Miller-sponsored, Miller-approved: The Folsom Street Fair, uncovered
Drink up, get spanked, get naked!
Undercover Internet photojournalist Zombie, a brave, brave, soul, was at the Miller Lite-approved Folsom Street Fair last weekend. Zombie did the publishing of explicit photographs that no one else will do, breaking the MSM taboo. (Be warned: It’s not safe for work, not safe on a full stomach, and not really safe for home unless you are prepared for some really nasty stuff. Also: the page takes a while to load.) Note that Zombie was there less than hour:
I was at the fair for less than an hour altogether — not much more than 45 minutes. And in that short amount of time, I took all the photos you see here. Yet the fair was an all-day event, and lasted from 11am to 6pm — seven hours. So, one can extrapolate that a great deal more must have gone on that I did not record. What you see here is just a small random sample of what happened that day.
Here’s one of the tamer photos:
You’ll have to go to Zombie’s to find out what happened after the dog mask-muzzled guy on the sidewalk is forced to eat “food” from the dog dish.
Blech.
Were kids there this year? Does Miller care?
I encourage you to send Zombie’s report to Miller Lite, proud sponsor of the leather/bondage orgy, dungeon beds, casual public masturbation, public oral sex, and public erection competitions.
Yeah. Swell.
Contact Miller Lite’s public relations spokesman Julian Green at green.julian@mbco.com.
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There is a hilarious warning on the Miller Brewing website:
You may not post or transmit to this Web site any unlawful, pornographic, obscene, profane, defamatory, libelous, threatening or otherwise objectionable material.
So you’re not allowed to send photos to Miller of the public sex scenes at the Folsom Street orgy that Miller sponsored.
Snort-worthy.
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I’m not one who tends to believe boycotts are a good idea. But I’m also not inclined to support a company that sponsors events such as the Folsom Street Fair. The fact that it’s a primarily gay event is irrelevant - in their sponsorship of this fair, Miller is supporting public indecency. Public heterosexual contact would be just as offensive.
Miller Brewing Company is free to continue spending their money where they wish, but those who use their product are just as free to limit that company’s profits.
Newcastle, anyone?
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Reader Jim M. forwards an e-mail he sent to Miller’s parent company:
To: media.relations@sabmiller.com
Sent: Thursday, October 04, 2007 8:49 PM
Subject: Folsom SponsorshipTo: Mr. Nigel Fairbrass
Mr. Fairbrass:
As an investor in many companies across the globe, I was particularly alarmed to note your organization’s sponsorship of a alternative lifestyle sado-machoist event in the San Francisco area.
The first indication that something was amiss was the depiction of Da Vinci’s “The Last Supper” as a gay S&M bacchanal, complete with appropriate leather adornments and environmentally unfriendly plastic sexual aids. Despite protests lodged regarding your sponsorship of the event, the sponsorship proceeded.
Here is a website documenting but a small part of one person’s experience at the event: http://www.zombietime.com/folsom_sf_2007_part_1/index.php.
I urge you to review the pictures, since this is what SABMiller supported. In addition to the gleeful participants, there were very young children in attendance as well as reports of underage participation.
I would appreciate your thoughts on why SAB deems this function to be worth of corporate sponsorship. Reviewing your website and the causes you claim to support, I have a hard time understanding why SAB would find The Folsom event consistent with its corporate goals and worthy of its “proud sponsorship”.
I will await your response before I begin alerting my investment advisers to dump any and all SAB holdings.
Cheers,
Jim
From Jim M.:
Miller is a subsidiary of a South African Brewer listed on the London and Japan Stock Exchanges: sabmiller.com
Here is the list of media contacts at their parent company:
Head of Media Relations Nigel Fairbrass
Telephone: +44-20-7659-0105
Mobile: +44-7799-894-265
Corporate Media Relations Manager Victoria McNamee
Telephone: +44 20 7659 0172
Mobile: +44-7713-246-957
Media Relations Executive
Briony Gilbert
Telephone: +44-20-7659-0115
Email: media.relations@sabmiller.com
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Zombie, I don’t know how you can do it.
Miller is running out of time, in a hurry, to distance themselves from this event and start redeeming themselves. They seem to have been acting like it’s no big deal, but I think images like the baby Jesus sex toys are going to wind up being the proverbial egg on Millers face.
They need to issue a statement, condemn the sicko fair forever, and start apologizing to the mainstream.
Perhaps the jerk that didn’t find fault with kids being at this “Fair” will change his mind after viewing these pictures. Difficult to believe the law allows this in public. Again, where is DFACS when you really need them. NOT IN CA for sure. WAy to go MIller lite, et al.
Zombie, my new hero. I have called Miller and have told everyone who will listen not to buy it, even stopped some guy at the Class Six. Disgusting!
