Dee{Twisted Sis} Denounces Paul Ryan for Using Their Band Song

 

Dee Snider of Twisted Sister

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Rocker Dee Snider is unhappy with Republican vice presidential candidate Paul Ryan for using Twisted Sister's 1984 hit "We're Not Gonna Take It" as intro music at a rally yesterday in Pennsylvania, reports Talking Points Memo. 

"I emphatically denounce Paul Ryan's use of my band Twisted Sister's song, 'We're Not Gonna Take It,' in any capacity," Snider said. "There is almost nothing he stands for that I agree with except the use of the P90X."

Snider's not the first musician this year irate over Republicans' use of their songs: Just last week, Silversun Pickups told Mitt Romney to stop using their song "Panic Switch" at campaign events. Ryan recently expressed fondness for the music of Rage Against the Machine, prompting a pointed response from guitarist Tom Morello in a Rolling Stone op-ed.

By Rolling Stone

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Gay Student Vandalized Car and Shop Spent $10K in Free Repairs

 

  BY GREG HERNANDEZ

Three times between the months of March and May, Jordan Addison's car was vandalized while parked in a lot at Radford University in Virginia and a fourth time while it was parked in front of his home.

Openly gay, it didn't take him long to figure out the reason why the vandals kept striking and eventually caused $2,500 worth of damage.

'The first time there were some homophobic slurs keyed into the side of it,' he tells WDBJ-7. 'Then the second time I had 'die' keyed into it.'

Addison didn't have the money to make the repairs. That's when the good folks at Quality Auto Paint and Body in Roanoke, Virginia, stepped in.

'Once I saw the vandalism that was done to it I said that's uncalled for we're gonna fix your car that's the least we can do,' said manager Richard Henegar, Jr.

Henager and others spent more than 100 hours working on the car for free. They put on new tires, installed a new stereo, gave it a new paint job, tinted the windows and put in a new security system.

'It looks great,' Addison says. 'It hasn't looked that great the entire time I've had it.'

The total cost came to more than $10,000.

Henager reached out to 10 other businesses to help with the cost: 'We might have all the good intentions in the world but we can't afford to do this ourselves.'

GayStarNews.com


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Would You Strangulate Your Testicle to Win a Paralympic Medal?

Would you break your own toe to win a Paralympic medal? Would you sit on a sharp object or strangulate your testicles? It's cheating, but a scientist who will be monitoring athletes at the Paralympic Games says a third of competitors with spinal injuries may be harming themselves to boost their performance.

The practice, called "boosting", is designed to increase blood pressure and enhance performance.

It's banned by the International Paralympics Committee (IPC), but some researchers say these are the desperate acts of athletes trying to compete on a level playing field.

"There have been times where I would specifically give my leg or my toe a couple of really good electric shocks" says Brad Zdanivsky, a 36-year-old Canadian quadriplegic climber who has experimented with boosting in the gym.

"That would make my blood pressure jump up and I could do more weights and cycle harder - it is effective."

One British journalist with years of experience covering the Paralympics says he has heard of athletes using small hammers to crack or break a toe.

The point of these activities is to raise the athlete's blood pressure and heart rate.

When able-bodied competitors engage in hard physical activities like running or swimming, blood pressure and heart rate increase automatically. Athletes with spinal injuries do not get that response. "Boosting" is a short cut to higher blood pressure and the improved performance that comes with it.

In medical terms it's defined as the deliberate induction of a dangerous condition common to quadriplegics called autonomic dysreflexia (AD). Many everyday activities that cause discomfort, even something as trivial as sunburn, can set off the condition naturally.

Zdanivsky turned to boosting when his spine was crushed in a car accident in 1994, because he didn't want the injury to curb his passion for mountain climbing.

"I tried several different ways of doing it. You can allow your bladder to fill, basically don't go to the bathroom for a few hours and let that pain from your bladder do it. Some people do that in sports by clipping off a catheter to let the bladder fill - that's the easiest and the most common - and you can quickly get rid of that pain stimulus by letting the urine drain out.

"I took it a notch further by using an electrical stimulus on my leg, my toe and even my testicles.”

