Friday, December 30, 2011

Resolution for 2012

I know I’m a tech, but I cannot make the formatting behave. *sigh*. Have some cats, it’s been awhile.

Treadmill Cats

Friday, December 9, 2011

Between 2008 And 2010, 30 Big Corporations Spent More Lobbying Washington Than They Paid In Income Taxes

From ThinkProgress (link at bottom):

I’ll think I’ll review my 401K for these companies.

Today, thousands of 99 Percenters will march on K Street in Washington, D.C. as a part of an action called “Take Back The Capitol,” taking aim at the lobbying firms that corporate interests use to influence the federal government.

A report released this month by Public Campaign demonstrates just how important it is for Americans to battle corporate special interests and reclaim our democracy. The group’s research finds that thirty big corporations actually spent more money lobbying the federal government between 2008 and 2010 than they spent in taxes. For example, General Electric — one of the top 10 most profitable companies in the world — got a net tax rebate of $4.7 billion during this period. Meanwhile, it spent $84 million lobbying the federal government.

Here’s the full list of the 30 corporations identified and what they paid in federal taxes as opposed to lobbying:

To follow today’s actions, check out Take Back The Capitol’s website, and find instant updates about the protest through the hashtag #99indc. ThinkProgress will be covering today’s events at our 99 Percent Movement special topics page.

http://thinkprogress.org/economy/2011/12/07/383779/30-big-corporations-taxes-lobbying/

Saturday, November 26, 2011

Good Thing He Couldn’t Get the Lid off the Pepper Spray

We really need to remain calm. Sheesh.

ABC News’ Suzan Clarke and Alyssa Newcomb report:

Safeway has fired the security guard who interrogated a 4-year-old girl for alleged shoplifting after he saw her eat from a bag of apricots and put the bag back on the shelf.

The girl’s father apparently hadn’t noticed what his daughter had done and was taken aback when he was stopped by security on his way out of the Everett, Wash., store.

The guard then interrogated Savannah Harp, 4.

The girl’s mother, Alissa Jones, said the guard proceeded to tell Harp’s father that the tot was banned from the store and that it would be pressing charges.

“He told them, ‘Your daughter stole and she’s banned from the store, and we’re pressing charges. And she needs to sign this form saying she understands she can’t come into any Safeways,’” Jones said, according to ABC News Seattle affiliate KOMO 4 News.

Savannah, who can’t read or write yet, was forced to scribble on the piece of paper.

“It’s pretty troubling. It’s not like she even knows what she was doing,” Jones said.”

Safeway Security Guard Fired After Interrogating Girl; Company Faced Criticism for Similar Incident | ABC News - Yahoo!

Rockwell pepper spray

Friday, November 25, 2011

Pueblo Christmas Extravaganza

Residents of Pitstop: jump in that 1978 primer gray Dodge Dart with your three "Support Our Troops" stickers holding your bumper in place and tool down to the Riverwalk for the Christmas Parade of Lights KOAA is touting as an Extravaganza! No speeding.

Wednesday, November 23, 2011

Early Caturday

Because you love the cat postings.

Happy Fangsgibing

And Pizza is a Vegetable

Making the rounds on Fox “News”: what’s so bad about pepper spray? It’s essentially a condiment, amirite? And that campus is full of Liberals, anyway.

“The main study cited by law enforcement agencies to support using pepper spray is apparently tainted by a conflict of interest on the part of an FBI agent who conducted the research.

The pepper spray study was conducted in the late 1980s by FBI Special Agent Thomas W.W. Ward at the FBI academy in Virginia outside Washington, D.C. But Ward did not disclose at the time that he had accepted $57,000 from a pepper spray manufacturer that was laundered through a Florida company owned by his wife, Sheri.

