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FroliCat BOLT: A Laser Lightshow For Cats

Yay, two laser posts in a row! The $17 FroliCat BOLT is an award winning laser lightshow for cats with owners who are too lazy to wave a laser pointer around or have lost the use of their limbs.

Simply turn it on and projects a red dot and moves it in random patterns for 15 minutes, or until your cat (or dog, or baby) realizes what's going on and attacks the gadget itself...........

those damn 'the gays' again!

Utah lawmaker claims he doesn’t ‘mind’ gays, but ‘I don’t want ‘em stuffing it down my throat all the time.’

Earlier this month, the Church of Latter Day Saints made headlines when it threw its support behind a measure in Salt Lake City that barred “landlords and employers from discriminating based on sexuality,” making it the first city in Utah to adopt the gay rights measure......

............However, while explaining his opposition to allowing same-sex couples to adopt children, he told the press that while he doesn’t “mind” gays, he doesn’t want them “stuffing it down [his] throat all the time“:

BUTTARS: I meet with the gays here and there. They were in my house two weeks ago. I don’t mind gays. But I don’t want ‘em stuffing it down my throat all the time. Certainly not in my kid’s face............

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spot on

The Best Paragraph Written About Sarah Palin's "Going Rogue"

Posted by Joshua Holland, AlterNet

I'm giving the nod to va, at Whiskey Fire:

The most unbelievable thing about Going Rogue, by the author-function "Sarah Palin," is that it's supposed to be self-serving. The problem a self-serving narrative about Sarah Palin confronts is that it's about Sarah Palin, whose entire life, it appears, consists of worse and worse attempts to create self-serving narratives explaining away bigger and bigger fuck-ups. Going Rogue's burden is that it must claim to be the definitive, encyclopedic explanation, the final excuse, for a long history of failure begat by failure; it's an epic of failure, if you will, and if the goal here is some kind of ultimate vindication, well, it is monumentally unsuccessful. Going Rogue is, at bottom, the story of every one of Sarah Palin's projects ending in grotesque catastrophe; it is only self-serving in the sense that these catastrophes either prove benign or turn out to be some other schlub's fault. If everything I knew about Sarah Palin came from this book (and basically it does), I would say her life has been like a play in which a deus-ex-machina descends at the end of every act to bestow peace and harmony, except the deus forgot to put on pants and everyone's just standing around going "uhhhh..." and then the lights go out and the scene changes.......................

faux 'news' - ya gotta love 'em

i happen to be one of the only non-asians in the cosmos

to actually LIKE natto. granted it's like beans mixed with spiderwebs and granted IT STINKS (literally). for some reason I LIKE IT


Taste Test: natto, gooey fermented soy beans

Lisa Katayama

In Japan, we eat soy all the time. For breakfast we have rice with natto and miso soup with tofu; for dinner we pop edamame into our mouths in between chopsticks-full of vegetables sauteed in soy sauce. I always assumed it was good for you, until I came to California and my health-conscious American friend told me that soy was actually really bad for you. So which is it?

Here's what we know about soy: unprocessed, it's a great source of digestible protein and has tons of vitamin B, calcium, and folate — all things that are good for you. It also contains isoflavones, and here's where things get tricky. Some studies prove that isoflavones are beneficial, while others have shown that it promotes breast and prostate cancer. Soy has also been called out as an agent of brain cell aging and thyroid dysfunction, too.

In her recent book The Jungle Effect, San Francisco-based physician Daphne Miller — who studied low cancer rates in Okinawa extensively — writes:......................

top pic from welcome to natto land

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uh oh, FAIL!!!

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cool!!!

Japanese researchers film rare baby fish 'fossil'

here's a big 'un

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i'm not a big fan of soccer

nor are we as americans anywhere near the fans eurorpeans, asians, south americans, africans and everyone else in the world is. i hang at the half door an irish pub. i know how popular soccer is with everyone ELSE but americans (seems when world cup time comes around everyone hangs at the half door, no just the irish). the crowds that gather for some of the bigger games are unbelievable. i know how rabid these fans are. i know how seriously they take their games AND their teams.

this my dears is NOT going to sit well with them

in all seriousness though, gambling is EVERYWHERE. it's a disease (in my most humble opinion). i've seen what it can do to people, to families.


Raids Expose Soccer Fixing Across Europe

By ROB HUGHES and ERIC PFANNER

BOCHUM, Germany — European law-enforcement officials said Friday that they had arrested the leaders of a far-reaching gambling cartel that is thought to have conspired to influence the outcome of 200 soccer games in nine countries across the continent.

Announcing that 17 people had been arrested — 15 in Germany and 2 in Switzerland — prosecutors said they might have uncovered only the tip of a scandal in which gamblers are accused of bribing players, officials and trainers. The police said they seized more than a million euros (about $1.48 million) in cash and other assets after more than 50 raids Thursday in Germany, Britain, Switzerland and Austria.

Among the games under suspicion are three in the Champions League, the prestigious tournament for Europe’s best teams.

“Without question, this is the biggest betting scandal in the history of European soccer,” said Peter Limacher, the head of discipline for European soccer’s governing body..........

