BDSM and Kink Podcasts

All Kink Podcasts

This page lists all the kink podcasts we know about, sorted by title. If you'd like to nominate another kink podcast for inclusion, please email Tanos AT tanos.org.uk

	The Dark Side 86 episodes available. Latest on 19 Apr 2012, 8:28am GMT : "DARK SIDE #084 - DA Visits Orangemonkeycast" The Dark Side is an Adult, alternative lifestyle educational podcast - involving discussion on Relationships, play, sex, and open communication. Podcast RSS    iTunes subscribe
	Dart's Domain 67 episodes available. Latest on 1 Mar 2012, 5:20pm GMT : "Lolita Wolf Interview Podcast - Part 2" Sir Dart's ongoing discussions around leather, kink, and the BDSM lifestyle Podcast RSS    iTunes subscribe
	DungeonPlace.com 19 episodes available. Latest on 28 Mar 2012, 5:17am GMT : "DungeonPlace Podcast EP 51 ? Pain" Consensual Pain In Your Pocket Podcast RSS    iTunes subscribe
	Dungeonvoice 9 episodes available. Latest on 10 May 2011, 4:13am GMT : "Perfect Enough . . . Mailler Phong" Interviews with people about their fetish lifestyle. Guests include professional photographers, sex educators, masters and slaves, leather people, transgender, fetishists, and probably your neighbors. Podcast RSS    iTunes subscribe
	DUNGEONVOX 9 episodes available. Latest on 30 Nov 2010, 1:03am GMT : "Lew Rubens - Rope Bondage" Interviews and Podcasts from members of the BDSM and Fetish lifestyle. Podcast RSS    iTunes subscribe
	Erotic Awakening Podcast 186 episodes available. Latest on 26 Apr 2012, 11:09am GMT : "EA184 - Touching Beyond Gender" Welcome to Erotic Awakening with Dan and dawn, an informative and entertaining exploration of all things erotic. From sacred sexuality to fetishes, BDSM to erotic spirituality, non standard relationships to alternative love styles, as well as simply fun kink. Each week we present an aspect of erotic life - from how to sessions by well known instructors; interviews with highly regarded experts and presenters; event reviews from around the nation; to erotic products and kink media. Podcast RSS    iTunes subscribe
	Fetish Flame 47 episodes available. Latest on 17 Apr 2007, 4:59am GMT : "Fetish Flame 35.0 - April 16, 2007 - Hypnosis" Fetish Flame is about exploring sex. It's about a couple pushing their boundaries together and sharing it with others. We are here to educate, titillate, and maybe have a few laughs. Our shows vary between personal where the two of us cuddle up on the red couch sharing our intimate experiences and thoughts, to guest shows where we host an array of fantastic guest sex educators, dominatrices, and fellow fetishists. Enjoy! Podcast RSS    iTunes subscribe
	The Fetish Show 3 episodes available. Latest on 5 Apr 2012, 2:33am GMT : "The Fetish Show 28 ? Burlesque Star Apple Angel & Boot Fetish" A Fetish News, Kinky Events, Sex, BDSM Lifestyle Talk and Advice Show Podcast RSS    iTunes subscribe
	Freedom Of Fetish 34 episodes available. Latest on 9 Jan 2012, 3:22pm GMT : "Freedom of Fetish Episode 36: Mia Martina is back to talk about A Year of Sex & your naughty questions" A sex, relationship, and fetish advice podcast hosted by Raven Lightholme Podcast RSS    iTunes subscribe
	Graydancer's Ropecast 116 episodes available. Latest on 22 Apr 2012, 6:18pm GMT : "Life from GRUEmont!" The longest-running kinky sex podcast on the web. Rope bondage, BDSM, Adult Toys and more! Podcast RSS    iTunes subscribe
	House of Tanos Podcast 6 episodes available. Latest on 23 Dec 2011, 11:05pm GMT : "Tanos 20111223 New events of 2011" Tanos talks about BDSM in the UK, events, O&P relationships, and more Podcast RSS    iTunes subscribe
	I Want Your Sex 44 episodes available. Latest on 27 Apr 2012, 2:35am GMT : "Hiatus" Tune in and get turned on. Podcast RSS    iTunes subscribe
	Kink On Tap 20 episodes available. Latest on 8 Mar 2011, 7:07pm GMT : "Kink On Tap 70: Playing on the Edge" The smart sexuality netcast for the kinkily inclined. Podcast RSS    iTunes subscribe
	Kinky Sex Radio 20 episodes available. Latest on 28 Feb 2007, 3:00pm GMT : "Kinky Sex Radio - 023 - Naughty Books and Naughty Websites" Let's be clear: our show is NOT porn. It's a frank, honest and sometimes graphic discussion of sex. It's a show about ANY sort of hedonist, alternative and kinky lifestyle. From spanking to role play, beginner to pro - all questions are answered (as best we can). But, it is NOT porn. We can't say that enough. Podcast RSS    iTunes subscribe
	Masocast 84 episodes available. Latest on 29 Apr 2012, 11:29pm GMT : "Finding The Lobster" Sex, BDSM and Kinky Podcast Interviews Podcast RSS    iTunes subscribe
	Mistress Matisse's Podcast 49 episodes available. Latest on 11 Aug 2010, 9:02am GMT : "The New Young Dominants" Mistress Matisse, Seattle sex columnist and professional dominatrix talks about BDSM, polyamory, sex work, and her life as a sexual outlaw. Adults only!More About MeRead My BlogRead My Sex Columns In Seattle Alt-Weekly Paper The StrangerMy Professional Domination WebsiteOther Articles By Me: The Lustlab Archives Podcast RSS    iTunes subscribe
	The New Slave 24 episodes available. Latest on 12 Jun 2008, 6:00pm GMT : "SPECIAL ANNOUNCEMENT" Trying to figure out if I am alone in these feelings. Trying to work towards making myself a better person through behavior modification. Trying to make my Ma'am happy. This is a Journey into the D/s world for first time submissives/slaves. Fears, joys, negotiations, assignments. This Podcast was created using www.talkshoe.com Podcast RSS    iTunes subscribe
	The Oh Team! 7 episodes available. Latest on 5 Oct 2010, 11:00am GMT : "October 4th, 2010 ? NYC Fetish Tribe, Everything To Do With Sex, and Morpheous? Bondage Extravaganza" The Best in Adult radio! Podcast RSS    iTunes subscribe
	Polyamory Weekly 293 episodes available. Latest on 2 May 2012, 2:43pm GMT : "PW 318: The New Monogamy" Tales from the front of responsible non-monogamy from a pansexual, kink-friendly point of view. For the full PW blog, visit www.polyweekly.com Podcast RSS    iTunes subscribe
	SpankingCast 10 episodes available. Latest on 30 Aug 2011, 8:22pm GMT : "SpankingCast Episode 17: ?Short break fantasies?" Abel and Haron's Spanking Podcast Podcast RSS    iTunes subscribe
	SubSpace 10 episodes available. Latest on 5 Aug 2010, 4:18am GMT : "Episode 11 - Morning Service" Covers topics on BDSM and other mundane things from a submissive's perspective. Podcast RSS    iTunes subscribe
	Tie Em Up - Leather Bondage Master 5 episodes available. Latest on 18 Mar 2012, 10:06am GMT : "TEU042 - We're Back (again LOL)" Personal ramblings of a gay leather bondage master in the UK Podcast RSS    iTunes subscribe
	Washi Nawashi 41 episodes available. Latest on 20 Mar 2012, 9:09pm GMT : "Dovcast: Mataleo Teaching 3" The consequences of gravity and other rope nuts Podcast RSS    iTunes subscribe

