HOW’S THAT HOPEY-CHANGEY STUFF WORKIN’ OUT FOR YA? (CONT’D): Geithner meets with Murray amid growing anxiety over fiscal cliff.
Archive for 2012
August 3, 2012
HOPEY-CHANGEY: Obama Campaign Sues to Restrict Military Voting. “President Barack Obama, along with many Democrats, likes to say that, while they may disagree with the GOP on many issues related to national security, they absolutely share their admiration and dedication to members of our armed forces. Obama, in particular, enjoys being seen visiting troops and having photos taken with members of our military. So, why is his campaign and the Democrat party suing to restrict their ability to vote in the upcoming election? . . . If anyone proposes legislation to combat voter fraud, Democrats will loudly scream that the proposal could ‘disenfranchise’ some voter, somewhere. We must ensure, they argue, that voting is easy and accessible to every single voter. Every voter, that is, except the men and women of our military. Make no mistake, the Democrat lawsuit is intended to disenfranchise some unknown number of military voters. The judge should reject it with prejudice.”
ROMNEY TO HARRY REID: “Put Up Or Shut Up.”
I think firmness is justified when responding to slurs from a man widely rumored to be guilty of pederasty.
INCOME INEQUALITY THAT GETS CURIOUSLY LITTLE ATTENTION: The Congressional Wealth Gap.
Ballotpedia has compiled data on the average net worth of our elected officials for the years 2004 to 2010. As the average net worth of Congress has increased since 2004, and held about even from 2007 to 2010, the average American family net worth dropped 40 percent from 2007 to 2010 to an average of $77,300.
In 2010, the average net worth for a U.S. senator was $13,224,333. The average net worth for a Democratic senator was $19,383,524, compared to $7,054,258 for a Republican senator. That’s a difference of $12.3 million.
Read the whole thing.
THE HORROR OF MASS TRANSIT: Double-decker bus slams into Illinois bridge. “A packed double-decker Megabus slammed into an Illinois interstate bridge support pillar Thursday, hurtling screaming passengers from their seats and leaving at least one person dead and more than three dozen injured, officials said.”
Plus: “I looked around and it was horrible. There were people in the aisles, laying there. Most people had some sort of blood on their face. It was pretty intense.”
August 2, 2012
PUNCHING BACK TWICE AS HARD: “Mitt Romney’s campaign ripped a tax analysis that found his proposals would raise taxes on the middle class as ‘a joke’ on a conference call with reporters today, while also suggesting that President Barack Obama’s campaign chief broke the law while he was a White House aide.”
PROF. JACOBSON: Tea Party On.
PLANS FOR A GAY KISS-IN AT CHICK-FIL-A.
IowaHawk comments: “Lesbians making out *and* chicken sandwiches? Is this heaven?”
MCCLATCHY: Reid’s tax charges against Romney are irresponsible, analysts say. Just meant to distract from the pederasty rumors. . . .
AT AMAZON, Warehouse Deals in Home Improvement.
DONALD SENSING ON political totalism.
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IT’S COME TO THIS: Jon Stewart tells Harry Reid to ‘shut up’ after ‘bullsh*t’ shot on Mitt Romney.
Reid’s probably just trying to distract people from those spreading pederasty rumors.
AUGMENTED REALITY moving from novelty to utility.
CAYMAN BLOGGER not too happy about income tax proposal.
CHICK-FIL-A APPRECIATION DAY: A New Kind of Political Protest: The Triumph Of The Ordinary. Like the Tea Party movement, the Chicken Sandwich Insurrection is a bourgeois revolt, which is why some people find it so threatening.
NICE MODEL, KID. NOW DON’T GET COCKY. Economic forecasting model predicts Obama will lose in near-landslide.
THE ONLINE PECKING ORDER: How will Massively Open Online Courses change the academic hierarchy?
YOU’VE GOT TO GO WHERE YOU FIT IN: Caught out in NYC, liar now wows DC.