rip wilma

a role model. the first female chief of the cherokee

Former Cherokee Nation chief Wilma Mankiller dies
By ROCHELLE HINES and MURRAY EVANS Associated Press Writers

Wilma Mankiller, Cherokee chief, dies

Wilma Mankiller, the first female chief of the Cherokee tribe and one of the few women to lead an American Indian tribe, has died this morning of pancreatic cancer, the Cherokee Phoenix reports. Here's the AP version. The Washington Post version will be posted shortly.

During her 10 years as principal chief, Mankiller helped her tribe triple in size -- it's the second biggest tribe, after the Navajo Nation, in the U.S. She was inducted into the National Women's Hall of Fame in 1993 and received the Presidential Medal of Freedom in 1998. .........

pic: www.boisestate.edu/firstnations/mankiller.htm

happy confederates month!!!! (to all y'all crackers out there that is)

our history cannot and must never be ignored. we must study it and teach it. we must NEVER honor or celebrate what is evil and what is immoral and what is just down right WRONG.

again, it's part of our history. that doesn't mean we have to HONOR IT

McDonnell's Confederate History Month proclamation irks civil rights leaders

RICHMOND -- Gov. Robert F. McDonnell, reviving a controversy that had been dormant for eight years, has declared that April will be Confederate History Month in Virginia, a move that angered civil rights leaders Tuesday but that political observers said would strengthen his position with his conservative base.

The two previous Democratic governors had refused to issue the mostly symbolic proclamation honoring the soldiers who fought for the South in the Civil War. McDonnell (R) revived a practice started by Republican governor George Allen in 1997. McDonnell left out anti-slavery language that Allen's successor, James S. Gilmore III (R), had included in his proclamation.

McDonnell said Tuesday that the move was designed to promote tourism in the state, which next year will mark the 150th anniversary of the start of the war. .........
GUESS WHAT? YOU EFFING LOST THE WAR. get over it

ummmmmmmmmmm son, that's up to the great goddess

“Mom, Can I Have a Big D**k?”

Posted by Jason Louv

how much more?

before they actually ADMIT THEIR MISTAKES, ERRORS, COVER UPS, TRANSFERS OF PEDOPHILE PRIESTS, LIES, BLAME SHIFTING??????????????/

how the fuck much more? let's ask the victims and their families

ap article so click away


Vatican says pope target of ‘hate’ campaign
Blames allegations of abuse cover-up on groups with anti-Catholic agenda

had to

appropriated from lemmy at alphaville

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remember what you see can't be unseen

if you want to see more of dragon man, click the geekologie link

RIGHT HERE (side note: i DO love his dragon eye nipples though)

it's the

devil new york times victim's well it's EVERYONE'S fault but OURS (so says the catholic church)

you tell me what's wrong with this picture? this didn't happen in the 50s. it happened within the past six years.

is it ok because they shipped him off to india? HELL NO it isn't

Priest Charged in U.S. Is Still Serving in India

By LAURIE GOODSTEIN

A Catholic priest who has been criminally charged with sexually assaulting a 14-year-old girl in Minnesota six years ago is still working in his home diocese in India despite warnings to the Vatican from an American bishop that the priest continued to pose a risk to children, according to church documents made public on Monday.

The documents show that the American bishop warned the Vatican that the priest was accused of molesting two teenage girls whose trust he gained by promising to discuss their interest in becoming nuns.

A county attorney in Minnesota is seeking to extradite the priest from India in a criminal case that involves one of the girls, who said the priest had forced her to perform oral sex and had threatened her and her family.

The case took place during the papacy of Pope Benedict XVI, who has recently come under fire for his role in cases of sexually abusive priests in Germany and Wisconsin.........

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Jim Mone/Associated Press

Jeff Anderson, left, and Mike Finnegan, lawyers, discussed the case against the Rev. Joseph Palanivel Jeyapaul in St. Paul.

i did not personally watch this video

but it's important that it exists and i CAN watch it if i so choose.

all is NOT fair in love and war by the way



Wikileaks releases video of Iraq journalist shooting
by Declan McCullagh

A gritty video released by Wikileaks on Monday shows U.S. troops in Iraq destroying a vehicle that was preparing to rush a wounded Reuters journalist to the hospital.

