February 2012
NY TIMES: Once-dead and bailed-out A.I.G.... →
stfuconservatives:
hammerito:
Put differently, that’s:
271,418,780 pitchforks or
2,265,446,220 Halloween prop-y torches (bring the little ones!)
And how many jobs has that created for people who weren’t already wealthy? Yeahhhhhh
-Jess
“Yet when I hear our politicians talking about “fixing” Washington, I often...”
– A federal worker, who’s sick of politicians trying to denigrate his work, speaks out. It’s worth it to read his entire op-ed. (via think-progress)
“Snubs abounded, gimmicks were conflated with depth (“The Artist” scored five...”
– Rich Juzwiak on the (yawn) 2012 Oscars. (via thedailyfeed)
“People will forget what you said, people will forget what you did, but people...”
– Maya Angelou (via brownierebecca)
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“If vaginas disgust you then you hate women. If vaginas don’t actually disgust...”
– Misogyny in the Gay Community (via satifice)
whats even more disturbing is “straight” men who also hate vaginas. they wanna fuck them, but swear theyre gross: you sirs, are fucking misogynist as fuck.
(via baddominicana)
“It is not the anger of other women that will destroy us, but our refusals to...”
– Audre Lorde, The Uses of Anger (via andyouhavetogivethemhope)
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“I don’t think any parent in America who has a child would think it snobbery to...”
– White House Press Secretary Jay Carney
White House responds to Rick Santorum ‘snob’ comment, declines to hit back - POLITICO.com
(via apsies)
Why Rick Santorum would have killed my daughter →
destroythegop:
If Rick Santorum had his way, I wouldn’t have been able to get that test, and she most likely would have died. Because according to him, tests that give parents vital information about the health of their unborn children are morally wrong. Though he has no medical training, and no business commenting on the medical decisions that women and their doctors make, he argues that such...
Think Progress: Mitt Romney's Top Out-Of-Touch... →
think-progress:
It was hard for us to narrow this down to 6. We have more out-of-touch moments (complete with video) at Think Progress.
6. “I like those fancy raincoats you bought [to people wearing plastic ponchos]. Really sprung for the big bucks.’”
5. “I know what it’s like to worry about whether or…
Some sad news: Jan Berenstain, half of the... →
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“President Obama once said he wants everybody in America to go to college. What a...”
– Republican presidential candidate RICK SANTORUM, on Sunday’s Meet The Press.
No seriously. This guy is a fucking dick.
(via the Los Angeles Times)
Extreme poverty in US has more than doubled since... →
anticapitalist:
A policy brief recently issued by the National Poverty Center (NPC) reveals that the number of households in the US living on less than $2 a day per person has increased by 130 percent since 1996, from 636,000 to some 1.46 million today.
This means that some 4 million people in “the richest country on earth” (according to US capitalism’s apologists) are surviving on less than...
“President Obama once said he wants everybody in America to go to college. What a...”
– Rick Santorum at an Americans for Prosperity forum in Troy, Mich., Saturday. Read more. (via washingtonpoststyle)
What. A. Snob.
(via byeproductivity)
Perry’s On-the-Job Retirement Lifts Pension Perk... →
shortformblog:
sarahlee310:
It’s been discovered that an old obscure paragraph dealing with state pension benefits has allowed Texas Gov. Rick Perry to increase his take-home pay by more than $90,000 a year. While slashing programs for the poor, he’s getting retirement benefits while still working.
An interesting history of how Perry got the ability to double-dip.
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moonythemarauder:
isn’t it strange how attractive people are really just a nice-looking arrangement of atoms
like
damn you have a great deoxyribonucleic acid arrangement
laughter.
“The influx of money in this election cycle makes disclosure and disclaimer...”
– Senator Michael Bennet(D-CO), in an open letter to the FEC, asking them to consider broad disclosure and disclaimer requirements as the agency prepares to change several rules in the wake of the Citizens United decision.
Sen. Bennet pointed to the tens of millions of dollars already being donated...
“If we had 51% women in Congress, do you think we’d be debating access to...”
– Sen. Kristen Gillibrand (via think-progress)
“Throughout this entire process, the spectacle of these clowns thrashing each...”
– Matt Taibbi (via azspot)
Matt Taibbi is my #1 (male) intellectual crush. I haven’t enjoyed anybody’s writing this much since Kurt Vonnegut.
(via foulmouthedliberty)
Woman: Can I have birth control?
Republicans: No.
Woman: I got pregnant because I didn't have birth control and I don't want the fetus. Can I have an abortion?
Republicans: No.
Woman: I gave birth to my child but since I wasn't expecting it, I can't afford daycare. Can I have help paying for it?
Republicans: No.
If Leo really wants to win an Oscar he should just...
grrbuckingfitch:
but I bet he’d still lose to Meryl Streep
just died laughing
“I don’t think Mr. Issa (Republican Congressman Darrell Issa) has ever taken...”
– Cecile Richards, president of Planned Parenthood. (via futureabortiondoctor)
Lies, Damned Lies, And Romney →
“Every one of the Romney campaign’s major themes, from the attacks on President Obama for going around the world apologizing for America (he didn’t), to the insistence that Romneycare and Obamacare are very different (they’re virtually identical), to the claim that Mr. Obama has lost millions of jobs (which is only true if you count the first few months of his administration, before any of his...
“Like I said, after this last election, the first order of business is pass a...”
– Rep. John Sullivan (R-OK) speaking at a town hall meeting to constituents about getting a budget deal through Congress. Sullivan has since issued a public apology after TPM obtained audio of the event. (via kileyrae)
siristar:
bewitchthemind:
Were there like centaurs and goblins and tons of mythical creatures in addition to humans in Iron Lady because idgi.
^^^ this.
“We’re helping him, as we should. We’ve gotten pretty good at this over the...”
– David Koch admitting he bought Wisconsin governor Scott Walker
If you can stomach it, I highly recommend reading the rest of David Koch’s extremely arrogant interview, where he talks about how he wants to be known as the guy who “cured cancer.”
(via mohandasgandhi)
AP: "When AT&T started slowing down the data... →
inothernews:
Sounds like precedent to me. Good thing AT&T only has 17 million other customers who could be subject to throttling. Let’s see: 17 million times $850 = oh, shit!
Glad I’m not an AT&T customer.
mwjajaja, can you imagine if everybody sued AT&T?
worth it.
“Woodstock is the great American orgy. This is who the Democratic Party has...”
– Rick Santorum.
The democrats are a massive homosexual orgy?
Interesting.
(via anticapitalist)
So…sexual freedom is a bad thing. But individual liberty CANNOT EVER BE TOUCHED BY THE GOVERNMENT EVER.
But individual sexual freedom is a bad thing.
K.
(via stfusexists)
Republican Rick Santorum...