Saturday, February 28, 2009

Conservatives Love Porn!


The self-proclaimed "Party of Values" seems to love itself some online porn! According to a recent study, "Those states that do consume the most porn tend to be more conservative and religious than states with lower levels of consumption."

Some highlights from the article:
Residents of 27 states that passed laws banning gay marriages boasted 11% more porn subscribers than states that don't explicitly restrict gay marriage...
States where a majority of residents agreed with the statement "I have old-fashioned values about family and marriage," bought 3.6 more subscriptions per thousand people than states where a majority disagreed. A similar difference emerged for the statement "AIDS might be God's punishment for immoral sexual behaviour."

The Constitution Reared Its Ugly Head...

...in San Francisco yesterday, as an appeals court said "no dice" to the Obama DOJ and its attempt to get a case dismissed involving the warrantless wiretapping program put in place by his predecessor. 

The constitutionality of this program may finally have its day court!

Friday, February 27, 2009

Jindal: Rail is Stupid. Gimme some.



In the lackluster Republican response to Obama's speech earlier this week, Bobby Jindal mocked the inclusion of rail spending by citing the GOP's favorite imaginary "magnetic levitation" train line from Disneyland to Sin City:
While some of the projects in the bill make sense, their legislation is larded with wasteful spending. It includes $300 million to buy new cars for the government, $8 billion for high-speed rail projects, such as a magnetic levitation line from Las Vegas to Disneyland, and $140 million for something called volcano monitoring.
Of course, the bill doesn't actually include a train line between Vegas and Disneyland, but Republicans have never let the facts get in the way of their arguments before.  Why start now?

On Tuesday of this week, it was entirely ridiculous, but by Friday, Bobby Jindal's very own Department of Transportation applied to get a piece of that $8 billion of wasteful rail spending.

You can't make this stuff up, people.

George Will is No Al Gore


The New York Times ran an article the other day that lumped Former Vice President Al Gore in with conservative columnist George Will in their approach to global warming.  Not surprisingly, I find this claim to be patently absurd. From Revkin's article:
Mr. Gore, addressing a hall filled with scientists in Chicago, showed a slide that illustrated a sharp spike in fires, floods and other calamities around the world and warned the audience that global warming “is creating weather-related disasters that are completely unprecedented.”

Mr. Will, in a column attacking what he said were exaggerated claims about global warming’s risks, chided climate scientists for predicting an ice age three decades ago and asserted that a pause in warming in recent years and the recent expansion of polar sea ice undermined visions of calamity ahead.

Both men, experts said afterward, were guilty of inaccuracies and overstatements.
Now for the important part:
Mr. Gore removed the slide from his presentation after the Belgian research group that assembled the disaster data said he had misrepresented what was driving the upward trend. The group said a host of factors contributed to the trend, with climate change possibly being one of them. A spokeswoman for Mr. Gore said he planned to switch to using data on disasters compiled by insurance companies.

Mr. Will, peppered with complaints from scientists and environmental groups who claimed the column was riddled with errors, has yet to respond. The Post’s ombudsman said Mr. Will’s column had been carefully fact-checked. But the scientists whose research on ice formed the basis for Mr. Will’s statements said their data showed the area of the ice shrinking, not expanding.
So, when Al Gore is brought a legitimate complaint, he remedies the situation within a week.  When George Will's data is shown to be categorically false, he simply digs in his heels and writes another article attacking his critics.  

And how does Will explain the fact that the authority he cited in his article issued a statement saying that he was wrong and selectively chose data from their study to try to make a point?  Well, it's because they are part of the media-environmental complex, of course!  Those silly scientists just don't have the courage to face their oppressors like folk hero George Will.  

Will also adopts a key strategy of climate change deniers by claiming that in the 1970s there was scientific consensus that we were about to engage in a global cooling period.  Unfortunately for conservatives, this "scientific consensus" seems to be nothing more than wishful thinking.

Strangely, it seems that the mistake the New York Times is attacking Al Gore for is a result of him trusting the New York Times.  The slide that Al Gore removed was from an article from the New York Times itself.

A reasonable person, when faced with new information indicating your previous beliefs may be false, will welcome that information and adjust, as Al Gore did.  George Will, and many other climate change deniers, stubbornly stick with their opinions and let the facts be damned.  

Thursday, February 26, 2009

Republican War on Science Continues!


