January 2009
160 posts
Half-ass date invites...
vagarious:
clarityunfiltered:
I am not a fan.
A guy I haven’t seen in a while chatted me up at church on Sunday. He was flirting, and then he says something to the effect of, “So, we should get together soon and catch up,” and I’m all, “Sure thing!” Then he throws out, “As long as you let me pay.”
Which leads me to believe that is a date invite in disguise. Right? I mean, I don’t mind going...
75% Of YOUR BAILOUT MONEY Used To Pay Merrill...
msbadkittie:
terryblakey:
robot-heart-politics:
crazynutjob:hilker:soupsoup:Clusterstock:
Remember the latest Bank of America (BAC) bailout, the one we were all so steamed about last week? (The $20 billion of cash and $100+ billion of trash-asset guarantees that absolutely had to be given or else Bank of America shareholders might have lost everything?)
Yes, well, you probably thought...
“Owners of capital will stimulate working class to buy more and more of expensive...”
– Karl Marx, 1867
—via umanesimo:elpasajero:clothedinsky
vruz: infidel ! ignorant ! naysayer ! who’s this Marx guy ? send him to Guantanamo ! oh… wait…
(via vruz)
(via msbadkittie)
Oh, snap.
Watchdanielholter:
Obama meeting the crew on Air Force One for the first time.
While adding a salad to his medium-rare cheeseburger, a grinning Obama says “oh, I’ll still take the fries.”
…. aaaaand I need some kleenex. I’m pathetic this week.
I am still SO THRILLED! (and sometimes in need of a kleenex as well…)
edit: watching a second time, I think he actually said...
The One-State Solution - NYTimes.com →
danielholter:
Who woulda thought the most clear and concise wrap up to the hellish situation in the middle east would come from… MUAMMAR QADDAFI?!
Wow, I’m totally floored by that!
Political Interference Seen in Bank Bailout... →
msbadkittie:
‘Troubled OneUnited Bank in Boston didn’t look much like a candidate for aid from the Treasury Department’s bank bailout fund last fall.
The Treasury had said it would give money only to healthy banks, to jump-start lending. But OneUnited had seen most of its capital evaporate. Moreover, it was under attack from its regulators for allegations of poor lending practices and...
why does everyone like lost so much??
danielholter:
(via imamess)
My theories :
• their own lives are boring
• it makes them feel really, you know, deep and stuff
… but I can kinda be a dick sometimes. :)
Lost is not a reality-show, right? But it looks like one, kinda, is that the deal, except it’s all apparently addressing some pressing mystery?! I have stopped watching any network tv at all, because none of it...
When Israel expelled Palestinians.. What if it was...
msbadkittie:
nociva:
Think about what would happen if San Diego expelled most of its Hispanic, African American, Asian American, and Native American population, about 48 percent of the total, and forcibly relocated them to Tijuana? Not just immigrants, but even those who have lived in this country for many generations. Not just the unemployed or the criminals or the America haters, but the...
“A photo of President Obama in the Oval Office this morning is especially...”
– Political Wire (via retropolitics) (via apsies)
And yet a brain was not a requirement. Interesting.
(via robot-heart-politics)
touché!
(via danielholter)
And thusly one could have the Palin-clothes scandal as it happened. She really did need some new duds, because the duds running the show...
“A photo of President Obama in the Oval Office this morning is especially...”
– Political Wire (via retropolitics) (via apsies)
And yet a brain was not a requirement. Interesting.
(via robot-heart-politics)
touché!
(via danielholter)
Ah, yes, the empty-suit era of the last 8 years is over! I am SO THRILLED!
“Is it necessary to be negative to prove your discernment?”
– (via melanyouth)
I was just thinking this lol. That there are (is? I can’t tell, what poor discernment lol) a phalanx of professional and amateur ‘thinkers’, and opinion-staters, who feel compelled, or are compelled, to prove their skills at truly ‘seeing’,...
Alaska to DC
danielholter:
indieandyy:
So it dawned on me… just how happy I am that the only person moving from Alaska to Washington, DC is Incurable.
We could have had a Sarah, a Todd, a Trig, a Bristol…. good lord thank god we avoided that bullet.
100,000,000% agreed. Holy hell.
yes, that’s another reason I’m feeling so hopeful and good about our country! The palin-play didn’t...
“My fellow citizens:
I stand here today humbled by the task before us, grateful...”
– Barack Obama Inaugural Address (via theblackmap) (via julesj)
Isn’t it gorgeous!?
“I hear that shortly after taking office, President Obama will restore American...”
–
Nicholas D. Kristof (Obama and UNFPA - NYTimes.com) (via buyhercandy)
If true, this is very good news.
I sense that there are many of these little bits of ‘good news’ coming, in the reversals of the last administration’s ‘agenda’! .
(via melanyouth)
“Now, I’m cynical about the romantic personality cult around Barack Obama because...”
– MLK, BHO, and Moral Progress—Will Wilkinson [via] (via anthropophagous) (via buyhercandy)
Okay, fair enough, but I think this argument loses some of its ‘force’ given that Obama indeed is calling for us all to act, using his speech today to address pragmatics and pulling together....
buyhercandy:
nighthawks:
youroldarchenemycatwoman:
clarityunfiltered:
Are we done with the presidential masturbation now? How long will it go on? I want to see the guy actually do something first, if that’s OK with everyone. I’m not even doubting his ability to do anything. I just find that hero worship rarely rights the ship.
amen.
