While L.A.’s Pride celebration this weekend features the Log Cabin Republicans’ Tea-Bag Game, your Stinque editors are waiting to hear from our D.C. correspondents if Rep. Aaron Schock (R-IL) will be on the Log Cabin float for the Pride Parade that’s going on this weekend.

Our friends at Gawker report that a photo taken of the youngest member of Congress at a picnic last week is “jamming up the gay staff listserv” on the Hill. Gee, I wonder why?

Is it the aqua belt like the on I had in 1984 to hold up my Jordache jeans, the unbuttoned-yet-tucked-in ironed pink shirt with the perfectly rolled-up sleeves, or the white jeans?

Yes.

And the gay-face.

[Gawker]

As the 2010 World Cup starts today in South Africa, conservative media figures have seized the opportunity to attack Barack Obama, the tournament, and the sport of soccer.

Glen Beck:

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President Obama’s policies “are the World Cup” of “political thought.” Beck stated, “It doesn’t matter how you try to sell it to us, it doesn’t matter how many celebrities you get, it doesn’t matter how many bars open early, it doesn’t matter how many beer commercials they run, we don’t want the World Cup, we don’t like the World Cup, we don’t like soccer, we want nothing to do with it.” Beck stated that likewise, “the rest of the world likes Barack Obama’s policies, we do not.”

Beck added “those who like the World Cup … they’re the most likely to riot,” commenting that by contrast, “I haven’t seen the baseball riots.”* He later said of soccer, “I hate it so much, probably because the rest of the world likes it so much, and they riot over it, and they continually try to jam it down our throat.”

*Do we need JNOV to remind you of the Philly baseball riots, dipshit?

The Stinque Department of Lady-Bits, however, is seizing on the opportunity of the greatest sports tournament in the world to present the World Cup Hottie of the Day, after the jump.

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Oh, for Christ’s sake…

[Politico]

Due to Nojo’s invitation on the Talibunny titty post, the Stinque Department of Lady-Bits presents our Jon Hamm drink of cool water for the afternoon.

Bonus: A little something-something for TommCatt after the jump.

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Stinque’s favorite Israeli-Russian emigre, birther, dentist, and soon-to-be-disbarred member of the California Bar may very well end up winning the GOP primary for California Secretary of State tomorrow.  While she’s only raised $6,000 for her campaign (H/T Bloggie), and there has been no official polling for this race,  straw polls at Tea Party events indicate that the teabaggers are rallying to support Orly Taitz’s campaign against a former professional football player, Damon Dunn, who is the party establishment’s choice.

More than a few party operatives are chewing their fingernails at the thought of another Rand Paul-type upset in a GOP primary.

On the other hand, your West Coast editors at Stinque are overwhelmed with excitement at the thought of four months of covering Meg, Carly, and Orly campaigning across the state. Oooh, and what if Talibunny joins them on the campaign trail?

A girl can dream…

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British Petroleum officials are having a hard time keeping their oil-slicked boots out of their mouths in the wake of the explosion of the Deepwater Horizon platform which killed 11 workers and has resulted in the worst environmental disaster in U.S. history. To wit, its CEO, Tony Hayward, was forced by his PR flacks to apologize after he told Louisiana residents “I’d like my life back.”

Yeah, wouldn’t we all, especially the dead workers and dead wildlife.  BP’s attempts to block the media from capturing the extent of the damage, with the complicity of the Coast Guard, are starting to crack.  Apparently, so is their CEO.

Charlie Riedel from the Associated Press got images that would tear apart the most cynical and blackened of hearts, except, of course, the one belonging to a certain Halliburton executive/former vice-president who has seen his stock options go up 3,281% in one year, according to a Senate study.

The good people at the Natural Resources Defense Council are tirelessly covering and speaking out about this so-called “accident” and have compiled some of the bullshit spewing out of the mouth of BP CEO Hayward.

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In the past week, Jerry Brown finally donated $3,000 of his own money to his campaign for California Governor. In the same week, Meg Whitman donated another $3,000,000 to her campaign, taking the total amount of her wealth spent on the election to date to $71,000,000.

[SF Chronicle]