─ The military's new fighter jet project only costs $1.45 trillion. ─

motherjones:

We’re waiting for the Groupon.

And I’m going to eliminate some programs that I think are duplicative and unnecessary…(such as) Amtrak subsidies, subsidies to PBS, subsidies to the endowment for the arts, to the endowment for the humanities. I’ve laid out eliminating Obamacare…and…reducing the federal payroll, linking pay to government, government workers.

New interview with Mitt Romney (via climateadaptation)

I don’t have a lot of patience for commentary about the spouses of political candidates,” Obama said. “Those of us who are in the public life, we’re fair game. Our families are civilians.” While he’s never met Ann Romney, he argued she hadn’t “necessarily volunteered for this job,” adding further that spouses do not deserve to fall in the crosshairs of political rhetoric. “Me and Governor Romney are going to have more than enough to argue about during the course of this campaign,” he said.

Obama weighs in on Rosen controversy

The (Supreme Court) ruling that anyone who’s arrested — even accidentally — can be strip-searched was decided five to four, with the votes for the searches coming from the Court’s five conservatives. You know — the ‘defending personal liberty’ guys. Which is weird because I’m not a constitutional scholar, but I’m willing to bet Big Government feels its biggest when it’s inside your anus.

JON STEWART, in re: this, on The Daily Show (via inothernews)

─ War On Words: NYC Dept. Of Education Wants 50 'Forbidden' Words Banned From Standardized Tests ─

world-shaker:

Fearing that certain words and topics can make students feel unpleasant, officials are requesting 50 or so words be removed from city-issued tests.

The word “dinosaur” made the hit list because dinosaurs suggest evolution which creationists might not like, WCBS 880′s Marla Diamond reported. “Halloween” is targeted because it suggests paganism; a “birthday” might not be happy to all because it isn’t celebrated by Jehovah’s Witnesses.

So this is really a religious issue, and not an educational one. I would think a tenet of most major religions would be tolerance of opposing viewpoints and philosophies.

We as a society need to glorify those who make a profit.

Senator Rand Paul defending oil companies on the Senate floor yesterday. The Senate is debating ending billions of dollars in tax subsidies to oil companies. Paul claims that oil companies deserve tax breaks because love money/hate Obama let’s have a tea partayyy.