Advocating Progress

liberalsarecool:

The Men of Orange.

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oinonio:

If Mitt Romney’s Bain Businessman Credentials Were Taken at Face Value in Government

“Amber Waves of Bain”

republicanidiots:

“I only saw him once up close, which happened to be when he got a question he didn’t like. Was it true that his staff in the 1980 debates had stolen President Carter’s briefing book? (They had.) The famously genial grin turned into a rictus of senile fury: I was looking at a cruel and stupid lizard. His reply was that maybe his staff had, and maybe they hadn’t, but what about the leak of the Pentagon Papers? Thus, a secret theft of presidential documents was equated with the public disclosure of needful information. This was a man never short of a cheap jibe or the sort of falsehood that would, however laughable, buy him some time.”

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A British company, PFC Auctions, is currently entertaining bids for a vial of the late president’s blood; the bidding closes on Thursday and, as of writing, was approaching $12,000. The blood was collected in 1981, when deranged would-be assassin John Hinckley shot the president in Washington, D.C. The sale has elicited predictable disgust and outrage, both in the public and on the part of the Ronald Reagan Presidential Foundation.

“If indeed this story is true, it’s a craven act and we will use every legal means to stop its sale or purchase,” John Heubusch, the foundation’s executive director, said in a statement. (It has also elicited equally predictable jokes: “Is it too late for the vial of Reagan blood to run for the GOP nomination?” “The appropriate thing to do with the Reagan blood would be to trickle it down on some poor people.”)

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(Source: phyllis36, via truth-has-a-liberal-bias)

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oinonio:

Everyone has noticed by now the non-laugh laugh of Mitt Romney, a kind of half-stifled barking. But what does it mean? It is blurted out as abruptly as it is broken off. Is it a kind of punctuation, part comma, part full stop, part interrogatory mark? What, if anything, is it trying to convey? Why does it seem more like coughing or burping than laughter?

Does it mean: “I know you are saying something critical about me, and I don’t know how to answer it, so I’ll just pretend that you did not mean it seriously”?

Or: “I want to show I am just a regular fellow, so I’ll try out my regular-fellow laugh”?

Or: “I hope you will take what I just said as something humorous, though I doubt it, but I’ll see if I can start a laughing chain reaction”?

Or: “I want to change the subject, but there is no natural way to do that, so I’ll just throw in this comic rictus as a non-sequitur”?

Or: “The Cheshire Cat could evanesce by leaving just a smile behind, so maybe I can avoid attention by disappearing away from my laugh”?

(read more via Why Is This Man Laughing? by Garry Wills)

sarahlee310:

Family Research Institute’s Paul Cameron attacks Obama and the gay community (by RWWBlog)

This is only 90 seconds long. But the amount of garbage that spews out of this man’s mouth in that short span of time is unbelievable.

THE WEEK IN GREED #6: To Behave Like The Fallen World (via azspot)

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