On Friday, Ward was sentenced to two months in federal prison after he had earlier pleaded guilty to federal charges of accepting an illegal gift.” (h/t Pupienus)

Pepper spray study is tainted | Full Page

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Saturday, November 19, 2011

Friday, November 11, 2011

Priorities

Joe Paterno Fired For Real This Time,
A.K.A. ‘Scapegoated’ In Moron Talk – Thesuperficial.com

(some words NSFW)

November 10th, 2011 // 190 Comments

Joe Paterno

Mike McQueary

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“You saw 10-year-olds raped in the shower? — Ah, well. So, listen, on this next play…”

While Photo Boy stuffs the site full of Victoria’s Secret Fashion Show pics, let’s take a minute to check in on ol’ Joe Paterno who announced his retirement yesterday and planned to finish the rest of the season except Penn State’s board of trustees had other plans and fired him effective immediately along with Penn State president Graham Spanier at 10 p.m. last night. And because we live in the greatest country on earth where football is basically religion now, a riot broke out in downtown State College by a bunch of jackasses who think sports are more important than making a growing list of child rapist enablers pay for being.. well, child rapist enablers. Except that dumb wasn’t contained to just Happy Valley, and if you’re like me you were slapped in the face on Facebook or Twitter with football worshipers acting like Joe Paterno was innocently nailed to a cross like Christ himself. So let’s address some of the more prevalent horseshit lines coming out of this thing, and keep in mind these are actual defenses I’ve heard from friends:

“Joe Paterno is a scapegoat!”
Yes, because clearly Joe Paterno is the only person suffering any consequences for this whole debacle, and he’s not one of at least five people as of this post either fired and/or arrested. That was just a mirage.

“If you’re yelling more loudly for Joe Paterno to be fired than for Jerry Sandusky to be strung up by his balls, you’re an idiot.”
This one boggles the mind and I saw this one repeatedly. Apparently if you support Joe Paterno being fired for letting this happen in his house, you’re sitting back going, “Now that Sandusky fellow, he’s alright…” Incredible logic.

“Why is no one calling for Mike McQueary to be fired?!”
You have to admire the simpletons that try to turn this into an either/or situation thanks to a brain mushified from watching men in tights move a ball down a field four hours on end. You can want Paterno fired AND McQueary fired at the same time. (I just blew your mind, I know.) They should both go down, especially McQueary who apparently sees kids being raped and doesn’t go, “Hey, stop raping that kid.” How do you even justify that? “Well, your honor, the old guy might accidentally bump into my pants with his naked erection. My hands were tied.”

“We just sacrificed an old man for a witch hunt. That’s what our society has come to.”
If holding every complicit motherfucker who let kids get raped to protect the reputation of a goddamn sports team accountable is a witch hunt, give me a Pilgrim hat and call me Miles Standish.

“But Joe Paterno’s legacy! Sixty years of coaching and this is going to be how he’s remembered?”
Kids. Got. Raped. Apparently that’s not as important as making sure a guy who devoted decades to a meaningless game is remembered as a dear, sweet grandfather type and not as an egomaniacal, good old boy who decided to quietly treat child rape like people in the 1950s treated spousal abuse to protect his “legacy.” Seriously, just fuck your hero worship. Right in the butt.

“I feel bad for Joe PA. Oh, and it’s a shame about the kids.”
Look back through your Facebook and/or Twitter feed and notice how many times you see that statement with the part about the kids added as an afterthought. “No, not the football coach! — Oh, right, those kids. I guess they kind of got it bad, too.” Priorities, America haz them.

I could go on and on with this, but bottom line, Joe Paterno was one of many, many people who covered up child rape to protect a fucking sports team and, surprise, he made himself the face of Penn State football, so of course he’s going to be the biggest target. That’s the price of a “legacy.” And if you’re looking at this situation going, “But he won so many games!” you’re part of the problem, I hope a professional athlete rapes your kid so I can go, “But look at those Super Bowl rings!” And I’m serious, you better tell me if it happens.

