love it (and agree)!!!!

Texan Offended By Pride Parade But Not For Reason You Think 

i just discovered joanna newsom

last monday. on the way to a wake/funeral for a 27 year old friend, 'b' played her. i fell in love. yes, her voice is quirky and i understand it is an acquired taste. i've already acquired it

contraception, breast pumps, education on stds

and more. we're women. we're in need. thank  you


and oh, it is MY personal opinion, this will indeed SAVE money in the long run.


pro life? or is it just pro embryo?

HHS OKs birth control with no co-pay

By Sabriya Rice, CNN Medical Producer

The U.S. Department of Health and Human Services announced new guidelines in Washington Monday requiring health insurance plans beginning on or after August 1, 2012 to cover several women's preventive services, including birth control and voluntary sterilization.

According to HHS Secretary Kathleen Sebelius the decision is a part of the Affordable Care Act's move to stop problems before they start. "These historic guidelines are based on science and existing literature and will help ensure women get the preventive health benefits they need," she said in a news release.

In July, the Institute of Medicine issued the results of a scientific review of women's health needs and provided recommendations on specific preventive measures to help them. Today HHS approved those recommendations.

Overheard on CNN.com -- Birth control should be free

Besides contraceptive use, the list includes screenings for conditions such as gestational diabetes and the human papillomavirus (HPV), as well as breastfeeding support and counseling on sexually transmitted diseases. The full list is available on the Department of Health and Human Services website............

TV station edits black boy to make him seem violent | Raw Replay

TV station edits black boy to make him seem violent | Raw Replay

bill nye will you marry me?

it very much IS our bid-nez shelly

it very much IS our bid-nez shelly

edgar baillie miracle worker; you're welcome!

'moo moos'. yes, moo moos



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here's one out of many handimals

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nerdy obsessions

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8/52, Nerdy Obsessions… by TessOlivia, on Flickr.

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mother jones has a photo essay

on a woman who makes robes for the klan. she sews seven days a week. some of the photographs have a recording to go along with them. please do take a look. it makes one mighty uncomfortable

Aryan Outfitters

Meet the KKK's seamstress of hate couture.   Photo Essay by Anthony Karen

pic: Ms. Ruth personally sews one robe a day. She works 10 to 12 hours a day, seven days a week. She has 1 to 3 helpers at times. The person to be fitted measures themselves, fills out the tailoring chart, and mails in the order. It takes 4 to 6 weeks for delivery. Here she puts the final touches on a red Klan hood.


photo: by Anthony Karen

hey my peeps this is EXACTLY why i love the rePUGnaCANTs

they tell it how it is. they didn't dance around the truth. they CAME RIGHT OUT AND TOLD ME I CAN'T BELONG TO THEIR COUNTRY CLUB ANY EFFING MORE!

Tea Party thinks it knows best: Rep. Paul Broun (R-Ga.)

By Jonathan Capehart

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

rep paul broun (r-ga dipshite-ga)

During an interview with Andrea Mitchell yesterday, Broun said he had introduced legislation to lower the debt ceiling. You read that right. wants to lower the amount of money the federal government can borrow. As Mitchell correctly pointed out, “[T]he debt ceiling is being raised to pay for money that has been appropriated by this Congress and previous Congresses.” She added, “You’re paying for what has already been charged, not for future expenses.” The second-term congressman countered. 

Well, Andrea, the thing is, when someone is overextended and broke they don’t continue paying for expensive automobiles. They sell the expensive automobiles and buy a cheaper one. They don’t continue paying for country club dues. They drop out of the country club.

And what of the people who are overextended and broke, but used their credit cards to pay for food, rent, medical expenses or other necessities? What do they cut?..........................

today's hero is

uk mp jo swinson!


note: i use lots of make up. especially eye make up. i don't do it to look YOUNGER or PERFECT. far from it. i do it to decorate my face. plain and simple. for true

Cosmetics adverts in UK stopped because of airbrushing

by Chris in Paris 

The airbrushing in advertising has become so ridiculous that pancake makeup looks natural compared to them. There's nothing wrong with seeing people age or seeing real people.False advertising is false advertising.

L'Oréal has been forced to pull ad campaigns featuring Pretty Woman star Julia Roberts and supermodel Christy Turlington, after the advertising watchdog upheld complaints by Liberal Democrat MP Jo Swinson that the images were overly airbrushed.

