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Haitian teen gets new face after tumor removal on Yahoo! News Photos:

Muslim-ruled portions of France

They are called Zones Urbaines Sensibles, meaning "Sensitive Urban Zones". These are the places in France that the French government cannot control. They are owned by Muslims and the police fear to venture there. How many ZUS's are there?

751 of them, and counting

Here, even the jihad-sympathizing news service Al-Reuters has the huevos to call the situation in France a "guerrilla war", in which the French police are the targets of said guerrillas:

"Frankly, it's not worth getting your head kicked in for an end of year bonus of 200 euros ($256.8)," said the plain clothes officer.

The Botched Paramilitary Police Raid Map

This map is from CATO, a kick-ass libertarian think tank. It uses Google maps to show locations of botched raids that are becoming alarmingly more common in our country.

The Botched Paramilitary Police Raid Map

30 Year old Cartman waits for his WII

just a bit disturbing

Zombie Portrates!..

www.zombieportraits.com:

wow.. i want a picture of me as a zombie!.. or even better

a zombie family portrate for Christmas!

Call the UK for FREE!

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Jimmy :)

Merry Christmas from the Gatt Family

Sexual Harassment

Cartoon Laws of Physics

Moronland.net - Cartoon Laws of Physics:

A pay phone on a lake.. only in Uganda

Payphone Pictures :: Africa :: Uganda Payphone:

Just for Erik

Amazin blind kid- it's just heart warming !

Amazing blind kid can do the impossible:

Relative price of liquids- umm--- blak ink more expensive than blood!.. damn.. i'll just refill my i

- black ink more expensive than blood!.. damn.. i'll just refill my inkjet with blood next time

Myer's Christmas peep show

Myer's Christmas peep show | NEWS.com.au:

WHAT CAN I DO TO MAKE YOUR FLIGHT MORE UNCOMFORTABLE?

WHAT CAN I DO TO MAKE YOUR FLIGHT MORE UNCOMFORTABLE? - Yahoo! News:

Six imams removed from a US Airways flight from Minneapolis to Phoenix are calling on Muslims to boycott the airline. If only we could get Muslims to boycott all airlines, we could dispense with airport security altogether.

Jihadi Joe

Japanese trained bee's

Bush hid the facts

ok.. it's lame.. but i tried it and it works.. turns out that there is a simple explanation.. that i'll let you figure out for yourself..

or is it a bush conspiracy?

thanksgiving conversation-

This is interesting



There be dragons



Dad - gimme a break.

The 10 Legged rocking chair! Make me one .. please!

The 25 Funniest Analogies (Collected by High School English Teachers)

The 25 Funniest Analogies (Collected by High School English Teachers) « Writing English:

The 25 Funniest Analogies (Collected by High School English Teachers)

Door To Door Atheists Bother Mormons

Door To Door Atheists Bother Mormons - BREAK.com:

Door To Door Atheists Bother Mormons

The power of the photograph and movie

I think that photographs are terrific for propaganda. And if photographs are good, then movies are ten times better. Our broken human brains see those images and full-motion-video-with-sound and go straight into "wash me!" mode.

There was a recent episode of "CSI" in which a reporter used faked ("fauxtoshopped") images to push a point of view that he wanted pushed.

A commenter on a blog left his thoughts about the episode, and here they are:

The scary thing about this phenomenon is that photos are no longer worth the proverbial '1000 words'. It might be worth a 10-word sentence, at best.
These days, a photo is more easily manipulated than the CG we see in hollywood FX masterpieces like King Kong, et al. To stage a murder, a political coup, an assassination (see "Death of a President") is so easy to do that the photograph's power to convince and sway a people is quickly diminishing.

Huzzah! Isn't it true that we now becoming more conditioned to doubt the photographs and movies that we see and highly-"edited" forgeries? The ability of photographs and movies to influence is going will diminish, and, ironically, the more people that make "documentaries" designed to influence, then the more true this will become. This means that the written word will become more powerful, and this is a good thing.

