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November 10 2009

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You Can’t Get There from Here: My Adventures as a Semi-Disabled PATH Rider

rhodyram:

“Editor’s note: When we saw that one of our Twitter followers was starting to figure out how best to navigate the PATH system on crutches, we thought it would be a good opportunity to share one person’s experience with the woeful lack of accessibility at many PATH stations. Marc Frydman will be sharing his commuting stories for the next two weeks or so; we hope it will help our readers think about the daily difficulties faced by differently-abled commuters — and about why our transit system doesn’t accommodate them.”

Along with the Jersey City Independent my experiences with limited accessibility to the NJ PATH will be documented beginning with this article - please take a peek when you have a moment.  It would be an honor to give back to the community and through my sharing, I hope that something will be accomplished with this longtime shitty situation.

Great job, Marc!

November 9 2009

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gbattle: An almost Dirty Sanchez.  (Don’t blankin’ hurt ‘em Rick.) Me and you tike, we gonna make some cash.

gbattle:

An almost Dirty Sanchez.  (Don’t blankin’ hurt ‘em Rick.)

Me and you tike, we gonna make some cash.

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courtenaybird: Unemployment Rate For People Like You – NYT Interactive

courtenaybird:

Unemployment Rate For People Like You – NYT Interactive

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SNL Digital Short : Firelight (via kaytee)

Truth is stranger than irony

garysick:

In my posting below on Oct 26 I denounced the fact that my fellow academic Kian Tajbakhsh was sentenced to 15 years in prison in Iran, in part because he had met with me and because I was falsely accused of being a CIA agent. I commented ironically:

… .I have been in meetings with President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad on four different occasions over the past three years. I have spent at least nine hours with him, much more than I ever spent with Kian… .Iranian security officials are notably lacking in any sense of irony or humor. But I do wonder whether President Ahmadinejad is being considered for indictment because of his extensive contacts with me over the past four years… .

I have now discovered that my words have proved truer than I could ever have imagined.

Earlier today it was reported by Scott Lucas’ blog Enduring America that the Iranian Labor News Agency features an interview with conservative activist Mojtaba Shakeri, who says that some of the journalists and scholars who met with Ahmadinejad, presumably during the President’s trip to New York, were undoubtedly CIA operatives. This in turn was picked up by the opposition press, which is accusing Ahmadinejad of consorting with CIA agents.

My ironic comment seems to have been transformed into a straight-faced criticism of Mr. Ahmadinejad with an utter disregard not only for the truth but also for any appreciation of the humor of the accusation.

It is impossible to parody a system that constantly parodies itself by its actions and words.

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In H.R. 3962, the government is requiring at least 21 million Americans to buy private health insurance


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Dennis Kucinich, Why I Voted NO | CommonDreams.org

Wait WHAT? WHAT WHAT WHAT

(via nickdouglas)

I love this man so much. Both because he has the courage of his convictions and because he is a perfect example of we need flexibility in Washington. Nothing would get done if everyone behaved like him. Far too much would get done if no one behaved like him.

(via mikehudack)

In a perfect world, it would be a Kucinich bill.

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Sean Hannity Interviews Former Miss USA Carrie Prejean About Her Sex Tape.

Don’t judge her, but let her judge everyone else, ok?

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mikehudack: (via apsies)

mikehudack:

(via apsies)

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CBS Producing Television Sitcom based on Twitter @shitmydadsays

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Now Streaming: The entire upcoming Them Crooked Vultures album.

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Yahoo Brings Free WiFi To Times Square

venezianijournal

Of all the places in New York to provide free WiFi, they choose the place most New Yorkers try to avoid?

Are tourists going to take advantage of this?

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When we talk about values, I think of rationality in solving problems. That’s something I value. Fairness, kindness, generosity, tolerance. When they talk about values, they’re talking about things like going to church, voting for Bush, being loyal to Jesus, praying. These are not values.


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Bill Maher (via ieatcatlitter and mry) (via soupsoup) (via evangotlib)

So obnoxiously smug. Religious people — I am not now one of them, but even so I can say this — have real values. About treating people fairly. About being good to those around them. About the Golden Rule. Charity. We can continue.

Some religious people are bad people, and some atheists are good people. Religious people have values. Atheists have values. It’s funny — each side seems to miss these simple facts about the other.

(via mikehudack)

I agree. Those values aren’t exclusive to the religious, agnostics, or atheists.

The point is, it doesn’t matter if you’re religious or not, the important thing is to be fair, be kind, be generous, and be tolerant.

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You think abortion is wrong? Don’t have one. I think killing people is wrong, so I’m not in the army. My tax dollars still go to fund it, though (in fact about 21 cents of each of my tax dollars). My tax dollars also go to keep prisoners on death row even though I think the death penalty is morally wrong. My tax dollars fund Guantanamo and Bagram, extraordinary rendition, and Jim DeMint’s salary, all of which I find disgusting. So why is abortion, a legal medical procedure, so remarkably different that we have to go overboard making sure tax dollars don’t fund it?


- GlobalComment » Hey Stupak, women’s bodies are not bargaining chips, by the kickassed Sarah Jaffe (via pcquotes)

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Monday is Funday

jared:

This has to be one of the most action-packed Mondays in a long while.  So much excitement and the news keeps trickling in.

It’s quite the day for the blogosphere.

Good recap.