After various websites noted a curious surge in votes Tuesday for a contestant in Oprah Winfrey’s “Your OWN Show” contest, OWN, the television network Winfrey will launch in January, confirms to EW it is investigating. The online contest is really a search for contestants for an OWN reality series in which competitors will then vie for their own show on the network. Until yesterday, Zach Anner, a witty wheelchair-bound Texan who explains in his video that he has cerebral palsy (“the sexiest of the palsies”) and pitches “a travel show for people who never thought they could travel,” held a commanding lead. But in the afternoon, contestant Dr. Phyllis — who proposes a reality show on teachers because the drama is in the classroom, rather convincingly — took the top spot by amassing votes at a rate that spurred some techno-savvy readers into sleuth mode. Geekosystem has a detailed breakdown of the various claims (complete with graphs), among them that for at least a few hours, the source code for Phyllis’ “Vote” button differed from that of all the other contestants and that as quickly as her vote-per-minute average rose it dropped later that day (from 1,923 votes a minute to 3). Contacted by EW, a spokesperson for OWN issued the following statement: “The online voting rules for the ‘Your OWN Show’ video submission competition were carefully crafted to be fair to everyone. Any allegations of impropriety will be investigated and the appropriate actions taken to keep the process unbiased.” (As of 5:15 p.m. ET Wednesday, Anner was back in the lead, by a margin of more than 400,000 votes; Dr. Phyllis could not be reached for comment.)
CNN) -- David Mayer and Keith Kennard's family is a modern-day Brady Bunch, with a twist. David, 43, has three sons and a daughter. His partner, Keith, 47, has three boys of his own. Together they are two gay men raising seven children.
Their story reflects the changing face of the American family. The Williams Institute, an independent research group and UCLA think tank, estimates 20 percent (about 155,000) of same-sex couples in the U.S. are raising children younger than 18.
"My daddy sucks my other daddys' cock. Then one of my daddies stuffs his cock up my other daddy's asshole."
my mommy and daddy do meth. my daddy beats me and my mommy. my daddy is named wild beast, but he has no idea that i'm actually his child because my mommy thought he was such a loser when she met my current daddy and told him i was his child instead.
Brewer said the motivation of "a lot" of the illegal immigrants is to enter the United States to look for work, but that drug rings press them into duty as drug "mules."
"I believe today, under the circumstances that we're facing, that the majority of the illegal trespassers that are coming into the state of Arizona are under the direction and control of organized drug cartels and they are bringing drugs in," Brewer said.
"There's strong information to us that they come as illegal people wanting to come to work. Then they are accosted and they become subjects of the drug cartel," she said.
Brewer's office later issued a statement in response to media reports of her comments. It said most human smuggling into Arizona is under the direction of drug cartels, which "are by definition smuggling drugs."
pmahnn wrote:It's not racist. But what do you expect from idiot liberals? Just like Obama is a Muslim, any comment from a Righty is racist. Ignore that part and focus on the real subject; Most illegal immigrants aren't smuggling drugs. Drug runners are smuggling drugs, they're not illegal immigrants. Immigrants move from one country to another, they don't go back and forth. There's a very distinct difference here and it's worth noting.
Most people picking strawberries are illegal immigrants.
Most people employed by shady businessmen who don't want to hire legal workers are illegal immigrants.
Those are factuals statementszorz.
It takes someone of modest intellect to understand the difference between a drug smuggler (back and forth over the borders) and an illegal immigrant in this country working in the agriculture industry. The republicans are trying their hardest to paint every illegal immigrant as some drug running horror show. That's a horrible misrepresentation.wild beast wrote:so uh, you live in Arizona or some other border state now? and you are working for the Border Patrol and know the bolded statement as fact? and the other two as fact?
i applaud you stepping out and answering questions w/out your god 'lox' on here to back you up (or vice / versa). so i'll leave you with the few new gaping assholes i just ripped you for now
pmahnn wrote:The republicans are trying their hardest to paint every illegal immigrant as some drug running horror show. That's a horrible misrepresentation.
skav wrote:Are we counting down from a billion or something?
(CNN) -- It's been a long time since Niki Solis was a teen living on a different coast than her parents, uncertain how to tell her Latino, Catholic family that she's a lesbian. In the decades since they found out -- they were surprised only that she waited so long to tell them, Solis said -- that kind of uncertainty faded amid her legal career, marriage in San Francisco and motherhood.
"I have to say, in my life, it's hard for me to remember homophobia," said Solis, 42. "When you're open and honest about it, people are more accepting. If I don't have a problem with it, why should they?"
wild beast wrote:plus, nice "colorey" pictures and graphs appeal to the dullard shiteater like lox. him see that, him believe that. need no data.
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