Fox News Headline v. Real Headline of the day
Didn’t you know Obama invented the Occupy movements?
Holy Shit a guy assaulted a cop!!!1!
Cause you know, cops have never assaulted anyone, in the occupy movement or in the wider community especially marginalised groups.
President Obama to Betty White: Where’s your birth certificate?
More recently, ultra-Orthodox have taken to the streets to protest what they describe as persecution. They have received a lot of bad press as a result of attempts to enforce gender separation on public transportation and on city streets. As part of the protest, some dressed up as concentration camp prisoners.
It’s amazing how, in every instance, the fundamentalist portion of a Judaeo-Christian-Islamic religion feels they and their religious views are being ignored, or looked down upon or quashed, or that the rest of those in that particular milieu are not pious enough, and seeing that translate to a false sense of persecution when they go about doing anti-social and violent things.
Fundamentalism in religion is the root of the problem with religion. Religious faith is an individual choice, a personal journey, and even if you are part of a larger religious culture, you have no right to impose your viewpoint on others within that same culture. The Founding Fathers in America knew this, hence the First Amendment prohibition against government establishing or promoting a singular faith.
I can’t deny suffrage to women? Might as well be in a concentration camp, ugh!
Especially in light of conversations had yesterday where I was vaguely proud of my near-Orthodox Jewish heritage all I can really do is facepalm and say really? REALLY?
U.S. - home to 5% of the world’s population and 25% of the world’s prisoners.
NPR - Prisons (retroactive “correction”) funded at the expense of education. [Listen Here]
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thenewrepublic:canisfamiliaris:
“Trickle Down”
(via religiousragings)
Also, read TNR’s Timothy Noah on “When Did Trickle-Down Get Respectable?”
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That is an actual comment made by Republican presidential candidate Rick Santorum
Watch video for proof
At this point I hope every republican running for president chokes on their vomit.
The Republican Primary: Race to the bottom
Didn’t you hear? He actually said “Blah people” /fullofshit
-Joe
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If you’re thinking of voting Republican because you’re pissed at Obama, remember the words of Stephen Colbert in the voting booth.
“Being a leftist is a calling, not a career; it’s a vocation, not a profession. It means you are concerned about structural violence, you are concerned about exploitation at the work place, you are concerned about institutionalized contempt against gay brothers and lesbian sisters, hatred against peoples of color, and the subordination of women. It means that you are willing to fight against, and to try to understand the sources of social misery at the structural and institutional levels, as well as at the existential and personal levels. That’s what it means to be a leftist; that’s why we choose to be certain kinds of human beings.”
- Cornel West
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