Discover Magazine has a great article on George Will's and the Washington Post's failure to perform basic fact checking in his article about global climate change not being a legitimate concern...In his article, Will claimed that:
As global levels of sea ice declined last year, many experts said this was evidence of man-made global warming. Since September, however, the increase in sea ice has been the fastest change, either up or down, since 1979, when satellite record-keeping began. According to the University of Illinois' Arctic Climate Research Center, global sea ice levels now equal those of 1979.
Unfortunately, the University of Illinois' Arctic Climate Research Center said no such thing, issuing a rebuttal on their website:

In an opinion piece by George Will published on February 15, 2009 in the Washington Post, George Will states “According to the University of Illinois’ Arctic Climate Research Center, global sea ice levels now equal those of 1979.”

We do not know where George Will is getting his information, but our data shows that on February 15, 1979, global sea ice area was 16.79 million sq. km and on February 15, 2009, global sea ice area was 15.45 million sq. km. Therefore, global sea ice levels are 1.34 million sq. km less in February 2009 than in February 1979. This decrease in sea ice area is roughly equal to the area of Texas, California, and Oklahoma combined.

It is disturbing that the Washington Post would publish such information without first checking the facts.

Rumor has it that Will is coming out with another article in tomorrow's Post where he continues to defend his lack of fact checking... Stay classy, conservatives!  

Coen Brothers Cut New Ad Mocking Clean Coal

The Coen Brothers are responsible for the Reality Campgaign's latest ad against so-called "clean" coal...


On a related note, The Mother Nature Network is now hosting the animated "Captain Planet" series on their website...Go Heart!

Wednesday, February 25, 2009

Kenneth the Page Responds to Jindal...

Not particularly funny, but they do sound oddly similar...

Obama is Hitler! And the Anti-Christ!

Tuesday, February 24, 2009

Republicans Hate Pork! Unless it's their own.


Stop wasteful spending!  Unless it's Republican wasteful spending!  From McClatchy:

Republicans are expected to deliver a daylong rant Wednesday against Democratic spending legislation, yet the bill is loaded with thousands of pet projects that Republican lawmakers inserted.

Rep. Ralph Hall, R-Texas, included $142,500 for emergency repairs to the Sam Rayburn Library and Museum in Austin, Texas. Sen. John Ensign, R-Nev., joined state colleagues to include $1.425 million for Nevada "statewide bus facilities." The top two Republicans on Congress' money committees also inserted local projects.

Bobby Jindal Loves Extending Unemployment Benefits...



...when he doesn't have plans to kick Obama out of the White House.

Back in 2005, shortly after a different crisis, good old Jindal co-sponsored a bill that extended unemployment benefits 52 weeks after the day the area was declared a disaster. So a federal extension of 52 weeks is entirely okay, but the 20 weeks Obama wants is out of the question?

Being unemployed as a result of a hurricane and being unemployed as a result of an economic collapse have the exact same effect: you still need to eat, and you still don't have a job.

Monday, February 23, 2009

Republicans Love Being the Victim


The Republican quest to perpetually be the victim is alive and well under the Obama administration, this time evidenced by a conversation between the lovable criminal G. Gordon Liddy and Rick Santelli, a new hero to the right. It's fun when Republicans are so desperate for heroes that they start coming from the much maligned NBC network.
First, let's be clear what Gibbs, Obama's Press Secretary actually said:

I’ve watched Mr. Santelli on cable the past 24 hours or so. I’m not entirely
sure where Mr. Santelli lives or in what house he lives but the American people are struggling every day to meet their mortgages, stay in their jobs, pay their bills, send their kids to school.
I think we left a few months ago the adage that if it was good for a derivatives trader that it was good for Main Street. I think the verdict is in on that.

While Gibbs is clearly pointing out the disparity between the neighborhood Santelli lives in and what most Americans are experiencing, being a Republican, Santelli is forced to abandon all reasoning and take that as a personal threat from the White House. Good old Liddy is more than happy to jump in and join him in his pity party:

SANTELLI: He started that press conference saying, “I don’t know where he lives,
I don’t know where his house is.” This is the Press Secretary of the White
House. Is that the kind of thing we want? Is that —
LIDDY: It’s a veiled threat.
SANTELLI: It really is. […] I don’t really want to be a spokesman,
but I really am very proud of a) the response I’m getting, which is
overwhelmingly positive, and b) discourse, that is debate. That if the pressure
and the heat I’m taking from the White House – the fact my kids are nervous to
go to school – I can take that, okay.

