Marriage Equality, Right Wing, Revere, Scott

Marriage Equality

• Support For Gay Marriage Tops 50 Percent For First Time In Gallup's Polling--"It's the first time since it began asking about gay marriage in 1996, the polling organization says, that more than half of those polled have felt that way."
• New York Assembly passes bill to legalize gay marriage 80-63; Legislation now heads to Senate
• Skepticism over tossing gay judge's Prop. 8 ruling--Well, a federal judge ruled Walker didn't have to recuse himself.
• Minnesota GOP legislator makes passionate speech in support of marriage equality
• Group behind MN gay marriage ban asks for ‘respectful debate,’ says gays are pedophiles who engage in bestiality and eat excrement
• 'That's not pro-liberty': Libertarians, gay Republicans, small-govt groups come out against Minnesota GOP gay marriage amendment
• Scenes From New York's Anti-Gay Marriage Rally: 'Those Who Practice Such Things Are Worthy Of Death'
• Brazil Supreme Court awards gay couples new rights
• Civil union law for same-sex couples takes effect in Illinois
• Anti-Gay Senator's Horse Affair Caught On Tape The Onion

Right Wing

• Are Republicans Intentionally Sabotaging The Economy For Political Gain?
  
• The GOP's CIA Playbook: Destabilize Country to Sweep Back Into Power
• Iowa GOP Legislator Tells Young People Not To Worry About Government, ‘Go Home’--They'd like nothing better than the youth not to vote in the coming elections.
• As Americans Struggle Republicans Propose More Tax Cuts For The Rich
• Right wing pushes shocking child labor measures

Revere

• Paul Revere’s Revenge: Sarah Palin’s Approval Rating Sinks To 24%
• Beck Defends Palin’s Paul Revere Story, Claims Historians Are Lying For Political Reasons
• Paul Revere's Famous Ride--As reported by Colbert.

Scott

• Rick Scott Can’t Explain Why He Took Obama Stimulus Money After Denouncing It
• ACLU sues Rick Scott over drug testing of state employees--It's plumb unconstitutional.
• Conciliatory Florida governor meets citrus commission, apologizes for budget cuts--"Gov. Scott explained that he vetoed the $2 million in research funding because he did not understand that the money came from the growers themselves."

Workers, Jobs, Environment

Workers

• South Carolina State Senator: Today’s Tea Party Should Go After Corporate Power Like Original Boston Tea Party Did
• Wall Street Front Group Loading Up Conservative Activists With Soft Ball Questions For GOP Town Halls
• 97th Anniversary of the Ludlow Colorado Massacre
• The Fight of America’s Working Class: Your Great-Grandparents Would Be Ashamed
• No Unions, No Middle Class
• Attention Marxists: Labor's Share Of National Income Drops To Lowest In History--The "labor share of national income has fallen to its lower level in modern history."
• The Rich Don’t Create Jobs; We Do
• How Bad Is The Employment Picture? This Bad
• 9 of 10 Americans Think Employee Non-Discrimination Act is Law
• Why is America the no-vacation nation?

Jobs

• Obama Tells Companies to 'Step Up' and Hire Workers--"American taxpayers contributed to that process of stabilizing the economy. Companies havebenefited from that, and they're making a lot of money, and now's the time for them to start betting on American workers and American products."
• As Offshoring Continues, U.S. Public Peeved at 'Free Market'
• Mike Rowe Speaks To Commerce, Science, and Transportation Committee--The US is in dire need of skilled workers.

Environment

• Peru: Indigenous protests erupt in city of Puno--"The indigenous Aymara activists say the mining company will pollute their ancestral lands."
• Republican's Climate Solution: Clearcut the Rain Forest NYT
• Amazon rainforest activist shot dead--And just weeks after, another Amazon anti-logging activist killed.
• Brazil does away with laws to protect large swaths of rainforest--And endangering the indigenous populace.
• Chevron chiefs face shareholders after huge $18bn Ecuador fine
• Airport plan 'threatens to destroy wildlife' on the remote Atlantic island of St Helena
• Massive Texas Drinking Water Radiation Cover-Up Exposed: Top Gov Officials Knew And Kept Silent

Gay Girl in Damascus, Whistleblowers, FBI, Eroding Your Rights, Surveillance, International

Gay Girl in Damascus: Second 'lesbian' blogger is a man--Double WTF.

