yeah, scientology detox WORKS WONDERS

just ask "r", an acquaintance (NOT friend) of mine and a former inmate patient of a scientology detox center (i hear is wayyyyyyyyyyy back into the bottle). 


Scientologists targeting alcoholic Aborigines with 'killer' therapy

The Church of Scientology is targeting alcohol-dependent Aborigines with a "drug bomb" therapy which the church has been warned could kill people with kidney problems. The Scientologists this week responded to a warning by the Northern Territory Health Department and stopped distributing literature which promotes a dangerous drug detoxification therapy. The group has been moving through remote Australia on an indigenous recruitment drive..............

vile couple of the week

and NO the vote to have their fetus aborted is NOT real

they're just another couple of ANTI CHOICE asswipes

 

Poll: Should this couple terminate their anti-choice internet fame-grab and crawl back into the swamp they came out of?

by Jill

The Arnolds are having a baby. Unless the public votes to have the child aborted. Meet the couple behind Birthornot.com, where “you can vote and choose whether we abort or keep our unborn child.”
Pete and Alisha Arnold, both 30, both tech professionals, live in the Minneapolis suburb of Apple Valley and have been married for 10 years. Since September, they’ve blogged about their expected child at birthornot.com, posting health updates about the mother and the fetus (which will be 17 weeks-old tomorrow), and ultrasound pictures and video. But at the top of the blog is a poll hosted by PollDaddy.com. The question: “Should We Give Birth or Have an Abortion?” “Give Birth” has 46 percent of the vote at the moment, with “Have an Abortion” at 54 percent. The poll closes on December 7th.

As Amanda pointed out yesterday, the whole thing is pretty clearly an anti-choice prank — (a) pro-choice people don’t actually think that every pregnant woman should have an abortion, and (b) the whole ideological underpinning of the pro-choice position is the idea that the woman should decide whether or not to carry a pregnancy to term. It shouldn’t be left up to a vote, in Congress or on the internet. As Amanda wrote:...............

 

my new beaux

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saturday dose of cute (and it's a BIG dose)

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you know, i never thought of it this way, BUT it's all true

and i wonder how the peeps who are saying groping of genitalia is NECESSARY at tsa checkpoints are going to feel when it becomes THEIR turn (or their family's turn)???

Civil liberties: Now with more privileged people
 Posted by S Addison

......................It is no accident that women have been complaining about being pulled out of line because of their big breasts, having their bodies commented on by TSA officials, and getting inappropriate touching when selected for pat-downs for years now, but just this week it went viral.  It is no accident that transgender people have been violated by searches for years, but just this week it went viral.  It is no accident that CAIR identified Islamic head scarves (hijab) as an automatic trigger for extra screenings in January, but just this week it went viral.  What was different? 

Suddenly an able-bodied cis-gendered white man is the one who was complaining...............

hmmmmmm

TSA confiscates heavily-armed soldiers' nail-clippers

Cory Doctorow



Here's an anonymous account of a US Army soldier returning from Afghanistan who watched as his buddies -- who were all carrying high-powered rifles, pistols, etc -- were forced to surrender their nail-clippers and multi-tools:

So we're in line, going through one at a time. One of our Soldiers had his Gerber multi-tool. TSA confiscated it. Kind of ridiculous, but it gets better. A few minutes later, a guy empties his pockets and has a pair of nail clippers. Nail clippers. TSA informs the Soldier that they're going to confiscate his nail clippers. The conversation went something like this: TSA Guy: You can't take those on the plane.
Soldier: What? I've had them since we left country.
TSA Guy: You're not suppose to have them.
Soldier: Why?
TSA Guy: They can be used as a weapon.
Soldier: [touches butt stock of the rifle] But this actually is a weapon. And I'm allowed to take it on.
TSA Guy: Yeah but you can't use it to take over the plane. You don't have bullets.
Soldier: And I can take over the plane with nail clippers?
TSA Guy: [awkward silence]
Me: Dude, just give him your damn nail clippers so we can get the f**k out of here. I'll buy you a new set.
Soldier: [hands nail clippers to TSA guy, makes it through security]
This might be a good time to remind everyone that approximately 233 people re-boarded that plane with assault rifles, pistols, and machine guns-but nothing that could have been used as a weapon.

