For those of you that had hopes that the dims would actually accomplish something in the voting, I think that this will be a big disappointment. My own view is that this can be chalked up to the uniparty system. 0 has no intention of rocking the boat by trying to actually win something beyond his own re-election. You can see that the dims have no interest in fighting a good fight because they are as corrupted as the repugs. It probably doesn’t matter who wins in WI because the outcome for the people will be about the same, just as it will for the pres election.

DW, you made me look up epiphytic, but I really like the description of that group

being more like lampreys and leeches …

Hahahahaha. Are you a writer for Jon Stewart or Stephen Colbert? I’m sure that 0 is planning to get the congress to pass similar legislation just as soon as he is re-elected.

More kabuki to show us how there have not been any crimes committed, but out of the goodness of the hearts of our ‘leaders’ they will provide funds to help home owners. What? the home owners will probably never see a penny of this. Oh well, we tried, but as you can see no one is to blame for anything. It’s OK if the states use the money for their budgets instead of what it was intended for. It’s kinda like trickle-down economics.

This is one of the two humanoids that 0 was desparate to get on the catfood commission and keeps touting their good work. The only ‘train wreck,’ to use simpleton’s words, is the bowels-simpleton commission. simpleton is so out of touch with the 99% that we live on a different planet. The guy that appointed the commission and got it going on his own, in spite of being reject twice by congress will certainly get my vote this November.

This is just a head fake on her part to give misdirection to the obots to show how the big dims are working for them.

eCAHN, is there lots of work to be done in keeping bees? Should it be done in a place where a bear is sure to walk by? Should it be done in a place where it is not open and sunny?

I would be very careful about accepting at face value the claim of intercepting a missile with a missile. The original claims trace back to the first Gulf War and eventually were shown to be exaggerations.

I also remember that nonsense. I remember thinking that I wasn’t ready to die for someone else’s political beliefs. Of course I was so naive that I thought that the Army-mccarthy hearing were stupid.

After the Soviet system was no longer considered to be a threat, there was a call for using the “peace dividend” for peaceful things. That quickly disappeared as a very vocal minority and the congress decided that the military needed strengthening even beyond what the military wanted (and it still happens).

(((spudtruckowner’s mom)))

I guess that sums up the voter split. The women don’t want to be dominated by the men, and the men want to dominate because they can’t stand the idea that the women can think for themselves.

Russia has more right to be afraid the US will invade them than we have to worry about an invasion by Russia. After all, we did invade them after WWI because we didn’t like the group that was winning the revolution there.

Morning, all. Aung San Suu Kyi should be a hero to the world. If she were the Pres of the US, she probably would have sent even more bombers into the ME to show what a real Peace Prize winner does. She would certainly follow another country’s dictates on what should be done to a third country to force the third country to give up its sovereignty under the guise of keeping it from having the nuclear arsenal that the first two have. She would certainly support the second country’s drive to ethnically cleanse the territory desired by the second country and show that those to be ethnically cleansed were wrong to protest against the clensing and deserved to be bombed and have white phosphorous dropped on them. She just hasn’t had the chance yet.

It’s really been fun, but I have my alarm clock duties at 6 AM, so I had better disappear.

Some things that I hope we don’t have to argue over any more are split infinitives and sentences that begin with “and” or “because.” BTW, if you use the Merriam-Webster online dictionary, up in the right hand corner they often have one of their editors give a little minute and half talk about words and word usage.

I have railed against that use of the terms often in comments and conversation. The movie Red Dawn provides a perfect setting for seeing that. Of course, the rowdies that fought the British in North America almost 250 years ago is the real example, but they are never thought of in that way.

Allison, I am glad that you brought this topic to FDL. I’ve been thinking about doing a diary on precisely this, but your way is better; it’s more fun.

That brings up your and you’re, and, by extension their, there, and they’re. I know that trying to get out a comment quickly leads to missing an obvious incorrect use, but still….