Sexy Slaves in Costumes

Why So Sad Mr. President.....Happy Birthday....We want you as President in 2012....Laura

Couple Fingered For Beach sex

JUNE 22--By now, you might have heard about the couple arrested Monday evening for engaging in some lewd activity on a Florida beach that was witnessed by several onlookers, including minors.

Well, arrest affidavits prepared by the Treasure Island Police Department detail exactly what Erica Huerta, 21, and Steven Perry, 22, did to end up getting busted for felony lewd and lascivious exhibition.

The couple, pictured in the above mug shots, apparently had been drinking prior to their sandy 7 PM tryst in the shadow of the bar Caddy's On The Beach.

As detailed by cops, Huerta “did intentionally masturbate,” exposed her genitals, engaged in oral sex, and was digitally penetrated. In fact, investigators noted, Huerta was fondled by Perry “for more than 30 minutes.”

Perry, the affidavits note, “attempted to having sex with Huerta several times,” doing this in the “missionary position.” Additionally, “Perry then put a shirt over his head and began to give Huerta oral sex.”

Huerta and Perry were booked into the Pinellas County jail. Perry was freed yesterday after posting $10,000 bond. Huerta remains locked up in lieu of $2500 bond.

According to its Chamber of Commerce, “Treasure Island is one of the shining gems of the greater Tampa/St. Petersburg/Clearwater region.” Its “white sandy beaches, pristine waters, welcoming hotels, unique restaurants and other family-friendly attractions make it the perfect destination for your next vacation.” Some visitors, in fact, are “seduced by the world's best beaches--with white-capped sand, pristine waters and a gentle bay breeze." (2 pages)

Sex in pool gets couple into hot water.

An couple is facing public indecency charges after they allegedly had sex for 30 minutes Sunday afternoon in a community pool while dozens of witnesses, including children, watched the illicit aquatic action.

Connersville Police Department officers were summoned to the Roberts Park Family Aquatic Center (seen at right) after pool patrons complained to the facility’s manager.

Cops initially issued no trespass orders to Myron Helms and Victoria Cross, but prosecutors yesterday decided to charge the pair with the misdemeanor indecency count.

Pool manager Cindy Schwab told cops that she walked up behind Helms and Cross “when she realized what they were doing,” according to a Connersville Police Department report. After telling the pair to stop, Schwab said that Cross moved away from Helms, which was when “she could see the male’s penis.”

The police report states that one concerned adult stood near the trysting couple “to make sure her children didn’t get too close to the subjects.” Additionally, cops noted, “All the witnesses were visibly disturbed by the incident.” While it is unclear what drove the couple to allegedly engage in public fornication, the heat wave gripping the country’s mid-section has forced many sweltering Americans to seek a cool, watery respite.  

Helms, who works as a reserve officer with the neighboring Laurel City Police Department, has been suspended without pay due to the Connersville incident.

In light of the Helms-Cross coupling, municipal workers added additional chemicals to the pool and recycled its water. (2 pages)

Republicans and Racism : The Party of NO is also a Party of Racists.

Republican emailing with pictures of all the presidents. Obama's square is just a black space with two eyeballs.

It's perfectly OK to be a racist in the Republican Party, as long as you keep it 'in house' and pass it off as a joke.
By Ted McLaughlin

Before the mid-sixties,the dominant political party in the South (and in Texas) was the Democratic Party. In fact, at that time, most of those states had virtually a one-party system. I know that in Texas, the only real election was in the Democratic primary, because the November election was a foregone conclusion. Republicans didn't have a chance.


But that changed in the mid-sixties, when President Lyndon Johnson and the Democrats stepped up, bit the bullet, and did the right thing by passing the civil rights laws. It was badly needed and long overdue, but it was also disastrous for the Democratic Party in the South. Sadly, there were still a lot of racists in Texas and the South at that time, and they fled en masse to the Republican Party.

With the addition of this huge volume of racists, the Republican Party in the South not only became competitive, but became the dominant party of the region. It is still that way, although due to changing attitudes the Democrats are now starting to become more competitive in Texas and many Southern states, as more and more whites shed their racism.

But while white racists fled the Democratic Party in the late Sixties, African-Americans flocked to that party. Even to this date, it is not uncommon for African-Americans to vote for Democrats in a block -- many times voting 90-95% Democratic in elections.

Republicans have pushed forward their tokens like Alan Keyes and Michael Steele, trying to give the impression they are a "big tent" party. Then they are amazed that these tokens aren't able to attract African-Americans to their party. They haven't figured out that the tokenism won't work as long as their party harbors and accepts a rabidly racist element.

They not only harbor these racists, but in many instances they allow them to assume positions of power and influence in the party. A couple of fresh instances of this came to light just in the last week.

In South Carolina, a prominent GOP activist named Rusty DePassresponded to a Facebook comment about a gorilla escaping a Columbia zoo by remarking, "I'm sure it's just one of Michelle's ancestors -- probably harmless."

When called to task on this incrediby racist remark, his only defense was "The comment was clearly in jest." He thinks it's OK to be racist, as long as its funny. Well, it's not OK, and it shows just how accepting of racists and racism the Republican Party has become.

Meanwhile in Tennessee, Sherri Goforth, a legislative staffer for Republican State Senator Diane Black, e-mailed a little racist humorto some others in her party. It was a poster that had been knocking around the internet for a while among right wing racists. It shows pictures of all the presidents of the United States -- all but President Obama. Obama's square is just a black space with two eyeballs.

