i got me some high high boots with a hip hugger skirt

now go on wit your bad self!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

oh shite

don't let the first five seconds of the guitarist scare y'all. the drells ARE THERE (as is archie)

this is very good news

although i do my damnedest NOT to read the huffington post (she just really bothers me. the other writers usually don't though. it's the idea of HER. she gets under my skin. i simply cannot stomach her).

i'll start reading it on a regular basis now i guess

Dan Froomkin hired by The Huffington Post

Glenn Greenwald

In yet another sign of how online media outlets are strengthening as their older establishment predecessors are struggling to survive, The Huffington Post has hired Dan Froomkin to be its Washington Bureau Chief and regular columnist/blogger. Froomkin will oversee a staff of four five reporters and an Assistant Editor, guide The Huffington Post's Washington reporting, and write at least two posts per week to be featured on its main page and Politics page. I learned last night of the hiring and spoke to both Arianna Huffington and Froomkin this morning........

do i think they're ALL racists?

almost to a fault. yes, i do

Vice chair of Young Republicans caught laughing at ‘coon’ joke

By Raw Story
........................

Audra Shay, Vice Chair of the Young Republicans, replied to a comment on her Facebook page which declared the “need to take this country back from all of these mad coons” with “You tell em Eric! lol.”

The remark was caught by John Avlon at The Daily Beast. A screenshot of the Facebook comment can be seen here. Avlon says that Shay is the most likely candidate to be elected chair of the Young Republican group.

“On Wednesday, Shay—a 38-year-old Army veteran, mother, and event planner from Louisiana who has been endorsed by her governor, Bobby Jindal—was holding court on her Facebook page, initiating a political conversation by posting that ‘WalMart just signed a death warrant’ by ‘endorsing Obama’s healthcare plan,’” Avlon notes. “At 1:52, a friend named listed as Eric S. Piker, but whose personal page says his actual name is Eric Pike, wrote ‘It’s the government making us commies… can’t even smoke in my damn car… whats next they going to issue toilet paper once a month… tell us how to wipe our asses…’”

Piker then posted again. “Obama Bin Lauden [sic] is the new terrorist,” he penned. “Muslim is on there side [sic]… need to take this country back from all of these mad coons… and illegals.”

In reply, Shay wrote: “You tell em Eric! lol.”.............

more (and it's hard to believe it's 2009 sometimes)

why are we allowing ourselves to be portrayed in the media like this? i've posted many times on burger king, bacardi and more. how they portray women. how they objectify and sex-i-fy us (tis ok to be 'sexy' but NOT how THEY are doing it. a bunch of ad MEN fucking with our images. not just no but HELL NO

let's stop this disgusting shite. i can't stop eating at carl jrs for a couple of reasons. 1) i don't think there are any in connecticut and 2) i'm vegan

ok my sisters and brothers. we buy fast food sometimes (well some of us do). let's NOT buy carl's jr (or burger king for that matter). if enough of us STOP buying their products perhaps they'll get the idea that women want to be seen as more than HOT OR NOT HOT (chicks). that women have feelings and brains and are not there simply as an image to be masterbated at or to

Carl's Jr. seeks "Hot Chicks Eating Burgers" on craigslist
Samhita linked to this campaign briefly last week, but we've got more to say about this.

That's right, folks. A reader alerted us to this craigslist ad casting call from Carl's Jr. and Hardee's burgers telling women that they could win $1,000 and a trip to Vegas if they submit a video of themselves eating one of their burgers and is "hot" enough for their marketing campaign.

Between Burger King's recent sick tactics and Carl's Jr. history of substituting women as meat in their ads, I don't think I'll be eating a burger for quite some time.

Carl's Jr.'s tagline is literally "More than just a piece of meat." So let's send them an email letting them know what that actually means to us. Or perhaps we can think of a good counter-campaign by sending them videos of what we really think of Carl's Jr. Any bright ideas?.........

a shout out to cory doctrow and little brother

which coincidentially i ordered from my book club a couple of days ago. that and the next two books in the anita blake series by laurell k hamilton (books 9 and 10 that will be for me. i've got about 30 pages left of book 6 and i have 7 and 8 sitting in my car).

here's a lil somethin' somethin' bout little brother

as you can see it's available for FREE but i'm buying it. i'm also smiling because it is both free AND can be bought as well

