i just fell off of my chair

well, i'm actually sitting on a couch but you get my drift

WHAT THE FUCK??????????????

another shining example of BELIEVE WHAT I BELIEVE OR YOU'RE WRONG. YOU'RE UNSAVED. YOU'RE A SAVAGE. YOU'RE GOING TO BURN.


Brit Hume: Tiger Woods must become Christian to be forgiven

By David Edwards and Gavin Dahl

Buddhism is inferior to Christianity when it comes to forgiveness of sins, according to Fox News pundit Brit Hume. Tiger Woods should turn his back on Buddhism and become a Christian to be forgiven for cheating on his wife, Hume told Fox News' Chris Wallace Sunday.

"The extent to which he can recover seems to me depends on his faith," said Hume. "He is said to be a Buddhist. I don't think that faith offers the kind of redemption and forgiveness offered by the Christian faith. My message to Tiger is, 'Tiger turn to the Christian faith and you can make a total recovery and be a great example to the world."........

video from media matters

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the three are innocent!

just because they spew hate and untruths and helped stoke a WHOLE country into a deeper homophobia hole,, THEY'RE INNOCENT I TELL YA! and we should forgive them, unlike the gays whom we should KILL. they were duped. they didn't know if they said gays were the devil and gays are evil and gays assault young children and gays aren't human, people would take them seriously (i can't believe that part of it but hell, yes, these people ARE taken seriously here there and everywhere, to my deep sorrow and embarrassment as a fellow 'human')

here's what one of 'em said..........."“That’s horrible, absolutely horrible,” he said. “Some of the nicest people I have ever met are gay people.”

yup, some of his BEST FRIENDS ARE GAY

let me tell these three and everyone here and in uganda something. if YOUR god hates gays so very much (along with goddess knows who and what else) then i want NO PART of YOUR god. and by the way, didn't your god create man (and of course WOMAN) IN her/his image? and remember this: whatsoever a man soweth, that he shall also reap



After Americans Visit, Uganda Weighs Death for Gays

By JEFFREY GETTLEMAN

KAMPALA, Uganda — Last March, three American evangelical Christians, whose teachings about “curing” homosexuals have been widely discredited in the United States, arrived here in Uganda’s capital to give a series of talks.

The theme of the event, according to Stephen Langa, its Ugandan organizer, was “the gay agenda — that whole hidden and dark agenda” — and the threat homosexuals posed to Bible-based values and the traditional African family.

For three days, according to participants and audio recordings, thousands of Ugandans, including police officers, teachers and national politicians, listened raptly to the Americans, who were presented as experts on homosexuality. The visitors discussed how to make gay people straight, how gay men often sodomized teenage boys and how “the gay movement is an evil institution” whose goal is “to defeat the marriage-based society and replace it with a culture of sexual promiscuity.”.............

.............The three Americans who spoke at the conference — Scott Lively, a missionary who has written several books against homosexuality, including “7 Steps to Recruit-Proof Your Child”; Caleb Lee Brundidge, a self-described former gay man who leads “healing seminars”; and Don Schmierer, a board member of Exodus International, whose mission is “mobilizing the body of Christ to minister grace and truth to a world impacted by homosexuality” — are now trying to distance themselves from the bill..........

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wtf?

companies don't have to 'name names' (of the chemicals they use that is) if it COULD harm their bottom line? WHAT ABOUT OUR LIVES???????????????????

Use of potentially harmful chemicals kept secret under law
By Lyndsey Layton

Of the 84,000 chemicals in commercial use in the United States -- from flame retardants in furniture to household cleaners -- nearly 20 percent are secret, according to the Environmental Protection Agency, their names and physical properties guarded from consumers and virtually all public officials under a little-known federal provision.

The policy was designed 33 years ago to protect trade secrets in a highly competitive industry. But critics -- including the Obama administration -- say the secrecy has grown out of control, making it impossible for regulators to control potential dangers or for consumers to know which toxic substances they might be exposed to.

At a time of increasing public demand for more information about chemical exposure, pressure is building on lawmakers to make it more difficult for manufacturers to cloak their products in secrecy. Congress is set to rewrite chemical regulations this year for the first time in a generation.

Under the 1976 Toxic Substances Control Act, manufacturers must report to the federal government new chemicals they intend to market. But the law exempts from public disclosure any information that could harm their bottom line.....................

