Scrooge McDuck is going to hell

Guess what party has this as unifying goals

Tue, 24 Nov 2009 19:48:07 -0500

catbus:

(1) Smaller government, smaller national debt, lower deficits and lower taxes by opposing bills like Obama’s “stimulus” bill
(2) Market-based health care reform and oppose Obama-style government run healthcare;
(3) Market-based energy reforms by opposing cap and trade legislation;
(4) Workers’ right to secret ballot by opposing card check
(5) Legal immigration and assimilation into American society by opposing amnesty for illegal immigrants;
(6) Victory in Iraq and Afghanistan by supporting military-recommended troop surges;
(7) Containment of Iran and North Korea, particularly effective action to eliminate their nuclear weapons threat
(8) Retention of the Defense of Marriage Act;
(9) Protecting the lives of vulnerable persons by opposing health care rationing and denial of health care and government funding of abortion; and
(10) The right to keep and bear arms by opposing government restrictions on gun ownership

woof

My favorite part of this is “Workers’ right to secret ballot by opposing card check.” That’s the workers’ right you care about? YOU HAVE WON ME OVER WITH YOUR SINCERITY.

Sounds like the party of “no” to me

itseze: Tuesday 7-9pm EST on The BIRN Ch.1 Student...

Sun, 22 Nov 2009 16:37:17 -0500

itseze:

Tuesday 7-9pm EST on The BIRN Ch.1 Student Radio

I’ll be listening, and you can take that to the bank!

Bill Moyers is retiring!!!! How will I stay informed?

Fri, 20 Nov 2009 19:35:41 -0500

Bill Moyers is retiring!!!! How will I stay informed?

"Congress recognizes no limits on its power. It doesn’t care about the Constitution, it doesn’t care..."

Thu, 19 Nov 2009 22:51:21 -0500

“Congress recognizes no limits on its power. It doesn’t care about the Constitution, it doesn’t care about your inalienable rights. If this health care bill becomes law, America, life as you have known it, freedom as you have exercised it, and privacy as you have enjoyed it will cease to be.”

- Kiss Your Freedoms Goodbye If Health Care Passes - Reason Magazine (via continuum)

Chicken Little here is right, the sky IS falling.

Sharing is Caring

Fri, 13 Nov 2009 20:21:04 -0500

fleurinc:

After seeing me pilfer a little more from my red wine stash my seatmate said “You’re so smart!” The least I could do was offer her some vino…so what if my new bff is the result of alcohol consumption on the Amtrak train? It’s a Friday and we’re riding the train for goodness sake!

Without getting too into my work life I will say that this week was super rough. My office is very small and with people out sick I was the only one in the office who could prepare handbag shipments this week. That means our merchandise had to be sent out to some major clients & the chick that’s been around for six weeks was called upon to deliver…Hello stress? My name is Lily, I believe we’ve met before, perhaps during the midterms of ‘07? I must say that being able to take on such craziness & actually conquer was fly, but the knot in my stomach “oh my god?!” moments I could have dealt wirhout.

But guess what? I made it, and I feel pretty damn good that my boss was able to call on me and get things done. I may be the purse rookie, but I’m trying!

Are you drunk tumbling?

bnaro: Dear Nerds: Yesterday I installed MacOSX on my HPMini, Win7 on my MacPro, and photographed...

Fri, 13 Nov 2009 18:08:07 -0500

bnaro:

Dear Nerds: Yesterday I installed MacOSX on my HPMini, Win7 on my MacPro, and photographed it with my jailbroken iPhone http://tiny.cc/HwNfF

I think you could use more/bigger monitors.

Pro-life House members take thickheaded stand on abortion

Sat, 07 Nov 2009 14:48:00 -0500

Rep. Stupak (D-MI) has successfully lobbied for a floor vote on his sweeping pro-life amendment that would substantially rewrite the federal government’s stance on abortion funding. The main objection of Stupak and other pro-life House members is the concern that tax subsidies provided through the health insurance exchange (so-called “affordability credits”) will pay for private or public plans that provide for coverage of abortion services.

Ironically, one of the things these members fail to realize is that the American taxpayer already pays for private health insurance coverage for Americans that includes abortion procedures. There is already an employer tax exemption for money spent on health insurance for employees, and many of these plans include abortion coverage.

Because any money the federal government does not collect through tax exemptions costs taxpayers, from a budgetary perspective the fact that the money is not collected rather than spent makes no difference. It is still a cost that needs to be offset somewhere else, either in the form of new revenue or cuts in spending. There can be no question that the meandering reasoning these House members put forward—that affordability credits fund abortion—is just as consistent with the one that links tax exemptions for medical benefits to abortion funding.

But the Stupak amendment doesn’t even address this issue, and the argument has never been prominently vocalized by any House members. One thing the pro-life House members pushing the Stupak amendment are unwilling to or will not admit is that the American taxpayer has already in practice held a financial stance on the funding of abortion coverage in health insurance plans. Indirect taxpayer spending on abortion coverage has been a consequence of the funding mechanism for our healthcare system for decades.

and the runner up is:

Tue, 03 Nov 2009 21:11:33 -0500

continuum:

inthefade:

In which video games are blamed for a gang rape

37.

