Posts tagged with “news”

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Posted 5 months ago
motherjones: Was Kim Jong Il’s hearse a souped-up ‘75 Lincoln Town Car? We’re going with yes. Capitalism FTW. It really was a Lincoln. I was wondering when someone would catch on to the fact that he was being carried out in an American-made car. Zoom

motherjones:

Was Kim Jong Il’s hearse a souped-up ‘75 Lincoln Town Car? We’re going with yes.

Capitalism FTW.

It really was a Lincoln. I was wondering when someone would catch on to the fact that he was being carried out in an American-made car.

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Posted 6 months ago
motherjones: politicalprof: ACLU … CIA … I mean, they’re both acronyms … mohandasgandhi: cognitivedissonance: Hey Michele! The ACLU heard your claim that they’re running the CIA. American Civil Liberties Union, 1; Michele Bachmann, 0. Why am I laughing this hard? (Full context here) Today, in hilarious accusations. Zoom

motherjones:

politicalprof:

ACLU … CIA … I mean, they’re both acronyms …

mohandasgandhi:

cognitivedissonance:

Hey Michele! The ACLU heard your claim that they’re running the CIA.

American Civil Liberties Union, 1; Michele Bachmann, 0.

Why am I laughing this hard?

(Full context here)

Today, in hilarious accusations.

(Source: twitter.com)

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Posted 7 months ago

Memo to the media (this will be in all caps for proper emphasis)

STOP COVERING THE WESTBORO BAPTIST CHURCH. WE KNOW WHAT THEY’RE GOING TO DO. THEY’RE GOING TO STAND THERE WITH THE SAME DAMN PROTEST BANNERS THEY HAVE, EVERY DAMN TIME, AND SHOUT UGLY SHIT AT PEOPLE. THIS IS NOT NEW. YOU’RE JUST GIVING THEM THE PUBLICITY THEY WANT. ITS JUST GIVING OTHER RADICALLY-MINDED GROUPS MORE INCENTIVE TO COME OUT OF THE WOODS AND SCREAM MORE UGLY SHIT AT PEOPLE IN FRONT OF THE BULLHORN THAT YOU GUYS ARE HANDING THEM EVERY TIME YOU REPORT ON THEM DOING THE SAME ROUTINE OVER AND OVER AGAIN. 

That is all.

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Posted 8 months ago

Mother Jones magazine on Tumblr: From Our "10 All-Time Worst Military Contractor Boondoggles" listicle.

motherjones:

10. Welfare for Warlords: Paying Afghan truckers to pay the bad guys.

9. The World’s Most Expensive Road: Guess how much? Guess how long? Sit down first.

8. The Grifter, His Villas, and the Exploding Wall Outlets. Um, yeah. Just read it.

7. Rent-a-Ripoff: How much does the world’s…

You’re going to want to sit down for these… so shameful on the part of the contractors.

“ In its final report to Congress(PDF), it estimates that the federal government has lost between $31 and $60 billion to contractor fraud and waste since the wars in Afghanistan and Iraq started.”

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Posted 9 months ago
shortformblog: thedailyfeed: Nearly 1 in 5 children lived in poverty in the U.S. in 2009. That’s 15 million kids. Alabama, Louisiana and Mississippi ranked lowest on the study’s 10 indicators of child well-being. New Hampshire, Minnesota and Massachusetts ranked highest. A sad number, even sadder in graphical form. Memo to everyone: can we try doing something about this statistic? Zoom

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thedailyfeed:

Nearly 1 in 5 children lived in poverty in the U.S. in 2009. That’s 15 million kids. Alabama, Louisiana and Mississippi ranked lowest on the study’s 10 indicators of child well-being. New Hampshire, Minnesota and Massachusetts ranked highest.

A sad number, even sadder in graphical form.

Memo to everyone: can we try doing something about this statistic?

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Posted 1 year ago

Breaking News: President Obama to announce Osama Bin Laden has been killed in a U.S. military operation

Tonight, in justice served.

(Source: nbcnightlynews)

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Posted 1 year ago

iPhone keeps record of everywhere you go

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Photograph: Linda Nylind for the Guardian

Photograph: Linda Nylind for the Guardian

Privacy fears raised as researchers reveal file on iPhone that stores location coordinates and timestamps of owner’s movements

Today, in things iPhone users should MUST read.

