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by Cahir O'DohertyRSS 
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Yesterday was another bad day for the National Organization for Marriage (NOM). Secret memos the organization had fought to contain were released after the groups unsuccessful attempt to sidestep Maine's financial disclosure laws.
According to court documents, which were posted to the internet yesterday, NOM worked strategically to drive a wedge between the black and gay community in regard to same sex marriage.
"The strategic goal of this project is to drive a wedge between gays and blacks," the released document revealed, shockingly.
Adolescences erupts like a fire inside you, or at least it did for me.
A flame lit in my head that made the weary adult world look like a pristine Eden waiting to be explored.

Ladies, it looks like the hot fashion trend this year - thanks to the GOP - may soon be a burqa.
After all, Mitt Romney has just announced that as president he would cut federal funding to Planned Parenthood. Don't look startled, at this stage he's probably cut America's military spending if he thought it would help him clinch the GOP presidential nomination.

The whole country, Democrats and Republicans alike, have something in common this month -- total ambivalence about the current crop of GOP candidates.
For liberals they’re a lineup of yesterday’s men -- from the guy who lost to the last guy who lost, to the guy who was run out on a rail.
Donald Trump's sons Eric and Donald Jr. have just shot a leopard in Africa.
The pair were participants in a wildlife hunting trip to the Matetsi area of Zimbabwe, which is located near Victoria Falls.
For many budding computer hackers, the compulsion is like seeing a locked door and deciding to open it. It doesn't necessarily matter whose door it is or why it's locked in the first place. Sometimes the challenge is its own reward.
Commentators have speculated for years about the motivations that compel computer hackers - from glory among their peers, to the challenge factor, or the problem solving, or the laughs, or even out of malice - but the biggest factor behind successful hacking attempts is this: hackers attack complex network systems because they can.
But hackers themselves make fine and important distinctions between real hackers (themselves) and what they call the teenage cracker patrol: the latter are in the main the adolescent males who break into phone systems and public services to create chaos just for the hell of it. Crackers don't get much respect from more experienced hackers.



