August 2012
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I Didn't Build That
fishingboatproceeds:
So I own or co-own a few businesses that have experienced varying degrees of success. I am in the educational video business, and the book-writing business, and the merchandise distribution business, and the conference running business, and the making YouTube videos with my brother business, among others. These businesses employ people and generate more jobs per dollar of...
stolen from a friend of a (distant) friend's...
lilotik:
Not attributed, because I think it’d be weird to put a total stranger’s full name on my blog without their knowledge or consent. (although that’s not stopping me from posting the original content…) Anyway, it’s just really good:
I watched the RNC last night and the general consensus seemed not to be the Mitt needed to get in but that Obama needed to get out. There was this unrest...
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FACTS MATTER: The Ultimate Guide To Mitt Romney’s... →
summerjames:
A pretty thorough rundown of all the lies we’re about to hear from Romney
“According to numbers from Reddit, the Obama event was the most trafficked in the...”
– WaPo: How Obama crashed Reddit (via brooklynmutt)
How Obama crashed Reddit, OR How Obama stole attention from Romney in the middle of the RNC.
(via summerjames)
“I had my father get sick when I was 22. And I was poor, alright. And my father...”
– Chris Rock [video]
Bringing this back, because some people don’t seem to understand that there is a discrepancy in the quality of care among poor, middle-class, and wealthy people, NO MATTER HOW DEBILITATING THEIR RESPECTIVE DISEASES MAY BE.
(via cgdageek)
Forever reblog.
(via missgingerlee)
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“Republicans only bother to acknowledge women when they’re reasserting our status...”
– My latest at The Nation, Fantasy Women of the GOP (via jessicavalenti)
Exactly this.
(via jenandtonic)
“No one wonders what advantages accrued to Mitt Romney, a man who spent his early...”
– Ta-Nehisi Coates, on the myth of an affirmative-action president. (via theatlantic)
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CNN confirms @DavidShuster tweet. RNC attendee... →
jenandtonic:
brooklynmutt:
RNC Attendee Allegedly Threw Nuts At Black CNN Camerawoman, Said ‘This Is How We Feed Animals’
Stay classy, GOP.
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Mitt Romney’s `just trust me’ campaign, explained. →
wilwheaton:
This is now the third area in which Romney has refused to share specifics on the explicit grounds that so doing would be bad politically for him. Romney has repeatedly said he won’t release his tax returns because Democrats will find things in them to attack. And he has vowed to eliminate whole government agencies, but has confirmed that he won’t specify which ones precisely because...
