May 2012
9 posts
“This isn’t a wedge issue for blacks with Obama, no matter how much the media...”
– African-Americans Support Obama’s Same-Sex Marriage Stance - The Daily Beast
This shouldn’t be a wedge issue for anybody. They are citizens, thus entitled to the rights and privileges afforded all citizens. End of story. Don’t care if they’re gay, straight, black, white, or...
“This is the problem with entitlements, they’re really only entitlements...”
– Normally, I hate quotes. More often than not, they taken out of any context that informs the reader as to the real point of the discussion. That being said, I found this to be a particularly salient explanation of the Conservative pathos at the moment.
“While we’re finally back to a net positive number of private sector jobs...”
– Graph of the Day: Public Sector Layoffs Are Undermining the Recovery - Blog of the Century
April 2012
9 posts
HBO
note-a-bear:
racismschool:
seloftheearth:
Let’s get a Boardwalk Empire-style show about the Harlem Renaissance.
I don’t think anyone understands how much I need this in my life.
I might actually get HBO to watch that.
Partisan Spin Denies Obama Credit for Immigration... →
What else should we expect from the GOP? At this point, Obama could pay off the debt, eliminate the deficit, reduce income taxes to zero, achieve world peace and the Republicans would still complain that he wanted to turn the US in to a Socialist Utopia.
Politicalprof: Paul Revere's Ride →
politicalprof:
Sometime slightly before midnight today, April 18, Paul Revere began his 1775 ride to warn the Americans that the British were coming the next day to try to seize the Americans’ arsenals at Lexington and Concord. The events set in motion the combat phase of the American Revolution.
Although, if…
“Should doctors really have to follow drug prices like market analysts in order...”
– Daniel J. Stone, who practices internal medicine and geriatrics in Beverly Hills, explains what free-market healthcare would be like. (via andrewgraham)
Women, Looks, and Aging: Is Beauty a Bad... →
a recent survey of women aged 18-25 found that 41 percent would prefer having large breasts to having high intelligence, and more than a quarter of those who responded said they would trade their IQs for bigger breasts.
This may be the saddest thing I’ve read in a very, very long time.
California Inmates Get Better Health Care than... →
Kelso is a law professor and sums it up thus: “The Constitution doesn’t guarantee everybody health care. Life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness, but not health care.”
Only one problem there, Mr. Law Professor guy, the United States Constitution does not guarantee those things. It odes guarantee, in the 14th amendment, that neither the Federal Government, nor any state government, has the...
What did you bring for Show & Tell Timmie? →
Kids do the darndest things, don’t they?
Police say a 5-year-old boy brought 50 packets of heroin to school for show and tell, and his stepfather has been arrested.
The student went to kindergarten Monday with his stepfather’s jacket and pulled out the drugs in 10 small plastic bags when it came time for his presentation to the class, Bridgeport police told the Connecticut Post...
Andrew Sullivan: Christianity in Crisis →
Jefferson feared that the alternative to a Christianity founded on “internal persuasion” was a revival of the brutal, bloody wars of religion that America was founded to escape.
March 2012
41 posts
Trayvon Martin’s Shooting Mirrors America’s... →
How many 911-like alarms have been rung since Obama was elected? His friendship with Bill Ayers demonstrated that he had the heart of a terrorist. His association with Jeremiah Wright confirmed that he hated America. Hello, Operator. Send help, Obama is a socialist! He bailed out Detroit because he’s in bed with the unions. He’s also in cahoots with the banks and screwing the common man. Plus,...
Column: Let Political Ads Go The Way of Cigarette... →
We don’t allow tobacco companies, for example, to advertise on television. Why? Because their products are poisonous and harmful to our citizenry. The same could be said for Swift Boating, Demon Sheeping and whatever Herman Cain is doing.
I hate election years, and I have Tivo.
“‘You could say that black people made progress, but to say black people have...”
– Chris Rock (via vagabondaesthetics)
Obama: Most Fiscally Conservative President in... →
it would seem that if Obama’s a socialist, Ronald Reagan is Karl Marx with an ICBM.
Is Diet Soda Bad For You? →
Weight gain: While researchers have yet to agree on the exact reason, studies show alink between diet soda consumption and weight gain. Study results indicate it’s one of two reasons: most diet-soda drinkers already follow poor lifestyle habits that lead to excess weight gain, or artificial sweeteners confuse the body, causing it to crave the one thing it was deprived of — real sugar. Based...
Why an MRI costs $1,080 in America and $280 in... →
sellers of health-care services in America have considerable power to set prices, and so they set them quite high. Two of the five most profitable industries in the United States — the pharmaceuticals industry and the medical device industry — sell health care. With margins of almost 20 percent, they beat out even the financial sector for sheer profitability.
Yet, we wonder why no one in the...
“I don’t care what the liberals say, I don’t care what the naysayers say, this...”
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The Reverend DENNIS TERRY, in remarks delivered at a rally for Republican presidential candidate Rick Santorum at the Greenwell Springs Baptist Church in Louisiana yesterday.
Rick Santorum stood up and applauded these remarks, along with those from the Reverend denouncing homosexuality and...
Obama's Spending Record: More Conservative Than... →
So he’s halved spending growth from Bush II, Reagan and Nixon Ford (all during a recession). He’s cut taxes more than Bush II did in his first term. He forced through healthcare legislation that will force 20 million Americans to purchase private health insurance.
