July 2009
Camping trip weekend begins....NOW!
Michelle Obama, kids, and Mom were three tables...
‘Bout 20 secret service….THAT I COULD EVEN SEE! They had to search me before I could go in the Restaurant. I always thought Michelle was unspectacular on teevee, but she is stunning in person. down side: air conditioning turned off while first lady was in restaurant to prevent poison gas attack from Birthers. I think it was one of the daughter’s birthdays.
Mini review: ...
Health Care Realities →
So here’s the bottom line: if you currently have decent health insurance, thank the government. It’s true that if you’re young and healthy, with nothing in your medical history that could possibly have raised red flags with corporate accountants, you might have been able to get insurance without government intervention. But time and chance happen to us all, and the only reason you have a...
Went to Gibson yesterday.
Gibson is a “speakeasy,” meaning- a bar. Thought the atmosphere of an illegal bar is cool. It is quiet with no annoying ass bar music. Gibson is seated service only, so it looks really empty compared to all other bars, and is by reservation only. They serve traditional drinks from the 1930’s, which is kinda BS, but whatever. booze from the 30’s, unless it was smuggled...
Today is the one day that all lobbyists in...
notthatkindagay:
I am in compliance.
haha, you filthy lobbyist! how many Iraqi babies tax-payer $$’s did you murder over tacos at Tortilla Coast?
Man, there is nothing funny on the Interbutts...
We Aren't Fools
jeffmiller:
robot-heart-politics:
“Although I’ve gotta say, when I hear critics talk about out of control spending I start scratchin’ my head. I can’t help but remember, those same critics contributed to a $1.3 trillion deficit that I inherited when I took office. I mean, seriously, I’m now president, so I’m responsible for solving it, but I don’t think we should have a selective memory. You...
5 Coolest Beer Records →
capcatchers:
1. Biggest Beer Selection
In 2002, Dave Alexander of the Brickskeller, Washington, DC, received a Guinness World Record certificate for having the largest selection of beer in the world, a total of 1,072 different beers.
2. Most Beers In One Setting
Since the Guinness Book of World Records no longer tracks drinking records, we’re not positive this is the record. But Andre the...
If you want Japan to become a theocracy, launch a... →
For those with a taste for the apocalyptic, however, there is always the Happiness Realisation Party.
Offering what it calls a “third choice”, the HRP has an eye-catching manifesto: multiply Japan’s population by two-and-a-half to 300 million, overtake America to become the planet’s leading power, pre-emptively strike North Korea and rearm for war with China. If elected,...
NYT conducts poll on why US on nature trail to... →
Most Americans continue to want the federal government to focus on reducing the budget deficit rather than spending money to stimulate the national economy, a new New York Times/CBS News poll finds. Yet at the same time, most oppose some proposed solution for decreasing it.
WatchWatch this now! damnit tumblr put up the little screen thing!
Kid Rock thinks Twitter is gay →
COUNT Kid Rock out as a fan of Twitter. “It’s gay. If one more person asks me if I have a Twitter, I’m going to tell them, ‘Twitter this [bleep], mother[bleep]er,’ ” the shaggy-haired rocker tells Rolling Stone. “I don’t have anything to say, and what I have to say is not that relevant. Anything that is relevant, I’m going to bottle it up and...
Evan Bayh's wife hauls in millions serving on... →
robot-heart-politics:
Bayh pitching for health care reforms that cater to the health insurance industry is kind of like Max Baucus talking about how much better it will be if we just let the insurance companies keep robbing us blind. A little hard to stomach.
Humperdink
humperdink humperdink humperdink
ugh, fuck me
jaimeleigh:
No really. FUCK. ME.
I’m seeing new guy again tonight and the plan is not to fuck him (in part because I’m trying this whole don’t jump sit on it until you get to know it thing and in part because my ass is covered in mosquito bites) but oh my fuck I don’t see that happening. I need to have sex. I need to have sex. I need to have sex.
I look around the street, the subway, the...
Ahmadinejad, China is giving you notes on how to... →
Woman killed, fetus cut from body →
slartibartpants:
(CNN) — Police are searching for someone who killed a woman in her Massachusetts apartment and cut an 8-month-old fetus from her body.
Officers found Darlene Haynes dead after neighbors complained about a stench coming from her Worcester apartment.
