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Obits:

Farewell to Omar Sharif, 83. Known for Dr. Zhivago, The 13th Warrior and Lawrence of Arabia. He was also a noted bridge player.

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Politics:

Signing away the living wage in Wisconsin. I awoke one summer morning a few years back to discover Ray Bradbury was dead and Scott Walker was still governor. I went back to bed. And this man wants to be president.

Jeb Bush says we need to work more hours. He ahs backtracked and said it means full time jobs. But let's see where we stand on hours worked.

Birth control is what allows women full participation in society. Now, the insurance we pay for is required to cover it like any other medication.

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Misc:

For Writers: Apex is open to Novel and Novella submissions until July 31. Sizemore is good people. And Apex is a good house with a quality product.

Missouri Urban Legends. To give you a shiver.

Your song of the day:

Two MAJOR rulings this week

The ACA subsidies stand. Six million people get to keep their insurance. Can the GOP just STOP now? 59 attempts to destroy this thing. No proposal of their own, because this was THEIR proposal. It's starting to look as if all they want to do is hurt people. Not a good message.

The Court ruled 5-4 on Obergefell v. Hodges, that the 14th Amendment requires same-sex marriage to be legal in all 50 states. Kennedy wrote the decision, joined by Kagan, Ginsberg, Sotomayor and Breyer. Roberts, Alito, Scalia and Thomas dissented, Thomas at the expense of invalidating his own marriage, which is only legal because the Court said so in Loving v. Virginia

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Obits:

Patrick McNee, dead at 93. Rest well, Mr. Steed. And may there be an endless supply of umbrellas.

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Around the World:

Abortion is illegal in Poland. Polish women must travel out of the country to obtain one. However, Women on Waves is experimenting with drone delivery of mifepristone. They're talking about using it in other countries, like Ireland. Maybe have some fly in from Canada for us, please?

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Weirdness Abounds:

Baton Rouge Urban Legends. Spanish moon and the Wild Mouse and Frenchtown Road.

Rolling Hills Asylum. Where you con't check out, and you so cannot leave, even if you're dead.

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Fun Stuff:

The AO3 (Archive Of Our Own) tag generator. If your life was fanfic, what would it be tagged? For the record, mine is "sappy therapy spanking." What's yours?

The Teletubbies, broadcast from The Village IMO, had a sun with a baby's face in it. Jonner always looked like the Sun baby, and still does. What She looks like now.

Gods demons and patron saints...of writing. I am quite familiar with Titivillus, lord of typographical errors, delinquent letters, and superfluous language.

A Gentleman's Surprise Chair. Comfortable, stylish and great for hiding the liquor, playing cards and French Postcards.

The Accent Placer. It says I'm from Minneapolis, Spokane or Salt Lake. What I really have is my mother's Nebraska accent, with a lot of TV overlay.

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A couple of useful things

100 legal sites to download books. This is public domain, folks. this is what our current copyright laws want to destroy.

Ways to hide ugly parts of your house. Some of these are silly, but others look useful. I like the stone side on the tub.

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Your song of the day

It is Thursday! Welcome to it. If you can't get the hang of Thursdays that's all right too. We're just having some fun today.

So let's start with theme parks. We love them. Roller coasters and lots of centrifugal force and too much walking. These aren't the places to take the kids this summer. Celebrate dictators! Enjoy a live crucifixion! Cross a border illegally! Fun for everyone!

First stills from the new Star Wars movie have been released. And suddenly, i'm 9 again.

A chocolate salted caramel tart recipe. My dentures hate me for the mere thought of this.

How to restore old cast iron. I will be doing this to my chicken fryer

For those who knit for small children: a Fox tunic for your little kitsune. Free from Red Heart.

No-bake chocolate-chip cookie dough bars. Because yes.

The Cliche Fantasy Title Generator is loads of fun. I got Betrayal of Hate, and Assassin of the Night

And summer isn't complete without alcoholic popsicles.

Your Song of the Day

Today is 79 cent slush day at Sonic. 79 cents for any medium slush.

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The Obits

He only took 248 space bucks for lunch, gas and tolls. Dick Van Patten dead at 86.

He wrote the music that backed our epics. Wrath of Khan. Titanic. Braveheart. James Horner died in a plane crash Monday. He was 61.
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Kitchen Witch Wednesday, Disney Edition:

Recipes for food from 26 Disney movies, including beignets, gooseberry pie and gumbo.

Disney Inspired Cocktails
More Disney Inspired Cocktails

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Bad news

Lions moved to Critically Endangered list because of trade in lion bones.

