February 2012
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“All men have heard of the Mormon Bible, but few, except the elect have seen it...”
– Mark Twain on the Mormon Bible
The Scale of the Universe 2012 →
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January 2012
“Republicans don’t even acknowledge that racism exists. There were a couple of...”
– Bill Maher (via barbiehighheels)
TENNESSEE RESTAURANT THROWS OUT ANTI-GAY LAWMAKER →
A restaurant in Knoxville, Tennessee refused to serve state Sen. Stacey Campfield, the man who sponsored the state’s “don’t say gay” bill, compared homosexuality to bestiality, and most recently told Michelangelo Signorile that it’s virtually impossible to spread HIV/AIDS through heterosexual sex. “I hope that Stacy Campfield now knows what if feels like to be unfairly discriminated against,”...
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“If President Obama is the food stamp president, then Bush was the planes flying...”
– Bill Maher, HBO’s Real Time. h/t @chloedutch (via brooklynmutt)
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Gates donates $750 million to fight AIDS, TB and... →
Davos, Switzerland (CNN) — The Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation will inject $750 million into the Global Fund to Fight AIDS, Tuberculosis and Malaria, Microsoft co-founder Bill Gates announced Thursday at the World Economic Forum.
The donation comes in the form of a promissory note, not as cash, which the Gates Foundation said “gives the Global Fund the flexibility and authority...
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Newt Gingrich was for 'food stamps' before he was... →
The Grio:
Among the changes pushed through by Gingrich and his conservative caucus as part of the Personal Responsibility and Work Opportunity Reconciliation Act of 1996, was the replacement of the Aid to Families With Dependent Children program, which had been in place since 1935, with something called TANF: Temporary Assistance to Needy Families. The new program put a five-year limit on cash...
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Early Success in a Human Embryonic Stem Cell Trial... →
Time:
“For the researchers at UCLA’s Jules Stein Eye Institute who launched the first-ever study to show that human embryonic stem cells may help reverse patients’ disease, the history-making day began at 4:30 a.m. It was an early morning wake-up call, to be sure, but a necessary one to prepare for the groundbreaking work that lay ahead. On July 12, 2011, the scientists injected retinal...
“Each time I look at that flag, I’m reminded that our destiny is stitched...”
– President Barack Obama [full transcript]
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“Right now, Americans are suffering, they’re hurting, they’re in...”
– Dr. Cornel West on Mitt Romney’s assertion that Obama is dealing in the “politics of envy”
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“Religion has run out of justifications. Thanks to the telescope and the...”
– Christopher Hitchens, Kyle’s Blog (via cocknbull)
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“We’re heading in the right direction. And we’re not going to let up…his is a...”
– President Obama, from his January 7 2012 weekly address.
more.
(via thesmithian)
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Obama Unveils New Strategy For Smaller, Smarter... →
[Denver Post] - President Barack Obama insists the United States will maintain what he calls the best-equipped military in history despite deep and looming defense budget cuts.
In a rare appearance in the Pentagon briefing room, Obama has offered the outlines of an overhauled defense strategy. It is designed to contend with hundreds of billions of dollars in budget cuts and refocus the United...
Obama Uses Recess Appointment For Richard Cordray →
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jerfrey:
Today, Barack Obama plans to defy congressional Republicans and give Richard Cordray a recess appointment to head the Consumer Financial Protection Agency. Senate Republicans had made it clear that they had no particular objections to Cordray, but simply were going to filibuster any nominee to head the agency until Obama agreed to partially repeal the law that created the...