Wednesday Bird Droppings

I’d totally date a 23 year old. I mean, like, once. Then I’d be annoyed.

You should probably change that to the ages of 12 through 18. (at least for some people)

my job is apparently easy enough that spending 25% of my time during the work day is enough.

I have to watch this movie someday, but my wife has the next 73 movies on our Netflix cue.

/fat joke.

Hypocrisy is saying one thing in public and doing another in private. Such as, a pastor regularly giving sermons about the importance of marriage having affairs, or a politician vowing to reduce corruption him-/herself being corrupt, or police officers pulling others over for speeding but going 20 mph over the limit themselves.

The Party of No has no problem taking stimulus money for their individual districts.

Any idea how many people on death row end up being innocent?

which refers to the post below. It might make you think about the death penalty a bit.

I mean, no one’s broken out in to a drunken O’sFan21 profanity-laden tirade. Which I would find immensely amusing, personally.

And when we’re arguing about Hernadez in the bullpen or in Norfolk in a month, no one’s gonna remember who’s pro-life and who’s pro-choice.

I don’t recall a bishop ever withholding communion because a Republican politician was pro-death penalty.

the issues are completely separate if you want them to be and one the same if you want them to be. its all a matter of how you phrase it.

already protects rape victims. Palin wants to get rid of that.

something the RIght always conveniently overlooks.

I tried to explain the concept of a card catalog in a library to my kids. You know, the old setup with 3 sets of skinny file drawers for author, title and subject? She thought I was kidding.

I’ll just add that I’m generally a pro-Keynesian, and from what I understand, the academic literature,does not show conclusive support for it in terms of reviving recessions. Like most issues subject to academic debate, the degree to which it is effective is pretty heavily contested.

…given a remarkable amount of traction by the MSM recently. Economic stimulus packages work. That’s why every government on earth does them when their economies hit a recession. Unfortunately we have an opposition party so desperate for a clear voice that would let them off the political mat that we have endure yet another rudimentary public debate over settled matters of economic fact. Adding to that we get to laughably hear about deficits from a political party that has been borrowing like a drunken sailor since the 1980’s to pay for tax cuts without having to cut social services or the defense budget.

The problem in this country is that we are constantly debating the role of government. For the dyed in the wool conservative true believer, these debates are a matter of ideology, which in and of itself is not a bad thing. The trouble is though that the neverending debate in reality as practiced by the GOP is nothing more than a straw man to allow those with wealth and power to basically do whatever they want. And we’re reaching a point where that much freedom in the private sector is completely draining the middle class and driving the country off a cliff. The debates we should be having are about how government can work as effectively as possible, not whether is should have any power whatsoever. That debate was decided a long time ago and our competitors around the world are moving forward, not mired in these silly counterproductive debates that have hamstrung us as a nation.

But just from a practical standpoint, how exactly would we come out of the recession OR cut the deficit using GOP-favored economics? More tax cuts would further decrease government revenue and cutting government spending would result in more jobs lost, less loans being given, less businesses hiring and being started all of which further reduce tax revenues further reducing government revenue and leading to further deficit. So how exactly would it work?

The New Deal was not just government stimulus economics and if anything the lesson of the great depression was that there wasn’t ENOUGH government spending since it was the massive government spending associated with the war that finally pulled us out of the great depression.