“Jesus never mentioned homosexuality once. How has it become such an issue? Strange. Strange how all the things that Jesus actually did talk about fail to become issues. I mean, you start talking about war, and conservative Christians say, ‘Oh, I don’t want to be political and protest the war.’ Or you talk about poverty and the causes of poverty. ‘Oh, that’s a political issue; Jesus wasn’t political.’ Why don’t these people deal with the issues that Jesus did? It shouldn’t surprise me. If you look at the Gospels, the most respected religious people were the furtherest from the spirit of what Jesus was saying. It’s just the same thing all over again. But I am surprised. I really do continually expect Christians to be the most willing to accept pacifism, peacemaking, or redistribution of wealth, and care for the poor, and rethinking our prison systems and all that. But we end up being the most belligerent and self-righteous and all the rest. Scary.”
—Aaron Weiss (via joshuasolomon)
April 2012
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“I just wanna thank the members of Congress who took a break from their exhausting schedule of not passing any laws to be here tonight”
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(via destroythegop)
House GOP Would Kick 280,000 Children Off School Lunch Program To Protect Tax Cut For Millionaires →
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This is why we can’t have nice things.
“I actually have my own theory about Lincoln’s death… I think John Wilkes Booth was innocent. I don’t even think it was an assassination. I believe that Abraham Lincoln had a vision about what the Republican party would become in 150 years and he shot himself.”
—Jimmy Kimmel
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Jimmy Kimmel should recruit President Obama into the Handsome Men’s Club.
“Rick Santorum is out. It just wasn’t Rick’s year. Rick’s year is 1954. You know it’s one thing to oppose gay marriage; it’s another to do it in a sweater vest.”
—Jimmy Kimmel (via kileyrae)
HAHAHA FUCKING BURN BY KIMMEL TO SANTORUM
“In my first term I sang Al Green. In my second term I’m going with Young Jeezy. In my first term we ended the War in Iraq. In my second term we will win the War on Christmas. In my first term we ended a policy known as Don’t Ask Don’t Tell. In my second term we will replace it with a policy called It’s Raining Men. In my first term we passed healthcare reform. In my second term, I guess we’ll do it again.”
—President Obama reveals the ‘secret agenda’ for his second term. (via kileyrae)
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We have been studying Washington politics and Congress for more than 40 years, and never have we seen them this dysfunctional. In our past writings, we have criticized both parties when we believed it was warranted. Today, however, we have no choice but to acknowledge that the core of the problem lies with the Republican Party.
The GOP has become an insurgent outlier in American politics. It is ideologically extreme; scornful of compromise; unmoved by conventional understanding of facts, evidence and science; and dismissive of the legitimacy of its political opposition.
When one party moves this far from the mainstream, it makes it nearly impossible for the political system to deal constructively with the country’s challenges.
” —Thomas Mann, Senior fellow at the Brookings Institute & Norman Ornstein, Resident Scholar at the American Enterprise Institute, in the Washington Post (via herblondness)
RECALL ALL REPUBLICANS 2012!
Letters To My Country: How To Be A Badass Lawyer →
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Regretsy takes notice of Ken White, the primary force behind Popehat, who recently wrote a “counter” cease-and-desist letter in response to a cease-and-desist letter from one Howard Ray Schechter, who threatened legal action against a member of the Etsy community because she made…
“Let’s move forward, not backward. I believe in young people and I’m going to fight for you.”
—President Obama on why you should vote for him instead of Mitt Romney in 140 characters or less. (via kileyrae)
Here's what has to happen
President Obama has to trounce Mitt Romney in November. Democrats have to trounce Republicans in the House and Senate elections. A clear message must be sent to the Republicans: your time is over. We let you have your fun. Our mistake. We’re taking the nation back and setting everything right.
THIS ↑
The only path forward for our nation is the UTTER DESTRUCTION
of this Republican Party.November 6, 2012 → OCCUPY A VOTING BOOTH
Undocumented Immigrants Paid $11.2 Billion In Taxes While GE Paid Nothing →
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This past month, there was much outrage over the fact that General Electric, despite making $14.2 billion in profits, paid zero U.S. taxes in 2010. General Electric actually received tax credits of $3.2 billion from American taxpayers.
At the same time that General Electric was not paying taxes, many undocumented immigrants, who are typically accused of taking advantage of the system while not contributing to it by many on the right, paid $11.2 billion in taxes. A new study by the Institute for Taxation and Economic Policy shows that undocumented immigrants paid $8.4 billion in sales taxes, $1.6 billion in property taxes, and $1.2 billion in personal income taxes last year. The study also estimates that nearly half of all undocumented immigrants pay income taxes.
I feel like Mitt Romney is what would have happened to Bruce Wayne if his parents hadn't died.
Uh, no.
Don’t ever compare Rmoney to Bruce Wayne or any of the Wayne members for that matter.
“I hope Barack Obama is able to destroy all of Romney’s horcruxes before he gets reelected.”
— ihopebarackobama (via destroythegop)
Let It Die
Feist
Feist - One Evening
Cause I dig the sultry, blues like jazz bass slaps.
