Let's step away from the negative and talk about something positive. Like gay marriage in New York!

Just look at this picture.

Seen here are Phyllis Siegel (left) and Connie Kopelov (right) of New York City, the first same-sex couple to get married at the Manhattan City Clerk's office.

Is that not just the sweetest thing you have seen in very a long time?


I cannot imagine ANYBODY telling these wonderful ladies that they could not express their love for each other by legally committing their lives to one another. It just seems cruel upon reflection doesn't it?

This has started my daughter talking about wanting to get married as well, which I am VERY excited about! I have actually given away a lot of brides, but I had given up hope that I would someday do the same for my daughter.

Just another reminder to NEVER give up hope.

You can see more wonderful pictures over at Gawker.

The New York State Senate JUST passed their same sex marriage bill!

Courtesy of Bay Windows:

The New York Senate voted to legalize same-sex marriage in the state Friday, June 24 with a vote of 33 to 29.

The measure needed just one more supporter in the Republican-controlled Senate. Governor Andrew Cuomo (D) called the body back into session after it expired Monday, June 20 to continue debating the issue. The governor expressed his support for legalized same-sex marriage, and spent the past few weeks personally lobbying senators on the matter.

The bill, which had been passed by the State Assembly, includes measures that would exempt religious groups who don’t support legalized marriage equality from having to officiate or otherwise participate in same-sex unions.

Now that is a pretty great way to wrtap up my blogging this Friday evening!

Rachel Maddow talks to Mayor Jason West of New Paltz, New York, about his courage in pushing for the rights of gay couples to marry.

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THIS is what Sarah Palin considers an appropriate apology?

The "apology" starts at the 2:25 mark.

Sarah Palin In Jersey City: MyFoxNY.com

Okay I certainly hope that NOBODY is taking parenting cues from this woman.  Nothing about that demonstrated any sense of wrongdoing on either Piper of her mother's part, and it was clearly just an attempt to shut us up about it. (Hell they did not even bother to find the right journalist to "apologize" to!)

Look I am not going to berate Piper for what happened, she is clearly having one of the worst family vacations EVER!  But her mother is demonstrating a completely selfish attitude and essentially punishing her family for the fact that they were unfortunate enough to be born into her family.

I guess the rest of the kids, and Todd, are too fed up with Klondike Kardashian to allow her to use them as props anymore.  Poor Piper is the only one left without the good sense to pretend to have a stomach ache or to simply refuse to be seen in public with her crazy ass mother.

(H/T to My FoxNew York.)

Fox News executive says that Roger Ailes did NOT call Palin an "idiot," and that he "respects Sarah Palin and thinks she is smart." Oh yeah, that seems MUCH more believable!

"Somebody better fix this, and I mean right flipping now!"

Courtesy of the New York Times:

“I know for a fact that Roger Ailes admires and respects Sarah Palin and thinks she is smart. He also believes many members of the left-wing media are extremely terrified and threatened by her. Despite a massive effort to destroy Sarah Palin, she is still on her feet and making a difference in the political world. As for the ‘Republican close to Ailes’ for which the incorrect Palin quote is attributed, when Roger figures out who that is, I guarantee you he or she will no longer be ‘close to Ailes.’ ”

Okay here is the problem.  I have heard that EXACT quote concerning how Ailes feels about Palin before

Nice try Fox, but anybody who has been watching Sarah Palin these last three years, is certainly NOT going to believe that a man as intelligent (Though evil!) as Roger Ailes would call her "smart."  He might like to use her for ratings and income for his cable news channel, but no way does he have any respect for her.

In other words. EPIC FAIL!

Roger Ailes on Sarah Palin, " He thinks Palin is an idiot. He thinks she’s stupid."

From New York Magazine:

Last year, tensions between Palin’s camp and Fox erupted over a prime-time special that the network wanted her to host. Nancy Duffy, a senior Fox producer, wanted Palin to host the show in front of a live studio audience. Duffy wanted to call the program Sarah Palin’s Real American Stories. Palin hated the idea. She complained to her advisers that she didn’t want to be a talk-show host. She wanted to just do voice-overs. More important, she didn’t want Fox to promote her name in the title of the program. Not that it mattered: Palin’s ratings were starting to disappoint Ailes anyway. Fox hasn’t scheduled any additional specials.

Ailes began to doubt Palin’s political instincts. He thought she was getting bad advice from her kitchen cabinet and saw her erratic behavior as a sign that she is a “loose cannon,” as one person close to him put it. A turning point in their relationship came during the apex of the media debate over the Tucson shooting. As the media pounced on Palin’s rhetoric, Palin wanted to fight back. She felt it was deeply unfair that commentators were singling her out. Ailes agreed but told her to stay out of it. He thought if she stayed quiet, she would score a victory.

“Lie low,” he told her. “If you want to respond later, fine, but do not interfere with the memorial service.”

Palin ignored Ailes’s advice and went ahead and released her now-infamous “blood libel” video the morning Obama traveled to Tucson. For Ailes, the move was further evidence that Palin was flailing around off-message. “Why did you call me for advice?” he wondered out loud to colleagues.

“He thinks things are going in a bad direction,” another Republican close to Ailes told me. “Roger is worried about the future of the country. He thinks the election of Obama is a disaster. He thinks Palin is an idiot. He thinks she’s stupid. He helped boost her up. People like Sarah Palin haven’t elevated the conservative movement.”

In the aftermath of the Tucson rampage, the national mood seemed to pivot. Ailes recognized that a Fox brand defined by Palin could be politically vulnerable. Two days after the shooting, he gave an interview to Russell Simmons and told him both sides needed to lower the temperature. “I told all of our guys, ‘Shut up, tone it down, make your argument intellectually.’ ”

This is a VERY comprehensive article, and it delves into the Fox machine in a fascinating way.  It not only gives the facts about how Ailes views Palin, it also reveals his frustration with Glenn Beck, and his fear that Fox News is losing credibility by attaching itself to the craziest fringe of the conservative movement.

There is definitely good stuff in here.