Come for the politics, stay for the snark.
Predictably enough, wingers are trying to turn the swine flu outbreak into a way to bash immigrants.
It will be interesting to see if the Village goes into “Obama needs to do something to stop the swine flu” mode. I’m not sure if invading Mexico or torturing people to find out where the swine flu came from is the answer.
But if Obama looks weak to the flu virus, we can expect a lot more flu viruses to attack us. I know that much.
We laughed about one of the idiotic graphics at the Republican website last night, now here is another one for you:
As noted in the comments, the graphic isn’t even right, as they forgot to include the year 2011.
Bunch of morans.
What does everyone think of this:
The United Auto Workers union will own 55% of a restructured Chrysler LLC and its retiree health care trust will get a seat on the board if union members vote to approve contract concessions this week.
Chrysler stock could even be traded publicly again, as there are mechanisms for the UAW to sell shares to fund the health care trust.
Factory-level union leaders voted unanimously Monday night to recommend approval of concessions that union President Ron Gettelfinger said would help keep the automaker out of bankruptcy.
Are there any other union owned organizations out there like this? The only thing I have ever heard of like this was the case of Weirton Steel, a local steel operation when I was growing up that some way or another was purchased by the employees in the 1980’s, saving it from bankruptcy.
Also, what is the general consensus regarding the Chrysler brand? A number of you in the thread the other day talked about how Chrysler is dragging Jeep down, so it would seem that Chrysler has many issues. I know that my father will never own another Chrysler after a lemon in the 70’s (this really horrid brown station wagon that never, ever worked), but personally, I really liked the look and feel of their 300 series in either the late 90’s or early 2000’s. I had to drive my friends car from West Virginia to Dallas (he was in the U-Haul towing car #2 and his pregnant wife flew), and I really enjoyed the experience. I liked the look of the dash and the interior, it seemed to have plenty of power (remember, I was driving an 83 Celebrity at the time so my opinion may be skewed), and handled really well.
Your thoughts?
I don’t think anyone will argue that it is better than anything regurgitated by Bill Kristol, and he makes some interesting points and a compelling argument that a decisive defeat of Cheney Republicanism would have been better for the country, but this portion made me think he will fit right in with our nation’s elites:
But the argument isn’t going away. It will be with us as long as the threat of terrorism endures. And where the Bush administration’s interrogation programs are concerned, we’ve heard too much to just “look forward,” as the president would have us do. We need to hear more: What was done and who approved it, and what intelligence we really gleaned from it. Not so that we can prosecute – unless the Democratic Party has taken leave of its senses – but so that we can learn, and pass judgment, and struggle toward consensus.
Got it? Prosecuting those who torture is “taking leave” of your senses.
I used to write stuff like that a couple years ago. I used to agree with Chris Matthews that Bush was someone you wanted to have a beer with and that Gore sighed too much in the debates. Also, at the time, I was writing about all the WMD Iraq had and how they were an existential threat, how of course the Bush administration has a plan for Iraq after the war and how shock and awe was just the bee’s knees, that of course we could stabilize Iraq with 150k troops, and I made fun of the anti-war protesters and that really, you shouldn’t blame the federal for their crappy response to Hurricane Katrina- natural disasters just happen!
The difference between me and Ross, though, is that I apparently paid attention the last eight years.
Having said all that, a marked improvement over Bill Kristol. I actually thought a couple times while reading it, instead of retching.
This graphic is:
A.) Actually blaming the current global financial crisis and the unemployment created by said crisis on the Democratic control of Congress.
B.) Using the phrase “Democrat Majority” instead of “Democratic Majority.”
C.) Appearing on the Congressional Republican website, and not some idiot right-wing blogger’s own personal shrine to idiocy. The url includes the word “accountability.” I don’t think they know what that means.
When you read that only 21% of the country identifies with the GOP, that is because all that remains of the GOP is a pathetic bunch of wankers who do things like this and think it is clever.
This is quite impressive:
General Electric says it has achieved a breakthrough in digital storage technology that will allow standard-size discs to hold the equivalent of 100 DVDs.
The storage advance, which G.E. is announcing on Monday, is just a laboratory success at this stage. The new technology must be made to work in products that can be mass-produced at affordable prices.
But optical storage experts and industry analysts who were told of the development said it held the promise of being a big step forward in digital storage with a wide range of potential uses in commercial, scientific and consumer markets.
“This could be the next generation of low-cost storage,” said Richard Doherty, an analyst at Envisioneering, a technology research firm.
I still laugh when I think about paying $196 bucks for 4 megs of ram to throw into my Gateway 2000 486 SX-33 to double the memory to 8 megs.
In 1992.
Weird dinner tonight. Club soda with some lime, peel and eat shrimp, and… KALE!
Why not?
BTW, BSG fans- is Caprica any good?