Archive for September, 2009
amsterdam is teh awesome
So far I have dodged at least a dozen bikes and talked to a few locals. People hate George Bush and still hate us for him. Obama is sort of better, but nothing is changing. One person I spoke isn’t quite sure why we are arguing about health care. Neither can I, I told him.
Oh, [...]
Fixing The Baucus Bill
Last week after months of negotiating, Max Baucus released his version of the health care reform bill. It was one a bill that had a rare bipartisan agreement – both Democrats and Republicans hated it. Among the concerns that Democrats had about the bill:
It proposed a tax on so-called high- value health care [...]
I Love Graphs
…if only because it makes the truth visible so even Republicans can understand it. And speaking of Republicans, they have been crying about debt recently, and how the President’s stimulus package and automotive company bailouts have exploded the deficit, all the while seemingly forgetting about the multiple trillions of dollars in tax cuts [...]
21Sep2009 | Delaware Dem | 10 comments | Continued
Late Night Video — The Elements
Great infographic video mostly aimed at kids to explain chemical elements — scored by They Might Be Giants! Very Cool and Very Fun.
21Sep2009 | cassandra_m | 1 comment | Continued
The Priority of Outrage
Steve Newton has rightly criticized us and other liberal bloggers for not providing a strong defense of ACORN, an organization that, even by far right conservative blogger David Anderson’s admission, does good work for the poor and, as recently discovered today, in foreclosure and debt counseling. Steve is right, and you all should read [...]
21Sep2009 | Delaware Dem | 14 comments | Continued
Why the Rightwing Jihad for Cutting Spending is a Loser
Read every word of Bruce Bartlett’s explanation.
Bartlett goes into great detail on how “cutting spending” is a pipe dream — either because the kind of stuff that conservatives always tell you they want to get gone won’t do much to balance the budget or because there are not enough votes to get rid of it. He starts with showing how much control the President and Congress respectively have over spending and ends with busting the myths about how Reagan or Thatcher cut spending.
21Sep2009 | cassandra_m | 13 comments | Continued
Steve Newton Comes to the Aid of ACORN Delaware
Steve has a post up about a sting on the Delaware office of ACORN. A blogger/reporter from Kansas called the Delaware office to get some assistance from them to avoid foreclosure.
21Sep2009 | liberalgeek | 3 comments | Continued
Monday Open Thread
What’s on your mind?
I’ll start – this story caught my attention – Tom Coburn’s chief of staff spoke about “The New Masculinity” at the Value Voters Conference:
Schwartz then recalled “a very good friend” of his “who was in the homosexual lifestyle for a long time,” saying that he “had good conversations about, about the malady [...]
Howard Dean Alert!
The Amazing Dr. Dean will be at the Philadelphia Free Library this coming Thursday at NOON. He is speaking to promote his new book — Howard Dean’s Prescription for Real Health Care Reform.
21Sep2009 | cassandra_m | Comments Off | Continued
Michael Steele Is A Genius…
…Or not
With that in mind, it’s hardly a surprise that the White House hopes that Paterson decides not to run next year. What is a surprise is that Republican National Committee Chairman Michael Steele apparently wants voters to think President Obama doesn’t like black people.
Michael Steele said it was “curious” on why the White House [...]
More Like This Please!
Fox News has apparently been whinging that President Obama did not appear with them in the WH blitz to appear on all of the talking heads shows this Sunday morning. Why would that be? Here is the WH spokesman answering that to ABC news:
21Sep2009 | cassandra_m | 6 comments | Continued
Late Night Video — Funny Mashup Edition!
Kanye misbehaving everywhere, I guess!
20Sep2009 | cassandra_m | 1 comment | Continued
Around the Horn Sunday
We lost a blog this week, as Dana Garrett retired (temporarily perhaps) as a result of a new job that will take more of his time. That is the problem with individual blogging. You almost have to be retired, or independently wealthy, to do it by yourself. Now, some [...]
20Sep2009 | Delaware Dem | 7 comments | Continued
Eagles Open Thread
Post your predictions, thoughts, and reactions. Will Kevin Kolb make Jason Scott miss “No heart chump” McNabb? Will we see Jeff Garcia on the field? Will the brutal Eagles defence be able to contain Drew Brees, the best QB in football last year who threw 6 touchdowns last week?
20Sep2009 | xstryker | 22 comments | Continued
Read All About It In the Sunday Papers-Sept. 20 Edition
LEAD STORY: McClatchy Papers: Anti-Government Protests Racism By Another Name
Of course it is, and it has been since the beginning of the Obama Administration, but the ‘respectable’ media has failed to tell the story. Until now:
At about the same time (Nov. 5 after Obama had been declared the winner), newspaper Web sites were filled with [...]
20Sep2009 | El Somnambulo | 6 comments | Continued
What Does The Dave Matthews Band Think Of This?
This is just disgusting. Take this with a grain of salt, but these allegations are from one of John Edwards’s closest aides, the one who publicly stated he was the father of Rielle Hunter’s child to help cover up Edwards’s actions.
The New York Times said the book proposal by former Edwards aide Andrew Young [...]
The Teabagger Pledge
I saw this at dKos yesterday, but it also turned up in my email several times, today, so I thought I would post it here. Perhaps our local teabaggers will print this up and make a point of getting their cohorts to signup. Or perhaps tell us they endorse this letter in the comments!
19Sep2009 | cassandra_m | 27 comments | Continued
Avast Maties — It’s Talk Like a Pirate Day!
We interrupt your ritual pillaging and mayhem to remind you that today is International Talk Like a Pirate Day, with a message from its founders direct from Pirate News Network:
19Sep2009 | cassandra_m | 4 comments | Continued
Big Shock: Fox News Lies
Has Faux News finally gone too far for the media to ignore? (Yeah, I know, wishful thinking.) Fox took out ads in the Washington Post, New York Times andWall Street Journal accusing the media (including WaPo, NYT, CNN and others) of not covering the Fox-organized and Fox-promoted 9/12 protest in Washington. Rick [...]
19Sep2009 | Unstable Isotope | 17 comments | Continued
Friday Afternoon Bacon Blogging — Decisions Edition
Just what the world needs — a When to Eat Bacon decision tree. Click on the image for more detail.
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Breaking: Big Win For Net Neutrality
The Washington Post reports that FCC Chair Julius Genachowski will announce ‘new so-called net neutrality rules’ on Monday. The rules would “prevent wireless companies from blocking Internet applications, according to a source at the agency.”
In addition, “one principal would clearly state that operators of networks — including wireless firms — cannot discriminate what services and applications [...]
Teabaggers on Parade
The other night Anderson Cooper had Mark Williams on his show. Mr. Williams is one of the leaders of the tea party protests. Unfortunately for Williams, Cooper had done some homework before the interview.
Cooper: What you’re saying makes sense to me here when I’m hearing what you say but then I read on your blog, you say, you call the President an Indonesian Muslim turned welfare thug and a racist in chief.
Williams: Yeah, that’s the way he’s behaving.
18Sep2009 | liberalgeek | 11 comments | Continued
Whose Values?
Talking Points Memo looks at the schedule for the Value Voters Summit and finds these breakout sessions:
“Speechless – Silencing The Christians”
“Thugocracy – Fighting the Vast Left Wing Conspiracy”
“Defunding Planned Parenthood”
“Activism and Conservatism: Fit to a Tea (Party)”
“The Threat of Illegal Immigration”
“Obamacare: Rationing Your Life Away”
“Marriage: Why It’s Worth Defending and How Redefining it Threatens Religious [...]
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