November 2009 Archives

With President Obama expected to announce a troop increase in Afghanistan somewhere in the neighborhood of 30,000 in a prime-time address to the nation on Tuesday night, I'll be interested in hearing the response of the deficit hypocrites in Congress, particularly the Senate. Let's see if those who rant and rave about the cost of health care reform hold the cost of war to the same standard, that it not add to the deficit. I'm...

Apparently, the world is abuzz over Chris Mathews and the decision to deny Patrick Kennedy the eucharist. Eljefebob reviewed their performance this morning. It brought a huge discussion on the Hurricane and I thought I would expound on the issue. It is an important one from a political science standpoint and from a religious standpoint. Fortunately (or unfortunately) I can offer a lot to both.Those who are aware of their history know that evangelical Christians...

Redmond and Elvis over at Bob Cesca's Awesome Blog are doing a hilarious chapter-by-chapter review of Sarah Palin's "Going Rogue," which they have re-titled "Why Me Not President?" So far they have covered Chapters One and Two. I'll share a few excerpts, but read both posts in their entirety, they don't disappoint.Chapter One:"The Sarah Palin of Going Rogue loves the word "independent" (wink-wink!) and warns against the evils of Big Government while gushing over how...

Where does the hate-filled rhetoric of the far-right lead? When Rush Limbaugh says "we're just a couple notches above what hell must be like, and we're still spiraling down."When Limbaugh says that Gallup is "upping the sample of black Americans" to keep President Obama's approval rating at 50%. When Glenn Beck says the passage of health care reform will be "a nail in the coffin of America" and "the end of America as you know...

I know it's Friday and I'm supposed to do another installment of my funnies, but I have a beef. It's the Friday before our thanksgiving break, but all I can think about right now are management issues in education. Since I'm sure these issues are mirrored in industry I will simply label them as management issues in the general sense. However, I will speak from particular perspective that is education. I had a group of...

To those of us who have been around the blogs for about the last 18 months this data from Public Policy Polling should come as no surprise:"PPP's newest national survey finds that a 52% majority of GOP voters nationally think that ACORN stole the Presidential election for Barack Obama last year, with only 27% granting that he won it legitimately...Overall 62% of Americans think Obama legitimately won the election to only 26% who think ACORN...

From CBS News: Texas lawmakers wanted to make sure gay people couldn't get married. Instead, it seems, they may have made sure no one can. Here's what happened: In 2005, Texas voters and the state Legislature approved a Constitutional amendment to ban gay marriage. But the amendment included the following clause, which was reportedly designed to ban civil unions and domestic partnerships: "This state or a political subdivision of this state may not create or...

The people at the Fox Propaganda News Channel obviously just don't care any more. They don't care how blatant the lie and how easily disproved it is, run with it. Less than 2 weeks after being exposed by Jon Stewart for showing crowd shots from Glenn Beck's 9/12 rally and trying to pass it off as Michele Bachmann's Kill the Bill "press conference," they've done it again. Yesterday, while host Greg Jarrett claimed that Sarah...

During the Rush Limbaugh program today, Limbaugh was discussing the stimulus package. He discussed the idea that the Obama administration would give a tax credit of $3,000 for each American job created by a small business. He claimed this was not incentive enough to actually create any jobs, but a gesture that Obama made in order to act like he cares about creating jobs, when his real intent is to only cover his ass....

I still hear from some corners that this administration "abandoned" our allies in Europe by canceling the Ground-based Midcourse Defense silos in Poland and X-band radar site in the Czech Republic proposed by the Bush Administration.  The administration, especially Defense Secretary Gates, makes the argument that they've traded an unproven capability for one that can be deployed sooner and have a real effect on improving European security.As a former weapons analyst myself, the subject and...