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[penguinofhonor]

The bill of rights was just some hippie mumbo jumbo anyways.

[squeakyReaper]

Written by liberals, too.

I came up with a visual metaphor/simile yesterday; an accuracy check please. "American politics is like a jigsaw puzzle, where each voter brings a piece. It's possible to form a picture without all of the pieces, but you could end up with just an ass."

[Sirus]

Off hand, that sounds like it could describe any democracy. 

[Reelya]

I remember a TV show from just after 9/11 where they went around reading out various quotes from the US constitution and asked random Americans where they thought they was from, everyone looked nervous and said "communism" etc.

[scriver]

I'd like to point out that those kind of "interviews" are always chosen from a big batch to prove the editors point. They do a lot of them at a time and then cherry pick the few stupid ones.

[Truean]

http://www.motherjones.com/politics/2012/02/mac-mcclelland-free-online-shipping-warehouses-labor?page=1

I think I want to throw up from ever ordering something online.

http://www.motherjones.com/politics/2012/07/labor-ready-jobs-temp-workers-investigation

[Reelya]

Man, and I thought working temp. when I was in college, in a place that made fish fingers was bad ... seems like heaven compared to those online warehouses.

[Frumple]

Made me feel stressed just reading the bloody things. Point about the price differential between local and not is kinda' hard hitting, though. Even with non-free shipping, a lot of things cost less ordered than bought (semi-)local, especially if you factor in the transportation cost of driving, say, a hour or two round-trip. S'more of an issue for rural folk like m'self, but...

S'a bit of a catch twenty-two when you can neither afford to (because it's probably damning you or those close to it) nor afford not to (because you either save every damn penny or you don't eat) support those kind of conditions.

More than anything, makes me worry about eventually ending up in the situation something like that's the only option... me, I literally couldn't work in those kind of conditions. Just don't have the back for it anymore, after early schooling fucked me up (thanks backpacks!).

[JoshuaFH]

http://www.motherjones.com/politics/2012/02/mac-mcclelland-free-online-shipping-warehouses-labor?page=1

I think I want to throw up from ever ordering something online.

http://www.motherjones.com/politics/2012/07/labor-ready-jobs-temp-workers-investigation

These break my heart. Really, alot of the links you might find in the Progressive thread break my heart, seeing the sadder state of the world we live in is dismaying. I wish there were something I could do.

[scriver]

We can do what gave us a half decent society to begin with. Violence, strikes, anger and shouting until this kind of bullshit is legislated away.

[Glowcat]

George Zimmerman is interviewed by Sean Hannity.

"I feel like it was all God's plan," he told conservative talk show host Sean Hannity in Zimmerman's first interview since the shooting.

Of course it was God's plan for him to kill a teenager. Of course.

[ggamer]

Please don't let this reflect negatively on christianity. A crazy man saying crazy things has no affect on my religion, so let's not go there.

/continues lurking/

[Nadaka]

Please don't let this reflect negatively on christianity. A crazy man saying crazy things has no affect on my religion, so let's not go there.

/continues lurking/

Then why bring it up?

[Truean]

George Zimmerman is interviewed by Sean Hannity.

"I feel like it was all God's plan," he told conservative talk show host Sean Hannity in Zimmerman's first interview since the shooting.

Of course it was God's plan for him to kill a teenager. Of course.

... It's my experience that several nutzo killers do things in the name of God. Not that this means they all do but eh. I fail to see what God has to do with this.
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[Descan]

Please don't let this reflect negatively on christianity. A crazy man saying crazy things has no affect on my religion, so let's not go there.

/continues lurking/

Then why bring it up?

He didn't bring it up. >_> Someone else did.