yup, this will work all right!

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i'm sure rachel will come out on top (so to speak)

but man, this dude is like an annoying gnat that JUST WON'T GO AWAY

Maddow Sued For $50 Million By Bachmann Buddy Bradlee Dean. Allegedly.

by DAVID BADASH

Rachel Maddow, MSNBC anchor and favorite truth teller of the liberal left (me too!) is being sued for $50 million by Christian rock star Bradlee Dean, the infamous head of the infamous group, You Can Run But You Cannot Hide International, over a particular statement Dean made that he now claims isn’t really what he meant. You know, like when someone says,

“Muslims are calling for the executions of homosexuals in America. This just shows you they themselves are upholding the laws that are even in the Bible of the Judeo-​Christian God, but they seem to be more moral than even the American Christians do, because these people are livid about enforcing their laws. They know homosexuality is an abomination.… If America won’t enforce the laws, God will raise up a foreign enemy to do just that. That’s what you are seeing today in America,”

but then later wants you to think they said,

“I like French toast.”..............

they're not just morons and id-jits, they're

a danger to our nation. the deniers that is. i don't understand what being conservative has to do with having  your eyes open. does anyone else? i already think it's much too late to save our planet, but we don't have to have our heads in the sand do we?

Conservative Media Downplay Extreme Heat Wave

by Jocelyn Fong

On his radio show yesterday, Rush Limbaugh declared that "almost no temperature records were broken" during the recent heat wave and that media outlets who reported on "record-breaking" heat were telling "a bunch of lies" to "advance a political agenda of liberalism."

Limbaugh's remarks echo a Newsbusters post in which Noel Sheppard claims that "almost no temperature records were actually broken." He came to this conclusion by ignoring most of the temperature records. Nevertheless, Sheppard's claim was picked up not only by Limbaugh but also Fox Nation:..................

Here's the data (from NOAA) on the number of U.S. records broken or tied in the month of July so far:

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• All-Time Highest Maximum Temperature: 70
• All-Time Highest Minimum Temperature: 175
• Monthly Highest Maximum Temperature: 125
• Monthly Highest Minimum Temperature: 330
• Daily Highest Maximum Temperature: 2,125
• Daily Highest Minimum Temperature: 4,787

Downplaying the heat wave, Limbaugh claimed "It does this every year." Is that true?

Not according to Christopher Vaccaro, a spokesman for the National Weather Service who told the New York Times that "this is different":

"One could say, 'Oh, it's summer, its late July, it's hot,' " said Christopher Vaccaro, a spokesman for the National Weather Service. "But this is different."

According to Mr. Vaccaro, this heat wave is exceptional not only for its strength, but also for its breadth and duration...................

this is one hell of an interesting article

on angola (the prison, not the country). i have always been fascinated with it. why? i am guessing because it's been featured in so many movies and so very many pieces of literature. all fiction. THIS, my dears, IS REAL

God's Own Warden

— By James Ridgeway

illustration: Jack Unruh

IT WAS A CHILLY DECEMBER morning when I got to the gates of Angola prison, and I was nervous as I waited to be admitted. To begin with, nothing looked the way it ought to have looked. The entrance, with its little yellow gatehouse and red brick sign, could have marked the gates of one of the smaller national parks. There was a museum with a gift shop, where I perused miniature handcuffs, jars of inmate-made jelly, and mugs that read "Angola: A Gated Community" before moving on to the exhibits, which include Gruesome Gertie, the only electric chair in which a prisoner was executed twice. (It didn't take the first time, possibly because the executioners were visibly drunk.)

Besides being cold and disoriented, I had the well-founded sense of being someplace where I wasn't wanted. Angola welcomes a thousand or more visitors a month, including religious groups, schoolchildren, and tourists taking a side trip from their vacations in plantation country. Under ordinary circumstances, it's possible to drive up to the gate and tour the prison in a state vehicle, accompanied by a staff guide. But for me, it had taken close to two years and the threat of an ACLU lawsuit to get permission to visit the place................

can he BE any more evil?

the answer is NO, he cannot. this is UNFATHOMABLE. if he has ONE listener or follower left, they all deserve each other
stay classy beckster. stay classy

Beck: Norway camp smacks of 'Hitler Youth'

By the CNN Wire Staff

(CNN) -- In the wake of last week's massacre in Norway, U.S. conservative commentator Glenn Beck on Monday compared the summer camp where most of the 76 victims died to the Hitler Youth organization of Nazi Germany.

