Neil Patrick Harris Comes OUT

Actor Neil Patrick Harris says he’s gay
Former ‘Doogie Howser,’ star, 33, tells People he wants to quell rumors

Chris Carlson / AP file Actor Neil Patrick Harris stars in the CBS comedy “How I Met Your Mother."


Updated: 12:24 a.m. ET Nov 4, 2006
LOS ANGELES - Neil Patrick Harris is gay and wants to quell any rumors to the contrary.

“(I) am quite proud to say that I am a very content gay man living my life to the fullest,” Harris tells People magazine’s Web site.

The 33-year-old actor said he was motivated to disclose his sexuality because of recent “speculation and interest in my private life and relationships.”

Harris stars on the CBS comedy “How I Met Your Mother.” He started on TV as a teen, playing the namesake doctor on the series “Doogie Howser, M.D.”

© 2006 The Associated Press

Well, you know what? I'm pulling for you, Neil. It took guts to come out like you did. I hope this only makes your career take off into high gear. Kudos to you.

..And Various OTHER Hiding Places....

‘You can’t get much more concealed than that’
Police arrest naked man after he allegedly said he had a tool in his rectum

Updated: 5:21 a.m. ET Nov 4, 2006
EL CERRITO, Calif. - A man was arrested on suspicion of carrying a concealed weapon after police found him outdoors — naked — and he told them he had a tool in his rectum, authorities said.

The man was lying on a tree stump, masturbating beside a nature path, near a Bay Area Rapid Transit station Thursday, police said.

John Sheehan, 33, of Pittsburg, was initially arrested on suspicion of indecent exposure. But when asked whether he was carrying anything police should know about, Sheehan mentioned the tool, said El Cerrito Detective Cpl. Don Horgan.

“You can’t get much more concealed than that,” Horgan said.

Officers drew their weapons and firefighters were called to the scene. Sheehan removed a 6-inch metal awl wrapped in black electrical tape without incident.

Sheehan, who was paroled from state prison last week, was then booked into jail on suspicion of parole violations, indecent exposure and one felony count of possessing a concealed weapon.

“When you’re talking about an awl or an ice pick and you’re dealing with somebody who’s fresh out of prison, it’s a weapon. That’s a stabbing instrument,” Horgan said.

It was not immediately clear what Sheehan was on parole for. A person answering the phone at the jail Friday night did not know whether Sheehan had a lawyer.

© 2006 The Associated Press.

Okay, but don't even get me started on this one. Here is this guy with God-knows-what-all stuck up his nether regions and he's playing with himself on a tree stump by a nature path. Right? AND he just got out of prison. Well, looks like he's missing his boyfriend already. Lock him up and throw away the key!

Kevin Federline and Britney Spears....Again

So Britney and the Federjerk are having trouble in their marriage. That's not exactly shocking. What is surprising, though, is that Us Weekly had the balls and was somehow able to get it past their legal department to mention in their cover story that Kevin loves to suck on big, fat, juicy, illegal joints!

The new parents were experiencing some strain in their relationship and Britney decided to flee Los Angeles with the baby (and without her husband) and go visit her hick family in Kentwood.

Kevin, meanwhile, decided to carpe diem fo shizzle and hit all of the clubs, as we were the first to tell you.

On October 20th, the Federjerk and his crew hit the ultra exclusive Cabana Club.

Us Weekly reports:

"He and pals were hunkered down in Cabana Club's VIP section, pouring drinks from bottles of Grey Goose vodka and Jack Daniels, downing lemon drop shots and smoking marijuana. That night, he told a fellow clubgoer (probably an Us Weekly reporter undercover) that he "hadn't been partying with the boys in forever!" And he was going to make up for lost time!

Kevin and crew had planned a boys trip to Vegas, but Britney decided that she actually gave a fuck about her marriage and flew back to L.A. early to "surprise" Kevin. And, yup, that totally forced the party-hungry pimp to cancel his Vegas plans with his pals.

Dear Brit, don't try and paint a zebra black. Let his stripes shine girl! Just toke on his roach and let him fuck around. You got your little Tater Tot. Isn't that all you wanted?

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How would you like to live under this kind of scrutiny? Hounded by the paparazzi and cameras going off everywhere you go. Kev may not be perfect, but if Britney loves him, let them alone. I think it's time the press took some real police heat for stalking these celebrities. Toss a few in jail and make their bails very high. Lets restore the right to privacy in this country.

