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Jun. 2nd, 2011 01:31 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
gwydion* There is reason to think Palin is violating election financing law on her publicity tour/family vacation. Of course, the FEC is not looking into it, so it's unlikely we'll know for sure.
* I managed minimum laps, which is the best I could hope for today. There wasn't quite enough gas for all the errands, but i came close. Tomorrow is going to kick my ass.
* Why is it that the idea of citizenship for people who grew up in this country and who risked life and limb in our military is so incredibly scary and abhorrent to republicans? After all, these folks loved this country enough to risk the ultimate sacrifice out in the field. Don't they deserve citizenship in exchange? Apparently not, according the Republican politicians. After all, many of them are brown.
* Paul Ryan is now demanding that Obama stop accurately describing his plan to kill Medicare as a voucher program. It seems to me that if Republicans don't want the political fall out for ending Medicare to pay for more tax cuts for the rich, they should, you know, stop trying to abolish Medicare to pay for even more tax cuts for the rich. If they are so worried about funding Medicare, the simplest way to do that is restore the Clinton tax rates for the rich which fully funded it. Insisting that the elderly buy private health insurance isn't even vaguely the same as giving them the cheap efficient health care they paid for with taxes their whole working life. It is an out right lie that private health insurance is cheaper and more efficient. I do not understand how they think they can get away with it, when the numbers are right there to be looked at.
* Kathy Hoeldke of NY 26th got sworn in today.
* Lousiana is planning to ban all abortion outright. Four states have bills in the legislature to ban not only all abortions, but contraception.
* Rand Paul is now campaigning against all anti-discrimination laws, but in favour of imprisoning or deporting people who attend speeches Republicans don't like, all in the name of small government
* In Florida, in the name of saving money and small government, they are going to require expensive forcible wide scale drug tests for state employees and people applying for benefits, as this will make money for a drug testing company the governor has ties with. They can't afford employee benefits, but there is all this money for unreasonable search and seizure of hair and urine for people who have none nothing wrong
* Similarly, in new Jersey, they supposedly have no money for employee benefits, but they do have money for the Governor to fly in a police helicopter to his son's baseball game, money for a limousine to drive him a short distance to and from the helicopter to the stands, and money for that police helicopter to take him to meat with potential donors. "shared sacrifice" really only means the poor and middle class, not the rich, obviously
* I wonder what the Vegas odds are that Dan Wolfe hacked congressman Weiner's twitter vs. an accidental leak by congressman Wiener.
* A tornado hit Massachusetts. O.o Four people are confirmed dead. I repeat, a tornado in Massachusetts.
* Meanwhile, they have found all the Joplin missing, either alive or dead.
* The Dow dropped 279 points today, likely because of Republican plans to force the US to default on all loans and upend the US and likely world economy. I'm suspecting the drop to get stepper as we approach august 1st.
* I simply haven't the heart to summarize the news from Syria.
* Ah, BPAL board. We are now having a trans grammar argument on the feminism thread.
* Why more needs to happen when it comes to homophobic authorities: http://www.sparkindarkness.com/2011/06/and-related-to-2-past-incidents-of.html
* Can we please agree that clothed people hugging is not obscene? http://www.sparkindarkness.com/2011/06/so-gay-men-are-being-censored-and.html
* I managed minimum laps, which is the best I could hope for today. There wasn't quite enough gas for all the errands, but i came close. Tomorrow is going to kick my ass.
* Why is it that the idea of citizenship for people who grew up in this country and who risked life and limb in our military is so incredibly scary and abhorrent to republicans? After all, these folks loved this country enough to risk the ultimate sacrifice out in the field. Don't they deserve citizenship in exchange? Apparently not, according the Republican politicians. After all, many of them are brown.
* Paul Ryan is now demanding that Obama stop accurately describing his plan to kill Medicare as a voucher program. It seems to me that if Republicans don't want the political fall out for ending Medicare to pay for more tax cuts for the rich, they should, you know, stop trying to abolish Medicare to pay for even more tax cuts for the rich. If they are so worried about funding Medicare, the simplest way to do that is restore the Clinton tax rates for the rich which fully funded it. Insisting that the elderly buy private health insurance isn't even vaguely the same as giving them the cheap efficient health care they paid for with taxes their whole working life. It is an out right lie that private health insurance is cheaper and more efficient. I do not understand how they think they can get away with it, when the numbers are right there to be looked at.
* Kathy Hoeldke of NY 26th got sworn in today.
* Lousiana is planning to ban all abortion outright. Four states have bills in the legislature to ban not only all abortions, but contraception.
* Rand Paul is now campaigning against all anti-discrimination laws, but in favour of imprisoning or deporting people who attend speeches Republicans don't like, all in the name of small government
* In Florida, in the name of saving money and small government, they are going to require expensive forcible wide scale drug tests for state employees and people applying for benefits, as this will make money for a drug testing company the governor has ties with. They can't afford employee benefits, but there is all this money for unreasonable search and seizure of hair and urine for people who have none nothing wrong
* Similarly, in new Jersey, they supposedly have no money for employee benefits, but they do have money for the Governor to fly in a police helicopter to his son's baseball game, money for a limousine to drive him a short distance to and from the helicopter to the stands, and money for that police helicopter to take him to meat with potential donors. "shared sacrifice" really only means the poor and middle class, not the rich, obviously
* I wonder what the Vegas odds are that Dan Wolfe hacked congressman Weiner's twitter vs. an accidental leak by congressman Wiener.
* A tornado hit Massachusetts. O.o Four people are confirmed dead. I repeat, a tornado in Massachusetts.
* Meanwhile, they have found all the Joplin missing, either alive or dead.
* The Dow dropped 279 points today, likely because of Republican plans to force the US to default on all loans and upend the US and likely world economy. I'm suspecting the drop to get stepper as we approach august 1st.
* I simply haven't the heart to summarize the news from Syria.
* Ah, BPAL board. We are now having a trans grammar argument on the feminism thread.
* Why more needs to happen when it comes to homophobic authorities: http://www.sparkindarkness.com/2011/06/and-related-to-2-past-incidents-of.html
* Can we please agree that clothed people hugging is not obscene? http://www.sparkindarkness.com/2011/06/so-gay-men-are-being-censored-and.html