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Wednesday, March 9, 2011
Governor 48.9% Cuts School Funding AND Corporate Taxes
Huh? Companies routinely report looking for states with excellent school systems when looking to relocate.
"bring the homeless poor into your house"
[Is not this the fast that I choose: to loose the bonds of injustice, to undo the thongs of the yoke, to let the oppressed go free, and to break every yoke? Is it not to share your bread with the hungry, and bring the homeless poor into your house; when you see the naked, to cover them, and not to hide yourself from your own kin?]
- Isaiah 58:6-7
- Isaiah 58:6-7
Monday, March 7, 2011
LBJ the Lesser in the Locker Room After a Loss
Video of Le Bron James crying in his locker room after latest Heat loss.
"The Lord is a stronghold for the oppressed"
"The Lord is a stronghold for the oppressed, a stronghold in times of trouble. And those who know your name put their trust in you, for you, O Lord, have not forsaken those who seek you."
- Psalm 9:9-10
- Psalm 9:9-10
Sunday, March 6, 2011
Next Pres. Palin Calls Obama Inexperienced
Next Pres. Palin Calls Obama Inexperienced; pot and kettle call her an idiotic froot loop.
[Sarah Palin said President Barack Obama lacks experience in the public and private sectors in discussing his role in ongoing debate over unions, collective bargaining and the recent protests in Wisconsin.]
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2011/03/05/sarah-palin-obama-inexperienced_n_831879.html?utm_source=chrome
[Sarah Palin said President Barack Obama lacks experience in the public and private sectors in discussing his role in ongoing debate over unions, collective bargaining and the recent protests in Wisconsin.]
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2011/03/05/sarah-palin-obama-inexperienced_n_831879.html?utm_source=chrome
Miami Heat Crybabies
Might as well shine up the NBA championship trophy for the Miami Heatles, Queen James and the Bronettes, Two and a Half Superstars, the Trinity of Evil, the Team of All Wrong with Sports, the Ego, Super Ego, and Super Sized EGO.
Go Magic!!!
[All of these tough losses are apparently getting to some of the Miami Heat players.
After the Heat lost their fourth straight game on Sunday, some of the players were reportedly very emotional in the locker room.
According to Ira Winderman of the South Florida Sun-Sentinel, Spoelstra said: "There are a couple of guys crying there in the locker room." Brian Windhorst of ESPN also confirmed the report.] emphasis added
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2011/03/06/heat-players-crying-loss-bulls_n_832036.html
Shorter Eric Spoelstra, Miami Beat head coach, "I coach a team of losers, quitters, whiners, and crybabies: http://www.orlandosentinel.com/sports/nationworld/sfl-miami-heat-chicago-bulls-s030611,0,5416623.story
Go Magic!!!
[All of these tough losses are apparently getting to some of the Miami Heat players.
After the Heat lost their fourth straight game on Sunday, some of the players were reportedly very emotional in the locker room.
According to Ira Winderman of the South Florida Sun-Sentinel, Spoelstra said: "There are a couple of guys crying there in the locker room." Brian Windhorst of ESPN also confirmed the report.] emphasis added
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2011/03/06/heat-players-crying-loss-bulls_n_832036.html
Shorter Eric Spoelstra, Miami Beat head coach, "I coach a team of losers, quitters, whiners, and crybabies: http://www.orlandosentinel.com/sports/nationworld/sfl-miami-heat-chicago-bulls-s030611,0,5416623.story
Homeless Children in the Happiest Place on Earth
[Destiny Corfee, 11, joined the line at one local motel a year ago. "I never really noticed what people were actually going through until now; until we're actually going through it too," she told "60 Minutes" correspondent Scott Pelley.
Destiny's parents David and Theresa never imagined their family homeless. Together they were making about $40 an hour detailing expensive cars. There was a three-bedroom home, vacations and extras for the kids. But both jobs went, and then the house. Evicted, they found that the homeless shelters wanted to split their family up - boys and girls.
"That was definitely something that I wasn't gonna have, was being separated at a time like this. I figured the time like this that we needed to be together more than anything," David Corfee said.
