* neo_prodigy found: "Here’s the difference between straight celebrities and queer celebrities:" http://synthezoid.tumblr.com/post/8375000333
* Rm found: http://cityroom.blogs.nytimes.com/2011/08/02/central-park-zoo-peacock-flies-the-coop/
* In Somalia, they are starving. If you wish to help, unicef is looking like your best bet right now.
* In Syria, they continue to slaughter unarmed civilians. I still have no idea how to make that stop, but I keep mentioning it because I'm scared we'll all forget.
* Eleven people have been arrested in the News corp hacking scandal.
* Pat Buchanan, made reference to "nailing the coon skin to the wall" in reference to President Obama.
* Meanwhile, Congressman Doug Lamborn of Colorado can't figure out why his calling President Obama a "tar baby" might be considered "insensitive."
* Regarding the two items directly above this. O.o I know you can all imagine my rant on Republicans using racial insults to characterize the president, so I'll just leave you to it.
* Shutting down the FAA until at least September is expected to cost at least 1.2 billion dollars. This does not count unemployment benefits for all the folks out of work. All this is because Republicans want to destroy those "greedy' unions for demanding safety procedures and enough sleep for pilots. Republicans say that this waste of 1.2 billion dollars and job loss is really saving money, although I have yet to hear how. Sounds like magical thinking, as the numbers look pretty solid to me.
* Republicans are so against any attempt to regulate or enforce laws regarding the financial industry, that that they are insisting Congress is in secession during the recess to prevent any recess appointments to the consumer Protection agency. I mean, the last thing we'd want to do is protect ordinary people from corporations.
* Yet another reason to love Matt Damon: http://youtu.be/WFHJkvEwyhk
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