April 2010
March 2010
“So Jesse James has now confirmed he’s entered a treatment facility. Just like Tiger Woods before him and what’s sure to be countless others after him, James is supposedly getting help for “Sex Addiction” which, really, when you think about it, should actually be called “Sex-With-Other-Bitches-You’re-Not-Married-To” Addiction because the problem never seems to be about too much sex with their wives. While I’ve no doubt that there are those who legitimately suffer from Sex Addiction, attributing the affliction to someone like James, and also Tiger, might say more about the observers (us) than the observed (them). Blaming infidelity on a mental disorder is so much more comforting than admitting that the unfaithful is just a bad person. Because a disorder comes with hope for “fixing.” But if someone’s a bad person, well, they’re simply a bad person.”
—LaineyGossip
“Obama to conservatives (in both parties): I’ll give you coastal drilling, but I’m coming back for cap and trade “energy independence legislation,” so remember this gesture when I do.”
—Obama’s Energy Politics - TaylorMarsh.com
“Lest we forget — George W. Bush and the GOP Congress passed Medicare Part B, an expansion of federal entitlement largesse that was easily as large as Obama’s. Though with one crucial difference. The Democrats’ new Health Insurance Bill was designed to add nothing to the federal deficit. In fact, it is revenue neutral and even promises some black ink. The Republicans’ Medicare B entitlement, in contrast, passed without a scintilla of provision for how to fund it. It simply said “bill our grandkids.”
—David Brin (via azspot)
“You cannot have maternal health without reproductive health and reproductive health includes contraception and family planning and access to legal, safe abortions. This is an issue of great concern to me and to my government. If you are concerned about abortion then women should have access to family planning. It is perfectly legitimate for people to hold their own personal views based on conscience, religion or any other basis. But I’ve always believed that the government should not intervene in decisions of such intimacy.”
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Secretary of State Hillary Clinton
“You know who is out campaigning now again? John McCain and his buddy Sarah Palin. I mean, come on, it worked so well the last time.”
—DAVID LETTERMAN, The Late Show (via inothernews)
Tea Party Members, Are You Serious? If So Sign The Pledge! →
cincyvoices.com
I will abstain from the use of and participation in any socialist goods and services including but not limited to the following:
- Social Security
- Medicare/Medicaid
- State Children’s Health Insurance Programs (SCHIP)
- Police, Fire, and Emergency Services
- US Postal Service
- Roads and Highways
- Air Travel (regulated by the socialist FAA)
- The US Railway System
- Public Subways and Metro Systems
- Public Bus and Lightrail Systems
- Rest Areas on Highways
- Sidewalks
- All Government-Funded Local/State Projects
- Public Water and Sewer Services (goodbye socialist toilet, shower, dishwasher, kitchen sink, outdoor hose!)
- Public and State Universities and Colleges
- Public Primary and Secondary Schools
- Sesame Street
- Publicly Funded Anti-Drug Use Education for Children
- Public Museums
- Libraries
- Public Parks and Beaches
- State and National Parks
- Public Zoos
- Unemployment Insurance
- Municipal Garbage and Recycling Services
- Treatment at Any Hospital or Clinic That Ever Received Funding From Local, State or Federal Government (pretty much all of them)
- Medical Services and Medications That Were Created or Derived From Any Government Grant or Research Funding (again, pretty much all of them)
- Socialist Byproducts of Government Investment Such as Duct Tape and Velcro (Nazi-NASA Inventions)
- Use of the Internets, email, and networked computers, as the DoD’s ARPANET was the basis for subsequent computer networking
- Foodstuffs, Meats, Produce and Crops That Were Grown With, Fed With, Raised With or That Contain Inputs From Crops Grown With Government Subsidies
- Clothing Made from Crops (e.g. cotton) That Were Grown With or That Contain Inputs From Government Subsidies
“You get that girl, yells the coach from the opposing team. (To which, my husband and I laughingly reply, No, don’t get that girl!) Our 8-year old daughter is one of the fastest players in the league. All the coaches know this and warn their players accordingly. I’ll tell you what’s far more satisfying than watching your daughter get a touchdown, though: seeing her treated just like all of the other boys on the field; finding out that her coach used one of her suggestions for a play; watching her teammates slap her on the back and tell her she did a good job; hearing her sisters cheer for her on the sideline. Hearing these words from her after the game: Mom, I really love football.”
—When We Level The Playing Field - She Started It
“There’s a place for c-sections — countless lives have been saved by the procedure, women who, like myself, might have once faced dire consequences from laboring on and on with no end in sight, or from placenta previa, where the placenta blocks the opening of the cervix, or from breech births where a baby’s head, born last, may become stuck in the birth canal, or for any of a number of other emergency reasons to birth surgically. Such procedures recognize and honor all parties at stake — the mother, the baby, and the doctor, working together as a unit all working to ensure the health of the mother and child is secure. But mandatory cesareans for low-risk women — a group that has seen an 89 percent rise in the procedure since 2003 — privilege the legal concerns of hospitals over mothers, and treat women not as patients — with rights like any other — but merely as vessels for a fetus, a fleshy roadblock to a quick and easily scheduled conclusion of a pregnancy. As a result of VBAC bans, women who are determined to avoid a second surgery find themselves on murky legal ground. Much was made at the end of the NIH conference about the “right of refusal” — that is the right to refuse a cesarean even if a physician insists one is necessary. Effectively banning the procedure in swaths of the country has created militancy, fear, anger, and distrust on both sides.”