So David, Theresa, Destiny, Jorge and Chance, moved into their van.]
http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2011/03/06/60minutes/main20038927.shtml?tag=stack
Living in a van down by the river indeed. Not through the ravages of drugs or alcoholism but the predations of the corporate capitalist world order.
Damn, I need a drink and a laugh.
Destiny's parents David and Theresa never imagined their family homeless. Together they were making about $40 an hour detailing expensive cars. There was a three-bedroom home, vacations and extras for the kids. But both jobs went, and then the house. Evicted, they found that the homeless shelters wanted to split their family up - boys and girls.
"That was definitely something that I wasn't gonna have, was being separated at a time like this. I figured the time like this that we needed to be together more than anything," David Corfee said.
So David, Theresa, Destiny, Jorge and Chance, moved into their van.]
http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2011/03/06/60minutes/main20038927.shtml?tag=stack
Living in a van down by the river indeed. Not through the ravages of drugs or alcoholism but the predations of the corporate capitalist world order.
Damn, I need a drink and a laugh.
Saturday, March 5, 2011
Notes for My Nieces: Part 1
To my nieces:
Stop. Look. Listen.
This comes from a wonderful book read many years ago, On Writing Well, by William Zinsser, primarily about writing but by extension, Life.
Writing, by definition, organizes thoughts and thus trains the mind to perceive the world in certain ways and so changes how we see and live our lives.
His advice above applies even more in this digital age. Always stop and edit yourself before pressing send. Instant communication allows the intemperate to permeate our words and pollute our minds to influence us to write with anger rather than passion, ire rather than irony, and ignorant metaphors rather than coherent thought.
Zinsser then asks aspiring writers--even we unwashed bloggers among the hoi polloi can aspire to better themselves and their own little corners of the world--to look at what they wrote, to my memory meaning analyze the words to ensure the thoughts flow from 1 to the other, not necessarily in outline form nevertheless even the fevered stream of consciousness scribblings of Henry Miller brings a certain sense even through seeming chaos.
Also, my bent leans towards excising the alleged verb "is" from my thoughts and words.
When 1 uses the verb "is" one always assumes the end of the argument rather than promotes discussion of the matter at hand. When combined with Jeremy Bentham's linguistic theory of fictions, written words have held forth as handmaidens of hate and intolerance and muddled thinking since invention of writing.
Think of words as related to actual physical objects. the oak in your front lawn or the strangler fig on State Road 3. When one writes "trees," that amounts to general catgory or class, in essence a rhetorical use to facilitate communication, in other words a fiction.
When you read a newspaper, magazine, or listen to TV news, consider the words as "the national interest" as a fiction, highly suspect and certainly the preordained views of the author or commentator.
Read your writings to yourself if you can't find anyone else to do so. Clumsy writing easier reveals it self when spoken aloud.
Especially in the digital age, words once thought. spoken, written, and even flung through the ether through the internets will in some sense define you as a human for all eternity, or util all digital databases burn when the sun goes nova.
So choose your words well. Define yourself with them rather than accepting advertising , culture, cinema, or even what you want your beloved to think of you as determning who you want to become.
Trust Yourself
.
God bless you both:
Uncle Danny
PS: Abhor metaphor.
PS: To whom, for whom, of whom: easier to remember these rather than the godawful grammar rule governing their use
PPS: Only twits tweet.
Stop. Look. Listen.
This comes from a wonderful book read many years ago, On Writing Well, by William Zinsser, primarily about writing but by extension, Life.
Writing, by definition, organizes thoughts and thus trains the mind to perceive the world in certain ways and so changes how we see and live our lives.
His advice above applies even more in this digital age. Always stop and edit yourself before pressing send. Instant communication allows the intemperate to permeate our words and pollute our minds to influence us to write with anger rather than passion, ire rather than irony, and ignorant metaphors rather than coherent thought.
Zinsser then asks aspiring writers--even we unwashed bloggers among the hoi polloi can aspire to better themselves and their own little corners of the world--to look at what they wrote, to my memory meaning analyze the words to ensure the thoughts flow from 1 to the other, not necessarily in outline form nevertheless even the fevered stream of consciousness scribblings of Henry Miller brings a certain sense even through seeming chaos.
