“Call me cynical, but I didn’t think his views on marriage could get any gayer”
Rand Paul speaking at the Iowa Faith & Freedom Event about Obama. (via summerjames)
May122012
May112012
“Nothing says “today’s GOP” like an unwed teen mom with no relationship with her child’s father sanctimoniously lecturing a happily married father of two well-adjusted, happy kids about parenting.”
Farker Gilgigamesh about Bristol Palin vs Obama on Marriage Equality. (via summerjames)
(via summerjames)
April262012
“Romney and his surrogates have revealed an ongoing Cold War fixation. Former Reagan Navy Secretary John Lehman and former Bush administration Ambassador Pierre Prosper, on Thursday derailed Romney messaging in a conference call with reporters by raising the specter of the “Soviet Union” and slamming Obama for not protecting Czechoslovakia — a country that was peacefully dissolved in 1993 and now exists as the Czech Republic and Slovakia.”
Romney Campaign Again Warns Of ‘Soviet’ Threat | TPM2012
The Romney campaign doesn’t know what year it is.
April232012
Oh yeah by the way, Gas Prices Are Falling. Guess what the president did to make them fall?
The same thing he did to raise them:
NOTHING!
-Joe
If he opened the oil reserves gas prices would fall guaranteed. The Federal government is infringing on the ability of the free market to work.
I’m pretty sure the federal government adding oil to the system to drive down gas prices and thus driving down oil corporate profits is pretty much the definition of free market meddling.
I don’t totally disagree that we should open up the oil reserves but hey man if you’re a free market libertarian at least be consistent. That pain you feel at the pump is your beloved free market capitalism.
-Joe
The US consumes about 178M barrels of gasoline a day, and has about 727M barrels of crude in the Strategic Petroleum Reserve. Considering that about half of the SPR is sour crude, you’re probably looking at only about 200M barrels of gasoline.
So, if you liquidate our entire emergency oil reserve AND refine it, you introduce about a day’s consumption worth of product to the market. Arguing that not doing this is driving up gasoline prices is akin to saying your mother is driving up your grocery bill by not letting you have the frozen dinner she’s saving.
But the part that’s stupid is we’re still arguing that gasoline should be cheap. Why aren’t we investing in public transportation systems, alternative energy, and other ways that we can transport goods and people across our big-ass country without contributing to, you know, global warming (which is real) caused by pollution (which is real) instead of blaming one dude for not making everything really easy for us (which he can’t do) because we’re too short-sighted to not base our entire economy on a non-renewable resource (that we will run out of in ten years, based on current consumption and retrievable total reserves).
THIS HAS BEEN YOUR DAILY HYPOCRITICAL POST FROM A DUDE WHO WORKS FOR A MAJOR PETROLEUM COMPANY
(via jenandtonic)
April212012
Hipsters came and put up a bunch of Kony2012 posters in my neighborhood last night. Jen pointed out that the color scheme for the African mass murderer is a little too similar to the color scheme for the iconic Hope poster.
Way to be dicks Kony2012.
April192012
“I’m not sure about these cookies,” Romney said. “Did you make those cookies? You didn’t, did you? No. No. They came from the local 7-Eleven bakery or wherever.”
Mitt Romney is a cookie snob. We’re done here.
April172012
GOP to cut food stamps in deficit-reduction drive
WASHINGTON (AP) — Republicans controlling the House are eying big cuts to food stamps and would make it more difficult for illegal immigrants to claim child tax credits as they piece together legislation to cut $261 billion in the coming decade.
It’s the first step in a GOP exercise aimed at cutting domestic programs to forestall big Pentagon budget cuts next year. The cuts to food stamps would reduce the monthly benefit for a family of four by almost $60 and would force up to 3 million people off the program altogether by tightening eligibility. The measure would also eliminate a grant program to states for social services like day care. Six House panels are producing legislation this week as the first step in implementing the GOP’s budget plan.
Family values and the dignity of work.
(Source: Yahoo!)
April132012
“The right to bear arms comes from our creator, not from our government,” he said, to cheers. “It is one of the inalienable rights alluded to in our Declaration of Independence. … Far fewer women would be raped, far fewer children would be killed … and far fewer dictators would survive if people had the right to bear arms everywhere on the planet.”
Newt Gingrich. Still running for president.
April122012
“Investigators say this action by the two men to try and conceal themselves made Williams fear for his life and it was then he fired two shots striking each man one time in the head.”
911 calls released in shooting of Michael Gentry-Hill Jr., Darren Tyree Hill, | GoUpstate.com
We’ve got a serious problem in this country.
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