by kara on September 23, 2013
Color me SHOCKED that Ted Cruz is another in the series of fake Texans/humble man of the people (let’s stop blaming Canada for Ted Cruz – he’s from Texas, just like W. Don’t let that horrible state dodge the blame for him just because he were born elsewhere). Come t’ find out, Ol’ Texas Ted wasn’t always so willing to mingle with the unwasheds! That is because folksy humble man of the people refused to commingle with folks from the ‘LESSER IVIES’.
From the GQ profile of Cruz:
As a law student at Harvard, he refused to study with anyone who hadn’t been an undergrad at Harvard, Princeton, or Yale. Says Damon Watson, one of Cruz’s law-school roommates: “He said he didn’t want anybody from ‘minor Ivies’ like Penn or Brown.”
Yep, that’s some real Plumber-Joe Moose-Pack stuff right there! I still can’t understand is how a man who doesn’t like grads from the “lesser Ivies”, stoops to being buddies with Sarah Palin? Something doesn’t add up.
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by kara on September 23, 2013
by kara on September 19, 2013
Sure, they’re just a fat bunch of idiots. But why are they still around? The Tea Party is not engaged in legislating, they are engaged in revolution. This is the only explanation for what they are doing. They are literally out to deliberately destroy the country. And yes, I am using that word correctly. We cannot fight them until we understand that this the goal. They are shooting (heh) for getting rid of the government completely and will stand around after it happens wondering what the fk we do next. For them it would be a good idea to roll away, as I think many in the public will have a message for them, they won’t want to receive. But we can burn that cross when we come to it. For now, the ignorant teabaggers can not enjoy the irony of knowing that the Boston Tea Party was a demonstration against preferential tax policies towards the East India Company, which was the 1774 version of the Koch Brothers conglomerate. Nor can they understand that the “French Revolution” was not a guerrilla battling band of rebels rising up in the streets. Danton and Robespierre were elected members of the legislature, the “revolution” was a series of laws they passed with a majority. The Army stayed loyal to the legitimate government with only some instances of army units supporting the king. There were only a few instances of rioting, no “revolutionary war.” These republican wingnut loons right now are absolutely “revolutionary” in precisely the sense of the French revolutionaries. The “Reign of Terror” was also a legislatively authorized action under a bill granting extraordinary emergency powers to a committee. This modern GOP would act similarly if it could, if it had 3 branches and was free to do as it pleased. It would declare “liberals” to be traitors, as they already SAY all the time, and have us rounded up. Literally. No exaggeration. It’s almost as if we’ve hit some kind of Tard Singularity, except none of these idiots will be able to upload their consciousness to the Internet because they all still have VCR’s at home flashing “12:00.”
Love it or Leave it, Teatards.
by kara on September 18, 2013
I keep hearing about all these mysterious “moderate Republicans” who are afraid of a primary challenge. Where the fuck are all these “moderate Republicans” – who seem from the polls to represent a majority of them – during the primaries? Why the holy fuck aren’t they voting? Do they not *know* how to vote in the fucking primaries? Do the “moderates” not register as Republicans or pay attention to primaries? When you go to restrictive closed primaries (as the GOP has in many states specifically in reaction to “moderates” influencing their Presidential picks too much) and you add in America’s historical shitty turnout in anything but the Big Ones (Presidential cycle general elections) – really, it is terrible and has been since before primaries took over for closed party nominations – the base always has the ability to dominate primaries. So stupid.
by kara on September 18, 2013
Giglio Harbor, Italy
September 17, 2013
The damaged side of the capsized cruise liner Costa Concordia is seen at the end of the “parbuckling” operation outside Giglio harbor. Salvage crews on the Italian island of Giglio raised the Costa Concordia cruise liner early on Tuesday, completing one of the most difficult and expensive wreck recovery projects ever performed. In a 19-hour operation which ended at 2:00 GMT, the 114,500 ship was pulled upright by a series of huge jacks and cables and left resting in 30 metres of water on underwater platforms drilled into the rocky sea bed.
by kara on September 16, 2013
Students protest George W. Bush’s humanitarian award in Denver. (Credit: COSPA)
via the nation
Denver v. Bush
On September 9, more than 100 students, alumni and faculty from the University of Denver rallied against the university’s decision to grant the “Global Service Award” to former president George W. Bush—disregarding 1,600 petition signatures and months of pushback. Created and granted by Dean Christopher Hill of DU’s Josef Korbel School of International Studies, who served under Bush as ambassador to Iraq, the award was originally named the “Improving the Human Condition Award,” a title that sparked outrage among the university’s community and was changed in response. Even after two-thirds of the Korbel faculty signed a letter opposing any award given to Bush and students collected more than twenty nominations for alternative recipients, Dean Hill moved forward. Korbel students and members of the Colorado Student Power Alliance responded by organizing a protest and press conference outside of the award ceremony in Denver. Alumni have also organized a boycott campaign, known as “Not A Dime!” to discourage Korbel graduates from donating to the school until their “Restore Integrity to Korbel” Committee’s platform is adopted. While an evangelical Christian university in Canada cancelled an appearance from Bush in response to campus protest the same week as the DU protest, the DU and Korbel administrations have yet to respond.
– Roshan Bliss
by kara on September 11, 2013
by kara on September 11, 2013
What is it we’re supposed to never forget again?
George W. Bush, March 13, 2002:
Bush listened to the briefing [Bin Laden determined to strike in US], Suskind says, then told the CIA briefer: “All right. You’ve covered your ass, now.”
George W. Bush, August 6, 2011:
[Bin Laden’s] just a person who’s been marginalized. … I don’t know where he is. I really just don’t spend that much time on him, to be honest with you.
Dana Perino, November 24, 2009:
“We did not have a terrorist attack on our country during President Bush’s term,” she told Sean Hannity.
Dick Cheney, May 13, 2013:
Cheney told Sean Hannity in a FOX News phone interview.“In my past experience when we got into these situations — especially after 9/11 — we were always there, locked and loaded, ready to go on 9/11,
(at the wrong target, but who’s counting?)
by kara on September 9, 2013
Bummed out that the best show since Sopranos is going off the air? It doesn’t get much better than this super-cute Lego meth lab.for the ex-meth addict in you, or for your little ones to play games involving drugs, debauchery, guns, bombs, lying, killing, maiming and everything in between – except sex! Yay, no sex! The fake-lego set is awesomely called “Bricking Bad”.
Yes, now any child or child-at-heart can recreate Walter White’s notorious crystal meth lab! Complete with protective masks, drug paraphernalia, over 500 bricks and three minifigs!
Sadly, the good Danish people at Lego frown upon drugs, sex, violence, and middle-aged men running around trailers in their tighty-whities, and the set is a product of Citizen Brick, and is not sponsored, authorized or endorsed by the LEGO Group, owners of the registered LEGO(R) trademark. Check out this newest example of unlicensed awesomeness:
Hey! This looks just like MY meth lab!
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by kara on September 7, 2013
I love everything about all of this, all the essential, seasonal cliches: crispy mornings strolling across campuses, leather loafers crucnching over crimson leaves, bonfires and football games, school books and pencils, creamy flannels and scarves and sweaters. None of it was ever real, it was unattainable, fantasy bullshit made to make us feel terrible about our messy, scratchy lives, and it was captured in all it’s chimeric glory in Seventeen’s annual Back to School issue.
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