February 2012
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Buddy Dyer has yet to open Amway center to the... →
tyleruhi:
Mike Cantone, candidate for Orlando Mayor, is calling on Mayor Dyer and Amway officials to release their plans on using the Orlando Magic facility as a homeless shelter on off-nights, as ordered by state law. The professional basketball facility has taken massive subsidies totaling nearly $8 million in public tax dollars since 2008 in addition to the hundreds of millions the city...
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You don't actually think a fetus is a human being,...
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littleojibwe:
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abaldwin360:
religiousragings:
like-an-echo:
When you hear that a woman gets an abortion, you go nuts about the fetus having rights. You feel sorry for the poor baby. You feel angry because the baby was done injustice. It’s about the baby.
Taking the trigger word here (abortion) out of the equation, it becomes a little more clear what you...
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What if
elementary-son:
what if
instead of saying “Wow check your privilege you piece of shit bigoted asshole. How dare you call yourself an ally if you’re not even completely informed about this small distinction fuck off people like you are why I hate _______ people”
people said
“You know, if you want to be a better ally you should really stop saying ______ because it’s...
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Language as Metaphor
An example:
ARGUMENT IS WAR Your claims are indefensible He attacked every weak point in my argument His criticisms were right on target I demolished his argument I’ve never won an argument with him. You dissagree! Okay, shoot! If you use that strategy, he’ll wipe you out. He shot down all my arguments.
“The essence of metaphor is understanding and...
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“The argument that language determines the way we think, using the example of...”
– Professor Vance Geiger
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“The Constitution makes it absolutely clear; the President is to execute federal...”
– Rocky Anderson
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“If I’m left without contraception, how can I plan my pregnancies? If I can’t...”
– The (Not) New War on Birth Control - we’re talking about it today. (via myplannedparenthood)
THIS. I keep saying it and I don’t plan on stopping: if you can’t choose when (or if!) you’re going to be pregnant or be a parent you can never truly have control over your life. If pregnancy is something...
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On an ethical lifestyle and organ donation.
364unbirthdays:
lorycannotsupinate:
hate-wizard:
I’m an organ donor. I also am somewhere in between vegan and vegetarian. I see a contradiction in this.
This means that if I die, any of my usable organs will be harvested and transplanted into another human being, if possible. However, the odds of any of the recipients being vegan or vegetarian is very small. Somewhere around 2% of the...
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“When the newspapers were full of alarms about Iran possibly developing a nuclear...”
– Howard Zinn on Kurt Vonnegut
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pacify-eris:
When Gucci Mane says “colder than a polar bear sleeping in a freezer”
I’m like “polar bears are warm blooded mammals built to withstand especially cold weather and because of their layer of blubber, they tend to overheat at any temperature above 50 degree fahrenheit and so technically—”
and then I remember he has an ice cream cone tattooed on his face
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BREAKING: MegaUpload founder Kim Dotcom is granted...
Occupy All Streets: BREAKING: MegaUpload founder Kim Dotcom is granted bail in New Zealand
Megaupload millionaire Kim Dotcom has been granted bail after a judge decided he was not enough of a flight risk to keep in custody.
The website’s founder and three of his associates have appeared in the North Shore District Court this morning.
New Zealand police raided Kim Dotcom’s $30 million…
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BILL PLASCHKE / LA TIMES: "(Jeremy Lin's story)... →
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Rick Santorum, who doesn't believe in evolution,... →
Santorum is the best example of EVERYTHING WRONG WITH THE GOP.
Obama signed NDAA.
We’re fucked from all sides.
REVOLT.
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Vice article about Immigration Detention Centers →
“the UK; where the highly criticized detention of children, the policy of indeterminate detention and the accompanying depression, self-harm, and suicides of detained migrants are practically ignored, leaving various charities to deal with the problem.”
“Another interesting piece of information to note here, is that some detention centers are run by private security companies...
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“Stop degrading the act of sex by calling it ‘opening your legs.’
I’m so sick...”
– flowersarebetterthanbullets on This Post (I made this a quote, because the original picture with text was visually offensive. These pro-life people need to take a graphic design class.)
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How Greece Could Take Down Wall Street | Ellen... →
theamericanbear:
In an article titled “Still No End to ‘Too Big to Fail,’” William Greider wrote in The Nation on February 15th:
Financial market cynics have assumed all along that Dodd-Frank did not end “too big to fail” but instead created a charmed circle of protected banks labeled “systemically important” that will not be allowed to fail, no matter how badly they behave.
That may be,...
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What the Bible says about...
christiantheatheist:
Figs
(God hates them.)
Psalms 105:33
He smote … their fig trees.
Jeremiah 24:2-3
The other basket had very naughty figs, which could not be eaten, they were so bad.
Jeremiah 29:17-18
Thus sayeth the Lord of hosts, Behold, I will … make them like vile figs, that cannot be eaten, they are so evil.
Hosea 2:12
I will destroy her vines and her fig trees.
Matthew...
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White Privilege: Now What & Other Such Fallacies
foulmouthedliberty:
racismschool:
Examples of what white privilege deniers THINK it means to be told to “Check Your Privilege.”
Apologize for being white
Believe white is bad or wrong
Be ashamed of being white
Feel guilty for being white
Examples of what people ACTUALLY mean when they say “Check Your Privilege.”
You are inserting yourself into a conversation where you shouldn’t be....
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openings: Russian DNA Discoveries Proof of... →
theawakenedstate:
2009
Russian discoveries of the wave information nature of DNA overthrow our understanding that we are genetically fixed. Led by
The new science of “wave genetics” shows that DNA functions like a holographic computer, part of the larger hologram of the information wave reality. Our DNA has the capabilities of hypercommunication—telepathy, remote sensing and remote feeling,...
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“All white women in this nation know that their status is different from that of...”
– Bell Hooks