The secret black-and-white video, recorded by at least one Apache helicopter that was shooting at a group of about a dozen people, appears to show the death of a Reuters photographer and his assistant, who were unarmed.

The U.S. Army had rejected Reuters' earlier requests, including ones made under the Freedom of Information Act, to disclose the July 2007 video. Government sources told both Reuters and the Associated Press on Monday that the clip is authentic.

Wikileaks calls it "murder." A Pentagon spokesman, on the other hand, said at the time: "There is no question that coalition forces were clearly engaged in combat operations against a hostile force."........

flowry stockings

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from

turnofthecentury:

billyjane:1000 dessous:Flowery stockings,postcard,1925

whaaaaaaaaaaaaa??????????

China blocks Bob Dylan gigs
Peter Walker
guardian.co.uk

Aged 68 and almost half a century past the zenith of his angry, protest-song youth, Bob Dylan must almost have forgotten what it was like to be deemed a threat to society. But it seems at least one place still sees him as a dangerous radical.

Dylan's planned tour of east Asia later this month has been called off after Chinese officials refused permission for him to play in Beijing and Shanghai, his local promoters said. China's ministry of culture, which vets planned concerts by overseas artists, appeared wary of Dylan's past as an icon of the counterculture movement, said Jeffrey Wu, of the Taiwan-based promoters Brokers Brothers Herald.

Dylan fans denied the chance to see their hero might also blame Björk, who caused consternation among Chinese officials two years ago by shouting pro-Tibet slogans at a concert in Shanghai, Wu told Hong Kong's South China Morning Post....................

it's the lying

always lying. in war civilians always get killed. yes, even pregnant ones. i want to be proud of my country. i want us to be fair and honest and MORAL (oh and kind and giving as well). i want my country to right it's wrongs. i don't want lies. i want truth and justice

U.S. Admits Role in February Killing of Afghan Women

By RICHARD A. OPPEL Jr.

KABUL, Afghanistan — After initially denying involvement or any cover-up in the deaths of three Afghan women during a badly bungled American Special Operations assault in February, the American-led military command in Kabul admitted late on Sunday that its forces had, in fact, killed the women during the nighttime raid.

The admission immediately raised questions about what really happened during the Feb. 12 operation — and what falsehoods followed — including a new report that Special Operations forces dug bullets out of the bodies of the women to hide the nature of their deaths.

A NATO official also said Sunday that an Afghan-led team of investigators had found signs of evidence tampering at the scene, including the removal of bullets from walls near where the women were killed. On Monday, however, a senior NATO official denied that any tampering had occurred................

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you know what?

i like to stir the pot too. i've been known to participate in some hi-jinx now and again. i've said inflammatory things before. there is NO 'she' (or even he) asked for it with rape. no matter WHAT whoopie says, RAPE IS RAPE. period. end of story.

if i've had too much to drink (oh i think i did ONCE) and i'm with a man, that does NOT give him the right to assault me. NO, I'M NOT FUCKING ASKING FOR IT.

American University newspaper apologizing for date-rape column

By Jenna Johnson and Michael Birnbaum

Washington Post Staff Writers

The American University student newspaper said Tuesday it would issue an apology for publishing a column that called date rape "an incoherent concept." The column sparked angry online responses from scores of students, and a handful of students demonstrated outside the newspaper's offices.

"We realize that this column was probably not -- no, it was not -- in the best taste," Jen Calantone, editor in chief of the Eagle, said Tuesday. "The column offended a lot of people, and as a human being, that upsets me."

