January 2011
Another Godless Goddess: Catholic Leader Says... →
helvetebrann:
The controversial prelate appointed less than a year ago by Pope Benedict XVI to push the liberal-leaning Catholic Church in Belgium in a more conservative direction has sparked yet another uproar by telling a government commission that the church has no obligation to compensate victims of…
Another Godless Goddess: Catholic Leader Says... →
helvetebrann:
The controversial prelate appointed less than a year ago by Pope Benedict XVI to push the liberal-leaning Catholic Church in Belgium in a more conservative direction has sparked yet another uproar by telling a government commission that the church has no obligation to compensate victims of…
December 2010
Tumble DC 25: If you want a world without... →
cognitivedissonance:
If you think the income tax is illegal, that we’re sliding towards socialism, and that the 10th Amendment is the solution to all life’s problems…here’s an examination of what your tax dollars pay for at the municipal, county, state, and federal levels. - Don’t drive on…
The tipping point for chaos…
“Yesterday Mississippi Governor Haley Barbour announced that he would let the...”
– Haley Barbour makes a deal: A kidney for her freedom (via ryking)
Mississippi: it’s like a whole other country…a backwater, third-world country, right here at home…
Eight Homeless Youth Die in New Orleans Fire –... →
claytoncubitt:
“Since Katrina, New Orleans has a severe homeless problem because of the scarcity of affordable housing. HUD and local governments demolished over 4000 affordable public housing apartments after Katrina. “The current housing crisis in New Orleans reflects the disastrous impact of the demolition policy,” according to the UN Special Rapporteur on Adequate Housing in a February 2010...
Eight Homeless Youth Die in New Orleans Fire –... →
claytoncubitt:
“Since Katrina, New Orleans has a severe homeless problem because of the scarcity of affordable housing. HUD and local governments demolished over 4000 affordable public housing apartments after Katrina. “The current housing crisis in New Orleans reflects the disastrous impact of the demolition policy,” according to the UN Special Rapporteur on Adequate Housing in a February 2010...
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Hey, Congress: Keep Your Day Jobs
Hey, Congress: Keep Your Day Jobs by Linton Weeks and Arnie Seipel NPR - December 28, 2010 Next week, hordes of conservative Republican lawmakers will descend on Washington to take their seats in the freshman class of the 112th Congress. But some prominent conservatives suggest the best thing lawmakers can do to fix Capitol Hill is to stay the heck away from it. “We used to pay farmers not...
Christine O'Donnell's Campaign Spending Probed
Christine O’Donnell’s Campaign Spending Probed by The Associated Press The Associated Press - December 29, 2010 Federal authorities have opened a criminal investigation of Delaware Republican Christine O’Donnell to determine if the former Senate candidate broke the law by using campaign money to pay personal expenses, according to a person with knowledge of the investigation. ...
“Being an atheist makes someone a clearer-thinking, fairer person… Atheists are...”
– Ricky Gervais (via lrn2liberty)
Wow. If this guy thinks that because one’s an atheist that ipso facto one’s living by a moral code…
Needs to deeply reconsider this entire view. I know plenty of atheists steeped in Western imperialist psychology.
(via cuntymint)
“Moral code”? Or complete lack...
“Being an atheist makes someone a clearer-thinking, fairer person… Atheists are...”
– Ricky Gervais (via lrn2liberty)
Wow. If this guy thinks that because one’s an atheist that ipso facto one’s living by a moral code…
Needs to deeply reconsider this entire view. I know plenty of atheists steeped in Western imperialist psychology.
(via cuntymint)
“Moral code”? Or complete lack...
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Abuse Of Power Comes As No Surprise
"[Rep. Ralph Hall (R-TX)] described the BP... →
ryking:
The Republican Party’s new Science Committee Chair in the House, ladies and gentleman! — Ryking
We are in big trouble….
“We have been gradually disempowered by a corporate state that, as Huxley...”
– Chris Hedges (via azspot)
“We have been gradually disempowered by a corporate state that, as Huxley...”
– Chris Hedges (via azspot)
Why do Americans claim to be more religious than... →
misterjt:
Religion in America seems tied up with questions of identity in ways that are not the case in other industrialized countries. When you ask Americans about their religious beliefs, it’s like asking them whether they are good people, or asking whether they are patriots. They’ll say yes, even if they cheated on their taxes, bilked Medicare for unnecessary services, and evaded the draft....
