So Barack Obama was all, hey students, let me come to your college and sing you some Al Green and whisper sweet nothings about Derrida and Pound and TS Eliot and also about how it is important that the interest rate on your student loan does not DOUBLE, and Republicans were all hey that is not fair because our position is really unpopular and you are being “political” and “pathetic” by pointing it out! And then they were all oh wait, we guess we will be against the interest on student loans rising too, and we are so against it that we will block your bill to keep those interest rates from doubling, because that is how you show you are “for” something when you are a Republican.
But whyfore the hold-up, Senate Republicans? Oh, Obama wanted to pay the $6 billion tab by “boosting Social Security and Medicare payroll taxes on high-earning stockholders of some privately owned corporations,” and you want to pay for it by repealing Obamacare. That does make sense, and is totally fair. In the meantime, perhaps these entitled college snobs could ask their parents for $20 big, or get off the couch and get three jobs.
Why does Barack Obama threaten to veto the GOP’s good-hearted and good-faith student loan bill? Does he hate all college students, or just the white ones? Probably just the white ones. [LAT]
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Derrida was also an African, its a conspiracy.
L'ecriture From The Black Lagoon
- - "We didn't come here to fight monsters, we're not equipped for it."
Can the same be said of our Democratic senators?…
Frantz Fanon was born in Martinique but he would like to have been part of that conspiracy.
Are you deriding Derrida?
Think of the higher interest rates as a "Snob Tax" for all the snobby college strivers with all their constant snobbiness.
Also, those nice fellows in the photo should meet my avatar girls.
Don't worry, kids; It's not like you were gonna be able to get a jerb to pay for those loans anyway.
And without the provision of Obamacare you can't be on your parents' health insurance until you turn 26.
Have a nice fucking day.
But Boehner said Obama was picking "fake fights." Is this a fake vote? I has a confused.
Just pay the interest with fake dollars. Or gay ones, if you've got 'em.
This, from the Lord God King of the Fake Tan.
The Sun God
'the Sunmaster' : brand of tanning fluoro tube
The Sun God "No"
The Shituation
Spray tanned, screamy and teary is no way to go through life, Boner.
If you have too many educated kids, they will be able to figure out what assholes the republicans really are.
Nailed it. That is why Frothy don't like him no college. Liburalz hot bedz.
And it's not only about sexy time and beeraholism, those scourges lead to not showing up for church on Sunday morning.
Doesn't take a high school gradiate.
BINGO!! You have been paying attention.
OT
Will Honest Arthur Kohl-Riggs dump Scott Walker in the Thuglickin recall primary? If the pizza/ice cream server Kohl-Riggs polls in double digits will Walker do the honorable thing and undertake seppuku using a wedge of aged cheddar?
i have no idea what you just said, but now i am fucking starving.
i blame canada.
… do the liberals do stupid horrible stuff like this and I am just blind to it because I am one, or are the repubs really just that big a group of assholes?
Liberals do it too, but only for good causes.
No, but the Reeps accuse us of doing stupid horrible stuff every time one of us stands up for Main Street.
Assholes. Yes, assholes…
Near as I can tell, whenever the repubs accuse liberals of doing something horrible you can bet that it is actually something the repubs are doing.
Republicans: Liberals are doing class warfare!
Reality: Republicans are beating the ever-living shit out of everyone not in the top 1% and have been for decades
Republicans: Obama is a marxist!
Reality: Obama isn't an insane supply-side lunatic
Republicans: Obamacare is socialist and evil!
Reality: uh, just ignore the fact that it's pretty much the same as the Republican alternative to Hillarycare
The latter; it's the party of ignorant haters who just gotta hate and/or steal from us. Since it's in their DNA to be dicks and they just can't help themselves, I think they should all be locked up on a desert island so they can go all "Somilia" on each other.
I got thrown out of a town meeting in the early 70's (Republican controlled for decades) because I mentioned that Republicans are the party of "I Want …" and Democrats are the party of "We Could … ."
I always say that Democrats care about what goes on outside your house and Republicons care about what goes on inside your house.
I’ll add that to my arsenal.
The new red cups have an ergonomic grip, which increases drinking speed by 20%. Back in olden times, we had to struggle along with plain, semi-conical red cups. You kids have no idea how good you got it.
It's like they have opportunity dumped in their laps!
You used a cup? What, the hose is too good for you?
I see what you did there.
Not really. If you haven't drunk from a keg from the tap, you have not developed sufficient thirst.
What's with those damn red cups?
I once saw them in blue, and bought 'em just for the hell of it.
(You don't know the meaning of "pride" until you've seen a photo of your daughter doing a keg-stand!)
yeah, but in Vagina Foxx's day they were like a penny a piece.