The column, "Dealing with AU's anti-sex brigade," was written by sophomore Alex Knepper, whose views have infuriated students before. In the column, which appeared in the newspaper Monday, Knepper wrote that any woman who attends a fraternity party, has five drinks and goes back to a man's room "is indicating that she wants sex" and should not "cry 'date rape' " the next morning.................

i don't think he was april foolin'

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i get why they would want to go to the second floor

BUT i don't get why they would want to be on TOP of the door




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if they're good enough for jerry, THEY'RE GOOD ENOUGH FOR ME

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easter eye candy

n o t

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if it's good enough for ethel, IT'S DAMN WELL GOOD ENOUGH FOR ME

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love love LOVE this

and here's a link to an interview with the family on cbs morning show via rafamuffin soul carlos and heather's blog (and oh yeah, he's a pastor)

this was originally found via sociological images as well

yeah, equality

Comparing the Gender Wage Gap Across Countries

by lisa,

i don't know what it is

BUT i want NO part of it!

rachel at the f word has a great
vintage advertising posting up

one of 23

photos you should look at

uh oh

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you know i get so angry i literally get headaches

what's happening (and has been happening for DECADES) in the catholic church, with the teabuggers, the wimpiness of the obama administration, the violence in america (and the world), the joblessness, abstinence only education, not enough money going to our school systems, the republican party (literally) and other horrors (i read this morning about the gang rape of a 7 year old, sold to some men and boys by her 15 year old sister).....i rarely smile these days

to the peeps of gunn. thank you. for the second time in a week i've see what REAL people are capable of doing. again, thank you

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watched a pretty decent movie on cable last night

it was a cross between mccabe and mrs miller and there will be blood

the claim was made well before there will be blood though (it's VERY LOOSELY based on the mayor of casterbridge)

tiger on the left. WATCH

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hey jason, i love you!

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way to go cnn

congratulations for hiring someone who brags (on his radio show, not just in his home to his drunken buds) he's going to pull a shotgun on a government worker

Erick Erickson will pull 'shotgun' over Census
By ANDY BARR

CNN contributor and prominent Republican blogger Erick Erickson is threatening to pull out a "shotgun" to scare away census workers.

Erickson — the founder of the conservative blog RedState — said on his Macon, Ga.-area radio show Thursday that if a census worker carrying a longer American Community Survey form came by his house, he would "pull out my wife's shotgun and see how that little ACS twerp likes being scared at the door."...................

yeah you're right stray,

it really DOES just keep getting better and better

now the new blame is on satan! (sure, it's NOT the priests or those that covered up for them, it's SATAN. we all KNOW the nyt is an arm of satan as well)

i would laugh but i cannot. too many children (one is too many by the way) were harmed

Italian exorcist: Devil made NY Times attack Pope
By Daniel Tencer

A spate of recent news reports alleging cover-ups of child sex abuse by priests was "prompted" by Satan, says a prominent Italian exorcist.

Father Gabriele Amorth, the Vatican's chief exorcist, told Italian media this week that a New York Times report alleging that Pope Benedict XVI ignored reports of sex abuse at a Wisconsin school for the deaf was the work of the Devil.

That story asserted that the Pope, then Cardinal Joseph Ratzinger, ignored repeated warnings from bishops that a Wisconsin priest, Father Laurence Murphy, may have molested as many as 200 boys at a school for the deaf.

"There is no doubt about it. Because he is a marvelous Pope and worthy successor to John Paul II, it is clear that the Devil wants to 'grab hold' of him," Amorth said, as quoted at the Catholic News Agency..................

not too very much to say here

except what a fucking whackjob (and believe me i DON'T LIKE pelosi one bit. not one iota. i think she's a giant pile o' steamin' shite. i ALSO think she a kazillion times BETTER than the whack job though)

by the way, i TRY to not post stories on her. i can't help it though. it's like a train wreck. you CANNOT look away no matter HOW ugly it is

Bachmann: Pelosi tried to ‘incite something’ by walking through crowd

By David Edwards
Republicans have been accused of inflaming public sentiment with heated rhetoric on health care reform. But Rep. Michele Bachmann (R-MN) thinks it's Democratic House Majority Leader Nancy Pelosi who was trying to "incite something" when she crossed the street at a Tea Party protest.

In a Thursday interview with Fox News' Sean Hannity, Bachmann defended the Tea Party protesters at the Capitol the day health care reform was passed.

