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Yes, I said “Panamanians represent”
Im not sorry
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partybarackisinthehousetonight:
mobile blogging with 3% battery is a lot like the band playing while the titanic sank
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What would Sagan do? Check out this new poster available from CrashCourse!
Guys…Carl Sagan is the best…
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Athiest celebrate by giving tips to waiting staff on Valentines Day
They have a motto “I give god 0% so you get x%!” I hardly...
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The Results of Drug Tests on Welfare Recipients in Florida:
Drug testing only benefits the testing company. Typical on conservatives to waste time and money trying to stop a fake issue.
You have to love how they pander to the “everyone on welfare is a mooch and a druggie” types in order to get public support for such a wasteful program - that did nothing but line the pockets of the owners of drug testing facilities.
You know what would be really crazy? If the Governor who signed the law that introduced drug screening, founded one of the largest companies in Florida that provides drug screening.
Fucking Rick Scott.
Tea Party America, ladies and gentlemen. It’s crony capitalism at it’s finest, and the rubes who vote for these shitbags just clap louder and louder while people like Rick Scott fuck them over.
The 11th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals granted its stay of execution as 52-year-old Warren Lee Hill was being prepared for lethal injection. In a 2-1 decision, a panel of the appeals court said further review is needed of recent affidavits by doctors who changed their minds about Hill’s mental capacity. “In other words, all of the experts — both the State’s and the petitioner’s — now appear to be in agreement that Hill is in fact mentally retarded,” judges in the majority wrote in their order. (via Supreme Court declines, but execution gets last-minute stay - CSMonitor.com)
So we have that to look forward to. (via motherjones)
I love Physics. And physicists.
DC Comics has handed the keys to the “Champion of the Oppressed” to a guy who has dedicated himself to oppress me, and my partner, and millions of people like us. It represents a fundamental misread of who the character is, and what he means.
It is dispiriting. It is wearying. It is also, finally, not for me.
One of the other nicknames that accrued to Superman right away – that predates “Man of Steel” by a good amount – is “The Man of Tomorrow.” And much of his early iconography bears a distinctive Socio-Realist, Diego Rivera vibe: a lot of burnished golden sunrises, eyes raised to the horizon, gazing into the future.
Because that’s where he lives, Superman. And that’s what he says to us: We can do better. We can be better, to ourselves, and to each other.
Hey, DC Comics? Be better.
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The full moon rises over the only planet we have ever called home.
The fire that resulted from the explosion at JJ’s restaurant, 910 W. 48th St. was upgraded to a four-alarm blaze. Fire crews reported about 7:45 p.m. that the gas company said it had turned off gas in the area. A fire official said the explosion appears to have been an accident. There may have been two or even three explosions. A contractor working on a reported gas leak outside JJ’s said there was a small explosion outside the restaurant and some of the gas workers ran inside to order everybody out. Then there was a larger explosion. The worker did not think everybody got out of the restaurant. There are numerous reports of injuries but it is not clear how serious they area. The University of Kansas Hospital is treating five patients, one of which is critical and two are serious. A spokesman said the injuries were trauma injuries not burns. He said the hospital has been told they will not receive any more patients. St. Luke’s Hospital has received seven patients, at least two of them critical. The others are still being evaluated. Research Hospital received two patients by ambulance with smoke inhalation and both were in good condition. Truman Medical Center is also treating one patient in critical condition. A Star reporter a block north of the scene saw a man with a blood-covered face being wheeled away on a gurney. There are other gurneys outside an apartment to the north and across Belleview Avenue from JJs, but that building did not appear to be damaged. He said crews were spreading tarps on the street in possible anticipation of casualties. (via Police: No deaths after explosion near Plaza - KansasCity.com)
“In 1951, Vivian moved to New York at twenty-five-years-old and worked in a sweat shop for a while until she would become a nanny for the next forty years on and off. When she had days off, she would walk the streets of Chicago or New York, most often using her Rollieflex camera, photographing everyone and everything from the well-dressed shoppers to homeless people and even her own reflection.”
Messy Nessy Chic highlights the photography of Vivian Maier, whose work was unseen until bought at a Chicago auction by real estate agent and historical hobbyist John Maloof. Check out more of her photography here and watch the trailer for the upcoming documentary film, Finding Vivian Maier.
We we we, we so excited.
