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Waiting for Star Trek: Into Darkness to start!!!

Fri, 17 May 2013 21:44:48 -0400

Waiting for Star Trek: Into Darkness to start!!!

House Republicans Have Spent 15 Percent of Their Time Trying to Repeal Obamacare

Fri, 17 May 2013 15:40:44 -0400

House Republicans Have Spent 15 Percent of Their Time Trying to Repeal Obamacare:

As the provisions of the Affordable Care Act — referred to as Obamacare for short — begin to come online, congressional Republicans have continued to obsess over repealing the law altogether

"The people who killed ACORN and tried to kill Planned Parenthood and PBS now say the IRS unfairly..."

Fri, 17 May 2013 14:53:55 -0400

“The people who killed ACORN and tried to kill Planned Parenthood and PBS now say the IRS unfairly targeted their groups.”

- John Fugelsang (via samuraifuckingfrog)

If something seems too good to be true. It’s probably not true.

Fri, 17 May 2013 14:01:18 -0400

If something seems too good to be true. It’s probably not true.

shondsees replied to your post: That moment when you realize that a comment you… And then...

Fri, 17 May 2013 10:33:21 -0400

shondsees replied to your post: That moment when you realize that a comment you…

And then hope that it hasnt been reblogged/retweeted yet&

But it is ALWAYS reblogged first. D:

That moment when you realize that a comment you made on a picture is completely nonsensical because...

Fri, 17 May 2013 10:03:01 -0400

That moment when you realize that a comment you made on a picture is completely nonsensical because auto-correct fucked it all up and then you have to go back and correct the auto-correct.

I always thought it was fucked up that our society sexualizes...

Fri, 17 May 2013 09:52:00 -0400

I always thought it was fucked up that our society sexualizes breasts to the point that people get offended when seeing them used for their intended purpose.

thisgingerisback: sugaredvenom: annijade: sugaredvenom: Just...

Fri, 17 May 2013 09:32:08 -0400

thisgingerisback:

sugaredvenom:

annijade:

sugaredvenom:

Just thought I’d share this charming piece of graffiti from near my home.

By the way, this is the ONLY women’s library in the country, it has only women’s work in it and also serves as a sort of feminist museum. They’re affiliated with a university close by and hold regular events such as workshops and talks on subjects like the poetry of immigrant women of colour or the representation of mental health in women’s literature. Its also due to be closed down by the Conservatives.

Can men go in and borrow books written by women?

Yeah, totally, they even do events for men by women on intro to feminism, rape culture stuff sometimes!

god forbid women have a single fucking thing without men getting jealous like fucking children

^^THis

And guys are always saying women are “too sensitive” …

Minnesota Republicans prevent Democratic Senators from attending marriage equality signing ceremony

Fri, 17 May 2013 08:46:09 -0400

(MN Progressive Project) - There is a reason you didn’t see any Minnesota State Senators at the marriage equality signing ceremony on the State Capitol steps. It is because the Republican Senators behaved like absolute jerks. Only the bill’s authors, Sen. Scott Dibble and Sen. Tony Lourey, attended.

The rest were called to the floor of the Senate for a series of useless, time-wasting procedural motions.

Spite. Pure spite. I honestly believe that if you waved a magic wand and suddenly wiped out all spite among humanity, the GOP would lose 3/4 of their platform.

You know, you can give a man a fish and teach him how to fish. It doesn’t have to be one or...

Fri, 17 May 2013 08:28:00 -0400

You know, you can give a man a fish and teach him how to fish.

It doesn’t have to be one or the other.

Go to google image search and search for "atari breakout" (wihout the quotes).

Thu, 16 May 2013 22:13:19 -0400

Do it.

"Given enough time, hydrogen begins to wonder where it came from, and where it is going"

Thu, 16 May 2013 21:49:00 -0400

“Given enough time, hydrogen begins to wonder where it came from, and where it is going”

- attributed to Edward R. Harrison

Blogging hiatus for a few days, apartment/house hunting and it’s not going well. :(

Thu, 16 May 2013 14:27:00 -0400

Blogging hiatus for a few days, apartment/house hunting and it’s not going well. :(

thisgingerisback: a guy i work with tried to tell me that a ‘mastectomy’ was exactly like a...

Wed, 15 May 2013 16:20:06 -0400

thisgingerisback:

a guy i work with tried to tell me that a ‘mastectomy’ was exactly like a ‘vasectomy’ and that angelina jolie wasn’t ‘losing her breasts,’ they were just ‘cutting off the milk supply’

thisgingerisback: this doesn’t even need commentary

Wed, 15 May 2013 10:22:45 -0400

thisgingerisback:

this doesn’t even need commentary

thisgingerisback: my book should be called “How To Accidentally Become Internet Famous: A Tragedy”

Wed, 15 May 2013 08:07:35 -0400

thisgingerisback:

my book should be called “How To Accidentally Become Internet Famous: A Tragedy”

boobytrapzap: boobytrapzap: neondarling: justlikeluna: amazin...