Also, my bent leans towards excising the alleged verb "is" from my thoughts and words.
When 1 uses the verb "is" one always assumes the end of the argument rather than promotes discussion of the matter at hand. When combined with Jeremy Bentham's linguistic theory of fictions, written words have held forth as handmaidens of hate and intolerance and muddled thinking since invention of writing.
Think of words as related to actual physical objects. the oak in your front lawn or the strangler fig on State Road 3. When one writes "trees," that amounts to general catgory or class, in essence a rhetorical use to facilitate communication, in other words a fiction.
When you read a newspaper, magazine, or listen to TV news, consider the words as "the national interest" as a fiction, highly suspect and certainly the preordained views of the author or commentator.
Read your writings to yourself if you can't find anyone else to do so. Clumsy writing easier reveals it self when spoken aloud.
Especially in the digital age, words once thought. spoken, written, and even flung through the ether through the internets will in some sense define you as a human for all eternity, or util all digital databases burn when the sun goes nova.
So choose your words well. Define yourself with them rather than accepting advertising , culture, cinema, or even what you want your beloved to think of you as determning who you want to become.
Trust Yourself
.God bless you both:
Uncle Danny
PS: Abhor metaphor.
PS: To whom, for whom, of whom: easier to remember these rather than the godawful grammar rule governing their use
PPS: Only twits tweet.
Thursday, March 3, 2011
Wednesday, March 2, 2011
How do y'all like Orlando now?
Specifically, THE Orlando Magic, 116-110 over the Knicks.
Suck on that big market teams. We have the deepest bench in the league.
Stamford, Ct overnight low 29 degrees. Orlando, 59 degrees Fahrenheit. Suck on that ESPN!
Bring on Queen James and the Heat.
Suck on that big market teams. We have the deepest bench in the league.
Stamford, Ct overnight low 29 degrees. Orlando, 59 degrees Fahrenheit. Suck on that ESPN!
Bring on Queen James and the Heat.
"What Would Jesus Cut?: A budget is a moral Document"
[But Sojourners, a progressive group of Christian leaders, looks at the GOP’s deep slashes to the budget in a different light and bought a full-page ad in Politico yesterday that asks legislators to consider, “what would Jesus cut?”]
http://thinkprogress.org/2011/03/01/gop-cuts-morally-wrong/
[New budget campaign asks 'What would Jesus cut?'
By Dan Gilgoff, CNN Belief Blog Co-Editor
A coalition of progressive Christian leaders has taken out a full-page ad that asks “What would Jesus cut?” in Monday’s edition of Politico, the opening salvo in what the leaders say will be a broader campaign to prevent cuts for the poor and international aid programs amid the budget battle raging in Washington.
“They’re talking about cutting bed nets for malaria and leaving every piece of military spending untouched,” said the Rev. Jim Wallis, who leads the Christian group Sojourners, referring to Republican spending proposals for the rest of this year.
“Are we saying that every piece of military equipment is more important than bed nets, children’s health and nutrition for low-income families?” said Wallis, whose group paid for Monday’s ad. “If so they should be ashamed of themselves.”] emphasis added
http://religion.blogs.cnn.com/2011/02/28/new-budget-campaign-asks-what-would-jesus-cut/
http://thinkprogress.org/2011/03/01/gop-cuts-morally-wrong/
[New budget campaign asks 'What would Jesus cut?'
By Dan Gilgoff, CNN Belief Blog Co-Editor
A coalition of progressive Christian leaders has taken out a full-page ad that asks “What would Jesus cut?” in Monday’s edition of Politico, the opening salvo in what the leaders say will be a broader campaign to prevent cuts for the poor and international aid programs amid the budget battle raging in Washington.
“They’re talking about cutting bed nets for malaria and leaving every piece of military spending untouched,” said the Rev. Jim Wallis, who leads the Christian group Sojourners, referring to Republican spending proposals for the rest of this year.