Photo: Getty

Dear Penn State Rioters

Go, World O’ Crap:

This is All I Have to Say About That

“Dear Penn State rioters:

If you can put "child rape" and "winning college football games" on the Scales of Justice, and football wins, then you're exactly the kind of person who ought to spend your professional life weighing a witch and a duck'”

Click for the whole post: World O' Crap: This is All I Have to Say About That

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Thursday, November 10, 2011

U Alive?

Because the cat posts always get the biggest hits. You’re welcome.

u-alive

Saturday, October 29, 2011

DON’T close your Citibank account today. They’re arresting people.

“In what can only be the stupidest public relations move in corporate history, financial behemoth Citibank reacted to customers trying to close their accounts today by… bringing in a ton of cops and having them arrested.”

DON’T close your Citibank account today. They’re arresting people. http://redgreenandblue.org/2011/10/15/dont-close-your-citibank-account-today-theyre-arresting-people/

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Wow. Just wow.

“Then, we’ll smoke ‘em out…”

Occupy Wall Street protestors are starting to face snow and cold weather. Image: Flickr / jaygooby / CC-BY

Occupy Wall Street protestors are starting to face snow and cold weather.

After more than a month of protesting that has spread across the country, New York’s Occupy Wall Street is facing logistical challenges. With a heavy snowfall and cold front predicted, firefighters and police have removed all gasoline generators from the park.

Generators forcibly removed from NY Occupy Wall Street camp

For the 54%ers who faithfully email me the latest OWS talking points fresh from ‘Fox & Friends’, here’s why they are protesting:

99%political-pictures-short-and-sweet

News of the Week

I wish this had happened in Pitstop:

Man tries to turn feces into gold, starts fire, goes to jail

or this:

9-year-old girl appointed designated driver by drunk father

instead, the Pueblo Chiefly has big news!

Duck hunting class set for Nov. 9

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Wednesday, October 19, 2011

What the 99% are Protesting

So much for the ‘we don’t know what they waaaant” dismissal.

Josh Brown, thereformedbroker.com:


You want to know why everyone in this country hates you and wants you dead, you big stupid fucking bank?

Here's why, pay attention:

 

(Reuters) – Bank of America Corp will pay $11 million to ousted executives Joe Price and Sallie Krawcheck, a large payout at a time when banks face protests over pay but smaller than the eight-figure packages some executives received before the financial crisis.

Krawcheck -- a former Citigroup Inc executive who came to Bank of America in 2009 and was one of the top-ranking women on Wall Street -- will receive a one-time payment of $5.15 million, according to separation agreements filed by the bank on Friday.

Price, a Bank of America veteran, gets $4.15 million. Each will also receive $850,000 over a one-year period.

Price was head of consumer banking and Krawcheck led wealth and investment operations.

Elevenmilliondollars? What the hell world are you inhabiting? Eleven million dollars for two departing executives because things didn't work out? I'm sorry, but were these two executives of Derek Jeter and Alex Rodriguez-level importance for your organization? Is that why there are severance deals like this in place? Or are you just completely psychotic?

It's not that this isn't your prerogative as a private company - it is. But seriously, numbers like these at a time when you're instituting added fees on customer accounts just sound farcical, almost like you're making these payments to get a reaction out people.

You look completely ridiculous with news like this at a time when thousands of people are massing in every major city in the country to make the case that you don't deserve to exist. At a time when you're being investigated for employing robo-signers just to maintain a certain level of foreclosures processed per month. At a time when you're laying off rank-and-file employees not by the hundreds, not by the thousands - but in the tens of thousands. At a time when retired seniors, desperately seeking income, have been pushed into annuities, life settlements, commodities and junk bonds because of the zero percent interest rate policy that was meant to nurse you and your balance sheet back to health - and this is what you do with the money? With OUR money?

Are you crazy?

