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Bunnie of the Week: Jessica Rose

Posted: 29th September 2010 by Jon in IMAGES, LADIEs
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Jessica is a very experienced model in the Los Angeles, CA area, specifically located in the Santa Clarita Valley, about 30 miles north of downtown LA.

Rose does all types of modeling including:
high fashion, avant-garde, editorial, commercial, retro, pinup, swimsuit, and alt. She Prides  herself on being one of the most versatile and diverse models out there. “I HAVE BEEN TOLD I AM A CHAMELEON! I love the challenge of trying to create a new look at each of my shoots/projects. I’m always up for something new! My PASSION is modeling, I LOVE to do it, so I am willing to model most styles as long as I am modeling something! Sorry but I don’t do nudes, semi-nudes, or implied nudes.”

Please send me a message if you are interested in booking me for a project. I am doing mostly paid work nowadays, but some limited TFP/CD if it will result in a tear sheet or you are an excellent photographer with something new to add to my book, have an amazing concept, lots of exposure to offer, etc.
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Questions on Religion? Ask an Athiest.

Posted: 28th September 2010 by Jon in NEWS
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Atheists and agnostics scored highest!

Survey: Many Americans Know Little About Religion

Published September 28, 2010
| Associated Press

A new survey of Americans’ knowledge of religion found that atheists, agnostics, Jews and Mormons outperformed Protestants and Roman Catholics in answering questions about major religions, while many respondents could not correctly give the most basic tenets of their own faiths.

Forty-five percent of Roman Catholics who participated in the study didn’t know that, according to church teaching, the bread and wine used in Holy Communion is not just a symbol, but becomes the body and blood of Christ.More than half of Protestants could not identify Martin Luther as the person who inspired the Protestant Reformation. And about four in 10 Jews did not know that Maimonides, one of the greatest rabbis and intellectuals in history, was Jewish.

The survey released Tuesday by the Pew Forum on Religion & Public Life aimed to test a broad range of religious knowledge, including understanding of the Bible, core teachings of different faiths and major figures in religious history. The U.S. is one of the most religious countries in the developed world, especially compared to largely secular Western Europe, but faith leaders and educators have long lamented that Americans still know relatively little about religion. (more…)

Who cares about jobs when you can legislate policing language!

Posted: 28th September 2010 by Jon in NEWS
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I’m so glad that my taxes used to pay the outrageous salaries of the Congress of this country, are being used to vote on the semantics of language.

The House of Representatives approved a bill that eliminates the use of the words “retarded” and “retardation” in health, education and labor laws.

The bill changes the terms from “mental retardation” to “intellectual disability” and “mentally retarded individual” to “individual with an intellectual disability.” This shift would make it more consistent with the language already used by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, the United Nations, and the White House.

Rosa Marcellino is a girl from Edgewater, Maryland, who has Down syndrome. She had been labeled retarded by her school – a term that her mother does not permit her children to use (My mother doesn’t allow me to use the word Asthma…I’m Respiratory Challenged), according to a news release from Mikulski’s office

Once again a rose by any other name is still a rose. Eventually the context of the original word “retarded”, will transfer to its new safer counterpart “Intellectually disabled”, and then we’ll have to legislate to change the word again to help people stay in denial of hard truths. If people would just accept the cold hard facts of life, think logically and not make knee jerk reactions to the use of language without giving any thought to context, people would be a lot better off. Once again another example of skirting an issue rather than educating about the issue. Thanks U.S Government glad I can pay for your ridiculous bureaucratic thought policing. How bout you focus on the country’s crumbling infrastructure. (more…)

The Fall : 20% off at Barnes and Noble

Posted: 27th September 2010 by Jon in COMICS/Books
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It hasn’t been very long since I raved about Guillermo Del Toro and Chuck Hogan’s attempt to kill off the sparkly vampire with their book The Strain, and now the second book of the trilogy has been released titled THE FALL. What’s even better is that right now the hardcover is on sale at your local Barnes and Noble for 20% off (30% if you’re a B&N Member).

The Strain pulls on groundwork set by Richard Matheson, Stephen King, H.P Lovecraft and other prolific character driven writers, and takes the Vampire back to the pure evil stalker of the night that it once was. Imagine a book that takes the fear of a viral outbreak, the helplessness of a zombie apocalypse, the terror of being hunted by beings unknown, and puts it all into one amazingly character driven novel. Now imagine the story continues…and you have the Fall:

The vampiric virus unleashed in The Strain has taken over New York City. It is spreading and soon will envelop the globe. Amid the chaos, Eph Goodweather—head of the Centers for Disease Control’s team—leads a band out to stop these bloodthirsty monsters. But it may be too late. (more…)

READ THIS NOW!!!! Before Hunger Games!

Posted: 27th September 2010 by Jon in COMICS/Books, MOVIEs
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I am about to begin reading the much praised and talked about Hunger Games by  Suzanne Collins, but only for the fact that I want to see if it is truly a work of culturally shielded plagiarism or if it in fact comes at you with a voice of its own. Every summary of Hunger Games I have read thus far has leaded me to believe that Collins has stolen every major thematic turn and plot point from the already ten year old Japanese masterpiece Koushun Takami’s Battle Royal. I am trying my hardest to enter into this read with an open mind, and just to be sure that I have a clear vision of the differences between the books, I reread Battle Royal. I would recommend you do the same as it is a fantastic read, and thrilling to the end; not to mention that as with every remake shouldn’t you first experience the original? (Many would then say Lord of the Flies would be the original, and this is very true however there are too many “coincidences” between these two to compare them with Lord of the Flies.)

Battle Royale is the Story of a Futuristic Asia (Japan specifically) where the nation is run by an oppressive government who controls the population’s information intake with an iron fist. In order to make sure that the people know that no one is above the law and no one else can be trusted, the government instates “the Program”. (more…)

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