The 23-year-old was found in the closet of a bedroom, wrapped in bedding, according to authorities. She was last seen on...
“Just as America’s young men are being given deeply erroneous ideas about sex by...”
– A Slate columnist calls for an end to the wussification of vampires (via joemuto)
James Lipton hasn't asked, but I'm still going to...
absurdlakefront:
Appropriated from jaimeleigh
1. What is your favorite word? Sanctum 2. What is your least favorite word? Fat 3. What turns you on creatively, spiritually or emotionally? Unanswerable questions, refined artistic talent, wit 4. What turns you off creatively, spiritually or emotionally? Banal daily tasks and most things mundane 5. What sound or noise do you love? Rain 6. What...
Who has two opposable digits and gits to drive the car with all the camping equipment for his bf’s motorcycle gang’s trip to Seneca Falls, WV this weekend? In mom jeans.
This guy!
new fangled kids and their dern Kindles
slartibartpants:
Complaint: there aren’t enough used book stores.
My favorite is the one on P West of Dupont Circle. But this is truth, there aren’t enough used book stores.
sds:
Early Friday morning, Barbara Frische said she woke up to the sound of glass breaking inside her East Austin home. She called police but didn’t learn what had shattered the double-paned window in her 4-year-old son’s room until after police arrived. Officers showed her a brick with a note attached: “Keep Eastside Black. Keep Eastside Strong.” “It’s the first time anything like this has...
Kay Bailey Hutchison says Rick Perry has a small... →
I voted against every dollar of stimulus spending this year. In my view, the stimulus proposals were excessive. But once these laws were approved, and Texas taxpayer money was committed, I did my best to make certain the state got back its share of those tax dollars.
It’s the responsible course of action for our state and our taxpayers. Otherwise, our taxpayer dollars are simply sent to...
Best Mascot name ever →
Laurel Hill School Hoboes
CBO: Health Bill Would Increase Employer-Based... →
Dead Goat Polo Arcade Game →
The game, called Bukashi, Kok-Boru, or Ulak-Tartysh depending on your Central Asian language is like polo except you grab the goat carcass and throw it into a goal area. the other riders try to get the carcass from you and do the same. you are allowed to hit, kick, and whip the other riders.
The Article has a link to a Soviet Arcade Museum, Which has even more awesome retro looking arcade...
(via hman)
indeed
“Sarah Palin’s most notable achievement as governor of Alaska was to increase the...”
– David Frum (via azspot)
I thought it was firing her brother-in-law?
A bill that puts birthers on the spot
southpol:
The Plum Line:
Okay, this is getting really good. Dem Rep. Neil Abercrombie of Hawaii is going to introduce a resolution on the House floor today that seems designed to put House GOPers who are flirting with birtherism in a jam.
The measure Abercrombie will introduce commemorates the 50th anniversary of Hawaii’s statehood. But here’s the rub, his spokesman tells me: It describes...
“Why did human beings those many thousands of years ago first settle down and...”
– Beer and the Origins of Society (via azspot)
Jim Bunning (R-Baseball) announces retirement.
Myspace SWAT: Jeffree Star →
absurdlakefront:
Due to Warren’s last post, I thought I’d link my favorite take down of Jeffree Star ever, which was also the first time I had ever heard of Jeffree Star all the way back in 2005.
Zack: Picture Jeffree Star being signed to a record label and becoming fabulously wealthy and popular, the envy of women and a sex object for both gay and straight men. Oh no, some things are just too...
Is Rationing Inevitable?
sds:
…federal judges ruled in favor of three states that had filed suit to have final medical decision-making authority transferred from doctors to state bureaucrats. In March, Georgia, Florida, and Alabama joined in an appeal of a 2008 U.S. District Court ruling that a patient’s physician was better positioned - and better qualified-to make decisions about that patient’s medical treatment than...
Video: Ann Coulter slams the Birthers as "cranks,"... →
joemuto:
Even a broken clock…
No thought control
Who is this woman??? Throwing us under the bus, Ann C ? You’re in the wrong party, join your lib friends…………
comments win!…………….
The Ghost's of Clintoncare →
So Clinton sought to cage managed care inside managed competition, which would regulate the behavior of insurers and force them to compete for patients. This would give consumers more power against their insurance companies, drive the bad actors from the market and generally protect against the excesses of managed care. Clinton’s plan also included a handful of other safeguards, like...
