great

now jamie fucking oliver is fat shaming poor americans in 2 languages.

and my love affair with v-me wanes. they could have just given rick
bayless a show if they wanted to bring on the white chef dudes. he
speaks the language, his food is awesome, and with his anthropology
background he tends to treat the (poor and/or brown) people around him
with respect. instead i'm watching jamie fucking oliver pull the
repressed white dude trying to be cool in a black church shit.

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The trouble with being poor is that it takes up all of your time.
Willem de Kooning

that's some fancy math you've got there

anyone wanna explain to me how adding just 34,000 jobs made for a
nearly half a point reduction in the 'official' uneployment rate?
anyone?

yeah, i didn't think so.

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The trouble with being poor is that it takes up all of your time.
Willem de Kooning

the fat yoga teacher

i've been watching a lot of v-me, pbs' spanish language channel,
because the rest of the channels are crap and to improve my spanish.
every morning they show aire yoga. it's a great to learn verbs for
body movements, though mostly in command form. but that's not the best
part.
the teacher, Anna Silvetti, is a certified fat lady and she is
awesome. i've never seen anyone who wasn't a contortionist bend like
that. and from my admittedly meager spanish, she doesn't seem to talk
about weight loss at all. increasing flexibility, feeling centered in
your body, yes. but not a single thing about weight.
i'm almost tempted to grab some floor space and give it a try after
watching her.

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The trouble with being poor is that it takes up all of your time.
Willem de Kooning

shorter everybody

in discussions between Sebelius of health and human services and
governors over medicaid costs:

sebelius: here's a list of the ways you can save money by screwing
over the poor people you've allready got. you can eliminate things
like coverage of prescrition drugs, dental services, vision services,
respitory care. poor people don't need to eat, breathe, see or take
expensive medicine!
governors: but what we really want is to screw the poor we don't have
yet. can't we change those pesky eligibility rules?

sebelius: lalalalala, i can't hear you. you can increase cost sharing
for poor people with copays. lalalalala
governors:grumble grumble grumble stupid poor people, grumble grumble.

the moral of this story, kids, is that neither govenors nor the fed
gives a flying fuck about poor people's health. wtf good will
increasing medicaid eligibility in the obamacare bill have done if
medicaid now only covers a doctor telling you exactly how you're going
to die since medicaid won't cover the drugs you need

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The trouble with being poor is that it takes up all of your time.
Willem de Kooning

onward christian godbags

fine, you wanna be a person, or more specifically a president, who
like to loudly proclaim your jesus-lovin at events organized by other
jesus-lovers. but could you please at least remember the kind of guy
your son of god claimed to be? he wasn't all 'whatever you do to the
least of the too big to fail banks you do to me'. i'm pretty sure the
eye of the needle remark wasn't some reality show competition judged
by donald trump. i'm pretty sure 'Turn the other cheek' isn't a move
you perform in order to snort meth off a rentboy/baggage handler. i
would have so much less ire towards christians if the actually acted
more christ-like.

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The trouble with being poor is that it takes up all of your time.
Willem de Kooning

can i get a hell yeah?

i've been exceptionally productive this week, and it ain't even friday yet.
i've successfully navigated multiple beaureacratic quagmires, got the
kid to do his school work with minimal teenage angsty face, cleaned
house and made plans for future financial improvements (maybe).
don't be shy peeps, what do you need a hell yeah for? big or small, i
think we could all use a hell yeah right about now.

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The trouble with being poor is that it takes up all of your time.
Willem de Kooning

Please sir, may I have some more?

I wrote once about how Simon Schama called OBama a victorian in the
modern world. as i look around at the cuts to social programs and the
focus on national debt before citizen welfare i think that it's not
just our pres who is victorian, but the entire political class that is
stuck in 1800's ideas of bootstraps and sacrifice for the underclass
while the upperclass thrives. we are watching them create a modern
potato famine through the calls for austerity. like ireland, we have
more than enough resources, but the wealthy must make their giant
profits to pay their debts before us peasants are considered. i wonder
how long it will be before we start dying lie the irish did, gaunt
with mouths stained green from trying to eat the grass when all the
food was sent to england.

