Say what you will about the folks walking around on the Hill, but they at least keep stuff like this behind closed doors. Warning – Strong language. Viewer discretion is advised.
Enjoy Christmas shopping.
Adam Feser
[...]It appears the Senate may be making progress on health care reform. From the Huffington Post:
The discussion has focused on abandoning or greatly narrowing the public health insurance option. In exchange, people 55-64 would be able to buy in to Medicare and Medicaid eligibility would be expanded to people [...]
There are two new polls based on this post. Go vote.
The House of Representatives is poised to vote on a bill that would forbid the BCS to advertise one of its bowls as a national championship unless a playoff preceded it.
The argument can be made that they have better [...]
President Obama called for ideas on how to save the American government money. About 38,000 federal employees submitted ideas, with the best ones being used. The winner will win the SAVE Award (Securing America’s Value and Efficiency I think), get to meet President Obama, and have their idea put [...]
It does not work. You will (or should be) be arrested. And it logically makes very little sense.
Some guy got arrested for throwing tomatoes at Palin. He missed, hit a cop, and may be charged with assaulting a police officer. Brilliant. Another dude got arrested for throwing and [...]
As you all know, I attend the University of Nebraska and am a huge fan of our football team. We have a game coming up, and it’s a big one. We play Texas this weekend in the Big 12 Championship.
Since Texas is undefeated and ranked #3 in the country by [...]
In a movement to protect traditional marriage, John Marcotte is attempting to ban divorce in California.
He has received the okay from the Secretary of State and needs to collect 694,354 signatures by March 22, 2010. If he accomplishes this feat, the issue would be on the ballot next year.
Marcotte [...]
Update: Additional parts of the strategy are now available (or I have become aware of them). The troop drawdown will begin in three years, some troops will remain for years, troops’ goals are to reverse Taliban gains and secure population centers, there will be an emphasis on the quality of [...]
Russia and China have always been hesitant to side with the West when dealing with countries like Iran, but they both sided with an International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) decision to censure Iran.
The fact that China and Russia are on board with the censure is bad news for Iran [...]
Possible GOP Nominees. Will it be Lou Dobbs (who says it isn’t crazy)? Will it be Palin (which I know is crazy? Or will it be Palin/Beck (which she won’t rule out)?
Any of these possibilities is enough to make me think that there might be something to that [...]
In just one week, President Obama will unveil his decision regarding what to do in Afghanistan.
No doubt moderate liberals will love it, all conservatives will hate it, and liberal liberals will hate it. (It would be a nice change of pace for this trend to differ somehow.)
Enjoy the anticipation.
Adam [...]
Fox News will now be seriously attempting to stop making errors. Stewart busted Hannity for footage that made a protest look much bigger than it was, and they made a similar mistake later in the week. It appears the final straw was using the wrong Palin cover, instead showing [...]
Let his days be few; and let another take his office. Let his children be fatherless, and his wife a widow.
Psalm 109:8-9
An imprecatory prayer is one that wishes a curse upon someone. I never really associated it with Christianity because it seemed like Jesus wasn’t about revenge or anything like [...]
“How could you say that?” you ask. Then you obviously haven’t been watching the news. Let me give you the dirty details: our president bowed to Japan’s emperor.
That’s right. On his recent trip, Barack Obama had the audacity to bow to another world leader.
How weak are we? How dare we [...]
I do not understand why people are upset that the United States is living up to the rule of law and its ideals. What better way to show the terrorists that they cannot destroy our ideals than convicting one of their own according to said ideals? It just makes sense [...]
You may have noticed I haven’t been writing as much as usual lately (though the prosperity gospel piece was pretty long – also, where are the comments on that?), and it’s because I just haven’t seen much I want to write about. That being the case, I’m going to write [...]
I have argued that the Republican Party is fractured, and much of that evidence is the more extreme portion of the tea party protesters. They have the Obama as Hitler stuff and the birther people, and some politicians support some aspects of it. At any rate, this made (makes) me [...]
The Atlantic has an interesting article about prosperity gospel. It has the provocative title “Did Christianity Cause the Crash?”, but that’s not exactly what it is about. It is about a specific form (some would say incorrect form) of Christianity that leads believers to put their faith in Jesus [...]
Palin spoke in Wisconsin recently and her paranoia seeped out. There were no cameras, cell phones, laptops, press, etc. allowed, but politico did get in. Palin discussed some changes that have been occurring, such as moving the phrase “In God We Trust” from the center of new coins [...]
Senator Linsdsey Graham (R-SC) has been censured for working with Democrats on a climate change bill. Apparently he has ruined the party brand or something. I guess he can’t have his own opinions, he must blindly toe the party line.
Don’t we want our politicians to make decisions based on [...]
Update: It appears there were three shooters. One has been shot and killed and two are in custody. They were apparently soldiers. Let’s hope there were no others involved. Of the shooting victims 12 were killed and 31 wounded.
Barack Obama names Alan Moore Official White House Biographer.
This would be awesome. Moore has written such masterpieces as Watchmen, V, and From Hell. We’ve already seen Obama in a Spiderman comic, and Moore could really do some work with this administration. I picture the theme of the graphic novel [...]
RNC Chair Michael Steele claims the GOP has no ideological divisions. I am not sure I agree. The GOP has seemed fractured for some time.
The whole thing was brought up by a congressional race in New York’s 23rd Distrcit. Dede Scozzafava, the Republican nominee, eventually dropped out after Doug [...]