You can see why the GOP's trying really hard to keep students off the voter lists, along with the poorz and the blahs.
I bet $10,000 they're working out a way to discourage the wimmenz, too.
So far all they've done this year is piss the ladies off. Maybe they figure pissed off ladies won't vote.
Maybe they'll insist that "photo ID" includes a transvaginal ultrasound image.
Well the more pregnant they are, the less likely they will be to vote in December?
Ahem.
Hmm, help an enclave of wealthy stockholders or the entire future generation of employees and potential independent entrepreneurs? No contest!
You're assuming that future generation will be allowed to vote.
Obviously Obama should call a Beer Pong Summit at the White House. Too bad Biden doesn't drink, he would kick ass during flip cup.
Michelle probably kicks ass at beer pong.
I learned how to play beer pong for the first time a few months ago! All the 'young' college kids showed me and they thought I was going to get so drunk and not be able to handle it. Little did they know that I am no lightweight… I may have lost the game but I was the last one standing!!!! buwaahahahahahahaa!!!
Republicans also want everyone who takes out a student loan to get a transvaginal probe.
and drug tests
Shhhh…
Stop giving them ideas.
McConnell said the Senate "has ceased to be a place where problems are resolved. It's become, instead, a place where Democrats produce campaign material."
Well, well, Mitch. You don't say.
The sounds of his slobbering voice makes my skin crawl.
Good call!
Remember the Tennessee senator Dr. Bill Frist? He managed to support the Republican health care reform legislation when the GNoP had the majority – they passed the law that poor Terri Shavio was alive and well.
"McConnell said the Senate "has ceased to be a place where problems are resolved. It's become, instead, a place where Democrats produce campaign material."
PROTIP: If you don't want the other side to have a bunch of campaign material to use against you, stop being the type of fuckfaces who make it easy for the other side to have a bunch of campaign material to use against you.
The voting public has no memory of these things of which you speak.
And just when I'd succeeded in blocking out Bill "cat killer" Frist.
I can hold my nose for 8 seconds!
Damn them Rethugs!
At least we can be bipartisan and Brodery about blowing up little kids who live far away.
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They weren't fetuses anymore. Thus, no one cares.
Q.E.MotherfuckingD.
D'ya wanna know the creed'a
Jacques Derrida?
Dere ain't no reada
Dere ain't no wrider
Eider.
Peter Mullen, "Deconstruction"
In rhetoric, this is known as the argumentum IknowyouarebutwhatamIum.
Reducto retardo, QED.
Also known as Jonah Goldberg's (aka the Doughy Pantload) two books.
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Why do those mean Democrats keep politicizing political issues?
John Boehner doesn't mind fiscal rape — he just finds it unseemly when the victim blows the fiscal rape whistle.
Actually, you will probably remember the Republicans only object to forceable fiscal rape.
That kid in the red shirt is about twenty seconds from puking all over the place.
Oh, and is it against commenting rules to wish for the GOP — yep, pretty much all of it — to die in a fire? Preferably a very slow-burning one that causes a great deal of pain and misery and maybe, just maybe, makes them wish they hadn't been such epic fucking assholes to anyone Not White and/or Not Rich?
I need to know seeing that I'm a stickler for rules and all …
That's easy. "While I would never actively advocate for the immolation of the GOP, in the odd off-chance that GOP members happened to be hogtied to a stake and set ablaze, I wouldn't exactly stand in the way of the person bearing the Aim-n-Flame."
I wouldn't piss on 'em if they were on fire.
If the whole fire thing is too much, we could just wish for the GOP — and only the GOP — to have to live under their rules, in the economy that they "created" [if that's the word for it].
That reminds me, it's time to tell SallieMae that I would prefer to not resume making payments on my student loans at this time.
Boehner explained, "We were forced to do this because the Democrats wanted it too damn much".
Please, I'm eating.
I feel really bad for college kids now. Baconz didn't have a lot of money and used a lot of student lones, grants, and what not to get my Masters from CMU. With the money it costs to do that now…. I wouldn't have been able to be the productive member of socity that I am this day.
(This comment is 100% snark free)
P.S.
Tee-Hee
"Member"
CMU? All the years I lived in Pittsburgh's East End, is it possible I enjoyed pork products at the O with Baconz?
McKee Place, down by the Boulevard.
Then beer rioting at the Wooden Keg around the corner. On a Sunday morning the place to be was hung over with a bunch of the guys sharing the Sunday Post-Gazette and a plate of the O's fries.
I was on my motorcycle once and passing the Wooden Keg while a little 10 or 15 man disagreement was going on after the 1971 Pirates World Series win and some f*ckward ran out into the street pulled me off my bike.
