Month: October 2013
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How Not To Start Off Your Marriage
Step One: Don’t leave your new bride behind when driving home from the honeymoon: A newlywed couple’s honeymoon period didn’t last very long after the groom forgot his bride at a petrol station. The German couple were on their way home from their post-marriage holiday in France when they stopped near the town of Bad…
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Facts and Other Left Wing Talking Points
Here’s our debate over shutting down the government over Obamacare in a nutshell.
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Why Government IT Sucks
Why the federal government is so bad at information technology and getting worse by the day.
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Vatican Misspells “Jesus” On New Papal Coins
Someone at the Vatican is probably feeling a bit embarrassed by now: The Vatican has withdrawn from sale 6,000 copies of a new papal medal on which the name of Jesus was misspelt. In an inscription around the edge of the coin, Jesus was mistakenly spelt with an L. Keen-eyed experts snapped up a handful…
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Hopes For A Senate Deal Now Hinge On Harry Reid And Mitch McConnell
Harry and Mitch to the rescue?
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Focus Shifts To Senate For Possible Deal On Debt Limit, Shutdown
With the House’s proposed deal reaching an impasse, the Senate is now taking center stage.
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New Jersey Supreme Court To Hear Same-Sex Marriage Case In January
The issue of same-sex marriage is likely to be resolved in New Jersey by early next year.
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An Alternate Take: Boehner’s Problem is not that the Speakership has Changed
It’s a party thing.
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Kansas And Arizona Creating Two-Tiered Voting Systems
Two states are creating a voting system that will make some people ineligible to vote in state and local elections.
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Signs Of A Temporary Deal In Washington?
There seems to be at least some hope for a temporary deal in Washington to end the shutdown and raise the debt ceiling, but don’t count your chickens just yet.
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Too Good To Check: Bacon Will Make You Live Longer
Now here’s a scientific study we can all get behind: Science has enriched the lives of bacon-lovers everywhere. A study conducted by researchers at ETH Zurich has concluded that the high levels of Vitamin B3 (known as niacin) in this meat could help you live longer. To test this, Energy Metabolism Professor Michael Ristow fed…
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Report: CIA Warned About Edward Snowden Four Years Ago
The New York Times is out with a report that the Central Intelligence Agency warned that Edward Snowden might be a security risk some four years before he managed to abscond unknown amounts of intelligence data from the National Security Agency and leave the country: WASHINGTON — Just as Edward J. Snowden was preparing to leave Geneva…
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Scott Carpenter, Second American To Orbit Earth, Dead At 88
Scott Carpenter, one of the original group of American Astronauts known as the “Mercury 7” and the second American to orbit the Earth, has died at the age of 88: M. Scott Carpenter, whose flight into space in 1962 as the second American to orbit the Earth was marred by technical problems and ended with…
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Nobel Peace Prize Awarded for Ending Chemical Weapons Use
An agency has won the Nobel Peace Prize for something that hasn’t happened yet.
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Being Speaker Of The House Isn’t What It Used To Be
Being Speaker of the House has become much more of a difficult job than it used to be.
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Now You Can Drunk Dial Congress
An idea whose time has come: As Week 2 of the government shutdown continues, new websites have begun popping up to give furloughed workers and frustrated Americans alike an outlet to express their anger. Especially after they’ve knocked back a couple. Drunkdialcongress.org connects the disgruntled to the House of Representatives. You can enter your phone…
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Mike Ditka: I Should’ve Run For Senate Against Obama
Former Chicago Bears Head Coach Mike Dikta regrets not getting into the 2004 Senate race against Barack Obama: The former Chicago Bears football coach, a Republican, says that if he had run for the U.S. Senate from Illinois in 2004, he would have beaten Obama and ended his political career then and there. “Biggest mistake I’ve ever…
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McAuliffe Still Leading In Virginia Polls, Cuccinelli Scaling Back Ad Buys?
The Virginia Governor’s race may be slipping too far for Republicans to pull off a victory.
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GOP Plan Would Address Debt Ceiling, But Keep Government Shutdown Going
Republicans appear to be uniting behind a short-term plan to deal with the debt ceiling, but seem okay with keeping the government shutdown going forward.
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Identity, Ancestry, Symbols, and Sports
And while on the topic of identity, as well as on the topic of identity and symbols, I give you the following from the National Congress of American Indians for consideration (source):
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American Ancestry and Identity
(And a Postscript on Recent Discussion of the South)
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Ohio Man Informed That He’s Legally Dead
An Ohio man has been told by a local judge that, as far as the law is concerned, he’s dead: Donald Eugene Miller Jr. walked out of Hancock County Probate Court on Monday as legally dead as ever. In 1994, the court ruled that Miller was legally dead, eight years after he disappeared from his…
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U.S. Freezes A Portion Of Military Aid To Egypt
The U.S. sends a mostly weak signal to the Egyptian military.
