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FАKER: Cидел в кафе глубоким вечером, за соседний стол села парочка, хрупенькая девочка в очках и мощный мощный четкий потцан. Девочка заказала чай, пацан бутылку пива(с откручивающеся крышкой) Пацан пытается открыть пиво, не получается. Девочка кричит: ПАША, ПРОТИВ ЧАСОВОЙ! ПАША! ПРОТИВ! ПАША!!! А Паша открыл по часовой...

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Соболь: Я считаю, бог, если он есть, не модератор, а сисадмин. Вроде как: ребята, я вам все наладил - солнце, планета, таблица менделеева, днк, вай-фай. Перестаньте уже тупить и дергать меня своими мелочными идиотскими просьбами типа мира во всем мире или огненного дождя на гей-парады.

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xxx: Я помню чудное мгновенье, Передо мной явилась ты, Потом криты по 220, Потом мой труп нашли менты.

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xxx: Знакомый рассказал историю про своего хомяка. Потерялся этот маленький пушистый комок, 3 дня найти не могут по квартире. Ну, забили на поиски, сам появится.

На 4й день с утра заходят на кухню, а на двери холодильника внизу висит их хомяк в раскорячку, лапками по двери скребется. Оказывается это маленькое чучело полные щеки магнитиков набрало и прилипло :)

Bush Tax Cuts

“…the same faction that spent...

“…the same faction that spent the last decade demanding fealty to the Commander-in-Chief in a Time of War upon pain of being accused of a lack of patriotism (or worse) now openly sides with a foreign leader over their own President. The U.S. Congress humiliates itself by expressing greater admiration for and loyalty to this foreign leader than their own country’s. And because this is all about Israel, few will find this spectacle strange, or at least will be willing to say so.”

- Glenn Greenwald (via azspot)

The World Is Flat by Thomas Freidman

I do not normally not finish books, I guess it is a form of OCD or wishful thinking. I always think I am going to miss something or the good part of the book starts the very next page from where I quit and I need to give the author just one more chance. But then again it is I who is looking for entertainment and education thus perhaps I need to honker down and finish reading and quit expecting the author to entertain me and make things easy. However, whatever may be the case I have decided to stop reading The World is Flat. The following is my review of what little of the book I did read, and dear reader you are welcome to stop reading my review prematurely just like I had stopped reading the book.

First of all, I would like to state that when I read books I view them as a research paper that sets out to prove some point to me. It is the job of the author to make sure that I believe his argument and take his side, or at the very least accept that his points are valid and argument is structurally sound. What I found in Freidman’s book, all too often, was the mention of how many other people agree with his argument. Personally I do not care if the rest of the world agrees with the author it is his job to tell me why I should believe along with the rest of the world.

Second, I find that there is very little room in an argumentative book for personal prose. I see it as perhaps a necessity when making connections between the chapters, or points but in no way should it be the main portion of the book. Just as I do not care about how many of the author’s personal friends agree with his opinion I do not care whether or not the flight that he took for his next interview was in first class or coach, and how many times he called his wife during the trip.

Third, personally it seemed to me that the book had accumulated water weight during its many revisions. I have only read the very beginning of the 600+ pages but the fact that those first 30 pages could have been condensed into 5 killed all desire to continue reading. Yes sir I understand that the internet shrunk the world, but do I really need to know about the different types of browsers and languages and startup companies in order to understand your argument that the world is shrinking? I do not think so. Walking away from this book I do not want to know more about the internet than a computer science graduate, I want to walk away believing that, in fact, the world shrunk.

Finally, while I do agree with the idea of the shrinking world, I have issues with the opinion of the author that the shrinking is good for everyone, and that you better learn to adapt or be left in the dust. Is it really good that US jobs are shipped overseas? Sure it’s cheap and it increases productivity of the doctors and tax accountants and hedge fund managers, but what about those who did not have access to top notch education? What about those who are just not as smart as doctors or nuclear physicists? What about those who would be perfectly happy with a middle class job of being an assistant or a secretary? Yes the world is shrinking, but I would not be so hasty in deeming it a good thing.