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Reality is Supposed to be Less Evil Than My Dystopia, take 78906

In the DisUnited States, the country of Lone Star has a scalp bounty on Hispanics and Native Americans.
Check out the comment from a Kansas State Representative:
"Let's Shoot Illegal Immigrants Like Pigs."
And that's in Heartland, mind, not Lone Star.

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Something pretty

Exotic Dancers of the 1890s.

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Song of the Day

Quote of the day: A dreamer is one who can only find his way by moonlight, and his punishment is that he sees the dawn before the rest of the world. --Oscar Wilde
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We should all have such problems. The Netherlands is closing prisons for lack of need.
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Self-promotion without looking like an ass. I freely admit I have trouble with the first one. Like Charlie Chaplin, I'm a brilliant conversationalist, as long as the subject is me. The other things I like to talk about are...difficult in company, i.e. politics, sex and religion.
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Kansas lawmaker not only insults first lady (Mrs. YoMama? really?), but uses the blackest magic of imprecatory prayer. Psalm 109:8 has become a meme in the last couple years. And the right doesn't seem to understand the implications of doing such a spell.
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Pride Corner:

Good news for gay youth in New York. The Ali Forney center now has 24 hour service. 20% of homeless youth are GLBT. About 62% of them will commit suicide, as opposed to 30% of straight homeless youth. Now, at least one city has a place to help.

New Jersey plans to introduce a bill legalizing same sex marriage at its first session Wednesday. Gov. Chris Christie opposes it, but it stands a chance.
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April 9 is National Donate a Pagan Book Day.
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Predictions for 2032 and 2092 from a SF author.
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Religious trauma syndrome, dealing with trauma from leaving a religion. When you believe that you will literally be punished by God forever, as well as punished by the people around you for the rest of your life, it is quite traumatic.
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We all hear about road rage and driving defensively. How to drive to improve traffic for others. Good advice for all of us. we spend hours every day behind the wheel. Anything that lessens our stress is good. Out here, as a professional, I consider myself a shepherd to a flock of really stupid sheep. Be the smart sheep.
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Political humor: Candidates respond to Obama's Heliocentrism. David nails it.
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Shameless Promotion:
Jimmy Gillantine's second book, A NIGHT AT DEATH'S DOOR is now available for pre-order! $8 gets you a paperback, and the ebook. (as always shipping is free on orders of $25 or more)
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Youtubery
From the Nikolai playlist... This is the voice I hear for Steven.

Quote of the day:

I prayed for twenty years but received no answer until I prayed with my legs.
Frederick Douglass
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Politics, politics, politics

Gay rights are anti-Christian bigotry. Who knew? I love--for the value of love that means hate with white hot hatred of a thousand burning suns--how they assume gays aren't Christians. I may think gay Christians are as delusional as gay Republicans, and for the same reason--trying to be a part of something that despises them--but I know a number.

Not sure if this is politics or misogyny. Wait, it's both! Primary source footage of Santorum wanting to ban ALL birth control.

Perry would put us back into Iraq, to keep Iran out of it.

The Wrong Ideas. Are the Republicans campaigning on the wrong talking points? Do they even realize how out of touch they are?

Apparently not. The GOP War on Sex. This is WHY I speak up for contraception, same-sex rights, polyamory/polygamy and other stuff. This is why i try busting the concept of morality at every turn, and suggest instead a sexual ethic of two parts: enthusiastic consent and honoring your commitments, to yourself and others.

Out of touch AND tone-deaf to their own racism. Food stamps vs. paychecks. The GOP loses the black vote right here. Again, i love--white hot hatred--how they think the concepts are at odds with each other. These are not people who have worked three jobs, gotten food stamps and STILL gone hungry. Remember, racism is a feature, not a bug, as are the misogyny and homophobia. And this is not new. It's why I was republican in my 20s and 30s.
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Crime and punishment

Advice for avoiding rape. In the spirit of Golda Meir.
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Sex Positive:

Female Sexual anatomy and response. There are diagrams. This is great for those who own female genitals, those who love people with female genitals and those who write about sex with people with female genitals.

The Clitoral Hug. 8000 nerve endings...and no purpose other than pleasure. Also, this should end clitoral vs. vaginal orgasm debates.
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School daze

Finland has the best schools in the world. Why? No private schools. No standardized tests. And the goal is not excellence. It's equality of opportunity--each child should have exactly the same opportunity to learn, regardless of family background, income, or geographic location.
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And if that sounds a bit absurd, consider 5 absurd solutions to huge problems...that aciually worked.
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Youtubery

From the Nikolai play list:

Quote of the day: There is no such thing as just a job. Anything that takes up your time takes up your life. What if you never do anything that you think is important? Sometimes I wonder if you're a musician who works in a cereal bar, or just a cereal guy who makes a little music. --Flakes

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The "Bracing for the Zombie Apocalypse" department:

Parasite zombifies honeybees. This may be the cause of the colony collapse that has been happening for a while.
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Happy birthday to Charles Addams. Check the http://www.google.com tribute.
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Today in Misogyny:

Brazil requires women to register pregnancy. Ostensibly, this is to help with maternal mortality rates. Most suspect it will be used by the Church to prosecute miscarriages as induced abortions (illegal in Brazil)
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Out and about:

TSA moves to ground transportation...Doom.
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This is why we can't have nice things:

Why lasers don't work as ray guns. I do love The Straight Dope.

