Saturday, April 23, 2011

i wonder if you'd care to show me your birth certificate?

Michele Bachmann: Welfare Queen

By Yasha Levine

Michele Bachmann has become well known for her anti-government tea-bagger antics, protesting health care reform and every other government “handout” as socialism. What her followers probably don’t know is that Rep. Bachmann is, to use that anti-government slur, something of a welfare queen. That’s right, the anti-government insurrectionist has taken more than a quarter-million dollars in government handouts thanks to corrupt farming subsidies she has been collecting for at least a decade.

And she’s not the only one who has been padding her bank account with taxpayer money............

read this; if you can help, help

and you can help simply by re-blogging or talking about it

eiscookiemonster:

I got my 25 Action Kit in the mail today.

For the past 23 years, the LRA (Lord’s Resistance Army) has been at war with the Government of Uganda. The LRA has been abducting children and using them as soldiers. ”It is estimated that more than 90% of the LRA’s troops were abducted as children.” Invisible Children makes documentaries, which are many times based on one child and his or her story, and sell bracelets to raise awareness and money. They also have the Schools for Schools campaign, where schools raise money for a school in Uganda, which have been destroyed by the war and they have another program which provides scholarships for students. Another one of their programs is Mend, where women formerly abducted by the LRA make bags purchased by people around the world. Inside the bag, you can find the name of the woman who made your bag and you can view her profile online to learn more about her.
April 25th, they are holding a Day of Silence to raise awareness. So that’s what the kit is for. It’s a shirt, a dog tag that holds cards explaining the event, more cards to give out, and paper and instructions to write to your congressperson. Please donate or reblog this and it would mean a lot to me and to everyone you help. To learn more about Invisible Children, visit their website.
Very cool stuff.

a little while ago i posted a picture of mexican pointy boots

here's the back story
Handmade Mexican Pointy Boots

videos - from time magazine

The Adorable Dozen: Bizarre Animal Friendships

here's one

ses america.............THIS is what GAY MARRIAGE is responsible for

taking a wholesome FAMILY VALUES MARRIED christian politician, making him boink some other MARRIED BABE, cover it up, ask his parents to pay off the woman and her husband, get her husband a job as part of the cover up, lie about all this shite THEN resign

SEE 'WHAT THE' GAYS ARE DOING?????????????

John Ensign bolted to avoid more public embarrassment
By JOHN BRESNAHAN & MANU RAJU

Sen. John Ensign abruptly announced his resignation after it grew increasingly clear to him that he would not be able to avoid a public review of the sordid allegations surrounding his sex scandal, including the open airing of details from his nine-month extramarital affair with a former campaign aide, according to people familiar with the matter.

Carol Elder Bruce, the special counsel appointed in February by the Senate Ethics Committee to handle the Ensign case, has not completed an internal report on the case. Ensign also had not been deposed, according to sources close to the investigation, although the New York Times reported Friday that the deposition was scheduled for May 4, one day after his resignation will now go into effect.................

pic: The Senator feared public ethics hearings would reveal more details about the affair. | AP Photo

Friday, April 22, 2011

from a polar bear's tale (collection of)

Portrait of small girl with pull-along horse, n.d.
link
pull along (do stop by and see them ALL)

what's good for the douche goose is NOT good for the gander

it would seem

hmmmmmmmmmmmmm

Paul Ryan already benefited from the Social Security fund he now wants to gut

By Kase Wickman

Rep. Paul Ryan, the GOP's most outspoken advocate for cutting and privatizing Social Security, has already benefited from Social Security himself, in the form of survivor benefits he received after his father's untimely death.
From the age of 16, when his 55-year-old father died of a heart attack, until he was 18, Ryan received Social Security payments, which, according to a lengthy profile in WI Magazine, he put away for college. The eventual budget czar attended Miami University in Ohio to earn a B.A. in economics and political science, and landed a congressional internship as a junior.................

aberCRAPPY and flinch has once again

had to pull some OFFENSIVE clothing off their lines. i wish people would just totally STOP shopping there PERIOD. as if push up bras on bikinis for SEVEN year olds wasn't offensive enough...........

Abercrombie and Fitch to pull offensive shirts after "girl-cott"
by Stefania Butler

Retailer Abercrombie and Fitch has agreed to pull its latest line of offensive T-shirts off the shelves as a result of a "girl-cott' that received national media attention. (I blogged this recently.) The shirts are emblazoned with slogans like "I make you look fat" and "Blondes are adored, brunettes are ignored." Abercrombie and Fitch maintains that the shirts are "meant to be humorous." The latest controversy is not the first for the retailer. Two years ago, Abercrombie & Fitch pulled its popular catalogs that featured nude men and women after protests, and in 2002 it discontinued a line of T-shirts that Asian-Americans claimed was racially insensitive............

oh and p.s. don't forget the HIRING policies of aberCRAPPY either: Abercrombie “Banishes” Girl With Prosthetic Arm To Storeroom Because She Doesn’t Fit The “Look Policy”

$50 Million, Less Attorneys' Fees and Costs, Paid to Class Members in December 2005 in Abercrombie & Fitch Discrimination Lawsuit Settlement

The Look Of Abercrombie & Fitch

Retail Store Accused Of Hiring Attractive, Mostly White Salespeople

Thursday, April 21, 2011

haven't the chosen people

gone through enough? i don't wish this upon them

p.s. she (along with all those other 'buddy' evangelical christians sidling up to y'all do NOT give a shite about YOU. they don't think YOU are the chosen ones. THEY THINK YOUR LAND IS. if you think they care about the human population of israel you're sadly mistaken. they ONLY care about the land)

art and THEIR god

Visit msnbc.com for breaking news, world news, and news about the economy

if only................