Tue, 14 May 2013 21:49:28 -0400

boobytrapzap:

boobytrapzap:

neondarling:

justlikeluna:

amazingatheist:

huade:

Despite its name, the maned wolf is not a wolf at all, nor is it a fox, coyote, or dog. It is the only member of the Chrysocyon genus, making it a truly unique animal, not closely related to any other living canid. One hypothesis for this is that the maned wolf is the last surviving species of the Pleistocene Extinction, which wiped out all other large canids from the continent.

oh my gosh

Cool.

Another actually true thing that people don’t often believe.

oh my god this is the dumbest animal

aww it’s like a deer and a fox had a freaky hybrid baaaabyyyy <3

Either that or a fox on stilts

For some reason, the fact that the comment “oh my god this is the dumbest animal” is on this picture amuses me immensely.

And oh yeah …

Fuck the amazing atheist.

I love how SUPER PISSED OFF people who comment on stories about Star Trek are. (I’m not...

Tue, 14 May 2013 21:47:03 -0400

I love how SUPER PISSED OFF people who comment on stories about Star Trek are. (I’m not talking about tumblr).

Star Trek: Enterprise writers launch a campaign for a fifth season on Netflix - IGN

Tue, 14 May 2013 21:39:17 -0400

Star Trek: Enterprise writers launch a campaign for a fifth season on Netflix - IGN:

Could Star Trek: Enterprise find a new home on Netflix? Devoted Trek fans seem to think so…

Join the Star Trek: Enterprise Netflix Campaign!

Hey - It worked for Arrested Development!

Benghazi bombshell: Email supporting GOP “conspiracy” theory is fake

Tue, 14 May 2013 16:26:30 -0400

(America Blog) - Have you ever tried to turn the deaths of four brave Americans in Benghazi, Libya into a political opportunity, even going to so far as to claim that killing a handful of American government officials on foreign soil was as significant as the murder of 3,000 people in NYC and at the Pentagon on September 11, only to have your entire wacky conspiracy blow up in your face because the email it was based on turns out to have been a fake?

And so it goes with another Republican conspiracy theory.

Benghazi email is a fake

You may have heard about today’s Benghazi bombshell. The email at the core of the Republican case that the White House “fixed” the Benghazi talking points, in the immediate aftermath of the attack on our consulate, in order to edit out any reference to “terrorism,” in a supposed effort to minimize public concern about the attack in the weeks before the 2012 election, is a fake.

The actual White House email, far from proving an attempt by the White House to “spin” Benghazi for political purposes, shows a White House concerned about getting the facts right.

CNN’s Jake Tapper has the exclusive.

CNN has obtained an e-mail sent by a top aide to President Barack Obama about White House reaction to the deadly attack last September 11 on the U.S. diplomatic compound in Benghazi, Libya, that apparently differs from how sources characterized it to two different media organizations.

The actual e-mail from then-Deputy National Security Adviser for Strategic Communications Ben Rhodes appears to show that whomever leaked it did so in a way that made it appear that the White House was primarily concerned with the State Department’s desire to remove references and warnings about specific terrorist groups so as to not bring criticism to the department.

Tapper concludes that the person who leaked the false email clearly wanted to implicate the White House in a scandal that simply didn’t exist:

Whoever provided those quotes seemingly invented the notion that Rhodes wanted the concerns of the State Department specifically addressed….

So whoever leaked the inaccurate information earlier this month did so in a way that made it appear that the White House – specifically Rhodes – was more interested in the State Department’s concerns, and more focused on the talking points, than the e-mail actually stated.

Oops.

Here’s the real email, in its entirety. Note the email’s concern about “wrong information” needing to be corrected, and about the most important factor being “respect” for “the investigation.”

From: Rhodes, Benjamin J.
Sent: Friday, September 14, 2012 9:34 PM

Subject: Re: Revised HPSCI Talking Points for Review

Sorry to be late to this discussion. We need to resolve this in a way that respects all of the relevant equities, particularly the investigation.

There is a ton of wrong information getting out into the public domain from Congress and people who are not particularly informed. Insofar as we have firmed up assessments that don’t compromise intel or the investigation, we need to have the capability to correct the record, as there are significant policy and messaging ramifications that would flow from a hardened mis-impression.

We can take this up tomorrow morning at deputies.