April 2010
173 posts
Losing our cherished freedoms
lookatthisfuckingteabagger:
squashed:
The Tea Party is livid about our purported “loss of freedom”. But … we haven’t lost any freedoms under Obama. (Except fake freedoms like the freed to get a tan without paying a 10% tax.)
At least, most of us haven’t lost any freedoms. If you’re Hispanic and in Arizona, you’re likely to be stopped and interrogated by the police for looking insufficiently...
WatchInvesting in women can unlock infinite potential around the globe. But how can women walk the line between Western-style empowerment and traditional culture? Kavita Ramdas of the Global Fund for Women talks about three encounters with powerful women who fight to make the world better — while preserving the traditions that sustain them.
Kavita Ramdas: Radical women, embracing tradition |...
WatchSpace Monkey (by Leo Burnett)
Created as a collaboration between World Wildlife Fund (WWF), Ben Lee and Leo Burnett
Court: Wal-Mart gender pay lawsuit can go to trial →
A federal appeals court has certified the largest class-action employment lawsuit in U.S. history, in a long-standing dispute against retailer Wal-Mart Stores Inc. over alleged gender bias in pay and promotions.
t issue is whether more than a million current and former Wal-Mart employees can band together in their claims of discrimination, which they say has occurred over the past decade, at...
Most back stricter financial reform, advantage... →
About two-thirds of Americans support stricter regulations on the way banks and other financial institutions conduct their business, according to a new Washington Post-ABC News poll.
Majorities also back two main components of legislation congressional Democrats plan to bring to a vote in the Senate this week: greater federal oversight of consumer loans and a company-paid fund that would ...
Palin: With his ‘chalkboard technique,’ Glenn Beck... →
During a question and answer session, Eugene City Councilwoman Jennifer Solomon read a pre-screened question from the audience about her role at Fox News. Palin said she was proud to be a part of Fox News for being “fair and balanced.”
She also praised Fox host Glenn Beck and said with “his chalkboard technique he’s changing our country.”
Journalists who covered Friday’s speech were subject to...
U.S. students suffering from Internet addiction →
American college students are hooked on cellphones, social media and the Internet and showing symptoms similar to drug and alcohol addictions, according to a new study.
Researchers at the University of Maryland who asked 200 students to give up all media for one full day found that after 24 hours many showed signs of withdrawal, craving and anxiety along with an inability to function well without...
Graham and the Climate Bill →
Senator Lindsey Graham (R–SC) angrily withdrew his support for climate legislation this weekend after learning that Harry Reid and President Obama apparently want to move on immigration reform first. Since Graham himself has been pushing the administration to get more serious about immigration, charges of hypocrisy popped up almost immediately.
[L]et’s be honest here: this really does...
Voices of the Tea Party - Interactive Feature →
The New York Times asked supporters of the Tea Party movement to submit videos, up to two minutes long, describing their concerns for the United States and hopes for how the Tea Party could help.
(via jude fields IRL)
Watch“There are emails out there everywhere on Obama…”
Red State Road Trip
Utah murderer Gardner chooses death by firing... →
A convicted murderer in the US state of Utah has chosen to be executed by firing squad.
When given a choice between lethal injection or being shot, Ronnie Lee Gardner told the judge: “I would like the firing squad, please.”
Of the 35 US states that have the death penalty, Utah is the only one to give firing squads as an option.
John Piper Clams Up About God As Tornado Hits... →
When a minor F0 tornado hit a church where gay rights activists had met last summer, Baptist preacher John Piper promptly wrote a 625-word essay explaining to his followers how the tornado was the expression of God’s wrath against gay people. Piper declared that “Jesus Christ controls the wind, including all tornados,” that God will exclude gay people from His Kingdom, and that the tornado was...
Three Big Oil Companies Likely to Back Climate... →
When Sens. John Kerry, Lindsey Graham and Joe Lieberman release their climate bill on Monday, they expect to have the backing of three of the five major oil companies.
Kerry outlined specific details from the bill that have not previously been publicly available. Here’s a rundown:
The bill would remove the Environmental Protection Agency’s authority to regulate carbon dioxide...
NewMoney.gov →
Official website for the new $100 bill, with hilarious official video.
The Obama administration's righteous stance... →
Let’s teach those Pakistanis that we’re not going to tolerate their lawless and tyrannical detention of people without charges and trials. We won’t put up with it. Especially not when it’s “justified” with the Orwellian claim that their real civilian courts can’t handle the prosecutions and they’re “afraid” that Dangerous Terrorists might...
“They will look at the kind of dress you wear, there’s different type of attire,...”
– Rep. Brian Bilbray Says He Can Spot Undocumented Immigrants Based On The Shoes They Wear
Republicans push for Minnesota sovereignty →
Senate Republicans introduced a constitutional amendment Wednesday that would make Minnesota the first state to require a two-thirds majority vote in the legislature to approve federal laws affecting the state. “Minnesotans enjoy inherent, natural, God-given rights,” the bill states, and “Citizens of Minnesota are sovereign individuals, subject to Minnesota law and immune from any federal laws...
