April 2011
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BBC NEWS | Americas | Illegal abortions 'killing... →
Every year four million women in Latin America have an illegal abortion, according to the World Health Organisation.
Preventing illegal abortions, which leave hundreds of thousands of woman dead or seriously injured, has been the focus of the conference in Mexico. Many groups present believe the only way to reduce the numbers is to make the practice legal.
“It is the first to the third cause...
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distinctmemory:
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This is the only thing about the Royal Wedding I’ll be posting. Just because, it’s sort of awesome =]
Holy shit… this is magnificent…. and let us hope no one ever videotapes Camilla shaking her rump. Ever. Again.
One other thing… Prince Harry… call me if you need a wingman, bro.
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Wichita Makes News Again... This Time For...
Wichita has a newsworthy collection of scumbags. If it isn’t the decades-long discrimination, harassment, and eventual murder of an abortion doctor, it’s a churchgoing serial killer in their community. Or, if that’s not enough, they’re now threatening to bomb and/or shoot another abortion doctor and refusing to grant an injunction against the person threatening the...
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Man In Cow Suit Steals 26 Gallons Of Milk From... →
From the annals of the !@#$ing awesome.
Per The Consumerist:
Call him the Hamburglar for the dairy crowd. An 18-year-old Virginia man was arrested earlier this week after somehow managing to slip past the Walmart greeters and loss-prevention staff with 26 gallons of milk… all while crawling around in a cow suit.
“This is probably one of the most unique efforts of...
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Wal-Mart: Our Shoppers Are Running Out of Money -... →
Now THIS is something our scumbag legislators might listen to.
Wal-Mart is seriously complaining about its shoppers’ spending power.
Per CNNMoney:
Wal-Mart’s core shoppers are running out of money much faster than a year ago due to rising gasoline prices, and the retail giant is worried, CEO Mike Duke said Wednesday.
“We’re seeing core consumers under a lot of...
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WatchHarry who? Give me my X-Men… especially if they’re actually going to let Magneto be evil for once.
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Watchmaitha96:
this is jade. she’s gorgeous. and she should have been able to live a normal teenage life. but, because of some of her classmates, she isn’t with us anymore. jade killed herself 3 days after creating this video. If you’re against bullying; reblog this. jade would want people to know the dangers of bullying and the consequences it leaves people with. bullies are people who are angry...
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Eric Holder, Justice Dept. Reject Backlash Against... →
Respectfully, Mr. Attorney General, go fuck yourself.
In a week where an LGBT person had the shit beat out of them in public and people taunting and egging the attackers on, you have the sack to pander to the extremist Christians who get off on this shit?
Additionally, let us not forget all of the other fantastic ideas that Mr. Clement took care of for George Bush, such as legalizing torture,...
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How much will the royal wedding cost? - Arts &... →
Count me in with the folks that think these two over-indulged people should make it legal with a magistrate and elope.
I’d be much more impressed with the prince and princess-to-be if they gave that 70 million dollars to charity instead of making a pointless international spectacle of their wedding, frankly.
Per Macleans.ca:
Estimates put the cost of the April 29 festivities at between...
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New Followers!!!
Sending out a warm welcome to my new followers andyurgay (who is simply awesome) and emilyannbanks. Welcome!!!
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Boehner's DOMA Lawyer quits firm over Defense of... →
Let that be a lesson to the extremist Christian community… not even George Bush’s lawyer has the stones to defend this atrocious law. Once the news broke of his contract and his ties to John Boehner, it was pretty clear that this gentleman was little more than a heavily taxpayer-subsidized shill. (Though, as we learned with Bush, it can pay to use taxpayer dollars to buy favorable...
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Protests mount over fast track for John Paul's... →
Good.
Pope John Paul II was a major component in the institutionalization of pedophilia within the Church, and the thousands of victims can thank him for protecting the perpetrators of so many of these crimes. How can a man who enabled the sexual abuse of thousands of people possibly be counted a saint?
And, as if that weren’t enough, let us not forget that Pope John Paul II was connected...
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New Followers!!!
Wow, three more new followers. (I don’t usually get that many in such short order.) At any rate, let me extend a warm welcome to pugboat, finehorizon, and shadowywinds!!!
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Trigger Warning: Maryland Transgendered Teenager...
I can’t emphasize enough… the video is extremely disturbing. View at your own discretion.
