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More tea, Wesley?
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My tax dollars shouldn’t fund abortions because I believe abortions are wrong, just like your tax dollars shouldn’t fund wars because you believe wars are wrong.(via shitnoonehaseversaid)
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Four questions for Republicans...and four answers for undecided voters
Questions:
- What was the average monthly private sector job growth in 2008, the final year of the Bush presidency, and what has it been so far in 2010?
- What was the Federal deficit for the last fiscal year of the Bush presidency, and what was it for the first full fiscal year of the Obama presidency?
- What was the stock market at on the last day of the Bush presidency? What is it at today?
- Which party’s candidate for speaker will campaign this weekend with a Nazi reenactor who dressed up in a SS uniform?
Answers:
- In 2008, we lost an average of 317,250 private sector jobs per month. In 2010, we have gained an average of 95,888 private sector jobs per month. (Source) That’s a difference of nearly five million jobs between Bush’s last year in office and President Obama’s second year.
- In FY2009, which began on September 1, 2008 and represents the Bush Administration’s final budget, the budget deficit was $1.416 trillion. In FY2010, the first budget of the Obama Administration, the budget deficit was $1.291 trillion, a decline of $125 billion. (Source) Yes, that means President Obama has cut the deficit — there’s a long way to go, but we’re in better shape now than we were under Bush and the GOP.
- On Bush’s final day in office, the Dow, NASDAQ, and S&P 500 closed at 7,949, 1,440, and 805, respectively. Today, as of 10:15AM Pacific, they are at 11,108, 2,512, and 1,183. That means since President Obama took office, the Dow, NASDAQ, and S&P 500 have increased 40%, 74%, and 47%, respectively.
- The Republican Party, whose candidate for speaker, John Boehner, will campaign with Nazi re-enactor Rich Iott this weekend. If you need an explanation why this is offensive, you are a lost cause.
(Source: azspot)
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Lately I feel like somebody made a big mess and I’ve got my mop and I’m mopping the floor and the folks who made the mess are there (saying) ‘you’re not mopping fast enough. You’re not mopping the right way. It’s a socialist mop.’
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There is not enough love and goodness in the world to permit giving any of it away to imaginary beingsFriedrich Nietzsche (via holyfuckingshittt)
(Source: travels-)
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“He is ignoble—base and treacherous, and hateful in every way. Not even imminent death can startle him into a spasm of virtue. The ruling trait of all savages is a greedy and consuming selfishness, and in our Noble Red Man it is found in its amplest development. His heart is a cesspool of falsehood, of treachery, and of low and devilish instincts … The scum of the earth!”
—Mark Twain, 1870, The Noble Red Man (a satire on James Fenimore Cooper’s portrayals)It seems in the past we transmuted all of our self-hate, all of our mistakes and flaws onto those which we slaughtered because we thought we deserved their land. I guess I shouldn’t say ‘we’ because all of those who committed such violence are dead, but this war isn’t over. American Indians face a unique problem from other minorities: most people don’t even recognize their existence. We think about American Indians only in terms of the past, of what happened back then and not what is happening right now. These people are not “lazy, dirty, and all alcoholics” nor do are they all nature-loving tree huggers. They are people just like you and me, who cannot escape the stereotypes perpetuated by years worth of movies and media portraying them as inferior savages. They suffer from some of the worst forms of poverty and discrimination on and off reservations, and both political parties in the 2000’s have supported termination of tribal sovereignty of tribes in the west to feed the US’s need for natural resources such as coal. In a 2006 qualitative study by non-profit Public Agenda, one Albequerque Indian said, “Even in modern-day society, we’re still faced with annihilation. I’m still living in the Holocaust. As a native people, [we] are still having one.”
American Indians deserve our respect and recognition as equals, and awareness is so pivotal. How can anyone help if we all ignore the problem?
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fluxlust:reginasworld: Rodger Schultz Jackson Pollock on Prozak. “When I approach a canvas, I empty myself of all goals, notions, aims, ideals, preconceived yearning and prior learnings. Grand works should always start with infinite possibility, because they surely cannot end with it.”
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“Mt. Zion is a holy site for Jews, it’s a holy site for Christians, it’s in every other really good reggae song you ever hear. It’s like the mythical place you aspire to reach and you know you never will but you tell yourself stories about it when you’re feeling low. I don’t believe in God, but I believe in Mt. Zion. I like that humans have that quality, that they need to believe in this thing that’s not real, you know? But that it’s a good thing, it’s a pure thing, and a good thing and maybe some day we’ll make it there. I love that. That moves me to tears, that idea.”
- Efrim Menuck
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Female fat [as] a moral issue is articulated with words like good and bad. If our culture’s fixation on female fatness or thinness was about sex, it would be private issue between a woman and her lover; if it were about health, between a woman and herself… A cultural fixation on female thinness is not an obsession about female beauty but one about obedience.Naomi Wolf The Beauty Myth(via fatgirlsguide)
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Arresting Julian Assange will definitely stop the leaking of classified documents, just like shutting down Napster stopped the illegal distribution of copyrighted music.(via shitnoonehaseversaid)
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One of the saddest lessons of history is this: If we’ve been Bamboozled long enough, we tend to reject any evidence of the Bamboozle. We’re no longer interested in finding out the truth. The Bamboozle has captured us. It is simply too painful to acknowledge - even to ourselves - that we’ve been so credulous.Carl Sagan (via anti-propaganda)
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When we look at what the factors are that make life so miserable for young gays and lesbians, it’s tempting for progressives to point the finger at religious traditions that are hostile to sexual pluralism. But the young men in American high schools who are beating up other boys whom they suspect of being gay are rarely doing so in order to comply with a misunderstood dictate from the Torah or the Pauline epistles. It’s not faith that drives the hate as much as it is an overwhelming desire to establish masculine bona fides. “I torment faggots, therefore I can’t be one; I beat up queers, therefore I’m a man.” That toxic equation may be aided and abetted by conservative religion, but it isn’t rooted in it. Rather, the hateful behavior is rooted in the rigid rules of American masculinity, a masculinity predicated on a contempt for and a paranoia about even the slightest whiff of femininity among the be-penised.
