“ Ron Paul’s legislative history is a lesson in principled failure. Among the bills he has co-sponsored: ending U.S. cooperation with the United Nations, a repeal of antitrust law “to restore the inherent benefits of the market economy,” and stripping the government of the right to set a minimum wage. Just last week, he again introduced a bill “to repeal the Gun-Free School Zones Act of 1990, ”
“ Life is too short to compromise time and resources… it may be tempting and more comfortable to just keep your head down, plod along, and appease those who demand: “Sit down and shut up”, but that’s the worthless, easy path; that’s a quitter’s way out. ”
Full Text Of Palin’s Resignation Speech | LiveWire
She says this… as she’s quitting
MOMA Pollack Wow (via knots)
Death Cab for Cutie - Little Bribes on Vimeo (via Vimeo)
“ …look passively and try to receive what the painting has to offer and not bring a subject matter or preconceived idea of what they are to be looking for. ”
“ Those of you who regularly exercise - you’re the people getting injured…Showing up at the hospital with busted knees, tendons, skin cancer (at this point, Rush proceeds to rhyme off about 100 different ailments that are “caused” by exercise) All you exercise freaks - you’re the ones putting stress on the healthcare system…What happens when people don’t regularly exercise and keep their weight relatively under control? Nothing! They probably don’t even know their doctors names”. ”
It’s the “Exercise Freaks” Causing Healthcare Strain!
Rush Limbaugh- Health Freak
freed from the slavery of religion (via theogeo)
Could this be the holy grail of indie shoe-gazer stoner Lord of the Rings inspired rock album covers? It makes me want a vinyl copy…
“ The regions of the brain that become active during mind wandering belong to two important networks. One is known as the executive control system. Located mainly in the front of the brain, these regions exert a top-down influence on our conscious and unconscious thought, directing the brain’s activity toward important goals ”
“ If a man says he’s a police officer and flashes a badge at you, then tells you to have sex with him or he’ll arrest you, make sure the badge doesn’t say Geek Squad on it first. ”
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U.S. Sen. Bob Corker, R-Tenn., said he couldn’t hang around Thursday for a scheduled meeting with Judge Sonia Sotomayor, President Barack Obama’s nominee for the Supreme Court.
Sen. Corker told attendees at a Tennessee Press Association breakfast that the judge was 10 minutes late for her meeting with him, and he didn’t have 10 minutes to spare.
“I decided to proceed on to the next meeting,” he said.
”Chattanooga Times Free Press | Sen. Corker bails on Sotomayor meeting
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Supreme Court nominee Sonia Sotomayor has met with 71 senators, and she’s got a few more to go this week. But there’s one Republican senator who won’t take the courtesy call: Sen. Jim Inhofe of Oklahoma.
Inhofe’s office says the senator has no intention of meeting with Sotomayor, because he has already decided that he will vote against her nomination.
”Oklahoma senator won’t meet with Sotomayor - Alex Isenstadt - POLITICO.com
