Because sometimes you have to either laugh or scream, and laughing is easier on the vocal cords. Live long and prosper, Commander Sulu!
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Because sometimes you have to either laugh or scream, and laughing is easier on the vocal cords. Live long and prosper, Commander Sulu!
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Lots of stuff I want to write about, but it is sunny outside, so some quick links instead:
1.) Good piece by Jacob Weisberg on the fantasies modern Republicans must believe.
2.) Excellent piece on Ailes and Fox and the predicament they are in.
3.) A proud moment for Obama, while Herman Cain continues to be a clown. Is Godfather’s Pizza any good? I’ve never even seen a store.
4.) Color pics from the great depression.
In other news, last night was another debacle at the Cole household. Rosie shot out of the door while I was moving a plant and ran off. I couldn’t find her, so went and got in thecar and drove around looking for her. Apparently when doing that, I left the basement door to the garage open, and when I got back I saw Tunch running off in the back yard. Down to one of three pets, I put the car away, and saw mom and my brother walking Boghan, Ellie, Ginny, Guesly, and Rosie, who apparently had gone to my parent’s house to visit. Got Rosie inside, and went after Tunch, to no avail. I left the basement garage door open, and woke up every hour on the hour to find him and let him in, but he never showed. When I was making tea this morning, I heard him chirping up a storm in the basement stairwell. He was filthy and had cobwebs and other crap all over him, but happy as hell. Guess he just needed a night on the town.
Currently we are 3/3 with pets, and I hope it stays that way.
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Sometimes I hope these assholes are right about the big Bieber in the sky so that He can send them to rot in hell for eternity:
The president of the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops sent Budget Committee Chairman Paul Ryan a letter yesterday commending his “continued attention” to Catholic social justice “in the current delicate budget considerations in Congress.”
[…]The letter also clearly disputes one of the chief rallying cries against the budget: That it would hurt the poor to benefit the rich.
“In any transition that seeks to bring new proposals to current problems in order to build a better future, care must be taken that those currently in need not be left to suffer,” Dolan wrote. “I appreciate your assurance that your budget would be attentive to such considerations and would protect those at risk in the processes and programs of such a transition. While appreciating these assurances, our duty as pastors will motivate our close attention to the manner in which they become a reality.”
Ryan said in a statement that his budget “upholds the dignity of the human person and is especially attentive to the long-term concerns of the poor.”
This fuckhead happily lies in order to promote the political movement that he considers infinitely more important than any of the vows he took when he became a priest. Hell is too good for people like that.
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This is the guy that the Hochul campaign is sending into nursing homes to talk about Medicare in NY-26. I wish that the average Democratic Congressman or Senator could be half as articulate as he is in the second minute of this interview.
(via Buffalopundit who has many more NY-26 items)
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Not exactly hot off the pixel-press, but if you’re a fan — or an anti-fan — of K-Thug, Benjamin Wallace-Wells’ NYMag cover article on “Paul Krugman’s Lonely Crusade” is a good read:
… For the first two years of the Obama administration, Krugman has been building, in his columns and on his blog, not just a critique of this presidency but something grander and more expansively detailed, something closer to an alternate architecture for what Obamaism might be. The project has remade Krugman’s public image, as if he had spent years becoming a chemically isolate form of himself—first a moderate, then an anti-Bush partisan, and now the leading exponent of a kind of liberal purism against which the compromises of the White House might be judged. Krugman’s counterfactual Obama would have provided far more stimulus money and would have nationalized Citigroup and Bank of America. He would have written off Republicans and worked only with Democrats to fashion a health-care reform bill that included a so-called public option. The president of Krugman’s dreams would have made his singular long-term goal the preservation of the welfare state and the middle-class society it was designed to create. […] __
A few years ago, Krugman, having decided that he was going to be writing about politics and so he should know more about it, did a very Krugman thing. He didn’t talk to people who worked in Washington. Instead, he started to read the political-science literature. Krugman had never understood the press coverage of politics, which seemed to emphasize its most irrelevant aspects. Why dwell on a presidential candidate’s psychology when the trends in unemployment would tell you who would win an election? But viewed through the prism of political science, politics began to seem much more familiar to him. There was a mathematics to it—you could assemble data, draw correlations, understand what was essential and what was noise. The underlying shape of politics came sweeping into view: If you arranged members of Congress from left to right based on how they voted on welfare-state issues—Social Security, Medicare, unemployment insurance—it turned out that this left-to-right axis could predict every other vote: On Iraq expenditures, on abortion, whatever. “When you realize the fundamental divide in U.S. politics is just this one-dimensional thing, and that is how you feel about the welfare state,” Krugman says, “that changes things.”
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You could see something else in the data, too. From 1979 to 2004, the income of the richest one percent of Americans grew by 176 percent, that of the richest one fifth of the country by 69 percent, and that of everyone else by less than 25 percent. Working through the numbers, Krugman came to believe that “only a fraction” of the change was compelled by global forces, which had been the standard explanation. The rest, he concluded, was political.
Krugman’s detractors, foremost among them Larry Summers, are given plenty of space to explain his shortcomings. Of course, if you are like me, and consider Larry Summers the IQ-enhanced version of William Kristol, this is only going to reinforce a certain prejudice about judging an individual by the quality of his enemies…
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Indiana Gov. Mitch Daniels won’t seek the 2012 Republican presidential nomination, a decision that could well throw the field open to other late entrants.
I hope they put Bobo on suicide watch for a few days to be on the safe side.
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