January 2012
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25 Of The Best Crazy, Stupid, And Scary Quotes... →
Yes, just 25. Happy 2012!
December 2011
DON'T DRIVE DRUNK.
From 6pm-6am on New Year’s Eve/Day AAA will take your drunk self and your car home for FREE, member or not: 800-222-4357
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Afghanistan Hazing Cases Echo ‘A Few Good Men’ →
“The discipline which makes the soldiers of a free country reliable in battle is not to be gained by harsh or tyrannical treatment. On the contrary, such treatment is far more likely to destroy than to make an army.”
Happy 38th Birthday to...the Endangered Species... →
motherjones:
There are currently 1900 species listed under the ESA, 1,380 of which can be found in the United States.
If you can name them all, you will win our undying respect and/or fear.
As a child, Newt Gingrich's favorite pastime was... →
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The Times Documents Mitt Romney’s Unsuccessful... →
5. Romney’s insufficiently nuanced assumptions about human relationships cause him to cluelessly stumble into uncomfortable situations:
“Daughter?” he asked a woman sitting with a man and two younger girls at the diner in Tilton, N.H., on Friday morning. Her face turned a shade of red. “Wife.”
Oh, Mr. Romney said. “It was a compliment, I guess,” said the woman, Janelle...
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Honoring All Who Saved Jews →
During the horrors of the Holocaust, non-Jews saved many thousands of Jews from death and depravity at the hands of Germans and their allies. Yad Vashem, Israel’s official Holocaust memorial museum, has recognized more than 23,000 of these brave men and women as “The Righteous Among the Nations.” Our family’s rescuer deserves to be among that number. And in his case, the impact of...
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“Anyway it only makes sense if you assume those premises; that all human...”
– This interview with David Graeber on “What Is Debt?” is one of the most thought-provoking things published this year about the premises of finance. (via moorehn)
Think Progress: 11 Quotes From 2011 →
think-progress:
1. “There’s been class warfare going on for the last 20 years, and my class has won.” — Warren Buffett
2. “Gay rights are human rights and human rights are gay rights.” — Hillary Clinton
3. “Today, we are all Troy Anthony Davis. Tonight, a little piece of all of us will die.” — Rep. John…
“Women cannot be expected to struggle alone against the forces of discrimination...”
– Benazir Bhutto in a 1995 speech in Beijing at the World Conference of Women. This is a beautiful speech, go read all of it. (via thepoliticalnotebook)
“Political scientists have long recognized that Americans are much more...”
– Below the Surface, Surprising Trust in Government (via ryking)
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93-Year-Old Tennessee Woman Who Cleaned State... →
Thelma Mitchell was even accused of being an undocumented immigrant because she couldn’t produce a birth certificate:
Mitchell, who was delivered by a midwife in Alabama in 1918, has never had a birth certificate. But when she told that to a drivers’ license clerk, he suggested she might be an illegal immigrant.
Thelma Mitchell told WSMV-TV that she went to a state drivers’ license center...
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Happy Hawai'ian Holidays! →
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“One arbiter of the dispute is Eric Dondero, a former staffer who worked with Ron...”
– Ilya Gerner, Comedy Central’s Indecision Forever blog, Former Ron Paul Staffer Defends Paul Against Charges of Bigotry with Disturbing Examples of Bigotry (via quickhits)
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President Obama, who spent part of Christmas visiting Marines stationed in Hawai’i, got a bit of a surprise as the baby he was holding reached directly for the presidential teeth. Obama, who developed a bit of a reputation for his indulgence of curious children over the last few years, nommed on the curious child’s hand as his mother laughed and then put a stop to her baby’s impudence.
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Newt compares campaign’s Virginia debacle to... →
One of these things is not like the other.
As Raw Story reported earlier, this is the third state primary for which the Gingrich team has failed to collect enough signatures or missed the filing deadline.
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Think Progress: 11 Facts From 2011 →
think-progress:
1. The CIA is monitoring up to 5 million tweets per day.
2. Income inequality in America is worse than in Ancient Rome.
3. Twenty-three straight polls find Americans overwhelmingly want to raise taxes to pay down debt.
4. 68% of millionaires support raising taxes on millionaires.
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Obama for America: Remarks by the First Lady to... →
barackobama:
December 24, 2011 11:03 A.M. HAST
OPERATOR: You’re connected, ma’am.
MRS. OBAMA: Hello, this is the First Lady, Michelle Obama. How may I help you?
MRS. HARRIS: Hi, I have my daughter right here. She’d like to speak to you.
MRS. OBAMA: I would love to speak to her. Is her name Summer?
MRS….