If you read this in real time (as I know the millions of you do), hurry up and flip it to ESPN. The Wizards are playing the Heat. That means South Dakota’s own Mike Miller is going to light Dwayne Wade up on national TV. Give it to him [...]
That’s the only explanation I can come up with. Why else would they endorse the House’s health care bill? That’s right. The American Association of Retired Persons is behind the bill put together by noted grandmother killers like Nancy Pelosi.
What is this world coming to? Either seniors won’t [...]
I didn’t think I could rob you of these great Halloween photos.
Adam and Amanda
Amanda is dressed as me and I am dressed as her. If you haven’t been to Nebraska on a game day, you may not realize that Amanda is in my classic game-day [...]
It was a universe filled with contradictions. My captors assailed the West for killing civilians, but they celebrated suicide attacks orchestrated by the Taliban that killed scores of Muslim bystanders. They bitterly denounced missionaries, but they pressed me to convert to their faith. They complained about innocent Muslims being imprisoned [...]
Today’s song of the day is “Gotta Get Up” by Harry Nilsson. It is from the album Nilsson Schmilsson. Nilsson is most famous for the songs “Cocunut” and “Everybody’s Talkin.’” “Cocunut” featuring the well-known and oft-used lyrics “Put the lime in the cocunut, and drink ‘em both up.” “Everybody’s Talkin’” [...]
Jon puts this so much better than I ever could. I need some more writers helping me out.
He makes a great point about the actual news content of Fox when you remove the opinion shows they brought up. Then he shows how the opinion shows often create the news their [...]
It appears Obama’s Beer summit with Harvard Professor Henry Gates and police Sergeant James Crowley may have created a lasting friendship. The two were spotted having a beer and chatting for about an hour at a bar in Cambridge.
Gates was arrested by Crowley earlier after a misunderstanding that caused both [...]
I just got home from an amazing concert. The Monsters of Folk rocked me for about three hours. Those guys are amazing. I’m tired, and I don’t feel like writing a whole lot. But I do feel like putting something up. So here are a bunch of funny things [...]
Check out the far left
I want you to look at the left side of the actual response and read downward.
This message is to explain a veto. The message went to an assemblyman who had heckled the governor at a recent event. Arnold’s staff [...]
Dick Cheney recently said Obama is dithering on Afghanistan. Conservative columnist George Will came back with a zinger (video at about 11:00) saying maybe we should have dithered before we went into Iraq. Commenting on this situation Will said, “We have much more to fear in this town [...]
I just got home from yet another amazing Langhorne Slim concert. In honor of the show, the song of the day is “Diamonds and Gold” by the man himself. His real name is Sean Scolnick and he takes his stage name from his hometown, which is Langhorne, Pennsylvania. He’s been [...]
I’m not exactly stoked to watch Phillies v Yanks, which may be due to my personal team (BoSox). But I’m also not stoked about the bets between Pennsylvania and New York senators. They’re betting Brooklyn cheesecakes and Philly cheesesteaks. A bit ho-hum, huh?
It could be because they’re all Democrat [...]
This could be the real significance of last week’s invitation. What’s being interpreted, for now, as an intra-Christian skirmish may eventually be remembered as the first step toward a united Anglican-Catholic front — not against liberalism or atheism, but against Christianity’s most enduring and impressive foe.
I need to put that [...]
Update – The Senate has included the public option with an opt-out clause in their bill. Public Option in Senate Bill
Democrats remain optimistic about the public option, and even John McCain accepts that it will pass. The main question now is what form it will take.
It is starting [...]
A public option may be added to the bill in the Senate. Baucus, who wants to keep Snowe’s vote, doesn’t seem too happy about it. But I am.
It may have been down, but it’s not out. The momentum may be coming back behind it. Don’t call it a comeback.
Enjoy [...]
Justin Timberlake teams up with Kenny Mayne of ESPN to help some future rookie NFL lineman avoid embarrassment. If you’ve never watched Hard Knocks on HBO, rookies at training camp are occasionally expected to entertain the veterans. This is often through dancing, which is where JT comes in. (Though it [...]
“Pine Ridge is the scariest place I’ve ever seen — not more so than in a Taliban ambush.”
I picked up on a story from the Madville Times, and it is a heartbreaking one. When we think about extreme, generational poverty, it is easy to think of it [...]
That’s right. Stupid volunteers and their service to the community. It’s so weird how he convinces himself that this is a bad thing because the Obama administration thinks it is a good thing. He even commends America for its service at one point, but he just can’t see how promoting [...]
That explains the amazing post-season statistics.
Enjoy an Angels comeback.
Adam Feser
[...]You often hear that it is the opinion guys on Fox News that have an agenda, but I believe it goes beyond that. For instance, have you ever seen them “accidentally” label Republican politicians caught in a scandal as Democrats? A quick google search and in 15 seconds I saw [...]
It has been some time since I’ve done a song of the day, and it’s time it came back. Today’s song of the day is “A Perfect Sonnet” by Bright Eyes. It is an earlier song off the Every Day and Every Night EP. It’s from the times when Conor [...]
If you’ve read my first post, you know I am a graduate student in the Political Science Department of the University of Nebraska-Lincoln. We have some professors doing some incredible things that are contributing not just to our understanding of political behavior, but human behavior in general. One of [...]
You may remember the story of David Rohde, an author and investigative journalist. He, his driver, and his translator were taken captive by the Taliban while doing research for a book Rohde was to write. They were eventually able to escape. He is now writing about the experience, with [...]
