December 2010
7 posts
greenstate:
“Personally I’m in favor of democracy, which means that the central institutions in the society have to be under popular control. Now, under capitalism we can’t have democracy by definition. Capitalism is a system in which the central institutions of society are in principle under autocratic control. Thus, a corporation or an industry is, if we were to think of it in political terms,...
"Sarah Palin's Alaska"
greenstate:
SARAH: What’s the easternmost state? Do you know, Willow? WILLOW: Yeah. SARAH: What? WILLOW: Alaska. SARAH [affirming]: Alaska. my face hurts from palming it SO HARD.
Usually I’m right with you but Alaska is the easternmost state. And farthest West and North actually.
http://geography.about.com/library/faq/blqznewsstates.htm
Voters Say Election Full of Misleading and False... →
stfuconservatives:
Following the first election since the Supreme Court has struck down limits on election-related advertising, a new poll finds that 9 in 10 voters said that in the 2010 election they encountered information they believed was misleading or false, with 56% saying this occurred frequently. Fifty-four percent said that it had been more frequent than usual, while just three...
Europol Report: All Terrorists are Muslims…Except... →
sonicbloom11:
I just like putting up facts on this kind of topic every now and then
“A three-day-old human embryo is a collection of 150 cells called a blastocyst....”
– Sam Harris, on stem cell research. (via cocknbull)