Now that was amusing. Bush said last year Congress failed to act on his proposal to save Social Security, and all the Democrats stood and applauded wildly. Heh. Update: He also said this: Tonight I ask you to pass legislation to prohibit the most egregious abuses of medical research: human cloning in all its forms; …
Look. If you hire on to do a job, you do the job. Your personal beliefs have to be set aside. You knew when you studied to be a pharmacist that you might have to fill prescriptions for birth control pills or the morning-after pill; if you became a doctor, you knew you might have …
We’ve been told repeatedly that George Bush is a bold President. We’ve also been told repeatedly that he likes to hit the hay no later than 10:00pm. Here’s a suggestion, Mr. President: Break tradition. Address the nation with your State-of-the-Union speech at 7:00pm rather than 9:00pm. It would have two advantages: you could make it …
After the cloture vote came down I heard some CNN reporter say there was muttering in the halls of Capitol Hill to the effect of “why didn’t Kerry start this filibuster effort earlier? We might have had a chance if he had.” My response to those clowns is “What? Your arm was broke? You could …
On this vote, a “yes” vote was a vote to end the debate and a “no” vote was a vote to filibuster the nomination. Have you got the courage of your convictions? Democrats voting to end debate (anti-filibuster): Akaka, Hawaii; Baucus, Mont.; Bingaman, N.M.; Byrd, W.Va.; Cantwell, Wash.; Carper, Del.; Conrad, N.D.; Dorgan, N.D.; Inouye, …
If ESPN had been around through Asian History: 1206 A.D. Genghis Khan founds Mongol Empire ESPN sportscaster: “A new ownership group has taken over Central Asia.” 1368: Mongols driven out of China; Zhu Yuanzhang founds Ming dynasty ESPN sportscaster #1: “After years of stagnation and strife, the storied franchise begun by Genghis Khan has finally …
There are two guys surfcasting on a beach. One suddenly says “Oh!” The other guy then says: “Are you hurt?” “Got a bite?” “Fifteenth letter of the alphabet” “Susannah!” Now c’mon. If I’m fishing with a buddy and he makes a sound, the first thing I’m gonna say is “Got a bite?” But no, the …
Numbers here. Tell them you support a filibuster of Judge Alito. Tell them you’ve been told for years how important the Supreme Court is, and you believe it. Tell them (if they’re reported as wavering) that they should follow their own advice and take the Supreme Court seriously as a co-equal third branch of government. …
I don’t like the results of the Palestinian elections any better than most of the rest of the democratic world, but let’s hope that the American people will be as fed up with a corrupt leadership come November as the Palestinians apparently were Wednesday with Fatah.
Chinese landscape photographs from the Guilin region. They’re absolutely stunning, but don’t take my word for it. Via Making Light.