Bush takes swipes at Obama policies - Washington Times
ERIE, Pa.| Former President George W. Bush fired a salvo at President Obama on Wednesday, asserting his administration’s interrogation policies were within the law, declaring the private sector not government will fix the economy and rejecting the nationalization of health care.
shut the fuck up old man
Ten words to make you sound smart in a book discussion.
10. Discourse: Use this word in place of any synonym for language. Any chunk of words, spoken or written, can be discourse. Do not ever, under any circumstances, call words “words” or sentences “sentences.” Try “heterogenous discursive units.” For bonus points, find three places I’ve used the word “discourse” in this very article, just trying to sound smart!
Matt Taibbi - Taibblog - Is Corporate Tax Reform Already Dead? - True/Slant
That is the situation with corporate taxes; although the official tax rate in this country is high enough, around 35 percent, in reality the effective tax rate for most years is far below that. In 2004, a tax amnesty year, the effective corporate tax rate was just 2.3%.
hand me my torches
Report: 90% Of Waking Hours Spent Staring At Glowing Rectangles | The Onion - America’s Finest News
PALO ALTO, CA—A new report published this week by researchers at Stanford University suggests that Americans spend the vast majority of each day staring at, interacting with, and deriving satisfaction from glowing rectangles.
The Anonymous Liberal: The Limits of Solidarity
Glenn Greenwald points out that many of the same people who are now expressing their solidarity and support for the Iranian people (McCain, Podhoretz, Kristol, etc.) are the same ones who have publicly endorsed plans to bomb the country, plans that would inevitably result in the deaths of many of those same Iranians.
Coastal castles could be moved inland - Telegraph
Historic monuments that are threatened with destruction could be moved in exceptional circumstances to a “more sustainable location”, according to a consultation paper released by the Department for the Environment. Coastal defences should be improved in less severe cases and valuable assets recorded in case they are lost forever, it says.
Kotaku - L4D is NS4W With Nude Zoey Mod - maximum risky
I could be reading from the Nacogdoches phone book to you right now and you wouldn’t care. You saw “nude zoey” and clicked the link, right? Hope your boss/girlfriend/mom isn’t in the room.
