HULK SMASH
No.
no no.
Reading engineering/construction blogs can be entertaining these days:
http://enr.construction.com/peop...26-
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The disaster known as the Bush administration has come up with another shopworn gimmick to cure our national economic woes - a tax rebate. Taxpaying individuals could collect $600.00, married filers $1,200.00. The catch is that they have to spend it to get America out of depression. Sounds like neocon economics, another debacle guaranteed to empty the treasury.
The incompetence of the Bush regime, in particular Condoleezza Gump, of smoking mushroom cloud fame, and the treachery of the neocons has already cost the U.S. over $1 trillion for the Liars War in Iraq. Now, according to a just released congressional study, that war could top $3.5 trillion by 2017, if we ever get out of there by then. Think of it - the neocon's war will cost a family of four $36,900 by 2017. Iraq already cost Mr. and Mrs. America $16,500 from 2002 to this year.
The Liars War has created an economic holocaust that is helping to make Middle America credit refugees in their own country. Remember 1930's Hoovervilles? Could we now start seeing Bushdumps? Talk about shock and awe.
Nice!
Not if they don't pay taxes anyway.
BWAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA!!!!!!!!
Yeah, and JFK was gonna be controlled by the Pope!
Wow, CNN really is reaching for ratings, isn't it?
Ah, yes.
But really it's all about whether LIBERALISM has any place in America.
Land of the self-righteous, home of the naive.
It'll be fun when Pat Robertson, Phyllis Schlafly and James Dobson start talking about how vitally important separation of church and state is to American life...
please make it stop!
Note to the Krugmeister: the oil crisis of 74 happened after the Vietnam War was pretty much over and the financial mess of the late 70's & early 80's happened after the Vietnam War ended.
Our very expensive war is still going on and nowhere near over.
Sorta missed that li'l fact bro.
... and they are just noticing NOW?
ProfWombat,
This piece of convoluted and plate-of-spaghetti straight bit of thinking did it for me.
The last thing we need now is a heated national conversation about race.
What we need instead are sober, results-oriented debates about economics, social mobility, education, family policy and the like — focused especially on how to help those who are struggling.
Good god! How can one actually separate those?
Fool.
Oh, fucking great.
Last year was bees.
This year it's bats.
Dying by the thousands in the NE states.
I say Americans just cut to the chase.
Start cutting down all the trees to build Moai until we extinguish ourselves at a faster pace.
DWD: could you really, ever, write something as funny as an assertion that Clarence Thomas is the country's outstanding conservative, and would make a superb vice presidential candidate?
Comedy gold, that was.
I'll admit that calling for 'benign neglect' of race issues in a year when a black man is running credibly for president comes close to that standard of absurdity, though..
Good god! How can one actually separate those?
Fool.
DWD
Ah, Kristol is hopelessly out of touch, anyway.
I want to hear more about the candidates' faith.
I'm gonna be needing some stronger curse words. These old ones just don't get there any longer.
Kristol isn't out of touch. He does that because he's a sadistic piece of crap and gets off to it.
Are you trying to say that the pope controls black people??!?
The bees are back, here. You'll all have as much orange blossom honey as you want this year.
You already know what the miscreant is going to write, basically. So why read it? I'm certainly not.
I'm gonna be needing some stronger curse words. These old ones just don't get there any longer.
The lovely and delightful Athenae has suggested "twatwaffle."
This is posted at TPM from one of Josh's readers. There is wisdom here, Barack gives you passion and inspiration and a sense of belonging to something important -- but there's a big problem. It's okay to love him, but what if you hate him? (I use "hate" here more in the sense of an audience's experience of a fictional character: simultaneous self recognition, contempt, judgment, catharsis). Can you hate Barack without feeling racist? It's not easy. But with Hillary it is. You can hate her without feeling sexist, because she's a Clinton.
But I don't see this as a bug, I see it as a feature.
A heated national discussion about race is at most the second to the last thing we need, since Bill Kristol is indisputably the last.
Are you trying to say that the pope controls black people??!?
He hypnotizes them with his fabulous shoes.
