The British government have just set up a website to enable people to discuss unnecessary laws they can get rid of because they think the last government made too many.

http://yourfreedom.hmg.gov.uk/

We're working to create a more open and less intrusive society through our Programme for Government. We want to restore Britain’s traditions of freedom and fairness, and free our society of unnecessary laws and regulations – both for individuals and businesses.

This site gives you the chance to submit, comment on, or vote for ideas about how we can do this. Your ideas will inform government policy and some of your proposals could end up making it into bills we bring before Parliament to change the law.

It has only been online for a day and has already turned into a giant wankfarm. They've already had to suspend new login creation because of servers being robust.

http://twitter.com/HMGwebstatus

Today the #yourfreedom site has had 1,600 users active per second at peak points.

So why not drop by and wank about drugs, smoking, hanging, dangerous dogs, parking fines or anything else you could possibly imagine?

A secret about prop 8 is posted to this post in Fandom secrets. And we get twofold wank for it, too!

Wank #1: FOMG HOW IS THIS NOT A 'NOT-SECRET' THIS HAS NOTHING TO DO WITH FANDOM WHATSOEVER! This one is small, though, because the modly type froze the comments.

Wank #2: Gay is wrong. No u! No u! NO U! NO U! And that's all within the first three pages.

Also, liking het means you hate gay marriage. Srsly. And there's macros. And people loling over all the wank this caused. And there's also a thread of d'awwww.

I chose to post it here instead of fandom wank because almost all of the arguments were not fandom related. And there was even an argument about that, too!

So, there's a country singer named Kelly Foxton who likes to dress up her pet squirrel in little outfits. Lots and lots of little outfits.

Now, Sugar Bush is no ordinary squirrel. She is a patriotic squirrel! Many of the pictures on the site are bizarrely militaristic, and frankly, just a liiiittle creepy. Here, for example, Sugar Bush inspects the gallows in preparation for Saddam Hussein's assassination.

The fun begins when the Sugar Bush Squirrel (TM!) page gets linked on Cute Overload.

fifi sums up the whole bizarre situation best:

the thing about the politics is...
really, what political message is sent by dressing up your squirrel in military garb?

It borders on the parodic, or the surreal.
Too aesthetically bizarre to be deemed mere partisanship--regardless of the conscious intentions of the artist.

It's a rodent-folk-art version of Cindy Sherman!

Tired of reading about the lj advisory board election ? Well, here's some good old-fashioned drama about elections that, y'know, matter. As boring and derivative as political wank can be, bear with me because this one's got furries.

It all started last Monday, when Barack Obama gave a speech commemorating Memorial Day with a mention of his great-uncle, a WWII vet involved in liberating Nazi death camps. During the speech, Obama stated that his uncle had been involved in the liberation of Auschwitz; this was incorrect, it was actually Ohrdruf. A simple mistake...OR WAS IT? The usual accusations of exploiting veterans for political gain rapidly descends into "BARACK OBAMA IS A FILTHY FILTHY CHEAT WHO NEVER EVEN HAD AN UNCLE ANYWAY!" This provides a good summary.

In attempting to prove Obama as a lying liar who lies, our plucky investigators, as reported by Sadly, No!, recieve the biggest bitchslap in the world from a WWII vet. Twice.

Here's where it gets funny: despite being well and truly owned by aging servicemen, the Obama-dissenter cigarskunk keeps pestering them. In the follow-up report, cigarskunk's username starts to set off alarm bells for some of the readers of Sadly, No!, mainly because he is the type of highly vocal, highly annoying [ETA: this goes to Encyclopedia Dramatica, NSFW, be warned] furry that not even other furries want to be associated with:

In August, Cigarskunk came to CYD [CrushYiffDestroy] in order to assert his heterosexuality and to explain why the furries hated him: He was 100 percent straight, he smoked, he was conservative, and he brought females to conventions, because he was not gay. He stated, restated, and then stated some more that he really loved women and was totally straight, and then went on to call everybody else gay.

[...] After babbling endlessly that he wasn’t gay and everyone else was, Cigarskunk began to ramble about cigars and how great they were. It was fetishistic: “Cigars, cigars, cigars, by God, I love cigars. My favorite color is cigar-brown. Cigar smoke, cigar smell, cigar taste; cigars are fucking great. I really, really like cigars. Cigars make my day. Cigars have a Zen-like quality to them, and they’re so damn good. Ooh, yes, cigars. I think about cigars all the time. I fucking love cigars.”

I encourage reading Sadly, No!, since I've basically just ripped off all of their links to make this post, and they tell it funnier anyway.