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It's Time: Call for Clemency for Leonard Peltier
I'm totally with this. It's time. http://www.huffingtonpost.com/jack-healey/its-time-call-for-clemenc_b_6828084.html It's Time: Call for Clemency for Leonard Peltier Not many blog posts start off with a listing of the deceased, but in Leonard Peltier's clemency request to President Obama, he will say the following: After…
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Time Magazine cover..
A picture is worth a thousand words
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Eradicate Math Illiteracy across the Globe!!
Everyone I have been a die hard PJ Fan since 92 and have been in the fan club since 93, and I have seen a tremendous amount of love and support from this community for a ton of causes that affect people across the globe. I work for a For Profit company called Tabtor (www.tabtor.com). We are a revolutionary math…
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Looking for a new car or truck ?
Good up to date new car info.if you happen to be shopping or just like to keep up with what new in the auto industry. http://www.insidercarnews.com/ Godfather.
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Please Help a Fellow Fan but Hurry! Additional entries donated out-offer ended
I’m throwing this in here in case some of you don’t venture over to the Porch or AET or the other threads as I intend to post this in them all. Please know there are some great things to be had in this raffle fundraiser (check the link below) like: EV’s set list from April 23, 2003 in Champaign, IL; Signed/numbered PJ…
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Avon 39 Walk for Breast Cancer, help
My longtime friend and fellow Pearl Jam fanatic, Mary O'Mahoney, is doing the Avon 39 walk for breast cancer in July. I would be grateful if you would help her reach her goal of $1800 http://info.avonfoundation.org/site/TR/Walk/SanFrancisco?px=6355269&pg=personal&fr_id=2404
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It's time for a new party
I had been raised to hate the left. My family is mainly right. I voted Republican since I was 18. I have hung out with Dick Cheney in Italy, went fishing with Bush Sr in Malta........I am now 39 and now all politicians make me fucking puke. I did catch the Storytellers and was turned off a lil about the "I hate Bush" theme…
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White House Correspondents Dinner
I believe this is the first time CNN, MSNBC, and Fox are showing it live. Hoping Obama and Cecily Strong kill it.
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NO WORDS
What can I say? I just want to break things when I read stuff like this. What makes people this fucked up? HEADS UP: This link contains what to me is a very disturbing photograph of a big "game" animal (giraffe) that has been shot. http://www.cnn.com/2015/04/16/living/feat-hunter-giraffe-ricky-gervais/
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Which Is WORSE For Your Health: Marijuana Or Alcohol?
Which Is WORSE For Your Health: Marijuana Or Alcohol? Alcohol is socially acceptable and legal for those over 18 or 21, people drink or over indulge out in the public in places like restaurants and bars. This means at some point they'll try to go home, even with all the admonitions against it, some of these less-than-sober…
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Free On-line Climate Course
The University of Queensland is offering a free climate course through edX. Some of you might find this interesting and useful. I hope some of you will consider taking the course- the total investment of time is only something like 7 to 14 hours total, you can audit it for free (I donated a few bucks), and it would add…
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Wall-Mart holding cell's ??????
so I'm going thru Facebook during my lunch break and somebody posted a video of some paranoid,fame seeking wana be news reporter talking about wall-mart closing 5 stores with onlya few hours notice to employees and the citys (from calif to florida) and this guy believes that these stores my be used for holding areas during…
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Flat Tax comeback ? what do you think ?
http://thehill.com/policy/finance/239303-flat-tax-makes-2016-comeback Godfather.
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Ice - Is.......
http://www.spiegel.de/international/world/islamic-state-files-show-structure-of-islamist-terror-group-a-1029274.html
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Mods, please delete this thread.
Classy lady, right there. http://www.cnn.com/2015/04/16/us/espn-reporter-britt-mchenry-tirade/
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Help Reunite a Young Girl With Her Family
Hello everyone! Please consider adding your name to the petition below. I believe Pearl Jam fans are a force to be reckoned with and we can make a difference. A missionary, Larry Cox, that has dedicated his life to helping others had his adopted daughter, who suffers from epilepsy and other disabilities, taken from him…
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Where would you like to be in 20 years ?
