tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-87474662096110133752012-02-01T17:29:42.695-05:00Whenever I get the urge to exercise, I watch a tape of the Republican debates and let my skin crawl.Jerihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02975916963346215706noreply@blogger.comBlogger941100tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8747466209611013375.post-66208696193479645442012-01-31T14:53:00.004-05:002012-01-31T14:53:40.912-05:00

 If only what truly happened was amusing. Click the image to be taken to the site and story.

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Not really, you fool! Christ, I'd kill myself first. But, I just read a story on Wonkette about Stacey Campfield (Turd in a punchbowl, TN) being refused service in a restaurant in response to his retarded, false, idiotic, and let's just cap it off with plain old bugfuck stupid rantings on AIDS and homosexuality. Of course the media, in their quest for knowledge and to give the impression that

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The two pairs of canaries I bought a few weeks ago got right down to business. The singing, the nest building, the cheeping, the fluttering. Ahhhhhhhhh. And now we have beebees! Frick and Frack, and the attack of the killer finger Crop sac full of egg food puked up by mom. Nom nom nom. If you're not going to feed us, GTHO. Oh, and you need a manicure, too. Zzzzzzzzzzz. Touch

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You know, I blather and whine and spill my guts and opine and argue on this blog and in comments sections elsewhere. A person might think I'm not in the least shy, but I would LOVE to have the guts to post a video like this. I'd also LOVE to be able to move like this, but that's a whole 'nother thing. What a cutie. Who else had never heard of Fiverr? If you want to rent Spandy Andy for 30

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Stem Cells Build a Better Rat Penis  (Clicky linky) Even though they're not sure yet whether this research will apply to human subjects, we do at least have the technology to transplant the fully functional rat penises onto men who need them.

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My boxer does this, and aside from the pure joy and giggles all I could think of when I watched this was the psychotic crop circles the dog was leaving in the field. OOps! Forgot to give a h/t to Janiece on Facebook, who as most of you know can also be found here.

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For a taste of a little good news today, toddle on over to Wonkette and read this post. There are still PIPA and RWA,  so no resting on our laurels just yet. But still, a step in the right direction.

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You know what's bugging me? The fact that I can't get worked up enough about anything right now to be bugged. Politics just seems so... so... the same as it's ever been... what's the word I'm looking for? It's so overwhelmingly, mind-numbingly, gob-smackingly stupid and inane, and they're all a bunch of lying liars with their pants on fire (well, they will be if I can ever find an inexpensive 

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I got zero, count 'em, ZERO, zip, zilch, nada, nil, minutes of sleep and I need to spend six hours on the road today. Seriously, I never went to sleep last night, and finally gave up at 4:30 and leapt out of bed to greet the new day. If you never hear from me again it will be because I fell asleep at the wheel.

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They don't know shit from Shinola, and don't care to. I'd be petrified if I didn't know that at least some of them are bright, intelligent, curious and socially aware. Unfortunatley, there are dolts like Bill O'Reilly who will do whatever it takes to make the stupid among us feel vindicated and comfortable in their ignorance. From http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Nt5Xn9X6xtU Well, you know, if

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May you and yours all have a wonderful, happy, healthy new year! Take some time to find joy in the small things. Roll around in the grass and make someone scratch your belly and behind your ears. Wiggle your butt and drool a little to let them know how much it means to you. And, on an unrelated note, you all know what an astronomy freak I am. Well, all I can say to

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Apparently this has been making the rounds, so you may have already seen it. PZ has it up over at Pharyngula and I just had to share.

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My mouth hurts like hell. My teeth itch. I look like Jim Carrey in The Mask when I smile and Becky Beaver when I don't (oh shit, more porn keyword SEO). Why, look! She's even at the dentist! My Christmas gift to myself this year (what, you don't buy yourself something?) was to finally get my teeth fixed up. So, now I have a temporary cap thingie on my top teeth. My teeth were always

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He wrote the perfect epitaph for Kim Jong il's headstone -- Toodles, ya crazy little bastard. According to Google Translate, it would look something like this:

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The holidays and inclement weather in the north will probably take a heavy toll on occupier presence in the near future, at least for a good chunk of the country, but next summer could be an interesting time.

