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Trivial Pursuit and the War Between the Sexes

amy this one is for you

via the WONDERFUL site of tywkiwdbi

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on the streets of tel aviv, via


Laundry Installation By Dag Designlab

this needs no set up

they'd ALL be in jail if this happened here

they should ALL be in jail over there too (well almost all of them). anyone who ALLOWS an 8 year old girl to be wed that is. 8, 13, 15, it doesn't matter. it's pedophilia and it's WRONG.

the country has one of the highest rates of maternal mortality in the world according to the article linked below.

yet, the world lets this happen (and worse, here, there, and everywhere)

Child brides' enduring plight

Problem illustrates hold of tribal doctrines

By Sudarsan Raghavan

SANAA, YEMEN -- Ayesha rested her head on the doctor's desk. She had removed her black veil, revealing a round face contorted in pain. She had married a 53-year-old man when she was 13. Now 15, she wanted her childhood back. She clutched her sides and groaned.

It was 3:30 p.m. in Arwa Elrabee's office. The gynecologist looked at Ayesha and shook her head. She knew Ayesha's pain was as much psychological as it was physical.

"I don't want to be married," Ayesha explained, her mother standing next to her.

"Why did you marry her off so early?" the doctor demanded. "Why didn't you allow her to continue her education?"

"It wasn't me. It was her father," Ayesha's mother replied. "He wanted to marry her off."............

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i'll give you a living doll all right

found via

ok, i could tell she was at least PART ridgeback

once again via

(via)

want!

but at 100.00 it's rather steep for a

skeleton key

from tadgear

oh effing holy horseshite

you know i try to laugh at these id-jits but this really IS too far. the president of the united states of america declared he is sending 30,000+ MORE of our men and women into harm's way (i'm not even going to discuss that further right here right now, but you can imagine how i feel) AND THIS HAMBONE MAYOR OF MAYBERRY (and i mean NO offense to mayberry) SAID BARACK OBAMA CHOSE THAT NIGHT TO GIVE HIS SPEECH (sending 30,000 into what may be their hell) TO preempt THE FUCKING PEANUTS CHRISTMAS SPECIAL (and i mean no disrespect to the peanuts christmas special. THE ONLY disrespect i have is for russell wiseman (who is NOT a fucking wise man in MY opinion)

oh shite really. really? is this for real?

TN mayor blames ‘Muslim’ Obama for Peanuts Christmas pre-empt

The mayor of Arlington, Tennessee, believes he knows exactly why President Barack Obama chose last Tuesday night to announce his Afghanistan troop surge: It was a nefarious plot by the "Muslim" president to pre-empt that night's broadcast of A Charlie Brown Christmas.

Russell Wiseman, mayor of Memphis suburb Arlington, suggested in a Facebook posting that Obama wanted to obscure the traditional Christmas TV special's Christian message. And in what the Memphis Commercial Appeal described as "an extensive thread that attacked the president," Wiseman also said that Obama supporters "need to move to a Muslim country ... oh wait, that's America ... pitiful."

This is how the Commercial Appeal transcribed Wiseman's Facebook posting, which is accessible only to the mayor's Facebook friends:

Ok, so, this is total crap, we sit the kids down to watch 'The Charlie Brown Christmas Special' and our muslim [sic] president is there, what a load ... try to convince me that wasn't done on purpose. Ask the man if he believes that Jesus Christ is the Son of God and he will give you a 10 minute disertation [sic] about it....[w]hen the answer should simply be 'yes'...................

and from the commercial appeal itself (geeze, i wonder what this means massa):

Arlington mayor fires at Obama online

Tags president as a Muslim on Facebook

............At another point he said, "you know, our forefathers had it written in the original Constitution that ONLY property owners could vote, if that has stayed in there, things would be different........".....

(of course SLAVES were never property owners were they?????????)