Swinson, who has waged a long-running campaign against "overly perfected and unrealistic images" of women in adverts, lodged complaints with the Advertising Standards Authority about the magazine campaigns for L'Oréal-owned brands Lancôme and Maybelline. The ASA ruled that both ads breached the advertising standards code for exaggeration and being misleading and banned them from future publication.

and not one of her lemmings followers

will say a word. she's a hypocrite and a daydreamer (not in a GOOD way mind you) and someone who is so out of touch with truth and reality 


why, why, why oh great goddess WHY??????????????????????????

Bachmann used loan program weeks before pushing to eliminate it

By Lynda Waddington 

Weeks before U.S. Rep. Michele Bachmann (R-Minn.) pushed for the elimination of government-backed loan programs, she and her husband, Marcus, signed documents to finance a $417,000 home loan, which experts told The Washington Post was backed by the very programs Bachmann had aimed to destroy.

Bachmann, along with several other members of Congress, blamed Fannie Mae andFreddie Mac for the 2008 financial meltdown. Due to their government-backing, the programs can offer lower interest rates, but those opposed have argued that the programs come at too high a cost to taxpayers.

From reporter Kimberly Kindy of The Washington Post:

… Bachmann has been the most outspoken critic of the loan programs and other government subsidies among Republican presidential candidates. Former Minnesota governor Tim Pawlenty also has called for dismantling Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac. Experts who reviewed his mortgage documents said that there was no way to tell whether his home loan from 1994 had government backing.

Bachmann’s mortgage was part of a package of debt that she and her husband, Marcus, assumed to buy their home, public records show. They also have other loans, including a home equity line of credit, a business mortgage and another business loan for their Christian counseling clinics, bringing their liabilities to more than $1 million, according to the most recently available public records. …

The situation is politically significant not only because Bachmann took advantage of a program she opposed, but because she has remained a staunch critic of government debt, often reminding Iowans at her whistle stops that the government should function like families do and not spend more that it has...............

also from dangerous minds

a pretty damn stunning guinness commercial

you're welcome

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the making of a great photograph

via buzzfeed

you can download a wallpaper of the final photo at the link above

unfortunately, there's no mention of who the photographer actually IS.

read this story by

by justin griffith. it's pretty short and sweet. i especially like the part about his drill sergeant. i especially didn't like the part about a religious recruiter changing griffith's 'religion'.

My ‘Atheist / Flying Spaghetti Monster’ military dog tags

.............A little while ago, news broke about a Pastafarian winning the right to wearing a pasta strainer on his head for his official driver’s license photograph *edit: it seems that there was no legal battle*. Coincidentally, around the same time, I got a few emails from the contributors to a Wikipedia article on Religious Symbols in the US Military asking if I would contribute a photograph of my Atheist dog tags.


Shortly after I donated the photograph to Wikipedia, the photo was added to the Flying Spaghetti Monster entry as well. Awesome.


I actually have a few funny stories about FSM and the Army. *warning: quoting a Drill Sergeant is NSFW*................

the awl has a posting you MUST read

Anders Breivik, The American Tea Party, Norway and "Sharia Creep"

By Abe Sauer

The attacks were "a despicable act directed at everyone in Norway," said Siv Jensen, the leader of the Norwegian Progress Party. While her assessment of the 76 dead and nearly 100 injured may be philosophically true, it's technically false. The bombing and mass shooting late last week was in fact directed at a very specific group of Norwegians. These "summer camp" teens weren't shot for taking canoe lessons; they were shot for being political activists, or children of such. (This was something made very clear by Tea Party leader Glenn Beck, when he functionally ended his corporate career days later by comparing the dead to Hitler Youth).

After years of ratcheted-up rhetoric, it was only a matter of time before some right-winger deduced to take what he saw as the natural next step. Still, it's a surprise that Anders Breivik's manifesto argues for creating "a cultural Euro-version of a Tea Party movement"—since one already exists. Norway's Progress Party is a smaller-government, low-taxes, culturally conservative movement based on Christianity that, besides the diacritics, is nearly identical to the Tea Party. Breivik belonged to the party for some time. Progress Party leaders have made it a point to note that he left the party; Breivik himself still endorses the party in his 1,500-page diary, writing that he "strongly recommends followers extend their Facebook networks to like-minded individuals overseas and to, amongst others groups, join the Progress Party.".........