http://www.guardian.co.uk/print/0,,329433567-110878,00.htmlRead more... )

So, the tax-and-spend Republicans pushed another increase in the debt ceiling (to US$9,000,000,000,000) through the Senate today.

NINE TRILLION DOLLARS! IN DEBT!For years and years the GOP would talk about the "tax-and-spend" liberals who controlled Congress in the 1980s. But the debt never grew so high under the Democrats. And the Democrats ( Read more... )

Okay, I know this is a bit wanky of me, but forgive me, because I was raised by a teacher with a concentration in Reading and English ( Read more... )

Oh dear god...Robertson is at it again ( Read more... )

So, apparently, the way that the state figures that they can keep unmotivated people from getting benefits from the state is to have you "work for them". This means they are having you do work, at no cost, in return for you continuing to get certain benefits. The people who are subject to this tend to be unemployed, and yet they're expected to ( Read more... )

Appearantly there's another pointless "boycott gas" day tomorrow.

And these are exactly that, pointless.

Why? Because if you're out and driving around without any point or purpose tomorrow, you're wasting gas. And it doesn't matter if you don't fill up tomorrow, you're going to do it eventually. So, in the end, you're going to be buying gas to ( Read more... )