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“Amtrak is losing money when its peer first-world railroads make money, it’s under siege by Republicans who point to those losses as a reason to privatize and dismember it, and it has no intention of reforming. The only way out of this conundrum is to defraud the public about peer first-world railroad practices, and I believe that this is exactly what the OIG did here.”

—Defrauding the Public on European Rail Profits

Every time I see one of these 'MERCA posts with the eagles and flags

I can’t help but think about how our national symbol was almost a turkey.

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FREEDOM!

I find these debates entirely too physical.  I do things like mime a slam dunk in our living room.  I engage in fisticuffs.  I pound my fist on the chair and bellow “BUT>BUT>BUT…That’s NOT what you said TWO WEEKS AGO!!!….D’AWWWwww

I’ll be sore tomorrow morning.

The guy who works here is named James Brown. James Brown

Some days I wonder why England has all the good music.

But then I remember:

  • Jack White (and all his shananagins)
  • Nirvana
  • The Ramones
  • The Doors
  • Guns n Roses
  • Aerosmith
  • REM
  • The Velvet Underground
  • The Beach Boys 
  • The Red Hot Chili Peppers
  • The Grateful Dead
  • Van Halen
  • Billy Joel
  • Pearl Jam
  • Pierce the Veil
  • The Eagles
  • OK Go
  • CCR
  • Styx
  • Michael Jackson
  • Madonna
  • Elvis Presley
  • Bob Dylan
  • Ray Charles
  • Chuck Berry
  • Joan Jett
  • Janis Joplin
  • Jimi Hendrix

And I feel proud to be an American.

“What can we do with our values, what can we do at all in relation to this war? Because the reality is Margaret Thatcher had it right; there is no society any more. What there is is a transnational security elite that is busy carving up the world using your tax money.”

—Julian Assange’s speech at Trafalgar Square

“The virus, first detected nearly two weeks ago by the military’s Host-Based Security System, has not prevented pilots at Creech Air Force Base in Nevada from \[raining death and destruction upon actual human beings thousands of miles away\]”

—Exclusive: Computer Virus Hits U.S. Drone Fleet

“They would make fine servants. . . . With fifty men we could subjugate them all and make them do whatever we want.”

—Christopher Columbus on Native Americans

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