March 2010
24 posts
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Tea Party Members, Are You Serious? If So Sign The... →
apsies:
azspot:
I will abstain from the use of and participation in any socialist goods and services including but not limited to the following:
Social Security
Medicare/Medicaid
State Children’s Health Insurance Programs (SCHIP)
Police, Fire, and Emergency Services
US Postal Service
Roads and Highways
Air Travel (regulated by the socialist FAA)
The US Railway System
Public Subways...
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“Welcome to the club of states who don’t turn their back on the sick and the...”
– French President Nicolas Sarkozy, at Columbia yesterday (via blogonthe)
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Getting Smart on Crime →
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Jailing the American Dream →
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An Open Letter to Conservatives →
robot-heart-politics:
katoleary:blocksonblox:cyn1cal:
Wow. Very interesting and poignant. Also, very well-documented/linked.
Sweet mother of god, this is long. And spot on. I’d like to see a similar list for Democrats…
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“Like other cultural icons, the very figure of Howard Zinn has already in the...”
– Zinn Lives: Scholars Remember the Person Behind A People’s History (via azspot)
(auto-reblog)
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How Progressive Are You? →
jonathan-cunningham:
thecurvature:
dorianisms:
rosasparks:
beevee:
thedisgruntledgradstudent:
tumblgr:
My result: 333/400. Reblog/reply with your results.
360/400 — and that was even me being intentionally moderate on several of my replies!
306 — extremely progressive? I had no idea. And I thought I was taking a sort of isolationist stance. Guess not.
I am 348/400 and...
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A Pharmacist’s Jail Cell Interview – What Good... →
jayparkinsonmd:
via Mark Graban:
Here’s one to ponder and comment on – does putting a pharmacist in jail for six months and ruining his career and life do anything to bring back a two year-old girl? Does it do anything to make future patients any safer? Watch this video from CNN about Eric Cropp, an Ohio pharmacist who was convicted and put in jail for six months after a fatal process error…
In...
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I made a new blog today
I was bored, I wanted a paper blog, I’ve done it.
prettyperfectpaper.tumblr.com
Please check it out - follow if you like paper, paper art, journals, stationary, ANYTHING MADE WITH PAPER!
Thanks!
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UN: Latin America undermining drug war by... →
(via thedaytheytriedtokillme)
Drug abuse IS a health problem, NOT a police problem!
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It is time...
To buy plane tickets to Florida.. Disney World, here we come!
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California Decides to Scrap Rehab and Cultivate... →
katharinec:
California’s 70% recidivism rate –- the highest in the nation -– was always an indication that the prison system was horrifically broken. Well, that astronomical rate is about to go even higher. Over the next few months, California will cut $250 million in prison rehab programs as part of the budget decision last July to reduce state prison spending by $1.2 billion.
Oh,...
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Defending the Poor →
abbyjean:
The Justice Department has launched a program to help states bolster and repair their legal defense systems for people [in the criminal justice system] who cannot afford a lawyer. During a speech at a recent indigent defense symposium in Washington, D.C., Attorney General Eric Holder said the system is in ‘crisis.’
‘Some might wonder what the United States attorney general is doing at...
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“Some 85 percent of the U.S. prison and jail inmates either meet the official...”
– Think Outside the Cage: Only 11% Of Inmates With Substance Abuse Problems [And Addiction Disorders Receive Treatment During Their Incarceration] (via katharinec) (via harmreduction)
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Twenty-seven years of solitary confinement →
azspot:
Tommy Silverstein has been held in solitary confinement for the past 27 years, longer than anyone else in the federal prison system, his lawyers say.
He is locked up at the high-security prison in Florence, Colorado, known as Supermax. The lights are always on. Guards who slip him food through a slot in his cell door usually ignore him. A few times a week, he is permitted to exercise...
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One-fifth of Chad's population facing hunger →
abbyjean:
Nearly a fifth of the population in Chad will suffer food shortages this year, part of a broader hunger problem looming in the Sahel region, the United Nations said Thursday. “Two million Chadians, or 18 percent of the population, are in a situation of food insecurity,” said Michele Flavigna, the U.N.’s representative in Chad told a news conference. “A great deal needs to be done to...
