If we dropped our defense spending to 2% GDP, we’d still be spending almost as much as Russia, France, Britain, and China combined. (Source: http://www.economist.com/blogs/dailychart/2011/06/military-spending?fsrc=rss)
Category: Commonplace Book
A commonplace book
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All roads lead to philosophy, on Wikipedia You can play with the tool here. (Source: http://flowingdata.com/2011/06/08/all-roads-lead-to-philosophy-on-wikipedia/)
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That includes burglarizing my former psychoanalyst’s office (for material to blackmail me into silence), warrantless wiretapping, using the CIA against an American citizen in the US, and authorizing a White House hit squad to “incapacitate me totally” (on the steps of the Capitol on May 3, 1971). All the above were to prevent me from… Continue reading Untitled
So terribly sad.
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That is one bad-ass sheep. Shrek captured the public’s imagination in 2004 after he evaded the annual shearing roundups for the previous seven years by hiding in caves on his farm on the South Island. When finally found, he was clad in an astonishing 60 pounds (27 kilograms) of wool. (Source: http://photoblog.msnbc.msn.com/_news/2011/06/07/6803192-new-zealand-mourns-death-of-shrek-the-famously-shaggy-sheep)
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http://www.flickr.com/apps/video/stewart.swf?v=71377 Two Greater Egyptian Jerboa in my kitchen – www.petsugargliders.eu/other-pets/greater-egyptian-jerboa by a_dg on Flickr. (Source: http://www.flickr.com/)
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Posing (Source: http://www.flickr.com/photos/vja2/5800389610/)
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You are taking from the poor to give to the rich. Your actions are unconscionable. Shame on you. You take food out of the mouths of children by cutting reduced breakfast programs while at the same time transferring public money from public schools through an expanded voucher program for the education of wealthy families. WisPolitics.com:… Continue reading Untitled