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Ultra-Orthodox Jew beats boy, 7, for riding bicycle close to Shabbat

The man, who erroneously believed that the boy is desecrating Shabbat, began shouting Shabbat, hit the child in the head and pushed the child. The boy fell off his bike and was injured.

The problem is fundamentalism, not any particular fundamentalist belief. Even if the child had been desecrating Shabbat, that would not have justified the attack to anyone but a fundamentalist.

Malala Yousafzai To Obama’s Face: Drones Fuel Terrorism

Girl who risked her life for peace and didn’t win Nobel Peace Prize stands up to man who didn’t risk his like and did win Nobel Peace Prize and asks him to please stop killing innocent people.

Flim Flam Forever

the really crucial thing for the WH is a matter of principle: no deal unless the extortion ends. And Rs just can’t or won’t give up the idea that they deserve to be rewarded for not blowing up the world.

Krugman nails it. Obama was too easy on the GOP early on thinking they would reward his cooperation. He let think this as a valuable tactic. And now it has to end.

The Tea Party thinks it hates Wall Street. It doesn’t.

many Tea Party Republicans are in favor of the same bills favored by the financial industry. Take the Financial Takeover Repeal Act of 2013, a one-line bill sponsored by Sen. David Vitter (R-La.) that repeals Dodd-Frank and replaces it with nothing. This bill has 22 co-sponsors this year, including notable Tea Party senators such Mike Lee, Rand Paul and Ted Cruz.

The best way to explain the Tea Party and Wall Street is The enemy of my imaginary enemy is my imaginary friend. The Tea Party is in favor of imaginary Randian makers and opposed to imaginary Randian looters. Wall Street thinks the same. The only rift is who they imagine the looters and makers are. This is the problem with Randian thinking.

Were the First Artists Mostly Women?

I find the counter argument pretty interesting:

For adults, caves would have been dangerous and uninteresting, but young boys would have explored them for adventure, said Guthrie, an emeritus professor at the University of Alaska, Fairbanks. “They drew what was on their mind, which is mainly two things: naked women and large, frightening mammals.”

That makes sense to me. Put the raw data makes sense too. This study does seem to end the idea that these were done by the hunters.

Is Dr. Ben Carson unaware how women seeking abortions got pregnant?

Newly hired Fox News contributor Dr. Ben Carson proposed on Friday to “re-educate the women” so that they would stop having abortions.

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He added there was obviously not a “war on women” because men give up their seats to pregnant women.

Giving women a seat _voluntarily_ somehow trumps government actions that deny women autonomy over their bodies? This guy is nuts.

Just 23 percent of Americans say they want to continue the current shutdown to sabotage the health law.

Is it more than 23% in those 30 super-gerrymandered districts? That would explain a lot.

Austerity pushing Europe into social and economic decline, says Red Cross

“Many from the middle class have spiralled down to poverty. The amount of people depending on Red Cross food distributions in 22 of the surveyed countries has increased by 75% between 2009 and 2012. More people are getting poor, the poor are getting poorer.”

Sad thing is that many will read that and blame the Red Cross handouts for creating poverty and dependance.

Austerity isn’t working.

Author: Stable Genius