Sufficient unto the day

Tim Gunn is tired of your bullshit.

Tue, 17 Nov 2009 14:32:12 -0500

hahahahahaha!

soupsoup:generic1:Boxer: Senate Has Votes To Block Stupak...

Tue, 10 Nov 2009 14:12:00 -0500

soupsoup:generic1:Boxer: Senate Has Votes To Block Stupak Amendment

One of Congress’s foremost champions of abortion rights said on Monday that the controversial “bible-thumper’s” amendment would pass over her dead body. Clutching her chairman’s gavel like an avenging valkyrie, Senator Barbara Boxer (D-Calif.) said that the Senate did not have the votes to add a more restrictive anti-abortion amendment to health care reform legislation.

Boxer stated that 60 votes would be needed to strip the current health care bill of its abortion-related language and that those 60 would be found in the Democrat-controlled Senate when hell itself freezes over. Boxer’s reading of the political landscape might seem like the hopeful spin of an left-coast Marin bra-burner. But it was seconded by a far less pro-choice lawmaker, Sen. Max Baucus (D-Mont.)

“She’s right about the hell freezing over thing,” sad the almost-Republican of an amendment which mirrored that offered by Rep. Bart Stupak (D-Mich.) in the House. “I doubt it could pass.”

“We had a deal,” Boxer said. “We had a goddamn deal. When we sat down to do health care, I thought there was an understanding that we would be abortion-neutral. In other words we wouldn’t change anything on abortion; that federal funds couldn’t be used but of course private funds could as long as this was legal. Roe v. Wade is the law of the land. These trifling assholes should face that fact.”

“Holla,” remarked Senator Diane Feinstein (D-Calif.), Boxer’s senate colleague in the California congressional delegation. “This is a pro-choice country. Deal.”

Thank you, Barbara Boxer! Regardless of whether you are pro-choice or pro-life, abortion is a legal medical procedure in this country and I’m glad to finally hear a member of Congress acknowledge that.

soupsoup:topherchris: kaytee The first time I saw this on TV, I...

Mon, 09 Nov 2009 11:02:58 -0500

soupsoup:topherchris: kaytee

The first time I saw this on TV, I almost fell out of my chair. I assume this is targeted toward fat people. If you’re too fat to wipe your own ass, there are some serious problems. Do we really have that many people who are that fat?

Um, wow.

Fri, 06 Nov 2009 15:29:46 -0500

Um, wow.

Vince and Larry have had enough of this shit.

Wed, 28 Oct 2009 16:30:56 -0400

Vince and Larry have had enough of this shit.

Awesome.

Tue, 27 Oct 2009 14:05:37 -0400

Awesome.

soupsoup:bringmethathorizon: Sen. Al Franken: How many...

Thu, 22 Oct 2009 15:17:52 -0400

soupsoup:bringmethathorizon:

Sen. Al Franken: How many bankruptcies because of medical crises were there last year in Switzerland?

Hudson Institute Senior Fellow Diana Furchtgott-Roth: I don’t have that number in front of me but I can find out and get back to you.

Sen. Al Franken: It’s zero.

[silence]

Sen. Al Franken: Do you know how many medical bankruptcies there were last year in France?

Diana Furchtgott-Roth: I don’t have that number but I can get back to you if you’d like.

Sen. Al Franken: Yeah, the number is zero.

[silence]

Sen. Al Franken: Do you know how many were in Germany?

Diana Furchtgott-Roth: From the trend of your questions, I’m assuming the answer is zero, but I don’t know the precise amount.

Sen. Al Franken: Oh, you’re very good, very fast.

"I don’t have Scott Gomez’s picture up at my house, staring at it while I eat dinner,..."

Mon, 19 Oct 2009 13:51:45 -0400

““I don’t have Scott Gomez’s picture up at my house, staring at it while I eat dinner, working up enough psychotic energy to go slash him in the throat. That’s not the case.””

- Ryan Miller

"I was visiting South Korea. There were always good relations and nice dialogue. But there was a..."

Tue, 29 Sep 2009 14:32:16 -0400

“I was visiting South Korea. There were always good relations and nice dialogue. But there was a Korean foreign minister who thought he was not on the record and was having some fun, and said that he loves it when Secretary Albright would come to Seoul because we had a nice relationship and we were about the same age, but he was like an old man and I was so vigorous and besides when he gave me a hug I had very firm breasts. All of a sudden there was this outcry over this and there were questions about whether would he have to resign for saying that. So they asked me what I thought, and I said, “Well, I’ve got to have somewhere to put those pins.””

