April 2012
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“I took all of the screams and put those together, and cut out everything else....”
– Tom Owen, biometric voice analysis expert • Speaking to the Orlando Sentinel, on his assessment of a 911 audio recording featuring sounds of screaming during the Trayvon Martin incident. In an interview with Piers Morgan earlier this week (which generated some heat from MSNBC’s Touré), George...
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March 2012
116 posts
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Watchethiopienne:
romantic-chasm:
ihopericksantorum:
“We know the candidate Barack Obama what he was like, the anti-war goverment nigg—the uh—…” Wow.
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“Restrictive welfare provisions deter abused women from leaving abusive...”
– The feminisation of poverty and the myth of the ‘welfare queen’ | openDemocracy (via sociolab)
Literally, IRL.: maevele: feministhistorian:... →
maevele:
feministhistorian:
nom-chompsky:
kitteh-neon:
imrudeandnotginger:
anedumacation:
shaelephant:
oh my god Barack Obama swears like a sailor. THIS IS REAL.
anedumacation:
YES THIS IS MY FAVORITE FUN FACT ABOUT OBAMA. WELL ONE OF THEM.
i have every one of those sound clips saved on my computer and i have used “sure you can have my number, baby” for a ringtone for appx. 2...
Have A Baby? There Goes Your Job. →
bebinn:
liberalsarecool:
Supreme Courts’s 5-4 decision yesterday to negate part of the Family Leave Act:
“I’ll be damned if the conservatives on the Supreme Court weren’t getting jealous of all the congressional and state-level battles in the war on women and decide that they needed to take up arms themselves….
First, conservatives want to make sure you get pregnant by limiting access to...
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“On February 26, our son Trayvon Martin was shot and killed as he walked to a...”
– From the Change.org petition by TRACY MARTIN and SYBRINA FULTON (via inothernews)
The beginnings of the American Revolution,...
BRITISH EMPIRE: All right, fine, your stupid embargo worked. We won’t levy any more taxes-
AMERICAN COLONIES: Huzzah! Time to get drunk!
BRITISH EMPIRE: Except on tea.
AMERICAN COLONIES: What?
BRITISH EMPIRE: Get over it, it’s just tea. Seriously, where do you get this idea that you’re special and should never have to pay taxes? We hope that idea doesn’t go on to infect your political discourse centuries from now.
AMERICAN COLONIES: We’re not buying your stupid tea.
BRITISH EMPIRE: Are you being serious right now? What are you going to do, just stop drinking tea?
AMERICAN COLONIES: Yes. We’ll drink coffee.
BRITISH EMPIRE: Do you even know what that is?
AMERICAN COLONIES: No, but we’ve heard it’s good and we’re feeling surly.
BRITISH EMPIRE: Fine, whatever, we don’t even care what you do anymore.
BRITISH EAST INDIA COMPANY: Actually, we are pretty much bankrupt, so you need to make them drink the tea.
BRITISH EMPIRE: Oh, for—just drink the tea.
AMERICAN COLONIES: No.
BRITISH EMPIRE: Do it.
AMERICAN COLONIES: NO.
BRITISH EMPIRE: Drink it.
AMERICAN COLONIES: Fuck you.
BRITISH EMPIRE: Drink it or we’ll punch you in the face.
AMERICAN COLONIES: *Boston Tea Party*
BRITISH EMPIRE: What the hell?
AMERICAN COLONIES: We heard it was Indians.
BRITISH EMPIRE: That’s interesting, because we heard it was a bunch of colonists wearing paint and dressed in costumes that were remarkably similar to what a crowd of drunks who wanted to look like Indians would assemble if the only supplies they had were found in an alley behind a bar.
AMERICAN COLONIES: You get all types in Boston.
BRITISH EMPIRE: …*Coercive Acts*
AMERICAN COLONIES: Oh, it is ON.
and this is why we don't get doctor who on our televisions kids
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"I believe in equality for women, but.."
jerrymuffinbutt:
No. Stop. Don’t talk. Stop it. Shut your mouth and leave. Leave the planet. Get out. Get out. Get out.
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“Nearly three weeks after an unarmed teenager was killed in a small city north of...”
– The New York Times, “Justice Department Investigation Is Sought In Florida Teenager’s Shooting Death.”
Jesus fucking Christ.
(via inothernews)
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“He killed my son … He killed my son. He couldn’t control himself.”
– Tracey Martin • Speaking emotionally while listening to 911 tapes describing exactly what happened when his son, Trayvon Martin, was allegedly killed by neighborhood watch captain George Zimmerman. Trayvon’s mother, Sybrina Fulton, ran out of the room halfway through the airing of the 911 calls....
“When Mike Daisey lied to national radio audiences on This American Life, lied to...”
– Max Fisher, The Atlantic. The Tragedy of Mike Daisey’s Lies About China.
Background.
Invisible Children Co-Founder Detained: SDPD SDPD... →
fuckyeahihatepeople:
definitely sounds like a guy you should donate loads of money to
I just I can’t
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Beach Boys walk into a bar:
Round?
Round?
Get a round?
I'll get a round.