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MRAs on parade: chumpass motherfucker declares ownership of girlfriend’s uterus

Published by Jill on May 31, 2010. 86 Comments

It’s always the way: some horndog dude decides to prong a woman, then ends up dissatisfied with the results. So he has a tantrum. The tantrum may take one, or a combination, of many interesting forms.

Sometimes the woman doesn’t want him around anymore, so he stalks her. Sometimes she makes him hate her so much that he emails naked pictures of her to the whole school. Sometimes she gets old or fat so he keeps her around to do his laundry but starts pronging a younger woman on the DL. Sometimes she stops putting out so he fires her from her job. Sometimes the woman interprets the pronging as rape, so he calls her a liar and tortures her with mental cruelty and courtroom drama and ends up doing no jail time.

And sometimes he makes the woman pregnant. In this case he can choose from many, many popular options. He might he murder her, beat her, abandon her, marry her, slut-shame her, or, as in today’s case, appeal to the patriarchal justice system to enforce his wishes as to what should be done with the contents of her personal uterus........................

made me smile

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and we are surprised because..........????????

if given a choice, i would rather watch espn do highlights of crafters. i've not been given that choice though.

however, i DO come from a land where women ARE indeed champions. i think they and all women should be afforded the things (including air time) that MEN in sports get (although i'm all for cutting that WAYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYY down too)

ESPN’s Sports Center Shows Almost No Highlights of Women’s Sports

Posted on June 5, 2010 by Mike

As I’m sure you know, ESPN sets the tone for sports highlights with its daily Sports Center program. In fact, you could probably say that Sports Center is ESPN since each day the show runs for 14 hours (live and reruns) and the catch-calls of its announcers become famous. You would think that it could find time to show highlights of women’s sports. Unfortunately, it can’t find the time. With miniscule exceptions, you can’t find highlights and you can’t even find scores.

Sally Jenkins’ column in Friday’s Washington Post tells the sad story. And even worse than the current miniscule figures is the fact that Sports Center has drastically cut back in recent years. A study released this week entitled “Gender in Televised Sports: News and Highlight Shows, 1989-2009,” sampled the content of highlight shows and found that they devote barely 1.5% of airtime to women’s sports.

the woman DID have a voice.........

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yeah, so he's hungry...........

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timelapse video of japan

Hayaku: A Time Lapse Journey Through Japan from Brad Kremer on Vimeo.

by brad kremer


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what are YOU lookin' at?

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no!

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damn! they under cut me

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me in repose

in my sunday AFTER church goin' attire

from the library of congress flickr photostream

Bain News Service,, publisher. Florence Schenck [between ca. 1910 and ca. 1915] 1 negative :...

once again, i MUST share with you my sunday

church-going attire (don't be jealous, haters! that's haters NOT hatters)

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here's a GREAT explanation of the new at&t

data plan choices...............

What AT&T’s Limited Data Plans Mean for You

Read More http://www.wired.com/gadgetlab/2010/06/att-tiered-data/#ixzz0q4ImUUsU
By Brian X. Chen

AT&T’s all-you-can-eat data plan died Wednesday, and plenty of wireless customers mourned over their loss. But is it really a big deal? It depends on the type of data consumer you are.

The new tiered pricing structure gives AT&T customers the following options:

1. 200 MB for $15 per month. If you exceed the limit, AT&T will charge $15 extra in units of 200 MB.
2. 2 GB for $25 per month. If you surpass this limit, you can pay an extra $10 per extra gigabyte.
3. Current smartphone users can continue their unlimited data for $30 per month — but if they switch to one of the cheaper plans, they can’t go back to unlimited.
4. To tether your smartphone to a computer, you must use the 2-GB, $25 plan, and pay an extra $20 for the tethering privilege.

For some, these changes stink. For others, it won’t affect their lives much. Which plan is right for you? Let’s break down the options.

