You can call me a bleeding heart if you want. But, then i'm likely to call you a bloody ass.

Society screamed foul at putting make up and shampoo into the eyes of cute fluffy bunny rabbits, and various other forms of animal testing have been knocked to the curb by activists, but nobody says anything about the rats.

There's just something about a rat that instinctively inspires us to hate them, and so it's OK to test on them, and electrocute them, and turn them into robots by re-wiring their brains. We give them doses of nicotine, sugar, and various other substances that no human could ever consume just to prove the things are dangerous to us.

The fear of rats stems from our history of plagues where rats carried the flees that carried the disease, that killed much of England - so many years ago. Get over yourselves. The plague was a result of filthy living conditions, and the rats only carried around what was already there.

Tonight on Boing Boing I read that they have worked binge eating out to a science. They starved a bunch of rats, and then shocked their feet, and then they binged on Oreos. Starve me, and shock my feet, and i'm likely to binge on just about anything that I can find. Wow, they are really onto something there! Breaking news!

Thanks to the wonderful self sacrificing rats, we have discovered that stress + dieting + access to tempting food = Oreos. *golf claps* You guys in France are really on the ball! I know that I've learned a lot. Like, oh I don't know, not keeping Oreos handy for a stress induced binge when it comes on.

They have performed senseless tests on rats to gain some scientific proof that common sense does actually exist.

I have a pet rat, and he's the best pet that I've ever had. He's clean, and affectionate, and he eats chocolate every time I do. It's time others let go of their rat prejudice, and say enough is enough. It's not Ok to treat them that way.

This is probably old news for some, but I recently found it by accident.

Alltooflat, has made a google mirror. Everything is backwards. You type your search in backwards, the results are backwards. It cracked me up.

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In my short time at LJ, I've met many new people, learned tons of new things, and have been impressed with the entire community as a whole. I've been reading Boing Boing, Dean's world, the Commissar, and the Big Picture. And have enjoyed the whole experience of broadening my horizons, and forming new friendships. By the way... Have you lost weight? Because you look fabulous!

I'd like to just throw dollars at your feet, but since I have 5 kids to feed, I can't do that. So, I figured the least I could do was not charge you so damn much to get a leg up on your x-mas shopping! This is my cheesy Capitalist pig way of saying "Thank You" - I call it the Eye Catching Creations Blue Blogger sale! I was going to have a yellow sale, but figured Dan Lyons would appreciate that irony way too much (assuming he would get it).

We're not talking WalMart prices here (EyCatchers are, indeed, made in the USA), because I don't want to have to move into the closet in your back bedroom, but 10% off on a great product is 10% better than 9% off, especially if you order big, because - the more you buy, the more you save!

To take advantage of this Stock-up sale, you have to enter the site through this link. Feel free to pass this this link along to your friends, family, or people you begrudgingly tolerate. If you think that your readers would like to take advantage of my after July, before Thanksgiving sale, feel free to link them here - which makes far more sense than linking them to some other post.

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