jeudi 30 avril 2009

Now we know what Michelle Bachmann meant by the "Hoot-Smalley Act"

Of course by now you've seen the latest entertainment provided by the Minnesota Lunatic, Michelle Bachmann:




With more Republicans starting to face the reality that Norm Coleman has lost his Senate seat, it's perfectly understandable that someone as insane and delusional as Bachmann, representing Alternate Universe Minnesota (as opposed to the one represented by the late Paul Wellstone, Garrison Keillor, the origin of "homer hankies", and now, Al Franken, would be thinking of Stuart Smalley.

But who the hell is she thinking of as "Hoot"?

wet n wild!

Mud wrestling Wildfox party
































stare into the sun

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WILDFOX GYPSY

Photos from our first collection... gypsy babies

























another good mood thing


lets have a good mood, laughing day

listening to this over and over

"Lucky" Official Video With Colbie Caillat

good mood song! So sweet...

He may have switched parties, but Arlen Specter is not our friend

What can I say? Lynn is just a nicer person than I am, choosing to believe that Arlen Specter's party switch was a result of being fed up with Rush Limbaugh than simply craven political opportunism. One of the things about being a political blogger over lo these last almost five years is that it becomes difficult to ascribe anything but the worst motives to anyone.

But with Specter having spat in the face of those who embraced him by voting against President Obama's budget yesterday, it's time to start thinking about a real and viable primary challenge to this POS opportunist. I don't care if he's Biden's buddy and Obama decided to endorse him for re-election. Arlen Must Go.

I'm not necessarily convinced of the impact of Facebook on local elections, but Adam Green over at one of the Heather blogs has set up a Facebook page where you can pledge to give $25 to any real progressive who decided to mount a primary challenge to Arlen Specter. I'll go 4 times better: I'm pledging right here, at my very own blog, to give $100 to any progressive who mounts a primary challenger to Arlen Specter.

And by the way, while we're at it, let's plan to give a dollar a day to make Norm Coleman go away too.

A Confederacy of Kvetchers

The glee of Republican Party conservatives about the departure of Arlen Specter from their ranks because it serves their quest for an ideologically pure party would seem to be counterintuitive. How can you possibly want a party in which there is no dissent from a doctrinaire party line that represents only a 20% (and shrinking) portion of the American electorate? Are they waiting for the Quiverfull babies to grow up and take their place in the ranks of wingnuttia? Isn't that kind of taking for granted the willingness of these child armies to stay in the fold?

Perhaps the reactionaries (I refuse to call them conservatives) that have taken over the Republican Party are simply more comfortable being a minority party. After all, it's difficult to be credible as an aggrieved minority, as the white fundamentalist Christian males who now dominate the GOP seem to feel they are, when your party controls the White House, the Judiciary, and both houses of Congress. Not that this ever stopped them from feeling aggrieved -- during the Bush years, these people felt themselves assaulted on all sides by gay marriage, relentless abortions, uppity Negroes (sic), people who speak Spanish, and other heinous transgressors against the Doctriine of White Male Privilege. The feelings of persecution among these peole have made radio and TV personalities like Rush Limbaugh, Neal Boortz, Glenn Beck, Melanie Morgan, Laura Ingraham, Michael Reagan, Bill O'Reilly, Ann Coulter -- the list goes on and on -- very, very wealthy. What would these people do if they ever did get their dream world of a Christian theocracy in which women are barred from the workplace and instead stay home and clean and cook and pop out babies until they die from sheer exhaustion; in which gays remain in the closet, in which no one has sex outside of marriage (except for things like Rush's underage sex tourism in the Dominican Republic and David Vitter's search for a Pampers Princess in a New Orleans brothel), and in which black people know that their place is to shine the shoes and clean up after the white people? Against what would the gasbags of right wing talk rail during the 24/7 broadcast cycle?

