Archive for March, 2009
The Republican Road to Recovery
From driftglass — The Best Suicide Note Ever: But wait! There’s more interesting riffs on this theme: Been There, Done That (Permanent) Minority Report The Problem is Your Fucking O/S I’m not sure if there will be more in this series, but these are just damn brilliant comments on the vaporware that is the Republican […]
GM Prez to Step Down on Eve of Auto Bailout Plan
The questions are already out there as to whether there was an understanding between the Obama Administration and GM that more bailout $$’s were contingent on Wagoner’s resignation: The move comes on the eve of President Obama unveiling his plan to reinvigorate the U.S. auto industry. Obama and other administration officials have said they would […]
Scott Spencer is running for Congress
Democrat Scott Spencer is running for Congress. More details will apparently be coming out tomorrow. I don’t know who this is, but if he is a serious candidate, it is nice to see him getting an early start. Update from the Newark Post: Congressional candidate to make short whistle-stop tour Published: Saturday, March 28, 2009 […]
Read All About It in the Sunday Papers-March 29 Edition
LEAD STORY-NEW YORK TIMES: Governor, Legislature Agree to Tax the Wealthy to Close Budget Gap This should be must-reading for Gov. Markell and the General Assembly: The new plan, which would expire after three years, would represent the largest state income tax increase in recent history, significantly larger than the surcharges imposed from 2003 to […]
Great Work Tom Carper & Mike Castle!
Clearly, Reagan, Clinton and Bush I & II played their parts, but Carper and Castle had a front row seat to the financial services industry’s takeover of the government. Guess what side they were cheering on? The crash has laid bare many unpleasant truths about the United States. One of the most alarming, says a […]
Late Nite Deep Thought
Too bad that there is no conservative intelligentsia left in this country. I remember when conservatism used to denote at least a degree of sobriety and if not rationality, at least not aggressive irrationality. Today is seems that to be a conservative you need to be, not just stupid, but outlandishly and loudly stupid. You can’t […]
2009 Year in Review WikiPost: 3/28
If this year was an average American, it would be a randy 19 year old already. (They grow up so fast don’t they?) Anyhoo…when we wait until the end of the year to do the “Year in Review” post we leave out so much and just talk about stuff that happened in the last 90 […]
Deep Thought
Having the word “structure” contained in the word infrastructure might be giving people a false sense of security. Maybe we should call it – infrastuff or infrashit?
What Are YOUR Plans for Earth Hour?
Tonight, from 8:30 to 9:30, as a symbolic gesture to stress the necessity of environmental responsibility, we are being asked to turn off all non-essential lights. Organizers say they hope this year’s event will send a message to world leaders meeting Copenhagen in December for a major summit on climate change. “We are asking one […]
Taibbi Dissects Dear AIG, I Quit Letter
Matt Taibbi strikes again. (Go read it now.) Are we supposed to believe that Jake DeSantis knew nothing about Joe Cassano’s CDS deals? If your boss and the top guys in your firm were all making a killing selling anything at all — whether it was rubber kayaks, generic Levitra or credit default swaps — […]
‘Bulo’s Music for the Masses-Week 2
As big a blues fan as the Beast Who Slumbers is, he’s always found George Thorogood’s bourbon-soaked brand too generic for his tastes. However, Thorogood’s own taste in guitar slingers has always been top shelf. Perhaps the greatest of ’em all, and ‘bulo’s all-time favorite, is Texas native son Albert ‘Iceman’ Collins. His unique tunings […]
QOD
I have a daughter that was performing horribly in school last semester. If I recall she got 2 D’s, a few C’s and 1 B. I challenged her to get all A’s and B’s. Being at Cab she can be told she isn’t allowed to come back and that is not something I need a […]
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