my socks don't fit

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Which is better?

lovepuppy:

the Sun or the Moon?

“what’s your favorite planet? mine’s the sun.”

sun it is.

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Obama WTF: Lie #76 Obama tells the Israelis he's a member of the Senate Banking Committee; CNN confirms he's delusional »

craytonc:

(CNN) – Responding to an Israeli reporter’s question Wednesday on his commitment to protect the Jewish state, Barack Obama pointed to a bill “we passed” in the U.S. Senate Banking Committee that tightens sanctions and authorizes divestment from Iran. “My committee,” he called it.

Except that he isn’t a member of the Committee on Banking, Housing and Urban Affairs.

“Just this past week, we passed out of the out of the U.S. Senate Banking Committee - which is my committee - a bill to call for divestment from Iran as way of ratcheting up the pressure to ensure that they don’t obtain a nuclear weapon,” Obama said at a press conference in Sderot, Israel.

the video

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We take the side of science in spite of the patent absurdity of some of its constructs, in spite of its failure to fulfill many of its extravagant promises of health and life, in spite of the tolerance of the scientific community for unsubstantiated just-so stories, because we have a prior commitment—a commitment to materialism. It is not that the methods of science somehow compel us to accept a material explanation for the phenomenal world, but, on the contrary, that we are forced by our a priori commitment to material causes to create an apparatus of investigation and a set of concepts that produce material explanations, no matter how counter-intuitive, no matter how mystifying to the uninitiated. Moreover, the materialism is absolute, for we cannot allow a Divine Foot in the door.

— Harvard biologist Richard Lewontin, “New York Review of Books” (via davereed)

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Obama's "We Are the World" Speech »

complicatedshoes:

(via sds)

Pop quiz, hot shot. Pick out the “We Are The World” lyrics vs. Obama speech lines.

A: “We can’t go on pretending day by day that someone, somewhere will soon make a change.”

B: “This is the moment we must help answer the call.”

C: “But if you just believe there’s no way we can fall.”

D. “The world will watch and remember what we do.”

E. “Let us realize that a change can only come when we stand together as one.”

F. “We cannot afford to be divided.”

G. “These now are the walls we must tear down.”

H. “This is the moment when we must come together.”

I. “They’ll know that someone cares, and their lives will be stronger and free.”

click here for the answers

brilliant!!!!

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Chipotle Merchandise and Apparel

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If the Declaration of Independence was the hypothesis, Barack Obama is the conclusion.

brokengentleman:

spiegelman:

How’s that for a sappy patriotic overgeneralization, tumblrs? Guess what — I’m sticking with it. Go about your business.

dear internets,

if these are your expectations, regardless of outcome you are going to be disappointed.

have we, as a hype-obsessed culture having recently experienced the mid-term elections (first 100 days), coldplay’s follow-up to parachutes, the macbook air and the 3g iphone, failed to learn the primary rule of hype? reality < hype.

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I do that a lot, blurt something out and then work out what I mean later.

— russell davies: the tyranny of the big idea

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shutupinternet:

I guess this is the version of falling asleep in class if you’re old and in the Senate. John McCain for President!

it’s a prophecy: presidents learn to sleep when they can. and who can blame anyone for nodding off during senate procedings (especially when you haven’t been there in so long).

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I propose we all start discussing the sums involved in various legislation or public discussion of US federal spending in terms of what we should call "Iraqi Occupation Days" (IODs) »

(via azspot) kinda like i do with tanks of gas or chipotle burritos.

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OpenCongress - Track bills, votes, senators, and representatives in the U.S. Congress »

(via sds)

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Iraq banned from Beijing Olympics »

“Under the IOC charter, all committees must be free of political influence.”

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Wall Street got drunk, and now it’s got a hangover.

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Our President, ladies and gentlemen [NYP] (via peterwknox)

Honestly, that would be embarrassing if he was just was some guy you knew, who said it to some other friend.

But he’s our goddamn PRESIDENT. This is a whole other level of fundamental embarrassment. Existentially mortified.

(via thewordunheard)

Pfft.

Not that I like defending George W, because I don’t. In fact, I didn’t think I ever would…but…if Obama had said this? Everyone would love it.

(via sneakyjane)

yes, sneakyjane. but regardless, i don’t understand the umbrage. is it the choice example that embarrasses people or is it because people believe the statement to be false? as far as i’m concerned, it’s a pretty apt analogy. banks were too clever & too short-sighted for their own good. they just wanted a good time on a friday night without concern for saturday morning. poor decisions require a recovery. it’s called a consequence. and considering the popularity getting wasted these days, i can’t imagine how this is offensive. just think of sub-prime mortgage bundling as a drinking game.

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carolinemartin:

amandalynferri:

rjmorris:

I was at a party this weekend and met a couple who were befuddled by the picture above. It was found on a beach in Montauk-not far from Plum Island Animal Research Facilities. Coincidence? I don’t know. But if anyone has any idea what what the FUCK this thing is, please let me know.

Someone please tell me what this is

It has crazy bad sunburn.

no coincidence. plum island is created some freaky super-scary stuff.

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If I had more time I’d write a shorter letter.

— Mark Twain

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We’ve created the worst form of socialized capitalism—private gains combined with public losses.

— Robert Reich. (via zetahydrae)