February 2010
“Winning a Grammy is the highest honor a musician can get, second to having the...”
– Stephen Colbert (via popculturebrain) (via fuckyeahstephencolbert) (via bringmethathorizon)
January 2010
“On Friday, President Obama appeared before House Republicans during a historic...”
– Seth Meyers, Weekend Update (via inothernews) (via savingpaper)
“You can’t be an acknowledged saint and a living human being at the same time,...”
– Kate Harding
Yes.
I am really hoping that Elizabeth will have the chance to engage with the public as her own self, on her own terms. She will be amazing.
(via amandaw)
“I went to the Republican House Caucus yesterday.”
– Pres. Obama, when asked if he has a problem going to the right (in basketball) during the CBS broadcast of Georgetown-Duke basketball game today. (via brooklynmutt)
“The notion that I would somehow resist doing something that cost half as much...”
– President Barack Obama
War Room - Salon.com
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“Rachel Maddow: “Some of the republicans are trying to spin it like...”
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“Debating a law professor is kind of foolish: the Republican House Caucus has...”
– Marc Ambinder
Obama’s Question Time: An Amazing Moment - The Atlantic Politics Channel
(via think4yourself)
“When people ask me what I think of the Obama administration, I have a stock...”
– Paul Krugman Blog - NYTimes.com (via tennroof)
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Finger Pointers Club
notthatkindagay:southpol:
Our current problems are not the product of the recovery program that’s only just now getting under way, as some would have you believe; they are the inheritance of decades of tax and tax, and spend and spend. […] The only alternative being offered to this economic program is a return to the policies that gave us a trillion-dollar debt, runaway inflation, runaway...
“In 1960, we spent 18% of our income on food and 5% on healthcare nationally,...”
– Stats given during Michael Pollan’s Oprah appearance
Food, Inc. should be required viewing for every single American.
(via sheasylvia)
Obama Among The Republicans
mikehudack:southpol:
OBAMA: “I mean, we’ve got to be careful about what we say about each other sometimes because it boxes us in in ways that makes it difficult for us to work together because our constituents start believing us. They don’t know sometimes this is just politics, what you guys, you know, or folks on my side do sometimes. So just a tone of civility instead of slash-and-burn...
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“I’m not diversifying in terms of selling anything. I’m not selling ‘John Mayer:...”
– John Mayer [Wonderwall/MSN]
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“Basically, his address boiled down to, ‘Fuck me? Oh, no no no, my friend. Fuck...”
– Jon Stewart on President Obama’s State of the Union Address (via bringmethathorizon) (via think4yourself) (via virtualephemera)
On Health Care Reform
A good friend of mine recently had a baby and decided she wanted to try and stay home with him. Since she was the one who carried the insurance for their family they applied for private coverage. Yesterday they were denied. Denied because of medical conditions that could affect any woman reading this. Denied on the basis of pre-exisiting conditions.
I want to know where the so called values...
Pentagon plan on 'don't ask, don't tell' ready for... →
squashed:
It looks like this has been in the works for a while. And we all thought Obama had just let that promise lapse.
American Idol: The Complete Joe Jonas Transcript -... →
JOE JONAS’ RIVETING ‘IDOL’ TRANSCRIPT: EXHUMED!
“This is actually our hometown, so to see future stars hopefully coming out of Dallas is always exciting for us.”
“It was awesome, man, definitely, you have star power for sure.”
“Yeah.”
“Yeah.”
“I’d say yeah.” [Off-camera; going on faith]
[Giggle/short expulsion of air after Kara raves to Maegan Wright, “And then you opened your mouth...