Dum Spiro, Spero

thenewrepublic:

President Obama didn’t create today’s budget problem. Bush did.

As much as I take issue with Obama on many issues…this chart is very telling of the facts that nobody highlights. If you bring this up today everyone will say “You can’t blame Bush for everything!” And this reasoning strikes me as so rediculous…we are supposed to just wipe the slate clean for a President that cost this country so goddamn much as far as money and more importantly…HUMAN LIFE. Now Obama has not been perfect by any account but the fact is that when Bush went to put his policies into place it was to protect Republican “interests” and it got us into an economic recession…now Obama has been trying to repair our economy and it is downright SAD to see that Republicans in the House and Senate would rather see the country fail than allow President Obama to succeed on ANYTHING. Government becomes part of the problem when they put partisan politics ABOVE public issues of PRIORITY. 

(via chriszee)

breakingnews:

Just some of the 100,000+ people in Oslo who held roses in memory of the victims in Friday’s bombing and shooting in Norway. (Photo by @paulinkamalinka on Twitpic.)

(via merosezah)

insaniyat:

The above is sarcasm, but as always A terrorist is a terrorist is a terrorist

whiporwill:

whether he is Norwegian, or Kansan, or Egyptian, or Sri Lankan, or Pennsylvanian, or British, or Virginian, or Irish, or Israeli, or from New York, or from Illinois. Politically motivated violence with the intent of causing mass fear is terrorism and it is always abhorrent. By only calling the acts of Muslim extremists terrorism in the media, we implicitly excuse all other terrorists of their crimes.

Also read:

How a clueless “terrorism expert” set media suspicion on Muslims after Oslo horror

The omnipotence of Al Qaeda and the meaninglessness of “Terrorism”

Terrorism has no objective meaning and, at least in American political discourse, has come functionally to mean: violence committed by Muslims whom the West dislikes, no matter the cause or the target.

Norway suspect laid out detailed plans for violence against “traitors,” Muslims

Norway, Islam, and the threat of the West

….and another “madman” is added to the Axis of Islamophobia

(Source: doulaness)

thenoobyorker:

deafmuslimpunk:

Pictured: The blond Norwegian, 32, arrested over ‘holiday island massacre’ and linked to Oslo car bomb blasts

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