December 2011
“Men have called me a man-hater, a feminazi, frigid, a bitch… but in my mind it...”
– Heartless Bitches International (via warrioroftheleft
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Going to bed early so I can stay up ALL night and...
seriouslyamerica:
IT’S SO GOOD I CAN’T EVEN
All three books - devoured in two days!!! OMG it was an amazing series.
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This just in: Rick Santorum is a giant asshole →
yellingaboutpolitics:
He thinks families can’t be poor if they’re straight.
“Victims of the disease AIDS argue, with no qualms of inconsistency about rights,...”
– Ron Paul on pages 22-23 in Freedom Under Siege
Ron Paul demonstrating that his version of liberty belongs solely to the free market. Oh, and that he’s a heartless asshole that loves making blanket assumptions about people suffering from a debilitating disease.
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“A three-day-old human embryo is a collection of 150 cells called a blastocyst....”
– Sam Harris, Letter to a Christian Nation
Get it through your heads, people. Potentiality=/=actuality, and we don’t hand out rights based on mere potential.
(via prolongedeyecontact)
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10knotes:
why does this have less than 50,000 notes?
Why does this have less than 9,000,000 notes? Tumblr isn’t for hating.
To the above comment.
I leave so much anon love. You don’t even know.
There should be a post asking how many people...
Did you ever realize how God is described as...
nukaquantum:
If you do what I say, I’ll give you everything you want
If go against me, I’ll make you burn eternally in hell
Even though he created mankind and knows that sometimes we are naturally drawn to do things that are considered a ‘sin’
What’s the point of living if you have to do so by someone else’s rules?
“I thought her husband would be the first one to leave her for another man.”
– Janet Snakehole responds to the news that Michele Bachmann’s Iowa chair quits to join the Ron Paul campaign. (via shaydonarmstrong)
Ouch!! True, but it still hurts.
Cities that broke up Occupy camps now face... →
fuckyeahmarxismleninism:
Most major Occupy encampments have been dispersed, but they live on in a flurry of lawsuits in which protesters are asserting their constitutional rights to free speech and assembly and challenging authorities’ mass arrests and use of force to break up tent cities.
Lawyers representing protesters have filed lawsuits — or are planning them — in state and federal courts...
Lower classes quicker to show compassion in the... →
the UC Berkeley study found that individuals in the upper middle and upper classes were less able to detect and respond to the distress signals of others. Overall, the results indicate that socio-economic status correlates with the level of empathy and compassion that people show in the face of emotionally charged situations.
“According to data collected by the Center for Responsive Politics, 264 Super...”
– Outside groups overwhelm Gingrich (via ryking)
Karma …
phroyd:
again, The Republican Economic Plan Ignores Our Knowledge And Experience Of Sound Economic Policy!
“ … The boom, not the slump, is the right time for austerity at the Treasury.” So declared John Maynard Keynes in 1937, even as F.D.R. was about to prove him right by trying to balance the budget too soon, sending the United States economy — which had been steadily recovering up...
“Last week, after a needlessly-contentious process, Congress approved a two-month...”
– Enjoy the payroll tax break while it lasts (via ryking)
phroyd:
” ….. The National Economic and Social Rights Initiative along with Amnesty International are asking the U.S. to step up its efforts to address the foreclosure crisis….. “
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December 30, 2011 12:38 PM
3.5 Million Homeless and 18.5 Million Vacant Homes in the US
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Panda caught eating meat
guardian:
A wild panda is caught on surveillance camera eating a dead gnu in south-west China. An analyst says the bamboo-loving animals were predators millions of years ago
Wow, I know they used to eat meat, but I didn’t know they still did.
“One of the most frightening things in the Western world, and in this country in...”
– Francis Crick (1916-2004) Nobel Prize in Medicine and Physiology, 1962 (via neotheist)
“In a 1990 C-Span appearance, taped between Congressional stints, Paul was asked...”
