If you've seen the news the past couple days, you'd think all the worlds problems had been solved, and the only thing of interest is Rep. Anthony Weiner's weiner. The coverage is non-stop. This makes it a little difficult to find other topics to discuss, so I am just going to make this a Science Friday, and cleanse our palates.
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What a prick
Author: Raine
Date: 06/09/2011 12:36:42
I'm still trying to assemble today's blog. In the mean time take a quick read of this blog post from The Reid Report Mala was the first to share this Opie and Anthony story yesterday, and it appears as tho more truth is coming out with regard o the Weiner scandal. Continue reading...
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What the Dickens?
Author: BobR
Date: 2011-06-08 10:33:29
As the 2008 presidential campaign season began in earnest, the Republican candidates all paid their tributes to Ronald Reagan. His was a myth writ large, with facts being buried beneath legend, and little critical voice given to the realities of his tenure. One debate was jokingly referred to as a séance, so often was his apparition summoned from the great beyond. Time has passed, though, and the times are more dire, and the Republicans are seeing their temporal grasp on power slipping once again from their fingers. With very little left in their bag of tricks, they are attempting to resurrect the language of the Reagan era. They are clinging to the talking points; this time, however, we have 25 years of evidence and the benefit of hindsight.
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Ask a Vet
Author: TriSec
Date: 06/07/2011 10:34:44
Good Morning. Today is our 3,002nd day in Iraq and our 3,530th day in Afghanistan. We'll start this morning as we always do; with the latest casualty figures from our ongoing wars, courtesy of Antiwar.com: American Deaths Since war began (3/19/03): 4454 Since "Mission Accomplished" (5/1/03): 4313 Since Handover (6/29/04): 3595 Since Obama Inauguration (1/20/09): 226 Since Operation New Dawn: 36 Other Coalition Troops - Iraq: 318 US Military Deaths - Afghanistan: 1,605 Other Military Deaths - Afghanistan: 906 Contractor Employee Deaths - Iraq: 1,487 Journalists - Iraq: 348 Academics Killed - Iraq: 448 We find this morning's Cost of War passing through: $ 1, 205, 431, 300, 000 .00
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Dis-Ingenuity
Author: Raine
Date: 06/06/2011 13:13:03
Schieffer: The fact is, the Congress has been in session since January and it's done basically nothing.
Pelosi: Well you can talk to Mr. Boehner about that.
Schieffer: So it's all their fault. It's not your fault.
Pelosi: Well no, they set the agenda. We have said every day that they're there another day goes by and there's no jobs agenda or jobs bill that has come to the floor. But again, it's about how we can work together to go forward. These issues are bigger than politics, they're bigger than elections. They're about the country that we will live in. And what we will see as we go forward is one vision of America that's encompassed in the Republican budget plan that abolishes Medicare, that makes college unaffordable for nearly ten million young people in our country, that takes us deeper into debt and does not create jobs, or you can talk about an agenda that talks about making it in America, investing in American education, innovation and that's what campaigns are about. managed to catch the video of this exchange from Face the Nation yesterday. I concur with Karoli when she says "...Bothered about the jobs report? Talk to Mr. Boehner, because he's the guy who has set the agenda for this session of Congress. Democrats should be running with this message and asking Americans whether or not they understand Congress' role in the economy and what this crazy Republican House of Representatives is doing to tank it." The jobs report last week wasn't great, and the higher unemployment numbers weren't helpful either, but the reality is that we still had jobs created, not lost. What I find interesting is that in 5 months, we have had NOTHING in the way of promoting economic recovery from the GOP-led House. Back in September, The Christian Science Monitor wrote the following: Republicans in Congress are urging two simple steps they say will help put Americans back to work: Freeze all tax rates at current levels and reduce federal spending. Interesting. In their ongoing attempt to do so, an already slow -- but growing economy, has slowed down even more. Continue reading...
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The Candidates, pt 6
Author: velveeta jones
Date: 06/05/2011 14:56:01
Continuing our look at the exciting lineup of GOP 2012 noms would be incomplete if we didn't acknowledge Mrs. Sarah Palin. Sarah, aka Mama Grizzly, has previously said she would not run for President in 2012, but she has also said that she would be Governor of Alaska, that she could see Russia from her house, that North Korea was our ally, and, more recently, that Paul Revere fired his 9mm Glock in the air while yelling “The Red Coats are coming and be sure to buy my newest single out on iTunes this week” through town, so her word has little weight.
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Good Morning. Sarah Palin is an idiot. There, I said it.
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GOP Death Spiral
Author: BobR
Date: 06/03/2011 12:26:09
In 2004, the Republicans were riding high. They had the White House and both houses of Congress. Their ineffectivity and corruption finally wore down the electorate, though, and the Democrats took the House and Senate in 2006. In 2008, they increased their margins in Congress (admittedly by running conservative Dems in conservative states) and took the White House. Their inability to quickly fix the jobs situation resulted in a voter backlash in 2010 that gave the Republicans back the House, with a "mandate" to fix the jobs situation and balance the budget. Instead, the Republicans seem insistent on legislating their conservative social ideology, and cutting wildly popular programs rather than raise taxes on the rich, or restore tax rates to Reagan-era levels. The backlash against their plans has been loud and obvious, but rather than reflect and moderate their approach, they are doubling down on it. It seems both quixotic and suicidal.
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With a year and a half to go before the 2012 elections, we have officially entered stupid season. I think I am getting burnt out on stupid, be it Chris Christie using a state helicopter to show up at his child's baseball game, anything associated with Sarah Palin, Herman Cain, Rick Scott, Eric Cantor, Pawlenty, -- right now I just have little patience trying to talk of the stupidity of what is going on. I don't want to talk about them. I do anyway because I believe an informed people makes for a healthy government. I still care. We are in our fourth year here on this blog, with another few spent at our former home, it's been more than a half a decade that we've been doing this, and yes I still care. Sometimes, I just get tired. What floors me most is the fact that so few people seem to care. So few people seem to be curious about what is being done to the middle and lower class in America. We try to educate here on this blog. There are many places on the internet that do the same. Sometimes it feels more like a fight against disinformation rather than for enlightenment. Continue reading...
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Hacktivism
Author: BobR
Date: 2011-06-01 10:13:42
Hacktivism:
(a portmanteau of hack and activism) is "the nonviolent use of illegal or legally ambiguous digital tools in pursuit of political ends. These tools include web site defacements, redirects, denial-of-service attacks, information theft, web site parodies, virtual sit-ins, virtual sabotage, and software development."
-- From SensAgentAt the risk of sounding like a luddite, let me reminisce about the good old days. People used to buy newspapers and read them for their news (which supported jobs like reporters and fact-checkers). People used to actually talk to each other face-to-face, or occasionally on the phone. And when a political statement needed to be made, people showed up in droves with hand-made signs and protested... and they didn't expend more energy recording it on their phones to post online than they did actually participating.
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