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• Quadafi Fashion Show!!!

  Courtesy of Robin and many thanks!! http://www.vanityfair.com/politics/features/2009/08/qaddafi-slideshow200908?slide=3#slide=1 [...]
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  Posted: November 23, 2009, 11:44pm EST
  by Slugbug

• FOX on "Burka Barbie"

  Seems to me FOX has some sort of "feminist" outlook when it comes to women in the middle east, while simultaneously managing to endorse repressive healthcare policies for women etc. in America. = Bizarro World. [...]
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  Posted: November 23, 2009, 11:34pm EST
  by Slugbug

• Martha Stewart Calls Palin Boring, Dangerous, Confused

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  Posted: November 22, 2009, 12:58pm EST
  by Slugbug

• New Orleans Noir II - The Last Evening

  Walked down Bourbon Street - smoky with Cuban cigars and people sinning away in the Bible Belt - maybe that's why so many places don't allow photographs. Went to Marie Leveau's voodoo shop - best part is the altar that...' [...]
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  Posted: November 22, 2009, 10:36am EST
  by Slugbug

• Partying with ASHA at Mardi Gras World

  I've gone to this convention in Vegas, San Antonio, Austin, San Diego, Seattle, New Orleans, Anaheim, Washington DC etc. over more than 3 decades and we've had some good parties - like adults-only Disneyland. Going to Blaine Kern's Mardi Gras... [...]
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  Posted: November 22, 2009, 7:58am EST
  by Slugbug

• A Little Bitta Levi

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  Posted: November 21, 2009, 2:08pm EST
  by Slugbug

• Hurricane Katrina & Environmental Consciousness

  It was pleasing to find that quite a number of New Orleans merchants were avoiding the use of plastic bags after having seen what happened after Hurricane Katrina. There had been documentary footage of countless plastic bags up in the... [...]
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  Posted: November 21, 2009, 1:48pm EST
  by Slugbug

• Palin Book Crowd Goes Rogue After She Leaves Indiana Book Signing Abruptly

  From Robin:Dick Cavett is discussing Sarah Palin on MSNBC: She seems to have no first language. [...] I feel sorry for John McCain because he aimed low and missed. The fact that you could take any 5 sentences out of... [...]
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  Posted: November 21, 2009, 8:22am EST
  by Slugbug

• We're in Louisiana and Landrieu is Helping Stall Health Care Debate

  WASHINGTON — Suitably opaque, Section 2006 takes up only a few dozen lines in a sweeping health care bill that runs to 2,074 pages and mentions neither Sen. Mary Landrieu nor her state of Louisiana. But the section's purpose is... [...]
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  Posted: November 21, 2009, 8:17am EST
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• We're in Louisiana and Landrieu is Helping Stall Health Care Debate UPDATED

  WASHINGTON — Suitably opaque, Section 2006 takes up only a few dozen lines in a sweeping health care bill that runs to 2,074 pages and mentions neither Sen. Mary Landrieu nor her state of Louisiana. But the section's purpose is... [...]
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  Posted: November 21, 2009, 8:17am EST
  by Slugbug

• We're in Louisiana and Wonkette Shows Vitter Withdrawing Money from an ATM

  Wonkette : David Vitter’s Just Got To Grab Some Cash Quickly, He’ll Be Right Back [...]
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  Posted: November 21, 2009, 8:13am EST
  by Slugbug

• Latest Wingnut Viral Email - "Brokeback Mountain" Imagery

  However, it was the previous administration who broke the bank with unauthorized oil wars and deregulation of corporate interests. Here is an article from Daily Kos about wingnut billboards that are appearing in the outback. Daily Kos: Missouri Billboard Calls... [...]
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  Posted: November 21, 2009, 7:45am EST
  by Slugbug

• Virtual Biden & Free Alumni Food at the Marriott, New Orleans

  Joe Biden didn't make it to the Awards Ceremony at the American Speech and Hearing Association but former astronaut and Senator John Glenn and his wife Annie Glenn did. They had met at the White House with Joe Biden, as...' [...]
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  Posted: November 20, 2009, 9:50pm EST
  by Slugbug

• Bizarre Wingnut Campout for Palin Book Signing

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  Posted: November 20, 2009, 1:35pm EST
  by Slugbug

• New Orleans: Inside the Convention Center & Remembering Katrina

  “I always wondered why somebody didn’t do something about that. Then I realized I was somebody.”- Lily Tomlin Just had lunch out on the balcony of the blocks-long Morial Convention Center in New Orleans. I could see right up close... [...]
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  Posted: November 20, 2009, 1:01pm EST
  by Slugbug

• Virtual Biden to Receive Award at ASHA in New Orleans Following Recent Daily Show Appearance & Car Crash Story

  What is ASHA? Our convention! The American Speech & Hearing Association in New Orleans this week! Annie Glenn, wife of astronaut John Glenn, will give an award to Joe Biden, for overcoming his stuttering. So I uploaded this photo with... [...]
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  Posted: November 20, 2009, 9:05am EST
  by Slugbug

