PeTA just lost every shred of whatever dignity it ever had.
(Well, maybe not if you’re into ugly, fake-boobed Wookie stripping and flag abuse porn.)
NSFW or chose the SFW version when you get there, which I recommend, because there’s less to see.
On second thought, no, don’t go there.
You won’t enjoy it. Really. It’s just, you know, icky.
DougM (commissarophobe) I heard C and L ran off. That’s not ass’s fault…
EricC
SondraK, Lympian Slayer He did NOT freaking say that!
Oh, yes. He did:
Director of National Intelligence Dennis C. Blair told senators ... “That unit was created exactly for this purpose,” Blair told the Senate Homeland Security Committee. “We did not invoke the HIG in this case. We should have. Frankly, we were thinking more of overseas people. And, duh ... the decision was made on the scene.”
Go ask Ace what else he said… *boggling* I gotta go find a nice cactus to set up housekeeping under see what’s happening in the grown-up world start drinking heavily ...... *aaaaaaaaargh*
Claire, Ideologically Stubborn Heatist Ruralite 01/20 at 06:21 PM •
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ReihlWorldView: Via a Twitter tip. It is from http://www.nrsc.org right this second. Update: Obviously it’s a donor name and they didn’t catch it. Someone’s going to catch hell. ha ha
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apotheosis, unrepentant milkaholic I couldn’t resist updating my old, generic 2010 YouTube thing (BTF)
to celebrate the launching of AmRev 2.0:
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Workers shape a snowman in preparation for a snowman demonstration against climate change at the “Schlossplatz” in Berlin, Wednesday, Jan. 20, 2010. The demonstration will take place from Jan. 22 to Jan. 24 and people are invited to build their own snowman with a message against climate change.
And now to the left coast. Here’s Senate Candidate Tom Campbell, who’s seeking the Republican nomination in 2010 to run against Babs Boxer.
America’s national debt is an economic burden, a moral failing, and a foreign policy vulnerability. It’s the single most important problem we face, and that’s why I’m running for the US Senate.
I’m not 100% sold on the idea that it’s the “most important” problem we face, but he goes on to make a good case for it:
Every child born in our country inherits a $40,000 obligation to pay back money her or his parents borrowed. That’s the moral issue. Parents should save to give something to their children. The federal government, however, has done the opposite. It has borrowed from our children, to buy favor with current voters. That’s immoral.
And this:
When a foreign country holds a lot of the US national debt, it has diplomatic leverage over us because it can threaten to dump those bonds on the market all at once, causing US interest rates to shoot through the roof.
The usual response to that concern is that a foreign country would lose money by selling all its US government bonds at once. Any good dumped on the market in large amounts will depress the price. That’s certainly true. But it’s not true that countries put immediate economic concerns ahead of other national objectives. If, for instance, Taiwan were to declare its independence, and the US proposed to recognize a separate country of Taiwan, I don’t doubt for a moment that China would use this economic weapon on us, whatever the cost to China’s balance sheet. We gave this weapon to China; we should not be surprised if they use it.
So far, I like the cut of this man’s jib. Worth keeping an eye on, if his record suggests he walks the walk.
President Barack Obama has pledged to donate the proceeds from his Nobel Prize for Peace to charitable causes.
But the president hasn’t decided yet what to do with the money.
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“He hasn’t received any money yet,’’ White House spokesman Robert Gibbs said today.
“… [ Obama is ]...… in charge of all 3 branches of government”
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Just wanted to make sure everyone saw this and if you haven’t sent me your address yet please do! I’d like to get started on mailing stuff this weekend.
And thanks to everyone who’s already replied! I have a good number of you but there’s still a few more....
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So Saturday...I’m unloading some groceries from my rig and an SUV pulls up to the driveway. A strange man gets out poking around on a Blackberry thing and my hinkies go up....
Uh, hellooooooo…
Excuse me, I’m just making sure I have the name and address correct...are you SondraK?
WHO ARE YOU???????
I’m SSG #######, ma’am. I was sent to deliver something for you from Captain K....
OMG!!!!!!
This guy was sent to drop off those tokens for US that I mentioned way back when from the 504th MPs for our contributions for the Beer of the Ball.
These guys are in full deployment mode and they thought so highly of US that they sent someone in person to deliver these to me to MAKE SURE that we know how thankful they are. I’m beside myself.
And now I need all of your names and addresses again. Please forgive me, it’s nearly impossible for me to go back and sort through 3948856735432 e-mails to find them.
If you contributed to the Beer of the Ball endeavor last Sept/Oct, please send me your name and address to my gmail account so I can get these out to you asap!
HEEEEEEE!!!!!!!!
The Ugly American 