Another TSA Outrage............

ummmmmm, i don't think so

TSA forces attendant to show prosthetic breast

Posted by JM Ashby

A cancer surviving flight attendant was forced to remove her prosthetic breast during a TSA pat-down.

Cathy Bossi lives in south Charlotte and has been a flight attendant for the past 32 years, working the past 28 for U.S. Airways.

...She says two female Charlotte T.S.A. agents took her to a private room and began what she calls an aggressive pat down. She says they stopped when they got around to feeling her right breast… the one where she'd had surgery............

lewis, will you marry me?

i am going to warn you...this is NOT pretty to watch

i will also tell you, i couldn't watch very much of it at all. 
 but like the title says, truth hurts, lies kill


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an ABSOLUTE read (and you'll thank me)

dogs don't understand basic concepts like moving by allie from hyperbole and a half

pic from the link above

he really IS a douchebag

i'm NOT excusing rudeness (if someone was being a jerk about yawning that is) BUT you don't stop a whole class and attempt to embarrass ONE individual student in front of everyone else. stop, quickly say 'whoever is yawning, knock it the hell off', then CONTINUE your lecture.

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check out ALL the coolness

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The man that cannot visualize a horse galloping on a tomato is an idiot

Photographs by Philippe Halsman
Title: André Breton

this is rather interesting

Vikings brought Amerindian to Iceland 1,000 years ago: study - AFP

The findings boost widely-accepted theories, based on Icelandic medieval texts and a reputed Viking settlement in Newfoundland in Canada, that the Vikings reached the American continent several centuries before Christopher Columbus travelled to the "New World."

Spain's CSIC scientific research

institute said genetic analysis of around 80 people from a total of four families in Iceland showed they possess a type of DNA normally only found in Native Americans or East Asians.

"It was thought at first that (the DNA) came from recently established Asian families in Iceland," CSIC researcher Carles Lalueza-Fox was quoted as saying in a statement by the institute.........

pic: The Oseberg viking ship at the Viking Ship Museum in Oslo. The first Native American to arrive in Europe may have been a woman brought to Iceland by the Vikings more than 1,000 years ago, a study by Spanish and Icelandic researchers suggests.

guitar love

“REX” Concert Guitar, circa 1935  

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ummmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmm

from christian nightmares
"20 Minutes To Go’: Possibly the most amazing, disturbing, and captivating video I’ve ever seen, about nuclear war, the end of the world, the Rapture, and life in Heaven. It’s a long video, but every second is worth watching! (For the heads up, thanks to Tom Whalen!)"

she's only 16, so i'm NOT going to say what i really WANT to say

but i will say this:

1) she's inarticulate (willows don't fall too damn far from the tree)

2) she can't spell

3) she's HOMOPHOBIC

i understand wanting to defend one's moms. i DO NOT accept using a slur in doing so

Palin’s daughter uses homophobic slurs to attack critic on Facebook
By John Byrne

In an apparent effort to defend her mother, Sarah Palin's daughter Willow labeled one critic a "faggot" and said he was "so gay" on her Facebook page after he said that her mother was "failing" on her new TV show.

The comments were posted by Palin's 16-year-old daughter Willow Palin on Facebook. They came in response to a Facebook user who updated his status to read, "Sarah Palin’s Alaska is failing so hard right now."....................

 

nothing shocking here.

keep 'em in the kitchen where they belong anyway!

Senate Republicans Vote Unanimously Against Bill To Help Guarantee Fair Pay For Women

Our guest blogger is Rebecca Lefton, a Researcher with Progressive Media.

