August 2012
20 posts
“If you vote against Obama because he can’t get stuff done, it’s kind of like...”
– Chris Rock (via left-to-lenin)
I love Chris Rock unconditionally.
(via loudblackram)
“I had my father get sick when I was 22. And I was poor, alright. And my father...”
– Chris Rock [video]
Bringing this back, because some people don’t seem to understand that there is a discrepancy in the quality of care among poor, middle-class, and wealthy people, NO MATTER HOW DEBILITATING THEIR RESPECTIVE DISEASES MAY BE.
(via cgdageek)
BREAKING VIA AP: "A federal court has ruled... →
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“As they prepare to nominate Mitt Romney as their presidential candidate for the...”
– Republicans call for crackdown on pornography | Reuters
This will go over well, I’m sure.
(via dendroica)
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“This, my friends, is a public example of what Missouri reproductive justice...”
– AngryBlackBitch: Congressman Todd Akin has opinions…
GOP Logic
32,000+ pregnancies from rape every year: "Really rare"
10 cases of voter fraud over 12 years: An epidemic that must be stopped by any means necessary, constitution be damned!
Hillary Clinton on Being Asked about Her Clothes
bostonreview:
Interviewer: Okay. Which designers do you prefer?
Hillary Clinton: What designers of clothes?
Interviewer: Yes.
Hillary Clinton: Would you ever ask a man that question?
Interviewer: Probably not. Probably not.
[Via UniteWomen.org]
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Heavy Sigh
I don’t think I have the energy for this year’s general election. I’m already full up to my eyeballs with the rhetoric. Let’s just put it to a vote and get it over with and save a bunch of concerned rich folk a pile of money.
But we haven’t even made it through the conventions yet.
Where everyone will declare fealty to family, babies, democracy, economic prosperity,...
“What all of these stories have in common with the hair fiasco is that they...”
– T.F. Charlton, “The Media’s Gabby Douglas Problem,” ebony.com, 8/8/12 (via racialicious)
“Xenophobic violence doesn’t mesh well with informed, realistic distinctions...”
– In Violence Against Sikhs, Racists Don’t Discriminate — Daily Intel – Nitsuh Abebe
(via mehan)
