JUST IN TIME FOR JULY 4th: Buh-bye Sarah!

This should squash all the Michael Jackson coverage. Thanks Dipshit!

Sarah Palin Resigns as Alaska’s Governor

After Sarah Palin’s Terrible, Horrible, No Good, Very Bad Week she has announced she will be stepping down in a few weeks.

In a press conference call this morning, Alaska’s Governor Sarah Palin has announced she will not run for re-election and is stepping down as governor.

She had a brief statement. She took no questions.

Her commissioners and Lt. Governor were with her at her home. Palin did not relinquished the reigns of the state to the Lt. Governor while running for vice president.

Lt. Governor Sean Parnell will step in to the roll as governor at the end of the month. He was defeated by Congressman Don Young in the Republican primary last year.

Rumors of an “iceberg scandal” have been circulating.

Resignation is certainly out of character for Sarah Palin.

You betcha!

via:
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/shannyn-moore/sarah-palin-resigns-as-al_b_225515.html

Posted by Danger on July 3rd, 2009 filed in AMERICA - FUCK YEAH!, Hardy Har Har Har, Nifty, Political Junkies, WTF?
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Don’t HIDE: Do Something Patriotic This 4th of July

Yesterday the US military decided to fire Lt. Dan Choi. Even though he has given ten years of his life to the military, is a skilled Arabic translator and has severed in Iraq, Dan Choi is not wanted because he is gay.

A military panel has recommended that Dan Choi be discharged for “moral and professional dereliction” under the military’s “Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell” policy.

Even though President Obama promised us that he would do away with this archaic, discriminatory and unnecessary policy, he has made no moves to do so.

In the meantime, our country is less safe, as 265 gay, lesbian or bisexual soldiers have been discharged since he took office in January.

Since President Obama is not taking action on this matter, it’s time for members of Congress to step up.

Lt. Dan Choi is asking that you sign a letter to House Speaker Nancy Pelosi by July 4th to begin the process to repeal “Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell.”

Consider adding your name to the list before you head out to see fireworks this Independence Day.

Posted by Danger on July 3rd, 2009 filed in AMERICA - FUCK YEAH!, Gay Rights, Human Rights, Hypocrisy watch, POWER TO THE PEOPLE, Political Junkies, President Obama, RISE - REBEL - RESIST, Support Our Troops!
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DAILY DOSE OF INSPIRADO: SAND DRAWING

Posted by Danger on July 3rd, 2009 filed in Art Saves, Flow of Consciousness
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Salamander Discovery Could Lead to Human Limb Regeneration

Humans have always been fascinated with the salamander’s ability to regenerate lost limbs. Now scientists studying salamander genes have discovered that the process isn’t quite as complicated as once thought.

By tracking individual cells in genetically modified salamanders, researchers have found an unexpected explanation for their seemingly magical ability to regrow lost limbs.

Rather than having their cellular clocks fully reset and reverting to an embryonic state, cells in the salamanders’ stumps became slightly less mature versions of the cells they’d been before. The findings could inspire research into human tissue regeneration.

“The cells don’t have to step as far back as we thought they had to, in order to regenerate a complicated thing like a limb,” said study co-author Elly Tanaka, a Max Planck Institute cell biologist. “There’s a higher chance that human or mammalian cells can be induced into doing the same thing.”

Posted by Danger on July 3rd, 2009 filed in Feed your head, It's Science, Whoa.
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Stewart Begs The S.C. Gov To Shut Up

Posted by Danger on July 3rd, 2009 filed in GOP = FAIL, Hardy Har Har Har, Hypocrisy watch
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US Marines Push Deeper Into Southern Afghan Towns

NAWA, Afghanistan — U.S. Marines moved into villages in Taliban strongholds in southern Afghanistan on Friday, meeting little resistance as they tried to win over local chiefs on the second day of the biggest American military operation here since the fall of the Taliban government in 2001.

One Marine was killed and several others wounded on Thursday, when some 4,000 Marines launched the operation in Helmand province _ a remote area that is at the center of the country’s illegal opium cultivation, which helps finance the insurgency.

So far, however, there has been little resistance from the Taliban, according to a military spokesman Capt. Bill Pelletier.

In the east, meanwhile, U.S. troops and personnel continued looking for an American soldier believed captured by insurgents on Tuesday, said Navy Chief Petty Officer Brian Naranjo, a U.S. military spokesman.

U.S. troops were brought in from nearby areas to help with the search, which included helicopters and Afghan Army support, officials said Thursday.