Today, Senate Republicans voted unanimously against legislation to close the pay gap between women and men. The Senate voted 58-41 against allowing debate on the Paycheck Fairness Act, which would help end discriminatory pay practices against women. It had already passed the House.....................

wtf???????????????? WARNING DEAD ANIMAL PICTURES CONTAINED IN POSTING

there is NO such thing as a 'socially acceptable' fur. period. you fuckwad. do you know how fur pieces are made? do you know how the animals (no matter HOW ugly they are) are killed? like i said, YOU FUCKING FUCKWAD. i'm not just talking to 'ms' mccree (massacre mccree) here, i'm talking to the article author (who certainly sounds like she salivated over all of the bloody pelts)

 

MAN BROUGHT THE NUTRIA UP HERE FROM SOUTH AMERICA. why? FOR FUCKING FUR. it's NOT a NEW THING. if the nutria are a nuisance, it's the FAULT OF MAN (once again).

and if you treat ANY fur as 'guilt free' i don't want to share my planet with you. GET OFF

Is Their Pest Your Clean Conscience?

By ANNA JANE GROSSMAN

TREATING nutria as a kind of “guilt free” fur is tough when you’re cutting the pelt and fur gets caught in your eyes. That’s what Micha Michelle Melancon, a fashion designer in New Orleans, found out when she was making a cloak from what is commonly known as a swamp rat.  This is an animal,” Ms. Melancon said, after her work space became filled with fluffy piles of excess fur. “A soft, furry, once-living-and-breathing being.”

But unlike other soft and furry animals, nutria is being rebranded as a socially acceptable and environmentally friendly alternative way to wear fur. The effort culminates this Sunday, when Ms. Melancon and about 20 designers take part in a “righteous fur” fashion show at the House of Yes, an art space in Williamsburg, Brooklyn.

Fluffy hats, muffs, leg warmers and even a wedding dress will be paraded down the runway, in a show expected to draw about 150 people...........

note: pictures are   NOT of a nutria, but i'm making a point here. pic via pic via

PIC:

Jennifer Zdon for The New York Times

Ziomara del Carmen helped Ana Lodriguss prepare for a nutria fashion show in New Orleans.

nothing further needs to be said

Palin's Dancing Daughter Provokes Gun Seige

what a friend!

lemmy sent this to me (knowing how much i'd LOVE it)

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a letter from groucho

can be read right here

A drunken evening with Groucho Marx

agreed!

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speaking of which......

you know how NO body scanner pictures are saved?

they're not saved 'cause the tsa tells us they're not

well, gizmodo filed a foa and got access to some saved one's from a florida courthouse. there were 35,000 of 'em stored there. giz published 100

these are NOT high res like the 'naked' body scanner images. but there's a point being made here (and made VERY well). pictures CAN and ARE being saved. and looked at. and goddess only knows what else

One Hundred Naked Citizens: One Hundred Leaked Body Scans

the.......reformed....... pirate: last week

the.......reformed....... pirate: last week

scary

yeah, i know this article is slanted. HOWEVER, these items are STILL scary

here are three of the 16

16 of the Dumbest Things Americans Believe -- And the Right-Wing Lies Behind Them
By Sarah Seltzer

.........Polling data during and after last week’s midterm elections suggested that many Americans genuinely believe President Obama has raised their taxes -- even though the reality is that our president actually lowered them for most of us. This means that people trust pundits like Rush Limbaugh, a major force behind spreading that lie, over the numbers on their own tax returns..,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,

...........Another recent phenomenon? Half of new Congressmen don’t believe in the reality of global warming. It’s not that they don’t just disagree on the source or the severity of the problem. They flat out don’t think the world is getting warmer--despite the evidence outside their windows..........

..........25 percent of Americans don’t believe in Darwin’s theory of evolution while less than 40 percent do. Consider the fact that several of our newly elected officials, specifically newly elected Kansas Governor Sam Brownback, share that belief.......... 

naturally submissive?

oh i think not

YOU want ME to pray to 'god' to 'renew a spirit of submission in my heart'? NOT IN THIS FUCKING LIFETIME OR THE NEXT 25

i guess this woman gets other women to SHELL OUT BUCKS and come and hear her spew, but i ain't gonna be one of 'em

another one of THOSE KIND who have a direct connection to god. they KNOW what god wants, and thinks and says and does

why do i think it's all bullshite? i'll tell you. because my goddess can kick her god's arse (figuratively of course. i do NOT advocate violence, even on the mount)

Housewives of God

By MOLLY WORTHEN

Priscilla Shirer’s marriage appears to be just the sort of enlightened partnership that would make feminists cheer. On an average morning in their house in suburban Dallas, Shirer and her husband, Jerry, are up around 6:30, fixing breakfast for their three small boys............

