Commonplace Book – Page 13 – vinayaugustine.com

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· June 9, 2011 · 1 minute to read

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)

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vinay

· June 8, 2011 · 1 minute to read

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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vinay

· June 8, 2011 · 1 minute to read

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 exposing guilty secrets of his own administration that went beyond the Pentagon Papers. But under George W. Bush and Barack Obama,with the PATRIOT Act, the FISA Amendment Act, and (for the hit squad) President Obama’s executive orders. they have all become legal.

Ellsberg: All Nixon’s Crimes Against me now Legal | Informed Comment

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vinay

· June 7, 2011 · 1 minute to read

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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· June 7, 2011 · 1 minute to read

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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vinay

· June 6, 2011 · 1 minute to read

Posing

(Source: http://www.flickr.com/photos/vja2/5800389610/)

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· June 3, 2011 · 1 minute to read

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: Voces de la Frontera: Statement on civil disobedience at Joint Finance hearing