People in glass houses and all that...

CATHERINE TSAI
Associated Press

COLORADO SPRINGS, Colo. - The leader of the influential National Association of Evangelicals, a vocal opponent of the drive for same-sex marriage, resigned Thursday after being accused of paying for sex with a man.

The Rev. Ted Haggard also stepped aside as head of his 14,000-member New Life Church while a church panel investigates, saying he could "not continue to minister under the cloud created by the accusations."

The investigation came after a 49-year-old man told a Denver radio station that Haggard paid him to have sex.

Haggard, a married father of five, denied the allegations in an interview with KUSA-TV late Wednesday: "Never had a gay relationship with anybody, and I'm steady with my wife, I'm faithful to my wife."

In a written statement, Haggard said: "I am voluntarily stepping aside from leadership so that the overseer process can be allowed to proceed with integrity. I hope to be able to discuss this matter in more detail at a later date. In the interim, I will seek both spiritual advice and guidance."

Mike Jones, 49, told The Associated Press that Haggard paid him to have sex nearly every month for three years. His allegations were first aired on KHOW-AM in Denver.

Jones said that he had advertised himself as an escort on the Internet and that a man who called himself Art contacted him. Jones said he later saw the man on television identified as Haggard.

He said that he last had sex with Haggard in August and that he did not warn him before making his allegations this week.

Jones said he has voice mail messages from Haggard, as well as an envelope he said Haggard used to mail him cash, though he declined to make any of it available to the AP.

"There's some stuff on there (the voice mails) that's pretty damning," he said.

Richard Cizik, vice president for government affairs for the evangelicals association, expressed shock.

"Is this something I can imagine of Ted Haggard? No," he said.

Carolyn Haggard, spokeswoman for the New Life Church, said a four-member church panel will investigate the allegations. She did not identify the board members.

"This is really routine when any sort of situation like this arises, so we're prepared," she said. "The church is going to continue to serve and be welcoming to our community. That's a priority."

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You know, nothing gets my goat more than hypocrisy. Here's Rev. Ted Haggard pointing a finger at gay people and telling them they can't be saved. That Jesus doesn't love them. The whole time, he's out hiring young men for sex.
I have just had it with the entire Republican Right-Wing Fundamentalist thing. The Jesus I love loves me completely and wholly. He knows what my sexuality is and he loves me anyway. I don't need Ted Haggard telling me otherwise.

Ted, God returns the evil that you do unto you. I only pray you learn from this. Jesus doesn't want you to exclude gays from His Church. He wants you to learn from them and grow.

Embrase diversity! It's what made America great.

GOP Is Getting Desperate

WASHINGTON (CNN) -- Sen. John Kerry apologized Wednesday for a "poorly stated joke," which the Massachusetts senator says was aimed at the president but was widely perceived as a slam on U.S. troops.

"I sincerely regret that my words were misinterpreted to wrongly imply anything negative about those in uniform, and I personally apologize to any service member, family member, or American who was offended," he said in a written statement.

"As a combat veteran, I want to make it clear to anyone in uniform and to their loved ones: My poorly stated joke at a rally was not about, and [was] never intended to refer to any troop," he said.

In the statement, the four-term senator continued to assert that the GOP was using the gaffe to distract voters from its own shortcomings.

"It is clear the Republican Party would rather talk about anything but their failed security policy," he said. "I don't want my verbal slip to be a diversion from the real issues. I will continue to fight for a change of course to provide real security for our country, and a winning strategy for our troops."

The White House quickly issued a response, saying, "Sen. Kerry's apology to the troops for his insulting comments came late, but it was the right thing to do."

Kerry canceled plans to campaign for fellow Democrats after the GOP began hammering him over his comments to college students about getting "stuck in Iraq."

President Bush's 2004 presidential rival -- who told a radio host Wednesday he was sorry for what he called a "botched joke" -- will not appear with Democratic U.S. Senate candidate Bob Casey on Wednesday in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, a Democratic official said.

"I would be surprised if you see him welcomed out there anywhere," the official said, "and certainly not in a race that is meaningful."