Just dropped a friendly little note to Ms Green:
Ms. Green,
Miller’s sponsorship of the Folsom Street Fair in San Fransisco is a disgrace. While I support the right for people to freely associated with whomever they want, that does not mean I have to like what they are offering. Is this the kind of event that Miller wants to get involved with and be proud to sponsor? Two year olds dressed up in dog collars? Underage teens walking around this fair? Christianity bashing at each and every turn?
I used to be a case a week Miller Lite drinker, but no more. Your sponsorship of the Folsom Street Fair now prevents me in good conscience from EVER drinking any of your products. I guess it’s Bud Lite for me from now on.
Miller should be ashamed of their sponsorship of this event! SHAME ON YOU!
Maybe I’ll look in the morning I dont want too have nightmares. Thanks for the heads up warning.
opps, to
I agree. I thought I had it bad, living n Mass. Well, it is bad here, but that’s another place definitely not on my list of places to move.
Not to excuse Miller for this insanity, but, at least they DO support the things we think they should also. They just need to stop supporting the crap.
But, just today they announced a support of the troops thing w/ Nascar. Here is a cut and paste:
“Miller Lite to honor military vets: Miller Lite will be launching an engaging statewide promotional campaign around the upcoming Nov. 4 Dickies 500 at Texas Motor Speedway. The campaign will recognize, celebrate, honor and reward military veterans, both past and present, for their commitment to serving our country. Miller Lite has teamed with Operation Homefront to support Texas troops and their families. Miller Lite will donate financial support to the cause and consumers will have the opportunity to visit a special web site and vote how to apply Miller Lite’s contribution. Consumers will also be able to make a donation on their own through the site.”
I believe that’s MR. Green.
AJ said:
I should of read your comment before clicking on the link. But Noooooooo, I had to click on the link. The pics are really BAD!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! sic bastards.
Back when I use to drink beer, I always thought Miller Beers tasted like what I thought was the taste of piss . Once was enuf…now this CRAAAAP!
Wonder what the NASCAR fans think of Miller’s beer now.
Is that bare butt guy on the right actually serving drinks or food?????? Iiiiiick!
Doesn’t that violate _some_ food service public health code???? Please?????
Why do you think my dad drink Coors?
This event is open to EVERYONE on the public streets of SF. Unbelievable.
You may not post or transmit to this Web site any unlawful, pornographic, obscene, profane, defamatory, libelous, threatening or otherwise objectionable material.
So, its not ok on their website, but it is ok for live public displays including very young children? What a ugly ugly attatude!
I am so fearful of those childrens futures.
What about the police? Even in San Francisco, laws against lewd behavior are valid.
San Francisco - epicenter of gays and whiny liberals. No surprise.
As for Miller - piss beer.
What about the police? Even in San Francisco, laws against lewd behavior are valid.
Not in sanfran, did you know see the police standing around watching?
I just sent my letter to miller
Now I know what it looked like outside Lot’s door.
Not that there’s anything wrong with any of that…
HOLY MACKEREL! THE PICTURES FOLSOM STREET PICTURES WERE HAIR RAISINGLY PERVERSE…Sodom and Gomorrah is alive and thriving in San FranSicko.
Miller is a subsidiary of a South African Brewer listed on the London and Japan Stock Exchanges: sabmiller.com
Here is the list of media contacts at their parent company:
Head of Media Relations Nigel Fairbrass
Telephone: +44-20-7659-0105
Mobile: +44-7799-894-265
Corporate Media Relations Manager Victoria McNamee
Telephone: +44 20 7659 0172
Mobile: +44-7713-246-957
Media Relations Executive
Briony Gilbert
Telephone: +44-20-7659-0115
Email: media.relations@sabmiller.com
I doubt this has hit the parent’s radar or has been seriously downplayed at the parent level.
I used to work in West Hollywood and I was shocked at what went on there during the parade and Halloween. I know that the same at a non-special interest gathering would not be allowed.
Now I understand why they call it “Miller Low Life”
Those pictures are totaly disgusting. I agree with my husband that San Fran needs to drop off into the ocean.
Too many American’s have been drinking from the Kool-Aid vat since the hippie-days; of which, no surprise, grew and festered in San Francisco. I hear it all the time, “It doesn’t affect me”. This is what happens when people have stopped being actively civic-minded and become liberal sheep. It is time to say enough is enough; we can say what is right and what is wrong. San Francisco is the antithesis of what makes America great; these people spit on anything American. We should ask Jihadist’s to move in and institute Sharia Law; sit back and see what happens? See if they wouldn’t lay out the red carpet to troops returning from deployment then?