"Remember when Speaker Pelosi walked arm-in-arm in a civil rights march across Independence Avenue from the House buildings over to the Capitol," said Bachmann.......

they're

TRYING TO HELP YOU

(thanks BUT A GIANT FUCKING NO FUCKING THANKS)

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interesting read

Intelligence Agencies Allegedly Going to Extremes to Suppress Video Confirming Pentagon Massacre Cover-up
By Scott Thill

On April 5, online truth and transparency advocate WikiLeaks.org plans to release at the National Press Club what it alleges is a video confirming a Pentagon cover-up of a wartime massacre of civilians and journalists committed under the leadership of General David Petraeus. In a recent editorial that was later scrubbed, WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange claimed WikiLeaks is under fire from American and international intelligence agencies angered by his site's oversharing of the global village's dark political and financial secrets, and that they are responding with harassment, surveillance, unnecessary detention and worse.

"We've become used to the level of security service interest in us and have established procedures to ignore that interest," Assange wrote in the editorial. "But the increase in surveillance activities this last month, in a time when we are barely publishing due to fundraising, are excessive.".............

i love mark ryden's work

i first came across it in hi fructose which i first saw in modern myths in northampton

video via boing boing

oh i think you already know what i think.......

What do you think? Doctor refuses to treat Obama voters


(for the record, my doctor IS for this health care plan - as a START of course. it's nowhere NEAR perfect. for the record, my doctor doesn't give a flying fuck who you voted for if you need his care)

hmmmmmmmmmmmmm

friday humor

(although it's NOT funny)

National Review ‘symposium’ on black unemployment has no black participants.

By Matt Corley

Yesterday, National Review Online (NRO) posted an article by the American Enterprise Institute’s Kevin Hassett arguing that the fact that the recession has been worse for minorities “suggests that discrimination may well still be a factor in the American labor market.” In response, NRO hosted an online “symposium” for “some economics and civil-rights analysts to share their thoughts on the topic.” Their conclusion was that “Discrimination is an insufficient explanation for black unemployment.” Oliver Willis notes that NRO did not include any black participants in the discussion:

The thing is, there’s no law or rule that only black people can talk about issues affecting black people, or the same for white, Latino, Asian people, etc.

But considering the way the conservative movement insists that it is diverse, they couldn’t find one black person for their symposium? Not one?

i didn't know any of the background

of this particular story. it's so effing sad. it's so effing tragic. it's so effing immoral. in the eyes of the god of the catholic church, it's SUCH AN EFFING SIN (what the priests and higher ups did that is). how can they (including that ass head of the catholic league who claims it's a HOMO problem NOT a pedo problem. like i said ASS) not just deny it BUT TURN AROUND AND START BLAMING VICTIMS

How a Molesting Case Emerged Decades Later

By NICHOLAS KULISH

ESSEN, Germany — The case that has raised questions about the future pope’s handling of a pedophile priest in Germany came to light three decades after it occurred, and then almost by chance. It happened when Wilfried Fesselmann, an early victim, said he stumbled on Internet photographs of the priest who sexually abused him, still working with children.

Mr. Fesselmann, who had long remained silent about the abuse he suffered in 1979, said the pictures stunned him and spurred him to contact his abuser. Thus began the convoluted process, which included an extortion investigation against Mr. Fesselmann for the emotionally raw e-mail messages he sent the church in 2008 demanding compensation, that ultimately put Pope Benedict XVI in an uncomfortable spotlight..........

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Michael Kamber for The New York Times

Wilfried Fesselmann recently told his story of sexual abuse at the hands of a priest in 1979. The priest was transferred, but not formally suspended until last month.

lemmy and stray

instructables has a BUNCH o' cat stuff all put together.

my favorite you ask?

well the cat hammock of course!

pic from the instructable of

Author:yoshhash
linked above

i can't believe i missed THIS classic!

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Écoutez

je pense qu'il a gagné par un nez




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great essay

from by Lorette C. Luzajic at unreasonable faith

Jerry Falwell’s Legacy of Hate

By thegirlcanwrite

To the Back of the Bus, Please

Great men of God like Jerry Falwell notoriously blame floods and fires on the Lord’s wrath over women who want to work. It seems God doesn’t have time to punish big sins like slavery, pollution, greed, genocide, war, racism, violence, or child brothels when homos are brainwashing our kids with cartoons like Spongebob and the Teletubbies.

