Daily Archives: 08/11/2011

(Community Matters) The Marfa 100 ride, benefiting Marfa Public Radio and LIVESTRONG

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(Community Matters) “The threat of the infiltration of Sharia, or Islamic law, into the American court system is one of the more pernicious conspiracy theories to gain traction in our country in recent years.”

– proud & appreciative of Abe and ADL

Op-Ed: Shout down the Sharia myth makers

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(Community Matters) “There is nothing wrong with our country,” Pres. Obama says. “There is something wrong with our politics.”

Hat Tip: David Gail

(Community Matters) I’m not naming names. Just wondering how successful most would rate the 16 year career of a Congressman who during those 16 years:

has sponsored 95 bills since Jan 9, 1995 of which 84 haven’t made it out of committee and 3 were successfully enacted. . . . .has co-sponsored 1,208 bills during the same time period.

Two of the three were renaming federal buildings (one post office and one federal building in McAllen).

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The executive can’t go off on a half-cocked ideological bender like a freshman GOP Teabagger representing some God-awful district in some meaningless gulf coast backwater populated with GED-holding, near-poverty-line-living, batsh1t evangelicals.  He’s essentially a pretty centrist guy, campaigned as such, and is governing as such. It’s in his nature to go for the grand bargain. He told us that 3 yrs go.

There are elements within the GOP that even most of my most conservative of friends find quite threatening.  Many of these guys were acting as if they had no clue of what the impact of destroying the “US Treasury debt as synonymous with the Risk Free rate” reality would be.  They’re just radical idiots, pure and simple.  My only fault with the POTUS is not calling them out for being just that.  Blame does not, indeed, “fall on all sides”.  Radical elements w/in the GOP and their careless brinksmanship created this crisis and they bear the entirety of the blame.

That said, we do have crazies within the Democratic party as well.  It’s just that we’re better at relegating them to the kids table of ideological discourse.  The Republicans allowed theirs to walk right up to the grown up’s table, pull out daddy’s chair, and take a dump on it.

I could go on and on but I have to get back to putting my tax cuts to work creating jobs, thank you very much.

Entirely inappropriate to post this since I don’t have permission from the writer – who I don’t know but the email string was forwarded to me. Sorry, just couldn’t resist