March 2012
514 posts
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“Roscoe is pro-stache, but he does not believe Americans should pay for people’s...”
– Deborah Burrell, chief of staff for Rep. Roscoe Bartlett, R-Md. The American Mustache Institute had claimed Bartlett supported the ‘Stache Act, which calls for a $250 tax break for facial hair grooming. (via officialssay)
The government should absolutely subsidize whisker growth.
Watchthedailywhat:
Not Even Once of the Day: A Florida woman was arrested yesterday for burning down the fifth oldest tree in the world while smoking meth inside of it.
The iconic 118-foot Seminole County cypress tree known as The Senator, estimated to be some 3,500 years old, burned to the ground in January following what police believed to be an arson attack.
But a Crimeline tip led investigators...
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I hope Rick Santorum...
aatombomb:
wins the nomination, so Obama can properly trounce the nastiest, purest strains of theocratic thuggery in this country, instead of allowing them the satisfaction of claiming Romney was an impure vessel.
Yeah, that’s an issue. If Romney’s the nominee and loses, then we’re going have to deal with another four years of “we would have won if we had nominated a...
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conky:
Mom: Do you like reading, writing, or math best? Kid: Writing… Kid: Well, drawing… Kid: Actually, just making paper airplanes.
Guess how many “fortune tellers” there are in my house right now?
February 2012
156 posts
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Pierce's thoughts on yesterday's primaries →
Charlie:
There’s bound to be a great settling beginning right about now. Romney’s gotten about as much out of his relentless pandering as he’s likely to get — He talked last night about both “the Death Tax” and “a Democrat Congress.” His wingnut jargon coach deserves a raise — and so we are likely to hear more of what we heard last night, which was...
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McCaffrey: making money by whipping up support for... →
Glennzilla:
One of the prime offenders was Gen. Barry McCaffrey, who was not only a member of the Pentagon’s propaganda program, but also, according to Barstow’s second stand-alone article, had his own “Military-Industrial-Media Complex,” deeply invested in many of the very war policies he pushed and advocated while posing as an NBC “analyst”
In a nutshell, McCaffrey has a history of...
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Big night for Mittens →
McMorris-Santoro:
Sure, Rick Santorum gave Mitt Romney a run for his money in his home state. And he should be proud of that. But by not pulling it off, signs point to Santorum making things much harder on himself moving forward than the results indicate.
Operation Hilarity notwithstanding, Romney won Michigan with around a 4% margin (and won Arizona quite convincingly). Good news for...
Snowe bows out →
Kleefeld:
In a major development in the race for control of the U.S. Senate, Maine Republican Sen. Olympia Snowe announced Tuesday that she is not running for a fourth term — setting up a serious Republican vulnerability in a state that was previously very safe for them.
Well, this is a surprise.
Rush Limbaugh: Maybe It's Time To Say "The Hell"... →
aatombomb:
thecallus:
jasencomstock:
Sweet, let’s go. all in agreement?
Meanwhile, the Federal Government is withholding F35 payments to Lockheed. What the hell is going on? I feel like I woke up in a bizarrely sane place today. Facts mattered and people were accountable!
Of course, then I realize tomorrow will be all “WHY WON’T OBUMMER GET US OUT OF AFGHANISTAN? Is that where they hide...
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"Santorum comes from behind in Alabama three-way" →
omg, I’m dyin’ over here
“Yes. Next question.”
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Mitt Romney, in response to a reporter asking whether the candidate’s recent statements about his wife owning “a couple of Cadillacs” and his being friends with several NASCAR team “owners” had damaged his campaign. (via dcdecoder)
I’m anxious to see how this war of attrition breaks down the...
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Dildoes mandating Dildoes →
Via Charlie:
Sen. Greg Reed, R-Jasper, voted to move Senate Bill 12 out of committee last week because he said it’s a good bill that would help “a mother to understand that a live baby is inside her body.”
Right, because obviously the State of Alabama is a lot more aware of what’s going on in any given womb than the owner of said womb. What. A fucking. Douchebag.
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The final unraveling of Afghanistan →
The upshot is that conditions there have not been improving, and are currently getting rapidly worse. The sooner we can get ourselves out of that place, the better.
