Tuesday, August 18, 2009
Barney Frank Confronts Woman At Town Hall
"Trying to have a conversation with you would be like arguing with a dining room table."
Barney Frank Confronts Woman At Town Hall Comparing Obama To Hitler
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Barney Frank Confronts Woman At Town Hall Comparing Obama To Hitler
Labels: government, life, politics
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Monday, April 20, 2009
Live Vote: Give President Obama a grade
Live Vote: Give President Obama a grade
Found this via a Facebook comment from SJ Rozan.
The teabaggers are giving Obama an F grade. (Currently 44% - F)
Want to leaven the results? Vote!
posted by Sal Towse at 8:37 AM||
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Found this via a Facebook comment from SJ Rozan.
The teabaggers are giving Obama an F grade. (Currently 44% - F)
Want to leaven the results? Vote!
Labels: government, politics
posted by Sal Towse at 8:37 AM|
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Friday, April 10, 2009
Latest Morford
Fear the rainbow! / A storm is gathering. Are you afraid, Christian? Are you afraid *enough*?
The best part? It's only been just over three months. These adorable hyenas can't possibly sustain such a silly froth; in terms of extreme vitriol, there is nowhere left to go. Really, how do you top calling Obama a Satan Hitler Mussolini Lenin Iran-loving dictator hell-bent on taking away our guns and destroying capitalism as he forces everyone to drive a pink Prius to the Commie Hut to pick up our gay Chinese babies?
posted by Sal Towse at 12:22 PM||
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The best part? It's only been just over three months. These adorable hyenas can't possibly sustain such a silly froth; in terms of extreme vitriol, there is nowhere left to go. Really, how do you top calling Obama a Satan Hitler Mussolini Lenin Iran-loving dictator hell-bent on taking away our guns and destroying capitalism as he forces everyone to drive a pink Prius to the Commie Hut to pick up our gay Chinese babies?
Labels: commentary, government, morford, news, writing
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Monday, March 02, 2009
Obama vs. The Fear
Obama vs. The Fear / Grin and be enthralled, or tremble and stuff dollar bills into your mattress?
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This seems to be the bottom line, at least for now. We have, for the first time in just about forever, an enormously ambitious, confident, risk-taking president so full of grand and even borderline radical ideas they barely fit into a single generation, much less a single speech, and we have him at a time when we need, well, someone exactly like that.
That he just so happens to be tremendously intelligent, progressive, serene as an oak tree and utterly magnetizing? I guess you just call that a bonus.
What he ("he" being Mark Morford) said.
posted by Sal Towse at 9:41 AM||
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This seems to be the bottom line, at least for now. We have, for the first time in just about forever, an enormously ambitious, confident, risk-taking president so full of grand and even borderline radical ideas they barely fit into a single generation, much less a single speech, and we have him at a time when we need, well, someone exactly like that.
That he just so happens to be tremendously intelligent, progressive, serene as an oak tree and utterly magnetizing? I guess you just call that a bonus.
What he ("he" being Mark Morford) said.
Labels: commentary, government, news, politics
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Saturday, February 28, 2009
Schwarzenegger Declares California Drought Emergency
Schwarzenegger Declares California Drought Emergency
Some more rain is arriving tonight, if the weather mavens are to be believed, and carry over for a few days, but things aren't looking good.
Step one: encourage farmers who suck up water to raise crops like cotton and rice to move their operations to places that are better suited for water-guzzling crops.
Step two: encourage folks who plant golf courses in deserts to transform them into something else and/or let the land lapse back into sand dunes.
Step three: see where steps one and two take you.
posted by Sal Towse at 2:54 PM||
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Some more rain is arriving tonight, if the weather mavens are to be believed, and carry over for a few days, but things aren't looking good.
Step one: encourage farmers who suck up water to raise crops like cotton and rice to move their operations to places that are better suited for water-guzzling crops.
Step two: encourage folks who plant golf courses in deserts to transform them into something else and/or let the land lapse back into sand dunes.
Step three: see where steps one and two take you.
Labels: California, culture, government, weather
posted by Sal Towse at 2:54 PM|
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Thursday, February 26, 2009
FY2010 Federal budget (USA)
The proposed FY 2010 budget in 146pp of detail. This is a narrative take on the budget, not pages and pages of income/outgo numbers.
Take a look. [PDF]
posted by Sal Towse at 1:52 PM||
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Take a look. [PDF]
Labels: economy, government, news
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: views from the Hill
Bertold Brecht:
Everything changes. You can make
A fresh start with your final breath.
But what has happened has happened. And the water
You once poured into the wine cannot be
Drained off again.
Everything changes. You can make
A fresh start with your final breath.
But what has happened has happened. And the water
You once poured into the wine cannot be
Drained off again.
