April, 2012 archive
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Leonardo da Vinci, from the Quotemaster (subscribe here):
We know well that mistakes are more easily detected in the works of others than in one’s own.
The Voter Fraud Fraud 0
An actual voter fraud voter has been found.
Guess who.
The Voter Fraud Fraud 0
Glomarization is back from the shadows again, pointing out the the Republican War on Women includes warring and women’s votes:
Follow the link to see her complete post and to follow the links to her evidence.
The Galt and the Lamers 2
PoliticalProf skewers the fundamental fantastickal thinking of Libertarianism in one short pragraph.
Read it.
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Charles de Lint, from the Quotemaster (subscribe here):
As far as I’m concerned, the only difference between fact and what most people call fiction is about fifteen pages in the dictionary.
R. I. P. Facts 0
Rex W. Huppke writes the obit. A exerpt recounts the dying agony of Facts:
Facts was wounded repeatedly throughout the recent GOP primary campaign, near fatally when Michele Bachmann claimed a vaccine for a sexually transmitted disease causes mental retardation. In December, Facts was briefly hospitalized after MSNBC’s erroneous report that GOP presidential candidate Mitt Romney’s campaign was using an expression once used by the Ku Klux Klan.
But friends and relatives of Facts said Rep. West’s claim that dozens of Democratic politicians are communists was simply too much for the aging concept to overcome.
The Flipper Sides of Motherhood 0
Dick Polman sums up the Hilary Rosen fuss. A nugget:
During an appearance, he said that mothers who get welfare should be forced to work outside the home. He said he has long wanted “to increase the work requirement. I said, for instance, that even if you have a child of 2 years of age, you need to go to work. And people said, ‘Well, that’s heartless’ … but I want the individuals to have the dignity of work.”
OK, now I get it: If you’re a rich mom like Ann Romney, you can choose the dignity of full-time parenting. But if you’re a poor mom (the hired help, as it were), your sole option is “the dignity of work.” Lest I make the mistake of uttering a poorly worded phrase, I’ll just let the candidate’s hypocrisy speak for itself.
Bad Company 0
Steve M. explains why Nugent’s threats won’t be an issue:
But the press will shrug off Nugent because the press has been in denial for years about just how insane right-wingers are. No matter what angry, extreme, menacing, paranoid thing right-wingers are up to, the press is always looking for signs that it’s all just a silly phase, all just the work of a few outliers.
Nothing To Do, Nowhere To Go 0
For all practical purpose, no trend here:
(snip)
The four-week moving average, a less volatile measure than the weekly figures, rose to 374,750 last week from 369,250.
The number of people continuing to receive jobless benefits rose by 26,000 in the week ended April 7 to 3.3 million.
The continuing claims figure does not include the number of Americans receiving extended benefits under federal programs.
Take the Test 0
Find out whether you qualify to be an American citizen: Take the test.
I missed two questions. One was from reading to fast. One was from just being wrong (it had to do with succession).
Via PoliticalProf.
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Thomas Jefferson, from the Quotemaster (subscribe here):
We in America do not have government by the majority. We have government by the majority who participate.
Spill Here, Spill Now, See You Later
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Will Bunch reports on eyeless crabs and other mutants now showing up in the Gulf of Buccaneer Petroleum Mexico. A nugget:
Republicanism and the Politics of Spite 1
Jay Bookman of the Atlanta Journal-Constitution considers the motives behind the spate of Republican proposals to test poor people for drugs because they are poor people.
A nugget:
Such condescending rhetoric aside, the legislation was not motivated by a desire to help people. It was intended to be punitive, to make people feel better by making the already hard lives of other people even more difficult. Put bluntly, it was motivated by a sour belief that poor people are poor because the rest of us have been insufficiently mean to them.
Guns and Poses 0
Aside:
Note that Newt the Gingrinch, noted historian and poseur, is unaware of the difference between the Declaration of Independence and the Constitution of the United States.