You pay fired executives more in severance than the average American worker will earn in a lifetime. For most people on the outside looking in, this seems like it's from outer space, another world entirely. These numbers just do not exist to regular human beings, they cannot be fathomed. The ordinary American is not a class warrior or a woe-is-me whiner coveting the rewards of others - the ordinary American simply believes that extraordinary rewards should go to those who do extraordinary things, not to paper-pushing failures at parasite banks.

So let me give you a hint that will save you countless hours and millions of dollars spent on consultants and the public relations morons you keep on staff: This is why they hate you. This very type of thing, while just a single example, epitomizes the piggish mentality that has set you apart from everyone else. This is why they're marching against you and calling for boycotts and writing their politicians. And this is why your whole model and way of life is on its way to being dead. Forever.

You want to roll your eyes and make snide remarks about "dumb college kids" and "socialists"? Go ahead but you're be missing the point. Because it is the small business owner who's really been wronged here, not the fringe elements you mockingly dismiss. The business owner whose losses are not socialized like yours, the business owner without the government in his pocket, the business owner who is forced to play by the rules that you have paid to have written. He's not a hippie, he's not a Marxist...but he's waking up, dummy.

You blew the second chance you got with TARP to re-enter society as a productive component of commerce. You went back to bonus-swilling, full-retard mode as though nothing ever happened and 13 million people weren't sitting around in their post credit-bubble joblessness for three years now. Your tone-deafness and utter disconnection from the rest of the country has produced something extraordinary - You've managed to awaken one of the most indolent, lethargic and apathetic populaces in the history of the world. You've now stirred a slumbering nation of 300 million from it's Entennman's and Zoloft-induced stupor. America is awake now and it's pissed.

Good luck with that.


http://www.thereformedbroker.com/2011/10/09/this-is-why-they-hate-you-and-want-you-to-die/

Thursday, October 13, 2011

Republican Sponsoring Carrying Guns into Bars Arrested for Driving Drunk with a Gun. The Comedy Just Writes Itself.

Rep. Todd

Rep. Curry Todd’s Congressional Protrait

NASHVILLE, Tenn. (AP) — The sponsor of the law that made it legal to carry a gun into bars in Tennessee is facing charges of possession of a handgun while under the influence and drunken driving.

Rep. Curry Todd, a Collierville Republican, was pulled over in Nashville late Tuesday, according to court documents. Police said he failed a roadside sobriety test and refused to take a Breathalyzer test. A loaded .38-caliber gun was found in a holster stuffed between the driver's seat and center console.

A police affidavit said Todd was unsteady on his feet, "almost falling down at times." Officers concluded that Todd was "obviously very impaired and not in any condition to be carrying a loaded handgun."

Todd posted bail of $3,000 and was released from jail Wednesday morning. He later released a statement saying, "I am deeply sorry for the events of last evening." He said he would make no further comments on the advice of his attorney.

Todd's GMC Envoy was stopped while going 60 mph in a 40 mph zone in a neighborhood surrounding Vanderbilt University, said police spokesman Don Aaron. The vehicle was weaving and crossed the double yellow lines, he said.

Aaron said Todd told the officers that he was coming from downtown Nashville even though his SUV was headed in that direction. The cruiser was not equipped with cameras to record the stop, the police spokesman said.

Todd told officers that he had consumed two drinks, according to the affidavit.

As a former Memphis police officer, Todd isn't required to have to have a permit to carry a gun in public, but state records show he has one anyway.

State law makes it a misdemeanor for anyone to consume alcohol while carrying a firearm in public, and those who violate that law are subject to losing their permits for three years.

House Majority Leader Gerald McCormick, R-Chattanooga, said it's too soon to say whether Todd will be stripped of his chairmanship of the House State and Local Government Committee.

McCormick said in a news conference that he had spoken briefly with Todd to tell his colleague he was "praying for him and being supportive of him on a personal basis."

McCormick said the arrest doesn't change his views about the guns in bars law.

"It's a bad idea to drink and carry a gun, obviously," he said. "I don't know the details of what happened with Rep. Todd last night, but I think he would agree me."

