Posts by jason330

Zimmerman stalked and killed Trayvon Martin the night after a massive fight with his wife that resulted in her leaving his ass. So, terrific job Florida. Zimmerman was out to…

Celia says...

Biden also re-committed to running for a third term next year as the Democratic attorney general, so far without opposition, and rekindled the expectation the campaign could be a dress rehearsal for the governor's race in 2016.

WDDE Reports that Tom Carper, unlike Chris Coons, is still undecided on bombing Syrian weddings and funerals. The surprising thing in the story is that Carper calls out Bush/Cheney/Rumsfeld directly and sounds kinda like a human being doing so.

We got hoodwinked once about ten years ago by an earlier administration on bad intelligence that alleged that the Iraqis — Saddam Hussein — had used chemical weapons. It turned out not to be true,” said Carper. “In this case, we want to make sure that the assertions, the allegations are indeed true.”

Then he tips his hand and allows that he is probably going to vote "yes" anyway.

While they made news for cancelling the Houston route, Frontier's commercial service out of New Castle is (appearently) a real thing. Friend of DL, and someone who knows a thing or two about moving a large group through an airport, JC gives us the 411.

“As a United States congressman, I take very seriously my role in ensuring the responsible use of military action. And like many of those I represent, after over a decade of war, I’m extremely wary of committing our military to another overseas conflict. As I’ve heard from many of my constituents, it should be the option of last resort. And our national interest must be at stake." Come inside to read the rest...

A: Organized labor is a champion of civil rights, and of our civil liberties. Labor stands for economic justice, a robust middle class and (because of lackluster performance by the Democratic Party) it is the only real check on the rapacious greed of twentieth century capitalism right now. What’s not to like about a movement with such high aspirations?

Genius, Gary Simpson today parrots a Cato Institute report that basically says that we are treating people on welfare too well. Not the corporations on welfare taking down the big buck in the form of tax breaks, mind you. The actual poor people on food-stamps that the Republicans keep saying have too much money.

My point falls in line with the conclusion of the Cato report, that “the current welfare system provides such a high level of benefits that it acts as a disincentive for work,” and that “recipients are likely to choose welfare over work, thus increasing long-term dependence.”

I'll leave it to that left wing outfit, the Wall Street Journal , to completely demolish the Cato Institutes premise that we have created "welfare dependency" (spoiler alert, we haven't. "According to the latest report on welfare dependency (covering 2009, the worst year of the recession), about 4.6% of the population received more than half of its income from the three main means-tested welfare programs: Temporary Assistance to Needy Families (TANF), food stamps and supplemental security income. That’s up from 2007, when about 3.5% were dependent on welfare.")

For wingnuts, up is the new down. Trying to make sense out of what passes for commentary among wignuts is a mug's game. They hate President Obama with a white hot passion. The President is horrible, trying to accrue king like powers to himself in pursuit of a socialist kingship. But wait...this horrible President suddenly needs to hurry up and act more kingly with respect to Congress, or socialism and chaos will ensue. Because socialism flows from collaboration, (which in this case is a trick because he is trying to put congress in the scapegoat seat with this phony collaboration.) Get it? No? Me neither. Suffice it to say, because of Obama nefarious tricks, future Republican Presidents will not be able to bomb the world's brownish people on a whim. The horror!