October 2011
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Congressional Reform Act of 2011
wilwheaton:
This is incorrectly attributed to Warren Buffet. Regardless of who came up with it, it’s still a good idea:
No Tenure / No Pension. A Congressman collects a salary while in office and receives no pay when they are out of office.
Congress (past, present & future) participates in Social Security. All funds in the Congressional retirement fund move to the Social Security...
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I'm so sad, so very, very, sad.
I accidentally overwrote my painstakingly customized tumblr theme with another. And I do not have a backup.
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It always seemed to me a bit pointless to disapprove of homosexuality. It’s like...
– Francis Maude (discovered via natlover4ever’s response to this post)
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I just now realized that the term which we use for the forcible sterilization of animals is “fixing” them. So that’s kind of funny.
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nprfunfacts:
If Earth was the size of a classroom globe, Mars would be a mile away; the moon would be 30 feet away; and the shuttle space station 3/8 of an inch away.
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I never cease to be amazed by the power of a looming deadline to motivate me to do anything and everything except that which I should be doing.
(Such as messing with my tumblr theme; doesn’t it look spiffy?)
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Every gun that is made, every warship launched,
every rocket fired signifies, in...
– Dwight D. Eisenhower