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Long campaign damaging GOP →
Evidently the GOP expected a long primary season to help the party’s chances, but the reverse seems to be happening.
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Santorum to MI Democrats: cross over and vote for... →
Operation Hilarity, ladies and gentlemen.
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Just made my famous two layer dip
conky:
Store-brand salsa and leftover alfredo sauce. Next year I’ll bring it to your Oscar party, ok.
Is it wrong that this is making me hungry
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February 27, 2012: The Day the Wyoming legislature... →
motherjones:
For now.
I’d be happy to volunteer as Admiral of the Wyoming Navy.
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Wolf Blitzes us once again →
Pareene:
If you think Wolf Blitzer’s blog post about the intensity of this campaign is finished, just wait. He quotes three lines from last night’s debate, then writes four more one-sentence paragraphs:
And that’s just for starters. Just wait for what’s coming.
By the way, the president and his supporters will not be shy in fighting back.
And like the Republicans, they will have hundreds...
Santorum: what a model home schooler →
O’Hehir (on Li’l Ricky’s hypocracy regarding public funding for education):
From here, Rick Santorum does not look like an independent-minded man of principle, however misguided — and still less like a model home-school parent. He looks like another angry white guy who wants to cut taxes and slash government and declare his John Wayne independence from society, but is still...
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Romney: Some of my best friends... are NASCAR team... →
The hits just keep on coming.
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Well-named operation is well-named →
McMorris-Santoro:
and so was born Operation Hilarity, the DailyKos-led effort to drive progressive voters to the polls for Santorum and serve up a loss to Romney.
Operation Hilarity, ladies and gentlemen. I charge all Michiganders to go out and do what’s right to increase the humor potential of this election. You know what to do.
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Shorter Romney: yes, I'm richer than you. Suck it. →
Brad Blakeman - GOP strategist (quoted in TPM):
“Trump never goes on defense on his wealth and, if anything, is obnoxiously offensive,” said former George W. Bush adviser Brad Blakeman. “His popularity comes from the fact that he is successful. Romney needs to be positive about his wealth and how he earned it.”
So… the advice here is for Mittens to be more like Donald Trump? Oooookay,...
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More Mittens vs. Li'l Ricky →
Farley:
and I suspect that Ron Paul will also bite into Santorum’s base. So to speak.
lolololol
More seriously:
Unlike in 2008 when two essentially identical Democratic candidates fought it out, I suspect that wrangling with Santorum will push Romney farther to the right than he’d like to be.
This is another important way that 2012 is not like 2008.
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"Ann drives a couple of Cadillacs" →
Mittens, demonstrating his oneness with the working class of Detroit. Wow, the hits just keep on coming. Do his speechwriters actually get PAID by the DNC, or are do they just lean Democratic?
On copyright enforcement →
Grossman (quoted in Drum’s post):
It’s a common position to say “I don’t like bullying tactics, bad faith arguments, and rent-seeking of the IP industry, therefore piracy is not a problem.”
Ok, I’m throwing the bullshit flag here. Name one person who has ever said this. Plenty of people don’t like the bullying tactics, et al., and have said so. Plenty of people dispute the...
Doritos Locos Tacos are Almost Here! →
danielmcbatman:
WHATTTTTTTTTTTT
WANT
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"[T]he Death Star requires .03% of the GDP of each... →
motherjones:
Most excellent article on our site today, vol. 1: “The Death Star is a Surprisingly Cost-Effective Weapons System,” by Kevin Drum.
Don’t get any ideas, Gingrich.
Interesting note: when I was in the Navy, whatever carrier/large deck amphib was leading our group was unofficially known as the Death Star.
Vodka infused gummi bears
danielmcbatman:
Who just made a batch of vodka infused gummi bears? THIS DUDE.
Dude, I’ll be right over.
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aatombomb: President Rick Santorum’s speech at the... →
President Rick Santorum’s speech at the Values Voter Summit, Sept. 23, 2016
“…One of my first acts as president was the creation of the Presidential Commission on Religious Liberty. Since its inception in early March 2013, the commission has investigated 249 instances of infringement of…
Luckily, Rick Santorum will never be president.
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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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