because there is no such thing as hate crimes

because 'the gays' and 'the blacks' and 'the mexicans' and 'the jews' (and on and on) aren't really part of being human so how the fuck can the crimes committed against them be based on hate? i can really see inside this woman's mind and this is what she's thinking

hey ginny, matthew shepard's death WAS NOT A FUCKING HOAX. he was killed NOT for a robbery. he was KILLED BECAUSE HE WAS GAY

what's wrong with you? what's wrong with the people of north carolina who elected you? do they really want YOU to represent them? i know i sure wouldn't

GOP Rep.: Notion that Matthew Shepard murder was hate crime ‘a hoax’

By Jeremy Gantz
Less than one month after she used the term “tar baby” on the floor of the U.S. House of Representatives, Rep. Virginia Foxx (R-N.C.) has managed to offend another group of Americans: gay people.

Speaking on the House floor Wednesday while a hate crimes bill – known as the “Matthew Shepard bill,” after the gay 21-year-old who was brutally murdered in 1998 – was being debated, Foxx called the University of Wyoming student’s association with the legislation “a hoax” because, she said, Shepard was not killed because of his sexual orientation.

“The bill was named after a very unfortunate incident that happened, where a young man was killed, but we know that that young man was killed in the commitment of robbery,” Foxx said. “It wasn’t because he was gay… The hate-crimes bill was named for him, but it’s, it’s really a hoax, that that continues to be used as an excuse for passing these bills.”.............

on the surface this is one of the coolest things i've seen

then under the surface, you notice NOT ONE WOMAN. NOT ONE (well i believe a couple ride by WITHOUT HELMETS in the beginning of the video. they don't get stopped. they don't get hugged and they don't get helmets)




(shout out boing boing)

just in case you're one of those

evil hearted id-jits who are blaming people with perhaps a darker skin color than yours and perhaps a different accent than yours (and different language even) for bringing that nasty pig virus across the border, ponder this why don't cha (who really owns that pig shite anyway? NOT the mexicans. i'm guessing it's the effing gringos)

Residents near Smithfiled farm insist area played role in flu
The Virginian-Pilot

From Pilot and wire reports

The people of La Gloria, Mexico, a town of 3,000 in the Veracruz mountains, believe their community is ground zero for the swine flu epidemic, even if health officials deny it.

Their suspicions point toward pig farms co-owned by Smithfield Foods Inc., which Tuesday reiterated that no signs of the flu had been found in its pigs or workers in Mexico.

The town is home to Mexico's earliest confirmed case of swine flu, a 4-year-old boy who was among more than 450 residents who complained of respiratory problems. They blame contamination spread by pig waste at the Granjas Carroll de Mexico breeding farms, which are half-owned by Smithfield..........

Swine Flu May Come From Corporate Pig Poop

By Daphne Eviatar

Although the mainstream media in the United States hasn’t picked up on it, at least one Mexican newspaper and some U.S. bloggers are reporting that swine flu may have originated from mounds of porcine fecal matter at the Mexican subsidiary of U.S.-based Smithfield Foods — the world’s largest pork packer and hog producer.

As Tom Philpott at Grist writes, Smithfield operates massive hog farms Perote, Mexico, in the state of Vera Cruz, where the outbreak originated. According to the company Website, the operations are part of a Smithfield subsidiary called Granjas Carroll, which raises some 950,000 hogs per year.

Grist refers back to the Website Biosurveillance, which has this fascinating piece of information in its timeline of the swine flu outbreak:

Veratect reported local health officials declared a health alert due to a respiratory disease outbreak in La Gloria, Perote Municipality, Veracruz State, Mexico. Sources characterized the event as a “strange” outbreak of acute respiratory infection, which led to bronchial pneumonia in some pediatric cases….officials indicated that 60% of the town’s population (approximately 1,800 cases) has been affected. [...]..............

hey babies, it's taj mahal wednesday!

she's effing INSANE

why why why is she serving? why did the people elect her? there is a great big difference between being a conservative and being someone living in an alternate reality

hey mark regnerus

FUCK YOU. i would hope your article or piece or steamin' hunk o' shite was a joke. unfortunately, i don't think it is. i think you were quite serious.

by the way, i do NOT have 'market value' nor do my sisters. we're human beings not commodities you giant katsu piedi. and also by the way, if men get better with age, so do women. people like you are just too blind to see it

anyway, some dude in the wapo is telling us women we better HURRY up and get married cause once we're past 14, we're over the hill and good for nuthin', not worth the time it takes to write about us