Rant on-
I have seen the European Union hold American companies to environmental standards in order to do business there.
Why cannot the United States set decency standards for foreign companies who want to do business in our communities?
What will it take for communities in the USA to stand up for what is good for our kids and our families and do what Nancy said: “Just Say No”.
Why are we being impacted by IslamoFascists and South Afrikan brewers as though we are just passive dolts who value nothing? Why do they have that impression of us?
Because we haven’t sacked their financial sanctuaries with our values.
Step One: Take out the ACLU and prosecute them under RICO statutes.
Step Two: Prosecute Homosexual advocacy groups who misuse their non-profit status to lobby against religious organizations. 501c3 status is a privilege, not a right, under the US tax code and it forbids any kind of advocacy function.
Step Three: Organize US consumers and investors in order to rate corporations of foreign origin- the lower the rating the less likely they are to be profitable in US markets. This would not bode well for their stock price.
Step Four: Close the damn borders now. Make it a privilege to come here and live. And screen each applicant with a fine tooth comb. Let the refugees from everywhere else go to Europe- the EU is not paying for its own defense, so let them pay the welfare tab on all immigrants. This keeps our social standard of health, education, and morality higher at the baseline. It spells out to the world that we are not the world’s toilet.
Step Five: Destroy the IslamoFascist front groups the way La Cosa Nostra was destroyed. Eradicate it. They cannot have it all the ways that they have been enjoying it. Enough is enough.
I am sick of this crap- as if there is nothing we can do about it.
Grown men in San Francisco are shamed by this reprobrate “festival”. The blasphemous with their “toys” will pay in ways we cannot get our heads around. All of this was prophesied. I think they all should have taken a closer look at what they were planning to do before they did it. Heaven’s Wrath is well-documented.
And if anyone thinks it is a good idea to say I am filled with hate or I am “homophobic”, I have just one thing to say-
Go stare at the fat guy’s patoot until you go blind, because I don’t flippin care what “HomoSexualPhiles” think of my opinions.
Bear1909 out. /rant
Democrats one and all.
I guess I am not finished.
It just occurred to me that this filth
trying to pass itself off as some kind of socially virtuous enclave of “culture” is filled with hypocrisy on its own merit.
This reminds me of a scenario that Jesus
encountered at the Temple with the money changers and merchants who were misusing the the Temple. He raged against them for their false pretenses and drove them out with his hand raised against them.
I can’t help but think there is hell to pay for this longtime misuse of social virtue to further the agenda of normalizing sexual addiction.
Pelosi has participated in this event. It should be brought forward for all of America to see what she believes in. She is the modern Caligula.
There weren’t 10 men in Sodom and Gomorrah that God could have counted as not deserving His wrath. Otherwise, as He promised Abram, he wouldn’t destroy the cities. I don’t know what is worse, hairy men in thongs “acting” out in public or the people of the city that tolerate it.
Did she invite Mr Pelosi and Whoopi for a little charity spanking?
I lived in West Hollywood for several years, and always tolerated the Halloween festivities on Santa Monica boulevard since it was more camp than hardcore - my biggest complaint was always the lack of parking for my friends attending MY party. But that was nothing compared to this out of control public display of sin.
I wrote Miller the other night to tell them I would no longer buy any of their products. I received this letter this morning.
“Thank you for contacting Miller Brewing Company.
While Miller has supported the Folsom Street Fair for several years, we take exception to the poster the organizing committee developed this year. We understand some individuals may find the imagery offensive and we have asked the organizers to remove our logo from the poster effective immediately.
We regret that our failure to adhere to our own policy led to an inappropriate use of our trademark and apologize to anyone who was offended as a result, particularly members of the Christian community who have contacted us to express their concern.
We are conducting an immediate audit of our procedures for approving local marketing and sales sponsorships to ensure that this does not happen again.
It is important to understand that the Folsom Street Fair does not target the general public in its communications. The fair itself and the organizations website are only intended for the adult alternative lifestyle community.
Sincerely,
Miller Brewing Company Consumer Affairs Department”
I wrote back and told them they still made a profit and supported the “fair” and that I was born at night but not last night.
Absolutely horrific. A vile disgusting display of fools who have too much time on their hands, and probably not a lot of money either.
Wasn’t Miller Lite’s slogan “More taste, less filling?” EEW!!!
This beyond disgusting. It is clear that this State has lost control. Illegals, druggies, Street Gangs, crazy homosexual perverts, the porn industry. This is a truly creepy place. The Governator is a Tool.
And yet I’m not allowed to have a CIGAR in my mouth less than 25 feet away from the entrance to a public building.
And if I get cancer from my cigar then I “asked for it” and am not to be pittied. But if one of these guys gets AIDS from his behavior that day then we’re going to spend millions to try to cure him and anyone who tells him that it was his own fault is worse than a Nazi.