Whistleblowers

• Wyden Successfully Kills Anti-Whistleblower Measure for Intelligence Workers
• Plea Deal Reached In Classified Leaks Case--After the government's case collapsed, Thomas Drake essentially goes free.
• Daniel Ellsberg: All the crimes Richard Nixon committed against me are now legal
• Pentagon Papers vs. WikiLeaks: Is Bradley Manning the new Ellsberg?
• The Whistle-Blowers of 1777 NYT

FBI

• F.B.I. Agents Get Leeway to Push Privacy Bounds--"The Federal Bureau of Investigation is giving significant new powers to its roughly 14,000 agents, allowing them more leeway to search databases, go through household trash or use surveillance teams to scrutinize the lives of people who have attracted their attention." NYT
• For Anarchist, Details of Life as F.B.I. Target NYT
  
• Is The FBI Lying To Congress About Its Abuses Of The Patriot Act?--Court rejects Obama bid to stop wiretapping suit
• FBI: If We Told You, You Might Sue--Putting the corporations' interests over the citizens'
• Justice Dept. to Congress: Don't Saddle 4th Amendment on Us

Eroding Your Rights

• Court OKs searches of cell phones without warrant
• Federal Court Endorses Warrantless GPS Tracking--Court Rejects Warrantless GPS Tracking
• Appeals Court Guts Landmark Computer-Privacy Ruling

Surveillance

• Senior Defense Official Caught Hedging on U.S. Involvement in Stuxnet--I'm sure they wouldn't use this computer worm on their own citizens.
• The always-expanding bipartisan Surveillance State
• Obama Administration: Constitution Does Not Protect Cell-Site Records
• Why Obama's National Internet ID Solution is a Really, REALLY Bad Idea
• A rare peek at Homeland Security's files on travelers
• FCC’s Warrantless Household Searches Alarm Experts
• Video Surveillance on the Fly: Here’s Looking at You!
• I Know You're Listening

International

• India Forces A Billion People to Register for Security Database
• Saudi Arabia announces new Web publishing law
• Biometric passports agreed to in EU
• Aussie Police will have power to secretly search homes
• Middle East Blackberry Update Spies on Users

Cornel West, Corporate Personhood, Corporatocracy, In Bad Company, Monsanto

Princeton’s West takes shot at Obama--Calls him "a black mascot of Wall Street oligarchs and a black puppet of corporate plutocrats."--Truthdig.com finds out why Cornel West went ballistic.

Corporate Personhood

• Made In America; Real Monsters-- Corporate Personhood
• With A Stroke Of His Pen Obama Strikes Back At Citizens United
• Federal Judge Reverses Ban on Direct Corporate Contributions
• Bernie Sanders - We To Have To Pass A Constitutional Amendment To End Citizens United Ruling
• Stephen Colbert's Free Speech Problem--He's hit a snag registering his Super-PAC.

Corporatocracy

• States Making It a Crime to Investigate Agribusiness Abuses --Protecting the interests of the corporate masters.
• Government Says Biotech Companies Can Be Their Own Safety Testers
• Obama Deregulates GMO Crops Despite Supreme Court Injunction
• Consumer lawsuits: Supreme Court ruling may limit class-action consumer lawsuits
• Springtime for Bankers: Republicans are ensuring that bailouts will be bigger, costlier and more frequent

In Bad Company

• Koch-Backed AFP Admits To Posting Fake Eviction Notices On Detroit Homes 'To Startle People'
• 10 Steps to Defeat the Corptocracy
• 5 Reasons The Future Will Be Ruled By B.S

Monsanto

• Obama Gives Key Agriculture Post to Monsanto Man
• Organic farmers expand lawsuit against Monsanto
• Ex Monsanto Lawyer Clarence Thomas to Hear Major Monsanto Case--That's Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas to you.