 

...........Yet Shirer avoids using words like “feminist” or “career woman” to describe herself. She is an evangelical Bible teacher who makes her living by guiding thousands of women through the study of Scripture in her books, videos and weekend conferences — in which she stresses that in a biblical home and church, the man is the head and the woman must submit. She steers women away from the “feminist activists” who tell women to “do your own thing, make your own decisions and never let a man slow you down,” as she puts it. “Satan will do everything in his power to get us to take the lead in our homes,” she wrote in her book “A Jewel in His Crown: Rediscovering Your Value as a Woman of Excellence.” “He wants to make us resent our husband’s position of authority so that we will begin to usurp it. . . . Women need to pray for God to renew a spirit of submission in their hearts.”..........

pic:

Peter Yang for The New York Times

Shirer among the faithful at Healing Place Church in Baton Rouge in October.

yeah, i'm NEVER going to have an erection lasting more than four hours

and if i hear that commerical for the dude with the 'chubby santa' (no, i'm NOT kidding, that's one of the euphemisms they use) one more time, that dude better watch his chubby santa before something VERY nasty happens to it

from bob cesca

Stupid White Men

In America, women continue to be second class citizens:

When Rachel Braun Scherl, 45, a Stanford University business school graduate, co-founded Semprae Laboratories, which developed Zestra Essential Arousal Oils, a product described as a botanical aphrodisiac, she thought bringing its message to the airwaves would be a snap. Research had shown that tens of millions of American women had sexual difficulty and no products to remedy it. [...] In an apparent double standard, many networks and some websites have declined the company's ads; a few will air them during the daytime, and others only after midnight. There is no nudity, sex, or mention of body parts, unlike ads for men's products referring to "erections lasting more than four hours.".............

 

ok, you've seen one tree a bear, now this.........

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ummmmmmmmm

hey delta, atom, adam, ATOM, ADAM..........GET IT?

L.A. food stylist pulled from flight for 'Atom Bomb' tattoo

-Rene Lynch

 It was the Tweet heard 'round the L.A. food world.

Noted Los Angeles food stylist Adam C. Pearson was settling into his seat aboard a Delta flight Saturday morning when the flight attendant tapped him on the shoulder and asked him to come to the front of the plane. His first thought? "I'm getting an upgrade!"

Not exactly.

Pearson was temporarily asked to step off the plane and learned that another passenger had reported him for suspicious behavior, and noted that he had the words "Atom Bomb" tattooed across his fingers. Questioned by the captain and the flight attendant, Pearson explained that the tattoos referred to a childhood nickname. After answering a few more questions, Pearson -- who is a frequent Delta passenger and has flown over 142,000 miles with the airline this year alone -- was allowed to return to his seat........

 Photo courtesy Adam C. Pearson

this is ALL i have to say

.........The irony of a right-wing conservative, who boasts of hunting moose and shooting wolves while campaigning for more oil drilling in Alaska, transforming herself into a nature fan for primetime has not been lost on environmentalists........

ok ok ok, well i didn't actually SAY it,

• Leo Hickman and Joanna Walters , they did
• here
• Sarah Palin accused of breaking countryside rules in TV nature show 

pic: Sarah Palin and her team come face to face with brown bears. Photograph: TMZ.com / Splash News

a head slapping WTF

we all know what i think of that terrorist murdering son of a thousand bitches gaddaffi now don't we?

 Gaddafi flies Italian women to Libya for 'cultural' tours - and romance
 Tom Kington in Rome

pic: Silvio Berlusconi and Colonel Gaddafi: Gaddafi ‘is interested in romances developing between youths from Libya and Italy’, according to an Italian agency. Photograph: Reuters

Building on his friendship with Silvio Berlusconi, Libya's leader Colonel Muammar Gaddafi has begun flying groups of Italian women to Libya for "cultural" tours of the country, with the aim of marrying them off to local men – starting with his nephew.

