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Miles Archer

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December 1, 2015

Ted Cruz on condoms, women, and why he's glad he wraps up little Teddy

VIDEO @ the URL below.

Ted Cruz Yearns for His Glory Days in College, When Condoms Were Given Away Like Candy



http://gawker.com/ted-cruz-yearns-for-his-glory-days-in-college-when-con-1745368723?utm_campaign=socialflow_gawker_facebook&utm_source=gawker_facebook&utm_medium=socialflow

“Jiminy Cricket!” began Ted Cruz, preparing to give a diatribe on his nostalgia for the easygoing availability of contraceptives at his alma mater, Princeton.

During a speech at a town hall in Iowa during which he meant, ostensibly, to debunk the “war on women,” the Texas senator and Republican presidential candidate took some time instead to connect the issue to the availability of condoms.

“When the war on women came up, Republicans would curl up in a ball, they’d say ‘don’t hurt me!’ Jiminy Cricket! This is a made up, nonsense example. Last I checked, we don’t have a rubber shortage in America. When I was in college we had a machine in the bathroom, you put 50 cents in— and voilà!”

...Cruz even suggested that he too enjoys the benefits of condoms, himself. “As I noted, Heidi and I, we have two little girls. I’m very glad we don’t have 17.”

December 1, 2015

SORRY, cheering 9/11 Muslims...you have FAILED to pass the DOOCY TEST...

...because if Steve said it, it MUST be true.





https://www.facebook.com/topic/Steve-Doocy/104041909633519

Steve Doocy: Fox News Host Says He Remembers Seeing Muslims Cheering on 9/11

"According to my neighbors, they saw with their own two eyes, there were people celebrating,” Doocy said in support of Donald Trump's claim which has not been verified.
November 30, 2015

Oh, Carly. Carly, Carly, Carly. It's not about you. It never will be about you.



Carly Fiorina: Republican Presidential Candidate Denounces 'Typical Left-Wing Tactics' in Interview
“I would say to anyone who would try to link this terrible tragedy to anyone who opposes abortion or the sale of body parts, is this is typical, left-wing tactics," Fiorina said on Fox News Sunday.

https://www.facebook.com/topic/Carly-Fiorina/112274638789438?source=whfrt&position=2&trqid=6222968444192953041

November 30, 2015

Happy 60th birthday to William Michael Albert Broad, A.K.A. "Billy Idol."

"There is nothing fair in this world
There is nothing safe in this world
And there's nothing sure in this world
And there's nothing pure in this world
Look for something left in this world
Start again..."



November 29, 2015

Sinead O'Connor Threatens Suicide in Dire Facebook Post

Sinead O'Connor Threatens Suicide in Dire Facebook Post

http://www.rollingstone.com/music/news/sinead-oconnor-threatens-suicide-in-dire-facebook-post-20151129

Sinead O'Connor threatened to commit suicide in a harrowing letter the singer posted on Facebook Sunday afternoon. In the letter, O'Connor focuses on "a horrific set of betrayals" she accuses her family of perpetrating against her. "I have taken an overdose," she warned. "There is no other way to get respect. I am not at home, I'm at a hotel, somewhere in Ireland, under another name. If I wasn't posting this, my kids and family wouldn't even find out."

According to BreakingNews.ie (via Billboard), the singer has since been found "safe and sound" and receiving medical assistance from Irish police. O'Connor's manager did not immediately return a request for comment. Read O'Connor's entire Facebook letter below:

There is only so much any woman can be expected to bear. What was done to me this week was appalling cruelty. By my husband, my family, by St Pats and by An Gardai Siochana, by my son, Jake and by Donal Lunny and Angela singleton, by my son's girlfriend, his friends... after everything I've been put through and been forced to go through alone .. And punished for having to go through since I had the surgery on August 26th. Or since Shane became unwell in March, This week has broken me. The withholding of my babies from me without any sound reason by their fathers, Frank and Donal, and by Jake and the rest of my family, is a horrific set of betrayals. And has been going on since I had my surgery. The last two nights finished me off. I have taken an overdose. There is no other way to get respect. I am not at home, I'm at a hotel, somewhere in Ireland, under another name If I wasn't posting this, my kids and family wouldn't even find out. Was dead for another fortnight since none of them bother their hole with me for a minute. I could have been dead here for weeks already and they'd never have known. Because apparently I'm scum and deserve to be abandoned and treated like shit just when I've had my womb and ovaries chopped out and my child is frighteningly sick. I'm such a rotten horrible mother and Person, that I've been alone. Howling crying for weeks. And been told by them all [to] go fuck myself. I'm invisible. I don't matter a shred to anyone. No one has come near me. I've died a million times already with the pain of it. So yeah.. Strangers like me.. But my family don't value me at all. They wouldn't know if I was dead until weeks from now if I wasn't fucking informing them now.

Well done guys, you've finally got rid of me. Sorry the penny didn't drop sooner. I'm an idiot. When you planned to get me away from my babies did you plan for me losing my mind over it? It being the final straw? For how you're gonna explain why I died? Make sure you tell the truth. BARRY.. THEY WONT. YOURE THE ONLY ONE WHO KNOWS ME OR THE TRUTH. PLEASE STAND FOR ME AND TELL IT. I can't play twister. My children don't care if I live r die anyway. Neither do their dads. Everyone is better off. Never ever do this to a woman again. Let this be your lesson. I survived it when John Waters did it.. I can't survive Jake doing it.
November 29, 2015

Dee Snider is a clueless fucking knob as well as a "former celebrity."

http://www.rollingstone.com/music/news/twisted-sister-allow-donald-trump-to-use-were-not-gonna-take-it-20151128#ixzz3sp56xkoF

Twisted Sister Allow Donald Trump to Use 'We're Not Gonna Take It'
Song "is about rebellion, speaking your mind and fighting the system. If anybody’s doing that, [Trump] sure is," Dee Snider says
By Daniel Kreps November 28, 2015



While artists like Neil Young, R.E.M. and Aerosmith have lashed out at Donald Trump for using their music at political rallies without permission, Twisted Sister have allowed the Republican presidential candidate to use their 1984 hit "We're Not Gonna Take It" on the campaign trail. As singer Dee Snider revealed in a new interview, while his own beliefs strongly differ from Trump's, he says the song "is about rebellion, speaking your mind and fighting the system. If anybody's doing that, (Trump) sure is."
November 25, 2015

John Mayer with "Dead & Company," MSG, 11/7/15. He just doesn't get it.

The show slips in and out of being entertaining and annoying. It's basically three surviving members of the Dead fronting a Dead covers band.

Mayer's vocal style reminds me a little too much of Dave Matthews. For some, that would be a bonus, unless of course you loathe Dave Matthews.

In part one, you will need to fast-forward about 20 minutes to the actual start of the performance. These two clips constitute the full show.



November 24, 2015

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