Want to ruin the story of the first Thanksgiving? Try this video. It has all your favorite people in it. Michael Moore, Dick Cheney, and the crew from the immigrant Thanksgiving cartoon.
Along comes rethinkautism.org to save the day. Perhaps we need to rethink who the special needs people really are:
Newt somehow found a way to articulate that middle ground that describes how most moderates feel about the immigration issue. He effectively managed to push across an idea that Rick Perry tried to accomplish but didn’t quite manage to do.
Pundits this morning are discussing how badly Newt damaged his lead with the base who doesn’t care if grandmas and grandpas are lined up and marched back across the border.
The strategist implication probably wasn’t thought out as well as it should have been.
Do you agree with Newt or Mitt? Is that really amnesty? Notice Newt was careful to exclude citizenship for those who stayed under this category. That, in effect, excluded the notion of any party trying to get new voters.
What are the pros and cons for Newt in his bid for presidential election?
While the native tribes of Virginia plan on presenting Governor Bob McDonnell with a deer later this week, a liberal leaning group, ProgressVA has left a 12 pound turkey for McDonnell, naming him the Turkey of the Year. Why does McDonnell deserve this dubious award in the bestows eyes?
According to Hamptonroads.com:
The deer offering Gov. Bob McDonnell will accept from native Virginia tribes later this week comes with good intentions and a dose of tradition.
The frozen turkey left for him Monday?
Not so much.
A 12-pound gobbler was presented to McDonnell’s staff by ProgressVA, a left-leaning interest group which named the governor its “Turkey of the Year” for what it deemed his use of accounting gimmicks and cuts to core government services to balance Virginia’s budget.
In addition to the bird, the group left a framed resolution for the governor, accusing him of “maxing out the state’s credit card” with borrowing and refusing to close tax loopholes “that benefit his corporate donors.”
Figuring the governor wouldn’t consume the turkey, ProgressVA recommended a donation to a local food bank, which is how his office will handle the gift.
“The fact is in this tough economy many Virginians could use a free turkey at Thanksgiving,” McDonnell spokesman Tucker Martin said. “With that in mind we will donate the turkey to the Central Virginia Foodbank and we encourage all Virginians to support their local food banks this holiday season.”
But if officials had their druthers, Martin joked, instead of a turkey they “would have preferred a one year membership in the jelly of the month club, the gift that keeps on giving the whole year.”
McDonnell has played loosey goosey with the accounting as far as VRS is concerned. I will hold a grudge forever on that subject simply because I believe allowing payments to VRS to be deferred was unconstitutional. Additionally, McDonnell proclaimed a balanced budget. If you still have outstanding debt, is the budget balanced?
But I don’t know what else he has done slippery. Is he still trying to sell our liquor stores? I guess now he gains a little more power with the senate win, we are getting ready to find out.
Long version above. Short version below.
When the street flooded recently in Seattle because of excessive rain (is that even possible in Seattle?) the salmon didn’t know to stay in the river. This dog decided it was dinner time. Is this street like a drive up window for dogs? With a fish that size, he has enough to share with his buds. However…most dogs aren’t good sharers.
From Fox40.com:
SEATTLE—Every dog has his day, and in Seattle earlier this week, one dog’s day was captured on video.
When rivers flooded and overflowed into the street, the salmon went along for the ride.
A clever dog didn’t seem confused by the phenomenon; he walked along, picked up a salmon in his teeth, and continued walking on his way.
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Mika goes ballistic over Newt Gingrich. The rant was set off by Newt’s remark about OWS-ers needing a bath and worked on down to his other character failures.
According to the Huffington Post:
Mika Brzezinski let forth with an angry rant on Newt Gingrich and his criticism of the Occupy Wall Street movement, calling him “the biggest hypocrite in the Republican field” on Monday.
The source of her ire was Gingrich’s recent barbs about the protesters, particularly his comment that they should “go get a job right after you take a bath.” Brzezinski called his words “arrogant” and “disgusting.”
This one isn’t over. The more I have watched different scenes of the students being pepper sprayed, the more revolted I am by the police brutality. This behavior is never acceptable. It appears that Fox News spent Monday making a case justifying this kind of police intervention. Most people I know find it totally unacceptable.
We generally criticize students and young folks in general for not being political. Back in the day, we used to tell people to ‘get off their apathy’ and we discussed tuning in, not out. However, every time young people do get involved, they are criticized tremendously by their more mainstream elders.
