Binders Full of Women T-shirts and Binders

During the second Presidential debate, Mitt Romney claimed that when he was Governor of Massachusetts, he wondered if he couldn't find more qualified women for his staff.

BINDERS FULL OF WOMEN T-SHIRT Quote: "And I – and I went to my staff, and I said, 'How come all the people for these jobs are – are all men?' They said, "Well, these are the people that have the qualifications.' "

Romney said he requested "a concerted effort to go out and find women who had backgrounds that could be qualified to become members of our cabinet."

"I went to a number of women's groups and said, 'Can you help us find folks,' and they brought us whole binders full of women," Romney said.

According to CNN, "Before the debate was over, there was a Twitter hashtag, a blog, a series of memes, and a Facebook page with over 100,000 fans. The phrase was the third-fastest rising search on Google during the debate." (source: CNN)

And t-shirts. And binders. I'll add more as they become available.

MALARKEY! Tshirts

Did you see the Vice Presidential debate last night? Word of the night: MALARKEY!

Joe Biden, in the first ten minutes --- maybe 5 --- labelled Paul Ryan's gibberish as malarkey! We looked up the word to see where it came from, just for the heck of it.

Dictionary.com says: "ma·lar·key    [muh-lahr-kee] noun Informal . speech or writing designed to obscure, mislead, or impress; bunkum: The claims were just a lot of malarkey."

But unfortunately, it says the origin of the word is unknown!

Wikipedia lists several historic people named Malarkey, including baseball player John S. Malarkey , and American military officer and Technical Sergeant Donald G. Malarkey. But neither of them has a history that seems to lend itself to the nonsense of this word.

World Wide Words says: "...where this odd-looking word comes from is decidedly uncertain. What we do know is that it began to appear in the US in the early 1920s in various spellings, such as malaky, malachy, and mullarkey. Its first known user was the cartoonist T A Dorgan, in 1922, but it only began to appear widely at the end of the decade. By 1930, Variety could pun on it: “The song is ended but the Malarkey lingers on.”

Various theories have been advanced. Eric Partridge pointed to the modern Greek word malakia but he formed a group of one. His later editor, Paul Beale, noted the London expression Madame Misharty, the personification of sales talk, exaggerated claims, and wild predictions, a name that was supposedly that of a fortune teller. But this is stretching a possible linguistic link to breaking point and, in any case, we know it started life in North America. Others point to the family name Malarkey, though who the eponymous member of the tribe might have been whose Irish-derived gift of the gab could have given rise to the name remains unknown. Jonathon Green likewise suggests a Irish origin in mullachan, a strongly-built boy or ruffian, though this, too, seems a stretch of meaning.

We’ll just have to settle for the unsatisfactory “origin unknown”."

I'll add more Malarkey tshirts as they become available. For now, click on the images to learn more or to buy the featured Malarkey tshirts.

SAVE BIG BIRD! Tshirts

Uho, Mitt Romney admitted last night that he'd happily fire Big Bird if he became president. Remember, this is the guy who "likes to fire people" and also, apparently, birds. And cookie monsters. And puppets. We say - SAVE Big Bird, and vote for Obama!

Tshirts for the 47%

Mitt Romney was caught on tape saying that 47 percent of Americans who had no federal income tax liability would “vote for the president no matter what.” He says he doesn't care about them ("my job is not to worry about them"), and obviously as President he wouldn't represent them. This is pretty appalling by any standards, but the worst of it is the cynicism of the comments. Basically, he was telling a room full of rich people (they paid up to $50,000 and more to attend this event) that he would be THEIR president, and ONLY their president. Disgusting.



So here come the 47% tshirts, and they're pretty awesome! I'll add more as they show up on the internet.

Clint Eastwood - Empty Chair - Invisible President Tshirts

By now, you've probably seen the video of Clint Eastwood addressing the Republican National Convention, on August 30, 2012. If not, here it is: And now that you've seen it, you're probably thinking the same thing I'm thinking: WTF??? I guess Clint is just another of those old white guys the Republicans are so fond of....but wait...he's also pro-choice, pro-gay marriage, and believes in global warming as fact. So I'm not sure why he was there. But it sure was fun for the t-shirt makers!!!

Get Off My Lawn .... chair! Clint Eastwood tshirt humor

Don't Bug Me I'm Eastwooding! with empty chair Clint Eastwood humor t-shirt

Empty Chairs for Obama 2012

Empty Chair Empty Suit Anti Romney T-shirt

Let's Poke a Little Fun

Well, the Republican National Convention is upon us all...whether we like it or not. It's going to be wall to wall Republican coverage for the next few days. Thank God some of us love tennis and will be watching the awesome Roger Federer in the US Open for the duration! But still...it's time to poke a little fun at the Republicans, don't you think? You've got the Romney-Ryan ticket. Mitt Romney, the guy who runs away from every position he's ever held (except the missionary one, if you get my Mormon drift), who won't show us his tax returns, who really doesn't want us to know anything about him, and yet he wants to be President? As my British friends would say, "NOT BLOODY LIKELY!!!" Mitt Romney Halloween Mask

And then he picks Paul Ryan to be his running mate...the same Paul Ryan who idolizes Ayn Rand (who, I might point out, was born in Russia!!!). Now according to Wikipedia, Ayn Rand "advocated reason as the only means of acquiring knowledge and rejected all forms of faith and religion," had at least one extra marital affair, and for whom, at her funeral, a "six-foot floral arrangement in the shape of a dollar sign was placed near her casket". A fine role model! So here are some humorous Romney and Romney-Ryan tshirts for you to sport thru the silly season:

Romney Ryan: Your Taxes Should Subsidize the Rich

Romney Ryan ROTTEN RICH Tshirt

Anti Romney - Mr. One Percent 1% Shirt by mjhdesign

Anti Mitt Romney - Romney Is A Liar logo Tee Shirts by mjhdesign

Romney is a Moron.png Tshirts by Politicaltshirts

Anti Romney - The Only House Romney Can't Buy Tshirt by mjhdesign

You're doggone right I'm for Obama! Shirts by ProudPolitics

Puppies Against Romney

Mutts Against Mitt Romney

MITT ROMNEY Doesn't Care About You

Mitt Romney: I'm Not Concerned About Poor People

Boy, Willard "Mitt" Romney really knows how to put his foot in it, doesn't he? I don't know that I could ever vote for someone who doesn't have the ability to speak diplomatically, and he doesn't. In his eagerness to appeal to the far right, he's lost the ability to speak humanely.

Remember the $10,000 bet offer he made to Rick Perry during one of those interminable debates?



Or his offhanded comment that he only made nearly $375,000 in speaking fees in ONE YEAR, a sum he dismissed as "not very much"?



Or when he said he likes to fire people?





Or when he told a group of out-of-work Floridians that "I'm also unemployed"? Or when he joked that he feared pink slips? Or when he flip flopped on abortion, on health care, immigration, climate change?



And today, his latest gaffe? "I'm not concerned about poor people".


I'm sorry but I don't want this guy's finger on the button -- or the budget of this country!