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Atheism: Definitely the most zealous religion on the internet.

Sat, 18 May 2013 18:13:07 -0600

Atheism: Definitely the most zealous religion on the internet.

The Biggest Obama Scandals Are Proven and Ignored

Sat, 18 May 2013 13:54:54 -0600

The Biggest Obama Scandals Are Proven and Ignored:

Yes, President Obama has broken the law on multiple occasions. Despite clearly stating, in a 2008 questionnaire, that the commander-in-chief is not lawfully empowered to ignore treaties duly ratified by the Senate, Obama has willfully failed to enforce the torture treaty, signed by Ronald Reagan and duly ratified by the Senate, that compels him to investigate and prosecute torture. As Sullivan put it earlier this year, “what Obama and Holder have done (or rather not done) is illegal.”

Obama also violated the War Powers Resolution, a law he has specifically proclaimed to be Constitutionally valid, when committing U.S. troops to Libya without Congressional approval. …

Has he ordered the assassination of any American citizens in secret without due process? Did he kill any of their teenage kids without ever explaining how or why that happened?

Has he refused to reveal even the legal reasoning he used to conclude his targeted killing program is lawful?

Has he waged an unprecedented war on whistleblowers?

Has he spied on millions of innocent Americans without a warrant or probable cause?

Does he automatically count dead military-aged males killed by U.S. drones as “militants”?

Did he “sign a bill that enshrines in law the previously merely alleged executive power of indefinite detention without trial of terror suspects”?

…

Yes. He. Has.

It’s much easier just to not give a shit. Hee haw hope you voted!

travelnaturelandscapes: Swiss Alps. (by: Artur Staszewski)

Sat, 18 May 2013 13:05:48 -0600

travelnaturelandscapes:

Swiss Alps. (by: Artur Staszewski)

hypsterblog: Music at all costs.

Sat, 18 May 2013 12:16:53 -0600

hypsterblog:

Music at all costs.

illusionwanderer: Brienz and Planalp, Canton of Berne,...

Sat, 18 May 2013 11:27:45 -0600

illusionwanderer:

Brienz and Planalp, Canton of Berne, Switzerland by Rosarian49

vurtual: The descent from Meall nan Aighean - Scotland (by...

Sat, 18 May 2013 10:38:30 -0600

vurtual:

The descent from Meall nan Aighean - Scotland (by oldmanmackie)

Boyfriend's Dirty Trick Kills Fetus, Feds Allege

Sat, 18 May 2013 10:25:32 -0600

Boyfriend's Dirty Trick Kills Fetus, Feds Allege:

TAMPA, Fla. — The 28-year-old son of a Florida fertility doctor has been charged by federal authorities with tricking his girlfriend into taking a pill used to induce labor and cause an abortion, killing the embryo she was carrying. John Andrew Welden was indicted Tuesday by a federal grand jury on charges of product tampering and first-degree murder and faces up to life in prison if convicted of the murder charge.

Well this is an interesting metaphysical quandary.

Star Trek: Into Darkness

Fri, 17 May 2013 21:51:30 -0600

Is really good for a Star Wars movie.

vurtual: Trysil Night Photography Trolls - Norway (by...

Fri, 17 May 2013 14:44:26 -0600

vurtual:

Trysil Night Photography Trolls - Norway (by timboocock)

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Fri, 17 May 2013 13:54:54 -0600

hmmmbawse: “Almost Famous” is more than likely the best movie ever made. It’s certainly up...

Fri, 17 May 2013 09:49:19 -0600

hmmmbawse:

“Almost Famous” is more than likely the best movie ever made.

It’s certainly up for consideration.

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Thu, 16 May 2013 18:05:01 -0600

The major sea change in media discussions of Obama and civil liberties

Wed, 15 May 2013 14:44:08 -0600

The major sea change in media discussions of Obama and civil liberties:

laliberty:

[I]t is remarkable how media reactions to civil liberties assaults are shaped almost entirely by who the victims are. For years, the Obama administration has been engaged in pervasive spying on American Muslim communities and dissident groups. It demanded a reform-free renewal of the Patriot Act and the Fisa Amendments Act of 2008, both of which codify immense powers of warrantless eavesdropping, including ones that can be used against journalists. It has prosecuted double the number of whistleblowers under espionage statutes as all previous administrations combined, threatened to criminalize WikiLeaks, and abused Bradley Manning to the point that a formal UN investigation denounced his treatment as “cruel and inhuman”.

