December 2011
99 posts
Ladies & Gentlemen, I give you, the 2012...
Michelle Bachmann: "Don’t misunderstand. I am not here bashing people who are homosexuals, who are lesbians, who are bisexual, who are transgender. We need to have profound compassion for people who are dealing with the very real issue of sexual dysfunction in their life and sexual identity disorders.” (2004)
Ron Paul: "The rate of AIDS infection is on the increase again. From the gay point of view, the reasons seem quite sensible. First, these men don't really see a reason to live past their fifties. They are not married, they have no children, and their lives are centered on new sexual partners... because sex is the center of their lives, they want it to be as pleasurable as possible, which means unprotected sex. Third, they enjoy the attention & pity that comes with being sick." (1995 in a newsletter)
Rick Perry: "I'm not ashamed to admit that I'm a Christian, but you don't need to be in the pew every Sunday to know there's something wrong in this country when gays can serve openly in the military but our kids can't openly celebrate Christmas or pray in school. " (2011 in a campaign ad)
Mitt Romney: "I should tell my story. I'm also unemployed." (2011 while speaking to unemployed people in Florida. Romney's net worth is over $200 million.)
Newt Gingrich: "She's not young enough or pretty enough to be the wife of the President. And besides, she has cancer." (1994, about his first wife)
Rick Santorum: "Is anyone saying same-sex couples can’t love each other? I love my children. I love my friends, my brother. Heck, I even love my mother-in-law. Should we call these relationships marriage, too?" (2008)
Michelle Bachmann: "Carbon dioxide is portrayed as harmful. But there isn't even one study that can be produced that shows that carbon dioxide is a harmful gas." (2009 during a debate)
Mitt Romney: "PETA is not happy that my dog likes fresh air." (2006, when questioned about driving 12 hours with his dog in a cage strapped to the top of his car)
“I think a lot, but I don’t say much.”
– Anne Frank (via misswallflower)
“It is impossible to live without failing at something. Unless you live so...”
– J.K. Rowling (via blua)
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Literary Resolutions
thegirlandherbooks:
Read 200 books in one year
Read all the books I currently own
Read 10 books from author’s I haven’t read
Write reviews for all of the books I read
Only buy books from second hand book stores
“What we need is to love without getting tired. How does a lamp burn? Through the...”
– Mother Teresa (via kristinasanford)
How Novel: I have never. →
thegirlandherbooks:
I have never seen an alien, but Mr. Wells and I argue their objectives.
I have never lived on the streets of London, but Oliver tells me it’s bad news.
I haven’t told someone I loved them, but Jane can tell you all about it.
I have never come across a problem that Judy has not yet solved.
I…
House Speaker John Boehner orders CSPAN's cameras... →
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Cory Doctorow, boingboing.net
House Speaker John Boehner’s office ordered CSPAN to switch off its camers during a fellow Congressman’s scathing dressing-down over the Speaker’s refusal to entertain further debate on unemployment benefits. The Speaker asserts…
You know you’re in trouble when you don’t want anyone watching. Side note: Isn’t this our government? Shouldn’t...
“In books I have traveled, not only to other worlds, but into my own.”
– Anna Quindlen, How Reading Changed My Life (via literatureismyutopia)
“It never occurred to me that our lives, until then so closely interwoven, could...”
– Kazuo Ishiguro, Never Let Me Go (via thegirlandherbooks)
This says so many of the things that you should understand about me.
