Everyone’s clucking and crowing over Ann Coulter’s remarks but Shamela really ramps it up:
(From Wolcott and yes, I’ll link to him because I concur)

As far as Coulter’s out of the left field “faggot” remark goes—it may have been a poor choice of words but further Atlas investigation reveals John Edwards campaign has a mostly gay staff and rumors about his sexuality are rife. Just for knowing.

The fact is if there is any true to these rumors, that perhaps Edwards is gay, shouldn’t we know that? Shouldn’t we know if this man is deceiving his wife, children, country and living a lie? Shouldn’t we know if a man that represents the party that celebrates gay rights is so ashamed of it, he lives a ginormous lie?
---“Atlas”

Look, we joke and and heckle more than any group I know but this goes way too far.......and borders on some laws we have about asserting shit like this.
just for knowing.

*hugs*

Apologies for being so vague. That’s Malkin embracing “Atlas” at CPAC. Distancing.

That’ll learn ‘er!

A new study by German scientists of spiders’ copulation techniques found that males leave part of their sex organ inside their female partner as a sort of “chastity belt” to deter rivals.

”By breaking off parts of their intromittent organs inside a virgin female, males can reduce sperm competition and thereby increase their paternity success,” the Bonn University researchers wrote in the journal “Behavioral Ecology”.

After setting the tone by shaking the female’s web, the male has only seconds to have sex before the larger female kills him. In over 80 percent of cases, the tip of the male’s genital organ breaks off inside the female.

This appears to be the result of a hasty getaway—but also leaves behind a sort of chastity belt that keeps other males away, the study showed.

fire up your resourcefulness engines

Is there such a thing as a satellite fone that will connect with the InterToobs directly from anywhere on the planet?

Cuz I really hate to hear Michael Yon say “I am choking on information that will never be published simply due to lack on reliable internet connections.”

Can anything be done?

BONUS!!! there, I fixed it:

We’ve got to get better at telling the success stories of Africa Iraq in addition to the horror stories.....

you can pick yur nose and your friends but…

Police arrested three people early Monday during a protest of Iraq-bound Army vehicles at a Washington state port. [supporting the troops!]

Several dozen people showed up at the Port of Tacoma to protest the shipment of Stryker vehicles and other equipment from Fort Lewis. Caitlin Esworthy, Walter Cuddeford and Jeffery Berryhill were arrested for investigation of assault.

Zoltan Grossman, a geography professor at Evergreen State College in Olympia who was observing the protest, said he didn’t know what prompted the arrests.

Esworthy is an Evergreen State student, and Cuddeford is a Navy veteran [ hey, I won the Silver Telephone Award from MassPIRG TWICE a few moons ago, too], he said.

“There were no rocks, no weapons. People were not carrying anything but signs,” Grossman said. “We were on public space, on gravel, and there was a white line that police had told us not to cross. I didn’t see any of the protesters cross that line.”

Last May, hundreds of protesters objected to similar shipments at the Port of Olympia. Police pepper-sprayed some protesters who pulled down a port gate, and about three dozen people were arrested over several days.

I’ve been wanting to share some stuff about the Cuddeford dude because he’s such a retard but didn’t have a segue. But now…
This guy quit his job to be Lt. Ehren Watada’s “bodyguard” and now calls himself homeless as well as unemployed *snerk*.
I know his brother pretty well and he’s a super guy.
Sorry Wally’s brother, you can’t pick your relatives. But you can laugh at them.

Look familiar?

The big mouth chick at this point in the video sounds eerily like Ponch Girl, too.
And upon further reflection, the “protest” at the recruiting center imho wasn’t to be a “protest” from the get-go. The center was closed, they had no signs or puppet heads but most of all were the 3 of them I observed with bandanas at their chests tied for face covering and one in the back pocket........

Amanda Hugginkiss

Protein Wisdom

I’m the invisible bus driver!!!

A King County Metro Transit driver was arrested on suspicion of voyeurism Sunday after a woman reported him peeping into her apartment window, apparently during a break from his route, police said.