It seems clear now that during all those years that the Republicans were saying that all the left knows is its grievances, they were largely projecting. They always trot out the usual suspects of the left to show how "fringey" the Democrats are, but "Free Mumia!" has never been part of the Democratic Party platform, or anywhere else outside of the same few stray signs that show up at every demonstration. A.N.S.W.E.R. not only doesn't have the stranglehold over the Democratic Party that the "teabaggers" have over the Republicans, this crowd doesn't even have any credibility with the netroots. In fact, the Great Orange Satan himself recently compared the teabaggers to the A.N.S.W.E.R. and Code Pink folks as how NOT to effect the change you want. After all, what would the fringe groups on the left do if Mumia WERE ever freed? Easy: find something else completely irrelevant to the lives of most people for which to agitate. It's no different on the right. What IS different is that the right's fringe now controls the party, whereas despite the frantic vapors in wingnuttia about the highly mainstream Harry Reid, Nancy Pelosi and Barney Frank, the Democrats have never, ever made a place at the table for Code Pink, never mind allowing them to be the voice of the party. On the Republican side however, the entire party apparetus has now allowed itself to be dedicated to the enrichment of Rush Limbaugh.

It's ironic to watch, for those of us who lived through the 1960's and saw the Democrats tarred and feathered for a generation with the brush of being captive to its extremes, after responding to the antiwar movement by nominating Hubert Humphrey in 1968 and then doing everything it could after 1972 to make sure a candidate like George McGovern could never get the nomination again. The Democratic Party never made Abbie Hoffman and Angela Davis its standard bearers, nor did it ever regard the Pacifica radio stations as their official broadcast arm. But the Republicans have gone just the opposite direction, allowing the right's most extreme fringe, now including the teabaggers, who are essentially just the black helicopter crowd with more benign signage, to own the party.

Of course if the Republicans were still in power, they'd actually have to do something about the mess that the wastrel they allowed to represent them wrought during his eight years in office. This way their representatives don't get anywhere near policy; their job is simply to keep the rank and file complaining.

mercredi 29 avril 2009

baggy t shirts

Of course the shirts are baggy on bean poles... but STILL cuuuute shirts























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Heidi slimane

puppy love

You remember him? Tattoo, nose piercing, dark hair, unloading the boats as you pulled up to Catalina camp... yeah, thats the guy.











No-knead easy crusty bread

Homemade bread. Just looking at this picture makes my mouth water.I love how a simple party involving yeast, flour and a sprinkle of salt can result in something so beautiful. I'm still learning my way around the potential of yeast so pulling this gorgeous loaf out of the oven did make my heart flutter just a little.This recipe has been doing the rounds all over the internet. It's not hard to see

Democratic Party Gets Shot in Arm by Magic Bullet


Mr. Specter acknowledged on Tuesday that his decision to change parties was driven by his intense desire to win that sixth term. It came after he and his political advisers concluded over the weekend that he could not turn away a conservative challenger in a Republican primary... - The NY Times

What's the difference between Joe Lieberman and Arlen Specter? Absolutely none. Both abandoned their parties like unwanted, deformed babies because of their addiction to incumbency, because they knew their voter base had become so alienated by them, they'd have to appeal to the other side in order to survive even a primary. Specter was just a little more impatient and didn't even wait until the primary.

And Obama and Biden are welcoming him into the warm folds of the Democratic Party's embrace as if he's a long-lost cousin or brother, not a turncoat who doesn't give a rat's ass about one party or the other or the constituency of either as much as he does simply staying in office. Fuck, Specter even admitted it. He simply jumped from one vehicle to another like an aging extra in a Mad Max movie jumping from one car to another.

And the president and vice president are nauseating me.

It was Specter, don't forget, who gave Bush everything he ever asked for, including support for the Military Tribunal bill (colloquially referred to as the "torture bill"). Specter also voted for USA PATRIOT Act, the Iraq War Resolution, the bankruptcy bill and virtually the evilest shit ever punched through Congress by the Bush administration. Sure, he offered token resistance to the Bushies in terms of torture but then backed down and showed his belly like the good lap dog he was.

