Giles ,'Touched'
Off-topic discussion. Wanna talk about corsets, pandas, duct tape, or physics? This is the place. Detailed discussion of any current-season TV must be whitefonted.
No worries, Nilly. I thought I was on the calendar, but maybe not. Can you add me? Or should I input the info somewhere?
eta: And thanks for all the Happy Birthday wishes. Ellie is coming home today after a few days with my parents in Minnesota visiting my brother and family. I'm very excited to see her.
Amy! The birthday girl! It's great to read that your day is indeed as nice to you as you deserve!
(C'mon! You gotta answer the birthday girl, no matter how swamped you feel you are!)
do you have Flickr access?
Yup - where should I go look?
tommy tommy!
NOOOOOOOOOO!!!!!!!
So very wrong.
Stephanie, gotcha.
ABC's casting call for its new series The Gates revealed a massive supernatural spoiler about this small-town cop show. Turns out Rhona Mitra plays a vampire housewife, the town quarterback is a werewolf, and more.
Sounds awful, but good writing can make almost anything work I suppose.
NOOOOOOOOOO!!!!!!!
Just wrong.
Boehner, GOP continue their war on women
The GOP's assault on women in light of the health insurance reform law may have started with a special ops attack on nursing mothers, but Minority Leader Boehner has just significantly expanded the theater of operations. See, Leader Boehner is outraged that contraception could be funded through Medicaid:
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There are two major sources of concern here. First, the fact that Leader Boehner is attacking birth control funding just goes to show that the forced birth cult wing of the Republican Party isn't really interested in snowflake babies. After all, it would stand to reason that making contraception readily available would make a significant dent in the number of unplanned pregnancies. Rather, they are far more concerned with making sure that women--especially poor women--suffer consequences for daring to have sex unless they make sure to do it with a strong, powerful man who they know can provide for them--in other words, the medieval model of gender relations.
But even more alarming is the fact that Boehner and the GOP are now so bold as to think that attacking the pill is a sound political idea. Either Boehner and the GOP are just that out of touch with political reality, or we will have a fierce battle ahead to protect the freedoms we all take for granted.
Aaaaand now I have "Back in Black" earworming me, as always happen when the metallicar is invoked.
but, but, that's AC/DC!
Standing Cat Looks Strikingly Similar To A Person (VIDEO)
Freaky - the cat stands on its hind legs for about 45 seconds....
Women Arrested For Trying To Take Dead Relative On Plane
A 91-year-old German man has been refused entry to a flight in Liverpool's John Lennon Airport - because he was dead.
The recently departed man was brought to the airport by two relatives on Saturday, sitting in a wheelchair and sporting a pair of sunglasses.
Staff became suspicious when the man did not respond to questions by airport staff. His relatives, two women aged 41 and 66, were arrested.
The couple were believed to be attempting to flout repatriation fees for the dead man. Bodies being repatriated by air are required to be contained inside hermetically-sealed zinc-lined coffins and require paperwork to travel in the hold.
First, the fact that Leader Boehner is attacking birth control funding just goes to show that the forced birth cult wing of the Republican Party isn't really interested in snowflake babies.
That may be reading a bit too much into it. I think 'family planning' == abortion for a lot of people. Contraception is collateral damage but may not be the target itself. Doesn't make it not bad, but I don't know that the fight is really against contraception.