Disclaimer #1 - This post is meant to be something of a clearinghouse for the jumble of thoughts that have been tangling up my brain's productivity for over a month now. In my dreams, I have tons of things linked here to back up and illustrate everything I mention. In reality, I have an (almost) 3 y/o and an (almost) 1 y/o, and it's already 10:45 ( Read more... )

Right, so one time I decided to give the Obama campaign my email address in order to enter a chance to win at coffee with the President. Because, I thought, "What fun if I won!"  And because the website told me I didn't have to actually donate in order to register a chance. Well, I suspect the website lied, because it never actually TOLD me I was ( Read more... )

I seem to be making up for a month of nothing...

Here is a brilliant piece of writing from a scene in Monty Python and the Holy Grail.

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Arthur: I am your king!

Woman: Well I didn't vote for you!

Arthur: You don't vote for kings.

Woman: Well how'd you become king then?

[Angelic music plays...]

Arthur: The Lady of the Lake, her arm ( Read more... )

Some may take issue with my title, saying that Obama simply stimulated the bill but others actually wrote and crafted it.  Well, I say that a president who spends over 12 hours PERSONALLY negotiating the details of a bill deserves to own it.

That's an interesting article by the way. And I think it raises two questions.

1) What is Obama going to do ( Read more... )

I'm sorry, but this is just funny.  I don't care who you are.


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This is funny ....  and why I have a deep, inherent suspicion of all politicians.


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So, despite all the things I've learned since I left the "right-wing indoctrination camp" many would probably describe as my parent's home.... I am still a conservative.  Why?  Because government does not need to be as big as it is.  See here:

"I am borrowing this from newsletter guru, John Mauldin, who apparently borrowed it from The Privateer. It ( Read more... )

It's not too hot and it's not cold at all.  It will probably get pretty hot later when the sun is high and hot, but this morning it's very nice to sit outside.  I'm still waiting to get the part of my pregnancy (yes, I'm pregnant again) where I turn into a heater, because maybe then I'll actually feel the same as the rest of the world.  As it ( Read more... )

Political Science For Dummies

DEMOCRAT

You have two cows.
Your neighbor has none. 
You feel guilty for being successful. 
You push for higher taxes so the government can provide cows ( Read more... )

So I was reading the Policy Planning Study #23, by George Kennan (of the United States State Department, written in February, 1948) and I came upon this quote:

"A second possible solution [to a previously discussed problem of Britain and Western Europe's economic status after WWII] would lie in arrangements whereby a union of Western European ( Read more... )