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Here’s another mashed potato question

Creamy or fluffy? Chunks or no chunks?

goodreasonnews:

Senator Bob Menendez sends letter to Department of Justice requesting investigation into News Corp’s hacking of 9/11 victims

timetruthhumor:

By Faiz Shakir of Think Progress:

Sen. Bob Menendez (D-NJ) has written a letter to Attorney General Eric Holder, asking him to investigate reports that News International, a subsidiary of News Corp, hacked into the phones of terrorist attack victims, possibly including 9/11 victims. From the letter:

The U.S. government must ensure that victims in the United States have not been subjected to illegal and unconscionable actions by these newspapers seeking to exploit information about their personal tragedies for profit. […]

Given the large scope of Scotland Yard’s investigation which reportedly includes a list of 3,870 names, 5,000 land-line phone numbers and 4,000 cellphone numbers that may have been hacked, I believe it is imperative to investigate whether victims in the United States have been affected as well.

Some family members of victims of the 9/11 attack have been demanding such a probe. Menendez joins Sens. Lautenberg and Rockefeller in requesting a federal investigation into News Corp’s activities.

{News Corporation owns Fox “News”.}

Dear God, I hope something comes of this.

(Source: truth-has-a-liberal-bias)

Using words like faggot, nigger, cunt, or retard doesn’t make you some martyr or crusading hero against the evils of political correctness.

squee-gee:

feministslut:

dionthesocialist:

It makes you an asshole.

THIS times like a billion!

I’ve never understood the backlash against so-called Political Correctness. If someone informs you “that word is offensive to me” why would you go out of your way to say it anyway?  That’s just plain inconsiderate.

A-fucking-men. And one of the things I don’t understand (related to squee-gee’s point) is how, when you ask someone “hey, could you not call me that? it’s really offensive” and they look at you like you’ve just asked them to do this completely ridiculous, near-impossible thing.

If being a decent, non-asshole person and making a mental note to edit one word out of your vocabulary is on the same order of difficulty as nuclear physics, then there’s probably something wrong with you. Like, you’re an asshole.

mostly random and disorganized thoughts about tonight

I honestly don’t know how I feel about this.

Bin Laden’s death does not particularly sadden me, but I’m not jumping for joy over it. I mean, I remember 9/11 with utter clarity—where I was, how I felt, what I did—and I remember the first few days when the country came together and the world stood with us, when strangers offered places to stay and rides home to stranded travelers, when the President asked the public to remain calm and not retaliate against innocent Americans whose faith had been so horribly perverted by extremists.

And then that was all over, and everything since then… I can’t divorce bin Laden’s death from the bloodshed, the billions upon billions of dollars spent to remove two people—him and Saddam Hussein—from the face of the earth and drop democracy into the ruins, from a pair of wars that have done so little to advance our safety and so much to harm both ourselves and countless others who already had little enough to begin with, the relentless and at times violent Islamophobia that has violated the rights of our own citizens, and has been used as grounds to challenge Obama’s fitness for President, the jingoism and ignorance disguised as patriotism that fueled those wars and continues to power conservative discourse today.

And it’s been almost ten years of this. TEN YEARS, and all this loss, and finally we can say “We caught the guy, we now return you to your regularly scheduled program of senseless violence, death, willful ignorance, and waste.” 

But, like I said… at the same time I’m not terribly sad that he’s gone.

Maybe everything will make more sense after eight hours in the car tomorrow.