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The Getty Villa is incredible.
Liberty has never come from the government. Liberty has always come from the subjects of it. The history of liberty is a history of resistance.
—Woodrow Wilson
“I could prove God statistically; take the human body alone; the chance that all the functions of the individual would just happen, is a statistical monstrosity.” —
George Gallup (via onemoretimewithfeeling)
I cannot believe no one has commented on this, yet tons of people have reblogged. Of course, all human functions just “happening” would be statistically unlikely. But the human body did not just “happen.” Things work together, as a system. They depend on each other. One thing developed to help another, or because of another. This is what evolution is.
Plus, prove to me the universe is not infinite or monstrously large. Even if the odds are against us, if the sample is large enough it will likely happen.
“Trust me” government is government that asks that we concentrate our hopes and dreams on one man; that we trust him to do what’s best for us. My view of government places trust not in one person or one party, but in those values that transcend persons and parties.” —
Ronald Reagan, quoted by none other then Democratic Senator Christopher Dodd yesterday.
Please contact your senators and let them know you oppose retroactive immunity for telecom companies involved in the NSA’s domestic wiretapping. (aka blatant violation of the 4th amendment.)
Text & Video: Senator Dodd Speaks in Opposition to FISA Bill on Floor of U.S. Senate
Wait a second… What the hell is the rest of the country doing complaining about high gas prices?! My entire state is blood red and you’re upset that your gas is getting close to $4/gallon? It’s $4.70 down the street from me and I use twice as much to get the same number of miles as you because of traffic.
(via gasbuddy)
Is this going to happen? It came out this week that Obama was considering “former top military leaders among his possible running mates.” I’m a fan of General Clark. He is a member of UCLA’s Burkle Center for International Relations. Last quarter he lectured for one of my classes which was already taught by some heavyweights.
He came off as very bright, and passionate about improving the country. He believes we need to be careful with the use of force, and shouldn’t engage at will abroad, but also recognizes that there are serious moral reasons for taking action abroad. He was a strong advocate of “coercive diplomacy”—force coupled with diplomacy to achieve a principled objective.
Update: obamaclark2008.com redirects to the homepage of Sen. Obama’s site.
Update 2: That’s the ONLY combo of obama
This is how I feel right now.
“I want to open up transparency in government, so that you guys know what is happening. I want to revamp our White House website. I know it’s nice to take the virtual tour of the China Room,” he notes sarcastically, “but I want people to be able to know, ‘today, this issue is going on…today’s President Obama talked about his proposal for $4000 student college tuition credits, it’s going to be going into this congressional committee, these are the key leaders in the House and Senate that are going to be deciding on the bill, here are the groups that are involved that are supporting it, you should contact your Congressman. Just creating the situation that if people want to get involved and it’s easy. The information is out there, but trying to track it down isn’t…The more we can enlist the American people to pay attention and be involved, that’s the only way we are going move an agenda forward. That’s how we are going to counteract the special interests.” —
Extract from Barack Obama’s speech to his staff, techPresident (via somethingchanged)
This is incredible. The man gets it, and is set on changing the way things are done. For me, the word ‘change’ resonates much less than something like this.
Front page again! Oh..oh no…is that a typo?!
How embarrassing.
Internet Explorer does not set a cookie for two-letter domains - Possible reason Apple’s new MobileMe (to be at me.com) will not support IE6?