April 2012
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Zimmerman forgot to tell his lawyer about his... →
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baddominicana:
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$150,000 the amount George Zimmerman’s bond was set at when he was released last week after a contentious bond hearing
$200,000 the amount George Zimmerman had in PayPal donations sitting around at the time of that…
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Prison Industries: "Don't Let Society Improve or... →
There are two very large and influential prison companies in the United States who are manipulating the system to make sure they have plenty of business: The GEO Group (formerly Wackenhut) and Corrections Corporation of America (CCA). In the first part of this two-part series, I will explore The GEO Group’s influence peddling; next week, I will look at CCA.
If you have any doubt in your mind...
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Help support a #prochoice student under attack... →
the-womanifesto:
An art student at my school, Western Kentucky University, is getting tons of national heat right now for her own backlash against a pro-life group. The group covered an entire set of bleachers with 4,000 crosses and from the art classroom windows you could see that it spelled out the word “LIFE.” They also targeted students walking by and asked them questions about abortion and...
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#StopRush - Limbaugh demands YouTube remove Sandra... →
paxamericana:
Remember Sandra Fluke? She’s the law student who sent Rush Limbaugh into a multi-day rage for daring to speak out on behalf a friend who needed access to contraceptives for non-reproductive medical reasons. As a result, Limbaugh decided she was a promiscuous slut and prostitute who needed to videotape herself having sex for Limbaugh’s own sexual gratification.
Overall, Limbaugh...
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Spirit Airlines Won't Refund Ticket of Man Dying... →
thepoliticalfreakshow:
Florida resident and 76 year-old Vietnam war veteran Jerry Meekins recently purchased a ticket from Spirit Airlines to visit his daughter in New Jersey. But soon after he bought the ticket, his doctors informed him that he is dying from esophageal cancer and that he shouldn’t fly. Meekins thought he’d ask Spirit if he could get his money back: “I said, ‘What’s the...
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WikiLeaks Truck Owner Arrested For Photographing... →
Metropolitan Transit Authority police arrested a man for photographing them at Penn Station in New York City this afternoon – deleting his photo – before releasing him from a jail cell an hour later.
Clark Stoeckley was issued a summons charging him with “engaging in threatening behavior.”
“I was walking through Penn Station and I came across these MTA cops with semi-automatic weapons,” he...
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“There is something fundamentally wrong in treating the Earth as if it were a...”
– Herman Daly (via azspot)
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Antarctic Ice Melting From Below by Warming Ocean... →
A paper published today in the science journal Nature reveals that the melting of Antarctica’s ice sheet is being driven by a warming ocean more than a warming atmosphere. Which means even though summer air temperatures have not yet warmed enough to substantially melt Antarctica’s surface snows, the oceans are undermining the frozen continent from below—fueling a recent, widespread, and...
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Wind pushes plastics deeper into oceans, driving... →
While working on a research sailboat gliding over glassy seas in the Pacific Ocean, oceanographer Giora Proskurowski noticed something new: The water was littered with confetti-size pieces of plastic debris, until the moment the wind picked up and most of the particles disappeared. After taking samples of water at a depth of 16 feet (5 meters), Proskurowski, a researcher at the University of...
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Truth: "I will submit to you today, that they... →
abaldwin360:
The Tennessee Democratic Party is criticizing Rep. Jeremy Faison, R-Cosby, for his comments during House floor debate on a bill that amends the state “cyberbullying” law.
During the debate, Rep. Jeremy Faison spoke out against the bill, displaying a “boys will be boys”…
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In memory of Kenneth Weishuhn, age 14 →
gaywrites:
Kenneth Weishuhn, a gay 14-year-old high school freshman from Iowa, died by suicide this weekend, and bullying at school is suspected to have played a role.
Kenneth’s friends rejected him when he came out to them about a month ago. Bullies created an anti-gay hate group on Facebook and added Kenneth’s friends as members, and he eventually received death threats over the phone.
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BP Covered Up Blow-out Prior to Deepwater Horizon... →
Yesterday, Ecowatch.org revealed that, in September 2008, nearly two years before the Deepwater Horizon explosion in the Gulf of Mexico, another BP rig had blown out in the Caspian Sea— which BP concealed from U.S. regulators and Congress.
Had BP, Chevron, Exxon or the Bush State Department revealed the facts of the earlier blow-out, it is likely that the Deepwater Horizon disaster would have...
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Left in a Right state.: Leave it to Fox News →
sarahlee310:
To run a story today headlined, “Earth Day a reminder of the benefits of industrial progress”
It ends with: “A real environmental catastrophe would be a world in which we cut down on these things—a world in which we stopped improving the Earth. Let’s not let that happen. Let’s…
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Iowa's Sioux City Journal devotes front page to... →
sarahlee310:
The Sioux City Journal’s front-page opinion piece calls on the community to be pro-active in stopping bullying and urges members to learn more about the problem by seeing the acclaimed new film, “Bully,” which documents the harassment of a Sioux City middle school student. It notes that while many students are targeted for being gay, “we have learned a bully needs no reason to...
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Colorado Democratic Party endorses Amendment 64 to... →
jonathan-cunningham:
Well done, Colorado!
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“….only 48% of voting-age women have ready access to a birth certificates that...”
