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DEBTOCRACY- A GREEK FILM WITH LESSONS FOR IRELAND
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Saturday, October 16, 2010
saturday humor
and mr continetti surely CANNOT be serious here
surely NOT
complex woman mr continetti? C O M P L E X??????????????///
i think not
simpleton, YES
complex NO
ignorant, YES
complex, NO
rabble rouser, YES
complex, NO
boring and idiotic, YES
complex, NO
Five myths about Sarah Palin
By Matthew Continetti
Think you know Sarah Palin? The former Alaska governor has been in the spotlight ever since John McCain named her as his running mate on Aug. 29, 2008. Yet, while practically everybody has an opinion about Palin, not all of those opinions are grounded in reality. Many of them are based more on a "Saturday Night Live" caricature than on the living, breathing, 46-year-old mother of five. The real Sarah Palin is a complex woman who has risen in no time from obscurity to the stratosphere of American politics, fusing celebrity and populism in novel ways. Now that she's laying the foundation for a possible presidential run in 2012, it's worth taking a moment to separate the facts about Palin from the fables.
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again and again and again (and because women are not subject to enough violence)
more proof there is still NO equality out there. were these young 'men' hatched? OR, like the rest of us, were they born of women? do they have a mom? a sister? an aunt? a woman friend? no, it's not ok to run around yelling no means yes. rape is in no way funny. NONE
Yale Fraternity stoops to new low
Fraternity’s don’t have the best reputation on college campuses for upstanding behavior or respect of women, but this takes it to another level.
Beginning around 9:30 pm, members of the DKE fraternity marched with their pledges around Yale’s Old Campus (the home of almost all of Yale’s freshman women) chanting slogans such as “No means yes, yes means anal” and “My name is Jack, I’m a necrophiliac, I f— dead women, and fill them with my semen.”
Maturity at it’s best, no?..................
After the campus outcry sparked by Delta Kappa Epsilon’s inflammatory pledge ritual on Old Campus Wednesday night, the fraternity apologized to the Yale Women’s Center in a meeting in Linsly-Chittenden Hall Thursday night.
After the meeting, attended by four DKE brothers and five Women’s Center board members, both parties expressed optimism that they could construct a “productive relationship” in the future. Also present at the meeting was Melanie Boyd ’90, director of undergraduate studies for Women’s Gender and Sexuality Studies and special adviser to both the Center and the Dean of Yale College on Gender Issues.................
i am ALL for this
violation of someone's rights or privacy? hell no. you hurt an animal (on purpose), chances are high you're on your way to hurt a person
it's ap, so click the link to read
NY county creating list of animal abusers
By FRANK ELTMAN
it's ap, so click the link to read
NY county creating list of animal abusers
By FRANK ELTMAN
i'm not scared of the people that are running
i AM scared of the people who VOTE for them
the candidates are preaching some of these things (and this is only the tip of the iceberg)
mice with human brains
nazi 'reenactments'
racism
homophobic nonsense (yet they previously OWNED gay clubs or buildings where gay clubs were, who preach family values yet have out of wedlock children* and send out pornographic videos and racist emails and even videos featuring bestiality)
multi-millionaires who say they're 'regular' folk
what is going to happen when these people get elected (and yes, some WILL get elected) and they start cutting social security, health benefits, educational funding? YOU are going to be responsible. yes YOU
(*i have NOTHING against children born OUT of wedlock. i believe LOVE MAKES A FAMILY. i have shite against peeps PREACHING to me yet can't either keep it in their pants or keep their legs together)
(*i have NOTHING against children born OUT of wedlock. i believe LOVE MAKES A FAMILY. i have shite against peeps PREACHING to me yet can't either keep it in their pants or keep their legs together)
Tea Party Frontrunner: Abolish Public Schools
Bachmann suggests Obama is buying votes with funds from discrimination settlement
Senate candidate scrubs racist comments from Twitter
Sharron Angle Campaigned Against Black Football Jerseys On Religious Grounds: Color is 'Thoroughly Evil'
Emmer says he won’t back anti-bullying legislation
O'Donnell In 2007: Scientists Have Created Mice With Human Brains!
Republican Responds To Revelation Of His Nazi Reenacting Past
Yet Another Hateful Tea Party Billboard
one does have to wonder
why this woman is so obsessed with adultery
In Debate, O’Donnell Likens Repealing Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell To Adultery
By
During this evening’s Delaware Senate debate, Christine O’Donnell — who has a spotty record on LGBT rights — repeatedly compared allowing gays and lesbians to serve openly in the military to “adultery” and condemned the recent court decision which banned the military from enforcing the Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell policy:
O’DONNELL: A federal judge recently ruled that we have to overturn Don’t Ask Don’t Tell. There are a couple of things we need to say about that............
