February 2012
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Looks like Obamacare hasn't killed the economy... →
Yet another of the many ways an improving economy undercuts the GOP’s position. It’s not surprising that they actually fought against most efforts to improve the economy - it would be bad for their electoral prospects.
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Wow →
CNN’s Dana Loesch:
“Progressives are trying to say, that it’s rape and so on and so forth…They had no problem having similar to a trans-vaginal procedure when they engaged in the act that resulted in their pregnancy.”
Attn: Dana: your assignment for today is to look up the definition of the word “consent” and write a report on it.
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What are Ron Paul's real goals? →
Sarlin:
As far as negative campaigning goes, Paul rarely gets mentioned as a mudslinger but he’s actually run some of the toughest ads of the cycle. And, in a nice coincidence for Romney, they’ve often come just as he’s targeting the same candidate with the same message.
Not sure if this is really just a coincidence or if kindly old Dr. Paul is actually looking for a seat within a...
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Much Less Much More: Taking a break from fielding... →
tylercoates:
In all, [Tao Lin] read around 30 tweets, and about half of them got laughter registering somewhere in the polite to genuine segment of the continuum. Maybe not genuine enough for Lin, who concluded his bit abruptly: “That’s all I’m going to read,” he said, and introduced…
I can barely stand to read tweets myself, much less watch other people read them.
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So excellent →
Charlie:
Princess Dumbass of the Northwoods
lololololol
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Another perspective on Romney vs. Santorum →
Kornacki:
… just about every headline that Santorum has generated since then has been about culture war politics, a trend that has accelerated in the past few days as he’s blasted Barack Obama’s “phony theology,” railed against mandatory coverage of prenatal care, and even made a Hitler reference. There’s also the stir that one of his aides caused on Monday by warning on national...
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On the Babeau scandal →
What Josh says. I have no idea whether the guy tried to intimidate the ex-boyfriend over his immigration status, and if he did that’s pretty bad news. And I probably wouldn’t be voting for Mr. Babeau in any case. But I have to respect him for having the balls to say “yep, I’m gay. So what?”.
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GOP nomination: it's amazing that this is still... →
There was a lot of talk last year, as the GOP field began to shape up, about how horrible the nominees were. Unfortunately I didn’t save the link at the time, but someone I read frequently made a remark to the effect that looked at individual, each candidate had some fatal problem that should make him/her utterly unable to win… and yet, one of them was going to have to.
Amazingly,...
“To start with,” Krauss writes, “he made me... →
goodbyeolepaint:
muchlessmuchmore:
titivil:
fek:
In Blood Meridian, Cormac McCarthy gave readers the bloody scalps of Indian heads.
In his latest effort, Cormac McCarthy gives readers the bloody scalps of punctuation marks.
!!
Fuck Cormac McCarthy.
Indeed. Semicolons rock.
Look, I’ve enjoyed me some Cormac McCarthy, but we are talking about a dude who doesn’t believe...
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Romney's dilemma →
Kornacki:
On the subject of the federal government’s bailout of Chrysler and General Motors, it has become essentially impossible for Mitt Romney to say anything coherent.
Or on the subject of health care (because Romneycare == Obamacare), or culture war topics (general election poison, and he’s, you know, an icky Mormon), or really, much of anything of concern. How is this guy the...
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Grrr... there's no such thing as "Presidents Day" →
The holiday is called Washington’s Birthday, dammit.
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Pareene with yet another example of how David... →
Pareene:
Here is Brooks’ first paragraph:
Jeremy Lin is anomalous in all sorts of ways. He’s a Harvard grad in the N.B.A., an Asian-American man in professional sports. But we shouldn’t neglect the biggest anomaly. He’s a religious person in professional sports.
Here is the next sentence:
We’ve become accustomed to the faith-driven athlete and coach, from Billy Sunday to Tim Tebow.
...
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How the GOP could succeed in privatizing Medicare →
If Democrats are smart they can sell the continuation of the existing plan to curb Medicare costs (via the IPAB mechanism). So yeah, I’m not optimistic.
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Charts that terrify Republicans →
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The difference between OS X 10.8 "Mountain Lion"... →
Mountain lions will not notify you before they pop-up and eat your face.
Jesus? Or Tumblr and kittens? →
We report, you decide.
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Seriously Republicans
danielmcbatman:
Fuck you all. Fuck you for trying to push us back to the GODAMN Dark Ages because you think vaginas are icky and need to be bent to your will. Fuck you for continuing to destroy the freedom of anyone who isn’t a rich, white male. Fuck you for every time you have the balls to use the word freedom.
