Put Reagan on the Treasury Note!

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Thursday March 04, 2010 · 2:29 PM PST

2010/03/04 · 14:29

Rep. Patrick McHenry (R-NC), has introduced legislation to replace Ulysses S. Grant with Ronald Reagan on the $50 bill. Apparently because Reagan needs to be commemorated or something. I believe the back of the new $50 would feature a cartoon detailing a botched exchange of weapons for hostages, and a graph of the ballooning national debt.

Gustavo

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Sunday September 13, 2009 · 11:04 PM PDT

2009/09/13 · 23:04

I am pissed that they used 9/11 as a prop for their ridiculous teabaggery. It's bad enough that they subvert the name of a fine sexual fetish for their own purposes.

Why on earth is a call for lower taxes, opposition to health care reform, a sudden interest in balanced budgets, a fear of big government headed by someone other than them, and a hatred for negroes in the White House part of a response to 9/11? They use the deaths of thousands of Americans as a prop, and they are vile, horrible people for doing so.

On 9/11, terrorists attacked the United States, but they also attacked New York City -- arguably the most liberal city in the United States, a city where most of what the teabaggers are peddling wouldn't get much support at all. It begins to make you wonder whose side the teabaggers would really be on.

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Die in a fire, or burn in hell?

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Die in a fire, or burn in hell?

Die in a fire

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Burn in hell

8 votes

Both

21 votes

Forgive the filthy little teabaggers

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Google urges "No" on CA Prop 8 (Gay Marriage Ban)

Gustavo

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Saturday September 27, 2008 · 11:21 AM PDT

2008/09/27 · 11:21

Apparently Google is willing to begin wading into the culture wars, with this short statement on their official Blog.

The key bits from Sergey Brin:

It is the chilling and discriminatory effect of the proposition on many of our employees that brings Google to publicly oppose Proposition 8. While we respect the strongly-held beliefs that people have on both sides of this argument, we see this fundamentally as an issue of equality. We hope that California voters will vote no on Proposition 8 -- we should not eliminate anyone's fundamental rights, whatever their sexuality, to marry the person they love.

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Should a corporation have an official policy on political issues outside their immediate line of business?

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Should a corporation have an official policy on political issues outside their immediate line of business?

Yes

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Only if they happen to agree with me

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Can you invest $700B poorly and strategically?

Gustavo

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Sunday September 21, 2008 · 7:38 PM PDT

2008/09/21 · 19:38

Fundamentally, that is the Bernanke/Paulson Bailout Plan -- take $700B, buy up non-liquid, depressed assets at above market price to inject capital into Wall Street at just the right places to keep the whole thing from seizing up.

And, if this were just a crisis of liquidity, this might not be such a bad plan -- use the power of the government to forcibly inject liquidity into the market, and then resell the assets we've collected later, reintroducing them into the market at a slower rate then they were pulled out. If we believe in the market, then the market can work itself out with a little bit of lubrication.

Depending on how much the assets end up being worth when we resell them, the taxpayers might not even be losing the entire $700B. It's even possible that we could make a profit, since the prices of these assets are currently depressed by the liquidity crisis.

But wait, there's more...

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Would you trust the bailout more with someone else in charge?

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Would you trust the bailout more with someone else in charge?

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How is a majority not the Sense of the Senate?

Gustavo

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Monday June 11, 2007 · 4:22 PM PDT

2007/06/11 · 16:22

The vote on closure failed 53-38, but that still means that we had 53 Senators voting to express no confidence in Alberto "Abu" Gonzales.

Yes, the Republicans have weaseled out of having an official non-binding resolution, but still, a majority of the Senate has effectively and publicly expressed no confidence in Gonzales.

That is what our party leadership should be shouting from the rooftops and in front of every video camera in the nation.

Gustavo

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Sunday March 27, 2005 · 12:57 PM PST

2005/03/27 · 12:57

I take it as a given that the majority of the Fundies upset with 20-odd judicial decisions to let Terri Schiavo die are good people. If you see your government murdering someone, then you have an obligation to protest, to hound your elected officials, to generally raise hell - and that is exactly what they are seeing in the media and hearing from their leaders.

