Motley Moose – Archive

This fucking system lost my diary last night.

  Make sure you let your peeps

  know where to find you!  

A moment of silence – for justice denied (again).

Prayers. Thoughts. For Trayvon’s family.

Let’s organize.  

On Thursday, at the United Nations, Malala Yousefzai celebrated her 16th birthday by addressing the United Nations Youth Assembly, making a remarkably mature call for the education of all, for peace and for standing up for one’s rights through civil disobedience.  Ms. Malala, who was shot in the head in Pakistan by the Taliban last October for her outspoken advocacy of education for girls, was unbowed and defiant, evoking as her guides Mohammed, Jesus Christ, Buddha, Martin Luther King, Mahatma Ghandi, Mohammed al Jinnah, Bacha Khan and Mother Theresa, as well as her parents.

She calls education “the most powerful weapon” with which to change the world.

From the White House – Weekly Address

President Obama discusses how a large, bipartisan majority in the Senate voted to pass comprehensive immigration reform, which would add a big boost to our economy, strengthen Social Security, and modernize our legal immigration system to make it more consistent with our value. He calls on Congress to pass this commonsense bill quickly so that we can fix our broken immigration system and keep America strong for years to come.

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A look at a memorable May, 1968 night in Boston – and the three men whose actions forty-five years ago helped the city avert a night of violence that afflicted many other cities, after the jump …

Interrogatories

Have you ever seen The Rolling Stones?

Are you a good photographer? Were you before the advent of digital photography?

Are you a fan of poetry? Do you write any?

It’s Collector Car Appreciation Day? Is there a particular vintage car that you appreciate?

The Twitter Emitter

I hope Harry Reid's tombstone reads: "It was worth dying to choke Mitch McConnell to death with my bare hands."

— allanbrauer (@allanbrauer) July 11, 2013

I'm excited about prospect of @SarahPalinUSA serving a 3 yr Senate term

— Gen JC Christian (@JC_Christian) July 11, 2013

North Carolina: keeping you safe from motorcycle abortions and sharia law since 2013

— Ari Berman (@AriBerman) July 11, 2013

If an adult man is following a teenage boy, stalking him, and he's not a priest…

— Shannyn Moore (@shannynmoore) July 11, 2013

Zimmerman told Hannity that him shooting #TrayvonMarton was God's plan, which was different from the police's plan of him staying in his car

— The Daily Edge (@TheDailyEdge) July 11, 2013

I wonder what John Boehner's doing incompetently right now.

— Danforth France (@danforthfrance) July 11, 2013

Today's Senate debates are breaking records for unserious uses of the term "my friend"

— daveweigel (@daveweigel) July 11, 2013

Dear @nprnews When you say a bill "failed" in the US Senate, and it really was blocked by GOP filibuster, you are lying to your audience.

— rootless (@root_e) July 11, 2013

I don't know about "killing the Senate", but I'd like to see someone kill Senate access to mediocre clip art.

— Hunter (@HunterDK) July 11, 2013

"yo mama so fat not even the gop would vote against cloture on a nonbinding resolution acknowledging her fatness" #senateyomamajokes

— Oliver Willis (@owillis) July 11, 2013

BREAKING: House refuses to take up sharknado relief bill

— Josh Greenman (@joshgreenman) July 11, 2013

I just got a front row parking space at Trader Joe's without even trying. The end is nigh.

— Wil Wheaton (@wilw) July 11, 2013

Fixing broken immigration system will cut debt by $1T, although we could just leave things broken and cut Food Stamps instead, says GOP

— Richard Hine (@richardhine) July 11, 2013

Good morning, Moosekind. TGIF! Don’t forget to let your peeps know where to find you.

Fictional president Andrew Shepherd said in his famous speech at the end of the movie The American President: “I was so busy keeping my job I forgot to do my job.”

Senate Democrats are so busy worrying about what will happen if they lose the majority that they are refusing to rule like a majority.