The code of signs that hoboes use to communicate good spots and places to avoid. Seems like it could use updating to include signs for “good wi-fi” and “no cell service here.”
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The 17 Best Celeb & Dog Pairs
Hot Celebs + Cute dogs. These are the best of them.
Miranda Kerr and Frankie
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Shia LaBeouf and Brando
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TIE! Justin Timberlake and Bearlie and Bella and Jessica Biel and Tina
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Liam (and Miley) and Mate
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12 Different Ways To Say "Yeah"
From “jeah” to “chea,” here are some other helpful ways to be affirmative.
"Jeah."
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"Fo' sho"
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"Yeah boy!"
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"Chea."
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7 Other Great Ideas From Todd Akin's (Real) Expert Source
One of the major sources for Todd Akin's claim that a woman's body somehow prevents pregnancy from rape appears to be Dr. John Willke , a prominent anti-abortion general practitioner. He also has views on slavery, teen pregnancy, and a Dutch euthanasia epidemic that the lamestream media is too scared to tell you about.
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Doctors who perform abortions will also let babies die in the delivery room.
In one of his Life Jewels, one-minute radio broadcasts on abortion and other issues, (this one titled "Your Doctor, An Abortionist?") Willke said:
Most abortionists ply their grisly trade full time. But some also maintain a private practice.
All women have a right to know if their doctor does abortions. Do you really think that doctor is going to have the dedication and put forth the needed effort to save the life of your child at delivery — if that same day he's being paid to kill some other woman's baby?
Teen pregnancy may be safer than adult pregnancy.
Willke said that "a teenage girl, bearing and delivering a child, should have no more physical complications than a more mature woman," and "in fact, the odds for a normal delivery might even be more favorable." He added, "If the girl's body is mature enough to great pregnant, her body is mature enough to carry a baby to term and deliver normally."
The NIH says teen mothers are at higher risk than older moms of premature delivery, low birth weight, and pregnancy-induced hypertension.
Dr. John Willke.
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Suri Cruise Gives 'Tude To A Photographer
I'm pretty sure this is the child equivalent of giving the finger. You go girl!!
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20 Beautifully Ominous Photos Of The Volcano In Ecuador
The Tungurahua volcano has been active since 1999, but in the past two days has become so violent that nearby villages are being evacuated.
Ecuador's Tungurahua volcano spews large clouds of gas and ash near Banos, Ecuador, August 19, 2012. Authorities are encouraging residents living near the volcano to evacuate due to increased activity of the volcano. The Tungurahua volcano has been in an active state since October 1999.
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Barack Obama's True Nature Revealed
Your conservative uncle will be forwarding you this image in an email in 3….2….1….
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The Internet In One Image And Other Links
Well played, Jason Heuser. Also, Nintendo Power is no more and NASA is already gearing up for their next Mars mission.
The world's most deadly job is not exactly what you'd expect. - [FastCoDesign]
See what Craigslist would've look like during the Ice Age...or the French Renaissance. - [CollegeHumor]
Oh no! Magazine Nintendo Power is going to stop publication. - [Geekosystem]
Willow Smith to star in a remake of "Annie" produced by her dad with music by Jay-Z. Yay? - [HLN]
20 locker room speeches that will motivate you to finish any project that needs doing. - [BleacherReport]
The 5 strangest sixth sense humans don't even know they have. - [Cracked]
Former big box juggernaut Best Buy is tanking, and tanking hard. - [TheDailyBeast]
By 2016, NASA wants to land a drill on Mars capable of digging into the planet's core. - [GlobalPost]
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What It's Like To Be A Closeted Gay Athlete
Stephen Bickford was a star soccer player in high school, and played at the University of North Carolina and for the U.S. U-18 Men's Soccer team. Today he published a long testimonial about hiding his sexual orientation for years.
