Watch President Obama’s younger daughter, Sasha, grow up during her four years in the White House.
via CNN
This girl is gorgeous and stunting on ALL our lives, yo.
"We need to have a discussion about guns, and that doesn’t mean that all of a sudden we abandon the Second Amendment or the NRA [National Rifle Association] or anything like that. But there needs to be a discussion and everybody needs to participate and we need to depoliticize it."
Speaker of the House John Boehner • During a closed-door meeting of Republicans to discuss gun control on Tuesday, according to an unidentified lawmaker who spoke to The Hill. The source also claims that Speaker Boehner told the assembled GOP members that “it’s not helpful” to call for the arming of teachers. Boehner promised not to agree to anything “knee-jerk”, but certainly appears willing to at least come to the table and discuss potential changes to American gun control laws for the first time. source (via shortformblog)
This reeks of so much privilege and bullshit that I don’t even have words, so I’ma just gon head and use this gif:
My year with Mitt: NPR reporter Ari Shapiro tells us what it was like to travel with the Romney campaign for 12 months straight.
Dude are you okay? Do you need a hug? A stiff drink?
This is an ad from Maxim magazine for the rifle used in the Newtown massacre.
Oh.
Evo Morales does what Arabs and Muslims should have done long ago.
“Bolivian President Evo Morales said on Wednesday that his country is breaking diplomatic ties with Israel over its 19-day-old campaign in Gaza, and said he will ask the International Criminal Court to bring genocide charges against top Israeli officials.”
Venezuela also cut ties to Israel over Gaza.Venezuela announced Wednesday it is breaking diplomatic relations with Israel over the conflict in Gaza, joining Bolivia, which did the same thing earlier in the day. Bolivian President Evo Morales announces Wednesday that he is severing diplomatic ties with Israel.In the announcement issued by the Venezuelan Foreign Ministry, the government cited, “the gravity of the atrocities against the Palestinian people.”
The statement accused the Israelis of having, “ignored, systematically, calls from the United Nations, violating in a repeated and shameless manner the resolutions approved by the overwhelming majority of their members and placing themselves ever more on the margin of international law.”
Read more here and here.YEEEEEEEESS
see I’ve liked him ever since I saw that documentary South of the Border (even though I feel it was kinda iffy)
and isn’t Israel in violation of one of the rules in the Geneva Convention? I remember reading that somewhere…
Truth.
Exactly. Those fuckers were acting mad brand new and expecting their workers to be cool with their flagrant mismanagement. They should be investigated to be real.
"In some parts of rural Maine, there were dozens, dozens of black people who came in and voted on Election Day. Everybody has a right to vote, but nobody in town knows anyone who’s black. How did that happen?"
Maine Republican chair suspects voter fraud because black people voted in his state.
He actually said this, and then some. Watch the whole thing.
(via think-progress)
"Glenn Beck’s new novel, ‘Agenda 21,’ is set in a dystopian future in which in the implementation of a United Nations treaty on sustainable development has turned the United States into a police state where workers spend their waking hours attempting to minimize carbon emissions and to have children with as many different partners as possible, as ordered by the central government."
"One Kenyan mother has taken it upon herself to overcome the partisan divide that split America during the Presidential elections. She’s named her newborn twins Barack Obama and Mitt Romney."
A Republican poll watcher in Aurora, Colorado gets upset and reports that there were a “high concentration of people of color” at an election location!
I guess this proves that for White Republicans the scariest thing in the world is a PoC with a voter registration card!
Twitter Racists React to ‘That Nigger’ Getting Reelected
I’m not even going to give these idiots and their racist, offensive words the visual time of day. If you’re curious to see what kind of vile bigotry still runs rampant in this country — and coming from the mouths (keyboards?) of high school students, no less — feel free to click though.
Why I will post this, though, is that because some smart commenter went through “the Google” and discovered many of these racists are high school students pursuing athletic scholarships at big-name colleges. (Gasp! They might even have to play with black people.)
So, to keep the Google chain going, I’m gonna just post their names and affiliations here in the hopes that the recruiters at the schools these bigots hope to get full scholarships for rescind any admissions offers. Other people are writing letters to the schools in question, but I think this does the job well enough.
Political disagreements: Cool. Racism: Not cool.
Ricky Catanzaro - football player at Xaverian High School in Brooklyn
Lou LaDonna - football player at West Islip High School
Kordie Girton - baseball scholarship to Indiana State University
Addison Sykes - football player at Jackson Christian Jackson, TN
Brandon Norrie - baseball player at Sickles High School Tampa, FL
Michelle Brosam - soccer player at Rider HS Wichita Falls, Texas
Cole Krut - baseball player at Beaver Falls, PA
Demi Keely - pageant girl in Carencro, Louisiana
Gabe Dutch - baseball player at Redwood HS Visalia, CA
Stehl Taylor - hockey player at Central York HS York, PA
Davis Moody - runner at Mill Creek HS Hoschton, Georgia
"Let’s start our own abortion industry."
Rush Limbaugh • Trying to figure out how Republicans can win back some female supporters following Mitt Romney’s loss in the Presidential Election last night. (Just heard this on the radio. — SC)
I love the smell of sad rich white people in the morning
DO NOT TAKE PICTURES OF YOUR BALLOT
IT CAN (AND IN MANY STATES) WILL INSTANTLY MAKE YOUR VOTE NULL AND VOID.
I REPEAT
DO NOT TAKE PICTURES OF YOUR BALLOT
To find out the specifics of your state, click here.
Paul Ryan’s Soup Kitchen Photo Op
According to The Washington Post:
Brian J. Antal, president of the Mahoning County St. Vincent De Paul Society, said that he was not contacted by the Romney campaign ahead of the Saturday morning visit by Ryan, who stopped by the soup kitchen after a town hall at Youngstown State University.
“We’re a faith-based organization; we are apolitical because the majority of our funding is from private donations,” Antal said in a phone interview Monday afternoon. “It’s strictly in our bylaws not to do it. They showed up there, and they did not have permission. They got one of the volunteers to open up the doors.”
He added: “The photo-op they did wasn’t even accurate. He did nothing. He just came in here to get his picture taken at the dining hall.”
wtf??
This motherfucker….
