February 2012
206 posts
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“Senator, when you took your oath of office, you placed your hand on the Bible...”
– Jamie Raskin, Testifying before the Maryland Senate Judicial Proceedings Committee on March 1, 2006 in response to a comment that marriage discrimination against homosexuals is required by “God’s law”.
(via anticapitalist)
sherlockson:
Hard to Explain-The Strokes
I say...
jpegartifacts:
I wish I had as much political power as a fetus.
“In just one year, the expenditure of the U.S.’s military budget is equivalent to...”
– Neil deGrasse Tyson (via anticapitalist)
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“A thousand years is but an instant. There’s nothing new, nothing different; same...”
– Ryan Powers (Waking Life) 2001 (via parallel-synchronized-randomness)
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Obama campaign launches Spanish-language site for...
univisionnews:
Obama’s campaign is looking to reach out to Spanish-speaking Latino voters online. (BarackObama.com/es)
By JORDAN FABIAN Channel: Politics
President Obama’s reelection campaign on Thursday rolled out a Spanish-language website designed to connect with Latino voters.
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“We cannot solve our problems with the same thinking we used when we created them”
– Albert Einstein (via the-left-is-right)
“What are these barriers that keep people from reaching anywhere near their real...”
– Waking Life (via i-mintoit)
“If an elementary school student has an excellent teacher even for a single year,...”
– Raj Chetty, professor of economics at Harvard’s Faculty of Arts and Sciences and a co-author of the study with Harvard Kennedy School’s John Friedman and Columbia Business School’s Jonah Rockoff. (Harvard Gazette)
AKA why teachers should be paid more and we should be working to retain the best and...