College campuses are the place to demonstrate the voice your opinion. Someone in a link left by Cargo had a sign he was holding up that said ‘This is my permit’ and it pointed to the first amendment. Granted, there is a thin line between exercising one’s first amendment rights and civil disobedience, at times. Often that is the risk one takes. But by the same token, in America, we don’t expect to be pepper sprayed or beaten if we are peaceful and conduct ourselves in a civilized manner. Gandhi and MLK would have been horrified, as was Chancellor Linda Katehi who has apologized profusely for the incident and has place the police chief and offending officers on administrative leave.
Is that enough? Is UC Davis one of those campuses where the police department shields a culture of violence towards the students it protects? I have felt for years that is the case in College Park, Maryland which is in Prince George’s County. I hope I am wrong.
Kent State was 41 years ago. Thank goodness UC Davis didn’t turn in to another Kent State. Those students are to be commended for their practice of non-violence. I am not so sure I have it in me to be that passive.
Walter Cronkite is heard announcing that JFK had been shot and killed.
November 22, 1963. The nation was stunned.
Where were you and what were you doing when you heard the news? As I recall, I heard he had been shot shortly after noon. It was a Friday I believe.
Were you a fetus or a gleam? Were you a child, a teen or an adult? Can you remember it like it was yesterday?
Johnny we hardly knew ye…but the torch lives on.
The Super Committee, charged with shaving $1.2 Trillion dollars off the federal debt, failed to answer their mandate and now admits defeat. The committee was comprised of 6 Republicans and 6 Democrats. They have met since August, 2011.
I haven’t followed them. I saw that all 6 Republicans chosen for the committee were tied to Grover Norquist pledges so the entire committee became a joke. Committees should consist of people who have a willingness to compromise. Those committed to a pledge won’t be able to do that. Why were people chosen who were bound to a pledge that technically could not involve any outcome that involved taxes being raised anywhere? Do we all just look stupid?
Hold on to your 401k and other investments today. The ride should be like a roller coaster….all going downhill. The pledgers are bound to destroy us to save us.
No person committed to a pledge should have ever been chosen for a committee that by definition will require compromise. Thanks R’s. Thanks for nothing, again. And you want my Independent vote because? Yea, I want to be broke. I want my social security, my medicare and my other retirement funds broke. That just gives me a warm fuzzy feeling. Let’s protect the rich from any tax increase at all and stick it to the senior citizens and the middle class.
Our system is morally corrupt.
From Politico:
Former Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice says the Republican presidential candidates can – and must – learn about foreign policy basics while on the campaign trail.
Asked in an interview aired Sunday on CNN’s “State of the Union” about the basic foreign policy gaffes that Republican presidential candidates Herman Cain and Michele Bachmann have made, Rice asserted that a potential president needed – at a minimum – to master the basics of foreign policy.
“I would say to the candidates, you don’t have to know the ins and outs of foreign policy because nobody would expect that kind of exposure. But the basis of foreign policy, you can – you can master those during the campaign. And it’s important for the American people to know that you care enough about these issues to do that,” Rice said.
The former Bush Cabinet official noted that it was crucial for Republican presidential candidates to know the historical role America has played on the world stage.
“A potential president has to know the role of the United States of America and that it’s an exceptional role, that we have, in fact, been willing to bear a lot of burdens over the last 60 plus years in order to promote a balance of power favor – that favors freedom,” she said.
Some of the ones we have seen seem to know nothing and are proud of it. How can we be a world super power if the president has no knowledge of foreign policy? Even as candidates, these people are being watched around the world. Especially to those who don’t understand the democratic process fully, those who are unprepared simply embarrass the United States when they refuse to learn the basics.
A candidate has to be more than a set of sound bytes and cutesy expressions. A presidential candidate has to be able to communicate that he or she has a clear understanding of America’s role in world affairs and where the rest of the world is coming from. Right now our focus is on domestic policy but that is not to say that next week, month or year the focus will not switch drastically. All our candidates will have to pass muster. Some clearly are not ready to do so.
I defy you not to at least tear up.
It doesn’t get better than this.
From the Washington Post:
SAN FRANCISCO — Protesters sitting on the ground supporting the Occupy Wall Street movement on the campus of the University of California, Davis took a face full of pepper spray at close range from an officer in riot gear in an incident that was captured on cellphone video and spread virally across the Internet Saturday.
