April 2011
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March 2011
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“Income tax rates are now lower than they were under Ronald Reagan and far lower...”
– Andrew Sullivan (via pantslessprogressive)
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“I have two grandchildren: Maggie is 11; Robert is 9. I am convinced that if we...”
– Newt Gingrich, speaking at Cornerstone Church. I had some thoughts on the speech here, but should have been clearer on one point: Newt, you have to pick one! It’s either radical Islam and Sharia law or a Bacchanalia of godlessness. It cannot be both. (via ilyagerner)
Beware! Secular-radical...
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Japan business lobby gives OK to scrap corporate... →
TOKYO (Reuters) – Japan’s top business lobby gave the government the green light to scrap a planned cut in the corporate tax rate and urged firms to look at shifting production to western Japan as the nation grapples with its worst crisis since World War Two.
Hiromasa Yonekura, chairman of the Japan Business Federation, said the influential lobby would not fight the government if it decided...
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mariettarc asked: When did you change your personal blog? o.o
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Sen. Sanders: Ten Companies Avoiding Taxes →
jonathan-cunningham:
While hard working Americans fill out their income tax returns this tax season, General Electric and other giant profitable corporations are avoiding U.S. taxes altogether.
With Congress returning to Capitol Hill on Monday to debate steep spending cuts, Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.) said the wealthiest Americans and most profitable corporations must do their share to help...
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I am determined to make time in the next three days to watch The Sound of Music because Sixteen Going on Seventeen will never again be so relevant.
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Tumblr's Explore Feature
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minusmanhattan:
There has been a lot of negative chatter today about Tumblr’s explore feature, and I thought I’d chime in (I’m currently an editor of Black and White and Landscape photography). I think it’s a little silly that people are complaining that the editors are all mainstream media and/or corporations.
Out of the 314 editors, only 15 of them are corporate...
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WE BEAT THE TAR HEELS!
WE’RE GOING TO THE FINAL FOUR!
AHHHHHH!!!!
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Rep. Bachmann (R-Minn) proposes tax code to... →
Beginning at the (4:15) mark in this video Bachmann proposes implementing a tax system that would encourage “family formation.” The context of Bachmann’s remarks make it clear that she would like to either give tax credits, or lower tax rates to people who are married as opposed to those who are single. Given Bachmann’s past statement on gay rights, the lower tax rates...
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Your Rights Under the New Healthcare Law
usagov:
It’s been just over a year since President Obama signed the new healthcare law.
This week Healthcare.gov highlighted some of the different benefits you and your family may be eligible for under the new law:
Most young adults can stay on their parent’s family plan until they turn 26. It doesn’t matter whether you’re married, living with your parents, in school, or financially...
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My day.
just because idk I don’t make enough ~*~personal posts~*~
Wake up early for the AP English study session. ~_~
Free (shitty) doughnuts. But free. Yum.
Session over argument essays with some lady. I think she was homophobic. And apparently she marks out all the “bad words” in the books that she gives to her students. Thank god she isn’t my teacher.
Session over synthesis...
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I hate posting long quotes on Tumblr because all of my themes end up make a break between the quotation marks and the actual quote.
And it makes me very angry.
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“Last night, desperately attempting to turn back the democratic wave sweeping the...”
– Statement from Senator Mark Kirk (R-IL) and Senator Jon Kyl (R-AZ), urging President Obama, Secretary of State Hillary Clinton and U.S. Ambassador to Syria Robert Ford to publicly condemn the Syrian government’s violent response to protests. (via pantslessprogressive)
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“I don’t believe in charity. I believe in solidarity. Charity is so vertical. It...”
– Eduardo Galeano (via dr-clear-heels)
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Bryan Station’s Key Club rakes in honors →
Bryan Station High School brought home several awards from the annual Kentucky-Tennessee District of Key Club International convention, and Ariel Watson was elected lieutenant governor for Division 10-11.
The regional honors included:
Best All-Around Key Clubber – Christopher “Paco” Walters.
Most Outstanding Key Clubber – Nate White.
Outstanding Club President – Rachel Swanson.
First...
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Oh my god, Bianca, stop trying to be everyone’s ‘body guard.’ You’re weak as shit, so I really doubt you’re going to be stronger than a Pokemon fucking Professor.
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Al-Gaddafi International Prize for Human Rights →
Yeah, Gaddafi has a human rights award. And it even has a website. That looks like it came straight out of the 1990s.
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“I love no one but you, I have discovered, but you are far away and I am here...”
– Lemony Snicket (via imprecise)
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4chan Founder On Identity →
alexainslie:
“The cost of failure is really high when you’re contributing as yourself,” Poole said. In the case of 4chan, users feel a lot more comfortable trying to create funny images that can become memes, because content that doesn’t catch on disappears quickly, and they’re not weighed down by their failures. Poole said another benefit to 4chan’s anonymity is that content becomes more...
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US F-15E Fighter Jet Crashes in Field Near... →
thepoliticalnotebook:
The pilot is understood to have been rescued by Libyan rebels after ejecting, and another crew member is reported to have been ejected.
A journalist for the Telegraph discovered the plane outside of Benghazi. Officials say it crashed due to mechanical failures instead of being shot down.
Click through for exclusive photos from the crash site from the Telegraph.
Read more...
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I need to remember that there are so many great things about humanity. I tend to think about all the things that are awful. And it makes me so sad, because I feel like even though we have all the tools to fix most of the world’s problems, we will never get better. Because there is always someone trying to hold us back.
But the world isn’t all bad. I just have a hard time remembering...
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