bunch of ilxors on the edge of their seats waiting for that last hit
― mookieproof, Friday, 5 July 2013 00:37 (ten years ago) link
So, have there been any noticeable sequester effects yet? Besides the occasional curtailing of museum hours or canceling fireworks displays?
― Josh in Chicago, Friday, 5 July 2013 17:40 (ten years ago) link
A shitload of poor kids have been dropped from Headstart programs.
― Aimless, Friday, 5 July 2013 17:42 (ten years ago) link
The annual Cleveland Air Show was cancelled. (Not that I'll miss it, fuck a bunch of supersonic jets doing flybys for a week.)
― This amigurumi Jamaican octopus is ready to chill with you (Phil D.), Friday, 5 July 2013 17:44 (ten years ago) link
http://articles.washingtonpost.com/2013-06-30/politics/40292466_1_sequestration-predictions-obama-administration
In 11 cases, sequestration turned out to be as bad as advertised, or worse.
The Labor Department had predicted that emergency unemployment benefits for the long-term unemployed would be cut by 9.4 percent. But in some states, the reductions have been larger: 11 percent. For an individual, that could mean $450 less in benefits this year.
At the Pentagon, officials had predicted that they would reduce training for the Army, flying time for the Air Force and ship deployments for the Navy. They did all three. “It’s extremely hard to show a degradation in our readiness, although we feel it deeply across the force,” Pentagon spokeswoman Beth Robbins said.
Across the government, more than 125,000 employees have been furloughed from the Environmental Protection Agency, the Department of Housing and Urban Development, the Internal Revenue Service, and other agencies. About 650,000 Defense Department civilians will start taking 11 unpaid days next week. Public defenders are losing up to 15 days of pay.
In 24 cases, however, The Post’s review showed that the predictions were wrong — sequestration had not lived up to the administration’s alarms.
― curmudgeon, Friday, 5 July 2013 17:44 (ten years ago) link
one very noticeable effect for me is that i'm on mandatory furlough today! sadtrombone.wav
― Z S, Friday, 5 July 2013 17:46 (ten years ago) link
I know someone who is on furlough on Monday
― curmudgeon, Friday, 5 July 2013 17:49 (ten years ago) link
Good article in the N&O today about 'what happens next' with the new law in NC—both the House leader & Gov. McCrory (who made a pre-election pledge not to sign any legislation restricting abortion, fwiw) are moderate Republican big-business-types who seem reluctant to dirty their hands with divisive culture-war bullshit. So if you wanna call this the GOP's "revenge", just keep in mind that it's a very poorly-planned revenge.
― Excelsior twilight. Harpsichord wind through the trees. (bernard snowy), Friday, 5 July 2013 17:54 (ten years ago) link
Of course, McCrory can sit back and let the NC House/Senate overturn his veto, if he stands up to them (and I'm going to take a stab in the dark that he won't protest the end of early voting and voting ID restrictions they're bringing in...)
― carson dial, Friday, 5 July 2013 17:58 (ten years ago) link
It seems like the effects are diffuse enough that maybe they're just not overwhelming? I mean, I know people affected by it, most obviously gov workers, but maybe it's just too early to tell how damaging it will be.
― Josh in Chicago, Friday, 5 July 2013 18:06 (ten years ago) link
The most prevalent stories I've read about the sequester, apart from the Headstart enrollment hit, have been of the nature of -- 'here's this worthwhile program we're having to put in mothballs, but the irony is that keeping it suspended costs money, too, and starting it back up will be even more expensive than if we'd never cut it back.'