Read More http://www.wired.com/gadgetlab/2010/06/att-tiered-data/#ixzz0q4J54UXA.............

wil wheaton has a GREAT posting about facebook

starting with a wil wheaten facebook page THAT ISN'T HIS

on the internet, nobody knows that you're a dog
-wil wheaton

I mentioned this on Twitter, but as Twitter has grown and grown (congrats, Biz and Ev!) it's become very "in the moment" and not the best place to put very important things like this:

There's a page on Facebook that appears to be mine. The problem with this is that I don't use Facebook, and I don't want people to be mislead. (Ohh! Bold text! Wil must be serious!)

This is not me. A casual observer could see this page and think it's legit, because there isn't anything on it that clearly identifies it as a fan page, or a parody page, or something like that. For all I know, it's well-intentioned and I'm overreacting, but I just can't take a chance with things like this. At the moment, it appears to be asking for donations to fight Alzheimer's, which is a noble cause, but if I stood back and let anyone claim to be me while asking for money - for anything - it could have really, really bad consequences. ........................

go figure! i mean DUH!!!

if this is a surprise to anyone, they have their head buried in the sand. he's not all together here. why do people watch or listen to him other than for comedy's sake? i do wonder

Glenn Beck's new book club pick: Nazi sympathizer who praised Hitler and denounced the Allies

by Eric Hananoki

On his radio show today, Glenn Beck heralded and promoted the work of Nazi sympathizer Elizabeth Dilling, who spoke at rallies hosted by the leading American Nazi group and praised Hitler. Today, Dilling is heralded by White Supremacists and White Aryans who revere her "fearless" work against Jewish people.

As Media Matters' Simon Maloy noted, Beck had kind words for Dilling's 1934 anti-communist book, The Red Network, saying: "This is a book -- and I'm a getting a ton of these -- from people who were doing what we're doing now. We now are documenting who all of these people are. Well, there were Americans in the first 50 years of this nation that took this seriously, and they documented it." Maloy noted that Dilling has a long history of rabid anti-Semitism, such as calling President Eisenhower "Ike the Kike" and labeling President Kennedy's New Frontier program the "Jew frontier."....................

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sir jean-luc

ok ok ok, i KNOW he does shakespeare and other classics, but he's always be the captain to me

Sir Patrick Stewart joins childhood heroes


By Emma Bamford

The actor Sir Patrick Stewart said he was "astonished" to find himself in the company of his childhood heroes Sir Laurence Olivier, Sir John Gielgud and Sir Alec Guinness in becoming a theatrical knight as he attended Buckingham Palace yesterday.....................

the sad part is, i'm guessing people actually BELIEVE beck's shite

The Daily Showb With Jon Stewart	Mon - Thurs 11p / 10c
Glenn Beck Airs Israeli Raid Footage
www.thedailyshow.com
Daily Show Full Episodes Political Humor Tea Party

yet ANOTHER, i'm not a racist but.............

why some of my BEST friends are "__________________" (fill in the blank) you stupid artists...........arizona doesn't have any BLACK people (or brown people) yeah steve blair, i can SEE how you're best friends are people of color.
Arizona artists told to repaint mural to be less ethnic
By Muriel Kane

The leader of a group of artists says he was ordered to lighten the skin tones of children depicted in an outdoor mural covering two walls of a Prescott, Arizona elementary school because of complaints that the faces appeared too ethnic.

"We consistently, for two months, had people shouting racial slander from their cars," R.E. Wall told AZCentral. "We had children painting with us, and here come these yells of (epithet for Blacks) and (epithet for Hispanics)." Wall explained that "because of the controversy," he was told to make the children's faces lighter and happier.

Principal Jeff Lane, however, insisted that he had only received three complaints about the mural and that all he wanted was for the artists to "fix the shading on the children's faces."

"We were looking at it from an artistic view," Lane claimed "Nothing at all to do with race." Lane's order, however, came only after City Councilman Steve Blair had used his radio talk show to start a campaign for the mural to be removed.

