Originally posted by old_blueeyes at Mississippi Personhood Amendment
Originally posted by twbasketcase at Mississippi Personhood Amendment
Originally posted by gabrielleabelle at Mississippi Personhood Amendment
Okay, so I don't usually do this, but this is an issue near and dear to me and this is getting very little no attention in the mainstream media ( Read more... )

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Letter to the douchebag that some of my fellow Torontonians elected as Mayor:
Dear Mayor Ford ( Read more... )

I have old high-school friends on my Facebook. Often this is simply for the lulz. Yesterday Friend #1 posted a status message being unhappy about the racist anti-immigrant sentiment in the U.S., and another one of our old mutual high-school friends started in with all the usual crap: illegal immigrants are ruining the U.S. because they use ( Read more... )

So our police chief lied to the public and abused his power, and let his officers on the ground use that power (which they did not in reality have) to conduct illegal searches... and now he's smiling about it and patting himself on the back?

I just... I. Just.

Northbard summed it up extremely well in his complaint letter to Mayor Miller, and said ( Read more... )

From a Toronto Star article about the police state: “It doesn’t cast our country in a very good light, that we would go to such drastic measures to suppress basic civil liberties, like the right to protest,” said Paul Burstein, president of the Criminal Lawyers’ Association. “It isn’t just the invasiveness of the power that is so troubling, but ( Read more... )

I was, back in early high school, into rap music. What I was into then was the usual stuff that was big in the mid-90's: Snoop Dog, Warren G, LL Cool J, Coolio, etc., as well as the originals like Grandmaster Flash. A lot of rap back then had a socially conscious message - for example, think of Coolio's "Fantastic Voyage":

I'm trying to find a ( Read more... )

I was Googling for gardening info and came across a discussion about sterilizing gardening soil before reusing it in containers. In the comments thread I came across this comment, where an idiot actually invokes Hitler ( Read more... )

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I'm still stunned at Obama's election.

But now I am turning my attention to CNN's coverage of the ballot initiatives. And I am sad to say that, currently, California's proposed ban on gay marriage is winning 54% to 46% (22% of precincts reporting). And the proposed limits on abortion are a close race, with only a 2% difference (51% against ( Read more... )