February 2012
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kungfucarrie:
House Passes Bill That Will Make Protesting Illegal at Secret Service Covered Events
Under the act, the government is also given the power to bring charges against Americans engaged in political protest anywhere in the country.
…that means a peaceful protest outside a candidate’s concession speech would be a federal offense…
The bill passed the Senate on...
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“Romney won Mackinac County by 1 vote. 667 votes to Santorum’s, wait for it, 666...”
– Chuck Todd (via captainrobocop) The mark of the touristy part of the state. (via shortformblog)
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State Senator Coleman on Alabama's Mandated...
abaldwin360:
The Alabama legislature is considering a mandated vaginal ultrasound bill in an attempt to restrict safe abortion care, or as State Senator Linda Coleman (D - Jefferson) says “a state-sanctioned rape bill.”
The bill explicitly includes mandated trans-vaginal ultrasound.
In an interview today with RH Reality Check Coleman said, “you can’t tell me forcing a probe into a woman’s...
Presence of Peaceful Women Necessitates SWAT Team... →
richmondhuck:
Remember governor Bob McDonnell’s 1989 Regent University thesis in which he described the damage done to society by women who worked outside the home? Well, if you do then it probably comes as no surprise that he traffics heavily in other stereotypes about women as well, such as the one that we’re all a bunch of hysterical seed-vessels that cannot be trusted to understand or...
“When you took your oath of office, you placed your hand on the Bible and swore...”
– Jamie Raskin - who is now a senator in Maryland and served as floor manager of the recently passed bill allowing same sex marriage. (via abaldwin360)
“So why would a group funded by the food industry group go after the Humane...”
– The PR Man Behind the Oscar Night Anti-Humane Society Slam | Mother Jones (via sixbucks)
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-bobella-:
I have the strongest craving for McDonald’s pickles right now. Not a burger. Just the pickles.
My dad worked at a factory that made parts for McDonald pickle making machines (and other machines too). He brought home a 10-gallon bucket full of pickles and my sister and I thought that we had died and gone to heaven. We sure did eat a lot of pickles.
“The whole blue collar work ethic in America, especially in Michigan is that,...”
– Michael Moore on Rick Santorum’s statement, “President Obama once said he wants everybody in America to go to college. What a snob.” (via kileyrae)
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cognitivedissonance:
University of Virginia Football Player Goes On Hunger Strike To Get Living Wage For University Employees
Joseph Williams moved more than 30 times as a child, living in homeless shelters, church basements, and the homes of family friends. Now Williams, a junior safety on the University of Virginia football team, is taking up a cause supporting...
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twodoxiesandtoomanyshoes replied to your post: Why the hell am I crying?
Or your family is slowly dying off.
No tears to be shed in that situation. I’m still going with shark week.
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How Gas Prices Are Manipulated By The Koch...
abaldwin360:
Why are gas prices surging to levels unseen since the 2008 oil spike while the oil companies reporting record profits? Much of the problem is actually created by Wall Street traders here in the USA who gamble on oil prices and powerful multinational companies that manipulate the supply and demand by stockpiling oil when the price is low and expected to rise in the near future. And...
Scott Walker's Koch Connection Goes Bad →
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mohandasgandhi:
So it was incredible when David Koch admitted in an interview with the Palm Beach Post that he planned to support Walker with spending by AFP. “We’re helping him, as we should,” Koch said of Walker. “We’ve gotten pretty good at this over the years. We’ve spent a lot of money in Wisconsin. We’re going to spend more.”
The Post added: “By ‘we’ he says he means...
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“I talked to the driver Tony Raines on Saturday and told him that since he’s...”
– Rick Santorum, offering up allegorical racing advice to Tony Raines, the driver of the Rick Santorum-themed vehicle at the Daytona 500. The race has been delayed multiple times due to rain, the first time that’s happened in its history. (via shortformblog)
Would it be wrong of me to wish that the...
Why the hell am I crying?
Oh, that’s right-shark week is imminent.
Does the sound seem off to anyone else? It's like...
Or maybe it’s me?
My iMac just died. I'm now operating on a...
This is rough. I’m glad I have the back up, but this is like going from a Ferrari to a Yugo.
I really hope my hard drive didn’t just die…
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