GOP Decides the Future is the Past


The GOP throws tantrums about Obama not being bipartisan while he is meeting with their leaders, incorporating their ideas into his bill, and removing stuff they don't like from the package. So it makes perfect sense that they would see adopting the Newt Gingrich style of partisanship as the next step in their all-out rejection of logic.

Sunday, February 22, 2009

Bobby Jindal, Conservative Hero


It's official...Bobby Jindal is sticking to his principles and refusing federal money from the "porkulous" stimulus package.  His principles have forbidden him from accepting a whopping two percent of federal funds intended for Louisiana, and also preventing 25,000 LA families from receiving unemployment benefits.  

Hopefully this will get him the street cred he so desires among the Neo-Hooverites, and also will pave the way for a Palin-esque "Thanks, but no thanks" sound bite when he runs for President in 2012.

Please ignore the fact that his reasoning for rejecting the bill is entirely false.  As the expansion in unemployment benefits is covered by the federal government for three years, Louisiana would simply need to establish a sunset clause for the alteration in the law, and unemployment insurance would remain unaffected for business owners.  But hey, he's a member of the GOP.  Anything goes.

UPDATE:  Yglesias notes another reason why Jindal might be refusing the money:

If Louisiana makes its unemployment benefits less generous than what’s available in other states, then maybe unemployed citizens will leave Louisiana for Texas and other neighboring states, thus creating an artificial appearance of an improved economic situation. It would be the equivalent of Mike Bloomberg fighting poverty by demolishing all the low-income housing in New York and hoping the poor people all move elsewhere.

Friday, February 20, 2009

**BREAKING** GOP Filled with Hypocrites


There was a spot of technological trouble in the early days of the Obama White House that forced folks to use Gmail for a few days for official business.  Once the White House e-mail system was up and running, all aides were ordered to forward ALL official e-mail to their White House account.

I'm in complete and total support of keeping all official correspondence, but the fact that a Republican who remained silent during the years the Bush White House lost millions of e-mails is the one making the demands...I find that absurd.

Bobby Jindal is a Fool


So today, Bobby Jindal, the future of the Republican Party, announced that he would not allow the unemployed of Louisiana to have a 20 week extension of federally funded unemployment benefits, nor would he allow the pool of eligible individuals to expand.

Why?  Who knows.  However, like most foolishness that comes out of the mouths of Republicans, he claims it is because he is concerned about small businesses.  He believes that these two changes to the unemployment system will result in increased unemployment insurance rates on Louisiana businesses.  Heroic, right?

Unfortunately, his very own press release highlights the fact that no such increase would be necessary.  By his own admission, the program is entirely funded for three years, at which point, they could simply end the program.

It's good to see the future of the Republican Party will maintain its opposition to basic reasoning.

Also, I wholeheartedly expect the same folks who were constantly referring to "Barack Hussein Obama" during the 2008 campaigns to refer to Bobby Jindal as "Piyush Jindal."  And the folks who questioned whether or not Obama was actually an American had better be demanding birth certificates from Jindal, as well.

On a related note to the future of the GOP, remember one of the few victories the Republicans got in 2008?  Joseph Cao was able to defeat the legally troubled Jefferson, and Republicans were so proud that they adopted the slogan "The Future is Cao."  It was an exciting moment in an otherwise depressing time for the party.

Unfortunately, some folks have already launched a recall petition against him.  Too bad.

Thursday, February 12, 2009

And the Best President Ever is...

...not George W. Bush, thank god.

C-SPAN released its second ranking of greatest presidents of all time as determined by a sampling of historians, and the top of the list shapes up pretty much as you'd imagine with the big names you learn about in elementary school at the top.

And way down near the bottom of the list of 42, you will find good old W., at a comfortable number 36, just edging out the distinguished Millard Filmore.

Tuesday, February 10, 2009

FOX News Cuts & Pastes from Republican Memos...


MediaMatters caught FOX lifting their stories directly from the Senate Republicans, typos included...FOX aired a list of facts and figures exploring the history of the stimulus package this morning and by pure coincidence, I'm sure, ALL of those same facts and figures appeared in the Senate Republican memo!  

I know!  What a weird coincidence!

But wait, it gets weirder!  There was a typo in the Republican memo saying that an article from the Wall Street Journal was published on December 19th, 2009.  Somehow, that exact same typo made it into the FOX on-screen graphics!

What a world we live in, eh?

Need a Job? Should Have Donated to Bush.

