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gailsimone:

sarbearx:

Batgirl Bishoujo Cosplay by *VampBeauty

Wow…amazing!

Oh my god I think I have a crush.

You and the REST OF HUMANITY. :)

springald-jack:I loved All-New Atom, because in many ways,...

springald-jack:

I loved All-New Atom, because in many ways, Ryan is more like me than any other super-hero ever. 

All-New Atom 4.

I am glad…so many Wolverines, so few Atoms. :)

One of the happiest bits of joy in the new 52 is that Ryan seems to be alive and possibly headed for JL membership. WOOT!

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sarbearx:

Batgirl Bishoujo Cosplay by *VampBeauty

Wow…amazing!

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gailsimone:

dumbthingswhitepplsay:

pantslessprogressive:

This extraordinarily offensive political cartoon by Mike Lester is making the rounds today. In the cartoon, President Obama, dressed as a pimp, says of Sandra Fluke, "She just wants to have recreational sex and you to pay for it. It's not exactly a new  concept."

Best commentary of the day comes from Angry Black Lady:

You've got the African-American President is a 70′s pimp angle, the Sandra Fluke is a whore angle, the "evil light-skinned brother" angle, the white girl subservient to the black man angle, a complete misrepresentation of Ms. Fluke's statements to boot and it's all rolled up into one big insulting awful package of pure hatred for black people, women, and human beings with working souls. It's actually impressive, in the same way ebola-tipped bullets fired into crowds of baby sloths is impressive: just overwhelmingly, unremittingly awful on multiple levels.

…wow.

This guy is genuinely hideous. Reading his blog, it is ALL about the president's race, and how people who attack those who attack him are the REAL racists and Jesus, it's revolting.

http://mikedujourlester.blogspot.com/search?updated-min=2012-01-01T00:00:00-08:00&updated-max=2013-01-01T00:00:00-08:00&max-results=13

What the F-? O.O Not surprised that idiots like these exist but, to put up things like that is absolutely deplorable. Really deplorable. He needs to take a good, long, look at himself because racism, in any form, will never get him anywhere, in life. Obama and Ms. Fluke are beautiful, no matter what opinions they have. Deal with it, Mike.

Here's what his wife said about her husband's cartoon. Incidentally, he was arrested at one point for a domestic abuse situation, apparently, where she was shoved and he broke a window that she got cut on.  Seems like a wonderful guy, doesn't he?

"If you read my link, you would have known that the entire situation was false. And how is my husband a racist? Bush was drawn depicting a pimp. So he draws BHO as a pimp, he's just as much white as he is black. Big deal, race is not an issue any longer, at least not in my family."

Get it, everyone?  Race is not an issue, everyone can quit worrying about it. And please quit getting upset that he draws the President as Huggy Bear, you're all just big meanies. Racism isn't an issue, FOR REALZ,  YOU GUYS!

Also, as another update, it appears he has deleted a BUNCH of his recent blog posts. I didn't save them, unfortunately, but at least some dealt with his dumbass idea of what real racism is (hint: It's complaining about his shitty cartoons).

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gailsimone:

countryboylife:

A pretty Brunette takes on sinister dark skinned assailants.

"Above is an advert released by the EU today, making the case for more EU enlargement. It was pulled almost immediately, and you can see why. The advert inadvertantly exposes the worldview at the heart of many EU types: one that wants a Fortress Europe, closed off from nasty foreigners in Asia, Africa and the Americas. It's hard to see how any internationalist could defend the EU"

This isn't the first time the EU has used this kind of imagery.

http://www.captaineuro.com/

"Look at the picture above, which shows the baddie, Dr D Vider, surrounded by his henchmen. What, I wonder, prompted the creators to give him a hooked nose and a goatee beard, like some anti-Semitic caricature from the Völkischer Beobachter?"

I fear I might fall foul of Godwin's Law, but really (supra) Nationalism (racism) + Socialism is what else exactly?

Holy GOD. Is this for real?  This is HORRIBLE!

What is this for, is this a regular television commercial?

Seriously, the Caucasians have to stick together against those scary Asians and dark men?

Good GOD.

Hah hah oh wow holy shit…

How did they even find people willing to act in this?

Remember that American Republican who got an Asian girl to speak in a completely racist Chinese accent and talk about the Chinese threat for his campaign commercial? That happened just a couple months ago.  People need jobs, I guess.

But holy crap, this is just blatantly awful.

This is what Stefano Sannino said about the ad, in its defense.

"the director general of the enlargement division of the European commission, said: "We have received a lot of feedback on our latest video clip, including from people concerned about the message it was sending. It was a viral clip targeting, through social networks and new media, a young audience (16-24) who understand the plots and themes of martial arts films and video games. The reactions of these target audiences to the clip have in fact been positive, as had those of the focus groups on whom the concept had been tested.

"The clip featured typical characters for the martial arts genre: kung fu, capoeira and kalaripayattu masters; it started with demonstration of their skills and ended with all characters showing their mutual respect, concluding in a position of peace and harmony. The genre was chosen to attract young people and to raise their curiosity on an important EU policy. The clip was absolutely not intended to be racist and we obviously regret that it has been perceived in this way. We apologise to anyone who may have felt offended. Given these controversies, we have decided to stop the campaign immediately and to withdraw the video.""

