T-Minus Two Days to Halloween

[redstapler]

-Today is my mother's birthday. Happy Birthday, Mom. I miss you.

-I was going to wear my Lady Gaga as The TARDIS costume today, but I couldn't find the dress. I did find the obi from my Cyber Punk costume, so I wore my pirate coat and I'm a Software Pirate instead. I'm very sad now though, because my coworker, Pi, is dressed as The Doctor. Grr

Comments

[mlleglass]

I really respect your opinion on a lot of things, but I still don't see why you read Pandagon. I find her blog incredibly shrill and ignorant much of the time. That link about "how republicans see their base" is incredibly ignorant; it's a blog entry tearing apart a straw man to the nth degree. Especially the last point--that "republicans think their base doesn't care about policy." This is the kind of thinking that has done the democrats in, in the past, and will clean them out this November. Until the left stops essentially saying "those who disagree with us are stupid poopbrains" and actually starts listening to the concerns of the Americans in the center and on the right, those voters will continue to be angry. I think it's the left that has shown the most contempt for the American voter, by refusing to address the very real concerns of the white middle and lower classes--those of us who are not drawing welfare checks, who are not losing their houses, and who are not bigshots whose companies are getting bailed out - but who are

[princeofpeas]

"...the very real concerns of the white middle and lower classes--those of us who are not drawing welfare checks, who are not losing their houses, and who are not bigshots whose companies are getting bailed out - but who are stuck smack in the middle of it all, working to scrape by and wondering why they've been abandoned by everyone

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[princeofpeas]

By contrast, middle and upper class Americans are much more heavily subsidized and meet many fewer obstacles in getting favorable legislation passed. College grants and loans, government subsidized mortgages, artificially cheap gasoline (facilitated by tax breaks and subsidies to oil companies), federally funded highways, the fantastically regressive tax system that taxes investors at a lower rate than many wage earners, tax breaks for corporations (that effectively function as subsidies), etc. Compare the amounts we spend on corporate bailouts versus social welfare programs, and you'll see that the latter is and always has been a relative pittance. The bailout bill authorized the Treasury to spend up to $700 billion to rescue essentially the handful of massive conglomerate banks deemed too big to fail. Meanwhile, $57.2 billion has been allocated for food stamps for the approximately 40 million Americans projected to use this service (most of whom work by the way), in FY 2011. Living high off the hog, they are

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[mlleglass]

Virgil: if you want to have a long conversation about these topics, then someone else's blog is not the appropriate place. A quick skim of your lengthy screeds shows you ascribing many beliefs to me that I don't actually have, so any conversation between us would require starting totally over.