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gwydion* "Hebrew taught in Gaza schools, but barriers remain:" http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-middle-east-21516956
* Nassau police decide extremely brutal gang rape as long as everyone involved in the violent assault is intellectually challenged. The argument is that since she hadn't the capacity to consent, she can't be raped and therefore it's reasonable to ignore her pleas for them to stop. WTF?!? Also, given one of her attackers is considered competent to stand trial for burglary, but not for gang rape. Shouldn't it be consistent? How is this even close to acceptable? Why should intellectually challenged girls be forced to go to school in the same glass with the boys who raped her? Why do intellectually challenged girls have no rights? http://www.nydailynews.com/shrt-article-1.1262564#bmb=1
* "PowerPoint Presentation Shows Boehner Selling The Sequester To His Members In 2011:" http://tpmdc.talkingpointsmemo.com/2013/02/boehner-2011-powerpoint-sequester.php?ref=fpblg
* Hospitals are bankrupting the Middle Class to make CEO's richer:
* This is one of the rare situations where I move the Daily Show out of editorials into the news section, as this interview is non-fiction and on the topic of hospitals making 70% profit on providing health care. It's huge so I'm linking you to the first segment: http://www.thedailyshow.com/watch/thu-february-21-2013/exclusive---steven-brill-extended-interview-pt--1
* "The high cost of disability and dying:" http://jaylake.livejournal.com/3090554.html
* Indiana Republicans decide one forced ultrasound that isn't needed or wanted is not enough to punish women for having sex, so they are mandating women be medically raped twice because Republicans love big intrusive government and hate personal liberty just that much.:
* Yet more refutation of Republican claims that contrary to almost a century of data showing that raising the minimum wage does not hurt job creation, this time it will magically have the opposite effect than it usually does:
* Greenwick found, this article misuses the term bisexual when it means figures with mixed gender presentation, but is otherwise good. "The World’s Oldest Pornography:" http://www.slate.com/articles/health_and_science/science/2013/02/prehistoric_pornography_chinese_carvings_show_explicit_copulation.html
* "Witness: "I Bite Him. Bad Man. He Tasty.":" http://www.loweringthebar.net/2013/02/witness-i-bite-him.html
* Come watch white southerners tell a black woman that Lincoln is like Hitler and never gave anyone new freedoms. O.o
* Stephen Colbert on Republicans attacking Chuck Hegal for receiving imaginary support from several organizations that don't exist. Colbert asks, "What else is he hiding that hasn't happened?" It's like they are taking straw man arguments to a whole new level:
* This Dance piece is gorgeous:
* Nassau police decide extremely brutal gang rape as long as everyone involved in the violent assault is intellectually challenged. The argument is that since she hadn't the capacity to consent, she can't be raped and therefore it's reasonable to ignore her pleas for them to stop. WTF?!? Also, given one of her attackers is considered competent to stand trial for burglary, but not for gang rape. Shouldn't it be consistent? How is this even close to acceptable? Why should intellectually challenged girls be forced to go to school in the same glass with the boys who raped her? Why do intellectually challenged girls have no rights? http://www.nydailynews.com/shrt-article-1.1262564#bmb=1
* "PowerPoint Presentation Shows Boehner Selling The Sequester To His Members In 2011:" http://tpmdc.talkingpointsmemo.com/2013/02/boehner-2011-powerpoint-sequester.php?ref=fpblg
* Hospitals are bankrupting the Middle Class to make CEO's richer:
* This is one of the rare situations where I move the Daily Show out of editorials into the news section, as this interview is non-fiction and on the topic of hospitals making 70% profit on providing health care. It's huge so I'm linking you to the first segment: http://www.thedailyshow.com/watch/thu-february-21-2013/exclusive---steven-brill-extended-interview-pt--1
* "The high cost of disability and dying:" http://jaylake.livejournal.com/3090554.html
* Indiana Republicans decide one forced ultrasound that isn't needed or wanted is not enough to punish women for having sex, so they are mandating women be medically raped twice because Republicans love big intrusive government and hate personal liberty just that much.:
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* Yet more refutation of Republican claims that contrary to almost a century of data showing that raising the minimum wage does not hurt job creation, this time it will magically have the opposite effect than it usually does:
Visit NBCNews.com for breaking news, world news, and news about the economy
* Greenwick found, this article misuses the term bisexual when it means figures with mixed gender presentation, but is otherwise good. "The World’s Oldest Pornography:" http://www.slate.com/articles/health_and_science/science/2013/02/prehistoric_pornography_chinese_carvings_show_explicit_copulation.html
* "Witness: "I Bite Him. Bad Man. He Tasty.":" http://www.loweringthebar.net/2013/02/witness-i-bite-him.html
* Come watch white southerners tell a black woman that Lincoln is like Hitler and never gave anyone new freedoms. O.o
* Stephen Colbert on Republicans attacking Chuck Hegal for receiving imaginary support from several organizations that don't exist. Colbert asks, "What else is he hiding that hasn't happened?" It's like they are taking straw man arguments to a whole new level:
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* This Dance piece is gorgeous:
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