Todd's arrest was first reported by WSMV-TV.

Court documents don't indicate whether Todd had been drinking at a bar.

Todd sponsored a 2009 bill to let people with handgun carry permits take their weapons into businesses that serve alcohol, provided they don't drink. Although police and prosecutors spoke out against it, the measure passed and easily survived a veto from former Democratic Gov. Phil Bredesen.

A judge later declared the law unconstitutionally vague but the Legislature addressed those issues in a new version that became law last year.

During the 2009 debate over the bill, Todd assured lawmakers that gun permit holders would be careful about not violating the ban on drinking in bars or restaurants while carrying a gun.

"The burden is not going to be on the restaurant owner, it's going to be on the individual, because he's going to know that he has a chance there if he's caught to lose his gun permit forever," Todd said.

Faith and Don Peters were leaving a Lowe's home improvement store on Wednesday when they heard about Todd's arrest. Both retired Republicans agreed that Todd should be treated like any other citizen who gets in trouble.

"I feel you should be a law abiding citizen, especially if you serve as an example to the community," Faith Peters said.

Outside the same store, real estate appraiser Terry Smith, who said he played high school basketball with Todd in the 1960s, was saddened by the charges.

"I'd hate to jump to judge him," Smith added.

Todd, 63, also once played basketball for the University of Memphis.

Todd also drew national attention last year for saying in a committee hearing that illegal immigrants can "go out there like rats and multiply" after hearing that federal law requires the state to extend prenatal care to women regardless of their citizenship status because all children born in the U.S. are citizens.

Todd initially acknowledged that he used the wrong words and that he meant to say "anchor babies" — itself a term many consider offensive — but refused to apologize for the original remark.

Todd later changed course and said he would "apologize if the comment offended anyone."

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Associated Press writer Adrian Sainz in Collierville contributed to this report.

Tenn. lawmaker arrested on DUI, gun charges - Yahoo! News

Same Day, Different Prairie

WOOSTER -- Two more Amish men accused in beard-cutting attacks turned themselves in to the Holmes County Sheriff Wednesday morning.

Eli M. Miller, 32, and Daniel S. Mullet, 37, surrendered in connection with the recent attack on a fellow Amish man, a 74-year-old who had his beard cut during the incident. Both are charged with aggravated burglary and kidnapping.

Holmes County: Two more arrests in Amish attacks | wkyc.com

His name is Mullet? Really?

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Those Dirty Hippies, What Do They Want?

Tom Tomarrow

H/T: US Politics | AMERICAblog News

Tuesday, October 11, 2011

“Old, drunk and unfunny is no way to go through life, son”

h/t Dependable Renegade

Alan Grayson schools washed-up hack on what Occupy Wall Street is about.

PJ: Your act is done. Your sharp political humor has given way to sneering, name-calling and too much Seagrams.

Wednesday, October 5, 2011

Making the Republicons Heads Explode

And please remember when a GOP candidate says Reagan cut taxes, he actually raised them. Eleven times.

Tuesday, September 27, 2011

Yeah, it a Liberal Media

60,000 Occupy Wall Street protesters for over a week: 0 news coverage.

150 Medicare recipients in government-funded Hoverounds meeting in a park: non-stop coverage.

 

Media Blackout

Contrast How Occupy Wall Street and Right Wing Protestors Are Treated by NYC | MyFDL:

“There has been an almost complete corporate media blackout of a protest that has been going on 24/7 for over a week. Our own Kevin Gosztola has been doing an amazing job of covering Occupy Wall Street protests and creating a platform to view the work of the LiveStream videographers. Without this amazing work and a lot of folks Tweeting, many would never know this was even happening.”

and this (bolding mine):

“Contrast that with the Occupy Wall Street protests. There, the NYPD is denying the protestors the right to use blue tarps to cover themselves when it’s pouring rain. Movable orange fencing is being used to corral people. And unarmed and non violent protestors are being maced, punched and dragged.”