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yes, i AM from he-yah

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i don't know where dangerous minds

finds ALL of their great stuff, but i sure am glad they DO

like mr metzger, i too fell it love at first sight/sound

Bette Midler: Rare Footage of The Divine Miss M Performing at the Continental Baths

Posted by Richard Metzger

Although for myself, I can’t even comprehend not liking Bette Midler—for me it was love at first sight—I am told that she is an acquired taste; and one that my darling wife—who has great taste in music and everything else, I hasten to add—has not acquired. This morning, I was blasting her first LP, The Divine Miss M from 1972 while Tara was running errands—I haven’t heard it in years—and it simply knocked me out. Produced by Barry Manilow, Ahmet Ertegun and the Grammy-award winning producer Joel Dorn, with a crack set of session musicians and back-up singers like Cissy Houston and Melissa Manchester, The Divine Miss M is nothing less than the unveiling of a very major talent on the world, as Midler’s 40+ years at the top of her profession attest to. She didn’t write any of the songs, but trust me, she owns them all. She’s one of those people who just oozes talent and concerning the quality of her voice and its incredible power, well, she belongs in that smallest circle of all singing, all dancing, all acting diva divas, like Judy Garland, Liza Minnelli and the great Broadway talents like Ethyl Merman. She’s got the lungs, no two ways about it.,,,,,,,,,,

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i dream this

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this was in the times the other day,

i'm just getting around to posting it. did you know you were eating something you use to wash your windows? AMMONIA. yes, ammonia

have you SMELLED ammonia?

for the record i didn't give meat up due to health reasons.

i DO have a question for YOU though. would you rather eat a hamburger with AMMONIA in it or NOT eat a hamburger at all? think about it and answer it honestly (to yourself).

ok, lets say you don't give a flying yoo who what Y OU'RE ingesting. do you care about your kids?

Safety of Beef Processing Method Is Questioned

By MICHAEL MOSS

Eight years ago, federal officials were struggling to remove potentially deadly E. coli from hamburgers when an entrepreneurial company from South Dakota came up with a novel idea: injecting beef with ammonia. The company, Beef Products Inc., had been looking to expand into the hamburger business with a product made from beef that included fatty trimmings the industry once relegated to pet food and cooking oil. The trimmings were particularly susceptible to contamination, but a study commissioned by the company showed that the ammonia process would kill E. coli as well as salmonella..........

pic: Tony Cenicola/The New York Times

Beef Products Inc.’s ammonia-treated beef.

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instead of 2.4 million going to help kill gays

or at the VERY LEAST to discriminate against them, and toward discriminating against women and worse, you COULD have given your dirty money to a more worthy cause. but no. you gave it to someone who in my opinion is far away from someone with a good soul. i don't understand why people give money to pastors of mega 'churches'. it is incomprehensible to me. i know a LOT of people don't even have enough to live comfortably, yet they give (and the giving part doesn't bother me as to the WHO they give it to)


Calif. pastor takes in $2.4M after donations plea

stray, who stops by my blogs from time to time

and comments from time to time, directed me to the following piece. it's EXCEPTIONAL (in a word)



Fuck You, I Won’t Do What You Tell Me!

by Sweary

Just to get it out of the way, I’m going to start by telling you that I’m not surprised that the Bishop of Limerick has had to resign over his atrocious mishandling of child sex abuse cases. Nor am I shocked that a parish priest in Kerry has publicly put forward his support for a convicted sex offender, despite not having been in court when evidence against the man was examined. And I’m hardly flabbergasted at the news that a Cork-based Presbyterian minister has condemned an LGBT-friendly carol service as “crossing the line”. This is what I’ve come to expect from Irish men of the cloth - blinkered stupidity and a depressing distance from the sense of justice and morality that we suppose them to be weighted with. So no need to bitterly reply, “What else did you expect?” I expected nothing else. That doesn’t mean this shit isn’t worthy of comment, though.

But dismissive comment. We’re an enlightened people - no, let me stop you there before you snigger and snort. We are. We live in times of Information and Education, where knowledge is prized and available to everyone. Libraries are cheap, internet access is cheap, informed cop-on is cheap. We’ve grown up, have we not? So why the fuck do we need these moral guardians, these purveyors of a fear and loathing badly masked behind snippy concern and quivering shoulders? No one needs to preach to me guff about the true path. My moral compass is just fine. As should yours be....................

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awwwwwwwwwwwww

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this is one of the first (if not THE first) records i owned

i just happened by chance to come across it here

ten geekiest

bento boxes

Amazing Lego Bento art. (Link)

only one thing i hate more than backwards caps

people who think it's jaunty to wear them a bit to the side and a bit askew

YOU LOOK EFFING IDIOTIC


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c'mon ireland. i thought you were a FREE country

i'm not knocking religions (here and now that is), i'm knocking you making 'blasphemy' a CRIME. holy shite (so to speak), wake up and smell the communion personal choice

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Irish atheists challenge new blasphemy laws

Secular campaigners publish series of anti-religious quotes and say they will challenge law if charged with blasphemy

Henry McDonald, Ireland correspondent

Secular campaigners in the Irish Republic defied a strict new blasphemy law which came into force today by publishing a series of anti-religious quotations online and promising to fight the legislation in court.

The new law, which was passed in July, means that blasphemy in Ireland is now a crime punishable with a fine of up to €25,000 (£22,000).

It defines blasphemy as "publishing or uttering matter that is grossly abusive or insulting in relation to matters sacred by any religion, thereby intentionally causing outrage among a substantial number of adherents of that religion, with some defences permitted".

