August 2011
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NY Times Map of NYC Evacuation Zones →
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When there was that huge earthquake+tsunami in Japan everybody thought it was “terrible. sad.”.
A tiny tremor of the earthquake in Virginia and everybody here is DROP EVERYTHING IT’S AN EARTHQUAKE SWEET JES-
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The More You Know
While going through several history pages on Wikipedia I ended up at the Spanish-American War of 1898. I don’t really know why I ended up there.
What I found out was how the United States managed to fund this four month war: by passing an excise tax on long-distance phone services. It worked, because only the wealthy could afford a phone and the ability to call long-distance. While the tax...
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В России нет государства →
dmalyov:
…В России нет государства. Это территория, оккупированная горсткой преступников. В России живет 141 миллион нормальных, работящих, щедрых, умных, порядочных людей. И миллион преступников, которые все разрушают. А государства никакого нет…
Грустная правда. И половина из них бывшие члены КГБ, как Путин.
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melancholicbeauty:
russellblog.: people of the USA I beg you
ngffrussell:
do not vote for Mitt Romney, Michele Bachmann, Rick Santorum, or Tim Pawlenty
all four of them have signed a pledge to create a constitutional amendment banning same sex marriage among other things intended to strip LGBT americans of many rights they now enjoy
this is completely insane and has…
As a general...
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If Rick Perry is seriously a presidential... →
Perry’s flirtations with neo-Confederate organizations and symbols — ably documented by Justin Elliott — are so extraordinarily reprehensible that it should immediately and permanently disqualify him from being taken seriously for national office. The Confederacy was not a bunch of generally well-meaning dudes who went a little too far, it was a gang of racist traitors who launched a bloody...
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