August 2012
44 posts
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Mittens at the Parks with Dad
“Dad took us to all the National Parks when we were kids, he always told me, “Mitt, some day you ‘ll sell the oil and mineral rights to these!”“ “And son, you won’t just stop at extracting all the wealth from natural paradises that should be left unsullied. You will also do it to American communities, by borrowing money to purchase community employers,...
Chris Christie's Momma So Poor...
10:38 — Chris Christie’s parents were the poorest people who have ever lived. Mom took 64 buses to work, and made no money, ever. Yeah, that’s because she had to ride that awful gubmint transportation! If the private sector just took it all over, then she woulda got a one-way front-door-pickup and been transported at the speed-of-sound to her workplace and it woulda cost half-a-penny, and...
“The GOP convention is going to be three days of code-talking and race baiting...”
– No More Mister Nice Blog
Firearm microstamping, ballistic imprinting and ballistic engraving are all names given to a controversial[1] technology that has been developed with the goal of aiding in ballistics identification; it involves the use of laser technology to engrave a microscopic marking onto the tip of the firing pin and onto the breech face of a firearm. When the firearm is fired, these etchings are transferred...
All Hail President Christie!
New Jersey now has a higher unemployment rate than Michigan.
Maybe there are some more useful infrastructure money he can turn down so he can turn around and give taxpayer money to rich people so they can build more instantly-bankrupt casinos in a city with a shrinking gambling market. That will solve everything!
“And then one day, a dozen years ago, she was at a small dinner, the host of...”
– Whittaker Chambers on Rand | clusterflock
“Considerable controversy arose in the U.S. and Western Europe, following a June...”
– Neutron bomb - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Mitt Doesn't Want To Talk About "Legitimate Rape"...
The Denver CBS affiliate today reported that, as a condition for a one-on-one interview with Mitt Romney, they had to pledge to not ask Romney about either Todd Akin’s recent comments or the topic of abortion. It’s no surprise why. On Tuesday, the Republican Party’s officially endorsed the Akin amendment, which would ban abortion for all women, including rape victims, and Paul Ryan has struggled...
Guns, Mediscare, Welfare Queens
Let’s all buy more guns and be a gun-based economy. I’ll pay for my daughter’s tuition with guns, pay my grocery bill with guns, pay my health insurance copay with a gun. I’ll buy a gun with a gun. Guns just solve every problem. It’s also important to point out that when it comes to Mediscare, there’s one side that sees the value in providing healthcare to...
Robert Reich: Ryan Isn't an Entitlement Reformer,... →
robertreich:
David Brooks in today’s New York Times commits the standard error of pundits who want to appear neutral but know the Romney-Ryan plan would be a disaster for America. He asserts that Ryan makes a serious effort at entitlement reform. “If you believe entitlement reform is essential for national…
I Misspoke—What I Meant To Say Is 'I Am Dumb... →
You see, what I said was, “If it’s a legitimate rape, the female body has ways to try to shut that whole thing down.” But what I meant to say was, “I am a worthless, moronic sack of shit and an utterly irredeemable human being who needs to shut up and go away forever.”
Remember When... The wingnuts attacked "empathy"?
Let’s start with the attack on empathy. Why empathy? Isn’t empathy a good thing?
Empathy is at the heart of progressive thought. It is the capacity to put oneself in the shoes of others — not just individuals, but whole categories of people: one’s countrymen, those in other countries, other living beings, especially those who are in some way oppressed, threatened, or harmed. Empathy is the...
Rose Wilder Lane, Ayn Rand, and America's... →
(ghostwriter of Little House on the Prairie books)
Lane also wrote novels, and enjoyed some commercial success, though not the kind of literary acclaim that she yearned for. Her prose was purple and simplistic, if not trashy. But an eclectic and discriminating circle of friends (Dorothy Thompson, Floyd Dell, who was the co-editor of The Masses, and Hoover) prized her for the wit of her letters...
“The youthful reading habits of our new Republican Vice-Presidential candidate...”
– Rose Wilder Lane, Ayn Rand, and America’s Libertarian Literature : The New Yorker
“Mr. Romney says that he can achieve this seemingly magical result by “broadening...”
– Hmm, I wonder which plutocrat parks his money in the Cayman Islands?
Mr. Romney’s ‘garbage’ - The Washington Post
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Romney advisers confirm it: We’re running a `just... →
Romney has broken with recent precedent — his father included — in refusing to release his tax returns, but he says has paid 13 percent for 10 years. (Just trust me.) Romney has not released the names of his major bundlers, but he won’t be beholden to his donors, as Obama has been. (Just trust me.) Romney vows to eliminate the deficit, and promises that his tax plan will be revenue neutral, even...
