March 2011
184 posts
“Anyway, who in the world would name her account “mckinely777″? Somebody who...”
– Sarah Palin Also Has a Secret Twitter Account So She Can Follow Herself
February 2011
132 posts
Cairo Protests Resume in Tahrir Square →
Tens of thousands of protesters returned Friday to Tahrir Square, the site of demonstrations that led to the ouster of President Hosni Mubarak two weeks ago, to keep up the pressure on Egypt’s military-led transitional government.
But by early Saturday, the military made it clear there would be limits to further dissent as soldiers and plainclothes security officers moved into the square,...
Iraq War Facts and Statistics →
mohandasgandhi:
About $900 billion of US taxpayers’ funds has been spent or approved for spending through November 2010. $9 billion of this money is lost or unaccounted for, as per ABC News.
Congressional Research Service puts the cost of deploying one U.S. soldier for one year in Iraq as $390,000
As of Nov 30, 2010, there were a total 47,000 U.S. troops in Iraq. All other Nations have...
WatchRevolution in Cairo - Video | FRONTLINE | PBS
An actual letter from Benjamin Franklin →
I repeat my former Advice, that in all your Amours you should prefer old Women to young ones. You call this a Paradox, and demand my Reasons. They are these: 1. Because as they have more Knowledge of the World and their Minds are better stor’d with Observations, their Conversation is more improving and more lastingly agreable. 2. Because when Women cease to be handsome, they study to be...
Boycott These Koch Industries Companies/Scott... →
Here’s an easy way to “protest” with the people in Madison and elsewhere: Boycott the fuck out of all these companies. IF there is something made by one of these companies you cannot live without, you shouldn’t be thinking about protests, anyway. (Think about delicious anus-burgers harvested by ill-paid, ill-treated illegal migrant labor in the slaughterhouses of the Midwest.)
Good-bye to...
Workers Nationwide Fighting For Labor Rights;... →
Hey, leftists and liberals and Democrats, remember a couple of years ago how super-excited you were about Barack Obama, the Chicago community organizer? Nobody really expected unicorns and a fair tax burden for the richest of the rich, but we were enthusiastic, right? Barack Obama has remained completely invisible during the intense labor battles raging in Wisconsin and Indiana and Ohio and...
Legislators want medical marijuana farming in... →
A bill introduced in the Minnesota Legislature on Thursday would make it legal for farmers to grow medical marijuana and sell it to dispensaries in states where marijuana can be legally used for medicinal purposes. The Medical Marijuana Production and Export Act would direct the state government to develop a strict licensing plan for the potential grower and cites a positive economic...
Despite Once Agreeing With Democrats’... →
According to the National Journal’s new ideological rankings of Congress members, released this afternoon, Sen. John McCain (R-AZ) — who once characterized himself as an independent “maverick” — has repositioned himself so far to the right that he is now tied with Sens. John Cornyn (R-TX) and John Barrasso (R-WY) as the Senate’s most conservative member. McCain earned an 89.7 out of 100, which...
Madison police chief troubled by Walker's comments... →
In a statement, Wray said he spent time overnight thinking about the comments Walker made during a 20-minute conversation with a Buffalo, N.Y., blogger who posed as a major Republican donor during the call.
The blogger, Ian Murphy, suggested the idea of placing troublemakers amid the crowd of protesters.
Walker responded: “The only problem with that - because we thought about that. The...
State Marriage Watch →
- MARYLAND: Maryland’s same-sex marriage legislation passed a second reading this afternoon in a vote of 25-22, paving the way for final approval later this week.
- HAWAII: Hawaii Gov. Neil Abercrombie “signed same-sex civil unions into law Wednesday, calling it ‘a triumph for everyone’ that gay and lesbian couples will have the same state rights as married partners.” Civil Unions will begin...
Another Runaway General: Army Deploys Psy-Ops on... →
The U.S. Army illegally ordered a team of soldiers specializing in “psychological operations” to manipulate visiting American senators into providing more troops and funding for the war, Rolling Stone has learned – and when an officer tried to stop the operation, he was railroaded by military investigators.
The orders came from the command of Lt. Gen. William Caldwell, a ...
