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I think it has to do with little dicks. From susie’s new gig

As previously noted, the House GOP Stimulus plan job creation estimates are complete nonsense. Now it turns out, according to some House Democratic staffers, that the GOP plan was rushed together so hastily that it actually includes tax increases for lots of Americans.

Oklahoma Union Public School Independent District No. 9 has harrassed and violated the civil rights of a young woman named Brandi Blackbear: whom they’ve accused of witchcraft.

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You failed, and are now irrelevant.

You broke it. Your philosophy of governance, especially the feverish laissez-faire demolition of regulatory oversight, and  obscene enrich-the-rich approach to taxation, are the two overarching reasons for our current economic debacle.

Not only have you yet to figure out how irrelevant you’ve become, you are even farther from understanding the reasons for your irrelevance. You are in deep denial about the direct relationship between your philosophy and the current economic debacle, and even more so the extent to which the public is finding your pugnacious, vicious, attacking style of politics increasingly repellent.

Nod

We live in a unique place, and we who live here are a unique bunch of people; hell, even our homeless, so previlent in today’s news, are well-groomed avid bicyclists. Ain’t no mall walkers around here, and not because we don’t have “malls”. We used to, now they’re parking lots, but nobody walked in them anyway (which is why they’re now parking lots!).

Round here, we’re Park Walkers. Makes sense, when you figure that pretty much everyone [of any value] in this town is an athelete of some form or another, if not an Old Logger a World Class Shredder. And with eight miles of park to walk, and more to come…

As is our wont, Dawn and I strolled several miles this morning, culminating in what is without a doubt the jewel of our park system, Drake Park, where I learned to walk a half century and several years ago, and where we today found that one of the old pondos had been cut down. As I pointed out to Dawn, I had as an Old Logger pointed out numoruous times over our five years of honeymoon that that pondo was dangerous, and needed to come down. Regardless that it had been there perhaps four hundred years, and was to my recollection the first to harbor an Oregon “State WildLife Preserve” license plate, it was a “Danger Tree”, and needed to come down. [and I really wanted to be the Old Logger that brought her down]

I have laid my hands upon that tree…  all of my life.

Good Bye, Old Friend.

Sign the petition against Limbaugh:

Last week, Rush Limbaugh actually said that he “hopes” President Obama fails to meet America’s challenges.

Jobs, health care, our place in the world — the stakes for our nation are high and every American needs President Obama to succeed.

Stand strong against Rush Limbaugh’s Attacks — sign our petition, telling Rush what you think of his attacks on President Obama. We’ll send Limbaugh your comments.

Go tell Rush what you think, over 60,000 have done so…

Nazi bastard.

It’s all fun and games at the Grand Old Party:

New York Times:  Republicans profess to be unconcerned. House Republicans on Thursday headed off to a retreat at The Homestead, a Virginia resort, still celebrating their unanimous stand — despite Mr. Obama’s visit to the Capitol to seek their support — against a package that in their view has too much big-government spending and too few tax cuts. Their unsuccessful substitute was entirely of tax cuts.

The Hill:  House Republicans still elated from their unanimous vote againt the Democratic stimulus package think they will be able to work with President Obama on future bills despite the partisan vote

Washington Post:  The bill passed easily despite the opposition of all 177 Republican House members, but party leaders delighted in what they considered a victory after two straight electoral drubbings and much soul-searching about what the party stands for.

Someone should tell them that letting them screw the economy is not an effective stimulus:

CQ’s Balance of Power reports A survey of 1,200 voters in 40 traditionally Republican congressional districts now held by Democrats [] shows Obama’s post-election honeymoon reaching a rapturous stage, with 44 percent of voters strongly supporting his policies. [Another 26% "somewhat support" his policies]

A full 64 percent favor his economic plan, compared to 27 percent against. And precisely that same proportion favors the stimulus in 13 states that are expected to have competitive Senate races in 2010: Kentucky, Florida, Missouri, North Carolina, New Hampshire, Pennsylvania, Louisiana, Colorado, Ohio, Kansas, North Dakota, Wisconsin and Illinois.

If the braindead continue to lash their fate to Lush Rimjob and SS Talk Radio, expect to see more of this.

The Thirteenth Tribe Most modern Israelis are not descended from the ancient Israelites at all, but are actually Ashkenazi – a mix of Europeans, North Africans and others who didn’t “return” to the scrap of land we now call Israel and establish a new state following an attempt to exterminate them during World War II, but came in and forcefully displaced people whose ancestors had lived there for millennia.

Genetics testing has clearly demonstrated that the most direct descendants of the Biblical Hebrews of ancient times are today’s Palestinians.

The Ashkenazi, equally clearly, are not.

Noni Mausa

If a million
Was a walnut

A billion
Would be three ice cream pails

A trillion
Would be my spare bedroom
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If a million
Could be covered by a man’s handkerchief

A billion
Could be covered by a 1500 square foot bungalow

A trillion
Would be 25 acres – 33 football fields
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If a million
Was a single day

A billion
Would be 2 years 10 months

A trillion
Would be 2800 years

The are ten to the thirteenth stars in the known universe – over a hundred billion. There was a time when we thought of these numbers as astronomical, now we think of them as merely economic… tb

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