December 2011
18 posts
Percentage increase in National Debt by Presidency →
Reagan 189.0%
Bush 43 89.0%
Bush 41 51.6%
Carter 42.6%
Clinton 36.0%
Obama 34.0%
“There are some truths so hard to face, so ugly and so at odds with how we...”
– Stephen Marche, via Wonkbook. (via infectedworldmind)
Something we, as a culture, don’t have the ability to recognize, much less address.
Plus, Ezra Klein reference (his blog is called Wonkblog now. It publishes Wonkbook every morning as a wonky primer for the day).
inothernews:
David Brent singing “If You Don’t Know Me By Now” is even funnier when seeing porn cross one’s Dashboard.
While eating clementines.
1 for 3.
Clementines
Pretzel bread w/ stone ground mustuard.
No ‘If You Don’t Know Me By Now”
Good Night
To my best mate Jay - thanks for the great night.
It’s rare you get the chance to connect with the brother you never had. Tonight I had that chance. It was as you’d expect. We both gave each other distilled drinks for Christmas (Jay went a little further than I did): we connected with old and future friends (some wanted, others not so much); at the end of the night, we both...
“Obama will thus be the conservative in 2012, in the truest sense of that word....”
– E.J. Dionne Jr. (via azspot)
“I’m disillusioned by the people who are disillusioned by Obama, quite honestly,...”
– George Clooney (via apsies)
“Last year, Americans spent $450 billion on Christmas. Clean water for the whole...”
– Jim Wallis
5% of Christmas is all it would take. The church I attend has for the last couple of years been donating 100% of the Christmas Eve offering to mission work. It is split 50/50 between a program to drill wells in Mozambique and a community service here in St. Louis known as Kingdom House...
A Nation's Education Left Behind →
So what can we do? First, we should speak out when politicians say “there is no more money.” There is money to do what we want to do. There is money to fight wars in the Middle East. There is enough money to give big corporate cuts. There is enough money for 1% of this nation to live lives of splendor. Why is there not enough money to provide the basic public services that every child needs?
...
“Last week, virtually every Senate Republican voted against that tax cut. Now, I...”
– —President Obama, in a statement today urging Republicans in Congress to extend the payroll tax cut (via barackobama)
Please, oh please, talk about these kinds of things more and more. The average American understands and dislikes hypocrisy and double-standards.
“…Obama is a smart person whereas Gingrich is simply a dumb person’s...”
– Andrew Sullivan