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This will be brief. I just got done this morning posting a comment on another site where the commenter had called me a stupid bitch as part of his brilliant strategy to overwhelm me with feelings of self-hatred. Mwahahahaha! My response was basically to call him a name in return, then dismiss his post as not worthy of any further effort. This person goes by the name John Galt, so that should

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http://blog.dave.org.uk/2011/12/hitchens-last-laugh.html

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As this heathen prepares for the Christmas holidays, I will not be following politics and won't have much to post aside from some interesting tidbit I might find and want to share. I'm going to be busy with other things for awhile, but I wanted to take this opportunity to wish you all a very happy, safe and wonderful holiday. If, like me, you're not religious, at least take some time to

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Stolen from the Friendly Atheist :) Here's the original.

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In her upcoming appearance on "A List: Dallas," the conservative pundit told gay Republican cast member Taylor Garrett that it was in the lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender (LGBT) community's best interests to be pro-life, as "liberal yuppies" will start aborting their unborn gay children once scientists discover a gene for homosexuality. "The gays have got to be pro-life," she tells

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My sexual orientation is nobody's business unless I have my hand down their pants. When people see me I'm sure they just assume I'm lesbian - super short hair, little to no makeup, and my default wardrobe is usually jeans and a leather jacket over a pink hoodie when it's cold. You know what? That's fine. One thing that has always irked the hell right out of me is when people, who are

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PayPal -- The Grinch who stole 200 kids' Christmas I follow a website called Regretsy, which brings snarkiness to levels that I can only aspire to. But, when they're not being a bunch of fat, jealous losers who live in one-bedroom apartments fellating the dead rats that are scattered about, they have always pulled together to assist Etsians and Regretsians who are going through tough times.

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If a bird lays a clutch of 5 or 6 eggs and has been incubating them for, say, a week since the last one was laid, does she know how many eggs she's sitting on? In other words, if you take one of the eggs does the hen of whatever species know one is missing? 11/4 -- Well, how timely! Warner noted in a comment that "There is some evidence that crows can differentiate between 1, 2 and 3, but not

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S.W. Anderson at OH!PINION has a great post up right now, GOP House passes latest of many anti-worker, union-busting bills , that I recommend you read and pass around and post all over the place. He covers all the bases, so I really don't have anything worthwhile to add, but I did want to show this graphic, which he includes as a link at the bottom of his post. If you click on the image it

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This is from a little bird, the Uirapuru, or Organ Wren, that lives in South American rainforests and sings only briefly during the breeding season. That probably explains why it's never been hunted and captured for the pet trade, although it's a pretty little thing, too. You might think the song gets a little monotonous, but then you might live somewhere warm where the birds sing all

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How Republicans are being taught to talk about Occupy Wall Street Click on that handy-dandy headline to be taken to the latest strategy playbook by the Republicans to soothe the restless natives before this goddamned OWS thingy gets out of hand. In fact, here are the numbered talking point codewords that you can expect to hear repeated over and over and over by FOX Pretending-to-be-News, and

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These guys are so cute it's a good thing I don't live in Australia. I'd almost hate to have to smash one with a rolled-up magazine or my shoe, and believe me, I would. Spideys are the only thing that I kill on sight if they are in my house. Everything else gets caught and taken outside. Spiders get their guts wiped off whatever surface they were on. Awwww. Maybe I wouldn't squish these

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As I watch each of the Republican presidential hopefuls crash and burn, I can't help laughing and pointing along with the rest of the country. But, then in a quiet moment when I see a picture of Rick Perry or Michele Bachmann or Herman Cain, if I can get past the hatefulness of their rhetoric I just see a pathetic little person with big dreams. I can't help but believe that they absolutely must

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"I will not be a candidate for reelection to the House of Representatives in 2012. I began to think about retirement last year, as we were completing passage of the financial reform bill. I have enjoyed--indeed been enormously honored--by the chance to represent others in Congress and the State Legislature, but there are other things I hope to do before my career ends. Specifically, I

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Posted on Sarah, Proud and Tall, and if you don't read her on Balloon Juice, I strongly recommend you check her blog out. "Gay marriage will win out in Australia simply because ordinary Australians love their gay children and their gay friends, because they work with someone nice who dresses up as Lady Gaga on the weekend or because their butcher or their best customer is a lesbian, because

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http://stopcensorship.org/ Watch the video below if you're not sure what SOPA is all about, then click this link to be taken to sign the petition to save the Internet from censorship. PROTECT IP / SOPA Breaks The Internet from Fight for the Future on Vimeo.