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Libyan Prime Minister Kidnapped, Freed Hours Later
In a somewhat bizarre incident, the Prime Minister of Libya was kidnapped only to be freed hours later: (CNN) – Just hours after gunmen kidnapped Libyan Prime Minister Ali Zeidan from a luxury hotel under the cover of darkness, he was released unharmed, a government official said. “He’s in good shape, the prime minister, and going…
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Yes, The Shutdown Is Hurting The Republican Party More Than Obama And The Democrats
There’s no denying it now. The GOP is being harmed by the events in Washington far more than the President and Democrats in general.
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Supreme Court Weighs Campaign Contribution Limits
The Supreme Court heard argument in a major campaign finance case yesterday.
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Paul Ryan Reemerges, Offering The GOP An Obamacare-Free Way Out
Paul Ryan is back, and he has a plan his party ought to be paying attention to.
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D.C. Restaurant Gives Furloughed Workers Discount, Charges Congressmen More
One Washington, D.C. eatery is making a statement about the government shutdown: WASHINGTON – The partial shutdown of the federal government comes at a price – two of them, actually. Restaurants, bars and shops have started offering discounts to federal workers, while some have posted surcharges for members of Congress brazen enough to admit who…
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Dysfunctional Government Has A Real World Impact
The real world impact of what’s happening in Washington is becoming apparent.
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Why You Shouldn’t Believe Those Media Whip Counts On A “Clean” CR
Vote counts being conducted by CNN and other media outlets regarding the prospects for a “clean” Continuing Resolution in the House of Representatives suggest that the measure would pass if Speaker Boehner brought it to the floor. Every Democratic member of the House apparently says they would vote for the measure, and there are somewhere…
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Obama To Pick Janet Yellen To Head Federal Reserve Board
As many expected after Larry Summers withdrew his name from consideration, President Obama will announce today that he has selected Federal Reserve Board Vice Chair Janet Yellen to be the next head of the Federal Reserve Board: WASHINGTON — President Obama will nominate Janet L. Yellen as chairwoman of the Federal Reserve on Wednesday, White…
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Shutdown Shuts Off Military Death Benefit Payments
Yes, there are tons of stories about hardships created by the Federal Government shutdown, but this one strikes me as particularly egregious: The families of more than a dozen service members who died during the ongoing government shutdown have not yet received a $100,000 in promised pay. The families, including those of five American service…
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Are The Markets Starting To Notice How Messed Up Things Are In Washington?
Signs that investors are starting to get nervous about the lack of action coming out of Washington.
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Metaphor of the Day
Via Scott Galupo writing at the American Conservative: It’s Time to Throw the Tea Party One Ring into Mount Doom. I would recommend the whole thing.
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Congressional Job Approval Plummets To 11%
Not surprisingly, public approval of Congress has fallen away in the wake of the ongoing shutdown crisis: PRINCETON, NJ — As Congress’ inability to agree on compromises that would reopen the partially shut-down government and raise the looming debt ceiling continues, Americans give Congress an 11% job approval rating, down eight percentage points from last…
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Another Poll Shows Broad Public Disapproval Of GOP Shutdown Strategy
A new National Journal polls shows that the vast majority of the American public disapproves of the strategy that the GOP has taken regarding the government shutdown: Americans are divided on who deserves blame for the government shutdown, but one thing’s certain: A solid majority thinks it’s wrong to demand changes to Obamacare as a price for…
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Radicals in Washington
If one considers oneself to be conservative, ask if the the actions of the GOP at the moment conform to that term..
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Negotiating Over The Debt Ceiling Is Not Unprecedented
Contrary to the White House’s arguments, negotiating over the debt ceiling is not at all historically unprecedented.
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Co-Developers Of Higgs Boson Theory Share Nobel Prize In Physics
Two of the men who developed the theoretical construct that posited the existence of the Higgs Boson, a subatomic particle long considered theoretical until its existence was confirmed thanks to the Large Hadron Collider, have received the Nobel Prize in Physics: The “God particle” became the Prize particle on Tuesday. Two theoretical physicists who…
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Fun With Chyrons: CNN Editition
Someone at CNN needs a geography lesson: H/T: Stephen Green
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Kuwait Claims To Have Its Own ‘Gaydar’
A Kuwaiti government official claims that his government has the technology to detect gays and lesbians for the purpose of keeping them out of the country: Yousuf Mindkar, the director of public health in Kuwait announced that the country has stumbled upon the technology to “detect” gays and prevent them from coming across its borders.…
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NFL Games For Deployed Troops To Be Restored
In the immediate wake of the shutdown last week, the Defense Department had announced cutbacks at its Armed Forces Network that, among other things, meant that deployed troops would not be able to see NFL games on the weekends despite the fact that the NFL makes them available for free. Now, due in large part…
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Government Shutdown Hurting Republicans In Virginia Governor’s Race
The government shutdown seems to be having an impact on the one competitive statewide race in country this year.
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Good Government Reforms Gave Us Bad Government
Recent anti-corruption measures have contributed to making American government worse.
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Senate Republicans To Block Quick Passage Of House GOP Bill On Furloughed Worker Pay
Republicans in the Senate apparently intend to block quick passage of a bill that passed the Republican held House that would guarantee pay for Federal Government workers after the shutdown ends: (CNN) – Quick passage of a bill to provide back-pay to furloughed federal workers appeared in doubt on Monday when the No. 2 Senate Republican…
