October 2009
2 posts
Nearly 1 in 4 People Worldwide Is Muslim →
Bashing Goldman Sachs Is Simply a Game for Fools →
America stands at a crossroads, and Goldman Sachs now owns both of them.
August 2009
1 post
Mexico Legalizes Drug Possession →
June 2009
4 posts
“Sister Mary: Money can’t buy happiness.
Gabrielle: Sure it can!...”
– Desperate Housewives
“Now, we’ve got to get this thing right. What is needed is a realization...”
– Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr
“To keep you is no gain; to kill you is no loss”
– Ideological premise of Khmer Rouge regime.
May 2009
11 posts
2 Muslim charity founders get 65 years →
Woman Raped as Hundreds Watched... No One Did... →
“It’s called the Bystander Effect, “the greater the number of bystanders, the less likely it is that any one of them will help.””
“That’s the thing, you need to be cold to be queen. Anne Boleyn thought...”
– Blair Waldorf, Gossip Girl
Intel Commercial... hilarious →
“I’ve been a bad, bad girl
I’ve been careless with a delicate man
And it’s a...”
– Fiona Apple (Criminal)
"Superheroes" Attempt to Defend Cincinnati →
April 2009
33 posts
Obama's first 100 days in office as seen by his... →
Barack Obama sent a friend request to Iran
Barack Obama sent Somali Pirates a Trio of Snipers.
Hillary Clinton added Egypt, Israel, Switzerland, the Palestinian Territories, Belgium, China, Russia, Turkey, Ukraine, Japan, Mexico, Brazil, and 37 others to the Places I’ve Beenapplication.
“I am rich and proud of every penny I own. I made my money by my own effort, in...”
– Ayn Rand
Swine Flu Pandemic →
It’s not new, it was circulating Europe, South America, and other countries for years. I find it humorous that we only started researching the disease when it hit home in large numbers… hence why we have no vaccines.
“You cannot put right by statistics what you have done wrong by design”
– Cook “Within Study Comparisons of Experiments and Non-Experiments” (Econ paper)
India listens after a child bride says 'I won't.' →
44.5 percent of Indian women who recently reached 20 to 24 years of age had been married by the time they were 18. Of these, 22.6 percent were wed before age 16 – and 2.6 percent before 13.
Pulitzer Prize Winner (Anne Quindlen) speaks at a...
“I’m a novelist. My work is human nature. Real life is all I know. Don’t ever confuse the two, your life and your work. You will walk out of here this afternoon with only one thing that no one else has. There will be hundreds of people out there with your same degree: there will be thousands of people doing what you want to do for a living. But you will be the only person alive...
Condoms 'too big' for Indian men →
A survey of more than 1,000 men in India has concluded that condoms made according to international sizes are too large for a majority of Indian men.
Response:
It’s not size, it’s what you do with it that matters - Sunil Mehra
Slumdog Millionaire child up for sale →
The 9-year-old’s father, who lives in a Mumbai slum along with his star daughter, offered to sell Ali for nearly $300,000 to undercover reporters from Britain’s News of the World
“I have to consider what’s best for me, my family and Rubina’s future,” cash-strapped dad Rafiq Qureshitold the journalists
This is outrageous. I want this child.
“Today, I celebrated my 21st birthday. My boyfriend of almost 3 years gave me a...”
Encounter Point →
“If you lost your loved ones to violence…
If you spent 10 years in prison…
If conflict drove you from your home…
Would you seek revenge? Or struggle for peace?”
Come to Model Arab League’s film screening of Encounter Point @7pm tomorrow (Sunday) at McCormick Tribune Center
A true story about the everyday leaders who refuse to sit back as the...
Goldman on its way up... →
Hell ya.
Saudi judge refuses to annul 8-year-old's marriage →
A Saudi judge has refused for a second time to annul a marriage between an 8-year-old girl and a 47-year-old man, a relative of the girl.
The girl’s father, according to the attorney, arranged the marriage in order to settle his debts with the man, who is “a close friend” of his.
“A girl aged 10 or 12 can be married. Those who think she’s too young are wrong and...
Who knew...
A person who makes or repairs violins is called a luthier.
Anti-Apprentice Reality Show →
… That’s when you know we’re in a recession.
“Today, I put my AIM status on my Current iTunes song or video. I had downloaded...”
– fmylife.com
Corpse cut to fit coffin →
“James Hines was a giant — a 6-foot-7, 300-pound preacher and funk musician so big that after he died in 2004, a macabre rumor began circulating in this small town that the undertaker had to cut off his legs to fit him in the coffin…”
Honda Acapella →
“Human institutions often show the greatest outward brilliance at a moment when...”
– The Sources of Soviet Conduct