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Social issues? Really? →
Is there anyone on earth (besides Rush, I mean) who thinks this is gonna work? It doesn’t take a rocket scientist to realize that if the economy keeps improving at this pace, the GOP nominee might as well book that January trip to Disneyland, because he won’t be needed in DC.
Conservatives: why are women such sluts? →
Geez if women would just quit acting like humans with agency over their sex and reproductive lives two bit whores, we wouldn’t have a problem.
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GOP still hasn't given up on gutting Medicare →
Sen. Richard Burr (R-NC):
Unlike other Medicare reform proposals that have been introduced, we’re not eliminating fee-for-service or traditional Medicare… but what fee-for-service should have to do is it should have to compete with what the private sector can lay on the table also.”
Yeah, except we’ve already done that, it was called Medicare Advantage, and it cost the government...
aatombomb:
behindthisbeard:
Tough ecstasy laws spark turn to toxic alternative: expert
flawlessescape:
VANCOUVER — New tough laws cracking down on ecstasy production in British Columbia have had the unintended consequence of opening the door to more toxic, fake ecstasy pills, a criminologist says.
The synthetic drug PMMA wasn’t on the radar for police or the public until last week, when...
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Romney's dilemma →
This is exactly right - the areas in which Santorum is vulnerable are exactly those where Mittens can’t attack.
Also:
the larger problem Romney has in counteracting all the Santorum that’s rising around his knees these days
[voice=”beavis”]heh-heh, heh-heh, heh-heh[/voice]
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Catholic hypocrisy at its worst →
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Walker: at least he's classier than Jan Brewer →
I guess it says something about the degraded state of our politics that an elected official not acting like a complete ass is news.
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Mittens is in a box (strapped to the top of the... →
This is illustrative of the tight spot Romney is in. On one hand, he really can’t afford to annoy the Tea Party crowd by saying “I was in favor of bailing out the auto industry”, but on the other… he also can’t afford to lose in Michigan.
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Megadeth frontman endorses Santorum →
Yet another Santorum surge!
And there are some really choice quotes here:
Ron Paul… you know, I heard somebody say he was like insecticide - 98 percent of it’s inert gases, but it’s the two percent that’s left that will kill you.
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GOP only opposed to birth control when Obama... →
Well, this is a HUGE surprise.
Ok, douchebags.
danielmcbatman:
Let’s get something straight right the fuck now. If the ad campaign for your product questions the sexuality of ANYONE, I’m going to go ahead and boycott it. 1800 Tequila, Dr. Pepper and any other shitbag companies out there who wants to guilt me into buying their product for fear of somehow invalidating my manhood can suck my fat fucking cock.
Thank you.
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Scott Brown: insisting on birth control coverage... →
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Give 'em hell, Josh →
Marshall:
I’m listening to Dylan Ratigan say silly things on TV about electoral reform on MSNBC. It’s sad.
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If you want perfect voting rolls that don’t include dead people and doesn’t remove people because they have the same name as someone who died, then federalize the system, tie it to the Social Security cards. Or invest a vast amount of money in keeping them pristine without ...
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Now they're trying to attach a birth control ban... →
I have to say I don’t quite understand the strategy behind this birth control ban. The GOP pretty well has the religious whackjob vote all sewed up. Everyone else is just going to think they’re nuts.
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What does the improving economy imply for the GOP... →
Most of the discussion regarding the general improvement in economic conditions has focused on the implications for the general: obviously, good conditions are good for the incumbent. But what does it mean for the GOP race?
It’s hard to imagine that a better economy is anything but bad news for Mittens. As discussed in the linked article, the GOP seems to realize that they’re not...
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#Hypocracy_fail →
Sarlin:
The Romney campaign did just that when they dispatched former Sen. JIm Talent (R-MO) to attack Rick Santorum’s budget-busting vote to add a Medicare prescription drug program in the Senate. The problem they quickly ran into was that Talent voted the same way.
Wow, that must have been a fun press conference. Someone remind me why we should take any of these people seriously.
faceandembrace:
bhflint replied to your photo: V-Day with my gurl the diazonium ion. Ain’t she…
Ions are sluts. Just giving away their protons and electrons to any passing atom..
You hurt her feelings!! :(
It’s just that ionization is not okay because it’s a license to do things in the chemical realm that are counter to how things are supposed to be.
Signed, the National...