Link Me Up, Scotty - Hope and Outrage Edition

Monday, December 5, 2016

My favorite Christian pastor offers words of hope and encouragement during this dark time in our nation's history. #nevillefightsback
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President Obama and his sacred duty to the wounded at Walter Reed National Military Medical Center. While I didn't agree with some of the President's policies, I will miss him terribly once he's gone.
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The Atlantic publishes their 2016 Photographs of the Year.
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Remember when I was bitching about how the DoD was making veterans pay back re-enlistment bonuses due to an error on the part of the government and its representatives? Well, lawmakers have taken action to help relieve those service members of this burden. It's nice to be pleasantly surprised by our ne'er do well legislative branch.
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With the real failure of media coverage on the Standing Rock protests, leave it to Cracked to be the one to actually do some, you know, journalism. So the heinous fuckery up there continued to escalate, until the Army Corps of Engineers put a temporary halt to construction.

Who thinks the pipeline will be rerouted after President Cheeto takes office? Anyone? Anyone? Bueller? Yeah, I thought not. Money talks, democracy walks, at least in today's America.
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Our White Nationalist President has decided to nominate retired USMC General James N. Mattis for the position of Secretary of Defense. But some feel President Cheeto is getting more than he bargained for.

One can only hope.
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The Atlantic with a series of photographs on "A Hidden American Anger." There's been a renewed interest in poor, white, rural America, and these photographs tell the tale of these forgotten communities.
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An a Capella group re-imagines Hamilton...as the story of Rudolph the Red Nose Reindeer. You know you need this in your life.

H/T Brother Steve


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