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The trouble with being poor is that it takes up all of your time.
Willem de Kooning

compare and contrast

wall street had its highest level of compensation last year, 125
billion dollars. and the market is all gangbuster bullish again. BP is
scewing over everyone who needs and deserves compensation from their
disaster. and the fed thinks that raising food prices ain't no big
thing for us little people.
meanwhile, states are avoiding bankruptcy by scewing over poor people,
disabled people, people trying to educate themselves or their kids.
there's riots in puerto rico over tuition hikes that no one's talking
about. no one's even talking about foreclosures anymore, though they
are expected to keep rising.
and the politicians can't seem to get their noses brown enough in the
backsides of the crooks who really run the country.

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The trouble with being poor is that it takes up all of your time.
Willem de Kooning

oh for fucks sake

washington state is now going to CUT TANF cash benefits by 15% for
everyone in order to balance the budget.
funny, during all those years of surplus no one ever suggested raising
the benefit amounts to keep up with inflation. The benefit has been
the same for at least the last 15 year. it didn't get raised during
the gogo 90s or during the real estate bubble. but it's the first
thing to cut during bad times. and all this from a democratic governor
in a 'progressive' blue state. it's okay washingtonians, the poor will
baile your asses out, we always do.

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The trouble with being poor is that it takes up all of your time.
Willem de Kooning

food and fuel

Just about every account I've read of the reasons behind the protests
from Tunisia to Jordan involve people being righteously pissed about
the rising costs of food and fuel. (I also read that Berneke's
quantative easing was a huge reason for the rise in commodities prices
and at least Egypt's food price spike). I'm not surprised. hungry
people, or even people who are scared of being hungry, suddenly have a
lot less tolerance for the excesses of the upper class. it's why 'Let
them eat cake' is one of the few things we thin we know about the
french revolution persists.
what does that mean for us 'MEricans? we've still got aways to go
before the hunger pangs reach past the bottom 20%, but it's coming. it
might even come faster if claire mckaskill's craptastic budget bill
passes and kills any possibility of the government being able to do
anything other than pay the salaries of the douchebags in the tacky
blue suits.

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The trouble with being poor is that it takes up all of your time.
Willem de Kooning

You know what today needs

Another post about eye candy

Mads Mikkelsen- the hottest man in Denmark

Ming Tsai- chef I'd like to.......have dinner with.

Alex Lanipekun and Richard Armitage in MI-5, a show whose name really ought to be changed to "hot dudes that do Englishy spy stuff and make RQ wobbly kneed"

So peeps- who are you drooling over at the moment?

Dear Simply Ming:

I love you for these 4 reasons.
1. you are hoooot. really freakin hot. especially since you got rid of
the long bangs douchebag hair.
2. you regularly cook with you mom, which is adorable.
3. you just spent 3 minutes of your show explaining why you don't burn
garlic. this is my biggest cooking show pet peeve. if people learned
to cook from cooking shows then all garlic would be bitter grossness,
except for you.
4. you caught yourself calling all of your audience 'guys' and
corrected by adding 'and gals'. you didn't erase all us lady types
into defualt maleness or infantilize us by using 'girls'. it's a small
step towards equality and it just cemented my adoration.
sincerely,
rq

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The trouble with being poor is that it takes up all of your time.
Willem de Kooning

bwahahahaha

One of the tv preachers populating my non-cable television this
morning (1 news show, pbs doing cartoons, a fishing show, 2 paid
programs and 8 fucking tv preachers) has decreed that bed bugs are an
obvious sign of the apocalypse.

Dies this mean that we need to smear lamb's blood on our apartment
doors until the rapture so we can gaurantee ourselves pest free sleep?
Are bed bugs repelled by the act of kneeling bedside to say prayers?
have the beds of therighteous been sparred or must they suffer with us
heathens untill paradise beckons?

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The trouble with being poor is that it takes up all of your time.
Willem de Kooning

The measure of a person is not what they would kill for

but what the would die for. i keep thinking about the difference
between the murdering douchenozzle in Arizona and the protests in
Tunisia and EGypt, protests started by people so frustrated by
government corruption that the literally became the spark that ignites
revolution by lighting themselves on fire. It should make us all feel
a wee bit better about the violent rhetoric of the right. we know that
when they turn that rhetoric into action they lose legitimacy. they
aren't willing to sacrifice themselves for a better world, but they
are willing to sacrifice others. becuase of that, we know their
measure and it is too small to matter in the grand scheme.

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The trouble with being poor is that it takes up all of your time.
Willem de Kooning