All but one of my six of my email addresses has been hammered (spammered??) with German spam this weekend. What gives?
*** Update ***
I am not the only one.
by John Cole| 6 Comments
This post is in: Open Threads
All but one of my six of my email addresses has been hammered (spammered??) with German spam this weekend. What gives?
*** Update ***
I am not the only one.
by John Cole| 13 Comments
This post is in: Open Threads
Just out of curiosity- Am I the only person on the planet who can’t stand being in a crowd with a bunch of women wearing perfume?
I was at a graduation reception today, and all the damned perfume was overwhelming and made me sick to my stomache- like a carsick feeling.
by John Cole| 27 Comments
This post is in: Media
Glenn writes:
MICKEY KAUS is fact-checking Rush Limbaugh, with an assist from Tom Maguire.
My first thought was- “Where do you start?”
Fact checking Limbaugh has to be as tough as counting the metaphors and lame pop-culture references in a Dowd column.
BTW- I forgot to mention this several weeks ago, but I was driving in my car, and Limbaugh was on the radio. All I listen to in the car is talk radio or NPR- keeps me up to date and I think rides go faster when you are engaged, rather than just listening to music, and since I hate being on the road (I like driving but I have anger issues with traffic and idiot drivers), anything that makes a car ride faster is a good thing.
At any rate, Limbaugh was bloviating about global warming, producing his own hot air, and he launched into a full-scale missive on the people who do believe in global warming. He stated, and I must paraphrase:
“These people who believe in global warming, they don’t believe in God.”
And just like that, the cure for any and all of our environmental woes, real or imagined, became clear to me.
by John Cole| 2 Comments
This post is in: Media
by John Cole| 27 Comments
This post is in: Democratic Stupidity
*** Post deleted Because I am a blithering idiot and was being played the fool. ***
Never trust the f-ing Washington Times.
There is no post here. Move along.
by John Cole| 12 Comments
This post is in: Humorous
I present to you Anakin Dynamite.
Also, I picked up the first season of the Wire yesterday, and I am already addicted.
The guy who plays the informant named Bubbs is amazing, and I love Bunk’s voice.
by John Cole| 5 Comments
This post is in: Politics
Since I so frequently bash their vicious homophobia and divisive politics, let me now take the opportunity to applaud the sentiments expressed by Focus on the Family in their latest bit of advocacy (via Red State):
Congress is feeling the heat from families fed up with spiraling government spending. But a plan to bring sense to the process is in the offing.
A lot of families think the U.S. budget is out of control and getting worse in a hurry. The Family Budget Protection Act, first introduced in 2004, is now being promoted as a solution.
The bill would simplify the budget by breaking it into five broad categories, much like families design their household budgets. It would put a lid on spending, while doing away with old programs just taking up space. And it would tie entitlement spending to inflation and population growth.
Federal spending in this year’s recently passed budget is more than $2.6 trillion.
A group of fiscal conservatives wants to do something about it. Rep. Jeb Hensarling, R-Texas, for one, said taxpayers are fed up.
“They do not believe Congress has done a good job on spending,” he said.
Rep. Paul Ryan, R-Wis., said it’s time to redesign the budget system.
The problem is, I am not sure this is such a good idea. While I recognize that the spending in Washington is simply out of control, this is yet another bit of ‘evasive delegation’ I talked about earlier (this being self-referential schumck day at Balloon Juice).
There are times when we need the ability to quickly spend more money, times when we need to run a deficit, and times when we need to inject money into the economy, and right now I am not sure if this legislation will allow for such emergencies. And then you run into the problem of what defines an emergency, because as soon as you pass this bill amended with emergency provisions, everything will become an emergency, and the nill will then become meaningless. Just look at how they completely ignored the Gramm-Rudman-Hollings Act and the later Budget Enforcement Act of 1990 (the quid pro quo for Bush 1’s ‘read my lips’ reversal), which were supposed to save the world.
What we need is not more legislation. We need fiscal restraint. Wouldn’t it be nice if we could just elect people who could construct a sensible national budget?