Why do Americans claim to be more religious than... →
misterjt:
Religion in America seems tied up with questions of identity in ways that are not the case in other industrialized countries. When you ask Americans about their religious beliefs, it’s like asking them whether they are good people, or asking whether they are patriots. They’ll say yes, even if they cheated on their taxes, bilked Medicare for unnecessary services, and evaded the draft....
“Visa, MasterCard and PayPal announced in the past few weeks that they would not...”
– Banks and WikiLeaks (via ryking)
“Visa, MasterCard and PayPal announced in the past few weeks that they would not...”
– Banks and WikiLeaks (via ryking)
““Not only did we make it absolutely clear that these pills had no active...”
– Placebo effect works even if patients know they’re getting a sham drug | Science | guardian.co.uk (via slantback)
““Not only did we make it absolutely clear that these pills had no active...”
– Placebo effect works even if patients know they’re getting a sham drug | Science | guardian.co.uk (via slantback)
Harry Potter Actress Beaten and Branded a... →
jonathan-cunningham:
bananafish707:
Islam is a religion of peace.
“Afshan Azad has been secretly dating a non-Muslim. Her father and brother found out, branded her a “slag,” beat her, and threatened to murder her. She made her escape by climbing out of her bedroom window.”
This doesn’t speak to what all of Islam is or isn’t as a whole, but it does raise the question of how much culpability...
Harry Potter Actress Beaten and Branded a... →
jonathan-cunningham:
bananafish707:
Islam is a religion of peace.
“Afshan Azad has been secretly dating a non-Muslim. Her father and brother found out, branded her a “slag,” beat her, and threatened to murder her. She made her escape by climbing out of her bedroom window.”
This doesn’t speak to what all of Islam is or isn’t as a whole, but it does raise the question of how much culpability...
“I also believe we need to stop talking at sex trade workers as though they don’t...”
– What If Selling Sex Is Your Business
(via janedoe225)
“I also believe we need to stop talking at sex trade workers as though they don’t...”
– What If Selling Sex Is Your Business
(via janedoe225)
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Another Godless Goddess: Pope's Child Porn... →
Victims of clerical sex abuse have reacted furiously to Pope Benedict’s claim yesterday that paedophilia wasn’t considered an “absolute evil” as recently as the 1970s.
In his traditional Christmas address yesterday to cardinals and officials working in Rome, Pope Benedict XVI also claimed that…
Don’t forget that the Catholic Church is all about protecting and continuing the Catholic...
Drink The Kool-Aid!: Remember Kids! →
savagemike:
People on government assistance and poor people in general don’t deserve nice things! Yeah maybe they work a shitty job where they get treated like crap, or maybe they don’t work at all right now (because there’s something like 5 applicants per job opening) but they’re LAZY and GAMING THE SYSTEM…
Boom!
Drink The Kool-Aid!: Remember Kids! →
savagemike:
People on government assistance and poor people in general don’t deserve nice things! Yeah maybe they work a shitty job where they get treated like crap, or maybe they don’t work at all right now (because there’s something like 5 applicants per job opening) but they’re LAZY and GAMING THE SYSTEM…
Boom!
The Most Important Free Speech Issue of Our Time →
thebaffled:
This Tuesday is an important day in the fight to save the Internet.
As a source of innovation, an engine of our economy, and a forum for our political discourse, the Internet can only work if it’s a truly level playing field. Small businesses should have the same ability to reach customers as powerful corporations. A blogger should have the same ability to find an audience as a...
“…if you want to serve your country and put your life on the line to defend the...”
– slacktivist (via azspot)
“Contemporaries had little doubt about the reasons for secession. With no support...”
– The American civil war still being fought | Eric Foner | Comment is free | guardian.co.uk (via dendroica)
“Contemporaries had little doubt about the reasons for secession. With no support...”
– The American civil war still being fought | Eric Foner | Comment is free | guardian.co.uk (via dendroica)
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McConnell Says He'll Vote Against Arms Treaty
Senate Republican leader Mitch McConnell said Sunday he would oppose a nuclear arms treaty with Russia, damaging prospects for President Obama’s top foreign policy priority in the final days of the postelection Congress. Top Democrats still expressed confidence the Senate would ratify the accord by year’s end. McConnell criticized the treaty’s verification system and...
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Wall Street Pay Will Be Unequal as Some Receiving...
Bonus season is fast approaching on Wall Street, but this year the talk does not center just on multimillion-dollar paydays. It’s about a new club that no one wants to join: the Zeros. Drawn from a broad swath of back-office employees and middle-level traders, bankers and brokers, the Zeros, as they have come to be called, are facing a once-unthinkable prospect: an annual bonus of...