Strategists at both the Democratic House and Senate campaign committees told their candidates the flap is a distraction they don't need right now. (Time.com: John Kerry, still one step behind)

The Democratic official said the issue doesn't appear to change any races, but it may attract more GOP supporters in tight Senate contests in Missouri and Tennessee.
GOP plays offense

Kerry's comments provide an opportunity for Republicans to go on the offensive on national security issues -- a winning GOP strategy in 2002 and 2004 that has been blunted by the increasingly violent situation in Iraq.

The Republican National Committee took advantage of the Kerry gaffe with an ad featuring the text of quotes from Maj. Gen. Thomas Bostick, Sen. John McCain and Bush in support of U.S. troops.

A video clip of Kerry's remarks follows, then the caption, "John Kerry should apologize. Our soldiers are waiting."

Kerry made the comment Monday to students at Pasadena City College in California.

He said: "You know, education -- if you make the most of it, you study hard and you do your homework and you make an effort to be smart, you can do well.

"If you don't, you get stuck in Iraq." (Watch Kerry's "botched joke'" that launched the political stink -- 1:50 )

A Kerry aide said the senator was supposed to say, "I can't overstress the importance of a great education. Do you know where you end up if you don't study, if you aren't smart, if you're intellectually lazy? You end up getting us stuck in a war in Iraq."

Appearing Wednesday on radio host Don Imus' program, "Imus in the Morning," Kerry said, "I'm going back to Washington. I'm going back to tackle this, you bet." (Watch Kerry refuse to apologize for criticizing the president and "his broken policy" -- 9:33 )

"Of course, I'm sorry about a botched joke," he added. "Everybody knows I botched a joke."

"They shouldn't be allowed to do that," the Massachusetts lawmaker said. "I'm not going to let these guys lie and smear, and they put their whole machine out to do it, and they ought to apologize."

But White House Press Secretary Tony Snow said the onus was on Kerry to issue an apology, and he rejected the notion that Kerry's remarks to Imus constituted one.

"You and I and everybody in this room have said things that we didn't intend to say," Snow said at a press briefing Wednesday. "And when it offends people, you say, 'I'm sorry. I didn't mean to say it. I'm wrong.' And he hasn't done that."

Snow said Kerry was "insistent on pointing fingers at the president" and that the senator's remarks did not appear to be in jest.

"If you listen to the tone of voice in which he said them, it's hard to construe them as a joke. It didn't sound like he was trying to make funnies," he said.
Cheney set to enter fray

Kerry's office said two House campaign appearances also have been canceled -- by mutual decision -- so as not to "allow the Republican hate machine to use Democratic candidates as their proxies in their distorted spin war in which once again they're willing to exploit brave American troops."

A Kerry aide said the senator wouldn't go to Minnesota for Democrat Tim Walz, who is trying to unseat Rep. Gil Gutknecht, R-Minnesota, and congressional candidate Bruce Braley of Iowa announced that Kerry would not appear with him either.

Republicans unleashed a firestorm of criticism against Kerry after the Vietnam veteran's remarks.

Vice President Dick Cheney will enter the fray Wednesday night during a speech in Montana. The White House released the portion of Cheney's speech pertaining to Kerry.

"John Kerry needs to learn that the men and women serving in Iraq aren't there because they didn't study hard or do their homework," Cheney is set to say. "They're smart, patriotic, exceptionally well-trained and dedicated to their mission. They are heroes, and they are the pride of the United States of America."

On Tuesday, Bush joined many GOP lawmakers -- including House Majority Leader John Boehner and McCain, a former prisoner of war -- in blasting Kerry. (Watch both sides tussle over Kerry's gaffe -- 3:02 )

"The senator's suggestion that the men and women of our military are somehow uneducated is insulting and shameful," Bush said. "The men and women who serve in our all-volunteer armed forces are plenty smart and are serving because they are patriots -- and Sen. Kerry owes them an apology."

Bush will not face voters again, and Kerry isn't up for re-election this year.

A number of top Democrats said they, too, were upset with the senator for giving the Republicans election-time ammunition -- even if the GOP was hyping the remark.

A top Democratic strategist said Tuesday that Kerry "already cost us one election" and should "keep his mouth shut." Added Senate candidate Harold Ford Jr. of Tennessee on Wednesday, "Whatever the intent, Sen. Kerry was wrong to say what he said. He needs to apologize to our troops."

Democratic candidate Jon Tester, who is in a tight race against Sen. Conrad Burns, R-Montana, said in a statement, "Sen. Kerry's remarks were poorly worded and just plain stupid. He owes our troops and their families an apology."