On May 21, Blair stated, "I am not a racist individual, but I will tell you depicting a black guy in the middle of that mural, based upon who's president of the United States today and based upon the history of this community when I grew up, we had four black families - who I have been very good friends with for years - to depict the biggest picture on that building as a black person, I would have to ask the question, 'Why?'".....................

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Hinshaw/AP

Pamela J. Smith and R.E. Wall sit on the scaffolding in front of the Miller Valley School Mural titled "Go on Green" in Prescott, Ariz.

awesomeness in ink

i LOVE my ink, but man this is wicked cool too

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awwwwwwwwwwwwwwww mom...........

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i have a few words for the rebbe

well TWO words..................

Rabbi Bans Women From Elections

Posted on June 2, 2010 by Emily

According to BBC, Chief Rabbi Elyakim Levanon of the West Bank has recently banned women from running in elections in his community. After an anonymous woman wrote to him, expressing her interest in running for Common Secretary, Rabbi Levanon said:

“The first problem is giving women authority, and being a secretary means having authority. The second problem is mixing men and women. Secretary meetings are held at night and sometimes end very late. It is not proper to be in mixed company in such situations.”

He also wrote a column in the community newspaper which suggested that ‘women must only be heard through their husbands.’

this made me dizzy (but it made me smile too)

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nick drake documentary

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had to

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god save the queen? uhhhhhhhhhhh

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i'm not a violent person

but i'm daydreaming about biotch-slapping this human



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again, a friend and i

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a friend and i

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Manassé

The Coffee Bath, circa 1933

real life search engine queries from

seolol

here's one:

how to use your mind to fight evil

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no surprises here

i know almost to a person, they are haters of everyone BUT white christians. oh, most won't say it and most will even deny it, but they cannot and will not fool me. anyone who even THINKS of voting for one of them is OFF of MY christmas card list

Palin's Ties To Malek, Nixon Jew Counter, Highlighted By DNC

Sam Stein

Democratic officials clearly see an opening to score some political points after the Washington Post (following Slate) reported Thursday morning on new documents highlighting the extent to which GOP power broker Fred Malek helped target and purge Jews during the Nixon administration.

The scandal is nearly 40 years old and Malek long ago apologized for his role. But the longtime GOP hand is arguably as much of a mover and shaker within the party now as he was serving in the Executive Office. And the posting of new material related to his effort to "check the Jews throughout the administration" has given Democrats a chance to put an uncomfortable spotlight on those Republicans lawmakers with close ties to Malek.................

yesterday i posted a mcdonalds ad from france

and my friend lemmy caution commented on it. he said bill o'wrongly compared the ad featuring a young gay man TO AN AD FEATURING A TERRORIST. i didn't want to believe it. oh sure, i knew it was true, i just didn't WANT to believe.

stay classy bill!

huffpo article




you can see the ad here

dark roasted blend has some amazing photographs

and a bit of an explanation about the ruins of

battleship island

photo credits at the drb link above. please go see them all. haunting

lot of vids today. but i HAD to post this one

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this isn't right

i don't care WHAT you believe or what you don't believe. celebrating death (by attacks/war) is NOT right. what do we say about the people on the other side (i.e. muslims) when THEY celebrate killing? we call them savages do we not? we are ALL alike under our skins. ALL of us

Israelis Celebrating The Attack on Gaza Aid Flotilla, in Front of Turkish Embassy-Tel Aviv

you're welcome!

i think they better practice just a TEENIE bit more. n'est pas?