Miller can take care of that too. They have an HIV/Aids Group…
Jenni Gillies
Group HIV/Aids Manager
jenni.gillies@za.sabmiller.com
Protest of the insult to Christianity I think is fair game, but protesting for sponsoring this event in general I disagree. You don’t have to approve, but the people are consenting. It is better to protest that this event is considered not to snarl traffic while marines filming a commerical would be. The admittance of children is fair game as well.
I know I’m drawing a fine line here, but the existance of the event itself I can’t disapprove in the vein people here are doing.
If anything, make a point about what would happen to these people if they tried to this in Iran.
I’m also not so sure that Miller is going to change direction, according to Julian Green, in discussing the audit and the boycott:
And, paraphrased:
Source is here: http://pygmyurl.com/0y3
When the most effective thing that they could do to “fight AIDS” would be to oppose this kind of behavior.
Warning! Rant:
The government insists on “educating” me and my family about the dangers of:
Junk Food
Smoking
Polution
Not Recycling
Wasting Water
Riding without a seatbelt/bike helmet
Not Exercising
Not getting my prostrate checked
Not getting to know my kids
Doing illegal drugs
Not washing my hands before eating
Talking on the cell phone while driving
etc
etc
etc…
Why isn’t the Nanny State nagging these guys about the fact that what they are doing & celebrating has resulted in the long, drawn-out, painful and expensive deaths of millions of people?
Oh.no.wait…I remember.
Yes, they are “consenting” to break several laws and to intentionally insult a major religion and Miller is helping to pay for it.
So if Miller were to sponsor an event where bongs shaped like MLK being hung from a tree were being sold and people were shooting up heroin in the street, you’d be cool with that?
Why can’t these people get this type of stuff off the streets and keep it in the airport bathroom stalls where it belongs?
So, someone please explain to me again why, the fact that seeing men doing that to each other makes me wretch and that I find it loathesome and disgusting to see, that makes me a Homophobe?
I have no problem with gays, but just as I do not want to see two 90 year old Hetero man and woman bumping uglies, I also do not want to see two men doing that either. It does not make me a homophobe, it just makes me someone with better morals.
The problem is, the Left has everyone convinced that TOLERANCE and ACCEPTANCE are the same things. I will tolerate it, but that does not mean I have to accept it, nor allow sex acts to be performed on a public street.
I fully agree with the saying, “What happens in someone’s bedroom between two concenting adults (or three or more as the case may be) is no one’s business”. However, when it happens in full view on the streets of ANY city, it is my and everyone’s business.
When my wife and I went to Mardi Gras in 2005, just before Katrina, we drove to the hotel from the airport, dropped our bags off at the hotel which was one block away from the park, and then waled down to the Quarter. We hung a right onto Bourbon street, walked like 2 blocks and BLAMMO, on one corner was two gay men, one whipping the other with a cat ‘o nine tail and directly across the stree on our left was another guy, on his knees in front of another guy performing a Lewinski sans the cigar. It was then we knew, 15 minutes into our trip, that we were very far from home. Yes, there were kids around, it was 3 in the afternoon. Glad we left ours at home, not that they would have cared. And I ain’t even a prude.
How ironic that the very people that keep saying they want government to stay out of their bedrooms keep brining their bedrooms out into the damn street.
Homo or hetro it would not matter. These people are pathetic.
How sad and empty their lives must be.
Speaking of Pelosi and “San Francisco values”, remember SNL’s great parody? (except it’s more like a documentary now!)
Wasn’t Kristen Weig great as Pelosi?? Only funny because it’s based on fact.
http://grouper.com/c/Funny/SNL_Nancy_Pelosi_Parody_11_11_06/1631167
I called the Miller complaint guy and gave him the Zombietime web site URL. I explained that his company was sponsoring an event, photos of which, if viewed on his company computer, would get him fired. Ironic, no???
I urged him to circulate the URL to his fellow employees to better appreciate their employer’s standards.
Also emailed a short selection of photos to several Miller contacts. Let them enjoy the spectacle they are promoting.
Private is private; public is public - ESPECIALLY with children in attendance.
I was standing around in San Francisco when ALL OF A SUDDEN….He’s got to finish up with his home work.
The depravity is endless in SF. What a wonderful place for a 9.9 shaker.
Anyone who subjected kids to this should be strung up by the hoohaa, whipped and have the kids taken away.
A few years ago when the San Fran city leaders were indifferent to the drug scourge of meth (it was only an illegal drug), they were shown the devastating environmental impact that these clandestine labs were having on the fishies and trees and they got outraged enough to support a crackdown on meth. Maybe if they knew that that guy serving the beer didn’t have a hairnet on that thing, they would rise up in righteous indingnation.