Witnesses said they saw a man wandering around the woman’s Ballard apartment about midnight, peeking several times into her windows and at one point crouching to press his face against the glass. When the woman’s boyfriend came out and confronted him with a golf club, he got into a bus and drove away, according to Seattle police reports.

The 4,000-square-foot house is a model of environmental rectitude.

Geothermal heat pumps located in a central closet circulate water through pipes buried 300 feet deep in the ground where the temperature is a constant 67 degrees; the water heats the house in the winter and cools it in the summer. Systems such as the one in this “eco-friendly” dwelling use about 25% of the electricity that traditional heating and cooling systems utilize.

A 25,000-gallon underground cistern collects rainwater gathered from roof runs; wastewater from sinks, toilets and showers goes into underground purifying tanks and is also funneled into the cistern. The water from the cistern is used to irrigate the landscaping surrounding the four-bedroom home. Plants and flowers native to the high prairie area blend the structure into the surrounding ecosystem.

No, this is not the home of some eccentrically wealthy eco-freak trying to shame his fellow citizens into following the pristineness of his self-righteous example. And no, it is not the wilderness retreat of the Sierra Club or the Natural Resources Defense Council, a haven where tree-huggers plot political strategy.

This is President George W. Bush’s “Texas White House” outside the small town of Crawford.........

Secret Service agents have questioned an Alameda man about a display in his front yard featuring a cardboard cutout of President Bush with a knife through his head.Michael McDonald said he was grilled for about 90 minutes by two agents who asked about his personal history and his political views. They also asked him to allow access to his medical records, he said.

The cutout also shows painted blood running over the president’s eyes and down the bridge of his nose.

McDonald said the federal agents asked if he interpreted his work as a threat against the country’s chief executive. He said he didn’t.

“They said, ‘You’ve got a knife sitting in the head of the president of the United States,’” McDonald told The Oakland Tribune. “I said, ‘No, I got a knife in a piece of cardboard.’”

McDonald, 55, said he has been placing art in his front yard for 13 years. He rotates the pieces monthly.

The Bush piece remains in place. He painted over the president’s likeness in yellow and penciled in a swastika on the chest. The knife still pierces the forehead, running through a recently added sign that says, “Anonymous.”

I say we all make up cardboard cut-outs of all the folks that squeal jackbooted harassment of this guy and..........

does this carbonfoot print make my ass look fat?

“What if a small group of world leaders were to conclude that the principal risk to the Earth comes from the actions of rich countries? And if the world is to survive, those rich countries would have to sign an agreement reducing their impact on the environment. Will they do it? The group’s conclusion is “no.” The rich countries won’t do it. They won’t change. So, in order to save the planet, the group decides: Isn’t the only hope for the planet that the industrialized civilizations collapse? Isn’t it our responsibility to bring that about? This group of world leaders form a secret society to bring about an economic collapse.”—Maurice Strong, secretary general, 1992 UN Conference on Environment and Development

Gore Funding Plan For “A New World Order” at Rehl World View = TODazE Must Read

LLoyd, doing his share to add CO²

Boazo

EminAnn

For UnfrozenCavemanLawyerAuthor:

February 12, 2001
Web posted at: 8:11 AM EST (1311 GMT)

LOS ANGELES—Eminem, the hugely popular rapper often denounced as homophobic, will perform a duet at the Grammy Awards this month with Elton John, a champion of many gay causes.
Eminem’s performance was announced on Friday by National Academy of Recording Arts and Sciences President Michael Greene.

The duet, rumoured for weeks, was confirmed by John in an interview in Saturday’s edition of the Los Angeles Times.

John said Eminem came up with the idea.

“I’m a big fan of his music, and I said I would be delighted to,” the British superstar told the Times. “I know I’m going to get a lot of flak from various people who are going to picket the show.

“If I thought for one minute that he was (hateful), I wouldn’t do it,” he said.

