February 2009
204 posts
GOP rejected Pelosi partisanship, not Obama... →
Bipartisanship means working with the party in power to help craft the bill. While Obama did meet with Republicans to try to get their votes, Nancy Pelosi refused to do the same — and refused to negotiate any elements of the bill with House Republicans. Why should Republicans support a bill on which they’ve been locked out?
Bipartisanship doesn’t require Republicans to vote for terrible...
January 2009
318 posts
Iraqis vote in landmark elections →
“This is a great chance for us, a great day, to be able to vote freely without any pressure or interference,” a Baghdad voter identified as Hamid told Reuters news agency.
Another voter said he had not slept in order to be first at the polling station.
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Steele wins! →
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Duncan withdraws, Duncan withdraws!!!!!!!!!!!!!
“Now is not the time for us to lick our political wounds, now is the time for us...”
– Republicans prepare to launch offensive against Democrats | World news | guardian.co.uk
Ah. Good to see that, as usual, Republicans are more concerned with partisan bickering than with doing their jobs.
(via robot-heart-politics)(via southpol)
If I’m not mistaken, their job isn’t to rubber stamp...
3rd ballot for Steele!
Steele 51 Duncan 44 Dawson 34 Saul 24 Blackwell 15
4th ballot in about 15 minutes.
Steele and Duncan currently tied for RNC chair
Steele, I know you’ve got this. Let’s do this!
RNC Voting On New Chairman - Live Stream →
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Jimmie Rodgers - Hobo Bill’s Last Ride
Senate Republicans May Use Filibuster to Block... →
Thank goodness for filibusters.
Bloomberg To Announce $1 Billion In Cuts →
* $1 billion in program cuts, affecting virtually every city agency. * New taxes and fees, including more taxes on clothing, a fee for plastic shopping bags in grocery stores and higher fees for lots of other city services. * The capital budget will be slashed. * City employees will be asked to pay part of their healthcare costs. * There will be a reduction of 23,000 jobs through layoffs...
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Gov. Rod Blagojevich was just removed from office.
“Making the simple complicated is commonplace; making the complicated simple,...”
– Charles Mingus
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Rush Limbaugh: My Bipartisan Stimulus →
My proposal is a genuine compromise.
Fifty-three percent of American voters voted for Barack Obama; 46% voted for John McCain, and 1% voted for wackos. Give that 1% to President Obama. Let’s say the vote was 54% to 46%. As a way to bring the country together and at the same time determine the most effective way to deal with recessions, under the Obama-Limbaugh Stimulus Plan of 2009: 54%...
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YouTube Comment Snob 1.3 →
YouTube Comment Snob filters out undesirable comments from YouTube comment threads. You can choose to have any of the following rules mark a comment for removal: * More than # spelling mistakes: The number of mistakes is customizable, and the extension uses Firefox’s built-in spell checker. * All capital letters * No capital letters * Doesn’t start with a capital letter *...
afghanibanani:
If Bob Dylan never existed, or never made music, what would I have done with 30% of my life?
Music as we know it would be entirely different.
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For the record, I think Jessica Simpson looks...
She looks like a real woman and I didn’t even mind the mom jeans.
And how horrible is it of people to even criticize her because she doesn’t look like the typical anorexic celebrity? I mean, really, how does someone sit there and pass judgement on somebody’s weight? How is that relevant to their lives? Does it do anything for their self-esteem to attack someone’s weight?...
Eels - Novocaine For The Soul
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The Avett Brothers - Die Die Die
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Nitty Gritty Dirt Band - My Walkin’ Shoes
“The beauty of songwriting is that any human being can do it. And they learned...”
– Jarvis Cocker in The Guardian, link via fluffynotes (via somethingchanged) (via soupsoup)
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Mississippi John Hurt - Frankie
Today is a good day for all Republicans
Not a single Republican vote toward this ridiculous “stimulus” package. This is basically saying yes to America, yes to the economic principles this country was founded upon, yes to capitalism, yes to free markets, and a big no to the notion that certain things are “too big to fail”.
With a Democratic majority, the package easily passed. But it feels like the Republican...
ABC News: Another Lobbyist Headed Into Obama... →
jeffmiller:
Has any other President so blatantly and so quickly violated his most sanctimonious campaign promise?
There will be a knee-jerk compulsion among his supporters to excuse these appointments. And that is more depressing than Obama’s broken promise.
Lincoln’s Logic on Slavery Applied to Abortion →
sds:
“There are no morally relevant differences between white and black or between child-in-the-womb and child-outside-the-womb that would give a right to either to enslave or kill the other.”
I don’t feel like fully getting into this whole thing right now, but there is a lot of truth to the above statement. The left is ecstatic about Obama’s recent order to promote abortions around...
Benicio Del Toro walks out of interview when faced... →
(via nomosshere)
I’ve gone from being amply proud of my homie, Benicio del Toro, (both San Juaneros here) to incredibly embarrassed.
Hey Benny, if you love so much what Che did for Cuba, why don’t you pack up and move there? I’m sure you’ll be able to leave your lavish Hollywood lifestyle behind. You know, since Che despised artists and all. I’m sure you’ll...
I want this to happen so bad. →
“You can’t get rid of poverty by giving people money.”
– P. J. O’Rourke (via saramcpherson) (via thedailyfiona)
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The Beatles - Bésame Mucho
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Johnny Rivers - Secret Agent Man
Mungo Jerry - In The Summertime
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João Gilberto & Stan Getz - Desafinado
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Elvis Presley - Fever