Was Ms. Goforth embarrassed by her obviously racist action? Not in the least. She was just upset because she accidently sent the e-mail to some who weren't racists and she got exposed. She said, “I went on the wrong email and I inadvertently hit the wrong button. I’m very sick about it, and it’s one of those things I can’t change or take back.”

It's perfectly OK to be a racist in the Republican Party, as long as you keep it "in house" and pass it off as a joke. These are not the only instances of Republican racism. There have been many others, like the poster showing the White House lawn turned into a watermelon patch. Is it any wonder that most African-Americans (and other minorities) don't feel comfortable in the Republican Party -- the party that accepts such behavior from its members?

With each succeeding generation, the United States becomes a little less racist. Added to the fact that many whites are shedding their racist tendencies, is the fact that in many parts of this country, the majority of the population is now composed of minorities. Both of these trends are going to continue, and that's bad news for the Republican Party.

The Republican Party must face its internal racism and get rid of it. Failure to do so will ensure they become a party of little significance in the future, and could result in their demise. Dump the racism or go the way of the Whigs!

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Chastity might have huge cachet in the evangelical Christian community. But do young evangelical Christians obey when their parent or pastor preaches "Just say no"?Yes, says Donna Freitas, author of "Sex and the Soul: Juggling Sexuality, Spirituality, Romance, and Religion on America’s College Campuses." That’s why she worries for vice-presidential candidate Sarah Palin’s pregnant teenage daughter Bristol.
Doing research for her latest book, Freitas found that young evangelical Christians put a high priority on abstinence before marriage, even after they’ve already failed to meet their own standards and had sex.
"Chastity has a huge cachet. Even if you can’t uphold it, you really want to," Freitas said. "If they do engage in sexual activity, they tend to feel incredibly remorseful about it and fearful that their community won’t forgive them. It’s still a priority even if they’ve had sex."
Unfortunately, Palin's decision to join the Republicans' presidential ticket has thrust Bristol's situation into the public light, despite pleas from Republicans to treat it as a private matter.
Some Evangelical parents are taking matters into their own hands. In an attempt to prevent Bristol Palin's fall from grace, they are insisting that their teenage daughters wear chastity belts.
A spokeswoman for a website promoting chastity belt manufacturers and suppliers said that they had noticed a considerable increase in the amount of traffic to their site since the revelation of Sarah Palin's daughter's pregnancy.

No Sex, Pleaase. We're Republicans

Acting on a tip from an anti-abortion league, a Maine woman has checked out copies of a sex-education book from two libraries and refuses to give them back. The Lewiston and Auburn Public Libraries have pressed charges.
JoAn Karkos, who says she was “sufficiently horrified by the illustrations and the sexually graphic, amoral abnormal contents,” is willing to go to jail to prove her point.

After checking out It’s Perfectly Normal: Changing Bodies, Growing Up, Sex and Sexual Health, Karkos sent a letter to both libraries, informing them that she did not intend to return the book.
She claimed that it violated the city’s obscenity ordinance and enclosed a check for $20.95 to cover the cost.
Lewiston Library director Rick Speer returned her check, informing her that he would seek help from the police if she refused to bring back the stolen property.

That’s when he received a second letter: “The truth is the contents of the book in question leads to a lot of misery, pain, lack of freedom, and often death.”

This week in court, Karkos represented herself, and argued why the book shouldn’t be available in the library.
Opposing council repeatedly objected, saying “even if this was the most obscene book ever published in the world, it is not a defense against the charge.”

It’s Perfectly Normal was written by Robie H. Harris and illustrated by Michael Emberley.
In 2005, it ranked number one on the American Library Association’s list of most challenged books.
It features cartoon drawings of naked people and covers abstinence, STDs, masturbation and abortion.

Since Karkos’ actions hit the media, the libraries have ordered replacement copies, and patrons’ requests for the book have risen substantially.
Both locations have received a number of free copies in the mail, sent from all over the country. Prompt: Violet Blue

The Fake US Victory in Iraq [How the Bush Regime is Helping McCain]

Political events in Iraq are seldom what they seem. The hand- over by the US military of control of Anbar province, once the heartland of the Sunni rebellion, to Iraqi forces is a case in point. The US will keep 25,000 American soldiers in Anbar, so the extent to which the Iraqi government will really take over is debatable.
But the future of Anbar is a crucial pointer to the fate of Iraq. It is a vast area and one of the few parts of Iraq that is overwhelmingly Sunni.
The Iraqi government is dominated by Shia Islamic parties in alliance with Kurdish nationalists. The vital question now is whether or not this Shia-dominated government can reassure the Sunni minority that they are not going to be overrun as the US withdraws its forces.
The Prime Minister, Nouri al-Maliki, is in a very confident mood. In the past four months he feels he has successfully faced down the Shia militiamen of Muqtada al-Sadr's Mahdi Army by taking back control of Basra, Sadr City and Amarah.
Then he refused to sign a new security accord with the US which President George Bush wanted to see agreed by August 31.
In the past few weeks he has been confronting his Kurdish allies over the future of the oil city of Kirkuk and the town of Khanaqin.
Mr Maliki may be overplaying his hand but there is no doubt that the Iraqi state is becoming more powerful in Iraq and the Mahdi Army, the Americans and the Kurds less so.
The Americans in particular feel that he exaggerates the extent to which his success against the Mahdi Army was because of the new strength of the Iraqi security forces.These troops were doing badly until they received American support.
Nevertheless, Mr Maliki's position is strong. He seems to have realized that he may need the US, but the US also cannot do without him and is in no position to replace him as it did with his predecessor, Ibrahim al-Jaafari.
Much of what the White House is now doing is done to help the Republicans in the presidential election. The aim is to give the impression that Iraq has finally come right for the US and victory is finally in its grasp.
The surge is promoted as the strategy by which the tide was turned and it is true that the Sunni uprising against the US occupation has largely ended.
But it has done so for reasons that have little to do with the surge or American actions of any kind.
Crucial to the success of the government against the Mahdi Army has been the support of Iran. It is they who arranged for the Shia militiamen to go home.
It takes real cheek for Mr Bush to claim yesterday that "Anbar is no longer lost to al-Qa'ida" since during the last presidential election in 2004, he was claiming that the media was exaggerating the success of the insurgents

