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01. 05. 12. 04:04 pm ♥ 550

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urlesque:

Anti-Women Rick Santorum is the arch nemesis of Feminist Ryan Gosling.

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Two more here: 1 2

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12. 19. 11. 10:18 am ♥ 76

Five pieces of fiction that will have you up all night, shirking your chores, and basically setting up camp in book-nerd-ville

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12. 15. 11. 09:13 am ♥ 33

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aljazeera:

Tareq Ayoub: a ‘martyr to the truth’ |

As American troops pull out of Iraq, Dima Tahboub, widow of Al Jazeera reporter killed in Baghdad, talks about her loss.

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12. 14. 11. 09:12 am ♥ 1

Federal workers may be in for a rough holiday: A government shutdown is looming once again as debate over a payroll-tax extension threatens to derail a separate, government-funding compromise. While Republicans and Democrats have mostly agreed to terms on a deal to fund the government through September, Democrats are withholding their signatures until a compromise is made on the payroll tax. Otherwise, Republicans could pack up for the holidays, forcing them to either let the payroll tax expire or to swallow the version the House passed Tuesday, which President Obama has threatened to veto for linking the tax-extension to the construction of the Keystone XL pipeline. A few issues also remain to be settled in the government-funding bill: whether to ban Washington D.C. from using taxpayer money to provide abortion services; whether to reverse an Obama administration decision making it easier for Americans to visit family in Cuba; and whether to block new standards for incandescent light bulbs.

12. 08. 11. 08:21 am ♥ 16

A published report says the remains of many more U.S. troops have been dumped in a landfill than the military originally acknowledged. The Washington Post says the incinerated partial remains of at least 274 troops were sent to a Virginia landfill.

Report Reveals More Troops’ Remains In Landfill : NPR

I really don’t have any words. Lots of expletives and tears… but very little else.

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12. 06. 11. 10:13 am ♥ 1

It might be argued that I’ve been out of school too long, that if I’d actually been in the 10th grade prior to taking the test, the material would have been fresh. But doesn’t that miss the point? A test that can determine a student’s future life chances should surely relate in some practical way to the requirements of life. I can’t see how that could possibly be true of the test I took.” Here’s the clincher in what he wrote: “If I’d been required to take those two tests when I was a 10th grader, my life would almost certainly have been very different. I’d have been told I wasn’t ‘college material,’ would probably have believed it, and looked for work appropriate for the level of ability that the test said I had.

When an adult took standardized tests forced on kids - The Answer Sheet - The Washington Post

11. 30. 11. 09:49 am ♥ 821

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this reminds me of my absolutely favorite books in the world by nick bantock

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11. 20. 11. 03:29 pm ♥ 3

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Wow. Wow wow wow. Truck stop bathroom schools us all!

01. 03. 12. 07:29 pm ♥ 5

Track the Iowa Results by Community Type

wnyc:

Here’s one way to track tonight’s results - through Dane Chinni’s Patchwork Nation method of identifying community types. We’ll be updating the map all night, and lots more at our politics site It’s A Free Country.

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12. 19. 11. 10:14 am ♥ 1982

accol:

pantslessprogressive:

As the new year approaches us, let us not forget the indignant cable network that has fought triumphantly to build a nation of uneducated asshats.

Bitter laughter.

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12. 14. 11. 03:28 pm ♥ 288

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meredithbklyn:

The Fox news graphics department is on a roll, guys.

(look at Romney’s pic)

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bahhhh!!!

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12. 10. 11. 09:50 am ♥ 268

The state of North Carolina ran a Eugenics Board "from 1933 to 1977 as an experiment in genetic engineering once considered a legitimate way to keep welfare rolls small, stop poverty and improve the gene pool." More than 7,600 North Carolinians were sterilized under the program, and while the state formally apologized in 2002, they are STILL trying to figure out how to compensate the victims.

mohandasgandhi:

inothernews:

31 other states did this to their residents.

Jesus H. Christ.

See: Buck v. Bell, 274 U.S. 200 (1927)

P.S. Buck v. Bell has never been overturned.

you know, it’s absolutely horrific what happened and there’s absolutely no doubt about that. but the thing of it is, our state is absolutely struggling. the poor are getting poorer and the government is making cut backs left and right; the churches, in kind, are getting poorer too, so they don’t have their usual ability to (cherry-)pick up the slack. while i do think what happened is horrific, i don’t think i can, in good conscience, say of the X amount of money in the North Carolina pot, I think we should take Y money out and give it away as compensation for something we can never make right. That money comes out of education, transportation, social services coffers… and taking from people who need it as recompense for someone else’s wrong doesn’t add up to me as good government but, rather, just another thing of which to be ashamed.

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12. 06. 11. 11:16 am ♥ 170

themoderndance:

nebraska-admiral:

Hi Pennsylvania Liquor Control Board, this ad is sort of kind of not OK and weird and kind of victim blamey and has other problems too.

Well this is disappointing.

what in GOD’S GOOD NAME IS THIS CRAP, pennsylvania?!?

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12. 05. 11. 02:47 pm ♥ 5

When businesspeople take credit for creating jobs, it is like squirrels taking credit for creating evolution. In fact, it’s the other way around. It is unquestionably true that without entrepreneurs and investors, you can’t have a dynamic and growing capitalist economy. But it’s equally true that without consumers, you can’t have entrepreneurs and investors. And the more we have happy customers with lots of disposable income, the better our businesses will do. That’s why our current policies are so upside down. When the American middle class defends a tax system in which the lion’s share of benefits accrues to the richest, all in the name of job creation, all that happens is that the rich get richer. And that’s what has been happening in the U.S. for the last 30 years. Since 1980, the share of the nation’s income for fat cats like me in the top 0.1 percent has increased a shocking 400 percent, while the share for the bottom 50 percent of Americans has declined 33 percent. At the same time, effective tax rates on the superwealthy fell to 16.6 percent in 2007, from 42 percent at the peak of U.S. productivity in the early 1960s, and about 30 percent during the expansion of the 1990s. In my case, that means that this year, I paid an 11 percent rate on an eight-figure income. One reason this policy is so wrong-headed is that there can never be enough superrich Americans to power a great economy. The annual earnings of people like me are hundreds, if not thousands, of times greater than those of the average American, but we don’t buy hundreds or thousands of times more stuff. My family owns three cars, not 3,000. I buy a few pairs of pants and a few shirts a year, just like most American men. Like everyone else, I go out to eat with friends and family only occasionally. It’s true that we do spend a lot more than the average family. Yet the one truly expensive line item in our budget is our airplane (which, by the way, was manufactured in France by Dassault Aviation SA), and those annual costs are mostly for fuel (from the Middle East). It’s just crazy to believe that any of this is more beneficial to our economy than hiring more teachers or police officers or investing in our infrastructure.

Raise Taxes on Rich to Reward True Job Creators: Nick Hanauer - Businessweek

simply the best, most logical explanation of things i’ve ever read.

11. 29. 11. 12:31 pm ♥ 25

JasenComstock: Herman Cain is reassessing his campaign, which means Herman Cain had a 13-year extramarital affair and, you know, sexual...

thebombbag:

And I continue to be amazed at the fact that there are people out there who continue to risk destroying their party by believing that they simply would not get caught. Can you imagine if Edwards got the Democratic nod or Weiner took a shot at the senate or Cain was the…

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politics, people, press

Five pieces of fiction that will have you up all night, shirking your chores, and basically setting up camp in book-nerd-ville

Track the Iowa Results by Community Type

JasenComstock: Herman Cain is reassessing his campaign, which means Herman Cain had a 13-year extramarital affair and, you know, sexual...