May 2012
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Preacher tells parents to beat homosexuality out... →
Everyone needs to know about this piece of shit. If you can stomach listening to the audio, be sure to take special note of how the crowd eats this garbage up.
April 2012
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Santorum Asks for Help With Debt and Hints at His... →
Mr. Santorum did make clear that he was eager to pay off his campaign debt. He asked for donations during the conference call and on Tuesday followed up with yet another e-mail solicitation to supporters, telling them that he must retire his debt before he gets involved in anything else.
My grandmother (a lifelong Republican) got contacted by the Santorum campaign yesterday and was asked to...
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Mayor Michael Bloomberg On The NRA’s Nightmare... →
These [Stand Your Ground] laws are vigilantism masquerading as self-defense, and getting half of the nation’s states to pass them is one of the best con jobs the NRA’s leaders have ever pulled off. They want to create a nation where disputes are settled by guns instead of gavels, and where suspects are shot by civilians instead of arrested by police. We have too many murders as it is without...
March 2012
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In Florida, even non-Floridians can get a... →
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The Case of Khalifah al-Akili
The Guardian posted an article telling the story of Khalifah al-Akili, a Pittsburgh man who was arrested on March 15. The Guardian writes:
He was later charged with illegally possessing a gun after having previous felony convictions for drug dealing. However, at his court appearance an FBI agent testified that al-Akili had made radical Islamic statements and that police had uncovered unspecified...
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Elderly Couple In Fear Over Spike Lee Tweet →
The residence on Edgewater Circle is actually the home of David McClain, 72, and his wife Elaine, 70. The McClains, both of whom work for the Seminole County school system, have lived in the 1310-square-foot lakefront home for about a decade, records show.
In an interview tonight, Elaine McClain told [The Smoking Gun] that she and her husband were “afraid” due to the online linking of her...
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What's with all this crap being thrown around...
First it was, “oh, he had no reason to be in that private community!” But he did. So then it was the hoodie business. Which everyone immediately (and rightly) rejected as asinine. Now it’s this crap about his problems in school (specifically the marijuana residue in a baggie that was on his person that led to his suspension). Judd Legum has a great article on ThinkProgress that...
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Zakaria: Incarceration nation – Global Public... →
Is this hyperbole? Here are the facts. The U.S. has 760 prisoners per 100,000 citizens. That’s not just many more than in most other developed countries but seven to 10 times as many. Japan has 63 per 100,000, Germany has 90, France has 96, South Korea has 97, and Britain - with a rate among the highest - has 153….
This wide gap between the U.S. and the rest of the world is relatively...
Free Zombie Books: Today’s 11 Free Zombie Books... →
zombiebooks:
Most of these zombie Kindle books are free for today only, so download the ones you want right away. They can be read without a Kindle, and can even be read in your web browser with Amazon’s free Cloud Reader.
Note: There are a lot of really highly rated zombie books today. Please help…
Love me some free zombies.
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FACT CHECK: More US Drilling Didn't Drop Gas Price →
A statistical analysis of 36 years of monthly, inflation-adjusted gasoline prices and U.S. domestic oil production by The Associated Press shows no statistical correlation between how much oil comes out of U.S. wells and the price at the pump.
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February 2012
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The ‘biblical view’ that’s younger than the Happy... →
In 1979, McDonald’s introduced the Happy Meal.
Sometime after that, it was decided that the Bible teaches that human life begins at conception.
Ask any American evangelical, today, what the Bible says about abortion and they will insist that this is what it says. (Many don’t actually believe this, but they know it is the only answer that won’t get them in trouble.) They’ll be a little fuzzy on...
MAN I USED TO THINK I WAS CRAZY BUT REALLY THE...
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Obama's War on School Vouchers - WSJ.com →
Obama’s brought too much government into our private lives! He spends too much tax payer money! Except for this! He needs to spend more money on school vouchers, so that public money can go to private institutions! But I hated the bailout, that was terrible!
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'Losing' the world: American decline in... →
Long but interesting read from Noam Chomsky.
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Caller to Dom Giordano proving that millionaires...
Dom: Sir, are you a millionaire?
Caller: Yes.
Dom: What do you do?
Caller: I rent construction equipment.
Dom: And how long have you been doing that?
Caller: Since I was 14.
Dom: Wow, 14! How'd you get started, how'd you start your business renting construction equipment?
Caller: I inherited the business from my father.
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HAN NEVER SHOT FIRST?! DID THIS GUY EVEN WATCH THE...
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Starfish have eight eyes; one at the end of each...
Spent the evening
starting to try to figure out what I want to do with my life. Got an LSAT test prep book and a six pack of Yuengling. I’m halfway through the six pack. Can’t say the same for the test prep book.
January 2012
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WatchReally digging this album. Haven’t played it myself yet, but you can grab Dustforce on Steam.
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“Hi. I’m a Pennsylvania republican. I am starting to take personal offense...”
– My (slightly, but not really) sarcastic interpretation of your average SE PA republican
North Korea makes using a cellphone a war crime... →
Dear Leader may have blessed his subjects with the gift of 3G in 2008, but in his death he is taking it back… at least temporarily. As part of the country’s 100 days of mourning, cellphones have been banned within its borders. If you’re caught pulling out a portable to make a call, send a text or get directions to the nearest statue of the departed dictator you’ll be...
December 2011
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“Our culture is marketing, this is what we do, and what is marketing? Trying to...”
– Charlie Kaufman, BAFTA Screenwriters Lecture (via sunshinemakesmehigh)
Among The Madmen, Santorum Is The Maddest →
ericmortensen:
In his Senate office, on a shelf next to an autographed baseball, Sen. Rick Santorum keeps a framed photo of his son Gabriel Michael, the fourth of his seven children. Named for two archangels, Gabriel Michael was born prematurely, at 20 weeks, on Oct. 11, 1996, and lived two hours outside the womb.
Upon their son’s death, Rick and Karen Santorum opted not to bring his body to a...
November 2011
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Breaking News: 18 year old makes his own decisions →
Yes, this is an actual AP story.
“Ninety seconds. That’s how much of the first hour of tonight’s GOP debate was...”
– Ron Paul’s 2012 presidential campaign newsletter.
My recommendation: Ron Paul’s campaign should sponsor its own series of debates! Isn’t that the solution that best makes use of the free market? If there’s a whole bunch of competition and very little regulation, wouldn’t we get the best product?
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Video of pot bust spotlights lapses by police →
The video taken from nearby surveillance cameras contradicted key facts in [Office Steven] Lupo’s report and sworn testimony. Most crucially, Lupo and an unidentified supervisor are seen rummaging through the trunk hours before a warrant was issued. On the witness stand just moments before the video was played, Lupo emphatically denied that had occurred.
After Lupo’s testimony was...
October 2011
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little rant on voting
(Side note: this was originally intended to be a response to a comment elsewhere on the internet. I ended up just posting it here because after typing it I realized I’m not in the mood for an internet fight at 11 am on a Saturday morning.)
First, two things: power resides with the rich because the people make it that way, and the youth of the United States always seem to get the short end of...