By Reuser | Published:
May 27, 2010
Obama’s News Conference on the Oil Spill
Read this.
Also posted in Hurt, Personal |
By Reuser | Published:
April 15, 2010
President Obama mandated Thursday that nearly all hospitals extend visitation rights to the partners of gay men and lesbians and respect patients’ choices about who may make critical health-care decisions for them, perhaps the most significant step so far in his efforts to expand the rights of gay Americans.
Obama orders same-sex [...]
Also posted in Judiciary, Personal |
By Reuser | Published:
April 14, 2010
Fuck you, Florida State Department of Juvenile Justice.
Fuck you.
Crime Prediction Software Is Here and It’s a Very Bad Idea .
Really? “Reliable projections”? “Action in real time”? “Preventing criminal activities”? I don’t know about how reliable your system is, IBM, but have you ever heard of the 5th, the 6th, and the 14th [...]
Also posted in Comedy, Hurt, Judiciary, Rant |
By Reuser | Published:
April 13, 2010
Secretary of State Hillary Clinton said, “Clinging to nuclear weapons in excess of our security needs does not make the United States safer. … And the nuclear status quo is neither desirable nor sustainable.”
via Will Obama End the Nuclear Era? – Page 1 – The Daily Beast.
Yet despite this, and other treaties, such as the [...]
Also posted in Rant, Stupid |
By Reuser | Published:
April 7, 2010
“If the Department of Defense can’t figure out a way to defend the United States on a budget of more than a half a trillion dollars a year, then our problems are much bigger than anything that can be cured by buying a few more ships and planes…” -Defense Secretary Robert Gates
Required reading for Americans.
By Reuser | Published:
March 28, 2010
Op-Ed Columnist – The Rage Is Not About Health Care – NYTimes.com.
Spot on.
By Reuser | Published:
March 23, 2010
“Dear Conservative Americans,
The years have not been kind to you. I grew up in a profoundly Republican home, so I can remember when you wore a very different face than the one we see now. You’ve lost me and you’ve lost most of America. Because I believe having responsible choices is important [...]
By Reuser | Published:
March 23, 2010
Real patriots believe in the principles of America – St. Petersburg Times.
Damn straight, Robyn.
Also posted in Judiciary |
By Reuser | Published:
March 15, 2010
What Obama Stands For – by a “conservative” writing for a “liberal” rag… Still, very indicative about how those very characterizations are starting to break down.
By Reuser | Published:
March 13, 2010
Keillor: Unreality is the current reality. Well worth the read, no matter what side of the aisle you are on. (Which is an absurd characterization, period.)
Or should be. Americans are increasingly treating their politics as a zero-sum game, like sports teams.
By Reuser | Published:
July 8, 2009
FRONTLINE: poisoned waters: introduction | PBS. – watch the whole two hours before you condemn. It gets through, inexorably to a quality point.
Wake up, people!
Also posted in Biology, Design, Economics, Hurt, Math, Personal, Rant, Science, Stupid, Technology, Videos |
By Reuser | Published:
May 22, 2009
Bob Graham talks turkey about intelligence:
“The unanimous conclusion of our nine members, Republicans and Democrats, was that it is more likely than not that such a weapon will be used in a terrorist attack somewhere before year-end 2013. “
Also posted in Military |
By Reuser | Published:
March 17, 2009
The Greatest Floridian. Good read.
Also posted in Personal |
By Reuser | Published:
March 9, 2009
Wall Street on the Tundra | vanityfair.com. – Iceland joins the Dutch in the great crazes of all time.
New accounting rules for the Federal Budget.
Band of Brothers, one of the EVE mega-alliances, ceases to be. Heavily infiltrated, their forums cloned by the Goons, BoB chose to make their forums public.
Vegas is running out of water, [...]
By Reuser | Published:
November 6, 2008
“Structures” tugging at the universe.
Also posted in Math, Rant, Science |
By Reuser | Published:
July 26, 2008
I hate to link to op-eds… I especially hate to do so with hyper opinionated rags. *cough NYT cough* But here it is. Accurate as hell, and documented. As Eron has said many times… McCain is a gray wearing a human suit. Think Edgar in MiB.
By Reuser | Published:
July 7, 2008
Is W waging economic war on the Chinese with his wars in the Middle East? Much, much craftier than I would give him credit for.
Also posted in Economics |
By Reuser | Published:
May 19, 2008
I’m hardly jingoistic, but for the dub of dawg, can people resort to a little less bluster on the international scene? For instance, a Viking S-3 has navigation issues, and all the sudden Venezuela thinks they can, “confront them (the US) and to cover all of our airspace“. Really?
Really? ‘Cause you’re all [...]
Also posted in Comedy, Military, Stupid |
By Reuser | Published:
May 18, 2008
From various sources, but mostly Dolphin.
- Can Americans handle the truth?
- Abuse of executive orders is not enough. Now we can ignore all process? Grr.
- You bet I’m bitter. Sign me up. Bitter as hell here.
- Savages in Caves. Perhaps we overestimate al Queda?
- NearlyFreeSpeech.net. Web hosting in terms of pennies.
- [...]
By Reuser | Published:
May 18, 2008
High divorce rate, high birth rate, and lots of women working outside the home. Welcome to Iceland, the happiest country on Earth. Dual Iceland/New Zealand citizenship? Hmm.
Also posted in EVE, Economics |
By Reuser | Published:
February 22, 2008
I cannot believe that I am linking to the DailyKOS. Yet, I am. This article about Obama and Clinton’s voting records and bill sponsorship says it all, in my opinion. Key differences? Check.
Also posted in Personal |
By Reuser | Published:
February 8, 2008
Never fear, InfraGuard is here! Finally, you too can be granted immunity for killing someone to protect the infrastructure!
Also posted in Judiciary, Rant |
By Reuser | Published:
January 31, 2008
Rolling Stone offers a great glimpse into the fear-mongering world of the Joint Terrorism Task Force. Because we all should fear those well-funded video store rental clerk terrorists.
Also posted in Comedy, Hurt, Stupid |