Brands that may disappear in 2012. Some old ones, some speciality ones. Kodak, Sears and Saab.

MIT offers free online education. Non accredited.
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Politics, politics politics

Busy week. Michelle Bachmann dropped out of the race, sparking a temper tantrum when marcus learned he would not be First Lady. Rick Perry went home to Texas, rethought his life and came to the wrong conclusion. He shoulda bought the deathsticks. it'll be less painful in the long run. Santorum said something anti-gay/anti-woman/anti-sex. Just google it. Newt and Romney said racist crap. These are not news.

As we know, Newt is an amatuer historian. However, he doesn't let the facts get in the way of doctrine when he says the founding fathers would have been anti-marijuana. “I think Jefferson or George Washington would have rather strongly discouraged you from growing marijuana and their techniques with dealing with it would have been rather more violent than our current government,” he responded. Except for the part where BOTH OF THEM GREW IT!
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Crime and Punishment:

The FBI redefined rape. This is good. The new definition, which includes men, is "“The penetration, no matter how slight, of the vagina or anus with any body part or object, or oral penetration by a sex organ of another person, without the consent of the victim.”
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Kitchen Witchery

Jedi and sith burgers now available. In Belgium. Oh belgium!

Tonight's dinner:
Ham & Swiss casserole

2 1/2 cups uncooked egg noodles
1 (10.75 ounce) can condensed cream of mushroom soup
1/2 cup white wine
1/4 cup water
2 cups chopped cooked ham
1/2 cup shredded Swiss cheese
1 cup seasoned stuffing mix (coarse-crumb style)

Preheat an oven to 375 degrees F (190 degrees C). Lightly grease a 9x13 inch baking dish.

Fill a large pot with lightly salted water and bring to a rolling boil over high heat. Once the water is boiling, stir in the egg noodles, and return to a boil. Cook the pasta uncovered, stirring occasionally, until the pasta has cooked through, but is still firm to the bite, about 5 minutes. Drain well in a colander set in the sink.
Combine the cream of mushroom soup, white wine, and water in a large bowl. Stir in the cooked egg noodles, ham, and Swiss cheese. Pour the mixture into the prepared baking dish. Sprinkle the dry stuffing mix over the dish. Bake uncovered until the casserole is bubbling and browned, about 30 minutes.

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Pride Corner

Washington State introduced legislatuion to legalize same sex marriage. "I have always been uncomfortable with the position that I have taken publicly. And then I came to realize the religions can decide what they want to do, but it is not OK for the state to discriminate." says Governor Chris Gregoire
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Stupid movies recast as Oscar Bait. I like William and Theodore's Adventure of a LIfetime myself. Also the recaas Jay and Silent Bob Strike Back.
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Health!

Tis the seasoin, but if your child has these symptoms. it's time to see the dr.
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Youtubery:

I love the sound of this song

Quote of the Day:
"We've all heard that we have to learn from our mistakes, but I think it's more important to learn from successes. If you learn only from your mistakes, you are inclined to learn only errors."
---Norman Vincent Peale

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The best news I got all day:
My mother's blood work for December shows her white blood cells at near normal levels. She hasn't had that in YEARS. She said she though her normally staid dr was going to bounce up and down.

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The Writer's Aid Department:

25 things Writers should stop doing. RIGHT NOW! We all do some of them. Some of us do all of them. I'm particularly guilty of 22: overpromising and overshooting. (I don't chase trends, I tend to run a year early)

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The "Shape it Up" department:

9 Best fitness moves. Give it a try.

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From the Political Desk:

We all know that Romney beat Santorum by 8 votes in Iowa and Ron "The Demented Little Terry Brooks Character With a Gold Card" Paul made a strong third place. And I will maintain my dignity and not get myself into a froth of puns about Santorum surging from behind in Iowa to come out number two. I'm a better person than that. Apparently not.

Alabama considering personhood legislation. These forced birthers will not be happy until 70% of women are in jail for miscarriage, and 40% are on death row for abortions.