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i don't care what kind of 'skeptic' you are

i don't care what you believe or don't believe. i could give a flying f**k. i'm not going to be pc here. if you don't believe we humans are responsible for effing up the earth, you're not only a fool, but you're a giant stupid weenie head.

there is NO such thing as intelligent design
there will be NO rapture
jesus doesn't love YOU and condemn everyone else for THEIR beliefs
and we better the hell start cleaning up our act globally BEFORE IT'S TOO FUCKING LATE

Hackers steal electronic data from top climate research center
Scientists' e-mails deriding skeptics of warming become public

By Juliet Eilperin

Washington Post Staff Writer

Hackers broke into the electronic files of one of the world's foremost climate research centers this week and posted an array of e-mails in which prominent scientists engaged in a blunt discussion of global warming research and disparaged climate-change skeptics.

The skeptics have seized upon e-mails stolen from the Climatic Research Unit of the University of East Anglia in Britain as evidence that scientific data have been rigged to make it appear as if humans are causing global warming. The researchers, however, say the e-mails have been taken out of context and merely reflect an honest exchange of ideas.

University officials confirmed the data breach, which involves more than 1,000 e-mails and 3,000 documents, but said they could not say how many of the stolen items were authentic.............

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and your little dog too!

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her dad must be SO proud

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cool

of course i'm torn about zoos and aquariums. a tiny part of me knows a lot of animals would no longer exist if it weren't for zoos. the bigger part of me still hates the idea of cages no matter how big they are

Kuroshio Sea - 2nd largest aquarium tank in the world - (song is Please don't go by Barcelona) from Jon Rawlinson on Vimeo.

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hello hello

is this the party to whom i am speaking?



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this video is a SCREAM

because the two sarevil fans aren't anywhere near the most articulate creatures we've ever come across




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faux 'news'

they may say they're fair and balanced (of course they're not) but they NEVER say their honest

Again: Fox News uses old footage, makes Palin book tour look bigger

By Daniel Tencer

Fox News was barely done licking its wounds from last week's embarrassing revelations that it had used old footage to make a Tea Party protest look bigger than it was, and now the network stands accused of doing the same thing again.

During a Happening Now segment Wednesday, anchor Gregg Jarrett described "huge crowds" showing up to a Sarah Palin book tour event, and showed footage he described as "just coming in to us now" showing the former Alaska governor surrounded by adoring crowds.

But, as Faiz Shakir at ThinkProgress reported, the images the network ran "appeared to be old file footage of Palin rallies from the 2008 presidential campaign."........

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if you have a kindle

amazon most likely sent you an email. you can now read your kindle books on your pc as well as synchronizing them up with your device and stuff.

i don't know the full details. i downloaded the application (only took a few moments) and it seems fairly easy. i was able to access all my books. i haven't d/l them to my laptop though. no need right this second

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i live in connecticut

i remember when the supreme court kicked out a whole neighborhood (condemed it) and bulldozed their homes. i was outraged then. why? were the homes rat infested filth huts? nooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooo. big-bidnez pfizer WANTED to build there. they got their wish all right.

except they're closing up shop and moving. all those people got fucked. our laws MUST change

Eminent Domain Outrage in Connecticut: Pharmaceutical Giant Pfizer to Leave New London, Site of Major Housing Battle

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this leaves me speechless

Maricopa deputy steals defender's paperwork during a court case
Cory Doctorow

Tom sends us video of a Maricopa County Sheriff's Deputy named Adam Stoddard stealing a public defender's paperwork, during a court proceeding, in front of the court's security camera. Tom adds, "The local news clip is really worth seeing, if only for the reporter's incredulous lead-in: 'The Maricopa County Sheriff's office backing one of its deputies after he takes away a lawyer's paperwork in court.' If you live in Arizona you're subject to the daily outrage from Sheriff Joe Arpaio. It's a bit like Philadelphia during the Rizzo years.".................

Judge orders officer to apologize or face jail for taking attorney’s file

By Nick R. Martin

If he doesn’t make a grand public apology to a defense attorney soon, a Maricopa County detention officer could find himself inside a jail cell rather than tending them.

A Maricopa County judge on Tuesday ordered detention officer Adam Stoddard to hold a news conference and publicly apologize for swiping a document from a defense attorney’s file behind her back last month in an incident caught on courtroom videotape. If the Maricopa County Sheriff’s officer refuses or the defense attorney decides the apology is not “sufficient,” Judge Gary Donahoe’s ruling said he would throw Stoddard in jail.

Donahoe’s ruling held Stoddard in contempt for the Oct. 19 incident in which he could be seen on a courtroom security video sneaking up behind attorney Joanne Cuccia in the middle of a hearing and taking a document from her file.

During several days of testimony following the incident, Stoddard said he happened to have glanced at the file and saw the words “going to,” “steal” and “money” grouped together in a sentence. It made him think a crime was taking place and gave him the authority to pull the document, he said..........

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i get it

i need MY coffee too

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he doesn't know

if it's ok for 'a black to marry a white'. he's TOO EFFING BUSY y'all

yup, he paid money to prostitutes. yup, he's a senator. yup, he makes decisions for us. yup, he doesn't know too very much does he?

Senator Vitter doesn't even know what the Loving v. Virginia case is

by Joe Sudbay

More amazing video from the fearless Mike Stark.

Just a couple weeks ago, a Louisiana Justice of the Peace refused to marry an interracial couple. That was a huge news story. And, it evoked a lot of discussion about the 1967 United States Supreme Court ruling in Loving v. Virginia, which found that laws banning interracial marriages were unconstitutional. A couple weeks ago, Louisiana's Senator David Vitter, the hooker loving Republican, wouldn't comment on the Justice of the Peace scandal to Mike Stark. ...........

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