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A Patriotic Whiz-Fest -- Best Selling Author Offers to Pay to have Florida Legislators Drug Tested
Columnist and best-selling author Carl Hiaasen offered to pay for drug testing for all 160 members of the Florida Legislature in what he called “a patriotic whiz-fest.” Several of the law’s supporters say they’re on board.
“There is a certain public interest in going after hypocrisy,” Hiaasen said Tuesday, two days after he made his proposal in a Miami Herald column.
“Folks that are applying for DCF (Department of Children and Families) money normally wouldn’t be standing in that line, and on top of that humiliation they now get to pee in a cup so they can get grocery money for their kids,” Hiaasen told the Associated Press in an interview.
(Source: sarahlee310, via truth-has-a-liberal-bias)
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Bon Iver - Beth/Rest (solo piano version)
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The National - Conversation 16
acoustic, via SiriusXMU sessions. wonderful.
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In the investigative documentary Food, Inc. viewers learn that corporate agriculture harasses and intimidates farmers who try to save patented soybean seeds. This makes it difficult for local growers to develop their own crops, which requires that seeds from the strongest plants are saved year to year. As if in response, a small number of public libraries around the country are beginning to do for seeds what they have long done for books.
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"I feel terrible for Rick (Santorum) — his name has been dragged through the mud. God, I hope that’s mud."
STEPHEN COLBERT, on Rick Santorum’s Google problem, on The Colbert Report (via inothernews)
(via bluntlyblue)
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"As I watch the Republican debates, I realize that we are on the brink of a crazy person running our nation. I sit in front of the television and shudder at the thought of one of these creationism-loving, global-warming-denying, immigration-bashing, Social-Security-cutting, clean-air-hating, mortality-fascinated, Wall-Street-protecting Republicans running my country."
James Carville (via azspot)
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"So be Patriotic. Go out there and get rich. Get so obnoxiously rich that when that tax bill comes , your first thought will be to choke on how big a check you have to write. Your 2nd thought will be “what a great problem to have”, and your 3rd should be a recognition that in paying your taxes you are helping to support millions of Americans that are not as fortunate as you."
Mark Cuban (via urban-fervor)
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The Cheers theme song is way funnier and sadder than the show ever let on. It describes a number of scenarios in which you’d really want to go drink at a bar, including ‘your third fiance didn’t show’, ‘your little angel hung the cat up by its tail,’ and my personal favorite, ‘your husband wants to be a girl.’ What?
No joke, I was going to make this same blog post last Friday but got distracted by work :(. Did who did this theme song also did the Punky Brewster theme song which is one of my personal favorites.
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"If you ask why I remain such a strong Obama supporter, it is because I see him as that rare individual able to withstand the zeal without becoming a zealot in response, and to overcome the recklessness of pure religious ideology with pragmatism, civility and reason. That’s why they fear and loathe him. … If they defeat him, I fear we will no longer be participating in a civil conversation, however fraught, but in a civil war."
Andrew Sullivan on Republicanism As Religion. He’ll be live-blogging the GOP debate tonight. (via cheatsheet)