Obama appoints Richard Cordray to Consumer Financial Protection Bureau. Plutocrat Republicans howl. If we're protected from their predation, their profits will be lower!

Republican Pro-Life plank mates with States Rights and takes next logical step: Let states ban birth control!

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The "Hard At Work" department:

8 Jobs with Bright Outlooks. Nanoengineering technlogist? It's fun living in the future!

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The "Bracing for the Zombie Apocalypse" department:

Top 10 Survival Manuals to Download. Everything from dentistry and field surgery to canning and knitting.

Gardening in January. Come the apoc, we'll have to grow our own, and the Pagan Soccer Mom has some awesome links for everything from planning to containers to seed starting.

10 Survival Skills for a post Collapse world.

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The "I totally stole that for my book" department:

8 Gratuitously Violent Horror Movie Scenes (From the Bible). It's Cracked.com, so appropriate warnings. And I used Numero Uno in Power in the Blood.

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The Sacred Circle department:
January Correspondences. Two of my goddesses are listed. Also, it's National Hobby Month.

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National Hobby Month:

I am making this shawl in an ocean blue. I've finished the middle back triangle.

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Youtubery:
Today's piece was number one the week I was born

Welcome to 2012.

Quote of the day: "I've written through parenting crisis, emotional disasters, mental stress and distress including anxiety and depression, busy times at work, illness, you name it. In the eleven years since I became a pro, chemotherapy and surgery are the only things that have been able to stop me cold, and believe me, if I could find a way around that, I would."

jaylake Read the whole thing, it's well worth it.

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We all resolved to lose weight this year, right?

7 foods that help I like apples and pumpkin...

And Breakfast is still the most important meal of the day

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As a fair few of you are writers, we also resolved to write more.

"Immature poets imitate; mature poets steal.” ~ T. S. Eliot And other Advice to writers from the greats.

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Politics, politrics, politics.

Rick Santorum announces forced annullments This is the source video. For an assessment of it, Michaelangelo Signorile has it

More Santorum surging over the news: "I don't want to help black people with someone else's money." This is an article with embedded video.

Cindy Jacobs, who looks remarkably like Dolores Umbridge, right down the pink, has called for a war on the lie of separation of church and state. and Newt Gingrich takes up arms in the battle.

Obama, on the other hand, is talking up the good. (skip the comments)

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Arctic ice melting faster than thought. I had to poke around to get a general source, but USA Today and the LA Times are using the same article as Huffington Post.

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We tend to think of misogyny as a function of Islamic and Christian fundamentalists. Apparently none of the Abrahamics are immune. We've had stories of beatings on buses and "female-free billboard" campaigns. Now,the Haredi are hassling a little girl and the news is out, sparking protests. Israel sees this as a battle over the future shape of the nation. The link is from Haaretz, an Israeli paper.

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Money Money Money Money, give a little, get a little...

The Rich aren't like the rest of us. Fancy First class airline amenities. Think about those next time you're scraping sleep out of your eyes after 15 hours of driving...

Some things will cost less in 2012. Unfortunately, nothing vital, like bread or milk or gas.

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Youtubery!

Adam Lambert has a new single (no video yet) and I kind of love it.

This one is for Mudd.

This may end up being a weekly feature.
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Let's get the badness out of the way:

Nevada Senate candidate Sharron Angle suggests Second Amendment Remedies for Harry Reid and company. Honey, let me quote Inspector Howie here: "Next year it'll be you." You advocate violence now, but know the mob always turns...

New Mexico Congress candidate suggests mining the Mexico border. Oh, he's nice enough to clearly mark it, but landmines? Are we Soviet Russia in reverse?

The Texas Republican Party Platform. Or Emily Veinglory's summary: no divorce, no ENDA, giving a marriage license to a same-sex couple=felony. Uganda, Texas. Texas, Uganda. It can happen here, folks.

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The new restrictions on overdraft chicanery are causing the end of free checking. Checking wasn't free when I got my first account. $8/mo service fee, or 25c/check & 10c/atm transaction. Anyone want my credit union lecture?

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Former justice David Souter tells America to grow up. Life is complicated, judging is hard and sometimes good things conflict with each other.
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Home workers put in about 57 hours a week, without feeling overburdened.
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Enthusastic sexual consent made easy: a checklist of activity.~
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World of Warcraft Beatitudes. swiped from

gweneiriol . Blessed are the Paladins, because, well, they're Paladins and that's their schtick.
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It is Litha, the Summer Solstice. Blessing to those who are celebrating the Holly King's return
A Litha Primer from Witchvox
Honor the Father, Honor the Sun, also from Witchvox
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day 08 - a song that you know all the words to

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