Archive for September, 2009
Friday Open Thread
Put your brain droppings here.
My WTF of the day:
Bill O’Reilly supports the public option?
18Sep2009 | Unstable Isotope | 29 comments | Continued
Overreacting to ACORN
I am a little disturbed by the latest round of ACORN bashing in Washington this week. After a pair of conservative actors staged their own sting operation to see if ACORN employees would help them operate an illegal business, there have been a slew of actions taken. ACORN has lost business that they had with [...]
18Sep2009 | liberalgeek | 75 comments | Continued
Massachusetts To Have A New Senator Next Week?
The efforts to change the law in Massachusetts to allow appointment of an interim senator are moving quickly now.
State policymakers were reluctant to act, until Kennedy’s passing made the matter extremely relevant, not only to the state, but to national affairs. Yesterday, the Massachusetts state House took a step towards remedying the problem.
House lawmakers approved [...]
Calling Them Out on Their Lies
President Obama made a point of this promise in his speech to the Congress and it looks like it starts now:
18Sep2009 | cassandra_m | 28 comments | Continued
Late Night Video — The Definitive 9/12 Video
Lifestyles of the White and Gullible, indeed…a word of advice — put down all liquids before watching. The English-only guy is especially fun. But so is the lady on Social Security who wants the government out of her life.
17Sep2009 | cassandra_m | 2 comments | Continued
Health Insurance’s War Against Women
And children. I’m really looking forward to hearing social conservatives defend this…
“The point of insurance is to insure against catastrophic care costs. That’s what you’re trying to aggregate and pool for such things as heart attacks and cancer,” said an Anthem Blue Cross spokesman. “Having a child is a matter of choice. Dealing with an [...]
The Public Is Smarter Than Republicans Think
Greg Sargent at Plumline finds some data in a Bloomberg poll that suggests that most Americans know that the Republican health-care reform opponents are just trying to scare people.
Wow, this is cause for cautious optimism: Buried in a new Bloomberg poll is evidence that solid majorities dismiss all the leading right wing health care [...]
Longing For The Days Of The Child Bride
Michael Gerson’s Washington Post’s Lost In A World Without Courtship article is silly and shallow. It also completely ignores one of the major factors determining when people decide to marry. Economics.
But the facts of life for 20-somethings are challenging. Puberty — mainly because of improved health — comes steadily sooner. Sexual activity kicks off earlier. [...]
Thursday Open Thread
It’s open thread time – let’s throw the floor open. Put your comments, links and topics on your mind right here.
Let me do a follow-up to yesterday’s Open Thread discussion. The judge issued a judgment in the birther case from yesterday, and was quite critical of Ms. Taitz. He called her case [...]
(Neck-)Breaking News: Rasslin’ Invades the Political Arena!
Both locally (oh, yeah, I’ve got pictures) and nationally!
This is so cool that I’m fighting the urge to lapse back into the Third Person to tell this story.
You may have read that perennial Rethug hack and aparatchik Ron Poliquin has thrown his hat into the ring for the 31st RD seat currently held by Rep. [...]
School Board Forced To Apologize
I came upon this story on Daily Kos. A school board in California had a hastily called meeting to ban the showing of Obama’s school speech in classrooms. Community members fought back and forced the school board members to apologize at a school board meeting:
The board meeting opened tonight with Halgren and Duff [...]
Castle and Biden to Play Chicken?
Senate Guru has a nice post up about some of the potential gamesmanship between Beau Biden and Michael Castle in the next month or so.
Beau is due back this month from Iraq and Castle has been sitting on the pot for way too long. Senate Guru’s guess is that neither of them wants to battle [...]
Rumor Patrol: Beau Biden Will Run For Senate
FWIW, here’s the latest rumor from Political Wire.
Delaware Attorney Gen. Beau Biden (D) is expected to return from his National Guard duty in Iraq at the end of the month, reports WBOC-TV. The big decision awaiting him is whether he’ll run for the U.S. Senate vacated by his father.
“Barred from politics while on active duty, [...]
Late Night Video: Hammer Time
Here’s a preview of Tom DeLay on Dancing With The Stars. I know you can’t wait.
16Sep2009 | Unstable Isotope | 4 comments | Continued
A Conservative Calls Out Other Conservatives For Race-Baiting
So, is a backlash finally starting to happen? Rod Dreher, a conservative columnist, has called out Rush Limbaugh for his inflammatory rhetoric. But first, a little background. Yesterday, Rush Limbaugh discussed a story about a white student beaten on a school bus by a black student, blaming it on President Obama:
Rush Limbaugh [...]
Wednesday Open Thread
Discuss away!
I’ll throw out another conversation starter – Birther Queen Orly Taitz is in the news again. This time she’s trying to stop another deployment (someone who got the U.S. government to pay for their medical school and now wants to get out of their commitment). Anyway, Taitz comes off as completely clueless, [...]
Allan Loudell Assesses the State of Local Radio
In today’s NJ, Allan Loudell has a published piece assessing the current state of and the opportunities for local radio.
16Sep2009 | cassandra_m | 9 comments | Continued
Women Rule!
Politico has the scoop on a new study coming out of Stanford and the University of Chicago showing that in general, women lawmakers are better legislators than their male counterparts. Effectiveness was judged by the number of bills introduced, the number of co-sponsors for those bills (probably an indication of the popularity of the [...]
16Sep2009 | Unstable Isotope | 8 comments | Continued
DelCOG Event — What Really Happened to the Economy
This is an announcement from a DelCOG that I received via email. I am going to try to go to this — it looks really interesting!
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Lecture and Panel Discussion Presented By Delaware Press Association & The Delaware Coalition for Open Government
“WHAT REALLY HAPPENED TO OUR ECONOMY: The Consequences of Not Knowing”
Keynote Speaker: Michael Greenberger, [...]
Late Night Video — Autotune the News
This time, you have to Sing your Questions to the President about health care. The news crawl here is very creative….
15Sep2009 | cassandra_m | Comments Off | Continued
Talk about indoctrination of youths
My daughter has an English assignment to help her identify bias in the newspaper.
She was given an Article by the Washington times as the conservative source
and an article By Richard Cohen as the Liberal source
I’m ready to spew an email to the english teacher
Serious QOTE
If we are such a christian nation and a majority of teh Republicans are no doubt christians, what do they have against helping the uninsure and taking care of the sick?
15Sep2009 | Donvictimiti | 39 comments | Continued
A Love Letter To Tyler Nixon
My Darling Tyler,
I was so disappointed I couldn’t call in to the Rick Jensen Show yesterday. Needless to say, I rarely listen to Mr. Jensen, but just the thought of you hosting the show – with that melodious radio voice – sent my heart racing. But in between my sighs (and errands and kids coming [...]
Self-Control Issues
I have largely stayed out of the whole “bring your guns to the rally” movement. I think it’s dumb and I think that it is a form of intimidation, but I’m not too worked up about it.
But I did get worked up about Joe Wilson calling the President a liar on the house floor during the joint session of Congress.
15Sep2009 | liberalgeek | 188 comments | ContinuedSocial Media