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Posted 1 year ago

The state of cancer research funding today; for Leonard Faber

It seems every 2-3 years or so, I hear of someone being at risk of cancer or worse, coming home with an actual diagnosis. It does not discriminate between man or woman, nor elderly or young. This is the truth that our generation and generations of the past have had to live with.

Despite the dire indiscriminate threat it presents to our families, friends, and acquaintances, federal funding has been reported to dry up in recent years, and the National Cancer Institute (NCI), a part of the National Institute of Health (NIH), is reportedly being targeted for massive cuts as the debates over government spending rages on in the halls of Congress.

While the NCI will continue to grant (only) 14% of all new research applicants, they will have to make cuts to cancer center funding. Private sources of funding, from organizations like pharmaceutical companies, simply will not make up for the gap. Private funding sources not do not provide funds equivalent to federal grants.

The National Institute of Health only accounts for 2.9% of our budget’s discretionary spending. Making federal funding cuts in the name of fiscal responsibility to such an organization would be absurd, as its effect on improving our deficit situation would be minimal.

To cut funding would mean to relent years in the slow trickle of scientific progress in search of a cure. Get involved. Please take the time to contact your congressional representatives to urge them not to cut funding to the National Institute of Health and the National Cancer Institute, and donate to the American Cancer Society.

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Posted 1 year ago

My prayers are with you, Japan. The sun will rise again soon, I hope

“Japan faced the likelihood of a catastrophic nuclear accident Tuesday morning, as an explosion at the most crippled of three reactors at the Fukushima Daichi Nuclear Power Station damaged its crucial steel containment structure, emergency workers were withdrawn from the plant, and much larger emissions of radioactive materials appeared immiment, according to official statements and industry executives informed about the developments.”

“Even if a full meltdown is averted, Japanese officials have been facing unpalatable options. One was to continue flooding the reactors and venting the resulting steam, while hoping that the prevailing winds, which have headed across the Pacific, did not turn south toward Tokyo or west, across northern Japan to the Korean Peninsula. The other was to hope that the worst of the overheating was over, and that with the passage of a few more days the nuclear cores would cool enough to essentially entomb the radioactivity inside the plants, which clearly will never be used again. Both approaches carried huge risks”

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Posted 1 year ago

This is the shit that keeps me up at night. Honestly.

I don’t hate. I want to meet Brigitte Gabriel and have a little chat over Starbuck’s about tolerance and give her a peek into my decent life as a Bengali Muslim living in the US.

Someone tell me how to make this happen.

“She presents a portrait of Islam so thoroughly bent on destruction and domination that it is unrecognizable to those who study or practice the religion. She has found a receptive audience among Americans who are legitimately worried about the spread of terrorism.

But some of those who work in counterterrorism say that speakers like Ms. Gabriel are spreading distortion and fear, and are doing the country a disservice by failing to make distinctions between Muslims who are potentially dangerous and those who are not.”

Why is it, that I and dozens of other moderate Muslims living in the US, must pay for the evil of the radical few?

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Posted 1 year ago

For shame.

“The passenger, Michael Enright, 21, of Brewster, N.Y., hailed the cab at Second Avenue and East 24th Street around 6 p.m. Tuesday, the police said. Twenty blocks north, they said, he slashed and stabbed the 43-year-old driver in his throat, face and arm.

The driver — identified by the New York Taxi Workers Alliance, a drivers’ group, as Ahmed H. Sharif, 43, a Bangladeshi immigrant — stopped the cab and approached a police officer on Third Avenue near 42nd Street. Mr. Enright was arrested at the scene.

According to the taxi workers’ alliance, Mr. Sharif’s fare started the ride asking him in a friendly way if he was Muslim, whether he was observing Ramadan, and how long he had been in the United States.

After falling silent for a few minutes, the passenger began cursing and screaming, and then yelled, “Assalamu alaikum — consider this a checkpoint!” and slashed Mr. Sharif across the neck, and then on the face from his nose to his upper lip, the alliance said. (“Assalamu alaikum” — “peace be with you” — is a traditional Muslim greeting.)”

I was afraid of this ever since the blindingly ignorant quotes of Sarah Palin and Newt Gingrich, among others, began its course through the news cycles of the past few weeks. Shameful.