The Glade 4.0

He made me feel all warm and fuzzy, then he reached his hand into my pocket.

He should have at least fondled my balls.

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In time, this too shall pass.

Skipped speech, watched Madmen. He's no Roosevelt, JFK, or even Clinton. Not worth my time.

Don't care. Football's on.

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Holy shitsnacks!

The Daily Show'll have highlights (or, rather, lowlights) Monday. Never watched addresses before, not really going to start now.

Facebook post by a friend of mine:

"Missed Obama's speech. Guess I'll go plug in my wife's hair dryer and listen to that for 20 minutes"

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“Strong people are harder to kill than weak people, and more useful in general”. - Mark Rippetoe

Was at work. I probably would have had to turn it off, as I hear the words "more of the same" being bandied about. I listened to his early speeches, he is the President after all. It seems however I get tired of him repacking the same stuff.

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I prefer to think of them as "Fighting evil in another dimension"

Ha! I actually had something similar to say myself.

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Ezekiel 23:19-20 

http://hosted.ap.org/dynamic/stories/U/ ... 8-19-52-31

Even AP is calling him out on the bullshit

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"Life isn't divided into genres. It's a horrifying, romantic, tragic, comical, science-fiction cowboy detective novel. You know, with a bit of pornography if you're lucky."
— Alan Moore

Well, I watched it. I was... yeah, about what I expected.

The most ridiculous thing I heard was the tax credit for companies hiring folks that have been out of work longer than 6 months. So if I get laid off, I'm at a disadvantage for 6 months. Nice.

Here we go again with the pass the bill pass the bill pass the bill yet nothing is written down.

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A man who has nothing for which he is willing to fight, nothing which is more important than his own personal safety, is a miserable creature and has no chance of being free unless made and kept so by the exertions of better men than himself. ~ John Stuart Mill

http://nation.foxnews.com/obama-jobs-pl ... -fall-down continuing a long line of threats. Pass this or the bridges get it!

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"Life isn't divided into genres. It's a horrifying, romantic, tragic, comical, science-fiction cowboy detective novel. You know, with a bit of pornography if you're lucky."
— Alan Moore

Yeah! Well, except http://www.whitehouse.gov/sites/default ... bs-act.pdf

Or this, for a shorter version: http://www.barackobama.com/pdf/jobs-act ... canJobsAct

Please. Everybody knows the bridges are too big to fall.

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"Aaaah! Emotions are weird!" - Amdee
"... Mirrorshades prevent the forces of normalcy from realizing that one is crazed and possibly dangerous. They are the symbol of the sun-staring visionary, the biker, the rocker, the policeman, and similar outlaws." - Bruce Sterling, preface to Mirrorshades

It's kind of disingenuous to point out that 5-6 days later, the proposal is provided, when for those same 5-6 days the rhetoric has been "pass this bill now" (which begs the question, because the President submits it, is it even a bill?).

Anyone gong to defend the statements of: "Everything in this bill will be paid for. Everything." and "It will not add to the deficit."? Especially in light of the fact that a major portion of the funding for this is intended to come from a tax revenue plan that failed to pass Congress when the D's held a majority in the House and a Super-majority in the Senate.

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"Dress cops up as soldiers, give them military equipment, train them in military tactics, tell them they’re fighting a ‘war,’ and the consequences are predictable." —Radley Balko

Fairly certain the President absolutely doesn't understand the separation of powers

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He said in his speech that it was going to be available immediately (i.e. during/immediately after the speech. I didn't bother to care or look for it until now, but I've no reason to assume that it wasn't made available at the time of the speech. *shrug*

Ninja edit: The basic plan was posted on Sep. 8, the day of the speech. The full text was posted Monday, Sept. 12th.

I don't particularly care about the act or whether or not it's passed; I just don't like seeing disingenuous bullshit bandied about as unfair criticism.

I understand and applaud your skepticism. How about we meet in the middle and say Congress couldn't pass it because it wasn't submitted to them? I see that he sent a memorandum to Congress on the 12th, and I recall him holding a document while giving his human prop speech in the Rose Garden, on the 12th, saying he was going to submit it to Congress right after the speech.

Do you feel the same about the rhetoric that was used regarding the "bill" being "paid for" and that it will not "add to the deficit"? Do you see that as disingenuous bullshit bandied about to deflect criticism?

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"Dress cops up as soldiers, give them military equipment, train them in military tactics, tell them they’re fighting a ‘war,’ and the consequences are predictable." —Radley Balko

It's certainly rhetoric, but I don't understand the correlation to the point at hand...my point of contention was whomever on the last page complaining that it wasn't written down, blah blah blah.

Again, I don't care about the content of the bill...I haven't read it, don't care if it's passed or not, and am pretty resigned to some useless iteration being passed that does nothing but gives both the Democrats and Republican something crow about. But it's like that Rick Perry image in the random pictures thread. Criticize something of note, and don't make **** up.

Edit: wait, no, this page. Figured we'd have hit page 2 by now.

Bravo

http://blog.heritage.org/2011/09/14/con ... ama-delay/

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"It is true that democracy undermines freedom when voters believe they can live off of others' productivity, when they modify the commandment: 'Thou shalt not steal, except by majority vote.' The politics of plunder is no doubt destructive of both morality and the division of labor."

When I started *****, it was the 9th. Obama had been saying pass the bill since the 8th. He finally puts it down for release on the 12th, and if one was inclined to read it and parse the numbers, I'd say the 14th would be the earliest to make judgements.

So nyahhh

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A man who has nothing for which he is willing to fight, nothing which is more important than his own personal safety, is a miserable creature and has no chance of being free unless made and kept so by the exertions of better men than himself. ~ John Stuart Mill

Anyone else other than Vindi notice that this "bill" proposes to strip the tax free status from municipal bonds from any investors who earn more than $200k/yr.?

As if munis weren't having enough trouble attracting new investors. Not to mention the effect this will have on the ability of upper-middle class citizens to send their children, who do not qualify for aid, to college.

Poorly thought out, as usual.

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Ezekiel 23:19-20 

On the contrary, it's exceedingly well thought out. If municipalities have a harder time issuing bonds, they'll need more Federal funds, which can have little strings attached. You know, like, "set your DUI limit to X or no highway money for you" type strings.

It's brilliant.

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"Hysterical children shrieking about right-wing anything need to go sit in the corner and be quiet while the adults are talking."

I've read the long version of the bill cover to cover ...

And I wonder why the President wants to demand shift temporary labor by no more than 9 months and call it a massive employment victory.

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You don't wonder at all.

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"...but there exists also in the human heart a depraved taste for equality, which impels the weak to attempt to lower the powerful to their own level and reduces men to prefer equality in slavery to inequality with freedom." - De Tocqueville

http://www.breitbart.tv/obama-if-you-lo ... this-bill/


"If you love me, you will help pass the bill"

"Why don't you call anymore, don't you love me?"

"Don't leave me I need your love!"

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"Life isn't divided into genres. It's a horrifying, romantic, tragic, comical, science-fiction cowboy detective novel. You know, with a bit of pornography if you're lucky."
— Alan Moore