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The conservative mission to destroy the Constitution in order to save it. - By Dahlia Lithwick and Jeff Shesol - Slate Magazine |
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12:29 pm EST, Dec 6, 2010 |
For a party (whether of the Tea or Grand Old variety) that sees the Constitution as something so perfect as to have been divinely inspired, the idea that it needs to be altered fundamentally is beyond crediting, something like putting the Fifth Commandment up to a popular referendum. But the Tea Party vision of the Constitution has never been one of fidelity to the document itself, or even to the Framers. Instead, it's a devotion to those scraps and snippets of the Constitution they accept, an embrace of only the Framers they admire, and an eagerness to jettison anything that conflicts with or complicates that vision, including the rest of the Constitution.
As if you didn't need another reason to hate the Tea Party (and, their subservient figure-head, the Republican Party)... And as if you didn't need another reason to loathe the spineless liberals and democrats (and, their subversive figure-head, the prez)... -janelane The conservative mission to destroy the Constitution in order to save it. - By Dahlia Lithwick and Jeff Shesol - Slate Magazine |
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Driver to serve 30 days for hitting, killing 6-year-old �| ajc.com |
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2:36 pm EST, Dec 1, 2010 |
The driver of an SUV that struck and killed a 6-year-old girl just 12 days after her family moved to Clarkston from Nepal will spend a month in jail for his crime.
Wow. Apparently in GA, you cross a double yellow line and kill a child, and you're on the hook for just 30 days in the slammer. This is an abject failure of the judicial system. So, kill a 12-year-old and spend 60 days? What if you just maim them -- a week for a leg, a fortnight for brain damage? I'm just glad we have a precedent for this sort of thing. What if you intend to break the law but don't intend to kill anyone, and do anyway? A month. -janelane, sickened by the miscarriage of justice Driver to serve 30 days for hitting, killing 6-year-old �| ajc.com |
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Facing public outrage, the Kardashians cancel their especially sleazy prepaid debit card. - By Annie Lowrey - Slate Magazine |
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11:58 am EST, Dec 1, 2010 |
Faddish consumer products have notoriously short lives. And thankfully, after just three weeks on the market, the Kardashian Kard, possibly America's dumbest financial product, has gone the way of the Pet Rock, the Edsel, and acid-washed jeans.
Long live prepaid uninsured risky financial products! -janelane Facing public outrage, the Kardashians cancel their especially sleazy prepaid debit card. - By Annie Lowrey - Slate Magazine |
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Wal-Mart Plans Drive to Buy More Locally Grown Produce - NYTimes.com |
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1:16 pm EDT, Oct 14, 2010 |
Like it did in the environmental arena, it will begin creating an agriculture-specific index to figure out how to measure waste and efficiency among produce suppliers. It will be asking its biggest producers to answer questions about water, fertilizer and chemical use. The eventual goal is to include that information in a sustainability rating that customers would see, so they could decide whether to choose one avocado over another based on how much waste it had created. Wal-Mart would also use the information when it decides from whom to buy.
Thank you, Wal-Mart, for taking the lead. Your evilness rating has dropped slightly. -janelane Wal-Mart Plans Drive to Buy More Locally Grown Produce - NYTimes.com |
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OMG, thank you CuteOverload |
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2:14 pm EDT, Oct 8, 2010 |
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U.S. Military Orders Less Dependence on Fossil Fuels - NYTimes.com |
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12:36 pm EDT, Oct 5, 2010 |
He and other experts also said that greater reliance on renewable energy improved national security, because fossil fuels often came from unstable regions and scarce supplies were a potential source of international conflict.
God-DAMN but that's fucking novel. At least with the military getting on board we have a sliver of a hope of reducing our dependency at home. -janelane U.S. Military Orders Less Dependence on Fossil Fuels - NYTimes.com |
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