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(Source: popculturebrain)
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“Teachers matter. So instead of bashing them, or defending the status quo, let’s offer schools a deal. Give them the resources to keep good teachers on the job, and reward the best ones. In return, grant schools flexibility: To teach with creativity and passion; to stop teaching to the test; and to replace teachers who just aren’t helping kids learn.”
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“At a time when Americans owe more in tuition debt than credit card debt, this Congress needs to stop the interest rates on student loans from doubling in July. Extend the tuition tax credit we started that saves middle-class families thousands of dollars. And give more young people the chance to earn their way through college by doubling the number of work-study jobs in the next five years.”
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“An economy built to last is one where we encourage the talent and ingenuity of every person in this country. That means women should earn equal pay for equal work.”
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“The U.S. really is a society that simply no longer believes in due process: once the defining feature of American freedom that is now scorned as some sort of fringe, radical, academic doctrine. That is not hyperbole. Supporters of both political parties endorse, or at least tolerate, all manner of government punishment without so much as the pretense of a trial, based solely on government accusation: imprisonment for life, renditions to other countries, even assassinations of their fellow citizens. Simply uttering the word “Terrorist”, without proving it, is sufficient. And now here is Megaupload being completely destroyed — its website shuttered, its assets seized, ongoing business rendered impossible — based solely on the unproven accusation of piracy.”
- Glenn Greenwald, Lessons of the Megaupload seizure (via absurdlakefront)Jan242012 -
Knope 2012: Leslie’s most important issues
- More dog parks
- Senior citizens rights
- Safe streets
- Safe sidewalks
- Better schools
- Lower taxes
- Better parks
- Better business climate
- Better Better Business Bureau
- Cleaner streets
- Improve greenways
- More snow plows
- Protecting Pawneeans
- Improving tourism
- More trash cans
- Energy-efficient street lights
- Westside Detoxification and Revitalization Project
- Repaving Grand Avenue
- More teachers
- Fewer libraries
- Improve intergovernmental agency communication
- Clean-up Barefoot Lake
- Passing Pawnee Jobs Bill P-129.4
- Playgrounds in every park
- Playgrounds in every schoolyard
- Playgrounds in every residential block
- Clean energy
- One police officer for every 5 citizens
- One park ranger for every 10,000 raccoons
- Resodding Hilltop Cemetery
- Start talking to Cuba again
- Emergency evacuation drills
- Plow for Charity
- Forming an Ad Hoc Sub-Committee Oversight Committee
- Challenging the norm
- Pawnee Corn Subsidies
- Finally Passing PR-61, formally recognizing South Korea
- Official peace treaty with the Wamapoke Tribe
- Four-way stops at every intersection
- Unionizing ice cream trucks
- Get Europe out of debt
- Free trade with Illinois
- Enact RRP - Raccoon Relocation Project
- Pawnee Community College tuition in exchange for 4 years of public service
- Doubling Pawnee Hospital’s emergency room nurse staff
- Legalize Korean
- Lower the obesity level
- Stop global terrorism
- Re-open the toucan exhibit at Pawnee Zoo
- Find Gabe the Toucan
- More community gardens
- Ordinance 11F: To Re-pave City Sidewalks
- Budget reform
- Updated Technologies for Local Schools
- Better retirement benefits for city employees
- Edward Phillips Senior Center Remodeling
- Speed bumps in front of elementary schools
- Unemployment benefits
- Re-instating the Main St. Farmers Market
- No turtles as pets
- New uniforms for youth sports programs
- Free public Wi-Fi
- Updated childcare facilities
- Shutting down the Child Left Behind program
- Handicap parking placards for the obese
- FREE PARKING EVERYWHERE
- Cleaner drinking water
- Regulate heights of trampolines
- Memorial for those lost in the trampoline “incident”
- Control the floods
- Funding for public art commission
