March 2011
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House quietly drops popular plan to launch... →
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This story is a fascinating example of special interests’ power in the legislature.
While most observers were focused on debates over private-school vouchers and the end of traditional teacher tenure rules, the House GOP leadership quietly killed most of a bill to create a statewide pre-K rating system.
Notably, the bill was revenue neutral (implementation would not have cost a cent)...
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once again, my father surprises
yesterday, whist running errands with the old man, he, the life-long repub, admonished the current GOP for their asinine cuts, assault on schools, women, and the ridiculous nature of the federal tax codes that allow corporations like bank of america corp to pay nothing and yet reap refunds in the billions. “We’re all in this together. For every dollar cut, a dollar more should be...
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Ten Giant U.S. Companies Avoiding Income Taxes →
diegueno:
Exxon Mobil
Bank of America
General Electric
Chevron
Boeing
Valero Energy
Goldman Sachs
Citigroup
ConocoPhillips
Carnival Cruise Lines
This happens because voters let them make the rules.
capitalism!
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random monday shtuff
i was dreading today. a work project i was tasked with was not complete, due to the company not giving me the right tools to do the job. imagine working on a presentation where you compile various PDF files, word docs, excel docs, and a few other scattered memos, but have no access to adobe writer. well, i don’t have to imagine the scenario … that was the scenario. i told them it would...
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“G.E’.s American tax bill? None. In fact, G.E. claimed a tax benefit of...”
– G.E. So Good At Evading Corporate Taxes That IRS Owes G.E. $3.2 Billion
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What the right means when it calls NPR "liberal" →
“So what do conservatives really mean when they accuse NPR of being “liberal”? They mean it’s not accountable to their worldview as conservatives and partisans. They mean it reflects too great a regard for evidence and is too open to reporting different points of views of the same event or idea or issue. Reporting that by its very fact-driven nature often fails to confirm...
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Watchpottery for clean freaks. love it.
pratt:
L’Artisan Electronique is a digital pottery wheel which sends the information to a ceramic printer. Beautiful.
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what goes best with cashmere?
if you answer anything other than ‘pear juice’, then you, my friend, are smarter than me.
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Watchel hombre de los moleculos!
easily one of my all-time favorite sketches.
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“I’m nostalgic for conversations I had yesterday. I’ve begun...”
– max from noah baumbach’s 1995 kicking & screaming
dedicated to the sad return of ‘fuck yeah’ tumblrs.
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office max is not the place to buy mac products,...
me: do you carry software?
office max guy: yes, what are you looking for?
me: i just stopped in to check of you carried mac stuff. i need to get snow leopard (finally)
om guy: what are you using it for?
me: using it for? um, my macbook.
om guy: everything we carry for mac is right here, so ... we don't carry that game.
and scene.
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