Little Brother wins the Prometheus Award for libertarian science fiction
Posted by Cory Doctorow,
Wouldya lookit that! I've won the Libertarian Futurist's Society's Prometheus Award for my novel Little Brother! As with all the other awards LB has been up for this year, I'm even more honored by the company I'm in than the award itself; this year's Prometheus nominees included Charlie Stross's Saturn's Children, Matter by Iain Banks, The January Dancer by Michael Flyn, Opening Atlantis by Harry Turtledove, and Half a Crown, the wrenching conclusion to Jo Walton brilliant Farthing/Ha'penny alternate history trilogy. And this year's Prometheus Hall of Fame winner was Tolkien's Lord of the Rings. These books and these writers are all incredibly humbling company to find oneself among. .........

watch what you tweet (really)

but this clip IS funny
@aroseisarose (should you wish to know)
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this is good to know

peeps are working on Haystack, anti-censorship tool specifically for users in Iran, to launch soon.

i am so smiling

can't really find a video for this but man, this is THE best, ain't it?
you better stop tryin' tryin' to run my bid-nez.........................or i'll have to do what i hate to do
............hey watch out!


oh this is on the very same album (there are a few seconds of something NOT butterbeans and susie prior to them starting. wait it out, it's worth it)


i have it on vinyl. it's called stars of the apollo

big maybelle

and hilarity ensued

i think this woman will continue to provide humor for YEARS AND YEARS AND YEARS to come!

from wonkette! (this really really really ISSSSSSSSSSSSSSS great!)


Insane Sarah Palin, Late At Night On July 4, Threatens To Sue Entire Internet, Via Twitter
How did you spend the Fourth of July? Maybe having a BBQ with friends and family, watching a fireworks show, and generally enjoying a happy patriotic holiday? Batshit-insane American Quitter Sarah Palin ended her own special “Independence Day” by posting a series of desperate grammar-challenged nonsense and vicious threats on her Facebook and Twitter pages. Really.

(Also: Sarah, you idiot, when do you plan to give up your Twitter name AKGovSarahPalin? Because, you know, you just quit being governor ….)

It is unwise to dwell on the past or be obsessed with an unknown future, but we should all appreciate the wonderful present — a present in which Sarah Palin is nothing more than a punchline. Because, had things gone very differently in November, this dangerous delusional numbskull would’ve been just an Ambien overdose away from the presidency..........

here is an article on sunscreens

update on JULY 10 2009: AFTER MY
cryosurgery

and i felt it appropriate for me to post it. i discovered i had cancer (i was in such a state of shock i didn't write down exactly what the doctor said). you may have looked at the pictures of my newest knitting fairy tattoo, which i posted not too long ago. well one of her shoes not only didn't heal, the skin started to raise. after a couple of weeks (3 actually), i called to make an appointment with a dermatologist. well the first one i called couldn't see me till december (eff that, what if i was stupid enough to wait???????). the second could see me in about a month. i opted for that one. i went to see him and he said to me, 'that's cancer'. that was THE LAST thing i expected. i though perhaps i was allergic to the color ink they used OR an ingrown hair or two. i NEVER EVER though cancer. never. i have to go back this thursday and get more taken off.

(oh, start thinking about how i can fix her up when the wounds heal. i really am going to get the scars covered in more ink)

pics are sort of disgusting but i wanted to chronicle my ordeal. when i get the exact results from the biopsy i'll post exactly what it is. like i said, i was in SUCH a state...........

(oh the tattoo had NOTHING to do with the cancer. the doc claims it was a total coincidence)

Sunscreen's Shady Business

Are you getting burned by sunny claims?

—By Kiera Butler

"DON'T BE A PALEFACE!" That was the slogan for an iconic 1958 Coppertone ad—the one with the frisky puppy tugging at the pigtailed girl's bathing suit, revealing her perfect tan line. Not anymore. In the past 30 years, the incidence of melanoma, the most deadly form of skin cancer, has jumped 159 percent, and in just the past decade, the number of Americans diagnosed with skin cancer has increased by nearly a third. Epidemiologists blame several factors—ozone depletion, migration to the Sunbelt, the popularity of tanning beds and tropical vacations. Whatever the reason, the skin-care industry hasn't missed a beat: Transforming suntan lotion into sunscreen and sunblock, it's gone from promising sun worshippers enviably rich tans to guaranteeing solarphobes no color at all.

