Monday, January 31, 2011
Sunday, January 30, 2011
Wednesday, January 26, 2011
Obama defends abortion as a right as lawmakers get set to roll them back | Mail Online
Obama defends abortion as a right as lawmakers get set to roll them back | Mail Online:
"The President said the 1973 Roe v Wade decision that legalised abortion affirmed what he called a 'fundamental principle: that government should not intrude on private family matters'."
I couldn't agree more Mr. Obama. I'm really not a fan of government being involved with anything in my life, but mark my words if I can take advantage of it I will. hand outs that is not abortion. I mean...I couldn't possibly have an abortion I'm a dude. Oh shit well maybe not! Haven't you ever seen Junior?
But what is hope?
"But what is hope? Hope is a longing for a future condition over which we have no agency. That’s how we use the word in every day language. I don’t say, “Gosh, I hope I put my shoes on before I go outside.” I just do it. On the other hand, the next time I get on a plane I hope it doesn’t crash. After I get on the plane I have no agency."
-Derrick Jensen
Obama Hears a Hu - Infoshop News
Here's a great piece pointing out the inherent corporatistic ideologies that are still and most likely always will be a part of Washington's agenda. Whether it be Bush or O'bama we can all rest assure that with the ever so eager helping hand of governments the rich will get wealthier and the poor, well, they get there jobs shipped over seas. You fill in the rest.
Naturally, top U.S. corporations were represented at President Hu Jintao’s prestigious State dinner. The seats were filled with CEOs from Boeing, Dow Chemical, General Electric and Microsoft among others. These same corporations had prime advertising space in the USA Pavilion at the 2010 Shanghai World Expo, where Dow Chemical touted its commitment to environmental protection and General Electric branded the VIP Lounge, “GE Imagination Theater”. Stories of the corporate control and worker unrest at the USA Pavilion can be found at: http://www.chengduliving.com/greed-and-corruption-usa-pavilion/#comments
Wagging US companies in front of China’s nose has worked for Washington. President Hu Jintao announced to buy $19 billion of aircraft from Boeing and Shenhua Energy signed a $2.5 billion contract with GE.
Boeing just announced the elimination of 1,100 jobs, apparently a new $19 billion deal can’t support the livelihoods of the working class that make their warplanes.
Thursday, January 20, 2011
The Horoscope is a Lie.
I've never found horoscopes to be useful, nor have I ever found them to have the slightest amount of truth to them. They're filled with massive amounts of loaded words, vague descriptions and are usually emotionally driven. But, most of all they seem like they are completely the same all the time!
Well finally my assumptions have come true. The folks over at http://www.informationisbeautiful.net did some friendly hacking on Yahoo!'s horoscope page and grabbed 22,000 horoscopes for every sign and made a nice word cloud of the most common words used for each sign. And guess what? 90% of the words are all shared!
The website broke this down into the 50 most common words and found the most unique words in two analysis' and quite frankly I couldn't be happier about being a Virgo. The first ones was 'take' and 'careful'. The second ones were 'totally' and 'perfect'. If you didn't realize I really preferred the later.
For fun lets try to make a horoscope specifically out of the words represented in the cloud above for my sign:
Plans? best friends perfect moment comes fun. Ready? Dealing energy careful turn enough matter help. Better feel life exactly. Takes everything totally sure. Mind change nothing situation. World, keep love.
OK well that is just ridiculous! What a load of crap! Hold on let me check my real horoscope:
Believe in your vision. Like never before, you see good and bad as they truly are.
Overview
You feel less organized than usual, which isn't much fun. You may have to force yourself to take care of business, but that's not so far off from your skill set. Things get better soon!
Really? That's it...frankly, I'm not convinced.
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(Via The Friendly Atheist)
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