Thursday, October 14, 2010
Wednesday, October 13, 2010
suck on this paladino!
whoops, was that my OUTSIDE voice?
in all seriousness, i'm sick and tired of baby steps. this is one brave (and correct) judge. i am sick of our government being too fucking scared to DO anything about this. i'm guessing judge phillips ruling won't stand (very long). it's a step. i want GIANT steps, not baby steps.
if one wants to serve their country one should NOT be denied service based on their sexuality. if one is qualified, one should be able to serve.
Judge ends military's 'don't ask' ban on gays
Washington Post Staff Writers
A federal judge ordered an immediate end Tuesday to the Pentagon's enforcement of its ban on openly gay service members, rejecting the Obama administration's argument that an injunction to stop the "don't ask, don't tell" policy might harm military readiness.
The ruling by U.S. District Judge Virginia A. Phillips in California marks the first time that the controversial policy - which forbids the military to ask about a service member's sexual orientation but retains a ban on gays serving openly - has been halted.
Leaders of the group that brought the suit celebrated the injunction, the latest in a series of recent court rulings that expand the rights of gay Americans to marry and serve in uniform.............
i thank the goddess
for their rescue and i hope and pray (sure i pray, but not how you think) for these miners and all miners to be safe.................i can't help but to think how they will be compensated.
someone was being interviewed on npr yesterday who was familiar with the industry. he said he had just talked to a man who was injured in a mine (a mine owned by the SAME company that owned the 33 miners mine) so badly he lost a leg. that man was just now getting ready to start receiving some benefits from the company. well that most likely is NOT going to happen because this particular mining company is most likely going to declare bankruptcy. it's a dirty and horribly dangerous business. i can't even imagine what they went through in their ordeal
as of 1:03 am, 3 of the 33 are out
(found a transcript of the npr program neal conan interviews sean flynn Chile mine rescue begins with success
By Juan Forero and Jonathan Franklin
SAN JOSE MINE, CHILE - After 10 weeks in a dark, hot purgatory 2,000 feet underground, the first of 33 trapped miners was hoisted to freedom late Tuesday night, a rescue that was expected to mark the beginning of the end of a drama that captivated people worldwide. Florencio Avalos, 31, emerged in the cold of Chile's northern Atacama Desert just after midnight Wednesday (11 p.m. Eastern time), 69 days after he and his fellow miners were sealed in a cavern. They were trapped Aug. 5 when hundreds of thousands of tons of rocks collapsed on the gold and copper mine..............
Tuesday, October 12, 2010
talk about whacked out paranoids
maybe he sniffed one too many bags o' gold dust
Beck claims Feds paid to have cartoon mock him, apparently terrifying Mickey Mouse
Beck claims Feds paid to have cartoon mock him, apparently terrifying Mickey Mouse
Fox News personality Glenn Beck is convinced that a recent YouTube clip, which used Disney character Donald Duck to mock his brand of bloviation, was funded by the Obama administration.
There is no evidence to support his claim. By all accounts, the fair-use video remix was pieced together by media activist Jonathan McIntosh, who published the clip to his blog on Oct. 2.
It features Donald Duck getting fired from his job, then turning to Glenn Beck's program for answers, only to be let down and sucked dry of his money, then mocked for being unemployed.
At the Stranger, Anthony Hecht raves that it "[c]aptures the strategy of the Glenn Becks of the world perfectly—manufacture rage, and then exploit the shit out of it for personal gain." World renowned film critic Roger Ebert linked to the toon at his blog, and Brad Friedman simply called it, "Duckin' brilliant.".......
oooooh that chuckie
he's SUCH a jokester!
Scarborough retracts false claim about lefty groups' disclosure. Will Rove and other righties do same?
-Greg Sargent
I suppose this is par for the course. But perhaps it should be part of the discussion that right wing commentators who claim lefty groups and unions are running ads funded by anonymous donors -- just as the U.S. Chamber of Commerce and other righty groups are doing -- are just flat out lying.
This lie is so easily debunked that Joe Scarborough actually retracted it today on Morning Joe after making the claim and getting corrected. Will Karl Rove and Fox News and others spreading this falsehood or letting it go unchecked do the same?
Scarborough, during a discussion this morning of the Obama-and-Dem-versus-Chamber dust-up, called on President Obama to demand disclosure from unions and MoveOn, claiming "blatant hypocrisy."............
Monday, October 11, 2010
well, i did start watching boardwalk empire and all (come on, it's steve buscemi)
anyway, prohibition to me is fascinating. medicinal liquor and all
Unintended Consequences of Prohibition
by gwen
Jeremiah sent in a fascinating post by Nicola at edible geography about how Prohibition, which outlawed liquor in the U.S. from 1920-1933, changed our culture in a number of ways that aren’t immediately apparent. Nicola draws heavily on historian David Okrent’s book Last Call.................
he really IS an ugly ugly ugly human being
Rush: "[T]here is no equality" because "[s]ome people are just born to be slaves," while others are "self-starters"
LIMBAUGH: This is a tough thing to say, because a lot of people don't want to hear this, because it goes against everybody's desire that we all be the same, that there be no pain in life and that there be no suffering and that everybody do well and that everybody have what they want and so forth.
