Oh heck
If you have an electric guitar and the electronics don’t work, the guitar’s kind of useless and certainly unsalable till that’s repaired. Who knew?
Archive of entries posted on August 2009
I should listen to you why, again?
You know, as a guy who’s benefited from government-provided health care his entire life, John McCain has a lot of gall claiming that there should be no public option for health care: I believe that one of the fundamentals for any agreement would be that the president abandon the government option. Do as I say, …
New tell-all book implicates genie
Baseball Superstar Accused of Performance-Enhancing Genie Use via Baseball Musings. David Pinto thinks Samantha’s at work here, but I think Kazaam is the more likely culprit.
Happy Statehood Day
Find more videos like this on Statehood Hawaii On this date in 1959 President Eisenhower signed into law Proclamation 3309 declaring Hawai’i to be the 50th state of the Union. But are we celebrating loudly with parades and flags? Not hardly. In the June 27, 1959, statehood plebiscite, 94.3 percent of voters favored immediate statehood. …
The truth emerges
“We have over 40 million people without insurance in this country today, and that is unacceptable,” Sen. Orrin Hatch (R-UT) said. “If we would just quit squabbling so much, we could get that number up to 50 or even 100 million. Why, there’s no reason we can’t work together to deny health care to everyone …
Clue stick, please
There are times I wonder what country I live in. From Think Progress, quoting the findings of a new poll: One poll question indicative of how difficult it is to gain public understanding on a complicated issue asked if respondents thought the government should ?stay out of Medicare,? something inherently impossible. 39% said yes. 4 …
Praise the Lord and pass the ammunition
The Democrats may grow a spine yet. From tomorrow’s NYT: Democrats Seem Set to Go It Alone on a Health Bill. Top Democrats said Tuesday that their go-it-alone view was being shaped by what they saw as Republicans’ purposely strident tone against health care legislation during this month’s Congressional recess, as well as remarks by …
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Health care reform wasn’t enough?
As if the nation didn’t have a big enough soap opera on its hands with the United States Senate, Michael Jackson and Michael Vick, now Brent Favre has signed to play quarterback for the Minnesota Vikings. Bring back Shark Week.
The No card’s been played, again
Via Steve Benen at Political Animal comes this story from Politico: The Senate Republican whip, speaking to reporters on a conference call from his home state of Arizona, said that even if the Democrats do away with a government-run insurance option, the GOP most likely won’t support the bill that’s being written in the Senate. …
Uh-oh
In the category of “small things which disturb you out of all proportion to their importance,” finding a loose screw in the middle of your driveway looms large.