And as a gift from me to whoever is first to gank it for the FF's most profitable thrad, please feel free to take credit for locating the highly lucrative celebrity babby name Americus Rambeau.
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The flash of light you saw in the sky was not a UFO. Swamp gas from a weather balloon was trapped in a thermal pocket and reflected the light from Venus.
-- Official Bunny Hero
Okay here's another one. Chris Colfer, the young actor who plays Kurt on Glee (and is awesome at it), has a sister with severe epilepsy, not just really bad epilepsy, but super torture scary 50-seizures-an-hour epilepsy. He was glued to her side when he was in school, helping care for her at the expense of any social life he might have had. Now that he's on a hit show, he's making good on a promise he made back then.
That makes me love because he's just 20 and freshly famous. He could snorting up all his money or going diva on set like oh so many of his peers, but instead he's being awesome.
The dominant fact of American life in recent years has been grossly inadequate public protections. In the past several years, under-regulation and corporate disregard of safety rules have resulted in multiple salmonella and E. coli outbreaks, a flood of lead-tainted toys, a massive and environmentally devastating oil spill, deadly mine disasters and the collapse of our economy, which has cost eight million American jobs. We need to focus most urgently on fixing these problems and others, not burden agencies, which already are overworked and under-resourced, with more internal reviews and red tape.
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"We can have democracy in this country, or we can have great wealth concentrated in the hands of a few, but we can't have both." ~ Louis D. Brandeis
"Psychos do not explode when sunlight hits them, I don't give a fuck how crazy they are." ~ S. Gecko
NOM (National Organization for Marriage) made the dumb mistake of hotlinking directly to smbc-comics instead of stealing the content fair and square. Zach got cute.
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"We can have democracy in this country, or we can have great wealth concentrated in the hands of a few, but we can't have both." ~ Louis D. Brandeis
"Psychos do not explode when sunlight hits them, I don't give a fuck how crazy they are." ~ S. Gecko
Just preemptively I am going to tell you that I am lolling at the commenters who are all like "HEY THAT IS A BOXER," because if it is, it's like some totally deformed elephant man Boxer or something. It's a mutt and it's a pibble-shaped mutt. And there is a one drop rule for pibbles, so don't even anybody be all like "HAR THAT IS A BOXER."
Just preemptively I am going to tell you that I am lolling at the commenters who are all like "HEY THAT IS A BOXER," because if it is, it's like some totally deformed elephant man Boxer or something. It's a mutt and it's a pibble-shaped mutt. And there is a one drop rule for pibbles, so don't even anybody be all like "HAR THAT IS A BOXER."
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Cēterum cēnseō factiōnem Rēpūblicānam dēlendam esse īgnī ferrōque.
“All for ourselves, and nothing for other people, seems, in every age of the world, to have been the vile maxim of the masters of mankind.” -Adam Smith
as you may know, i have two rattiez,
a mother/daughter duo who came to
spend the summer about 9 months ago...
they get to spend their days in a rat playland
which is also the washroom off the kitchen....
it is warm, it is outfitted with runs and boxes
and fleece hammocks, branches and shredded paper...
when it gets on toward evening and they decide
dinner time has arrived, they have each learned
to pick up the metal washbasin plug with their teeth
and proceed to drop it in the sink, repeatedly,til they
hear me go to their cage and grab their dish in
order to heat their frozen veggies and whatever
else might be on the menu that evening (tonight
it was the last smidge of the garlic mashed tats)
they hear me shuffle back to the cage, and by the
time i open the door, they are both perched oh so
precariously on the edge of the counter, scrabbling
like prosti-tots at a just-in beeber gig, ready to leap
onto my arm so i can transport them to din din
blows me away how well trained i have become.....
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