– The War on Women Voting | The Nation
This is an issue I don’t think has gotten near enough attention.
Personal story: I accidently left my driver’s license at the bank when I went in to cash a travel check to go to a conference. The bank policy is to shred driver’s licenses if not picked up in...
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Random Acts of Chaos: American wages have... →
abaldwin360:
NEW YORK (Bullion Bulls Canada) — In writing about the relentless collapse of Western economies, I frequently point to “40 years of plummeting wages” for Western workers, in real dollars. However, where I have been remiss is in quantifying the magnitude of this collapse in…
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The Republican order of things. →
inothernews:
Hyperbillionaire Warren Buffett says he should pay a higher effective federal tax rate than his secretary’s.
President Obama, everyone else with common sense and decency agrees.
Democrats move to open debate on the so-called “Buffett Rule.”
Other hyperbillionaires, who think Warren Buffett is “just fucking crazy, no seriously WTF is wrong with this fucking dude, why the fuck does...
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“If Barack Obama becomes the president in November, I will either be dead or in...”
– Ted Nugent
…is this supposed to be some kind of deterrent?
(via apophatic)
WELP
SEE YA TED
(via face-down-asgard-up)
Yeah, I’ll celebrate just as soon as Rush leaves for Costa Rica.
(via stfuconservatives)
Ted Nugent in jail….hmmm. HMMM. Let me sit with that for a moment and allow...
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When a rich woman wants to stay home with her... →
There’s is no occupational or social equivalency between a professional parent and the wife of a 200-times-over millionaire. The ability to make any problem, chore, or issue disappear with your checkbook changes the game in ways that 99% of us will never know.
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Anders Breivik claims self-defense after killing... →
Yes, the Zimmerman Defense. #SYG
nefariousnewt:
storkankles:
Oslo, Norway (CNN) The man accused of killing 77 people in a bomb and gun rampage in Norway last summer claimed self-defense on Monday.
“I acknowledge the acts but do not plead guilty, and I claim I was doing it in self-defense,” Anders Behring Breivik told a court in Oslo, Norway.
Breivik made the remarks as he went on trial...
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North Korea's missile and satellite:
inothernews:
stopped halfway through the ionosphere to ask for directions
is called “Kim Il Sung Looking At You”
is actually an import
accidentally had its gas tank filled with ketchup
was the last official project of the Palm Pilot team
runs on Windows ME
knows what’s in the suitcase
urged Rick Santorum to stay in the race
drives a Buick
thought it was heading into mySpace.
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Forever Liberal: Florida Governor Rick Scott... →
Only because Gov Prick Scott hasn’t opened any rehab clinics yet, silly.
karamazov-alexei:
abaldwin360:
Florida Governor Rick Scott on Friday vetoed a widely popular bill that would send certain non-violent drug addicts to treatment after serving half their sentences.
“He said it was a ‘public safety’ issue. No it’s not,” said bill sponsor Sen. Ellyn…
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Pre-North Korean missile launch transcript:
KIM IL SUNG: Are you sure this will work?
ROCKET SCIENTIST: Yes.
KIM: Positive?
SCIENTIST: Yes.
KIM: How sure are you?
SCIENTIST: Like, 101 percent.
KIM: That's more than 100 percent.
SCIENTIST: It is.
KIM: So you're like super-confident.
SCIENTIST: The superest confident.
KIM: For real?
SCIENTIST: Yes.
KIM (pacing): I don't know. I'm nervous.
SCIENTIST: That's a natural thing to be. I mean, we've never done this before.
KIM: So now you're NOT sure.
SCIENTIST: I didn't say that.
KIM: It sounds like you said that.
SCIENTIST: I didn't.
KIM: You're scaring me, John.
SCIENTIST: That's DOCTOR John.
KIM: If this fails, I'll look like a complete idiot.
SCIENTIST: It's always about you, Kim.
KIM: Sigh. (Beat.) Maybe we should just reunite with South Korea.
(Beat.)
SCIENTIST: Or feed millions of North Koreans instead of launching a $850 million dud.
(Beat.)
KIM: LOL.
SCIENTIST: LOL.
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approximately infinite universe: The Netherlands:... →
Because breaking up families is the best immigration policy EVER.
redlightpolitics:
I haven’t been able to find a source for this in English so you’ll have to bear with my translation of the article in Dutch. As I always say, anyone curious about the original source can parse it through Google Translate. The resulting grammar tends to be a bit mangled…
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‘Holocaust Never Happened’ Says GOP Candidate...
other-stuff:
goodreasonnews:
“As far as I’m concerned, the Holocaust is nothing more than an international extortion racket by the Jews. It’s the blackest lie in history. Millions of dollars are being made by Jews telling this tale of woe and misfortune in books, movies, plays and TV.”
— Art Jones
http://www.addictinginfo.org/2012/02/29/holocaust-never-happened-says-gop-candidate-video/
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American Bishops Order Hospitals to Let Women Die →
I wrote last year about how St. Joseph’s Hospital and Medical Center in Phoenix, Arizona, lost its “Catholic” status because it allowed an abortion to be performed — an abortion that was the only way to save the woman’s life. New information has come out that reveals that the official position of the bishop of Phoenix, Thomas Olmsted, is little more than “let the woman die.”
Even worse, the...