Atheists: The New Gays

The Dilbert Blog: Atheists: The New Gays

Atheists: The New Gays

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Former North Carolina State University professor calls for the extermination of all white people!

warning- phallic dora toy..

Amazon.com: Dora Aquapet - Dora the Explorer - Wild Planet Toys: Toys & Games

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Microwave- & a bonus

the microwave stunts are great. .but wait for the 2nd half. for a treat

Please read the amazing story of how i got this ps3

eBay: Sony PlayStation 3 PS3 60GB IN HAND FREE OVERNIGHT (item 120054509305 end time Nov-18-06 14:13:26 PST)

On
Nov-17-06 at 23:22:28 PST, seller added the following information:
Please read the amazing story of how i got this ps3
i went out wednesday afternoon to the local walmart to start camping
out. when i got there, there were already 12 people ther so i got in
line being number 13. i talked around and found out the first 6 people
there had been there since monday, total hardcore nerds all planning to
keep them. bragging about how only they should get the system since
theyve been there the longest. how they are so dedicated and how if you
dont want to do the time, you shouldnt get a system. generally being
complete assholes. good for them. we had a hours to pass so we became
friends and played some cards and whatnot. the 6 guys in front kept to
themselves and didnt associate with the rest of us. we were cool with
each other leaving the line to get food, bathroom, smoke, etc since we
all knew each other and as long as they were back in 30 minutes. i was
about to leave to go buy some KFC for a good number of us and when i
stepped out of line, one of the nerds shouted that if i left, i would
lose my spot. the other guys told him that they were vouching for me
and that i was just getting food but those 6 assholes didnt care. they
said i leave, i lose my spot and that was the rules and they would call
the manager (they had his number) to come out and enforce it. i said
whatever and stayed in line.
a few hours later, the manager came out and told everyone that there
were only going to be SEVEN available. they have them in their store
and theyre not getting anymore. he told the people after # 7 they
should leave if they wanted to not waste their time. me being number 13
should have left but i didnt, i wanted to stick around for a little bit
more. everyone else left except me and the 7 other people that were
getting it for sure. so the day goes on and i try to make friends with
the nerds. i play mario kart on the ds with them and talk to them about
the games they were getting. about an hour or 2 later, i tell im gonnna
head home since im 8 in line and theres only 7 ps3s. one of them made
some stupid joke about if i leave the line then i aint getting back
in!! har har. so as im about to leave, i tell them im going to the vons
next door and if any of them wanted any food or coffee and id bring it
back to them. one of them said yea and all the rest like sheep followed
and said yes too. they were gonna give me money but i told them it was
on me since theyve been out here since monday. the 7th guy in line
wanted some food and coffee and i told him id buy some for him also.
so i go to vons and buy 8 coffees, some food, and some x-lax laxatives.
i bring it to my car and put some laxatives in 6 of the coffees and
seperate them from mine and #7s. i pull back to walmart and bring all
the drinks and food upfront. i give #7 his stuff and then the coffees
with laxatives to the 6 nerds annd wish them good luck and go back to
my car. i park it around the corner so i can still see them.
about 30 minutes later, #2 and 3 in line get up and it seemed like they
were yelling to the other nerds. they both ran into walmart. seconds
later (i guess all nerds have the same biology) #5 gets up and runs
across the parking lot and into the trees and bushes somewhere. #1 is
scrounging for this portapotty type thing he'd brought with him but he
is squirting everywhere and all over his pants and their sleeping bags.
he runs into walmart. at this time, i start my car and drive back to
the walmart to claim my spot in line. when i get there #4 and 6 are
gone but i dont know where. #7 is laughing his ass off so hard and i
just smile at him. i call up 5 of the other people that i had made
friends with that were in line with me ( i had their phone numbers
cause i was gonne buy to food for everyone) and told them to get back
to the walmart ASAP and get in line. Meanwhile, me and #7 threw all
their shit into the parking lot and i claimed my spot as #1, him as #2.
4 and the people i had called arrived and got in line just as 1 of the
nerds came running back and got
#7. he started yelling saying they need their spots back. we all told
them to fuck off, out of spot, out of line. it was all of us against
him so he didnt say shit. the nerds came back and tried to start some
shit but we just laughed, we told them it was their rule and to go fuck
themselves and clean the shit off their pants. the called security and
security came. security man was like WTF is that fuckin smell and
looked at the nerds with shit all of them and kicked them off the
grounds screaming LMAO. so that is how i got my ps3.

