July 2009
176 posts
So ... Cash for Clunkers.
squashed:
It looks like the Cash for Clunkers program managed to spend a billion dollars very quickly. I’m sure the increased (and subsidized) sales will be great for the auto industry. Perhaps it solved their inventory problem.
The increased fuel efficiency requirements of the bill were relatively minimal—but if 200,000 cars got slightly more fuel efficient in about a week, that could have a...
WatchHulu - Movie Trailers: Alice In Wonderland
This looks fantastic!
Perfume sets off events in Fort Worth that put 34... →
It is interesting how powerful the mind is…
“If you want free range meat, you should start hunting. It doesn’t get any...”
– Me
“Georgia said Thursday that cumulative lifetime contributions to the Athletic...”
– The price of going on the road with the Dogs … | UGA Sports
Man, fuck that!
How Matthew Stafford Is Spending His Summer... →
This was not how my life was after I graduated from UGA… I must have done something wrong…
Why Does This Banana-Eating Jungle Monkey Have to... →
A Boston cop who was suspended for calling Henry Louis Gates a “banana-eating jungle monkey” in a mass email insists, “I didn’t mean it in a racist way.” Officer Justin Barrett, who sent the message to a bunch of his buddies in the National Guard as well as The Boston Globe, says “the words were being used to characterize behavior, not describe anyone.”...
“The three highly trained guys who reacted badly are getting together for a...”
– 911 Caller in Gates Incident Says She Was Unfairly Called a ‘Racist’ - Political News - FOXNews.com
“@jaketapper Truth is if that birther nonsense was real, Joe Biden would have let...”
– Twitter / yidwithlid: @jaketapper Truth is if th …
KID ROCK IS ANTI-TWITTER →
I bet he’d dig Tumblr.
COUNT Kid Rock out as a fan of Twitter. “It’s gay. If one more person asks me if I have a Twitter, I’m going to tell them, ‘Twitter this [bleep], mother[bleep]er,’ ” the shaggy-haired rocker tells Rolling Stone. “I don’t have anything to say, and what I have to say is not that relevant. Anything that is relevant,...
Really Mr. President, you're missing a golden...
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Pick any great micro-brewed beer. Sure, some jackass like Glenn Beck might train and paint you with the “elitist” brush if you break out a Terripin Summer Ale or Fat Tire or any of the hundreds of great brews brewed right here in the US of A, but you’ll be promoting a growing industry (and let’s face it, growing industries—ones that actually make tangible products—are pretty...
Tootsie Roll.
Because we all need it sometimes.
“The God of the Old Testament is arguably the most unpleasant character in all...”
– Richard Dawkins (via thinkfree)
This is the part of the story that I have a hard time ignoring just because Jesus came in the last 1/4 of the story and said, “Nevermind all that other stuff.”
WatchBrilliant!
Shatner does Palin farewell speech.
“Professor Gates should have taken his stand on the Bill of Rights and not on his...”
– A man’s home is his constitutional castle. - By Christopher Hitchens - Slate Magazine
Robot attacked Swedish factory worker →
It has begun.
How about a 'Follow Friday' type day for Tumblr?
I’d love to get some suggestions from you guys who is worth following.
Jeff George seeks to make this the weirdest QB... →
No. Just… no.
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“And it gets rushed through without any clear deliberation or debate then these...”
– Obama 2004: Bush Rushed Legislation Through Congress Without Allowing Time to Read Or Debate | NewsBusters.org
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“In short, the Obama platform would mandate extremely full, expensive, and highly...”
– You’ll lose 5 key freedoms under Obama’s health care plan - Jul. 24, 2009
Change is coming, but I think hope has left.
“About a third of Americans think the best job for Palin is homemaker (32...”
– FOX News Poll: 60 Percent Disapprove of Congress - Political News - FOXNews.com
Please, please, please - let her fade away into nothing more than a footnote to history.
Naked girls plow fields for rain →
PATNA, India (Reuters) – Farmers in an eastern Indian state have asked their unmarried daughters to plow parched fields naked in a bid to embarrass the weather gods to bring some badly needed monsoon rain, officials said on Thursday.
Witnesses said the naked girls in Bihar state plowed the fields and chanted ancient hymns after sunset to invoke the gods. They said elderly village women helped...
Nearly 10% of Health Spending Due to Obesity,... →
I believe it. Just look at all he fatties zipping around WalMart in their motorized carts.
Free health tip: Your knees wouldn’t hurt so much if they didn’t have to carry your fat 300lb ass all day. Put down the Cheetos and go for a walk!
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Alexis Cohen Killed →
:’(
Somebody needs to make a FYML tumblr
I mean, really. Should your sucky life be the only thing we get to read about? How about some “F*ck Yeah My Life” stories?
“The argument “Jesus must have existed because so many things were written about...”
– Theo Tsecouras (via bullshit) (via friendlyatheist)
Yahoo! News: Obama says he prays 'all the time'... →
retropolitics:
retropolitics thought bubble: ♫Prayer, huh, yeah/What is it good for?…♫
What happens when the same number of people pray for something as pray against it? How does God decide whose prayer to answer? Does the total number of people praying for or against something matter? How about the righteousness of the supplicants? Are positive prayers answered more frequently than negative...
Awesome… Just found out one of the bank closings in Georgia is my wife’s business bank.
I'm rich!
I have had my latest 401K statement on my desk for a few weeks now - didn’t see any point in opening it as you can all imagine. So, it’s Friday and I decide to clean up my desk. I open the statement and what do I see?
0.53% profit baby!
Hell yeah! Might take the family out tonight for some $.99 value menu items… :)