So Barack Obama's going to feed on the NBA lockout and host a basketball game as a fundraiser for his re-election campaign
Fair.
via kgtl:
Confirmed to play:
Ray Allen - Carmelo Anthony - Chris Bosh - Vince Carter - Tyson Chandler - Jamal Crawford - Kevin Durant - Baron Davis - Patrick Ewing - Derek Fisher - Rudy Gay - Blake Griffin - Tyler Hansbrough - Dwight Howard - Juwan Howard - Antawn Jamison - Dahntay Jones - Brandon Knight - Kevin Love - Jamal Mashburn - Cheryl Miller - Reggie Miller - Alonzo Mourning - Dikembe Mutombo - Chris Paul - Quentin Richardson - Doc Rivers - Steve Smith - Jerry Stackhouse - Amare Stoudemire - Tina Thompson - John Wall - Russell WestbrookAwesome as fuuuuck
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This is what a consistent message looks like. Via theeconomist:
The Economist first put Silvio Berlusconi on the cover in 2001, when we ran an investigative story looking at his business dealings. Ten years and several libel suits later, he is standing down. Our slideshow remembers this long relationship.
(via kgtl)
Spain's Stolen Babies
Spain is reeling from an avalanche of allegations of baby theft and baby trafficking. The trade began at the end of the Spanish civil war and continued for 50 years - hundreds of thousands of babies are thought to have been traded by nuns, priests and doctors up to the 1990s. This World reveals the impact of Spain’s stolen baby scandal through the eyes of the children and parents who were separated at birth, and who are now desperate to find their relatives.
Exhumations of the supposed graves of babies and positive DNA tests are proof that baby theft has happened. Across Spain, people are queuing up to take a DNA test and thousands of Spaniards are asking ‘Who am I?’
Katya Adler has been meeting the heartbroken mothers who are searching for the children whom they were told died at birth, as well as the stolen and trafficked babies who are now grown up and searching for their biological relatives and their true identities. [via BBC]
Delayed-notice search warrants issued under the expanded powers of the Patriot Act, 2006-2009.
The Patriot Act, The Encyclopedia of 9/11
Watch Bill O'Reilly and Lupe Fiasco Have It Out With One Another
The lesson? Reality TV can be OK. [via Daily Intel]
Marines sing Britney Spears. Aren’t we glad we repealed Don’t Ask Don’t Tell? I sure am.
Feminism has fought no wars. It has killed no opponents. It has set up no concentration camps, starved no enemies, practiced no cruelties. Its battles have been for education, for the vote, for better working conditions … for safety on the streets … for child care, for social welfare … for rape crisis centers, women’s refugees, reforms in the law. If someone says ‘Oh, I’m not a feminist,’ I ask ‘Why? What’s your problem?’
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Distrust all in whom the urge to punish is powerful.
- Friedrich Nietzsche, Thus Spoke Zarathustra
![What Planned Parenthood actually does [via Washington Post]](http://25.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_ljg1pgEAk51qzg3olo1_500.jpg)
What Planned Parenthood actually does [via Washington Post]
kgtl:
Rep. Weiner: So that’s a yes. You think 435 fairly well-to-do, mostly white men should make that decision?
Rep. Johnson: I think the elected representatives of the American people should—
Rep. Weiner: —should make the decision for that woman and that child?!
Rep. Johnson: Can I finish my answer?
Rep. Weiner: It doesn’t sound terribly enticing, no.Kills it
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