SL Photography October 2014

SL Photography - October 2014

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"The damned paparazzi" by Great Temptation

If you wish to see more of Great's photography, please visit his Flickr photostream here.

Take It Off

This is the group Man Meadow performing their latest song Take it (All) Off.

The video was supposedly recorded in a car wash somewhere in Stockholm, not the worst place to be at that time...

More about Man Meadow here http://www.manmeadow.com/

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"Always on my mind" by Shockersz Resident

If you wish to see more of Shockersz' photography, please visit his Flickr photostream here.

Same-Sex Marriage Wins

"The Supreme Court (of the United States, my addition) refused to get involved in the national debate over same-sex marriage Monday, leaving intact lower court rulings that will legalize the practice in 11 additional states. The unexpected decision by the justices, announced without further explanation, immediately affects five states in which federal appeals courts had struck down bans against gay marriage: Virginia, Indiana, Wisconsin, Oklahoma and Utah.

It also will bring along six other states located in the judicial circuits overseen by those appellate courts: North Carolina, South Carolina, West Virginia, Colorado, Kansas and Wyoming. The action will bring to 30 the number of states where gays and lesbians can marry. Appeals courts in Cincinnati and San Francisco are considering cases that could expand that number further, presuming the Supreme Court remains outside the legal fray." (USA Today)

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By not taking up the cases offered the SCOTUS today decided to allow same-sex marriages in eleven more states where the ban on same-sex marriage had been found to be unconstitutional

"Rather than decide the issue of same-sex marriage, as virtually everyone involved in the debate expected, the justices simply let stand lower-court rulings striking down bans in five states. Within hours, marriages were set to take place.

And the justices knew their decision to stay out of the grand national debate would have further repercussions: Within days or weeks, gay marriage could be legal in 30 states representing 60% of the U.S. population. Nine more states in the Midwest and West could be added very soon if appeals courts there join the juggernaut.

Why did the Supreme Court take a pass? Most likely because it lacked the votes to stop what federal and state court judges have started.

"The far more conservative justices couldn't count to five," said Jon Davidson of the gay rights group Lambda Legal. "They were not assured of a fifth vote, and so they didn't want to grant review yet." (USA Today; First Take: Justices decide gay marriage by not deciding).

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"Fall in Love" by Roman Godde

If you wish to see more of Roman's photography, please visit his Flickr photostream here.

Alien Life Form on Southern Charm?

The little princes and princesses at Southern Charm have all gotten their undies in a bundle this morning, especially the biologists and zoologists among them.

What happened was that little princess Magdalene was out early this morning in the woods at Southern Charm. She was bird spotting and taking pictures, she is an avid ornithologist and photographer. 

When she looked at her pictures later this morning she spotted something unusual that caught her eye and interest. In the lower right corner of the picture there was something that shouldn't be there. Magdalene shared the magnification below with her fellow ornithologists - and everyone else that cared to look.

Magnification of the lower right corner of the
picture taken by princess Magdalene McMillan

"It is definitely humanoid in it's form, but not a human!", the royal natural scientists have concluded after a close scrutiny. "A human does not usually have a tail and this animal most definitely has a bushy striped tail."