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Climate change episode of Frozen Planet won't be shown in the U.S. as viewers don't believe in global warming (Clicky link) Did you read the article? If not, allow me to sum it up: David Attenborough made another documentary series, this one devoted to climate change. There are six episodes that have been bought by 30 countries, and a seventh episode, which "looks at the threat posed by man

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  Image by http://brothernumsi.deviantart.com/art/A-Turkey-34695723

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If you've ever caught The Blue Planet, narrated by David Attenborough, you may have already seen this. If not, have a look and listen. This world is full of so many wonders! And a few more images below. Click on the photo to be taken to the respective sites they came from.

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According to Wikipedia, in 1954 on this date I was the only important person born in the US. I'm not listed, but neither is anyone else. Maybe you'll interpret that differently than I did. Also, the Humane Society of the United States was founded. On this day in 1963, when I was nine, JFK was assassinated and CS Lewis died.

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And for any asshole who says the cops were just doing their jobs, or, as I've read in comments sections on other blogs, they were feeling threatened because they were closed in by the students who wouldn't move and may have had hidden weapons, be sure and pay close attention in the first few seconds where Pike actually steps over the students to be able to spray into their faces. He must have

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Man, Newt might be onto something here. He thinks it's time to relax our "truly stupid" child labor laws. In particular, schools should fire their unionized janitors, and hire children as young as nine to do the work instead. "You say to somebody, you shouldn't go to work before you're what, 14, 16 years of age, fine," Mr. Gingrich said. "You're totally poor. You're in a school that is failing

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Wow, Bill, a balanced budget sure does make sense! Good, old-fashioned common sense. Horse sense. The kind of sense us hard working, god-fearing, real Americans know to be true. Yes! Please do everything in your power to let the socialist, commie, fascist, foreign-born Muslim in the White House know that we all expect him to balance that budget and make the country live within its means

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Fern Hill at Dammit Janet! noticed, "There was another #occupytoronto event today, so of course, on Twitter, the bitter and twisted trolls trotted out all the old attempted snarks/snipes." So she came up with a handy, dandy response to their tired, repetitious, meaningless, bullet-point snark with a numbered list (clink) so that they'll know which ones they've been overusing and letting them know

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Have you ever wondered what a human being raised like a dog would turn out like? I was thinking about animal intelligence this morning, and the fact that many, many mammals and birds are capable of word association and learning to communicate outside their own species. Dogs associate behavior and items with human words: walkies!, cookie, Betty, Mike, Jeep, Mr. Bally, sit, lay down, no, leave it

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You know how you find a brand of jeans that you just love because they fit and don't give you crotch wedgies or ride up your crack or rip out in the knees. You buy them for years. Suddenly, the company that makes said jeans discontinues your size. They still make the model of jean you love, just not in your size. If you knew who to kneecap you would gladly pay to have it done, but it's a large

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I have never been sexually molested, abused or raped. However, from the time I was 14 to about 30 I got to view the dicks of 5 complete strangers who must have thought that exposing themselves to young women might rustle them up a date or something. I've never quite understood what the mindset behind that one is because it really is just surreal and ridiculous looking to the recipient. One

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It boggles my mind that in the brief time since mankind first crawled out of the primordial goo we've come so far. When you consider all of the culture and art and technology and knowledge that we have amassed over our short time on this planet, it's incredible how far we've come in such a short time. But, what also just gob-smacks me every time I think about it is that there are millions of

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I stole this from Bex. Nature at its finest.

