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Bill O'Reilly's Fact-Free War on Planned Parenthood

bzero — Sun, 13 Jan 2013 01:23:30 GMT

Fox News host Bill O'Reilly welcomed viewers to [Tuesday] night's show (1/8/13) with this: "Aborting babies at taxpayers' expense."

Tortured facts here: http://www.fair.org/blog/2013/01/09/bill-oreillys-fact-free-war-on-planned-parenthood/

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Tricorder!

bzero — Mon, 10 Dec 2012 20:11:59 GMT

Let's see of the LJ app will post links for a change.

The Real Reason You Should Care About the Petraeus Affair: Privacy

bzero — Sat, 17 Nov 2012 18:52:47 GMT

From Mother Jones -

CIA Director David Petraeus, one of the most lauded military leaders of his generation, resigned last week after an FBI investigation into email harassment uncovered evidence of his affair with his biographer Paula Broadwell. Here's why you should care: If the director of the CIA can't keep his private life secret from the FBI, you can't either.

Article here.

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Why You Shouldn't Donate to the Salvation Army Bell Ringers

bzero — Fri, 16 Nov 2012 22:17:48 GMT

From bilerico.com --

As the holidays approach, the Salvation Army bell ringers are out in front of stores dunning shoppers for donations. If you care about gay rights, you'll skip their bucket in favor of a charity that doesn't actively discriminate against the LGBT community.

The Salvation Army has a history of active discrimination against gays and lesbians. While you might think you're helping the hungry and homeless by dropping a few dollars in the bright red buckets, not everyone can share in the donations. Many LGBT people are rejected by the evangelical church charity because they're "sexually impure."

More here.

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Work

bzero — Fri, 16 Nov 2012 22:08:14 GMT

Got our new seniority list... I'm #156 out of 158... *sob*

"Houston, we have a problem."

bzero — Tue, 13 Nov 2012 06:09:46 GMT

Global warming? "It won't be a problem."

(From "Tom the Dancing Bug" by Ruben Bolling)

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CAPTCHA

bzero — Tue, 13 Nov 2012 05:03:09 GMT

Due to the fact that I'm now getting dozens of spam comments a week, I'm enabling CAPTCHA for non-friends who want to comment on my posts. Sorry, new visitors - I don't mean to be a pain. 99% of friend requests are accepted, so if you want to comment often, please feel free to friend me!

"Taxes will kill jobs" is BS

bzero — Fri, 09 Nov 2012 22:46:41 GMT

Will Higher Taxes on the Rich Kill Jobs?

Short answer: No.

(Not that it will keep the Republicans from using that lie as a hammer.)

Morning in America

bzero — Wed, 07 Nov 2012 20:34:33 GMT

By Michael Moore:

This country has truly changed, and I believe there will be no going back. Hate lost yesterday. That is amazing in and of itself. And all the women who were elected last night! A total rebuke of Neanderthal attitudes.

Now the real work begins. Millions of us – the majority – must come together to insist that President Obama and the Democrats stand up and fight for the things we sent them there to do. Mr. President, do not listen to the pundits who today call for you to "compromise." No. You already tried that. It didn't work. You can compromise later if you need to, but please, no more beginning by compromising. And if the Republican House doesn't want to play ball, do a massive end run around them with one executive order after another – just like they have done and will do if given the chance again.

We have to have Obama's back. As he is blocked and attacked by the Right, we need to be there with him. We are the majority. Let's act like it.

And please Mr. President, make the banks and Wall Street pay. You're the boss, not them. Lead the fight to get money out of politics – the spending on this election is shameful and dangerous. Don't wait til 2014 to bring the troops home – bring 'em home now. Stop the drone strikes on civilians. End the senseless war on drugs. Act like a pit bull when it comes to climate change – ignore the nuts, and fix this now. Take the profit motive out of things that any civilized country would say, "this is for the common good." Make higher educational affordable for everyone and don't send 22-year-olds out into the world already in massive debt. Order a moratorium on home foreclosures and evictions. Enact economic policy that will create good-paying jobs and spend the money that's needed to do that. Make your second term one for the history books.

Post is here.

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Can We Talk About Why We Really Love Princess Leia?

bzero — Sat, 03 Nov 2012 17:55:45 GMT

Yes, yes - a thousand times yes!

From Tor.com:

"We learn, of course, that Leia is also one of the key members of the Rebel Alliance, a leading voice at the core of the insurrection. Knowing that the Empire has been in place her entire life, and that Bail Organa was fighting it from the beginning, one can easily infer that Leia’s life has been anything but balls and servants and tiara-wearing. She was raised in a household of politicians who were working to overthrow an imposed dictatorship. I doubt she had classes in curtsying, but she definitely had to be taught how to hold up under interrogation, conduct her affairs in secret, and keep her cover stories in check."

Article here.

