Probably your grammar.

Post #332,747 by beepster 9/18/10 1:27:21 PM Reply	Probably your grammar. "Obama isn't proposing that his cuts for those making less be recinded." Who is "his"? Sure, understanding today's complex world of the future is a little like having bees live in your head. But...there they are.
Post #332,748 by Another Scott 9/18/10 1:33:32 PM Reply	See above. Sorry if I'm not always clear.
Post #332,749 by beepster 9/18/10 2:09:34 PM Reply	last I checked.. obama and the dems need zero republicans..and the new "dissent" is within his own party. http://tpmdc.talking...nd-on-tax-cut.php Sure, understanding today's complex world of the future is a little like having bees live in your head. But...there they are.
Post #332,750 by Another Scott 9/18/10 2:24:33 PM Reply	Check again. http://en.wikipedia....ted_States_Senate Under the current Senate rules, and their application by the Republicans, 60 votes are needed. The Democrats have 59. Without the Senate, the tax changes proposed by Obama are not going to become law. The House has already passed a lot of legislation that the Senate refuses to take up. It's not surprising they're reticent to spend time on something that will die in the Senate given the GOP's statements and actions to date. http://www.nytimes.c...l?ref=paulkrugman Cheers, Scott.
Post #332,752 by beepster 9/18/10 3:08:33 PM Reply	oops, sorry. one. and they have that in Ohio. If they grow some... Sure, understanding today's complex world of the future is a little like having bees live in your head. But...there they are.
Post #332,758 by Ashton 9/18/10 6:23:28 PM Reply	If patriotism '..IS the last refuge of the scoundrel'? (And when ever did Mencken get-it-wrong?) We need an imaginative similar koan for, Obstructionism is the last refuge of the ?_____? (Simultaneously: as to the ongoing msm- et al's complete amnesia/disinterest in the Difference between some flavor of 'ConservatismÂ' -VS- all that is implicit in that Other politico-category, Reactionism) -- I don't expect nuance ever to enter the yes/no digital-think habit / that now rampant anathema of this Age of Decline. And of hamster cages full of people mesmerized by a screen full of numbers for 8 hrs./day -- (or is it now more like 10-12? what with work-brought-home + cel-fone umbilical.) Carrion with the slogans; they all just merge into white noise anyway. After a few decades of the sillier ones.
Post #332,763 by Andrew Grygus 9/18/10 8:04:03 PM Reply	That's not Mencken, it's Samual Johnson. I more agree with Ambrose Bierce though Patriotism, n. Combustible rubbish ready to the torch of any one ambitious to illuminate his name. In Dr. Johnson's famous dictionary patriotism is defined as the last resort of a scoundrel. With all due respect to an enlightened but inferior lexicographer I beg to submit that it is the first.
Post #332,770 by Ashton 9/19/10 12:03:30 AM Reply	Yes, of course - brain-sort 404. Bierce is er, orthogonal? as he focuses on the nature of the flammable material ... awaiting ignition by the next cretin besotted with personal-Certainty. Added to inspirational List. Have to scan some more Bierce soon; it's been awhile since I perused the Curmudgeon's Home Companion.. thanks for tip.
Post #332,774 by boxley 9/19/10 1:01:08 AM Reply	what does Bierce have to do with bird watching? Any opinions expressed by me are mine alone, posted from my home computer, on my own time as a free American and do not reflect the opinions of any person or company that I have had professional relations with in the past 55 years. meep
Post #332,778 by Ashton 9/19/10 4:31:30 AM Reply	RTFP, er, thread I could almost see voting for Palin in 2012 on the grounds that this sorry ratfucking excuse for a republic, this savage, smirking, predatory empire deserves her. Bring on the Rapture, motherfuckers! -- via RC
Post #332,760 by crazy 9/18/10 7:35:54 PM Reply	C'mon Beep This one was a series of poor misdirections. You can do so much better.

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