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Aaannnd how about a two-fer? The Obama Administration will file an amicus brief to SCOTUS in support of ending California Prop 8's gay marriage ban. Kinda like what's happening here.

I'd like to see a video in the health and fitness forum on how to do this painlessly.

Stalkabully shitshowz aside, the VAWA just passed the House, a clear victory for social justice and common decency, and a welcome end to yet another manufactured crisis on the part of the GOP. Yet another black eye for a back-to-the-past movement that already has all four engines on fire.

Have we forgotten how our sport got its start? Local Tyroleans hired as guides. To say there's something wrong with guiding a sought after objective like Everest is to forget why the sport exists in the first place - to climb the sought after objectives of the day like the Matterhorn. Everest is a special case, however. The surrounding environment is delicate and the local population is cash poor. The Nepalese government doesn't necessarily plow those hefty climbing fees it so heavily promotes back into the affected region. The numbers on Everest have skyrocketed since pre-packaged guided trips became available. The results have been mixed - more money for the local economy, more environmental impact, more folks exposed to accident. I don't have a problem with any mountain being guided, as long as such environmental and local impacts are managed as well.

The trick isn't how to get the tick out of the bottom of your scrotum. It's who.

Ah, leaches are nuttin. Woke up with one on my eyelid once. Pulled it off and ate it before my morning coffee. Chiggers are counted in units of a thousand. That's how they attack, too. Those you DO have to dig out.

I've had more ticks than either of you. Way more. And bigger, too. And I can tell you this: Chiggers make ticks look like a sunny day at the beach.

You're supposed to light the Jack Daniels on fire.

I haven't witnessed a melt down like that since Jim Bakker. Achilles heel piece?

Can you put that in a cartoon where big things hit little things?

I like your avatar. Cool graphic.

is that the one where whats his name steps on his last pair of glasses?

I just want to land on an asteroid. In Putin's Russia...

Another good summary. Is it Christmas today? Blaming Obama for what the teabaggerz are doing locally is bullshit, of course, but the problem is very real, particularly in red states. Given the Feds inability to find its own balls (thanks, in large part, to the teabaggerz), its all about the states, now. Much of the meaningful reform is happening there (DOMA/gays in military/women in combat accepted). Conversely, much of the damage is happening there (voter suppression), too. Thank Dog I live in WA. About 10 years ago, the ACLU recognized that states like Mississippi could slide further into social justice shitholedom, so it restructured its funding distributions such that 'donor' states like WA now subsidize states with weak chapters like Mississippi. This structure has worked very well in helping to prevent more state by state utopia vs shithole stratification. While WA now has the luxury to take on the death penalty, states like Mississippi battle still battle far more potentially damaging idiocy like personhood at conception constitutional amendments.

Whew. Finally somebody shows up to this party with some tequila poppers. You just saved me 10 years and the effort of learning how to read. Takk

I was elevated from Retard Bully to Gay Top Party Operative today, so there's that. You should have just given us that summary, Prole, like Pink should have just defined 'special rights'. Both were honest, relatively non-combative, reasonable requests, no? Now look at the mess you've made. Mr. Paul! Paging Mr. Paul!

Yes, populations are split between Conservative Brain and Librul Brain. That may be news to the replicants, who don't do Science, and Ultra Progressives, who don't either, but that is apparently the way of the Hairless Monkey, like it or not. Societies probably need both to keep going. I would say we've had a bit too much of conservative brain in the past decade or more - given the string of avoidable disasters of late, but then, is abject stupidity and unbridled avarice really avoidable?

Regarding Ivan, I've seen him in action. He's a good teacher - but I say that mostly because he invites me to speak to his classes. That's not Ego talking. It's Talent.

I'm more familiar with his wife, Samantha. I'll read the piece - it may take a year, or 10, I may need a defibrillation, but, as Dog is my Witness, I shall wade forth. After that, I'll be staring down a fresh copy of Syntactic Structures. Hard cover.

You may discuss poo, your Mom, or ballz. Pick one.

That's OK. I got the second part - actually, the first and second go together - and that's all that matters.

This has what to do with this discussion, exactly? Actually, I'm no longer sure what this discussion is about. It was never summarized for me. I shouldn't even be here. I'm admittedly not familiar with the author's work, in the same way I'm not familiar with James Joyzzzzzzzz.

My posting about Republicans supporting gay marriage was way, way more surprising and interesting. Yours was more for people who wish to discover that second, translucent set of eyelids, like the kind birds have.

This is, indeed, a slow news day.

I guess my take away from all this is: the GOP's mouth is filled with corporate cock - this is news? Oh, and I never got to the Obama part, on account athefact I don't read so good, but now that you've told me...I AM SO OUTRAGED. My question is: what's the proposed change or action being recommended? Summarized, of course.