Gay Girl in Damascus, TSA, Texas, On the Job

A Gay Girl in Damascus... is a guy in Turkey--WTF?

TSA

• Passenger cleared after TSA checkpoint stare-down
• House votes to cut TSA’s budget by $270 million
• TSA Considers Banning Photography at Checkpoints
• GOP denies TSA money to buy more body scanners
• TSA Lies About The Constitution In Defending Pat Downs
• TSA faked its safety data on its X-ray airport scanners in order to deceive the public about their safety.
• TSA to oversee searches at Santa Fe prom
• Utah lawmaker's proposal to ban TSA pat downs in Utah
• Renovated Disney ride gets a TSA checkpoint
• High School Fuckup Now In Charge Of Checking Airport Luggage For Explosives The Onion

Texas

• Texas House bans 'offensive' security pat-downs
• Texas: We'll arrest TSA agents who grope passengers. U.S.: We'll shut down Texas airports.
• TSA Harasses Two Texas Wounded Veterans at Airport with War Shrapnel in their Bodies--And the DOJ got the bill killed.

On the Job

• TSA Admits ‘Bad Judgment’ After Disabled Man Subjected to Airport Pat-Down--"The agents confiscated a six-inch plastic hammer, something Drew had carried with him for 20 years for comfort. Agents called it a security threat."
• Report: Newark TSA screeners targeted Mexicans
• TSA Bullied, Groped a Pregnant First Grade Teacher
• TSA molests mom, brings her to tears
• To Serve, to Protect and...to Steal--"For over a year, Brown used his position as a TSA screener to pilfer the bags of airline passengers at will, stealing an estimated $400,000 in goods...."
• Another TSA agent arrested, accused of theft
• Honolulu TSA staff fired for negligence

Star Wars Weekend, Posters and Lego, Media, Fucks News, Hoodwinking the News

Star Wars Weekend

• What "Star Wars" can teach my son about life Salon
• Why 'Star Wars' Is Secretly Terrifying for Women
• The real George Lucas has been imprisoned for 20 years while an impostor ran amok, making prequels

Star Wars Posters

• The classic 'Star Wars' poster and The Force of history
• Lovely Star Wars posters--Created by same guy who made this cool retro Thor poster.
• Star Wars Posters by Tom Whalen
• Incredible Star Wars Propaganda Posters
• Hungarian Film Posters

Lego Star Wars

• Avanaut's Photostream
• Star Wars' Battle of Hoth, LEGO Style!
• Legoland trains Web cam on 'Star Wars' Miniland

Media

• Bill Moyers Discusses Independent Media and Fighting Back Against Unbridled Corporate Greed and Power
• WashPost: criminal law is not for political elites--What's telling is that these are the newspapers protecting these guys and no longer putting them to a higher standard like they used to. Salon
• Keith Olbermann on Why He Left MSNBC - and How He Plans to Get Even
• Aaron Sorkin: What I Read
• MSNBC Replaces Fox News

Fucks News

• How Roger Ailes Built the Fox News Fear Factory
• The Elephant in the Green Room--"The circus Roger Ailes created at Fox News made his network $900 million last year. But it may have lost him something more important: the next election."
  
• The Chasers on Fox News
• How You End Up Bankrolling Fox News: News Corp. and Rupert Murdoch Weasel Out of Paying Taxes
• Study: Fox News Viewers “Most Misinformed” Of All News Consumers
• Anderson Cooper Criticizes Sean Hannity For Misleading Edit
• Jon Stewart to Bill O’Reilly: Fox News is a 'selective outrage machine'
• Megyn Kelly and Fox News Helped Sen. Ensign Cover-Up His Crimes
• Regulators Reject Proposal That Would Bring Fox-Style News to Canada
• Fox fooled by "Muslim ban on padded bras" hoax

Hoodwinking the news

• Urban fox hunt video was hoax aimed at the media, say film-makers
• Pranksters print spoof NY Times
• Instant replay: Alleged yo-yo champ dupes TV shows
  

Yoda man, Chewy, Language, Accent, xkcd

Yoda man

• Meet the Yodas
• Origami
• PVP Online: Forced Perspective

Chewy

• George Lucas Stole Chewbacca, But It’s Okay
• Chewy's first day of school
• "What's for dinner Dad?"

