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Excellent thoughts on the developing lawsuit in Kansas over digital cable boxes and the rent-only option:
http://blogs.kansascity.com/tvbarn/2008/08/the-time-warner.html
Excellent thoughts on the developing lawsuit in Kansas over digital cable boxes and the rent-only option:
http://blogs.kansascity.com/tvbarn/2008/08/the-time-warner.html
If you have been paying attention, you may have noticed that the United States government has reached a level of [choose your favorite] stupidity, ludicrousness, lack of institutional memory, brazen disregard for anything resembling reality, inferred hallucinogenic drug use, soul crushing asshattery, and intelligence insulting rhetoric that has surpassed any and all measure. I lament for our descendants and am redefining the upper bound of contemptuousness for the Federalist system.
Case in point, as beautifully and satisfyingly portrayed on Mr. Stewart’s lovely show:
I hope there will be a return to accountability and common sense within my lifetime. I also hope to live forever. I think the chances for both are just about equal.
BONUS: Pictures from the conflict zone taken by a local. [EnglishRussia.com]
It’s a plug for his new movie, but some of the props and effects hit a little close to home. Jubi Show watchers will know what I mean.
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From Johnson County Supervisor Rod Sullivan’s weekly email blast comes this factoid:
Taxpayers in Johnson County, Iowa will pay $191.3 million for total Iraq war spending approved to date.
For the same amount of money, the following could have been provided:
- 57,241 People with Health Care for One Year OR
- 215,208 Homes with Renewable Electricity for One Year OR
- 4,572 Public Safety Officers for One year OR
- 31,176 Scholarships for University Students for One Year or
- 2,380 Affordable Housing Units OR
- 4,282 Elementary School Teachers for One Year.
That is correct – those figures are the cost for Johnson County alone!
(Source: Costofwar.com)
I’m sure there’s play either way in those numbers, but as a tool of perspective I think it says volumes.
Now they’re not even pretending you have privacy or 4th Amendment protections. If the president says…
The United States House of Representatives seats 435 persons. That number was limited by law in 1911. It amounts to roughly 1 Rep. for every 693,000 people (if distributed equally).
The British House of Commons currently seats 646. This number is set by the Boundary Commission. It amounts to 1 MP for every 94,000 (if distributed equally).
Hi-larious.
GOP’s New Slogan Already Being Used To Market Anti-Depressant
Be sure to read down to the side effects.
If the Dems were a drug, what would they be? For the past 8 years, I’d have to say “Placebo“…
I’ve been watching with interest the State’s takeover of the 1-cent local option sales tax, under the guise of ‘funding education’. While not fundamentally opposed to taxation, I am opposed to the idea of redirecting money that is slated for a specific purpose to pet projects or just budget shore-up (usually due to ‘unshoring’ somewhere else), without any explanation. So color me unsurprised by the following development, stated in his usually ‘eloquent’ way by State29: Local Option Sales Tax Money To Be Diverted To Corporate Welfare?
He also links to a resource I had not yet played with: BillWatch (Iowa Legislature). Am interested to see if its worth a damn. I’m guessing that none of the Local Mandatory Sales Tax will be going to foster and ensure transparency tools such as these…