"Twenty years from now you will be more disappointed by the things that you didn't do than by the ones you did do, so throw off the bowlines, sail away from safe harbor, catch the trade winds in your sails. Explore, Dream, Discover." - Mark Twain. Personally I never had a plan...until 11 years ago, I just worked and lived…
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Lethal Autonomous Weapons Systems - LAWS (Killer Robots)
Killer robots coming soon to a war near you Killer robots is a dreadful name, don't you think? It reminds you of the killing machines in the Terminator series and the Battle Droids of Star Wars. Lethal Autonomous Weapons Systems is a much classier name, and the acronym is even better: LAWS. So the international conference…
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Why does the power of wealth always trump doing what makes sense?
The rich and powerful have always controlled the world, at least since the advent of agriculture (it has been argued that per-agricultural humans were mostly very peaceful). Until recent history it could be argued that, as wrong as this may be, this was true partly because the wealthy had nothing to lose by exerting their…
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Tulsa cop shoots man, thought he had his taser
Just saw on CNN footage of a policemans body cam chasing as suspect. He tackles the suspect and tries to cuff the guy. He is fighting the cop. The cop says "I'm going to use my teaser." Then you hear a gun shot. I don't know what to think of this. It looks like another mistake that cost another life. Moral of the story:…
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Going Clear: Scientology and the Prison of Belief
Alright, who watched it? Frightening stuff. I never knew of the tactics they used to become recognized as a non-profit. These people essentially strong armed the IRS. http://m.huffpost.com/us/entry/6939318
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“It's a big bad scary world out there!” Are you sure North America?
An interesting perspective from an outsider. http://www.fluentin3months.com/fear/Edit: I wasn’t expecting this post to cause so much debate, but like the one linked just below, the reason I wrote it isn’t to be “anti-American” as far too many crybabies are claiming, but because you guys need to read a different perspective…
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So the Co-Pilot...
Intentionally brought down that plane? Its a sick world we live in.
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What next? Will they ban the moon??
The idea of "banning talking about climate change" cracks me up. Hahaha! What next? Ban the moon? Well shoot, it's not a moon anyway. It's a lamp in the sky. "Swear ta God, Martha, somebody put a big old friggin lamp up in the sky!" Hahaha! People are funny!…
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Abbott in bid to return Iranian Detainees
This is quite interesting about the Australian Prime Minister. http://www.smh.com.au/federal-politics/political-news/tony-abbott-confirms-bid-to-return-iranian-asylum-seekers-to-iran-20150411-1miz3f.html Prime Minister Tony Abbott has confirmed that Australia will try to strike a deal with Iran to take back Iranian asylum…
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31 dead, most of them children.
http://news.yahoo.com/head-collision-truck-bus-kills-31-morocco-094332558.html this is unacceptable, such an unnecessary avoidable tragedy. we really gotta do whatever it takes to do something about this, if it saves even one life it's worth it. we have to change the attitude that dead people, dead animals, pollution, and…
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Paid Sick Day bill gains support
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2015/04/05/paid-sick-days_n_6999830.html?utm_content=20150406_bo_paid-sick-leave_families_2&utm_campaign=socnet_fb_ECON_20150406_bo_paid-sick-leave_families_2&utm_source=fb&awesm=ofa.bo_d4Hc&utm_medium=socnet&source=socnet_fb_ECON_20150406_bo_paid-sick-leave_families_2
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Why Is Everyone on the Internet So Angry?
A perfect storm engenders online rudeness, including virtual anonymity and thus a lack of accountability, physical distance and the medium of writing With a presidential campaign, health care and the gun control debate in the news these days, one can't help getting sucked into the flame wars that are Internet comment…
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10 George Orwell Quotes That Perfectly Predicted Life In Modern America
Eric Arthur Blair, better known as George Orwell, as an English novelist, journalist, essayist and a noted critic. Many of his writings induced awareness of injustice, totalitarianism, and socialism. Among his many great novels are 1984 and Animal Farm. He also wrote non-fiction works like The Road to Wigan Pier, where he…