but please, start the cuts in social safety net...

Report: Military Blew $1 Trillion on Weapons Since 9/11

US Marine Corps

A new study suggests that defense hawks are crying crocodile tears over planned cuts to Pentagon spending.
Capitol Hill conservatives and Pentagon brass fighting cuts to defense spending have argued that the military is limping off the battlefield with decrepit hardware. It's quite the sob story: At a hearing last week, Rep. Buck McKeon (R-Calif.), the chair of the House armed services committee, cut his remarks short to literally sob for "these young men that are going outside the wire over in Afghanistan, every day on patrol." 

But a new report shows the US defense establishment is in much better shape than it claims: The DOD has blown roughly $1 trillion on shiny new tanks, ships, and jets since the 9/11 attacks—and it's often done so with dollars that were supposed to be spent on those troops on the battlefield in Iraq and Afghanistan.

A little late but still cool...

Amish beard attacks (really)

Sam Mullet, father of two men arrested for allegedly going into the home of other Amish and cutting their hair and beards, stands outside his home in Bergholz, Ohio, Oct. 10.

BERGHOLZ, Ohio — The leader of an Amish group with members accused of going into the home of another Amish man and cutting his hair and beard said Monday it's a religious matter and police shouldn't be involved.
Sam Mullet said he didn't order the hair-cutting but didn't stop two of his sons and another man from carrying it out last week on a 74-year-old man in his home in rural eastern Ohio. Amish men typically grow beards as adults and stop trimming them when they marry, and the beards are held in high esteem.
Mullet, 66, said the goal of the hair-cutting was to send a message to Amish in Holmes County that they should be ashamed of themselves for the way they were treating Mullet and his community.

Lego Apocalypse

good times......

mmmmmm... food paint

Dark night cover....

Ape speaks.....

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So let me get this straight... If you are a black conservative and you spout every chance you get about how all your achievements are color blind and that things like affirmative action and other equalizing programs are for the weak and morally decrepit until a inconvient sex charge rears it's ugly head and all of sudden it's a "high tech lyching"..Please...

crunchy yet stylish...

 

funny the goverment tried to give him a gun during the vietnam war five times and he wanted nothing to do with it...

In 2006, Vice President Dick Cheney pumped birdshot into a friend's face, simultaneously upping his thug cred while inspiring Lego fan Thom Beckett to depict the scene in plastic bricks.

sweet...

Heidi Klum Wears a Gory Skinned Dead Body Costume to Her Halloween Party

By Rusty Blazenhoff on October 31, 2011

Model Heidi Klum, already known for over-the-top Halloween costumes, donned a custom skintight, and quite gory, skinned dead body (ala “Visible Woman”) costume to the 12th Heidi Klum’s Annual Halloween party which she hosted at the The Venetian Resort’s TAO Nightclub in Las Vegas. For ‘authenticity’, she made her grand entrance by being wheeled in on an autopsy table by two bloody ‘medical professionals’. The macabre ‘body’suit was created by costume designer Martin Izquierdo.
She tweeted a series of photos of her face makeup as it was being applied:


via Daily Mail & Super Punch

Just in time for the holiday....

I don't know what the hell this is , but I dig it....

wow....

beautiful....

I couldn't make this sh** up and If I did no one would believe me..

the thirteen year old in me cries out in joy....

I feel safer....

TSA goes through woman's luggage, finds sex toy, leaves pervy note

By Xeni Jardin at 7:26 am Monday, Oct 24

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"Just unpacked my suitcase and found this note from TSA," tweets writer and attorney Jill Filipovic of Feministe. "Guess they discovered a 'personal item' in my bag. Wow."
It was a standard-issue "we rummaged through your checked luggage" Transportation Security Administration Notice of Inspection (NOI), but with these handwritten words in pen overlaid: "GET YOUR FREAK ON GIRL."
"Total violation of privacy, wildly inappropriate and clearly not ok," Filipovic writes in a post titled Your Tax Dollars at Work, "but I also just died laughing in my hotel room."
The "personal item" in question, Ms. Filipovic tells Boing Boing, was this $15 "Silver Bullet" vibrator from Babeland. I suppose a case could be made that an airport screener would have a legitimate reason to probe more deeply see what I did there you guys if this sort-of-ammo-shaped sex toy popped up on an imaging display. But the creepy note? Yeah, that definitely didn't have to happen. And TSA agents behaving badly with female travelers' intimate stuff? Not uncommon. Nor are women the only recipients of inappropriate notes from screeners

Booo!!!

Realistic 3D Pumpkin Carvings by Food Sculptor Ray Villafane

By Rusty Blazenhoff on October 24, 2011

beautiful

Food sculptor Ray Villafane of Villafane Studios in Arizona creates amazing 3D pumpkin carvings including a particular awesome one in the likeness of talk show host David Letterman

Wooo Hoooo!!!!!!

McRib is back!!!!

McRib, the elusive sandwich that has inspired a cult-like following, is back.

McDonald's Corp. plans to announce Monday that the boneless barbecue pork sandwich that is not always available in stores will be sold at all U.S. locations through Nov. 14.
It's usually up to local franchises to determine when and if they want to sell the McRib, except in Germany, the only place where it's available perennially. But McDonald's said the response was so great last November when it made the McRib available nationally for about three weeks – the first time it had done so since 1994 – that it decided to bring it back this year. The company declined to give specific sales numbers.
The sandwich, which is dressed with onions, pickle slices and barbecue sauce, was introduced nationally in 1982. With 500 calories and 26 grams of fat, it's slightly trimmer than the Big Mac, which has 540 calories and 29 grams of fat. And just like the Big Mac, the McRib has become a popular McDonald's offering.
There are Facebook groups like "Bring Back the McRib!!!" There are Twitter tags, where posts range from "Lucky me, the McRib is back" to "If you eat McRibs, you need to re-evaluate what it is you actually want in life." There's even the McRib Locator, a website where true believers can report McRib sightings, and even truer believers can take a road trip when one shows up within driving distance.
If the McRib is so popular, why not just offer it all the time? McDonald's likes to stoke the enthusiasm with an aura of transience.
"Bringing it back every so often adds to the excitement," said Marta Fearon, McDonald's U.S. marketing director, who added that she's not sure if the McRib will reappear in stores every fall.
And how can it be called a McRib if it doesn't have any bones? Said Fearon: "That gives it this quirky sense of humor.".