Posts tagged politics
What I do
In three words I can sum up everything I've learned about life: it goes on. -Robert Frost
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Ok, fine, Jon Huntsman. This is kind of cool.
life:
“Before we get started, let’s all say ‘Happy Birthday’ to Elvis Presley today. We played you a little bit of ‘Promised Land’ when we pulled up. You can’t do better than Elvis Presley.”
(She said it on Aug. 16, 2011, the anniversary of Presley’s death, while campaigning in South Carolina. Presley was born on Jan. 8, 1935.)
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Stephen Colbert’s SuperPAC ad. Incredible.
(Source: theamericanprospect)
Don’t Get Neil deGrasse Tyson Started About the Un-Science-y Politicians Who Are Killing America’s Dreams
As we’ve learned time and time again, when you need to hear someone kvetch hard about the state of science in this country, point your radio telescopes at Hayden Planetarium head Neil deGrasse. In the midst of the debt debacle, he responds to Bill Maher’s question about Washington’s possible assassination of the James Webb Space Telescope with a ranty explanation of how Congress is mortgaging the futuristic dreams Americans used to have. He ends with a good question: How far can science go in Washington when so few Congressmen are scientists?
See the full discussion here, and calm your Tyson-ish nerves with this relaxing Carl Sagan video.
Source: motherboard.tv
John Fitzgerald Kennedy
“YOU SHALL NOT PASS LEGISLATION!”
(Source: theknopeway)
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