(this is just an aside, who i wonder does he think controls faux 'news'?)

Breitbart accuses MSNBC of being controlled by Soros, Podesta, Ayers and Media Matters

By David Edwards

In a contentious interview with MSNBC’s Martin Bashir Wednesday, Andrew Breitbart accused the network of being controlled by George Soros, John Podesta, Bill Ayers and Media Matters’ Eric Boehlert.
Breitbart also admitted during the interview that he had not watched the entire Shirley Sherrod tape before posting it to his website.............

i've posted it before

and i'm posting it again. it's one of my favorite songs.
you know i always thought leo wrote it. he didn't. it was written by paul siebel

and a few seconds from this one is missing

WAS this a secret?

somehow or another, i'm not surprised. i rather knew they were doing this. didn't you?

Your iPhone is secretly tracking you

New Delhi: Apple iPhones and 3G iPads running on iOS 4.0 or above keep a tab on users' location and store the data into a hidden file. This was revealed by two UK-based security researchers, Alasdair Allan and Pete Warden.

In a post on O'Reilly Radar, Alasdair Allan says they are "not sure why Apple is gathering this data, but it's clearly intentional, as the database is being restored across backups, and even device migrations."...........

rip tim hetherington

he was on assignment in libya for vanity fair and killed by shelling
without these brave men and women, we would NOT know the horrors of war

from vanity fair

here is a retrospective of some of his amazing work

and here is a photo of mr heterington Photograph by Matt Stuart

Tim Hetherington, 40, Killed in Libya

by David Friend

Tim Hetherington, photojournalist, filmmaker, and Vanity Fair contributing photographer, was killed today while covering the conflict in Misrata, Libya. “Tim died about two hours ago,” said Peter N. Bouckaert, of Human Rights Watch, in Geneva, a friend of Hetherington’s. “Three other journalists were also hit [in an] R.P.G. attack, one being Getty photographer Chris Hondros [who was seriously wounded]; photographer Guy Martin, of the Panos Agency, who is in very serious condition; and a freelancer, Michael Brown, who is slightly wounded.”..........

Tuesday, April 19, 2011

Evil Slutopia: Dear Facebook: What does 'obscene' mean to you?

i wish this was funny

but it's not. it's real. i want to know who voted. no who REALLY voted. jack the ripper?

(if you go to the ms sparky posting linked directly below, at the end of her posting are five related posts she's done. read 'em)

KBR, Named in Sex Lawsuits, Called One of Top 50 Companies For Women In Magazine Poll (ABC News)

Ms Sparky

..............Has you might recall MsSparky.com first blogged about this unfathomable “award” on April 7th. (read HERE) Then main stream blogs Mother Jones, Houston Press, Huffington Post, Jezebel The Truth Has Changed picked it up. Now ABC has picked it up. One would think John R. Miller, III – Chairman & Chief Executive Officer of Equal Opportunity Publications (no joke) would be tired of this negative publicity and just remove KBR from the list................... picked it up. Then countless smaller watchdog blogs like

...

By HANNA SIEGEL (ABC News)

April 11, 2011

KBR, a company that has been sued repeatedly for alleged sexual assaults and harassment of female employees, has been voted one of the best companies for women to work for by a magazine aimed at female engineers....

KBR has extensive contracts in Iraq and Afghanistan. Attorney Todd Kelly, who has so far represented five former KBR employees who have alleged sexual assault or harassment, told ABC News that in all about 40 women have contacted his office about alleged incidents that occurred while they were working overseas for KBR or at one of its facilities.

Kelly said he didn’t think the women he’s interviewed or represented would be pleased with Woman Engineer’s honor.....

pic: KBR employee Anna Mayo, Age 26 Photo taken after brutal attack in Iraq-Anna's deserves justice. (Courtesy of Kelly Law Firm)

not that i needed it

but yet ANOTHER reason to dislike the catholic church

oh and hey bishop bruskewitz............ F U C K YOU

Nebraska bishop: No communion for Planned Parenthood supporters

By Eric W. Dolan

Support for the reproductive health care provider Planned Parenthood continues to be a contentious issue for Catholic groups and bishops.

According to Bishop Fabian Bruskewitz of Lincoln, Nebraska, Catholic lawmakers who support Planned Parenthood should be denied Communion "because they’ve defected from the Church’s faith."

"It advocates contraception," Bruskewitz told LifeSiteNews. "In its origins, from Margaret Sanger, it concentrates on racism. It believes certain races are inferior. It has certainly a eugenic aspect to it – extermination of people who are considered unfit to live, a la Nazis."

"And of course abortion is an abominable crime," he continued. "The Second Vatican Council is very clear about that. Planned Parenthood is the largest abortion supplier, business, and purveyor, in the United States.".......