lion cub cam, lion cub cam, lion cub cam

(yes, i AM torn. yes i DO believe they belong in the jungle. however, i still wanna see....)

LION CUB CAM (live i might add)

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important info for ALL of us

i love my kindle but it will NEVER replace my love of books

how to open a new book
Mark Frauenfelder

please think about it before you pull that voting booth lever

(or now in many cases, before you fill in that little circle). do you really WANT these people representing YOU and yours? i sure as shite don't

Details On C-Street's Midnight Intervention For Ensign

Rachel Slajda

 

When Sen. John Ensign's housemates on C Street found out about his affair with the wife of an aide, they burst into his room and woke him up to stage an intervention.
Sen. Tom Coburn (R-OK), a fellow C-streeter, had found out about the affair weeks earlier and confronted Ensign, according to the New Yorker, which is out with a long story about Ensign (R-NV), the C-Street House, and the Fellowship.
After the confrontation, which was "filled with recrimination and tears," Coburn had Ensign write the now-infamous letter to his mistress, Cindy Hampton (also an aide). Three ministers then drove Ensign to a FedEx box to deliver it. That, however, didn't end the affair.........

and in case you missed the new yorker link above HERE'S another:

Frat House for Jesus

The entity behind C Street.

by Peter J. Boyer

Read more http://www.newyorker.com/reporting/2010/09/13/100913fa_fact_boyer?currentPage=all#ixzz0yoscobeD

 

the common man/woman kim jon il is bowling for OUR dollars!

and in truth i wouldn't mind so much IF faux' money was indeed going to the starving (in every sense of the word) people of north korea. but we all know that ain't happenin'. so here's what real patriotic idiotic news corp is doing/has done



Kim Jong Il Bowls for Murdoch Dollars With Korea Video Games
 By Matthew Campbell and Bomi Lim

 

North Korean leader Kim Jong Il has found an unlikely ally to help raise cash for his impoverished regime: The Dude, the pot-smoking underachiever played by Jeff Bridges in the movie “The Big Lebowski.”

Programmers from North Korea’s General Federation of Science and Technology developed a 2007 mobile-phone bowling game based on the 1998 film, as well as “Men in Black: Alien Assault,” according to two executives at Nosotek Joint Venture Company, which markets software from North Korea for foreign clients. Both games were published by a unit of News Corp., the New York-based media company, a spokeswoman for the unit said.........

(clip nsfw)

you can make up your OWN mind

as to what sort of person (and/or political party) would set up three homeless people like this. may says it's not a joke. i don't believe him. i think he's laughing like crazy on this inside (and places where he isn't on camera)

Republican Runs Street People on Green Ticket

By MARC LACEY

TEMPE, Ariz. — Benjamin Pearcy, a candidate for statewide office in Arizona, lists his campaign office as a Starbucks. The small business he refers to in his campaign statement is him strumming his guitar on the street. The internal debate he is having in advance of his coming televised debate is whether he ought to gel his hair into his trademark faux Mohawk. 

Mr. Pearcy, 20, is running for a seat on the Arizona Corporation Commission, which oversees public utilities, railroad safety and securities regulation. Although Mr. Pearcy says he is taking his first run for public office seriously, the political establishment here views him as nothing more than a political dirty trick.

Mr. Pearcy and other drifters and homeless people were recruited onto the Green Party ballot by a Republican political operative who freely admits that their candidacies may siphon some support from the Democrats. Arizona’s Democratic Party has filed a formal complaint with local, state and federal prosecutors in an effort to have the candidates removed from the ballot, and the Green Party has urged its supporters to steer clear of the rogue candidates...............

pic:

Joshua Lott for The New York Times

Steve May, right, a Republican, recruited three street people, from left, Thomas Meadows, Anthony Goshorn and Benjamin Pearcy, to run as Green Party candidates in Arizona.

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read this (it's not a request by the way)

Jimmy Breslin on the National Mood

By Jimmy Breslin

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what i will be doing after church today

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[Young girl sewing], n.d.
link

aw c'mon now. just say the 'n' word

dr laura did (then you like she can blame the 'liberal' media for her being FORCED off of the radio or voted out of office or shown for what you really ARE. sure. everyone's fault but their own

Mississippi governor tries to write Southern racism out of modern history

By David Edwards and Muriel Kane

As the Republican Party positions itself for a major comeback after its electoral losses in 2006 and 2008, it is looking for ways to undercut Barack Obama's appeal as the nation's first black president without opening itself to accusations of racism.

Evidently as part of that effort, Mississippi Governor Haley Barbour this week laid out a revisionist version of the modern history of the Deep South.