Palin's Extreme Christian Fundamentalist Views

Videos have surfaced of Palin speaking before her church barely three months before she was tapped for the number-two spot on the Republican ticket, extolling the US intervention in Iraq as a holy war.Addressing the congregation at the church, the Wasilla Assembly of God, in June, Palin declared:
“Pray for our military men and women who are striving to do what is right. Also, for this country, that our leaders, our national leaders, are sending [US troops] out on a task that is from God.
"That’s what we have to make sure that we’re praying for, that there is a plan and that that plan is God’s plan.”
She went on to suggest that her proposal for a natural gas pipeline from Alaska was also part of “God’s plan.”
The pastor of her church, Ed Kalnins, has been recorded warning his parishioners in 2004 that those who voted for Democratic presidential candidate Senator John Kerry could be damned to hell.
Similarly, he denounced those who criticized the Bush administration for its criminal neglect in the face of Hurricane Katrina, stating:
“I hate criticisms towards the president, because it’s like criticisms towards the pastor—it’s almost like, it’s not going to get you anywhere, you know, except for hell. That’s what it’ll get you.”
Kalnins is also a subscriber to the “last days” belief held by a section of Christian fundamentalists that the apocalypse is at hand. He has urged his congregation to be prepared for a mass migration to Alaska, which he believes will be one of the last “refuges” for those fleeing destruction.
In one sermon, Kalnins preached: “We need to think like Jesus thinks. We are in a time and a season of war, and we need to think like that. We need to develop that instinct. We need to develop as believers the instinct that we are at war, and that war is contending for your faith. ... Jesus called us to die. You’re worried about getting hurt? He’s called us to die.”
The rhetoric is consistent with that of a growing faction within the Pentecostal church known as “Joel’s Army,” which directs its appeal primarily to youth in their teens and 20s, casting them as the final generation before Armageddon that must be organized into an army of God.
In some cases, military terminology extends to referring to preachers as “commanders” and clearly suggests that the mission is to impose Christian dominion by force.

Did Palin Have Affair with Her Husband's Business Partner?

John McCain's presidential campaign is threatening a lawsuit against the National Enquirer over a print edition story the tabloid ran today alleging that Gov. Sarah Palin has had an extramarital affair with her husband's business partner.The allegation would normally be dismissed by political observers as the random musings of a supermarket tabloid -- indeed, the McCain campaign said as much in its statements on Wednesday -- except that the paper has built up a reservoir of legitimacy following its earlier reporting on the John Edwards affair.
In a statement to the Huffington Post, a spokesman for the paper, who promised a larger report next week, tapped into that pool of quasi-respect.
"The National Enquirer's coverage of a vicious war within Sarah Palin's extended family includes several newsworthy revelations, including the resulting incredible charge of an affair plus details of family strife when the Governor's daughter revealed her pregnancy.
"Following our John Edwards' exclusives, our political reporting has obviously proven to be more detail-oriented than the McCain campaign's vetting process.
"Despite the McCain camp's attempts to control press coverage they find unfavorable, The Enquirer will continue to pursue news on both sides of the political spectrum."

Sarah Palin: A Conservative 'Saint'

In contrast to Obama -- whose selection of Joe Biden was smart and important in shoring up the Obama Team's gravitas -- Palin has been set up by McCain to be a new kind of 21st century "saint."She has a large, seemingly wonderful family -- juggles her home cooking with running a large state as its chief executive. She has a snow mobile racing husband who is a North Shore oilman and she tackles corrupt "lobbying interests" and their cozy deals with politicos wherever she goes.
It's a great story on many levels. Her husband is even a member of the United Steel Workers. Faint applause on that line though.
But despite my substantive differences with Palin, this performance tonight beat expectations and moved her to a new level.
Her competition at this incredibly flat, low energy confab in St. Paul is thin -- so one could easily argue that she had a lot of room to pull off a success. But that is too cynical.
She did a great job -- and stared her doubters and the challenge down.
There is much about Sarah Palin we don't know yet. Unlike Biden and Obama, we didn't get much time to have our own public vetting of her before McCain's decision -- so there will be more fits and starts and twists and turns as other parts of her life are dredged up, over-analyzed, and judged by the American public.
But this is going to be very close race, particularly if nothing new and surprising shows up on Palin.
What no one will say just yet -- but which I think the McCain folks tried to convey is that "Saint Sarah" just made her real debut in Saint Paul.

Is Sarah Palin Bigger Than McCain?

Whether she broke Democratic presidential nominee Barack Obama's record of 38.4 million viewers for his convention speech in Denver last week remains to be seen. The bigger question could be whether she will outshine the man who put her on the GOP ticket.Sen. John McCain, who accepts the Republican nomination tonight, has been engulfed by the Palin gale since he plucked the obscure 44-year-old governor from the farthest reaches of the continent to be his running mate.
In the five days since, Palin has managed, without doing anything, to steal the focus from both parties' nominees in what was already a historic election. Even Republicans were calling Palin "the hottest ticket on the convention floor" among delegates more interested in her than McCain.
Now an overnight celebrity herself, Palin delivered a homespun justification for her candidacy that sought to hit the touchstones of ordinary voters and play up the likeability quotient that has made her the most popular governor in the United States.
Looking at the signs in the audience declaring, "Hockey Moms 4 Palin," she ad-libbed with a smile, "Know the difference between a hockey mom and a pit bull? Lipstick."
Palin came out like a pit bull. She leveled a swipe at Michelle Obama, saying people in small towns "love their country, in good times and bad, and they're always proud of America."
She took aim at Obama, saying people in small towns like the one she grew up in "don't quite know what to make of a candidate who lavishes praise on working people when they are listening, and then talks about how bitterly they cling to their religion and guns when those people aren't listening.
"We tend to prefer candidates who don't talk to us one way in Scranton and another way in San Francisco."

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How the Republicans screwed America.

Republicans Forever Classy

You would think with the state of affairs that the republicans party is in, with no clear leadership — exception to Limbaugh, Teabaggers, and Becky-po — and no clear message or ideas, the republicans would at least take time to try to re-establish themselves. Not so. Once again they are participating in what they do best, cater to big business.

Corporate America is gambling on the minority in its political giving this year, assuming that Republicans will win big in the November midterm elections, an analysis of campaign finance reports shows…. The change comes as top Republicans lawmakers appeal more directly to business leaders, putting them on notice that the GOP is keeping track of the corporate donations ledger and will remember who stood by the party.

As part of an effort dubbed “Sell the Fight,” House Republican leaders have met privately with corporate executives and lobbyists to argue that their giving has tilted too far toward Democrats and that they need to steer more money to industry-friendly GOP candidates in key races in 2010.

“These corporate leaders and lobbyists have got interests and clients they need to look out for, and they are reading the tea leaves just like everyone else,” said Rep. Greg Walden (Ore.), the deputy chair of the National Republican Congressional Committee, who has made several private pitches to corporate PAC leaders. (h/t Steve Benen)

Of course this is all being done with the audacious hope that the republicans win big in November. Yet, I get the feeling the republicans are not going to do as well as they are aspiring too, not with crazies like Rand Paul. The reason why the republicans are keeping tabs of which business help them financially, is so, you know, they can kill bills in the Senate that are bad for big business but protective of us.