But boosting comes at a price.

"You are getting a blood pressure spike that could quite easily blow a vessel behind your eye or cause a stroke in your brain," says Zdanivsky.

Brad Zdanivsky is a passionate mountain climber

"It can actually stop your heart. It's very unpleasant, but the results are hard to deny. The saying is that winners always want the ball, so it doesn't matter if it's unpleasant, it gets results.”

The IPC has been aware of the problem for many years. Boosting has has been banned since 1994.

But remarkably little scientific research has been done to assess how many athletes are willing to take these extreme measures to improve their performance. A survey carried out by the IPC during the Beijing Paralympics indicated that around 17% of those who responded had used boosting. Some experts believe the real figure could be higher.

Could it be as high as 30%, I asked Dr Andrei Krassioukov, an associate professor at the University of British Columbia and an experienced researcher into spinal injuries?

"Correct. It is possible," he replied.

"I will tell you right now as a physician people want to feel better, first of all - they feel better with their blood pressure higher. But a second thing driving it is the desire to win, to have a fair playing field with other paralympic athletes who have higher blood pressure."

While many athletes with spinal injuries will suffer from low blood pressure, there is considerable variation from one individual to the next.

"There is still a disadvantage between paralympians who have normal blood pressure and those who don't and this puts a significant number of athletes at a disadvantage," Krassioukov says.

"As a physician I totally understand why these Olympians are doing this, but as a scientist I am horrified with these events."

He believes that changes to the system of classification would help - for example by changing the points system that aims to ensure that teams with a roughly equal level of overall disability compete against one another in wheelchair rugby and basketball.

Currently, the system takes no account of blood pressure and heart rate.

IPC Chief Medical Officer Peter Vande Vliet says he has no data that would support or disprove Krassioukov's estimate that up to 30% of paralympians with spinal injuries engage in boosting. It's an unacceptable practice, he says, and the IPC has no sympathy with the idea that it levels the field of play.

The IPC has no plans to add physiological characteristics into their classification systems, he adds.

"Paralympic qualification for athletes with physical impairment is on the basis of a neuro-muscular-skeletal impairment rather than a physiological one," he says.

BBC

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Tom Daley From Speedos to Trousers and Clark Kent Windshield Wipers

By EMILY SHERIDAN

He was the Boy Wonder at this year's London Olympics.

But for a new photoshoot, bronze medallist Tom Daley turned to another superhero for inspiration - Superman's alter ego Clark Kent.

The 18-year-old, who won his first Olympic medal at the men's 10 metre final earlier this month, has posed as the Daily Planet reporter in a new shoot for Heat magazine.

Boy wonder: Tom Daley comes over all Clark Kent in a shirtless photoshoot for Heat magazine

However, unlike bespectacled journalist Clark, the teenage diver appears to have forgotten his shirt and suit jacket.

Showing off his six-pack in the shoot, Tom is sure he will always remain fit, even when he retires from diving years in the future.

He told the new issue of the magazine: 'When I finish diving I will become a fitness freak. It’s hard because if you are an athlete and you stop, you’ll put on weight so easily so it’s important for me that I keep [being healthy] going.

'I do want to make sure that I don’t lose my shape. I want to stay in shape.'

He also spoke about his crush on Cheryl Cole, who publicly asked him for diving lessons on Twitter following his triumph at the Olympics.

He explained: 'We’re trying to organise a dive which would be pretty cool. I think it’s just trying to sort out a time and a place.

'I saw her (swan) dive when she performed on The Voice, it was good actually. It was pretty good. If she had done it into water it would have hurt her because she would have landed flat on her stomach but, you know, we could work on that.'

But despite his affection for Cheryl, he's adamant he would prefer his medal over the singer any day.

When asked to choose between a kiss from Cheryl and his bronze medal, he replied: 'Oh God… Definitely the medal. I’m sorry, it has to be the medal.