“There is a cult of ignorance...

“There is a cult of ignorance in the United States, and there always has been. The strain of anti-intellectualism has been a constant thread winding its way through our political and cultural life, nurtured by the false notion that democracy means that ‘my ignorance is just as good as your knowledge.’”

- Isaac Asimov (via azspot)

“America is the wealthiest nation on Earth,...

“America is the wealthiest nation on Earth, but its people are mainly poor, and poor Americans are urged to hate themselves. To quote the American humorist Kin Hubbard, ‘It ain’t no disgrace to be poor, but it might as well be.’ It is in fact a crime for an American to be poor, even though America is a nation of poor. Every other nation has folk traditions of men who were poor but extremely wise and virtuous, and therefore more estimable than anyone with power and gold. No such tales are told by the American poor. They mock themselves and glorify their betters. The meanest eating or drinking establishment, owned by a man who is himself poor, is very likely to have a sign on its wall asking this cruel question: ‘if you’re so smart, why ain’t you rich?’ There will also be an American flag no larger than a child’s hand – glued to a lollipop stick and flying from the cash register…

Americans, like human beings everywhere, believe many things that are obviously untrue. Their most destructive untruth is that it is very easy for any American to make money. They will not acknowledge how in fact hard money is to come by, and, therefore, those who have no money blame and blame and blame themselves. This inward blame has been a treasure for the rich and powerful, who have had to do less for their poor, publicly and privately, than any other ruling class since, say Napoleonic times. Many novelties have come from America. The most startling of these, a thing without precedent, is a mass of undignified poor. They do not love one another because they do not love themselves.”

- Kurt Vonnegut (via whiporwill)

“We love America...

“We love America just as much as they do. But in a different way. You see, they love America like a 4-year-old loves his mommy. Liberals love America like grown-ups. To a 4-year-old, everything Mommy does is wonderful and anyone who criticizes Mommy is bad. Grown-up love means actually understanding what you love, taking the good with the bad and helping your loved one grow. Love takes attention and work and is the best thing in the world. That’s why we liberals want America to do the right thing. We know America is the hope of the world, and we love it and want it to do well.”

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Al Franken (via greaterthanlapsed)

“…for each generation, America...

“…for each generation, America is a very different place, and the America we lost on 9/11 — the America that didn’t profile citizens, torture people, or monitor their phone calls — isn’t even a distant memory for the children and teenagers of today’s America.”

- The Mystery of Osama bin Laden

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Смс от подруги, речь о двух котах, дословно : "Сема кусает Федю за писю, Федя в заблуждении...."

“How many more gay people does God have to create before we ask ourselves if he wants them around?”

- Minnesota Representative Steve Simon

Why Healthcare Costs So Much

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Из отчета о проделанной работе:

Количество котов населяющих этот дом не поддается подсчету, вонь стоит неимоверная. Провонял до не буду писать чего. По выходу из дома был принят пробегавшей стаей собак за большого вонючего кота. Полтора часа просидел на дереве, пока они не охрипли. Прошу ввести в инструментарий электромонтера противогаз и средства для самообороны.

PS Одежду принесу стирать. И сумку. Пока менял счетчик - пометили.

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spurs: геофак, научная конференция среди студентов

spurs: девушка презентует тему своего доклада - "Влияние извержения вулканов на окружающую среду на примере Эйяфлатлайёкюдля".

spurs: только успела она произнести название вулкана (четко и быстро), как весь зал уже рассыпался в овациях.

“As if by way of compensation...

“As if by way of compensation, religion teaches people to be extremely self-centered and conceited. It assures them that god cares for them individually, and it claims that the cosmos was created with them specifically in mind. This explains the supercilious expression on the faces of those who practice religion ostentatiously: pray excuse my modesty and humility but I happen to be busy on an errand for god.”