“Are we saying that every piece of military equipment is more important than bed nets, children’s health and nutrition for low-income families?” said Wallis, whose group paid for Monday’s ad. “If so they should be ashamed of themselves.”] emphasis added
http://religion.blogs.cnn.com/2011/02/28/new-budget-campaign-asks-what-would-jesus-cut/
Best Blog in the Multiverse
Is Superman an alien but citizen of the good ole USA? Can he leap a cease and desist injunction in a single bound? Did the She Hulk in her human form as an attorney improperly solicit a client? Questions like those have always bothered me.
If Darth Vader were Luke's father, who would have given birth to him?
[Martin asks “if Superman crushes carbon and makes diamonds, is that taxable income? I would think if he made it into a ring and gave it to Lois the government might want a percentage.”
There are two questions here. First, are the diamonds taxable income for Superman (or Clark Kent) and second, are they taxable income for a recipient such as Lois Lane?
The answer to the first question is “probably not.” A traditional, almost fundamental principle of income tax is that a gain in value must be realized before it can be taxed, although the definition of “realized” has expanded over the years, somewhat eroding the principle.]
http://lawandthemultiverse.com/2011/02/28/a-little-bit-of-legal-ethics/
If Darth Vader were Luke's father, who would have given birth to him?
[Martin asks “if Superman crushes carbon and makes diamonds, is that taxable income? I would think if he made it into a ring and gave it to Lois the government might want a percentage.”
There are two questions here. First, are the diamonds taxable income for Superman (or Clark Kent) and second, are they taxable income for a recipient such as Lois Lane?
The answer to the first question is “probably not.” A traditional, almost fundamental principle of income tax is that a gain in value must be realized before it can be taxed, although the definition of “realized” has expanded over the years, somewhat eroding the principle.]
http://lawandthemultiverse.com/2011/02/28/a-little-bit-of-legal-ethics/
Tuesday, March 1, 2011
RepubliKKKans
[Among the many heartening things about the workers fighting back in Wisconsin, Ohio and elsewhere is the spotlight that is being thrown on the contemptuous attitude of the corporate elite and their handmaidens in government toward ordinary working Americans: police officers and firefighters, teachers, truck drivers, janitors, health care aides, and so on. These are the people who do the daily grunt work of America. How dare we treat them with contempt.
It would be a mistake to think that this fight is solely about the right of public employees to collectively bargain. As important as that issue is, it’s just one skirmish in what’s shaping up as a long, bitter campaign to keep ordinary workers, whether union members or not, from being completely overwhelmed by the forces of unrestrained greed in this society.
The predators at the top, billionaires and millionaires, are pitting ordinary workers against one another. So we’re left with the bizarre situation of unionized workers with a pension being resented by nonunion workers without one. The swells are in the background, having a good laugh.]
http://www.nytimes.com/2011/02/26/opinion/26herbert.html?_r=1&partner=rssnyt&emc=rss
It would be a mistake to think that this fight is solely about the right of public employees to collectively bargain. As important as that issue is, it’s just one skirmish in what’s shaping up as a long, bitter campaign to keep ordinary workers, whether union members or not, from being completely overwhelmed by the forces of unrestrained greed in this society.
The predators at the top, billionaires and millionaires, are pitting ordinary workers against one another. So we’re left with the bizarre situation of unionized workers with a pension being resented by nonunion workers without one. The swells are in the background, having a good laugh.]
http://www.nytimes.com/2011/02/26/opinion/26herbert.html?_r=1&partner=rssnyt&emc=rss
Democracy in Action in Madison, WI
[The Capitol is typically open from 8 a.m. to 6 p.m. on weekdays. But for the past two weeks, protesters have crammed into the rotunda to protest Gov. Scott Walker's budget repair bill, occupying the building 24 hours a day.
They have turned the historic building into a sort of protest village, complete with first aid centers, scheduled events and child care. Capitol Police started on Friday enforcing a new set of rules for the rotunda, most of them aimed at ending the camp out...
In a statement Monday, DOA officials said police started letting protesters into the building at 8 a.m., but there was no evidence of that until State Rep. Mark Pocan, D-Madison, confronted police at around noon.
Pocan caused a ruckus when he tried to enter through a side door. He was joined by dozens of firefighters, many of them carrying signs in support of union workers.
"You can't stop the function of state government, just because Gov. Scott Walker says so," Pocan yelled through.] emphasis added
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