“Inglourious” did not walk us through provocative scenes of concentration camp torture, gas chambers and ethnically stereotyped victims. Nor were Jewish characters subjected to the indignities of being torn apart by dogs. And while we have our trusty authenticity card out, did the Jewish people not suffer the repeated verbal onslaught of “kike,” “rats” and other grotesque terms? Were such words used in “Inglourious Basterds” more than 100 times? How about 70? OK 30? 10? Thankfully, Tarantino knew that he was perfectly able to tell a story without such gimmicks. (He also knew the community he claimed to be avenging wouldn’t stand for it.) Hey, remember when Tarantino was selling those emaciated Jewish prisoner action figures with the concentration camp tattoos? So funny and ironic and harmless, right? No. That would have been cheap and disgusting. Yet the filmmakers agreed to the release of action-figure slave and slaver dolls to help promote “Django.” It was an especially offensive decision because selling slave figurines falls directly in line with the centuries-old American tradition of desensitizing us to the horrors of slavery with cute, palatable commodities. Tarantino didn’t invent this tacky strategy; he just dug it back up.
Harlem Reacts To “Harlem Shake” Videos
“That’s not the shake, b, awwww no good”. lost it.
“yall need to stop that shit”
Please Use The Harlem Shake Responsibly.
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Sister Simone Campbell [x]
I like how she articulates the simple financial impossibility of religious organizations being able to replace government aid. I’d like to add that, of course, there are so many people who have trouble receiving aid from religious institutions because they’re LGBT and/or non-religious or have a fraught relationship to religion… aid is a human right—and, as she points out, a business subsidy as well as a subsidy to food companies—which people should be able to receive in a secular setting.
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Sister Simone Campbell for Pope.
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Seconded.
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Teacher Raped By NYPD Cop Goes Public, Wants Albany To Change Rape Laws
Lydia Cuomo is incredibly brave. A year and a half ago, the 26-year-old was on her way to start her new job as a second-grade teacher in the Bronx, but an off-duty police officer threatened her at gunpoint and raped her in the courtyard of an Inwood apartment building. The officer, Michael Pena, was convicted of sexual assault but not on the rape charges (he later pleaded guilty to rape as part of a plea deal). Cuomo is now going public to convince Albany to put anal and oral penetration into the New York State definition of rape.
In an interview with the Daily News, Cuomo said, “I feel like essentially I had a silver platter of a rape case. I had witnesses, I had DNA, I had my own testimony, I had two cops. I had them saying, ‘We admit he sexually assaulted you,’ and I didn’t get the verdict I needed the first time, and that just highlights to me the problem in the system.” She added, “Anal’s not rape? On what planet do you live? It never occurred to us that that’s not rape.”
After the trial, Assemblywoman Aravella Simotas tried to get Albany to change the definition last year—”This legislation will ensure that no other victim will face the same indignity that this Bronx schoolteacher suffered“—but nothing happened. Simotas said, “New York lags behind such liberal bastions as South Dakota and Tennessee in how we define rape. New York should be at the forefront to protect crime victims.”
Cuomo, who is not related to the governor, told the Daily News how she was surprised that the jury didn’t convict Pena of rape, “When we found out the reason why, it just seemed so ludicrous to me. I think, quite frankly, it’s insulting… Ultimately I was being told, ‘Oh, you were anally raped and orally raped, but we don’t believe you were raped; you were sexually assaulted.’” She also explained why she’s making her identity known, “I think this is part of my way of moving on. I think I was given this opportunity to take this horrible, painful and negative thing and make it positive.”
Pena was sentenced to 75 years for sexual assault, the jury had a mistrial regarding the rape charges.
Note: In the state of New York, rape is defined as forced vaginal penetration. So legally, (cis)men cannot be raped and (cis)women who are force to have anal or oral sex are not considered ‘raped’.
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White House spokesperson Jay Carney on drone strikes against Americans without due process.
Also, drone strikes against Americans aren’t exactly legal - Obama’s power to kill hasn’t been codified or approved by any other branch of government. As Nixon said, “If the president does it, it’s not illegal.”
As for the ethical nature of drones, the UN is currently investigating the administration’s targeted killing program.
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It is still considered highly uncool to ascribe a person’s political beliefs, even in part, to that person’s biology: hormones, physiological responses, even brain structures and genes. And no wonder: Doing so raises all kinds of thorny, non-PC issues involving free will, determinism, toleration, and much else. There’s just one problem: Published scientific research keeps going there, with ever increasing audacity (not to mention growing stacks of data). The past two weeks have seen not one but two studies published in scientific journals on the biological underpinnings of political ideology. And these studies go straight at the role of genes and the brain in shaping our views, and even our votes. (via The Surprising Brain Differences Between Democrats and Republicans | Mother Jones)
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