The lower circle of hell…
Glad I am on the East Coast and hope they restrained themselves around children. If not the police should have made arrests at that point, as it was child abuse and exposure.
These are the people who question “Why do they hate us”?
DUH
Let me get this straight. These people think they are morally superior to the rest of us uncultured clods?
Isaiah 5:20, 2Timothy 3:1-3, 2Peter 3:3-10
Thank goodness there were no Marines filming any commercials or Blue Angels flying overhead. And I am really glad they keep the recruiters out of the schools and quarantine Marines at the airport. Oh yeah they cheer for Barry Bonds too. Maybe there is more then steroids in Barry’s life.
Your Speaker of the House is the elected representative of this community. Don’t you feel so much better since it isn’t that ignorant redneck from GA with the weird name of Newt?
Can we trade CA for Samoa or some other American territory? We wouldn’t have to change the flag that way but we could bring in a whole group of citizens who actually seem to love this country.
After viewing Zombies pics, Its easy to see why some segments of the global society view America as the great satan.
Zombie, kudos to you man, I couldnt have done that.
What do they wear for Halloween?
I don’t even know what to say to those pictures. I was at my sister’s wedding two weeks ago and one of my new brothers-in-law is from SF and he mentioned this festival and how he had no idea what it was but walked through and it totally freaked him out. The things he told me that he saw were tame compared to this. But what was most disturbing for him was not what they were doing, but the fact that people in the audience were becoming so aroused by watching and making…interesting…sounds.
Grunt, this is a slippery slope, the approval process from Mexico would take years in Court before such a trade could happen.
We have 35 million people here, aside from Boxer, Feinstein, Pelosi, Hollywood, this group, sleeper cells,illegals, gangs and several other forms of corruption it’s a great place to live.
Wow, these Folsom Street gatherings must make Speaker Pelosi very proud to be from San FranSicko. Considering that neither she nor her husband didn’t object to Whoopi Goldberg’s suggestion of having a sexual threesome, (not even a peep rebuking her crude suggestion) perhaps Pelosi was secretly supporting the whole grotesque affair…I mean the Folsom circus of course.
Unbelievable. Just sick, sick, sick. Beyond perversion. And I’m glad that Zombie noted that among the religious dildos, “somehow” the brave perverts “forgot” to make a Muhammed or Allah version.
I guess it’s not surprising that sick perverts are also cowards.
I checked out zombie’s report yesterday evening and the wife and I are still in shock. I have seen a lot of stuff in my travels around the world and have never seen anything to equal this type of behavior. I’m taking as a 25 year veteran of the Military who has had the opportunity to visit some of the “Adult Disneyland” countries, but never took the risk to my health or marriage by taking part in some of the activities offered. I hope Miller beer is very proud, can’t wait to see the end of next fiscal quarters sales report.
Mr. Green,
You should be weeping with shame. After quitting your job.
I hope you have the courage to see the pictures taken at your MILLER BEER sponsored Folsom Street event. Jesus and Mary dildos, children in leather bondage outfits, public fellatio and anal perversion activity in full view on every public street corner…. Along with MILLER BEER employees serving beer in leather bondage outfits.
http://www.zombietime.com/folsom_sf_2007_part_1/index.php
Are you aware of this, or do you just collect your paycheck while wearing blinders?
In total disgust,
A former Miller Genuine Draft afficianado, who will never, ever in my life purchase another Miller product,
signed etc
I’m still on first cup of java contemplating looking at the pic’s, questions popping in my head like, will I become sterile or impotent if I look?
nightmares? will I puke? will I ever be the same? Do I really need to? I’m sure I’ll succumb to my curiosity, dang, if I just had some handcuffs and leather straps to tie me back.
With reference to the second pic:
Hmmm, so I guess Marsellus Wallace didn’t kill The Gimp after all
I followed that link to Zobie’s website and could not believe such a thing could ever take place in an American city.
Now Chicago is not a city of bluenoses and is very tolerant of gays. But the Chicago police would have swooped down on a gathering like that and hauled those people off to jail faster than you can say “religious dildo.” It is incomprehensible to me that San Francisco - a beautiful, beautiful city with so much charm and history - could be taken over by people who are beyond hedonism, beyond the libertine. I dare say something like it hasn’t been seen in the civilized world since Rome.
Rick, you’re eyes have been suffering to much pain this month. Please for health reasons, take a breather. We care about you.
I can’t get past the pic on the top of the thread…Ah jus can’t dew it, Capn!
Based on the horrors over at ZombieTime, I have created a new twist on the Miller jingle.
——————-
When it’s time to relax.