UC Davis Chancellor Linda Katehi described the video images as “chilling” and said she was forming a task force to investigate even as a faculty group called for her resignation because of the Friday police action.
However, a law enforcement official who watched the clip called the use of force “fairly standard police procedure.”
In the video, an officer dispassionately pepper-sprays a line of several sitting protesters who flinch and cover their faces but remain passive with their arms interlocked as onlookers shriek and scream out for the officer to stop.
“The use of the pepper spray as shown on the video is chilling to us all and raises many questions about how best to handle situations like this,” Chancellor Linda Katehi said in a message posted on the school’s website Saturday
The pepper spray was way over the line in this video. One has to wonder how the availability of cell phone cameras and video will impact how much campus and municipal police will get by with. In this video it is easy to pick out which officers enjoy the brutality end of law enforcement. It isn’t many but those who do abuse their power are obvious.
There was one in this video who I thought for a minute was going to pepper spray his own officers.
There is a thin line here. There has to be law and order on campuses. But you just don’t pepper spray people who are not being violent. If that is standard police behavior then the standard needs to change.
That dust looks like a quagmire of mud actually. Does a person’s debating ability really matter? How about facts? How about character? Can Newt survive with his baggage? Can he survive affairs, sitting with Nancy, money from Freddie?
I would listen to Moe Davis.
Its almost time to start the Thanksgiving Holiday.
Who stays here? Who cooks? Who goes out?
Who travels?
Thanksgiving is a lot of work.
Are we going to have to go through all of them? Oddly enough, the Republicans have skipped the really unbaggaged intelligent ones. Both Romney, Newt and Jon Huntsman are intelligent and knowledgeable. However, Newt has so much baggage it will be hard to elect someone so unlikeable.
Stewart has declared Bachmann, Perry, Gingrich and Cain to be zombies who don’t even know they are dead. Jack Abramoff has called Newt corrupt. You know you are bad when that guy thinks you are corrupt.
So the truth is out. Confirmed, via the most recent article in the in an interview with The Washington Post that he plans to introduce a policy next year on the concept of “clustering,”a new approach to managing the county’s rural area.
Allow me to interject some facts here. There IS a “cluster ordinance” in the comprehensive plan for allowing clustering of homes on large tracts of land. I will put a copy of the ordinance up on the rural crescent website and link to it so people can become better informed. I am hopeful that maybe even Corey and Peter Candland will visit the link in order to educate themselves on the current cluster ordinance.
Lo and behold, Peter Candland is already finding ways to do Corey’s bidding! I don’t think that Peter has a full understanding of land use or else he would understand why Corey’s proposal is bunk.
“That, I believe, succeeds at nothing,” Stewart said. “I think that we need to look at better ways of preserving very large areas of rural ground as well as promoting more commercial office space and high-end retail. We have to take the emotion out of this debate and give it a cold, hard, objective look.”
Stewart said his argument is that having a hodgepodge of 10-acre lots doesn’t make sense. Better, he said, to have a development on 100 acres, where 30 acres are developed and the other 70 are open space, he said. Stewart said that such a policy would take a long time to develop, and the board would do so “in conjunction with the community.”
Candland said he rejects the commonly used term “slow growth,” saying “managed growth” more adequately describes his philosophy to encourage growth along with adequate infrastructure. But he largely agrees with Stewart’s philosophy of bringing the county more high-end retail and office space, he said, adding that improving the county’s quality of life will drive economic growth.
“Plain and simple,” Candland said, “we need to bring business to Prince William County.”
The level of ignorance astounds me. I wonder if Corey and Peter are aware that there is plenty of undeveloped land in the “Development Area” that has YET to be rezoned for its allowed long range use. There is not a lack of opportunity for high end retail and commercial (anyone heard of Innnovation?) in Prince William County. There is a lack of those high end retailers and Corporations CHOOSING to do business here.
Busting open the Rural Crescent will only have one sure fire result, higher taxes for everyone. Gotta love those conservative values.
I wonder if Michael Neibauer from the Washington Business Journal will have a follow up article to citizens of Prince William County affirming his pre and post prediction on Canlands election being the “game change” for development in the western end.
Not that there’s some massive push to build new homes in Prince William County, especially the western end. But when a proposal does come along — and it will — Candland’s victory may give the developer a narrow opening.
