February 2011
Tumblr followers. Gain a few, lose a ton.
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No, really, the president of Malawi wants to ban... →
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“The Malawi government is making farting illegal. But I say he who suppressed...”
– STEPHEN COLBERT, about this, on The Colbert Report.
Heh.
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“Future speechwriting note: the ‘F’ stands for ‘fuck.’”
– JON STEWART, reacting to Sarah Palin’s WTF moment, on The Daily Show
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“That was another one of those WTF moments that when he has so often repeated,...”
– Future Republican presidential nominee SARAH PALIN, reacting to the President Obama’s call for America’s new “Sputnik moment” during his State of the Union speech.
Oh, I wish I’d heard this last week.
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“I am Barbara Bush, and I am a New Yorker for marriage equality,” she says in the...”
– Barbara Bush, one of the twin daughters of George W. Bush, - A Bush Daughter Backs Gay Marriage - NYTimes (via brooklynmutt)
Oh HELL naw. →
afghanibanani:
The heinous slaughter of 100 dogs in British Columbia has revealed a “dirty secret” of the dog sled industry, according to CKNW.
Following the 2010 Olympic Games, there was a slump in business at Outdoor Adventures Whistler.CBC News reports that an employee was ordered to kill 100 dogs from a pack of 300. The dogs were repeatedly shot and had their throats slashed before being...
captainpenelope asked: (just a comment for your baby cake post) After reading "A Modest Proposal..." in a literature class in high school, a classmate brought in two cakes molded and iced to look like babies, made of red velvet cake.
I hope someone gets a Dashboard Coincidence of the...
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NY TIMES: Al Jazeera English finding an audience... →
White House officials have turned to Al Jazeera English among other television channels to monitor the mounting protests in Egypt. But most Americans lack the same ability to tune in to the broadcaster, which is based in Qatar, because cable and satellite companies in the United States have largely refused its requests to be carried.
With the network’s coverage of the crisis drawing...
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Fox News, the Not Photoshopped edition. →
And now I’ll get off of it.
Fighting on Tumblr is like playing air guitar....
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Watchsoupsoup:
Watch : Live stream of Al-Jazeera English
Egyptian Bloggers
Hossam el-Hamalawy (@3arabawy / YouTube / Flickr)
Ramy Raoof (@RamyRaoof / YouTube / Flickr)
Egyptian News Websites
Al Masry Alyoum
Liveblogs
Reuters
Al-Jazeera
New York Times : The Lede
CNN
Guardian
BBC
Mother Jones
Human Rights Watch
Huffington Post
Talking Points Memo
Social Network Aggregation...
January 2011
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“Weeks after a shooting left six dead and 13 injured in Tucson, New York City...”
– “New York City Investigates Arizona Gun Show,” from the New York Times
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No, one side passed healthcare reform legislation, the first major social reform of its kind since the 1960’s, and a move that would provide for the basic healthcare needs of tens of millions of Americans. The law was passed, see, and the other side fought it, and will continue to fight it, without so much as offering up an option that WOULD cover 30 million of your fellow citizens who are...
The Republican Party is not the party of no. It's...
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“The judge’s ruling came in the most prominent of more than 20 legal challenges...”
– From the New York Times article “Ruling Against Health Care Law Evens Scorecard 2-2.”
I’m confident this decision has nothing to do with politics whatsoever. I have full faith in our independent judiciary.
It’s just that there are too many coincidences, that’s all.
And also, those who believe that requiring people...
I'm not a Constitutional lawyer, and I have health...
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Apparently, the erroneous Fox "News" graphic in... →
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“Because the individual mandate is unconstitutional and not severable, the entire...”
– From the decision handed down by Florida Federal District Court judge ROGER VINSON essentially striking down the new healthcare reform law, ruling part of it unconstitutional.
Dear Judge Vinson: I’m not a lawyer, but tea and healthcare, with all due respect, are NOT THE SAME FUCKING THING.
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It's hard to believe that conservatives are...
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BREAKING: Judge rules entire health care reform... →
shortformblog:
From the story: “Because the individual mandate is unconstitutional and not severable, the entire Act must be declared void. This has been a difficult decision to reach, and I am aware that it will have indeterminable implications.”
Sickening.
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NY TIMES: On eve of Tuesday's "March of Millions,"... →
The Egyptian Army announced Monday for the first time that it would not fire on protesters, even as tens of thousands of people gathered in central Liberation Square for a seventh day to shout for the ouster of President Hosni Mubarak.
The announcement came after the opposition dismissed Mr. Mubarak’s cabinet reshuffle as inadequate and as concerns over violence were heightened by the...
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Today’s “cheap bastard lunch” special is at a place that serves one-dollar slices of pizza, with the pizza makers behind the open-ended counter inside a former porn shop singing along to Spanish music, one of them sounding a lot like my late father. That their bread is a little doughy and their slices a bit heavy on sauce and light on cheese is of no consequence. A New York City...
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NY TIMES: "The numbers in (Tahrir Square) appeared... →
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It's going to snow like a bastard over the Midwest... →
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SLATE: Six Al Jazeera reporters arrested in Cairo,... →
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BREAKING ENTERTAINMENT NEWS: The new "Superman"...
