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This is what real student protests look like.

Remember a couple weeks ago when congress caved from the president’s pressure on student loans? Just imagine if THIS happened.

The Quebec Cabinet has just proposed province wide hikes for student tuition and it has resulted in wide-spread student protest. It is now being recorded as possibly the largest act of civil disobedience in the nation’s history. I think as Americans, we’ve lost our civil disobedience hootspa, and we could learn a thing or three from these students in Quebec.

However, the question is not whether or not we should learn from them, but if the same happened with our student loan fiasco in congress, would we do the same?

Would we as Americans, take our first amendment rights to the full extent, or in this case, over the edge? Or would we remain complacent in the safety of our homes behind our laptops, PC’s, ipads and whatever the hell else device we can use this day and age to get on the internet?

I’ve always hated the gridlock in congress, but this gives me all the more reason to do so. It seems as if Americans will never be truly tested to fight for what they believe in. I’m not just talking about partisan issues, I’m talking about REAL issues that affect different people in different areas. Why are there no protests for union rights in wisconsin? Why is there not local public outrage over the extra-double-triple-quadruple gay marriage ban in North Carolina?

Is it because we’re scared, or because we as Americans no longer possess the will to fight for our own individual political beliefs?

And in doing so, have we lost the ability to fight together for something other than health care and abortion?

The question remains.

Good job Quebec.

29 / 05

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Students in Quebec were asked to send their march route to cops and sent them this.

Gotta love Canada.

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29 / 05

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ROMNEY HAS PUBLIC AND PRIVATE MORALITY UPSIDE DOWN

Mitt Romney’s reaction to J.P. Morgan Chase’s mounting losses from reckless trades is “the market will take care of it.” His spokesman says “no taxpayer money was at risk” so we don’t need more financial regulation. Romney has even promised to repeal Dodd-Frank if he’s elected president.

Yet at the same time, Romney has come out strongly against same-sex marriage. He’s also against abortion. He has no problem with government intruding on the most intimate of decisions a person makes.

He’s got private and public morality upside down. He doesn’t want to regulate where regulation is necessary — at the highest reaches of the economy, where public immorality has cost us dearly, and will cost even more unless boardroom behavior is constrained. Yet he wants to regulate where regulation is least appropriate — at the level of the individual, in bedrooms and other intimate spaces, where private morality should govern.

This is a dangerous confusion. It should be a matter of personal choice whom to marry and when to have children. But it is undoubtedly a matter of public choice whether big banks should be allowed to take the kind of risky bets that plunged the economy into the worst downturn since the Great Depression, and whether people with great wealth and should be able to buy our democracy with huge campaign contributions.

Please see the attached video and pass it on.

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29 / 05

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After The Milwaukee Journal Sentinel endorsed Scott Walker in his recall campaign, readers responded in kind, filling up an entire page with letters criticizing the decision. You can read them here. (ht Patch’s Recall Central, via Arena of the Unwell)

How’s that divide and conquer going walker? Haha.

29 / 05

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Anyone into politics/current events/human rights? I’m looking to form a community here! :)

29 / 05

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When you ask, the question ‘How many jobs did you create at Bain Capital?’ the truth, is we invested in businesses that created the jobs. We didn’t create them ourselves. They did.

Mitt Romney

29 / 05

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Billie Shakes-Jared Loughner

The Tuscon Shootings From the killers point of View.
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On January 8, 2011 a mass shooting occurred near Tucson, Arizona. Twenty people were injured, nineteen from gunfire six of them fatally, during an open meeting that U.S. Representative Gabrielle Giffords was holding with members of her constituency in a Casas Adobes supermarket parking lot.Those killed in the incident include United States District Court for the District of Arizona Chief Judge John Roll and one of Rep. Giffords’s staffers.News reports identified the target of the attack as Giffords, a Democrat representing Arizona’s 8th congressional district. She was shot through the head at point-blank range, and her medical condition was initially described as “critical”.

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04 / 02

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pretty-little-pinkie asked: Soo, I'm doing the program for the Romeo and Juliet play. You should consider advertising Billie Shakes in it. (;

Really? Yes do it Please!!! Ms. Speilberger Already Wants me To do My Rap of Romeo And Juliet at the show. But yes Please do! We should sicuss it more. :)

04 / 02

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// I Finally Found a Blogger To Write My Bio! :))//

Billie Shakes, who’s government Name Is Marc Moore-Sharp Is A Hip-Hop/ Alternative Musician From Dubuque, Iowa. Growing up Marc always had A passion for Music. He Has Always been open to All forms of music, including Hip-hop, rock, Alternative, Country and Classical. He has Been Rapping For 3 Years, Playing Guitar for 2. He is the son of Emerg Mcvay, Who is one of the front men of The anger management Tour Featured(Which featured eminem, Xzibit, D12, Ludacris, Papa Roach, and many others.) Bionic Jive. Billie shakes has Thorough stage Experience And Is revered to Have Extraordinary Skills On the Mic By some. He Is Currently Working On his singing, he is a member of the Westwood high School Honor choir, and maintains a 3.8 GPA As A Student Athlete, and Somehow finds Time To make good music in the midst of it all. He is also an actor, he was featured in the Carson Jr. high production of “School Daze” and Has Been featured on the culinary TV Show “Kids In the Kitchen” which was a local Success. He still Continues to grow as an entertainer and Continues to expand his horizon to various avenues. With Such versatility as a musician And knowledge of other genres and forms of entertainment and growing expertise in music theory, Billie shakes Has a promising future. He is glad you are joining him on his Journey, sit, observe, and create emotions through his entertainment and music.

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