“ 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, ”

Ron Paul Strikes Gold: Why the oft-marginalized congressman is the greatest threat to Obama’s regulatory plan. | The Big Money

“ 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

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MOMA Pollack Wow (via knots)

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“ …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. ”

Jackson Pollock - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

“ 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)

freed from the slavery of religion (via theogeo)

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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…

Image: Farm: Dinosaur Jr.

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 ”

The Brain: Stop Paying Attention: Zoning Out Is a Crucial Mental State
| Memory, Emotions, & Decisions
| DISCOVER Magazine

“ 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. ”

Consumerist - Man Uses Geek Squad Badge To Impersonate Cop, Coerce Sex Out Of Prostitute - Geek Squad

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nice Teeth Waxman..

via blogs.usatoday.com

nice Teeth Waxman..

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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Ed and Pop (via knots)
Happy Father’s day dad-

Check out these handsome motherfuckers

Ed and Pop (via knots)

Happy Father’s day dad-

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

“ On Sunday morning in Tehran, Newsweek’s Maziar Bahari was detained
without charge by Iranian authorities and has not been heard from since.
Mr. Bahari is a Canadian citizen and a renowned journalist and
filmmaker, who has been living in and covering Iran for the past decade.
Newsweek strongly condemns this unwarranted detention, and calls upon
the Iranian government to release him immediately. ”

Fareed Zakaria at PostGlobal: Newsweek’s Iran Correspondent Disappears - PostGlobal at washingtonpost.com