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Jon Huntsman for Secretary of State?
Not a bad idea. Not a bad idea at all.
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I’m interviewing Cenk Uygur of The Young Turks (awesome political show on CurrentTV / the internet) tomorrow morning. Got any questions for him?
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CJ: Everyone’s stupid in an election year.
CHARLIE: No, everyone gets treated stupid in an election year.The West Wing, Season 2, Episode 9. -
Why the Guy Fawkes thing? I know ‘V For Vendetta’ and all but couldn’t you have at least picked Tank Girl? That’s much more protest-chic. The Guy Fawkes mask makes me think “Asian Robert Downey Jr”, anyway. I’m just giving you guys a couple of pointers. Nobody wants to read the Wikipedia article thirty years from now and see what basically looks like what would happen if Political Science majors ran a Halloween store.
(Source: aquintessenceofdust, via venetianblinds)
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Hey, did you miss President Obama’s big jobs speech tonight? Don’t be too hard on yourself! As David Corn explains, the real story is what comes next.
Obama’s speeches are like phone sex. There’s a lot of talk but none of it is every really going to happen.
Besides, I don’t even think he OWNS a glass elevator.
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Dude is so slaying it on the Twitter right now.
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Life can be a challenge, life can seem impossible, but it’s never easy when there’s so much on the line.
GOP Presidential Candidate Herman Cain, who keeps quoting this line from the theme from Pokémon: The Movie 2000 on the campaign trail. He attributes it to “a poet”.(Source: ericmortensen)
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France bans 'Facebook' and 'Twitter' from TV, radio
Radio and television news anchors may no longer say the words “Facebook” and “Twitter” on air, unless the terms are part of a news story. This prohibits French news organizations from urging their audience to “follow us on Twitter” or “check out or Facebook page,” or other such promotions.
File this under, Why?
I can see why France did this; good for them. People forget that these ways of communication are controlled by companies. Continually repeating these companies names essentially promotes an autocratic way of thinking, where nothing progresses beyond a continuous repetition of company names. All those things are are services - the companies offer them. When someone comes along with a better platform then hopefully the cycle can progress onto that better platform and it isn’t held back by a monopoly mostly built upon words.
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Clooney has rejected the constraints of conventional politics. “I didn’t live my life in the right way for politics, you know,” he said, sitting outside the Central Pub in Juba, scarfing down pizza. “I f—ked too many chicks and did too many drugs, and that’s the truth.
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A gonzo reporter prank calls Scott Walker, says he’s David Koch and gets the Wisconsin governor to tell all. And he recorded the whole thing.
A bit of back story:
- The Koch brothers, Charles and David, are the tycoons who are directly responsible for not only the creation of but also the majority of the direct funding for the Tea Party.
- Their company, Koch Industries, is a manufacturing giant. One section alone - GeorgiaPacific - makes and manufactures Dixie Cups, Brawny paper towels, Quilted Northern toilet paper, and over 75% of the paper napkins in America. Invista - another section of Koch Industries - manufactures all the Lycra in the United States.
- The Koch brothers donate/spend:
- $5,000,000 a year on groups opposed to climate change; Greenpeace estimates that they are the largest financial proponents behind climate denial.
- $11,000,000 a year on lobbyist support to directly benefit the fossil fuels industry.
- $21,000,000 on lobbyist groups during the 2008 election season.
- $40,000,000 in donations and financial backing to Tea Party candidates in the 2010 election cycle.
- Their Father, in 1963, warned of “a takeover of America in which Communists would infiltrate the highest offices of government in the U.S. until the president is a Communist, unknown to the rest of us”. Sound familiar?
- The fact that someone posed as one of them and got through to Scott Walker - one of the most diametrically hated politicians in America right now - is hilarious.
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