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i happened to hear this dude being interviewed on npr

on my way home from work the other day (it was a VERY long day. i usually leave early because i get in at about 3:30 am. i had to stay until a bit after 4 pm due to a meeting i HAD to attend. then when i left work i had to go to the grocery store. NOT for MY groceries mind you but for work. i had volunteered to conduct a team building exercise that included lunch. oh, that went well by the way. BUT my point is i was exhausted and i forgot all about hearing this man on npr until i just now came across this..........)

here are but a few

portraits of world leaders
‘Portraits of Power’ is a photo project of Platon, a staff photographer working for The New Yorker.
He took great portraits of various presidents, prime ministers, dictators… during a meeting of the United Nations in New York.
Watch them, it’s interesting, and maybe you will learn some stuff…

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i love this painting

saw it at feministing

Denver Art Museum Displays Alternative Masculinities

............Fatherhood by Wes Hempel

Hempel on his current body of work:

I've actively cultivated this traditional look for a number of reasons. One of my ongoing projects (which I've written about at length elsewhere) is a re-visioning of what art history might have looked like had homosexuality not been vilified. A walk through any major museum will reveal paintings that depict or legitimate only certain kinds of experience...............

this is a REAL headline

really, i'm NOT making this up. normally i wouldn't post ANYTHING about this story but i just could NOT resist this. c'mon you'll see what i mean

Exclusive: Tiger "Was Very Insecure" About His Small...........................

wait for it............... wait


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Calves, Says Mistress

more tetris tetris tetris

i really AM going to get all my tetris postings links in one place (one of these days)

chain mail tetris blocks

they're from the etsy shop of frodolives86

found via cory at boing boing

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how cool is this?

(the boat NOT the picture of the dead whale)

it's a shame they have to use them though (i mean it's a shame people still kill whales)
pic: from here by kate davison

Visit msnbc.com for breaking news, world news, and news about the economy

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and you're surprised?

please.........

Group promoting climate skepticism has extensive ties to Exxon-Mobil

holy horseshite, WTF does she think she is?

well it's not ALL her fault. it's the fault of her lemmings 'fans' as well. if you want to follow her and think she can actually run this country (when she couldn't even the fuck run her own state) well go on thinking that. stay out of MY way though. i have a brain

misunderstanding my big fat arse. governor, my big fat ass. SHE FUCKING QUIT. SHE IS NOT A GOVERNOR OF ANY FUCKING THING

Palin event requests ‘English-only’ reporters

Palin event requests ‘English-only’ reportersYou might be able to see Russia from Sarah Palin's home state, but that isn't an excuse to speak Russian.

Authorities turned away reporters who didn't speak English from a Palin event in Minnesota this week, demanding that reporters address the former Alaska governor only in English and refer to her only as "governor."

Event planners at the Mall of Americas now say it was only a "misunderstanding." Palin was scheduled to appear as part of her book-signing tour...........

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i thank you mr clark

for your service and your bravery and your heroism. we've come a very long way since the 40s but we STILL have a very very very long way to go. people of all colors and all backgrounds have served the united states of america. people of all colors and backgrounds have protected us and kept us safe. for that we ALL should recognize you AND thank you


One Man’s War Story Illuminates the Heroism of One Million
By SCOTT JAMES

Until recently, Carl E. Clark, 93, was still driving his car around Menlo Park. Then came a fall, a new hip and recovery in a rehabilitation hospital. But it was another wound he wanted to talk about — one that happened 64 years ago.

“The Navy and the civilian media held back things that lots of us did,” Mr. Clark said. “For obvious reasons: the prejudice and bigotry that was going on at that time.”

He is part of “the greatest generation” whose valor remains largely invisible: he is among an estimated one million black veterans from World War II. Due to the endemic racism of the time, their wartime heroism was often not recorded in official battle reports, a history manipulated to negate their accomplishments.

Now there is a move to give Mr. Clark credit for his role in a dramatic tale of survival.........

pic:

Noah Berger for The New York Times

Carl E. Clark's actions during World War II were negated.

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WANT!!!

Mystery-Pack LEGO Minifigs Coming In 2010

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i didn't know this

and i think it's worth sharing

Salvation Army and other charities require proof of immigration status before needy kids can have toys

i'm getting it!

after all it IS one of my all time favorite books and always will be

Alice in Wonderland, illustrated by Robert Ingpen

Cory Doctorow

this IS the united states, right?

we DO have certain laws, right? the authorities need warrants if they're going to spy on us, right?

Feds ‘Pinged’ Sprint GPS Data 8 Million Times Over a Year

Sprint Nextel provided law enforcement agencies with customer location data more than 8 million times between September 2008 and October 2009, according to a company manager who disclosed the statistic at a non-public interception and wiretapping conference in October.

The manager also revealed the existence of a previously undisclosed web portal that Sprint provides law enforcement to conduct automated “pings” to track users. Through the website, authorized agents can type in a mobile phone number and obtain global positioning system (GPS) coordinates of the phone.

The revelations, uncovered by blogger and privacy activist Christopher Soghoian, have spawned questions about the number of Sprint customers who have been under surveillance, as well as the legal process agents followed to obtain such data.