Once again proving that republicans are not for the people, by the people or much less people.

Republican Wingnuts brilliance and how our economy declined.

20 States (w/Wing Nuts) Move to Reclaim Their Sovereignty
I don’t need to bother outlining any of the 20 states that are reclaiming their so called sovereignty, all I need to do is point out how we found ourselves standing at the brink of the abyss. The math is very simple, after 8 years of GOP rule, plus the policy of giving tax breaks to the top 5% of the riches Americans (mostly CEOs), while borrowing money from every other country and then multiply that with the wasted ideology that came from the U.S. Chamber of Commerce (who has advocated for 8 years more tax cuts and less regulations), you get a toxic mix of bullshit. Turns out that was a pretty dangerous combination and we are living through the failure of the GOP’s flawed ideology.

Now that we are all living through this republican created problem, which went global, due to their disgraceful flawed logic, as usual, they are looking for someone to blame. Hey, the Federal government can fit that bill. Of course the Federal government was not an issue when the real person (Bush) allowed us to get to this point of almost imploding while he in office. Why now are they seeking to blame the Federal government? Because Bush catered to the republicans petty cultural wars. For example, Roe vs. Wade. Should a state have the right to supersede a Federal law because a bunch of conservative law makers have issues with abortion? Another example is gay rights. Should the civil rights of gay people be placed in the hands of a state if the law makers are conservative and believe gay people are an abomination?

This outcry for sovereignty is sounding more and more like a way to impede other people’s freedoms and rights. Especially since the only reason it is picking up any steam is because there is currently a Black democrat running the country. It seems incomprehensible for the republicans to believe that some of us would like to move into the 21st century without discussing when bread cost a nickle and the good old days. Its a matter of who you are speaking to really. Not all of us remember the past as the good old days. What was so good about the KKK? What was so good about segregation? What was so good about women using coat hangers or going to sleazy doctors to have an abortion? State’s looking for sovereignty is no different than asking us to go back into time and allow all kinds of oppressions to be an acceptable way of life, depending on the state you live in. It seems more like we have a group of republicans that want to do away with the United from the words United States. After all it took the Federal government for slavery to finally come to its demise.

All twenty states have some form of school zero-tolerance law (the kind of”no-nonsense” law that got 33 Philadelphia kindergartners suspended in 2002). All except four of these states practice Capital Punishment. Fifteen have had police-induced taser deaths since 2001. Twelve prohibit smoking in private establishments, and almost all of them have some form of gambling prohibition (indeed…three even consider playing online poker for money to be a felony).

In reality, these states are far from”cutting edge” when it comes to the defense of personal liberties. And their resolutions are far from making a lasting change on the face of American politics as we know it.

For Constitutionalists and libertarians the 20 states claiming sovereignty is probably a sweet wet dream come true. They see this as a return to the constitution and what our founding father’s had envisioned. Of course I must point out the obvious, which is the simple fact that our visionary forefather’s were slave owners. Let’s not deny the undeniable truth that since that era we have come a long way from a lot of what was the acceptable practices of our forefathers. The constitution is the floor plans on how we should conduct ourselves as a nation; but; using it to interpret all situations is no different than using the Bible to interpret all facets of our lives, which may work for a wing nut but does nothing for the more rational and sane. For the constitutionalists and libertarians to ride this pony shows how possibly racist they really are. That they would jeopardy people’s personal freedoms for a right wing agenda, even if it is wrapped up in the constitution, is very telling in deed.

That these resolutions were proposed doesn’t mean they represent consensus in the state legislature either. Like Dennis Kucinich’s calls for Bush’s impeachment several times in the last few years, these resolutions may only reflect the beliefs of a limited minority in state legislatures.

Many of the media outlets covering the state sovereignty movement are elated at the news. They see this maneuver as a crucial step toward guaranteeing the personal freedoms laid out in the Constitution.

But are these states really the bastion of freedom and liberty?

The short answer is no.

Fortunately this whole we will be set free moment for the wing nut tribe is no more than a happy hour. The fact that a bunch of republican wing nuts have the nerve to cram this crap down the throats of the American people while we are in the midst of an economic melt down only goes to show their insensitivity. Outside of cleaning up the mess from their failed ideology, now we must shut down their campaign to take us further into a hole with cultural wars? I for one am getting a little tire of everything being about them and their pathetic marginal party.

Fear mongering Republicans

Do Conservatives Have Smaller Brains?

Some people’s brains are better suited to introspection than others -

A specific region of the brain appears to be larger in individuals who are good at turning their thoughts inward and reflecting upon their decisions, according to new research published in the journal Science. This act of introspection -- or "thinking about your thinking" -- is a key aspect of human consciousness, though scientists have noted plenty of variation in peoples' abilities to introspect.1

Neuroscientist Stephen Fleming and a team of UK researchers have found that people with more gray and white matter microstructures in a particular area of the prefrontal cortex tended to be more introspective, which is to say, better at evaluating their own performance.

Conservatives are generally not introspective.

They tend to have difficulty admitting when they make mistakes, they seem oblivious to their own behavior, and the consequences of it, and tend to blame others.

Case and point: The enormous debt the US is struggling with now was created when the Conservatives were in control of the Congress and the White House. Yet they cannot admit this, and instead, blame the new Congress and White House.

There is widespread agreement that the current economic crisis has been brought about by poor leadership and greed.

In a recent Globe & Mail newspaper article, Professor Henry Mintzberg, of McGill University in Montreal, suggests that much of the blame for economic failure can be tied directly to the failure of management education.
Professor Mintzberg goes on to point out that lack of introspection in corporate America prevents leaders from learning from their own mistakes.2

To this day former President George W Bush has never admitted he did anything wrong.

Was his failure as a leader due to having a smaller prefrontal cortex that blocked him from being introspective?

Quick to anger -

The ventral area of the prefrontal cortex is known to be crucial for constraining impulsive outbursts. Persons with a predisposition to anger and aggression have been found to have decreased activity in this brain area.

In August of 2004, Darin Dougherty, M.D., an assistant professor of psychiatry at Harvard Medical School, submitted a study, reported in the Vol. 61 No. 8, of the Archives of General Psychiatry.3

In this study, when the subjects started getting angry, blood flow increases in the left ventromedial prefrontal cortex were significantly greater in the healthy control subjects than in the subjects who were prone to anger.