“If a radical homegrown terrorist group attacked the United States, following...”
– American Family Association: Government is more dangerous than al Qaeda, Tim McVeigh’s terrorism.
“Not all bubbleheads, as submariners are commonly known, are convinced. Of all...”
– Plans to allow women and gays, ban smoking shake world of Navy submarines
“Republicans have continued their push to pass a bill that would replace...”
– 79% of Americans Don’t Want Ronald Reagan on Their Money
Oklahoma lawmakers approve several abortion bills →
The Oklahoma Senate approved several bills Monday that opponents say would make it more difficult or uncomfortable for women to get abortions, including one that would require women seeking the procedures early in their pregnancies to undergo an invasive form of ultrasound.
One of the laws headed to the governor would require doctors to use a vaginal probe in cases where it would provide a...
Clever New Caledonian crows can use three tools →
Government requests directed to Google and YouTube →
Google has a new service, but it won’t help you find pictures of Justin Bieber or stay in touch with friends. It’s a map that shows how many times governments around the world have contacted the company with requests—either to remove content or retrieve data about Google users.
Not every country is listed, but only one has its own color. That would be China, Google’s recent privacy nemesis....
Both national party committees spend big chunks on... →
Both the national Democratic and Republican party committees spend about two-thirds of the money they take in on the care and comfort of committee staffs and on efforts to raise more funds, with lavish spending on limousines, expensive hotels, meals and tips, an analysis of the latest financial disclosure data shows.
Monthly committee spending reports, like those that were due by midnight ...
Hutaree Speech Transcript: Prosecutors Will Need... →
“DS: In this nation we think we are free but you need a certificate to be born, a license to drive or permit to build, a number to get a job and even a paper after you die. These are permission slips from the terrorist organization called the New World Order. People in this nation as well as some around this world are waiting for those individuals like you see sitting in this room, we...
To young voters, socialism isn’t a bad word →
Republican strategists see short-term advantages in the tea party movement’s passion. But if conservatives can’t wean themselves off of Cold-War-era rhetoric, they risk alienating an entire generation of young people. The tea party is well on its way to doing just that. A recent New York Times/CBS News survey found that three-quarters of the movement’s supporters were older than 45.
A year...
“If you’re sitting at home in your undershirt, watching TV, worried about...”
– Seth MacFarlane on people who are against gays in the military (via enemyswim, equalitopia)
Conservatives Gear Up For Fight Over Pending ENDA... →
The House Education and Labor Committee is expected to take up the Employer Non-Discrimination Act (ENDA) in the next several days and the bill will likely receive a quick vote in the full House in the coming weeks, Rep. Barney Frank (D-NY) told a group of gay activists on Sunday. “The speaker has promised that.” “We will get this done fairly quickly,” he said. The legislation — which has 199...
“The House of Representatives, in a stunning reversal, will not consider whether...”
– Stunning Reversal: Democrats Kill Voting Rights Bill for DC
“I mean, let’s face it, what’s the Obama administration doing?...”
– Michele Bachmann calls net neutrality an Obama censorship plot
YOU HAVE NO IDEA WHAT YOU ARE TALKING ABOUT.
Noam Chomsky Has ‘Never Seen Anything Like This’ →
“The United States is extremely lucky that no honest, charismatic figure has arisen,” Chomsky went on. “Every charismatic figure is such an obvious crook that he destroys himself, like McCarthy or Nixon or the evangelist preachers. If somebody comes along who is charismatic and honest this country is in real trouble because of the frustration, disillusionment, the justified anger and the absence...
Soldiers in "Wikileaks" Unit Apologize for... →
Peace be with you,
To all of those who were injured or lost loved ones during the July 2007 Baghdad shootings depicted in the “Collateral Murder” Wikileaks video:
We write to you, your family, and your community with awareness that our words and actions can never restore your losses.
We are both soldiers who occupied your neighborhood for 14 months. Ethan McCord pulled your daughter...
Nick Clegg – the British Obama? →
Obama promised to transcend America’s troubled racial past and the culture wars of the 1960s. Clegg promises to make the drivers of night buses let you get off between stops, and to refund VAT to mountain rescue services. (Oh, and cut taxes on low earners, break up the banks, and scrap the Trident replacement.) From Yeovil to Cornwall, from northern Bristol to certain areas of Surrey, there...
WatchAt least several Real Americans spent their days there milling about the bucolic fields, ducking from airplanes, and showing off their favorite machines that exist to kill other human beings from a safe distance. This guy has two guns, and he’s in a park. Why is he doing this? The Constitution, that’s why.
Wonkette : Liz Glover Interviews America’s Armed Protector
