i was compelled to post this

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my new beaux

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rip both rosie AND geraldine!

Geraldine Doyle, 86, dies; one-time factory worker inspired Rosie the Riveter and 'We Can Do It!' poster

this is VERY coincidental

yesterday, i just happened to meet a (career) medical officer who just got home from tour #2 (yeah, over there....). we actually were talking about the medical care our service people are receiving AS SOON as they are wounded. it was an interesting conversation

(thank you for serving and i mean that from the bottom of my heart)

Medical research is part of the military's combat mission, too

By David Brown

Washington Post Staff Writer  

BAGRAM AIRFIELD, AFGHANISTAN - On most days of his six-month deployment, surgeon David H. Zonies was lucky just to get outside and see the sun. Often, his only break from work was 30 minutes on the treadmill in the physical therapy department.

Every day, a half-dozen casualties arrived at the Joint Theater Hospital here, nearly all needing surgery in the next 24 hours, many missing limbs, a few barely clinging to life. The 36-year-old Air Force major was the "trauma czar." His job was to coordinate the patients' care and operate on about a third of them.

At the end of October, however, Zonies took two days away from the job. He exchanged blue scrubs for a brown flight suit, flew to Kandahar Airfield 350 miles to the southwest and presented two papers at a medical conference..........

 

even though i'm vegan, i DO have a sense of humor

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me and a heater

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i don't keep my shears in my vagina

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my friend mike just turned me on to ratatat

In Ratatat's Dreams

By Maddie Oatman


The first time I saw Ratatat live, the energy of the music prompted me and my college friends to sing through most of the experience—not an unusual reaction for a concertgoer, except when you take into account that Ratatat's songs have no lyrics. A combination of rhythmic force and the lyrical personality of the central riff made us feel encompassed by a rock or hip-hop ballad—soon the entire room was shaking along to the beat............

looking back at everyone's favorite: faux 'news'

from media matters: 

Off The Rails: The Year In Fox News Misinformation

WORST person of the month? why gretchen of course

there are several maps

this is just one of them. check out the whole article from sociological images. quite interesting indeed

 

Food Atlas: What Are We Eating, and Where?

by gwen

 

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doctored up? hmmmmmmmmmmmmm

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methinks he doth protest too effing much

WND on DADT: Officer asks to be relieved of command over repeal by: Pam Spaulding Tue Dec 28, 2010 at 15:45:36 PM EST

"I did not give up my constitutional rights and freedom of religion when I joined the military. I don't believe in subjecting myself to all of the behavior modification and sensitivity training. They're going to try to push the position that this is an acceptable lifestyle." -- an unnamed Army lieutenant colonel, who, according to WND, has "asked to be relieved of command rather than order his troops to go through pro-homosexual indoctrination."..................

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yes, they're even dumber than we originally thought

and who thought THAT was possible?

this was in joisey, but it COULD have been here

December 2010 Blizzard Timelapse from Michael Black on Vimeo.

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sometimes even being famous doesn't help if you're a woman

 me? not only would i have testified, i would have personally begged to lock the cell door on 'em (all. the family that is)

Harry Potter Actress Refuses to Testify Against Family

LONDON -- The brother of a British Muslim actress who starred in the Harry Potter films pleaded guilty to assaulting his sister, after beating her, forcing her to flee her family home and calling her a "slag" for dating a Hindu man.

Afshan Azad, who played Hogwarts student Padma Patil in four of the movies, refused to testify Monday against her 28-year-old brother, Ashraf, 28, and her 54-year-old father, Abul. Both were found not guilty of threatening to kill her.

During the May 21 row at the family's home in Manchester, England, the 22-year-old actress' father allegedly shouted that he would murder the young actress. Scared for her life, she escaped out of her bedroom window and ran to the police, the Manchester Evening News reported.......

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Actress Afshan Azad was beaten by her brother and forced to flee her family home for dating a Hindu man, according to authorities. Her brother has pleaded guilty to an assault charge.

the voice of the sparrow

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i know you all know about this already

but i haven't posted in a few days and i just wanted to personally thank jon stewart. oh, he didn't do this on his own. i know that. i also know the democrats COULDN'T do what jon stewart did.

to those of you who accept what the re-PUG-na-cants attempted to do here, fuck you. really, fuck you

In ‘Daily Show’ Role on 9/11 Bill, Echoes of Murrow

By BILL CARTER and BRIAN STELTER

Did the bill pledging federal funds for the health care of 9/11 responders become law in the waning hours of the 111th Congress only because a comedian took it up as a personal cause? 

And does that make that comedian, Jon Stewart — despite all his protestations that what he does has nothing to do with journalism — the modern-day equivalent of Edward R. Murrow?
Certainly many supporters, including New York’s two senators, as well as Mayor Michael R. Bloomberg, played critical roles in turning around what looked like a hopeless situation after a filibuster by Republican senators on Dec. 10 seemed to derail the bill.
But some of those who stand to benefit from the bill have no doubt about what — and who — turned the momentum around...................

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Jon Stewart, left, spoke with 9/11 first responders about their health problems on “The Daily Show” on Dec. 16. 

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