Cancer patients not having access to medications they need, not important enough to spur action.
But travel delays? We will not ABIDE that assault!
I am done. So disgusted.
Ag
I don’t know who invented the “Coke Freestyle” machine but I feel confident they never stood behind the average American at a regular soda fountain. We can’t efficiently manage eight choices, much less 800.
The customers who are confronted with the machines at most places I visit interact with them the way the proto-human hominids at the beginning of “2001: A Space Odyssey” interacted with the monolith. They’re scared and tentative at first, then have a moment of clarity, and finally club the manager with their cup before throwing it in the air accompanied with a mighty yawp!
Ag
More insight into why television news sucks
Producer: You are an incredibly well informed and articulate expert on a topic of great importance to our viewers. Would you please come on our show?
Expert: I'd be glad to. I think I can provide exactly the right information and context in less than sixty seconds.
Producer: ...
Expert: ...
Producer: 'Kay. We're gonna need you to stretch that out. But don't worry. Our hosts will ask you to irresponsibly speculate and will create a climate where you need to respond to mindless hypotheticals. Just take your time and say every single thing that pops into your mind.
Expert: ...
Producer: Just whatever you do, never stop talking.
Expert: 'Kay. Won't that just dilute the key messages and lessen the chance that your audience gains the greater understanding of the key insights they need?
Producer: ...
Expert: ...
Producer: You're adorable.
The intent of terror is to make people afraid; to make people fearful of gathering in community spirit, as they gathered here today at the finish line of the Boston Marathon. But that will not happen. We will have a marathon next year. Other cities will have marathons in the ensuing months. We will go to ball games. We will gather collectively at many events at schools and athletic events because that’s who we are…We are a free people.
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A little insight into how screwed up our morality is today.
A&E shows episodes of “Criminal Minds.” They always censor them. How?
In the episode currently being broadcast they just cut the audio so we wouldn’t hear the serial killer say “ass.”
Thankfully no one watching in America will be upset by hearing the word “ass” and can enjoy the wholesome scene that followed of an abusive father/serial killer repeatedly stabbing a bound, abducted woman to death in front of his son.
And I don’t blame A&E. They know what will get them letters and what won’t.
Ag
I love that the people I follow from the Philippines always seem to be trying to give me just enough English to make me think I’m really close to knowing what they’re talking about.
Workers have become so deeply indebted on their home mortgages, credit cards and other bank debt that they fear to strike or even to complain about working conditions. Losing work means missing payments on their monthly bills, enabling banks to jack up interest rates to levels that used to be deemed usurious. So debt peonage and unemployment loom on top of the wage slavery that was the main focus of class warfare a century ago. And to cap matters, credit-card bank lobbyists have rewritten the bankruptcy laws to curtail debtor rights, and the referees appointed to adjudicate disputes brought by debtors and consumers are subject to veto from the banks and businesses that are mainly responsible for inflicting injury. The aim of financial warfare is not merely to acquire land, natural resources and key infrastructure rents as in military warfare; it is to centralize creditor control over society. In contrast to the promise of democratic reform nurturing a middle class a century ago, we are witnessing a regression to a world of special privilege in which one must inherit wealth in order to avoid debt and job dependency.
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The Financial Elite’s War Against the US Economy (via azspot) My intolerance is reaching peak levels. (via un) If I may add…yup! |
A reminder of their goals, and how they failed.
Will they learn? If so, we all win.
There was a meeting
We now know when the Congressional Republicans decided to oppose and obstruct every single thing that President Obama has tried to do. It was in a secret meeting that occurred the day President Obama was inaugurated.
Robert Draper’s new book,Do Not Ask What Good We Do — Inside the U.S. House of Representatives, details a meeting that took place on inauguration day, among leaders of the Republican Party — including Eric Cantor,and Paul Ryan, and the disgraced former Republican speaker of the House Newt Gingrich; Along with Republican communications adviser Frank Luntz, who organized the event.
According to Robert Draper’s book, after 4 hourseveryone agreedon the path forward for the Republican Party:
Show united and unyielding opposition to the President’s economic policies.Win the spear point of the House in 2010.
Jab Obama relentlessly in 2011.
Win the White House and the Senate in 2012.
“You will remember this day,” Newt Gingrich proclaimed to the others as they said goodbye. “You’ll remember this as the day the seeds of 2012 were sown.”
They won the House and lost everything else, and damaged the country in the process.
Ag
See here’s the thing, Republicans, actors need lines. And a director. And an editor.
You’ve had bugs up your asses since the Super Bowl because of this commercial because it dared make people feel proud to be Americans in a way that your bloviating never can, and certainly never can when your greatest focus is to desperately try to convince people that things are much worse than they actually are just so you can win the next election.
But Clint Eastwood, a Conservative Republican for his entire life, agreed to do it because he cared about this country more than politics. And was proud of what the people at Chrysler were doing, not just the executives. And like a lot of Conservative Republicans, he was glad that a Democratic President didn’t just “Let Detroit Go Bankrupt,” even if he didn’t agree with everything this, apparently sometimes invisible, president chose to do in other areas.
So you put him up there unprepared and you embarrassed yourselves, you embarrassed him, and in showing what you think of us you embarrassed this country. He deserved better than this. We deserved better than this.
He got nervous, tried to be funny (which I must again remind all of you who aren’t funny to STOP TRYING TO DO) and ended up looking a lot more feeble than he actually is. And you showed the world that you honestly believed this type of stunt would influence American voters. All because you Republicans wet your panties every time you find anyone in Hollywood with even the slightest conservative leanings. I swear a stadium filled with 13 year old girls would have responded more thoughtfully at a One Direction concert.
Treat this as my plea to you to watch this commercial and thinks about why it moved you. And think about the fact that it wouldn’t have worked if it had included a plea for tax breaks for leveraged buyout kings and electric fences to keep out the Mexicans.
Our country needs smart conservative voices speaking up. This country needs people with strong beliefs but who are willing to compromise on occasion to try to make things better even when they don’t get their way. But most importantly at this moment this country could just use a Republican party filled with adults and not children.
Grow the fuck up. You’ve delayed the second half long enough.
Ag
