August 2012
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Dear France...
I’m sorry about butchering your lovely language while trying to order a Quatre Fromages pizza and two beers.
Also, I swear on everything holy that the Gun Nutty Americans being interviewed on the television behind the bar do not speak for all of us.
This has been an American Embarrassed In France post. Thanks for reading.
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Just boarded ORD to CDG and they're playing Bon...
That’s the sound of market saturation.
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“He hit it out of the ballpark - I loved it! I frankly don’t need...”
– a response on facebook, pushing back on me posting 3 (three!) articles outlining the, um, problems with Paul Ryan’s speech last night.
I mean, what’s the point anymore?
Paging Orwell. Paging George Orwell.
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Facts, Schmacts.
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Do you ever
evangotlib:
tanya77:
See someone you know, but know they haven’t seen you, and just walk on by without saying anything?
I do.
I don’t exactly know why.
Every. Single. Day.
What Evan said.
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My current Packing-For-Paris jam. System up,...
"I am Barack Obama, President of the United States... →
apsies:
motherjones:
YOU GUYS. IS THIS FREALZ?
IT IS!
!!!
YOWZA!
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“Records were just a little bubble through time and those who made a living from...”
– Brian Eno
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“Obama ran on “change” in 2008, but Mitt Romney represents a far more...”
– Greed and Debt: The True Story of Mitt Romney and Bain Capital
the latest from Matt Taibbi… long, lovingly worded, incisive, and biting, per usual. :)
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“Goodness and beauty result from a combination of order and chaos, bohemianism...”
– W.H. Auden (to Benjamin Britten)
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“‘We’re not buying what you’re selling.’ - Ann Romney in...”
– my wife’s friend, Brandon, on fb
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syckofant asked: What did you see or read about Anne Romney that made you think she's awkward and that she's trying to sell Mitt as if he were running for Prom King? I'd like to see it as well please! :)
thakate:
Ann Romney’s got nothing on Michelle Obama. Nothing.
What a joke.
I just posted this elsewhere :
“Wow, Ann Romney is awkward. I’m trying to avoid being cruel here… but she knows Mitt’s not running for Prom King, right?”
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question on iPhone use while in Europe
Can anyone confirm that, if I have an unlimited data plan on my iPhone, I’m able to continue to use anything over WiFi that I would here in the States and not worry about too much of anything with regard to extra charges?
I’m assuming the data packages available through AT&T are there to cover data usage while connected through their 3G networks… not over WiFi.
Help?
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I'd like to thank Spotify for allowing me to hide...
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“To be wealthy and honored in an unjust society is a disgrace.”
– Confucius, The Analects (via itsfromabook)
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“Every time Tim Tebow throws the ball, it looks like a fake punt.”
– Drew Magary : Why Your Team Sucks 2012 : The New York Jets
via theMattSmith
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I survived two nights camping in the woods.
Confirmed: I love my own bed… but I love my family more, and this made them happy, so alright okay fine.
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topherchris:
America has a problem admitting it has a gun problem. America has a problem admitting it has any problems. Unless it’s the religious right pretending to have a problem, of course. Gay marriage, for example, is not a problem. They just don’t like it. Well, gee whiz. Go cry about it as you watch state after state make it legal. No problem there.
Guns, poverty, racial inequality:...
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“Typically, people who are complaining don’t want a solution; they just want you...”
– Trevor Blake, author of Three Simple Steps: A Map to Success in Business and Life, on how complainers damage your brain and what to do to protect yourself (via explore-blog)
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Still totally in love with Esquivel.
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“There are widespread attempts to redefine the First Amendment to simply mean...”
– Rick Warren, in the Orange Country Register (via sds)
I mean, seriously.
I can’t believe how persecuted I was as a Christian attempting to “practice my conscience” in public. Life was so difficult for me. That’s why I quit.
</sarcasm>
Ugh.
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““We created the civil forums to promote civility and personal respect between...”
– Rick Warren cancels Obama-Romney forum at Saddleback Church. Good for him. (via ayjay)
Q. You said you canceled the presidential civil forum because of the negativity and a larger issue. What is that?
A. It is the crumbling of our constitution’s first guaranteed freedom: the freedom of religion....
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“Because you believe something is wrong, doesn’t mean you make it illegal.”
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Brian Brown, President of the National Organization for Marriage on why divorce should be legal, while accidentally crushing his own argument against gay marriage. (via)
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“If I convert it’s because it’s better that a believer dies than that...”
– a macabre joke from Hitch, in Christopher Hitchens’ Mortality: The “unpublished jottings” of the late, great writer and thinker.
h/t nedhepburn
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“If my father were alive today, he would be in his 90s. He grew up financially...”
– A Dish Reader
Paul Ryan And Private Charity, Ctd - The Dish | By Andrew Sullivan - The Daily Beast
(via think4yourself)
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FCPro X hanging up - update
Trashing the Layouts folder didn’t work.
Repairing permissions didn’t work.
Unmounting external drives and restarting didn’t work.
But trashing all fcpro prefs in User/Library/Preferences did work. So yay.
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An Israeli October Surprise for Obama? →
So, to buy time for Israel to build up its West Bank settlements and thus make a Palestinian state impossible, Begin felt Carter’s reelection had to be prevented.
The most inviting way was to cooperate with Republicans both in undermining Carter at home and possibly using Israel’s continuing clandestine influence inside Iran to obstruct Carter’s desperate efforts to win freedom for 52 U.S....
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thelicenselab:
Here’s a Spotify companion to our...
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“…the resemblances between George W. Bush and Mitt Romney are too close for...”
– Robert Reich (via azspot)
That’s how I see it, anyway.
“At a time when poverty is increasing, when public parks and public libraries are...”
– Robert Reich (via azspot)
I call BS on this. If government is failing in its basic legitimate functions (parks, libraries, schools—although even that last one is debatable), it’s not due to lack of funds. It’s because government spends way too much on all the extra junk beyond its constitutional...
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TIL: Niall Ferguson is married to Ayaan Hirsi Ali
Well ain’t that a kick in the head.
aaronmscott asked: You have a really nice theme! How did you design it? :]
