Monthly Archives: December 2010

(Community Matters) The Kuala Gandah National Elephant Conservation Center is a sanctuary for endangered Asian elephant. Since 1974, they’ve relocated over 450 elephants from the encroachment of their habitats from development. Watched a movie about the rescue efforts and immediately loved their work. Regret we didn’t give financial support, though its going on my list of deserving organizations (we’re quite enchanted by the country and people of Malaysia and imagine we’ll become more well acquainted and tied to going forward).

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(Community Matters) Frank Rich

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(Community Matters) Some pics from our art tour

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SREC Member: “I got into politics to put Christian conservatives into office.”

“We elected a house with Christian, conservative values. We now want a true Christian, conservative running it.”

“When I got involved in politics, I told people I wanted to put Christian conservatives in leadership positions.”

“I want to make sure that a person I’m supporting is going to have my values. It’s not anything about Jews and whether I think their religion is right or Muslims and whether I think their religion is right. … I got into politics to put Christian conservatives into office. They’re the people that do the best jobs over all.”

there’s more here

(Community Matters) I agree with the call for resolve and keeping the commitment to veto extension of tax cuts for the wealthy which few Americans even support & is bad for our economy.  NYTimes editorial

(Community Matters) Anurendra Jegadeva our favorite artist from today’s tour.  Spent serious time with one of our new, favorite Malaysians, Wei-Ling Lim at her Brickfields gallery, as well as a delightful session with Valentine Willie Gallery manager, Snow Ng.

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(Community Matters) Glee : ‘Baby It’s Cold Outside”

Most of my friends know I don’t really do Christmas songs, yet . . .

Vodpod videos no longer available.

(Community Matters) post David Wojnarowicz’s art video

Now Rep. Jack Kingston (R-GA) wants the Smithsonian investigated and its funding pulled.

He’s very upset about male nudity and a photograph in the museum of “Ellen DeGeneres grabbing her own breast!”

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Happy Hanukkah

(Community Matters) Our friend Colin, this month’s Man of Austin cover boy

we barely missed him in Berlin, though hopefully he’ll be back at La Sombra in a few weeks or bartending again at Michael Mitchell’s next birthday party

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(Community Matters) Chris Matthews has shown that Tony Perkins (Family Research Council) misled viewers when citing an American College of Pediatricians study calling homosexuality harmful to children. This during an  on-air debate with the Southern Poverty Law Center.  The former is livid that the Family Research Council has been labeled a hate group (noting FRC’s propagation of known falsehoods) by the decades old, well respected civil rights organization.

Turns out the American *College* of Pediatricians is an early 2000 splinter group of 100ish members of the American *Academy* of Pediatrics.  They broke off when the American Academy supported gay parental rights.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EFMjYNh63rg&feature=player_embedded

The American Family Association is another organization which will be listed as a hate group, again for “their propagation of known falsehoods – claims about LGBT people that have been thoroughly discredited by scientific authorities