“We can’t allow the American people to become collateral damage to Washington’s political warfare.” – President Obama
But, isn’t this speech “political warfare”, Prez?
Pres. Obama: Blah, blah, bladdy-blah
Eyman’s two-thirds vote requirement goes to court
Will the Eymanites whims finally be put in check?
If the challenge were to succeed, it could put an end to the endless cycle of ballot initiatives that have imposed the two-thirds requirement, only to see it rolled back later by legislators, an then reinstated by initiative.
Oh sweet Jebus, I hope so!
The reason that the State Constitution stipulates that voter-passed initiatives have a no-touch period of only two years is to allow cooler heads to prevail down the road.
Two-years-and-maybe-out protects the State from the whims of leeches like Tim Eyman and his cult.
If the two-thirds requirement is struck down, a similar restriction could only be reimposed by amending the state constitution — a politically difficult feat which cannot be done by initiative. Such amendments must first be approved by two-thirds of the Legislature and subsequently ok’d by a statewide vote.
This what the Eymanites truly fear: having to do the long toiling business of changing the State Constitution.
As Eyman and his tribe have shown, any number of goobers can stand out in front of WalMart and fake signatures to get something on the ballot. And any angry mob can rise up within the small percentage of citizens that actually vote and tip the scales toward idiocy.
The two-year rule was a brilliant counter to the easily-bored money-grubbers like Eyman.
He can’t afford to pay attention long enough to the war. He’s a skirmisher.
Besides, who will fund a decade-long process to permanently change the Constitution? Kemper Freeman? No way, baby. There aren’t enough shops in Mallvue to pay for that kind of work.
U.S. funds Taliban with logistical payments
This is what happens when you fight the “new” war – the one you fight without drafting enough white, middle class kids so you have enough bodies to take an hold territory.
Passage through that territory must either be fought for each trip or paid for in advance.
So, who do we try for treason here?
The official said it appears some of the payments were given for truckers to be assured of safe passage through insurgent areas of Afghanistan. As has happened in other instances, trucking contractors paid off local drivers who then turned around and paid local security forces, who in turn paid insurgents in their areas.
via U.S. trucking contracts funded Taliban, source says – CNN.com.
White House warns Congress not to play politics with debt
“Congress should refrain from playing reckless political games with our economy.”
via White House warns Congress not to play politics with debt | Reuters.
Silent majority fed up with Washington
Except for the blatant Chris Christie plug (whom any honest person wouldn’t piss on if he were on fire), I mostly agree with this guy.
Politics is polarized; compromise isn’t a process, it’s a weakness. The other guy must be not just defeated but beaten to a bloody pulp like some thug in a UFC ring.
What is this bullshit? Did your parents teach you this? Mine taught me to cooperate to get things done – and no, cooperate doesn’t mean “listen to your betters”, it means “work together with an amicable attitude”.
They’re looking for results from their leaders, not rhetoric, because they want government to work. To that same end, they’re looking for value, not values, from Washington…
Mortgage ‘robo-signing’ still prolific
Lenders say they are working with regulators to fix the problem but cannot explain why it has persisted.
Oh? I think I can explain it.
via AP Exclusive: Mortgage ‘robo-signing’ goes on | Seattle Times Newspaper.
One Million Housewives takes on the Oreo cookie
There are people in this world with too much time on their hands and I know a million of them. At least, a couple of thousand maybe.
Certified hate group, The American Family Association (a euphemism meaning American Fundamentalist Christian Busybodies) has an organ (heh) known as One Million Moms. OMM is dedicated to the country’s most vulnerable citizens: themselves. But they say that they’re trying to protect our children. How do they do that? Well they tackle the problem issues of our times.
Hunger? No. Lack of health care? Well, not really. Drug use? Um, nope. Issues like: not swearing.
That’s right, NOT swearing. Substituting harmless words or phrases for ones deemed offensive. Specifically, the subbing going on in the hit Oreo Fudge Cremes commercial where everyone makes funny, painfully clean exclamations over the taste of the new cookie product (Grandpa exclaiming, “Franklin Delano!” is my favorite).
Monica Cole, whose photo is strangely hard to come by (in both senses of that phrase, I imagine) is the unacceptably Elfin national directette of this hate group. She whines OMM’s web site, “…”Shut the Front Door.” In today’s teen jargon, that phrase is a euphemism for “Shut the F*@k Up!”
There isn’t a teen alive (except maybe the sheltered teens of One Million Moms) who would think that’s a cool phrase to use out loud.
And so what if it is? Who cares what a couple of thousand right-wing ding-bats consider “thought crime”? I mean “care” in the vein of “take seriously” not in the vein of “Fuck, it’s fun to ridicule them.”
One Million Moms, has started an email campaign against Nabisco and its parent company Kraft Foods for “promoting their Oreo cookie product in a manner that parents find shocking.” They find it “hard to believe that Kraft is unaware what this statement means.” And they ask, “Does Kraft desire for our children to have dirty mouths?” They add, Kraft might have thought this was humorous, but it is not cute when children go around saying this.
via Moms are offended by “shut the front door” – Blog – MyNorthwest.com.