Ah, memories of the 'burgh. I wasn't a Keg grrl, but I once saw a drag queen get thrown through the plate glass window of Ritter's Diner.Messed up the outfit, but miraculously she was fine.I hope you survived the bike incident without injury.I do believe we must have crossed paths at least one time our lives, JMC.
Ritter’s – wow forgot about that place, in part because there were a few late nights there that were best forgotten.
One more thing, if you lived on McKee near the Boulevard, you might enjoy the beautiful poem Joseph Pockets by Gerald Stern. It was written in 1977, the year he was a guest prof at Pitt and lived behind the Pgh Playhouse.
http://books.google.com/books?id=vMYZPz8BByAC&…
Thanks, I enjoyed that and will try to keep it somewhere. Going down McKee to the Boulevard, when you cross it there is a small enclave with a street called Kennett Square. I had an apartment over a store which was the Black Panther headquarters a few months before (or so the mostly white polish locals said). You could walk to the end of the street and stand on a cliff overlooking the river.
It may be true. I've gotten many trays of fries from the Dirty O at 3AM at my day.
Best fries in the burg. Or maybe Primanti's. But only on the Strip.
I think I may go and get a Primaniti's today. In the Strip District ONLY! But the Dauwn Tauwn one isn't bad an NA'AT.
Ocean City rejected a BYOB referendum 2-1 yesterday. Oh well, another summer with ward beer in a brown paper bag on the beach.
Point of order, CHAIRWOMAN SCHOENKOPF!
Is this beer pong, or Tang practice?
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The GOP hurts the students only because they love them!
I only do it students because you don't listen when I tell you how much I love you. Here are some flowers and when those burses heal I'll take you out for a really nice meal. Oh, if financial aid asks, you fell down the basement steps.
I know how Obama can overcome GOP obstructionism and actually get some things done.
Just do this.
I love this so much.
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4G Baconz ASS!!!! I just figured how to mobile snark with my sausage fingers. Fuck you T-Mobile!
Now you can beg porn stars to follow your tweets, woo hoo! http://www.technolog.msnbc.msn.com/technology/tec…
Now you can snark and drive!
Use the power of the free market kids! Don't let the government be your banker! Finance your education with a payday loan today.
Student loans are a joke.Kiids these dats are being sold a pipe dream.Just another GOP lie.Say good by American Dream! We need a better way!
I know a way… pay the football coaches as much as the teachers and put the rest into grants.
Sell the football stadium and charge franchise fees on the name and merchandise. Get the players paid and the coaches off the payroll. The "fans" won't know the difference.
If I were just starting out I'd be credentialing up on things like this. I just can't see going into large-scale debt. http://www.khanacademy.org/
We're so fortunate Republicans are in DC to protect those poor hedge fund managers from getting taxed to help deadbeat students.
Pretty soon, the only ones who will vote for Republicans will be white, Christian, male multi-millionaires over the age of 65 who never get sick and don't have wives, daughters, girlfriends, mistresses or mothers.
Coincidentally, they will be the only ones who can satisfy the tough new voter ID requirements.
Lucky the average college student can't do a compound interest rate calculation so they will continue to support Ron Paul and drink PBR even though both are clearly crappy.
It like the Retardlicans don't want to win anything, even an argument. They just want to win money money money.for all their money friends.
The tough part for Bamz is, how do you campaign against stupid?
Will there be live-blogging tonight of Lugar's downfall, Walker's recall, and the sanctity of marriage between one man, one woman, and one Christian deity tonight? I actually (and rarely) have a 12-pk of PBR!
Am I right in believing nuns are the Brides of Christ? If so, what is the nun to Christ ratio?
Seventy-two virgin nuns per Christ.
Walker's recall is today???
Sadly, no. Today is the Dem primary to see who will challenge him. The actual recall is June 5.
Unless Honest Aurthur beats Walker in the Thuglicking primary, which is today too, also.
Got a bottle of Maker's Mark at the ready here – just need an excuse to peel off the wax seal. (Yeah, I know, it's just for looks, but it's still fun.)
Let them eat pencils!!!!
What next? Education, healthcare, medicare, the environment, is there anything the Repubs will support, oh, yeah, defense spending …
It's a war on education. What next? A war on air?
Surely that's covered by many of the presidential hopefuls saying they'd shut down the EPA?
Further, Glenda has said Carbon Credits are a tax on air (or something).
Not being stupid is hard so why bother!
Vote Republican!*
*Paid for by morons for the Mormon.
It's so easy to Freudian-slip-like make typos like Moron and Rmoney.
What about that Al Queda double agent thing? Another score for the Obama administration.
Little known fact: it was actually Van Jones.
Or should we all congratulate Mitt Romney?
He should take a lot of credit for it at the very least.