But a Sprint Nextel spokesman said that Soghoian, who recorded the Sprint manager’s statements at the closed conference, misunderstood what the figure represents. The number of customers whose GPS data was provided to local, state and federal law enforcement agencies was much less than 8 million, as was the total number of individual requests for data............

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those wild and wacky arseholes republicans

are at it AGAIN! always them and their silly shenanigans and assorted antics!

GOPers want Franken to defend them in opposing anti-rape amendment

By Daniel Tencer

Some Republican senators are taking heat for voting against an amendment that would allow employees of military contractors to sue their employers if they are raped at work -- and they want the Democratic senator who wrote the amendment to help them fight off the bad publicity.

In October, 30 Republicans voted against Sen. Al Franken's amendment to a defense appropriations bill that would de-fund contractors who prevent their employees from suing if they are raped by co-workers. Since then, those Republicans have faced outrage for what critics say amounts to support for rape.

A Web site called RepublicansForRape mocks the thirty senators as "legislators who were brave enough to stand up in defense of rape." Louisiana Sen. David Vitter took heat recently for walking away from a woman who was questioning him about his vote against the amendment.

Now, some of those GOP senators want Sen. Franken (D-MN) to come to their rescue............

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not news because

we already knew prince and blackwater xe (a pile o' shite by any other name is still a pile o' shite) aided the spooks and our government in general. aided them in nefarious dirty ugly vile 'business'. and guess what? WE FUCKING PAID FOR IT (we meaning you and i)

Blackwater founder says he aided secret programs

By Joby Warrick

Washington Post Staff Writer

The founder of Blackwater Worldwide acknowledged in an interview published Wednesday that he had helped the CIA with secret programs targeting top al-Qaeda leaders, a role he says was intended to give the agency "unattributable capability" in sensitive missions.

Erik Prince, owner of the military contractor now known as Xe Services, told Vanity Fair magazine that he performed numerous "very risky missions" for the spy agency, some of which were improperly exposed in leaks to the news media.

The magazine, which was granted rare access to Prince and his deputies at the company's facilities in the United States and Afghanistan, said the former Navy SEAL had served a dual role for the CIA as both a contractor and an "asset," or spy, who carried out secret missions as recently as two months ago, when the Obama administration terminated his contract............

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yes!

not much more to say except it's ABOUT TIME. i'm glad we're joining the 21st century. we can and will make great strides and progress in curing and preventing many diseases.

U.S. set to fund more stem cell study

New lines approved 'Today's announcement is the first wave'

The Obama administration has begun approving new lines of human embryonic stem cells that are eligible for federally funded experiments, opening the way for millions of taxpayer dollars to be used to conduct research that was put off-limits by President George W. Bush. Launching a dramatic expansion of government support for one of the most promising but most contentious fields of biomedical research, the National Institutes of Health on Wednesday authorized the first 13 lines of cells under the administration's policy and was poised to approve 20 more Friday. ...........

By Rob Stein

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Washington Post Staff Writer

the nutmeg grater: i'm still in a total state of disbelief and shock

the nutmeg grater: i'm still in a total state of disbelief and shock

the catholic church in connecticut (and everywhere for that matter)

this song moves me always

oh hell, i love THIS one too

i'll be in line

an emasculating truth

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we've not seen maru in a while

want

the piranha pocket tool

wednesday morning humor

courtesy of those wild and wacky bible thumpin' (yet believing only SOME of the passages in the bible and not all mind you) god lovin' (but lovin' no one else but money) white (what, you thought otherwise?) neo-nazis neo-'christians'

Family Reserach Council Claims Obama Has A ‘Plan’ To ‘Impose Homosexuality’

Earlier this month, the far-right Family Research Council (FRC) sent a fundraising action alert fearmongering about the Employment Non-Discrimination Act (ENDA), which has been introduced in both the House and Senate and President Obama says he is “pushing hard to pass.” “This law would punish anyone in the workplace who dares oppose homosexual behavior, cross-dressing and other unhealthy behaviors,” said the FRC alert.

In a four-page solicitation letter mailed to supporters this month, which was obtained by ThinkProgress, the conservative organization went even further in its rhetoric, claiming that President Obama wants to “impose homosexuality and silence Christianity in workplaces”:...........

