Comments on: Conjunction Junction, What Exactly Is Your Function?

By: peorgie tirebiter

peorgie tirebiter — Tue, 16 Mar 2010 21:59:26 +0000

I propose a compromise: Split the difference.

Interesting related trivia: Know how many time zones there are in China? One. How cool is that?

By: kenmeer livermaile

kenmeer livermaile — Tue, 16 Mar 2010 13:58:51 +0000

I hated it more than anyone until this year when I am strangely ambivalent.

By: secondharmonic

secondharmonic — Tue, 16 Mar 2010 13:07:57 +0000

So instead of seven and a half months of Daylight Savings Time, why don’t we just have it ALL YEAR LONG, eh? That way I can just ignore it entirely and go on secondharmonic time which is one hour later.

By: secondharmonic

secondharmonic — Tue, 16 Mar 2010 13:03:23 +0000

damn straight, I mean the convenience for a few CEOs to get in a round of golf after work is paid for by the hardship of the rest of us getting up in the fucking dark — agayne. Plus, the kids don’t wanna go to bed “‘cuz it’s light outside…”. Less sleep for all concerned, hechuva job, buttholes.

By: peorgie tirebiter

peorgie tirebiter — Mon, 15 Mar 2010 23:26:50 +0000

And you know what else sucks? Daylight savings time, that’s what else sucks.

By: secondharmonic

secondharmonic — Mon, 15 Mar 2010 17:04:42 +0000

Punk was the last gasp of user-based rock; Simon Cowell took things over after that.
As proof:

By: peorgie tirebiter

peorgie tirebiter — Mon, 15 Mar 2010 00:55:00 +0000

Handsome lad, wasn’t he?

By: disaffected

disaffected — Mon, 15 Mar 2010 00:37:29 +0000

Depends…

By: disaffected

disaffected — Mon, 15 Mar 2010 00:28:12 +0000

Social Security was enacted in the wake of the Great Depression and in a time where deficits and debt had not grown to monumental proportions and the political will to address same was still existent. For its entire lifetime, it has been an unfunded liability, as trust fund (social security and medicare) revenues have never been segregated from the general fund, serving only to enhance federal surpluses in a few rare years (most notably post WWII), and to defray them in all the rest. Now then, when entitlement reform finally becomes a hot button issue (and Bernanke has already publicly hinted as much), as it simply MUST, since it represents so much of our net deficit (especially in the years 2020~2035, when both SS and MC begin hemorrhhaging money hand over fist), THAT will be a total political game changer, no matter which party is in power and fudging the numbers. Entitelement enhancements over the past 70 years have ALL been bought under the illusion that someone down the road would have to pay for them. Guess what? That someone is about to be revealed as... wait for it... YOU AND ME! Fortunately, I'm 52 and don't plan on living to 100. How about you? But back to the issue of healthcare. One of the MANY issues with this bill is (and this is a classic bait and switch) that it starts collecting taxes immediately to pay for benefits that won't kick in til later (~2014?) in order to understae its true costs. That should be reason enough ALONE to distrust the whole thing based on Democratic disingenuousness and Republican opportunism. Surely you can't believe that the bill will pay for itself after that (if it even does in the interim), OR that the Repubes are gonna let this stand once they regain control of congress in the first place? Confusing altrusim and politics/economics is entirely understandable, albeit in this case completely misguided. You won't find a harder left leading liberal than myself, but believe me, there's nothing good to celebrate about this bill, and the Repubes and a good share of the Dems damn well know it. By the way, don't always take what the Repube majority says (what they're for or against) at face value. These bastards play the game of political poker quite a bit better than their sometimes comically honest Democratic brethren. Shit, that's why they win even when they're in the minority.

By: Java the Bush

Java the Bush — Mon, 15 Mar 2010 00:19:13 +0000

We’re pretty sure there’s no verse about ‘deeming’ in Schoolhouse Rock”

I wasn’t aware that we now based Senate/House procedures on a cartoon. Fitting for Republicans though.

Not to mention the fact-allergic media.

I’m surprised they don’t have a medication for this yet. Those pesky facts can really give someone a headache when they’re trying to “report news.”