"The leader wants young people from other countries to visit Libyan hospitals and universities as well as understand its history," said Alessandro Londero, the manager of the Italian hostess recruiting agency which supplies the women.

"But he is also interested in romances developing between youths from Libya and Italy." Gaddafi reportedly has high hopes that romance will spark between Clio Evans, 24, a half-English actor from Rome who has visited Libya four times, and his nephew, Ghazali...........

via Berlusconi sends Italian women to Libya for 'romance tour'
by Chris in Paris

 

more on that lump of

steamin' shite known as that steamin' pile of SHITE

why do people still actually listen to his vile filth? even for faux, WHY WHY WHY is he still on? this is beyond acceptable

ByWhat's with Glenn Beck's fascination with Nazis?
By Brad Knickerbocker,

The fight between Fox News commentator Glenn Beck and liberal billionaire philanthropist George Soros has escalated to the rhetorically nuclear stage.

How much worse can it get when one links the other to anti-Semitism and Nazism? And how much weirder can it get when the target of that charge escaped the Holocaust as a young Jewish teenager?

That, in essence, is what Beck is now saying about Soros, the controversial financier who’s long been the target of Beck’s ire. “Here’s a Jewish boy sending Jews to the death camps,” Beck said this week.

The story is a lot more complicated than that.......................

.......

“For a political commentator or entertainer to have the audacity to say – inaccurately – that there's a Jewish boy sending Jews to death camps, as part of a broader assault on Mr. Soros, that's horrific,” said Abraham Foxman, director of Anti-Defamation League (ADL) and a Holocaust survivor.

“While I, too, may disagree with many of Soros' views and analysis on the issues, to bring in this kind of innuendo about his past is unacceptable," said Foxman in a statement. "To hold a young boy responsible for what was going on around him during the Holocaust as part of a larger effort to denigrate the man is repugnant.”............

didn't we suspect this?

i know i did
Nazis Were Given ‘Safe Haven’ in U.S., Report Says

By ERIC LICHTBLAU

 

WASHINGTON — A secret history of the United States government’s Nazi-hunting operation concludes that American intelligence officials created a “safe haven” in the United States for Nazis and their collaborators after World War II, and it details decades of clashes, often hidden, with other nations over war criminals here and abroad. 

The 600-page report, which the Justice Department has tried to keep secret for four years, provides new evidence about more than two dozen of the most notorious Nazi cases of the last three decades.

It describes the government’s posthumous pursuit of Dr. Josef Mengele, the so-called Angel of Death at Auschwitz, part of whose scalp was kept in a Justice Department official’s drawer; the vigilante killing of a former Waffen SS soldier in New Jersey; and the government’s mistaken identification of the Treblinka concentration camp guard known as Ivan the Terrible.....

we must NEVER forget.........but it looks like SOMETIMES WE DO (by the way, i can understand not wanting to rent to college kids. a LOT of 'em are idiots at that age. loud, uncaring, self-absorbed and you know the drill. BUT i do NOT understand nor will i accept not wanting to rent to someone based on their ethnicity or religion 

Allegations of racism and questions about an Israeli town's character

<Allegations of racism and questions about an Israeli town's character

By Joel Greenberg

SAFED, ISRAEL -

In the winding stone alleys of this Galilee hill town, a centuries-old center of Jewish mysticism, a campaign is underway.

It is being waged by the town rabbi, Shmuel Eliahu, who along with other area rabbis issued a religious ruling several months ago forbidding residents to rent apartments to Israeli Arab students from the local community college.

The rabbi has warned that the Jewish character of Safed, long revered as sacred, is at risk and that intermarriages could follow if the students mingle with the locals.

Last month, Eliahu called a public meeting to sound the alarm. On the agenda was "the quiet war," a reference to the feared Arab influx, and "fighting assimilation in the holy city of Safed."..............