December 2011
81 posts
Reuters Special Report: Ciudad Juarez, a city... →
mohandasgandhi:
11 Quotes From 2011
think-progress:
1. “There’s been class warfare going on for the last 20 years, and my class has won.” — Warren Buffett
2. “Gay rights are human rights and human rights are gay rights.” — Hillary Clinton
3. “Today, we are all Troy Anthony Davis. Tonight, a little piece of all of us will die.” — Rep. John Lewis (D-GA)
4. “Ask Osama bin Laden and the 22-out-of-30 top al-Qaida leaders who’ve been...
11 Facts From 2011
think-progress:
1. The CIA is monitoring up to 5 million tweets per day.
2. Income inequality in America is worse than in Ancient Rome.
3. Twenty-three straight polls find Americans overwhelmingly want to raise taxes to pay down debt.
4. 68% of millionaires support raising taxes on millionaires.
5. Wall Street’s recession cost 1.5 million times more than securing Occupy Wall Street...
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Sorry posts have been a little slow, but I’m on vacation. Sooooo, it’ll be like this for about another week.
Study: Having An Abortion Does Not Increase Risk... →
10 Reasons Not To Vote For Ron Paul →
stfuconservatives:
readyokaygo:
1. Ron Paul does not value equal rights for minorities. Ron Paul has sponsored legislation that would repeal affirmative action, keep the IRS from investigating private schools who may have used race as a factor in denying entrance, thus losing their tax exempt status, would limit the scope of Brown versus Board of Education, and would deny citizenship for those...
Help get word out, SOPA hearing NOT delayed until... →
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Kim Jong-Il Dead →
Kim Jong Il, the second-generation North Korean dictator who defied global condemnation to build nuclear weapons while his people starved, has died, Yonhap News reported. He was 70.
The news came in a radio broadcast at noon local time, Yonhap reported, citing North Korea’s official media. Kim probably had a stroke in August 2008 and may have also contracted pancreatic cancer, according to...
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Treasury Reports 38th Straight Month of Deficits →
conservativebrew:
liberalyouth:
conservativebrew:
Let’s do some simple math:
From January 2008 to January 2009 = 12 months
From January 2009 to January 2010 = 12 months
From January 2010 to the present = 11 months, thus:
12+12+11 = 35 months.
President Obama has been in office for 35 of the 38 months that our deficit has been in the red. Therefore:
35/38 x 100% = 92%
It can thus be...
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Peititon for the Saving American Democracy... →
The Saving American Democracy Amendment states that:
Corporations are not persons with constitutional rights equal to real people.
Corporations are subject to regulation by the people.
Corporations may not make campaign contributions or expenditures.
Congress and states have the power to regulate campaign finances.
Sign it.
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“But whether Manning is ultimately found guilty or not is beside the point: All...”
– No justice for Bradley Manning - Opinion - Al Jazeera (via stfupenguins)
Just fucking read this.
Swiss Government Declares Downloading for Personal... →
ideoclast:
deus—ex-machina:
Government research says piracy not as harmful as industry claims.
The government of Switzerland has issued a statement declaring that it will not take action to alter current copyright laws allowing the downloading of music and movies for personal use. The statement is the result of a lengthy study conducted by the Swiss government into the impact of so-called...
Worst compromise ever: Democrats get slight...
stfupenguins:
stfuconservatives:
shortformblog:
deal The Democrats, after much pushing, got through a modest two-month extension of the payroll tax cuts which Republicans had long fought against. This sounds like a pretty crappy victory.
compromise However … it came at a cost: Democrats had to give up on their plan to tax millionaires, and Obama has to make a decision on the Keystone XL...
Newt Gingrich wants to impeach judges that don't...
stfuconservatives:
iamateenagefeminist:
Also, knows more about the law than lawyers.
Sooooo legit.
Cause he’s a historian. Whatever the fuck that means.
-Joe
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“If you don’t like God, get out.”
– Newt Gingrich (Paraphrased)
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“At this time of year it’s easy to forget the true meaning of Christianity...”
– Banksy
“The immediate adoption of a settlement freeze by Israel, more than any other...”
– Ronald Reagan, 1982.
h/t Sullivan.
(via letterstomycountry)
"Japan Admits Tsunami Funds Used to Defend Whaling... →
motherjones:
Gahhhh.
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Amnesty International: The Case for Arresting... →
Holding politicians from powerful nations to the same standard to which they themselves hold the leaders of less powerful nations is not a “left-wing” position – it is a just position.
The Bush administration supported the International Criminal Court’s indictment of President Omar al-Bashir of Sudan in 2008, just as it supported the trials of Slobodan Milosevic, Charles Taylor and Saddam ...
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Treasury Reports 38th Straight Month of Deficits →
conservativebrew:
Let’s do some simple math:
From January 2008 to January 2009 = 12 months
From January 2009 to January 2010 = 12 months
From January 2010 to the present = 11 months, thus:
12+12+11 = 35 months.
President Obama has been in office for 35 of the 38 months that our deficit has been in the red. Therefore:
35/38 x 100% = 92%
It can thus be mathematically proven that 92% this...
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“Every gun that is made, every warship launched, every rocket fired signifies in...”
– Dwight D. Eisenhower (via haereticum)
Oh, how the Republican party has changed.
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America is 24th on List of Least Corrupt Countries →
Transparency International reports that the United States now ranks the 24th least corrupt on a “corruption perceptions index,” and only the fourth least corrupt in the western hemisphere. Yay; we’re number 24, we’re number 24. When Bill Clinton was president, we were the third least corrupt globally. That is a huge tumble. The causation for that ranking is largely due to the lack of...
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Rick Santorum's Solution to the Problem of the...
Fuck the gays.
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Rick Perry just complained that Obama “sat back and let a radical Islamist lead Egypt.” He is obviously referring to the fact that the Muslim Bortherhood did well in the Egyptian parliamentary elections.
So Mr Perry, here is my question. Would you be okay with foreign nations interfering in our elections if we voted for fundamentalist Christians?
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FUCKING SAY KIBBUTZ CORRECTLY MICHELLE BACHMANN.
KIB-BUTZ. NO EMPHASIS ON THE “I”.