We need Specter in the party about as much as Bob Marley needed another form of cancer.

Idiots such as Olympia Snowe are already eulogizing Specter as if he died instead of merely doddering across the aisle and passing Lieberman on the way. If you insist on finding one difference between Specter and Lieberman, here it is in a nutshell:

Specter never really abandoned his party's ideologies in any courageous, significant way, an indictment that can't be leveled against Lieberman. Yeah, Traitor Joe is a withered, human colostomy bag but ya gotta give the cocksucker his due: At least Lieberman could say that he never gave a fuck about the Democratic Party or what it thought while sis boom bahing the Iraq war, publicly humping Dick Cheney's and John McCain's leg and essentially making Bush's two terms a lot easier and smoother than it should've been. As Jane Hamsher at Firedoglake said years ago and I'll keep repeating it until I'm Democratic blue in the face, "There's no such thing as a moderate Republican."

I understand that Al Franken's very belated victory and Specter's defection brings us to the brink of a having a filibuster-proof majority in the Senate, which only holds water if you have fantasies that the divided Democrats ever had the lock-step discipline of the GOP. But considering all the gains the Democrats have made in the Senate these past two elections, Specter the Defector will in the long term prove as redundant as his Magic Bullet theory.

The crowning irony would be for Specter to get creamed in the primary by a real progressive. I know he's a five term senator and that'll likely never happen. But it's nice to fantasize, right?

Happy 100th Day!

Now go about your business. It's just an artificial construct designed to allow the gasbags of cable news to flap their gums all day anyway.

Yes, and they went on to become Republicans

This is interesting: It seems that not all the dinosaurs were wiped out by that asteroid after all:
The great splat of an asteroid that might have wiped out the dinosaurs apparently didn't get all of them. New fossil evidence suggests some dinosaurs survived for up to half a million years after the impact in remote parts of New Mexico and Colorado.

The whole idea that a space rock destroyed the dinosaurs has become controversial in recent years. Many scientists now suspect other factors were involved, from increased volcanic activity to a changing climate. Either way, some 70 percent of life on Earth perished, and an asteroid impact almost surely played a role.

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"The great difficulty with this hypothesis — that these are the remains of dinosaurs that survived — is ruling out the possibility that the bones date from before the extinction," he said. "After being killed and deposited in sands and muds, it is possible for bones to be exhumed by rivers and then incorporated into younger rocks."

To try to eliminate that scenario, Fassett investigated the rocks surrounding the bones and studied date indicators, such as their magnetic polarity. He said the evidence "independently indicate[s] that they do indeed post-date the extinction."

He also found that the dinosaur bones from the Ojo Alamo Sandstone have distinctly different concentrations of rare earth metal elements than the deeper, older rocks that date from the time of the impact. This suggests that it's unlikely the bones originated in that older rock and were somehow relocated to the more recent, higher level of sediment.

mardi 28 avril 2009

The Stupidest Person on the Planet - Part One of a recurring series

Today's honoree: Joe "Dead Girl in Office Who Joked About Killing Her on Imus" Scarborough.

Via Media Matters:




Ah, Joey Joey Joey. Blaming the media is SO 2002.

Alessandra loves Wildfox!!

Alessandra Ambrosio is such a doll! She loves to wear Wildfox and she's amazingly sweet, beautiful and fun! Thanks Alessa, we love you big time.

Look how she styles our pieces, beautiful!


At the airport




at Coachella with boyfriend Jamie!

its bright in here



Catherine Servel

red tights and rabbits



Baby bunny


Catherine Servel

welcome to the dollhouse



Heather Benning’s Dollhouse is a larger-than-life piece that was situated in a Saskatchewan field. The artist replaced the back of the house with Plexiglass, allowing for a typical dollhouse viewing. Inside, Benning had redecorated the abandoned house with furniture of the 1960s, when the house was left empty. Benning’s work is featured in the MADE in the WEST exhibit that closes in Calgary on June 8 and reopens in Edmonton on June 20.