August 2012
girlwithalessonplan:
We have a date, a ceremony/reception location, and a caterer!
“Culture makes all the difference.”
– Mitt Romney, explaining why Israelis are rich and Palestinians are poor. It’s good to know the occupation, subdivision and expropriation of West Bank land and water resources, multiple destructive wars and incursions, and the seizing of East Jerusalem has nothing to do with Palestinians’ states of...
“This does also remind me of the season that we’re in. Jim Messina tells this...”
– President Barack Obama—told at a fund-raiser in New York on Monday.
via Lynn Sweet
(via brooklynmutt)
July 2012
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Apparently bashing chick-fil-a makes people... →
sweetupndown9:
A very popular humor blogger The Frogman is encouraging his army of followers to “go to chick-fil-a and seductively feed one another waffle fries.”
So a bunch of people went to Chick-fil-a and spent their money at the establishment, so they could “make a scene” by feeding people (typically of the same sex) waffle fries.
Now, I’m not an expert on business or anything…. but if you...
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“The alarming thing about Romney is that he has been running for president for...”
– Mitt’s Olympic Meddle - NYTimes.com (via apsies)
“When gays get so angry about a chicken sandwich, it is because Chick-fil-A has...”
– Conor Gaughan - “We Are Not Arguing Over Chicken” (Huffington Post)
Exactly.
(via cream-and-stars)
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fanboywithoutacause:
shadow-purple:
asslenko:
mormondad:
obama would’ve jumped from that helicopter
obama would’ve piloted that helicopter and crashed it into the olympic field, only to emerge proud and unscathed from the rubble as an eagle landed on his shoulder
caw caw motherfucker
sweetupndown9:
I am normally an incredibly optimistic person.
Can any of you guys even begin to fathom the amount of anger I have about this? To KNOW that Ryan is not healthy. But he’s being forced to leave home, to leave safety, to leave a positive environment that was helping him get better. To know that not a single god damned Marine in charge of him cares enough to pull their head out of...
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Americans are working approximately 11 more hours...
abaldwin360:
Americans are literally working themselves to death. America is the most overworked nation in the developed world and Americans have become hostage to their jobs that has made their work-life balance unattainable.
President Franklin Roosevelt in 1937 signed into law the Fair Labor Standards Act (FLSA) as part of his New Deal agenda, establishing the five-day, 40-hour maximum...
Bernie Sanders Exposes the 26 Billionaires who are... →
stfuconservatives:
questionall:
In his new report, America For Sale: A Report on Billionaires Buying the 2012 Election, Sen. Bernie Sanders named names and called out the billionaires who using Citizens United to buy our democracy.
In front of a Senate panel today, Sen. Bernie Sanders outed the 26 billionaires who are members of 23 billionaire families that are using Citizens United to buy...
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False Dilemmas
squashed:
The Republicans are trying to set up a “Government vs. Private Enterprise” debate. This is a lot like a Cardiovascular System vs. Skeletal System debate.
Both are important. They do different things. When I tried to redesign my hamster by removing all the bones to implant a couple extra hearts, it didn’t end well. (I had to write “The rules of bio-medical ethics are not more like...
“It’s politics, people. It’s politics. The world’s been going around and around...”
– Politicalprof: Vacation Notice
I feel a bit ambivalent about this.On one hand, I think politics is a stupid waste of time. The Democrats and Republicans agree to allow a vote on two tax bills, neither of which has a chance to become law because they both think they’ll get important talking points...
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“The more I learn, the more I realize I don’t know. The more I realize I don’t...”
– Albert Einstein (via 122782)
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Obama's Biggest Blunder Yet →
kohenari:
Yesterday morning, Andrew Sullivan wrote a lengthy blog post about President Obama’s “You didn’t build that” line. I thought we were done with this nonsense a full week ago, but apparently we’re not nearly there yet.
I say this not because of Sullivan’s post — or at least mostly not because of it — but because Matt Lewis, over the Daily Caller, exults that one of Obama’s biggest...
Vlogbrothers in D&D4e form!
fuckadorable:
Okay, so I rolled John and Hank into some 4th Edition Dungeons and Dragons character concepts. The thing is, I haven’t rolled a 4e character in months, and I’d love some input from the rest of Nerdfighteria. I have no idea what skills to give Hank really. I’m also horrible at Photoshop. :D
John Green Human Cleric (Cleric, because it’s either that or a Warlord) Wisdom / Charisma
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“And here’s the thing: Mr. Romney is running for president entirely on the basis...”
– Paul Krugman (via azspot)
“There are some people coming from around the world who don’t yet know if...”
– London Mayor Boris Johnson
Bonus Quote of the Day
Mitt’s Terrible, Horrible, No Good, Very Bad London trip
“We are holding an Olympic Games in one of the busiest, most active, bustling...”
– British Prime Minister David Cameron, quoted by the Daily Telegraph, slapping back at suggestions from Mitt Romney that Britain wasn’t prepared for the 2012 Olympic games
Quote of the Day
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Mega-Bank Creator Sandy Weill Reverses Course,... →
notentirely:
“Today, Sandy Weill advocating for what amounts to reinstating Glass-Steagall is akin to Darth Vader turning his back on evil. It’s Dr. Frankenstein throwing his monster into the torch wielding mob. It’s like… it’s not like anything we’ve seen before. It’s the creator of the mega-bank destroying his own work.”
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Watchdemnewswire:
Tampered
Wait a minute, Romney deliberately altered the meaning of the President’s words. Actually, he was talking about, ‘building infrastructure and education, not that individuals don’t build their businesses.
Romney’s been caught doing this before. Another attack ad was called ‘a blatant fast one for manipulating video of the President’. See the whole tape and decide for...
(Republican Senator) Jon Kyl Berates Obama For... →
stfuconservatives:
greaterthanlapsed:
WASHINGTON — President Barack Obama should stop talking about the middle class because it turns people against rich Americans, who should be embraced as the Michael Jordans of the U.S. economy, Sen. Jon Kyl (R-Ariz.) said Monday.
Declaring that the use of the phrase “middle class” is “misguided and wrong and even dangerous,” Kyl argued in a Senate floor...
“I want all these young people to be getting a higher education, and I don’t want...”
– President Obama today, keeping it real (via barackobama)
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nasty-otter:
If you think about it potatoes don’t really get all that much credit
they’re fucking awesome
this one thing here
can be made into:
different variations of fries
regular,
curly,
waffle.
It can be made into chips
or ruffly
you can make hashbrowns with it
even a salad
add some fuckin cheese to those potatoes
you can have it sliced and diced
or...
“Healthcare reform is here to stay. We’re moving forward.”
– President Obama, National Urban League (via brooklynmutt)
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“We have two Auroras that take placeevery single day of every single year! … The...”
– Michael Moore: It’s the Guns - But We All Know, It’s Not Really the Guns (via huffingtonpost) 