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"If a candidate is a phony... we'll know it. Mitt Romney is such a candidate." 
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Highspeeddub posted:
I think Brown Moses said in the GBS thread this is from a marathon last year and just being touted as from today. 
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Highspeeddub posted:
It's not today(although the protests are large), this is from a marathon. I posted the same thing in the Turkey thread and Brown Moses set me straight. Linking for blood in this, so probably not safe for the squeamish or for work, but here's a picture of the man shot in Ankara(they opened up with live ammunition at one point supposedly) http://25.media.tumblr.com/820638168598eb41053cc8fad35a95ef/tumblr_mnqb2iPPTV1ste7qoo1_1280.jpg
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I never noticed the spelling error until now. I guess rolling your eyes really hard will do that. 
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cheerfullydrab posted:A really awesome little 4 minute bit of Eric Sevareid commentary about how Americans are a bunch of paranoid conspiracy theorists, something which is just as true 40 odd years after he recorded it. His overall point is that Kennedy conspiracy theory people are dumb, but it's more than just that. He's right in general, however the Lincoln Assassination was definitely a conspiracy, Seward and Johnson were both slated to die that night as well:  Erkenntnis posted:Sorry, wasn't trying to be offensive. After reading about how many dogs are shot by police each year this image makes me happy. I can't tell if that dog is neutered but apparently most dog attacks are from male dogs with their balls.
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Beaver Patrol posted:What are these many areas? Can I have some context for this? I ask because that is a boxer, and boxers are the best dogs   https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GxiESl-VY5E
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I just saw a guy who got a teargas can to the face after watching a video where a watercannon truck ran over some people, and now I want some happy protest pictures where everything turned out okay because that poo poo is just too drat depressing. Supposedly a Brazilian general who during a protest asked for no fighting that day because it was his birthday. The protesters gave him a cake and hugs were had by all.
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platedlizard posted:I just saw a guy who got a teargas can to the face after watching a video where a watercannon truck ran over some people, and now I want some happy protest pictures where everything turned out okay because that poo poo is just too drat depressing. The next day things returned to normal. 
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Reminds me of the Christmas Truce of 1914, when German and British troops celebrated Christmas together. Soldiers of both nations meeting in the no man's land between the trenches on December 26, 1914. There are numerous other truces known like this: During the French and Indian War, opposing troops sat around the campfire and played cards. Crimean War soldiers shared provisions and tobacco, during the American Civil War soldiers were known to fish at the same river. During the Second Boer War, there even was a football match between British and Afrikaner troops, and in the North African theatre of WWII, German and British soldiers gathered to listen to Lili Marleen together. Man truly is a strange beast.
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Fox News' Erick Erickson has a message for us.
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EDIT: I AM A MORON minimumwage.com is run by the Employment Policies Institute, which is one of Berman & Company's "think tanks". I'm not sure how I used the wrong word when it was right there on the page. Below, another American-made gas canister found at a protest in Turkey. Rugoberta Munchu fucked around with this message at 00:30 on Jun 2, 2013 |
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Rugoberta Munchu posted:minimumwage.com is run by the Economic Policies Institute, which is one of Berman & Company's "think tanks". You mean the Employment Policies Institute, not to be confused with the Economic Policy Institute, which is a left-of-American-center think tank. http://youtu.be/qYOr8TlnqsY quote:The Disintegration Loops is based on Basinski's attempts to salvage earlier recordings made on magnetic tape, by transferring them into digital format; however, the tape had physically deteriorated to the point that, as it passed by the Tape Head, the ferrite detached from the plastic backing and fell off. Basinski has said that he finished the project the morning of the September 11 attacks on the World Trade Center in New York City, and sat on the roof of his apartment building in Brooklyn with friends listening to the project as the WTC towers collapsed.[2] In 2011, Basinski corrected earlier reports where he described recording the last hour of daylight of 9/11 in NYC with a video camera focused on the smoke where the towers were from a neighbor's roof, then set the first loop as the soundtrack to that footage. Stills from the video were used as the covers for the set of four CDs. There's also a good Radiolab episode featuring Basinski. Fast forward to 21 minutes to hear it, but the whole episode is pretty good. Gio fucked around with this message at 00:46 on Jun 2, 2013 |
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Rugoberta Munchu posted:minimumwage.com is run by the Economic Policies Institute, which is one of Berman & Company's "think tanks". You mean Employment Policies Institute. I've cited the Economic Policies Institute and they seem to be pretty good sources. Minimum wage earnings compared to poverty levels for families of two or three people, in 2012 dollars. 
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socilest butthomo posted:Fox News' Erick Erickson has a message for us. "I am completely hosed by the system to the point of insanity but I refuse to blame the System." What a wanker. 
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ahahaha, holy poo poo, where is that? When people oppose the minimum wage or increasing it, it reminds me of this someone posted in the crazy email thread. quote:Econ101 is a huge contributor to the ranks of shithead libertarians, because they take an incredibly basic view of a simple optimal system, do no further study, and then apply it to the real world. It’s like if someone just took physics 101 and thought purely in terms of frictionless surfaces and perfectly elastic, spherical cows, but expected to be taken seriously as an engineer. In the mayhem currently in Turkish cities, a marriage proposal takes place. I think she said yes 
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I think the idea was to showcase the beliefs of various peoples during antiquity, not the modern age.
