August 2009
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“It’s not where I get them to compromise, it’s what I get them to...”
– Republican Sen. Mike Enzi of Wyoming, one of six Finance Committee members charged with putting out a Senate healthcare reform bill, finally admitting publicly that Republicans are “negotiating” with the sole intent to destroy.
That Republicans have no ideas about healthcare reform has...
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Lessons in humanity
Clerk: Can I help you, sir?
Customer: A packet of 20 Marlboro Lights, please.
(Clerk hands him the cigarettes.)
Customer: Wait, I don’t want these ones.
Clerk: Why? They’re Marlboro Lights. Did you change your mind?
Customer: No, I don’t want ones with this health warning about cigarettes causing impotency.
Clerk: Ok. Do you want ’smoking harms those around you,’ or ’smoking causes...
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In Death
A Reuters ”journalist” writes this without a hint of irony:
[Ted Kennedy] held fast to liberal causes deemed anachronistic by the centrist “New Democrats,” and was a lightning rod for conservative ire.
He helped enact measures to protect civil and labor rights, expand healthcare, upgrade schools, increase student aid and contain the spread of nuclear weapons.
I’m...
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HERE.am's very first interview
Hello HERE.am readers! We’re going to start doing interviews.
Our very first guest — EVER — is Matthew Rice, Education Manager for one of the best animal advocacy organizations out there, Farm Sanctuary. Matthew carries a wealth of wisdom and insight gleaned from many years of experience on the media front lines at both Farm Sanctuary and PETA, so be sure to keep an eye out...
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Ross Douthat is unapologetically stupid
Gail Collins — progressive columnist — and Ross Douthat — conservative Catholic “intellectual” — recently “conversed” about animal cruelty in the wake of Michael Vick’s re-entrance to the NFL. Collins showed herself responsive to the facts in arguing that the moral outrage directed towards dogfighting ought to be expressed also towards the...
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They started out, beneath the knowledge tree And they chopped it down to make white picket fences And marching along the railroad tracks They smile real wide for the camera lenses
— Regina Spektor, Blue Lips (Far)
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“Scientists in Israel have shown that if they had access to a DNA profile in a...”
– DNA Evidence Can Be Fabricated, Scientists Show - NYTimes.com (via 2020)
Holy crap.
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AP headline: Huckabee says 2 states in Holy Land... →
Who in their right mind cares what Mike Huckabee thinks about the Israel-Palestine situation? Pardon me for not putting much stock in the opinion of ”a Southern Baptist preacher and a two-time former governor of Arkansas,” who believes that evolution is just a theory, that the planet is 6,000 years old, and that the world was put here for Man’s enjoyment. Never...
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Bad Guy @ The Yolk 8.15.09
theyolk:
Bad Guy LIT UP The Yolk this weekend. Check it out!
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"In America, Crazy Is a Preexisting Condition" →
Rick Perlstein, Washington Post:
Before the “black helicopters” of the 1990s, there were right-wingers claiming access to secret documents from the 1920s proving that the entire concept of a “civil rights movement” had been hatched in the Soviet Union; when the landmark 1964 Civil Rights Act was introduced, one frequently read in the South that it would...
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Big surprise
The American Petroleum Institute (among many contemptible others) are planning to appropriate the angry mob strategy — playing out ad nauseum in regard to healthcare reform to the seeming benefit of Republicans and healthcare corporations — for their upcoming fight against climate legislation.**
This corporate class has already used lobbyists and hired guns in Congress to water down...
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“It’s impossible to uphold the oath and still be responsible to your...”
– An MBA student appearing on the Daily Show, on why she refused to sign this oath promising to adhere to certain ethical guidelines upon graduating.
A succinct, valid argument against our current economic culture from an unlikely and unwitting source.
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Call Senator Chuck Grassley now
The senator just became the most prominent elected Republican to endorse the “death panel” nonsense at a town hall meeting in Iowa. The claim that Democratic healthcare reform will cause older Americans to be euthanized in the name of cost savings is an absolutely false charge being used to scare ignorant people into opposing reform.
Doesn’t matter where you’re from...
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Crabs and other crustaceans feel pain and retain...
veganfood:
fuckyeahfacts:
In an experiment with hermit crabs, researchers shocked the little critter’s bellies and discovered that they were quite conscious of the pain. In fact, they would temporarily flee their shells to try to get away from it. Later, another shell would be placed in the hermit’s vicinity. The crabs who had been shocked were more likely to ditch their old digs and take up...
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Marine doctors maim and kill, in the name of...
LA Times:
Two enlisted Marines are kneeling on the ground, quickly stuffing gauze into a gaping wound in a pig’s belly to stop the bleeding. Another is doing a “blood sweep” to find other wounds. An officer, just inches from its snout, monitors its breathing and keeps the pig’s thick tongue from blocking the airway. At the other end of the 150-pound swine, a Marine...
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Way past ridiculous
Kenneth Gladney was one of the anti-healthcare reform protestors who scuffled with union members at a recent congressional townhall meeting. Now he’s soliciting donations from conservative admirers to cover supposed health costs related to his involvement in said scuffle — because he was recently laid off and no longer has health insurance!
Yes, these people are incredibly stupid.
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HERE @ Rock Star Bar, 10:30pm Wed 8/12
HERE plays Rock Star Bar. Come out and enjoy your Wednesday night, for a change!
HERE @ Rock Star Bar (Wythe St @ S 5th St, Williamsburg BK) With: BlueJay, D. Gookin, 2 Ton Bug, and DJ Pink Stallone When: Wed 8/12 — We go on @ 10:30pm Cost: FREE!
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“The choice of words were poor; but they weren’t meant to characterize...”
– That’s an excerpt from Boston police officer Justin Barrett’s lawsuit against the city, which seeks to reverse his suspension from the force after he sent an email that “used the ‘jungle monkey’ phrase four times, three times referring to Gates…” (CNN)
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Must-read piece on healthcare reform →
Jonathan Alter in Newsweek, killing ‘em with laughter.
H/t to sex, art, and politics.
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