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Public schools are supposed to fall under the separation of church and state mandate. This being the case, is it even legal for the Michigan legislature to pass laws stating that public schools may sanction religion-based intolerance aimed at any of their students? In other words, aren't they saying that religion trumps human rights from now on in the public school system? Couldn't the case be

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For anyone looking for a "good guy" place to move your money, BoldProgressives.org has come up with a handy, dandy tool for finding Credit Unions and small banks in your area. Click the pic to be taken to the locator.

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Most of you by now have heard that Michigan Republicans added last-minute language to Matt's Safe School (HB4580) legislation that would have required Michigan schools to protect all of their students from being bullied: “This section does not prohibit a statement of a sincerely held religious belief or moral conviction of a school employee, school volunteer, pupil or a pupil’s parent or

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Once again, Jim at Stonekettle Station has a post up that has a bunch of us thinking about our responses to the OWS protests, in particular the violence that erupted in the Oakland protest this week. My frustration with the current administration's obsequiousness to Republican corporatists is at stone-throwing, car-flipping, kick-a-kitten levels, so I can understand how violence would be met

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A true-to-life, first-hand, satirical (your friend won't know what that means, so don't worry about it) account of the day-to-day life of Ms. Rand as told by Sarah Howard. Your friend will thrill at the insider look at Ayn's personal history and weep with ecstacy to read of her real-life implementation of objectivism. A must-have for the true aficionado (why, I've never had such a hell of a time

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I want to alert you to a very important issue which needs your immediate response. As we speak, members of the so-called “Super Committee” are proposing a plan that would call for major cuts in Social Security, Medicare and Medicaid.  Please join me in doing everything we can to defeat this terrible idea. In negotiation after negotiation, the Democrats continue to give the Republicans almost

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#OWS Shuts Down Oakland, California

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Click on the pic to see this guy's shop on Etsy. Kinda pricey, but nerdishly cool useless stuff. I like his write-up for the Pocket Air Commander 5000000000000000000000000000000000000000.

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This is probably the only important post I'll make this year, and possibly next, so listen up. You've never listened to a word of my advice up to this point, but you really need to hear this. I'm sure you think you've got a lock on the next presidential election. I think you're probably right. Essentially, the guy with, what, a 30% approval rating? is going to beat out the Republican

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First off, a repeat from last year just because it gives me another chance to drool over de Lancie for awhile. Plus, he does this really well. The Raven ate your baby! Puke! Icky ca-ca! Jayzus this makes my skin crawl. What's really disturbing is that I've had it saved on my computer for at least 3 or 4 years. Well, if this isn't photoshopped, ewwwwwwwww! Hush little baby,

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Feeling '80s-ish. Too bad YouTube doesn't do these justice. Needs more graphic equalizer and bass and a really good set of stereo headphones, then Behind the Wheel sounds like it's bouncing around inside every corner of your head.

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If you haven't been following Hanlon over at Hanlon's Razor, he's got an excellent post up right now on OWS from boots-on-the-ground participant Will. A really great read with lots of great pictures. Go have a look.

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Eric over at Standing on the Shoulders of Giant Midgets (or vertically-gifted little-people, for the pc among you) has a thought-provoking piece up right now regarding the conservative right and Roe v. Wade. His post got me thinking, but I decided to not clog up his comment section with my own rantings that have only the most tenuous relevance to his original point. I thought I'd come home and

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Statue of Peace T-shirt  --  $30  All right! All right! Simmer down. The $30 includes shipping on this glorious shirt to any of the contiguous 48. There are only two - three if you count the one I kept - of these works of art in existence . I personally GIMPed this design, so I know of what I speak. The watermark with my name and the year is not printed on the shirt. If you want a photo

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 At the shop, heading out into the field and woods. Into the field. Looking across the field. Bluebird houses, butterfly bushes and a couple of lilac transplants. Betty. Awwwwwww. Such a pretty girl! Well, old lady.  Mike and Mr Bally! Mr Muscle and his cow tongue. Back at the house, this female cardinal is bound and determined to peck her own eyes out in the

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Man, this looks like fun but there might be a reason none of them look over 25. Wheeeeeeeeeee!

