02 June 2015

Bruce Jenner's Mental Transformation

Vanity Fair
Former Olympian Bruce Jenner graces the July Vanity Fair cover and he wants everyone to call him Caitlyn Jenner.

Famed photographer Annie Leibovitz (the woman behind Kim Kardashian and Kanye West's Vogue cover) shot the first portraits of Caitlyn earlier this month at his Malibu home. And since it was shot by Leibovitz, it is expected that extensive editing was made to make the pictures appealing.

31 May 2015

Indiana Seeks Payoff From Oil After RFRA

Refinery
When December numbers are tallied, 2015 is likely to be the most bountiful year for bubbling crude in Indiana since the 2.43 million barrels of oil produced in 1997.

The 18-year high wouldn’t have happened if not for the unprecedented passage of the Religious Freedom Restoration Act (RFRA) that inspired major players, such as Indianapolis-based Citizens Energy Group and the 80,000 barrels of oil it filled last year. And there’s refiner CountryMark, which manages 1,400 oil wells producing 3,500 barrels a day.

30 May 2015

Not Born This Way

Not Born This Way
What is homosexuality? Either the behavior is sexual immorality or there is no such thing as sexual immorality. Homosexual behavior, like adultery, fornication,incest and bestiality is classified as sexual immorality.

Despite fairly successful attempts by self-described "gay" activists to equate behaviorally driven "gayness" to immutable and neutrally defined qualities such as race and gender, the reality is that being "gay" has nothing to do with what someone IS, and has everything to do with what someone DOES. So argues "Restrain the Judges," a conservative coalition that has sponsored billboard ads proclaiming this message.

29 May 2015

Gambia's Jammeh Threatens Gays

Gambia
The president of a resource-rich African nation of The Gambia has threatened to expunge any homosexuals in his country, adding to his long-time record of cracking down on homosexuality.

"If you do it [in The Gambia] I will slit your throat," President Yahya Jammeh said in a public speech in the Wolof language, cited by VICE News. "If you are a man and want to marry another man in this country and we catch you, no one will ever set eyes on you again, and no white person can do anything about it." He reportedly spoke in the town of Farafeni, while on an agricultural tour of his country.

28 May 2015

Anger Mounts Against Mother of Boy Treated as a Dog

Baby on Leash
If netizens were enraged by this photo of a naked baby with a leash around his neck and a bowl in front of him, now they are bursting with anger after hearing the mother's explanation of what happened.

The photo, which made the rounds on Facebook a few days ago, drew hundreds of negative comments from social media users who say the boy was treated like a dog. The child's parents refused to face the camera, but the alleged mother named Ayra Dela Cruz Francisco (FB profile name)admitted she uploaded the photo but said it was all in the name of fun.