Contrast How Occupy Wall Street and Right Wing Protestors Are Treated by NYC | MyFDL

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Wednesday, September 21, 2011

What Jill Said

From the brilliant Jill:


The reason this matters now is that the America of Republicans is starting to take shape, and it is an ugly one indeed. It is an America in which angry people frightened about their futures applaud a man who boasts about the number of people in his state who have received the death penalty. It is an America in which it is better to see two or ten or a hundred innocent men be put to death by the state than to risk one guilty one receiving clemency. It is an America in which Republicans would rather a million children to go hungry than for one child to receive a meal to which he is not entitled because his mother makes fifty cents more than the cutoff for aid. It is an America in which the elderly should live in poverty rather than people who have more money than they can spend in 100 lifetimes pay one penny more in taxes.

Brilliant at Breakfast: Where no one cashes in on unpaid writers


Pledge to the Rich

Yahoo Appears To Be Censoring Email Messages About Wall Street Protests (Updated) | ThinkProgress

Damn Liebrul Media, amirite?


Thinking about e-mailing your friends and neighbors about the protests against Wall Street happening right now? If you have a Yahoo e-mail account, think again. ThinkProgress has reviewed claims that Yahoo is censoring e-mails relating to the protest and found that after several attempts on multiple accounts, we too were prevented from sending messages about the “Occupy Wall Street” demonstrations


Read it all here:

Yahoo Appears To Be Censoring Email Messages About Wall Street Protests (Updated) | ThinkProgress

The Protest Yahoo! Doesn’t Want You to Share

Pundit Kitchen: Lol News and Lol Sarah Palin, Barack Obama, John McCain, Joe Biden and more - Page 2

Tuesday, September 20, 2011

Republicon Eats Foot, No One Surprised

Cry me a river. I’ve got your class warfare right here.

Add John Fleming, a Republican congressman from Louisiana, to the growing, bipartisan list of relatively well-off politicians who may want to revisit the way they discuss their income in public.

During an MSNBC interview to discuss why Fleming opposes President Obama's tax increase on those earning more than $1 million per year, host Chris Jansing said that Fleming has an income of more than $6 million. Fleming quickly corrected her, saying he actually takes in a fraction of that gross amount--about $600,000.

"The amount that I have to reinvest in my business and feed my family is more like $600,000 of that $6.3 million," Fleming explained. "So by the time I feed my family I have, maybe, $400,000 left over to invest in new locations, upgrade my locations, buy more equipment."

Rep. John Fleming fields criticism over 600K income | The Ticket - Yahoo! News

Hamster Butt

Let them eat cake.

Sunday, September 18, 2011

This Guy Will Be the Next National Disaster

Bolding mine:

“Texas Gov. Rick Perry's efforts to tout his record on jobs and the economy as a centerpiece of his presidential campagn took a hit today with new figures from one of his own state agencies: They show the Texas unemployment rate increased to 8.5% in August -- the highest level in more than 24 years and more than twice the rate when Perry took office in December 2000.”

US Politics | 2012 Election - AMERICAblog News

Perry

Texas has the most uninsured, the lowest rate of educated folks, and a swaggering grifter for a Governor who brags about executing innocent people. You can keep him, Texas.

Saturday, September 17, 2011

Colorado Calico Returns After Five Years

A calico kitteh named Willow disappeared from her Colorado home five years ago. Now, after a long journey to New York, she is finally on her way home!

“The kids can’t wait to see her,” Squires said. “And we still have her little Christmas stocking.”

IMMD: Animal News of the Day - It Made My Day - Funny Win Stories

Denver men 'take dead friend Jeffrey Jarrett to bar'.

Robert Young (left) and Mark Rubinson (Pic: Denver Police) The two men left the body in their car as they drank and ate at bars and a strip club

Two US men face charges in Denver for allegedly driving around with the body of a friend after discovering him dead.

