January 2012
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Happy New Year Tumblr!
Happy New Year to you and everybody else reading this!
darksilenceinsuburbia:
A happy 2012 to all Tumblr Comunity and special wishes to my friends, visitors, followers. The majority of us won’t probably miss 2011, so i hope this new year brings to all the world exactly that - Hope.
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“The servers at Restaurant Les Princesses d’Hochelaga had been dishing out...”
– It wasn’t even a “milk bar”:
The city first intervened in 2004, arguing that the restaurant was, and still is, located outside of the zone where it would be able to obtain a permit to exhibit eroticism.
The lack of such a permit makes the establishment’s nearly-nude...
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“LÁSZLÓ KÖVER is not a man to be messed with. Not only does he have the most...”
– when he said “I get no respekt” no one dared laughing:
And parliament, he has declared, will not be disrespected. Mr Köver has banned index.hu, Hungary’s most popular news portal, from reporting from the chamber after two of its reporters made a video entitled “Merry Christmas...
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“Anyone who has ever dieted knows that lost pounds often return, and most of us...”
– Here’s the study in brief:
While researchers have known for decades that the body undergoes various metabolic and hormonal changes while it’s losing weight, the Australian team detected something new. A full year after significant weight loss, these men and women remained in what could be...
December 2011
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“Kim Kardashian announced that she is divorcing her husband of 72 days, Kris...”
– so what celebrities were juiciest for comedians?
Back to Charlie Sheen: “He said all the things you’re not supposed to say,” explained Mr. Quinn, as he grabbed a plate. “Just the fact that he loves porn stars and said they’re great at what they do. That he’s...
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“Police in Chatham-Kent, Ont., announced Wednesday that, of 1,986 people arrested...”
– slow news day..
“Aries is the sign of the warrior,” said Ms. Nicols, speaking from her home on Bowan Island, off the coast of Vancouver. “Aries rules the military. Aries jump in head first, and love adventure. A lot of people in the newsroom are Aries.”
Sagittarius stays out of the crime stats,...
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“December 21, 2012 marks the end of the current cycle of the Mayan “Long Count”...”
– CNNGo.com, Latin American Herald Tribune, goverment reports, The Daily Mail, Cancun website, /.
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“Researchers at The Johns Hopkins University have discovered a way to make time...”
– reminds me of that swatch “beats” time
Using computer programs and mathematical formulas, an astrophysicist and an economist have created a new calendar in which each new 12-month period is identical to the one which came before, and remains that way from one year to the next in...
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“In sum: the President can kill whomever he wants anywhere in the world...”
– Wait a minute! I thought the focus is on Ron Paul’s racism! How dare you to unpatriotically question the Emperor and his sense of fashion (i.e., new clothes)?!
Glenn Greenwald@Salon.com (via fuckyeahemergence)
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take a trip to North Korea!
just sayin’ :)
peoplelivehere:
Starting to get re-interested in socialism. This happens like twice a year. I download the Manifesto, check out socialist parties across the world, and look for good blogs to follow. Do I ever read the Manifesto? Nope. Am I going to this time around? Maybe, it’s on my desktop so it’ll be in my face a lot.
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Children of Liberty: Love in Capitalism →
Sometimes I wonder if socialism is really the answer and if life in Soviet Russia or North Korea is actually better than life in USA under Ronald Reagan or Bush, for instance.
The inherent vice of capitalism is the unequal sharing of blessings; the inherent virtue of socialism is the equal sharing of miseries. (Winston C)
aphexjimmy:
Sometimes I wonder what is going through the minds of some...
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“In Giovano v. Romeo, a Florida appeals court has affirmed dismissal of a case in...”
– THIS IS HUGE (via rvp, /., PDF, tmlb)
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The Tea Party’s “utopian market populism”
Salon: You write that after Obama took office, “market populism was the only utopian scheme available to disgruntled Americans.” There was no liberal utopian scheme that said, “Here’s how we get out of this.”
