Chuck Cooper, Tom Hardy, Julian Assange, Mesentery, Moonlight, Bo Bice, Faraday Future: HOT LINKS

Chuck Cooper, Tom Hardy, Julian Assange, Mesentery, Moonlight, Bo Bice, Faraday Future: HOT LINKS

2017: Resolutions all gay men should consider.

LINDSEY GRAHAM. Trump should be trusting US intelligence, not Julian Assange.

WIKILEAKS. Trump called it “disgraceful” in 2010 and called for “death penalty” for their actions. “His 2010 comments are in sharp contrast to his decision Wednesday morning to invoke WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange, who claimed in a new Fox News interview that the Russian government was not the source of the hacks during the presidential campaign.”

Walter J ClaytonDRAIN THE SWAMP. Trump nominates Goldman Sachs lawyer to head up SEC: “Mr. Clayton advised Goldman Sachs on perhaps its most important deal, the $5 billion investment by Warren E. Buffett’s Berkshire Hathaway amid the financial crisis. Mr. Clayton’s wife works as a private-wealth adviser at Goldman.”

RELEASE THE RETURNS. Democratic bill would require Trump to release tax returns, but: “is unlikely to be enacted with Trump taking office later this month and Republicans controlling both chambers of Congress.”

JACKIE EVANCHO. Trump lied about her album sales, too:

Jackie Evancho’s album sales have skyrocketed after announcing her Inauguration performance.Some people just don’t understand the “Movement”

— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) January 4, 2017

cooperCHUCK COOPER. Lawyer who defended Proposition 8 assisting racist homophobe Alabama Senator Jeff Sessions for confirmation hearing: “Cooper, who is also under consideration to be the next solicitor general, is perhaps best known for his legal defense of California’s Proposition 8, which banned gay marriage in the state. He is also a longtime Sessions pal: The two Alabamans met in the Reagan Justice Department in the 1980s, when Cooper was assistant attorney general in the Office of Legal Counsel and Sessions was serving on an advisory committee to the attorney general.”

FLASHBACKS. Mariah Carey is still “mortified” about her New Year’s Eve performance.

ZZZ. Dog is waken up by his own snoring.

LeiaSTARS CLAIMED BY 2016.  A list of celebs and noteworthy LGBTQ figures who died last year: “Perhaps compounded by social media and therefore our ability to know anything and everything that goes on, and in an instant, and certainly aided and abetted by the unfortuitous deaths of quite a few undisputed icons between last January and this December, this feels like the cruelest year on record for the unexpected demises of household names, as well as the inevitable ends of people who had lived long, full lives, and yet seemed as if they’d never die.”

BEDTIME STORIES. With Tom Hardy and his dog Woodstock.

WAYBACK MACHINE. Kellyanne Conway in high school.

Behold @KellyannePolls in high school. pic.twitter.com/ReqPjYeQxS

— Yashar (@yashar) January 4, 2017

sag awardsMOONLIGHT. Barry Jenkins and Tarell Alvin McCraney grew up in the same Miami neighborhood but never met until they made the Oscar contender Moonlight: “This is the neighborhood where the two men were raised, coming of age during the crack epidemic of the 1980s and ’90s. The men did not meet until they were adults, but when Mr. McCraney, 36, and Mr. Jenkins, 37, teamed up to make “Moonlight,” they saw the story — about a boy with an addicted mother, who grows up struggling to understand what it means to be gay — through the same eyes.”

ANATOMY. There is a new human organ and its name is Mesentery: “Known as the mesentery, the new organ is found in our digestive systems, and it was long thought to be made up of fragmented, separate structures. But recent research has shown that it’s actually one continuous organ.”

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UNDER PRESSURE. Jennifer Hudson, Tom Jones, Gavin Rossdale, and Will.i.am perform the Queen classic on The Voice UK.

FARADAY FUTURE. The secretive electric car company just unveiled its first production vehicle at CES: “The crossover SUV, dubbed the FF91, features 130 kwh of battery energy, giving it more than 378 miles of range, the company claimed. It also has an open charging system, which means that it can take charge from any charging standard.  The company claims that the vehicle boasts 1050 horsepower and can go from 0 to 60 mph in just 2.39 seconds. That’s quicker than Tesla’s Model S P100D, which can reach 60 mph in 2.4 seconds.” More HERE.

ATLANTA. American Idol contestant Bo Bice is upset he got called “white boy” at a Popeye’s.

HUMP DAY HOTTIE. Doctor PK.

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Frank Ocean’s Mom Wants Homophobic Gospel Singer Kim Burrell Cut from His Album ‘Blonde’

Frank Ocean’s Mom Wants Homophobic Gospel Singer Kim Burrell Cut from His Album ‘Blonde’

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Homophobic gospel singer Kim Burrell, who called gay people “perverted singers” in a church sermon and was axed from The Ellen Show this week, is feeling the wrath of Frank Ocean’s mom.

Burrell appears on Ocean’s track “Godspeed” and Ocean’s mother Katonya Breaux can’t bear the fact.

Katonya Breaux (Twitter)

Tweeted Breaux: “Me: Son, can we crop Kim Burrells voice out of your song??…I mean damn. Hypocrisy and the inciting of hate pisses me off. Opportunistic &?%#€!!”

Me: Son, can we crop Kim Burrells voice out of your song??

— katonya breaux (@katonya) January 1, 2017

I mean damn. Hypocrisy and the inciting of hate pisses me off. Opportunistic &?%#€!!