- Christopher Hitchens, God is not Great (via vruz)

“They make it seem like a social issue...

“They make it seem like a social issue, like you see someone stand up on a talk show and say ‘How am I supposed to explain to my child that two men are getting married?’ Eh, I don’t know, it’s your shitty kid, you fucking tell him, why is that anyone else’s problem? Two men are in love but they can’t get married because you don’t want to talk to your ugly child for five fucking minutes?”

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Louis CK (via weshouldwritepornography)

This is from Louis’ stand-up special Shameless, I think. The transcribed quotation doesn’t do him justice; this guy is so funny.

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xxx: нет, я окончательно боюсь общаться с Надькой в инете

xxx: мой организм не может переварить, когда она пишет мне "через 5 минуточек буду, солныффко <3"

xxx: и через пять минут выбивает ногой дверь со словами "ну и хуле ты хотел, мудило?"

Комментарий к фильму "Инопланетное вторжение: Битва за Лос-Анджелес".

xxx: Американцы в фильме ведут себя как повстанцы, им инопланетяне демократию привезли, а они....

“After the Clinton...

“After the Clinton administration began paying down America’s debt, Republicans passed the Bush tax cuts, waded into a trillion-dollar war in Iraq, and approved an unfunded prescription medicine benefit — all by borrowing from China. Then-Vice President Dick Cheney scoffed that “deficits don’t matter.” This borrow-and-spend Republican history makes it galling when Republicans now assert that deficits are the only thing that matter — and call for drastic spending cuts, two-thirds of which would harm low-income and moderate-income Americans, according to the Center on Budget and Policy Priorities. To pay for tax cuts heaped largely on the wealthiest Americans, Republicans in effect would gut Medicare and slash jobs programs, family planning and college scholarships. Instead of spreading opportunity, federal policy would cap it.”

- Nicholas Kristof (via azspot)

“Nope. Zero,”

““Nope. Zero,” the president said to the speaker. Mr. Boehner tried again. “Nope. Zero,” Mr. Obama repeated. “John, this is it.” A long silence followed, said one participant in the meeting. “It was just like an awkward, ‘O.K., well, what do you do now?’””

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President Obama to Speaker Boehner about how much he would be willing to cut from Planned Parenthood funding. (via comeondontbullshitme)

This makes me happy. REMEMBER WHEN THE GOP TRIED TO HOLD WOMEN’S BODIES HOSTAGE AND OUR PRESIDENT WAS LIKE NOPE?

(via wingspans)

Is he making tiny swings with the presidential pimp cane? Because I’ve been waiting for this since January ‘09.

(via bogart-)

I had to copy that one in it's entirety. I just love the pimp cane remark. Oh I know it might be resist but i love the image! More pimp cane swinging please!

“Remember when Planned Parenthood & NPR crashed the market, wiped out half our 401Ks and took TARP money? Me neither.”

- Twitter / @Joel Housman

“We shouldn’t be surprised that Bristol believes self-promotion...

“We shouldn’t be surprised that Bristol believes self-promotion is a worthy cause for which she should be well compensated. The villains here are those who enabled her: The Candies Foundation, Dancing With the Stars, The Secret Life of The American Teenager, where she appeared in a cameo last summer. The problem isn’t just that the abstinence, which Palin promotes, is ineffective. It’s also that Palin is a walking advertisement for teen motherhood. After declining for more than a decade, recent studies have shown that teen pregnancy is on the rise, with 7 percent of teenage girls becoming pregnant in 2006, the last year for which we have figures. For many girls, it’s because they don’t have access to sex education or contraception; as the Guttmacher Institute has pointed out, the increase in teen pregnancy rates coincides with the growth of abstinence-only education programs in public schools. But the problem goes beyond birth control. A U.S. government report from last year found that a fifth of sexually active girls actually welcomed a pregnancy. Some girls, seeking love and a purpose in life, are getting pregnant on purpose.”