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The World's Biggest Paper Airplane

Airplane - Kids in Action - Kids Web Japan - Web Japan

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Thanksgiving Themed Video — Hilarious

Water injected turbine for fire suppression by Willimczik

can also be used for crowd control..

you own personal blimp!... yeah !

SKYACHT

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The Executive coloring book... just color it grey

ad to the bone - The Executive Coloring Book

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Why Intellectuals Still Support Socialism

Why Intellectuals Still Support Socialism - Mises Institute

Why Intellectuals Still Support Socialism

By Peter Klein

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Worst Burglar Ever

its long buy very worth while

Communist Manifesto illustrated by Disney

WTF.. man tatoo's face.. for fun an profit

OMFG Mag.. i'ts about time!

i'm painting the house like this now!... ok.. i need to find cartoon clothes

Che Trooper bust

Amateur

Uni-boob

'Nuff said.

Video of Dolphins doing the Batman theme!

Only a DOLPHIN could sing anything soo soo cool!

SAVE 'EM- It's your job!

They're so cool they did the sound track!

FREE THE DOLPHINS FROM RAA RESTRICTIONS!

Five-second rule = Wiki

Five-second rule - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia:wheew.. i was so confused about the lunch meat ban

Nu nu nu nu nu nu nu nu!

DOLPHIN!!

Dolphin

dolphin......

(and yeah - my nu count is on)

10 Things I Wish I Had Never Believed

10 Things I Wish I Had Never Believed–steve-olson.com:

You can’t be successful without a college degree... you know.. i ALWAYS believed this was true.. some part of me ..still wants to believe it's true...

What is the lethal dose of marijuana?

What is the lethal dose of marijuana?: the article fails to mention our current drug laws, the deadly risk of purchasing said product..e tc

Top 10 Reasons Gay Marriage Should Be Illegal

» Top 10 Reasons Gay Marriage Should Be Illegal:

Top 10 Reasons Gay Marriage Should Be Illega

Take a seat

Cylons need work too!

Type the word or die!

Word Shoot: Spell Fast or Die!: who needs a PS3?

I WANT THIS FOR CHRISTMAS!

if you like this you'll love the rest!

The ultimate webdesign usability checklist

The ultimate webdesign usability checklist at Not Usable:

only posted because it REALLY matters to two of ya

World Statistics updated in real time

Worldometers - real time world statistics: it all seems so... programmed

Do you make these 10 mistakes in a conversation?

Do you make these 10 mistakes in a conversation? at Personal Development with The Positivity Blog:

Now on the PS3 -Kill a Jer or an Athiest! to win!

Video game where Jews and Atheists must be killed or converted due for Christmas - Blogging Baby:

yummy

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The top 10 best pictures.. ever !

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All I want for xmas

85 tools!

Wow! That was fast!

Democrats - is there anything they can't do?

Nov. 6

Nov. 9 (this poll was taken "over the summer")

PSA

"Though commonly misunderstood to be the right solely of lawyers, the title "esquire" after the name may actually be used by anyone. There is no formal meaning associated with the use of this suffix, and there is no official body that polices the use of this title by American lawyers or anyone else."

