September 2011
34 posts
Newt Gingrich: Gay marriage is "a temporary aberration that will dissipate". →
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It must be true, because he’s an expert in temporary marriages!
“You know our country is screwed up when the governor of NEW JERSEY doesn’t want to run for president.”
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“I’d like your status, but Facebook says it’s not a Top Story. I hope you understand.”
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I'm going to feel like a real idiot if it turns out they don't sell mens clothes: →
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I tweeted:
I bought 3 shirts from the Kardashian line at Sears. Two look good, but the third is rather unflattering.
“‘iiii’ is defined as ‘unlucky letter selection’.”
—If this gets 500 hearts and reblogs, then Zynga will have to allow it Words With Friends.
“A costume shop just opened up. I asked if they had any non-slutty Halloween costumes, but I don’t think they understood the question.”
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Booing a serving soldier? It doesn't matter if he's gay, it's just wrong. →
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They cheered 234 executions in Texas, and cheered the death of a hypothetical uninsured man, so you’d think it would be hard to argue booing a gay soldier is worse. But it is. Because he wasn’t a hypothetical case, he wasn’t a statistic, he was asking the question himself. If he didn’t see it broadcast live, he certainly will see the reaction. They booed a serving soldier to his face!
I’d say it’s hard to see how they’ll top this at the next debate, but I’m sure they will.
“Have I ever heard of snopes.com? No. Why do people keep asking me that?”
—Michele Bachmann
“More proof that we’re old. Well, you’re old. I’m just not young anymore.”
—My friend Venita (age not disclosed)
“I hear all this, you know, “Well, this is class warfare, this is whatever.”—No! There is nobody in this country who got rich on his own. Nobody. You built a factory out there—good for you! But I want to be clear. You moved your goods to market on the roads the rest of us paid for. You hired workers the rest of us paid to educate. You were safe in your factory because of police forces and fire forces that the rest of us paid for. You didn’t have to worry that marauding bands would come and seize everything at your factory, and hire someone to protect against this, because of the work the rest of us did. Now look, you built a factory and it turned into something terrific, or a great idea—God bless. Keep a big hunk of it. But part of the underlying social contract is you take a hunk of that and pay forward for the next kid who comes along.”
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Massachusetts Senate candidate Elizabeth Warren on class warfare.
(via agreatnation)
Elizabeth Warren is awesome. It’s no wonder the GOP withheld funding from her banking regulatory agency so that she could never do her job. They are rightly afraid of her.
“Eddie Vedder struck by lightning and declares “there can be only one” as he absorbs all the self-importance of Michael Stipe. Then he began to plot the murder of Bono.”
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“Google+ now open to everyone. Yes, everyone. Let’s see how much fun it is once the mother-in-laws and passive-aggressive stalkers show up.”
—This will truly be the real test of Facebook vs. Google+, since the number one reason people said it was better than Facebook 2 months ago was “none of those people”. But you can’t beat Facebook by not letting everyone in.
in the fade: the image of poverty →
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You want to know what poverty looks like? You want to know what the middle class looks like?
Neither of those things look like what you think they do because your notions about them are either antiquated or biased.
I look into their faces every single day. The poor, the downtrodden, the…
Obama said "This is not class warfare. It's math."
Rick Perry disagreed saying “Math is just one theory that’s out there.”
“The odds of me being reelected are much higher than the odds of me being elected in the first place.”
—Obama