Essentially, the current generation of violent video games are military-grade training/conditioning systems. They train players to commit the most obscene acts and even crimes without consequence. What many people fail to remember is that play, especially among children, is a rehearsal for real-life. As people play, so will they act in the real-world. If a young man is inclined to violence anyways – and most are – and has played Grand Theft Auto for several years, he will be more likely to accept real auto theft as an acceptable act. It’s not a certainty, very few things involving humans are, but it raises the likelyhood considerably.

Emphasis mine. Though I could emphasize the whole thing for sheer ignorance.

Much like other entertainment mediums cherished by past generations, video games cause their users to lose all sense of conscience and gamers only grow to the mimic the worlds the experience in video games. If only we could return to our crime free past when we didn’t have books, movies, TV, or even story-telling. Then we would be able to live again and not have to worry.

The frequency between jaunts out into our Capitol city has been slowly trending upward—as...

Tue, 03 Nov 2009 20:45:59 -0500

The frequency between jaunts out into our Capitol city has been slowly trending upward—as today marks my third jog in 8 days. While a terrible record for most, for me it is reassuring. It was the longest yet!

bnaro: I set up Skype for an interview Ken Burns is doing right now for kids. Adorable....

Mon, 26 Oct 2009 19:09:09 -0400

bnaro:

I set up Skype for an interview Ken Burns is doing right now for kids. Adorable. http://twitpic.com/n1adp

Truly, America’s best idea.

"When you’re a child you’re the center of everything. Everything happens for you. Other..."

Sat, 24 Oct 2009 21:41:23 -0400

“When you’re a child you’re the center of everything. Everything happens for you. Other people? They’re only ghosts furnished for you to talk to. But when you grow up you take your place and you’re your own size and shape. Things go out of you to others and come in from other people. It’s worse, but it’s much better too.””

- John Steinbeck, East of Eden.

McCain introduces bill to block Net neutrality.

Fri, 23 Oct 2009 18:05:54 -0400

McCain introduces bill to block Net neutrality.:

mikehudack:

soupsoup:

Sen. John McCain (R-AZ) introduced a bill in the Senate on Thursday that would effectively allow Internet service providers to slow down or block Internet content or applications of their choosing.

Another great move by the tech-savvy John McCain.

I had another lousy day at work and then my day took a total U-turn because I remembered Frontline...

Tue, 20 Oct 2009 19:02:00 -0400

I had another lousy day at work and then my day took a total U-turn because I remembered Frontline is on tonight. But on the other hand, does this make me a huge nerd?

Went to the White House yesterday in the pouring rain. It was...

Sun, 18 Oct 2009 19:26:08 -0400

Went to the White House yesterday in the pouring rain. It was incredible.

Just a thought

Fri, 16 Oct 2009 22:37:50 -0400

fleurinc:

Ok so last night post wine I thought of an amazing tv show to pitch to the Food Network…it would have Paula Deen & Sandra “Semi-Homemade” Lee as hosts and would be called ‘Drinkin’ and Bakin’ and would run around the holidays only. Sandra could make stiff drinks (her specialty), Paula could concoct new recipes to kill us all and both ladies could dish out advice on how to ‘cope’ with family/holiday stress. I mean they’d probably just talk about how to hide liquor in coffee cups and new ways to cook bacon but who couldn’t learn something from their combined life experiences?

Best idea/post in the history of mankind

Tax Day Looms for Americans With Offshore Bank Accounts

Mon, 12 Oct 2009 18:32:15 -0400

Tax Day Looms for Americans With Offshore Bank Accounts :

On Oct. 15, people with money in overseas banks must confess to the Internal Revenue Service and pay penalties or hope they will not be caught.

"…People can express themselves a little better at the state level.” And, with respect to..."

Mon, 12 Oct 2009 14:43:21 -0400

“…People can express themselves a little better at the state level.” And, with respect to some liberalization of the drug-possession laws at the state level, “I regard these developments as a distinctive statement by people that the present system is not working very well and they want to change it.””

- Former Reagan Sec. of State George Schultz.

Went to gay rights march today. As you can see, there were 2...

Sun, 11 Oct 2009 17:08:00 -0400

Went to gay rights march today. As you can see, there were 2 million people there. Lady Gaga was on stage.

From the first briefing I attended in DC. See if you can tell...

Fri, 09 Oct 2009 20:50:00 -0400

From the first briefing I attended in DC. See if you can tell what left me completely outraged for the rest of it after I saw this slide.

Please add “tort reform” to the list of phrases that need to burn in hell. On my first...

Fri, 09 Oct 2009 20:25:00 -0400

Please add “tort reform” to the list of phrases that need to burn in hell.

On my first day in DC, I saw someone working out across from the Capitol while simultaneously talking on a Blackberry. If I had to come up with a better way to convey my experience here, I don’t think I could.