- Fencing in correctional facilities
- New police patrol cars
- Funding overtime hours for police
- Rebuilding the PTA
- Prosecuting former PTA president Linda Trifle
- Profitable government organizations
- Shutting down underground shooting ranges
- Making sure city contracts employ local workers
- Providing more economic development grants and micro-loans to small businesses
- Foster partnerships with sister cities
- More buses to speed up morning commutes
- More streets to accommodate additional buses
- Require all city employees check and respond to email
- Working sewers
- More parades
- Grants for scientists to discover new forms of energy
- Leave a lasting impression on all visitors
- Challenge the norm
- Finish the statue of Burt Bacharach
- No more conflict diamonds
- Bulletproof glass everywhere
- Free cookies at every street corner
- One school for every student
- Require flattering mirrors in public restrooms
- Develop a municipal composting operation
- Enforce existing speeding and noise ordinances
- Upgrade existing parks
- Create an anti-graffiti, youth outreach program
- Free cake when it’s your birthday
- Reevaluate NAFTA
- Rickshaw Wednesdays
- Making it illegal to refuse a hug
- Make downtown more people-friendly
- Sell candy in government buildings to pay down the debt
- Get Pawnee a licensed pharmacy
- Better screening processes at local adoption agencies
- Finding homes for the adopted children of Day Labor Corp.
- Prop 6A: To Recognize All Five Food Groups
- Replacing all glass with plastic at Pawnee Psychiatric Clinic
- Curfew for minors at The Pawnee Mall
- Stop paying Sweetums the so-called “thank you for being here” tax
- Mini-golf renovations
- Subsidizing educational and eco-friendly businesses
- Removing Zorp from all written laws
- Reducing Federal Government Experiments in town to 10 per year
- Ordinance 8R: A Goat Cannot Own/Inherit a Farm
- Legalize clapping
- New railway
- Prop 14: Religion Is Not a Science
- No longer recognizing the winner of the chili cook-off as a government position
- Stricter testing at Pawnee Blood Bank
- Boarding up unsanctioned “drop off” slot at Pawnee Blood Bank
- Encouraging the FDA to re-analyze our farms
- Funding for better and safer sewage treatment
- Thicker cement for containment of old sewage treatment factory
- Mandatory sexual harassment seminar for government employees
- Starting a dialogue with the people who live in the trees
- Pay off our debt to the Ringling Bros.
- Prove that we can safely host a circus again
- Ordinance 43K: Laws Cannot Be Secrets
- Recall Food N’ Stuff branded hand sanitizer
- Disseminate the fund for a Pawnee Military
- Find the stolen cell phone tower
- Reduce obesity by .01% (100 lbs per family)
- Make the Pawnee Cemetery less flammable
- Less nudity on public-access television
- Capping the number of local public-access channels at 50
- Eliminate permit application process for legal ownership of a calculator
- Making Li’l Sebastian Day a legal holiday
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Please join me at the opening reception of 120dB, a group photo show of concert photography at Fort Useless (36 Ditmars Street, Brooklyn) on January 27th from 6-10pm.
The exhibit showcases the work of thirteen female concert photographers prominently featured in Stereogum, Brooklyn Vegan, Prefix, Impose, Village Voice, NPR, House List and many other sites and publications. Participating photographers include: Jessica Amaya • Abbey Braden• Amanda Hatfield • Leia Jospe • Devyn Manibo • Samantha Marble • Gabi Porter • Emily Tan • Tear-n Tan • Maryanne Ventrice • Diana Wong • Dana (distortion) Yavin • Laura Young
Curated by: Maryanne Ventrice
Presented by: Fort Useless
About the Exhibit:
120dB. The level of sound intensity at every concert. The level of passion and
perseverance echoed back by every one of these photographers. The sheer level of artistic energy and audience engagement that resonates loud and clear in their each and every shot.
http://120dbconcertphotos.wordpress.com/About Fort Useless
Fort Useless is dedicated to providing a hospitable space for artists, performers and supporters across all disciplines to foster a greater sense of community and creative interaction.
http:// www.fortuseless.comJan242012
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