Archive for April 17th, 2010

Gandhi Tea Party Quote Campaign FAIL

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Gandhi Tea Party Quote Campaign FAIL

Teabaggers claim that Gandhi said, “First they ignore you, then they ridicule you, then they fight you, then you win.” Too bad he never did. It was actually said by a progressive rep of a labor union fighting for “social unionism.”

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Weekend Open Thread

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I hope everyone is having a beautiful spring weekend! You shouldn’t be inside looking at your computer, but if you are here’s an open thread to play in. Hooray for sanity in Arkansas! Circuit Judge Chris Piazza ruled today that Act 1, an initiated act approved by voters in 2008 that bans any unmarried person […]

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42 Grows To 1,000s Of Web Cam Images In The Lower Merion School District Case

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When this story first broke (background here) the School District was adamant about the number of times they activated the web cam.  Once would have been one time too many for me, but they kept repeating the number 42. District spokesman Doug Young acknowledged yesterday that officials had remotely activated computer webcams 42 times, but […]

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