Shoes and Ships and Sealing Wax

niiikooooo:

patattackyeah:

Thanks to this well thought out and researched news report we can conclude that Tortimer as well as other adults who play Animal Crossing are in fact all pedophiles.

dear lord

Emergency reblog Stay safe guys ):

sirkowski:

majestical-beast:

sueting:

electroego:

and they say gay marriage is unnatural

i’m screaming so hard right now ^

…what…?

I’m convinced now that most Christians have never even read a bible…

Seriously, she just doesn’t want to fuck him and found a “good” bullshit excuse. And he’s probably gay.

raisedyoulikeaphoenix:

tardisblue-alphared:

im crying because did disney miss the part where she DIDNT WANT TO DRESS UP FOR THE CEREMONY IN THE MOVIE? NO? OK WERE GONNA IGNORE THAT.

I hate Disney more and more it feeds girls young as five oh hey if you’re not a skinny bimbo with perfect boobs, hair, life and don’t eat anything your life will be fucking perfect. No Disney go fuck off quit ‘fixing’ the princesses and make them realistic not made up and skinny. Girls need positive feel good rolemodels not a fake one that makes them feel fat.

It is not clear whether such a law would have changed the outcome of the subpoena involving The A.P. The 2009 legislation would have created a presumption that when the government was seeking calling records from a telephone carrier, the news organization would be notified ahead of time, allowing it to fight the subpoena in court. But the bill would also have allowed the government to seek a 45-to-90-day delay in notification if a court determined that such notice would threaten the integrity of the investigation. Under the bill, the scope of protection for reporters would vary according to whether it was a civil case, an ordinary criminal case or a national security case.

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Under Fire, White House Pushes Media Shield Law | NYTimes.com

Well that certainly doesn’t jive with this:

“Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof; or abridging the freedom of speech, or of the press; or the right of the people peaceably to assemble, and to petition the government for a redress of grievances.”

“Except in a national security case” is nowhere to be found.

The law under consideration abridges the freedom of the press by introducing a three-tiered set of exceptions to seizures of press records. Exceptions to be decided on “national security” grounds. Which means, basically, that when another seizure occurs we’ll get the same rationale: “it was a very serious leak”. And that will be that.

Schumer’s shield law will simply add a veneer of “legality” to what the DoJ was already doing as long as a judge, in secret, rubber stamps a 45-90 day delay in notification.

Further, the proposed law would do nothing to protect whistleblowers. Natasha Lennard in her piece, “Obama Leaves Room for Whistleblower Prosectution”:

In a speech Thursday, President Obama addressed the recent scandal in which the DOJ was found to have been spying on AP reporters’ phone records. In line with the White House’s push Wednesday to reintroduce a media shield law, Obama’s comments made the administration’s position clear — a free press is supported, so long as that freedom is under its control.

Obama said that he made “no apologies” for being concerned about national security — the context in which the Justice Department’s surveillance of journalists was couched. The media shield law the White House has asked Sen. Charles Schumer, D-N.Y., to introduce specifically includes the caveat that the media shield will exclude reporters who publish leaks deemed to cause “significant harm” to national security. Obama commented today that while he valued a free, independent press, “Leaks related to national security can put people at risk, they can put men and women in uniform that I’ve sent into the battlefield at risk … U.S. national security is dependent upon those folks being able to operate with confidence that folks back home have their backs, so they’re not just left out there high and dry.”

Both his comments and the media shield proposal serve as damage limitation attempts following the AP scandal, while preserving the executive power to prosecute whistle-blowers like Bradley Manning and desecrate the spirit of the First Amendment. Kevin Gosztola wrote earlier this week that “Few took notice of the Obama administration’s policies and how they threatened freedom of the press when leaks hysteria took hold of Washington. But, now that an entire establishment news organization is known to have been targeted by the nation’s surveillance state, perhaps, views toward the administration will rightfully sharpen.” The concern now for civil libertarians, then, is that the administration is responding to the AP scandal by carefully forging a chasm, with words and policy, between journalists and whistle-blowers.

With all that in mind, I’ll leave you with Silber’s “Second Iron Law”:

When the State’s corruption and claims to power are so pervasive that they dominate every aspect of a nation’s operations, attempts at “reform from within” will be transformed into “improvements” that are more brutal and oppressive than the particular original abuse the reformers sought to rectify. That is: the “improvement” will be worse than the original problem. Meanwhile, the abuse which the reformers sought to address will most often continue in some form; typically, its operations will be more effectively camouflaged, so it will be easier for both the ruling class and the reformers to pretend that it has, in fact, been “fixed.”

To put it another way: when the State has amassed a sufficient degree of power, expressed in the State’s penetration and dominance of all critical aspects of a nation’s activities, attempts at reform serve only to strengthen the existing system, rather than weakening or “improving” it.