Great article in The Washington Post yesterday about the appointments Bush made since Election Day...
Nearly half of Bush's appointments after Election Day were filled by donors who gave a total of nearly $1.9 million to Republicans since 2003, according to an analysis of the postings. 
Bush named three members to the panel on Christmas Eve: Carol Ann Bartz, chief executive of Yahoo, who donated about $35,000 to Bush and other Republicans over the past six years; Maria Cino, who organized the 2008 Republican National Convention; and Israel Hernandez, who worked in the Commerce Department and the Bush White House. Their terms last through 2012, allowing them to play a role in influencing trade policy throughout Obama's term.

Monday, February 9, 2009

Obama's First Presser...

Barack Obama held his first press conference this evening, and of course, the focus was on the stimulus package that will hopefully come up for a vote tomorrow.  My favorite part came in response to a question from conservative Mara Liasson, who asked what lessons the President has learned from this whole stimulus debate.  

Now, just in terms of the historic record here, the Republicans were brought in early and were consulted. And you'll remember that when we initially introduced our framework, they were pleasantly surprised and complimentary about the tax cuts that were presented in that framework. Those tax cuts are still in there. I mean, I suppose what I could have done is started off with no tax cuts, knowing that I was going to want some, and then let them take credit for all of them. And maybe that's the lesson I learned.

But there was consultation. There will continue to be consultation. One thing that I think is important is to recognize that because all these -- all these items that you listed are hard, that people have to break out of some of the ideological rigidity and gridlock that we've been carrying around for too long.

And let me give you a prime example -- when it comes to how we approach the issue of fiscal responsibility. Again, it's a little hard for me to take criticism from folks about this recovery package after they presided over a doubling of the national debt. I'm not sure they have a lot of credibility when it comes to fiscal responsibility.


It seems a lot of people who attack the President for his lack of bipartisanship always fail to mention that Obama initially had 40% of his stimulus going to tax cuts because that is precisely what Republicans wanted. Rush Limbaugh, the de facto leader of the GOP, railed against Obama's bill and proposed his own "plan", which portrayed Obama's plan as 100% spending, and then Rush demanded that 46% of the stimulus go to tax cuts.  

The Republican side of the debate looks as if it's based entirely in the realm of intellectual dishonesty.  God bless consistency.

GOP Open Letter to Rush Limbaugh

An excellent open letter to Rush Limbaugh was published this morning on Politico.com, from a former staffer for House leadership:


Dear Rush,

Congratulations! You have been selected by the Obama administration, the mainstream media and 20 million of your most passionate followers to be the new head of the Republican Party.

As such, you are given all the rights and responsibilities that come with being a true political leader. 

Your mission is simple: Restore the Republican Party to its former greatness by single-handedly helping Republicans to regain control of Congress and to offer a reasonable and viable alternative to President Barack Obama.

You should be honored that the Obama administration has selected you, El Rushbo, to lead the Republicans in such a quest. Obviously, they find you to be a formidable foe — politically adept and a proven vote-getter.

Since we are a party of metrics and accountability, we would like to see your plans to make Republicans more competitive. While your supporters are passionate and energized, we would like to see how you are going to expand your base of support. While 20 million listeners is an impressive number, Obama had nearly 70 million voters. Fifty million is a pretty big gap to make up, but we are certain that, with your effervescent personality, you will be able to close that in no time.

We would also like to see your plan to help Republicans compete in the Northeast, the Upper Midwest, the West Coast and Florida, in the big cities and in the suburbs. Republicans have been pretty much wiped out in all of those areas in the past two elections.

We would like to see your plan to attract more women’s votes. While we always get creamed by single women in elections, even married women turned against us this time. Not sure if calling female leaders “feminazis” really works in this atmosphere, but we are willing to hear you out on that. We got killed by America’s fastest-growing voting population, Hispanics, in the last election. What is your plan to attract these voters? I know that you despise any kind of nuanced position on immigration reform, but we would love to see any of your ideas for getting some of these voters in the next election.

We got completely demolished by the African-American vote in the last election. No surprise there, given the top of the ticket. But we are wondering how referencing our president’s race in any way, shape or form is productive or relevant to the current discussion. Please let us know.

Another problem area is independent voters, who went with Obama big time in the last election. Not sure why. Maybe they liked his saying he would govern from the center. Now, we all know that was just rhetoric, but will we really attract independent voters if we decide to move further to the right? Just asking. 
There are plenty of ways to point out deficiencies in the opposition’s plans. And believe us, we know there are many dumb ideas that are coming from the other side. But our research shows that the American people actually want help with certain things (the failing education system, the high cost of health care, the sagging economy, etc.). Do you have any good ideas that you can share with us — ideas that will be seen as reasonable by the American people — that can serve as a viable alternative? Or is it your plan to simply oppose every idea that comes from the Obama administration?