So if you've ventured into the sun protection aisle lately, you've probably noticed a distinct shortage of fun in the sun. "...........

don't care, they both make me smile (and warm)

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he doesn't give a flying yoo hoo

he's got HIS INSURANCE COVERAGE (and a whole lot more)

he sounds like a real peach

if i ever watched racing (and i really never did) it was formula one over nascar. now of course, i won't even think about watching. what a piece of shite this dude is

how the eff can he be where he is with thoughts and words like these?

dangerous AND a steamin' pile

Formula One boss expresses admiration for Hitler

By Agence France-Presse
LONDON: Formula One commercial rights holder, Bernie Ecclestone, on Saturday stoked up controversy by praising Adolf Hitler for being a man who “was able to get things done“.

In an interview with The Times newspaper, Ecclestone praised strong leadership and said that he preferred totalitarian regimes to democracies.

Ecclestone said: “In a lot of ways, terrible to say this I suppose, but apart from the fact that Hitler got taken away and persuaded to do things that I have no idea whether he wanted to do or not, he was in the way that he could command a lot of people, able to get things done..........

here are some other 'witty' remarks the gatsu piedi made: from espn

..............

Ecclestone, who owns F1's commercial rights, is no stranger to controversial remarks. He once said women should dress in white "like all other domestic appliances."

In The Times interview, Ecclestone said that had been a joke, adding: "I would love to have a good lady race driver and preferably black and Jewish, too, but they might take maternity leave."...............

holy shite, you MUST look at these fallen princesses

wow
wow
and
wow

amazing


there is no happily ever after

By Graeme McMillan

..................Dina Goldstein's photo series Fallen Princesses revisits the origins of classic fairy tale heroines and finds things not exactly as we remember them from childhood tales.................

cool cool site

sixty symbols

videos about the symbols of physics and astronomy

check it out!!!!!!!!!!!

a day late, but i know i'll be hearing fireworks

tonight as well



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you GOTTA love grace

especially if she is hula hooping to slave to the rhythm




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wilco-i love them

as a matter of fact, in my pandora mix (for the past couple of weeks that is) i only have two artists (of course pandora mixes MORE than just the tw0) otis redding and wilco. it's a grand mix. it really is. try it, you won't be disappointed.

anyway, it perusing the nyt right now, i spied this jeff tweedy article (yup in the nyt). check it out

Torture-Free but Still a Rock Star



By DAVID CARR

SITTING at a Father’s Day barbecue on the day before a sold-out three-night stand at the Wiltern Theater here, Jeff Tweedy of Wilco was talking about his 13-year-old son, Spencer, a drummer in a rock band called the Blisters. Over the past five years Mr. Tweedy, the son of a railroad worker from St. Louis, whose toes touched bottom on the way to rock greatness, had come to an understanding about himself that applies to Spencer too: “I told him: ‘You are not a rock star. You get to do rock star things.’ ”

In his button-down shirt and with a Brewers cap hiding a mop of hair while he talked in a borrowed office a few steps from a friend’s party, he couldn’t have seemed less the alt-rock god. Still, it took him some painful years to find a place to stand between the nice guy at the barbecue and the bandleader at the Wiltern. .........................



pic: Kevin Scanlon for The New York Times

From left, John Stirratt, Pat Sansone, Glenn Kotche, Mikael Jorgensen, Nels Cline and Jeff Tweedy of Wilco at the Wiltern Theater in Los Angeles, where the band recently played three shows.

12 disturbing vintage ads (and they really ARE)

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week in review from media matters

hhhhhhmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmm

b b b ba byyyyyyyyyyyyyyyeeeeeeeeeeeeeee

Gov. Palin Says She Will Quit, Citing Probes, Family Needs

By Philip Rucker and Eli Saslow

Washington Post Staff Writers
Sarah Palin, the Republican Alaska governor who captivated the nation with a combative brand of folksy politics, announced her resignation yesterday in characteristic fashion: She stood on her back lawn in Wasilla, speaking into a single microphone, accompanied by friends and neighbors in baseball hats and polo shirts. ..........


and from the brad blog
EXCLUSIVE: PALIN RESIGNATION 'DAMAGE CONTROL' FOR COMING 'ICEBERG SCANDAL' ... MORE: EMBEZZLEMENT INDICTMENTS COMING?

UPDATED: Alaskan reporter Shannyn Moore offers The BRAD BLOG hints about reasons for Alaska Gov's resignation

FURTHER UPDATE: Sources say embezzlement scandal, federal indictments may soon break concerning use of Wasilla Sport Complex building materials for Palin's home...

