“We have to send a clear message. Just because your child gets across the border, that doesn’t mean the child gets to stay. So we don’t want to send a message that is contrary to our laws or will encourage more children to make that dangerous journey.” – Hillary Rodham Clinton This is the most evil sentiment that I have read all day. Children’s bodies are not Post-It Notes for you to write political messages on. Their lives are not yours to seize and confiscate for the purposes of communicating your nationalist ideas about borders and respect for the law. If you think that they are, I don’t want to be part of the “we” that you’re part of. You don’t act with my consent. You don’t do this in my name. #NotOneMore #StopDeportation #AbolishBorders #EndInternationalApartheid

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Remember back when Barack Obama got U.S. soldiers out of Iraq? Boy howdy, that was a time.

Power makes you stupid. #ToHellWithProhibition OK everyone, quiz time, identify the logical fallacy: “There is ample experience that a drug user harms not only himself, but also many others. . . And I’m not just talking about heroin. Over the past decade, as marijuana use has grown, the number of car accident victims testing positive for the drug has tripled, according to a recent study. . .” — Former Narc-in-Chief John P Walters

The most basic and most important reasons for immigration freedom are moral, not economic. #AbolishBorders #EndInternationalApartheid

C.S. Lewis, “The Last Battle.” Well, geez, that was kind of weird. Also got a bit racist along the way there? But, man, ***SPOILER ALERT***

http://ift.tt/1p4J4VP This would have been much better in every way than the actual speaker at my commencement.

Portuguese translation question: say I said of someone, “fumava como quem não pensa.” As I understand it, literally this means something like “he was smoking like one who does not think / is not thinking.” Q.: would I read this as describing the mental state of the smoker (that he seems like he’s not thinking about something or about anything in particular?) Or is it an idiomatic phrase to indicate he’s smoking a lot or in a peculiar way (e.g. “He was smoking like you wouldn’t believe.”) Or does it mean something else?

I am already against the next war on Iraq.