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The Pity Party

“This is indeed the kettle calling the pot black,” Mark Williams, national spokesman of the conservative grassroots group [teabaggers], told CNN.

“We’re fighting the government programs that have emasculated the black family,” Williams said.

He added: “It’s the Obama administration that rolled back civil rights to a pre-civil rights era with ‘Obamacare’ in which they removed the concept of individual rights…it’s the Obama administration that put a tax on white people with a tanning salon tax. I mean, this is the kind of stuff the Tea Party movement is fighting. We are fighting for the Constitution of this country, which, by definition, makes this a human rights movement – a civil rights movement.”

I didn't realize the right to cultivate melanoma was a right anyone would want to fight for. But I guess if you've dedicated yourself to fighting everything Obama does, you really have to fight everything, even if it means taking skin cancer's side in the fight against ... wait, what ?

No no no. The problem is that they haven't linked the tanning bed tax to something people can relate to. Let me think... oh yeah, here we go:

Obama, the freedom-hating demon, wants to force us to look at strippers who haven't been evenly browned to a rich, glistening, shade of Thanksgiving Turkey Brown. The villain. What's next, a tax on fake tits? Just think of what such a thing would do to the cast of The Jersey Shore!

Yo, won't somebody think of us?

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Explanation

Division, explained:

Dividing by fractions is often hard to picture, frequently due to the verbiage used to establish division in elementary school. If we have 6 objects, and we divide by 3, we are often told to divide them into three groups" or "divide them into groups of three." Though not wrong, this verbiage makes it unclear what we are doing when we divide by fractions. Think of "divide 6 by 3" as "these 6 objects represent 3 groups; how many are in a single group?" instead. We still naturally arrive at 2 objects per group. However, when dividing by fractions, "6 divided by 1/2" then becomes "these 6 objects represent half a group," and grasping that there are 12 items in a single complete group becomes much easier, and far more natural.

So simple. I wish I'd heard this in 6th grade.

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We Suck

A number of Afghan construction companies working on contracts for American and NATO military bases in Afghanistan have accused American middlemen of reneging on payments for supplies and services, and in one case of leaving the country owing Afghan companies hundreds of thousands, even millions, of dollars.

The failure of American companies to pay for contracted work has left hundreds of Afghan workers unpaid in southern Afghanistan, and dozens of factories and small businesses so deep in debt that Afghan and foreign officials fear the fallout will undermine the United States-led counterinsurgency effort to win the support of the Afghan people.

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“Without being too dramatic, American contractors are contributing to fueling the insurgency,” said the official, who could speak only on the condition of anonymity in keeping with the policy of his organization.

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In one case the official was familiar with, three Afghan businessmen said they had completed work for an American firm, Bennett-Fouch Associates LLC, of Michigan, but had not been paid. All of them and the official said they knew of other companies in the same position after doing work for the company.

One of the businessmen, Jalaluddin Saeed, said he was owed $1.5 million by Bennett-Fouch for four contracts to provide concrete barriers for American and NATO military bases last year. He said his life was now in danger and he had had to leave his home city of Kandahar and move his family to avoid his many angry creditors.

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