February 11, 2010
— Maetenloch Just one more day to the holiday weekend. Might as well start your slackin' now.
Do You Live In Drunktown?
Men's Health has compiled a list of America's drunkest cities based on data such as death rates from alcoholic liver disease, booze-fueled car crashes, frequency of binge-drinking in the past 30 days, number of DUI arrests, and severity of DUI penalties. So if you're reading this from Fresno, then yes you are in Drunktown and probably already blitzed yourself.
The Top 10
1. Fresno, CA
2. Reno, NV
3. Billings, MT
4. Riverside, CA
5. Austin, TX
6. St. Louis, MO
7. San Antonio, TX
8. Lubbock, TX
9. Tucson, AZ
10. Bakersfield, CA
And the Bottom 10:
90. Portland, ME
91. Manchester, NH
92. Fort Wayne, IN
93. New York, NY
94. Durham, NC
95. Newark, NH
96. Miami, FL
97. Salt Lake City, UT
98. Rochester, NY
99. Yonkers, NY
100. Boston, MA
Don't forget that drunkards are an early stage in the Hobo life cycle. So if you're serious about your hunting, head west young Moron!
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— Ace Smashed like 29 of them.
Motive?
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— Ace There's going to be some math in this video. Stick with it.
I just want to say I don't begrudge Soros and the other savvy businessmen who own One West Bank the profits they're making at my expense.
Thanks to John.
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— Ace Whoahhhh! For once we're not blaming Bush, I see.
Obama inherited a stable, peaceful (more or less) Iraq from Bush. His major accomplishment is not changing anything.
But this administration desperately need a win, doesn't it?
On Larry King Live last night, Vice President Joe Biden said Iraq "could be one of the great achievements of this administration. You're going to see 90,000 American troops come marching home by the end of the summer. You're going to see a stable government in Iraq that is actually moving toward a representative government."...
At the briefing today, White House press secretary Robert Gibbs was asked about Biden calling Iraq one of the great potential achievements of the Obama administration given that Biden had previously advocated that the country should be divided into thirds and split among Kurds, Shiites, and Sunnis, and then-Sen. Obama opposing the surge of US troops that many experts argue helped bring stability that allowed the reconciliation process to continue.
In fact, in January 2007 then-Sen. Obama said that he was "not persuaded that 20,000 additional troops in Iraq is going to solve the sectarian violence. In fact, I think it will do the reverse."
Gibbs said the achievement was "putting what was broken back together and getting our troops home, which we intend to do in August of this year."
A reporter pointed out that the Status of Forces Agreement to bring troops home was signed before the president took office.
Gibbs called that agreement "something I think that the political pressure that the president, as a then-candidate, helped to bring about."
Obama gets the credit for "pressuring" Bush into signing the SoF agreement Obama is so proud of, but apparently Bush didn't feel any such pressure in signing the TARP deal that Obama supported, and in fact voted for as Senator.
That, my friends, was all on Bush.
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— Ace Baucus, the Democrats' negotiator, had been too bipartisan, you see.
Reid killed the bill after hearing complaints from members of his own caucus who argued that Finance Committee Chairman Max Baucus (D-Mont.) had gone too far beyond the core goal of job creation in order to win Republican support.
Maybe he's talking about the Patriot Bill extension that was supposed to be tucked into the bill.
The bill, Harry Reid flat-out tells you, isn't about jobs at all.
It's about having a message about jobs.
“The message is so watered down with people wanting other things in this big package that we’re going to have to come back and finish that,” he said....
“And then when we finish that, we’ll move on to the tax extenders and all the other stuff,” Reid told reporters after the weekly Democratic Senate lunch. “But we feel the American people need a message. The message that they need is that we’re doing something about jobs. We don’t have a jobs bill. We have a jobs agenda.”
This guy isn't even pretending to talk about jobs -- he's just telling the press flat-out the political message he wants to get out by spending a $100 billion. And they don't even seem to notice.