Say Yes. What Are You Waiting For?
By Mark Regnerus

..........This is not just an economic problem. It's also a biological and emotional one. I realize that it's not cool to say that, but my job is to map trends, not to affirm them. Marriage will be there for men when they're ready. And most do get there. Eventually. But according to social psychologists Roy Baumeister and Kathleen Vohs, women's "market value" declines steadily as they age, while men's tends to rise in step with their growing resources (that is, money and maturation). Countless studies -- and endless anecdotes -- reinforce their conclusion. Meanwhile, women's fertility is more or less fixed, yet they largely suppress it during their 20s -- their most fertile years -- only to have to beg, pray, borrow and pay to reclaim it in their 30s and 40s. Although male fertility lives on, it doesn't hold out forever, either: Studies emerging from Europe and Australia note that a couple's chances of conceiving fall off notably when men pass the age of 40, and that several developmental disorders are slightly more common in children of older fathers. ..............

i'm warning you in advance

VERY disturbing
paul scheer's photos of some of michael jackson's things

c r e e p y
another link to the pics


(ht: boing boing)

you know every now and again

i try to watch him. i get about 30 seconds in and must either shut the tv off or change the channel. i can't do it, not even for research or comparison purposes. i really can't decide if it's all an act though. i'm leaning toward YES it is

More Beck paranoia: Links Obama administration's swine flu public health emergency declaration to already scheduled Sebelius confirmation vote

Published Mon, Apr 27, 2009 12:51pm ET by Media Matters staff

well i'd rather it be moot than brangelina

(now come on peeps, just a few short years ago she was making out with her bro {LITERALLY} and wearing billy boy boys blood around her neck. one doesn't become 'sane' overnight you know)

Time's 'Most Influential Person' list hacked by 4chan

Time magazine reported on Monday, with a palpable air of embarrassment:

In a stunning result, the winner of the third annual TIME 100 poll, and new owner of the title world's most influential person, is Moot. The 21-year-old college student and founder of the online community 4chan.org, whose real name is Christopher Poole, received 16,794,368 votes and an average influence rating of 90 (out of a possible 100) to handily beat the likes of Barack Obama, Vladimir Putin and Oprah Winfrey. To put the magnitude of the upset in perspective, it's worth noting that everyone Moot beat out actually has a job.

Since Moot launched 4chan.org in 2003, the site has given birth to Internet memes as diverse as Lolcats and Rickrolling. 4chan averages 13 million page views a day and 5.6 million visitors a month; by some estimates it is the second largest bulletin board in the world............

interesting...............

Fox Says It Won’t Show Obama Press Conference
By Brian Stelter

President Obama’s prime time press conference will air on one fewer channel this week.

Fox is “sticking with its regular schedule” on Wednesday night, The Associated Press reports, marking “the first time a broadcast network has refused Obama’s request” for airtime........

(not sure i'd actually go all the way and call faux a 'broadcast network' though)

the.......reformed....... pirate: amazing scrabble commercials

the.......reformed....... pirate: amazing scrabble commercials

i have to link to these incredible scrabble ads. please watch them. you'll thank me

i have always hated cosmo

(NOT cosmopolitans silly. if it has vodka in it, i most likely LOVE it).

and here's a good example why i hate it. and no, this wasn't taken from 1971. it is current (i know it's hard to believe)
from evil slutopia (love the moniker)


cosmo quick hit: sports are icky

I watched the NFL draft today. I watched it because I wanted to, not because I was with some guy who was into it. I'm also a woman. According to Cosmopolitan, this apparently makes me some sort of mutant. Here are two items from their May 2009 issue to illustrate what I mean.

The "Cosmo For Your Guy" section is the page that you're supposed to give to your boyfriend to read (no comment on that), so it has relationship tips for guys. This month it's "Small Moves That Score Big", and here's one of them:

Get Girlie With Her: Believe it or not, your girlfriend probably isn't sitting by your side watching SportsCenter because she's dying to see the highlights of the Bobcats/Thunder game. She does stuff like that because she wants to spend time with you...and she'd love it if you returned the favor. That means doing things like going shopping without pouting the whole time or dozing off in one of those massage chairs. "Making small sacrifices shows her that you're a team player and her happiness is a priority," says Carol Bruess, PhD, coauthor of What Happy Couples Do.

See, because women don't like sports. Not a single one of us...............

oh and for the record, I HATE SHOPPING. HATE HATE HATE IT (not a big sports fan, but the bosox are beloved to me. i be liken' me some bruins too and ok ok ok a celtic now and again. i don't watch espn too often but i DO like their commercials)

this my dears is tres interesting!

especially the part where air france had NOT shared it's passenger list with the u.s.. hmmmmmmmmmm how then, did they get that list??????

