This makes me happy. I would love to live in a city with no cars. I don't mean getting rid of vehicles altogether, you would still need delivery vehicles, buses and maybe cabs. But think about how much space would suddenly open up if we could get rid of street parking for personal cars, maybe take out a lane of road. It would be awesome. If I were in charge...

The Bloggess makes me laugh out loud...again

Seriously, she is funny. You should follow her.

Keystone XL pipeline is turning Republicans into environmentalists.

For me, the jaw-dropping part of this article is the last 2 paragraphs, quotes from Randy Thompson, "a conservative guy who supported Republicans"

This issue has the power to be a real uniting force. Hopefully, the Obama administration sees that and kills this thing outright. As it is now they have only delayed making a decision on it.

Sorry, that's some serious bullshit. Ya go with R2. It's an f'ing astromech. Can your phone physically repair a starship in flight or bring you a sammich? No. No, it can't. Tool.

Crossposted on I, for one, welcome out robot overlords.

Holy Santorum!

Lil Ricky wins all 3 contests, Missouri, Minnesota and Colorado. While I still think Mittens will be the nominee it just got a lot less certain.

Expanded post on CandyBuffet.

The gift that won an election.

Chrysler and Clint Eastwood ensured President Obama's re-election last night.

Ahh, suki, suki. New M.I.A. video. Badass.

Robert Reich explains why Democrats should not be so gleeful when imagining Newt Gingrich winning the Republican nomination. I agree, a Newtie presidency would be devastating. But I also reserve the right to be gleeful the longer he stays in the race. Besides, if the quotes in Reich's article are any indication there is no way the Republican party will let Newt win the nomination so I'm not too worried about that, but man is he fun.

Is this thing on?

Here's to friends who push you to do things. Gonna start this blogging thing back up.

Who said this:
"I'm not exactly for the use of drugs, don't get me wrong, but I just believe that criminalizing marijuana, criminalizing the possession of a few ounces of pot, that kinda thing it's just, it's costing us a fortune and it's ruining young people. Young people go into prisons, they go in as youths and come out as hardened criminals. That's not a good thing."

- Pat "700 Club" Robertson; two things about this quote blow me away, the first one is obviously that Pat Robertson could come around to being ok with marijuana use. The second is the slightly more subtle admission that our prison system does the opposite of one of its intended goals, rehabilitation.

At the 5:00 minute mark.

To my progressive friends: STFU! No soup for you!
To my Republican friends: What can I give you?

Am I being a little dramatic? Probably, but I'm getting real tired of the "let's work together" shtick. The Republicans have shown that they are not honest partners and that they have no interest in being such. Quit giving them a place at the table when they have consistently proven that their goal is to set the table on fire. Case in point:


The bottom line is that, once again, this is either brilliant Obama-fu or a capitulation to the shrill minority and the moneyed interests. The brilliant Obama-fu would be that now, the public option, as Obama has said he wants it, becomes almost the default policy. The co-op and the trigger now need to prove they are better options.

Still, I feel like progressives get the short stick again. But maybe that's our role in this administration. We are the midfield playmaker. We make the last pass in the face of a brutal tackle. Yeah, we get the cleats to the ankle, which hurts hella lot, but we make the play that results in the winning goal. I still have faith that Obama is giving us a wink as he throws us under the bus and that the wink means it will be worth it and we will get what we want. Ever the optimist.

Update: Here we go. Maxine Waters floats the bubble - anyone got any better ideas than the Public Option? Damn, I'm good. Now there will be discussion of the co-op and trigger options and it's up to us to eviscerate them as the bad ideas they are. Wonder Blogger Powers, activate: form of a reasoned rebuttal!

Game On!

Obama at Cincinnati AFL-CIO Labor Day BBQ, "And I continue to believe that a public option within the basket of insurance choices would help improve quality and bring down costs."
While I'm not as reassured as this, I am much more hopeful than I was a week ago that the Health Insurance Public Option will not be abandoned and that President Obama will fight for it and is actually already pretty confident that it's in the bag, which is especially heartening since it looks like a significant percentage of the public is in favor of it, see here and here.

Of course, what that really means is keep it up, contact your Rep., your Senators and the White House and demand that we get substantial Health Care Reform this year and that it must include a public option. Do it tomorrow, cause this debate is essentially over on Wednesday when Obama gives his Health Care speech.

BTW, full video of the speech can be found here and the Fired Up! story begins around 30:40. I never get tired of hearing it.

Barney Frank!

I would have gone a step further and asked her to actually explain how health care is like Nazis. The hilarity that would ensue.



Longer version, full of Barney Frank awesome.

super kitty!

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Peru pics

Here.

Next trip, Mittens is coming with me

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