Mitt’s money: an IRA worth $100 million and other things we’ll never know the answers to

Josh Marshall asks: ”With IRA contributions capped at $6,000 a year, how did Mitt manage to amass an IRA worth $100 million? Hint: an Island might be involved.”

I think the Island of Misfit Toys may be the only island on earth not holding part of the Romney fortune.

John Green in an abandoned hospital

I love listening to John Green of VlogBrothers and would like nothing more than to explore an abandoned hospital or place — for all of the reasons which John explains quite well in the video.

Plus since I’m actually in a hospital today, it sort of fits the theme doesn’t it?


CNN’s Dana Loesch: racist illiterate? conservative pinhead?

Dana Loesch of CNN and Breitbart.com fame is a pinhead. And conservative pinheads love to spew trash on Twitter:


Jesse Taylor: Pandagon – The actual statistics: “About 34 percent of food-stamp recipients are white, while 22 percent are African Americans and 16 percent Hispanic, with the rest being Asian, Native American or those who chose not to identify their race, according to the U.S. Department of Agriculture.”

@DLoesch / @jesseltaylor

Mitt Romney: a businessman in the White House

Charles P. Pierce offers Mitt Romney a new speech:

“Stop sweating me, okay? It’s time for my nap. Tell Kristol to shut up or I’ll look under the lawn chairs until I find enough loose change to buy that little magazine of his and sell it to the publisher of Biker Mamas for a 200-percent profit. Let Kristol go cover Bike Week in Laconia next summer if he wants to run his yap. And Murdoch? He doesn’t like me? Tell you what: How about I get in there and revoke that tin citizenship medal that he’s got and let him go back to selling titty magazines to sheep farmers in Queensland. He’s over here because people like me allow him to be over here. Goddamn immigrant. I hope the senile old fool is tapping my phone, because I won’t have to shout at him that,

“I’m Mitt Romney, bitches, and I’m all you got left.

“[...]  Is it a penalty? Is it a tax? You think I care? I can write a check and buy English and change words to mean anything I want them to mean. “Horse” is now “deduction.” See how it works? “Penalty” and “tax” and “fee” all mean the same thing. They mean I don’t have to pay them. I own English now. Say something. Go ahead, I dare you. Say something and you owe me a buck royalties and you better believe I’m coming for it because,

“I’m Mitt Romney, bitches, and I’m all you got left.”

Related: Romney’s business experience: redistribution from the middle-class to a minority at the top

Buzzfeed EXCLUSIVE: the Obama campaign’s “Font-gate”

Sit down, because Zeke Miller of Romney’s online PR firm (Buzzfeed) has cracked the biggest story of the 2012 campaign season:

President Obama is using communist typeface on his signs. Well… communist INSPIRED font from retro-Cuban posters. CUBA. COMMUNIST! THIS EXPLAINS EVERYTHING. Hide your kids. This changes everything.

Zeke Miller is a scholar and a patriot. He’s like the Robert Langdon of computer fonts. And there’s absolutely no reason why Zeke should feel embarrassed about actually asking the Obama campaign for comment on this “issue” — or for the response he received from press secretary Ben LaBolt: “Your GOP operative should have had the courtesy to stay sober before noon, and BuzzFeed should go back to labeling cat slideshows.

They WOULD say that, wouldn’t they, Zeke?

This morning…

…I’m having an operation right now. I had to be at the hospital at 5:30 AM, which is ridiculous. Everything will go fine, I’m sure. But being under anesthesia bothers me. Isn’t it always when someone’s unconscious that the bad things happen?

Here’s what’s being done, which also bothers me: Continue reading