i’m getting really sick of the phrase ‘traditional marriage’. i’m getting really sick of people pretending that the way things were from the 50s til now is the way they’ve always been tbh. there’s not one interpretation of the bible or one interpretation of history or one right way for things to be done always and forever. get the fuck over yourselves.
"If by a “Liberal” they mean someone who looks ahead and not behind, someone who welcomes new ideas without rigid reactions, someone who cares about the welfare of the people-their health, their housing, their schools, their jobs, their civil rights and their civil liberties-someone who believes we can break through the stalemate and suspicions that grip us in our policies abroad, if that is what they mean by a “Liberal”, then I’m proud to say I’m a “Liberal."
John Fitzgerald Kennedy was born 95 years ago today. (via think-progress)
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Rick Santorum: Idot
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Lewis Black, Rick Santorum: Idiot
Sometimes I just have to listen to this just to remind myself that people knew Rick Santorum is a prick way back in 2006. It scares me that people have seemed to forgotten that in the past six years.
Look at these two fierce ladies giggling together. I love this. I don’t care how powerful you are, you’re still a human being. I hope they were telling dirty jokes.
“I hear they call him Mitt because he’s always the catcher”
^^^ THAT KILLED ME.
Today we made a revolutionary raspberry garden bed. Happy International Women’s Day xx
My new favorite politician. Oklahoma Senator Judy Eason McIntyre holds a sign at a pro-choice rally yesterday that reads, “If I wanted the government in my womb, I’d fuck a Senator.” (It’s too bad, though, that the mainstream press seems focused on this particular sign rather than the fact that so many people came out to protest the awful personhood bill.
We really want to read this NY Mag piece by Jonathan Chait on Republican paranoia, but we can’t get past Magnum photographer Christopher Anderson’s haunting shot of Newt Gingrich supporters at the top of the article. Whoa.
(Anderson also shot Dan Rather for us last year. Badass.)
I first saw this in college political science about a year ago, and it was one of the most eye opening images of the entire course. This is the first time I’ve seen it on tumblr, but I will never not promote evidence of America’s unfailing, shameless, undeserved egotism.
This kind of makes me want to move to Iceland.
Considering that India has a billion people and yet has the smallest prison population, that’s probably a sign that something’s wrong with how the US is doing things.
So the point of the story is… I need to pack my bags and head over to Iceland.
John Stewart tells it how it is.
So there are segments of the population that don’t want contraceptives covered under certain health plans but don’t worry, we’ll make sure a battery-powered dick vacuum is covered by BOTH private insurance AND taxpayer-funded Medicare. A fucking DICK. VACUUM.
Yep. Dicks have more rights than entire women. Your dick should get a taxpayer-funded erection while a woman bleeds out in a hospital bed because it was against a doctor’s “conscience” to abort a fetus that was killing her.
"People have no problem paying $900 for an iPad, but paying $900 for a drug they have a problem with — it keeps you alive. Why? Because you’ve been conditioned to think health care is something you can get without having to pay for it…
He’s alive today because drug companies provide care. And if they didn’t think they could make money providing that drug, that drug wouldn’t be here. I sympathize with these compassionate cases. … I want your son to stay alive on much-needed drugs. Fact is, we need companies to have incentives to make drugs. If they don’t have incentives, they won’t make those drugs. We either believe in markets or we don’t."
He’s alive today because drug companies provide care. And if they didn’t think they could make money providing that drug, that drug wouldn’t be here. I sympathize with these compassionate cases. … I want your son to stay alive on much-needed drugs. Fact is, we need companies to have incentives to make drugs. If they don’t have incentives, they won’t make those drugs. We either believe in markets or we don’t."
Rick Santorum, speaking to the mother of a young boy in Colorado about the free market and prescription drug prices. She told Santorum her son’s medication could cost up to $1 million per year.
One drug her son is taking is Abilify, which is used in children to treat schizophrenia; aggression associated with conduct disorder, autism, or other behavioral disorders; and Bipolar Disorder I. We can debate the merits of children taking anti-psychotic medication another time. The fact remains: Abilify is ridiculously expensive.
How expensive?
Visiting Walgreen’s site tells quite the story. All prices are discounted slightly by their prescription price club, meaning the cost at a local pharmacy may be higher or lower:
- Abilify 2mg: $606.04/mo. | $7,272.48/yr
- Abilify 5mg: $623.99/mo. | $7,487.88/yr
- Abilify 10mg: $623.99/mo. | $7,487.88/yr
- Abilify 15mg: $606.04/mo. | $7,272.48/yr
- Abilify 20mg: $855.37/mo. | $10,264.44/yr
- Abilify 30mg: $855.37/mo. | $10,264.44/yr
- Abilify Discmelt 10mg tablets: $720.56/mo. | $8,646.72/yr
- Abilify Discmelt 15mg tablets: $720.56/mo. | $8,646.72/yr
- Abilify 1mg solution: $1329.03/mo. | $15,948.36/yr
And just to put Rick Santorum’s iPad/drug cost claim in perspective, that’s like buying an iPad every single month. It’s illogical and completely specious to compare necessary medication to an unnecessary iPad. But for fun, I’m going to parse it out as a 30-day cost like the prescription drug above:
- iPad 16GB with WiFi: $499.00 | $41.58/mo
- iPad 32GB with WiFi: $599.00 | $49.92/mo
- iPad 64GB with WiFi: $699.00 | $58.25/mo
- iPad 16GB with WiFi + 3G: $629.00 | $52.42/mo
- iPad 32GB with WiFi + 3G: $729.00 | $60.75/mo
- iPad 64GB with WiFi + 3G: $829.00 | $69.08/mo
I bet that mother would be thrilled if her son’s yearly drug costs were that of an iPad.
You’d think Rick Santorum might have more compassion, since he and his wife are parents to a 3-year-old girl with severe developmental disabilities requiring expensive care. Isabella Santorum is also quite lucky that her father, a former U.S. Senator, has a magnificent, comprehensive health care plan courtesy of the U.S. taxpayers. I’d like to see every child afforded the same health care his daughter receives.
And no, I don’t care if my taxes go up to do it.
(via cognitivedissonance)
Wow, Rick Santorum ladies and gentlemen. This ridiculously ignorant speech about healthcare was brought to you by the same guy who opposes abortion with no exceptions, yet his wife had one to save her life. I vote we award him hypocrite of the century and then remove him from our collective consciousness.