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come as you are (wow)

i'd be happier if it wasn't mcdonalds (but i GOTTA give 'em props for this even though it's in france) and i'd be happier if the ad was here

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wow, a blog dedicated to starfish!

the echinoblog


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they are sick f**ks. that's it

is fear of a black president strong enough to accuse him of the israel attack on the ships bringing supplies to gaza? yes. apparently it is. the earthquake in haiti was his fault too. so was the exploding oil rig in the gulf. so are the wars in iraq and afghanistan. it's ALL his fault

now here is what i REALLY DON'T GET. most of these conservative pieces o' shite are evangelical christians. most of them believe israel is the promised land (FOR THEM NOT THE JEWS MIND YOU). most of them believe israel can do ANYTHING in order to 'protect' the land. then most of them believe the jews (and all other 'non believers' will be smited out and the promised land will be theirs and theirs alone). so if they believe it's ok for israel to attack any and everyone, WHY THE FUCK ARE THEY BLAMING OBAMA FOR THIS? riddle me that batman

p.s. i know smited isn't a word. if fit though


Conservative pundits blame Obama for Israeli raid on flotilla

By Daniel Tencer

Kucinich: Flotilla raid jeopardizes US troops in Iraq

Some conservative commentators and lawmakers are pointing the finger of blame at President Barack Obama over Israel's raid on a Gaza-bound humanitarian flotilla that ended with the death of nine activists.

On Tuesday, Sen. John McCain told Fox News that the Obama administration's calls for a settlement freeze in the West Bank and in East Jerusalem set the stage for the deadly May 31 incident.

"This is another step in a chain of unfortunate events beginning with President Obama’s insistence that there be a freeze, as a precondition for peace talks, a freeze on settlements in Jerusalem," McCain told Fox's Sean Hannity. "Jerusalem is the capital of Israel, not a settlement."

Talk show host Michael Savage linked President Obama to the flotilla raid much more directly. Savage told listeners that he believed the Israeli commandos sent on board the Mavi Marmara were "betrayed" so that their deaths would be "good PR" for Israel's allies. (No Israeli service members died in the raid.) And he suggested it was the Obama administration that pressured Israel into "dangling [its] soldiers like bait into a tank of sharks."...........

i'm an at&t customer

and i've not heard this from THEM

AT&T data plan pricing, details

AT&T is dropping its $30-a-month unlimited data plan as of Monday and replacing it with a two-tier pricing system for new customers. Current AT&T customers with unlimited data plans can stick with them.

Here are AT&T's estimates for how much a user will get out of the data allotments in the new plans. The amount can vary greatly, however. For example, one e-mail with five high-resolution photo attachments could use up 5% of the monthly allotment on the DataPlus plan............

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mother jones

The Enemy in Your Pants

The military’s decades-long war against STDs.

Elizabeth Gettelman and Mark Murrmann

wonder what the offspring will look like?

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i'm speechless

from democracy now

................BP CEO: No Underwater Oil Plumes; Workers Sickened by Food Poisoning

BP has vowed to clean up the spill, but is now trying to deny aspects of its environmental damage. On Sunday, BP CEO Tony Hayward was quoted disputing experts’ claims to have discovered oil plumes trapped in large quantities and spreading miles underseas. Hayward said, "The oil is on the surface. There aren’t any plumes." Hayward also told reporters he doubts that scores of workers and fishermen have gotten sick from the toxic dispersants used to break up the oil in the water. He instead said the workers had suffered food poisoning.

Tony Hayward: "I’m sure they were genuinely ill, but whether it was anything to do with dispersants and oil, whether it was food poisoning or some other reason for them being ill, you know, there’s a—food poisoning is clearly a big issue when you’ve got a, you know, concentration of this number of people in temporary camps, temporary accommodation. It’s something we have to be very, very mindful of. It’s one of the big issues of keeping the army operating. You know, armies march on their stomachs."

A number of workers involved in the clean-up have been hospitalized. Hayward’s comment came shortly after he publicly complained about the disaster’s impact on his personal life...........

it comes at about 7:30 into the video. yes, it really DOES come out of his mouth

flush twice, it's a long way to limburger-land

the classiest of the classy

Limbaugh Claims Democrats "Were A Little Jealous" 9-11 Happened On Bush's Watch

By Todd Gregory

........But the real gem from today's show was Limbaugh's declaration that Democrats "were a little jealous" that 9-11 happened on President Bush's watch instead of on President Clinton's, because it would have been "a real crisis" for Clinton "to define himself by."..........

hmmmm

another GRAND headline

BP hires Cheney spokeswoman to lead PR effort

(unfortunately) this is a GREAT headline

Supreme Court rules suspects must speak to remain silent

better late than never

but they SHOULD have done this weeks ago. there was a crime committed and it's being committed as i type this.

