"I disagree with you, but I'm pretty sure you're not Hitler." – Jon Stewart
Posted in Blog Post on Jan 29th, 2010
Krugman is not happy about Obama’s non-defense discretionary spending freeze. I agree that it’s counter-productive in the midst of the biggest downturn in since WWII to talk about cutting spending when that spending is what’s standing between us and another great depression. It’s also counter-productive to adopt the rhetoric of the right’s worst demagogues. If [...]
Posted in Blog Post on Jan 28th, 2010
I love the smell of schadenfreude in the morning. Smells like… irony. Sadly, No! » Awesomest Teh Schadenfreude EVAR!!!!1!. The FBI, alleging a plot to wiretap Democratic Sen. Mary Landrieu’s office in downtown New Orleans, arrested four people Monday, including James O’Keefe, a conservative filmmaker whose undercover videos at ACORN field offices severely damaged the [...]
Posted in Blog Post on Jan 27th, 2010
Obama pivots to the right and adopts a faux spending freeze. Scott Lemieux at Lawyers, Guns and Money comments: …Democrats continue to play the sucker, believing that they have to “fiscally responsible” so that Republicans can take a better fiscal picture and piss it all away on upper-class cuts. The most charitable construction, reflected in [...]
Posted in Blog Post on Jan 25th, 2010
First we had Pat Roberson’s much quoted statement saying that Haiti suffers from natural disasters because they “made a past with the devil”. Now we have Hugo Chavez trying to up the ante on stupid: Chavez says US ‘weapon’ caused Haiti quake. He believes that the US caused the earthquake using some sort of seismic [...]
Posted in Blog Post on Jan 22nd, 2010
YouTube – Balls Beer for Health Care Reform, the Full Version. What democrats desperately need, Balls!
Posted in Blog Post on Jan 22nd, 2010
Posted in Blog Post on Jan 22nd, 2010
Krugman puts a stake in the ground on HCR: Op-Ed Columnist – Do the Right Thing – NYTimes.com. A message to House Democrats: This is your moment of truth. You can do the right thing and pass the Senate health care bill. Or you can look for an easy way out, make excuses and fail [...]
Posted in Blog Post on Jan 22nd, 2010
Republican Opposition to Obama Plan for Deficit Panel – NYTimes.com. Well of course they oppose a panel for deficit reduction, they created it. It came from unfunded tax cuts and benefit increases (think Medicare Part D), coupled with two unfunded foreign wars. They see Democrats retreating on HCR and are pressing their advantage. Democrats still [...]
Posted in Blog Post on Jan 21st, 2010
“The appearance of influence or access will not cause the electorate to lose faith in this democracy,” the Supreme Court said via Ezra Klein – Goldman/Exxon 2012. They are correct, the electorate had already lost faith in democracy.
Posted in Blog Post on Jan 21st, 2010
Scott Brown Wins Mass. Race, Giving GOP 41-59 Majority in the Senate The Village Voice nails it. See the GOP won, let’s all just give up and go home now. They elaborate: The lesson, as always, is that when Democrats win, they lose, and when they lose, they are obliterated.
Posted in Blog Post on Jan 21st, 2010
The Supreme Court knocks down limits on campaign contributions allowing special interests to further savage the democratic process. Ain’t that grand? Further reading here: Justices Overturn Key Campaign Limits If we’re determined to treat corporation the same as natural persons, then they need responsibilities to go along with all those rights. Perhaps the first should [...]
Posted in Blog Post on Jan 21st, 2010
Kevin Drum takes on the notion that there are Republican votes to be had for a more conservative approach to HCR: This fantasy that there are Republican votes for a more moderate bill really needs to end. There are no Republican votes for healthcare reform, no matter how moderate or conservative it is. They’re opposed [...]
Posted in Blog Post on Jan 20th, 2010
It seems the Massachusetts voters already have health care and could care less if the rest of the country gets it or not. Not that I’m trying to excuse the exceedingly poor Coakley campaign. It should go down as the definitive example of how to lose an election that should have been a slam dunk. [...]
Posted in Blog Post on Jan 19th, 2010
Ebay fills the demand to punish to right-wing gasbags: PAT ROBERTSON VOODOO DOLL! Proceeds Go To Haiti relief. Also available: The Rush Limbaugh Voodoo Doll Remember it’s for charity!
Posted in Blog Post on Jan 16th, 2010
We tried the Cocoa Rubbed Pork with Chocolate BBQ sauce. It was a hit, the meat was perfectly cooked and moist. Publix had a sale on pork rib roast the same time I found the recipe here. So the stars were aligned. The Cocoa Chili rub was really nice, with just enough heat to make [...]
Posted in Blog Post on Jan 15th, 2010
The point of terrorism is to terrorize. Why is it our government seems determined to give terrorists exactly what they want? In responding to the attempted bombing of an airliner on Christmas Day, Sen. Dianne Feinstein voiced the feelings of many when she said that to prevent such situations, “I'd rather overreact than underreact.” This [...]
Posted in Blog Post on Jan 15th, 2010
See Jen Eat: Cocoa Rubbed Pork with Chocolate Barbecue Sauce. I’m going to give this a swing tonight, at least I want to make the sauce and apply the rub to the pork and maybe cook it tomorrow. It looks yummy. A commenters said they want “to bathe in that sauce”. Me too! We’ll see [...]
Posted in Blog Post on Jan 14th, 2010
Continuous scenes of carnage and tails of woe dominate the cable news channels, AKA cable catnip. It’s depressing to watch more than a few minutes of that. If you want to do something useful, turn off the TV and donate $10 to the Red Cross by text message. Cell phone users can text the word [...]
Posted in Blog Post on Jan 14th, 2010
Obama announces a “financial responsibility tax” to impact large financial firms that benefited from TARP*. This is to remain in place until all TARP money is re-paid and internal practices regarding risk taking and ridiculous compensation and bonuses are changed. That may strikes the right note of populist anger. I’m not sure that it will [...]
Posted in Blog Post on Jan 14th, 2010
YouTube – Teddy Pendergrass – Love TKO. Teddy passed yesterday. Sadness. The man had talent.
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