Beck, on his radio show, declared the killings "the work of a madman" and called the suspect "as bad as Osama bin Laden." But before launching into that condemnation, he questioned what the victims were doing at a summer camp run by Norway's ruling Labour Party.

Beck said the camp "sounds a little like, you know, the Hitler Youth or whatever. Who does a camp for kids that's all about politics? Disturbing."

However, politically-oriented camps are being organized in several U.S. states by chapters of the "9/12 Project" -- an organization founded by Beck himself in 2009.

The Colorado 9/12 Project hosted a "Patriot Camp" for kids in grades 1-5 earlier this month, featuring programs on "our Constitution, the Founding Fathers, and the values and principles that are the cornerstones of our nation."....................

she really WAS extraordinary

Amy from J. Sprig on Vimeo.


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dangerous minds

links us up with
 Alexander Hammid's The Private Life of a Cat

a pretty damn cool ad

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he nails it AGAIN

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this would make GREAT ink

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it's not the fact these creatures exist

it's that they have more than one follower



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me and my lil' bud

discussing last sunday's episode of true blood (i don't care, i'm liking the baggy shorts, moon eyes eric)

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Ziegfeld Girl with a Doll, 1920s by Alfred Cheney Johnston

ummmmmmmmm

Guard tells lesbian couple not to hold hands at Gertrude Stein exhibit

By Eric W. Dolan

A security guard at the Contemporary Jewish Museum in San Francisco tried to remove a lesbian couple for holding hands at an exhibit for lesbian artist Gertrude Stein on Sunday, according to an eyewitness.

The San Francisco Chronicle reported that after the guard told the couple they couldn't hold hands in the museum, the two women started an argument with him. After a small crowd began to form around them, the guard attempted to escort the couple out the door....................

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rape is rape, sign the petition

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OVERVIEW

Each year, the FBI fails to count hundreds of thousands of rapes in its Uniform Crime Report (UCR)—even missing many rapes that are reported to police. That’s because for over 80 years, the FBI has been using the same fundamentally flawed definition of “forcible” rape: “The carnal knowledge of a female forcibly and against her will” to track rape statistics in the UCR.

This excludes rapes involving forced anal sex and/or oral sex, vaginal or anal fisting, rape with an object (even if serious injuries result), rapes of men and transgender people and other injurious and degrading sexual assaults. Also, because the definition includes the word “forcibly,” police departments often interpret the rule (against UCR guidelines) as leaving out rapes of women with physical or mental disabilities and those who were unconscious or under the influence of drugs and alcohol.

A recent Ms. investigation revealed that the archaic definition plays a key role in the vast underreporting of rape in the U.S.:

·      The FBI’s 2007 Uniform Crime Report listed 91,874 “forcible rapes”, but some estimates suggest the actual number may be 24 times higher.

·      Police departments go to great lengths to look good on the UCR, the FBI’s comprehensive national crime report by which all U.S. police departments are judged, and federal funding is determined. Often this means interpreting “forcible rape” even more narrowly than the FBI does when classifying sexual crimes..............................

i saw this the other day and meant to post it

if i already did,, well it's worth seeing MORE than once

what if he was never born..........

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it's hard to imagine these people not only exist in the world

but say shite like this out in the open

there are MANY MANY more. here are but a few

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Facebook Reacts To Japan Winning The World Cup

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sugar and spice (NOT quite!!!)

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Excerpts from the essays of 19th-century schoolboys, from Caroline Bigelow Le Row’s English as She Is Taught, 1887:

“Girls are very stuckup and dignefied in their maner and behaveyour. They think more of dress than anything and like to play with dowls and rags. They cry if they see a cow in afar distance and are afraid of guns. They stay at home all the time and go to Church every Sunday. They are al-ways sick. They are al-ways funy and making fun of boys hands and they say how dirty. They cant play marbels. I pity them poor things. They make fun of boys and then turn round and love them. I dont beleave they ever kiled a cat or any thing. They look out every nite and say oh ant the moon lovely. Thir is one thing I have not told and that is they always now their lessons bettern boys.”.........

they're somethin'!

this character isn't real

BUT it's pretty damn close to a bunch of peeps who ARE effing real