September 2009
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#1167 - Let's Hope So →
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“‘Thinking like a human’ is not a logical way to think but it is not...”
– Morgan Levy via (The Skeptic’s Toolox)
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“If you believe in the capitalist system, you have to erase from your whole...”
– Rush Limbaugh (but I couldn’t have said it better myself.)
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“Faber added that he has a ‘high confidence prediction’ that...”
– Via HuffPost
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#1166 - New Economy →
#1165 - Before Cameras →
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PCC: Worst College Ever?
OFF CAMPUS RULES:
• You may not go to Cordova Mall after 5:00 p.m. • Males and Females are to use separate public beaches and may not go to the popular Pensacola Beach or to the nearby Boardwalk. • You may not go to a public library. • You may not go onto the campus of any other college in the Pensacola area. • Women are not allowed to hold off campus jobs. (All school jobs during...
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Land of the free...
Zeitoun was not formally charged, was not read Miranda rights, was not allowed a phone call. He was physically and verbally abused, pepper sprayed, strip-and body-cavity searched; and was accused of being a “terrorist” during his processing at the “camp.” The details of his captivity only become increasingly outrageous.
Read more.
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#1164 - Compromise →
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“As societies grow decadent, the language grows decadent, too. Words are used to...”
– Gore Vidal
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America: Fuck the poor and also fuck you.
The American Human Development Project released a new report today called A Portrait Of LOUISIANA. The project paints a landscape of Louisiana four years after Katrina, and includes some troubling statistics showing that the average life span for African-Americans living in New Orleans is nearly as low as life expectancy in North Korea Read more.
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Sotomayor is my hero!
…But Justice Sotomayor suggested the majority might have it all wrong — and that instead the court should reconsider the 19th century rulings that first afforded corporations the same rights flesh-and-blood people have.
Judges “created corporations as persons, gave birth to corporations as persons,” she said. “There could be an argument made that that was the...
#1163 - Routine →
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Bill O'Reilly Backs Public Option
What the hell? Is it opposite day?
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Universal Healthcare PLEASE.
During the case, evidence emerged that Health Net had paid bonuses to employees to reward them based on the number of policyholders they had rescinded. The judge who awarded Bates the $9 million said in his decision: “It’s difficult to imagine a policy more reprehensible than tying bonuses to encourage the rescission of health insurance that keeps the public well and alive.” ...
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“Without missing a beat, Anastos continued, ‘Keep f***ing that...”
– Read More
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#1162 - Unconscious →
“The true measure of a man is how he treats someone who can do him absolutely no...”
– Samuel Johnson (via br4dsh4w)
UnitedHealth lobbyist announces Pelosi fundraiser... →
buchino:
tumblelikeyougiveadamn:
Well that’s just wonderful.
(Hat tip to Taylor for the link.)
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Finger Lakes Regional Poison & Drug Information...
SCENARIO 4 Your mother is doing laundry. You see her pour something into a glass. It looks like water. Your sister wants you to get her something to drink. Should you give her the glass? What should you do?
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Finger Lakes Regional Poison & Drug Information...
SCENARIO 8 You are on a picnic with some friends. You go for a hike into the woods near the picnic area and find a snake. Your friends want to touch the snake, and ask you to pick it up. They say that you are not very brave if you are afraid to pick it up. What should you do?
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Michael Moore on Newspapers
It’s not the Internet that has killed newspapers, the gadfly documentarian said in a four-minute detour from talking about his film, which rejects capitalism as “undemocratic.”
Instead, he said, it’s corporate greed. “These newspapers have slit their own throats,” he said. “Good riddance.”
Moore said that newspapers, bought up by corporations in the last generation, have pursued profits at the...
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My local pizza place is mobbed up!
Mob suspect Dominick (Black Dom) Dionisio’s pizza ‘job’ at Brooklyn Lucali’s is a sham, feds say. Read more
(The pizza really is amazing.)
#1161 - Life is Complicated →
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My listening pleasure today →
Wu-Tang Forever (2 Disc Set)
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Crying about Cobain's 'avatar' in a video game?...
Krist Novoselic and Dave Grohl said in a joint statement Thursday that they were “dismayed and very disappointed” that an avatar of the late Nirvana frontman could be used to play songs by other artists.
“While we were aware of Kurt’s image being used with two Nirvana songs, we didn’t know players have the ability to unlock the character,” they said....
#1160 - The Desert →
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Join the Ban Divorce Movement!
“We’re going to set up a table in front of Wal*Mart and ask people to sign a petition to protect traditional marriage. We’re going to interview them about why they thing traditional marriage is important, and then we’ll tell them that we are trying to ban divorce. People who supported Prop 8 weren’t trying to take rights away from gays, they just wanted to protect...
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