September 2009
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August 2009
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#1155 - Flap-Jacks →
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“If liberals defended health care 10% as hard as Cheney defends torture America...”
– Twitter / Clayton Cubitt (via claytoncubitt)
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#1154 - Reality →
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Bridge May be Slippery and Delicious
Government spokesman Shiu Liang said: “We tried employing guards at both ends but that didn’t work - and we put up special fences and notices asking people not to commit suicide here. None of it worked - and so now we have put butter over the bridge and it has worked very well. (via Gizmodo)
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#1153 - Bird Bath →
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“Today’s slavery focuses on big profits and cheap lives. It is not about owning...”
– Terrence McNally, AlterNet
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“UK Big Brother: 1,000 cameras ‘solve one crime’”
– via the BBC
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“What every American should be made to learn about the IG Torture Report”
– Glenn Greenwald via Salon
#1152 - The Duel Continues →
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Joe Scarborough Is Shocked, Yet Awed by...
The goverment would take over only the “paying mechanism” of health care, not the doctors or their medical decisions themselves. His ears perked up every time Weiner mentioned that the nonprofit Medicare spends 4 percent on overhead, while private insurers spend 30 percent.
Maybe the real turning point came when Weiner asked, “How does Wal-mart offer $4 prescriptions?” Joe...
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“How did a plastic water bottle, imported from a military dictatorship thousands...”
– Anna Lenzer for Mother Jones
listening to "Eagles of Death Metal - Whorehoppin... →
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On Rebublicans and The Healthcare Propaganda
“For many of the people at the top of the party, this is merely cynical manipulation. One of Bush’s former advisers, David Kuo, has said the President and Karl Rove would mock evangelicals as ‘nuts’ as soon as they left the Oval Office. But the ordinary Republican base believe this stuff. They are being tricked into opposing their own interests through false fears and...
#1151 - Taking for a Living →
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“Scientists in Israel have demonstrated that it is possible to fabricate DNA...”
– via NYTIMES
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#1150 - Right for the Time →
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“You really have to check what country you’re living in, because the...”
– Brad Pitt [to Christians] via YouTube
#1149 - The Set Up →
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#1148 - The Champ →
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“All told, we learned that there are at least one hundred billion galaxies in our...”
– (Via Starts With A Bang)
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“I had rather take my chance that some traitors will escape detection than spread...”
– Learned Hand
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U.S. Architects of Harsh Tactics in 9/11’s Wake
…had never carried out a real interrogation, only mock sessions in the military training they had overseen. They had no relevant scholarship; their Ph.D. dissertations were on high blood pressure and family therapy. They had no language skills and no expertise on Al Qaeda.
(via NY Times)
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Fox News sues for right to lie to public, wins →
louobedlam:
(via claytoncubitt)
On February 14, a Florida Appeals court ruled there is absolutely nothing illegal about lying, concealing or distorting information by a major press organization. The court reversed the $425,000 jury verdict in favor of journalist Jane Akre who charged she was pressured by Fox Television...
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“Gish gallop: Named for creationism activist and professional debater Duane Gish,...”
– Wikipeida