The modern day Michael Flanagan has a video made in his honor: [youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5NUOiqxQoLc[/youtube]
Illinois, From the Colder Prairie Now
The modern day Michael Flanagan has a video made in his honor: [youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5NUOiqxQoLc[/youtube]
[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Bcy8bvhewtU&NR=1[/youtube] Stolen from Balloon Juice comments
Markets hate uncertaintly “I think it is important to emphasize that most people think both of the plans are really Band-Aids and don’t deal in any significant way with the spending and cost issues in the country,” Burnett said. “The issue was that Speaker Boehner’s plan does not cut enough spending right away. Harry […]
JoshuaGreen JoshuaGreen The ‘Boehner Drop’ a day later? RT @ fivethirtyeight Dow Jones futures off after the speeches. Had been at -12 before IIRC, now at -39.
Apparently Boehner not happy with having to corral unruly children. jacksonjk Jill Jackson by GlennThrush Overheard Boehner saying “I didn’t sign up for going mano-a-mano with the President of the United States” leaving the Capitol.
Arkansas High School names white student with lower GPA co-valedictorian to avoid a big mess. Given I’m writing about this, I think we can say the whole avoiding a big mess was a giant Fail. Wimberly’s mother is the school’s “certified media specialist.” She says in the federal discrimination complaint that after her daughter had […]
It’s hard to imagine that the Republican Party has gone so far crazy that they are allowing the modern day Michael Flanagan AKA Joe Walsh try and have anything resembling a clue regarding the debt. And so, when a Democratic president, who cares about discretionary spending, and who knows it’s not a significant source of […]
A new report on principals conducting teacher evaluations in the CPS: “There’s been concerns by unions that principals don’t know what is going on in the classroom in large high schools or they may know what’s going on but for personal reasons they don’t base decisions on who is most effective, but rather who […]
Allen West: I believe we are headed towards the ultimate ideological clash in America. There is a widening chasm which has developed between those who believe in principled fiscal policies and those desiring the socialist bureaucratic nanny-state. […] And all we hear from the President is talk about “shared sacrifice,” “tax the rich,” and […]
Joe Walsh should know dumb, stupid, rude, and condescending is now way to go through life. [youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8SrVB2-iTdw[/youtube] His Chris, Chris, Chris, is like the obnoxious Sir, Sir, Sir you get from really annoying people in the service industry who decide they need to tell you where your place is (and yes, I worked […]
Marcus Bachmann Is Completely Heterosexual Posted by Dan Savage on Mon, Jul 18, 2011 at 4:20 PM A completely heterosexual man who can really pull an outfit together: Before Vice President Dick Cheney’s visit this past summer, Bachmann’s husband, Marcus, hit the stores—”he’s got a good sense of style”—and came home with “a sleek, […]
Apparently being a buffoon. I’m just waiting on video to be posted.
That’s the story of this summer. Insane idiots have taken over the US House and think that efficient light bulbs are a problem worthy of a fight, but the debt ceiling is no big deal. John Cole has a good take at Balloon Juice that by citing, I can calm my blood pressure and not […]
Eric has numbers on the rate of unionization in Illinois: From Unionstats.com by Barry Hirsch (Andrew Young School of Policy Studies, Georgia State University) and David Macpherson (Department of Economics, Trinity University). My little chart below shows the percentage of the overall workforce covered by unions, the percentage of the private sector and the […]
Rupert as Captain Renault: Murdoch, 80, said he was “shocked, appalled and ashamed” at the hacking of the phone of a murdered schoolgirl by his now-shuttered News of the World tabloid. He said he had seen no evidence that victims of the Sept. 11, 2001 terror attack and their relatives were targeted by any of […]