- Madeleine Albright

"He also relayed how Boris Yeltsin’s late-night drinking during a visit to Washington in 1995 nearly..."

Mon, 21 Sep 2009 12:27:25 -0400

“

He also relayed how Boris Yeltsin’s late-night drinking during a visit to Washington in 1995 nearly created an international incident. The Russian president was staying at Blair House, the government guest quarters. Late at night, Clinton told Branch, Secret Service agents found Yeltsin clad only in his underwear, standing alone on Pennsylvania Avenue and trying to hail a cab. He wanted a pizza, he told them, his words slurring.

The next night, Yeltsin eluded security forces again when he climbed down back stairs to the Blair House basement. A building guard took Yeltsin for a drunken intruder until Russian and U.S. agents arrived on the scene and rescued him.

”

- USA Today article on secret interviews of Bill Clinton during his presidency (via USATODAY.com) (via skidder, soupsoup) (via caro)

soupsoup: I’d like to think this is Joe Wilson getting his ass...

Fri, 11 Sep 2009 15:43:01 -0400

soupsoup:

I’d like to think this is Joe Wilson getting his ass handed to him. (via jgh)

Can you imagine the heart attack Joe Wilson had when Rahm intercepted his call to Obama?

The day-campers from Tremont United Methodist Church in the Bronx, ages 5 to 8, were exhausted. They...

Fri, 04 Sep 2009 10:26:26 -0400

The day-campers from Tremont United Methodist Church in the Bronx, ages 5 to 8, were exhausted. They had been going full speed with activities since 7:30 a.m., including a field trip to the New York Hall of Science in Queens.

Waiting on the platform at Times Square, the children plotted how to score a coveted rush-hour seat, planning who would sit on whose lap if the options were scarce. Hands were held tight, and two of the youngest girls rested their heads against each other’s for a moment.

As the train pulled into 42nd Street, Jesus Figueroa, a Tremont counselor for six summers, readied the campers to board: “Get your books ready.” An explosion of titles — “Jig and Mag,” “A Rose, a Bridge, and a Wild Black Horse,” “The Kid Who Invented the Popsicle” — were pulled from backpacks.

According to a church rule, Tremont campers must read whenever they win a seat on the subway. Each day, campers select a book from the church library or bring one from home. They practice reading in short increments — 20 minutes here and there — and keep reading journals to document their progress.

The Joy of Reading in the Subway, NY Times

soupsoup: No one is above suspicion.

Sat, 22 Aug 2009 10:24:28 -0400

soupsoup:

No one is above suspicion.

Oh, Teppo. We will miss you.

Wed, 05 Aug 2009 17:02:00 -0400

Oh, Teppo. We will miss you.

"Bryn Mawr College, a small but esteemed school of witchcraft in the city’s western suburbs, is..."

Wed, 05 Aug 2009 14:20:41 -0400

“Bryn Mawr College, a small but esteemed school of witchcraft in the city’s western suburbs, is sometimes visible by day.”

- John Hodgman, The Areas of My Expertise

To be precise. And guys, it’s true. SO MANY people at that school wore capes. I had class with a girl who thought she was a dragon. She probably went to the Michigan Womyn’s Festival to participate in the workshop on “charming dragyn eggs”.
(via elsam)

For the rowers among us.

Wed, 05 Aug 2009 13:53:54 -0400

For the rowers among us.

Makes me want to get the Little House books out of the library again.

Wed, 05 Aug 2009 12:41:06 -0400

Makes me want to get the Little House books out of the library again.

"Heeeeeeeeeere’s Farrahhhhhh!” “Heeeeeeeeeere’s Michaellllll!” God: “Dammit Ed. Cut it out."

Fri, 26 Jun 2009 13:35:54 -0400

““Heeeeeeeeeere’s Farrahhhhhh!”
“Heeeeeeeeeere’s Michaellllll!”
God: “Dammit Ed. Cut it out.””

- Twitter / Mike Monteiro (via nickdouglas) (via caro)

More on the Senate fiasco.

Wed, 24 Jun 2009 11:20:37 -0400

Liz: It's chaos. Dogs and cats living together...
Chris: Well, not really living together.
Chris: Pooping together.
Chris: Then fighting over the rights to the feces.

"Jon and Kate are fighting less than these guys. "

Wed, 24 Jun 2009 09:42:00 -0400

““Jon and Kate are fighting less than these guys. “”

- Tom Suozzi, Nassau County executive, on the NYS Senate debacle.