Eminem has drawn frequent criticism for his lyrics which include references to “fags,” fantasies of raping his own mother and jokes about domestic violence.

The Gay and Lesbian Alliance Against Defamation called Eminem’s participation in the event offensive and was particularly disappointed by John’s decision to perform with him.

“It’s hurtful,” said Scott Seomin, entertainment media director for GLAAD. “It’s embarrassing.”

Last year, the group honoured Elton John with an award for his efforts in fighting homophobia. “Elton’s actions now totally violate the spirit of this award,” Seomin said.

Eminem is nominated for album of the year for The Marshall Mathers LP and in three rap categories. The album sold 7.9 million copies in the United States last year.

An unidentified number of Iranian women activists were arrested Sunday in Tehran, the ISNA news agency reported.

A group of women had gathered in front of the revolutionary court - in charge of cases related to national security - in support of activists arrested last June during a demonstration in Tehran which had demanded more rights for women in Islamic Iran.

As the women had not previously informed the Interior Ministry, the police declared the gathering illegal and tried to disperse the protestors.

The general prosecutor of Tehran issued an arrest warrant after the women resisted arrest, and an unspecified number of women were transferred to the notorious Evin prison in north Tehran, ISNA said, without providing further details.

Odds by sportsbook.com

*clickat*

darthcrUSAderworldtour2007

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Where dem crazy blog bux go

Or has this article been completely re-written from this morning?

The playlist on the bottom of the left hand sidebar (that I’m trying here in the post maybe later) that no one pays attention to has been updated.

Swamp Thing is dedicated to Britney tonight.......

All sass aside, it’s a real good one. The whole list.

Get your official Coldplay toilet paper here!

When Coldplay released its second hit album, A Rush of Blood to the Head, the band said that part of the environmental damage caused by its production would be offset by the planting of 10,000 mango trees in southern India.

More than four years after the album’s release, however, many of Coldplay’s good intentions have withered in the arid soil of Gudibanda, Karnataka state, where the saplings it sponsored were planted.

The idea of saving the world while making music was proposed by Future Forests, a British company since renamed CarbonNeutral. It declared that the scheme would soak up carbon dioxide emissions and help to improve the livelihoods of local farmers.

”You can dedicate more saplings in Coldplay’s forest, a specially-selected section in Karnataka, India,” its website said. For £17.50, fans could invest in the scheme and receive a certificate packaged in a tube bearing the words “The Coldplay Forest”.

Other musicians, including Dido, KT Tunstall and Feeder followed Coldplay’s example. CarbonNeutral meanwhile, gave the task of planting the trees to a group called Women for Sustainable Development (WSD), as part of a £33,000 contract. WSD is headed by Anandi Sharan Mieli, 44, born in Switzerland of Indian origin and a Cambridge graduate. She now claims that the scheme was doomed from the outset.

In the impoverished villages of Varlakonda, Lakshmisagara and Muddireddihalli, among the dozen that Miss Mieli said had received mango saplings, no one had heard of Coldplay. Most of those who received saplings said they had not been given funding for labour, insecticide or spraying equipment to nurture them.

One woman, called Jayamma was the only person out of 130 families in Lakshmisagara, to receive saplings from Miss Meili, according to Ashwattamma, a farmer’s wife. She said: “No one else got any trees. Some of us were offered saplings but we don’t have any water.”

Jayamma managed to get 50 of her 150 trees to survive because she had a well on her land. “I was promised 2,000 rupees (£26) every year to take care of the plants and a bag of fertiliser. But I got only the saplings,” she said.

BRITNEY Spears has flipped her lid in rehab, trying to hang herself with a bedsheet after screaming “I am the anti-christ” to frightened staff.

She made the demonic cry after scrawling the devil’s number “666” across her head.

Guess this gets Ann Coulter off the front page and Bush off the hook.

Boazo

“We regret the death of innocent Afghan citizens as a result of the Taliban extremists’ cowardly act,” Army Lt. Col. David Accetta, a coalition forces spokesman, said. “Once again the terrorists demonstrated their blatant disregard for human life by attacking coalition forces in a populated area, knowing full well that innocent Afghans would be killed and wounded in the attack.

