Well guys, I just (perhaps foolishly) joined the ranks of NFL owners. Yes, I drank the Kool-aid.
reagan-was-a-horrible-president:
The Fox News solution: more discrimination, less pay, less benefits.
Is this a joke?
Fox “News” is Republican porn…
How to encourage job growth:
- Extend unemployment benefits. Forcing people to work is bad policy and hurts everyone.
- Increase the federal minimum wage to a living wage, so people only have to work one job (freeing up secondary jobs for other people).
- Offer tax rebates for hiring people in marginalized groups.
- Stop fucking around and tax millionaires more so that people will have some faith that our government can run an economy that actually cares about the 99%, thereby encouraging spending and job growth.
- Create universal healthcare so employees can be more productive and work more days.
And voila! A job creation plan that doesn’t involve fucking over poor people.
You’ve got to be fucking kidding me! I can’t believe these d-bags buy this shit. This is some sick early April Fool’s joke, right?
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So, according to Gingrich campaign:
Presidential infidelity = impeachment worthy
multiple speaker of the house infidelity = patriotism
American union workers = deserve to be fired
children = should be put to work
Catholicism = not a cult
Mormonism = cult
Fuck this racist piece of shit.
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“ I will also aggressively defend the constitutionality of DOMA in federal and state courts. I will support sending a federal constitutional amendment defining marriage as the union of one man and one woman to the states for ratification. I will also oppose any judicial, bureaucratic, or legislative effort to define marriage in any manner other than as between one man and one woman. I will support all efforts to reform promptly any uneconomic or anti-marriage aspects of welfare and tax policy…I also pledge to uphold the institution of marriage through personal fidelity to my spouse and respect for the marital bonds of others ”
— Newt Gingrich, adulterer, serial-divorcee and sanctity of marriage spokesperson. (via reallyfoxnews)
(Source: politico.com, via reallyfoxnews)
Only on Fox News is 8.6% the same as 9% and higher than 8.9% and 8.8%.
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“ For the Koch brothers and their kind, less democracy is better. They fund campaigns with millions of dollars in checks that have helped elect the likes of Wisconsin Governor Scott Walker and Ohio Governor John Kasich. And ALEC has made it clear, through its ambitious “Public Safety and Elections Task Force,” that while it wants to dismantle any barriers to corporate cash and billionaire bucks’ influencing elections, it wants very much to erect barriers to the primary tool that Americans who are not CEOs have to influence the politics and the government of the nation: voting. ”
— John Nichols, The Koch Brothers, ALEC and the Savage Assault on Democracy | NationofChange (originally published in The Nation, where Nichols is a longtime contributor/editor)
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BERNIE SANDERS IS GOING TO OVERTURN CITIZENS UNITED BUT HE NEEDS OUR HELP!
OK people. HERE WE GO REBLOG THIS EVERYWHERE! THIS IS IMPORTANT!
BERNIE SANDERS NOW INTRODUCING The Saving American Democracy Amendment which states that:
- Corporations are not persons with constitutional rights equal to real people.
- Corporations are subject to regulation by the people.
- Corporations may not make campaign contributions.
- Congress and states have the power to regulate campaign finances.
KEEP IT MOVING
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Ok guys there is a virus going around Tumblr. I got it last night. I got rid of it though. If you see someone giving a link to their own Tumblr and you click on it and it tells you to sign in because there is Adult Content, DONT DO IT. YOU WILL GET THE VIRUS. i know how to get rid of it if you get it though. you just have to go on the customize part of your Tumblr and erase all the Custom HTML and save it then remake your page. That gets rid of it. Reblog to get the word out.
DO THIS.
Signal boost.
I just went to check my own page (which I don’t often do because I can’t make up my mind about changing its theme without totally fucking it up, but I really don’t like to look at it anymore for some reason) to make sure I didn’t get hacked.
(Source: the-only-sane-one)
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The one unifying feature in the OWS protests is a sense of betrayal by our representative institution of government — Congress — in favor of the super powerful and those that do their bidding for them. That common trait supplies the real message of OWS and explains why the movement has stayed alive so long. The OWS message is this: “Our government is not working. It seems to have lost its compass. Its wrong direction is beginning to have consequences in our daily lives and threatens the futures of our children and grandchildren.”
Many observers identify with this message. We think our government’s priorities are wrong. We no longer trust our elected representatives to operate our system of government. We hear that 14 million people are estimated to be without jobs and America cannot even pay its bills, yet vital government programs need to be slashed in favor of questionable tax breaks for the super powerful.
Following the economic crisis of 2008, those we elected have continued to play financial roulette. They have showed us, time after time, a willingness to be unduly influenced by those who seek unfair advantage at the expense of weaker segments of our nation’s society. Our Congress seems to have no real concern about accountability, relying instead on unconvincing sound bites and finger pointing. Its members practice the skill of intransigence, as if they were children in a sandbox, holding all toys hostage. We who watch — the young, the middle-aged and the elderly — are all worried. We are fearful of the wreckage starting to build up around us.
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Why can’t our country do better? » Opinion » The Norman Transcript
Norman attorney Don Holladay’s guest editorial from Saturday’s edition of The Norman Transcript. Worth reading the whole thing.
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In memory of Jacob Rogers, 18 »
Jacob Rogers, a high school senior from Tennessee, ended his life yesterday after enduring years of bullying at school.
Friends say classmates tormented him with anti-gay slurs and left behind notes including passwords to online accounts, so friends and investigators could see evidence of the harassment he endured.
Bloggers started a fund to help his family pay for the funeral and very quickly reached their goal amount of $5,000. Extra money will go to the GLSEN, the It Gets Better Project, the Trevor Project and the ACLU.
Please get help if you need it. Look out for your friends. Stand up for strangers. We cannot handle the loss of another innocent life. This community needs you - these kids need you. Prayers go out to Jacob’s family and friends.
Too fucking much of this going on.
Which makes me ever angrier at conservative Republicans and Christian Nationalists who decry anti-bullying programmes.
Until I started checking, I never realized how much of this shit goes on. As a reformed (recovering?) homophobe I am ashamed that this goes on. What the fuck is wrong with the human race? BTW, I want to take this time to do something I’ve never done before. I want to thank my wife, my daughter, and my friend Greg for opening my eyes, my mind, and more importantly, my heart-and I hope making me a slightly better person in the process.
