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jordanlyons:
Remarks of Senator Barack ObamaDemocratic National ConventionAugust 28, 2008Denver, Colorado
robot-heart:
Dante Moore has the answers for you. He says if you want a man of quality, you should cook, be skinny, dress nicely (even while cleaning), and be prepared to please your man however he likes. Of course, don’t expect him to repay your servitude with romance, acts of kindness, gifts, fidelity or respect. He is a man of quality. If you don’t give him what he wants, “ten broads around the corner will.”
Personally, I think someone needs to re-educate Mr. Moore on how to pick up a woman of quality. No wonder he’s never been in love. He’s been looking for a prostitute/maid/mommy, not a partner.
This is horrifying!
from Moveon.org (LINK)
10 things you should know about John McCain (but probably don’t):
1) John McCain voted against establishing a national holiday in honor of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. Now he says his position has “evolved,” yet he’s continued to oppose key civil rights laws.1
2) According to Bloomberg News, McCain is more hawkish than Bush on Iraq, Russia and China. Conservative columnist Pat Buchanan says McCain “will make Cheney look like Gandhi.”2
3) His reputation is built on his opposition to torture, but McCain voted against a bill to ban waterboarding, and then applauded President Bush for vetoing that ban.3
4) McCain opposes a woman’s right to choose. He said, “I do not support Roe versus Wade. It should be overturned.”4
5) The Children’s Defense Fund rated McCain as the worst senator in Congress for children. He voted against the children’s health care bill last year, then defended Bush’s veto of the bill.5
6) He’s one of the richest people in a Senate filled with millionaires. The Associated Press reports he and his wife own at least eight homes! Yet McCain says the solution to the housing crisis is for people facing foreclosure to get a “second job” and skip their vacations.6
7) Many of McCain’s fellow Republican senators say he’s too reckless to be commander in chief. One Republican senator said: “The thought of his being president sends a cold chill down my spine. He’s erratic. He’s hotheaded. He loses his temper and he worries me.”7
8) McCain talks a lot about taking on special interests, but his campaign manager and top advisers are actually lobbyists. The government watchdog group Public Citizen says McCain has 59 lobbyists raising money for his campaign, more than any of the other presidential candidates.8
9) McCain has sought closer ties to the extreme religious right in recent years. The pastor McCain calls his “spiritual guide,” Rod Parsley, believes America’s founding mission is to destroy Islam, which he calls a “false religion.” McCain sought the political support of right-wing preacher John Hagee, who believes Hurricane Katrina was God’s punishment for gay rights and called the Catholic Church “the Antichrist” and a “false cult.”9
10) He positions himself as pro-environment, but he scored a 0—yes, zero—from the League of Conservation Voters last year.10
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gregbrown:
Reposting this incredibly good, incredibly brilliant article on the Obama economic philosophy. Like, better than any other one I’ve read this whole campaign.
Welcome, Freshmen. Have an iPod. New York Times (Read the full article)
Universities are now giving away iPods and iPhones to students. Naomi may speculate that this will challenge professors to liven things up but I think that’s a stretch. Not much changed with pagers or laptops or cell phones.
Besides the obvious distraction factor, the universities are handicapping the student’s future expectations. After four years of being on the cutting edge and having all the latest everything the bottom is bound to fall out when the students graduate. Most recent graduates don’t earn the kind of income that allows them to continue to buy Apple’s very cool but very pricey new toys. Post-grad reality may not be entirely what they imagine, but their technology taste will likely be hip as shit.
“But what I can do is, I can say, I’m going to wake up every day thinking about you and thinking about how to make your life a little bit better,” he said. “And if you can trust me to do that — and I’m organizing a bunch of smart people like Mark Warner to come up with innovative ideas — that’ll give you a little bit of a fighting chance that’ll make your life a little bit better.”
”—Obama Shifts Message to Everyday Concerns - NYTimes.com (via julyshewillfly)dihard:
That’s 3,276 hours spent primping and preening for a night out - enough time for an astronaut to fly to the moon and back 22 times. This is pera recent poll of 1,000 women between the ages of 18 and 60, conducted by Skinbliss, a women’s beauty brand.
Ok. But who needs to go to the moon 22 times? Isn’t five or six enough? This is why I sleep in most days. I’m saving up for a couple lunar excursions.
Justin Johnson (via marco)
How people get stuck.
(via robot-heart)
Phelps’ diet - which involves ingesting 4,000 calories every time he sits down for a meal - resembles that of a reckless overeater rather than an Olympian.
Phelps lends a new spin to the phrase “Breakfast of Champions” by starting off his day by eating three fried-egg sandwiches loaded with cheese, lettuce, tomatoes, fried onions and mayonnaise.
He follows that up with two cups of coffee, a five-egg omelet, a bowl of grits, three slices of French toast topped with powdered sugar and three chocolate-chip pancakes.
At lunch, Phelps gobbles up a pound of enriched pasta and two large ham and cheese sandwiches slathered with mayo on white bread - capping off the meal by chugging about 1,000 calories worth of energy drinks.
For dinner, Phelps really loads up on the carbs - what he needs to give him plenty of energy for his five-hours-a-day, six-days-a-week regimen - with a pound of pasta and an entire pizza.
He washes all that down with another 1,000 calories worth of energy drinks.
”—Clemente Lisi, NY POST
Hey, Wheaties, this dude is giving you a run for your money. Your breakfast is not looking so complete these days.
AntiKris (via antikris)
I think this all the time: “It’s ok if you have IBS. You can still go white-water rafting.”