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The Daily Tweets, 2010-01-15: Haiti relief efforts
Devil’s Logic: explanation of Robertson’s “pact w/ the devil” language about Haiti. http://bit.ly/7YzzyL # RT: @crossedgenres: New blog post: A Festival of Skeletons serialization has begun! http://bit.ly/6fhgSL # RT: @alydenisof: It occurred to me this morning, as I was pumping … Continue reading
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Tagged Crossed Genres, Dollhouse (TV), Haiti, Yéle Haiti
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Haiti: Disaster profiteering v. helping Haiti rebuild for Haitians
“We have to be absolutely clear that this tragedy — which is part natural, part unnatural — must, under no circumstances, be used to, one, further indebt Haiti and, two, to push through unpopular corporatist policies in the interest of our corporations” (Naomi Klein). How can we help rebuild Haiti for Haitians?
The Daily Tweets, 2010-01-14
RT @elizadushku RT @latimes Charity of @Wyclef Jean raises more than $400,000 via text message for Haiti in first day http://bit.ly/4RLfjz # @jansonjones Just call yourself "Papabot." in reply to jansonjones # Donate: LGBT org Rainbow World Fund working w/ … Continue reading
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The Daily Tweets, 2010-01-13: Haiti earthquake
Today’s tweets were dominated by news of yesterday’s magnitude 7 earthquake in Haiti, the idiotic statement about the earthquake by Christianist Pat Robertson, & the Prop 8 trial in California.
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Tagged Bent Alaska, Christianism, Christianity, earthquake, Firedoglake (blog), FiveThirtyEight.com, Haiti, in the news, lgbtq, Marriage equality, natural disaster, Pat Robertson, Prop 8, Red Cross, Sarah Palin, Wyclef Jean, Yéle Haiti
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Helping Haiti (& telling Pat Robertson to STFU)
How can we help the people of Haiti in the aftermath of yesterday’s devastating earthquake? By sending them assistance — not by blaming them, as Christianist lackwit Pat Robertson so predictably does.
Posted in No Way Way, Polis
Tagged Atlantic.com, Barack Obama, Bible, Book of Job, Christianism, Christianity, earthquake, FiveThirtyEight.com, God as a bully, good government bad government, Haiti, in the news, King David, KSKA-FM, Matthew Yglesias, Media Matters for America, natural disasters, Pat Robertson, Psalms, Red Cross, slavery, Steve Aufrecht, Ta-Nehisi Coates, theodicy, Think Progress (blog), video, Voice from the Whirlwind, What Do I Know? (blog), Wikipedia
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The Daily Tweets, 2010-01-12: Faux Palin, Prop 8, DADT, & fresh produce
RT: @shannynmoore: Palin is to journalism what Dahmer was to cooking. // She should fit in quite well with Faux News. # Mainstream media coverage of Cheney & Palin: stenography & “regurgitating press releases.” http://tiny.cc/zDHkY (h/t @celticdiva) #fb # Bent … Continue reading
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Tagged community supported agriculture, Dollhouse (TV), Don't Ask Don't Tell (DADT), Faux News, food production & supply, Glacier Valley Farm CSA, lgbtq, same-sex marriage, Sarah Palin
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Battlestar Rhapsody
This brilliant parody of Queen’s “Bohemian Rhapsody” retells the tale of “Battlestar Galactica.”
Posted in Journal
Tagged Battlestar Galactica (TV), Caprica (TV), humor, science fiction, video
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The Daily Tweets, 2010-01-11: Crazy like a Faux News correspondent
Game Change: McCain liked Palin’s “willingness to piss all over her party.” No kidding, John, she does do that! http://bit.ly/7r51tb #fb # RT: @celticdiva: Interesting–C4P website is down–did Steve Schmidt on 60 Minutes make the Palinista’s hive-mind explode? #p2 # … Continue reading
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Tagged 60 Minutes, Christopher Erin Rogers, Faux News, Game Change (book), Sarah Palin, students, True Diversity Dinner 2009, weather, whinge
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Job 42.13
A poem based upon a verse in the Book of Job, with an account by a Kansas farmer who saw the inside of a tornado in 1928.
Posted in No Way Way, Poems
Tagged Bible, Book of Job, natural disasters, poem, theodicy, Voice from the Whirlwind, writing
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The Daily Tweets, 2010-01-08: Yippee, it's Friday!
@jansonjones Welcome back to AK, bro! in reply to jansonjones # I agree with Bede Trantina of KSKA-FM — Yippee, it’s Friday! #fb # @jamielang Happy b-day! I’m in lonerwolf mode so won’t make it, but will still raise a … Continue reading
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Tagged Dollhouse (TV), Yippee it's Friday!
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