Mississippi carnival: Sarah Palin vs. Brett Favre – Alexander Burns – POLITICO.com.

hmmm.

High court says whistleblower testimony protected – Associated Press – POLITICO.com.

hmm.

Free pregnancy tests in Alaska bar bathrooms: Condoms also prevent fetal alcohol syndrome..

The pregnancy tests will be free. The state of Alaska will pay $800 per dispenser and $1.50 for each test. Free condoms will be available alongside the pregnancy tests. But the state won’t pay for them. (The research team organizing the dispenser project wouldn’t say how the condoms are funded.)

So much for a stitch in time?

[By Ivan Perkins:] Armed constitutionalism — why guns don’t actually keep us safe from tyranny – The Washington Post.

hmmm.

Iraq Official Says Iran’s Military Mastermind Is In Charge – Yahoo Finance.

hmmm.

▶ Americans Try British McDonald’s – YouTube.

“it makes you suspect that there is something in the American fries have certain ingredients that are illegal in the UK.”

Andrew Garfield And Emma Stone Send Another Message To The Paparazzi.

Awesome!

The maximum family grant and family caps: A racist law that punishes the poor..

sigh….

6 times Clinton sounded, acted like a candidate – CNN.com.

As long as she doesn’t try and sell sealing the northern border again (Doh! failure to read an issue/room personified!) she might be off to good start.

California drought plan would build reservoirs, clean up drinking water | Reuters.

hmmm.

Ben & Jerry’s changes ice cream name, helps support GMO labeling – WCAX.COM Local Vermont News, Weather and Sports-.

cool.

Judy Blume: Parents worry too much about what children read – Telegraph.

Read whatchu like

In Landmark Decision, U.S. Patent Office Cancels Trademark For Redskins Football Team | ThinkProgress.

Nice!

Mike Tyson kicks Dana White out of his airplane seat – MMA Fighting.

lol.

Iraqis Post to Whisper After Social Media Crackdown – ABC News.

sigh…..

what a fucking mess we made….

BBC News – Twitter unblocks ‘blasphemous’ tweets in Pakistan .

hmmmm

Hobby Lobby aims for Obamacare win, Christian nation – POLITICO.com.

The Greens are sponsoring scholarly study of the Bible and hosting forums such as a recent panel on faith’s role in shaping early America, which they hope to package for national broadcast.

Most provocatively, they’ve funded a multimillion-dollar effort to write a Bible curriculum they hope to place in public schools nationwide. It will debut next fall as an elective in Mustang High School, a few miles from Hobby Lobby’s Oklahoma City headquarters.

A draft of the textbook for the first of four planned yearlong courses presents Adam and Eve as historical figures and introduces God as “faithful and good,” “gracious and compassionate” and “an ever-present help in times of trouble.” A list of “curses for disobeying the Lord” warns of defeat, fever and “disaster and panic in everything you do.”

How delightful. Substituting fairy tales and faith for the dissemination of tangible fact and deductive reason is going to work out well, right? Just think of how many cures for cancer the Christian Scientists have come up, right? Um, not….

Besides the entire country should have to bow down and accept the faith of this family, just because they are richer than hell, right? I mean, it’s the American way, right? Not.

Well, God is powerful and good so maybe they will go bankrupt.

Palestinians freed in 2011 Gilad Shalit prisoner-swap back in custody | World news | theguardian.com.

“Israel says re-arrest of more than 50 former prisoners during search for missing teens sent ‘important message’ to Hamas,”

Yes, and that message is, ‘don’t belive anything we say or do. We could take it back and fuck you over at anytime. You have zero motivation for cooperating with us or acting peaceably.’

The government of Israel is culpable in the repeated murder of its citizens, because hey, being racist is more important that being right or doing well by your own people.

Hillary Clinton on legalized pot: ‘Wait and see what evidence is’.

hmmm.

Supreme Court rejects appeal over graduations in church | Fox News.

hmmmm.

Supreme Court affirms restrictions on buying guns for third party | Fox News.

hmmm.

Gertrude of Arabia, the Woman Who Invented Iraq – The Daily Beast.

hmmm.

Did This City Bring Down Its Murder Rate by Paying People Not to Kill? | Mother Jones.

Hmmm.

The Battle for Iraq Is a Saudi War on Iran.

hmmm.

(seriously FP, that was a lot of work to get to read this, your writing isn’t worth all that effort…)

Thailand’s war-weary southerners fear coup will erode new freedoms – Yahoo News.

sigh…