Tag: politics
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The Real October Surprise: Hubris and Short-Term Thinking
A lot of people have been expecting a Republican October Surprise, supposedly that time right before the General Election where the Republican Party goes into their bag of dirty tricks and pull out something that will severely damage the Presidential campaign of Barack Obama. The only October surprise that I am seeing is coming from…
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My ‘Huh? What?’ moment of the day
I was driving back from getting some lunch and I was forced to listen to the radio. On top of that it was The Rush Limbaugh Radio Show. He was talking about Gen. Wesley Clark’s support of Barack Obama and previously John Kerry. Limbaugh said "He’s a partisan hack." Huh? What? That’s like Mr. Pot…
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Is it just me?
Is it just me or do all of the Obama/Kennedy comparisons creep anyone else out? There are people who don’t want Obama to just start pulling troops out of Afghanistan and Iraq, but a lot of the language used sounds similar to some of the criticisms about Kennedy’s Cuba policy. A lot of people want…
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California Supreme Court rules in favor of gay marriages.
The Supreme Court of California says that the state cannot bar same sex marriages. Cool.
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California Supreme Court to rule on gay marriage
California’s Supreme Court is going to rule on the legality of the state’s ban on gay marriage. It’s about time. There’s too much work for the United States to do to worry about whether or not two people who love each other can get married or not. Ridiculous. In the grand scheme of things it…
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Then you get nothing, like you’re supposed to get
Last year, Michigan and Florida party leaders (Republicans and Democrats alike) got together and decided that their states didn’t have enough say in the selection of the presidential nominees so they decided to move their primaries up from wherever they were to January. This ticked off the national party leaders on both sides. The Republicans…
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Myanmar update
Apparently there are over 100,000 dead and the Myanmar junta is keeping US aid workers from the people. When that part of the world gets back on its feet, I wonder how many people in charge are going to be able to keep their lives after condemning so many others to death. I am saddened…