Palin To Lead Alaskan Revolt?
Well, I’ve been intensely studying Palin’s speech, and I believe that she and her hubby are planning to lead an Alaskan revolt. They want Alaska to secede from the Union, and then the country of Alaska will embark on a crusade of world domination in the name of Alaskan Jesus.
The Solution To Broke NewsPapers and Civil Discord All In One
Commenting must COST us something.
There could be some sort of network of entities, pay-pal-ish, where you load up some money, and each site you visit will contract with one or some or all of those entities, and you have to pay a penny, or a nickel, or dime, or quarter, or whatever to leave a comment (I’m talking about the major sites, not personal little blogs on wordpress for ex.). Or each site could have has it’s own system, or a combination of an internal charging system and the larger network as well. Having central entities would mean that a person wouldn’t have to sign up at each individual site and buy “credits” from that site. – i.e. Why load 5 bucks onto HuffPo if you only want to post 2 cents worth of comments? You could load a 20 onto an account and be able to comment at any and all sites that contract with the entity where you have your account.
Something like this would have to be somewhat coordinated throughout the industry- I don’t imagine it will be a popular idea, I can already imagine the “it’s against free speech” accusations from the peanut galleries… but really, we have to pay for a stamp to write the local paper, or pay to make a phone call or get on the internet in order to express our viewpoints – And who knows, I suppose sites could give free commenting to those who demonstrate consistant quality of communication.
I know that I would be absolutely willing to pay to comment at certain sites. If I was incensed enough, I’d pay to comment at sites I don’t particularly like (freerepublic, townhall, etc.) …
I think this would be a way to generate revenue as well as a way to weed out abusive and pointless comments. Spam, opposition “infiltrations”, these sorts of posts would go way down, and remaining would be those of us who, literally, are willing to put our money where our mouths are, no matter whether we are liberal or conservative.
Any thoughts on my idea? I want a modest percentage of the profits when this takes off 
- Philosimphy
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John Shadegg’s Shady Poll
It’s typical, the question they ask pits the government against the patients, but the problem is YOU HAVE TO BE A PATIENT FIRST. If you’re not, if you have no health care to begin with, you can just go fucking rot.
And how fucking evil does this guy look?
Constipation and Migraines
Is the medical establishment’s continued denial that constipation CAUSES migraines merely a way to keep people paying for medications that may or more likely may not ease the pain? How many off-label prescriptions are written for migraine sufferers for medicines that aren’t actually for treating migraine pain? How much revenue comes from those prescriptions? If people knew that more fiber and the occasional laxative when needed could end much of the misery of migraines they would no longer need to take expensive medications to treat the migraine pain. No, I don’t mean that every migraine is caused by constipation but I suspect many are.
The term constipation here doesn’t necessarily mean constipation where you actively feel the need to poop but are unable – for people in whom constipation triggers a migraine it is usually an unnoticed constipation, and the onset of the migraine is often the first clue that there is any constipation at all.
Those who have migraines triggered by this constipation are absolutely positive that there is a connection. Further, they are positive that constipation causes migraines – that it’s not some sort of coincidence – it is NOT that constipation gives you “stress” and that stress in turn triggers a migraine, it’s the constipation itself that directly triggers the migraine.
If you suffer from migraines, or even just occasional severe headaches, start to pay attention to the way the pain changes before or after you poop. Sometimes elimination can trigger the migraine, (onset can happen very quickly, some have described the migraine forming before they finish their bowel movement) sometimes elimination can end the migraine (relief can begin immediately and the migraine is totally gone in about 20 minutes.)
How? Why? Nobody is really bothering to find out. And it’s a goddamn shame. My personal theory is that the poop is collecting and pressing against something that triggers the migraine… I suspect that if you shoved a pole up your ass and managed to hit the same spot you’d get yourself a whopper of a migraine in a matter of hours. Is it a biological reaction, merely a way our intestines tell us that it’s time to empty out, or tell us that we need to empty at least some out, in order to adjust whats in there into a more comfortable position?
Something to think about is acupuncture, or even just the way certain nerves trigger a feeling in a nerve nowhere near the nerve being stimulated. We’ve all scratched an itch and have felt a sensation somewhere else on our skin than where we are actually scratching, and then we have to move and start scratching the area where that “phantom” sensation occurred…
That is the general working of acupuncture and over thousands of years acupuncture points were mapped out, and the triggering or blocking of sensations through nerve stimulation was achieved. If you read about acupuncture you learn that the points where they, well, puncture you are believed to correspond to organs and systems inside the body.
I believe it is the same concept at work with this constipation migraine connection, that there is a pressure point of some sort inside us, and that this constipation in certain people pushes matter against the pressure point, and that pressure point sends sensations to the same receptors that give us headaches – the same way your fingernails scratching an itch on your arm can send a sensation to the bottom of your foot, which now requires scratching too.
An interesting Q&A on the subject here
And if you’re reading this, have you noticed this connection? And did you get here by specifically searching the phrase “constipation and migraines” because you already KNOW there is a connection and came here looking for evidence?
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THE BLATANT SEXISM OF USAGE
Woman uses man for money = Woman’s a bitch.
Man uses woman for sex = Woman’s a stupid bitch.
The Moral Inferiors
Moral Inferiors are people who preach hate while claiming to be righteous. They will employ lies and use scare tactics in order to try to win an argument. They will ignore facts presented unless the facts are presented by other moral inferiors. Moral Inferiors are most often conservatives, members of the Republican party and staunch Christians.
Moral Inferiors are instantly recognizable if the subject of atheism comes up in conversation – they will say they don’t understand how atheists can be moral people if they do not believe in god. This proves the inferior morals of these people – they admit they themselves have no inner moral compass and must rely on reminders written down or relayed each sunday.
Example: Everyone on Fox News is morally inferior to Jon Stewart.
Woot Woot!
I submitted my definition to UrbanDictionary.com and they accepted it and it should be up in a couple days. Yay. I finally made my mark in the world of insult definition. ‘Bout time!
BEST THING EVER
This is from the comments section of Salon’s weekly “Ask a Wingnut” column.:
Salon, how about if you stop pissing in the face of your own goddamn readership
I can think of nothing that confirms the wisdom of Glenn Greenwald’s oft-repeated admonition about the evils of promiscuous anonymity than the rancid load of shit this witless baboon deposits on my computer every month. Except, of course, for the cynical money-grubbers at Salon who thought how clever it would be to pay him to do it.I mean, what possible – what POSSIBLE – goddamn reason could justify giving this throbbing cock the cover of anonymity? After all, it’s not as though it has ever produced a single word that deviates a cunt hair from the standard propaganda regurgitated on Republican talk radio; are we supposed to imagine that its mere appearance on so “radically leftist” a forum as Salon would somehow diminish its reputation among the Republican establishment?
In short, I can hardly convey how disgusted I am that I considered for even a second wasting my time by outlining the assorted lies, distortions, and incoherent doggerel contained in this month’s shit pile. On the other hand, I have to acknowledge how gratified I am at the reminder of the reason I decided some time ago to stop paying for the privilege of having Salon insult my intelligence with this crap.
– david-smith