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I am unfailingly polite and friendly to people in real life. Really, I am. I'm one of those happy-go-lucky types who will stand in the grocery store line and strike up conversations with clerks or other patrons and it's like we're long-lost cousins or something - we laugh, we cry, it becomes a part of us. I just wanted to clear that up for anyone who thinks I walk around snarling and bitch

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If you have a party you need a costume for, I think I found the perfect thing:

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What? You're still here? Enjoy the company.

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From a CNN  interview with Piers Morgan and Herman Cain (R - Milledgeville State Lunatic, Idiot, and Epileptic Asylum):  [snip] MORGAN: I mean I agree with Ron Paul. This whole subprime mortgage scandal was a bunch of wealthy bankers effectively preying on the most vulnerable elements of Americans society. Here you are saying to these people, I know you lost your home. I know you probably

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Sen. DeMint Injects Anti-Choice Politics into Appropriations Bill "Anti-choice politician uses a spending bill to tell women and doctors they can’t communicate about abortion access through the nation’s communications systemsWashington, D.C. – Less than a week after the U.S. House of Representatives voted to pass an extreme anti-choice bill, Sen. Jim DeMint (R-S.C.) has filed an anti-choice

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Well, this should help quell any confusion over exactly what OWS is all about. h/t to Chase Whiteside And the following is well worth the 11 minutes of your life it will take to watch it. H/T to George Takei on his Facebook page.

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Paul Krugman has a nice quote by Suze Orman in support of OWS. He also includes a link to an interesting story about what the "lords of finance" are saying privately about the protesters. Apparently, they aren't privy to Facebook and Tumblr and all that dirty, hippie socialist social networking shit. "Generally, bankers dismiss the protesters as gullible and unsophisticated. Not many are

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Click on photo to be taken to Wonkette story. UPDATE 10/14/11 from Wonkette: "The Ocupados celebrated early this morning as NYC Mayor Michael Bloomberg unceremoniously tweeted that the owners of Zuccotti Park decided for mysterious undisclosed reasons (fear) to postpone for now their plan to “clean up” (billionaire-speak for “evict, using police force”) the space at 7 a.m. Thousands of the

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h/t to Regretsy

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I mentioned in an earlier post that in another life I was the first female truck driver at the local County Road Commission. I had an assigned territory and bladed and brined roads in the summer; and I bladed, brined and plowed roads in the winter. There was also the occasional guard rail work crew assignment, mowing rural road shoulders in the fall so that the plows could get out there and

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Can you imagine how huge Occupy Wall Street would be if everyone who wanted to be there had the means to do it? So far it's been fairly easy for the MSM to write off the protest as an unfocused, relatively young group of malcontents who are taking part because they're going through their rebellious stage or because they're too incompetent to actually have jobs they should be at. But, the

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"Never Try To Move Like Jagger.The Rolling Stones are an iconic rock group from the 1970/80's. While I loved them with a passion during my childhood years & still do to some degree, they are now a pack of old fucks. This includes the lead singer himself, Mick Jagger. Granted the old bastard can move, but it ain't a pretty show. He resembles a large uber lipped raisin having an epileptic fit

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Thanks to Jay Allbritton for this timely link explaining exactly what Occupy Wall Street is all about. Hopefully the liberal media can get someone to read it to them. (If you think I'm kidding about that last statement be sure and see his next post of Jon Stewart covering the coverage. The part with Sean Hannity is a classic) WARNING: the screechy, skeletal skank also makes an appearance. Why

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These first flowers are something blue. I can't remember the name of them but think it starts with L or N (or maybe S or T or A or B, but probably not Q or Y or Z or O). Never mind, after an extensive Google search lasting all of 30 seconds I found them and remembered they're Plumbago. For my next exhibit I'll need to go with the scientfic name: Sumkinda Toadiflora Liliacium

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Don't ask me why, because I really couldn't tell you, but I love marching-band music. Maybe it's the drums or something. Also, I remember as a three or four-year-old going and watching the Michigan Tech marching band practice during the day. My dad wasn't in the band, so it just must have been cheap entertainment. We was po' when he was in school. For all you little snots under 50, back

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Close to 10 minutes but if you've got the time it's definitely worth a listen. The people he's talking about running scared at this point have got to be shitting their pants over the realization that support for the ideology behind Occupy Wall Street is growing. Winter's coming, but there's always next spring and summer.