You pretty much summed up exactly what I’ve been wanting...
Soooo...changing the subject a bit...
vagarious:
well-caffeinated:
There’s free stuff being distributed at Macy’s?! I actually dig Vera Wang Princess perfume, ohmygod! What info did I miss?!
Oh shit, go back through my posts from yesterday, I posted a whole link about it. I think I’m actually allergic to VW Princess but I grabbed it for my Mom because she said once she liked it, apparently not. So if they are out of them by...
Soooo...changing the subject a bit...
vagarious:
Who out there in the tumblr world went and got some free cosmetics today? (Well not really free, because they were the result of us paying out the wazoo in the first place, but you know what I mean.) I was lazy and only scored some Clarins Flash Bomb from Dillard’s and Vera Wang Princess Exfoliating Gel from Macy’s. If you didn’t get out there today, they are supposed to have these...
daieny:
One of my teachers this year had a crush on Palin. It was awkward cause he would talk about how hot she was.
Ew! But that’s not as offensive to me as seeing the buttons saying essentially the same thing at the Republican National Convention! ”Ew” doesn’t capture that ;-)
vagarious:
ephemeron:
all of the haters and the pessimistic people are coming out of the woodwork right now. tumblr, i need the “dislike” option.
because i dislike quite a few posts right now.
i’d think that love and appreciation and hope would outweigh the bad in people, but apparently not!
I haven’t seen any outright naysaying, I think many people are just apprehensive because as much as...
what the fuck
yurztruly-theadiashow:
happened to me?
god.
what a shame.
I hope you’re okay…better maybe? Hope so…cheers…
what i am about to do right now
yurztruly:
is fucking insane.
(in no way do i not realize this is insane.)
i am playing with fire so hot i can’t even keep my eyes open.
this, my friends, is masochism at its best.
or worst.
depending on your perspective.
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file this under: existential crisis #3: what doesn’t kill you makes you stronger, so let’s see how close to that line we can get.
so.
here goes nothing.
*
good...
The Inauguration on Tumblr | The Inauguration of... →
buyhercandy:
“With the swearing-in of Barack Obama just hours away, we’re excited to announce that we’ve partnered with Tumblr to create a dedicated feed of content to the official Inauguration blog. We’ll be posting throughout the day and reblogging your Inauguration Day moments.”
This is, for me, even stranger than Obama using Twitter. It’s so close to home. Awesome, but weird.
I am so...
SUPERMARKET. →
buyhercandy:
carlovely:
pretty rad little online retail community…
…think Etsy without the patchouli.
(via:theduty)
ooh, pretty things…
He just feels so damn good.
danielholter:
“Make sure I do something simple,” he told volunteers sprucing up Sasha Bruce House, a shelter for homeless teens in one of Washington’s poorer neighborhoods. “Don’t give me plumbing or electrical work.”
He took a roller on an extension pole and began painting a dorm wall blue as reporters, photographers, volunteers and Secret Service agents jostled for space.
“That’s a good...
vagarious:
I think it is absolutely heinous of people when someone goes through the ordeal of making an entire meal from scratch, doing all the dishes, cleaning up all the mess, setting the table, and all that fucking hooplah to complain about it on the first bite. Every fucking time. MAKE YOUR OWN GODDAMN ARTERY CLOGGING FOOD NEXT TIME, I AM TIRED OF THE BITCHING. I am tired of being concerned...
vagarious:
I’d really like to stab him, or just injure him in some way…not kill him, that’s no good. But he has been injuring the fuck out of me for my entire life, made me the lunatic I am, and I would really like the thought of retribution. There are times when I seriously envy people who grew up without fathers, that is the most wretched thing about it, he turns me to evil thoughts that are...
yurztruly-theadiashow:
i
Fuck.
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good luck adie :-( You always have more power to change things than it seems at first blush, always. Change is just scary, but then if you do it, get used to it, let it happen, change, you realize you still get to draw breath, and eat, and sleep. And love things, love people, maybe too. And you can always, though that sometimes seems hardest of all, try...
“Someone just sent me CDs by The Black Keys and Rob Zombie. I believe I am...”
– . Now what do I do? . (via melanyouth)
tell ‘em the truth, a person can’t really lie for politeness on something like that imo…
Belkin is hiring people to write fake positive... →
nervousacid:
This story comes at a particularly interesting moment to me. Just last night I was on Amazon, searching for a dependable USB hub. I had settled on a Belkin 7-port hub, largely because of the price point and customer reviews. This piece pokes a hole in my decision-making process:
That’s a request from somebody named Mike Bayard to review a product and “give [it] a 100% rating.” It...
“On Sunday”
– I ate ice cream for the first time in months -maybe 8 or 9.
It was good, but not earth-shaking.
I can do without….
(via mildlyannoyedrabbit)
I’m happy for you, lol, but reading that has made me want to feel ice cream on my lips and tongue, just to see if it’s really “just good,...
“On its own, being a decent person is no guarantee that you will act well…the one...”
– Christopher Paolini (via robot-heart)
I’m not sure about this…I feel like many awful acts have been committed in the name of ‘logic’. That you can put alleged ‘logic’ to work for you in the service of other guiding forces, like ‘hate’ or...