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Haha, J, I’ll type it up for ya: Step 1: Soak shirt in a solution made from one gallon hot water (as hot as it will come out of the faucet) and one cup of vinegar. Let the shirt soak for 30 mins to 2 hours. Step 2: Rinse shirts, and squeeze out excess water. Empty bucket and rinse. In a cup, prepare a concentrated Oxy-Clean solution. Make sure to use the Oxy-Clean granules that come in the tub. Make the solution about 10 parts HOT water to one part O-C. Usually this amounts to two scoops of O-C (using the provided scoop) per 4-6 ounces of water. You want this to be very concentrated. Step 3: Apply the strong solution generously to the stained areas. Place the shirts in a bucket (so that the solution doesn’t flow away, or dry) with the stained areas towards the bottom of the bucket so they stay nice and covered in the solution. Allow to soak overnight. It can also help to use an old toothbrush and scrub the stained areas every hour or so, if you’ve got the time. Step 4: In the morning, remove the shirts from bucket. Fill the bucket with a gallon of hot water, and two scoops of the Oxy-Clean (basically, follow the recipe on the package for a general cleaning solution) and mix well. Place the shirts in the bucket, and soak for 2-24 hours. This just helps to remove any trace of stain. You might want to stir the shirts around with your hands after you put them in the bucket with the weaker solution just to remove some of the stronger solution that is still on the shirts. Step 5: Remove, and wash/rinse in the regular cycle on your washing machine. Note: I find that this normally removes sweat/dirt stains from the armpit, neck, and cuff with ease. For really strong stains, you might have to repeat the process a few times. However, with this, I’ve been able to remove some major sweat stains that have been set into shirts for five years, at least.

via Stain removal guide.

David Moore, commenting on this article:

http://reason.com/blog/2013/03/29/rand-paul-points-out-hyprocrisy-of-rich

…says:

“It would be valid if gun control advocates were arguing for a total ban, rather than just reasonable controls. I am not aware of any who argue for a total ban, mostly it seems to be about universal background checks these days. How do universal background checks (which those guarding the rich must certainly have passed) enforce a double-standard?”

Imagine that you had to undergo a background check to exercise any other right, such as say, the right to vote. While you could still technically exercise that right, it’d be a hassle, right?

Now imagine that you didn’t just have to undergo a background check, but you had to pay a hefty $500 “poll tax”, you were only allowed to vote at a polling booth far from your home, you had to bring two forms of ID, you’re forced to name who you voted for in a publicly accessible database, etc.

Perhaps no single regulation is unreasonable. But, at a certain point, you see how the thicket of “reasonable” regulations can become so dense that only the wealthy or powerful can exercise their voting rights?

Now imagine that politicians exempted themselves from all those “reasonable” voting regulations. Or used government funds to pay a flunky to get around them for them.

That’s the exact analogous situation in “may issue” cities like San Francisco and LA, where only the powerful and politically connected can get CCW permits (politicians, Sean Penn, Jerry Brown’s bodyguard).

God help you if you’re a poor, black woman who wants to legally carry a gun in one of those cities.

You see the hypocrisy now? You see why self-defense advocates resist the accumulation of so-called “reasonable” regulations?

Via the Independent Institute:

While the most consistent left-liberal voices for civil liberties, among them the ACLU, have defended Chick-fil-A’s right to open a business regardless of the proprietor’s political views, there has been far too much silence or even enthusiasm toward these threats of political coercion, which carry potentially totalitarian implications. A government that can prohibit people from engaging in peaceful commerce based on traditional cultural and conservative political values is as big a threat to civil liberties as anything the left imagines a conservative Big Brother poses. Most strikingly, left-liberals often, with a lot of justification, decry the Red Scares in American history—the private and public ostracism and at times oppression that befell communists, communist sympathizers, or anyone deemed too far radically left in America. Communism posed a real threat to world peace and liberty, and its political leaders collectively murdered close to a hundred million people in the 20th century. If Americans should have a right to pursue work despite their sympathies for such a violent ideology, surely Chick-fil-A shouldn’t be blacklisted simply for holding traditional views on marriage.

Anyone know who took these?  They’re from a hinky Russian site.  Google image search turns up copies of the images in forums, but nothing that looks like the originator.  Same for Tineye.  

http://homeinteriordesignthemes.com/2009/03/metal-tree-bed-brings-nature-into-the-bedroom/

Each of the four corners of the bed is comprised of a tall metal tree sculpture which curves delicately upwards and blossoms out above the mattress. Each of the beautiful leaves and tendrils is uniquely hand-forged. The cost of this monumental effort and extreme creativity? A mere $15,000 price tag for the lucky couple who decide to purchase it.

Shawn Lovell specialises in making one-of-kind and commissioned work which can be used in the commercial and residential sector. Her work involves the use of  both traditional and modern forging techniques.

You mean the “bath salt” moral panic was baseless scaremongering by the police and media?  Shocking!

Rudy Eugene, the man who chewed off a homeless man’s face on the MacArthur Causeway and was shot to death by Miami police, had no drugs in his system other than marijuana, the Miami-Dade Medical Examiner’s office said Wednesday.

Read more here: http://www.miamiherald.com/2012/06/27/2871098/mes-report-eugene-had-no-drugs.html#storylink=cpy

Narco Polo is a fantastic blog for puncturing the myths and moral panics that surround recreational drug use. 

http://www.medicaldaily.com/news/20120530/10085/ketamin-bipolar-disorder-depression.htm

“In this new study, they administered a single dose of ketamine and a single dose of placebo to a group of patients on two different days, two weeks apart. The patients were then carefully monitored and repeatedly completed ratings to ‘score’ their depressive symptoms and suicidal thoughts.

When the patients received ketamine, their depression symptoms significantly improved within 40 minutes, and remained improved over 3 days. Overall, 79% of the patients improved with ketamine, but 0% reported improvement when they received placebo.

Importantly, and for the first time in a group of patients with bipolar depression, they also found that ketamine significantly reduced suicidal thoughts. These antisuicidal effects also occurred within one hour. Considering that bipolar disorder is one of the most lethal of all psychiatric disorders, these study findings could have a major impact on public health.”