• FOX News Poll Finds It's OK to Bow to Foreign Leaders

  According to TPM , Fox News conducted a poll asking : When the president of the United States is traveling overseas, do you think it is appropriate for him to bow to a foreign leader if that is the country's...' [...]
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  Posted: November 20, 2009, 7:49am EST
  by Slugbug

• New Orleans: Happy Hour at Emeril's, on to Cafe du Monde & Rubyfruit Jungle

  all this food and drink for 16 bucks That's octopus bruschetta, honey-dipped chicken, grilled pork, gumbo, oysters, bread and corn muffins, and a mojito! [...]
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  Posted: November 19, 2009, 9:02pm EST
  by Slugbug

• Majority of Republicans Think ACORN Stole Election for Obama

  Never mind that Bush cannot be shown to have won legitimately either time and that there is no real evidence for the ACORN claim.. A majority of GOP voters think ACORN stole the '08 election for Obama | Political Insider...' [...]
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  Posted: November 19, 2009, 1:01pm EST
  by Slugbug

• Medium Movie Popcorn Has Enough Fat to Last 3 or 4 Days

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  Posted: November 19, 2009, 12:54pm EST
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• New Orleans: 100 Years of Mardi Gras (Zulu Exhibit at the Cabildo)

  $6 and amazing!!! Masks, float items, antique invitations, memorabilia, video histories and accountings - just indescribable but here are a few photos. [...]
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  Posted: November 19, 2009, 9:42am EST
  by Slugbug

• New Orleans: Day I - American Speech & Hearing Convention

  I'm attending sessions so far on Semantic Encoding and on Hyperacusis/Hyperreactivity and the good thing is that I found a superfast connection and free coffee as well as a wall outlet. I am listening to accounts of how some individuals...' [...]
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  Posted: November 19, 2009, 9:32am EST
  by Slugbug

• Texas Constitutional Amendment Outlaws Marriage

  Barbara Ann Radnofsky, a Houston lawyer and Democratic candidate for attorney general, says that a 22-word clause in a 2005 constitutional amendment designed to ban gay marriages erroneously endangers the legal status of all marriages in the state. The amendment,... [...]
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  Posted: November 18, 2009, 8:44pm EST
  by Slugbug

• New Orleans: Brad Pitt for Mayor & Other Political Statements

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  Posted: November 18, 2009, 4:20pm EST
  by Slugbug

• Alex Grey Depicts Obama

  Alex Grey's site [...]
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  Posted: November 18, 2009, 7:40am EST
  by Slugbug

• New Orleans Noir

  First night's shooting .. [...]
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  Posted: November 18, 2009, 12:42am EST
  by Slugbug

• An Unexpected Up-Close Tour of New Orleans After Katrina

  I got more than I bargained for already on this trip. In one day, I got a trip from Seattle to Dallas, where I got to see alot of men in hunting gear. Then I got a quick jet to... [...]
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  Posted: November 17, 2009, 8:58pm EST
  by Slugbug

• Remembering The Ninth Ward

  Pics: The Lower Ninth Ward Almost Four Years Later - PSFK Going to New Orleans - went to Google Earth for a look at the 9th ward and it's unfathomable - even from the satellite views, it looks like a... [...]
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  Posted: November 17, 2009, 8:40am EST
  by Slugbug

• Dr. Mengele & the Brazilian Town of Twins / Boys From Brazil

  Wonder if the "Boys From Brazil" movie was referencing this phenomena of frequent twins here - more than 1000% higher than in other places? That movie had the little Hitlers and in this video, a guy thinks Dr. Joseph Mengele... [...]
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  Posted: November 17, 2009, 8:38am EST
  by Slugbug

• Obama Doesn't Twitter / Chinese Censor Obama's Speech on Censorship

  CNN Political Ticker: All politics, all the time Blog Archive - Obama: I’ve never used Twitter « - Blogs from CNN.com "Let me say that I have never used Twitter," Obama said in response to a question from a Chinese... [...]
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  Posted: November 17, 2009, 8:28am EST
  by Slugbug

• Ghadafi Tries to Convert 200 Italian Women

  Libyan leader Moammar Gadhafi has hosted a soiree in Rome for some 200 young Italian women, but instead of the party they expected the women were given a lecture on Islam and copies of the Quran, a news report said... [...]
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  Posted: November 16, 2009, 12:31pm EST
  by Slugbug

• Obama Visits Troops in Alaska

  This is Palin's turf & her only trip out of the US was to visit Alaskan troops overseas. Palin has held many of her events in various airplane hangars and now she is rounding the talk shows and book stores... [...]
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  Posted: November 16, 2009, 12:11pm EST
  by Slugbug

• Nixon Establishes Protocol By Bowing to Hirohito; Eisenhower Bowed to DeGaulle; W

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  Posted: November 16, 2009, 12:00pm EST
  by Slugbug