[See update below for exclusive source details from Alaska...FURTHER UPDATE now added below: AK sources say 'embezzlement' scandal related to Palin's house, federal indictments may be in offing. MUCH MORE now added below...]

Palin resigns. She was to have been in office until 2010. Something else is going on here above and beyond what she's saying, though I don't know what yet. Josh Marshall seems to agree, noting in his "first signs of what happened" coverage:

[T]his clearly happened so quickly that Palin hasn't even had a chance to come up with a coherent cover story for her resignation. ... Remember that based on the public record, Palin is a wildly unethical public official, guilty at a minimum of numerous instances of abusing her authority as governor............

yeah she was 'targeted' all right. the woman has the brain of a gnat. she's like water. nothing sticks to her (yet).

i just got finished watching the seven episodes

of generation kill on hbo on demand

A TRUE STORY
AN AMAZING STORY
A STORY THAT HURTS TO WATCH


it's a seven episode series which takes place at the beginning of our (illegal and immoral) invasion of iraq. evan wright was a reporter with rolling stone magazine. he was embedded with the 1st Reconnaissance Battalion‎ of the United States Marine Corps. i don't believe he ever would have been accepted by the men (at least as much as he was) if in the past he had not written for hustler magazine. that won 'em over as you can imagine.

it's not a story about heroes and villians (although i personally did think some were one or the other). just men who had a job to do and most of them tried their best to do it.

if you have hbo, i highly recommend watching it (it was on about a year ago, but it's on demand right now). if you don't, rent or buy the dvd. i certainly am going to buy the book.

Alexander Skarsgård (who played sgt brad 'iceman' colbert) and James Ransone (who played cpl. josh ray person) were the focus of the series. althought it did feature the entire unit. as i said, some were noble and moral, others were assholes.

imdb entry for generation kill
wiki entry for generation kill
generation kill the book
an npr report with evan wright from 2004

sometimes i forget just how much i love this song

via boing boing Posted by David Pescovitz,

wowwwwwwwwwwwwwwww

robo geisha trailer will leave you speechless

one of my all time favorite subjects

Scientists tour the Creationism Museum
Posted by Cory Doctorow,

Tony sez, "Recently, a group of paleontologists were in town for the North American Paleontological Convention at the University of Cincinnati, and decided to take a field trip to the Creation Museum just across the river, in Kentucky. My aunt went to cover it for AFP, and I had the doubly good fortune of living just a stone's throw away, so I tagged along to see what these guys were up to. It was an eyeful, to say the least. Gorgeous facilities with amazingly engaging displays and animatronics, and at least a few hundred cubic cubits of bad science and misinformation. One young lady stood, furious, and grumbled, 'It's bullshit. Bullshit pretending to be science.'..............

....................Daryl Domning, professor of anatomy at Howard University, held his chin and shook his head at several points during the tour. "This bothers me as a scientist and as a Christian, because it's just as much a distortion and misrepresentation of Christianity as it is of science," he said...................

i want to run away and join

the moscow cat circus


NOTE: i refuse to go to the circus if animals are involved. however, these cats look VERY well taken care of and it appears they are quite loved as well

oh smokin' wicked cool!

boym partners

history chess

yeah faux 'news' and it's guests

really ARE saying the only chance we have is for terrorists to blow our country to smithereens. what's wrong with THAT picture?

don't ask don't tell....but go ahead and kill 'em!

don't ask don't tell MUST be thrown out. if someone is a good soldier, sailor, airman, marine or whatever, they not only should be allowed to serve, they should be WELCOMED to serve. discrimination is steeped in fear and ignorance plain and simple!

president obama, STOP THIS SHITE RIGHT NOW. GET RID OF THIS STUPIDASS LAW/POLICY

As gay discharges continue, sailor is murdered

By John Byrne

A 29-year-old Navy sailor was found dead at a Southern California military base Tuesday in a suspected homicide that activists say may have been related to his sexuality.

An unnamed individual is being held as a “person of interest” in the case.

Navy seaman August Provost of Houston, Texas, reportedly complained to his family that was he being harassed; his sister told a local newspaper that they’d advised him to tell his supervisor. If Provost revealed his sexuality, however, he could have been discharged from the armed services.

The news comes on the heels of the military’s recommended discharge of gay Arabic translator Daniel Choi, and discontent within the gay community about the Obama Administration’s actions on gay rights. President Obama says he will not stop the military discharges, which have resulted in the expulsion of more than 250 servicemembers since he was inaugurated in January.

