So would I.
“There is substantial evidence that some of these fires have been caused by people who have crossed our border illegally,” Sen. McCain (R-AZ) told reporters on Saturday at a press conference. “The answer to that part of the problem is to get a secure border.”’
Arizona is in the midst of battling a pair of huge blazes, the Horseshoe 2 fire and the more recent Wallow fire. Spokesmen for the forest service and for the federal group managing the disaster both told ABC News that while the ongoing Wallow fire was “human” caused, there was no evidence illegal immigrants were involved. The cause of the Horseshoe 2 fire is listed as “human,” but that’s as specific as it gets.
You stay classy, John McCain.
First Kyl, now McCain? Can we PLEASE have an AZ politician who doesn’t just make shit up? Oh, right. They are politicians.
+1,000,000
I have deliberately ignored this trial, because it’s one of those unspeakable, appalling, horrific tragedies that gets turned into a media circus at the expense of Things That Actually Affect People™ … so this reblog isn’t about Casey Anthony and what she did or didn’t do, and what she did or didn’t get away with; I don’t know enough to have an informed opinion about that.
This is about those fucking Kardashian piles of dogshit, their total lack of self awareness, and the outrageous idiocy of this woman — who is only paid attention to because some dude fucked her in the ass and made a sex tape of it — who doesn’t even understand why
somemost people who were paying attention back when OJ got away with murder would maybe want to punch her in the back of the neck right now, or at least give her a good Nelson Muntz HA HA. Of course, she’s entitled to her opinion, and she isn’t her father, but if my father helped a murderer walk away from his crime, I may think once or twice before I said something like this.But that’s the thing about coddled celebrities who never want for anything or ever experience the consequences of their actions: they don’t have to think once or twice. In fact, if you’re a Kardashian, you don’t have to think at all, because the public just eats up every fucking thing you do, without even knowing why. God bless America.
And as long as I’m alienating people: “reality” TV is the worst thing to happen to television, ever. “Reality” television “stars” disgust me.
Yesterday, I Twittered:
Majority of Americans: Please raise taxes on billionaires. Congress: Herp derp screw the middle class! Majority: #fuckyouwashington
Senator Bernie Sanders (one of the few Senators I respect) says essentially the same thing, but more eloquently than I did:
The rich are getting richer. Their effective tax rate, in recent years, has been reduced to the lowest in modern history. Nurses, teachers and firemen actually pay a higher tax rate than some billionaires. It’s no wonder the American people are angry.
Many corporations, including General Electric and Exxon-Mobil, have made billions in profits while using loopholes to avoid paying any federal income taxes. We lose $100 billion every year in federal revenue from companies and individuals who stash their wealth in tax havens off-shore like the Cayman Islands and Bermuda. The sum of all the revenue collected by the Treasury today totals just 14.8% of our gross domestic product, the lowest in about 50 years.
In the midst of this, Republicans in Congress have been fanatically determined to protect the interests of the wealthy and large multinational corporations so that they do not contribute a single penny toward deficit reduction.
If the Republicans have their way, the entire burden of deficit reduction will be placed on the elderly, the sick, children and working families. In the midst of a horrendous recession that is already causing severe pain for average Americans, this approach is morally grotesque. It’s also bad economic policy.
The whole thing isn’t very long, and it’s worth your time to give it a read.
It’s just a fact that the GOP caused this “crisis”, and the lunatic fringe in the House is entirely responsible for it … but the White House and Democrat response to it has been pathetic. Even though public opinion is overwhelmingly against the GOP position, Obama and the White House have allowed the GOP to control the “debate” — which is really little more than stupid kabuki, anyway.
The way I see it, there are two options to explain the behavior from Obama and Senate Democrats: 1) They really are that incompetent, and completely got themselves rolled or 2) They want to slash federal spending that helps the poor and the middle class, and the lunatic fringe of the GOP is giving them the cover they need to please their corporate masters.
I’m not sure which it is, to be honest, though it seems that Obama wants his base to be furious with him (so he can go after the ever-changing “center” that will never support him the way his base did until he sold us out over and over again) and he seems more interested in presiding over some huge “compromise” with the lunatic fringe of the GOP than he is in protecting the people he supposedly serves.
I think it’s just an unavoidable truth: Barack Obama isn’t the great Hope he lead us to believe he was. He’s a weak negotiator, he’s a corporate tool, he doesn’t care at all about the least among us, and he isn’t willing to fight for anything. This president isn’t the guy I supported during the election, and he is a tragic failure for progressives.
I’m angry because the government of my country has abandoned its people, and I don’t think there’s anything we can do to take it back.
You don’t have to get a job that makes others feel comfortable about what they perceive as your success. You don’t have to explain what you plan to do with your life. You don’t have to justify your education by demonstrating its financial rewards. You don’t have to maintain an impeccable credit score. Anyone who expects you to do any of those things has no sense of history or economics or science or the arts.
You have to pay your own electric bill. You have to be kind. You have to give it all you got. You have to find people who love you truly and love them back with the same truth.
But that’s all.
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Dear Sugar, The Rumpus (via brklyn) I want this on my wall. (via laughterkey) That reminds me, I have to buy some electricity on the way home. |
cwnl:
NdGT is one of my personal heroes.Neil deGrasse Tyson on children and grown-ups
I’m with Bob on this one. And Neil. *hee hee hee hee* Neil and Bob.
Two guys made this video after being stuck in an airport in Dallas, with there flight delayed overnight. Homeland security is wondering how they got away with this.
badasses
This is too good.
Until this moment, I didn’t realize that I had an airport To-Do List. Thanks guys.
I think I’m in love with these guys. Frakking brilliant.
We have to endure TSA’s security theater while THIS is happening? I would buy these guys beers if they weren’t helping themselves already! (Okay, I will still buy them beers.)
