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RIP Barbara Billingsley

I've always thought she was the best TV mom ever. The H2 has her very memorable jive appearance on Airplane. Florence Henderson was just plain weird, going on TV shows decades after The Brady Bunch to talk about how groundbreaking it was that she was filmed in bed with her fictional husband. Then there's her affair with "Greg Brady." Shirley Jones' mascara swerved so far into Liza Minnelli in Cabaret territory that her eyes verged on Sixties op-art bathtub grip flowers.

Nope. Give me Mrs. Cleaver and her collared dresses and pearls. She would have been at the Tea Party, trying to get Eddie Haskell thrown out of the Senate.

June: Ward, where's the Beaver?
Ward: Heh heh.

For more female beauty, go check out Classic Liberal's Fascistic Internet Creep with Liz Hurley. Her face has a lot more character than such creatures as Megan Fox. She's really unusual looking for a beauty, but that makes her more beautiful.

I often thought of Barbara at college, because of Billings-Lee:

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Rand Paul’s Dabbling in Aqua Buddhism Re-Emerges as Campaign Issue

First, full disclosure. When I and my close friends were in college, we dabbled in a religio-philosophy that we dubbed Cochonism, from the French word for pig, based in reverence for the twin deities of Sleep and Beer, and containing an ironized infusion of Spanish machismo. I was also inducted into the Priests of Odin, a congregation whose values were in significant alignment with those of the Cochonists.

Now Rand Paul's opponent has attacked his dalliance with Aqua Buddhism in campaign debate. Via Ed Morrissey, the shocking video:

Earlier, the Taiwanese animation of Aqua Buddha (at about 40 sec mark):

So far, the SPLC has not linked any Aqua Buddhist directly to terrorism.

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Bloopers and Boners

Via Townhall:

Best typo ever?

Writing for the print newspaper is one thing. You’ll have an editor and at least one copy editor reading your copy before it gets printed.

Blogging for a Web site? You’re on your own. You can’t count on spell-check to save you. And they haven’t invented fact-check, far as I know.

Amanda Hess, a reporter who blogs about “sex and gender at work, in bed, and on the street” for TBD.com, a Web site in Washington, D.C., scribed quite possibly the world’s worst best typo a couple days ago. In a post about HIV-positive black men, she wrote:

“one in three black men who have sex with me is HIV positive.“

Ummmm.

Errrrrrrr.

Get me rewrite!

Within minutes, someone tweeted about her mistake. What she meant to write was “one in three black men who have sex with men is HIV positive.”

What a difference one letter makes.

Photo via The Frisky.

Spare us the snark, though, Huber, considering the number of stories that get broken by blogs these days that wouldn't have to, if the MSM were up to doing its job.

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Catholic Priests Paid People To Rape Their Own Children. Oh, Wait . . .

that would be left-celebrated "sexologist" Alfred Kinsey:

White says her father and grandfather were paid by Kinsey and that Kinsey was aware of what her father was doing to her. She recalls that her father filmed some of those sessions and sent the home movies to Kinsey. She also witnessed Kinsey handing her grandfather a check.

"In 1943, when I was nine," White told WND, "I found a sheet of paper that had boxes on it and my father was checking off things he was doing to me. He grabbed it away from me and put it in a brown envelope.

"It was a form with little boxes down the left side of the page, and a list of statements describing sexual acts. He was supposed to check things off, whether he did that or not.

"One of the statements included the words 'timed orgasm.' I didn't know what 'orgasm' meant, so I asked him and he told me. That's why he was using a stopwatch.

My bad.

Here's the Kinsey Institute's whitewash job on the movie, Kinsey, a Fox Searchlight Production.

Oh, and Alex Knepper, soon-to-be editor of a niche conservative pedophile and diaper fetishist mag.

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I got a new toy

If you haven't noticed by my Twitter posts lately I've been in fangirl mode and I am not ashamed. :)

My current fangirl obsession is the tv show Haven and Eric Balfour who plays Duke Crocker.

So when I got my new toy (my mom and I gave each other our Christmas presents early...I bought her a new cell phone, she finally has a camera and she bought me some really nifty new software) I'm learning the software a little at a time...and this was my first attempt at doing a slide show. I already had a bunch of Eric stuff done and I had a song picked out so he's what the show is about.

If you're not into Eric...I understand (I don't really but, I'll overlook it.:) ) but watch just to appreciate the incredible amount of time and energy I put into it ...oh and also...I learned new cuss words!!

Anyhoo....I miss you guys and thought I'd drop by and say HEY!!

Oh I forgot....Eric TWEETED me!! Nearly died from a fangirl heart attack!!!

Dede

Sometimes stuff rumbles around in my brain that's longer than 140 characters and, well......twitlonger just seems like cheating. :)

Sunday Intentions, Bleg, and Thanks

The latest word on BJ is that he's back at home and doing pretty well. Please keep him in your prayers and keep checking in on the Facebook site that JD put up for him. Send him your best wishes.

Please add your own intentions in comments.

Da Techguy is chauffering Stacy to various locations in PA, NY and possibly VA, but needs funds for the journey. Check out his latest reports, and Stacy's bleg.

Thanks to Dan Riehl for linking us up! There's lots of good stuff at his site, but in case anyone was thinking that he was slamming Stacy and Pete, here's his explanation. That said, shoe leather has its charms. I've been trying to get DioGuardi's folks to answer some questions for me so that I can feature him as my portion of Ace's Be The Wave program, but they don't answer. Ace was also at Bielat's HQ.

If you search DioGuardi for images in Google, they are almost all of this other DioGuardi, [via a commenter, his daughter!] for occult reasons:

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Probably Not Going To Be a Lifetime Movie

Woman who killed boyfriend by sitting on him gets probation.

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New Group Term (Collective Noun) for “Decapitations” Needed

A "rash"?

A rash of decapitations and other gruesome killings have hit Tijuana since Mexican President Felipe Calderon visited the border city last week and called it a success in his drug war.

Little ointment ought to clear that up. But I do love Herb Alpert, so here's a performance of Tijuana Taxidermist:

Another decapitation in the news, from . . . Cordoba.

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