December 2012
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“As many as 15 percent of freshmen at America’s top schools are white students...”
– Ten myths about affirmative action (via linzyxxxxx)
This is EXTREMELY blatant on college campuses. The fact that these things need to be clarified is sad.
(via newwavefeminism)
Legacy is the real affirmative action…and yet we don’t see certain types of entitled people suing to dismantle that.
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May I have your attention please
madamethursday:
darziel:
Holding down a job is not a measure of value.
Attending school is not a measure of value.
Whether or not you can “contribute” to society is not a measure of whether or not your life is valuable and worth preserving.
These are standards held up by a society values money and production over everything else. If you think life has any less value or worth because of an...
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November 2012
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Cleveland, Texas, you now have competition! →
In case you thought that no one was paying attention to the “brilliant” legal strategy being employed in the defense of the men who gang raped an 11 year old girl in Cleveland, Texas, I have news for you: attention is being paid… by the legal counsel of the Moraga School District in California. So impressed by this strategy are they that they are employing it themselves. In a...
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What's Wrong With This Picture?
If your answer to the question in the subject line is “They’re all white men”, then congratulations - you’re not a member of the Republican Party! Because this is the slate of new House Committee chairs… and there’s not a single woman or minority among them. Guess they didn’t get the memo about the changing makeup of America and they still think that...
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Defense attorney calls 11 year-old gang rape...
invisiblelad:
atheologist:
jessicavalenti:
Sickening:
Former Cleveland Police Department Sgt. Chad Langdon, who was the lead investigator on the case, also testified that an 11-year-old - due to her emotional immaturity - legally cannot give consent for a sexual encounter.
[Lawyer Steve] Taylor questioned why the underage girl had not been charged with anything for choosing to violate that...
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If you're so big on the 10 Commandments, shouldn't... →
Yes, the monument now standing - in direct violation of separation of church and state - on the grounds of the state Capitol in Oklahoma contains two significant spelling errors… including the word ‘Sabbath’ (hint: there’s not supposed to be an ‘e’). How’s that evangelically-based education working out for you?
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Joe Arpaio: I Wish Obama Would Invite Me To White... →
And hey, Sheriff Joe is such a nice guy that he says, “I won’t even ask you for your birth certificate.”
Countdown to the President and his staff bursting into gales of laughter in 3 - 2 -…
Black female owned TV/film studio and post... →
sourcedumal:
Y’all.
Y’ALL.
This is SO serious.
WE HAVE A FILM STUDIO OUT HERE.
We need to write to these people.
There is so much potential with this.
WE NEED THIS.
I expect every single one of my followers to reblog the fuck out of this.
I think this is great news.
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WatchSo apparently, heterosexual adultery - at least when it involves high-ranking military officers and CIA directors - happens because of gay people? I really, really, really, want to sit down with this guy and ask him what the logic behind that concept is.
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The filling in that Twinkie? A whole lot of... →
BCTGM President Frank Hurt says the workers understood who they were dealing with:
Our members know that the plans all along of the Wall Street investors currently in control of this company did not include the operation of Hostess Brands any longer than it takes to sell the company in whole—or in part—in a way that will maximize the profits of these vulture capitalists regardless of the...
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How The Tragic Death Of A Woman Denied An Abortion... →
Savita Halappanavar, a 31-year-old Indian woman living in Ireland, went to the hospital when she first began to miscarry — but thanks to Ireland’s stringent abortion ban, medical professionals denied her repeated requests to quickly terminate the pregnancy because they could still detect a fetal heartbeat. The Irish hospital required her to extend her miscarriage over three days until the fetus’...
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That petition for Texas secession now has almost... →
Can’t wait for December when they get their response.
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“The American people are going to suffer because we’ll lay them...”
– Aetna Inc. Chief Executive Mark Bertolini, threatening President Obama unless Corporate America gets a sweetheart deal and all the goodies they were going to get from Mitt Romney.
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Parents upset about over bullying in Idaho... →
Twin Falls TV station KMVT reports that some parents “are outraged” over what they say an elementary school teacher made her students do when they didn’t meet their reading goals.
KMVT reports that a teacher at Declo Elementary decided that students who didn’t meet goals would be “punished by fellow classmates.”
Nine students reportedly didn’t meet...
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The Government Lied, And This Law-Abiding Father... →
WTF doesn’t even begin to cover it. This is a shocking and horrible abuse of governmental power.
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As of now, 47,544 people have signed a petition to... →
But I am completely sure that none of them are racist wackos.
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So What's It Like to Get Fired Because President... →
6dogs9cats:
On Wednesday Robert Murray, the Chief Executive of Murray Energy, decided to pray and then fire 54 employees at American Coal and 102 more at Utah American Energy. And now it looks like one of Murray’s layoffs has taken to Reddit to explain that he was told he was being fired because America chose to re-elect President Obama the night before. Reddit user Kgphoto writes in an Ask Me...
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“The big Republican donors tend not to be the social warfare types, rather they...”
– Laurence Lewis (The Daily Kos)
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That Tattoo Photo
professor-perfect31 replied to your photo: Say what you will, getting a tattoo of GOP…
what. the. fuck? Also - I hope that dickwad gets an infection from that dirty ass shop.
It’s disgusting. I hope he does, too. Sure seems likely, all things considered. What a creep!
That sound you hear is the whirring of T.R. and Abraham Lincoln spinning in their graves…
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Incorporate the vote! →
[…]as we celebrate, let’s not forget the grave threat posed by big money in politics. Yes, we beat the Koch Brothers and Adelson and corporate dark money this time. But really, this race should not have been even remotely close. Four years after Republicans and Wall Street left the country in ruins, we nearly elected a private equity shark who dismissed half the country as leeches....
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I am so grateful
I can’t tell you how glad I was not to wake up in Mitt Romney’s version of America. President Obama may not be perfect, but I think we can all agree that he’s better than the alternative. Thank you, America, for getting it right.
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Tea Party to Election Observers: Move Along,... →
The OSCE, a 56-member international organization (including the U.S.) which routinely sends observers to monitor and oversee elections in countries around the world, has been monitoring US elections since the highly controversial presidential election of 2000, which ended up having the presidential race decided by a split 5-4 decision of the U.S. Supreme Court. (The OECD was invited to start...
[TRIGGER WARNING: LYNCHING] Neighbors question... →
paradiscacorbasi:
brashblacknonbeliever:
invisiblelad:
ceasesilence:
An Iraq war veteran is explaining his controversial front yard Halloween display. It depicts the death of President Barack Obama…. Anyone driving through the intersection of State Roads 47 and 39 can get a good look at the controversial display. An effigy of the president hangs in a noose, and a mask of Obama is used for...
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500 Reasons to Vote Against Mitt Romney and for... →
There are fundamental policy differences between the candidates and only one of them deserves your vote. This post isn’t going to get into the snark or fluff that too often dominates election coverage. You’ll find no section on strapping a dog to a roof, or silly gaffes, or which candidate is more fun to have a beer with. This is, for the most part, straight up policy, compiled to...
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