2009 December 26

Down On The Street: Handstyles ‘n Signs Again

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Conjured by o~ SeMeN SPeRmS ~o on December 26, 2009

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Are You Ready For ’010?

✖ USDA Classifies PETA as a Terrorist Threat

The USDA has just released a new security profile form (pdf), which it distributes to animal experimentation facilities. The form reveals that PETA has been classified as a terrorist threat by the US government–potentially opening up its members to prosecution as terrorists. According to Green is the New Red, an eco-activist rights website, the document was given to all facilities that conduct experiments on animals. They were asked to disclose whether they were the target of attacks or harassment from a list of terrorist groups–one of which, evidently, is PETA.
✖ Design the Next NYC Condom Package!
✖ Design a Condom Wrapper, City Asks

If you have ever wanted to put your personal imprint on that most personal of items, here is your chance, thanks to New York City. On Tuesday, the Department of Health and Mental Hygiene, which unveiled the city’s highly popular first official condom on Valentine’s Day 2007 and followed it up with a redesign a year later, invited New Yorkers to submit designs for a “special, limited-edition” New York City condom wrapper that will be unveiled in the fall.
✖ Sir your head is shaped like a penis
✖ Why Men Fake Orgasms

The exact percentage of men who fake orgasms varies depending on the source. The ABC News Primetime Live Poll: The American Sex Survey (2004) reported that eleven percent of men surveyed said they had faked orgasms. A study by Muehlenhard and Shippee of students at the University of Kansas (2009) found that as many as twenty-five percent of men surveyed reported that they faked orgasms on occasion.
✖ CREW UNVEILS ITS LIST OF TOP TEN ETHICS SCANDALS OF 2009 | Citizens for Responsibility and Ethics in Washington
✖ 29% of Americans say religion ‘out of date’

A Gallup poll of Americans’ attitudes towards religion released on Christmas Eve found significant recent increases in those responding either that they have no religious preference, that religion is not very important in their lives, or that they believe religion “is largely old-fashioned or out of date.”
✖ The Man Who Conned The Pentagon
✖ Porn for the Blind

Thanks Carlen Altman
✖ U.N. Report Says Counterterrorism Measures ‘Risk Unduly Penalizing Transgender Persons’

“Enhanced immigration controls that focus attention on male bombers who may be dressing as females to avoid scrutiny make transgender persons susceptible to increased harassment and suspicion.”
✖ IGGY POP of the Stooges, on being inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame

“Am I still cool? Or is that over now?”
✖ Climate summit most chaotic show on earth

“I can’t remember an occasion when more people of power and influence came together on a more important issue and went away with so little to show for it.”