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a pretty insightful article

and as i've said loads of times before, i believe MOST of the birther types are racist asswipes. sure they'll deny it and perhaps they'll even convince themselves they're not racist, but they are. they think because they talk to a person of color at work, they are cool with all races. oh no they're not. just let that person of color become their boss

Birthers and Birchers: Hiding Behind Stars and Stripes

by Loretta J. Ross

Sustaining a progressive movement based on shared politics requires not only unification on positive values, but an understanding of the opposition and their tactics. Analysis of the various elements of opposition can do much to improve our own eyesight and path forward.

“Birthers" may be the newest manifestation of right-leaning conspiracy theorists. It is unlikely that most of the “birthers" who believe that President Barack Obama is not a U.S. citizen belong to the John Birch Society (JBS). But I believe they are at least sympathizers with the nativist, racist tendencies of the John Birch Society, which has been stirring animosity and paranoia, often with coded language and convoluted theories, for over 50 years.

What unites the “birthers” and the Birchers on a single trajectory is well worth understanding. Progressives should not ignore the people who share this particular worldview: it’s easy to dismiss them as nutters and whackos enlarging the far right. Yes, they are the “angry white people” who foment trouble at townhalls and seek to torpedo all efforts to achieve full human rights in the United States, including health care reform................

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once again i give you the evil soul-less 'people of god'

doing unto their brothers as .....................................



crooks and liars has a transcript as well

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because they were two of the absolute BEST

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this is a day or two old

but i just found it. the headline says it all (and more)


Is media granting Dick Cheney too much airtime?
Greg_Sargent
Politico's lead story this morning, coming just before President Obama is set to announce a momentous foreign policy decision with far-reaching consequences for our country and the world, was an interview with Dick Cheney. The headline blared: "Cheney slams Obama's `weakness.'"

But is this news? Is it remotely surprising or even noteworthy at all?

Politico is only the latest outlet to grant Cheney a platform to defend his legacy and to launch political attacks on the current president. The amount of airtime that has been granted by the networks and other news outlets to Cheney and his daughter, Liz Cheney, has been nothing short of extraordinary. Why is it happening?

Is Cheney a lead spokesperson for the G.O.P. on foreign policy? He's a private citizen with no policymaking role whatsoever -- leading G.O.P. Senators more properly hold that role. What's more, Cheney's foreign policy views are far out of the mainstream. Is he a contender for the 2012 G.O.P. nomination? Nope. He has flatly ruled out a run, and the recent Washington Post poll found that he's not on the radar of the G.O.P. electorate at all for 2012...........

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we MUST watch out for

Mechani-Kong and Dr. Who’s secret pyramid base

you GOTTA dig the onion

Advocacy Group Decries PETA's Inhumane Treatment Of Women

from the onion

this put a smile on my face

Gay-bashing woman humiliated for wearing hideous skirt

Mark Frauenfelder

rick warren

if there IS a hell (and i don't believe there is BUT for the sake of blog posting........) who do you think would burn in it...

someone who is gay OR someone who condemns someone to die JUST BECAUSE THEY ARE GAY?

i know which one i KNOW would burn. here is my original posting

Rick Warren won’t condemn law punishing homosexuality with death

The conservative pastor who delivered President Barack Obama's inaugural convocation address won't condemn a proposed Ugandan law that punishes homosexual acts with death.

His position is raising eyebrows, not the least of which was Newsweek, which noted his position Sunday. Warren has been supportive of a Ugandan pastor behind the legislation, Martin Ssempa, hosting him during visits to the United States at his Saddleback church.

Warren tried to distance himself from Ssempa in October, saying, "Martin Ssempa does not represent me, my wife Kay, Saddleback Church, nor the Global PEACE Plan strategy."

But this month, asked on whether he opposed a measure under which homosexual acts are punishable by life in prison or sometimes death, Warren refused to condemn the proposal.

"The fundamental dignity of every person, our right to be free, and the freedom to make moral choices are gifts endowed by God, our creator," Warren remarked. However, it is not my personal calling as a pastor in America to comment or interfere in the political process of other nations."...............

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you know, we don't really worry about THEM

but this must be one of the most vile jobs on this goddess' earth. vile yet noble and heroic that is. i couldn't do it. i'd love to be able to 24/7. catch the creatures who prey on children, but i just cannot

this is the other side of the coin.

we know and read about those they catch. we never think about WHO does the catching and we should

Child porn cases take toll on investigators
Job exposes team to images of abuse few can comprehend

By Del Quentin Wilber

D.C. police detective Timothy Palchak spends his days trawling the Internet for people willing to send him child pornography. It isn't easy work, pretending to be a pedophile. in online chats, instant messages and telephone calls, Palchak must enter the psyche of men he describes as "the scum of the Earth."