'I’ve worked for ten years for that to try and get an Olympic medal but Cheryl Cole has only been on my mind the last two or three so…’ 

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Split in GOP } Mainliners with Tea Vs. Small Gay Rights with $

Billionaire hedge fund manager Paul E. Singer is one of the Republican Party’s most important money men, raising millions for presidential candidate Mitt Romney and giving even more to a super PAC supporting his campaign.

But Singer is also a longtime backer of marriage rights for gay men and lesbians, putting him in stark conflict with Romney and the Republican establishment.

The contrast underscores a growing rift between the main Republican Party — which reiterated its support this week for a constitutional amendment banning gay marriage — and a small group of conservative donors who view the issue as a matter of individual civil liberties.

Singer has given $1 million this year to Freedom to Marry, a national bipartisan advocacy group focused on winning state ballot measures on gay marriage in Maine, Minnesota and Washington. The group plans to spend at least $3 million on its efforts.

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Singer, founder of the $20 billion Elliott Management fund, also gave $1 million in start-up money to American Unity PAC, a new super PAC focused on supporting Republican congressional candidates who favor marriage equality.

The two groups have received major donations from at least three other Republican hedge fund managers: Cliff Asness of AQR Capital Management, Seth Klarman of Ballpost Group and Dan Loeb of Third Point, according to records and officials. Singer and Asness were among the key backers of a successful push last year for same-sex marriage legislation in New York.

Marc Solomon, national campaign director for Freedom to Marry, said the donations from prominent Republicans represent a key development in the marriage debate.

“The strong support that we’re getting from members of both parties indicates that this has become a mainstream American cause,” Solomon said. “This is not the same wedge issue that it was eight years ago.”

But support for same-sex unions remains an outlier among Republicans, who included an anti-gay-marriage plank in the party’s official platform ahead of the GOP convention next week in Tampa.

The platform committee also rejected a proposal Tuesday to include a plank endorsing civil unions for gay men and lesbians. One delegate, Indiana lawyer James Bopp Jr., called same-sex unions “counterfeit marriage.”

Democrats, by contrast, have embraced gay marriage as part of their party platform after President Obama’s endorsement of marriage equality earlier this year. Gay voters make up a crucial part of the Democratic support base and have helped Obama raise tens of millions of dollars for his reelection effort.

The main focus this fall, however, will be in a handful of states where voters will decide whether same-sex marriage should be legal. Proponents have yet to win a ballot initiative, and about 30 states ban gay unions in some form.

Measures in two states, Maryland and Washington, will determine whether to repeal gay marriage laws, while Minnesota voters are considering whether to ban them as part of the state’s constitution. In Maine, meanwhile, supporters have placed a measure on the ballot that would legalize same-sex marriages and overturn an earlier ballot initiative forbidding them.

Freedom to Marry is supported by donors from both parties, including Democrats such as Facebook co-founder Chris Hughes and his husband, investor Sean Eldridge.

American Unity PAC reported to the Federal Election Commission that it has raised $1.6 million from five individuals. It describes itself on its Web site as “protecting and promoting inclusive Republicans.”

Singer, who has a gay son, has devoted an estimated $10 million toward efforts to legalize gay marriage, including the successful campaign last year in New Y ork. He declined to comment through a spokesman.

A key advocacy group leading the charge on the other side is the National Organization for Marriage, which has helped pass dozens of anti-gay-marriage measures and is devoting resources to the four ballot states this November. NOM has reported about $200,000 in independent expenditures this year, but most of the nonprofit group’s spending is not disclosed to the FEC.

NOM President Brian Brown said in a recent statement that the definition of marriage will be “a key issue” in swing states this November.

“We fully intend to make sure that people realize that the outcome of the election is a proxy for the survival of traditional marriage in our nation,” he said.

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James Franco On The Controversial 1980 ‘Cruising'

BY JERRY PORTWOOD

posted on OUT

 Although it seems hard to believe for many today, William Friedkin's 1980 film Cruising was controversial even before it appeared in movie theaters. Gay rights groups protested the film in the summer of 1979 to keep it from being released, since many saw it as a homophobic portrayal and worried that it would incite further violence against gay men (the protests are documented in  are documented in Jim Hubbard's short film, "Stop the Movie (Cruising)"). It starred Al Pacino as an undercover cop who becomes enmeshed in the leather scene to catch a serial killer. And he sort of becomes gay. Or maybe worse. It was re-released in 2007 to little contoversy. 