Oh, it's okay, guys, it's not three scary, scary non-Caucasians threatening a single white girl, and the fact that the only way to beat them is to outnumber them.  No, it's all about peace and respect! 

Also, they are TOTES SORRY  that people took it as racist.  SO TOTES SORRY!

It's disgusting. EWWW.

countryboylife:A pretty Brunette takes on sinister dark...

countryboylife:

A pretty Brunette takes on sinister dark skinned assailants.

"Above is an advert released by the EU today, making the case for more EU enlargement. It was pulled almost immediately, and you can see why. The advert inadvertantly exposes the worldview at the heart of many EU types: one that wants a Fortress Europe, closed off from nasty foreigners in Asia, Africa and the Americas. It's hard to see how any internationalist could defend the EU"

This isn't the first time the EU has used this kind of imagery.

http://www.captaineuro.com/

"Look at the picture above, which shows the baddie, Dr D Vider, surrounded by his henchmen. What, I wonder, prompted the creators to give him a hooked nose and a goatee beard, like some anti-Semitic caricature from the Völkischer Beobachter?"

I fear I might fall foul of Godwin's Law, but really (supra) Nationalism (racism) + Socialism is what else exactly?

Holy GOD. Is this for real?  This is HORRIBLE!

What is this for, is this a regular television commercial?

Seriously, the Caucasians have to stick together against those scary Asians and dark men?

Good GOD.

Two of my favorite songwriters. What a conversation that must...

Two of my favorite songwriters. What a conversation that must have been.

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Secret Six. Volume 3, issue #8. Written by Gail Simone

I'm pretty sure this was the first episode I read of Secret Six and I love it! You have to love this little awkward moment between Liana and Scandal! :D

I just find it so cute that Liana had such an instant crush on Scandal :D

This is one of my absolute favourite issues of Secret Six and the relationship between Scandal and Liana was one of my favourite parts of the series

Same! :)

Plus she loves Scandal's gorgeous arms so she obviously has great taste too :D

Undeniably :D

Also: she's buying cat litter. PERFECTION.

And her line when Scandal says her name never fails to crack me up. ;)

(added sidenote: can you believe I once had a girl feeling my arms and making a similar comment—minus the dancer part, obviously—, and it didn't even, well, hit me that she was actually hitting on me? How hopeless am I?)

Awwwww, don't be hard on yourself! I'm terrible at flirting and I can never tell when someone's trying to flirt with me either. And on the off chance I do realise I usually just get all shy and blushing

I do not have Scandal Savage's superior lady seducing skills

:D

I guess I'm a bit funny when it comes to flirting. I'm good at it when it's clear there's nothing to it—when it's all done in jest, or as a running joke. So I flirt with my friends all the time, it has even become a bit of a trademark of mine. But when it's serious? I'm completely clueless, for some reason. And the more obvious the person in front me is, the more oblivious I become… to the point that it usually takes my friends' intervention for me to realise that there's something going on. Someone would come up to me saying, "so, are you gonna make a move on her/him already? cause I'm kinda running out of popcorn there, waiting", and I wouldn't even have the slightest idea of whom they are talking about. XD

Also, apparently, I am a straight women magnet. (This is all so very confusing.)

I'm totally the same when it comes to picking up on stuff like that. I'm really bad at telling whether someone likes me or likes me. When we were watching Doctor Who, during the bit where Amy FINALLY figures out that Rory has a thing for her, my girlfriend just burst into giggles and said 'That's totally you' and I honestly couldn't disagree.

Except I don't have a time travelling daughter from the future to help me get together with people, so I usually just remain clueless unless someone else makes the first move

If someone comes up and admires your muscle tone?  QUITE POSSIBLY FLIRTING. :)

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dumbthingswhitepplsay:

pantslessprogressive:

This extraordinarily offensive political cartoon by Mike Lester is making the rounds today. In the cartoon, President Obama, dressed as a pimp, says of Sandra Fluke, "She just wants to have recreational sex and you to pay for it. It's not exactly a new  concept."

Best commentary of the day comes from Angry Black Lady:

You've got the African-American President is a 70′s pimp angle, the Sandra Fluke is a whore angle, the "evil light-skinned brother" angle, the white girl subservient to the black man angle, a complete misrepresentation of Ms. Fluke's statements to boot and it's all rolled up into one big insulting awful package of pure hatred for black people, women, and human beings with working souls. It's actually impressive, in the same way ebola-tipped bullets fired into crowds of baby sloths is impressive: just overwhelmingly, unremittingly awful on multiple levels.

…wow.

This guy is genuinely hideous. Reading his blog, it is ALL about the president's race, and how people who attack those who attack him are the REAL racists and Jesus, it's revolting.

http://mikedujourlester.blogspot.com/search?updated-min=2012-01-01T00:00:00-08:00&updated-max=2013-01-01T00:00:00-08:00&max-results=13

DC Women Kicking Ass: Goodbye to Helena Bertinelli - post #6

DC Women Kicking Ass: Goodbye to Helena Bertinelli - post #6:

dcwomenkickingass:

Helena Bertinelli wasn't just a cape she was also a school teacher. That dichotomy was noted by two readers.

springald-jack said:

I really loved that she was a teacher, and that being a teacher was as much her mission as shooting people with crossbows. I love the idea of "capes" who do good…

Just want to add this little note…if you look, you'll see she is teaching the kids at Springfield Elementary.