Falwell, cofounder of the Moral Majority, says the call for Christian conservatism was ignited when abortion was legalized. That’s when fags and feminism took over our Christian heritage. These groups couldn’t be called minorities, like God-ordained groups of real humans like blacks and Hispanics, Falwell said, because these were fake lifestyles of sin that rejected Biblical patriarchy.

The Nation’s Max Blumenthal writes that Falwell’s recollection is revisionist, for his mission was built long before gay rights were born. Falwell’s early church, built in a “backwater bottling plant,” was built on “rabid” segregationalism.

Falwell was born in 1933 to a bootlegger, and after college, he started a church in Virginia. The big issue facing Christians in 1956 was that Christian schools were weeding out separatism. White-only schools were losing tax-exempt status, and Falwell didn’t like this one bit...........

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the dead weather

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i guess 12 is now the age of consent in wisconsin

Catholic League's Bill Donohue: It's Not A Pedophile Crisis, It's A Homo Crisis

Towleroad reports that the Catholic League's Bill Donohue has published an ad in today's New York Times blasting them for coverage of the global child molestation scandal and claiming that gay men are the true cause of the problem.

The Times continues to editorialize about the 'pedophilia crisis,' when all along it's been a homosexual crisis. Eighty percent of the victims of priestly sexual abuse are male and most of them are post-pubescent. While homosexuality does not cause predatory behavior, and most gay priests are not molesters, most of the molesters have been gay. Here's what's really going on. The Times has teamed up with Jeffrey Anderson, a radical lawyer who has made millions suing the Church (and greasing professional victims' groups like SNAP) so they can weaken its moral authority. Why? Because of issues like abortion, gay marriage, and women's ordination. That's what's really driving them mad and that's why they are on the hunt. Those who question this to be true need to ask why the debt-ridden Times does not spend the same resources in looking for dirt in other institutions that occurred a half-century ago.........

Catholic League head: Abuse not pedophilia because boys were ‘post-pubescent’

By Daniel Tencer
The head of the influential Catholic League says that the priest who allegedly sexually abused 200 deaf boys in Wisconsin did not engage in pedophilia because 'the vast majority of the victims [were] post-pubescent."

Bill Donohue made the argument during a raucous debate on Larry King Live Tuesday night, during which he repeatedly pointed the finger to homosexuality -- rather than pedophilia -- as the cause of the church's sex abuse problems.

"You’ve got to get your facts straight," Donohue said, addressing sex abuse victim Thomas Roberts. "I’m sorry. If I’m the only one that’s going to deal with facts tonight then that'll be it. The vast majority of the victims are post-pubescent. That’s not pedophilia, buddy. That’s homosexuality."

A rather surprised panel of commentators -- which included pop icon Sinead O'Connor -- then began to debate at what age, exactly, does sexual attraction to children cease to be pedophilia..........

you giant silly gooses (geeses. i hate mieces to pieces)

faux DOES have a sense of humor (and the bizarre). it's APRIL FOOL'S DAY. c'mon. they WERE ONLY KIDDING US!

Furor Grows Over Celebrity Appearances on Palin Show

By DAVE ITZKOFF AND BILL CARTER
Hours after LL Cool J complained that Fox News was recycling an old interview with him for a new program hosted by Sarah Palin, representatives for the country musician Toby Keith, who was also listed as a guest for the show, made a similar charge against the cable channel.

In a telephone interview on Wednesday, Elaine Schock, a publicist for Mr. Keith said: “I have no idea what interview they are using. Toby’s talked to Fox a number of times, and I had no idea that this was going to be on Sarah Palin’s special. Fox has never contacted me — not now, not when they were putting this together, not at all. I have no idea what they’re using.”...........

.................But several accounts of the special reported that Ms. Palin herself would be talking to the guests in the show. One of these, on the Fox Nation website, which is owned by Fox News, reprinted an account from the website The Hill, which said:

“Sarah Palin will kick off her new Fox News series with one of the most diverse guest lineups in memory: LL Cool J, Toby Keith, and Jack Welch. The three very different guests will speak to Palin for her inaugural episode of ‘ American Stories ‘ on April 1st.”..........

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