Attaching emotional content to logistical situations is a behavior that is often exhibited by Conservatives.

If you watch Rush Limbaugh or Sean Hannity, or Ann Coulter, you will see that they repeatedly attach emotional content to logistical behavior. And, the emotion they attach most often is anger.

Do these people have decreased brain activity? Is the blood just not flowing to their brains?

Impaired ability -

Since the 1980s, scientists have correlated damage to the prefrontal cortex with psychopathic behavior and the inability to make morally and socially acceptable decisions.

Researchers at the University of Sweden have found the prefrontal cortex to be precisely the area of the brain that is impaired in murderers, rapists, and other violent criminals who repeatedly re-offend. At the November 1999 annual meeting of the Society for Neuroscience, Asa Bergvall and her colleagues presented findings on their study of violent offenders.4

The brains of the violent offenders performed normally in every task except the one, which taps prefrontal function, "In that," says Bergvall, "It was as if they were retarded."

They had an impaired ability to shift their attention in order to view the world in a different way – a function linked to the lateral prefrontal cortex.

Former president George W Bush was often called retarded, because of his impaired ability to shift his view of the world.

But he was no violent criminal.

Neurology professor Dr. Antonio Damasio and colleagues at the University of Iowa College of Medicine reported on two cases of early brain damage to the prefrontal cortex. As adults, both patients showed an almost total lack of guilt.5

University of Southern California psychopathologist Adrian Raine has documented prefrontal damage in people with Antisocial Personality Disorder, which is characterized by irresponsibility and deceitfulness, lack of emotional depth and remorse.6

His article in the Archives of General Psychiatry, February 1, 2000 stated that, "The antisocial men actually had 11-14% less brain tissue volume in their prefrontal cortexes, compared to normal males – a deficit of about two teaspoons' worth."

What if George W. Bush has 5-6% less brain tissue volume in his prefrontal cortexes?

His presidency was certainly characterized by irresponsibility, deceitfulness, and lack of remorse.

Was this because he was one teaspoon short of a full brain?

The chicken or the egg -

Conservatives are called Conservatives because they share similar beliefs. Consequently, they exhibit similar behaviors.
Are their beliefs and behaviors similar because they lack the ability for introspection?

Do people become Conservatives because they have smaller prefrontal cortexes?

1 - http://www.sciencedaily.com/... Brain Matter Linked to Introspective Thoughts: Structure of Prefrontal Cortex Helps Humans Think About One's Own Thinking

2 - http://www.theglobeandmail.com/...
3 - http://archpsyc.ama-assn.org/...
4 - http://www.fi.edu/...
5 - http://www.crimetimes.org/...
6 - http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/...

DO ATHEISTS HAVE BETTER SEX?

This piece was originally published on AlterNet.

Leaving religion doesn't change people's sexual behavior very much -- but it vastly improves how they feel about it.

Do atheists have better sex?

Yes.

According to science, that is -- and more specifically, according to the recently released "Sex and Secularism" study.

In January 2011, organizational psychologist Darrel Ray, Ed.D. (psychologist for 30 years and author of The God Virus as well as two books on psychology) and Amanda Brown (undergraduate at Kansas University, focused on sexuality and sex therapy) conducted a sex survey of over 14,500 people -- atheists, agnostics, and other people in the secular community. The survey was looking at religion, atheism, and sex: how religion affects sex, how leaving religion affects sex, whether lifelong atheists feel differently about sex than people who have recently deconverted, and so on. The report -- "Sex and Secularism: What Happens When You Leave Religion?" -- is on the Internet, and if you want all 46 pages of the naughty details, including the charts and graphs and personal stories, you can download it free (you just need to register on the site).

But if you just want to know the gist?

Leaving religion improves people's sex lives.

Vivien Leigh and History about her.

Vivien LEIGH [1913-1967] 
Actress, real name Vivian Mary HARTLEY born 5 November 1913, Darjeeling, India.  Died 7 July 1967, London. [tuberculosis]
 
The early life of Vivien LEIGH
 
Vivien LEIGH was born 'Vivian Mary HARTLEY' on the evening of Wednesday 5th November, 1913 in her parents home at Darjeeling, India.
Her father was Ernest Richard HARTLEY, born on the Isle of Islay, Argyll in Scotland on 19 February 1882, the last of seven children born to Joseph Nicholson HARTLEY and Elizabeth HOULGATE. Joseph was an Administrator in the Civil Service and had been born at Pontefract, Yorkshire on 18th June 1848 to Joseph HARTLEY Snr. and Mary POOLE who had married at Rothwell, Yorkshire on 30th May 1829. Joseph Nicholson Jnr. married Elizabeth at Pontefract on 9th June 1874 [see Annie HOULGATE m.John HARTLEY at York 1886]. Joseph Nicholson Jnr. died at Bridlington on 25th November 1929.
Further back on the family tree, Joseph Snr. appears to have been born at Rothwell on 13th June 1802 to Joseph HARTLEY and Mary THOMPSON [siblings: William [1798], Samuel [1800] and Anne [1804]]. Joseph and Mary were married at Rothwell on 2nd May 1797. Back one generation, Joseph appears to have been born at Rothwell in October 1769 to Joseph HARTLEY and Sarah WARD [sibling: Abraham [1773]. Joseph and Sarah were married at Rothwell on 25th April 1756.

As a child, Ernest loved Rudyard Kipling books about India. Inspired, he moved to Calcutta, India at the age of 22 in search of a career, fortune and adventure. He became involved with a brokerage firm, Piggot Chapman and Co., spent time racing horses, playing cricket and polo, and acted in The Calcutta Dramatic Society.
Vivian's mother, Gertrude Mary Frances YACKJEE [pictured here with a young Vivian], was born in Darjeeling India, on 5th December 1888, the daughter of Michael John YACKJEE and Mary I [Teresa?] ROBINSON [m.1872] [siblings: Mary Patricia [1874], Francis Stanislaus [1880] and Alice Mary [1882]. Friends of the Hartleys said that Gertrude, with her dark hair, sparkling blue eyes, and peach-like skin [looks Vivian would inherit], was very beautiful in her youth, more so than Vivian. The YACKJEE side of the family is said to have had Armenian ancestors, which may have genetically influenced Vivian's dark Eastern looks [Armenia is east of the Black Sea, north of Iran] but there are also claims the name is Indian or Afghan. There is a Dah Yakchee Khana in Afghanistan, also a Yak Chee in Malaysia. The surname could also be Scottish [see Joseph M [1912; New York, below]
Several other members of the YACKJEE - YAKJEE - YACKJE - YAKCHEE family lived at Calcutta, including:
Joseph P. [m.Elizabeth] and their son James [b.1883] and daughter Mary Elizabeth [b.1879];
Edwin George or Peter John [m.Rosamond] and their son Ernest Raymond [b.1882] [this person is thought to have actually been Pascal John, below]
Pascal John [b.July 1855] [m.Constance Rosamund RANDOLPH in 1872] and their son Ernest Raymond [1882] who married Bessie ARGYLL, their daughter Beatrice Maud [b.1872], and daughter Mary Randolph [b.1885] who married Clarence Halford MACKRODT.

