Monthly Archives: April 2009

But on the plus side….

“But on the plus side, if Texas did secede from the Union, we could then invade them for the oil.”

– Jay Leno

So…more on the whole Texas secession concept. This is just the latest spin on disgruntled Texan behavior. It happened when I moved down in 1982 and spawned a militia during the 1990s.

Here’s a comedic look at this idiocy:

And here is a list of where Texas stands in relation to other states. It ain’t pretty. Five Thirty Eight lays out some other benefits to ditching the Lone Star State.

There isn’t much a chance for an independent Texas to improve things either. After we pull out the military bases, nuke bombers and MX missiles in the silos, there is going to be some pretty big unemployment. Since the US isn’t using the Houston Ship Channel and the Navy will be ditching Corpus Christi and the Air Force rides out of San Antonio – not to mention moving NASA – there are a lot of jobs leaving.

Plus, and this is key, apparently 35% of Texas’ income comes from – (drumroll) – American federal dollars. And yes, this is an amount far more than Texas pay in taxes.

Bonus fun: either the State Department is playing along or is just infested with Clintonite numbnuts but they had temporarily listed Texas as a foreign country recently.

Damn, if this keeps up I’m going to have to create a whole other category.

Marriage a choice, just like religion – Las Vegas Sun

Thank God not all of Vegas is infiltrated by Talibangelicals. Give this a read and be sure to down some painkillers before starting in on the comments.

I truly wish that those bigoted hatemongers who supposedly speak for the Almighty would kindly shut the hell up and let actual caring folks speak for their religion.

Not that I’m holding my breath or anything….

Alright, after this I’m done (I hope)

STILL more teabagging links. Sorry.

As I imagined, a lot of the asshats protesting for the rich last week were the same racist Palinite ilk we saw advertising their bigotry last year. Check out some of the images here for more proof.

In California, just for fun, racism had to compete with anti-Semitism.

You know, my father-in-law keeps trying to give Gabriel little plush elephants to turn him Republican. I know he’s a member of that party for economic reasons that haven’t made sense for decades. The ideas aren’t all bad, but the party obviously doesn’t push them. That said, at some point this trying to steer my son towards a racist, bigoted, Talibangelical point of view is eventually going to piss me off. Besides, he’s part Mexican, the GOP doesn’t want him.

On a lighter note, check out The Daily Show’s English correspondent John Oliver confronts some of the whack jobs in his own special way.

Wealth-Less Effect: Earning Well, Feeling Otherwise – Yahoo! Finance

This meme was old to begin with, and getting increasingly so. Here is yet another article telling us about how bad people who make a quarter million a year are doing. And now their taxes are being RESTORED to pre-Bush levels. Yes, I can play with words too. Our economy was better before Bush cut their taxes. So it isn’t a raise, or an increase, it is a Restoration.

And yes, everyone can adapt to their income and get into bad spending habits, but I sure as hell aren’t going to pity these folks like I would the millions who lost their jobs in this recession.

And why are people writing these articles? Do they WANT a rash of condo and mansion burnings by outraged regular folks?

By Degrees – Third-World Stove Soot Is Target in Climate Fight – Series – NYTimes.com

This seems pretty interesting to me. While fighting the deniers here at home and in India and China, we could be addressing the climate change issue by getting the poor proper stoves and fuel so that we can reduce a big percentage of our global carbon emissions.

That can’t cost very much to do, but do we have the will to pull it off?