By scathew, on July 29th, 2010
Regarding those against extended job loss benefits or with a Melon-esque attitude about the Great Recession:
Maybe people … who have no risk of losing their cushy tenured job(s) shouldn’t prescribe medicine that they have no risk of ever taking.
- Me
Really, it’s like successful motivational speakers who give “Get Rich” seminars that use themselves for examples. [...]
By scathew, on July 27th, 2010
Republicans can’t extend unemployment because it costs $33 billion.
But happily approve $33 billion in addition war spending without such concerns.
To quote:
Republicans in Congress still were strongly behind the boost in war spending [emphasis added], but there was unusually strong opposition from members of Obama’s own Democratic Party. All but 12 of the “no” votes in [...]
By scathew, on July 27th, 2010
Michelle Obama wants you to sign Barack’s birthday card:
http://my.barackobama.com/page/content/barackbirthday
to “let him know you’re ready to take on the year ahead alongside him”.
Honestly I would be happy to “take on the year ahead alongside him” if he lived up to his campaign promises. Thus I put a little something “extra” in the card:
Happy Birthday [...]
By scathew, on July 19th, 2010
But only as far:
http://www.politico.com/news/stories/0710/39851.html
Yet another piece of evidence to explain why the Village (aka D.C.) doesn’t get what the rest of the country gets.
By scathew, on July 1st, 2010
More and more on the left and the right (but particularly the later, specifically Libertarians) one hears the idea that the economic end is nigh – soon it’ll be time to break out the guns, ammo, and survival skills. It has gone from mildly paranoid to explicitly wishful.
Here’s my responses for this wistful desire:
Yes, the [...]
By scathew, on June 24th, 2010
Here’s a quote from a comment in a liberal blog:
“The rabid right has useful idiots that call Obama a socialist and a fascist in the same sentence, obviously not realizing that the two are diametrically opposing!”
Forgetting the grammatical errors, I wish I could agree with that statement. In fact I used to believe it was [...]
By scathew, on June 21st, 2010
The SCOTUS has upheld a law that limits aid, even non-violent to “terrorist” organisations. It was challenged on “free speech” grounds in that it limits donations to political organizations (they may be “terrorist”, but they are by definition also political). Thus like the recent Citizens United case, it hinges on the equation of “money = [...]
By scathew, on June 15th, 2010
It’s always “interesting” (sarcasm intended) to read the comments to Yahoo! News posts. It always gives a good vision into the insanity that we call the American public.
For the fun of it I thought I’d respond to some of the quotes found in this article about the BP oil spillTM:
Obama plans to take the stage [...]
By scathew, on June 7th, 2010
Well, he finally admitted to it:
“Yeah, we water-boarded Khalid Sheikh Mohammed.”
- George W. Bush, ex-President and War Criminal
Of course, he’s a little late to the show, his V.P. admitted to it two years ago:
“I was aware of the program, certainly, and involved in helping get the process cleared, as the agency in effect came [...]
By scathew, on May 24th, 2010
Here’s a typical blog comment on the subject of guns:
“The constitution can’t be much clearer – you have a right to bear arms”
Honestly I don’t argue that position – our forefathers were concerned about the fact that the British were confiscating their arms and they wanted to encode the right to overthrow a corrupt government.
However [...]