and she isn't so good as tina fey at saying "pew, pew!"
My Favorite Products for Cleaning the Bathroom
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So you can make that never-ending chore a little easier.
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a lovely older woman auditions for an Xbox360 Commercial
12/06/2008
today is the: 75th Aniversary of the Repeal of Prohibition
Today marks the 75th anniversary of the end of Prohibition. So to celebrate, raise up your glass, have a drink and enjoy these photos from another time when it was a lot harder -- but not impossible -- to get a drink.
http://abcnews.go.com/Business/IndustryInfo/popup?id=6392681
FARK.com: The repeal of Prohibition provided the government with much-needed tax revenue during the Great Depression. If only there were other commodities that could be legalized and taxed similar to alcohol http://blogs.reuters.com/great-debate/2008/12/03/einstein-insanity-and-the-war-on-drugs/
Sarah Haskins - Target Women - Vampires!
12/05/2008
plus cars: "We all know dudes love cars. But ladies LOVE cars. In the grown-up way." http://current.com/items/89525713/target_women_cars.htm
"the view": http://current.com/items/89471111/target_women_the_view.htm
"going number 2": http://current.com/items/89365020/target_women_number_two.htm
and....
"princesses": http://current.com/items/89416957/target_women_disney_princesses.htm
"the view": http://current.com/items/89471111/target_women_the_view.htm
"going number 2": http://current.com/items/89365020/target_women_number_two.htm
and....
"princesses": http://current.com/items/89416957/target_women_disney_princesses.htm
shut up - "now make our clothes and fix our hair!" or why I'm indifferent about gay marriage but against Prop8
good ol' Ltran found this and alerted me to it several days ago. I have found it highlighted a couple other places now, L u were so fashionably early!
what is it? well, if you aren't addicted to the Internet like I am then I will fill ya's in via this quick and short article from Gay.com (a website I usually hate by the way...):
Jack Black, Neil Patrick Harris and a host of headlining stars lent their time and talent to a hilarious three-minute video written and produced by Marc Shaiman (Tony-winner for Hairspray).
The clip portrays a frolicking group of gays, lesbians and supporters celebrating the dawning of the Age of Obama and turning the page on an America that values diversity and freedom for all. Margaret Cho, Andy Richter and Maya Rudolph play members of the happy gay group.
Unfortunately their parade is rained on by a conservative Christian group (including John C. Reilly as a pastor and Allison Janney and Kathy Najimy as his wives) introducing and supporting Prop. 8.
After they remind the gays the bible considers gays and lesbians an abomination, Jack Black appears as Jesus to remind them the bible also considers tasty shrimp cocktail an abomination.
ok:
it is my opinion that marriage is a spiritual institution and as such the federal government of the United States, or any nation really, has no business "authorizing" or "legitimizing" marriages. Do you think during the roman empire's first 300 years of dealing with Christians that Christians were in any way worried about whether the Emperor acknowledged their marriages or not? If the government feels that it is worth their effort to encourage long term monogamous relationships among adults via a great number of legal policies that only apply to those who are "married" then they can very well do so by authorizing civil unions - regardless of gender and make sure that those laws are available to any two adults who want to be recognized by the government as having made a legal contract to live together as one.
That is why I am fine with New jersey's current legal situation, the Supreme Court of New Jersey said that you can call it whatever you want but the government has to give the same rights and responsibilities regardless of gender. Fine. Now, let's just get NJ to acknowledge that marriage is the business of Churches, Synagogues, etc etc and not at all something that the earthly government ever had the actual power to "legitimize" in the first place. Anyhow, in the case of Prop 8, California began to allow gay marriages in May of this year. Last month they changed their mind and banned gay marriages. This leaves 18,000 married persons in California in a legal limbo, since it is not possible to retro-actively apply a law (see: "grandfather clause") and yet no new marriages are allowed.
This creates an inherent in-equality in that 18,000 same sex couples are married in California but anyone who missed the deadline is denied the same and equal right. This is tricky legally and constitutionally and I don't think it is now possible to go backwards. In 50 years gay marriage will be a legal right in this country. We can drag our feet and spend gazillions of dollars and countless hours fighting it or chose to go and focus on something else of importance. Ok, that's it, all I myself have to say about marriage vs civil unions vs nothing.
See more Jack Black videos at Funny or Die
and yes, yes, yes, i know that the phrase "separation of Church and State" is not in the Declaration or the Constitution but the phrase comes from the personal letters of the author of those declaration and co-author of the Constitution, Thomas Jefferson, in his descriptions and interpretations of what the American Republic was intended to be and was a well established idea at the time. ("In God we trust" and "one nation UNDER GOD" were not part of either our currency or the Pledge until the 1950s - what does that tell us about a drift in priorities since the colonial times?) If you need to know more about how non-christian many of the founding fathers were please, feel free to look it up, it's easy to find.