Now, it almost reads as a documentary of a long lost scene, the Meatpacking District in New York City (which is now a fashion destination), the butch clones with their mustaches being mimicked by the cool and trendy, and leather/BDSM circuit, which is all but non-existent. It's much more risquee than the documentary, Gay Sex in the 70s and shows graphic portrayals of sexuality (a sling, fisting) that we would never get through the MPAA today without an NC-17 rating.

As we mentioned earlier, James Franco—the sometime summer blockbuster star, sometimeartist wildcard—has teamed up with Travis Mathews, whose I Want Your Love is still making the festival circuit, to work on a homo-art-sex film. Now we know it's a tribute to the Friedkin's flick and is titled James Franco's Cruising.

"[Friedkin] cut the film down at his own expense," Mathews told Indiewire. "Recently, when he was getting ready to do an anniversary edition, Warner Bros. told him that the footage was destroyed. It's possible those 40 minutes implicate Pacino's character in the gay S&M culture. That was the place we started from as a launching point: James Franco's version of those lost 40 minutes."

So what is it about Franco that gets him interested in such bizarro projects? Matthews gives some insight: "He straddles this superstar summer movie blockbuster celebrity life, and on the other hand he does these very low-budget art films," Mathews told Indiewire. "There's the people who know him for his blockbusters, but there's a different population that knows his gallery shows and that he makes semi-esoteric gay content."

From the first contact to the finish? two months. Mathews said they didn't have the "luxury or the curse of time." And we may not have to wait that long. According to Indiewire, "Mathews hopes to debut the final cut in early 2013. An installation version of the footage will play at a group show in a gallery beginning September 12."

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US Police Detained 26 Yr Old Marine Without Charges, Have Him Lock Up on Psychic.

 Screenshot of 'Support Brandon Raub' group on Facebook

Brandon J. Raub has been ordered to stay in a mental health institution for a month without charge – and contrary to the American constitution, his defense says. His supporters are concerned any American could end up in Raub’s shoes. US police detained Raub, 26, a Marine Corps veteran, on Thursday, without presenting any charges and even without reading to Raub his Miranda rights, and took him to John Randolph Medical Center, where he is currently being held involuntarily, his defense said in a press-release.

A video of his detention emerged online, triggering outrage online, including among American citizens and human rights activists.

"For government officials to not only arrest Brandon Raub for doing nothing more than exercising his First Amendment rights [to freedom of speech], but to actually force him to undergo psychological evaluations and detain him against his will goes against every constitutional principle this country was founded upon," said John Whitehead, executive director of the Rutherford Institute, a civil liberties group that has come to the Raub’s defense.

The statement on the veteran’s situation posted on the Rutherford Institute website points out that Brandon Raub is no different from the majority of Americans “who use their private Facebook pages to post a variety of content, ranging from song lyrics and political hyperbole to trash-talking their neighbors, friends and government leaders.”

Raub’s mother Cathleen Thomas told in an interview with CBS 6, a local news network, that the evaluation, as she was told by her son, “was 15 minutes long, and basically the evaluator said that he was not ready to go back into society and he needed additional psychiatric treatment.”

At a hearing on Monday held in the mental institution, government officials confirmed Raub’s Facebook posts as the only reason for his detention, paying no attention to his comments that those online messages were wrongly interpreted.

Security forces are said to be using a piece of legislation called Virginia State Code §37.2-808 Emergency custody, under which it is permitted to detain a person in a mental institution without presenting any charges against him, only upon a medic’s recommendation.

A Facebook group supporting Raub has been created and has over 4,500 members as of now.

