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Instead of worrying about terrorists

You have a number of other, more pressing things to worry about. I’ve had conversations similar to this a number of times; now there’s numbers. I got this from Boing Boing. Cory got it someplace else.

God damn it

First we have Michelle Bachman. And now fuktards in my beloved state can’t grasp how Democracy is supposed to work.

Minnesota’s Great Shame 2.0

She is the gift that keeps on giving.  Bachmann was on Sean Hannity’s radio show recently. Choice cuts: Economics works equally in any country. Where freedom is tried, the people rejoice. But where tyranny is enforced upon the people, as Barack Obama is doing, the people suffer and mourn. And there was this exchange: Bachmann: Right [...]

Minnesota’s Great Shame

Michele Bachmann brings the stupid like few others in the history of mankind. You can see the confusion on Geithner and Bernanke’s faces give way to astonishment, recognition, and finally, disgust.

Contributions from a Moran

Courtesy of LSH’s resident econ expert, Nagasaki.  The rest can be found here.  He says its the best explanation he’s seen yet for what happened with the mortgage crisis. Also, I’ve been reading a lot of people lately who wish to spread and water down the blame for our current economic predicament. Yes, the american consumer [...]

The High Speed Rail for America Act of 2008

Good news, good new!  A bipartisan bill for investment in HSR, co-sponsored by Sen. Kerry and Sen. Specter.  From the LA Times and Sen. Kerry’s press release: The High-Speed Rail for America Act of 2008 builds upon the Passenger Rail Investment and Improvement Act of 2008 which reauthorizes Amtrak and authorizes $1.5 billion over a five-year [...]

The Myth of the Gray Suit

I despise the glorification of conservatism. The idea that there were once pragmatic, cautious, competent, gray-suited guys making all the right moves is laughable. If they were so pragmatic and competent, they wouldn’t be extinct from the political landscape. Here’s one gray-suited dinosaur, George Will, making a case for conservatism in 2007: Today’s political argument [...]

Please come back

We need conservatives.   I am not repelled by small c conservatism.  On the contrary, I believe conservatism is an essential balance and break on the hunger and energy of the progressive movement.  As I read once somewhere, we need gray-haired men wearing gray suits sternly scouring the federal budget for pricey and impractical items. [...]

Let’s play

Paybacks are a bitch.

Hierarchy of Voting Decisions

It’s important to keep the nutjobs around.  Sometimes in their nuttery, you find a nugget that makes you think for a minute.  Our resident nutjob for the day is Katherine Kersten: In this electoral climate, anyone with a “D” after his name – even a potty-mouthed comedian – could be competitive in a race for [...]