A spokesman for a group that provides legal counseling to gays in and out of the military said the federal law that mandates discharging gay servicemembers certainly didn’t help............

one of my favorite songs of ALL times

skip to 2:30 so you don't have to hear her blather. shite the woman CAN sing (so can mary j of course)

VERY cool ad

via gizmodo

By John Herrman,
Amnesty International has installed a new anti-domestic-abuse ad fixture in Hamburg, Germany which is equal parts clever and shocking: when you look at the photo, it's a smiling couple; when you look away, it's a dude punchin' a lady.

The billboard works by scanning its proximity with an eye-tracking camera, which triggers an image switch on the display panel when it senses someone looking at it. The change only occurs after a brief delay, so that observers understand what's going on, and get the message..................

holy shite

via tywkiwdbi

another - different kind of - post it note video:

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sally kern....do you know what i have to say to you?

you're one fucked up bio-tch. that's what i have to say to you.

what does being gay have to do with the downfall of the universe? 'splain that to me lucy sally.

what IS morality sally? what is it i ask you? to me it's being concerned about your neighbors. yes sally even if that neighbor is jewish or black or a lesbian or muslim or asian or short or fat or blue eyed or bald.

hey sally did god talk DIRECTLY to you and tell you to be stupid? i was wondering that. why else would you say ridiculous shite like you do?

did god tell you to ignore poverty and disease and lack of food and shelter for some and poor education for some and lack of medical care for some and the loss of jobs for some and our men and women in the military being used for target practice for years in the middle east...did your god tell you to ignore all that and just go around talking shite? sally, i want to know

Oklahoma Rep’s ‘proclamation’ blames gays, porn, abortion for economic woes

By Daniel Tencer
Oklahoma State Representative Sally Kern, probably best known for her comparison of homosexuality to toe cancer, has ignited controversy once again with her “Oklahoma Citizen’s Proclamation for Morality,” a document that blames America’s current economic crisis on “our greater national moral crisis.”

The document (PDF) blames “abortion, pornography, same sex marriage, sex trafficking, divorce, illegitimate births, child abuse and many other forms of debauchery” for the country’s economic woes.

To rectify the problem, it suggests the following solution: “BE IT RESOLVED that we, the undersigned, humbly call upon Holy God, our Creator, Sustainer, and Redeemer, to have mercy on this nation, to stay His hand of judgment, and grant a national awakening of righteousness and Christian renewal as we repent of our great sin.”

Though Kern’s proclamation reads like a latter-day version of a tribal appeal to the gods for rain, it is being taken very seriously, especially among gay-rights groups...........

doesn't anyone understand the enormity of

what we have actually done here? how we illegally and immorally invaded a country who posed no threat to us (nor ever attacked us OR EVEN WANTED TO ATTACK US)? we made countless enemies not only in that country but many others. WE LITERALLY CREATED TERRORISTS OUT OF ORDINARY CITIZENS. we destroyed millions of lives by our invasion of iraq. not only the lives of strangers but the lives of american women and men who, if 'lucky' enough to survive being sent over there ONCE, TWICE, THREE TIMES, FOUR TIMES OR PERHAPS FIVE TIMES, certainly are coming home either physically fucked or mentally fucked (how could you NOT be?)?

why did we allow those mad men (king george and his court) to do this to the ENTIRE world? we did. we allowed it. there is NO taking backsies either

Iraq's 'Milestone' Day Marred by Fatal Blast
Car Bombing Kills at Least 34 in Kirkuk As U.S. Combat Troops Pull Out of Cities

By Ernesto Londoño and Ann Scott Tyson

Washington Post Foreign Service
BAGHDAD, June 30 -- At least 34 people were killed in a car bombing Tuesday in the northern Iraqi city of Kirkuk, marring a national holiday declared to celebrate the departure of U.S. combat troops from the country's cities.

Also Tuesday, the U.S. military announced the deaths of four soldiers Monday in an attack south of Baghdad, a grim reminder of the vulnerability of U.S. troops as more of them are deployed to rural outposts.

The car bomb in Kirkuk detonated shortly after 6 p.m. at Shorja Market, wounding scores of shoppers and damaging several shops, Iraqi police officials said. Farhad Aziz al-Barzanji, a physician at Kirkuk's Azadi Hospital, said 91 people were injured.........