"35% after tax, with stay at home wife & child. (Inner Sunset)."
- Thomas Stromberg
TIL that a man once wrestled a bear, had his leg mutilated, was left for dead, woke up, set the wound on his own, and crawled over 200 miles for six weeks back to his home town, and then set out to find the men who left him to die - http://www.reddit.com/r...
"I'm in the opposite position. I tried a 2012, but couldn't handle the color scheme, so I sought out a 2011 on Craigslist. Brilliant bike, in any case."
- Thomas Stromberg
If we stigmatize sex offenders for life then its clear we should do the same for sociopathic cops. The time has come for a police brutality register. Once on the list you will be required to notify everyone in your neighborhood that you brutalized an innocent person and abused your power. - http://www.reddit.com/r...
Greenwald: "If Israel, as NBC reports, has “financed, trained and armed” a group officially designated by the U.S. Government as a Terrorist organization, isn’t that the definitive act of how one becomes an official “state sponsor of Terrorism"? - http://www.reddit.com/r...
When Florida Gov. Rick Scott turned down $2 billion in federal money for high speed rail, he argued it'd be a burden on the state - But documents reveal independent consultants found the system would be turning a profit of $35 - $41 million a year by its 10th year of operation - http://www.reddit.com/r...
Wolves Being Poisoned With Painful Strychnine-Laced Bait Over Tar Sands Development - Rather than improve environmental practices, Canada is blaming a decline in caribou on wolves. The poison causes spasms, convulsions, & suffocation for hours. It also kills animals eating the carcasses. - http://www.reddit.com/r...
A broken underwater wellhead has been dumping 4,000 gallons of oil a day into the Gulf of Mexico for 7 years, and neither its owner nor state or federal govts have informed the public or seriously tried to stop it, six environmental groups claim in Federal Court - http://www.reddit.com/r...
">>> datetime.now() - datetime(2011, 5, 5) datetime.timedelta(273, 46102, 861706) That would be nine months."
- Thomas Stromberg
TIL that in 2009 China cancelled the debts of 32 African countries. I don't remember seeing banner headlines about this. It was good news, wasn't it? - http://www.reddit.com/r...
Republicans Throw Kids Under the Bus - A transportation package gives all oil companies want & more: drilling in the Arctic Wildlife Refuge & off both coasts, larger trucks on roads, & cuts funds for high-speed rail & a program designed to help kids walk to school without getting run over. - http://www.reddit.com/r...