February 2012
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“Asked where the men were being taken, the MoD had initially indicated that they...”
– RAF helicopter death revelation leads to secret Iraq detention camp
Do read the article because what we have here is some quite explicit war crimes committed by the US and UK armed forces. When they say “question the legality” they mean in reference to these acts in particular (plus the...
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“[drone critics] would like nothing more than to malign these efforts and help Al...”
– an anonymous senior American counterterrorism official….
I guess I’d be commenting under anonymity too if I was speaking such absolute horseshit in defense of what amounts to State-based terrorism. Fuck this guy,
FUCK THIS GUY AND THE AMERICAN MILITARY HORSE HE RODE IN ON
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“[Javin] James claims after he yelled at the [NYPD], they tried to make sure he...”
– Eyewitness To Bronx Police Beating Claims The Officers Then Went After Him - NY1.com (via 6h057)
standard. operating. procedure.
Think Kelly’s gonna ever resign? Think Bloomberg even gives a shit? Think the NYPD think there’s anything wrong with this?
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superbowl sunday drone update →
FUCK THE SUPER BOWL, I’M JUST REALLY LOOKING FORWARD TO THAT FLYOVER, YOU?
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6h057:
hungryghoast replied to your post:There’s something about the little white lies of…
i was just talking about this ad w/ Paul which inspired me wondering: “how much nicer Improv Everywhere would be if they didn’t fucking record everything. if they recorded nothing.”
My brain just broke.
No but really folks, that ad is really nice and all, except that it’s an ad....
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“So apparently Newt Gingrich is insane because he wants to establish a moon...”
– Who Is IOZ? - De la terre à la lune
We get plenty of the surreal from the Republican candidates and their loony ideas, but what’s really insane is our political reality, regardless of party.
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January 2012
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“I want to make sure people understand actually drones have not caused a huge...”
– Barack Obama on the drone program that kills 1 militant for every 10-15 civilians. (via jonathan-cunningham)
Senator Diane Feinstein (D-CA) states, similarly, that “noncombatant casualties” from drone strikes are “kept to an absolute minimum” … you will notice that...
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“You know, Ray Kelly probably visits more mosques than an awful lot of people who...”
– My stupid fucking mayor.
Do I make a comment that illustrates how horrible this comment is from the “Yeah, because They Be Tapin” angle? Or the “That’s actually pretty fucking racist on top of Ray Kelly’s racist bullshit” angle? Or maybe just respond with...
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auralalluvia:
doing dishes and singing by a...
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"Craigslist" by Peterbd99
1. Craig is ready for his close up
2. Craig is an amazing dancer
3. Craig would appreciate it if you would jump off of the nearest cliff because you are getting on Craig’s nerves
4. Craig is a friend to all
5. Craig has nice teeth
6. Craig’s beautiful ass white teeth will burn your retinas when he flashes that winning smile .
7. Craig is original
8. Craig is always in the...
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“Did he say anything interesting? Jobs, mortgages, jobs, business, taxes. I...”
– Who Is IOZ - Straits of the Union.
I care for the liveblogging of the SOTU about as much as I do for that of the Republican debates, which is to say, I wish we didn’t pay so much aggravated attention to so much useless nonsense. I checked the text of the speech today, though. Was...
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“The nature of academic and research librarianship changed today. Today, all...”
– So this just happened. (Twitter channel.)
Well, this is alarming.
(via towerofsleep)
… I was saying boo-urns.
(via lukesimcoe)
So much worse than this quote indicates. Why? Because it was apparent at the #hlth meeting that the senior administrators did not have a damned clue as to what was even...
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“is there a better description of the Obama administration than “the...”
– friend Helrond on a truly absurd video game politics story from last year that I missed…
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“The president interprets the Constitution as president. If the court makes a...”
– Newt Gingrich, who hopes to be the GOP nominee, and is also crazy. (via wilwheaton)
This is actually the most purely Presidential thing Newt Gingrich has said. He really comes off as an American President saying something like that. A regular Andrew Jackson or Barack Obama. Who the fuck cares about...
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“So while millions of Greeks wallow in poverty, unemployment, and squalor, a...”
– John Cole.
This is the world we live in, where a murder that will never seem to come is a death too kind for Finance Capital.
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“there is something fundamentally nuts about a media-sphere in which SOPA etc...”
– yonders, comments over at WHO IS IOZ
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What is the point in calling your Senator?
In all seriousness, when your Senator is Chuck Shumer, what is even the fucking point except to (pathetically, I think) make yourself feel better?
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“i dreamed last night (these stories always end well) that [the Karl Lagerfeld of...”
– One colleague to another, names [Redacted] to protect the dreamers, #DreamLifeOfAnArchivist
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annotations asked: Now I have to followup: the moment in Krull that made you frustrated and angry, yet you felt you had to accept it, was it the fact that the dude loses the glaive?
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