You already know what the miscreant is going to write, basically. So why read it? I'm certainly not.
ΤΏΤ
Keep your friends close, your enemies closer.
He hypnotizes them with his fabulous shoes.
Click your heels together three times and say...
But with Hillary it is. You can hate her without feeling sexist, because she's a Clinton.
But I don't see this as a bug, I see it as a feature.
Whew! Good thing there's no hate on this side! I feel so... clean.
Are you trying to say that the pope controls black people??!?
He hypnotizes them with his fabulous shoes.
Not to mention the bling.
Why don't we compromise on our discussion of race?
And sell Bill Kristol into bondage.
Start cutting down all the trees to build Moai until we extinguish ourselves at a faster pace.
Or we could eat all our meals in Snook, TX...
He hypnotizes them with his fabulous shoes.
Molly Ivors, Better?
Well, that also explain's Condi's fabulous success, then.
Oh, wait.
And sell Bill Kristol into bondage.
In 500 years, we'll check and see if a racist white guy can be elected president.
It's the only way to be sure.
Boy, they are a sharp as a bowling bowl at the WaPo aren't they?
Recent history has not been kind to working-class Americans, who were down on the economy long before the word recession was uttered.
The main reason: spiraling health-care costs have been whacking away at their wages. Even though workers are producing more, inflation-adjusted median family income has dipped 2.6 percent -- or nearly $1,000 annually since 2000.
This country doesn't deserve Obama. It deserves either Hillary or McCain. Or better yet, it deserves w and he declares martial law and beats people randomnly on the streets.
Start cutting down all the trees to build Moai until we extinguish ourselves at a faster pace.
Or we could eat all our meals in Snook, TX...
The Kenosha Kid
Yes, this would be a popular means of suicide.
Prepare to be stupified, horrified, and cholesteroled to death
Plenty of swear words out there. Anyway, it is how they are creatively combined that really matters.
The Alternative English Dictionary
http://www.alternative-dictionar...ionary/English/
Mass manipulation is hard work.
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from below
That's rather bold. Anything to back it up.
Snow (D-SC) | Homepage | 03.24.08 - 9:04 am | #
Yes. The "off the books" war has inflated the cost of living of the general population, without providing the jobs that are normally considered to be part of a "stimulus". Employment has been weak as prices have risen on basic commodities. Furthermore, massive borrowing from the Fed to pay for the war exacerbates the financial crisis.
For example:
``Three trillion is a lot of money no matter how you look at it,'' said Stiglitz, 65, a former economics adviser to President Bill Clinton. The conflict has driven the nation's energy costs higher by adding $5 to $10 to the price of a barrel of oil, and may enlarge the national debt by $2 trillion in the year 2017, he said.
It's hard to tell whether Krugman is animated here by conventional economics blinders or by his dislike of Obama.
Roger Wilkins is taking calls on c-span now.
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Not to mention the bling.
Karin Hussein
Pope Benedict Big Pimpin'.
Whew! Good thing there's no hate on this side! I feel so... clean.
Molly Ivors, Better
See, there we go again. I was not even thinking of Hillary - I thought that a silly statement - I was thinking Barak and have been for some time. I really believe that attacking him as they have been doing of late can have a boomerang effect.
(And it was not me anyway.)
This year it's bats.
Dying by the thousands in the NE states.
Oh, this hurts. There's been a bat who sleeps up in the porch roof timber of the house where I stay in the summers, and I've always taken it as a good luck omen that she's there.
If any o' y'all especially the lawyers, know who Doug Kmiec is, you will know why I find it extremely bizarre that he endorses Obama.
He has been a real hardcore ant-gay marriage, anti-abortion type; he provides intellectual "muscle" to alot of conservative arguments.
Damn, he was on the Romney campaign.
I don't like his opinions, but he has put out some interesting writing. He is one of the biggest conservative traitor I have seen yet this campaign.
We won't really know until the summer, of course, but the bats of Liberal Mountain are a pretty healthy population.
