Abby, cave dweller
Abby wandered under the dining room table this evening. From Events This coffee table makes a great chin rest. From Events
Archive of entries posted on February 2013
Bye bye, Section V
Me, at Facebook today after reading this story at Talking Points Memo this morning: Scalia, in oral arguments for and against the Voting Rights Act today: “This is not the kind of question you can leave to Congress.” Now we know how he feels about democracy, I guess. So is he going to legislate from …
Truth
Greg Sargent: A number of us have argued that the facts plainly reveal that Republicans are far more to blame than Obama and Democrats for the current crisis. The GOP’s explicit position is that no compromise solution of any kind is acceptable — this must be resolved only with 100% of the concessions being made …
State-by-state Sequestration
How will your state fare if the idiots Republicans don’t make a deal with the President to avoid the ham-handed cuts the sequester will automatically make? Answer here. Example: Here in Hawai’i we have the Pearl Harbor Shipyard, and it’s got maintenance jobs ongoing. If sequestration happens, In Hawaii, approximately 20,000 civilian Department of Defense …
Memory aid
I was listening to the UH baseball game on the radio on my way back from the store this afternoon when one of the broadcasters commented that it was a beautiful Sunday afternoon today. This led to a brief discussion: Father (we have another father-son broadcast team out here besides the one I mentioned the …
Now THAT’S a discount
Went to Safeway to get sour cream and mushrooms to go with our tri-tip this evening. Swiped my Safeway store card into the machine to take advantage of the savings it gives me. Got home, looked at the receipt. “Card savings — .20” Total savings value — 1 % (of purchase price) Woohoo!
Oh boy, this is trouble
Abby just walked out of the kitchen with a rawhide bone in her mouth. “What’s odd about that,” you ask? She pushed the pantry door open, lifted it (still in its plastic wrap), and proudly carried it down the hall toward me. This is a spark of mischief we hadn’t seen in her up till …
Grasping at straws, they are
Speaker Boehner and Majority Leader Cantor have lately been squawking that there’s no way the government needs new tax revenue when it’s still wasting money on smoking machines, video games, and free phones for the poor. Jonathan Chait smashes those arguments to bits. You see, Mr. Speaker, if you want to study the effects of …
Sequester aka hide the money
Our friends in the Republican Party really seem to believe that President Obama will get the blame if the vaunted sequester actually occurs. No one not on their side seems to think that’s true, but as we’ve seen the Republicans care only about their own political fortunes and listen only to their own analyses. A …
Caution — hunting dog on the loose!
The pooch has figured out that there are good things on kitchen countertops. She hasn’t been much for standing up and looking around since she moved in, but this afternoon I found her standing next to a cupboard, neck outstretched and nose sniffing a mile a minute. I’m not sure whether this is good or …