He tells his targets that he molests children, even infants, and describes his deranged sexual desires. He feigns anxiety at being caught by police and expresses sympathy for a suspect's fetishes. Before long, Palchak is bombarded with vile photographs and videos, all depicting sexual abuse of children. The investigator scrutinizes the images to build his case and, he hopes, to rescue victims.....

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it's getting posted AT LEAST once a week

here at ravings of a semi-sane madwoman
BECAUSE
i am a semi-sane madwoman
and
i want to
and
it embodies what i believe
and
it's my FAVORITE 'christmas' song


this is a good one, but the embedding is disabled, you have to click here to see / hear it

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HELL NO

listen, if you're taking care of yourself, INCLUDING BATHING you shouldn't need 'feminine spray smell shite'. if there IS perhaps something amiss in your nether regions, GO TO YOUR FUCKING DOCTOR IMMEDIATELY

now, i'm all for expirementing and i know some things are ok for one's vagine and some things ARE NOT OK for your vagine (yes, i'm misspelling it on purpose. i KNOW how to spell it). i would NOT stick a fucking mint up there that was made by some company i know nothing about because this company i know NOTHING ABOUT says it will make me BETTER. better the fuck than what? i'm not good enough MINTLESS? if that's the case, beat feet. i don't need ya, i don't want ya.

as a general rule, if someone doesn't wanna go down there, a mint ain't gonna help

Femimint Hygiene: Vagina Mints

— By Jen Phillips

I recently got a press release from the makers of Linger, an "internal feminine flavoring" that promises to keep your vagina in mint condition. Think of it as an Altoid for your lady parts or, as its website explains, "A small, naturally sweetened flavoring, free of artificial dyes, which was created to flavor the secretions of a woman when she is sexually aroused." What...the...?!

So where did the idea for this curiously wrong mint come from? Linger's website (a little NSFW) offers up a wondrous, romantic tale about the supposed discoverer of femimint hygiene, an unnamed woman who was seduced in India by a man with skin "the color of caramel." He quelled her fears of tasting bad "down there" with a mysterious, Eastern mint. "When I returned to the States, I brought the tingly sweet tasting mint with me," she writes. I've requested an interview with this mysterious entrepreneur, but have yet to speak with her. However, Linger's PR guy did send me a sample—made in exotic New Jersey. But that was just my first taste of disappointment........

—Sentient Products LLC via fair use.

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i didn't realize so many of the dead were women

(it doesn't matter though. what was done to this group of people was a horror). it appears they may have been sexually assaulted before being killed. it also appears their genitals were shot and/or mutilated

i also didn't realize this is one (if not THE) largest scale killing of journalists in history

The Maguindanao Massacre

by Chally
On 23 November, the wife and two sisters of Buluan Vice Mayor Esmael Mangudadatu went to the town of Ampatuan to register him for the 2010 elections for the province of Maguindanao in the Philippines. They were Genalyn Mangudadatu, Vice Mayor Eden Mangudadatu of Mangudadatu town and Bai Farinna Mangudadatu respectively. A recipient of death threats, Esmael Mangudadatu couldn’t register himself for fear of being killed, and the police and the army didn’t grant him protections such that he could. It was thought that women, holding a place of respect, would not be harmed. For extra protection, the three were accompanied by the two female lawyers of the family, Cynthia Oquendo-Ayon and Connie Brizuela, a number of other family members, drivers and supporters and, again for safety, journalists and their assistants. (Apologies, I can’t find a list of all their names. Wikipedia’s partial list of names is the best I can do.) Aquiles Zonio of the Philippine Daily Inquirer reports that Eden Mangudadatu was heard to say, ‘This is women power in action. Let’s help our men chart a better future for the province’..........