You mean where our security apparatus again created terrorist so that we could "bust" him? Really, I've long sense tired of this security theater, and it just keeps getting more transparent.
I agree, but you have to admit it worked for W.
Can they pay back their loans in gay money?
You all are way to hard on the Republicans. By getting rid of funding for health care for women and children, you will prevent fewer children being born or reaching the age where they can go to college. It's cost savings all around!
NBC has called in Hoosierlandia. Adios Lugar, ola Murderdock, or Moarducks, or Mordor, or whatever.
Funded by Stephen "Cunt" Moore and his Club for Growth setup. Uber-supply-side dipfucks.
OT: remember Little Green Footballs? I was talking to a couple of people on here about it the other day.
Turns out its founder has seen the light
JH: You say you have regrets. I wonder is there one thing that you regret more than others? Is there something that stands out in your mind?
CJ: I was totally wrong about Barack Obama. That’s one of my main regrets at this point. I really fell for a lot of the right wing propaganda, and I thought he was going to be a communist and a radical leftist and all that stuff. I believed a lot of the propaganda about him. If I could go back I would vote for him now, but we don’t have that time machine yet. That’s actually one of the main things. I should not have been so ready to accept it. That was one of the things that really woke me up, seeing the truth as opposed to all the lies that were being spread by this blizzard of propaganda.
Propaganda by Islamaphobist? Shocking, just shocking. However, it is good that LGF has seen now seen the light. How about Mitch McConnell turning in his suit and becoming a proud-to-be-pink Dead Head?
More chance of getting a blowjob from the Pope.
Can you imagine that turtle-looking fuck trying to work a bong?
i swear to god, i thought you were making that shit up.
I have to say, this is some brilliant twelfth level chess. He woke the kids up, they know he's on their side, he protected a part of ObamaCare, the kids see their loan interest double for a few months while they have the chance to get pissed off, registered, and organized to vote out the asshole Republicans who just screwed them — it is just frickin' brilliant.
And I actually believe someone on our side planned this out way in advance! Just like the contraceptive coverage thing. Neither of these are accidents.
i was randomly listening to npr coverage of this and had exactly the same thought.
Can someone tell me why 52 votes in a body of 100 isn't a workable majority? Cloture should be the same as an actual vote: 50 + 1.
Harry, I love ya', but I hate ya', too. Also.
Somebody has to have the balls to flip over the card table and start punching people, and that is never gonna happen.
It can be done. All that is needed is a simple majority to change the rules. However, that process can only be implemented at the beginning of a Senate legislative session. When Obama was elected and Biden became President of the Senate it was considered. However a 'compromise' was offered and voted upon because there were too many Democratic Senators who did not want to give up the filibuster completely. The compromised rule change goes something like first presentation, business as usual 60 votes needed for cloture, second presentation 54 votes will bring an end to the filibuster, third presentation, simple majority. Something like that.
Can't this be done annually?
Due to the convoluted, almost self destructive jumble of rules which is called the Senate, the particular procedure can only be done at the opening of a new Congressional Session. I understand that presently any attempt to change the rules must be brought forward through the same process as a bill, thus filibuster rules against the attempt of a simple majority to eliminate the filibuster.
Pay for this by eliminating women's preventative health care or tax businesses more. Wow, that's a tough one……NOT!
I have it on good authority this is a made up issue.
"GOP Blasts Obama for not Resisting Them Vehemently Enough"
I envy you. I think they opened the Oakland one while I was still living in Oakland three and a half decades ago but I never went to any but the one on the strip. Tho’ Robert Whorley’s was my favorite when I could afford an extra dime for the trolly. There was a place on Fifth near Honus Wagner’s that had Jambalaya that would make you sweat. I’m sure a bowl would kill me these days.
I know it well.When I was in college my best friend rented a house on McKee (w/ about 100 other people) that was quite memorable.They rented it furnished from an old Italian couple who had moved to Florida.The house had Italian gramma furniture and every upholstered piece came with a clear plastic cover.In the foyer there were framed portraits of the Pope and President and Mrs. Kennedy.We thought it was hilarious.
You know that up McKee in the larger well kept homes lived some of the legends of Pittsburgh’s crime family at the time. Mannarino lived out in Shadyside and I think LaRocca lived in Homewood, but Mike Genovese lived in that big house near Louisa and owned all those three story apartment houses with the balconies.On the gastronomic side of the times three words, Larry and Carol’s.
I wonder if those people my pals rented from knew the Genoveses.The furniture in there was really old school, but GREAT quality.The apartments with the balconies was where Jerry Stern lived.Pitt rented the apartment for him.Wonder if they knew the owner?And Larry and Carols … YES.Thanks for the walk down memory lane.Being in Tucson, I'm a long way from home.
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