January 2011
“If American Politics made any sense at all, we wouldn’t have two giant political...”
– Matt Taibbi from Griftopia: Bubble Machines, Vampire Squids and the Long Con that is Breaking America.
“The people who have been laid off and cannot find work are generally people with...”
– Ben Stein, all-around conservative tool.
“I believe that very few men are capable of estimating the immense amount of...”
– Charles Dickens upon seeing men held in solitary confinement
“anybody over the age of 16 who takes Ayn Rand seriously should be .. …pitied”
– mariser
As Paul Krugman recently quoted,
There are two novels that can change a bookish fourteen-year old’s life: The Lord of the Rings and Atlas Shrugged. One is a childish fantasy that often engenders a lifelong obsession with its unbelievable heroes, leading to an emotionally stunted,...
“I wanted to be Alan Greenspan for Halloween… but it didn’t work out so well. I...”
– mohandasgandhi
I would have paid to see this, of course you’d have to pretend to worship Ayn Rand for a night and that’d be asking too much of any rational person. This is the guy who also said,
‘Atlas Shrugged’ is a celebration of life and happiness. Justice is unrelenting. Creative...
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“Greenspan’s rise is instead a tale of a gerbilish mirror-gazer who...”
– Matt Taibbi on Alan Greenspan, from Griftopia: Bubble Machines, Vampire Squids and the Long Con that is Breaking America.
Shankar Jaikishan - Raag Todi
Home on New...
“For your sake, for the sake of future generations, and so you don’t...”
– A letter signed by 30 Rabbis’ wives, the latest in a series of letters that encourage such behavior.
Fortunately not everyone is on board, Defense Minister Ehud Barak had these wise words in response, “the rabbi’s letter and the letter by rabbis’ wives are part of wave of ...
mohandasgandhi:
thenoobyorker replied to your post: Something I learned over the holidays is that no…
I made the conscious decision to never get married, I’ll probably find a partner but I like plants and my privacy. I’ll just be a crazy plant guy
I am so far ahead of you it isn’t even fair. If I may present to you: exhibit A - you may examine my GPOYs featuring my cat and my plants, of...
FUCKING HYPOCRITES EACH AND EVERY ONE: The Ivory Coast presidential scandal is the latest example of classic hypocrisy by Western power institutions.
“No longer can heads of State, and other actors, be sure that they can commit atrocious violations and get away with it,” UN High Commissioner for Human Rights Navi Pillay said in...
In Defense of 2010
Around this time, aside from feeling very bad about myself, I always feel terrible for years. What did 2010 do to receive so much hate? It’s not 2010’s fault that your year sucked, it probably also sucked in 2009, 2008, 2007, 2006, 2005 etc… so your failure is not year exclusive. Leave the poor numbers alone, they didn’t do shit. Furthermore, it’s 2010’s last...
December 2010
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Let's talk about diplomacy...
Danny Ayalon, Israel’s deputy foreign minister, earlier dismissed recognition of the Palestinian State by several countries, without sovereignty or recognised borders, as being no more serious than clicking the “like” button on the social networking site Facebook.
Fayyad dismissed the comment, saying: “It does matter. International recognition of our right to live as...
“I tried to talk to the sergeant, but he said, ‘You spics don’t have...”
– Santiago Malave, Puerto Rican, a former New Haven police officer and resident of East Haven Connecticut .
Malave, a probation officer who works in New Haven, says the racial abuse is so bad that he only crosses the town line into East Haven to go home. He and his wife are now preparing to sell...
“Here’s what I do. I get on Amazon; I type in “Liberal Books”. I go...”
– From Alternet’s Are Right-Wing Libertarian Internet Trolls Getting Paid to Dumb Down Online Conversations?
Over 75% of the funding for American Majority, which hosted this training session, comes from the Sam Adams Alliance. In 2008, the year in which American Majority was founded, 88% of...
“First and foremost, Americans need to realize that building an absolute and...”
– We Can’t Always Be Lucky | Sacramento Bee
“Much of what we’re discussing is how academia has, to some extent by its...”
– Ta-Nehisi Coates in Crisis of the Public Intellectual | The Atlantic
jakke asked: It was on the old one, before it was taken down. I can't find it on the new one.
“I use profanity less and less as I become more and more a married forty year-old...”
– Matt Taibbi in response to a question about the use of profanities in his work.
Top 10 Myths About Afghanistan by Juan Cole →
4. President Hamid Karzai is “a key ally” of the United States.
Fact: Karzai has repeatedly threatened to join the Taliban. He has also admitted to being on a $2 million a year retainer from Iran. All he has to do is cozy up to North Korea for a trifecta!
