Comparing Tea Party To Religious Right

The Tea Party has been making me nervous. While I am a fan of less government and less spending, I am vehemently opposed to the Religious Right's theocratic desires to put (their) God "back in government". My philosophy is keep religion out of the government and keep the government out of religion Evidently a lot of Tea Partiers feel different. Check out this article.

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What If Gore Had Won 2000?

I'm a sucker for what-if stories and alternative histories. When I stumbled across this essay, I expected a liberal love letter. It's not quite that.

Remember it is a a piece of speculative fiction, not an attempt to accurately predict the outcome, but it claims the Left would have saved us from 9/11 and Katrina with Gore being spineless and Lieberman being a douchebag, all while bringing us public-optionized health care reform. I found it humorous if not somewhat implausible that the alt-2008 tickets were Clinton-Clinton vs. Bush-Bush.

Anyways, I found it an interesting read.

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SNL - Obama In China

Even liberal Hollywood is getting tired of the Democrats' antics (and spending). If we can scrape up a trillion for health care, but owe China $800 billion, maybe we should pay off our debts first? It seems like the only reason they wouldn't call on our debt is that we are there biggest customer, so if our economy tanks, we could take their economy with us.

Here's an article I came across that talks about the skit.

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A Pagan Republican?

I stumbled across this article which not only talks about a GOP candidate in New York but also about discrimination against pagans and attempts by certain religious groups to smear pagans and try to incite fear of them with lies and hype.

The candidate, Dan Halloran, is a leader in the local Théodish faith, which is a northern European heathen religion. Their site is here.

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BSG @ UN

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DTV delay passes House

Looks like the Mommy-crats managed to keep the DTV measure alive and now less than two weeks from the transition date, it will be pushed back.

I hope every broadcaster in the country flips Congress the bird and pulls the analog plug on the 17th. Plus who pays for the use of all those frequencies that have already been sold? I'm guessing us taxpayers... which of course is why the cost doesn't bother taxes, from what we've seen the past couple of weeks Democrats seem to think taxes are optional.

Anyway, check out the article here, I'm going to go kill some liberal bleeding-heart hobbits with my warg.

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House rejects DTV delay

The Republicans managed to keep the DTV transition from passing in the House. You can check out the story here.

I was pleasantly surprised after the Senate Republicans just rolled over.

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Gorram Mommy-Crats poised to delay DTV

I know this seems minor compared to the move to back the treasury up to a bottomless pit and start pouring money in, but the Democrats have decided that the people procrastinating doing anything about the upcoming DTV transition need another 4 months.

I say screw them. If they haven't figured out what to do by now then either tv isn't that important or they need to learn to read. But of course the Liberals continue to defy social Darwinism and force everyone to wait so they can hand-hold the "less fortunate".

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Historic event, historic price tag

I get that swearing in the first black president is a big deal. Hell, I'll probably try to sneak over to a tv long enough at work to watch the actual event. But every time I see a news story about the transition and they talk about crap like buying new drapes for the White House, I think "that shit must add up and we're paying for it."

After all, when they redecorate the White House it's not like they go to Target. They spend stupid sums on this stuff. If I was the president coming into the worst economic crisis since the Great Depression, I think I'd be saying "leave damned decor alone and don't spend the money".

Then I heard the price tag for the Inauguration. Somewhere in the neighborhood of $150 million, six times that of Bush's. Frak. Spend one third of that (which is still pretty damned decadent) and save a couple thousand mortgages.


Better yet, do like some other presidents have done. Roosevelt served chicken salad and plain pound cake at the White House.

Check out an article here with more details.

Security is going to be expensive enough. Did we really need to shell out for Miley Cyrus and the Jonas Brothers?

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Bailout bullshit

If $350 billion is left of the $700 billion, give $3,500 to the 100 million lowest income taxpayers. Note that I said taxpayers, which means you have to have paid taxes, so this wouldn't be a welfare hand out. But somehow I think this would do more good for our economy then letting more banks buy each other out and pay bonuses. A family in mortgage trouble might be able to stave off foreclosure with $7,000 (assuming both parents work), and $3,500 could probably knock a fair chunk out of credit card debt. Of course, not everyone would use all of it for debts, some would buy stuff... again good for the economy, plus people relieved of debt would be able to shop again.

The big flaw to my suggestion... it would require people to be halfway smart about money and just not get into more stupid debt or we end up right back where we are now.

And the Big 3...