But not all Democrats concurred. Vietnam veteran and former U.S. Sen. Max Cleland of Georgia defended Kerry's record of fighting for veterans and applauded the senator for showing "our party how to fight back with the truth."

Howard Dean, chairman of the Democratic National Committee, also defended Kerry, telling reporters Wednesday in Burlington, Vermont, "Kerry made a blooper. Bloopers happen," according to The Associated Press.

CNN's John King and Andrea Koppel contributed to this report.

CNN.
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You know ...SO WHAT?!? It certainly isn't like Kerry told a lie. He told the honest truth and I think that's what hurts all the little right wing fascists out there. Leave Kerry alone, Mr. Bush. Sweep before your own door. You have a whole lot of dirt at your own doorstep. You and lots and lots of your fellow Republican cronies.

Larry

Pumpkin, Pumpkin, Who's Got The Pumpkin

Well, it's THAT day again. That witchy night when we all go Pagan.
Halloween is Christianity's attempt to absorb a Celtic Pagan ritual.
What's really funny about this that so many people around here seem
to decorate for Halloween like it's Christmas.

Being Lutheran I can understand all of the holy implications in
Halloween, All Souls Day, and All Saints Day. However, I draw the line
at treating Halloween as though it had the same significance as Christmas.
Christmas is the celebration of the birth of the Saviour of the World. Big Difference.

Anyway, my opinions seem to fall upon deaf ears and the little
hobgoblins are out in force.

Odd thing. The Police and Sherriff's department issued a curfew for all sex offenders ( regardless of whether or not they are a danger to children)
that states no sex offender can answer the door for a child or go outside
from 8pm
until 11pm. Oh well, maybe the children dressed up like minions of
hell will be safe.

Ryan and Reese are Splitsville

LOS ANGELES - Reese Witherspoon and Ryan Phillippe, who started the year on an Oscar-winning high, are ending it on a low note: The couple have separated.



"We are saddened to announce that Reese and Ryan have decided to formally separate," publicist Nanci Ryder said in a statement issued Monday on behalf of the couple.



"They remain committed to their family and we ask that you please respect their privacy and the safety of their children at this time," the brief statement concluded. Ryder said she could not elaborate on the split.



Witherspoon, 30, and Phillippe, 32, have two children, 7-year-old Ava and 3-year-old Deacon. The couple, who co-starred in the 1999 movie "Cruel Intentions," married that year.



In March, Witherspoon won a best-actress Academy Award for her role as June Carter Cash in 2005's "Walk the Line." Phillippe co-starred in the best-picture winner, "Crash," and is starring in Clint Eastwood's latest film, the World War II drama "Flags of Our Fathers."

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20061030/ap_en_mo/people_witherspoon_phillippe

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Now, I don't pretend to know anything about their personal lives,
 but this was  one couple I really thought would make it..

I guess it's very hard when one's (Reese) career takes off (she won the Oscar) 
and the  other is still doing ensemble work.

Reese won the Best Supporting Oscar as June Carter Cash in "I Walk The Line". 
Ryan was in "Crash" and was the star of the movie "54".
 
For the sake of their children, I hope this can be an amicable divorce without
 all the nasty  mudslinging one sees so often in Hollywood divorces.
Good luck to both Ryan and Reese. May the rest of your lives be happy. 

About the upcoming elections.

You know, I was born in the deep south. South Carolina is about as deep in the south as you get, politically. The folks here consider themselves staunch Conservatives. Friends of the flag, so to speak. They believe in fighting for everything. Our way of life, our families, and our right ro worship as we please.

Unfortunately, that DOESN'T include gays, same-sex marriage, right to privacy, freedom of choice. They  believe they have the right to choose for you. And really, THAT is the standard Republican line. We have been promised less intrusive government repeatedly by the Republican party and lo and behold we have lost the right to privacy.

I will be voting in this upcoming election on November 7th. I will not be voting FOR any party. I will be casting my vote for the candidates who have the greatest chance of defeating any Republican candidate they are running against. I am not alone in this. ESpecially given the recent scandals within the GOP. Pedephiles, bribe-taking, vote-selling, and Bush's refusal to hear the plea from America to end this God-forsaken war.

When you vote, cast your ballot with your conscience.

Larry