If you're a young gay athlete in 2012, you have very few role models to look up to. There isn't a single openly gay player in any of the five major American sports — football, basketball, baseball, hockey, and soccer — and, though the leagues have begun to express opposition to discrimination based on sexual orientation, huge amounts of work remain to be done.
However, a few ex-professionals and college players have come out after they finished playing, and another has joined their ranks: Stephen Bickford, a former U.S. U-18 National Team member, Adidas High School Player of the Year, and University of North Carolina starter.
Bickford wrote a long piece for the blog Gay4Soccer about his experiences as a top-level athlete in the closet. The whole thing is worth reading, but here's a highlight:
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For anyone who can't understand how or why an athlete would hide his sexual orientation for his entire career, here it is. When sport is the thing you care about most in the world, and the thing you devote all of your time and energy toward, anything that could compromise your success is viewed as a crutch, even if it's something as essential to your identity as your sexual orientation.
In Bickford's case, the deception caught up with him, and a spate of depression and injuries eventually drove him out of soccer. His story is disturbing and inspiring, and as good of evidence as any that homophobia needs to be rooted out of sports as soon and as aggressively as possible.
LINK: Read Bickford's entire piece here:
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Michael Strahan Is The New Co-Host Of "Live" With Kelly Ripa
Regis Philbin's seat has been filled and more in today's CelebFeed Gossip Roundup!
Michael Strahan will start on September 4th, according to TMZ. No word on whether the show will change from Live! With Kelly to Live! With Kelly and Michael.
About Nicki Minaj 100% joining American Idol? Yeah, not if Mariah Carey has anything to say about it. She reportedly signed on under the premise that she would be the only female judge and is "pissed". Suddenly Kanye West is rumored to be in talks to also be a judge. We'll keep you posted.
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ABC is ready to take on Letterman and Leno: they just announced that Jimmy Kimmel will host his show at 11:35pm come January.
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Michaele and Tareq Salahi — otherwise known as the White House party crashers — are officially divorced. As you might recall, Michaele left Tareq with the guitarist of Journey a few months back. Tareq is spending his time running for Governor of Virginia.
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Zippos From The Vietnam War
A collection of engraved Zippo lighters from soldiers of the Vietnam War recently sold at auction for over $30,000. The poignant engravings often reveal a biting gallows humor.
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Little Old Man Tries To Help, Ruins 200 Year Old Portrait
Oh…oh dear. Proof positive that the best of intentions can go horribly wrong.
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In the Spanish town of Borja, a small church has sat since the 16th century. In the 1800s, the above painting (left) was commissioned by the church and painted by Elias Garcia Martinez.
While the painting may not be worth a lot monetarily, it held a lot of sentimental value for locals. One such local was an anonymous octogenarian who felt it a shame the work had been allowed to fall into disrepair. Without authorizing permission from anyone, the man enthusiastically began to "restore" the image.
It quickly became apparent to the man things had "gotten out of hand" and he did not have the required skill and contacted the local cultural heritage institution to confess. Professionals are now assessing the damage to see if the painting can be salvaged.
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Twilight Of The Hoboes
Four days at the National Hobo Convention in Britt, Iowa. Yes, hoboes still exist. But their numbers are dwindling.
The Kentucky Kid says he prefers .22s.
We're sitting out back at the J&D Hob Nob, the most popular bar on the short commercial strip of Main Street in Britt, Iowa. He's already shown us one of his knives, asked us to try to hoist his enormous backpack, and entreated us, many times, to touch his chest. "Feel that!" he says. He mostly kind of yells his sentences. "Feel my chest, feel my arms! I'm solid as a rock!!"
The Kentucky Kid, aka Backpack Jack, is impressively strong for a man of his age, in a wiry, lean kind of way; he won't tell us how old he is, but the grey hair and goatee and prescription John Lennon sunglasses and military slang that peppers his speech peg him as a Vietnam vet, somewhere in his mid 60s. Yet when he challenges one of the townies to arm wrestle at some point in the evening, my money's on the Kid.
