October 2011
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Dear anti-abortion Republicans:
inothernews:
Hey, you realize that when you go on national TV and proudly proclaim that you are against abortion regardless of circumstances such as in the case of rape or incest, that you’re coming off as a fucking asshole, right? That you are saying that even if the victim was your mother, your sister, your relative or friend, you could give a shit because some asshole in robes and wearing a...
Petition for the White House to Take its own... →
Although the ability to submit petitions directly to the White House is a noble and welcome new feature of the current administration, the first round of responses makes blatantly clear the White House intends to just support its current stances and explain them with responses everyone who has done any research already knows.
An online petition is not meant as a replacement for using a search box...
"Wife-sharing" haunts Indian villages as female... →
When Munni arrived in this fertile, sugarcane-growing region of north India as a young bride years ago, little did she imagine she would be forced into having sex and bearing children with her husband’s two brothers who had failed to find wives.
“My husband and his parents said I had to share myself with his brothers,” said the woman in her mid-40s, dressed in a yellow sari,...
Google reports an increase of 70% requests by the...
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AEROSHOT: inhalable caffeine →
More than 200 girls whose names mean "unwanted"... →
Satara, where the ceremony took place, has one of the country’s lowest female populations, with 880 females to every 1,000 males, says the BBC’s Zubair Ahmed.
The local government said it wanted to combat negative attitudes towards girls, who are often seen as a burden by their families because of the dowry that has to be paid when they marry
The 285 girls at the ceremony ranged in...
Economists say The Only Way to Save the Economy:... →
stfuconservatives:
The following top economists and financial experts believe that the economy cannot recover unless the big, insolvent banks are broken up in an orderly fashion:
Nobel prize-winning economist, Joseph Stiglitz
Nobel prize-winning economist, Ed Prescott
Former chairman of the Federal Reserve, Alan Greenspan
Former chairman of the Federal Reserve, Paul Volcker
Former...
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aconybell:
loveyourchaos:
missgingerlee:
timekiller-s:
itsthemusicpeople:
Rachel Maddow schools Mitt Romney in her man cave on how babies are made and how birth control prevents that because clearly he missed health class thirty years ago, or he’s too busy with the pursuit of his ego to to think about something that affects 51% of the people he “wants” to represent
This is...
President Obama: All Troops Out Of Iraq By Dec. 31 →
“Is there no one — is there no Republican that can be gracious and statesmanlike...”
– JON STEWART, on the GOP’s refusal to give credit to Barack Obama for his foreign policy — which, in part, helped to hasten the downfall of Libyan dictator Muammar Qaddafi — on The Daily Show.
Dickheads will be dickheads.
(via inothernews)
Everything The Media Told You About Occupy Wall... →
sylvia-scarlett:
anoncentral:
After 10 days out of town, I finally made it to Occupy Wall Street on Tuesday and had a chance to see for myself what’s going on. My conclusion: almost everything the media told me about the protest is wrong.
Based on my observations, here’s what I consider the Top Ten Myths About Occupy Wall Street.
Myth #1. The Movement Is Violent.
One of the most...
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White House Petition to Legalize and Regulate... →
Petition Text: We the people want to know when we can have our “perfectly legitimate” discussion on marijuana legalization. Marijuana prohibition has resulted in the arrest of over 20 million Americans since 1965, countless lives ruined and hundreds of billions of tax dollars squandered and yet this policy has still failed to achieve its stated goals of lowering use rates, limiting...
The War on Drugs Has Become the War on the... →
“On July 29, 2008, my family and I were terrorized by an errant Prince George’s County SWAT team. This unit forced entry into my home without a proper warrant, executed our beloved black Labradors, Payton and Chase, and bound and interrogated my mother-in-law and me for hours as they ransacked our belongings… As I was forced to kneel, bound at gun point on my living room floor, I...
“October 1, 2011 - TAMPA, FL - The Occupy Wall Street movement may have just...”
– #OccupyWallStreet - ‘The Marines are Coming to PROTECT the Protestors’ | in5d Alternative News | in5d.com | (via progressivefriends)
I didn’t fight for Wall St. I fought for America.
(via itstimefortruth)
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“[F]or the first several years the SAT was offered, males scored higher than...”
– “Gender Bias in College Admissions Tests”, FairTest.org
And then people urge me everything is fine, of course it is, when you’re ignoring statistics that is.
(via cwnl)
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“When you peel back the layers of the anti-choice motivation, it always comes...”
– GLORIA FELDT, attributed, Huffington Post (via klondikebar123)
Emphasis mine. Bamf. Perfectly sums it up. Cis men can walk away from sex scott-free, so why the hell can’t cis women be allowed to do the same? I’m not going to be a slave to my biology. No way.
(via sanityscraps)
She said it so much...
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ESPN and Hank Williams Jr. have officially parted...
stfuconservatives:
squeetothegee:
liberalsarecool:
Turn out the lights, the party’s over.
FREEDOM OF SPEECH DOES NOT MEAN FREEDOM FROM CRITICISM.
I don’t think I’ve ever met a racist who understood what “freedom of speech” means.
-Joe
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