—C-Section or Vaginal Birth? Women Too Often Denied the Choice
Christians from political left and right sign 'Civility Covenant' →
cnn.com
Called the “Civility Covenant,” the document says that churches have too often “reflected the political divisions of our culture rather than the unity we have in the body of Christ.”
“The Super Bowl may be our biggest party night, and the World Series may be the pinnacle of our national pastime. But our hearts and souls somehow belong to March Madness,”
—Harlon Coben, PARADE Magazine (via fuckyeahjohnwall)
“There’s already a Men’s Studies Program. It’s called “History.” Thus far, I’m unimpressed.”
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This just wins today.
(via rosasparks)
“I’m telling you, I’ve been to African townships and they’re getting better food than your American kids.”
—Jamie Oliver, Food Revolution
Tea Party Militiaman Who Told "Patriots" To Break Windows & Is Organizing An Armed March On Washington Is On Government Disability →
crooksandliars.com
But the best part:
Vanderboegh said he advocates breaking windows only of Democratic Party offices, not congressional offices, and that he does not condone the death threats and other incidents of harassment that some Democratic lawmakers have faced. “Obviously I not only deplore or decry that, but I denounce that vigorously because it has nothing to do with what I was advocating,” he said.
Um…
“House Speaker Nancy Pelosi finally got to sign final health care reform legislation on her 70th birthday and send it to the president to sign into law. But as much as Pelosi called signing the bill “a birthday privilege,” she’s still still waiting for the present she really wants - a pool table. The Speaker told reporters after the bill signing that her husband wasn’t sold on the idea of the pool table, so she enlisted her grandchildren to lobby him. “They are going to work on pop, which is my husband.” Pelosi was still hopeful she’d get her birthday wish, and is headed home California to celebrate with her family.”
—Pelosi still waiting for the birthday gift she really wants - CNN.com
“This used to be my favorite place.”
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Barack Obama on the Prairie Lights bookstore in Iowa City. He also bought a Star Wars Pop Up book for Robert Gibbs’ son.
I am proud to be an American.
(via squashed)
All the President's Pens →
politico.com
With the strokes of 22 pens, President Obama signed health care reform into law on Tuesday
And here’s who got them:
1. Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid
2. Sen. Dick Durbin
3. Sen. Max Baucus
4. Sen. Tom Harkin
5. Sen. Chris Dodd
6. House Speaker Nancy Pelosi
7. House Majority Leader Steny Hoyer
8. Rep. James Clyburn
9. Rep. George Miller
10. Rep. Henry Waxman
11. Rep. Sandy Levin
12. Rep. John Dingell
13. Rep. Charles Rangel
14. Vice President Biden
15. Health and Human Services Secretary Kathleen Sebelius
16. Vicki Kennedy
17. Nancy-Ann DeParle, director of the White House Office of Health Reform
18. Phil Schiliro, assistant to the president for legislative affairs
19. Sister Carol Keehan, president of the Catholic Health Association
20. President ObamaAnd two were kept for the archives.
Mrs. O's Week in NYC →
mrs-o.org
The first lady has spent the past week exploring New York City with her daughters, who are on their Spring Break. So what have the ladies been up to?
Saturday: Blue Man group and a stop at Dylan’s Candy Bar.
Sunday: Brunch at Mesa Grill, followed by the musical “Memphis”. Plus, a tour of the Empire State Building and a stop by Magnolia Bakery for cupcakes.
Monday: Lunch at the Russian Tea Room and a preview of a new musical, “The Addams Family.”
Tuesday: A trip to Harlem, including stops at the Studio Theater and Apollo Theater.
Wednesday: A tour of the “Sesame Street” studio. A visit to the Brooklyn Bridge Park, the Brooklyn Ice Cream Factory and a well-known pizzeria, Grimaldi’s.
Fine, whatever, but my heart’s on the University of Washington. All we have to do is kick WV’s ass.
Since WVU is now without their starting point guard, I especially think you guys have a good shot at taking them. At least I hope you do. I can’t stand Bob Huggins and his warm up suits.
“…let’s not paint an unfair depiction of this Kentucky team as a bunch of kids who don’t care about academics. “Just because we don’t go to an Ivy league school, it doesn’t mean our degree doesn’t matter,” said Kentucky senior Ramon Harris, who’ll graduate in 3½ years. “For people to say that academics don’t matter to us is kind of unfair. At the same time, we can’t worry about it.”
Instead, they’ll just use it as motivation.” —Sorry Cornell, the smart money’s on Kentucky - CBK News - FOX Sports on MSN
Instead, they’ll just use it as motivation.” —Sorry Cornell, the smart money’s on Kentucky - CBK News - FOX Sports on MSN