US refuses to let jet into its airspace because it is carrying a journalist who criticizes US foreign policy
Posted by Cory Doctorow
Irene sez, "On April 24th, an Air France flight from Paris to Mexico had to make an unscheduled stop in Martinique when US air traffic controllers notified the jet that it would not be receiving permission to fly over US airspace. The plane was not en route to the US, just passing over some of it. On board the plane was Colombian Journalist Hernando Calvo Ospina, who works for the French left-wing journal Le Monde Diplomatique and wrote about US involvement in Latin America. Ospina and his publisher said they will sue for compensation." What makes the whole incident even more interesting is that Air France had only sent its passenger manifest to the Mexicans, but now it is clear that Mexico shares this information with the United States. .........

from the cdc

here are some faqs on swine flu

remember though (and your moms told you this when you were a kid) WASH YOUR HANDS

wash 'em frequently. wash 'em all the time. 80% of the cases of flu are spread by hand. so WASH 'EM

wash 'em after touching that grocery cart. that door to enter work or school.

oh and don't hang in crowds for a while

i think it's time i talk about

precious

the above is a wiki entry and it says she's 'full figured'. hell no, she's NOT 'FULL FIGURED'. she has a 'TRADITIONAL BUILD'


i've not read any of the books by alexander mccall smith


i've just watched the episodes on hbo. it's wonderful! oh sure, it's hokey all right. BUT it's fun and funny and chuck full o' women (of color!). it's full of women and their problems and issues and their abuse and their power. it's full of women of BEAUTY.

botswana............africa.
plains. bush.

hot

precious was married to a jazz musician. he abused her. he beat her so badly she lost a child she was carrying. she left. she's her OWN woman now. (oh, she still pines for him no doubt)

watch it. you'll feel good inside


hbo: the no. 1 ladies detective agency

and here's the imdb entry for and here's the bbc entry

oh p.s. anika noni rose (the second lead) is from BLOOMFIELD CT

jazz singer jill scott is the lead

this is sad

bible belt or no.

pssssssssssssst guess what? there ARE gay people EVEN IN OKLAHOMA


Lessons of Hate in the Bible Belt from Stuart Productions on Vimeo.

Lessons of Hate in the Bible Belt

THE best video i've seen all week

(ht: the agitator)

i've never heard of it or seen it

but if i do see it, i won't be purchasing it and in my most humble opinion, YOU shouldn't purchase it either

Rockstar Energy Drink's Assault on LGBT Rights and Autism

Filed by: Guest Blogger

April 23, 2009 9:30 AM

Editors' Note: Guest blogger Michael Jones is change.org's Gay Rights editor, and the Communications Director of the Human Rights Program at Harvard Law School. Prior to his life in media, Jones worked for the late Senator Paul Wellstone as a field organizer in Minnesota.

A few facts about Rockstar Energy Drink. It was co-founded by conservative radio host Michael Savage. It's current CEO is Russell Weiner, Michael Savage's son and a co-founder of the "Paul Revere Society" here in the States.

A few facts about Michael Savage. Better yet, here are a few comments directly from the mouth of Michael Savage:

• "You want me to tell you what makes me sick? When I see two puffy white males kissing each other, I want to puke. When I see two women kissing each other, on the lips, as lovers, I want to vomit."
• "When you hear "human rights," think only one thing: someone who wants to rape your son. And you'll get it just right. OK, you got it, right? When you hear "human rights," think only someone who wants to molest your son, and send you to jail if you defend him. Write that down, make a note of it."
• "...children's minds are being raped by the homosexual mafia, that's my position. They're raping our children's minds."....................

you're with us or against us flush

i hadn't heard much of what jabba the flush had to say about the somali pirate / us ship hostages episode.

but hearing now what he said, makes my skin crawl (ok, in all fairness, just THINKING about flush limburger makes me puke). a special shout out to shane murphy. i'm sorry you had to go through what you did not only when you were taken hostage, BUT what you were exposed to from jabba the flush. i extend my heartfelt thanks to you for speaking out. i know there is always hope when i read about someone like you mr murphy

if you're ever in the greater hartford area..................i know one heck of an irish pub

Freed pirate hostage reacts to Limbaugh’s racism

by Joe Byrne
Shane Murphy is a sailor trying to get his land-legs on home turf. Less than a week ago, Somali pirates took his ship’s captain hostage, and Murphy took over at the helm while a hostage-rescue team freed his captain. Murphy told his father that the crew used “brute force” to overpower the pirates, who were armed with AK-47 assault rifles. Three Somali men were killed in the rescue of the ship’s captain. On returning to America, Shane was disgusted by what some people think its okay to say on the radio. The second-in-command on the American merchant ship has come home to find that Rush Limbaugh has personally offended him with comments about “black teenagers” being killed in covert operations on “the high seas.”.......

one of THE most disturbing things i have EVER seen

this is NSFW



(ht: boing boing)