Wasting your vote…
Has anyone else considered the fact that voting for either one of the traditional parties candidates is wasting your vote more? Vote for Romney or Obama is vote for the status qoa and isn’t that wasting an opportunity for change?
Davos, Switzerland
Topless Ukrainian protesters demonstrate at the entrance to the World Economic Forum (via guardian.co.uk)
Lulz from the quiz, “How Well Do You Know Mitt Romney”
I’m a little embarrassed I got 75% correct.
But really, how well can anyone truly know Mitt? I imagine he switches sides so often his wife lets him get in bed first, lest conflict and attack ads result.
Today On TDW: Gossip —
- Above: Ferris Bueller’s Back On: Matthew Broderick reprises iconic role, teases Super Bowl ad.
- Ben Folds Five back in the studio after 12-year hiatus.
- Drunk Behind The Wheel: Pat Sajak says he and Vanna White filmed Wheel of Fortune while smashed.
- Confirmed: LMFAO joining Madonna for Super Bowl halftime show.
- Michael Bloomberg commemorate Gossip Girl’s 100th episode, declares today Gossip Girl Day.
- Drake’s dream job: Playing President Obama in a movie.
- Diabetes pill spokesperson Paula Deen spotted scarfing down burger, fries.
- Uggie, the show-stealing dog actor from The Artist, is retiring.
- Wilco and Popeye — together at last.
Cognitive Dissonance: Live coverage of tonight's CNN Debate
My coverage of the CNN debate tonight. Yes, there was another one.
It’s getting ridiculous in terms of the introductions - each debate is introduced as the most important one. This debate may actually be relatively important - it’s the last one before Florida’s primary, and with Mitt Romney…
Broken Capitalism: Why Markets Are Irrational
Markets are supported to be rational - in other words, human beings only do things which are sensible. However, it has been shown through psychological research that we are not just easily influenced, but make decisions largely using the subconscious part of our brains. This means that we are able…
Where’d they go?
Want to know how bad the economy is here in the U.S.? The Mexicans went home…There are better opportunities in Southern Mexico now than here. Obama must be proud of his bold but unique immigration policy - fuck up the economy so bad they just leave.
So how long before we start hearing about Mexico or Brazil complaining about those damn Americans taking all the white collar jobs?
If the federal government would just follow California, and legalize marijuana you probably wouldn’t need to put boots on the border after all…
Latino immigrant exodus hurts South Carolina economy
In South Carolina the Hispanic population had skyrocketed over this past decade, growing by 148% compared to 43% nationwide.
But the economic downturn in the United States hit Hispanics more than any other demographic, and a new and strict immigration law left many undocumented workers leaving the state and country altogether.
BREAKING: Timothy Geithner: Obama Wouldn’t Ask Me to Stay in a Second Term
Treasury Secretary Timothy F. Geithner said he doesn’t expect President Barack Obama to ask him to stay in office if he’s re-elected, and he dismissed Wall Street’s concerns about financial regulations.
“He’s not going to ask me to stay on, I’m pretty confident,” Geithner said in an interview with Bloomberg Television today. “I’m confident he’ll be president. But I’m also confident he’s going to have the privilege of having another secretary of the Treasury.” He said he would do “something else.”
I’m so fucking shocked! </sarcasm>
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Promising The Moon of the Day: On Florida’s Space Coast today, GOP presidential candidate Newt Gingrich made perhaps the most grandiose promise of any candidate since JFK: A permanent American moon base by the end of his second term.
“By the end of my second term, we will have the first permanent base on the moon and it will be American,” Gingrich told a rapt audience, which responded with a standing ovation.
“We clearly have the capacity that Chinese and the Russians will never come anywhere close to us,” Gingrich said, adding that he also plans to push for the development of propulsion technology capable of getting a man to Mars.
The initiatives would be a joint public-private endeavor, he noted.
Gingrich immediately followed up his grandiose promises by saying that he believes Americans “are instinctively grandiose.” This, too, got a standing ovation.
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Promising The Moon of the Day: On Florida’s Space Coast today, GOP presidential candidate Newt Gingrich made perhaps the most grandiose promise of any candidate since JFK: A permanent American moon base by the end of his second term.
“By the end of my second term, we will have the first permanent base on the moon and it will be American,” Gingrich told a rapt audience, which responded with a standing ovation.
“We clearly have the capacity that Chinese and the Russians will never come anywhere close to us,” Gingrich said, adding that he also plans to push for the development of propulsion technology capable of getting a man to Mars.
The initiatives would be a joint public-private endeavor, he noted.
Gingrich immediately followed up his grandiose promises by saying that he believes Americans “are instinctively grandiose.” This, too, got a standing ovation.
[politico / @alexNBCNews / photo: floridatoday.]