Dog Saves Other Injured Dog Lying On A Highway (VIDEO)
12/04/2008
I don't feel like crying this early in the morning!
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2008/12/03/dog-saves-other-injured-d_n_148238.html
ewww "gooey ducks", i never wat to meet you!
The giant, phallic-looking clams, geoducks (pronounced “gooey-ducks”) live on the Pacific coast of the US and Canada. They're gross, they're real. Steam up a few for your next party. http://www.buzzfeed.com/edithzimmerman/geoducks-y7?w=1
dirtiest jobs geoduck episode:
and they are, strangely enough the mascot of Evergreen State College in Olympia, Washington
for more disgustingness of the goey duck variety go here:
http://www.darkroastedblend.com/2008/06/geoducks-are-strange.html
have we ever seen anything so dramatic about nothing? on the other hand i will watch it... bitneydocu
12/01/2008
world's oldest LOLcat found - fur realz
This captioned cat picture postcard was found by Tracy Angulo in a Seattle antique store. Tracy tells us that the photograph is from 1905, which would make this officially the oldest cat picture with a caption, AKA lolcat, that we’ve seen.
The differences are clear. {obviously} Proper grammar and a more formal tone was in vogue back then.
ALL CAPS is still cool, but most importantly, she also no can has cheezburger. http://icanhascheezburger.com
If Starbucks was a Church
this would actually just be useful for any non-profit organization to think about too.
Andrew Sullivan threw it up on his blog but added the caveat "It's all a bit to protestant for my tastes" and well, yeah, it is. Actually I think it could be one of the many Churches Betty Butterfield might visit.
Anyhow, video is a project by this guy he's a very devout protestant with a background in marketing. He has a few posts on his blog about the video, each one pointing out something in the video. He says this about the video in general:The challenge is, if we think door hangers or websites will solve our marketing problem, then we have a bigger problem. The average church in America has less than a 15% retention rate of first-time visitors. If I owned a pizza parlor and more than 85% of the people who ate there once decided to never come back, I would think a mailer might just kill the business. It would bring people in faster and increase the speed of my demise. I, more likely, need to be working on things like... my recipe, my wait staff, my decor--anything and everything that could increase my retention rate outside of bringing more people in. The principle is stewardship. What are we accomplishing with what God is sending us? If we are not converting that, scripture would reveal that we are not ready for more (Luke 16:10).
It looks like he is still promising more future posts on the video but here are a few of the individual things he points out:Inconsistent Artwork
Here's a test. How many different versions of the logo did you see in the video? I'll give you a hint... It's more than five.
Reserved for Barista
The "RESERVED FOR..." parking signs did the job that signs do: they expressed value. They said, "These people are important to us." In our video, the visitors were not valued, just the ones who ran the show: the barista, the manager and the manager's wife. Without realizing they were doing it, they were saying with signage that, "These are the preeminent people. This is who we value as an organization."
The hidden statement is that there were no signs for visitors whatsoever. Not parking signs, not welcome signs, not even signs telling them where to enter. Now, I understand that pastor might need a parking sign in order to make sure the service goes off without a hitch. I might suggest that it is near the back entrance, if possible. In our video, it was the only signage visible—saying that the barista (minister) was much more important than the visitor.
Real Men Love Java
“Think this coffee’s hot??” and of course the Starbucks logo eating the Juan Valdez logo. Now, this was not meant to be a cheap shot at all Christian bumper stickers, as bumper stickers are not the issue when it comes down to it. We specifically chose bumper stickers that had a combative undertone
Voicemail hack: Skip right to the beep
http://lifehacker.com/software/voicemail/voicemail-hack--skip-right-to-the-beep-177993.php
From the "simple ways to save 30 seconds" file: college blogger Sean Blanda says the 7 key on your phone is your best friend when you get someone's automated voicemail greeting.
You get a semi robotic female voice saying "The number you have dialed x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x is not available please leave a message after the tone, If you'd like to page this person, press X - BEEP." If you're like me you'd just like to bypass the message. Well just press 7 next time you get someone's voicemail, it will take you straight to the "beep."The other number that comes in handy with my Cingular phone (like Sean) is the 5 key, which skips through long voicemail messages while you're listening to them.
Set Firefox 3 to Launch Gmail for mailto Links
Set Firefox 3 to Launch Gmail for mailto Links
This means that when you click on an email address that uses the standard mailto: email protocol, Firefox 3 itself can launch Gmail instead of a desktop app. By default, the Firefox RC 1 only comes with Yahoo Mail as a possible mailto: link handler, which leaves Gmail users out in the cold—unless you know how to set it up by hand. Here's how to configure Firefox 3 to use Gmail as your default mailto: application handler.
Set Firefox 3 to Launch Gmail for mailto Links
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