But, with a few noble exceptions, most major media outlets said little about any of this, except in those cases when they supported it. It took a direct and blatant attack on them for them to really get worked up, denounce these assaults, and acknowledge this administration’s true character. That is redolent of how the general public reacted with rage over privacy invasions only when new TSA airport searches targeted not just Muslims but themselves: what they perceive as “regular Americans”. Or how former Democratic Rep. Jane Harman - once the most vocal defender of Bush’s vast warrantless eavesdropping programs - suddenly began sounding like a shrill and outraged privacy advocate once it was revealed that her own conversations with Aipac representatives were recorded by the government.

Leave to the side how morally grotesque it is to oppose rights assaults only when they affect you. The pragmatic point is that it is vital to oppose such assaults in the first instance no matter who is targeted because such assaults, when unopposed, become institutionalized. Once that happens, they are impossible to stop when - as inevitably occurs - they expand beyond the group originally targeted. We should have been seeing this type of media outrage over the last four years as the Obama administration targeted non-media groups with these kinds of abuses (to say nothing of the conduct of the Bush administration before that). It shouldn’t take an attack on media outlets for them to start caring this much.

Baltimore Cops Sued (Again) For Destroying Citizen Footage of Them Caught in the Act of Being Themselves

Wed, 15 May 2013 12:16:33 -0600

Baltimore Cops Sued (Again) For Destroying Citizen Footage of Them Caught in the Act of Being Themselves:

laliberty:

[T]he Baltimore Police Department is being sued for attacking a woman and smashing her camera, marking the second time in two years it has been sued for destroying footage.

The first suit earned them a federal reprimand. The second will hopefully earn them a federal investigation.

In that suit, which was filed last week, Makia Smith says she was stuck in stand-still rush hour traffic in March 2012 when she saw a group of cops beating up a man.

She stepped out of her car, stood on the door sill and began recording.

She was quickly confronted by an aggressive cop named Nathan Church, who grabbed her phone, threw it on the ground and smashed it with his foot.

“You want to film something, bitch? Film this,” he yelled.

He then proceeded to beat her.

Quoting from the suit as filed:

“Officer Church pulled plaintiff out of her car by her hair and beat her. Officers Pilkerton, Ulmer, and Campbell then ran to plaintiff’s car and joined Officer Church in beating plaintiff and arrested her using excessive force. At all times described herein, plaintiff’s two year old daughter witnessed her mother’s beating and arrest by the Officers, as did others.” 

Smith claims the cops taunted her and threatened to take her daughter away…

“The officers, despite the pleas of plaintiff, refused to call plaintiff’s mother. Instead, the officers tormented plaintiff by telling her that her daughter would be taken from her and sent to Social Services. Seeing plaintiff’s distressful reaction to these tormenting threats, they continued,” the complaint states.  Smith … claims she was arrested and taken to jail on bogus charges that she assaulted Church and resisted arrest.  She claims Church failed to appear for her trial – twice, and prosecutors dropped the charges, but she had to hire a lawyer and spend more money recovering her impounded car.

hmmmbawse: Yeah right.

Wed, 15 May 2013 10:38:41 -0600

hmmmbawse:

Yeah right.

woodendreams: (by Hans Kruse)

Wed, 15 May 2013 09:49:33 -0600

woodendreams:

(by Hans Kruse)

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Wed, 15 May 2013 07:58:47 -0600

"[Obama is] just too tied to Wall Street. And at this point he is a war criminal. You can’t meet..."

Tue, 14 May 2013 12:16:41 -0600

“[Obama is] just too tied to Wall Street. And at this point he is a war criminal. You can’t meet every Tuesday with a killer list and continually have drones drop bombs. You can do that once or twice and say: ‘I shouldn’t have done that, I’ve got to stop.’ But when you do it month in, month out, year in, year out – that’s a pattern of behaviour. I think there is a chance of a snowball in hell that he will ever be tried, but I think he should be tried and I said the same about George Bush. These are war crimes. We suffer in this age from an indifference toward criminality and a callousness to catastrophe when it comes to poor and working people.”

- Professor Cornel West, speaking to The Guardian.
(via hipsterlibertarian)

vurtual: Mood - Látrabjarg, Vestfirðir, Iceland (by Zanthia)

Mon, 13 May 2013 09:49:22 -0600

vurtual:

Mood - Látrabjarg, Vestfirðir, Iceland (by Zanthia)

landscapelifescape: Dubai, United Arab Emirates God Rays by...

Sun, 12 May 2013 13:05:52 -0600

landscapelifescape:

Dubai, United Arab Emirates

God Rays by Karim Nafatni

Spooky