(via theamericanbear)

sirkowski:

kirailabs:

askmixipony:

jamietheignorantamerican:

jacketlizard:

battroid:

takeawaygirl:

thegreatdesutree:

Unfortunately, this is a real restaurant and that is a real response. Their page was not hacked and thus trolled (that I know of). The owners are just really crazy: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G6LY7TJ16pg

holy FUCK watch that video

i just watched that video (and the part 2). unbelievable

I’m like 7 minutes in and jesus christ

HOLY BALLS, I SAW THE FULL EPISODE ABOUT THIS TRAIN-WRECK OF A RESTAURANT.

GORDON RAMSAY LEFT THE RESTAURANT WITHOUT CHANGING IT BECAUSE HE SAID HE WAS SCARED AND DISTURBED BY THE PLACE AND IT’S OWNERS.

LET ME REPEAT THAT.

GORDON FUCKING RAMSAY SAID HE WAS SCARED AND DISTURBED BY HOW VICIOUS THE OWNERS ARE.

Holy. …

Fuck….

Good sweet Christ. I’m not even two minutes in and….no. Just no.

And now the IRS knows the owner is pocketing the tips.

Crezias: Listen, I know tumblr only cares about American news, but this is... »

lightingitup:

crezias:

Listen, I know tumblr only cares about American news, but this is really fucking tragic, and if this doesn’t get an coverage I will be incredibly angry.

The conservative’s bedroom tax has actually led to a woman taking her own life. Let me repeat that for you; a peice of government legislation…

i’m not really a huge politics because so often i end up getting really angry at everything but i try to care and this seems important?

221cbakerstreet:

kittening:

a male celebrity can literally beat his girlfriend half to death and still enjoy a successful career with millions of adoring fans

a female celebrity can gain a few pounds and she’s shunned, mocked, and ridiculed by thousands of people over many different mediums

do you see the problem with this

a female celebrity JUMPS INTO THE OCEAN TO RESCUE HER CHILD AND NANNY

and is mocked and ridiculed for a wardrobe malfunction

reallyfoxnews:

Fox News contributor Erik Rush on the Boston Marathon bombings: kill all Muslims.

Rush is currently engaged in a Twitter war with some rightfully upset people, doling out lovely responses like “make me skank,” and “or what, bitch?”

Lovely.

impromptuonedykedanceparty:

quequieresmrmorden:

[tw: anti-Black racism, murder, State violence]

girljanitor:

ameliated:

bad-dominicana:

skepticamongthefaithful:

kemetically-afrolatino:

source 1; source 2; source 3; source 4; source 5

WELP.

Stop what you are doing.

Read those.

Right now.

I’ll wait.

If you don’t want to read, I’ll explain the key bullet points, but please read them afterwords:

This is not “we didn’t protect him enough.”

This is not “the government screwed up some random detail or accidentally let his killer loose.”

The 111th Military Intelligence had a team taking pictures of his balcony during the assassination.

They brought in a Special Forces 8-Man Sniper Team from the 20th.

Memphis Police withdrew their regular protection detail from him.

A jury of 12 people, six black and six white, found the United States Government guilty of conspiracy to commit murder.

YOUR GOVERNMENT. MY GOVERNMENT. THE GOVERNMENT OF, BY, AND FOR THE PEOPLE, SHOT AND KILLED DR. MARTIN LUTHER KING. And the media never reported the case.

MLK was ASSASSINATED. By a government YOU PAY FOR.

I hate those posts where someone tries to pressure you into reblogging. I almost never ask you to reblog.

This shit is important.

Reblog this. I don’t care what kind of blog you have. I don’t care what you normally talk about.

Reblog this.

holy shit

And anyone doubting, consider again: the case that the government assassinated Dr. King was so strong that the government couldn’t even get a ruling to cover it up in its own courts of law.

Really? o_o …this isn’t one of those conspiracy theories, is it?

lyraeon:

CW: Rape, rape culture, sexual assault, and the stupidity of American media

politicsofyourlund:

Why not write on the CNN FB wall to show how you feel?

My response, nicely written on their wall. I felt it was best to respond to each of them individually:

Excuse me?! The lives of the football players who were convicted of rape were destroyed?! HOW ABOUT THE LIFE OF THE GIRL THEY RAPED?! HOW ABOUT NOT TREATING THE BOYS WHO TREATED THIS LIKE A JOKE LIKE THE VICTIMS?
Candy Crowley - what is the lasting effect of BEING RAPED while you’re still in high school, and having the case be treated like a nationwide joke?
Poppy Harlow - those “promising young football stars” threw their OWN futures away when they CHOSE TO SEXUALLY ASSAULT SOMEONE
Paul Callan - yes, lives were destroyed. The lives of the VICTIM and her FAMILY, now that they are being BLAMED BY NATIONWIDE MEDIA for the sexual assault that happened to her! I HOPE that this haunts these boys and this community for the rest of their lives, so that maybe we can finally learn NOT TO SEXUALLY ASSAULT PEOPLE