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Department of Defense orders 2,200 PS3s

David Pescovitz


pic

idea for the holidays

these are GREAT stocking stuffer gifts
screwkey

(and the price is RIGHT too!!!)

found via boing boing

(pic from the screwkey website)

i DO believe in clemency and mercy

but NOT for CONVICTED RAPISTS and those having “extensive, violent criminal history” to the family and friends of the four officers killed, my most heartfelt sympathy

Man Sought for Questioning After Officers’ Killings

By WILLIAM YARDLEY

LAKEWOOD, Wash. — Four uniformed police officers were shot to death Sunday morning as they sat in a coffee shop preparing to begin patrol, prompting a widespread search for the gunman, who remained at large. Late Sunday, the authorities said they were seeking a “person of interest” in the shootings whom they identified as Maurice Clemmons, 37. They described him as having an “extensive, violent criminal history” in Arkansas and said he had recently been arrested in Pierce County and charged with assaulting a police officer and raping a child........... Nine years ago in Arkansas, The Seattle Times reported, Mr. Clemmons was released from prison after Gov. Mike Huckabee commuted his lengthy prison sentence, over the protests of prosecutors.......

pic: Police search the area of a self-storage facility near the site where four uniformed officers were shot and killed in an ambush at a coffee shop on Sunday in Lakewood, Wash. More Photos >

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you lie down with

dogs neo-nazis, you wake up in a steamin' pile o' shite.

hal turner is a racist, neo-nazi, mf-er. the fbi should think twice about using someone like this to spy on his own. i wouldn't trust him to wash the stones and grit out of some dried lentils


Records show feds used ultra-right radio host for years

BY MIKE KELLY AND PETER J. SAMPSON

They called him "Valhalla."

But it was more than a nickname.

For more than five years, Hal Turner of North Bergen lived a double life.

The public knew him as an ultra-right-wing radio talk show host and Internet blogger with an audience of neo-Nazis and white supremacists attracted to his scorched-earth racism and bare-knuckles bashing of public figures. But to the FBI, and its expanding domestic counter-terror intelligence operations in the wake of the Sept. 11 attacks, Turner was "Valhalla" — his code name as an informant who spied on his own controversial followers.

Turner's clandestine past was confirmed this past summer when he was jailed on charges that he made threats on his blog against three federal judges in Chicago. In court after his arrest, federal prosecutors acknowledged Turner's FBI ties but downplayed his importance and even described him as "unproductive."

But an investigation by The Record — based on government documents, e-mails, court records and almost 20 hours of jailhouse interviews with Turner — shows that federal authorities made frequent use of Turner in its battle against domestic terrorism............

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one in eight adults

and one in four children. that's your next door neighbors. that's you. that's me

we MUST start waking up and taking care of ourselves and our planet. there COULD be plenty for ALL (all as in the WORLD) of us to eat cheaply and with health in mind (yeah no more fast fatty foods. no more cows eating our grains. WE'D be eating our grains as it SHOULD be). we have to change our ways before it's too late

Food Stamp Use Soars, and Stigma Fades

MARTINSVILLE, Ohio — With food stamp use at record highs and climbing every month, a program once scorned as a failed welfare scheme now helps feed one in eight Americans and one in four children.

It has grown so rapidly in places so diverse that it is becoming nearly as ordinary as the groceries it buys. More than 36 million people use inconspicuous plastic cards for staples like milk, bread and cheese, swiping them at counters in blighted cities and in suburbs pocked with foreclosure signs.

Virtually all have incomes near or below the federal poverty line, but their eclectic ranks testify to the range of people struggling with basic needs. They include single mothers and married couples, the newly jobless and the chronically poor, longtime recipients of welfare checks and workers whose reduced hours or slender wages leave pantries bare.........

pic: A GROWING NEED FOR A PROGRAM ONCE SCORNED Greg Dawson and his wife, Sheila, of Martinsville, Ohio, help feed their family of seven with a $300 monthly food stamp benefit. Center and right, the food pantry in Lebanon, Ohio, where residents can also enroll in what is formally called the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program. More Photos >

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if i knew i was going to bare one of these

twits, I'D PRACTICE ABSTINENCE TOO


unfortunately i don't think des whiteboyz is jokin' BUT that doesn't make it any less funny



c'mon now, EVERYONE, gimme that side hug, that christian side hug. gimme that side hug, that christian side hug............

Best Abstinence Advice Ever

By Mac McClelland

If you're like me, and you have trouble keeping friendly frontal hugs from turning into full-on depraved bonefests, you'll appreciate the advice of these side-hug-advocating, Jesus-loving white rappers (h/t the Rumpus): ........Honestly, even though my Catholic-school teachers forced me to watch graphic abortion videos when I was a child, I had a hard time believing a big Christian group would really endorse something this misguided. Forget that even Bristol Palin knows that abstinence-only education is just silly; what's with the gunfire and sirens?............

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wicked cool (way NSFW)

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all three of these are from the same site

i've linked to it before and will again. it's MORE than just animals, but i couldn't NOT post these three
from nothing to do with arbroath