Hate Groups are on the Rise in America

America is getting hateful by the minute it seems. According to the Southern Poverty Law Center, more hate groups are popping up:

The center, which has kept track of such groups for 30 years, recorded 1,018 hate groups operating last year. 

The number of groups whose ideology is organized against specific racial, religious, sexual or other characteristics has risen steadily since 2000, when 602 were identified, the center said. Antigay groups, for example, have risen to 27 from 17 in 2010. 

The report also described a “stunning” rise in the number of groups it identifies as part of the so-called patriot and militia movements, whose ideologies include deep distrust of the federal government.

In 2011, the center tracked 1,274 of those groups, up from 824 the year before. 

“They represent both a kind of right-wing populist rage and a left-wing populist rage that has gotten all mixed up in anger toward the government,” said Mark Potok of the Southern Poverty Law Center and the author of the report. 

It's scary to think about the Anti-Gay groups that are appearing. We need to be ready for this.

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53% of Americans support Same-Sex Marriage

A Gallup Poll shows a clear majority of Americans supports gay marriage.

According to LA Times:

A new Gallup Poll released this morning finds that this month 53% of Americans say same-sex marriage should be recognized in law as equally valid with traditional male-female marriages.


The spurt in support of 9% in the past 12 months was the largest registered since Gallup first tracked the topic in 1996. Back then, only 27% supported same-sex marriage and two-thirds opposed.


Support for same-sex marriages had hovered in the low 40's since about 2004, until the latest figures, showing 59% of independents and 69% of Democrats now support the idea, while 28% of Republicans do. The GOP figure was unchanged from 2010.


The new statistics also show a predictable generational cleavage, with support for gay marriage highest among the youngest (70% among those 18 to 34), declining to 53% among those 35 to 54 years old and weakest among those over 55 (39%) -- although even that segment's support increased six points in the past 12 months.


Support for gay marriage is higher among Catholics than Protestants, among the unmarried and among those who attend church less frequently.

Times are changing for real! I guess that's why folks think the rapture is tomorrow.

Interesting Quote: Troy David Newham from Swamp Fox Press

DC comics has decided to have Superman renounce his US citizenship stating “Truth Justice and the American Way It’s not enough anymore.”


Who buys comics? Mostly Americans I reckon…


How dare they? Do you know how many people are trying to get citizenship? How many are going through pure hell in paperwork and legal costs to do this? The statements are clear that DC (and I must assume that these views are shared by Warner Brothers as well since they own DC Comics) is a fan of the “world view”/world government.


Bleep Superman. I urge a boycott of Warner Brothers, all DC franchises, and particularly Superman. They intended this to be a political statement, but it is really a slap in the face of the American identity. Show me any one country that has done more for the world than America. We have fought for more people and sacrificed more treasure than any other country in history.


Superman’s real kryptonite is lack of comic sales. Hit them where it hurts, and I bet they’ll be doing a special issue where he retakes the citizenship oaths.

Troy is upset, really upset about Supes going Global. 

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So, How Many LGBT folks live in America?

A new study from the Williams Institute claims (close to) 9 million Americans are LGBT.

That's it? I thought there were more... Anywho, there is more info from this study that you may find interesting.

In total, with approximately 700,000 transgender Americans, nearly 4% of the nation's population is openly LGBT.

Furthermore, an estimated 19 million people, or 8.2%, have engaged in some relationships or sexual behavior with someone of the same sex, and 25.6 million admit to harboring at least some same-sex attraction at some point.

The research shows that slightly more people identify as bisexual (1.8%) than as lesbian or gay (1.7%), and women are more likely than men to identify as bisexual.

The Los Angeles-based think tank came to the number after cross-referencing four recent national and two state-level population-based surveys.

"Last week, the Institute of Medicine at the National Academies released an analysis of LGBT health research calling for federal statistical agencies to quickly move toward LGBT inclusion in their data collection," lead researcher Gary Gates said in a statement. "The surveys highlighted in this report demonstrate the usefulness of sexual orientation and gender identity questions on large-scale national population-based surveys.

Better data can provide the building blocks for critical information to understand the lives of the 9 million LGBT Americans who have been historically marginalized in both society and research."

Here is a link to study. Check it out.

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TV Host Craig Ferguson Explains the Daleks to the Common People (Non-Geeks)

Getting ready for Doctor Who's Matt Smith American appearance, TV's Craig Ferguson prepares folks who may not be familiar with the series about DW's most dangerous foe

Yes, Ban Gay Marriage, But keep this Ridic & Silly Laws

Huff Po listed 13 states that amended their constitutions to ban gay marriage, but for some reason, they kept these silly, silly laws.

Check the out:

Alaska: It is unlawful to view moose from an airplane.

Arkansas: "Sec. 18-54. Sounding of horns at sandwich shops. No person shall sound the horn on a vehicle at any place where cold drinks or sandwiches are served after 9:00 p.m. (Code 1961, 25-74)" 

Florida:  Unmarried women who parachute on Sundays may be jailed.

Kansas:  In Topeka, servers are forbidden to serve wine in teacups.

Nebraska: It is not legal for a tavern owner to serve beer unless a nice kettle of soup is also brewing.

Cali-Cal: In Riverside, kissing on the lips, unless both parties wipe their lips with carbonized rose water, is against the local health ordinance.

Oklahoma:  A. It is unlawful for any person to: 1. Promote, engage in, or be employed at a bear wrestling exhibition or horse tripping event; 2. Receive money for the admission of another person to any place where bear wrestling or horse tripping will occur ...

South Carolina: It is unlawful for a minor under the age of eighteen to play a pinball machine.

Alabama: Section 30-1-3 Issue of incestuous marriages not deemed illegitimate. The issue of any incestuous marriage, before the same is annulled, shall not be deemed illegitimate."

Virginia: Unlawful to hunt, trap, possess, sell or transport wild birds and wild animals except as permitted; exception; penalty.
A. The following shall be unlawful: 1. To hunt or kill any wild bird or wild animal, including any nuisance species, with a gun, firearm or other weapon on Sunday, which is hereby declared a rest day for all species of wild bird and wild animal life, except raccoons, which may be hunted until 2:00 a.m. on Sunday mornings.

Arizona: It is legal for a man to beat his wife once a month.

Wisconsin: "97.18(4) The serving of colored oleomargarine or margarine at a public eating place as a substitute for table butter is prohibited unless it is ordered by the customer."

My home state in Tennessee"70-4-208. Unlawful importation of skunks
(a) It is unlawful for any person to import, possess, or cause to be imported into this state any type of live skunk, or to sell, barter, exchange or otherwise transfer any live skunk, except that the prohibitions of this section shall not apply to bona fide zoological parks and research institutions."

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The Doctor is Coming to America

Great Doctor Who news!

The Doctor is coming to the US.

American Doctor Who fans, rejoice: The long-running time travel show will indeed be filming in the U.S. this fall, for a story in which the Doctor and his friends visit Utah in the late 1960s... and then the Oval Office.

Spoilers below...
According to a press release from BBC America, next month the Doctor Who team will do some actual filming in Utah for a special two-parter co-commissioned by the BBC and BBC America. It's "a story set in the late ‘60s in which the Doctor, Amy and Rory find themselves on a secret summons that takes them on an adventure from the desert in Utah - right to the Oval Office itself." And River Song will be along for the ride as well. Will the president be LBJ or Richard Nixon?

Sounds fun! More to come


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