Weekend Open Thread
"No. It was the worst 15 minutes of my life."-- Rep. Thaddeus McCotter (R-MI), quoted by the Detroit News, on whether he enjoyed his time as a presidential candidate.
CRI Leading AstroTurf Battle Against Bloom Energy
I think that it is a well established fact that CRI's "Dr" John Stapleford is a lowlife and scumbag of the first order. But do you want more proof? Who else but a pretend academic, lowlife, scumbag would use the millons given to him by old school polluting dirty coal energy interest to try dupe teabagging morons into creating a "grassroots" response to Bloom Energy fuel cell deal?
NRA Claims ‘Massive Obama Conspiracy’ Not to Ban Guns
The NRA is so freaking angry. They just know that President has a plan to take away their guns. The very fact that this administration has done nothing on gun control is just proof that they are determined to ban guns. It makes perfect sense if you are a gun nut.
WGMD Web Site’s Psycho Rant
Apparently this Bill Colley guy works for WGMD in some capacity. If that is true, they might want to install a metal detector at the door, and make sure all…
Science Fact Catches Up to Science Fiction As We Speak
By the time you read this a scientist somewhere will have pulled some wild ass shit out of the magic hat of science. When you scanned the words "magic hat"…
Friday Open Thread
The Governor honors Lt. Szczerba in his weekly message. Meanwhile House Republicans last night passed a government funding bill that pays for new disaster aid with partisan budget cuts. The bill now is dead in the Senate. From yesterday you recall Boehner had three choices. He chose option three.
Speaking of Insurance…
See this article in Bloomberg Business Week and come back for a chat. Small businesses are are exposed to bank hacking risks that banks are doing nothing to manage. If your account is hacked, the banks position is basically - tough luck.
Debate Debriefing: Will Teabag Bile Be Enough For Perry?
Not wishing to roll around in excrement, I didn't watch the most recent GOP "debate." From what I'm reading about it though, Perry screwed the pooch. By all reports, he garbled a gimme "bomb the shit out of them" defense policy question, defended his HPV vaccine when he should have been claiming that it was a Kenyan plot, and looked more than a little outclassed by Romney. So, the question is still, will the teabags push back against the GOP shot callers?
News-Journal Exposes General Assembly Pension Scam…More To Follow
Every couple of years, retired state employees get something like a 2% pension increase. If they're lucky. If there's money for it. If the legislators are in a giving mood. However, for a not-particularly small, but select, group of state legislators, a pension windfall is realized whenever certain veteran legislators retire or, in the case of the ethically-compromised Terry Spence, are defeated.
Thinking Way Ahead
Assuming Governor Markell, Lt. Governor Denn, Senator Carper and Congressman Carney win reelection next year, and assuming Attorney General Biden wins a third term in 2014 and Senator Coons and State Treasurer Chip Flowers win reelection to their respective offices in 2014, it sets up 2016 as an interesting year for possible confrontation and primaries among the deep Democratic statewide lineup.