US POLITICS: AMERICANS, PLEASE WELCOME YOUR NEW PRESIDENT... SCOTT BROWN!

lol Tip O'Neill.

:-(

http://www.usnews.com/dbimages/master/10344/FE_PR_090401pastpresent_reagantip.jpg

O'neill: one of the kickbacks of my job is Mad Professor sends me as many new pedals as I can fit into the signal chain. shit is like Pat Metheny on 'ludes in my basement man
Reagan: lol

also, just accept whatever rationalization Matt Armstrong comes up with for this and you'll be fine til the next betrayal. (I believe it's Nader's fault)

I'm still just barely holding out hope that something meaningful will get done regarding climate change. Are my hopes perhaps too audacious?

There'll be a climate change come November.

I'm still just barely holding out hope that something meaningful will get done regarding climate change. Are my hopes perhaps too audacious?

― Fetchboy, Tuesday, January 26, 2010 11:06 AM (2 minutes ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink

"meaningful" action was a long shot before scott brown was elected president

one of my fave SCTV sketches was John Candy in "Tip O'Neill's 3D House of Representatives"

Krugman: "Obama Liquidates Himself"

http://krugman.blogs.nytimes.com/2010/01/26/obama-liquidates-himself/

metallica will never make a decent record again

hangin my hat on that one

― Lee Dorrian Gray (J0hn D.), Tuesday, January 26, 2010 10:06 AM (1 hour ago)

the only thing greater than St. Anger are the Amazon reviews of St. Anger

I'm still just barely holding out hope that something meaningful will get done regarding climate change. Are my hopes perhaps too audacious?

― Fetchboy, Tuesday, January 26, 2010 11:06 AM (33 minutes ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink

I think the answer to this one is contained in the fact that we use the term "climate change" to describe the warming cycle with which we are directly concerned

My mom can now deal with 'climate change' as a term and agree what's happening - her main objections to doing anything about global warming have to do with 'al gore is making millions here'. I suspect this is not unique.

Have you told her that's a pretty stupid objection when the consequence to keeping millions out of Gore's pockets is a dead Earth?

I thought AMerica was meant to be in favour of the pioneer spirit, entrepreneurship and the american dream; which is more or less how Al Gore and myself intent to make money from Global Warming.

pioneer spirit & entrepreneurship is only good when it's republicans, otherwise it's base cynicism - did you miss the meeting or something

LOL J0hn D. I did imply the pettiness of the position.

May be speaking to soon but one KIP of the Brown Administration seems to be: it's gone CRICKETS on the Palin media whoring front.

press blackout prior to her album release iirc

there will be plenty next month when she speaks in front of the tea baggers

So is she on Fox already? I'm guessing not because there has been like nearly a week w/o hearing her say some dumb fucking thing or other that gets heard around the world.

I'd concentrate on the people currently in power who are fucking you over, for now.

^^^^ yes

ugh this spending freeze is literally some McCain level bullshit. Obamas approval numbers are going to be in the shitter soon and its going to be because of a bunch of pissed off Dems.

Not the same situation obviously, but FDR's spending freeze in 1937 did not, er, help him.

I honestly thought I heard wrong this morning when I first found out about it, because it's so dumb. Like Sarah Palin dumb.

Was nice that we used all the non political time on this term fucking up the healthcare bill...

i was tryna convince myself its some kind of next level, so-stupid-it's-genius con game

makes me sad b/c he usually pops out of the fray with something smart and enlightening. this is distraction, bait and switch, shell game, i.e. status quo.

he pumps, now he fires over the middle intercepted i cant believe what im seeing right now

my roommate was rejoicing that obama is being forced to respond to the demands of the american people and ignore his own socialist agenda

favre analogy dead on

well, i don't think bad turnovers has been longterm meta of obama, but the feeling now...

the only real defense i can give of this (beyond the dipshit red-meat reasons, which, if hoos' roomate is any indicator, he won't get any credit for anyway) is that there is a huuuge political lead time necessary to make any kind of spending cuts. interest groups that are, uh, interested in the targeted money are going to have to be wooed/placated/beaten with sticks for a good long while. announce it now and maybe by 2011 it'll happen. or maybe by then, the numbers will look totally different and nobody will remember january '10 anyway.

what's super depressing is not just that the political effort to axe domestic discretionary spending is so large, it's that the political effort to axe defense spending or non-discretionary spending is basically impossible

http://www.tnr.com/blog/jonathan-chait/more-obama-freeze-backstory
http://www.salon.com/opinion/greenwald/2010/01/26/defense/index.html

in MN two of the four prongs of a malpractice suit (duty, breach, cause, damage) are assessed by a panel of third party experts before the case can even be filed (if that's the word), so frivolous lawsuits get filtered out pretty early on, like so many electrolytes thru a glomerulus

― mage pit laceration (gbx), Monday, January 25, 2010 12:04 AM (Yesterday)

lol so how did renal midterm go

re: "climate change" as a term instead of "global warming"

Many people (including myself) prefer to use "climate change" because of the numerous expected consequences of our ghg emissions that go beyond warming itself -acidified oceans, more severe and frequent weather events, depleting freshwater stocks, the ongoing sixth great extinction event, spreading insect-borne diseases, etc.

I think the worry was that if you keep referring to "global warming" then the general public would think that the threat was limited to more sunburns and having to turn on the AC more often. Of course, that's pretty much happened anyway but…

See also: http://www.nasa.gov/topics/earth/features/climate_by_any_other_name.html

But temperature change itself isn't the most severe effect of changing climate. Changes to precipitation patterns and sea level are likely to have much greater human impact than the higher temperatures alone. For this reason, scientific research on climate change encompasses far more than surface temperature change. So "global climate change" is the more scientifically accurate term. Like the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, we've chosen to emphasize global climate change on this website, and not global warming.

here's another theory: if the SOTU is going to make the case that health care reform is primarily a fiscal issue rather than a moral one, then the budget freeze is part of a larger sales job for that

but i'm well and truly sick of "11th dimensional chess" defenses at this point, and if it's true it would be pretty stupid.

don't really care about this proposed spending freeze myself, hard to say how things will actually shake out at this early stage.

so is healthcare just dead now? no bill? is everyone gonna act like that whole process just never happened...?

just like that season of "Dallas," which also lasted a year and went nowhere

huh?

Morbz watches Dallas

Morbz does Dallas

we're about to wake up with suzanne pleshette

At the tail end of Dallas' ninth season, Pamela Ewing (Victoria Principal) was awakened from her troubled slumbers by the sound of a familiar voice in her bathroom. Investigating, she peeked past the shower curtains -- and was astonished to find her ex-husband, Bobby Ewing (Patrick Duffy), who had presumably been killed at the end of the series' eighth season, alive and well! How could this be? Well, the opening scene of season ten explains all. Bobby was never killed -- and the entire ninth season was all a nightmare, dreamed up by poor Pamela! Thus, the writers have blithely negated everything that has happened during the previous season, and from this point forward, not even the most loyal of the series' fans will ever be able to take Dallas entirely seriously again.

zzzzzzzzzzzzzzz

If only that last line were true of Dem voters

(really Shakey, even in the '80s I knew what happened on TV shows w/out watching them)

lol @ Newhart reference

wasn't St. Elsewhere all a dream as well

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/St._Elsewhere#Final_episode

not quite

oh right the snow globe thing