Why leaving Iraq will be Good

Now that Pax Pelosi has begun and pledged "a new direction" in Iraq (not to mention much, much more government interference), it's a good time to consider the consequences of this plan. Let's do that by considering the Scary(TM) consequensces that the NeoCons predicted:

1. "The Iraqis deserve a chance at freedom"

The Iraqis are Muslims. Muslims don't want or respect freedom. They want Shari'a. I say, let them have it, and trying to "educate" them to change their mind on that point is not worth one red cent of American treasure or one drop of American blood.

2. "If we leave, Iraq will disintegrate into civil war"

RAD!!! This means Shi'a killing Sunni, and vice versa, and this is a Good Thing. The world needs less Muslims, not more! And if they're killing each other, then that is the best possible way for them to be eliminated. Oh, I'm sorry, was I supposed to love and forgive and "dialogue with" the people who want to kill all gays? I take that only slightly personally, you know. People who threaten to kill me for being gay and ground that violence in a religion that can never be reformed tend to make my Hitlerrhoids flare up.

3. "If we leave, then Iraq will become a haven for 'terrorists'"

It already *is* a haven for mujahedeen. Is it not nearly 100% Muslim already? What did you expect to happen, Rumsfeld? Mardi Gras parades?

4. "Fighting the terrorists in Iraq keeps us from fighting them here"

Tell that to the people who were run over by Omeed Aziz Popal. The jihad ideology (Islamic supremacy, Islamic imperialism, Islamic violence) is taught in ALL major schools of Islamic thought and completely justified by Mohammed's words. A(nother) jihad attack on American soil is a matter of when, not if.

Perhaps after we pull out of Iraq we will be able to redirect our efforts into more propaganda and covert anti-jihad special operations. I think that will be much more effective in countering jihad than the stupid, expensive, and ineffective "nation building" we've done in Iraq.

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Smart Strip

Eureka!

Todo this weekend

Install on roof of house:

Chuck isn't hung like a horse.

Horses are hung like Chuck Norris.

Dictionary of Asain Condiments

We've been needing this for a long time. This is a list of Asian condiments, with all their assorted names (i.e., both "nam pla" and "nuac mam" for fish sauce), and with pictures and descriptions of flavor. Rad!

Asian Condiments

some of these are wonderful!

We looked at them a while ago - I finally got them online....

I see at least 5 that will be framed.

myurl.com/ourwedding

Thanks guys.

We really need to go back up there.

Saddam: A Tribute

Hoo boy...

The Muslims seize even more control over Paris

The Muslims in Paris suburbs sensed weakness after torching thousands of cars, and then even buses (where, in one case, a woman was burned to death in Marseilles). Now, they have seized a subway station, causing subway travelers to flee in panic.

None of the mainstream French newspapers have chosen to report this.

"Youths" attack Paris subway

The antioxidant myth: a medical fairy tale –

www.theskepticsguide.org :: View topic - The antioxidant myth: a medical fairy tale – from New Scient: so much for antioxidants

for you cube dwellers.... sure does beat the pink fuzzy walls

Dilbert's Ultimate Cubicle:

finally.. our dogs can earn their keep

Proceedings of the Athanasius Kircher Society » Dog Power: Zek- grind that grain!

Dongeons & Dragons Made Simple

gogle maps bring you demographics

Neighboroo:

Astronomy Picture of the Day

APOD: 2006 November 3 - V838 Mon: Echoes from the Edge:

How to down shift- live more with less

nomad4ever » Blog Archive » How to downshift - learn to live more with less:

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Ewook found in a zoo

Fly Fly away

feeling stressed? take a break and fly away

Mmmm Mmmm.. gotta get me some of that

you're breakfast will just jump in your tummy!

Antibodies

I'm going to try and explain some important facts about antibodies.

Remember that a protein is a big molecule made up of strings of amino acids. They are present everywhere inside and outside of our bodies. There are lots of them in a steak, but much few of them in butter (which is made up of strings of lipids that we call "fat") or celery (which is made up of strings of sugars that we call "starch").

