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I am a Junior at a Small University in Virginia. I am hoping to become a high school history teacher.

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religiousragings: friendlyatheist: Yeah! Why does the government of the USA does not endorse Christianity? Why hasn’t’ the Christian President, Christian Congress and extreme majority Christian electorate made such changes? Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof; or abridging the freedom of speech, or of the press; or the right of the people peaceably to assemble, and to petition the Government for a redress of grievances. -Constitution USA Yeah!  Why haven’t I heard about Jesus more than 20 times today?  They’re just not getting the word out enough!

religiousragings:

friendlyatheist:

Yeah! Why does the government of the USA does not endorse Christianity? Why hasn’t’ the Christian President, Christian Congress and extreme majority Christian electorate made such changes?

Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof; or abridging the freedom of speech, or of the press; or the right of the people peaceably to assemble, and to petition the Government for a redress of grievances.
-Constitution USA

Yeah!  Why haven’t I heard about Jesus more than 20 times today?  They’re just not getting the word out enough!

(Source: ohnojackchick)

myedol:

RUN sculpture for the 2012 London Olympics by Monica Bonvicini

(via myedol)

In scholarship it is not perhaps necessity, but prejudice, that is the mother of invention.

—Mancur Olson (via freemarketliberal)

thatwasweirdblog: socialuprooting: Reality Check: Yes, President Obama Is a Hawk It’s terrifying that isn’t clear to everyone, because it suggests the neoconservative desire for even more foreign wars is skewing the way that Americans conceive of hawkishness and dovishness. It suggests we’re defining “warmonger” down.Here are the facts:  Obama escalated the war in Afghanistan, adding tens of thousands of troops at a cost of many billions of dollars. He committed American forces to a war in Libya, though he had neither approval from Congress nor reason to think events there threatened national security. He ordered 250 drone strikes that killed at least 1,400 people in Pakistan. He ordered the raid into Pakistan that killed Osama bin Laden. He ordered the killings of multiple American citizens living abroad. He expanded the definition of the War on Terrorism and asserted his worldwide power to indefinitely detain anyone he deems a terrorist. He expanded drone attacks into Somalia. He ordered a raid on pirates in Somalia. He deployed military squads to fight the drug war throughout Latin America. He expanded the drone war in Yemen, going so far as to give the CIA permission to kill people even when it doesn’t know their identities so long as they’re suspected of ties to terrorism. He’s implied that he’d go to war with Iran rather than permitting them to get nuclear weapons. In summary, President Obama escalated a major war and sent tens of thousands more troops to fight it, even as he joined in regime change in a different country, ordered drone strikes in at least three others, and sent commandos into Pakistan, a list of aggressive actions that isn’t even exhaustive. It’s perverse for that record to be rendered, in America’s newspaper of record, as Obama “straddling the precarious line between hawk and dove.” In fact, he is a hawk. Republicans are misrepresenting his record and positions and some progressives are doing the same, because they are rightly embarrassed by the gulf between his campaign promises and the record he’s amassed. Give this man a Klondike bar and a Nobel Peace Prize!

thatwasweirdblog:

socialuprooting:

Reality Check: Yes, President Obama Is a Hawk

It’s terrifying that isn’t clear to everyone, because it suggests the neoconservative desire for even more foreign wars is skewing the way that Americans conceive of hawkishness and dovishness. It suggests we’re defining “warmonger” down.

Here are the facts: 

  • Obama escalated the war in Afghanistan, adding tens of thousands of troops at a cost of many billions of dollars.
  • He committed American forces to a war in Libya, though he had neither approval from Congress nor reason to think events there threatened national security.
  • He ordered 250 drone strikes that killed at least 1,400 people in Pakistan.
  • He ordered the raid into Pakistan that killed Osama bin Laden.
  • He expanded the definition of the War on Terrorism and asserted his worldwide power to indefinitely detain anyone he deems a terrorist.
  • He expanded drone attacks into Somalia.
  • He ordered a raid on pirates in Somalia.
  • He deployed military squads to fight the drug war throughout Latin America.
  • He expanded the drone war in Yemen, going so far as to give the CIA permission to kill people even when it doesn’t know their identities so long as they’re suspected of ties to terrorism.
  • He’s implied that he’d go to war with Iran rather than permitting them to get nuclear weapons.

In summary, President Obama escalated a major war and sent tens of thousands more troops to fight it, even as he joined in regime change in a different country, ordered drone strikes in at least three others, and sent commandos into Pakistan, a list of aggressive actions that isn’t even exhaustive.

It’s perverse for that record to be rendered, in America’s newspaper of record, as Obama “straddling the precarious line between hawk and dove.” In fact, he is a hawk. Republicans are misrepresenting his record and positions and some progressives are doing the same, because they are rightly embarrassed by the gulf between his campaign promises and the record he’s amassed.

Give this man a Klondike bar and a Nobel Peace Prize!