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Maryland must recognize as married same-sex couples who legally wed in other states, Maryland’s top court unanimously ruled Friday. In its 7-0 decision, the Court of Appeals said recognition is required under the legal doctrine of “comity” because same-sex marriage is neither “repugnant” to the state’s public policy nor expressly prohibited by state law. “Maryland recognizes liberally foreign marriages, even those marriages that may be prohibited from being formed if conducted in this state,” Judge Glenn T. Harrell Jr. wrote for the high court. “Liberal recognition of out of state marriages promotes uniformity in the recognition of the marital status, so that persons legally married according to the laws of one state will not be held to be living in adultery in another state, and that children begotten in lawful wedlock in one state will not be illegitimate in another.” The Court of Appeals’ ruling comes as a Maryland state law permitting same-sex marriages is slated to go into effect Jan. 1. But that law, the Civil Marriage Protection Act, will likely be put before Maryland voters this fall, as opponents of the measure are pressing to put it on the Election Day ballot in November. Ironically, the Maryland court issued its ruling by essentially granting the divorce of a lesbian couple that married in California when the state permitted same-sex couples to wed. http://thedailyrecord.com/2012/05/18/court-of-appeals-maryland-must-recognize-same-sex-marriages-from-other-states/

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Scientists recently discovered a fossilized turtle so big, its shell could be mistaken for a boat. If you were to stand it up, is 5 foot 7 inches, just shorter than the average American male. That’s just the shell. Its skull is about the size of a football and was equipped with massive jaws that allowed it to eat almost anything. This fossilized remains of this car-sized beast were recently discovered in Columbia. More »

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adam and maddi on her 22nd

newton blurry in the linens

newton laser eyes in the linens

newton loving me up

sushi!

Note: Who says kids can’t handle violence?

Gregory shared from The Complete Wizard of Oz Collection (With Active Table of Contents) by L. Frank Baum the Wicked Witch said to the King Crow, “Fly at once to the strangers; peck out their eyes and tear them to pieces.

Note: More tearing to pieces

Gregory shared from The Complete Wizard of Oz Collection (With Active Table of Contents) by L. Frank Baum to those people,” said the Witch, “and tear them to pieces.” “Are you not going to make them your slaves?” asked the leader of the wolves. “No,” she answered, “one is of tin, and one of straw; one is a girl and another a Lion. None of them is fit to work, so you may tear them into small pieces.” “Very well,” said the wolf, and he dashed away at full speed, followed by the others.

Note: One of my fave bits not commonly shown.

Gregory shared from The Robert E. Howard Omnibus: 99 Collected Stories (Halcyon Classics) by Robert E. Howard Let teachers and priests and philosophers brood over questions of reality and illusion. I know this: if life is illusion, then I am no less an illusion, and being thus, the illusion is real to me.

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