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* A big Lancet study of 9/11 Firefighters shows a 32% increased chance of cancer so far. This is just an early study. The numbers will go up with time. What did the health care bill for health care for first responders not cover? Cancer. Seriously folks, it's time to step up and help these folks.

* The GOP in Gabby Giffords home county is raffling the same make and model of gun used to shoot Gabby Giffords in the head in a fund raiser to unseat her. Stay classy, Republicans.

* There is another rounds of physical, emotional, and possible sexual abuse allegations from yet another unlicensed Baptist "school" for girls, all in the name of religion. As they are unlicensed and religiously exempt, this is legal in Indiana.

* NYPD has been keeping lists of people with 28 "ancestries of interest." IE: they are watching people who are born into ethnic groups they don't like, spying on their businesses, etc.. Not people who have done anything illegal, just people they don't like.

* Michelle Bachman is insisting we should drill in the Everglades for an imaginary deposit of oil that geologists continue to exist doesn't exist. So really, she's advocating destroying one of the most fragile environments in the country because she thinks destroying it is a good idea.

* "Geography and Biology are the same in Faerie:" http://seanan-mcguire.livejournal.com/384132.html

* Pegasus award ballot: http://www.ovff.org/pegasus/2011finalballot.html

* A clique of folks angry about neo_prodigy's writing about some fanfic fetishistizing gay men has been trying to sink Hollowstone sales with one star Amazon reviews, including a lot of ad hominum stuff. If you've read Hollowstone and liked it, it would be a very cool thing to post a counter to one star reviews from people who never read it.

* This year's forum only birthday scent just dropped: http://www.blackphoenixalchemylab.com/forumonly.html

From pirates to Princesses in one year.

* Vader cake: http://cakewrecks.squarespace.com/home/2011/9/1/noooooo.html

* I know that I've posted this before, but it's been stuck in my head since June, damnit: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w5U-YT-mRmI