One beer stands clear.
Queer after Queer.
If you’ve got the lube,
we’ve got the beer!
Miller Beer!
San Francisco should be sealed off and sold to China as a bombing range.
I didn’t look at the pics either; I get the drift. All I can think of is they dis-respected our brave Marine Corp by not allowing them to film a commercial, but they allow this!?!?! Are these REALLY freedoms of “expression” the Founders wanted us to protect? What would George Washington say about this??
Not big on boycotts, but since I don’t like Miller beer anyway, this one should be easy.
This Wyoming boy is a little traumatized right now. Fetch me the eye soap!
You know…..I have been thinking……LOL………Judgement Day is gonna be a blast!
These are the same people who accuse the President, because of his religious beliefs, of taking actions that would accelerate the world to the “end of days”.
aj….you don’t have to look….but if you do, you will have nightmares.
I wish I drank so I could boycott Miller.
LoneRanger…LMAO!
Taken from the “last supper ad story” on Millers web site. extreme members? r u kidding me?!!!!
This guy is a brain Donor for sure.
Whoever has me in the pool for look/no look, no-looks odds are getting better.
I’m chicken.
Wonder what would happen to their bottom line of all the “extreme members of the global community” would stop drinking their poor excuse for beer.
Whew! Some real marketing guenius’ there.
Judging from the Folsom Street pictures, the attendees all seemed what their cups were full of. The beer was merely a distraction for one hand while the other groped other’s cups with abandon.
It’s actually harder not to order one of those Pizza Hut Pizza’s to bad it’s only 7am.
aj,
Don’t do it man!…You’ll hate yourself in the morning.
Augustine ,I think that quote came from the Pres. of the board of dir. for the Folsom street fair. his name is Copper not Miller Brewing.
Not surprisingly, bear, you are wrong about the law. The tax code does not forbid any type of advocacy (I assume by this you mean lobbying). Without boring anyone with the details two tests (”no substantial part” or 501(h) election), Charities are in fact able to do a fair amount of it before their exempt-status is threatened. Plus there are a ton of exceptions (self-defense lobbying) or things that are not considered lobbying (education without specifically advocating legislation) to the point where the limits usually meaningless.
What is totally proscribed is campaigning for candidates (which is why contributions to moveon or swiftboat, which I believe are 501(c)(4) entities, are not deductible). But the biggest violators of this proscription are usually Christian churches/organizations where blatant campaigning for whomever the pastor, minister, priest, etc… feels is the best candidate occurs often. Not saying it doesn’t happen with orgs on the left. Just saying it happens a lot more in church.
aj said:
OOOOPS! My bad. Thanks aj! Augustine retracts comment #82.
ajmontana this is one of the cases where it is best not to look. I am still trying to find enough happy thoughts to make the images go away. It was almost hypnotic, kind of like looking at a train wreck, you don’t want to see it, but you can’t pull your eyes away. I’m just grateful I didn’t unblur the pictures.
Here is the link I should have included, click on the ‘pulls logo ad’ for the story.
miller beer institute
LOL Boomer, still holding out.
I sent them this e-mail:
Miller brewing company, proud sponsor of a public pornographic street fair? I never thought I’d see the day when an American corporation would be permitted to sponsor illegal public indecency. I always thought that parading around city streets in the nude, engaging it acts of sodomy, and other lude things was against the law. That sort of “lifestyle” as well as other pornographic material and activity should be carried out in the privacy of one’s own home, not a main thoroughfare where children can be exposed to it. ARE YOU PEOPLE NUTS???
I love the warning on your site:
“You may not post or transmit to this Web site any unlawful, pornographic, obscene, profane, defamatory, libelous, threatening or otherwise objectionable material”
Try practicing what you preach, hypocrites. In the meantime, I’m switching to Budweiser.
ajmontana #62, thought you would be interested in which politicians are benefiting from Miller’s Political Action Committee contributions. In 2006, Miller gave $112,000 to federal candidates - 33% to Democrats; 67% to Republicans. Boxer, Pelosi and Feinstein got $0. The big money winners were John Boehner R-OH and George Allen R-VA. Likewise with Altria (former Phillip Morris, which owns 30% of Miller). In 2006, its PAC contributed $986,500 to federal candidates - 34% to Democrats; 66% to Republicans. Far ahead in the big money pack was Henry Bonilla R-TX at $16000. Twelve others received $10,000 - 4 Democrats and 8 Republicans. Boxer, Pelosi and Feinstein also didn’t receive money from the Altria PAC; however, Vitter, Craig and Foley did. You can get the full list of who received what at: http://www.opensecrets.org/pacs/ So, I guess some of the proceeds from all the beer sales at least went to a good cause?
it’s simple, folks. Miller’s the Mouthwash.
