inothernews:

Dear conservatives:

You truly, achingly suck at spin.

Love,

Us fucking liberals.

(via stfuconservatives)

wilwheaton:

soupsoup:

Trip Gabriel at The New York Times ”The Caucus” blog:

Mr. Ryan also cited bankruptcy numbers to make the point that failing businesses mean fewer jobs. “In 1980 under Jimmy Carter, 330,000 businesses filed for bankruptcy,” he said. “Last year, under President Obama’s failed leadership, 1.4 million businesses filed for bankruptcy.”

But he appeared to conflate business bankruptcies and much more numerous personal bankruptcies. Of the 331,264 bankruptcies in 1980, only 43,694 were for businesses, according to the American Bankruptcy Institute.

Of the 1,410,653 total bankruptcy filings last year, 47,806 were business bankruptcies, according to the institute. And, again, the numbers are falling. In 2009, there were 60,837 business bankruptcies. In July, the latest month with complete statistics, business bankruptcies were 22 percent lower than a year earlier, and personal bankruptcies were down 11 percent. 

“But he appeared to conflate business bankruptcies and much more numerous personal bankruptcies.”

Paul Ryan didn’t “appear to conflate” anything. He deliberately lied, because that’s what he does, and until the goddamn media does its fucking job and calls his lies what they are — lies — he’ll keep doing it, without any consequences at all.

stfuconservatives:

sinidentidades:

A group of coal miners in Ohio feel they would have been fired if they did not attend an Aug. 14 event with presumptive Republican presidential nominee Mitt Romney and contribute to his campaign — and to make matters worse, they lost of day of pay for their trouble.

In phone calls and emails to WWVA radio host David Blomquist, employees at the Century Mine in Ohio said they feared retaliation if they did not attend the Romney event.

“Yes, we were in fact told that the Romney event was mandatory and would be without pay, that the hours spent there would need to be made up my non-salaried employees outside of regular working hours, with the only other option being to take a pay cut for the equivalent time,” the employees told Blomquist. “Yes, letters have gone around with lists of names of employees who have not attended or donated to political events.”

Well, you know what they say: if you can’t beat ‘em, buy ‘em!

(via stfuconservatives)

drinkthe-koolaid:

The Catholic League announced Monday that Delta Air Lines had pulled its sponsorship of Jon Stewart’s The Daily Show following a boycott launched by the organization.

I suggest a boycott of Delta Airlines.

And this, from The Catholic League:

“Today, all the top management at Kellogg’s will receive a color photo of a naked woman with her legs spread and a nativity scene ornament in between,” Donohue said. “Let’s see if that jars them.”

What the actual fuck? It’s one thing to show something like that on a late night show that people have made a choice to watch…it’s another thing just sending it to people in the mail! How is that acceptable? How is that an acceptable thing for The Catholic League to do?