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* The government of Syria has taken to firing on people a** they leave mosques and is arresting children to punish the parents.

* Despite Standard and Poors saying that if we would not raise the debt ceiling, they would downgrade us to B+, Bachman is claiming that the only reason we got downgraded at all was because we raised the debt ceiling instead of defaulting. O.o This got applause and no negative response from the conservative press, despite it being absolutely known to be contrary to fact.

* Meanwhile, Cantor is rallying congressional Republicans to resist pressure from the business community to compromise and make sane economic policy that would help rather than hurt the economy, presumably on the grounds that ideology is way more important than doing what everyone knows is the right thing. Hint: if labor unions, most reputable economists, and wall street are all agreeing on something, and the only people arguing against are faith based ideologues with no facts or evidence, odds are pretty good it's true. Just saying.

* Mitt Romney, when confronted by an angry crowd calling for taxes for corporations, pointed out that corporations are people so shouldn't be taxed. O.o

* Rick "frothy residue" Santorum, despite being firmly against gay rights in the United states, came out last night for gay rights in the Middle east. O.o (I will stop including "frothy residue when he stops calling LGB folk the equivalent of *****.)

* Hector had more than a week of getting plenty of sleep and eating with minimum coaxing, but the last three days he's been escalating. I ended up giving him his anxiety meds tonight. Let's hope it's enough.

* Why is it always look psychotic on my driver's license?

* I gave up on the execrable Teen Wolf ages ago. Apparently, sparkindarkness didn't: http://www.fangsforthefantasy.com/2011/08/teen-wolf-episode-10.html

* Even the idea of deep fried butter on a stick makes me gag.

* This thing critiquing the Savage Beauty exhibit has a lot of complicated things to say that I'm going to be turning over in my head: http://thegloss.com/fashion/alexander-mcqueen-deserved-a-better-exhibit-than-savage-beauty/

* Talk about a life worth living! Rest in peace "White Mouse" Nancy Wake: http://www.latimes.com/news/obituaries/la-me-nancy-wake-20110810,0,1866093.story?track=rss

If someone just told me about her, I'd have thought she was a glorious fiction.

"France's junior minister for veterans affairs, Marc Laffineur, hailed Wake on Monday as "an exceptional woman whose commitment to liberty was matched only by her courage and tenacity in the face of the Nazi occupation. Nancy Wake was an intrepid Resistance fighter, a genius saboteur and spy, who gave everything in her fight to rescue France.""

* Colbert shows you his ads for Rick "Parry:" http://www.colbertnation.com/the-colbert-report-videos/394520/august-11-2011/colbert-super-pac---rick-parry-with-an--a--for-america