George Bush (the Elder) famously read his stage-directions one time: Message: I care. He wasn't supposed to say that. That was supposed to guide him in how to present himself, to subliminally convey that. But he accidentally read it aloud.
And caught hell for it -- what a dummy. What a phony.
Here's Reid going on and on not about jobs but about crafting a political message to save his 2010 campaign and no one in our press corps bats an eye.
Hey Harry? If you want to send a message, you don't need $100 billion.
Start a blog, you useless retard.
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— Gabriel Malor Bumped by ace. Waterloo 2: Electric Boogaloo.
Promises, promises, you knew you'd never keep:
President Barack Obama said he is “agnostic” about raising taxes on households making less than $250,000 as part of a broad effort to rein in the budget deficit.Obama, in a Feb. 9 Oval Office interview, said that a presidential commission on the budget needs to consider all options for reducing the deficit, including tax increases and cuts in spending on entitlement programs such as Social Security and Medicare.
“The whole point of it is to make sure that all ideas are on the table,” the president said in the interview with Bloomberg BusinessWeek, which will appear on newsstands Friday. “So what I want to do is to be completely agnostic, in terms of solutions.”
Much more at the link.
Later: Obama calls this prudence. He doesn't want to seem like he's crossing ideas off the list because "pretty soon you just can't solve the problem."
Except his "prudence", his forbearance from hasty action, contradicts the promise he made repeatedly during the campaign. Because if he had to stick to his promise--no taxes--he'd more likely have to do something he really doesn't want to do: rein in spending.
His promise got hard to keep. So he's throwing it under the bus.
More [ace]: This really shocks me, and I'm not being sarcastic.
The man is now talking about breaking the key promise he made 40 times on the campaign trail -- that no one making less than $250,000 would see their taxes go up "a single dime."
He's effectively telling every middle-class citizen who voted for him: Go f--- yourselves.
I'm not sure what he's thinking. Not only will he not be able to achieve this -- even Congressional Democrats will revolt -- the very idea he's talking about it may doom him.
What is this -- some kind of threat to the public "either give me my way or else their will be consequences"?
I can only imagine he's trying to link this to his nonsense claims about reducing the deficit by adding 30 million people to the federal health-care benefits rolls. Either I can reduce the deficit my way or this other way, he might be trying to claim.
It's preposterous, but he justifies all this by saying he doesn't want to rule anything out, but in fact he's ruling a lot out -- like stopping with all the spending and putting his health-care plans on permanent hold.
Of course, the White House tipped its hand on this seven months ago:
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— Purple Avenger Ummm, OK. I always considered Reich as one of the least insane Clintonistas.
...IÂ’m also joining any Tea Party of mad-as-hellers fed up with how Big Insurance, Big Pharma, Wall Street, and much of the rest of corporate America have taken over our democracy.In other recent pieces he's written he doesn't seem much of a fan of the bank bailouts and the too-big-to-fail notion. I probably don't agree with 80% of what Reich says, but its easy to disagree with him on amicable terms on that 80%. The other 20% of the time, he's dead on. The fact that Reich didn't use the term "teabaggers" sounds like he's been doing a bit of naval gazing lately too and decided there may be some substance to the gestalt behind the tea party movement.
Teabagger, Robert Riech. I'm still trying to wrap my head around that one.
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— Ace On FoxNews now. They have reports of this, but are trying to confirm it themselves.
They're speculating it's about his heart, possibly to get a stent.
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— Ace Keep beating that chicken.
"Plainclothes beat Zahra Rahnavard by baton when she tried to attend the revolution Day rally in Tehran," Mousavi's website Kalemeh reported. "She was rescued by Mousavi's supporters."
More protests as Iran's theocracy celebrates its 30th blood-drenched birthday:
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— Ace Minnesotans for Global Warming on the blizzards which prove global warming:
Oh, by the way, you're unpatriotic.
Oh, and, Rush Limbaugh and Sarah Palin want to kill you.
Thanks to eddiebear for that last one.
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