• NPR: In China & India, Skin Color Still An Issue

  President Obama's arrival in China on Sunday is being eagerly awaited by many people, especially one young woman in Shanghai. Lou Jing is of mixed race, with a Chinese mother and an African-American father. She became famous nationally after her... [...]
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  Posted: November 16, 2009, 9:58am EST
  by Slugbug

• Phelps Nut Family: "This Land is Fag Land" - in Harmony

  They picketed the school of the Obama children and now they are harassing comedians. Harmon Leon - The Infiltrator – Westboro Baptist Church Pickets Obama Girls And Blue Collar Comedy Tour’s Ron White - True/Slant But I hadn't heard this...' [...]
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  Posted: November 16, 2009, 9:46am EST
  by Slugbug

• South Park's Glenn Beck Parody

  Go Cartman! [...]
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  Posted: November 16, 2009, 9:46am EST
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• Nixon Establishes Protocol By Bowing to Hirohito

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  Posted: November 16, 2009, 12:00am EST
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• Chinese T-Shirt Entrepreneur's "Oba Mao" / Protest in South Korea

  He sold these until authorities made him stop. Maybe wingnuts here would buy them. [...]
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  Posted: November 15, 2009, 4:44pm EST
  by Slugbug

• The Onion: FDA Approves Drug For the Annoyingly Cheerful /TIME: Why Are Americans So Cheerful?

  In January 2008, the Gallup-Healthways Well-Being Index was launched. It was designed to work like a Dow Jones average of attitude. At least 1,000 people are surveyed daily, 350 days a year. (You can see how happy people are broken... [...]
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  Posted: November 15, 2009, 10:27am EST
  by Slugbug

• Will Obama Bring Back the "Nehru Jacket" .. ??!!

  Apparently FOX New thinks Obama wasn't supposed to "bow" respectfully in Japan. But..but..but.. Some reactions from Japan: (from a DailyKos comment, citing The Examiner) While the Japanese media has largely avoided commenting on the incident, numerous comments have been made...' [...]
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  Posted: November 15, 2009, 10:19am EST
  by Slugbug

• Seattle Area Men Carry Guns Into Community Center to Spur Lawsuit

  Man carries gun into community center to protest ban A Kent man who announced Friday that he intended to carry a pistol into a West Seattle community center to trigger a lawsuit challenging Seattle's ban on guns in public spaces... [...]
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  Posted: November 15, 2009, 10:18am EST
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• Florida Wingnuts: Tea Party Candidate Arrested for Drugs; Anti-Gore Protest

  Ezell Harris, Tea Party Candidate, Arrested On Drug Charges Jail records show he is being held on four counts: trafficking in hydrocodone, dispensing illegal drugs without a license, unlawful use of a two-way radio, and possession of drug paraphernalia. The... [...]
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  Posted: November 15, 2009, 10:18am EST
  by Slugbug

• Hope for Seattle - Mayor McGinn Has An Interesting Transition Team

  (Thanks to Elizabeth Walters) The new mayor’s Mike McGinn, transition team looks really exciting!! Far different from what I would have envisioned had his opponent, Joe Mallahan, won. There is hope!! by Josh Feit, Hinting at the seismic cultural shift... [...]
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  Posted: November 14, 2009, 7:29pm EST
  by Slugbug

• Performance Degrading Drugs: Is LSD one of them?

  Andre Agassi’s new book describes his crystal meth use while he was competing for tennis' top prizes. He makes the distinction between performance enhancing drugs and performance degrading drugs. He claims the drugs he took degraded his performance and were...' [...]
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  Posted: November 14, 2009, 6:43pm EST
  by Kayakbiker

• Miss SC Teen USA Learns Where Babies Come From

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  Posted: November 14, 2009, 11:36am EST
  by Slugbug

• Carrie Prejean Meltdown on Larry King

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  Posted: November 14, 2009, 11:32am EST
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• Pot Cafe Opens in Portland

  First U.S. marijuana cafe opens in Portland | U.S. | Reuters Playing catch up with the Canadians and the Dutch .. Portland is a good location for it. It's actually for certified medical marijuana users. It's in the former location... [...]
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  Posted: November 14, 2009, 11:28am EST
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• Guiliani is Still Shouting "911 911 911"

  Andy Borowitz On the news, they're annoyingly calling Khalid Sheikh Mohammed "KSM," like he's a rapper. [...]
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  Posted: November 14, 2009, 11:18am EST
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• Ten Year Old Refuses to Say Pledge of Allegiance Until ALL Are Free

  He's ten years old and refused to say the "Pledge of Allegiance" til "liberty and justice for all" if extended to gays and lesbians as well as others. He lives in Arkansas and is a fifth grader. When his substitute... [...]
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  Posted: November 14, 2009, 9:50am EST
  by Slugbug

• Weirdest Blog Ever - Bank Notes (Things Robbers Write)

  Bank Notes: a collection of Bank Robbery Notes - it's a collection of mug shots with notes to bank tellers. How they got them I don't know, but there's a book too. This innocent-looking but simultaneously guilty-looking robber is 30....' [...]
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  Posted: November 14, 2009, 9:37am EST
  by Slugbug