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Fam. of Joey Kovar In Shock Hard To Believe it Was Drugs

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• Joey Kovar of 'Real World', 'Celebrity Rehab' found dead at 29   

   

Since this report the autopsy is been made and is clear what type of drugs he had in his system.  Those drugs like viagra, coke, pot, alcohol was probably because of a night of binging. Like he always said he was a ‘binger'.  He could not do something and then stop. But the important thing is that it does not look like a suicide, but a mixture of drugs that taken together will probably stop your  heart,  Still Toxicology results have not come in yet. They help determine any other drug and can give a better idea if it was suicide or lets say like if he was injected with something, as a example.Meanwhile it doesn’t help the family to know that it was Joey’s doing what brought a bout his early death,adamfoxie*

Reality-TV star Joey Kovar's family was reportedly in shock after the "Real World" and "Celebrity Rehab" personality was found dead Friday morning at a friend's house in the Chicago area.

"Everyone is in shock right now. He seemed fine, he was happier and he was doing better," David Kovar, Joey's brother, told the Chicago Tribune.

David Kovar also said the family was not suspecting drug use, despite a TMZ report that said they were, combined with the 29-year-old's previous struggles with addiction.

"Everything was going very well," David Kovar told the Tribune. "The very, very last thing that our family is suspecting is drugs." No foul play was suspected either, police said.

In the 20th "Real World" cycle, set in Hollywood, Joey Kovar left after several episodes to go to a 30-day rehab, then moved back into the house with his castmates before the season ended.

"I am all about being positive nowadays, and I do not and will not hold a grudge on anyone for anything," he said at the time, according to MTV, the network on which "Real World" airs. "At one time, I was a very negative person and held a lot of grudges — most of my life was one letdown after another. Now I'm in a very different place. The more positive I am and the more I give back, the better quality my life is and has 

been."

The trainer-bodybuilder and aspiring actor later appeared on "Celebrity Rehab," saying he struggled with cocaine, ecstasy and alcohol addiction.

Joey Kovar is survived by a 3-year-old son and 2-year-old daughter, the Tribune said. An autopsy was done last Saturday.  

By Christie D'Zurilla

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Boy14, Raped in Manchester Dept.Store Toilet

LONDON — Police are searching for two men after a 14-year-old boy was raped in a Manchester department store toilet on a Saturday afternoon.

The boy was in the Arndale Centre in Manchester city centre at around 5.45pm on June 2 when he went to the toilet.

"While there he was approached by two men, one Asian, one white, who stared at him," a Greater Manchester Police statement said.

"One of them said to him 'come with us, do what we say and if you try to run we'll get you' and he was grabbed by the arm, led out of the Arndale centre and taken to nearby Debenhams.

"He was then taken by the lift upstairs and was marched to a toilet where he was raped by the Asian man."

Police said the victim, described as "traumatised", reported the incident and has been supported by a team of specially trained officers who have spent the last two months working with him to build a picture of what happened.

The statement said police were also waiting for the results of forensics tests before making their appeal.

Detective Sergeant Liam Boden, of North Manchester CID, said: "This young victim has been absolutely devastated by what happened to him."

He added: "What makes this incident doubly shocking is that he was marched across a busy part of the city centre during the late afternoon on Saturday."

Police hope other shoppers saw the men and may be able to identify them.

Anyone with any information is asked to contact Greater Manchester Police.

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Prince Harry Might Have Been Peed on by Ryan Lochte

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 Prince Harry and Ryan Lochte were both in Vegas 

over the weekend (along with Jennifer Lopez, Pauly D, and lots of other people who are really glad they're not famous enough to have their 4 a.m. exploits at XS written about on the internet ... not that we're speaking from personal experience or anything). At first blush, it seemed that Prince Harry kept to himself, but now a grainy video of him conversing with Lochte in the pool at the Wynn has surfaced. 

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For some inexplicable reason, Lochte is not shirtless, instead preferring to wade around in a wet tee. More importantly, doesn't Harry know not to stand so close to him in water? Particularly after alcoholic beverages have been consumed? Anyway, the video also shows them racing each other in the crowded pool, which basically amounts to them trying to clear people out of the way and then splashing around for a ten-foot distance. In short, we were totally wrong when we said that Lochte's post-Olympic tour was getting awkward; turns out we're not tired of him yet at all. You can see the full video, from the Daily News, here:

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