Michael may have married twice; there was a Lilian May born to Michael and Mary Susan in 1876.

Joseph M YACKJEE [NB: there was a Joseph YACKJEE at 300 East Seventyfourth Street, New York in 1902] b.1877 at Bedford, England, was aboard the 'Majestic' on his way back to New York in August 1912. He had probably attended Vivian's parents' wedding in April [see below]. He may be the father of Emily M E YAKCHEE [YACKJEE] who married Cyril J STUBBLEFIELD at Kensington in June 1932. He is probably also the father of Walter W YACKJEE born New York on 2nd October 1902. Joseph called himself 'Scottish'.
Gertrude is also thought to be from Irish Catholic descent [through Mary I [Teresa?] ROBINSON] and her parents are thought to the Vivian's grandparents mentioned at Waterville Co.Kerry, Ireland [see September 1920 below].
Meeting originally in Calcutta, Vivian's parents travelled to London where they were married at Kensington Catholic Church on 9th April 1912. They then returned to India and settled in Darjeeling, a city within site of Mount Everest.
A year after their marriage, Vivian Mary HARTLEY was born, 5th November 1913, 'a most enchanting little girl with wonderful colouring' [Vivian was one of Ernest's family names]. Enjoying elements of fantasy and drama as a child, she was encouraged to read early on and became fond of authors such as Rudyard Kipling, Hans Christian Anderson, and Lewis Carroll, as well as ancient Greek mythology, which she learnt by heart. She and her family lived at Alipore, Calcutta. After Ernest joined the Indian Cavalry, the family moved to Mussoorie, Darjeeling, later Ootacamund, Bangalore. Vivian debuted on stage at the age of three as the shepherdess in 'Little Bo Peep'.
Vivian moved to England with her family at the age of 6 in 1920, only ever to return to India once, briefly in 1964. Her parents had been having marital troubles for some time in India.
In September 1920, Vivian visited her grandparents at Waterville, Co.Kerry Ireland. Later on 21st September she was placed in the Convent of the Sacred Heart at Roehampton, and did not see her mother again for almost a year and a half, her father much longer than that. She was educated at the Convent for the subsequent 8 years, and 'from early on she showed poised, self -containment, and the ability to sustain a private existence.' She was able to keep a pet kitten with her at the Convent, adopted from her Irish grandmother. There she met Maureen O'Sullivan, later to become a famous Hollywood actress.
Her first stage appearances at school were in Shakespeare's A Midsummer Night's Dream [playing the fairy Mustardseed], and in The Tempest [as Miranda]. Her favourite actor was far from being a serious actor; he was the comedy actor, George Robey. She studied ballet, played the cello in the school orchestra, and excelled at piano - taking her music exam at the Royal Academy of Music when she was a teenager. Vivian was also fascinated early on in different languages, Egyptian history, and learned to speak French fluently.
Vivian was so tiny and delicately made, with wonderful large blue eyes and chestnut wavy hair nearly to her waist, the tiny retrousse nose, the only complexion ever seen that really was like a peach.

In 1926, her parents visited from India and shared a holiday with her in Ireland. She enjoyed the trout fishing and walking. Her father was later to move back to Europe after the Wall Street Crash, in 1929
Vivian stayed briefly at a sister convent of the Sacred Heart in San Remo, the capital of the Italian Riviera, during 1928-29. At the age of 15, she went to Paris to spend a term at a finishing school in Auteuil. She was the youngest student in the school, however she was already moving from the awkward youth phase into a charming, dark haired beauty that would later bring much fame. The purpose of the finishing school in France was 'to teach French - language and literature - and to send the girls out into the world with a good marriage set firmly in their sights. At Christmas of that year, 1929, Vivian was chosen to be the heroine of the school play. Encouraged by her schoolmistress, she was inspired to work on her diction and acting abilities. This early help pushed her further towards an interest in a career on stage. Her final two years of education were at yet another finishing school, this time in the Bavarian Alps, which concluded her schooling in June of 1931 - halfway towards her 17th birthday. During this time, she developed an interest in the visual arts and continued to study languages - notably French and German.
In January of 1932 Vivian met the very handsome Herbert Leigh HOLMAN whilst staying at her aunt's in Teignmouth, England. He was a man 13 years her senior, but possessed an English charm and intelligence that Vivian found captivating. He resembled Leslie Howard, one of Vivian's favourite actors. Born in 1900, Leigh was educated at Harrow and Jesus College, Cambridge and, like his father, practiced as a Barrister-at-Law. An attachment quickly developed between the two and they spent several months courting and corresponding. In May of 1932, Vivian began to study at RADA, The Royal Academy of Dramatic Art in London. Life was looking up - she was about to marry a man she greatly admired, and she was studying acting in a well know academy. Much to her dismay, Vivian abandoned the academy, at Leigh's request, once they became serious about marriage.
The wedding between Leigh and Vivian took place on December 20th 1932, at St. James Catholic Cathedral. Shortly after they returned from their honeymoon in Austria, Vivian obtained Leigh's permission to return to RADA and she continued to study acting. A year passed and Vivian gave birth to a daughter on October 10th 1933, naming her Suzanne. At this point, things seemed to have settled into domestic life for Vivian. Her destiny would not remain domestic for long however, she had just heard of the chance for a small part in a new film entitled Things are Looking Up… [Copyright]


Filmography
1935     LOOK UP AND LAUGH
1935     THINGS ARE LOOKING UP
1935     THE VILLAGE SQUIRE
1937     DARK JOURNEY
1937     FIRE OVER ENGLAND
1937     STORM IN A TEACUP
1938     21 DAYS TOGETHER
1938     SIDEWALKS OF LONDON
1938     A YANK AT OXFORD
1939     GONE WITH THE WIND
1940     WATERLOO BRIDGE
1941     THAT HAMILTON WOMAN
1946     CAESAR AND CLEOPATRA
1947     GENTLEMAN'S AGREEMENT
1948     ANNA KARENINA
1951     A STREETCAR NAMED DESIRE
1955     THE DEEP BLUE SEA
1961     THE ROMAN SPRINGS OF MRS. STONE
1965     SHIP OF FOOLS

