What goes through my my mind when I read the news with my morning coffee. …Or for the Simon's Rockers in the group, this is my response journal.
Vets To Palin: How Dare You Blame Obama For Your Son’s Criminal Acts? | Occupy Democrats
Usually “occupy” language has too much of hyperbole and rhetoric and the tone is full of itself to be of use to anyone outside the choir but this made me laugh. Palin’s son sounds like he was a psycho right off the old block way before GWB sent him to the sandbox. Wow, that family is the best argument for family planning, birth control, and abortions the country has ever seen.
Over the past two years, many Muslim Iranians have begun publicly rejecting the Shiite theocracy’s intolerant ways by adopting symbols and festivals from Zoroastrianism. Those actions aredenounced as causing “harm and corruption” by ayatollahs like Khamenei and Jannati.
How Iran persecutes its oldest religion – CNN.com
hmmm
Cops Found Ted Cruz’s Wife on Roadside, Thought She Was a Danger to Herself – Yahoo News
there’s a story there and it’s not the one they are reporting.
Source: Janet Hubert
Damn, girl. Right on.
Authoritarianism.
While its causes are still debated, the political behavior of authoritarians is not. Authoritarians obey. They rally to and follow strong leaders. And they respond aggressively to outsiders, especially when they feel threatened.
hmmmm
Workers at a Detroit school say a cycle of neglect is having a devastating effect on the children’s future and they are fed up.
Detroit teachers: Fix ‘hazardous’ school – CNN.com
Fix this!
“When someone loves you, the way they say your name is different. You just know that your name is safe in their mouth.” – Billy, 4
A Group of Kids Aged 4 to 8 Answer the Question ‘What Does Love Mean?’ | GOOD
something must be wrong with my cynic shield because that one quote is awesome!
By Ramin Ganeshram,
The First Bite: Slicing Through a Birthday Cake to… | CBC Diversity
Ms. Ganeshram,
Even if all of that which you say is true, none of it was portrayed in the book you wrote.
The picture book was strongly criticized for its upbeat images and story of Washington’s cook, the slave Hercules and his daughter, Delia.
Scholastic Pulls Children’s Book About George Washington And His Slaves After Outcry
hmmm.
Wonder Woman has a new look, and it’s arguably her most practical one ever.
Wonder Woman Has A New Uniform Involving SLEEVES And PANTS | The Mary Sue
hmmm
Submission for The Line is Drawn, theme “Male superheroes see how the other side lives.” Wonder Woman makes the rest of the JLA wear various costumes she’s had over the years.
If I don’t get pants, nobody gets pants by Theamat on DeviantArt
Heh, awesome.
A 22-year-old Ph.D. candidate wants to understand the way quantum gravity works. And Jeff Bezos wants to hire her.
This Millennial Might Be the New Einstein | Rising Stars | OZY
Cool
Arkady Bronnikov collected more than 20,000 tattoos from male and female prisoners.
The man who reads the criminal mind by analysing convicts’ tattoos
interesting
French children don’t need medications to control their behavior.
Why French Kids Don’t Have ADHD | Psychology Today
hmmmm
The U.S. Episcopal Church has been suspended by the international Anglican Communion over its acceptance of same-sex marriage.
Episcopal Church suspended from Anglican Communion – CNN.com
hmmm
“Our commitment to be an inclusive church is not based on a social theory or capitulation to the ways of the culture, but on our belief that the outstretched arms of Jesus on the cross are a sign of the very love of God reaching out to us all. While I understand that many disagree with us, our decision regarding marriage is based on the belief that the words of the Apostle Paul to the Galatians are true for the church today: All who have been baptized into Christ have put on Christ. There is no longer Jew or Gentile, slave or free, male or female, for all are one in Christ.” – Presiding Bishop Michael B. Curry speaking to Anglican primates at the Episcopal Church’s 2016 General Convention.
Majority of primates call for temporary Episcopal Church sanctions
The good presiding bishop then dropped the mic, and danced his way down the aisle away from the wet-blanket, super rigid, change adverse, haters. You know, as Jesus would have done.
OK, fine he did not do that. But still.
Fuck ’em. There is no power like the pope in the Anglican Communion, no matter how much a bunch of old timers whine and cry and moan.
Julian Assange would be questioned about rape allegations
Sweden Asks Ecuador’s Permission to Interview Wikileaks Founder
hmmm
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