Lots of last minute surprises from the jerks in D.C.: Obama signed a $1.1 trillion spending bill The House approved a $155 billion jobs bill: I guess the stimulus package wasn't enough to create jobs, so spend yourself further into debt, it's the American way! The House raised the debt ceiling by $290 billion to finance six more weeks of spending: A $12.1 trillion debt limit, really, how quaint! And $290 billion over six weeks? C'mon Big Daddy-O, that's not an allowance, it's a pittance! Well, that's $1.1 trillion spent, with another $445 billion, in just one day. Does anyone even notice anymore? Pelosi hasn't ...
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‘Tis the Season – For Spending!
Friday, December 18th, 2009An Expert’s Opinion
Tuesday, December 8th, 2009Shortly after I started this blog, I was going over google listings to see how it was faring, and I came across this article by one Frank Schaeffer: The Republican base is now made up of religious and neoconservative ideologues, and the uneducated white underclass with a token person of color or two up front on TV to obscure the all-white, all reactionary all backward -- there-is-no-global-warming -- rube reality. Actual conservatives, let alone the educated classes, have long since fled. While I somewhat agree on what he says about the Republican base, I don't consider myself part of that base - ...
The Fox is Guarding the Hen-house
Friday, December 4th, 2009From a research paper published by some Berkeley researchers: The Obama Administration is considering whether to change policy concerning the use of HTTP cookies on government websites. Currently, government officials require a “compelling need” to use persistent HTTP cookies, and must disclose their use in a privacy policy. In light of this we arbitrarily chose six government websites to determine whether Flash was being used to assign unique values to visitors. Of the 6 government sites we tested, 3 had Flash cookies. Three were set by whitehouse.gov, one of which was labeled, “userId.” Five of these sites used persistent HTTP cookies. Whitehouse.gov disclosed ...
Dana Perino – Revisionist and LIAR
Friday, November 27th, 2009And a heartfelt congratulations to Sean Hannity for quickly changing the subject instead of calling her on such a blatant distortion of reality - like the responsible jounalist he is.
Ceremonial Deism
Tuesday, November 17th, 2009"In God We Trust" did not appear on any coin until 1864. It wasn't used on all coins until Roosevelt's presidency, it wasn't mandated by legislation on all coins until 1955, nor made the official motto of the United States until 1956. Likewise, the Pledge of Allegiance wasn't even written until 1892, and the words "Under God" weren't added until 1954. So enough of this nonsensical revisionism that the Founding Fathers were all devoted Christians and founded this country as a Christian nation - those who utter such nonsense are bearing false witness. Even were that not the case, the ...
Shutup About Your “Issues”
Wednesday, October 14th, 2009Here's an apparently popular Facebook poll a friend took and published to his wall: L. responded 'Yes' L. voted in the poll: "Do you beleive abortion should be legalized nationally? " along with 56712 other people. And here's a newsflash for a country suffering from historical Alzheimer's:
The pot calling the kettle black
Sunday, October 4th, 2009According to Reuters, "California Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger said on Thursday that movie director Roman Polanski should be treated like anyone else if he came to the United States to face sentencing for having unlawful sex with a 13-year-old girl in 1977." Shouldn't Schwarzenegger be given "no special treatment" for his former drug use then?
Just Say No!
Sunday, October 4th, 2009There was an interview posted a couple of days ago with Senator Tom Carper about the legislative text of the health care reform bills currently being debated in Congress. It's quite enlightening about just how dysfunctional the Congress is. "I don’t expect to actually read the legislative language because reading the legislative language is among the more confusing things I’ve ever read in my life." If legislative language is confusing for a lawmaker, then why is he a legislator?