May 2012
9 posts
Like a POTUS →
“When it is a business model, and when it is deliberate, and when it is a...”
– David Foster, lead negotiator for workers at GST Steel, a victim of Romney economics (via barackobama)
- Is there any question on wanting this asshole in office? Great, laying people off makes money for large companies, you have a point. That doesn’t help the government, it is not a for...
Documents show for the first time that local... →
wilwheaton:
A network of ultra-conservative groups is ramping up an offensive on multiple fronts to turn the American public against wind farms and Barack Obama’s energy agenda.
A number of rightwing organisations, including Americans for Prosperity, which is funded by the billionaire Koch brothers, are attacking Obama for his support for solar and wind power. The American Legislative Exchange...
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Neil Gaiman: WHY DO WE PHOTOSHOP PEOPLE? →
maureenjohnsonbooks:
Many of you may have seen the articles today about the awesome fourteen year-old who took a petition to Seventeen Magazine requesting that they do one non Photoshopped spread a month. Seventeen, to their credit, heard her out. They ultimately turned her down.
Now,…
April 2012
15 posts
“Hospital patients waiting in an emergency room or convalescing after surgery are...”
– The New York Times, “Debt Collector Is Faulted for Tough Tactics at Hospitals.”
I’m just wondering what kind of person is okay with this to the point that they still oppose healthcare reform laws that might help prevent this sort of bullshit.
Also: there are some disgusting human beings out there...
“If a man walks in the woods for love of them half of each day, he is in danger...”
– Henry David Thoreau (via sirmitchell)
“He spent too much time at Harvard”
– Mitt Romney on Barack Obama
Mitt Romney JD (Harvard) MBA (Harvard) Asshole (GOP)
March 2012
15 posts
The Religious Right
religious right |riˈlijəs rīt|
having or showing a stubborn and determined intention to do as one wants, regardless of the facts or consequences.
ORIGIN Middle English: from the noun IGNORANCE
SEE ALSO OXYMORON
“A hoodie is a piece of clothing, nothing more. Millions of people wear them or...”
– The Truth About Hoodies and Race From a Middle-aged White Male (via wilwheaton)
Analysis: More US drilling didn't drop gas price →
It’s the political cure-all for high gas prices: Drill here, drill now. But more U.S. drilling has not changed how deeply the gas pump drills into your wallet, math and history show.
A statistical analysis of 36 years of monthly, inflation-adjusted gasoline prices and U.S. domestic oil production by The Associated Press shows no statistical correlation between how much oil comes out of U.S....
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Romney's communications director on CNN this...
barackobama:
Host: Is there a concern that Santorum and Gingrich might force [Gov. Romney] to tack so far to the right it would hurt him with moderate voters in the general election?
Eric Fehrnstrom: Well, I think you hit a reset button for the fall campaign. Everything changes. It’s almost like an Etch A Sketch. You can kind of shake it up and restart all of over again.
Everything we say is...
Read this! Our Bloodstained Roof, a comic by Ryan... →
Amazingly good.
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“He said this man was watching him, so he put his hoodie on. He said he lost the...”
– From an ABC News interview with a friend of Trayvon Martin; she recounted her last phone call with Trayvon before he was murdered by George Zimmerman with a gunshot to the chest. (via inothernews)
Why is this guy not in prison yet?
Obama for America: "You really haven’t lived until... →
barackobama:
Nick submitted:
In 2007 my wife, a school teacher, gave birth to two premature girls who were born at 3 lbs a piece, and they required an extensive stay at the hospital. Though we were both working, we are under her insurance. Because she was taking a leave (as is her right), her insurance only…
Chris Hanel: Spread the Word: Theft is Theft →
chrishanel:
Do you support webcomics? Take this one question survey:
1. Do you take the RSS feed of over 90 webcomics, rip the images, put them in your Android app, and then put your own advertisements next to them in order to make money?
Congratulations: If you said “Yes”, then NO, YOU DO NOT SUPPORT…
Watchneil-gaiman:
I’m backing this documentary. Because kale isn’t chicken…
Watch the video. Check out the Kickstarter.
Rush Limbaugh
Is Rush just a worthless sack of shit, or did someone else provide the sack?
February 2012
3 posts
Republicans have staked out a position that... →
wilwheaton:
The lies go beyond instantly dismissible claims like President Obama being the “food stamp president” (why you have to go back one whole administration to discover that more people joined the food stamp ranks under Bush than Obama, but then the Republicans don’t seem to remember Bush in any case). The blatant lies extend through every aspect of the Republican platform, such as it is....
parislemon: To Catch A Hypocrite →
parislemon:
Yesterday, Jason Kincaid posted damning evidence of VEVO, the online music video entity jointly owned by a few major record labels, committing piracy at their boozy event at Sundance this year.
Watch the video, then read Jason’s full story. It’s worth it.
Today, VEVO’s CEO has responded….
January 2012
7 posts
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Being at the bottom of the heap in terms of social... →
wilwheaton:
A foundation in Germany has analyzed the social justice records of all 31 members of the Organization for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD), ranking each nation in such categories as health care, income inequality, pre-school education, and child poverty. The overall performance by the United States — which boasts of being an egalitarian society — outranks only Greece,...
No Surprise. Oakland Police Chief Lied to... →
wilwheaton:
After the October 25th raid on Frank Ogawa Plaza / Oscar Grant Park, and before the November 2nd General Strike, a campaign by all the powers that be in Oakland had started to discredit anyone and anything associated with Occupy Oakland. And so, to no one’s particular surprise, in the emails poured over by KTVU reporters was found a note that might as well have caused the...
MythBuster Adam Savage: SOPA Could Destroy the... →
wilwheaton:
Right now Congress is considering two bills—the Protect IP Act, and the Stop Online Piracy Act (SOPA)—that would be laughable if they weren’t in fact real. Honestly, if a friend wrote these into a piece of fiction about government oversight gone amok, I’d have to tell them that they were too one-dimensional, too obviously anticonstitutional.
Make no mistake: These bills aren’t...
December 2011
2 posts