(i wonder what flush limburger is thinking. is he still thinking the leak is just fine? i know he lives in florida. i wonder if he lives on the beach on the gulf side. i wonder if he actually KNOWS it's NOT ok for oil to leak into our oceans and he's just stirring the pot. well i don't wonder that much. the man is a steamin' pile)

again, IT'S ABOUT TIME YOU START AN INVESTIGATION into this. what the outcome will be, goddess only knows

U.S. attorney general opens criminal probe of gulf oil spill

By Theresa Vargas and Jerry Markon

Washington Post Staff Writer

NEW ORLEANS -- Attorney General Eric H. Holder Jr. announced Tuesday that his office is using "the full weight" of its investigative power to pursue criminal and civil investigations into the oil spill that has devastated the Gulf Coast.

"The Department of Justice will ensure that the American people do not foot the bill for this disaster and that our laws are enforced to the fullest extent possible," he said.

Earlier in the day, President Obama vowed a "full and vigorous accounting" of the causes of the disaster, telling the leaders of a new commission that they should pursue the trail of blame without limits.

"They have my full support to follow the facts wherever they may lead, without fear or favor," Obama said in the Rose Garden on Tuesday after meeting with the co-chairmen of the commission, former Florida senator and governor Bob Graham and former EPA administrator William Reilly.

Holder's announcement came at an afternoon news conference in New Orleans, the same day the attorney general met with local law enforcement officials and surveyed part of the affected area.

"What we saw this morning was oil for miles and miles and miles, oil that we know has already affected plants and animal life along the coast and has impacted the lives and livelihoods of all too many in this region," he said. "This must not be forgotten."...............

why do the courts even ALLOW this shite?

i wonder if google can sue anyone (not mentioning any names here cause someone is wicked litigious) for stupid assholiness?????

Google Maps Made Me Walk Onto the Highway, Woman Claims

...........Google should not have to warn people to use common sense when using its maps, but it does, telling people to "use caution" because certain routes "may be missing sidewalks or pedestrian paths." According to the report, however, this warning does not appear on maps reached from a BlackBerry, which Rosenberg was apparently using, because the screen is too small............

which are YOU?

The latest xkcd comic features a Venn diagram that accurately sums up the ongoing “Geeks vs Nerds” debate.


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this is why i have to get up so dang early for work!

Lynn Merrick



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no surprises here

well i guess i am surprised they even half heartedly decided to do something (and i do mean HALF)

USA Swimming Names 36 Who Were Banned For Molesting Female Swimmers

Posted on May 31, 2010 by Mike

In March, the Women’s Rights section of change.org had an article about the decades-old pattern of male swim coaches molesting female swimmers. The article said that:

A suit filed in California alleges that the the governing body of U.S. competitive swimming has failed to address widespread sexual abuse of young girls at swim clubs across the country. According to the Associated Press, the suit alleges that “more than 30 coaches nationwide have engaged in sexual misconduct with young females, and says there is a culture in competitive swimming of condoning inappropriate relationships between coaches and swimmers.”

This suit has come about in large part because of 1972 Olympic champion Deena Deardurff Schmidt, who, over a 4-year period in the 1960′s, was molested by her coach. When Schmidt reported the abuse to the national swimming organization in the late 1980′s, she was turned aside because of the organization’s rules that a complaint must be filed by an active swimmer or the person would have to find a coach who would back up her story. So her complaint went nowhere..............

The Daily Irritant: Now can we stop pretending that Israel is the "good guys?"

The Daily Irritant: Now can we stop pretending that Israel is the "good guys?"

i don't have much to say, other than the comment i left on the daily irritant linked above.

