PICTURES: The Creepiest Children's Books Ever

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	Growing up, we all had at least one book that affected our psyche - some in more positive ways than others.

Dear Politicians: if it's on the Intertubes, it's NOT PRIVATE!!

Why are politicians so clueless?

"Anime is a prime example of why two nukes wasn't enough."

--  New Hampshire State Rep. Nick Levasseur (D-Man.), via Facebook.

"Because one day, seriously, it is actually going to be lupus"

http://www.cafepress.com/electrophonic


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[US] Newborn denied health insurance due to congenital defect

A newborn with a heart defect is denied insurance coverage. The
reason: a pre-existing condition.

http://www.star-telegram.com/2010/03/25/2068267/crowley-newborn-with-heart-defect.html#tvg

[VIDEO] Vancouver - Poetry Slam - "I'm a Christian. Sorry."

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wire trash can

wire trash can

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My new bunker paradise...?

For no reason whatsoever, except feeling like a Matt Reilly character, I sooooo want to live in this house! 

Its WAR!

I shall move in here. Every day the schoolbus will back up the driveway, open its back doors, and dump my kids into the big funnel that leads to their rooms.

Wheeee!

Found by: Erin

Loveliest comment, by JMixx: "The original, heavy security doors are built to withstand a 2000 lb blast and are at the underground home entrance."

That's IT! I am DONE with poking my potatoes with a fork before I microwave them.

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[VIDEOS] Wolf Spider with Babies

Oh, this makes my flesh creep, but damn it's cool!




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G Beck strikes again

Re the "attack on social justice"-gate [MAN, I wish that hotel had been named something else]:

Glenn Beck is a tool

.
Anyone committed to the concepts of social justice, be they Christian or otherwise, should understand that misuse of religion in this way is - frankly - obscene, and that non-GOP Christians ("gasp! I thought they were only mythical creatures!") and non-American Christians ("the hWHAT? The heyyyy-eck youuu seh. Nawn, Ah seh, NAWN-Amurkun Chrisjins? Cain't really be Chrisjins though, kin they?") are mostly baffled and distressed by this sort of crap.

If you're interested, there is an online letter/petition (Tell Glenn Beck: I'm a Social Justice Christian
) being assembled on the Sojourners website.

This was my blurb:

I'm someone who not only believes in the biblical call to social justice, but grew up steeped in it.

More, I believe that **opposing** the concepts of social justice... well, it is an obscenely immoral and heretical position for ^anyone^ to take, let alone someone claiming to represent the faithful. False prophets and deceitful leaders don't fare very well in the literature.

How can you possibly claim that the very things Christ said to do (serve the poor, minister to the sick, visit the imprisoned, support the orphans and widows, etc etc) are wrong FOR CHRISTIANS to do?! [Surely not, JUST because Obama said it was a good idea, all with "character-building"-this and "teaching children to put others first"-that? Surely not?]

It's an argument I could maybe "see", coming from an anarchist or a nihilist, but a member of the LDS? The public and self-declared spokesman for "the-party-what's-NOT-evil-socialist-fascist-dictating-totalitarian-hippy-free-love-tree-huggers"?

I believe in God's will for justice in every aspect of our individual, social, and economic lives.

Christie Bradley

Insecure much? How pathetic, to ask a 13yo boy, "Do u want me 4 me or do u want me 4 the sex."

Christie Bradley
Christie Bradley, 39-year-old married mother of two from Waterloo, Missouri, has been arrested for allegedly trying to have sex with a 13-year-old boy. Court documents say the 13 year old (about the same age as her own children) boy told police that Bradley kissed him on the lips at his home on September 19th. He also told police that Bradley communicated with him through Facebook and text messages.

The documents say an investigator started posing as the boy and communicated with Bradley through text messages and several sexually explicit messages were exchanged between Bradley and the undercover agent.

Among them- the agent asked Bradley, "Do I need to get condoms? Or do u have some?" Bradley allegedly replied, "I'll get some. Then u don't have 2 worry bout gettn caught with them. We have 2 use them."