Thanks les, but the two headed monster Boxer/Feinstein wont win me over, ever. I guess its a three headed monster. left off Pelosi. my bad.
adding it is good to see some going to good use. thanks….
I don’t get the concern. Miller taste like pea. Seems fitting that they would sponser such an event.
M was yesterday ashamed for the comments made on Tuesday’s The View, and rightly felt sorry for Nancy and Paul Pelosi.
I think it would be entirely appropriate to now call on the Speaker of the House to denounce this event and to call for immediate federal legislation to ban ALL nudity and sexual acts (that means you too, Mr. Bill) from public places and to forbid the temporary designation of public places as “private” for events such as the Folsom Street Fair.
This is an embarrassment to the nation, an affront to God and a moral cancer that must be killed.
M - lead the way and your troops will follow! Everyone should take the time, today, to email Pelosi your desire to see immediate legislation.
I thought indecent exposure was against the law. If they allow this then how can lawmakers even think of making a law against baggy pants.
I saw Zombie’s pics yesterday. What I noticed right away was that some of the “gadgets” available made no secret of their underlying hostility and contempt for religions, Christianity in particular.
So that “Last Supper” poster mockery wasn’t a fluke, or a “misunderstanding.” These are people who “celebrate” themselves through mockery of who and what they hate.
Telling, though, what one major religion they showed no animosity toward… the same one that’d have them all put to death.
I’ve heard it said that the best way to set back by years if not decades the open acceptance of homosexuality in society is to simply let them engage in public displays of their “alternative lifestyle.” Zombie’s photos are persuasive evidence in support of that statement.
Still have heard nothing from Miller’s parent, SAB Miller.
But it gets better. Listed among their top 10 Corporate Priorities is conbating AIDS/HIV. http://www.sabmiller.com/sabmiller.com/en_gb/Our+responsibility/Our+priorities/HIV+Aids/
Large corporations spend millions of dollars every year to promote themselves as good corporate citizens. The practical realization in the boardroom is that the companies reputation is critical to its future sales.
It only takes one bad event to put that multi-million dollar investment at risk. And whether that is money down the drain depends on how the company deals with the controversey.
What Miller did here was to sponsir a fringe of a fringe group loosely associated with the gay community. They certainly did no favors for the gay community in the Bay area by providing funds and credibility to such a group.
It will be interesting to see how SAB Miller handles this mess. If they choose to ignore it, I suppose we can surmise that “SAB” really is an arconym for “Sadism And Bondage” brewing.
On October 5th, 2007 at 11:32 am, xler8bmw said:
I thought indecent exposure was against the law. If they allow this then how can lawmakers even think of making a law against baggy pants.
I think that would be a great idea especially since the Democrats in Washington have no problem trying to censure the free speech rights of Rush Limbaugh, surely they would have no problem condemning the despicable debauchery of the Folsom street fair.
Unfortunately the Queen of the house who’s district is San Francisco has known full well not only what happens in Folsom but also the goings on in the gay pride parade in downtown SF which believe it or not is worse than Folsom and has been an ongoing debacle for a long time.
I doubt there will be a condemnation of public sex acts (I don’t care what they declare the town square to be).
But hey, Rush, no problem, he doesn’t deserve free speech.
Indeed Regulus…the crucifix ‘gadget’ is satanic…it breaks my heart that such a thing even exists.
Savage was talking about how some of the gay floggings were done right in front a Catholic Church. I’m reminded of the the first sorrowful mystery of the rosary…the agony in the garden…where Christ felt so abandoned…
Does not apply in SF. This stuff goes on a lot. I actually heard that their was another street fair, far worse than this the other day (the name escapes me).
I still can’t believe Gavin included an open letter to the public (come one, come all - people, families, etc) in the pamphlet of this event….well, actually, maybe I can.
Yeah, when Hell freezes over.
At.A.Loss.For.Words
I haven’t seen that much oral pleasuring in public since Al Gore’s global warming testimony on Capitol Hill!
/rimshot
California Penal Code §314
“Every person who willfully and lewdly, either:
1. Exposes his person, or the private parts thereof, in any public place, or in any place where there are present other persons to be offended or annoyed thereby; or,
2. Procures, counsels, or assists any person so to expose himself or take part in any other exhibition of himself to public view, or the view of any number of persons, such as is offensive to decency, or is adapted to excite to vicious or lewd thoughts or acts, is guilty of a misdemeanor. Every person who violates subdivision 1 of this section after having entered, without consent, an inhabited dwelling house, or trailer couch as defined in Section 635 of the Vehicle Code, or the inhabited portion of any other building, is punishable by imprisonment in the state prison, or in the county jail not exceeding one year. Upon the second and each subsequent conviction under subdivision 1 of this section, or upon a first conviction under subdivision 1 of this section after a previous conviction under Section 288, every person so convicted is guilty of a felony, and is punishable by imprisonment in state prison.”
xler8bmw:
I completely understand your point, but to be honest, when you have the city council wackos and certain members of the public bullying the SFPD about discrimination etc. and your District Attorney comes from a Communist background…It ain’t getting prosecuted. Period.