I'M STILL AWAITING JUSTICE FOR THE USS LIBERTY

devastating

Hundimiento por socavación del agua en la Zona 2 de la Ciudad de Guatemala.
Fotos: Paulo Raquec.

from the fickr feed of the government of guatemala


now i believe the sink hole was there from 2007. i think this latest storm perhaps made it larger or something to that effect. i'm not quite understanding this. there are pictures from 2007, yet the story is this is from the present?????

at any rate, it's not pretty

spongebob oil-pants

By artist Mike Mitchell:


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are we surprised?

seems like they're confiscating the worker's clothing (the workers who are GETTING SICK I MIGHT ADD) so no one outside of the bp circle can TEST that clothing.

Report: BP confiscated cleanup workers clothing, refused to give back

by Chris in Paris

Fisherman files restraining order against BP

By Elizabeth Cohen, CNN

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In an affidavit, Wunstell wrote he started experiencing severe headaches and nasal irritation on May 24. Over the next few days, he also developed nosebleeds, an upset stomach, and aches.

On Friday, Wunstell was airlifted to West Jefferson Medical Center in Marrero, Louisiana, where he remained hospitalized Sunday.

Eight other workers were brought to the hospital this week and were all released.

"We need to start protecting these guys," said Jim Klick, Wunstell's lawyer.

In his affidavit, Wunstell described his experience at the hospital.

"At West Jefferson, there were tents set up outside the hospital, where I was stripped of my clothing, washed with water and several showers, before I was allowed into the hospital," Wunstell said. "When I asked for my clothing, I was told that BP had confiscated all of my clothing and it would not be returned."

The restraining order requests that BP refrain from "altering, testing or destroying clothing or any other evidence or potential evidence" when workers become ill...............

she was one of the first women artists i knew about

i discovered her at a rather young age. i then went on to know women COULD BE and WERE (all along i might add) artists and any damn thing they wanted to be.

thank you louise, for going before




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Louise Bourgeois Dies at 98

here's her wikipedia entry

the embedding is disabled, but here's a video of the spider, the mistress and the tangerine


and from the nyt

Louise Bourgeois, Artist and Sculptor, Is Dead

By HOLLAND COTTER

Louise Bourgeois, the French-born American artist who gained fame only late in a long career, when her psychologically charged abstract sculptures, drawings and prints had a galvanizing effect on younger artists, particularly women, died on Monday at the Beth Israel Medical Center in Manhattan. She was 98.

The death was reported by Wendy Williams, the managing director of the Louise Bourgeois Studio...................

i don't normally bitch about my work

and it's NOT my work i'm actually bitching about. it's a rather new policy (which i am angry about). the following wapo article says businesses are trying to hide their political footprints. my company is doing the opposite. well the opposite with their individual employees that is. i'm guessing they (on the corporate level) are NOT going to tell their employees where THEIR support is.

we, i mean the employees HAVE TO HAVE PRE-CLEARANCE to not only WORK on someones campaign BUT we HAVE TO HAVE PRE-CLEARANCE TO DONATE TO SOMEONES POLITICAL CAMPAIGN (not to worry, linda 'i'm going to have the men who may not be but most likely ARE on roids, that work for me beat up the women that work for me in front of pre-pubescent boys that are our target audience' mcmahon is NOT getting one dime of MY money)

it is my personal feeling letting my company know where my support lies (if i don't wish to reveal it, although that's really not the case) is an invasion of MY privacy. there, i've bitched.

Political ads are tough sell for image-conscious corporations

By Carol D. Leonnig

Washington Post Staff Writer

All over the country, corporate CEOs and trade groups are asking their lawyers the same question: How can we get our companies involved in this political election season without leaving tracks?

After a landmark Supreme Court ruling this year freed executives to spend unlimited corporate cash on campaigns, some predicted that businesses would flood television airwaves with pro-industry political ads -- but that just hasn't happened yet. Image-sensitive corporations are still trying to make sure that, if they jump into 2010 politicking, they do so as anonymously as possible, according to Republican political operatives and trade group leaders. ...........