June 2010
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Iceland Legalizes Gay Marriage, Prime Minister...
stfuconservatives:
waifsworld:
eatingcheese:
We missed this awesome news: Iceland has not only legalized gay marriage this past weekend, but its Prime Minister Johanna Sigurdardottir married her long-term partner on the day it took effect, making her the world’s only national leader with a same-sex spouse:
Sigurdardottir, 67, married writer Jonina Leosdottir on Sunday, the day a new law...
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Papua political prisoner denied medical access →
caraobrien:
Via AP:
PAPUA, Indonesia – Filep Karma has served five years behind bars on a 15-year treason sentence for raising a banned flag in Indonesia’s easternmost Papua province. He says he’s endured beatings by guards, and now prison authorities are denying him medical treatment for a potentially life-threatening prostate ailment.
His case — and those of several other high-profile...
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With Case Against Him Unraveled, Troy Davis Gets... →
caraobrien:
Statement of Larry Cox, executive director, Amnesty International USA, in advance of the opening of the Troy Davis evidentiary hearing in federal court in Savannah, Georgia.
“This hearing is both historic and unprecedented. Never before has the U.S. Supreme Court ordered a hearing to determine if it is unconstitutional to execute someone who is innocent. While this hearing is of...
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“Others are more slippery about this position. They’ll state their religious...”
– Greta Christina’s Blog: Do You Care Whether the Religious Ideas You Believe in Are True or Not? (via greaterthanlapsed)
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“They’ve distorted our constitutional discourse to make it sound like the Court’s...”
– Al Franken (via azspot) (via ryking)
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BP is Burning Sea Turtles Alive [VIDEO] →
nedhepburn:
REALLY.
WTF.
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The Texas GOP Platform:
The Texas GOP platform highlights include:
• Calling for repeal of the Real ID Act, which “creates an unconstitutional and privacy-inhibiting national ID card.
• Banning the use of red light cameras.
• Making American English the official language of Texas and the United States.
• Creating a felony offense for anyone who performs a marriage ceremony for a same-sex couple.
• Passing legislation...
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“…the 2010 GOP platform in Texas literally supports laws that criminalize sodomy,...”
– The Texas GOP Wants To Punish Straight People Who Support Gay Rights?
“People who support…?” Sounds like the Texas GOP doesn’t understand anything about the First Amendment. Or like typical right-wing trash, simply don’t care about the First Amendment, unless it pertains to a corporation’s right to...
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piscesinpurple:
Shake, Shake Señora // Harry...
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“I confess to staying baffled by this whole movement. I spent many years wailing...”
– Andrew Sullivan (via azspot) (via think4yourself) (via asprettyasasong)
Thank Christ for a little bit of reason around here!!
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Limbaugh's "dumpster dive" suggestion only latest... →
ryking:
Media Matters documents 13 examples of Rush Limbaugh mocking and even attacking the poor. “Compassionate conservatism” indeed. Sounds like Limbaugh is doing obscenely-large doses of oxycontin — again.
Limbaugh disgusts me.
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Please keep posting and re-blogging the Bioethics...
ryking:
tart-tart:
ipomoea:
We can get this into major media, and that’s what will stop it. Post it on your blog, send links to your sympathetic family and friends, Tumbl, Tweet, and Facebook the hell out of it.
The original story:
http://www.thehastingscenter.org/Bioethicsforum/Post.aspx?id=4730&blogid=140
The Slog story:
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“Obama is under relentless attack now from the Right. That’s a great help. I have...”
– Here’s Another Fine Mess: Roger Ebert’s blog entry on the oil spill. (via synecdoche)
Roger Ebert rocks my socks.
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“If we took away women’s right to vote, we’d never have to worry about another...”
– Ann Coulter (via dumbconservativebitches) (via deepwithfuture) (via ihatethismess)
I think it says something if the only way you can get your policies passed is to prevent half the population from voting.
(via robot-heart-politics)
I DONT UNDERSTAND THIS WOMAN AT ALL. LIKE WHAT THE HELL IS HER...
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Palin As President →
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“With 5 percent of the world’s population, the United States today boasts 25...”
– “A Human Rights Nightmare is Occurring on Our Watch” (via ryking)
You can place a fair amount of the blame on privatization. The danger is creating an industry that needs prisoners to stay viable, so using their lobbying influence they encourage tougher penalties for increasingly minor crimes. The...
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MY PRAYERS ARE BETTER THAN YOUR PRAYERS
Pastor Stephan Munsey: I wanna give you a testimony of my 11 year old daughter. I thought she had the flu or pneumonia...come to find out in x-rays that, in a matter of 24 hours, [she has] 100% Hodgkin's disease in her lungs. So the doctor tells us that she's going to die in 3 months. So we put chemotherapy in her, she loses her hair...Now I'm a minister of 10,000 people and I teach them about God, and I also teach that I believe that the God I serve can heal. So now I'm put on trial on my belief system for my little girl and she's dying in front of me. Now she's days away from death, all the medicines, the best doctors have done their duty, for which we are thankful...I kneel down and I put my hand on her hand and I ask God "would you heal my baby?" Mysteriously, supernaturally, whatever you wanna call it...my testimony is that she lives today. That was 4 years ago. Doctors are amazed. You've come too late to me, Christopher Hitchens, to tell me that that was not an act of a real God.
Christopher Hitchens: Well it's a flat-out unbelievable testimony and it has been the basis of religious charlatanry all along. I'm very sorry if I seem callous, but I do know a lot of children who've died horribly despite having been prayed over with extreme fervency and I think it's disgusting to suppose that those prayers were inferior to other people's. And I further think it's irrational to say that if something has no apparent natural explanation, it must have a supernatural one. There are such things as unexpected recoveries...but to claim that you have a direct line to God and that he'll intervene for your convenience is a disgraceful thing to say, in my view, and an insult to those whose children continue to suffer despite agonies of prayer on their behalf. No, this is a conscious effort to defraud people on the basis of religious hucksterism. As well as being immoral, it's highly unnatractive.
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Best Blog Ever →
notemily:
ouyangdan:
reachingtheshore:
isabelthespy:
seaponies:
thegirlwiththefro:
rachellea:
Jim makes pancakes for his 3 year old daughter every morning. They are the most creative cool things I’ve seen in awhile. Go look, and be amazed.
this is epic.
holy shit.
love!
Remember the Rainbow Pancake Lady (Amanda from i am mommy)? And how she made them one morning, and she...
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How the police can seize your stuff when you have... →
azspot:
HE ARRIVED in Houston with $500 in his pocket. A man he met on the Greyhound bus gave him a room until he found his feet. Zaher El-Ali, a Jordanian immigrant, worked hard and built up a small business renovating and selling cars and houses. He is now a proud American citizen. But, ridiculous though it sounds, his truck is in trouble with the law.
Six years ago, he sold a Chevy...
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“I would love to believe that when I die I will live again, that some thinking,...”
– Carl Sagan (via axinomancy)
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greaterthanlapsed:
fuckyeahabortions:
sullivanstreet:
Thoughts From an Abortion Doctor
We all know that anti-abortionists aren’t really “pro-life,” they are “pro-forced birth.” They make huge assumptions about who the women are who actually have abortions. They think that all the women who have abortions are just young flaky women who have no concern for the life of the embryo/fetus they...
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тијана: Some dogs who sleep at nightmust dream of... →
Some dogs who sleep at night must dream of bones and I remember your bones in flesh and best in that dark green dress and those high-heeled bright black shoes, you always cursed when you drank, your hair coming down you wanted to explode out of what was holding you: rotten memories of a rotten …
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