The justice minister, Dermot Ahern, said that the law was necessary because while immigration had brought a growing diversity of religious faiths, the 1936 constitution extended the protection of belief only to Christians.....................

God noes

Richard Dawkins: "The God of the Old Testament is arguably the most unpleasant character in all fiction: jealous and proud of it; a petty, unjust, unforgiving control freak; a vindictive, bloodthirsty ethnic cleanser; a misogynistic, homophobic, racist, infanticidal, genocidal, filicidal, pestilential, megalomaniacal, sadomasochistic, capriciously malevolent bully."

Björk: "The Buddhists say we come back as animals and they refer to them as lesser beings. Well, animals aren't lesser beings, they're just like us. So I say fuck the Buddhists."

Frank Zappa: "To hang all this desperate sociology on the idea of The Cloud Guy who has The Big Book, who knows if you've been bad or good – and cares about any of it – is the chimpanzee part of the brain working."

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you go rick!!!

it makes me feel good when a reporter actually asks tough questions and/or confronts someone (who OUGHT to be confronted). i'm not just talking rep-ugly-kins either. all sorts of people deserve to be asked a GIANT WTF??????????

CNN’s Sanchez launches surprise attack on senator in sex-and-favors scandal

When Sen. John Ensign, Republican of Nevada, went on CNN Thursday to talk to host Rick Sanchez, the scandal-plagued politician thought he was going to have airtime to launch attacks against the Obama administration over the Flight 253 security breach. Instead, the Nevada politician found himself facing tough questions about allegations he helped secure a job for an aide with whose wife he was sleeping.

In June, Ensign admitted having an affair with the wife of Doug Hampton, an aide in his Capitol Hill office. Until that point, Ensign had been considered a contender for the 2012 Republican presidential nomination. Allegations then emerged that Ensign may have violated ethics rules by paying $96,000 to Hampton and helping to arrange a job for his aide that involved lobbying efforts...........

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mmmmmmm

lowering the bar points us to

the smoking gun's 2009 mug shots of the year (and they're mostly ALL GREAT)

here's numero 9: This Floridian was jailed on a felony domestic
battery by strangulation charge. Original story here.

wonderful

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grrrls and video games

and of late, i have been playing either online games or pc games or games on my itouch. i usually just play the word ones but i've become enamored of a couple of other ones. i sure as shite don't think they're gender specific do you?

(these are a couple i've downloaded and play all of the time. i'm NOT including the spelling or word games which i play MORE of)

p.s. i have few if any issues with what ms laurel is saying by the way.

(itouch ones): doodle jump
(when i saw this dude got 100,000 i was impressed. then i saw he got over a MILLION. dang, i'm NO WHERE near that)




edge by mobigame (due to legal action by a giant gatsu piedi, i don't think edge is available for the time being. if it becomes available again GET IT. not only is it lovely to look at, it's challenging and fun AND frustrating)




spider, the secret of bryce manor



hi how are you



i don't have it BUT i sure do have a hankerin' to play (are you sitting down???) l4d

Making Video Games for Little Girls

by lisa
In this video, Brenda Laurel discusses her successful computer game for girls. Detailing extensive research on what girls want, Laurel then shows us a some interviews with girls and a bit of the resulting video game, Rocket, which seems to focus heavily on navigating complicated high school relationships. Laurel says that all critics love her game except the “male gamer who thinks he knows what games ought to be” and “a certain flavor of feminists who thinks they know what little girls ought to be.”........

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good news for devils!!!

of the tasmanian kind that is.

i became aware of this disease a while ago watching growing up marsupial on animal planet.


Scientists find details of tumors killing off Tasmanian devils

The facial cancer devastating the species is a nerve tumor that escaped its original host, and is passed from one devil to another through bites. Researchers hope the discovery will lead to a vaccine.

By Thomas H. Maugh II
The facial cancers that are devastating populations of Tasmanian devils in Australia are a nerve tumor that escaped its original host and became a parasite of the cultural icon, passing from one devil to the next by bites when the animals are fighting or mating, researchers reported Thursday.

A genetic analysis of tumors from Tasmanian devils widely separated geographically shows that all the tumors are virtually identical and distinct from the animals' own genomes, researchers in the United States and Australia reported in the journal Science. The tumors probably arose from Schwann cells, which normally play a role in protecting and cushioning nerves.

The analysis provides clues to a way to diagnose the disease early and represents a major step toward the development of a vaccine that could protect the remaining animals in the wild, said biologist Elizabeth P. Murchison of the Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory in Cold Spring Harbor, N.Y., and the Australian National University in Canberra, lead author of the paper...........

pic: This Tasmanian devil, photographed at Healesville Sanctuary, is part of the Save the Devil program that has been established to help protect Australia's Tasmanian devils which are at risk of extinction from devil facial tumor disease. (Cameron Wells, Walter and Eliza Hall Institute)