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I am completely disgusted to watch this, not just at the sight of two hateful people repeatedly beating someone who is already clearly injured and seizing, but by the collection of people heckling and doing nothing to stop it. (Kudos to the anonymous older lady that did, and was...
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New follower!!! (And number 40!!!)
Sending a warm welcome to my new follower lasthenia!!!
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Watching a television show...
…about a man who was wrongfully imprisoned (and sentenced to death) for eighteen years, and a google search of related news shows that he was also denied compensation for his wrongful imprisonment. Truth and justice, my ass.
Guess which state this occurred in?
You’ll probably only need one guess.
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Request for Information
anglophonic:
Request for information:
I need to find a lawyer (or law firm) in the San Francisco Bay Area which specializes in pro-bono (or sliding scale) legal defense for underrepresented minorities at large, and specifically for Native Americans.
I know how to find legal aid for homeless and disabled people, but I am not familiar (at all) with all resources which may be available to Native...
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Rick Perry's Response to Texas Wildfires: "Pray...
So… terrorizing abortion seekers, liberals, and LGBTQ people hasn’t sufficiently appeased their bloodthirsty god. Anyone surprised? Where are the televangelists and megachurch pastors condemning the conduct of Republican-controlled Texas, in light of the clear fact that their god has sent a disaster to convey his condemnation of their actions? They were lickety split in their...
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Andres Serrano's Piss Christ destroyed by... →
It is fortunate that these extremist Christians didn’t assault or kill anyone in their destructive fervor, but it’s typical of populist religion to prefer destruction and violence over understanding.
Per The Guardian:
When New York artist Andres Serrano plunged a plastic crucifix into a glass of his own urine and photographed it in 1987 under the title Piss Christ, he said he was...
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“I have to say, as someone who is not Christian, it’s hard for me to believe...”
– Jon Stewart to Mike Huckabee on The Daily Show (via gayatheist)
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I share Jon Stewart’s point of view on this.
Christians seem to selectively forget the fact that they’ve managed to (pretty much literally) put a church on every street in this country, and as Jon Stewart...
anhomatopoeia asked: Not a question, but thanks for the warm welcome! I think I stumbled across your tumblr from the comments section of a Mother Jones article. I really liked your comment and saw that you linked your tumblr and was like, 'fuck yeah I'm going to follow!'
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New followers!!!
A warm welcome to my new followers anhomatopoeia and ilnestjamaistroptard!!!
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Prop. 8 supporters ask to seal trial video -... →
Translation: Fuck, we’re dumbasses. Please don’t let this judge show the world the extent of our scumbaggery, nor the fact that our arguments are without logic or basis in fact. (Just as these folks want the world to ignore that their doomsday scenarios involving DADT repeal never materialized, nor the slippery slope effects they insisted would happen when marriage was legalized in...
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This is the Obama I voted for!! →
What was supposed to be a private conversation with campaign donors in Chicago last night became public when an audio feed was accidentally left open.
Obama on Rep. Paul Ryan, R-Wisc: “When Paul Ryan says his priority is to make sure, he’s just being America’s accountant … This is the same guy that voted for two wars that were unpaid for, voted for the Bush tax cuts that were unpaid for, voted...
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Republicans (Again) Target Planned Parenthood -...
What a bunch of crap. Seriously. One of these spineless Democratic senators needs to ask these men, point-blank, how they expect eliminating funding for the country’s number one provider of contraceptives is going to somehow magically lower our abortion rate. The opposite is true. The cure for the unplanned pregnancy problem is comprehensive womens health care, family planning,...
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Mother of Pat Tillman Wants General Stanley...
It doesn’t sit well with me that McChrystal dishonored a soldier’s memory to keep George Bush from looking like an idiotic jerkoff, and was then more than willing to go to the media and embarrass a Democratic president once the tables turned. However, it’s the Washington way to reward scoundrels and incompetents with government posts, so this shouldn’t come as a surprise. ...
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Gay military group excluded from White House event... →
More fierce advocacy from the Obamas. DADT has been repealed, yet they’re still afraid to associate publicly with LGBT people. I hope the community will remember all of these snubs when those campaign donor solicitations come in 2012.
Per the Washington Blade:
A gay military group is accusing the White House of excluding the organization from an event intended to highlight U.S. service...
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TMI Tuesday - Whatever You like
I’ve never submitted myself for TMI Tuesday before, so, here you go folks. Anything you want to know, just ask.
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New Follower!
Not that I’ve done much lately to earn a new follower, but let me welcome one anyway: Yay hannibalisms!