Anyway, congratulations on this big promotion. We are proud of you, and, of course, we are all “ditto-heads.” Please get us your plans as soon as possible, because we have a lot of work to do. 

Sincerely,

The Republican Party

Sunday, February 8, 2009

The Products of American Socialism

Came across a great article over on Salon.com today exploring the unique predicament that modern day Republicans are in...Not only do the Rush Limbaughs and John McCains need to convince people that a continuation of Bush's policies will get us out of the mess precipitated by Bush's policies, but they also need to rewrite the history of the 1930's and the effectiveness of FDR's New Deal (which, strangely, often includes discounting the people that were employed by New Deal projects).

Most enjoyable about this article was the accompanying slideshow which shows "Great achievements in American socialism," apparently the very thing that the GOP is arguing against.

Well, It HAS Been Over a Week...


...since Michael Steele was finally able to (barely) win an election and bested a South Carolina segregationist to become the new chair of the RNC.  Took a bit longer than I expected for a scandal to break out:

Michael S. Steele, the newly elected chairman of the Republican National Committee, arranged for his 2006 Senate campaign to pay a defunct company run by his sister for services that were never performed, his finance chairman from that campaign has told federal prosecutors...
Fabian's claims emerge as Steele begins his new role at the RNC, where he oversees the raising and spending of hundreds of millions of dollars in party money. The former Maryland lieutenant governor has faced questions about his handling of campaign money in prior elections and was twice fined for missing filing deadlines...

Obama's Weekly Address - Stimulus Package



Yesterday began with some devastating news with regard to our economic crisis.  But I'm pleased to say it ended on a more positive note.
In the morning, we received yet another round of alarming employment figures – the worst in more than 30 years.  Another 600,000 jobs were lost in January.  We've now lost more than 3.6 million jobs since this recession began.

But by the evening, Democrats and Republicans came together in the Senate and responded appropriately to the urgency this moment demands.

In the midst of our greatest economic crisis since the Great Depression, the American people were hoping that Congress would begin to confront the great challenges we face.  That was, after all, what last November's election was all about.  

Legislation of such magnitude deserves the scrutiny that it's received over the last month, and it will receive more in the days to come.  But we can't afford to make perfect the enemy of the absolutely necessary.  The scale and scope of this plan is right.  And the time for action is now.

Saturday, February 7, 2009

New Stimulus Provides Fewer Jobs! Yay!


If there's one thing I think a stimulus plan should definitely NOT do, it's create jobs.  That would just be terrible.  Thanks to the "centrists" in the Senate, Paul Krugman thinks this bill will leave about 600,000 fewer people without jobs.

Speaking of Krugman, loved his performance on Morning Joe the other day...


Joe Scarborough: ...George Bush over the past eight years had the most disastrous spending policy.  They decided to cut taxes, they decided to increase the deficit.  They decided to increase entitlement spending while they were fighting two wars.  They made no tough decisions whatsoever.  You can't say that that's the traditional conservative approach to economics.  It was a disaster and I think we can all agree with that, can we not?

Paul Krugman:  You've got some mythical image of what a modern conservative is.  Reagan increased spending while cutting taxes.  Bush increased spending while cutting taxes.  Who is your ideal here?

Norm Coleman cuts a new ad?!



Hoping that the campaign ads were over for a couple years? Well, not in Minnesota.  In spite of the fact that the election is over and no one will be able to cast any more votes, the Minnesota Republican Party has cut another anti-Franken ad.  Even more exciting is the fact that it attacks Franken's ethics, comparing his tax problems to several of Obama's cabinet nominations:

Why is that exciting?!  Perhaps the funniest reason is that if Coleman were to be declared the victor in this Senate race, he would certainly face a Senate Ethics investigation for not paying the utility bill of his apartment, for getting sweetheart rent deals, for not reporting $75,000 in gifts, and of course, the infamous suits:





Most importantly, Al Franken's tax problems have been remedied.  He's filed appropriately in the other states where he earned money, and because he originally only paid taxes in states that he resided in, he overpaid those two states significantly.  Odd that the GOP is attacking a mistake that has been remedied while their candidate refuses to even answer questions about his problems, let alone resolve them.

