Archive for 'Seems Obvious to Me' Category
How to fix everything: The oil leak, the Gaza blockade, unemployment
Why is it that for every dumb problem, there is an overly complex & doomed to failure “solution”? The Gulf of Mexico is quickly becoming choked with thick brown oil sludge as “fix” after “fix” fails miserably. As if things weren’t bad enough for Israel, last weeks “siege” of a cargo ship filled with “humanitarian [...]
The Official “the LOST finale sucked” thread. Seriously.
I just finished watching the series finally of ABC’s “Lost”, and was seriously disappointed… disappointed to the point where I must break from the usual topic of politics to rant about it (and provide a place for all of you to share your own thoughts.) After watching every episode of the entire six-year series, the [...]
GOP: The Party of Lawlessness. Four Decades of Criminal Behavior.
I‘m probably not telling you anything that hasn’t crossed your mind already, but sometimes we just need to say things out loud for them to sink in: For all their talk about “patriots” and “love of America”, the GOP really HAS become a party with a total lack of respect for the law (apologies to [...]
Stating the Obvious: Terrorist Activity Has Risen in Sync with Troop Increases in Afghanistan
Sometimes, someone just needs to point out the obvious: As the number of troops in Afghanistan has gone up, so has terrorism. The past two weeks, we’ve seen a marked increase in the amount of terrorist activity focused on the U.S.. There was of course the Underwear bomber on Christmas Day on a plane from [...]
A Dickens of a Mistake: Plot hole in “A Christmas Carol”?
Ebenezer Scrooge never knew the son of his sole employee, Bob Cratchit, was seriously ill. It wasn’t until Scrooge learned that Tiny Tim might actually die unless he did something to help, that he was actually willing to forego some of his personal wealth to help save the life of a sick child. When Charles Dickens [...]
Fox wants to make it harder to fact-check them. Plus video: Bush on trying terrorists
About a month ago, the Obama Administration admitted what we all knew: that Fox News was a mouth-piece for the Republican Party. Fox “News” was SHOCKED, SHOCKED I SAY that the White House might think they were anything but “fair & balanced”. But dutiful bloggers like myself, with the most cursory of online digging (a [...]
Reboot Afghanistan. Here’s How to Win.
A little over 200 years ago, the most powerful military empire on Earth became mired in a decade-long war that ended in humiliating defeat. The locals, consisting mostly of poor uneducated rural farmers and ranchers with few resources, used their “homefield advantage” to eventually defeat the foreign invaders. If you haven’t already figured it out, [...]
Public Option Trigger? How about a PRIVATE Option Trigger?
Special Edition So-called “Moderate” Republicans like Olympia Snowe (R-ME) and “Blue Dog” Democrats have been all about including a “trigger” provision in any healthcare reform bill. What exactly is the “trigger”? Lindsay Beyerstein of The Huffington Post defined it best: “A public option with a trigger is a compromise whereby a public system would only [...]
Bi-Partisanship is Hurting Democrats
(Special bonus op/ed) After the passing of Senator Ted Kennedy last week, a parade of Republicans lined up to bemoan how his departure could spell the end of bi-partisanship in the Senate with regards to the healthcare bill. Because, as we all know, “bi-partisanship is a one-way street in Republicanland”. Kennedy is gone. Ipso-facto, these [...]
Why they are fighting it: Because a Cap on Profits is Inevitable.
A major concern regarding a government insurance program, should one pass, is that Private insurers will snap up all the “healthy” people, turning the Public plan into a dumping ground for the highest risk & most costly patients, costing the government billions. While it has been nice this past week to FINALLY hear President Obama [...]
How to fund healthcare and create jobs by closing foreign tax loopholes.
A story on the BBC caught my attention last week: China’s economy soars thanks to MASSIVE government spending on infrastructure In a perfect example of “the tail wagging the dog”, the Republican minority… the very same group whose policies got us into this economic nightmare… are controlling the debate on how to revive [...]
Global Warming will mean FEWER mid-Summer hurricanes, not more.
(It appears I need to forewarn new readers that the purpose of this weeks column is to highlight the potential for great damage to the environmental message by arguing a misconception as “fact”, and then having to listen to Conservatives use that assumption against you when it doesn’t come true. To be forewarned is to [...]