How odd that the "lib media" didn't notice politics from the pulpit until the preacher was an angry black guy. Apparently only the Falwells and Robertsons and Hagees can proselytize about politics without causing a stir.
No politics in the pulpit or vice versa.
How you know it's a "she"? Does she have bat tiddies or something?
How you know it's a "she"? Does she have bat tiddies or something?
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Well, bats are mammals, as in mammaries...
Apparently only the Falwells and Robertsons and Hagees can proselytize about politics without causing a stir.
Bodini
All the white preachers look a like.
All the white preachers look a like.
Attaturk | Homepage | 03.24.08 - 9:21 am | #
And winger messiah koreans are honorary whites.
no shit
Sheets above.
Speaking of healthcare, make sure you read this article from this months issue of Portfolio magazine: http://www.portfolio.com/news-ma...acy-
Outsourcing
I started reading it last night and I'm just halfway through, but I'm already disturbed. To give you an idea of what it's about, here's a small outtake:
"With the increasing corporatization of medical care, hospitals have outsourced everything from emergency-room treatment and radiology to infection control. But every transition of vendors, every change in hands, multiplies risk, says James Unland, president of the Chicago consulting company Health Capital Group. "When something as crucial as a pharmacy company changes, it's not just some people in the basement of the hospital," Unland says. "It has an effect of permeating the entire organization."
(...)
More than 8 percent of the nation's 5,500 hospitals outsource the management of their pharmacies to companies like McKesson. These companies can seem like a godsend for hospital C.E.O.'s facing soaring pharmaceutical costs and a nationwide shortage of pharmacists. McKesson and Cardinal Health, which are two of the largest, promise to do it all: staff the pharmacies, set up inventory-management systems that can increase efficiency and safety, and be a one-stop shop for drugs, all at a reduced price.
But a fundamental problem exists, says Kurt Patton, former executive director of hospital-accreditation services for the Joint Commission, an independent oversight agency that inspects and certifies hospitals. Hospitals that turn over their pharmacies to management companies often cede nearly total control. This can create a dangerous disconnect between the hospital's medical staff and the pharmacy."
Apparently only the Falwells and Robertsons and Hagees can proselytize about politics without causing a stir.
They should have read their James Joyce.
We won't really know until the summer, of course, but the bats of Liberal Mountain are a pretty healthy population.
Molly Ivors,
Biologists in Canda are surveying the hibernation caves to see if we have the same problem. It's called "white nose disease". Not identified yet, it may be fusarium
Some caves have a mortality rate of 90%.
How you know it's a "she"? Does she have bat tiddies or something?
a)Is "he" the default gender?
b)Something I picked up from speaking German, since it's Die Fledermaus, Die Maus, Die Fliege, etc. One doesn't use "es", one uses "sie". Confusing sometimes but there it is.
sheets
That Kmiec endorsement is alarming, to say the least. Don't know what it says about Obama, but it says volumes about Kmiec.
Rootless, have you a link to the fact where Krugman says he dislikes Obama?
Oh great, atta - Arthur's demanding his rasher of chicken fried bacon - and I have to get out of here for my bloodwork!
"let's do a values voters segment to make Democrats look like baby killing savages"-CNN
Does politics belong in the pulpit?
Given that the pulpit has spent 8 years in the White House, I rule this question Too Goddamn Late, STFU.
there should DEFINITELY be a religious test for public office.
are you religious? if the answer is "yes", YOU ARE INCAPABLE OF HOLDING PUBLIC OFFICE. you have admitted to being irrational and unreasonable. there's no room for your primitive, ignorant, superstitious bullshit in 2008. america is pretty busy right now, what with war, depression, and decline caused by your born-again fetal-alcohol retard president. so take your made-up nonsense and pound it up your god's ass.
NPR and even local WNYC has been sending reporters out to various churches to find out what people who speak from pulpits are saying about racism in this country and about what Obama's spiritual adviser has said.
It made several segments of coverage and call-in shows.
It was not terrible revealing.
"Forty Acres and a Mule: Or Why Pat Buchanan Should Shut His Mouth (on the Wright controversy)"
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