If this is socialism, the corporations and the conservatives should be happier than pigs in fecal matter.
Dropping In On The Demented Utopia Of The... →
quentinlewis:
A woman visits one of the most male events in the modern world.
(via Instapaper)
I’m actually amazed that these guys have been around for nearly 20 years. I will admit to owning a few of their albums (from my musically confused HS years), but I’ve never understood the fascination that some people obviously developed in the inane mythology that the group has...
Opting out of the pink slime... →
the U.S. Department of Agriculture will announce that starting this fall, schools will be able to choose whether or not they buy hamburger that contains lean finely textured beef known as “ pink slime.”
We may very well have reached the end times, we have started treating our food quality decisions as on par with our spam email decisions.
The FDA is really making themselves look...
Violence Against Women Act Divides Senate -... →
“I favor the Violence Against Women Act and have supported it at various points over the years, but there are matters put on that bill that almost seem to invite opposition,” said Senator Jeff Sessions, Republican of Alabama, who opposed the latest version last month in the Judiciary Committee. “You think that’s possible? You think they might have put things in there we couldn’t support that...
“I got the chance after I lost to John McCain last time, to go over to — that was...”
– MITT ROMNEY, praising the Chinese government’s ability to “seize property by fiat and marshal state-owned industries to build large projects,” we guess.
Mitt’s new campaign slogan: “yay Communism.”
(via the Huffington Post)
Insurance Industry to Senate: Global Warming is... →
climateadaptation:
Stakeholders from the insurance industry met with members of the U.S. Senate to acknowledge the role global warming plays in extreme weather-related losses, and to issue a call for action…
“From our industry’s perspective, the footprints of climate change are around us and the trend of increasing damage to property and threat to lives is clear,” said Franklin Nutter,...
Wrongful Birth Bill: New Abortion Legislation... →
Under the provisions of her bill, a doctor could not face a medical malpractice suit if the doctor withholds information from a mother about health issues facing a child that could cause her to have an abortion. In addition, a lawsuit could not be filed on the child’s behalf regarding a disability.
So, let me get this straight, it’s now on the Doctor to determine whether or not...
Drill Here! Drill Now! So we can send it offshore... →
Shipments abroad of petroleum products exceeded imports by 439,000 barrels a day, the department said today in the Petroleum Supply Monthly report. In 2010, daily net imports averaged 269,000 barrels. U.S. refiners exported record amounts of gasoline, heating oil and diesel to meet higher global fuel demand while U.S. fuel consumption sank.
It staggers the mind.
Teen smoking an 'epidemic,' new report finds →
“Targeted marketing encourages more young people to take up this deadly addiction every day,” U.S. Department of Health and Human Services Secretary Kathleen Sebelius said in a statement.
Yep, and the government provides the best target marketing of all, the warning label.
I’m really glad that they spent all of that money on anti-smoking commercials/messaging, it’s...
Rush Limbaugh, Sandra Fluke, and college sex: Does... →
Forcing college women to pay the full cost of birth-control pills didn’t cause a crisis, contrary to the warnings of Fluke and many Democrats. It did push some students to curb their sexual activity. But it didn’t reduce the accidental pregnancy rate, because many women, instead of giving up sex, switched to cheaper, less reliable, and ad hoc birth-control methods, including what Limbaugh...
How many joints would you have to smoke to die of... →
In layman terms this means that in order to induce death a marijuana smoker would have to consume 20,000 to 40,000 times as much marijuana as is contained in one marijuana cigarette. NIDA-supplied marijuana cigarettes weigh approximately .9 grams. A smoker would theoretically have to consume nearly 1,500 pounds of marijuana within about fifteen minutes to induce a lethal response.
Damn,...
Think there are no death panels NOW?
politicalprof:
My insurance company is refusing to authorize a perfectly ordinary test that is common and important for the diagnosis of heart disease, a consistent problem in my family. Why? Cost.
At least I can’t vote for the morons in charge, like maybe I could in national health care systems. I feel much better knowing that profit is getting in the way of healthcare.
JasenComstock: Why not covering birth control is a... →
zombiecuddle:
Hello chil’ren. Some guy wrote a terrible thing ‘splaining about how health insurance works like buying brake pads from Pepboys or something. Squashed responded to it level-headedly already and moreover it’s been a while and you’re probably all backlashing against something…
Utah continues to step backwards... →
Now, parents must opt their children into sex education classes if they want them to participate, and districts may already choose to teach abstinence only. Under the bill, however, districts may choose not to teach the topic at all, or, if they do teach it, they must teach abstinence only.
So, I’m generally for increasing the rights of the individual, but when it comes to education, why...
Pat Robertson has momentary lapse of sanity →
“I’ve never used marijuana and I don’t intend to, but it’s just one of those things that I think: this war on drugs just hasn’t succeeded.”
Not sure how God didn’t make an appearance in this statements, but hey, no one is wrong all the time.
Number of U.S. Hate Groups on the Rise →
The center, which has kept track of such groups for 30 years, recorded 1,018 hate groups operating last year.
If nothing else, we should all be happy that these groups generally find a way to hate each other as well. Imagine what could happen if they managed to present a united front.