- Bristol Palin’s Abstinence Campaign Payday: Her Latest Teen Pregnancy Outrage - The Daily Beast

“A nation that destroys its systems of education...

“A nation that destroys its systems of education, degrades its public information, guts its public libraries and turns its airwaves into vehicles for cheap, mindless amusement becomes deaf, dumb and blind. It prizes test scores above critical thinking and literacy. It celebrates rote vocational training and the singular, amoral skill of making money. It churns out stunted human products, lacking the capacity and vocabulary to challenge the assumptions and structures of the corporate state. It funnels them into a caste system of drones and systems managers. It transforms a democratic state into a feudal system of corporate masters and serfs.

Teachers, their unions under attack, are becoming as replaceable as minimum-wage employees at Burger King. We spurn real teachers—those with the capacity to inspire children to think, those who help the young discover their gifts and potential—and replace them with instructors who teach to narrow, standardized tests. These instructors obey. They teach children to obey. And that is the point. The No Child Left Behind program, modeled on the “Texas Miracle,” is a fraud. It worked no better than our deregulated financial system. But when you shut out debate these dead ideas are self-perpetuating.”

- Chris Hedges, “Why the United States Is Destroying Its Education System”

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Inequality

Obama received criticism about hot having fun charts and visual aids during his speech. perhaps he should have. perhaps he should have put these statistics on the board and then asked the voters if they like the direction this trend has been heading. And if they do then they are more then welcome to continue voting for the GOP.

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Gun Point

HUCKABEE: I don’t know anyone in America who is a more effective communicator [than David Barton.] I just wish that every single young person in America would be able to be under his tutelage and understand something about who we really are as a nation. I almost wish that there would be something like a simultaneous telecast and all Americans would be forced, forced — at gun point no less — to listen to every David Barton message. And I think our country would be better for it. I wish it’d happen.

A Scandal

Every single moment...

At an event on the Lowest East Side:

Every single moment that we are stroking our beards and gazing at our navel and thinking about the world we’d like to be and singing “Kumbaya” is another day we’re not punching Bill O’Reilly in the nose.

Anthony Weiner [via]

“The aim of the corporate state is not to feed...

“The aim of the corporate state is not to feed, clothe or house the masses, but to shift all economic, social and political power and wealth into the hands of the tiny corporate elite. It is to create a world where the heads of corporations make $900,000 an hour and four-job families struggle to survive. The corporate elite achieves its aims of greater and greater profit by weakening and dismantling government agencies and taking over or destroying public institutions. Charter schools, mercenary armies, a for-profit health insurance industry and outsourcing every facet of government work, from clerical tasks to intelligence, feed the corporate beast at our expense. The decimation of labor unions, the twisting of education into mindless vocational training and the slashing of social services leave us ever more enslaved to the whims of corporations. The intrusion of corporations into the public sphere destroys the concept of the common good. It erases the lines between public and private interests. It creates a world that is defined exclusively by naked self-interest.”

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Chris Hedges (via azspot)

“Man.

“Man.

Because he sacrifices his health in order to make money.

Then he sacrifices money to recuperate his health.

And then he is so anxious about the future that he does not enjoy the present;

the result being that he does not live in the present or the future;

he lives as if he is never going to die, and then dies having never really lived.”

--Dalai Lama

“Socialism never took root...

“Socialism never took root in America because the poor see themselves not as an exploited proletariat but as temporarily embarrassed millionaires.”

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John Steinbeck

“You do not need the Bible to justify love, but no better tool has been invented to justify hate.”

- Richard A Weatherwax

“Liberals want to nurture...

“Liberals want to nurture the brotherhood of man while Conservatives deem this mythical brotherhood just another left-wing conspiracy trying to separate them from their money. Conservatives are sincerely of the opinion that they stole all their stuff fair and square, while Liberals think people with too much stuff should give some of their stuff to people who don’t have any stuff. The problem is nobody considers their collection of stuff to be too much. Liberals want to reform prisoners. Conservatives don’t believe in taking any. Liberals would rather lose honorably than be accused of acting unfairly. As a matter of fact, Liberals are more comfortable losing than they are winning. Conservatives will do whatever it takes to win, including painting their kids’ teachers as the enemy. Not only are they bad losers, they’re bad winners as well.”

