February 2011
“If you assume that there is no hope, you guarantee that there will be no hope....”
– Noam Chomsky (via mohandasgandhi)
“I’m fed up to the ears with old men dreaming up wars for young men to die in.”
– George McGovern (via pantslessprogressive)
Reblog if you have met someone online that you...
kaleyoutloud:
iwasjustakid:
toowhimsical:
Always always always
V.
So many. BUT, I’ve also met a few people in person that I met online, and plan to do so in the future.
I should be a DARE officer.
kaleyoutloud:
SPEAKING OF WHICH. Favorite t-shirt ever.
Ha ha ha haha!
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Social Security is a program that works and is...
~ Harry Reid on Meet the Press
After hearing that, the Progressive Change Campaign committee, one of the leading Progressive Groups in the country, let Reid know how much they appreciated his sticking up for Social Security. They delivered 50,000 Thank You notes from people around the country.
Then Harry Reid “doubled down” on his support for the program.
“As long as I am the...
“We have no interest in returning to the bitterness and divisions of the past. We...”
– Sudanese VP Ali Osman Muhammed Taha, accepting the Southern vote for secession (via thepoliticalnotebook)
Yay!
No War But The Class War: Ⓐ Blogs for my followers... →
liberationfrequency:
Ok so seeing as people keep asking me to post links to blogs I follow, I figured I should probably get to it. Word of warning: Not all of these are just about Anarcho-syndicalism, but most of them center around far left politics and libertarian ideas… there are also some…
“Because the individual mandate is unconstitutional and not severable, the entire...”
– From the decision handed down by Florida Federal District Court judge ROGER VINSON essentially striking down the new healthcare reform law, ruling part of it unconstitutional.
Dear Judge Vinson: I’m not a lawyer, but tea and healthcare, with all due respect, are NOT THE SAME FUCKING THING.
(Full...
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January 2011
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“When I was little, I thought that heaven was a gigantic library where you could...”
– Esprit d’Escalier
I love this idea….
(via growingupindie)
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BREAKING: FLA Judge strikes down Health Care Law... →
A Florida Federal Judge just struck down the Health Care law, due to the provision being challenged by many State Governors, questioning the legality of the Government’s Mandated Health Care Coverage.
MORE to come…
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Pantsless Progressive: newsflick: WIDER... →
newsflick:
WIDER MIDDLE-EAST SITUATION UPDATE:
Jordan’s powerful Islamic party said on Monday they have started a dialogue with the state, saying that unlike the situation in Egypt, the opposition in the kingdom does not seek regime change.
Yemen’s opposition turned its focus…
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“What business is it of yours what I do, read, buy, see or take into my body as...”
– Bill Hicks
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"We also got some very good reports this morning,...
Exxon Mobil, for example, higher on earnings and revenues that beat the street. Its Quarterly Profits were up 53%, partly helped by high gasoline prices.”
CNBC Report, 1/31/11
I guess that’s good news….if you happen to own Exxon stock, but what about the rest of us who are stuck paying exorbitant prices at the pump?
Why can’t Congress focus on putting some kind of...
Bill Maher to Michael Steele:
They call you, “The Black Biden”.
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“But our government, they’re on it. They say that this turmoil [in Egypt] is a...”
– Bill Maher
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“I’m against picketing, but I don’t know how to show it.”
– Mitch Hedberg
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“As far as I’m concerned, I prefer silent vice to ostentatious virtue.”
– Albert Einstein
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Wow, MSNBC has abandoned it's "Lock-Up" Sunday...
‘cause you know, MSNBC reminds us all the time that their network is “THE PLACE FOR POLITICS” (Monday thru Friday, and on occasional weekends if it’s a big enough story, that is)…
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Don't get me wrong.
I am in total solidarity with the people of Egypt, even though I can’t do much for them from here in the USA. But, quite honestly, I’m a news junkie, and I’ve noticed that the media is doing this thing they ALWAYS do with EVERY big story that happens - they go into OVERKILL mode, playing the same three or four clips over and over and over again, talking to 20,000 different...
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“Obama is huge in the polls these days. His popularity is soaring. Even...”
– Bill Maher
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“President Obama gave the State of the Union address. Vice President Biden called...”
– Jay Leno
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