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A local town council vote on whether to let red heads run in their Summer Picnic 3 legged race.

This was filmed in support of the YES campaign for Marriage Equality in Ireland.
Shot in Los Angeles, California by Irish in LA.
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No religion or philosophy must be exempt from criticism, and under no circumstances must we appease fanatics with censorship.

And if you answer drawn criticism of your religion with a drawn gun, the problem lies not with the artist.

( Relevant drawing under the cut. )

People here expected exactly this outcome, despite the overwhelming majority being convinced that Zimmerman was guilty. And nobody's surprised that the black woman who fired a shot in the air to scare off her abusive husband got 20 years, either. Right, I know Florida couldn't care less for my opinion, but seriously - is this really an image to be ( Read more... )

"There is no such thing as society: there are individual men and women, and there are families." - Margaret Thatcher

I'm following the beatification of Margaret Thatcher with increasing bewilderment. The best PM there ever was! A political genius! Saviour of Britain! Give the woman a state funeral!

She won't get a state funeral, though, only a ( Read more... )

Back in the days when dinosaurs still roamed the earth and I was a seventeen year old apprentice, I had the misfortune of learning the trade at the same company as a bloke who shall be referred to here as Andy the Schmock. I don't remember how we came to discuss my jewish heritage (two of my great-grandfathers), but I'll never forget his shocked ( Read more... )

Please read the following text. I've written it with help of the official list of terms the NOC uses when "monitoring social media sites to provide situational awareness and establish a common operating picture". Then guess how many of the words I used are on this "black list". OK? Then let's get started:

Story 1:
Currently, I'm working on a fic ( Read more... )

Michele Bachman decides not be Swiss after all

"I took this action because I want to make it perfectly clear: I was born in America and I am a proud American citizen. I am, and always have been, 100% committed to our United States constitution and the United States of America," Bachmann said.
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"As the daughter of an Air Force veteran, ( Read more... )

MICHELE BACHMANN BECOMES A SWISS CITIZEN

There is no God.

"My husband is a 100 percent Swiss, and his parents were raised in Switzerland, they were married there, they came to the United States, they bought a farm in Wisconsin and raised their three sons there,” Bachmann said in the interview."

Yes, and we'd all be so much happier if you lot had ( Read more... )

The following is infuriating enough if you look at it as a citizen of a neighbouring country, but if I were German, I'd be fuming. Young German conservative politicians, lead by a bloke called Marco Wanderwitz who hasn't achieved much yet aside from looking like the kid on the Kinder chocolate bar and stirring up trouble by suggesting a "fat tax" ( Read more... )