- Will Durst (via azspot)

“The word god is...

“The word god is for me nothing more than the expression and product of human weaknesses, the Bible a collection of honourable, but still primitive legends which are nevertheless pretty childish. No interpretation no matter how subtle can (for me) change this.”

- Albert Einstein (via divineirony)

“The average life span of a...

“The average life span of a transgendered person is twenty-three years. The statistic is shocking, until it begins to make sense. Gender non-conformists face routine exclusion and violence. Transgendered people are disproportionately poor, homeless, and incarcerated. Many of the systems and facilities intended to help low-income people are sex-segregated and thereby alienate those who don’t comply with state-imposed categories. A trans woman may not be able to secure a bed in a homeless shelter, for example. Spade writes that just as the feminist movement tended to “focus on gender-universalized white women’s experience as ‘women’s experience,’” the lesbian- and gay-rights movement has focused primarily on a white, middle-class politic, centered on marriage and mainstream social mores.”

Dean Spade is the first openly trans law professor. Meaghan Winter interviews him for Granta.

“100 guys got together...

“100 guys got together and ordered a pizza cut into 100 slices. The first guy took 80 slices. When someone then suggested he only take 79 slices, the first guy yelled, ‘That’s socialism!’

- Bill Maher, “Real Time with Bill Maher” on making the income gap understandable to even the Tea Baggers.

“This is an impressive crowd: the Have’s and Have-more’s. Some people call you the elites. I call you my base.”

- George Bush, at a fundraiser

“Why is NPR biased...

“Why is NPR biased to the left? Because it simply doesn’t accept as truth the numerous conspiracy theories that modern conservatives believe in. NPR doesn’t show support for discrimination against gay people and muslims. NPR is factual in saying that death panels don’t exist. NPR is right to dismiss the conspiracy theories regarding climate change. NPR doesn’t agree that Obama is not a US citizen. Being factual has now become liberal because mainstream conservatives have moved into a paranoid reality where facts don’t apply in the face of conspiracy theories.”

- Ziyu Ziyu

“Only in America can you...

“Only in America can you be pro-death penalty, pro-war, pro-unmanned drone bombs, pro-nuclear weapons, pro-guns, pro-torture, pro-land mines, and still call yourself ‘pro-life.’”

- John Fugelsang

“Religious fundamentalism is dangerous...

“Religious fundamentalism is dangerous because it cannot accept ambiguity and diversity and is therefore inherently intolerant. Such intolerance, in the name of virtue, is ruthless and uses political power to destroy what it cannot convert. It is dangerous, especially in America, because it is anti-democratic and is suspicious of ‘the other,’ in whatever form that ‘other’ might appear. To maintain itself, fundamentalism must always define ‘the other’ as deviant”

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Peter Gomes

xxx: Первая компьютерная война началась после того, как пингвин разбил яблоком окно.

“So they wanna...

“So they wanna cut everything from family care to prenatal care to child nutrition. It’s like the Republican Congress is saying ‘You can’t prevent an unwanted child; you can’t get care if you do get pregnant; and we won’t give you any help feeding the kid after it’s born. But that two minutes when that skull is crowning? Your baby is the most precious thing on Earth.’”

- JON STEWART, on the GOP’s wholesale attack on women, women’s health programs, reproductive rights and, again, women, on The Daily Show

"What's it like being an atheist?"

A question I got last night. I pondered for a bit, then responded "It's a lot like being the only sober person in a car full of drunk people, and they refuse to pull over and let you drive."

“Education is the silver bullet...

“Education is the silver bullet. Education is everything. We don’t need little changes. We need gigantic revolutionary changes. Schools should be palaces. Competition for the best teachers should be fierce. They should be getting six-figure salaries. Schools should be incredibly expensive for government and absolutely free of charge for its citizens, just like national defense. That is my position. I just haven’t figured out how to do it yet.”