– Ron Paul’s World (via ryking)
Religious Ragings: How do I know God doesn't... →
yesiamjames:
To answer the fundie Christians who ask me what proof I have that God doesn’t exist (and yes it is all ways fundie Christians):
1. You don’t believe in any God except Yahweh,
2. Therefore since you aren’t hypocrites you must have proof that every single God conceived doesn’t…
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Memo to Republican’s – Even China has Social Security, so why are you always trying to kill ours here in the US?
Posted: December 31, 2011 in Politics Tags: Beijing, Beijing Tongren Hospital, China, New Year, Social Security, Social Security Law, Social Security number, United States 0 China has made significant progress over the past year in building up a social security system aiming to cover all its citizens. The Social Security Law, launched in the middle of 2011, provides a legal guarantee to ensure that the public will obtain substantial help from the government should they lose the capability to make a living. What do you need to bring when you have to see a doctor? The answers from most local citizens would be “the social security card.” Card holders only need to pay a small portion of the charges for medical treatment – the rest will be settled with the patients’ medical insurance once the information on the card is read. Mr. Li said, “I show them the card, then I just need to pay a little. The rest is deducted from my medical insurance account. This is much more convenient than before.” So far, more than 10 million Beijing citizens have got their social security cards. It can be used in all of the public medical facilities. Ma Jingqi, director of Medical Insurance Office, Beijing Tongren Hospital, said, “One or two years ago, patients had to bring cash to the hospital, and bring back lots of receipts. If the receipts went missing, they wouldn’t get the money back from the insurance company. Now that trouble has gone. It’s also easy for us to settle the accounts.” The progress made in the capital is a reflection of the current situation in the country’s construction of social security system. The mechanism was also legally consolidated after the country’s first Social Security Law took effect last July. The law clarifies the government’s obligation to subsidize basic medical insurance for urban residents and a cooperative medical service for rural dwellers. Xu Xiaoyi, vice minister of Ministry of Human Resources & Social Security, said, “More than 1.2 billion people are involved in the various medical insurance services. Most of them have used the service at least once. From these huge numbers we can see that medical insurance is the most urgent issue we have to deal with, regarding the social security.” Tang Min, vice chairman of China Social Entrepreneur Foundation, said, “We are just a country with a GDP of 4000 dollars per capita. Many other developing countries in the world do not have similar social security system yet.” China started to build up its social security system ten years ago. A decade on, lots of drawbacks still exist in the current system. Ms. Wang said, “I am from Heilongjiang Province. I can’t use it here in Beijing’s hospital. I have to use cash.” Tang Min, vice chairman of China Social Entrepreneur Foundation, said, “In the early stages of the development, the coverage is high, but the level is low.” To improve the level of the social security system is one of the biggest challenges for the government in the New Year. China has an ambitious plan to develop its social security system in its 12th five year development plan, which starts from the year 2011. Whatever happens in this area may not be that impressive as the launch of a spaceship, but whatever changes made to improve that system will profoundly influence every corner of the country, and every citizen.
“The U.S. District Court of Appeals granted a request to stay the Environmental...”
– Court delays strict new federal pollution rule at last minute | The Raw Story
Double Take 'Toons: Looking Back At December 2011... →
Newt kills Climate Science Chapter to Appease...
With the Iowa caucus looming, Newt Gingrich told a Rush Limbaugh listener he has killed a chapter by a conservative climate scientist that recognizes the reality of global warming. The book, being edited by Gingrich’s Contract with the Earth co-author Terry Maple, was to have an essay by climate scientist Katharine Hayhoe. She was asked in 2007 by Maple to provide “a good opening chapter that lays out the facts on global climate change,” and submitted her chapter in 2009. After the Los Angeles Times broke the story that Gingrich had a climate science book on tap, Limbaugh skewered Gingrich and the “babe named Hayhoe.”
