We learned something new today. Er.
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Wow. -.-
I discussed this on Reddit
We determined that South Carolina and Maryland no longer have these laws due to court cases and that Pennsylvania’s is a bit ambiguous.
The No Religious Test Clause overrides the state laws, so there’s really no oppression against Atheists going on here.
However, if you happen to live in the Bible Belt, you’ll never get voted in anyways.
Reblogging for KNOWLEDGE©, courtesy of Bolin!
a big fog cloud just moved in over my house and there’s one cricket chirpin to itself and i feel awful almost all of the time and i don’t like feeling like i live a tiny life but i live a puny life on a puny street and someday there won’t be anymore puny life (my dog won’t have a puny life, the cricket won’t have a puny life, the fog cloud will lose its puny life.) my head’s a house in a big fuckin fog cloud. i listened to all my records, and i lied on the floor after looking at the ceiling and out the window at the same color sky. i don’t want to think that anything means anything. i want a whole treeful of leaves to always be waving at me.
i wish i had 6 digital dollars for these songs.
“Sunlight” by Eric’s Trip
it’s real easy to forget how good it feels to know where you are in the world. and it’s real shitty knowing that it’s an empty world. sitting by the cloudy lake is really only nice when you’re not the only one there. but i do this to myself and i’m not sure why. i burnt my finger and forgot my beer and spent all my money and i was sweating all night and all day but my arm never fell asleep and i hardly laugh as much as i did and my “froze-yoze” was so fucking good. i’ve never liked frozen yogurt before. and you’re one fucking complex creature, you are! so silly and sad. and your voice!!! fuck! whuddah voice!! i think about it a lot. about how i wanna be wrapped up in it like a blanket that i can be reborn into over and over again. i hope all that smoke doesn’t kill it. i’d be crushed if it did. but it’s stupid to think that i can even be reborn. we live in separate worlds and yours is busy and alone. but i guess sometimes we intersect and i like that just fine. we can’t be grandpa joe and grandma josephine all the time. sitting on the floor is good perspective. especially because you find the lil tambourine you thought you lost weeks ago.
L’antietam x Siq Shit
…sorry for the bit of delay on posting this song (but trust me, i’ll make up for it later on this week). but here you go; a brand new track by the real good homies in L’ANTIETAM. this song is titled “WHITE” and it will be found exclusively on their brand new double 7inch EP titled “Dark Brew/Rock Bottom”. i’ve known this band for quite some time now, with some dudes even longer than that (going back to Comadre’s first US tour in 2005), so it is very tight to see them still put out some solid hits. it all sounds tight. the packaging looks great. and the “Life/Death” zine that John is putting together to go along with the release is definitely the icing on the cake. so yeah, you want this shit once it is out.
and speaking of which, this gatefold-vinyl release will be AVAILABLE ONLINE SOON through the band, as well as the French label Communication Is Not Words who put it out. but if you’re lucky enough to be currently hanging around the Boston area, then you can grab this release before anyone else at L’ANTIETAM’s show this coming weekend.
if not, ORDERING should be going up soon over HERE (for Europe/World) and HERE (for US/World). and i will post on here when i know that shit is up.
in the meantime, jam this song, get stoked on this release, remember how awesome this band is, and wish you were going to Now Denial’s 10-year-anniversary show.
REBLOG homie.
i’m wicked excited to hear all these new songs!!!!!!!
Republicans in the US House of Representatives on Thursday voted to cut a government subsidy programme known as “food stamps” that allows many low income Americans to eat. They also approved cuts to federal worker benefits and help for the elderly. Why? To avoid cuts to defence spending scheduled to take effect in 2013.
Unemployment levels are hovering around 8 per cent, forcing many to rely on government assistance.
The legislation was passed after hours of passionate debate by Democrats and Republicans, and the fight is far from over. Democrats have vowed to halt the cuts in the Senate.
I listened to the arguments, made by politicians whose salaries start at roughly $175,000. Then my photographer Rob Michaud and I drove about six blocks to the other side of Capitol Hill, where incomes are significantly lower.
In fact, a large number of Capitol Hill residents rely on government assistance and live below the poverty line. It’s a stark contrast.
We met up with Chat Allen, who has been trying to support her three kids on a part-time job. It’s the only job she’s been able to find with unemployment still hovering at about 8 per cent.
Allen says she relies on food stamps to pay for her children’s groceries. She can’t understand why Congress would even consider taking them from her family. She believes Republicans voted to cut food stamps so wealthier Americans can keep paying low taxes.
“They have so much money that maybe they can tighten their belts and not live as luxuriously as they live,” she said. “They’ve earned it, but there are people who are hungry and who dig in the trash every day just to get something to eat.”
Republican representatives claim cutting food stamps and other social programmes will save $261bn. Representative Rob Woodall says government spending has forced Congress to make the cuts.
“When you’ve increased the public debt in this country by 50 per cent in the last four years, you’re all out of giveaway decisions, all we have now are tough decisions,” he said.
Republicans argue those tough decisions will prevent roughly $50bn in military spending cuts due to take effect in January.
How so? Well, this latest political showdown is a result of last summer’s debt ceiling crisis. Congress agreed to raise the US debt limit, a usually standard procedure supported by President Barack Obama, only if spending cuts of $1.2 trillion over ten years came with it.
But no one could agree on what to cut.
That indecision triggered an automatic clause mandating more than $1 trillion cuts to military and domestic programmes which the US defence secretary says would reduce US troops to levels not seen since the 1940s.
No one in Congress, Democrat or Republican, wants that to happen, so they’re trying to stop it by coming up with a plan to reduce spending.
Democrats want to raise taxes to pay for America’s costly entitlement programmes and slash tax breaks for the wealthy. Republicans refuse to even consider new taxes.
That frustrates Democratic Representative Chris Van Hollen, who on Thursday scolded Republicans.
“You won’t ask one penny more for people making more than a million dollars a year to help reduce our deficit? Not one penny more?” he asked.
Allen told me she still finds it shocking. Now she says she’s hoping her Senate Democrats will block the Republicans from making their legislation law. She admits she’s nervous and wonders just how far Congress will continue cutting the subsidies she and so many Americans rely on to survive and get through another day.
The Republicans are repeating what they did in the 1990s in the name of a “balanced budget”: cut social programs. In this Second Great Depression where 150 million people are at or near poverty (according to the Supplemental Poverty Measure), cutting food programs will hurt the public, not help it. People are suffering and the government must step in and help. Otherwise, the government takes the role it has had since its founding in 1787: to help the rich, the 1%, consolidate their power.
because i’m sorta drunk and feeling lotsa feelings. way to go laura jane gable, rest in peace, maurice, good job, matty a., matty r., matty m., and the matty s’s. we all in this together. fuck the celtics fer not winning tonight. WORLD PREMIERE NEVR FERGIT!!!
i found a cd with these songs on it in my car. 16 year-old matt used to write a bunch of songs that i’m hoping to find over the next few days.
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