Time-Life presents: Barack Obama’s positions on the issues.
- Volume 1: The Illinois Years
- Volume 2: The Senate Years
- Volume 3: Iowa
- Volume 4: Before Wright
- Volume 5: After Grandma
- Volume 6: Before Labor Day
- Volume 7: October
- Volume 8: Election Day
Each volume is luxuriously bound in leather, with the official seal of the Obama campaign embossed. Plus, if you order now, you get a deluxe desk shelf, expandable for future volumes as needed.
The AP today starts a report today beating the drums of doom:
Employers cut payrolls by 62,000 in June, the sixth straight month of nationwide job losses, underscoring the economy’s fragile state. The unemployment rate held steady at 5.5 percent.
Do you think that under a Democrat, the reporting would have been the other way around, perhaps going like so?
The unemployment rate held steady in June, remaining at 5.5 percent, underscoring the economy’s resilience against reports that employers cut payrolls by 62,000, marking the sixth straight month of recorded losses.
Maybe.
The South American trade union demands that its people know no boundaries, according to the BBC:
The EU laws, due to come into force in 2010, could see illegal immigrants held for up to 18 months and face a five-year ban on re-entry if expelled.
….In a joint declaration, [Mercosur leaders] rejected “every effort to criminalise irregular migration and the adoption of restrictive immigration policies, in particular against the most vulnerable sectors of society, women and children”.
They used to call this sort of thing an invasion, sending your people across national boundaries and demanding full rights to that territory. If the EU caves on this, I bet Hitler would be kicking himself right now. He might have had Poland without a fight had he just demanded an end to “restrictive immigration policies.”
Governor Jindal has vetoed the legislative pay raise sparking so much controversy around him.
I’ll say this for him: when he changes positions, he’s listening to the right people and going the right way. Since I’ve been watching him I’ve been aware of three significant shifts: He went from a Yes to NV on the SCHIP veto override in the House, he came around on a personal tax cut in Louisiana, and now this.
According to Wikipedia, the name of the Danube river comes from a Celtic word for a river running, making it the River Running.
If I didn’t already know that Tolkien’s Rhûn corresponded with eastern Europe this would be a bigger revelation!
Are all the people who support publicly-funded abortions on the grounds that the Supreme Court declared abortion a right, now going to support publicly-funded handguns on the grounds that the Supreme Court affirmed gun ownership as an indivdiual right?
Mega Man 9. Oh, oh, oh. I never imagined my Mega Man Anniversary Collection for the PS2 would ever become obsolete. Fortunately I have a Wii!
A few years back, dominant NBA basketball center Shaquille O’Neal took all the training he needed to become a Sheriff’s deputy, and served as one while playing for the Miami Heat. He did work where his unusual size and notoriety would not hinder the job, which meant much Internet-based work. But sometimes his size and strength would come in handy on planned operations, so he’d come along and help.
It was good for Shaq, good for the county, and good for the community. Everyone gained, so naturally when Shaq was traded to the Phoenix Suns, he entered into the same kind of relationship with Maricopa County Sheriff Joe Arpaio.
Shaq wrecked it all this week, though. He released a ‘rap’ with some foul langauge as well as some racist talk, and so Arpaio is now yanking Shaq’s deputy’s badges:
“I want his two badges back,” Arpaio told The Associated Press on Tuesday. “Because if any one of my deputies did something like this, they’re fired. I don’t condone this type of racial conduct.”
….Arpaio, who describes himself as “America’s Toughest Sheriff” and is best known for feeding jail inmates green bologna, clothing them in pink underwear, and making them work on chain gangs, said he didn’t expect his actions would teach Shaq a lesson. But he hoped he learns that as a role model who wants to someday be a full-time sheriff, he needs to know his words matter.
“Maybe I’m old fashioned, but I don’t think that either conduct should be out there publicly, even if media wasn’t there,” Arpaio said.
Good on Arpaio for not going easy on Shaq for good PR. Doing right is its own reward.
Today, on the day of another Neocon Democratic victory, I must congratulate Godfather Jerome Armstrong. He and his new Democratic leadership clique have accomplished so much for Neocons recently, that he must be so proud of these accomplishments of the Howard Dean era of the Democratic party:
- Continuing war funding
- Agreeing on Telecom FISA immunity
- Thwarting Presidential and Vice Presidential impeachment
Yes, there is that as-yet failure to nominate Hillary Clinton, but it’s quite a record. And yet, the great Vis Numar does not rest on his laurels, oh no. He’s pressing on and continuing to set the Neocon agenda within the Gate-Crashed Democratic Party:
Congressional Dems should adopt the position [of promoting drilling for oil in America’s coastal waters], include some safeguards, and alongside billions in funding for finding alternative fuel solutions, make it part of a long-term solution…. [T]he ideological purity position of there being an environmental/aesthetic argument against it is exactly the position the Republicans want us to adopt.
Armstrong, Moulitsas, and Dean have done so well in reshaping the Democratic party into one not merely able to follow Republican orders in Congress as a pliable minority, but to take the lead and implement the core pieces of the moderate Neocon agenda as the majority. All those centrist Democrats that the Netroots were told to get elected are truly paying off in crushing the radical left’s say in the Democratic agenda. Winning over moderate Republicans must come before ideological purity, no matter how many Republican positions are adopted.
So for today I salute you, Vis Numar, as the triumphant enemy of my enemy.
Another good thing: It no longer pops windows up too low, such that the bottom of thewindow is behind the dock.
Bad thing: It’s still slow and locks up now and then. So far it’s not so bad like FF 2 was, but it’s not great.
So, it’s actually an upgrade in my view, so far with no real downsides to the transition. That’s very nice, and I congratulate the Firefox developers for managing that.