California to withhold a bigger chunk of paychecks -- latimes.com
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Saturday, October 31, 2009
California to withhold a bigger chunk of paychecks -- latimes.com
A return to the Sanford and Son theme is apropos now. Some people are just too stupid to run a government. Unfortunately, this guy call himself a Republican. When in actuality he is a RINO. Republican In Name Only.
Thursday, October 29, 2009
Hey Sting, stick to music...
“‘In many ways, he’s sent from God,’ he joked in an interview, ‘because the world’s a mess.’
“But Sting is serious in his belief that Obama is the best leader to navigate the world’s problems. In an interview on Wednesday, the former Police frontman said that he spent some time with Obama and ‘found him to be very genuine, very present, clearly super-smart, and exactly what we need in the world.’…
“‘It’s aggressive and violent and full of fear,’ he said of the [conservative] backlash against Obama. ‘They don’t want change, they want things to feel the same because they feel safe there.’”
***
“They came of age during the great abundance, circa 1980-2008 (or 1950-2008, take your pick), and they don’t have the habit of worry. They talk about their ‘concerns’—they’re big on that word. But they’re not really concerned. They think America is the goose that lays the golden egg. Why not? She laid it in their laps. She laid it in grandpa’s lap.
“They don’t feel anxious, because they never had anything to be anxious about. They grew up in an America surrounded by phrases—’strongest nation in the world,’ ‘indispensable nation,’ ‘unipolar power,’ ‘highest standard of living’—and are not bright enough, or serious enough, to imagine that they can damage that, hurt it, even fatally.
“We are governed at all levels by America’s luckiest children, sons and daughters of the abundance, and they call themselves optimists but they’re not optimists—they’re unimaginative. They don’t have faith, they’ve just never been foreclosed on. They are stupid and they are callous, and they don’t mind it when people become disheartened. They don’t even notice.”
“But Sting is serious in his belief that Obama is the best leader to navigate the world’s problems. In an interview on Wednesday, the former Police frontman said that he spent some time with Obama and ‘found him to be very genuine, very present, clearly super-smart, and exactly what we need in the world.’…
“‘It’s aggressive and violent and full of fear,’ he said of the [conservative] backlash against Obama. ‘They don’t want change, they want things to feel the same because they feel safe there.’”
***
“They came of age during the great abundance, circa 1980-2008 (or 1950-2008, take your pick), and they don’t have the habit of worry. They talk about their ‘concerns’—they’re big on that word. But they’re not really concerned. They think America is the goose that lays the golden egg. Why not? She laid it in their laps. She laid it in grandpa’s lap.
“They don’t feel anxious, because they never had anything to be anxious about. They grew up in an America surrounded by phrases—’strongest nation in the world,’ ‘indispensable nation,’ ‘unipolar power,’ ‘highest standard of living’—and are not bright enough, or serious enough, to imagine that they can damage that, hurt it, even fatally.
“We are governed at all levels by America’s luckiest children, sons and daughters of the abundance, and they call themselves optimists but they’re not optimists—they’re unimaginative. They don’t have faith, they’ve just never been foreclosed on. They are stupid and they are callous, and they don’t mind it when people become disheartened. They don’t even notice.”
Wednesday, October 21, 2009
Ramirez brilliance...
For those of you that don't know, Michael Ramirez is a conservative political cartoonist.
Monday, October 19, 2009
This is the coolest stuff...
Below are three actual pictures of the birth of a star taken by the Hubble Telescope. They don't look real, I know. They look like drawings.
What makes these pictures so fascinating is the sheer magnitude of the dimensions. The column on the left in the first picture is 60,000 AU's.
The AU is Astronomical Unit and is roughly the distance from the sun to the earth. And as we all remember from 8th grade science class, it's 93,000,000 miles. That's million by the way.
So the column to the left is approximately 93000000 * 60000 miles long. That's 5580000000000. 10 zeroes. Over 5 trillion miles.
To kind of put things in perspective our solar system is not quite 7.5 billion miles wide. You see those little finger like projections in the third picture? Each fingertip is somewhat larger than our own solar system.
Truly amazing.
Thursday, October 15, 2009
Sanity Haikus...
In the midst of strife
It pays to stop and wonder
Can life get better?
It pays to stop and wonder
Can life get better?
Life is full of hope
Children are the spark of life
They are light for me.
Some smiling faces
Say, "Look who I am today!"
Beautiful, smart, kind.
Some faces just say
I'm happy because I'm loved
Can you see my joy?
Some faces let you know
Daddy, you are loved as well
Nothing else to say.
A face reminds you
There is a God in heaven
The heart is alive.
Here are my reasons
Madison Ian Reagan
And Kelly: complete.
Wednesday, October 14, 2009
Robert Reich being brutally honest...
2 YEARS AGO.
Funny we never heard about this through the MSM.
I don't think Grayson in the next video was talking about the right party. Well, he's a liberal and I personally don't think any of them are very smart. Let me rephrase that, they may be smart but they have no common sense. For instance, the concept of not spending money if you don't have it seems to be something they can't grasp. Republicans too for that matter. But I digress. Without further ado...
Tuesday, October 13, 2009
Monday, October 12, 2009
Friday, October 9, 2009
Thursday, October 8, 2009
Wednesday, October 7, 2009
New taxes under the Baucus plan...
I can kiss my inflatable penis prosthetic goodbye
I know that's crude and I'm sorry but I couldn't help myself.
Tuesday, October 6, 2009
I was talking to a buddy of mine the other day,...
about Obama as we normally do, and it occurred to me he has not even been in office for 9 months yet.
9 months!?!
I knew he was going to be a disaster but I didn't think he could be so destructive in such a short period of time. His approval ratings have fallen off faster than any President in history save one, Gerald Ford after Watergate. He has alienated his commanders in the field by calling them out. Apparently the European community does not think of him as highly as we were told they do otherwise Chicago would be preparing for quite a shindig.
Guantanamo is still open. Health care reform is on it's death bed. The country is as divided as ever. (Perhaps people don't like being called racists simply for disagreeing with someone of a different screen color after all.) He even has the media wondering if he was really qualified to lead after all.
I don't think it's a stretch to call him an unmitigated disaster.
He accomplished all this in 9 months.
He can work magic.
Monday, October 5, 2009
WITSIR...This is almost unbelieveable...
Can you imagine Bush getting a fact check by CNN?
Let’s see if you can guess how the segment ends. Think: Media outlet is in the tank, subject is SNL skewering politicians. What footage is damned near obligatory here? And there it is, at 2:50.
Friday, October 2, 2009
Thursday, October 1, 2009
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