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Retro Quote
“England is just a small island. Its roads and houses are small. With few exceptions, it doesn’t make things that people in the rest of the world want to buy. And if it hadn’t been separated from the continent by water, it almost certainly would have been lost to Hitler’s ambitions. Yet only two lifetimes ago, Britain ruled the largest and wealthiest empire in the history of humankind. Britain controlled a quarter of the Earth’s land and a quarter of the Earth’s population.”
– Mitt Romney, in his book No Apology: The Case for American Greatness, published last year.
Romney is starting to sound like George W. Bush – born with a silver spoon in his mouth and a gold cork up his ass.
Quote of the Day
“I was upset because the political consultants and staff were talking about voter suppression and keeping blacks from voting. It had been one of those days.”
– Jim Greer, former chairman of the Florida GOP, during a deposition in his lawsuit for back pay from the state.
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In Memoriam – Lupe Ontiveros, 1942 – 2012
Actress Lupe Ontiveros who co-starred in popular films such as Selena, As Good as It Gets and Real Women Have Curves, died of liver cancer Friday in Los Angeles. She was 69. A native of El Paso, Texas, Ontiveros began her career in 1976, when she had a brief role as a maid on Charlie’s Angels. Like many Hispanic actresses of her time, that was pretty much all she could get. But, while she embraced her ethnic heritage, she also refused to let herself be defined by it. She received greater notoriety after portraying Yolanda Saldivar, the woman obsessed with singer Selena Quintanilla-Perez, in the 1997 film Selena. Saldivar shot Selena to death in 1995, after Selena’s parents discovered Saldivar had been embezzling money from the Selena fan club she managed. Saldivar is now serving life in prison.
Most recently Ontiveros appeared in ABC’s Desperate Housewives as a nosy mother-in-law. Regardless of whatever character she played – no matter how stereotypical – Ontiveros set a high standard for all actresses to follow. Funeral arrangements are pending.
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Quote of the Day
“Chick-fil-A doesn’t belong in Boston. You can’t have a business in the city of Boston that discriminates against a population. We’re an open city. We’re a city that’s at the forefront of inclusion.”
– Boston Mayor Thomas M. Menino, in response to statements made by Chick-fil-A’s president, Dan Cathy, that gay marriage will bring God’s judgment on America.
I hate to see a popular restaurant get wrapped up in something as innocuous as gay marriage – especially one I like so much! I used to visit Chick-fil-A all the time, often while heading into work. A Chick-fil-A chicken biscuit with jelly and a large sweet tea could get me ready for the day better than a 4-pack of Red Bull! Sadly, I can’t bring myself to support a company that interjects itself into politics over gay marriage. Poverty, failing test scores – that I can understand. But, same-sex marriage? How the hell does that figure into a chicken sandwich? Americans can politicize anything!
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Stupid Comments in the Wake of the Aurora Shootings
You can always count on extremists to politicize a horrific event. 09/11, Hurricane Katrina and other tragedies drew out the best in people. But sadly, they also drew out the worst. Some idiot – usually of the religious type – had some dumbass thing to say after the ordeal. Jerry Falwell said 09/11 was God’s retribution for America allowing abortion and homosexuals; others said the same about Katrina. So, as you might expect, a few morons have proven why they badly need an enema.
“You know what really gets me, as a Christian, is to see the ongoing attacks on Judeo-Christian beliefs, and then some senseless crazy act of terror like this takes place.”
– Rep. Louie Gohmert (R-TX), during a radio interview on the Heritage Foundation’s “Istook Live!” show, when asked why he believes such senseless acts of violence take place.
“Ultimately, we don’t have a crime problem or a gun problem – or even a violence problem. What we have is a sin problem. And since we ordered God out of our schools and communities, the military and public conversations, you know, we really shouldn’t act so surprised when all hell breaks loose.”
– Mike Huckabee, former Republican Arkansas governor and 2008 presidential candidate.
“If they knowingly rejected Jesus Christ, then basically, they are going to a terrible place.”
– Jerry Newcombe, evangelical pastor, adding that victims who aren’t Christian are in hell.
“Whether it’s the Hollywood movies, whether it’s what we see on the Internet, whether it’s liberal bias in the media, whether it’s our politicians changing public policy, I think all of those somehow have fit together – and I have to say also churches who are leaving the authority of Scripture and losing their fear of God” are what “give us these kinds of incidents.”
– Fred Jackson, of the American Family Association.
“Where were the men of flight 93???? Someone should have stopped this man. …All that was needed is one Courageous/ Brave man prepared mentally or otherwise to stop this it could have been done.”
– Russell Pearce, former Republican senator on Facebook.
“James Holmes reached out to multiple women on a sex website in the days before launching a massacre which killed 12 people and injured 58 during a screening of The Dark Knight Rises, it has emerged. However, at least three of the women he contacted through AdultFriendFinder rejected his advances – even though he was apparently just hoping to ‘chat’ with ‘nothing sexual’ on the cards.”
– The Daily Mail.
“What if one of those much maligned Internet sex-finding women could have somehow found it in the kindness of her heart to fuck James Holmes? What then? Nothing. What happened in Colorado happened because a man who was trying to cause chaos was able to acquire the tools to do it successfully.”
– Erin Gloria Ryan, on Jezebel, pointing out that the killer planned his spree months ahead of time.
“When students are taught they are no different from animals, they act like it.”
– Pastor Rick Warren, in a tweet the day after the shootings.
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