January 2012
“New Year’s Day: Now is the accepted time to make your regular annual good...”
– Mark Twain (via wilde-whimsicalchild)
Court OKs Barring High IQs for Cops →
mohandasgandhi:
stfuconservatives:
cognitivedissonance:
This is not The Onion. In New London, Conn., you apparently can be too smart to be a cop:
A man whose bid to become a police officer was rejected after he scored too high on an intelligence test has lost an appeal in his federal lawsuit against the city.
The 2nd U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals in New York upheld a lower court’s...
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“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.
(via sinidentidades)
“They pick corn in Iowa, they actually pick Presidents here in New Hampshire.”
– Jon Huntsman on The Early Show this Thursday.
He’s not alone. In Observations From 20 Years of Iowa Life, University of Iowa professor Stephen Bloom questions Iowa’s role as the first caucus in the nation, writing, “Of Iowa’s 99 counties, 88 are classified as rural. Iowa’s capital and largest...
“Sometimes the poor are praised for being thrifty. But to recommend thrift to the...”
– Oscar Wilde, The Soul of Man Under Socialism (via lordgarrett)
“Confidence is the willingness to be as ridiculous, luminous, intelligent, and...”
– Susan Piver (via jeanshanchik)
The Santorum Surge: Much Ado? →
zachvaughn:
Much ado has been made about the Santorum surge in the polls, but what’s underneath? According Columbia Journalism Review - not much. The crowds at Santorum’s rallies are fairly small and quiet. At one townhall, half the crowd was media. That’s certainly not encouraging if you’re a member of Team Santorum.
Also not encouraging for Santorum is his lack of organization. Iowa is all...
"People think of drugs causing violence, but...
leftish:
Just as the enormous mob and gang related activity surrounding Alcohol Prohibition evaporated when alcohol was made legal.”
~ Michelle Alexander, Ohio State University
Romney Is Afraid to Expose His Tax Rate
liberalsarecool:
Willard “Mitt” Romney won’t release his taxes because:
“It seems virtually impossible that Mitt Romney doesn’t pay the sort of effective tax rate that would make people’s eyes pop when compared to middle income and even relatively wealthy (by normal standards) people who pay considerably higher rate…. Issues of income inequality and particularly tax policy are right...
December 2011
Virginia GOP Will Require Voters To Sign ‘Loyalty... →
theartofslack:
This is what Republicans do.
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pantslessprogressive:
I thought all of the GOP pledges this year were incredibly outrageous, but this “oath” for voters is probably one of the most entertaining.
The Virginia State Board of Elections has approved a request from the Republican Party of Virginia to “require voters to sign a loyalty oath in order to participate in the state’s...
“After they took power in January, the hard-line Republicans who dominate the...”
– New York Times Editors
File Under: reason to vote in 2012
(via liberalsarecool)
And each of these extremist Republicans still have another year in the House before they can be voted out. And the newly-elected extremist Republicans in the Senate (like Rand Paul) still have 5 more years on their...
“THAT’S SOCIALISM”
– people who don’t understand what socialism is (via greenstate) always (via tayman)
Schools marred by testing scandals in 2011 →
jaison96:
By the time it’s over, 2011 may well go down as the Year of the Test Scandal. From Waterbury to Atlanta to Asbury Park, N.J., public schools came under fire this year from media and public officials after investigations found evidence of test tampering by educators. The revelations came as schools, nearly a decade into the No Child Left Behind (NCLB) era of test-based accountability,...
“Distrust any enterprise that requires new clothes.”
– Henry David Thoreau (via aspiringhippie17)
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Just saw a truck on the highway with a Ron Paul...
somepolitics:
I wish I could have gotten a picture for you guys. It was perfect.
“As president I promise to do everything I can to make America a place where hard...”
– President Obama (via kileyrae)
New Rules for the New Year →
liberalsarecool:
Bill Maher’s New Rules for 2012, in the New York Times Sunday Review.
New Rule You can’t be against same-sex marriage and for Newt Gingrich. No man has ever loved another man as much as Newt Gingrich loves Newt Gingrich.
New Rule If you were a Republican in 2011, and you liked Donald Trump, and then you liked Michele Bachmann, and then you liked Rick Perry, and then you...
Famous Wall Street bull to roam free again, as... →
The Wall Street bull has been one lonely bovine since the end of summer.
The sculpture was corralled behind barricades when the Occupy Wall Street protest began Sept. 17, as police feared vandals might try to damage the stock market mascot.
After three-plus months of isolation, the iconic animal is going to be freed from its caging at noon Monday, said Arthur Piccolo, bull advocate and...
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Watchtruth-has-a-liberal-bias:
Weekly Address: Working Together in the New Year
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President Obama tells the American people that, by joining together, we can move past the tough debates and help to create jobs and grow the economy in the new year.
“The liberty of a democracy is not safe if the people tolerate the growth of...”
– Franklin D. Roosevelt (via abaldwin360)
Teenage Angst: i used to be very self conscious. →
thegirlanachronism93:
i’m biracial. My mother’s black and my father’s white. I’ve gotten shit from both sides of my family (for who i’ve dated and who i am.) and i’ve gotten shit from friends (“if you’re black, then why don’t you speak like it?” “why would a black woman be interested in a white man?” “you should act
more white, like you supposedly say you are”) and now, i can say with pride, i...
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“Black people make me really nervous and ugh, oh god, gay people make me want to...”
– Ron Paul, Freedom Under Siege: The U.S. Constitution After 200-Plus Years (1987), pg. 1-162 (via mohandasgandhi)
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“As long as the individual retains the right to own guns and gold, we should...”
– Ron Paul, Freedom Under Siege: The U.S. Constitution After 200-Plus Years (1987)
Do you want the right to a decent education? Go fuck yourself.
Do you want the right to decent healthcare? Go fuck yourself.
Do you want the right to a clean and sustainable environment? Go fuck yourself.
Do you...
“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.
(via sinidentidades)
This just in: Rick Santorum is a giant asshole →
yellingaboutpolitics:
He thinks families can’t be poor if they’re straight.
“Every year new groups organize to... →
paxamericana:
mattatattat reblogged your quote: “Every year new groups organize to demand their…
So Ron Paul is racist for pointing out a double standard in “group rights”???
In the past, he’s made the point in saying he doesn’t believe that there should be such an emphasis on “group rights”, since all it does is further segregate people and advance grouping HUMAN BEINGS into groups. Not sure...
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