And I'm willing to overlook the hypocrisy as a human failing that I share with them in spades. They are willing to overlook the murder of 100,000 Iraqis, the murder of death row inmates, the negligent homicide of the uninsured, and even the very similar death of a six-month old baby in Texas. We are more outraged over what is closest to us, and Terri Schiavo has been in our living rooms. And there are no complications - she's white, she has an easy to pronounce name, she hasn't killed anyone, no one has been associating her with terrorists on a daily basis. It's easy to identify with Terri, even if she is just a piece of meat.

But why are the Fundies so very vocal and insistent about keeping a piece of meat on life support? Read More

Least Worst Credit Card Company?

Gustavo

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Friday March 04, 2005 · 3:36 PM PST

2005/03/04 · 15:36

OK, so we know that Discover (aka Morgan Stanley), MBNA, Citigroup are all quite vile, donating to Republicans and all that... but what credit card companies don't?

I am perfectly happy to switch cards, but everyone that I research has these problems.

Where is the progressive (i.e., unwilling to support fascists) supposed to get credit? And, I need credit, because I will need a good credit history to buy a place of my own in a few years.

Brooks Not a VIP

Gustavo

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Saturday February 12, 2005 · 1:14 AM PST

2005/02/12 · 01:14

From everyone's favorite intellectual lightweight's most recent column:

There comes a time in any man's life when he realizes that he is an insignificant speck of dust careering aimlessly through the cosmic woof of time. For me that moment came when the Washington Nationals baseball team assigned seating locations for its season ticket holders. The seats my buddies and I were assigned are somewhere south of Montreal but nowhere near home plate.

The seating assignments were done by a "lottery," but as the team president, Tony Tavares, told The Washington Post in a statement that pretty well sums up American civilization in our era, "This is Washington, D.C., and I had to take care of certain people. Of course, V.I.P.'s were taken care of, as they are in any other circumstance."

Ha-ha. The mental pygmy is up in the nosebleed section, and he might want to be careful since he already looks a little pale... Would he survive a nosebleed? Read More

BREAKING: Sontag Still Dead!

Gustavo

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Tuesday December 28, 2004 · 11:57 AM PST

2004/12/28 · 11:57

This is just to reassure the DailyKos community that Susan Sontag is still dead.

She has not been miraculously ressurrected to lead us all into the promised land, nor has she joined to legions of the undead to eat our brains.

Once these repetitive "Breaking News" diaries end, you should no longer rest assured, and instead prepare to either be led to the promised land, or to have your brains eaten by the undead author of 17 books translated into 32 languages.
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WA-Gov: Gregoire is very disappointing

Gustavo

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Thursday December 09, 2004 · 3:58 PM PST

2004/12/09 · 15:58

In an article in the Seattle Times, here, we learn the Gregoire is not a party to the lawsuit brought by the Dems to force the recount of all ballots -- not just the ones that were counted the first time.

Choice quotes:

"What's important and of interest to the party isn't necessarily, absolutely in sync with me and my interests," Gregoire said.

Sigh. If only there were a way for her to lose without Rossi winning... I'd be rooting for that. Read More

I Support Vote Fraud

Gustavo

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Wednesday December 01, 2004 · 11:17 PM PST

2004/12/01 · 23:17

For the last month, we have been inundated with "evidence" of voting irregularities being shouted from the rooftops, smothering the evidence of voting irregularities. The "evidence" keeps getting more and more obvious from secret tapes of machine logs to to some guy's brother-in-law's neighbor, and the conclusions are getting more and more dire. How is vote suppression and unequal access to to voting going to compete for attention with secret tapes of machine logs?

Apparently, the security on these Black Box Voting systems is so lax, and the technology is so backwards that a mildly retarded child with a cell phone could flip votes from Republicans to Democrats in a few key states.

To which I say: JUST DO IT. Read More

Bev Harris: Bad Methodology

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Monday November 08, 2004 · 3:17 PM PST

2004/11/08 · 15:17

While Bev Harris of BlackBoxVoting.org may or may not be doing wonderful things on the topic of electronic voting with no paper trail, she is pushing a bad methodology in the analysis of Florida voting results.

In her article on:
http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=104x2636130

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