They are asking for enough money to buy 1 million cars. But what are we going to get? A delay until they are back asking for more money. The auto industry has to fundamentally change. I say let them go Chapter 13, and if they have a viable restructuring plan that removes the gross waste they have now, then we can talk loans. That means the unions' heydays are over... no more guys showing up, clocking in, then going off to take a nap or whatever just because they are union and don't have to worry about it.

Evolve or die, Detroit, because this is your asteroid.

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VOTE

If you haven't already, vote. I have to admit I am a little excited because I don't feel like my vote is a token throwaway gesture this year, though I'm not super enthused with our choices.

But at least all the damned ads will be over.

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Nostradamus backs McCain?

There's an easy joke in there "because they're the same age", but I won't stoop... oops too late. But if this quatrain is about the presidential race, Nosty was even less kind to McCain and Palin.

(Note: this article is *not* from a reliable news source, it's just funny.)

(Notier note: the cited quatrain is indeed made up... here is the actual Century X Q78:

Subite ioye en subite tristesse
Sera à Rome aux graces embrassées.
Dueil, cris, pleurs, larm. sang excellent liesse :
Contraires bandes surprinses & troulsées.

Sudden joy to sudden sadness,
It will occur at Rome for the graces embraced:
Grief, cries, tears, weeping, blood, excellent mirth,
Contrary bands surprised and trussed up.

I'd blame those sneaky liberals given the Feeble Kept One and his Imbecile Queen, but then wouldn't they 'predict' an Obama victory?)

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Goldfarb fumbles Bluff check

I found this via here.

In case you forgot, Goldfarb is the one that slammed D&D players a while ago. Now he gets called out using classic antagonist tactics, the ubiquitous "they". You'd think someone working for McCain appearing on CNN would realize they were going to try to pin him down and would either have some facts to back up a statement like that or not bring it up. It's like having your 1st level character carry a bag full of gold into a cave full of orcs and being surprised when he gets mugged.


This brings up another thought I had. This campaign isn't being won or lost by the candidates themselves, but by the people around them. I think Obama will win because his staff and advisors are better than McCain's.

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Wassup 2008

Maybe the Obama campaign should hire this guy?

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The Dark Bailout

And I thought my jokes were bad.

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Bankruptcy instead of bailout?

While it would be a bitter pill to swallow, there is a case for letting the companies that made this mess take responsibility for it. Check out this commentary by a Harvard economist who happens to be a Libertarian.

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McCain vs. McCain

I stumbled across this, so if someone finds the same thing for Obama point me to it so that I can give both candidates equal time in the debate... the debate vs. themselves.

And yes, I know that it is easy to snip things out of context, though in a lot of these it's obvious that he's contradicting himself. There's nothing wrong with changing your mind on an issue, just be upfront and don't try to play it both ways. Again, I'm sure there are examples of Obama doing the same thing.

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McCain wants to cap bail-out CEOs

John McCain made a suggestion that the CEOs of companies getting bailed out the feds tax-payers shouldn't be paid more than the highest level government employee. You check out the article here.


I think it's a great idea, but of course the talking heads are already against it.

I especially like this remark:

One commentator worried -- with a straight face -- that if pay packages fell that low, some young people could become doctors instead of investment bankers! Oh no, not that!


I think we could do with a few less finance bankers and more doctors and teachers. It burns me that as a society we give these fat-cats their millions for manipulating other peoples' money, but teachers are getting second jobs to make ends meet. No wonder it seems like society is slipping down the drain.

Better, be careful though. I'm starting to sound like a Democrat.

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Republicans hate D&Ders?

Check out this potshot someone on McCain's staff took at D&D players. It's one thing when we make fun of ourselves, but when someone else does it, implying we're a bunch of lazy unpatriotic liberals, it's time to roll initiative!

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Paris for Prez?

See more funny videos at Funny or Die

What's sad is that whoever wrote this has a better energy plan than either candidate. Both parties right now are pissing me off with their political theater. The Democrats don't want to piss off the liberal environmentalists and the Republicans are in the pockets of Big Oil.


My concern right now is that by September 30th, when the moratorium on offshore drilling expires and the Congress is forced to vote on the issue, is that when the Republicans "win", they'll assume it will be enough now and be done with it. But drilling a little more oil won't solve the long-term issues, and I'm not talking about environmental issues here. Unless we make a major shift away from oil consumption the little extra we gain from new drilling will just be a blip and in a few years we will be back exactly where we are now.

My question is: if oil goes up $50 a barrel, and it doesn't cost Exxon any more to pull it out of the ground, where does that extra money go? Somehow the speculators need to be cut out of the loop. They and the oil companies are getting rich off us. I know that's not very capitalistic, but I'm tired of being bent over an oil barrel.

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