― Aimless, Friday, 5 July 2013 18:27 (ten years ago) link
http://www.slate.com/articles/news_and_politics/history/2013/07/hillary_clinton_wesleyan_commencement_speech_robert_pinsky_on_the_politician.html
― Mordy , Saturday, 6 July 2013 23:14 (ten years ago) link
Olympic ping-pong team, contestant on Jeopardy, key grip for the next Scorsese film--the options out there are theoretically unlimited.
http://livewire.talkingpointsmemo.com/entry/rick-perry-2016-is-option
― clemenza, Sunday, 7 July 2013 18:09 (ten years ago) link
poll
https://twitter.com/ConnieSchultz/status/353923629219721216/photo/1
― goole, Monday, 8 July 2013 16:36 (ten years ago) link
A woman should give this fat asshole a haircut amirite
― panettone for the painfully alone (mayor jingleberries), Monday, 8 July 2013 16:38 (ten years ago) link
mos def gives us a look at what "doctors" at guantanamo are doing to the men who are hunger striking. a warning - it's pretty nauseating, in all seriousness
http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/video/2013/jul/08/mos-def-force-fed-guantanamo-bay-video?CMP=twt_gu
― k3vin k., Monday, 8 July 2013 17:35 (ten years ago) link
this book will be delicioushttp://www.nytimes.com/2013/07/08/books/this-town-by-mark-leibovich-skewers-washingtons-insiders.html
― now is not the time for motorboating (dandydonweiner), Monday, 8 July 2013 19:14 (ten years ago) link
Rick Perry not seeking reelection
― Mr. Mojo Readin' (C. Grisso/McCain), Monday, 8 July 2013 19:19 (ten years ago) link
idgi mos def asks to be force fed then hes all begging to stop make up yr mind bro
― lag∞n, Monday, 8 July 2013 21:24 (ten years ago) link
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2013/07/08/florida-banned-computers_n_3561701.html
Ha, Florida accidentally bans smartphones and computers in their quest to stop internet cafes that act as havens for gambling (or something)
― curmudgeon, Tuesday, 9 July 2013 15:29 (ten years ago) link
Coming this fall (same 'ol, same 'ol):
http://mobile.nationaljournal.com/congress/house-republicans-draft-their-debt-ceiling-playbook-20130707
― curmudgeon, Tuesday, 9 July 2013 15:44 (ten years ago) link
http://nymag.com/daily/intelligencer/2013/07/racists-love-ron-and-rand-paul-for-some-reason.html
i don't think chait really 'gets' the Old Right
― goole, Tuesday, 9 July 2013 17:05 (ten years ago) link
Segregation was in large part a policy of government, not the free market. But it took intrusive federal power to destroy segregation.
I don't think "but" is the right word here. Wouldn't "consequently" make more sense?
― big black nemesis, Puya chilensis (DJP), Tuesday, 9 July 2013 17:08 (ten years ago) link
BJSSPQuestion: have we ever figured out who wrote those newsletters for Ron Paul? It's a question on the mind of every freedom loving American. My guess is, Obama knows, but he's keeping it a secret, so he can embarrass Paul and establish the NAFTA superhighway, paid for by confiscating the gold at gun point out right out of every (white) person's home.11 Minutes Ago Reply|Like
― Z S, Tuesday, 9 July 2013 17:13 (ten years ago) link
too many syllables for Chait.
― first I think it's time I kick a little verse! (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Tuesday, 9 July 2013 17:14 (ten years ago) link
"therefore"?
― big black nemesis, Puya chilensis (DJP), Tuesday, 9 July 2013 17:14 (ten years ago) link
"butthole"
Al do you understand humor
― waterface, Tuesday, 9 July 2013 17:17 (ten years ago) link
I don't think you can use "butthole" as a conjunction
*waits for it*
― big black nemesis, Puya chilensis (DJP), Tuesday, 9 July 2013 17:17 (ten years ago) link
what if you shortened it to "butt"
― first I think it's time I kick a little verse! (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Tuesday, 9 July 2013 17:20 (ten years ago) link
Segregation was in large part a policy of government, not the free market. Butt took intrusive federal power to destroy segregation.
― big black nemesis, Puya chilensis (DJP), Tuesday, 9 July 2013 17:23 (ten years ago) link
That's What Steve Said
― waterface, Tuesday, 9 July 2013 17:25 (ten years ago) link
"Very, very few Rand Paul fans are glad Abraham Lincoln was shot."
u suuuuure about this jc?