Confronted by a Limbaugh listener, Gingrich blamed an anonymous third party for requesting the chapter, and said “we told them to kill it,” CBS News reports:
The climate-change issue arose Thursday night at a Gingrich campaign stop in Carroll, when a woman expressed concern to Gingrich about the chapter. She said she had heard about it on Rush Limbaugh’s radio program. As she began to tell Gingrich who the author of the piece would be, Gingrich interrupted. “That’s not going to be in the book,” he told her. “We didn’t know that they were doing that and we told them to kill it.”
Watch it: “Good,” the climate denier responded. “That sounds a good idea because why would you want to have somebody like that in there?”
Gingrich and his co-author Terry Maple never told Hayhoe — a professor at Texas Tech University, mother, and evangelical Christian — that her chapter would be junked. Hayhoe was dismayed by the “ungracious” way she found out that her work was being discarded.
“Nice to hear that Gingrich is tossing my #climate chapter in the trash,” Hayhoe tweeted in response to the news. “100 unpaid hours I could’ve spent playing w my baby.”
“Despite a flurry of reports suggesting that the world’s largest video game...”
– Video game industry still supports anti-piracy bill, despite reports | The Raw Story
Well, now I’m really disappointed. You would think these organizations would know better and would know that their are millions of ordinary, non criminals out there who are vehemently against this bill. So...
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Citizens United loses in Montana, Supreme Court... →
Most awesome court decision I’ve heard of in months. At least the judges in Montana haven’t been bought off. If we’re very lucky, perhaps this will rub off on other states and maybe even cause the Supreme Court to overturn their incredibly stupid decision.
Top Ten Anti-Environmental Things Congress Did in...
So, this is an interesting, if somewhat disturbing article. Most of it won't be too surprising but it's definitely worth the read. Here's a little teaser to get you to click over and read the whole article.
That’s not to say the last year hasn’t been without progress in Washington. The Environmental Protection Agency set long-overdue limits on mercury pollution that will prevent 11,000 premature deaths a year. The EPA and National Highway Traffic Safety Administration set new fuel efficiency standards for cars and trucks that will cut our oil addiction by billions of barrels. And the EPA is ready to establish landmark global warming pollution limits on power plants.
But those actions represent the Obama administration implementing past acts of Congress, often in the face of opposition from one or both parties in the current Congress. Inside the Capitol, many members of Congress spent 2011 attacking wildlife, trying to roll back public health protections, and doing the bidding of its Big Oil donors.
10. The Dirty Water Act
Yes, 2011 will be remembered as the year Congress decided America’s water was just too darn clean, attacking the Clean Water Act and investment in clean water programs. The Dirty Water Act passed the House and now Senators Dean Heller (R-NV) and John Barasso (R-WY) have been working to sneak it through the Senate by trying to attach it as a political rider to must-pass budget legislation. Get Smart: Tell Congress to protect river otters’ streams from pollution.
9. Banning Imaginary Regulations
The Environmental Protection Agency has no plans to regulate farm dust, but that didn’t stop a bipartisan majority in the House from passing the Farm Dust Regulation Prevention Act. “Since I am sure that many little girls all over America care about this deeply, can you commit to me that EPA will never try to regulate fairy dust?” Rep. Ed Markey (D-MA) jokingly asked EPA assistant administrator Gina McCarthy. The Senate has no plans to take up the bill and President Obama has promised to veto it. Get Smart: Learn what pollutants are real threats to America’s wildlife and public health.
8. Lunch Special: Meat Loaf with Styrene Oligomers
When she served as House Speaker, Rep. Nancy Pelosi (D-CA) led an effort to green the Capitol that cut energy use 23%, water use 32% and used some of the savings to convert Congressional cafeterias to composting. But when Republicans took charge of the House in 2011, they eliminated the composting program, diverted cafeteria waste back to a landfill, and brought back petroleum-based Styrofoam that can leech toxic styrene oligomers into the food it holds, increasing thyroid hormone levels. Get Smart: Use your own reusable container.
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Yes, yes you do. This is my life with 4 cats.
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Merry Christmas Santa
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Too cute!
