interest in the financial solvency of our country, especially those of us who are actively involved in financial monitoring probably watch CNBC, FOX Business News, or some equivalent market news feed of one form or another.  But this YOU TUBE COMMUNITY is full of questionable suspects (many of them traders) who have been dishing out odd information now especially over the last 4 to 5 years. 

So suppose we have a FINANCIAL COLLAPSE in America.  What about it?  Perhaps the markets fall 20% or so.  Is that a financial collapse?  To some it might be to others it's just a buying opportunity.  Same goes for this GOLD and SILVER.  To some it's a buying opportunity, to others it's a loss, to others it seems like a religion of sorts.  To me this is all one big casino.


To me it's like walking into a casino.  I wouldn't play craps, roulette, or Omaha Poker.  I would only play things that I know or at least have a fraction of understanding to give me a better chance at a positive financial return.  And there's only one good button on slot machines known as CASH OUT.

Actually the Wall Street Casino is somewhat safer at the moment.  But with increased high frequency trading algorithms and advanced computer trading systems I think that entire platform is going to become increasingly difficult.  I would expect in just a few short years the markets are going to increase with what I'll call such HYPER-VOLATILITY that it will be next to impossible to trade without some attendant software to think for you.  Then it's time to go back to the casino and play poker.  


Have you ever heard that CASH IS TRASH?  Who told you this?  G4T?  Maybe one of his associates?  They are all chasing the U.S. DOLLAR together and they want more of your dollars. 

If you believe cash is trash then you can send me a LOVE OFFERING via the DONATE BUTTON on the top left of this page.  I'd love to stash your trash for you.

Do I love money?  Nope.  But I like it. :-)  I can do things with it in this present evil world.  So I'll recycle your trash for you and make it useful.  Go ahead---make my day. 




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