I know a lot of you get this. Right now I'm talking to the few who don't.

The Republican Party is never going to repeal the 14th Amendment. They are never going to get rid of Social Security. It's all talk. It's all pandering to the extreme right of their party.

The Republicans had six years under George W. Bush where they controlled both houses of ( Read more... )

There have been a number of things I've thought about blogging on lately, but none of them individually moved me enough to write. Well they've finally reached critical mass. Here goes...

Repealing the 14th Amendment - The latest Republican campaign tactic to lure back the far-right Tea Party folks is this "idea" of repealing the 14th Amendment. You ( Read more... )

Ken Salazar is a tool. He took over a horrendously f'ed up agency and did, practically, nothing to clean it up. And Salazar is Obama's man, so that makes the current oil spill situation Obama's fault. Partially.

The conditions that allowed the DWH disaster to occur go back before January 20, 2009. Cetainly they continued after that date, but there's ( Read more... )

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If you listen, you hear an awful lot about how Obama is failing to show leadership on the Gulf oil spill. Over the weekend a friend told me that every time he sees and Obama bumper sticker or hat he says "Oh you got a little oil on your he thought it was funny.

What I'd like to know is, precisely, what is Barack Obama not doing that these folks ( Read more... )

Opinion polls. It seems like there's nothing we like more than opinion polls. There are dozens of them. And often they have disparate results. One poll says Obama's approval rating is 52 percent, another says it's 45 percent. Both can't be right. Chances are that neither is.

The bad thing about polls, and poll results is that so much depends on how ( Read more... )

Well, not just sci-fi fans.

The summer series' have returned.

Although I haven't watched it yet, Rescue Me returned last night. Now I finally  get to see who saves Tommy, who we left last season bleeding to death on the floor of the bar. I wonder who he'll have visions of this year?

Warehouse 13 and Eureka return next week! At long last my Joanne ( Read more... )

So I' ve been sitting here all day, doing nothing. Absolutely nothing. Not because I have nothing to do... but because I have nothing I can do.

You see, several projects I am working on depend on other people doing certain things. At one point or another, I can't proceed until someone else gets something done. And those things aren't getting done.

I' ( Read more... )

$125 per seat to see Roger Waters at the United Center?!? What world do these people live in?