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bdirnbac · 23 days

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bdirnbac · 28 days

Anything to marginalize the Democratic Party, even if it destroys rural America and impoverishes millions. When you think Republicans, think trans-vaginal probes, their one real passion.

bdirnbac · 1 month

Gotta a gun? [...] "What’s insidious about Stand Your Ground laws is that in every jurisdiction that has them, these statutes tilt the balance of power in any street encounter in favor of the person who has a gun. That’s what happened in the Martin case. The law provides a perverse incentive for everyone to be armed." [...] This last sentence, to me, explains the impetus for these laws. If we all come to assume that the next guy we meet on the road is armed, will we want to go out unarmed? Just like most of us can't leave the house without out cell phones, we could come to the point when everyone will be packing? Wouldn't you like to be a gun manufacturer and sell to every adult in the country, psychos and hotheads included?

bdirnbac · 1 month

It's tough being newlywed students with children with only a $400,000 portfolio to live on.

bdirnbac · 1 month

The soft underbelly of contemporary racism.

bdirnbac · 1 month

Thanks to Citizens United and unlimited corporate dollar$, corporations can take the gloves off and threaten the survival of legislators who don't take the corporate line. They used to bribe legislators with sweet perks if they played ball; now they can just threaten campaign war against recalcitrant legislators (including state legislators) and keep their public servants in line.

bdirnbac · 1 month

This is what a corporatocracy looks like: [...] The City Council is sensibly preparing tight security precautions for the downtown area by temporarily banning clubs, hatchets, switchblades, pepper spray, slingshots, chains, shovels and all manner of guns that shoot water, paint or air. But not handguns that shoot actual bullets. In other words, someone outside the convention hall will be entitled to pack a handgun, but not a squirt gun...Tampa officials wanted to ban handguns outside the convention hall (the Secret Service has undisputed power to ban weapons inside the hall) but came up against the state law, which imposes $100,000 fines on local governments that try to meet such obvious public-safety needs. This lethal parody of gun control should be repealed, like the notorious Stand Your Ground law. But voters cannot expect common sense from the Republican-controlled Legislature, which is on a leash held by the gun lobby.

bdirnbac · 2 months

[...] Update: Last night I saw Zimmerman's friend on CNN defending him in a very revealing way:

During an interview with CNN's Anderson Cooper on AC360, Taaffe said that a problem could have been avoided if Martin had been "up front and truthful" with Zimmerman.

I guess it has escaped him that in America it isn't a capital offense to refuse to answer a stranger's questions on the street. In fact, the kid had a right to tell this self-appointed "watchman" to go fuck himself if he wanted. Why under Florida law he would have been completely justified in killing the guy under those circumstances, right?

This friend has also said that he'd do the same thing in Zimmerman's place. Even now. Luckily for other kids in that neighborhood, this vigilante doesn't carry a weapon.

bdirnbac · 2 months

[...] Tom Cruise pays just $400 per year in property taxes on an $18 million estate in Colorado, because a few sheep graze there from time to time. In the same state, actress Goldie Hawn fought to have her land classified as farmland, which lets her pay less than $3,000 in property taxes on 34 acres. After having her land reclassified, Hawn received nearly $38,000 from her county government in refunds for previous tax overpayments. [...]

bdirnbac · 2 months

I realize now that life with a liberal arts degree is self-inflicted. Every day the gap in my job history expands is another day I struggle to find myself.

I am a stay-at-home boyfriend. This lifestyle was dictated by circumstances – not choice – but it’s hard to deny it has benefits. Showers: optional. Getting dressed: optional. Human contact: optional.

Still, I squirm every time my girlfriend, Stephanie, and I go out to dinner and she reaches for the check. Sometimes I snag it from under her lingering fingertips and whip out my Visa – for which she pays the bill — as if that’s somehow less demeaning. Say what you will about modern times and gender roles in the 21stcentury, but there are still certain behaviors associated with manhood. Providing. Protecting. Being a stay-at-home boyfriend may look easy. But let’s say I’ve forsaken a certain amount of pride.

bdirnbac · 2 months

Herbicides and Pesticides Immobilize Specific Nutrients

One of the major modifications done to genetically engineered food crops is the introduction of herbicide resistance. Monsanto is the leader in this field, with their patented Roundup Ready corn, cotton, soybean and sugar beets, which can survive otherwise lethal doses of glyphosate—the active ingredient in Roundup.

The working premise is that by making the plants resistant to the herbicide, farmers can increase yield by cutting down on weed growth. This premise has been found to be severely flawed however, as farmers around the world are now losing acreage to glyphosate-resistant super-weeds at an alarming rate. According to the British Institute of Science in Society, the US has fared the worst, now combating 13 different glyphosate-resistant weed species in 73 different locations.

Read more: http://www.care2.com/greenliving/scary-health-effects-of-gm-foods.html#ixzz1p696b4lp [...]

bdirnbac · 2 months

Can I have my pink-slime burger with pickles and relish? Thanks!

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