Ian David
Ian David's JournalFact: All Unions Combined Spent LESS This Year Than The Chamber of Commerce Did
Fact: All Unions Combined Spent LESS This Year Than The Chamber of Commerce Did
http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=439x2181657
https://twitter.com/driveswift/status/128864720995356674
http://www.opensecrets.org/industries/indus.php?Ind=P
http://www.opensecrets.org/lobby/clientsum.php?id=D000019798&year=2011
Goblins kill primary school girl
Goblins kill primary school girl
Tuesday, 29 May 2012 06:13 The Editor News
By Staff Reporter
A pupil at Nhlupho Primary School in Kezi District, was allegedly killed by goblins despite an exorcism ceremony that was held recently.
The Grade Seven pupil died under mysterious circumstances where a recent goblin exorcism ceremony resulted in the village head committing suicide.
The death, which occurred on Wednesday, has divided villagers with some saying the goblins that were allegedly removed from village head Moffat Ncube's home were responsible for the death.
Eighty-one-year-old Ncube allegedly committed suicide on May 19after goblin hunters said he was responsible for supernatural creatures that were reportedly sexually abusing teachers at Nhlupho Primary and Secondary schools.
More:
http://www.zimdiaspora.com/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=8556%3Agoblins-kill-primary-school-girl&catid=38%3Atravel-tips&Itemid=18
The Tom Ford ads are definitely WAY over the top.
And here is an interview with Tom Ford:
Tom Ford, Cultivated Rebel, Speaks
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As much as I’ve tried, it has been consistently harder to get images of nude men onto magazine pages and billboards than it has nude women. In a society where images of brutal violence are consumed during breakfast, the male nude is one of our last taboos. There’s a double standard at play here: magazines that are happy to fund ads featuring an artfully lit female nude will balk at an image of her male counterpart.
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I have always found it ridiculous that, in America, if I wanted to run an ad of a woman with bare breasts I had to retouch her nipples. Now why would a woman’s bare breasts, created as nature intended, be more shocking than a bizarre pair of breasts with absolutely no nipples? What could be more perverse?
Think of how tough it must be to be a woman in our culture. Women are constantly judged by their bodies and the size of their breasts … Imagine … if our suits were entirely designed to show off our penises. Imagine if contemporary fashion demanded that you left your cock hanging outside your trousers, with perhaps just the head trussed up in a tiny pouch like a dick bra. Everyone would see our cocks all the time, in the same way that fashion features women’s breasts.
More:
http://thesocietypages.org/socimages/2008/05/22/tom-ford-cultivated-rebel-speaks/
John McCain’s Entire 2008 Opposition Research File on Mitt Romney
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ECONOMIC ISSUES
State spending increased at well over rate of inflation under Romney’s watch, estimated at 24% – more than$5 billion – over Romney’s final three years.
Under Romney, Massachusetts dramatically underperformed the rest of the nation in terms of job growth.
Romney has been criticized by experts for failing to deliver on issues of business development and economic growth after selling himself as the “CEO governor.”
2006 report issued by quasi-public Massachusetts Technology Collaborative warned the state was losing its grip as leader in “innovation economy” and that tech job was alarmingly slow.
More:
http://thepoliticalcarnival.net/2012/06/03/john-mccains-entire-2008-opposition-research-file-on-mitt-romney/
Entire file here: http://www.scribd.com/doc/78582788
What if certain government funding was determined by voter participation?
For example, federal highway funds.
If $30 million is earmarked or allocated to your district, and there's a 50% voter turn-out, you only get $15 million that year. The rest goes back to the Treasury.
Libertarians and Conservatives who don't think the federal government should be spending money, and think that we need to reduce the deficit, can stay home and not vote, to reduce government spending.
‘For Going Against God’s Will’ Catholic Hospital Denies Gay Man HIV Meds
‘For Going Against God’s Will’ Catholic Hospital Denies Gay Man HIV Meds
A Catholic hospital in New Jersey is accused of denying a gay and HIV-positive man his HIV medications, as one doctor on staff reportedly stated, “for going against God’s will.”
“Joao Simoes sued Trinitas Regional Medical Center in Union County Superior Court,” the Courthouse News Service reports. “He says that the hospital admitted him in August 2011, but that requests for his lifesaving medication were not honored, and his sister was denied visitation rights.”
Susan V. Borga, M.D., from the Department of Behavioral Health and Psychiatry, allegedly approached Simoes while he was confined to the hospital’s mental health wing. Borga is not named as a defendant.
Simoes says Borga was unfazed when another patient told her that he had just gotten out of prison, where he served time for murder. But her reaction was allegedly different when Simoes said that he did not work because he planned to go back to school and because of his HIV status.
Borga then allegedly asked Simoes how he got HIV, to which he responded, “I got it from unprotected sex.”
The complaint then says that “Dr. Borga closed the plaintiff’s file, put it down and looked at plaintiff with disgust on her face and asked, coldly, “Is that from sex with men?”
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“Dr. Borga responded to plaintiff’s doctor by stating, ‘This is what he gets for going against God’s will,’ and hung up the phone on plaintiff’s doctor.”
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The University of California at San Francisco AIDS Research Institute notes:
Treatment failure may occur rapidly with poor adherence. Some studies suggest that drug resistance can develop after one week of missed medication or irregular use, or after missing as little as one dose in five. When resistance to a drug develops, it loses its effectiveness forever; in some cases, cross-resistance to other drugs occurs, further limiting treatment options.
More:
http://thenewcivilrightsmovement.com/1-for-going-against-gods-will-catholic-hospital-denies-gay-man-hiv-meds/legal-issues/2012/06/03/40477?utm_source=dlvr.it&utm_medium=facebook
Fuck The Tea Party
Whereas the Tea Party uses lies, racism and ignorance to create an environment of fear and hate.
Whereas the Tea Party claims it is against government regulation, except for regulation of a woman's right to choose, of same-sex couples to marry and of homosexuals to serve in the military.
Whereas the Tea Party is against "socialized" medicine, while vehemently defending Medicare. Medicare is socialized medicine.
Whereas the Tea Party follows conservative figures who use outrageous lies and reactionary rhetoric, such as Sarah Palin and Glenn Beck.
More:
http://www.fucktheteaparty.com/
Police: Tiverton, Mass. man throws dead parrot through mother's door
TIVERTON —
A 32-year old Tiverton man was charged with domestic vandalism after digging up his family's dead parrot and throwing it through a storm door window.
Michael J. Ferreira, 32, of Tiverton was arrested on Thursday according to Tiverton Police spokesman Lt. Patrick Jones.
On Thursday at 1:37 p.m., Cpl. Daniel Raymond was assisting a disabled vehicle on Bulgarmarsh Road. He spoke to the operator who thought her son might be responsible for the car trouble. White residue was located around the gas tank and the woman thought her son might have poured sugar into her gas tank.
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While speaking to Ferreira, Raymond noticed shattered glass on the floor and a dead parrot laying near the storm door. The mother confirmed that there was no broken glass when she left her residence earlier in the day. She also confirmed that the parrot was a former family pet that had died and was buried in the backyard.
More:
http://www.heraldnews.com/news/x1842806578/Police-Tiverton-man-throws-dead-parrot-through-mothers-door
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