Obama Bipartisanship Vs. Bush "Bipartisanship"

"I guarantee you this is not bipartisan."
-- John McCain in crazy man rant

Republicans, on every TV show they can get booked on, are railing against Barack Obama and his apparent "Orwellian" tactics and complete lack of bipartisanship.  Trouble is, two weeks into his presidency, Barack Obama has already met with the opposition party in the House as many times as President Bush did in  the entirety of his eight years.  The product of these talks?  The removal of family planning funding, reduced spending on mass transit, and the conversion of infrastructure spending into tax cuts....Result?  0 Republicans voted for the package.


Wait a Minute...

"A warning light is flashing on the dashboard of our economy, 
and we can't just drive on and hope for the best" 



The primary argument Republicans seem to be voicing against Obama's stimulus package seems to be it's price tag, now hovering just under $800 billion.  While $800 billion DOES seem to be a hefty price tag, the Republican Party didn't seem to have any problems with the $1.3 TRILLION package proposed in 2001, when the unemployment rate was nearly half what it is today, and the foreclosure rate at 0.48% as compared to 1.19% today.

Paul Krugman on Thursday said it best on Thursday in the New York Times:

Count me among those who think that the president made a big mistake in his initial approach, that his attempts to transcend partisanship ended up empowering politicians who take their marching orders from Rush Limbaugh. What matters now, however, is what he does next.

It’s time for Mr. Obama to go on the offensive. Above all, he must not shy away from pointing out that those who stand in the way of his plan, in the name of a discredited economic philosophy, are putting the nation’s future at risk. The American economy is on the edge of catastrophe, and much of the Republican Party is trying to push it over that edge.

Friday, February 6, 2009

Stimulate Without the Stimulation, Please.

While her jokes are more often miss than they are hit, I believe that Rachel Maddow is likely the most informed political pundit on television.  Whether you agree or disagree with her conclusions, Rachel provides solid data and examples explaining her position.  Her response to the debate in the Senate tonight over Obama's stimulus package is no exception.  While it runs a bit long at 8 minutes, it's definitely worth the time:




Rachel does a wonderful job of illustrating the cost/benefit analysis of something like infrastructure spending compared to the Republican idea of tax rebates.  While rebates are barely stimulative at all (at roughly $1.02 put back into the economy for every $1 the government spends), infrastructure spending yields $1.59 for every  buck the government throws at it.  That is precisely what we are trying to accomplish with this package.  To STIMULATE the economy.

The Republicans, however, are being entirely foolish.  

Even though food stamps are the single most effective way the federal government can stimulate the economy, they pouted and threw tantrums until it was removed.  

Even though there is a mountain of evidence suggesting that the impact of tax cuts on stimulating the economy is negligible, Republicans were able to get a whopping 42% of the bill to be dedicated to them.  While Karl Rove claims no Republicans wanted nothing but tax cuts, 36 of the 41 Senate Republicans voted for just that.

Republicans are putting their party loyalty over their desire to actually address the problems facing America.  

Therefore, they are boneheads.

Netflix CEO Says "No, Thanks" to CEO Pay Cap




Reed Hastings, the CEO of Netflix, came out against Obama's plan to cap executive pay yesterday.  Instead, he argued that instead of placing caps on executive pay for those companies that receive bailout money, a tax rate of 50% should be set on all incomes higher than one million dollars...

http://www.nytimes.com/2009/02/06/opinion/06hastings.html?_r=3&ref=opinion#

I'm not a real big fan of capping CEO pay, and this is a plan I can definitely get behind.

Thursday, February 5, 2009

A New Blog...




After years of agonizing internal debate, I have decided to launch the rarest of all things in the 21st century: a political blog.  Worry not about the existence of my other blog, Hurricane Jasno!  It shall continue to exist, and remain a receptacle for all those things I find on the interwebs that I find amusing.

With all the debate going on across the country about the stimulus package, cabinet appointees, and the general direction of the country, I've found that I need an outlet.  An outlet to respond to the inaccurate claims made by talk radio and the political roundtable shows on cable.  An outlet to respond to arguments I hear put forth by Senator and Representatives on C-SPAN.

I just feel an overwhelming need to document my opposition to some of the insanity and logical fallacies I hear emanating from our elected leaders and those pushing an agenda backed by false claims.  There may be posts once an hour, once a day, or once a month, all depending on how irritated with those I hear making crap up.  

If anyone reads this blog, well, bonus points!