War is a force that gives us meaning.
“It makes no sense that the defense budget is always off limits. Why is cutting...”
– Aravosis speaks the truth
“Give a 19 year old kid an automatic weapon and it takes him 4 days to become...”
– Chris Hedges, an old saying from his days as a war correspondent. As stated in the Al Jazeera video Empire.
alexholzbach asked: After September 2004, the economy tanked because Democrats like Barney Frank ensured us that there was no crisis. Of course, liberal policies then burst the housing bubble and brought along the mortgage crisis, which just made matters worse.
http://startthinkingright.wordpress.com/2010/05/11/barney-frank-video-proves-democrats-at-core-of-2008-economic-collapse/
Thanks...
http://startthinkingright.wordpress.com/2010/05/11/barney-frank-video-proves-democrats-at-core-of-2008-economic-collapse/
Thanks...
alexholzbach asked: After September 2004, the economy tanked because Democrats like Barney Frank ensured us that there was no crisis. Of course, liberal policies then burst the housing bubble and brought along the mortgage crisis, which just made matters worse.
http://startthinkingright.wordpress.com/2010/05/11/barney-frank-video-proves-democrats-at-core-of-2008-economic-collapse/
Thanks...
http://startthinkingright.wordpress.com/2010/05/11/barney-frank-video-proves-democrats-at-core-of-2008-economic-collapse/
Thanks...
10 shocking statistics about the plight of the... →
#1 In 2009, total wages, median wages, and average wages all declined in the United States.
#2 Since the year 2000, we have lost 10% of our middle class jobs. In the year 2000 there were about 72 million middle class jobs in the United States but today there are only about 65 million middle class jobs. Meanwhile, our population is getting larger.
#3 As 2007 began, only 26 million...
The Working Poor: as the middle class in America... →
The Working Poor Families Project has just released their policy brief for the winter of 2010-11. What they have discovered is that the number of working poor in the United States is higher than they have ever seen it before and it continues to increase at a staggering pace. The following are some of the key findings for 2009 that were pulled right out of their report….
There were more...
“I don’t think Osama bin Laden sent those planes to attack us because he hated...”
– David Cross (via janedoe225)
And this…
“God knows it did not cross our minds to attack the towers but after the situation became unbearable and we witnessed the injustice and tyranny of the American-Israeli alliance against our people ...
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“The Party seeks power entirely for its own sake. We are not interested in the...”
– George Orwell in 1984 [via Chris Hedges]
Simply ask any Chilean about what the USA did to Allende’s vision of Chile when it supported Pinochet financially and with military aid. There are no good wars, there are only wars that are fought to protect the interest of the very few in the name of...
“It’s important to note that no country in the European Union uses food stamps in...”
– America in Decline: Why Germans Think We’re Insane (via mohandasgandhi)
Welcome to the new norm, welcome to a third world America. The problems at hand are problems that are rooted in the fundamental nature of our corrupt system, the very system the super rich have and will continue to fight...
“Orwell warned of a world where books were banned. Huxley warned of a world where...”
– 2011: A Brave New Dystopia by Chris Hedges
sister-cunt asked: A. that seems to be your solution to everything lately haha
B. I have a strange feeling that would only make things worse
C. Although B isn't stopping me. Maybe that's the cause!
B. I have a strange feeling that would only make things worse
C. Although B isn't stopping me. Maybe that's the cause!
I was given a $60 Amazon Kindle gift card, I know that many of you love to read all sorts of wonderful books and so I’m asking if you have any wonderful book recommendations?
“The recent demonstrations in Bat Yam, Tel Aviv’s Hatikva Quarter and Zion...”
– Zvi Bar’el asks,” can Israeli racism be eliminated through law, trial and punishment, or is it already part of the Israeli identity?”
“Every woman who claims to have been sexually assaulted or raped has to be, must...”
– Michael Moore himself, answering Rachel Maddow. (via corruptpolitics)
Absolutely and yet Michael Moore, inexplicably along with all progressives, became de facto rape apologists. Yet I want to draw attention to a two part debate that Naomi Wolf and Jaclyn Friedman had on Democracy Now!
So, if...
Obtaining a PhD degree is a waste of time: PhD... →
caraobrien:
jakke:
Whining PhD students are nothing new, but there seem to be genuine problems with the system that produces research doctorates (the practical “professional doctorates” in fields such as law, business and medicine have a more obvious value). There is an oversupply of PhDs. Although a doctorate is designed as training for a job in academia, the number of PhD positions is...