Language

• How 'OK' took over the world
• What ever happened to "You're welcome"?
• How Fail Went From Verb to Interjection
• Schott's Vocab
• The Birth of a Word--MIT researcher Deb Roy parsed 90,000 hours of home video to watch his son's "gaaaa" slowly turn into "water."

Accent

• The real sound of Shakespeare?
• Which Brit has the best American accent?
• What American English sounds like to non-English speakers--A deliberately nonsensical song
• How English sounds in 24 Different Accents
• Foreign accent syndrome

xkcd

• Adjectives
• Consecutive Vowels
• Literally

Police State of Indiana, SWAT, Caught on Cam, Who Watches the Watchmen?, War on Photography

Police State of Indiana

• Court: No right to resist illegal cop entry into home
• Lexington: Save the fourth amendment
• Now that the Fourth Amendment has been revoked in Indiana, random house-to-house searches will be conducted.
• IN Sheriff: If We Need to Conduct RANDOM HOUSE to HOUSE Searches We Will
• 40 Out of 50 Indiana State Senators Sign Amicus Brief Supporting Right to Use Force to Resist Unlawful Police Entry

SWAT

• SWAT team fired 71 shots in raid
• Arizona SWAT Team Defends Shooting Iraq Vet 60 Times--And also "declines to say whether it found any drugs in the house and has had to retract its claim that the veteran shot first."
• Video of the Pima County SWAT Raid

Caught on Cam

• Miami Beach Police Ordered Videographer At Gunpoint To Hand Over Phone--They tried to destroy the video, but you can see it for yourself.
• Cops arrest journalists in Wisconsin--"Wisconsin police are filmed arresting members of the press that were covering a demonstration at the state's Capitol Building this week. A cuffed reporter is dragged to the ground as an irate cop goes after another journalist."
• Cop To Citizen: "If You Take My Picture Again, I'm Going To Fucking Break Your Face"
• The saga of Officer Bubbles
• Police Brutality at the Silent Flashmob at the Jefferson Memorial--They're "looking into" it, they say.
• Seattle Pays $1.5M to Family of Victim of Police Shooting--"Officer Birk was not criminally charged in the shooting."
• Allegations of Police Brutality in Effingham County
• Police on video lying in order to steal cash from drivers through extra-judicial asset forfeiture
• Appealing to "The Calmer Voices of the Community," DPD Chief Brown Releases Dash-Cam Footage of Beating
• Missing video in Cleveland's controversial use-of-force case existed all along, but police officials say it's not a public record
• Cop Chokes Photographer--"I can do whatever I want!"

Who Watches the Watchmen?

• Chicago State's Attorney Lets Bad Cops Slide, Prosecutes Citizens Who Record Them--WTF Illinios?
• Will Head-Mounted Video Recorders Help Burlington Police See City Crime?
• Turning the Camera: Why Are Cops Allowed to Film Citizens, But Citizens Not Allowed to Film Police Brutality?
• Teen's arrest for filming police marks an alarming trend
• Police arrest man INSIDE his house for taking cell phone video of traffic stop
• This Is The Police: Put Down Your Camera
• Law Enforcement: Tape Us, Go to Prison

War on Photography

• What to Do When Police Tell You to Stop Taking Photos, Video
• Activists Using Qik To Salvage Videos After Police Confiscate Cameras
• Detained for photography in Baltimore--The dangerous thing here is that these supposed law enforcers make shit up. In fact, the MTA agency chief agrees with ACLU on public's right to take pictures.
• Amtrak photo contestant arrested by Amtrak police in NYC's Penn Station
• Motorcyclist wins taping case against state police