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May 26th
6:21 PM EST
Via
nationalpost:

Graphic: Taking stock of the world’s nuclear missiles 
This week, China urged Russia and the United States to slash their nuclear arms. Top Chinese official Cheng Jingye told a meeting in Vienna, “As countries with [the] largest nuclear arsenals, the U.S. and Russia should continue to make drastic reductions in their nuclear arsenals in a verifiable and irreversible manner.”

Why the FUCK would anyone need a missile with 10 nuclear warheads? The aptly named SS-18 M6 Satan from Russia. Jesus Christ there are so goddamn many nukes out there.

nationalpost:

Graphic: Taking stock of the world’s nuclear missiles

This week, China urged Russia and the United States to slash their nuclear arms. Top Chinese official Cheng Jingye told a meeting in Vienna, “As countries with [the] largest nuclear arsenals, the U.S. and Russia should continue to make drastic reductions in their nuclear arsenals in a verifiable and irreversible manner.”

Why the FUCK would anyone need a missile with 10 nuclear warheads? The aptly named SS-18 M6 Satan from Russia. Jesus Christ there are so goddamn many nukes out there.

5:31 PM EST
Treaty of Peace and Friendship between the United States of America and the Bey and Subjects of Tripoli of Barbary (Ottoman Empire)
“As the Government of the United States of America is not, in any sense, founded on the Christian religion,—as it has in itself no character of enmity against the laws, religion, or tranquility, of Mussulmen [Muslims],—and as the said States never entered into any war or act of hostility against any Mahometan [Muslim] nation, it is declared by the parties that no pretext arising from religious opinions shall ever produce an interruption of the harmony existing between the two countries.”
Submitted to the U.S. Senate by President John Adams, June 7, 1797, signed into law three days later.

Treaty of Peace and Friendship between the United States of America and the Bey and Subjects of Tripoli of Barbary (Ottoman Empire)


As the Government of the United States of America is not, in any sense, founded on the Christian religion,—as it has in itself no character of enmity against the laws, religion, or tranquility, of Mussulmen [Muslims],—and as the said States never entered into any war or act of hostility against any Mahometan [Muslim] nation, it is declared by the parties that no pretext arising from religious opinions shall ever produce an interruption of the harmony existing between the two countries.”

Submitted to the U.S. Senate by President John Adams, June 7, 1797, signed into law three days later.

May 7th
5:31 PM EST

Tomorrow is a big election day in North Carolina

To all my NC followers(and their NC followers) please remember to go out and vote tomorrow!

Not only is there the NC Constitutional Amendment 1 vote, but many very important local and state elections up for grabs. There is a Democratic Gubernatorial primary vote that’s important as well.

With redistricting there are some very confusing changes for a number of the more populous counties, so if you haven’t voted in NC before, just moved, or aren’t sure if you’ve been redistricted you can check here for that info. Plus it even tells you how many times and when you’ve voted in the past!(what, I think that’s cool.)

More info on election details here.

Our state has garnered a lot of national attention because of this election, specifically because of the Amendment. Make sure your voice is heard on the issue, VOTE VOTE VOTE!

You can still vote early today!

Polls open at 6:30AM and close 7:30PM tomorrow. You probably have 15 spare minutes in those 13 hours, right?

May 4th
5:51 PM EST
“The point is that discrete empirical observations are not sufficient to determine social policy.”

“The point is that discrete empirical observations are not sufficient to determine social policy.”

May 2nd
4:51 PM EST

Barack Obama Versus Fundamentalism & Religious Sectarianism (by thruthem)

A damn fine speech

April 30th
5:40 PM EST

If I’d asked customers what they wanted, they would have said “a faster horse” - Henry Ford

If I’d asked customers what they wanted, they would have said “a faster horse” - Henry Ford

April 26th
4:03 PM EST

Take some time to contact your US Representative today to express your feelings about their role in the CISPA Debate

You can write them using the form on the site, or call directly to their DC office(the number should be provided.)

Often they don’t know who’s voting for them, and what those people think, unless we step forward and let them know.

Find their contact info here

More info on CISPA here. This includes explanations, petitions, tweeting and contact links, as well as lots of source material.

April 25th
7:20 PM EST
"To err is human. To blame someone else is politics."
—  Hubert H. Humphrey
April 24th
5:47 PM EST
Via
"For the first eight years of our marriage, [Michelle and I] were paying more in student loans than what we were paying for our mortgage. So we know what this is about.

And we were lucky to land good jobs with a steady income. But we only finished paying off our student loans—check this out, all right, I’m the President of the United States—we only finished paying off our student loans about eight years ago."
—  

—President Obama in North Carolina today on why Congress has to act to prevent interest rates on student loans from doubling (via barackobama)

Barack and Michelle graduated from Harvard Law School in 1991 and 1988 respectively, to show you how long ago that was, and how much worse it must be by now.

Fun Fact, Michelle Obama is only the third First Lady to have a postgraduate degree, her two predecessors(Clinton and Bush) being the others.

April 23rd
8:08 PM EST
"The feminist agenda is not about equal rights for women. It is about a socialist, anti-family political movement that encourages women to leave their husbands, kill their children, practice witchcraft, destroy capitalism and become lesbians"
—  Pat Robertson