― max, Tuesday, 9 July 2013 17:47 (ten years ago) link
they are unhappy he was shot as late as 1865
― goole, Tuesday, 9 July 2013 18:19 (ten years ago) link
dunno about rand but i doubt there are even one in a hundred ron paul fans who don't sputter with fury at the mention of lincoln's name.
― (The Other) J.D. (J.D.), Tuesday, 9 July 2013 18:37 (ten years ago) link
More sequester damage.
Also, Chuck Todd wises up.
― first I think it's time I kick a little verse! (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Wednesday, 10 July 2013 01:56 (ten years ago) link
Meanwhile, in Texas...
― Mr. Mojo Readin' (C. Grisso/McCain), Wednesday, 10 July 2013 02:17 (ten years ago) link
"The engagement from advocates on both sides of the issue showed that the legislative and electoral process is working, said state Rep. Greg Bonnen, R-Friendswood, a physician."
fuck this dude
― 1staethyr, Wednesday, 10 July 2013 02:24 (ten years ago) link
Chuck Todd...otm? it feels so fucking weird to say that. i mean, it's nothing original, but for once he seems to have accidentally pulled his head up out of the sand
― Z S, Wednesday, 10 July 2013 03:32 (ten years ago) link
But he's still naive re some things:
that copycat bullet: And if Republicans are trying to stop Democratic laws from being implemented or preventing executive-branch appointees from being confirmed, then you can bet that Democrats will return the favor the next time there’s a GOP president
Since when have Democrats ever shown that they will play hardball like Republicans? Yea, Dems opposed Bork and a few other people, but they have never done anything to the extent that Republicans in the current Congress have.
― curmudgeon, Wednesday, 10 July 2013 15:51 (ten years ago) link
Feel like the debt ceiling hostage crisis we deal with every couple months is due to the dems trying to use it to extract concessions from the gwb administration..
― panettone for the painfully alone (mayor jingleberries), Wednesday, 10 July 2013 15:53 (ten years ago) link
obv a little bit apples and oranges there
they have never done anything to the extent that Republicans in the current Congress have.
that's because Dems have fewer beliefs, or are less able to fake having as many.
― playwright Greg Marlowe, secretly in love with Mary (Dr Morbius), Wednesday, 10 July 2013 15:54 (ten years ago) link
nobody has every done anything to the extent that republicans in current congress have, so it's a bad comparison
― iatee, Wednesday, 10 July 2013 15:55 (ten years ago) link
Which is why Chuck Todd should not have phrased his "copycat" bullet the way he did.
― curmudgeon, Wednesday, 10 July 2013 15:58 (ten years ago) link
the Dems have so few instances of hardball post-LBJ that it's no wonder the GOP yells BORK BORK BORK and MIGUEL ESTRADA ad nauseum
― first I think it's time I kick a little verse! (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Wednesday, 10 July 2013 16:00 (ten years ago) link
HARRIET MYERS
lol
― panettone for the painfully alone (mayor jingleberries), Wednesday, 10 July 2013 16:01 (ten years ago) link
dems did not take down harriet miers
― iatee, Wednesday, 10 July 2013 16:01 (ten years ago) link
Charles Krauthammer still happily takes credit.
― first I think it's time I kick a little verse! (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Wednesday, 10 July 2013 16:03 (ten years ago) link
2nd commenter on that Chait piece makes the obvious point:
davidinnashvilleI'd point out that there's another link between libertarianism and segregationism. You claim that "Segregation was in large part a policy of government, not the free market." But, as Gavin Wright has recently reiterated, much of segregation was a matter of custom, practiced by private businesses who did so not because of an economically costly "taste for discrimination" but because their white customers demanded it. Sitters-in were arrested not because they violated segregation laws but because they were regarded as trespassers. The most important, and controversial, federal intervention in the Civil Rights Act of 1964 was its ban on discrimination in public accommodations. This was viewed in the South (and I was growing up white in SC at the time) as an unprecedented assault on the rights of businesspeople to run their own businesses. Assaults on job discrimination likewise attacked customary recruitment practices that led whites to regard access to certain jobs as a "right."
― something of an astrological coup (tipsy mothra), Wednesday, 10 July 2013 16:37 (ten years ago) link