He comes up to Matt and me while we're sitting at the bar, awkwardly sipping on gin and tonics and taking in the crowd at the Hob Nob (we were the only ones at the bar drinking G&Ts at the bar that night, possibly ever — it took our kindly bartender five minutes just to locate a dusty bottle of gin on the shelf). "You guys must be press," he says, and immediately invites us outside to give him cigarettes, check out his knife and then buy him shots.
Once we're out on the sidewalk, I realize that he's actually the first hobo we saw when we pulled off Highway 18 and into Britt, on our way to the annual National Hobo Convention. And while we've already met a few friendly hoboes at this point, the Kid bowls us over with his eagerness to talk about his life on the road.
He's wearing a olive cap with some kind of insignia on it, a custom T-shirt, jeans and boots, and feels safe leaving his enormous backpack in the bar, unattended. "No one's gonna make off with it — too heavy!" he says/shouts as we finish our cigarettes and head back inside.
We take turns hoisting the Kid's backpack. It's heavy, but then he's got most of his life in it. The gear's top notch: The pack looks like some kind of tactical, military grade issue, and he brags about his Hilleberg tent, a brand whose entry-level model tents start at $465. The Kid alternates between calling himself a hobo and a tramp (more on this below), but whatever you call him, he lives on the road, moving around at will.
Also, like many of the hoboes we meet, Kentucky Kid likes to talk, and he repeats himself a lot. His favorite phrases: "I hate Democrats AND Republicans. I'm an Independent, man!" "All us hoboes, we all go back to Muddy Waters!" "I eat raccoons and snakes; I don't care what anyone thinks about it!" After the first time he uses this last phrase, he asks Matt to smell him, saying "I take good care of myself, I'm clean!" Matt obliges and later reports that the Kentucky Kid, unsurprisingly, smells a lot like a man who sleeps outside and has a healthy dose of raccoon and snake meat in his diet.
Some time later, we're sitting in the back room of the Hob Nob drinking beer, and that's when I ask him if he carries a gun. "Have to," he says. It's for protection, of course. But I get the sense it also rounds out his kit, that he'd feel incomplete without it. He says he prefers the action on the .22, and that he's got one with a filed down trigger, and then makes a gun with his finger and fires imaginary shots into the Iowa night.
I get up and buy us another pitcher.
The National Hobo Convention has been held in Britt, Iowa, since 1900. Britt's a small, stolidly middle-class town of about 2,000, with seven churches, a dirt racetrack and the most impressive town pool/public water park I've ever seen. The houses are modest but well-kept, the streets are wide, and we never saw a stray pedestrian in four days there.
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What Sloane From "Ferris Bueller's Day Off" Looks Like Today
Actress Mia Sara posed for Stylelist after they spotted her walking around the streets of SoHo. Her advice for anti-aging? “Wear a hat.”
Then:
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Hobo King And Queens
A gallery of hobo royalty. Come pay homage.
Charles Noe, the first King Of The Hoboes (1900)
Highway Johnny Weaver (1947)
Cannonball Eddie (King in 1949 & 1951)
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28 Animals Who Have Made A Huge Mistake
It's okay, guys. We've all been there .
This dog on a kayak:
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This chubby hamster that finally realized he might be too old for the playground:
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These cats that got caught hooking up:
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And these turtles, too:
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Miranda Kerr Sings In This Wacky Japanese Commercial For Lipton Tea
She's a singing, lemon-flavored snow queen!
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I should note that this is not the first she's done in the campaign:
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22 People Who Only Had One Job
And they screwed it up!
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22 Puppies That Love Reading
Via the BuzzFeed Headline Generator : a fine collection of puppies immersing themselves in literature.
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Advice For Christina Aguilera's New Music Video
So, Christina Aguilera is filming a new music video . I basically know nothing about making music videos, but I think we can all agree these are great tips! I'm rooting for you!
First of all, never do this again.
Or this.
Or this.
Or this.
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