Saturday, April 30, 2011
Minnesota Move Eminent
While much news of this past week has Rodney and me elated, I'm crushed to see the sort of wasteful spending and hurtful governing that is going on in Minnesota. There is no reason to oppose gay marriage. Frankly, everyone may find this hard to believe, but I'm indifferent on the subject of gay marriage. Although I don't believe the state should be passing judgement based on religious ideology, whether gay marriage is legal or not really has no bearing on me. My feelings toward a partner are mine and no matter what the Minnesota legislature or some religious dogma states about them, mean nothing. They're wasting our money. Call you legislators and tell them to get to work on things that count! Minnesota State Legislature wasting time.
Saturday, March 26, 2011
Am I seriously becoming a Minnesota resident?
It's not amazing to me that the U.S. has become more and more polarized. I will take some of that blame. I am a screaming liberal. Now that I'm seriously considering a move to Minnesota as a full time resident I read articles like this I'm reconsidering my move. (Not really: Mom and Dad!) My favorite bit of this article is a paragraph quoting former Governor Arne Carlson:
Among the excommunicated is the former two-term Republican Governor Arne Carlson. “The Republican Party—both nationally and in Minnesota—has drifted away from balancing the budget to enlarge the role of social issues,” Carlson said in a phone call, pointing out that Pawlenty left his successor a $6 billion deficit. “The last Republican president to balance the budget was Dwight Eisenhower—that’s a pretty long dry spell.”
With former Governor Pawlenty and Representative Bachmann sowing their oats in the Presidential field, which is in itself quite amusing, it's even more important to showcase their absolute lunacy. Pawlenty doesn't believe he's the wing nut that she is but he's wrong. He just has a smaller (sizewise not soundwise) mouth.
http://www.thedailybeast.com/blogs-and-stories/2011-03-26/minnesota-michele-bachmanns-loony-state/?om_rid=Nsfdwj&om_mid=_BNje0TB8Z3$qLN#
Sorry for the actual link, just learning everything about my new iPad2 and I haven't gotten that far, yet!
Among the excommunicated is the former two-term Republican Governor Arne Carlson. “The Republican Party—both nationally and in Minnesota—has drifted away from balancing the budget to enlarge the role of social issues,” Carlson said in a phone call, pointing out that Pawlenty left his successor a $6 billion deficit. “The last Republican president to balance the budget was Dwight Eisenhower—that’s a pretty long dry spell.”
With former Governor Pawlenty and Representative Bachmann sowing their oats in the Presidential field, which is in itself quite amusing, it's even more important to showcase their absolute lunacy. Pawlenty doesn't believe he's the wing nut that she is but he's wrong. He just has a smaller (sizewise not soundwise) mouth.
http://www.thedailybeast.com/blogs-and-stories/2011-03-26/minnesota-michele-bachmanns-loony-state/?om_rid=Nsfdwj&om_mid=_BNje0TB8Z3$qLN#
Sorry for the actual link, just learning everything about my new iPad2 and I haven't gotten that far, yet!
Thursday, March 10, 2011
Befuddlement in my mind
This is the most unbelievable waste of taxpayers dollars I've ever seen. The United States House of Representatives has taken on a new comical appeal. If I were a reality television scout I'd pick this up as competition to the Kardashians (who knows if I spelled that name correctly.) My apologies to Speaker Pelosi but Ms. Minority Leader, get this trash out of the House. Here's the waste our Republican Congress is imposing on us. Republican Waste
Monday, February 28, 2011
Tax and Spend..... Tax and Spend.... and Corporate Welfare
After reading an article in the Minneapolis StarTribune earlier this evening and debating about adding it to my blog, I ran across this joke on another blog and thought, hey, why don’t I put both together. Corporate welfare is the lifeblood of the Republican party.
Somewhat unrelated but still in the same vein, if I hear some right wing nut use the term, “Tax and spend,” I’d like them to share what they believe the government should do. Their primary purpose is to tax and spend. They should do it all above board, efficiently and effectively but this statement of, “Tax and spend,” being a bad thing is simply ludicrous. So SHUT UP!
OK, back to the joke and point of this post. A public union employee, a tea party activist and a CEO are sitting at a table with a plate of a dozen cookies in the middle of it. The CEO takes 11 of the cookies, turns to the tea partier and says, "Watch out for that union guy he wants a piece of your cookie."
Is it time to stop using Scotch tape?
Somewhat unrelated but still in the same vein, if I hear some right wing nut use the term, “Tax and spend,” I’d like them to share what they believe the government should do. Their primary purpose is to tax and spend. They should do it all above board, efficiently and effectively but this statement of, “Tax and spend,” being a bad thing is simply ludicrous. So SHUT UP!
OK, back to the joke and point of this post. A public union employee, a tea party activist and a CEO are sitting at a table with a plate of a dozen cookies in the middle of it. The CEO takes 11 of the cookies, turns to the tea partier and says, "Watch out for that union guy he wants a piece of your cookie."
Is it time to stop using Scotch tape?
Sunday, February 27, 2011
The Tea Party Will Destroy The Country
Frank Rich writes brilliantly on the right's mistaken agenda. Frank Rich
Saturday, February 26, 2011
Sunday, February 13, 2011
Glenn Beck and Fox Snews, What's Next for Their Marriage?
Glenn Beck has spiraled into a pickle with his theories on the Egyptian events of the past weeks. It looks like there's going to be a boiling point with Fox News that will either take Beck off the air or ensure Fox News' reputation as non-journalistic forever. David Corn writes about this here.
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