Phan In Phlorida wrote:

The guy that killed bin laden wrote:When we first started the war in Iraq, we were using Metallica music to soften people up before we interrogated them. Metallica got wind of this and they said, ‘Hey, please don’t use our music because we don’t want to promote violence.’ I thought, Dude, you have an album called ‘Kill ‘Em All.’

Soren wrote:

Phan In Phlorida wrote:

The guy that killed bin laden wrote:When we first started the war in Iraq, we were using Metallica music to soften people up before we interrogated them. Metallica got wind of this and they said, ‘Hey, please don’t use our music because we don’t want to promote violence.’ I thought, Dude, you have an album called ‘Kill ‘Em All.’

Kill Em All was part of their anti-capital punishment stance

jerseyhoya wrote::Head exploding gif:

Anyway, this was getting retweeted a lot last night - The wrong way to weed out spies. I just went through this (tangentially) with a friend of mine whose clearance was getting renewed. The interview I sat through with the government employee couldn't have been more useless. She was circling answers she expected to hear before I gave them.

We just reported yesterday on the new ad for marriage equality featuring conservative icons like Colin Powell, Dick Cheney and Laura Bush.

Well, if George’s old lady has her way, you won’t see her in the spot any more.

Representatives for the ex-First Lady reached out to the Respect for Marriage Coalition, the group which created the ad, and asked them to remove the clip of her telling Larry King in 2010 that gay couples “ought to have the same sort of rights that everyone else has.”

On Wednesday, the First Lady’s spokeswoman, Anne MacDonald, said Laura “did not approve” of the PSA and is not affiliated with the Respect for Marriage Coalition in any way. “When she became aware of the advertisement last night, we requested that the group remove her from it,” said MacDonald.

The commercial, which began airing on cable Wednesday, is part of a $1 million media buy that also includes full-page print ads in The New York Times and Wall Street Journal. The Coalition, which is affiliated with HRC, has not made a public statement about the request.

jerseyhoya wrote:I'm up to three friends on Facebook who've shared that Chappelle/photoshopped Fox News asteroid picture

Might start telling them it's photoshopped soon

RichmondPhilsFan wrote:

jerseyhoya wrote:I'm up to three friends on Facebook who've shared that Chappelle/photoshopped Fox News asteroid picture

Might start telling them it's photoshopped soon

Yeah, I saw it twice the other day. It's not even well done.

philliesphhan wrote:Conservative radio is starting to become my favorite thing for amusing absurdity. Their hate of Barack at least is politically motivated but their hate of his wife is downright silly.

Getting kids to eat healthy? WHY CANT THEY BE FAT? MERICA

Showing up at the Oscars? WHY IS SHE THERE? LAURA BUSH WOULD HAVE SAID NO!

As I understand it, the GOP has five basic goals in the budget talks:

1) Cut the deficit.

2) Cut entitlement spending.

3) Protect defense spending, and possibly even increase it.

4) Simplify the tax code by cleaning out deductions and loopholes.

5) Lower tax rates.

The White House is willing to cut a deal with Republicans that will accomplish 1, 2, 3 and 4. But Republicans don’t want that deal. They’d prefer the sequester to that deal. That means they will get less on 1, basically nothing 2, 4, and 5, and they will actively hurt themselves on 3. So, rather than accomplishing four of their five goals, they’re accomplishing part of one. Some trade.

Still, managers at many agencies have been bracing for the cuts, postponing purchases and new hires so they can protect employees and the public from the very disruptions to core services that would draw headlines.

“This is the Catch-22,” said Richard Kogan, a former Obama budget official now at the left-leaning Center on Budget and Policy Priorities. “The problem would be solved faster if it was literally a disaster. But making it a disaster is not what agency managers really want to do.”

Werthless wrote:What is the official Democratic position on the sequester? Has there been a Senate proposal or budget that I missed?

philliesphhan wrote:Conservative radio is starting to become my favorite thing for amusing absurdity. Their hate of Barack at least is politically motivated but their hate of his wife is downright silly.

Getting kids to eat healthy? WHY CANT THEY BE FAT? MERICA

Showing up at the Oscars? WHY IS SHE THERE? LAURA BUSH WOULD HAVE SAID NO!

td11 wrote:

philliesphhan wrote:Conservative radio is starting to become my favorite thing for amusing absurdity. Their hate of Barack at least is politically motivated but their hate of his wife is downright silly.

Getting kids to eat healthy? WHY CANT THEY BE FAT? MERICA

Showing up at the Oscars? WHY IS SHE THERE? LAURA BUSH WOULD HAVE SAID NO!

laura bush went in 2002

TenuredVulture wrote:How hard would it be for Obama to come up with 85 billion dollars of cuts and send them to Congress and say something like--you may not like these, but the alternatives are worse for everyone. But you know, it's up to you.