Displaying 541 To 570 Of 2,270 Comments Incidentally, (for those that care) I am celebrating my 15th year in business this week. Feels pretty good. Especially considering how grim everything looked just a few short years ago. I blame Obama. » Posted By funksands On March 4, 2013 @ 1:51 pm What a reasonable idea……that will never see the light of day…. The Balancing Act “Cut Handouts, Not Jobs The Balancing Act eliminates the haphazard cuts in the sequester and ensures that we reduce our long-term deficit in a balanced way. The bill equalizes budget cuts and revenue by closing loopholes for America’s wealthiest individuals and corporations. It also creates over 1 million jobs by investing in infrastructure, teachers, and putting money in consumers’ pockets, paid for by cutting wasteful Pentagon spending to achieve balance with non-defense cuts.” http://cpc.grijalva.house.gov/balancing-act/ » Posted By funksands On February 19, 2013 @ 3:28 pm Remember the mormon activist from Utah that did the same thing? The story about his timely suicide: http://www.sltrib.com/sltrib/news/55136572-78/peterson-cabin-woman-jolley.html.csp » Posted By funksands On February 19, 2013 @ 3:26 pm Ad: They’re afraid? They’ve bought whole-heartedly into the meme of the markets needing delicate hand. Whisper-delicate. Either that or the old hands in the administration feel that everyone has sufficiently learned their lesson and now we need to let finance (which composes 30% of our economy) get back to work. » Posted By funksands On February 6, 2013 @ 9:07 pm Ad, agreed. I know this is a civil case, but I’d love to see the govt. seek damages in the amount of $20 trillion dollars which would cause S&P and their parent company to implode and send a serious message to other actors. It’s not about the money, its about future behavior. » Posted By funksands On February 6, 2013 @ 1:27 pm Kes: Thanks so much for taking up the baton. I think you were the perfect choice for this 🙂 » Posted By funksands On February 5, 2013 @ 3:48 pm Very thought-provoking article from The Nation. I’d be curious to get your take on it: Rebel Towns “The 600 residents of Sugar Hill, New Hampshire, have done a laudable job of keeping the vulgarities of modern life at bay. There are no fast-food restaurants, no neon signs. Instead, the former iron-mining town has rambling country inns and a main road lined with Victorian and Arts and Crafts houses. Locals gather for breakfast, as they have since 1938, at Polly’s Pancake Parlor, which grinds its own corn and wheat and uses syrup from the sugar maples that give the town its name. With tourism driving the economy, the village’s biggest assets are its fall foliage, fields of lupines and uninterrupted views of the snow-capped White Mountains…..” http://www.thenation.com/article/172266/rebel-towns# » Posted By funksands On January 30, 2013 @ 11:17 am The GOP House would have totally passed all of Obama’s agenda over the next two years if only the Senate had reformed the filibuster. 😉 » Posted By funksands On January 24, 2013 @ 4:47 pm Future Baggers: [img]http://s4.hubimg.com/u/5971055_f520.jpg[/img] » Posted By funksands On January 18, 2013 @ 5:54 pm I don’t understand. You had a right to bear arms yesterday and you will tomorrow. What’s the problem? Oh..I see. You have a problem with the type of arms you are being allowed to bear. Did you get caught interpreting the Constitution to fit your own consumer preferences? How embarrassing. » Posted By funksands On January 18, 2013 @ 5:50 pm I knew Bito was sick. I didn’t know how sick. Oddly enough, I may have interacted with him more on Twitter than on the Planet. I’ve read through each of the moving comments in the body of the remembrance and comments section and it makes me sad I never got to know him better. My failing, not his, so I’ll reserve my sadness for the good friends and colleagues he leaves behind. I’m truly sorry for your loss. “To have a good friend is one of the highest delights in life; to be a good friend is one of the noblest and most difficult undertakings.” – Anonymous » Posted By funksands On January 31, 2013 @ 8:58 pm Weekend Music Thread-Songs Of Life and Being One of my faves. Funny but surprisingly deep.[img]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f_J5rBxeTIk[/img] » Posted By funksands On January 5, 2013 @ 10:13 pm Enough Unnecessary Tragedy, Time to Disarm America and the NRA We have 300 million Americans and 300 million guns. A gun for every man, woman and child in America. Even if our laws, policy, and populace were rational, with our nation awash in weapons, many people will die simply due to odds. Anyone can get a weapon easily. Near-military grade. With the skids greased by the conservative entertainment complex and in local/state/ and federal govt. to keep a population armed, angry, and fearful this horrifying scene will happen again and again and again. » Posted By funksands On December 14, 2012 @ 3:43 pm Ad great piece and very good take on the dramatization of the fiscal stepstool. While the austerity that will be enacted will be the equivalent of 20% of the crash of 2008-09 and will likely be painful, it certainly wouldn’t be permanent and would be a useful fire to clear out the political underbrush that has been allowed to accumulate in our fiscal policy over the last 20 