Obama’s Speech On Economy | The Plum Line

(W)e were forced to take those steps largely without the help of an opposition party which, unfortunately, after having presided over the decision-making that led to the crisis, decided to hand it over to others to solve.

– President Obama, calling out Republicans for creating the mess they are yelling at him for trying to fix

More please. The President gave a speech on the economy and what he hopes to do to help it along. In it, he acknowledged – finally – that Republicans have done nothing but try to obstruct anything he tries to do to fix their screwups.

Seriously, until they start playing a part in fixing the country they broke, call them out on it. They weren’t going to support you anyway.

Marketplace | The Climate Race

How global warming is already affecting us and the tough choices we have to make

You know, for a business show, Marketplace really does focus on the important issues like global climate change without the usual crazy lies and BS you’d get from conservatives. Instead of focusing on crazy people like Inhofe, the show talks to the people who can best evaluate and prepare us for what is likely to come.

Check out their latest special segment here.

Geithner Rejects Call to Resign, Faults Republicans – Bloomberg.com

“I can’t take responsibility for the legacy of crises you bequeathed the country….”

The “worst financial crisis in generations” happened after “almost a decade, certainly eight years, of basic neglect of basic public goods, in health care, in education, in public infrastructure, in how we use energy.”

Tim Geithner, say what you will about him, seems to have had enough of Republicans acting like this shit economy isn’t a direct result of their stupidity.

Yes, he’s a tool of big money and I truly wish someone else had his job, but he’s right on this one.

Ode To The Internet Surliness Providers – All Tech Considered – Technology News And Culture Blog : NPR

Frankly, I love this story. It is about a Japanese fansub site that knows how much to abuse their customers and get away with it.

I’ve been working in IT or just technology for basically the past 13 years or so and you’ve got to understand that most of us view the rest of humanity as a pack of mouthbreathing dimwits. The things we say about you would make you cringe. I mean, in the main, you’re dealing with simple machines and the average user can find ways to cripple an application or bust a printer than ever an entire tribe of chimps on roid rage and ecstasy couldn’t if they really, really tried.

So to see a company actually embrace that antipathy just makes me smile.

Political Irony › Conservatives Remaking God In Their Own Image

Here’s a good roundup article on the bizarre and blasphemous attempts by conservatives to destroy Christianity and mold it into their own hate-filled, bigoted creation.

So these guys are fine with Saudi intolerance, polygamist FLDS child diddlers, repression of basically anyone but they really, really feel that God is too tolerant of people and his words need rewritten.

Genius!