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He's no Iron Man, but it's close enough . A powerful message from Obama supporter Kerry Washington . Michael Moore on guns (and BTW, his link r egarding a woman's encounter with Universal Health Care is worth the read ). Funny how when things Mitt Romney was involved with go bad, he always has an alibi for it not being his fault . How to have a happy marriage .  Who else thinks that it's odd that Obama's approval ratings has been polled more times than Reagan, Carter, Clinton and both Bushes combined ? Wolf learns a valuable lesson . Multiple people having guns at the Aurora theater would have created more chaos .

Fathom the irony: the man who beats up Mexicans, had a school teaching how to beat/kill Mexicans & 'protected the border' of AZ and Mexico. ..fled TO Mexico with the teen girl he was previously arrested for iacts of pedophilia last spring. AZ Start news only talks of him as "former coach" . . not as a loud, proud, Minuteman for some strange reason.  " Sahar In the Morning ," referencing this C&L post.

Yowza . Greenland ice, it seems, can vanish in a flash, with new satellite images showing that over just a few days this month nearly all of the veneer of surface ice atop the island's massive ice sheet had thawed. That's a record for the largest area of surface melt on Greenland in more than 30 years of satellite observations, according to NASA and university scientists. The images, snapped by three satellites, showed that about 40 percent of the ice sheet had thawed at or near the surface on July 8; just days later, on July 12, images showed a dramatic increase in melting with thawing across 97 percent of the ice sheet surface.

It's a shame really . Let's help him out !

Sweet Jesus on a pogo stick .

When Karl Rove tells Democrats what to do , they should do the opposite. Marvel plans to kick ass and take names on the movie front . Wanna know what subject Chris Rock says has " no joke there ?" If you like the TV show of The Walking Dead you're probably smiling now . Ditto if you liked Thomas Jane as The Punisher .  We can strike her off the potential GOP running mate list .

If "corporations are people" and " money is speech " does that truly mean the rich have (quantitatively -speaking) more rights than the non-rich?

Well, kinda.

Let's all go to the lobby ... You want fries with that ? She worked hard for her money .

Sure, Antawn Jamison was never a defensive expert, but his unique scoring ability and rebounding skills will certainly make the Lakers a force to be reckoned with .

Even the Kiss Cam can play into the political scene. Bale lets go of the Bat. Don't hold your breath . FDA approves anti-HIV pill . A man walks into a bar ...

Seriously . There's  a few ways to look at this: Romney's attacks on Obama on this issue isn't working, so he's going after someone who's not really involved in the 2012 Elections. Romney is attacking the wife of the guy who lost the election in 2004. What good comes from that? Spouses don't run for office, so unless Romney's insinuating that Kerry's wife was hiding money for Kerry, who cares if she didn't release her tax returns? The more excuses Romney comes up with about this, the less his "experience" at Bain will count as a strength. He can't just use the simple line of, "I ran Bain, it was successful, and I'll run the country in the same manner." There's too many nuances and moving parts to make a straight-forward, positive narrative.  I've probably one of the few people who've said that Romney is, in many ways, the Republican version of John Kerry: an uninspiring, rich guy from Massachusetts who

"He's one of those nincompoops who think running a government is just the same as running a business. But now his business-running is starting to look a bit dodgy, so what's he got left besides a couple of years managing the Olympics? Being governor of Massachusetts, during which he implemented the prototype of the Affordable Care Act (and bragged about it all day - until Obama started pushing the ACA), and during which MA was #47 in job creation. So, Mittens, what have you got? A business you don't want to talk about. And a health care plan you now hate. And a really shitty jobs record. That leaves being an Exalted High Muckitymuck in the Mormon Church, which you also don't like to talk about, and the Olympics. The Olympics. That's it." -- " The Velveteen Ocelot ," commenting on this DU post about how the Obama campaign has essentially taken Mitt Romney's strongest selling point away .

To the conservative mind, Obama is many things . Mummy dearest .  Not directly related to guns, but the NRA has never been that logical . Looks like Monica is happy . In case you're confused about which economic class each major party is fighting for . Another part of my childhood ruined .  Why Mitt Romney's Bain connection matters ...oh, and the Obama campaign is on top of it .

Via C&L : Rice is a consigliore of the Bush family. She worked for both of the Bushes. She is associated very closely with the Iraq war, which in case anyone has forgotten is one of the main reasons why the Republicans lost the House and Senate in 2006. We do not need anyone else named Bush leading the Republican Party and we don’t need one of the Bush team players as a part of the future of the GOP. Condi Rice is a RINO establishment Republican. There's no doubt in my mind that in 2016 (or 2020) the Tea Party (or whatever version there is at the time) will embrace a Jeb Bush like he's the second coming of Reagan. The question is: will the press keep track of this hypocritical bullshit?

Martha Stewart went to jail because she lied to the SEC .

Good luck with that . The Knicks seem desperate . What happens when a Governor tries to cover up a death associated with a health care law he refused to implement ?

Maybe the characters from this play understand modern Republicanism better than the TV pundits. Did you know that your mom probably pooped on you when you were born, and that if she did it was actually a good thing ? Is the NRA really that powerful ? The power of the Bible . Jennifer Aniston helped catch a crook . The true enemy of mankind is fat .  Spot the characteristics of a potential employer . 

Let's just dispense with the usual format here and rundown how "The Amazing Spider-Man" is better/worse than it's three predecessors: Spider-Man How TASM is better : The background is given a little more substance; this helps us recognize some of Peter's character traits as well as motivations for his actions. Raimi wanted to jump right into the action, but Webb (who did direct 500 Days of Summer, after all) recognized that digging a little more could be beneficial. Overall, we get a better Peter Parker from this. How TASM is worse : Quite frankly, involving the parents didn't have the impact on this Peter as you would think. And sadly, as a consequence we lost some of the characterization that Uncle Ben and Aunt May would have gotten, not to mention the "development" of Spider-Man (outfit, web-shooters) has to be rushed as well. As a result, we essentially get Peter Parker cos-playing in a Spider-Man suit until the Lizard-bridge scene. Spi

Blame President Obama for the bad job market, and when their constituents ask them for relief/help with things like minimum wage, tell them they need to get a job .