August 2011
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Alright, I’m giving up the news stalking and returning to my Beauty and Beast now.
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Warren Buffett on the the wealthiest 1%
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“If you’re in the luckiest 1% of humanity,” he once said, “you owe it to the rest of humanity to think about the other 99%.”
- Warren Buffett qtd. in Sunday Star Times
(More from the article: “But it is also a matter of enlightened self-interest. He knew that in the long run he and his class would benefit from living in a fairer society. The rich do better when everyone does...
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July 2011
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Somali women, children face constant danger at...
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bad Many Somali refugees, struggling to stay alive amid a harrowing drought, have tried leaving the country and heading towards refugee camps in Kenya. The camps are growing by the day.
worse Many of the women at these sprawling refugee camps face the constant danger of rape — even when they’re merely trying to take their children to use the bathroom or gather firewood. source
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Trying to freelance until I grow up and get a real...
It sounds so simple. Blog and write on various topics until I find a “real” 9-5er. I suppose it’s just a matter of still finding an outlet that will stimulate me enough to actually push out consistent content. But I’m quickly realizing just how many truly terrible sites/businesses are out there. Do people actually visit their online products?
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Weekly Standard: The Feminine Lie Mystique--The... →
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"Readers of the The Atlantic, I feel compelled to...
jayrosen:
This is from an actual note that an actual journalist for The Atlantic sent to readers of his blog at The Atlantic site. It attempts to explain to those readers why his update to a post (Mumbai comes to Norway) suggesting radical Muslims were behind the killing spree in Norway made it look like he had presented this claim as just one theory among many, when in fact, he had not. You can...
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Travelers may be owed a tax refund
By DAVID KOENIG
DALLAS
Travelers who paid all federal airline taxes when they bought tickets might get a refund if they fly now, since the taxes have expired.
Airlines stopped collecting taxes that expired at midnight Friday. Several airlines said Tuesday that customers who paid taxes before but are flying now may be owed a refund.
JetBlue Airways tells customers flying in the next week to...
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For reals guys, it's new. And shiny. Sort of. Take... →
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“My public statements about jury nullification were not the only political...”
– Tim DeChristopher: “This Is What Hope Looks Like”
(via sustainable-sam)
askjerves: Everyone should read Tim DeChristopher’s pre-sentencing comments (through that link to Yes! Magazine above). And then everyone who’s outraged should do something. Something with more impact than reblogging or...
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Bit By Bit, Afghanistan Rebuilds Buddhist Statues...
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Housing protests to continue amid tension over...
Still, National Student Union Chairman Itzik Shmuli said the students would not stop fighting.
“The right to a roof over one’s head should be assured to everyone in Israel, whether they are students or not,” Shmuli said.
Tel Aviv University Student Union head Ran Livneh spoke out more sharply against Netanyahu’s plan, calling it “an attempt to bribe the student...
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TIME breaks down the various debt plans
Six Possible Paths Ahead in the Debt-Ceiling Debate
By JAY NEWTON-SMALL
According to President Obama, Congress has become mired in negotiations to raise the debt ceiling and trim federal deficits. The way ahead is unclear – every path has hurdles, if not roadblocks, obstructing the way. As Congress rapidly approaches the Aug. 2 deadline to raise the debt ceiling and avoid a government...
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Westboro Baptist and You →
There is no excuse for inhumanity committed by humans. But when we allow ourselves to see person, justice becomes the extension of love, rather than objectification and worship of law. When we see person, justice finds purity, impartiality and action. When we see person, we begin to leave Westboro Baptist Church.
It is not our place to see others as reasons for God’s judgment and catalysts for...
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A lot of bratty attitude.
Listening to politicians discuss the debt ceiling issue right now is just like watching Jr. High girls’ basketball. Everyone sucks and no one really wins, but there’s a lot of bratty attitude.
I once got hit in the face and my braces nearly went through my lip. This is just as painful.
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ShortFormBlog: producermatthew: “I am a supporter... →
Found in the “About” section, in the first pages of the doctrine:
You cannot defeat Islamisation or halt/reverse the Islamic colonization of Western Europe without first removing the political doctrines manifested through multiculturalism/cultural Marxism…
producermatthew:
“I am a supporter of a monocultural Christian Europe.”
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Suspected Norwegian terrorist Anders Breivik, in a...
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UPDATE: Iranian officials now say that the man... →
An update to the previous post.