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Hanlon finds all the good stuff! He also makes great posts. This is too good to not pass around. Sounds like GBabyBush doing the dub. Mwahahahahahaha!

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What's your desktop look like? Do you change it almost as often as you change your underwear? Here's mine today, because yes, I'm a 13 year-old girl. Which brings me to my next question: do any of you use GIMP? I just downloaded that a couple days ago and man, is that ever sweet! There's going to be a learning curve, but the potential for doing some really great artwork is there. I have to

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Posted without comment because, really, what is there to say? The "liberal media" is ignoring this protest in the hopes that it will just go away before the rest of the hoi polloi can start hearing the message. https://occupywallst.org/ http://wonkette.com/453741/michael-moore-and-the-granny-peace-squad-occupy-wall-street#more-453741 In fact, if you're not following Wonkette (what's

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I'll get right to it: If you could have one wish, what would you wish for? I mean the big one. The one wish (with no evil strings attached like in all the Twilight Zone or Outer Limits shows) that you wish you could have but know realistically that you can never attain. I'm sure you've all thought about this at one point or another, and at various times in your lives the answer might be as

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Scientists claim to break speed of light. Yes, another stinking link, but this one's a doozy. I can't wait to see if this can be replicated and confirmed.

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Wouldn't it be nice if those who proclaim to believe in an almighty God, and eternal damnation for those who go against His will, would trust in His judgment regarding who is a sinner and who isn't? Really, all you fine, Christian, frothing-at-the-mouth-for-justice folks are just insulting your Lord all to hell by proving that you doubt His ability to take care of this. Either that or

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Stolen from Warner who stole it from Teabonics. Enjoy, and pass it around to all your Ayn Rand corpse-worshipping buddies.

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WASHINGTON – The House approved a special interest bill today that would make it easier for corporations to ship jobs overseas in retaliation against American workers for exercising their fundamental labor rights. ***************************************************************************** Tea party Rep. John Fleming (R-LA) used himself as an example Monday while arguing against President

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About a week ago Mr. Bitch pointed out a cocoon that a monarch had built in the entryway to his shop.  I decided to take the poor thing home so it didn't have to spend the winter exposed to the harsh elements. Shut up. I didn't know they hatched in a week. Anyway, I put the cocoon in a brown paper grocery bag with some milkweed and goldenrod. Shut up again, twice. One) No, we don't use cloth

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First off, WZZM, he's a FUCKING REPUBLICAN, which means he should have an "R" after his name, not a "D."  Jesus H Christ on a boogie board! I know Grand Rapids is highly Republican, but come on - are you ashamed to claim him? This is the same charmer I wrote to during CPB defunding. He replied, in short, that government MUST reduce its spending, much as

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Okay, this is way cool. The video is embedded in QuickTime so once it downloads you can slide the control back and forth and really see what's going on. Go to SOHO for other viewing options and more incredible video. UPDATE 9/18/11 from APOD Explanation: Here is one of the sharper views of the Sun ever taken. This stunning image shows remarkable details of a dark sunspot

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Juanita Jean. Go now and read it.

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Okay, now it seems I can't leave a comment on my own Blogger blog even using Blogger commenting. I'm going to start taking this personally in about 10 seconds. I'm going to go try one more time and then post my responses here. BRB. Nope. Sorry folks, but here are the responses to your comments: Hi guys and gal Bex - I know, right?! I just found your blog a month or so ago and

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Well darlin's, I'm starting over with a new format. I blew away all of the old content because I just don't want it following me around for the rest of my life. My focus will no longer be primarily on politics or politicians simply because they're no longer worth the effort. I'm sure I won't be able to help myself occasionally, but that's no longer what I choose to spend the bulk of my time

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My thesis is that political ideology is hypothetically, yet profoundly and intricately, related to the number of synaptic connections an individual's brain is capable of making. My study is based on this standard model of the "Bell Curve." Please study it carefully as it is cited in most of my work. I think we can all agree that most of the citizenry of this country fall into the

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