years. I feel confident that the GOP will eventually fold on the higher tax rates on higher earners, because they don’t care about them anyway. The ultra-wealthy don’t earn W-2 income anyway. Watch a trade of keeping cap gains and dividend rates the same while allowing income taxes to rise on wealthier taxpayers. A bad trade, but the one the GOP wants. The only fear I feel is that if the entire stepstool happens, then the debt ceiling will have to be addressed soon thereafter. A scorned and stung GOP may cheerfully allow our debt to be downgraded yet again, having shown the capacity for pettiness over much smaller issues. » Posted By funksands On November 28, 2012 @ 8:50 pm [img]http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-ymjYFDhR7tU/TybLeV-CuOI/AAAAAAAAErg/Dgq2mISszMg/s1600/Speed_shoot_the_hostage.jpg[/img] » Posted By funksands On November 28, 2012 @ 8:42 pm John McCain Demands Investigation of His Own Sanity Ad, great take on a man who’s reputation always seemed to precede reality. At best his “maverickism” rep was earned simply by being less bought and less nuts than his GOP colleagues. With age and disappointment the cheap gilding has worn off and the true man stands revealed. A loser. » Posted By funksands On November 18, 2012 @ 5:10 pm An Open Letter to my Sons – November 5th, 2008 “last election” rather. » Posted By funksands On November 6, 2012 @ 4:01 pm KT, I believe you, but I watched the American Experience on PBS over the last week or so about Clinton and his presideny (3.5 hours!!) And what they did to him was almost EXACTLY what they are doing to Obama except a bit more organized and virulent. The language, tactics, hysteria. Exactly the same. But the race factor does likely sharpen it. » Posted By funksands On November 6, 2012 @ 3:45 pm EX: That’s awesome! I’m looking forward to chatting a bit with you tonight. Let us know if you have any problems getting on the VOX » Posted By funksands On November 6, 2012 @ 3:25 pm Thanks Nirek! I echo everything you just said. » Posted By funksands On November 6, 2012 @ 3:24 pm Sue your last statement runs through my head daily. I don’t get it. The only explanation I’ve been able to come up with is that Obama was elected when the US was on its knees in a very dark place. Once he stabilized it, citizens went back to their fascist-curious phase that Obama interrupted. » Posted By funksands On November 6, 2012 @ 3:24 pm Food have fun tonight! We did the party last year and it was awesome. Just me and the fam this year. Not in a social mood and have some sick kiddos. I tell you, what perplexed me was 2010. The base of the democratic party and especially young people simply abandoned the electoral process. This after the Obama administration needed them the most. Now GOP governors, secs state, legislatures have redistricted, suppressed and voter id’d all of these swing states. Why? Because dems and liberals and young people couldn’t must the energy to GOTV in 2010. All of this bs in Flordia, Pennsylvania, Ohio, and Wisconsin is a direct result of people not caring or pouting. Some lessons are learned the hard way I guess. » Posted By funksands On November 6, 2012 @ 3:22 pm Suzanne, thanks so much for your reply. You captured a lot of my own feelings and I agree with your confidence. I’ll send it off to him tomorrow regardless of outcome. » Posted By funksands On November 6, 2012 @ 3:17 pm EX: Great job! I think you’ll be pleased with how the day turns out. » Posted By funksands On November 6, 2012 @ 8:44 am Ad, thanks so much. Wiser is a very good term. Everyone including the President learned a lot of hard lessons over the last four years. Here’s to “wiser”. » Posted By funksands On November 6, 2012 @ 8:43 am Thanks Bito. I really appreciate it. Tomorrow night is going to be deeply deeply satisfying on many levels. » Posted By funksands On November 5, 2012 @ 10:53 pm KQ, I think you are right. The scale and scope of what he had to face the disloyal opposition that he had hindering him will be a long chapter in history and governmental affairs books for a long time to come. It almost did him a disservice. Because he kept everything from breaking, he didn’t get to get any of the credit for putting it back together. And thanks for the kind words. » Posted By funksands On November 5, 2012 @ 10:48 pm Kes, what’s funny is that I was soooooooo hung over and wrung out emotionally that I got my oldest son’s age wrong and a couple of other things too. 🙂 He turned 13 this year. I remember waking up and going downstairs and I was halfway to the kitchen when I was struck by a full-on panic attack that last night was dream and that somehow Obama had lost or something terrible had happened to him this morning. Oddly enough, that’s when I thought of writing the letter. » Posted By funksands On November 5, 2012 @ 10:45 pm Thanks Kalima, I can only imagine how nerve-wracking it is to watch this from so far away, with even a vote out of your control. I really do hope they get something out of this. » Posted By funksands On November 5, 2012 @ 10:39 pm Thanks Sally, I wish I’d done this when Bush got appointed to his first term, boy would that be a doozy of a letter to look back on. » Posted By funksands On November 5, 2012 @ 10:37 pmComments Posted By funksands
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