"The people that led the change of parties in the South ... was my generation," the 62 year old Barbour told an interviewer from Human Events. "I went to an integrated college. Never thought twice about it. And it was the old Democrats who had fought for segregation so hard. By my time, people realized that was the past, it was indefensible, wasn't going to be that way any more."

"That is Haley Barbour's history of segregation in the South," MSNBC's Rachel Maddow commented on Thursday. "Essentially, it was all over by his time. That's not the real history. That's not even Haley Barbour's real history.".................

 

surprised?

then you're a giant dope. it is my personal belief this is only the tip of the iceberg. it is my personal belief, MANY (in government) KNEW about this. it is my personal belief, IF i believed in the devil..............

Blackwater Won Contracts Through a Web of Companies

By JAMES RISEN and MARK MAZZETTI

WASHINGTON — Blackwater Worldwide created a web of more than 30 shell companies or subsidiaries in part to obtain millions of dollars in American government contracts after the security company came under intense criticism for reckless conduct in Iraq, according to Congressional investigators and former Blackwater officials. 

While it is not clear how many of those businesses won contracts, at least three had deals with the United States military or the Central Intelligence Agency, according to former government and company officials. Since 2001, the intelligence agency has awarded up to $600 million in classified contracts to Blackwater and its affiliates, according to a United States government official.

The Senate Armed Services Committee this week released a chart that identified 31 affiliates of Blackwater, now known as Xe Services. The network was disclosed as part of a committee’s investigation into government contracting. The investigation revealed the lengths to which Blackwater went to continue winning contracts after Blackwater guards killed 17 Iraqi civilians in Baghdad in September 2007. That episode and other reports of abuses led to criminal and Congressional investigations, and cost the company its lucrative security contract with the State Department in Iraq.

A L P H A V I L L E: Sally Kern

A L P H A V I L L E: Sally Kern: "H/T"

if you live in oklahoma, give the video at the link above a look-see. really

and i thought

mad bitch (i was given the gift of a mad bitch tap handle - don't be jealous) was a cool beer with a cool label.

DAMN
here's something EVEN cooler!

Miles Davis beer: Bitches Brew

Richard Metzger  

it DOES NOT work here (ax bristol) it sure as shite

ain't gonna work in china (really)

FOCUS ON YOUR OWN DAMN FAMILY

Abstinence program partners Chinese officials with U.S. evangelicals

By William Wan

Washington Post Staff Writer  

BEIJING - If all goes according to plan, this fall a girl somewhere in China's Yunnan Province will tell her boyfriend she can't have sex with him. And he'll have an abstinence program from the United States to thank.

In Yunnan schools this year, teachers are being trained with a sex education curriculum created by the conservative Christian group Focus on the Family. The agreement with the Yunnan ministry of education is a milestone for Focus on the Family, which has struggled for four years to make inroads on abstinence in China........................

from the cargo culte via uncertain times

i MAY have posted this picture before, but it's worth a second look

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i hope this isn't posed but one never knows. a man (as in edward gorey) and his kitties

we ALL need our coffee

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coolness plus. cynical-c points us to a

lost rod serling interview

if you want a little more background, go to the link above for some of the story

stop by

flurb, a webzine of astonishing tales

pic: from the flurb coverage page linked above

via: boingboing: Flurb 10: Rudy Rucker's glorious sf webzine  Cory Doctorow

this starts out (fairly) sane

it quickly turns



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thank you thank you thank you evil slutopia

for reading cosmo and being so step up to take a GIANT one for the team. i for one look forward to your reviews. they're THE best. and once again, most sincerely i thank  you

Cosmo Quickies: August 2010

 I think this might be the most belated Cosmo Quickies post yet. Sorry everyone! Attending two conferences and launching a new blog kept us busy this month, but we did have time to read the August issue of Cosmo, and of course we have some thoughts.

-It's The Hot Issue, which, like The Sexy Issue, helps to differentiate this from all of the chaste, demure, and un-hot issues that Cosmo usually puts out.

-Cover model Britney Spears is the victim of some bizarre Photoshopping. Apparently her neck chose not to appear on the cover with her.

-One of the letters to the editor this month came from a woman named Jane, who is totally an honorary ESC member:

I found "Why So Many Men Are Suckers for Skanks (June 2010) offensive. The words skankstripper were repeated throughout the article. How about empowering women by teaching them not to hate on other women? and

We're glad that Cosmo actually printed this letter, but unfortunately we doubt that they're going to take Jane's comments very seriously. The regular "Sexy vs. Skanky" feature is still there in all its glory, and the Hot Sheet page is still home to its usual slut-shaming.............