When I was a kid (50 years ago)

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Tuesday July 10, 2012 · 8:58 AM PDT

2012/07/10 · 08:58

I don't remember people going without power for a week after a storm. The crews from the power company got to work immediately and fixed things right away.

What's different now?

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Tuesday September 13, 2011 · 5:54 AM PDT

2011/09/13 · 05:54

I'll keep this short and sweet, but everyone should know this. Last month was the first month that no Americans died in Iraq since the War began.

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Was the war in Iraq worth it?

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Was the war in Iraq worth it?

10 votes

Yes

3 votes

Retard vs. retarded

fooly

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Friday February 05, 2010 · 11:07 AM PST

2010/02/05 · 11:07

There is a huge difference between the word "retard" and the word "retarded

fooly

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Thursday November 19, 2009 · 4:06 PM PST

2009/11/19 · 16:06

With Health Care Reform, Democrats are faced with one of the most important votes of their careers. Most Americans, most Congresspeople, most Democrats, most Independents, and the current President of the United States want health care reform.

Yet, people like Joe Lieberman, Blanche Lincoln, Mary Landrieu, Ben Nelson and Evan Bayh are threatening to filibuster this legislation that will deliver the most important improvement in our social safety net since Medicare was enacted.

They know that they can't win an honest debate, and that they are in the minority, so they are using this arcane filibuster rule to defeat the will of the people.

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What's the best way to get Democratic Senators to vote for cloture?

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What's the best way to get Democratic Senators to vote for cloture?

Threaten to kick them out of the caucus.

53 votes

Kiss their butts.

3 votes

Threaten to resort to reconciliation.

14 votes

Call them names.

2 votes

Threaten to primary them

27 votes

Bribe them.

11 votes

Appeal to their compassion and sense of fairness.

5 votes

Fixing GM

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Friday November 21, 2008 · 11:24 AM PST

2008/11/21 · 11:24

I'm a designer in Michigan, with friends in the automobile business. I have observed the mismanagement of the American car business through my adult life as the executives in Detroit made mistake after mistake and frittered away market share. A great example was when GM started Saturn. For the same investment at the time, they could've purchased Toyota (you know, the guys who are bigger than anybody now, with brands like Lexus and Prius). I also have some experience working at Herman Miller, one of the most admired companies in America, by virtue of innovative product development, and progressive employee relations such as employee stock ownership and executive compensation linked to factory worker compensation.

Here's a proposal for fixing GM and charting a course for the future of companies like GM.

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What would you do to fix GM?

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What would you do to fix GM?

Let them go into bankruptcy.

6 votes

Give them a government backed loan to get them through the tough times.

3 votes

Nationalize them until they are stable.

6 votes

Convert them into an employee owned enterprise.

28 votes

Something else.

0 votes

Two more Democratic Senators

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Monday November 10, 2008 · 11:41 AM PST

2008/11/10 · 11:41

Credit for this idea goes to my son, Ryan. This is a strategy for getting to a filibuster-proof Senate.

President Obama is interested in a bipartisan administration. To that end, he should appoint Senator Olympia Snowe to a post, maybe heading up the Small Business Administration, and Senator Arlen Specter to head up Immigration reform. Both would be replaced by Senators appointed by Democratic governors. These seats represent Democratic leaning states, so the appointees would win in a subsequent special election.

The only question is how to convince the two of them to accept the appointments. Their progressive leadership as Republicans in these two areas that are important to Republicans and to them personally would make it easier to enact appropriate legislation. The prospect of making a difference in these areas might be enough to convince them to accept.

If I had $700,000,000,000 to spend

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Monday September 22, 2008 · 9:07 AM PDT

2008/09/22 · 09:07

We can solve the 'crisis' in banking by letting the current players sort out their problems through market forces, allowing the miscreants to get what they deserve, while simultaneously, commiting $700,000,000,000 to loans of every type to homeowners and businesses to keep the markets moving and the economy growing and homeowners in their homes. However,the $700,000,000,000 would be handed out by a new governmental loan agency that would have no middlemen, and would provide the money directly to the people who need it, requiring proper collateral and appropriate interest. Moving forward, there would be no speculation and profiteering that led to the current crisis. This approach would actually provide more liquidity without the slowing effect of bank profits.

Deja Vu Doo

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Tuesday September 16, 2008 · 9:01 AM PDT

2008/09/16 · 09:01

The Republican Presidential candidate selected a running mate who was in the second year of a first term as governor, and had finished a four year stint as executive of a minor governmental unit. At the Republican convention, many delegates wanted to select Governor Romney for the VP spot, but the Presidential candidate got his way in spite of the sentiment that his selectee was not qualified and wasn’t in the public eye long enough for people to know about the skeletons in the closet. During the campaign, the candidates ran as anti-establishment reformers, promising ‘peace with honor’ in ending the war.

If you’re over 45, that last line gave me away. I'm not talking about McCain/Palin, but about Nixon/Agnew. Agnew went on to plead no contest to corruption and accepting bribes in exchange for resigning. Nixon went on to claim that "I am not a crook!" before resigning.

Like Joe Biden is saying, "We've seen this movie before.".

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Who has been the WORST Vice-President in modern times?

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Who has been the WORST Vice-President in modern times?

Dick Cheney

34 votes

Al Gore

1 vote

Dan Quayle

1 vote

George H W Bush

1 vote

Walter Mondale

0 votes

Nelson Rockefeller

0 votes

Gerald Ford

0 votes

Spiro Agnew

6 votes

Hubert Humphrey

0 votes

Lyndon Johnson

0 votes

Richard Nixon

0 votes

Harry Truman

0 votes

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When I was a kid (50 years ago)

Important Unrecognized Milestone

Retard vs. retarded

We only need 31 Senators

Fixing GM

Two more Democratic Senators

If I had $700,000,000,000 to spend

Deja Vu Doo