Maine governor on BPA: ‘Worst case is that some... →
“Quite frankly, the science that I’m looking at says there is no [problem],” LePage said. “There hasn’t been any science that identifies that there is a problem.”
LePage then added: “The only thing that I’ve heard is if you take a plastic bottle and put it in the microwave and you heat it up, it gives off a chemical similar to estrogen. So the...
Sitting in traffic triggers more heart attacks... →
Someday our descendants will get around solely by hover-monorail and electric car, and it will blow their cybernetically-enhanced minds that there ever lived a race backward enough to huff automobile exhaust for an hour a day during its collective commute.
Until then, we have statistics like these, derived from a meta-study that drew data from 36 other papers: Air pollution from auto...
Santorum and Dobson Expose The "Evil" of Planned... →
Dobson: We’re going to talk about Planned Parenthood today which has been in the news recently in scandals that reveal just how evil and how sinister this organization really is.
Santorum: They have been pushing their agenda for close to a hundred years. I mean, it goes all the way back to Margaret Sanger and her views on eugenics, of culling the race from inferiors, that started...
“Several years ago, Valvoline Motor Oil aired a television commercial that...”
– Yeah, as NASCAR/VALVOLINE goes (and this was obviously pro-life statement, this advertisement, during nascar), so goes the country.
FoxNews.com - Planned Parenthood Poised to Take a Very Hard Fall — And It Should
US mulls all options against Libya →
Barack Obama, the US president, has said the violent crackdown in Libya violated international norms and that he had ordered his national security team to prepare the full range of options for dealing with the crisis.
“I have also asked my administration to prepare the full range of options that we may have to respond to this crisis,” Obama said in his first televised comments...
How I Passed My U.S. Citizenship Test: By Keeping... →
During the citizenship interview, applicants are asked a randomly selected 10 questions from the test and must answer six correctly. In addition to the questions, there is a reading and writing test for English proficiency.
My immigration lawyer accompanied me to my interview. In the security line, I told her I was bothered by Question 16: Who makes the federal laws?
Each of the three...
Ga. Law Could Give Death Penalty for Miscarriages →
Georgia State Rep. Bobby Franklin—who last year proposed making rape and domestic violence “victims” into “accusers”—has introduced a 10-page bill that would criminalize miscarriages and make abortion in Georgia completely illegal. Both miscarriages and abortions would be potentially punishable by death: any “prenatal murder” in the words of the bill,...
What a prank call proves about Wisconsin →
But if the transcript of the conversation is unexceptional, the fact of it is lethal. The state’s Democratic senators can’t get Walker on the phone, but someone can call the governor’s front desk, identify themselves as David Koch, and then speak with both the governor and his chief of staff? That’s where you see the access and power that major corporations and...
White House Declares Defense of Marriage Act... →
The Obama administration said Wednesday that the Defense of Marriage Act is unconstitutional and the Justice Department will no longer support it. The Defense of Marriage Act is a federal law defining marriage as a legal union between one man and one woman.
Attorney General Eric Holder sent a letter to House Speaker John Boehner stating, “Section 3 of the Defense of Marriage Act ...
Metro bus, train fares could jump 25 cents →
A 25-cent increase in Twin Cities bus and rail fares is a potential solution to expected cuts in transit funding.
The Metropolitan Council is expected to talk about the possibility of increasing fares — already among the highest in the nation — in discussing its budget with legislators Wednesday.
“It’s being actively considered along with other options,” Metro Transit general manager...
“Personally, Roosevelt was not worried about assassination. If a bullet came from...”
– Edmund Morris (Theodore Rex)
SPENT →
Life might be okay right now, but what would you do if you were down to your last $1,000 and out of a job? Spent is a game that challenges you to try and survive as one of the living poor.
If you need a reason to be depressed today, Spent is a great way to get there. You will live through a month of credit card debt, disappointing children you didn’t know you had, experiencing the...
CD3WD Archives the Information Necessary to... →
The world economy has collapsed. There is no internet or Wikipedia. How do you rebuild society?
CD3WD is a site built by programmer Alex Weir that’s meant to help spur the improvement of the infrastructure of third world nations by giving them first-world technology and knowledge for free.
Everything from agriculture to technology is addressed in its roughly 4 DVDs worth of the...