Biography writer Dale O'Connor daleoc@interaccess.com If a film were made of the life of Vivien Leigh, it would open in India just before World War I, where a successful British businessman could live like a prince. In the mountains above Calcutta, a little princess is born. Because of the outbreak of World War I, she is 6 years old the first time her parents take her to England. Her mother thinks she should have a proper English upbringing and insists on leaving her in a convent school- even though Vivien is two years younger than any of the other girls at the school. The only comfort for the lonely child is a cat that was in the courtyard of the school that the nuns let her take up to her dormitory. Her first and best friend at the school is an 8-year-old girl, 'Maureen O'Sullivan' who has been transplanted from Ireland. In the bleakness of a convent school, the two girls can recreate in their imaginations the places they have left and places where they would some day like to travel. After Vivien has been at the school for 18 months, her mother comes again from India and takes her to a play in London. In the next six months, Vivien will insist in seeing the same play 16 times. In India, the British community entertained themselves at amateur theatricals and Vivien's father was a leading man. Pupils at the English convent school are eager to perform in school plays. It's an all girls school so some of the girls have to play the male roles. The male roles are so much more adventurous. Vivien's favorite actor is Leslie Howard and when she is 19 she marries an English barrister who looks very much like him. The year is 1932. Vivien's best friend from that convent school has gone to California where she is making movies. Vivien has an opportunity to play a small role in an English film, "Things Are Looking Up" (1935). She has only one line but the camera keeps returning to her face. The London stage is more exciting than the movies being filmed in England and the most thrilling actor on that stage is Laurence Olivier. At a party, Vivien finds out about a stage role, "The Green Sash", where the only requirement is that the leading lady be beautiful. The play has a very brief run, but now she is a real actress. An English film is going to be made about Elizabeth I. Laurence gets the role of a young favorite of the queen who is sent to Spain. Vivien gets a much smaller role as a lady-in-waiting of the queen who is in love with Laurence's character. In real life, both fall in love while making the film, "Fire Over England", that is shown in British and American movie theaters in 1937. In 1938, Hollywood wants Laurence to play Heathcliff in "Wuthering Heights". Vivien, who has just recently read "Gone With The Wind", thinks that the role of Scarlett O'Hara is the first role for an actress that would be really exciting to bring to the screen. She sails to America for a brief vacation. In New York, she gets on a plane for the first time to rush to California to see Laurence. They have dinner with Myron Selznick the night that his brother David Selznick is burning Atlanta on a backlot of MGM. Actually they are burning old sets that go back to the early days of silent films to make room to recreate an Atlanta of the 1860s. Vivien is 26 when "Gone With The Wind" makes a sweep of the Oscars in 1939. So let's show 26-year-old Vivien walking up to the stage to accept her Oscar and then as the Oscar is presented the camera focuses on Vivien's face and through the 1990s magic of altering images the 26-year-old face merges into the face of Vivien at age 38 getting her second Best Actress Oscar for portraying Blanche DuBois in "A Streetcar Named Desire". She wouldn't have returned to America to make that film had not Laurence been going over there to do a film based on Theodore Dreiser's novel "Sister Carrie". The film was called "Carrie". Laurence tells their friends that his motive for going to Hollywood to make films is to get enough money to produce his own plays for the London stage. He even has his own theater there, the St. James. Now Sir Laurence, with a seat in the British House of Lords, is accompanied by Vivien the day the lords are debating about whether the St James should be torn down. Breaking protocol, Vivien speaks up and is escorted from the House of Lords. The publicity helps raise the funds to save the St. James. Throughout their two-decade marriage Laurence and Vivien were acting together on the stage in London and New York. Vivien was no longer Lady Olivier when she performed her last major film role, "The Roman Spring of Mrs. Stone" (1962)
Spouse Laurence Olivier (1940 - 1960) (divorced) 'Hubert Leigh Holman' (1932 - 1940) (divorced) (barrister) Trivia (October 1997) Ranked #48 in Empire (UK) magazine's "The Top 100 Movie Stars of All Time" list. Suffered from manic depression Had one daughter with Leigh Holman. Lived with John Merivale from 1959 to her death in 1967. Biography (print) Vivien Leigh: A Biography, Anne Edwards, R00338 02407 Vivien Leigh: A Biography, Hugo Vickers, R00699 92117 Personal quotes "It's much easier to make people cry than to make them laugh." Talking to critics about her reviews for "The Mask of Virtue" (1935), her second play on the London stage: "Some critics saw fit to say that I was a great actress. I thought that was a foolish, wicket thing to say because it put such an onus and such a responsibility onto me, which I simply wasn't able to carry." "People who are very beautiful make their own laws." Portrayed in Gable and Lombard (1976) Salary Gone with the Wind (1939) $25,000 (USA) Article "Empire" (UK), October 1997, Iss. 100, pg. 196, by: Ian Freer and Jake Hamilton, "The Top 100 Movie Stars of All Time "Copyright © 1990-1998 The Internet Movie Database Ltd  The Internet Movie Database

Gingrich: The Wacky Platform of Bat Shit Crazy Continues

This is just a never ending nightmare that has once again popped up to scare us. Gingrich is still getting face time to promote his bull shit. Some one lied to Newt, this is not going to give him relevance for a run at being the president in 2012. Nor, will I be rushing to the store to buy his tome of bull shit. It doesn’t even matter that there is no real comparison between what happened with Stalin (killed millions of his own people) and Hitler (who killed millions of Jews) to remotely compare with the Obama administration. It’s just constant fear mongering, with a dash of racist southern strategy, with these ass holes.

Nope, its just feed the loons all the time at Fox full of shit News. There was a time when the fringe elements of the right where kept out of the political discourse, but now, since the election of president Obama, its open door season for all kinds of wacky fringe shit daily.

…Sean Hannity ridiculed Charlie Sheen for spinning September 11 conspiracy theories on Jones’s show. In May 2007, Michelle Malkin argued that Ron Paul’s associations with Jones and the 9/11 Truth movement should disqualify him from participating in GOP primary debates. Last year, Bill O’Reilly ran outtakes from Jones’s interview with fellow Truther Willie Nelson on a segment about “the dumbest things that have been said in the past three months.” But, since Obama’s election, the ridicule has died down. (Source: The Republic)

Doesn’t matter that the moralist, republicans/conservatives, have a wife cheater, liar, border-line criminal making the case for this over the top bull shit. Hell no, now days if its coming from the right and it’s extreme, racist and filled with imaginary conspiracies its get reported as empirical fact.