“miners and their wives still looking for answers after a massacre by South...”
– South African miners’ families back Julius Malema’s call for nationalisation | World news | The Observer
“Politicized religion rationalizes all three of the GOP’s main tenets: wealth...”
– Religion Destroyed the Republican Party - Truthdig
Advocating Progress: Nature, God and Paul Ryan →
bohemiansouth:
When Paul Ryan accepted the vice presidential nomination, he said this:
“… America is more than just a place … it’s an idea. It’s the only country founded on an idea. Our rights come from nature and God, not government. We promise equal opportunity, not equal outcomes.
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“Hey, #Reagan used teleprompters too. Then again, he was demented....”
“Hollywood hates labor, and hates shows about labor worse than any other thing....”
– At least Jemima Kirke understands why American Workers Have No Rights | DASKRAPITAL
“When asked if he was buying, Obama said, “Let me see what’s in my wallet.”
As...”
– History’s Greatest Monster Barack Obama Politicizes Beer, Refuses To Buy One For Guy Holding A Romney Sign
"Flat Tax"? People still talk about that?
”Flat Tax”? People still talk about that? A flat tax would be ruinous to America and essentially shore up the oligarchy. THAT is unAmerican. Why do we have a progressive income tax scheme? Because it reinforces social justice and helps keep people on more of a level playing field. It hasn’t been nearly progressive enough for decades (since Reagan’s “Trickle...
“[shudder] I grew up reading Ayn Rand and it taught me quite a bit about who I am...”
– Paul Ryan and Ayn Rand’s ideas: in the hot seat again | The Atlas Society
Mitt to Single Mom: Give up your child or be...
By 1983, Hayes was 23 and back in the Boston area, raising a 3-year-old daughter on her own and working as a nurse’s aide. Then she got pregnant again. Single motherhood was no picnic, but Hayes said she had wanted a second child and wasn’t upset at the news. “I kind of felt like I could do it,” she said. “And I wanted to.” By that point Mitt Romney, the man whose kids Hayes used to watch, was, as...
“For all the supposed benefits, settlements still strike many people as creepy....”
– Are You Worth More Dead Than Alive? - NYTimes.com
Did you forget how in the last presidency, Dick...
[I’m told that the left’s hatred of Paul Ryan doesn’t matter, because Vice Presidents don’t matter]
Did you forget how in the last presidency, Dick Cheney was actually the president?
All Romney cares about is that people call him “Mr. President”. That way he can have beaten his dead father, who ran for president but said something...
Paul Begala on How With Ryan, Romney Has the... →
In selecting Paul Ryan, Mitt Romney has doubled-down on the one thing he has never flip-flopped on: economic elitism. Romney, born to wealth, has selected Wisconsin Congressman Paul Ryan, who was also born to wealth. As the former Universit
y of Oklahoma football coach, Barry Switzer, once said of someone else: both these guys were born on third and thought they hit a triple. There’s...
Today a Libertarian tried to tell me that...
stfuconservatives:
Makes me laugh every time. When I responded with the link to the Snopes article flatly refuting it, she said, “well how did Snopes become the authority on everything??” I was like “years and years of unbiased fact-based reporting?”
Like I said: reality, liberal bias, some folks just won’t learn, etc and so forth.
Mitt Romney Lies. Again. Shamelessly. This Time...
If you live in a “swing state”, you’ve probably seen the ad from the Romney campaign (NOT from a SuperPAC, but actually from Mittens “I approved this message” Romney) where he claims that Obama is trying to shower welfare checks on every ab
le-bodied citizen. It’s a “Pants On Fire” falsehood, according to PolitiFact, and the ad was denounced by...
“I’M CALIBRATING MY “ALPHA-PARTICLE X-RAY SPECTROMETER”,...”
– Twitter / MarsCuroisity: I’M CALIBRATING MY …
Of Luck and Success — Economic View - NYTimes.com →
EXCERPTS: THERE may be no topic that more reliably divides liberals and conservatives than the relationship between success and luck. Many conservatives celebrate market success as an almost inevitable consequence of talent and effort. Liberals, by contrast, like to remind us that even talented people who work hard sometimes fall on hard times through no fault of their own.
It’s easy to see why...
Is America Crazy? Ten Reasons it Might Be : The... →
“Every country has, along with its core civilities and traditions, some kind of inner madness, a belief so irrational that even death and destruction cannot alter it.”
That was my colleague Adam Gopnik commenting the other day on America’s attitude toward gun laws. Having read some of the comments on my own post about President Obama’s failure to pursue more restrictions on the sale of firearms,...
