February 2012
16 posts
OH NO GUYS UGH THIS AGAIN
Okay whyyyyyyyyyyyyyyy would you put this in your url. Just why?
Oh and I checked. He’s white.
Should I like…message him? I’ve never called anyone out on stuff before, usually I just watch shit go down on my dash. But this bothers me greatly.
I’m looking for the Tumblr TOS, to see whether we can have him booted.
Free at Last
“I was eloquent, dammit!”
Well, I had a great, clever, time-consuming post written. Tumblr ate the fsckr. So here’s the short version: I’m movin’ out today.
This is good news for me, great news for Jody, but happening a bit too late for the timeline I set in THIS post.
I’ll have to find a new place (I’m with friends as of tonight). Sadly that won’t happen in the next two weeks. Probably take me at least another six weeks from tomorrow. I am keeping my commitment; and I will keep you, my many scattered consciences, apprised.
Republicans have staked out a position that requires that they lie, 24/7, 365. Not shade the facts their way. Not put their own spin on the situation. Lie. Big, sloppy, and constantly. →
dailykos.com
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. The simple reason is that the Republicans have no ideas left, at least no ideas that have not been tested and proven to be failures again, and again, and again.
The economy didn’t just crash under a Republican president, it crashed under Republican policies. It crashed with low taxes. It crashed with deregulated markets. It crashed with huge restrictions on union activity. It crashed with massive cuts in environmental regulations. It crashed with lowered trade barriers. It crashed with big fat Pentagon spending.
They got what they wanted. They got CEOs with no limits on their wealth. They got banks with no limits on their “creativity.” They got trade agreements that guaranteed manufacturing could be moved to the dirtiest, cheapest, most desperate source available. They got massive cuts in capital gains taxes and equally large boosts in the wealth they could pass along in estates. They got everything they said would make us all wealthy. They got record oil and gas drilling. They got record giveaways of public land. They got everything they said would create jobs. They got the middle class to shoulder more, more, more of the burden so that those beautiful job creators would be free to work their magic.
They can’t say the economy crashed because taxes went up, because they didn’t. They can’t say that the economy crashed because there was a raft of new regulation, because there wasn’t. They can’t blame it on “union thugs” or Saul Alinsky or the guy who writes Happy Holidays cards at Hallmark. They can’t blame it on a president who was elected when the world was already in free fall. Only, of course they do. They say it because they have no choice.
For the same reason that they have to maintain that global warming is the creation of a conspiracy of scientists, and that evolution is a conspiracy of other scientists, and that gay marriage is a threat to “traditional” marriage. They have to lie about the threat of illegal immigrants. Lie about the state of the national debt. Lie about the effects of the President’s health care plan. They have to lie, because lies are all they have left.
Oh My Gahd, this is awesome.
Depressing as fuck news for Californians →
kalw.org
fuck libraries. who needs em?
Kindle Baby!
In all seriousness this is yet another tell tale sign of the rise of fascism in america. The end of libraries?
How do you cut funding for libraries?!?! What the hell?!?!
You cut libraries by not asking the electorate what they want, because if I get my hands on the guy who thought this up, I’d thump him good. Why do they always pull this shit in MY state?
I’m still pissed off about the fucking Mormons dicking around in the Prop 8 thing. Assholes.
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Here’s what we learned from the so-called pro-choice movement this week: a private organization should not have a choice about where to donate its own funds. Under extreme pressure from the left, the non-profit, non-partisan Susan G. Komen for the Cure Foundation was ridiculed for not complying with the dogma of Planned Parenthood. The pro-abortion intolerance is at times breathtaking and disturbing. By threatening Komen, it became clear that pro-abortion supporters were more than willing to jettison women’s health issues in favor of blind support for the nation’s largest provider of abortions.
Planned Parenthood and its liberal supporters showed their true colors this week: intimidation. With shrillness and threats, they took aim at a cancer foundation because it exercised its right to choose. Intimidation is always the tool of the desperate.
” —Idiot Congressman John Fleming (R-LA): “Planned Parenthood Isn’t Very Pro-Choice”
Wow. Appropriating pro-choice language AND referring to people who help primarily women as “shrill.” Freedom of speech is suddenly “intimidation” and “threats.” Awesome job, dude. Keep fighting the good fight to let pregnant people die.
-Jess
(via stfuconservatives)
I hope everyone’s getting this down; this guy’s gonna be up for reelection soon, and it would be a SHAME if anyone and everyone in his district were to receive critical commentary on their local representative…