Mrs Bradley also sent boy another message asking, "Do u want me 4 me or do u want me 4 the sex." [...]

Court documents say arrangements were made for Bradley to show up at the teen's home Wednesday for sex. We're told she showed up with lingerie and condoms and was arrested without incident.

HuffPo: Israel Complains Over 'Antisemitic' Postcards From Spanish Children

And so they should. That's appalling.

		Israel Complains Over 'Antisemitic' Postcards From Spanish Children
	Israel has complained to the Spanish authorities after its embassy in Madrid received postcards from nine-year-old schoolchildren accusing it of killing Palestinian babies and waging...

Idealism

http://www.gapingvoidgallery.com

Shakespeare dumped from HSC English

I understand why students who struggle should be taught literacy first and that the finer points of Shakespearean English might be a bit much. BUT: it's entirely possible - and surely necessary - to at least take an overview of Shakespeare in terms of his impact on modern language!

Shakespeare dumped from HSC English

BARD loses out to The Matrix in new course because he is too irrelevant to students.

[Über-Cute Alert] Squeeee!

They're illegal in Queensland, but Lordy be I'd love to have a pygmy
bunny.

Today I have learned:

* how to make an omelette;

* not to believe an omelette recipe that says "serves 2" and "8 eggs"; and

* only put the ham & cheese on HALF.

Because 4 eggs is wayyyy too much for one person. I know this now.

I may be ill.

[US] Domestic Terrorism

This article was written in mid-2009, but given that there are already at least two Facebook fan pages for the idiot who flew into the IRS building, I thought it was worth posting.

It's almost a cliché, but still very true: whether someone is labelled a terrorist or a "freedom fighter" depends entirely on the ideology of the viewer.

If this IRS plane guy had been named Akmal, the whole country would be up in arms, and any FB fanpage lionizing him would be violently protested as glorifying terrorism.

9 [Right-Wing] Myths About Right-Wing Domestic Terrorism

Bit presumptuous

I have a "quit smoking" app on my iPhone, which has only been useful in terms of tracking the amount of $$ I've saved since I quit. It also has quite the range of useful & interesting factoids.

But this one:


Huh. Assumptions much?

Just for the record? I don't have any cigarette-related guilt to feel less of...

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No Impact Man

From the No Impact Man blog, this:



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Skeet shooting. With a tank.

What a brilliant ad - maybe they could introduce this as an alternative to Skirmish?



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what Feminism isn't

There was a post on the "STFU, Conservatives" blog recently, which I partially requote below:

"as much as Feminism CLAIMS to be about equality for women, in reality it’s a self-serving philosophy that teaches women to feel ENTITLED to everything that men have had to earn.

Women feel ENTITLED to the same pay as men without working the same hours or in the same dangerous jobs as men.

Well, "bollocks", for starts. I'm not a man-hating, balls-to-the-wall feminazi, but I'm grateful for the work other people did to provide me with the freedoms I now have. And this man is a complete arsehat.

Has feminism won? Let me illustrate:

Episode 1:

London, 2002: I am a Helpdesk Manager, responsible for Application Support for 1500 users across Europe and North America, with 2 FTE employees reporting to me. A man in a suit wanders up and looks at me quizzically. I say, "Morning! How can I help?" and he says, "Hi. Um... our Admin Assistant is off sick, could you take minutes for our meeting?"

Convince me that would have happened if I was a bloke.

Episode 2:

Brisbane, 2006: I am a Project Administrator, responsible for a team of engineers doing FIFO work in and out of the Northern Territory. The second week, a woman came up to me and said, "now, the kitchen roster... L was on for Mondays, so I'll just put you down for that?". Um.. Is this a voluntary roster? "oh, yes, all the girls are on it!" Right. I un-volunteer. "oh... Really??"

I looked at her and said, "when you've got someone on that list who doesn't have a uterus, come back and talk to me."

Again - how many blokes are on a fucking roster to clean the kitchens at work? I'm not going on it just because I don't have a penis.

To me, that shows me that we haven't achieved even equality yet - never mind the rest of the original poster's drivel.

Off to buy overalls and burn someone's bra.

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