— katonya breaux (@katonya) January 1, 2017

 

Said Burrell in her sermon:

“I came to tell you about sin… That sin nature, that perverted homosexual spirit is the spirit of delusion and confusion, it has deceived many men and women and it has cast a stain on the body of Christ. You as a man, you open your mouth and take a man’s penis in your face, you are perverted. You are a woman and will shake your face in another woman’s breast, you are perverted. It has come to our church and it has embarrassed the Kingdom of God.”

Listen to “Godspeed”

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2017 is already looking up: Here’s a sassy recorder arrangement of Britney Spears’ “Toxic”

2017 is already looking up: Here’s a sassy recorder arrangement of Britney Spears’ “Toxic”

Having an aggravating day? Let this musical recommendation from your good pals at Queerty soothe you.

The fine people at omgblog have unearthed this truly otherworldly recorder version of Britney Spears “Toxic,” an utterly soul-bending exercise in unstoppered irritation that will prove the perfect soundtrack for smashing up your home, being audited, going out on a killing spree, or setting yourself on fire on the 405.

Related: Does This Look Like Britney Spears To You? Lifetime Desperately Hopes You Say Yes.

It comes from the clearly self-aware Shittyflute YouTube channel, which also includes an execrable recorder cover of a-ha’s “Take On Me,” a sick-making rendition of Wham’s “Last Christmas,” and a version of Taylor Swift’s “Shake It Off”  that’s admirably execrable.

Here’s “Toxic.”

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Feds Drop Case Against Craig Jungwirth, Who Threatened to ‘Exterminate’ Gays in Labor Day Massacre

Feds Drop Case Against Craig Jungwirth, Who Threatened to ‘Exterminate’ Gays in Labor Day Massacre

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Federal prosecutors are dropping a criminal case against Craig Jungwirth, who threatened a Labor Day weekend Orlando-style massacre at gay bars in Wilton Manors, Florida.

The Sun-Sentinel reports:

The decision to drop the case against Craig Jungwirth comes about six weeks after prosecutors publicly acknowledged in court that the evidence against him was “weak.”

Jungwirth, 50, of Orlando and formerly of Wilton Manors, has been jailed since early September.

The paper adds:

Prosecutors did not elaborate on the reasons for the decision in court records.

Prosecutors are legally barred from pushing ahead with a case if they don’t believe they would be able to prove their allegations in court.

FBI spokesman Michael Leverock referred questions to the U.S. Attorney’s Office.

Sarah Schall, a spokeswoman for the U.S. Attorney’s Office, declined to comment late Tuesday.

Jungwirth had left this message on the page of a Facebook user in late August, threatening the attack:

My events are selling out cause you faggots are total patsies. None of you deserve to live. If you losers thought the Pulse nightclub shooting was bad, wait till you see what I’m planning for Labor Day.

You can’t never catch a genius from MIT and since you faggots aren’t dying from AIDS anymore, I have a better solution to exterminate you losers. [SNIP]

I’m gonna be killing you fags faster than the cops kill ni**ers. It’s time to clean up Wilton Manors from all you AIDS infested losers.

More details of an affadavit released by the FBI were reported by 7News Miami:

The FBI has taken over Jungwirth’s case and according to a federal complaint, Jungwirth has been reported to the police before. The federal complaint states, “multiple complaints for stalking and harassing behavior were documented, as well as incidents of sabotage, vandalism, and trespassing.”

The federal complaint also states an FBI agent interviewed the owner and general manager of a Wilton Manors nightclub, and both individuals stated they had interactions with with Jungwirth and he had previously acted in an aggressive manner.

The federal complaint goes on to detail an interview with one of the individuals who contacted Wilton Manors Police in regards of the Facebook posts. The complainant stated they have filed multiple reports against Jungwirth — one that resulted in a restraining order against him.

According to the federal complaint, the complainant also told officials in the past several months, Jungwirth sent them thousands of threatening text messages, Facebook messages and phone calls — many times with Jungwirth stating, “I’m going to get you.”

Jungwirth has been on the radar of South Florida’s gay community for some time.

Wrote the blog Peacock Panache:

Earlier this year we reported on Craig Jungwirth – a man who took over the Beach Bear Weekend event in Florida and used it to solicit and scam money from unsuspecting members of the LGBTQ community. What began as a story of hisharassment of the Sisters of Perpetual Indulgenceexploded after information surfaced that not only were the events listed for his Beach Bear Weekend event fake but also all hotel bookings through the event website didn’t actually reserve local hotels (as they’d never spoken to Jungwirth or any event organizers).

Following those two stories (here and here) Craig Jungwirth embarked on a harassment campaign against both this publication as well as the individual writers associated with it. He sent harassing text messages. He left vaguely threatening voice mails. He bombarded our social media and comments sections with spam and threats. He even attempted to hack our server several times to access the articles written about him.

Jungwirth faced up to five years in prison, three years of supervised release and a $250,000 fine if convicted.

The Sun-Sentinel adds:

At a Nov. 15 hearing in federal court in Fort Lauderdale, Anton told a judge that prosecutors had determined the evidence against Jungwirth was “weak” and circumstantial. But he said at the time that investigators were continuing to work on the case.

Investigators were not able to link the alleged threat to Jungwirth, who they said has about 59 Facebook profiles. One theory they were considering was the possibility that he had posted the threat from another profile.

The case could be picked up again if evidence came in that makes the case stronger.

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