John Boehener – already reeling from the increase in tanning booth fees – doesn’t wanna talk about “taxing the rich.” I assume that’s ‘cuz he’s rich. Until such time as I become rich, I’m more than happy to not only talk about taxing them, but to actually do it. Once I’m rich, I’ll be happy to pay taxes. Why? Because I’ll be able to afford to, because I’ll be fucking rich. This does not strike me as a complicated issue, but perhaps that’s because I’m just a simple man. It’s kinda like the 7-Eleven rule. “Got a million, leave a million. Need a million, take a million.”
My, my, my. People out there in the sports media world are painting Syracuse (and Pitt) as villains for jumping off the sinking ship that is the Big East. I don’t remember all this angst and anger from them when Miami, Va Tech, and Boston College jumped back last decade, so I don’t really understand all the malice. And here we find the BE had a master plan that would’ve saved the league if only SU and Pitt hadn’t left: adding Navy for football-only. Yes indeed. That move, of course, is now on hold.
Word is also in that both the ACC and SEC have rejected West Virginia. I know the ACC has some sort of minimum academic standards, but clearly the SEC doesn’t, so that one surprises me. I feel bad for WV. Their fans already suffer from inferiority complexes, and this has gotta hurt. I hate to see them stuck in what used to be the BE, which is now possibly going to merge with whatever winds up being left of the Big 12.
I hope they can work out a deal for something better, and I hope we can keep playing them – at least in football.
Oh well, early day. Time to go.
GOP Leaders Write Unprecedented Letter Urging The Federal Reserve To Keep Unemployment High
By Matthew Yglesias
It is almost impossible to understand why anyone save the Koch brothers and their ilk would ever vote for a Republican. What they say is awful, what they do is worse.
And yet David Koch is one of the underwriters of NOVA on PBS.
Nothing like getting out of VA to have to endure more West Virginia bashing. Maybe they can work out some kind of deal where they play every other year (the Syracuse home dates) so the Orange won’t have to be subjected to those Mountaineer nasties in Morgantown.
I know Koch sponsors Nova. They give him screen credit. I would like to say no one can be a jerk all the time but I believe the tax break is much more likely the incentive.
The Federal Reserve announced a new plan Wednesday to stimulate growth by purchasing $400 billion in long-term Treasury securities with proceeds from the sale of short-term government debt, defying Republican demands to refrain from new actions.
In extending its campaign of novel efforts to shake the economy from its torpor, the Fed said that it was responding to evidence that there is a clear need for help.
http://www.dailykos.com/story/2011/09/21/1018935/-Federal-Reserve-ignores-Republican-demands,-moves-to-spur-growth?detail=hide&via=blog_1
I guess those patriotic Republicans will have to find another way to screw Americans.
So, just to lighten things up a little ….
did anyone see this Scary Cat Thing :cat:
Love the Alfred Hitchcock music! :billcat:
Thanks, RG. I needed that smile.