LIMBAUGH: This is a tough thing to say, because a lot of people don't want to hear this, because it goes against everybody's desire that we all be the same, that there be no pain in life and that there be no suffering and that everybody do well and that everybody have what they want and so forth.
But there is no equality. You cannot guarantee that any two people will end up the same. And you can't legislate it, and you can't make it happen. You can try, under the guise of fairness and so forth, but some people are self-starters, and some people are born lazy. Some people are born victims. Some people are just born to be slaves. Some people are born to put up with somebody else making every decision for them...........
Sunday, October 10, 2010
i guess rape is fun(ny) to the editors of the purdue university newspaper
'tag teaming' a woman (without her knowledge) is NOT funny
Making Light of Rape in the Purdue University Newspaper (Trigger Warning)
whoa whoa and whoa
dangerous minds points us to a blog called
pwsnt. it posts copies of PUBLIC POSTS where WHITE FOLK use the "N" word. it's real. it's unbelievable
i'm not going to post a copy of one of the posts. they're distasteful. HOWEVER, i do like the fact pwsnt is calling them out. you said it, you deal with it
pwsnt. it posts copies of PUBLIC POSTS where WHITE FOLK use the "N" word. it's real. it's unbelievable
i'm not going to post a copy of one of the posts. they're distasteful. HOWEVER, i do like the fact pwsnt is calling them out. you said it, you deal with it
they sure do look wicked happy 'PLAYING' nazi dress up
i don't really have any commentary here. the pictures speak for themselves (plus mr green of the atlantic says it better than i anyway)
Why is This GOP House Candidate Dressed as a Nazi?
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An election year already notable for its menagerie of extreme and unusual candidates can add another one: Rich Iott, the Republican nominee for Congress from Ohio's 9th District, and a Tea Party favorite, who for years donned a German Waffen SS uniform and participated in Nazi re-enactments. Iott, whose district lies in Northwest Ohio, was involved with a group that calls itself Wiking, whose members are devoted to re-enacting the exploits of an actual Nazi division, the 5th SS Panzer Division Wiking, which fought mainly on the Eastern Front during World War II. Iott's participation in the Wiking group is not mentioned on his campaign's website, and his name and photographs were removed from the Wiking website.
When contacted by The Atlantic, Iott confirmed his involvement with the group over a number of years, but said his interest in Nazi Germany was historical and he does not subscribe to the tenets of Nazism. "No, absolutely not," he said. "In fact, there's a disclaimer on the [Wiking] website. And you'll find that on almost any reenactment website. It's purely historical interest in World War II.".........
Why is This GOP House Candidate Dressed as a Nazi?
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An election year already notable for its menagerie of extreme and unusual candidates can add another one: Rich Iott, the Republican nominee for Congress from Ohio's 9th District, and a Tea Party favorite, who for years donned a German Waffen SS uniform and participated in Nazi re-enactments. Iott, whose district lies in Northwest Ohio, was involved with a group that calls itself Wiking, whose members are devoted to re-enacting the exploits of an actual Nazi division, the 5th SS Panzer Division Wiking, which fought mainly on the Eastern Front during World War II. Iott's participation in the Wiking group is not mentioned on his campaign's website, and his name and photographs were removed from the Wiking website.
When contacted by The Atlantic, Iott confirmed his involvement with the group over a number of years, but said his interest in Nazi Germany was historical and he does not subscribe to the tenets of Nazism. "No, absolutely not," he said. "In fact, there's a disclaimer on the [Wiking] website. And you'll find that on almost any reenactment website. It's purely historical interest in World War II.".........
solomon burke, rip
here's an anecdote
i have always liked solomon. he was a blues musician. i LOVE the blues. i LOVE the blues above all other types of music (yes, even more than yodeling if you can believe that).
the first and only time i saw my idol, van morrison, solomon burke was the opening act. i was really pissed. i didn't care WHO opened for van, i wasn't going to like them because they were in between ME and VAN. well, solomon BLEW ME AWAY. he sat on his throne (he was a VERY big man) and he just sang. man, could i feel him.
i do have the joy of saying i saw him live. i think he was one of only a handful of people that could have gotten between me and mr morrison and he did so in such a way as to move my very soul.
rest in peace mr burke (who by the way was a mortician)
Solomon Burke dies at Amsterdam airport at 70
the king, solomon burke
picture from mr burke's website linked above: At Train, in Ã…rhus, Denmark, 11/16/08, taken by Morten Rygaard
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