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Evidence from 1989 that Jeb might not have been the winner in the family. On the other hand, the Cubs have actually won a championship in their history. Joementum fucked around with this message at 03:31 on Jun 2, 2013 |
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Men can't provide a child what a mother, white or black, can?  Istanbul, Turkey   
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Kit Walker posted:I hate myself for contributing to spreadchat, but I do think there is some validity in discussing even minor things like this as it pertains to the discussion of the patriarchy as a whole. It's obvious that social conditioning is in play here. Isn't this just a case of being inconsiderate of others? It's more comfortable to have your legs spread open a bit, and guys that do it value their own comfort more than the personal space of others, male or female. Does it not fall into the same category of issues as people with loud ipods, people talking loudly on the phone, people sneezing/coughing without covering their mouth, etc? Just inconsiderate assholes being inconsiderate assholes on public transport. Personally I prefer when seating goes male-female-male-female because of this:  and because of shoulder width (which I can't find a picture of). All men sitting together are cramped at the shoulder, all women together are often cramped at the hip - but when we all sit together there's room for everyone.
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When I do the dishes I like to stack the cups in an alternating up-down pattern since they taper down to the base but it's not very interesting and neither is this stuff about how people sit on public transportation. Or maybe we could move on to talking about the women only cars on Japanese subways.  Feminazis? 
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Istanbul, Turkey https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sbYQ_dzFniY
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syscall girl posted:Or maybe we could move on to talking about the women only cars on Japanese subways. German Feminazis!! 
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Fried Chicken posted:Can I have some context for this? I ask because that is a boxer, and boxers are the best dogs  
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Joementum posted:On the other hand, the Cubs have actually won a championship in their history.  
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One of the English Defence League protests yesterday ended successfully (for them), as they laid a wreath for Lee Rigby and gave a Nazi salute to a World War II memorial.
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"English Defence" apparently has a much different meaning than it did during World War II. Below: International Children's Day being celebrated in Pyongyang. Of course the Westerner target has a big nose.
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Nice to see that most Slavic peoples apparently have to borrow myths from random neighbours.  Slavs in Their Original Homeland, Alfons Mucha.
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ShortStack posted:I think the idea was to showcase the beliefs of various peoples during antiquity, not the modern age. If you look closely at Britain, you'll realise that it's a map of the various sources for mythology. So Britain has Arthurian legends and Gaellic legends and Irish and Welsh and Scottish legends, while Yoruba mythology started in West Africa but travelled with the slave trade... It's actually pretty interesting, because it shows a very basic migration map type thing, because families carried their mythology with them. Fun times! Allan Assiduity posted:One of the English Defence League protests yesterday ended successfully (for them), as they laid a wreath for Lee Rigby and gave a Nazi salute to a World War II memorial. I was watching those protests with interest. I particularly enjoyed the BNP's protest; after engaging in a pissing war with the EDL over who could bring the most marchers, only 133 BNP supporters turned up, vastly outnumbered by anti-fascist counter-protesters, and some other protesters dressed as badgers. All in all, not a good day for Griffin.  Meanwhile combined Antifa, Hope Not Hate, UNITE and other assorted anti-fascist protestors vastly outnumbered EDL supporters in pretty much all locations. Protests were generally peaceable, though arrests were made of some of the counter-protesters. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AF-goiGnTvY https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gwMpL-EOies https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cJZnCLjvW8A https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Qv6_GtcANgU EDIT: And, of course, UKIP made complete fools of themselves again. 
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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7PnaPJQwN3w They made a new big budget production of Jesus Christ Superstar last year. In this version, the disciples are dreadlocked occupiers and the Jewish priests are evil corporate oligarchs.  Judas with some of the disciples, during What's the Buzz? Randallteal fucked around with this message at 15:06 on Jun 2, 2013 |
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Nice video of a car losing its hood on a highway near Minsk. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dOgkDCihBkk
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  "Caroline Narby posted:Autistic self-advocates rip into Autism Speaks every day because of the organization's silencing and dehumanizing rhetoric, and its focus on "curing" autism rather than dedicating its resources to practical support for autistic people. The organization puts forth slick television ads that portray autism as tragic and menacing, and—importantly—as a malicious entity unto itself, as an external threat. Autism Speaks is responsible for the short film Autism Every Day, which features a mother talking about her desire to kill herself and her autistic daughter in front of her daughter. The interviews in Autism Every Day address—both directly and accidentally—very real and pressing institutional issues like the segregation of "special needs" children within schools, the lack of affordable and accessible support, a general lack of understanding and compassion within communities, and the pervasive construction of an "ideal" mother-child relationship as "joyful" and "easy." The video also neatly encapsulates everything that is damaging about Autism Speaks' rhetoric and agenda. Rather than addressing the aforementioned institutional problems, the organization centers the individual experiences of parents and care-givers, and silences autists by constructing us as pitiable and burdensome. It constructs autism as a tragic scourge that warrants panic and despair, and dedicates its efforts to eradicating autistic people via prevention or a "cure."
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