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Who should direct new 'Star Wars' movie?

bzero — Thu, 01 Nov 2012 17:10:28 GMT

Heh. ElBanditoRojo were just speculating about this yesterday...

Who should direct new 'Star Wars' movie? Christopher Nolan? Joss Whedon? J.J. Abrams?

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Congress

bzero — Wed, 31 Oct 2012 16:50:31 GMT

For unweavepenelope -

http://xkcd.com/1127/

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Tammy Duckworth

bzero — Sat, 20 Oct 2012 22:28:08 GMT

Rep. Joe Walsh, one of the most extreme Tea Partiers in Congress, said this week that abortion is never medically necessary to save a woman’s life. Seriously?!

Walsh’s opponent, Tammy Duckworth, is exactly the kind of strong advocate for women’s health that we need in Congress to fight back against outrageous, ill-informed beliefs like this one.

I just gave to Tammy Duckworth Money Bomb.

To see details and contribute now please go to: https://secure.actblue.com/contribute/page/tammyduckworthmoneybomb?cp=MTI6QUIwNjM3NDMzMQ%3D%3D&refcode=dccc

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Romney's abortion rewrite edits out 'dear, close family relative'

bzero — Thu, 18 Oct 2012 00:27:18 GMT

From Daily Kos:

One week after Mitt Romney comically claimed "There's no legislation with regards to abortion that I'm familiar with that would become part of my agenda," the Romney campaign began airing a new ad whitewashing his past positions and his party's extremist present on the issue. After all, Romney's latest cynical play for women voters doesn't merely omit his call for new Supreme Justices to overturn Roe v. Wade, his past willingness to sign a federal abortion ban in its wake, his backing for the Blunt Amendment and ending Title X spending for women's health care that would limit access to contraception or his current support for state "personhood" initiatives and "fetal pain" bills. As it turns out, Mitt Romney's "binder full of women" no longer includes Ann Keenan, the "dear, close family relative" whose death from an illegal abortion 50 years ago once inspired his now abandoned pro-choice politics.

Story here.

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Kickstarter: Turn your smartphone into a POV camera

bzero — Wed, 17 Oct 2012 23:40:55 GMT

Interesting. =)

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Fundraising

bzero — Tue, 11 Sep 2012 23:46:10 GMT

Rockit Ma'am is getting into the fundraising game now, too, so if you have a little more cash to throw to good causes, please consider the following:

From Rockit Ma'am:

I will be participating in two 5K walks on 15 September as part of Circle City Derby Girls teams. I'd appreciate any support you could give for either or both of these worthy charities. Thanks for taking the time to visit my profile and your consideration.

Out of the Darkness Indianapolis Walk to benefit the American Foundation for Suicide Prevention: http://afsp.donordrive.com/index.cfm?fuseaction=donorDrive.participant&participantID=326507

American Heart Association: http://heartwalk.kintera.org/faf/donorReg/donorPledge.asp?ievent=1003552&lis=0&kntae1003552=037BEE6556C9493ABFE97F45549237C5&supId=366580196

Thanks, all!

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Vote Bunny VanDoren for Miss TaTas and Tiaras

bzero — Sat, 01 Sep 2012 16:27:45 GMT

If you enjoyed our video, please donate a dollar to Vote Bunny VanDoren for Miss TaTas and Tiaras, and benefit the Indiana AIDS Fund in the process!

Vote VanDoren!

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Herr & Bunny Vandoren - Wedding - 7-30-2012

bzero — Fri, 31 Aug 2012 21:38:49 GMT

Finally got the video working for my burlesque debut:

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Madtown

bzero — Sat, 21 Jul 2012 18:28:24 GMT

Had a great morning of classes at Madtown Kinkfest.

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Nesh

bzero — Wed, 18 Jul 2012 04:48:05 GMT

Oh no! Her
husband came home while we were having sex!

... We'll have to move to her boyfriend's room so he can get some sleep. :)

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Home Organization

bzero — Thu, 12 Jul 2012 22:32:34 GMT

I'm sure this is where I will eventually end up.

http://xkcd.com/1077/

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Independence Day

bzero — Thu, 05 Jul 2012 05:42:55 GMT

I had a very nice day with icespark. We slept in late, watched Big Bang Theory, and then she cooked a yummy dinner before we enjoyed fireworks from her porch. It was excellent way to spend a mutual day off. =)

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Pretties

bzero — Mon, 02 Jul 2012 22:09:58 GMT

Icespark is so cute when she's drunk with power. :)

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10 Reasons Countries Fall Apart

bzero — Sat, 30 Jun 2012 23:23:01 GMT

"States don't fail overnight. The seeds of of their destruction are sown deep within their political institutions."

http://www.foreignpolicy.com/articles/2012/06/18/10_reasons_countries_fall_apart?page=full

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Good and Bad Procrastination

bzero — Fri, 22 Jun 2012 23:37:48 GMT

Interesting article on procrastination:

http://www.paulgraham.com/procrastination.html

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