Posted by Danger on July 3rd, 2009 filed in In The News, Political Junkies, Support Our Troops!
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A-holes

Posted by Danger on July 3rd, 2009 filed in Hardy Har Har Har
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NASA: Volcano Eruption Seen from the International Space Station

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Jon Stewart Blasts Glenn Beck For Promoting Slaughter Of Americans

Posted by Danger on July 3rd, 2009 filed in AMERICA - FUCK YEAH!, BLAME THE MEDIA, GOP = FAIL, Hypocrisy watch, Political Junkies, Saaaaay Whut?, WTF?, Whoa.
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Amsterdam: Muslim Mayor Fights Homophobia In Conservative Suburb

Ahmed Marcouch, the Muslim mayor of Slotervaart, an uncharacteristically conservative suburb of Amsterdam, is fighting back against a long-lived trend of homophobia in that town by inviting Amsterdam’s annual gay pride parade to march right down main street, as it were.

According to AFP:

Slotervaart’s population is mainly of immigrant origin, many of the Muslim faith, like Moroccan-born Marcouch himself who came to the Netherlands in 1979 at age 10. The suburb has recently been in the news for homophobic incidents, with gays being called names, spat on and generally bothered.

The community grew particularly restless over gay men using Slotervaart’s De Oeverlanden public park as a place to meet and have sex, a practice known as “cruising”.

Following Marcouch breaking the ice, the town has now instituted further plans to accept previously persecuted gay community, such as with the opening of a gay culture center, AFP reports. However, Marcouch’s actions have also drawn strong rebukes, namely from local religious leaders such as Mohamed Adardour of the el-Oumma mosque and the local Roman Catholic parish.

Posted by Danger on July 3rd, 2009 filed in Human Rights
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NEW OTEP ARMOR

http://www.otepmerch.com/

Posted by Danger on July 1st, 2009 filed in Art Saves, Human Rights
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Feed Your Head: Flappers Completely Changed Social Standards For Women

The term flapper in the 1920s referred to a “new breed” of young women who wore short skirts, bobbed their hair, listened to the new jazz music, and flaunted their disdain for what was then considered acceptable behavior. Flappers were seen as brash for wearing excessive makeup, drinking, treating sex in a casual manner, smoking, driving automobiles and otherwise flouting social and sexual norms.

Flappers had their origins in the period of liberalism, social and political turbulence and increased transatlantic cultural exchange that followed the end of the First World War, as well as the export of American jazz culture to Europe.

While many feminists deplore flappers for throwing away all the progress made by the suffragettes, they made quite a bit of progress for women in other aspects. While most people know they were the first women to actually show off their legs, cut off their hair and even wear shorts, they did much more than that. In the Victorian era, it was unheard of for a woman to go to a bar, to drink or to smoke. Bars were places for men to escape their wives.

That all changed in the twenties – and not only because of prohibition. These young women also dated around, something that was unheard of in the past.

They were some of the first women to drive cars.

Flappers had their own slang, with terms like “snugglepup” (a man who frequents petting parties) and “barney-mugging” (sex). Their dialect reflected their promiscuity and drinking habits; “I have to go see a man about a dog” often meant going to buy whiskey, and a “handcuff” or “manacle” was an engagement or wedding ring. Also reflective of their preoccupations, they had many ways to express approval, such as “That’s so Jake” or “That’s the bee’s knees,” or a more popular one, “the cat’s pajamas.”

Many terms still in use in modern American English slang originated as flapper slang, such as “big cheese,” meaning an important person; “to bump off,” meaning to murder; and “baloney,” meaning nonsense. Other terms have become definitive of the Prohibition era, such as “speakeasy,” meaning a place to purchase illegal alcohol and “hooch,” which means liquor.

Posted by Danger on July 1st, 2009 filed in Feed your head
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Rottweiler is surrogate father to an abandoned wolf cub

Ulrock the rottweiler adopted this eight week old wolf cub and the pair is quickly becoming best friends. If you’ve ever wondered how well wolf cubs could get along with a domesticated dog, here’s your answer. They sleep together and even howl at the moon in unison. Little Beldaran the wolf was abandoned by his parents at only four days old.

Posted by Danger on July 1st, 2009 filed in AWWW, Animal Rights
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Unknown Lifeform in North Carolina Sewer!

Uhm, eww.

“They are clumps of annelid worms, almost certainly tubificids (Naididae, probably genus Tubifex). Normally these occur in soil and sediment, especially at the bottom and edges of polluted streams. In the photo they have apparently entered a pipeline somehow, and in the absence of soil they are coiling around each other.”

Posted by Danger on July 1st, 2009 filed in Animal Rights, Ewww, WTF?, Whoa.
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Jon Stewart Compares Cheney To Bin Laden (For Complaining About Troop Withdrawals)

Posted by Danger on July 1st, 2009 filed in AMERICA - FUCK YEAH!, EFF U, GOP = FAIL, Hardy Har Har Har, daily show
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