The pair bought drinks, dinner and took $400 (£253) from Jeffrey Jarrett's bank, visiting a strip club before reporting his death, police said.

Robert Young, 43, and Mark Rubinson, 25, are charged with identity theft, criminal impersonation and abuse of a corpse.

BBC News - Denver men 'take dead friend Jeffrey Jarrett to bar'

Monday, September 12, 2011

On Eve Of 9/11 Anniversary, Cantor Insists On Massive Cuts To First Responders In Exchange For Emergency Disaster Aid | ThinkProgress

Yesterday, President Obama requested $5.1 billion to provide disaster relief to communities struggling to recover from recent hurricanes, floods, earthquakes and wildfires. The request includes $500 million in emergency funds FEMA needs to continue to operate effectively through the end of September.

House Majority Leader Eric Cantor, whose home state of Virginia was hit by an earthquake and Hurricane Irene, is demanding more partisan spending cuts in exchange for approving the request. From Politico:

 

But a spokesperson for House Majority Leader Eric Cantor (R-Va.) signaled late Friday that the GOP is likely to insist on offsets for the $500 million in emergency funds Obama requested for 2011…

“The House has passed $1 billion in disaster relief funds that is fully offset, which we will look to move as quickly as possible.”

 

The funds referenced by Cantor’s spokesperson are contained in the House Department of Homeland Security Appropriations bill, which is adamantly opposed by Senate Democrats. Why? The “offsets” contained in the bill are actually massive cuts to first responders. Sen. Mary Landrieu (D-LA) explains:

 

The House bill slashes funding for grants to equip and train first responders by 40 percent. This is on top of the 19 percent cut in FY 2011. The House defense appropriations bill provides $12.8 billion to train and equip troops and police in Afghanistan — yet the House provides only $2 billion for first responders here at home.

Their proposal also slashes the Federal Emergency Management Agency’s operations by 6 percent at a time when the agency has never been busier. Does it really make sense to pay for response and reconstruction costs from past disasters by reducing our capacity to prepare for future disasters?

In December, Cantor opposed a bipartisan bill “to improve health services and provide financial compensation for 9/11 first responders who were exposed to dangerous toxins and are now sick as a result.” Now, on the eve of the 10th anniversary of 9/11, Cantor is pushing for further cuts to first responders in exchange for disaster relief.

Cantor and his staff continue to insist “There will be no delay in meeting the president’s request and providing people the aid they need.” But they have yet to support any such request absent more partisan spending cuts.

On Eve Of 9/11 Anniversary, Cantor Insists On Massive Cuts To First Responders In Exchange For Emergency Disaster Aid | ThinkProgress

If it sounds reasonable to you to offset the funding with cuts, please remember that the cuts will benefit Cantor’s Corporate Overlords. Funny how the Republicons had no problem getting us into debt by pushing two unfunded wars.

I Thought We Could

Tuesday, September 6, 2011

Beat the Colorado State Fair

This Sunday proved climatic for citizens of Pwello. How do you beat Selina Gomez at Fiesta Day at the State Fair? The Grand Opening of the first TJMAXX in Pwellobyderibber!

No parking spaces! Fist fights broke out in the check out lane that snaked around three posts and out the front door and down the sidewalk. Nice things? Yes. Buy them Opening Day? No.

Pwello Prairie Dog ponders his TJMaxx purchase
I figured the now shopworn Ross at the end of the block would have less nice clothes but offer better deals. In a nervous, desperate kind of way....

Tuesday, August 30, 2011

Colorado State Fair - Dollar Day! Yeaz!

Get your buttocks down to the Colorado State Fair for a buck. See some pirates, eat a pork chop on a stick, visit the National Guard trailer and sign up. You're not doing anything else with your life and there's a War on Terra you know. See some really scary citizens of the Pitstop on the Prairie.

Ah, the Fair. Used to be Pueblo was only known as "that place where they make the government brochures?". Yes. And so much more.
Not appearing at the Colorado State Fair. Damn.


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