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Not much. Apparently they've been informed by Fox News. This video proves that Democracy is dangerous, which is why our founding fathers created a Republic instead of a Democracy. It's just sad that she can sell so many books. I'm grateful to have a president who wrote two books by himself.

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Jonathon Safran Foer Factory Farming Makes food more expensive (the government taxes you to pay for the cost) #1 cause of air pollution #1 cause of water pollution #1 cause of loss of biodiversity it makes all of our antibiotics less effective it created swine flu See more reasons to eat locally . Including baby chicks.

Conservatives worry that the U.S. might limit imports of slave labor. From Crooks and Liars Chomsky recently blew my mind by saying that corporations are totalitarian states. Makes sense. At work you have no rights but those which the company gives you. At work, you have no 1st amendment right to gather together to discuss grievances. So corporations are like tyranny zones, places within the U.S. where our constitutional rights are nullified. Chomsky also argues that slavery has not ended in the U.S. (Warning: He takes a long time to say anything, but he's worth listening to.) In sum, there are two forms of slavery: wage and chattel. Under chattel slavery, the slave master owns his slave, and therefore has an incentive to take care of him so that he'll last longer. Under wage slavery, the slave's life necessities are not the master's concern. If the slave dies, another can easily take his place. Which is why corporations protested giving us health care for so long...

Mormon church allows Utah homosexuals some rights , not marriage . Perv seminary teacher guilty of bad poetry— Lyrics to the song Michael Pratt wrote and sang to the alleged victim: You are the sunlight, I am the moon Joined by the gods of fortune Spin the wheel see what we'll be You are the one who sees me The one who believes in all I can be Not just for now, but for eternity And all the things I believe are here right now And if you'll open up your heart, he'll show you how We both know that I just won't ever deserve the girl I'm with Sometimes it makes me sick of who I can be You are the sunlight, I am the moon Joined by the gods of fortune Spin the wheel see what we'll be Other news: Marine thinks Greek Orthodox Priest is a terrorist , hits him in the head with a tire iron. Oops. Chicago comes down hard on crime by arresting middle-schoolers for assault and battery with food. Food fights are now a crime . “They were handcuffed, slammed in a wago...

Brutal. This kind of violence is only rivaled by NASCAR or hockey. Violent cheating notwithstanding, BYU won 3-0 . Eat it, ELIZABETH LAMBERT (boo. hiss.). Sports, like zombie apocalypses , allow us an outlet for violence. If professors were allowed to tackle students who made inane comments, they'd make the big bucks too.

From Listen and Learn : "Washington, DC Metro Station on a cold January morning in 2007. The man with a violin played six Bach pieces for about 45 minutes. During that time approximately two thousand people went through the station, most of them on their way to work. After 3 minutes a middle aged man noticed there was a musician playing. He slowed his pace and stopped for a few seconds and then hurried to meet his schedule. 4 minutes later: The violinist received his first dollar: a woman threw the money in the hat and, without stopping, continued to walk. 6 minutes: A young man leaned against the wall to listen to him, then looked at his watch and started to walk again. 10 minutes: A 3-year old boy stopped but his mother tugged him along hurriedly. The kid stopped to look at the violinist again, but the mother pushed hard and the child continued to walk, turning his head all the time. This action was repeated by several other children.. Every parent, without exception, forced the...

Ron Paul also encourages you to fight for your right to party . Though Paul has never smoked weed, he knows that the war on drugs is bad for America. From BoingBoing

For all of you who were told to stop doing what you wanted because you would never make a buck. By Ken Robinson.

They took away internet access at work. With less time to blog, you're going to have to fill it what I would have said about these stories yourself. We perceive people we torture as being guilty . Goats are hired for landscaping . The UN condemned the U.S. embargo against Cuba . (Hurrah for Chomsky ) An argument against voting . A cartoon slideshow about the recent coup in Honduras [there was a coup in Honduras?] And another movie about how we're all going to die : A former post on torture .

Remember how Coke bribed doctors? Turns out some doctors have morals. A group of doctors quit the bribed American Academy of Family Physicians in protest of the unhealthy alliance.

Another voice preferable to Limbaugh. "An Afghan villager recently told a correspondent for the 'Economist:' 'We need security. But the Americans are just making trouble for us. They cannot bring peace, not if they stay for 50 years .'" "Listen, too, to Andrew Bacevich, the long-time professional soldier, graduate of West Point, veteran of Vietnam, and now a respected scholar of military and foreign affairs, who was on this program a year ago. He recently told "The Christian Science Monitor," ' The notion that fixing Afghanistan will somehow drive a stake through the heart of jihadism is wrong. …If we give General McChrystal everything he wants, the jihadist threat will still exist .'" "If our governing class wants more war, let's not allow them to fight it with young men and women who sign up because they don't have jobs here at home, or can't afford college or health care for their families. " " Let...

Do people listen to this guy? Main Point: Obama doesn't care about Afghanistan. Instead of this guy? Main Point: There is no reason for the war in Afghanistan.

My uber-Republican friend posted this on her facebook: I like this response:

It's interesting where their opinions overlap and contrast. "It has nothing to do with capitalism. This is corporatism, the corporations. I agree with him . . . we have a system where money and bigness influences the government, but that’s corporatism. That’s not capitalism ." "We have put our charity hospitals out of business, at the same time, because of inflation and management and all the mischief of government, we have pushed these prices up. Pumping money into a system doesn’t improve quality. It increases prices." " When a country embarks on deficit financing and inflationism, you wipe out the middle class and wealth is transferred from the middle class and the poor to the rich. " His points on Iran are also enlightening. He's willing to criticize Obama, but also give him props where it's deserved. He's a real non-partisan. "Sanctions are an act of war." "First off, the Iranians have a right to enrich for peaceful pu...