September 2011
Kermit in Tiananmen Square →
by skybarn:
For Jim
In May of 1989, the month I graduated from 8th grade, 17 year old Michael Chang defeated Ivan Lendl in the fourth round of the French Open, a tournament he would go on to win. It was the single most amazing athletic performance I’ve ever seen. Chang, doubled over with dehydration and cramps, serving underhand and screaming with pain after every swing, somehow found a way...
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“As a defense against the Witch-doctory of Hegel, who claimed universal...”
– Ayn Rand (via the-capitalist:logicallypositive:letterstomycountry)
this is a complete butchering of logical positivism, a misunderstanding of Godels Incompleteness Theorem and a straw man but okay. Logical Positivism eventually was proven invalid by Quine, but not for the reasons Rand lists.
vruz:...
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Small Dictators, Big Bots →
Slate
vruz: dear former sheep friend, here’s some utter extremism from a plain vanilla microsoft-operated website. maybe now a mainstream operation tells it like it is your authoritarian senses will be more inclined to trust what they say.
We are ruled, in effect, by small dictators and big bots. And this unelected, inefficient, and sometimes-petty tyranny is throttling the growth of a...
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Holy S**t! It's fascist picture story time!! →
2005-09-02
vruz: a refresher. theo-military-industrial recruitment, Lexington KY Baptist Church.
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Scientists discover virus that kills all types of... →
The Raw Story
Scientists at the Penn State College of Medicine said this week they have discovered a virus that is capable of killing all types of breast cancer “within seven days” of first introduction in a laboratory setting.
The virus, known as adeno-associated virus type 2 (AAV2), is naturally occurring and carried by up to 80 percent of humans, but it does not cause any disease.
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“I went to bed and woke in the middle of the night thinking I heard someone cry,...”
– Ray Bradbury, Green Shadows, White Whale (via liquidnight)
LIFE: "how can you not love zooey deschanel?"
vruz: uhmm… how about, like this?
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“Perry said he’s in favor of making English the official language of the U.S....”
– If you’re Perry, and you just lost Michelle Malkin, you might have to pack your knives and go home (via aatombomb)
vruz: and the Malkin award goes to… Michelle Malkin. it may be the first time that somebody’s abuse of the english language prevents her from supporting wondrous acts of...
“And so we beat on, boats against the current, borne back ceaselessly into the...”
– The Great Gatsby (via azspot)
True Texas Story
teramerapyar sez:
This girl was telling me how frightened she was because she saw ‘Muslim’ graffiti and she was wondering if she should call the FBI or Homeland Security. She showed it to me. It was the word ‘peace’ in Arabic. This happened about 4pm and I’ve been laughing to myself ever since, even though it’s actually quite appalling.
“Rosalynn and I are deeply saddened by the execution of Troy Anthony Davis by the...”
– Statement by Former US President Jimmy Carter on Troy Anthony Davis (via chiaraatik)
vruz: the right wing SCOTUS preversely planted by George W. Bush will make sure this won’t happen in a long, long time…
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We've noticed a trend. →
Seriously, what’s up with the crowds at these GOP presidential debates?
—via motherjones:
At the Reagan Library debate in California, attendees memorably broke into a spontaneous round of applause in support of Rick Perry’s record on the death penalty. At last week’s debate in Tampa, a handful of audience members cheered the prospect of a man without health insurance being left to...
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Internet shut off at Wall Street protest →
Several activists are reporting that internet signals and access are being blocked at the “Occupy Wall Street” protest in New York. This same tactic has recently been employed at Bay Area Rapid Transit protests on the opposite side of the continent in San Francisco to shut down cell phone service. See a trend?
vruz: the great wall… of wall street.
“Perry is the best thing for Jihadism in a very long time. In the end, the...”
– Andrew Sullivan
vruz: the crazies of the west need the lunatics of the east to keep the charade going, they need each other to keep the global scale theatrics spectacular, with all of us hostages/financiers of their derangement.
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“We need to have trade policies that help us and not just the other guys, and...”
– Mitt Romney, referencing China’s currency policies. (via shortformblog)
vruz: I never had much hope about Mitt, but here he seems to be competing for the unsophistication prize with serious contenders. far worse than I thought.
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“Perry, it becomes clearer and clearer, is Bush without the sophistication or...”
– Andrew Sullivan The Dish / The Daily Beast
“It has sickened me - the lack of morality, the lack of accountability, the...”
– Andrew Sullivan “The Illusion Of American Exceptionalism Was Shattered”
vruz: fascism never stops. centrists will relativise. actual conservatives will freak out, but the ones who know the actual enemy always stay vigilant, and will always be there to give a good fight. slained it...
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re: the war on drugs, continued. (DEA faces... →
crazynutjob observes:
Wait. Read this bit:
“The DEA ruled in June that marijuana should remain classified as a dangerous drug like heroin because studies have not confirmed it’s medicinal value, but the agency may itself be to blame for the lack of evidence.”
Like heroin? It is worth mentioning that no such blocking exists for heroin or cocaine. Morphine and Novocaine are...
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“There are these people cheering for executions, cheering for letting people...”
– Bill Maher (via goodreasonnews)
Ummm this is stupid. Why do people classify Christians like this? The people who claim they are “Christians” and do this… Are not true “Christians” seriously.
(via beautifullyfreeangel)
No True Christian, eh?
(via goodreasonnews)
vruz: depends… is the...
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“It does not seem to have occurred to Mr. Perry that when you are running for...”
– Peggy Noonan, conservative Wall Street Journal columnist, lambasting Texas Gov. Rick Perry for his speech at the United Nations where he ripped President Obama over his handling of the Palestinian push for a vote on statehood.
Look for questions about Israel and Palestinian statehood to come up...
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“No reason was given for going to war that could not be refuted by a literate...”
– Media Control - Noam Chomsky (via noam-chomsky)
“I will never think of America the same way after the Bush-Cheney administration....”
– Andrew Sullivan (via azspot)
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