when you can't say because you're not a scientist but you're pretty sure you have a refreshing glass of minority blood pic.twitter.com/KIC0oA9djS
— Big Sharia Jeb Malmö (@Mobute) March 16, 2017
Reminder: This is a ‘holiday’ invented for amateur drunks by professional grifters, and even among those classes it’s liable to lead to bad outcomes.
Two-and-a-half of my grandparents were Irish immigrants (Nana was conceived on the Ould Sod but born in NYC; her husband was supposedly the grandson of an Irishman who financed his emigration as a draft replacement during the Civil War), so don’t bother arguing with me on that.
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Apart from taking due precautions, what’s on the agenda as we wrap up the week?
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Mulvaney: Happy St. Patrick’s Day to you all!Also Mulvaney: Providing food to the Irish during famine would be inefficient
— ?Kevin Boueri? (@ChevreBoueri) March 16, 2017
The arsonists we elected as Fire Marshalls put forth a budget that is mostly matches and gasoline, funded by selling fire hydrants for scrap
— Kelsey D. Atherton (@AthertonKD) March 16, 2017
How to understand CBO's 10% premium reduction #: under my plan the price of eggs goes down 10%, oh but instead of a dozen you now get eight.
— Jason Furman (@jasonfurman) March 14, 2017
I mean, the silver lining is that now a lot of people are learning about the government programs that touch their lives and communities
— Jeff Guo (@_jeffguo) March 16, 2017
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