What does the nic Breck Girl imply?

What about prissy?

I will now refer to Ann Coulter as Checkmate Annie.

iEAR

Adam Zaretsky once spent 48 hours playing Engelbert Humperdincks’s “Greatest Hits” to a dish of E.coli bacteria to determine whether vibrations or sounds influenced bacterial growth. Watching the bacteria’s antibiotic production increase, Zaretsky decided that perhaps even cells were annoyed by constant subjection to “loud, really awful lounge music.”

This sense of humor is a huge component of Zaretsky’s work in the growing field of bio-art, a broad term for the blend of art, technology and science that is attracting artists, scientists and controversy. Having recently taught at the Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, Zaretsky has become a prominent figure in the realm of bio-art and RPI is becoming a Petri dish for the cultivation of new works.

Bio-artists use live tissues, bacteria, living organisms and life processes to create works of art that blur the traditional distinctions between science and art. Most of these works tend toward social reflection, conveying political and societal criticism through the combination of artistic and scientific processes.

Because simulated pole dancing and bikini vlogs are the high standards

With a single word, Coulter sullied the hard work of hundreds of CPAC participants and exhibitors and tarred the collective reputation of thousands of CPAC attendees.

Well, wasn’t THAT easy.

Because *I* wasn’t there, MY reputation is in tact!
HA!

( CPAP, I’m loving it!!!!!)

Cherokee Nation members voted Saturday to revoke the tribal citizenship of an estimated 2,800 descendants of the people the Cherokee once owned as slaves.

With all 32 precincts reporting, 76.6 percent had voted in favor of an amendment to the tribal constitution that would limit citizenship to descendants of “by blood” tribe members as listed on the federal Dawes Commission’s rolls from more than 100 years ago.

The commission, set up by a Congress bent on breaking up Indians’ collective lands and parceling them out to tribal citizens, drew up two rolls, one listing Cherokees by blood and the other listing freedmen, a roll of blacks regardless of whether they had Indian blood.

Some opponents of the ballot question argued that attempts to remove freedmen from the tribe were motivated by racism.

“I’m very disappointed that people bought into a lot of rhetoric and falsehoods by tribal leaders,” said Marilyn Vann, president of the Oklahoma City-based Descendants of Freedmen of Five Civilized Tribes.

Tribal officials said the vote was a matter of self-determination.

“The Cherokee people exercised the most basic democratic right, the right to vote,” tribal Principal Chief Chad Smith said. “Their voice is clear as to who should be citizens of the Cherokee Nation. No one else has the right to make that determination.’

INDIAN GIVERS!

Feel free to list in comments any bloggers that are blogging about “CPAC” because it’s BORING ME TO FUCKING TEARS and I’d like to avoid them for a few more days until it completes the cycle around the bowl.

You can get your WHOLE DAYS WORTH of fat from just one box of Girl Scouts Lemonades cookies.

Asked by a federal judge why she sold her birth certificate, Rosie Medellin said she needed a few bucks and didn’t really think it through. Bobby Joe Flores said he sold his ID documents to buy drugs.

we walk upright and all hunched over just like everyone else

Those Geico “cavemen” shouldn’t be so upset after all — they may get their own television series.

ABC said Friday it had ordered a pilot for a comedy, tentatively titled “Cavemen,” that features the characters used in a series of ads by the insurance company.

In the ads, cavemen appear insulted by a Geico pitchman’s claim that the company’s Web site is so easy to use that “even a caveman can do it.”

The potential series, one of 14 pilots that will be produced by Touchstone Television this spring, features the cavemen as they “struggle with prejudice on a daily basis as they strive to live the lives of normal thirty-somethings in 2007 Atlanta.”

Well, we sure know where this is going.

Because reacting to the sight of a family of cave people walking down Main Street in Atlanta would be discrimination.
Maybe even RACIST!!!