Tom Frank: There wasn’t even a Rooseveltian scheme, which was not utopian but very practical. Just to talk about Roosevelt would have been fantastic. One of the research points in the book that I thought was really interesting … was the history of the bailouts in 1932 and 1933 — when the Hoover administration did a lot of bailouts. We don’t remember that. [These bailouts] were massively unpopular for the same reason they were unpopular this time around: really blatant cronyism. We don’t remember that a big part of Franklin Roosevelt’s campaign [in 1932] was to be against these bailouts. There were maybe five newspaper articles in 2008 that mentioned this pre-history of the bailouts. It just never came up.
Salon: It was like the party’s muscle memory of the New Deal was lost. With Obama the muscle memory of the Democratic Party is the Clintonian technocracy of the 1990s.
Tom Frank: That’s exactly right. Their message was: The technocratic way is going to solve our problems. Just leave it up to the experts who are going to figure a way out. [Obama and the Democrats] seemed to think they didn’t need to dirty their hands by making a populist appeal. They did a lot of good things — the stimulus package of 2008 was good thing — but they didn’t realize you have to sell something like that. They were like, “We know what the answer is: Keynesian stimulus. So let’s just do it.” They didn’t understand that this nation only adopted Keynesian stimulus spending back in the 1930s amidst this terrible wrenching experience, the Depression, and an enormous campaign [by FDR] to tell the nation why this was necessary.
If you don’t sell it — if you just do this spending — well, people have a lot of suspicion of government handouts. Government debt bothers people for very obvious reasons. [Obama] didn’t make any effort to make the argument. It was just “listen to the experts.” I have a quote from [Obama economic advisor] Christy Roemer where she says, “Things would be better if we listened to the experts.” And she’s one of the good guys, one of the best people in the Obama administration. That’s their view.
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“The coffin of Mr. Kim, the cultish North Korean leader, sat atop the roof of a...”
– Even the supposedly American-hating North Koreans exhibit the same love & hate & fear & revere & discount attitude that informs attitudes toward USA all over the world, including Europe.
“The Lincoln Continental in the old Asia was considered to be a solid, robust, powerful car,”...
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Sometimes
that’s what debating is for. sadly, few know or understand what that means.
colormewithbeauty:
I get so angry about stuff I see on tumblr that I want to post my opinions too. Everyone has a right, I realize that. But if your opinions make me mad that all mine would do is make YOU mad. And I don’t want to do that.
If you wonder where I stand on gay marriage, abortion, the war, or anything...
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“In 1927 [Princess Maria Bonaparte] sought out Viennese doctor Josef Halban to...”
– Marie Bonaparte saying it’s better to Bone-apart (via mosex, r). Here’s a chart (r):
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“As if the plagiarism couldn’t be bad enough, it raises additional...”
– x, /., p-a
I got an incredible email today from a Penny Arcade reader. Dave shared with me an email chain between him and Ocean Marketing (the folks behind the Avenger controller) Trust me when I tell you that this is one wild ride. I’m serious, Mr. Toad would look at this ride and just give a...
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“$149 — Mont-Tremblant 4-Star Suite w/Breakfast”
– IS THIS REALLY A DEAL?!
Ranked among Expedia’s Insiders’ Select list, an annual selection of top hotels based on traveler opinions as well as value and Expedia expert input, Château Beauvallon’s one-bedroom suites come with:
Master bedroom with king-size bed and flat-screen TV
...
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..someone asks what Republican candidate you like...
“your Democrat”?! :)
[original deleted in the meantime]
samiam8624:
I don’t like talking politics with people that come in to the conversation very one sided.
And the fact you told me you like Ron Paul and Michele Bachmann makes me think your a little to right wing for me.
Let’s not talk about politics, cleaning lady. I already know that you really don’t know anything about...
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Finland's schools focus on Equality- not Merit-pay... →
Finland is an awesome example. On the other hand, it is a very uniform and community-based society. Many question whether their model could easily imported to USA, where communities are virtually non-existent and there are people with a variety of cultural / ethnic backgrounds.
kevinxzeleous:
Finland has no universal standardized tests, no merit-based pay, and no private schools. All schools...
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