- Sam Seaborn - The West Wing

“The suicide bombing community...

“The suicide bombing community is entirely religious. The genital mutilation community is entirely religious. I wouldn't say that the child abuse community is entirely religious, but it’s bidding to be entirely religious. How dare anyone who speaks for religion say that we, the secular and non-believers, are the immoral ones? It is itself a wicked thing to say! It is itself an indefensible thing to say. No. A decapitation on a bus is going to be done by someone who thinks God is telling him to do it.”

- Christopher Hitchens

“To be a Muslim and a feminist...

“To be a Muslim and a feminist is to stand in the crossfire and yell, “Shut the fuck up!” to everyone around you because you know that anything you say can and will be used against you by everyone.”

- Mona Eltahaway

“Homosexuality is illegal...

“Homosexuality is illegal in eighty countries and punishable by death in five. Four hundred years after Shakespeare penned Romeo and Juliet, the real tragedy is that human beings are still not free to love each other as they choose.”

- Reclaiming the F Word, Catherine Redfern and Kristin Aune

““Society’s attitude plays...

“Society’s attitude plays a pivotal role in discouraging people from considering adoption. The idea that gay parents are second best must be challenged. To suggest that a same sex couple is not as able to raise a child as a heterosexual couple is at once absurd and unsubstantiated. To continue to discourage potential adopters simply because of their sexual orientation is severely diminishing the chances of securing loving, stable homes for the children who are waiting. This debate needs to be urgently raised and myths surrounding how sexuality, race, marital status and gender can affect your parenting dispelled.”

Anne Marie Carrie [Barnados Executive Chirf]

““We have deluded ourselves...

““We have deluded ourselves into believing the myth that capitalism grew and prospered out of the Protestant ethic of hard work and sacrifices. Capitalism was built on the exploitation of black slaves and continues to thrive on the exploitation of the poor, both black and white, both here and abroad.””

- Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.

“When one side breaks...

“When one side breaks the social contract, and the other side makes a virtue of never calling them out on it, the liar always wins. When it becomes “uncivil” to call out liars, lying becomes free.”

- Rick Perlstein

“Sometimes people hold a core belief that...

“Sometimes people hold a core belief that is very strong. When they are presented with evidence that works against that belief, the new evidence cannot be accepted. It would create a feeling that is extremely uncomfortable, called cognitive dissonance. And because it is so important to protect the core belief, they will rationalize, ignore and even deny anything that doesn't fit in with the core belief”

- Frantz Fanon

“True compassion is...

“True compassion is more than flinging a coin to a beggar; it comes to see that an edifice which produces beggars needs restructuring.”

- Martin Luther King, Jr.

“You know, there’s a lot....

“You know, there’s a lot of talk in this country about the federal deficit. But I think we should talk more about our empathy deficit — the ability to put ourselves in someone else’s shoes; to see the world through the eyes of those who are different from us — the child who’s hungry, the steelworker who’s been laid-off, the family who lost the entire life they built together when the storm came to town. When you think like this — when you choose to broaden your ambit of concern and empathize with the plight of others, whether they are close friends or distant strangers — it becomes harder not to act; harder not to help.”

- President Barack Obama

“No one is born hating another...

“No one is born hating another person because of the color of his skin, or his background, or his religion. People must learn to hate, and if they can learn to hate, they can be taught to love, for love comes more naturally to the human heart than its opposite.”

- Nelson Mandela

“A person of good intelligence and of sensitivity...

““A person of good intelligence and of sensitivity cannot exist in this society very long without having some anger about the inequality - and it’s not just a bleeding-heart, knee-jerk, liberal kind of a thing - it is just a normal human reaction to a nonsensical set of values where we have cinnamon flavoured dental floss and there are people sleeping in the street.””

- George Carlin

Anderson Cooper & Bill Maher

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