Cops are treated like dirt here. We have twice as many IA investigations as any other department and let me let you in on a little secret. It’s NOT the cops.
I can guarantee you they steer clear of arresting folks at the FSF, and for good reason. If they make an arrest for public indecency at a gay event like the FSF, no doubt they will be blamed for being anti-gay and have to sit through an internal affairs investigation despite the fact a good number of the police officers on the force in SF are gay.
PS. If I go the rest of my life without seeing a grown man in butt-less chaps it will be too soon.
Wow Fee didn’t realize it was that bad in SF. At least NYC has a little decency
(Head in hands)- Yep.
First of all… look everyone I am just as disgusted by this as the rest of you but those who are advocating the “bombing” “9.9 earthquakes” and other incidents that cause injury, death and destruction to the residents of San Francisco are as equally out there and wrong as Code Pink extremists.
I spent most of my life in San Francisco and believe it or not… a majority of us DO NOT support this extreme behavior or other extreme liberal policies. When will the GOP present viable candidates and invest the resources required to have opposition voices in SF??
If the majority of the people of SF do not condone this kind of debauchery then why and how is it happening? How come the majority is not voting these elected officials who allow this kind of thing to happen, out of office? Any society that allows this kind of thing to happen is doomed. No society can survive this cancer for long. I shudder to think of the future of this country. We are destroying ourselves from within while the hordes are sitting on our backdoor step just waiting for the chance to come in, and I don’t just mean the Mexican border!
Been out here my whole life as well, and there are NO viable GOP candidates (just by virtue of being in the GOP)that SF would/will embrace).
Politics here mean you look the other way to all the things MM reports about. If Pelosi, Feinstein, Boxer or Newsome spoke out against ANYTHING you’ve seen on this website, they minus well hand in their resignation letter.
All people care about here are two things (and not even objectively at that):
1. What is your position on war or the military?
2. What is your position on gays and gay adoption?
If either one of your answers are even SLIGHTLY restrictive to their agenda….well buh, bye!
I agree, not everyone is like this…but the people who run things here are the people who are on the left. And sadly, I don’t see that changing anytime soon.
Sometimes I feel like we are Vichy France out here….we let them take over…shame on us.
SF definitely needs some conservative values. We conservatives are all about the consequences and this little block would have brought many of them!
Look at those pics and tell me homosexuality is not a mental illness.
All of this makes me unspeakably sad. I grew up in the San Francisco Bay Area in the 1970’s when it was proud of its military at NAS Moffett Field, the Presidio, NAS Alameda…and Fleet Week or a visit from the Blue Angels was a big fat family fun deal. My dad flew P-3’s, and my t-shirt proudly proclaimed same. In just a generation, my hometown has become a bastion of indecency and anti-military sentiment. Although I’ve moved many times since then (Navy junior, then Army wife) it’s difficult to rectify my childhood memories with the obvious disdain for our values shown at this event. Depressing…
Ditto’s Lone Ranger…it is depravity run to its extreme…and no it is not normal…the operative term here is “sin.”
Romans 1:27-29 (NIV)
27In the same way the men also abandoned natural relations with women and were inflamed with lust for one another. Men committed indecent acts with other men, and received in themselves the due penalty for their perversion.
28Furthermore, since they did not think it worthwhile to retain the knowledge of God, he gave them over to a depraved mind, to do what ought not to be done. 29They have become filled with every kind of wickedness, evil, greed and depravity. They are full of envy, murder, strife, deceit and malice.
We can all agree that this deal in SF is ridiculous and frankly, disgusting. I think Rick Moran and RetFireman hit the nail on the head in their respective posts. However, my experience with the gay community in various parts of this country (including SF) tells me that this kind of stuff reflects a very small minority of that community. There are all kinds of similarly sexually offensive events that occur in the heterosexual community (watch “Real Sex” sometime on HBO for example, not that I’ve ever seen it).
Like I said, Moran and RetFireman got it right. bear1909, sorry, but if you really believe what you’ve posted, yes, you are indeed a homophobe. Augustine, sorry to you as well. Quoting anit-homosexual doesn’t let you off the hook, rather it just makes you look like kind of a cowardly bigot who hides behind religion as an excuse for his bigotry. Sorry, just calling it as I see it.