Sweetie - this is why you are such a grand presence on these boards and in this town; I am humbled by your exemplary post in seeing the bigger picture here. Now, if we can take that and spread that out into the streets, then we're golden.

Hedda - Welcome to the Boards. As you can see, it is just the right place to safely let your wig fly from time to time.

not to change the subject. this about sums it up.

http://marycheneysbook.cf.huffingtonpost.com/

DAMN!
I was really gettin' in to this as you can imagine.
(You guys know how immature and infantile I am).
I was seeing this whole "When Bitches Battle" thing.
Oh well.

Sweetie,
I agree with Mr. Joe, you're a true queen and Motherboards royalty.
Hedda,
Welcome!
Please post often and please, get as bitchy as you want. We love it here.
Well, I do anyway.

Yes Hedda, welcome to The Motherboards and I'll see you in front of the Art House peddling your wares soon.

it is really me!!!!! Thanks for having me here.

x
Hedda

Some more......

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Organizing.

Protesters.

More.......

more protesters.

yet another.....

one side....

then the other...

This protester was smart, he stopped by Kiehl's for skin block samplers before the march!

Not that the NYPD isn't homophobic (and certainly lacking in brains following through on this on the one day when every single gay bar in the city is overcrowded and noisy,) but from my vast experience, this sounds like a common noise complaint response-- the four cars and the van with Sarge is an indication... What most likely happened is this: several weeks ago, someone in the neighborhood phoned in one or more noise complaints to 311. The person on the phone took the particulars, including the address and put the complaint on a list. If the complainant does not know the exact address, they ask for an estimated address. By the time the NYPD gets around to acting on it, it might be weeks or months (!) later, they come with a Sgt. and sometimes someone with a noise meter to take readings. Usually though, it is the higher officer who decides if there is a violation of the noise code by using his very own porcine ears. By then, they are there to act and usually give a summons and demand a certain amount of immediate compliance.
Once I worked at a club where that happened and ultimately it turned out that the complaint was really about another illegal club down the block and not our premises at all. It didn't matter one bit though. Unjust, huh?

That's funny, this sounds very familiar.
Like it happened before.
Like 25 or so years ago.
That sort of stupidity couldn't still be happening today...



could it?

IT'S ABOUT TIME!

http://www.365gay.com/Newscon06/06/062706sharpton.htm

used to not like sharpton, then he helped the young kids that worked on my floor for ticket master get better working conditions and it changed my mind. he is a great force when he gets behind something. it gets noticed for sure.

merlin

are we drama free yet?

I agree.
I've had to change my mind about him as well.
When I first heard of him, during that stupid Tawanna Brawley thing I thought he was a complete buffoon who would do anything to get publicity.
He just looked like such a joke with that "fried-dyed-and-laid-to-the-side" hair-do.
But...
Over the years he has been a fearless fighter for truth, justice and the American way.
He has taken on hideous creatures like Ann Coulter and won.
Now I think he's a great American hero who fights evil monsters like Bill O'Reilly.

His hairdo was a definite laugh, especially in the beginning. When Sharpton was unknown James Brown took him to a White House party and insisted Sharpton get his hair done just like Brown's -this is the story Sharpton tells. So he stuck with the do for a long time afterwards. The Brawley fiasco was a pathetic mis-judgement on Sharpton's part. And he has been behind loads of really bad 'causes' in the past which makes me think the switch came about from getting some kind of image advisor or PR firm to help him. He was great in the presidential primary debates some years ago. He has learned a huge amount just from being in the public eye. If he didn't learn I'm sure he would be in jail by now just for being nasty. For a long time when he was just a local 'social figure' he survived in a way only someone of his ilk could in NYC because in no other city in the US would he have been afforded any credibility at all. Don't forget he started out running a 'boys club' that was well known to be a money laundering scam for, supposedly, the mob!