There are these things called antigens can get into your body. The word "antigen" comes from ANTIbody GENerating, and that's sort-of what they do: generate antibodies. Antigens are simply molecules that are almost always proteins (strings of amino acids). When you eat that steak, the proteins from that steak go from your intestines into your bloodstream, and there these proteins (large molecules, remember) come into contact with a specific B cell. This B cell then "wakes up" and starts producing a single type of antibody which reacts with that antigen. When I write "reacts", I mean that the antibody sticks to the antigen.

Let's talk about how this "sticking to" happens. An antigen is a large molecule, and it's really "bumpy". The individual atoms line up in certain ways to make particular bumpy structures. Think of these bumpy structures like a formation of Lego blocks. This structure is called the antigenic determinant, and the antibody for this antigen has the inverse of this structure built into the structure of the antibody. Thus, the antibody mindlessly (it's just a protein molecule after all) has its business end stuck to the antigenic determinant of the antigen. So far so good?

Here's where the nice theory starts to rot. We like to think in terms of "antigen A corresponds with antibody A, whereas antigen B corresponds with antibody B." It doesn't work that way.

An antigen is, after all, a large protein molecule. It can, and does, have more than one antigenic determinant on it, and these antigenic determinants can, and do, have different configurations. The scientific term for this is "polyclonal". Antigen A can have antibody A AND antibody B stick to it. In other words, the antibodies correspond to antigenic determinants, not to antigents.

This means it gets even worse. Suppose you have two different antigens, antigen A and antigen B. They both have several different antigenic determinants in multiple configurations. This means that antibody A can stick to BOTH antigen A AND antigen B. The scientific term for this is "promiscuous" and it is said that antibodies "cross-react". Here is a real-world example of this fact in practice. The Epstien-Barr virus shares an antigenic determinant with the red blood cells of horses. If it is suspected that you have an Epstien-Barr virus infection, then your blood will be mixed with horse blood. If there is a reaction, then that is used as evidence that you are infected with Epstein-Barr virus (not horse blood).

Epstien-Barr virus also shares an antigenic determinant with the red blood cells of sheep.

And it gets even worse from here. An antibody is a protein molecule. Remember when I wrote that antigens are usually other proteins? This means that an antibody can itself be an antigen! When your body makes antibodies, it also makes antibodies for those antibodies.

With all of that information in mind, think about the HIV antibody test. There are actually two different HIV antibody tests, and they work under the same premise: if the antibodies in your blood (and there are always antibodies present in your blood) react with a set of proteins that are assumed to be proties from the HIV retrovirus, then it is said that you are "HIV positive". Put bluntly: "antibody reaction means HIV infection".

The question that jumps to the lips on an "HIV positive" test is this: How do I know that my antibodies were NOT cross-reacting? In other words, how do we know that these proteins that you tested for don't share an antigenic determinant with some other protein, and that is why there was an antibody reaction?

And there has never been an answer to that question that wasn't of the form, "You are not a scientist. Trust us."

Do not, under any circumstances, have an "HIV test".

The information from this was gleaned from this fantastic interview with Dr. Valender Turner of the Perth Group. I have exchanged e-mail with him as well. In it, he also describes what HIV researchers actually do to be able to claim that the "HIV test" is "99.999% sensitive and specific". (Hint: unscientific)

DO ANTIBODY TESTS PROVE HIV INFECTION?

If you've not seen this movie before

Das Rad | haha.nu - a lifestyle blogzine: German animation short about the evolution of the mankind through the vision of … two rocks

Lies Your Mother Told You.

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Lies Your Mother Told You.

Spending Godless Money

In God We Trust

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Man tries to jump mile-wide river in rocket car

Gravity ensues:

And you thojught it was tough to be gay in the South?

Imagine being a gay "Palestinian"!

Swing!