GEORGE W. BUSH, news conference, Aug. 27, 1987
I still can’t believe he actually said this.
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It’s a terrible thing that was said here, but you should be careful. This quote actually comes from our 41st President George H. W. Bush, not from our 43rd President George W. Bush. Nice blog, by the way.
(via goodreasonnews)You heard it here first: Tax the rich and solve budget shortfall - JSOnline (via notemily)
‘You heard it here first’ is the new ‘Something you already knew but you needed numbers to confirm your suspicions.’
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Winning the future.
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“We are wasting $700 million a day to pay for the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan, while our teachers, firefighters and police lose their jobs, while we slash basic assistance programs for the poor, children and the elderly, while we turn our backs on the some 3 million people being…
Texas state rep. Leo Berman explaining to Reeve Hamilton why he suspects the President of the United States was not born in the United States. He saw it on YouTube, duh. (via motherjones)
YouTube, home of the video where an elderly lady is asking questions about what the government places in her water after she views a rainbow in the water distribution created by a sprinkler in her front yard. Beautiful…
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“According to NPR, Pennsylvania is terminating its AdultBasic Insurance program as of February 28th, 2011. It currently provides extremely low-cost health insurance coverage ($36/month) for 42,000 Pennsylvanians who are poor but not poor enough to be covered by Medicaid. Tomorrow it will cease to exist.
Why is it being axed? Because the state has a $4 billion dollar budget shortfall and, as one Republican State Senator in Pennsylvania says, “our governor has said he will not raise any taxes”.
Sound familiar? “
Scott Bundgaard, R-Peoria, the majority leader of the Arizona state Senate, was briefly taken into custody with marks on his body Saturday, indicating he had been involved in a fight, an act of domestic violence, Phoenix police officers said.
When officers arrived, they said that Bundgaard and his passenger, Aubry Ballard, were both showing marks of a physical altercation, “which constituted an act of domestic violence.” Police said Ballard is Bundgaard’s girlfriend.
After being taken into custody, Bundgaard told officers that because he is an Arizona state senator, he is immune from arrest.
This afternoon, we spoke to doctors from two out of three hospitals that received the victims last night. One hospital treated 29 wounded victims, one of whom died and two remain in critical condition. The wounds, according to the doctor, were mostly in…
In an exclusive interview with “This Week” host Christiane Amanpour, Saif al-Islam Gadhafi, the son of Libyan leader Col. Moammar Gadhafi and one of his chief advisers, insisted Libya was calm, the military has not attacked any civilians and reports of Libyan diplomats…
As it turns out, [Sean Hannity, Bill O’Reilly and Rush Limbaugh] belong to the American Federation of Television and Radio Artists union (AFTRA), which is the AFL-CIO affiliate for television and broadcast workers.
Yes, you read that right. While Hannity, O’Reilly and Limbaugh have been railing against union workers in Wisconsin, all three of them belong to an AFL-CIO affiliate union.
” —Confirmed: Union-Bashing Right-Wing Media Stars Hannity, Limbaugh and O’Reilly Are AFL-CIO Union-Affiliated Members (via ryking)