Impressive News

This just in. Headline news just read on my local junior-college radio station tells me that, in the just-completed debate in Iowa, Republicans could agree on one thing: reduced government spending.

I'm pretty impressed, but that's only one of the impressive things I've heard or read as the news of the day.

Apparently the Pope believes that gay and lesbian people wanting to marry each other is as big an impediment to peace as huge nuclear arsenals. People of the world, tremble in the face of our awesome power!

In print, priorities differ, and everyone seems obsessed with guessing whether David Beckham's cornucopiaic basket in his new Armani underwear portrait was enhanced (by photoshop or sock). It works fine for me either way, although I still prefer the D&G campaign from 2006. (cf)

Some people, still convinced that there has to be more in common between Romney's big "religion speech" and Kennedy's, beyond their location, are still trying to find some deep meaning in it to demonstrate their notion. I'm still a bit hung up on that idiotic "freedom requires religion" idea. On the whole, all the religiously informed candidates sound equally nutty to me. (Pam has a copy of Mitt's speech here.)

I'm trying to decide whom to endorse as a presidential nominee. I'm thinking Chris Dodd, but I could swing towards John Edwards. Mike Gravel and Dennis Kucinch are less likely for me, although I'm happy they're in the campaign right now, and my reasons have nothing to do with whether I consider them electable, which I think is a ridiculous criterion since I refuse to base my choice on trying to decide whom the majority would choose if most of them chose that candidate. Naturally I want to make my endorsement before the Iowa Caucuses so that it can have maximum impact.

Posted on December 12, 2007 at 17.37 by jns · Permalink
In: All, Current Events

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  1. Written by Bill Morrison
    on Wednesday, 12 December 2007 at 18.13
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    Re: David Beckham's cornucopia: it looks to me more like packaging than contents. The contours just aren't right for there to be nothing underneath the briefs except Mr. Beckham's equipment.

  2. Written by S.W. Anderson
    on Wednesday, 12 December 2007 at 23.35
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    If I could stand between that flock of hypocritical turkeys and a TV camera, I'd demand that every one of them explain: A, their lockstep-loyal support of George W. Bush, who is to fiscal responsibility what Typhoid Mary was to public health; in light of B, their so conveniently timed and unanimous frugality.

  3. Written by jns
    on Thursday, 13 December 2007 at 00.18
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    There seems to be universal agreement that smaller is better when it comes to government, but larger is better when it comes to men's underwear.

  4. Written by rightsaidfred
    on Thursday, 13 December 2007 at 02.13
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    I'm guessing there is such a thing as 'too big'. Is that a taxpayer I hear complaining?

  5. Written by jns
    on Thursday, 13 December 2007 at 12.10
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    While taxpayers will sometimes complain "too big"–Republicans will always complain "too big", but with them it's obviously just lip service–size queens never, ever will allow those words to pass their lips, Fred.

  6. Written by Bill Morrison
    on Saturday, 15 December 2007 at 01.54
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    George Bush was amusing today. Asking Congress to pass a budget that had no "unnecessary" spending in it, and no tax increases, but that still provided adequate funding for the war in Iraq. How do you pay the enormous (and in this case unnecessary) costs of a war without raising taxes? You borrow it, of course, and the Iraq war is almost entirely funded on borrowed money.

    But then the Democrats don't get it either. I don't remember whether it was Hillary or Barak who said they'd end the war in Iraq and spend the money saved on social programs at home. Only there's no money to be "saved", just less money to be borrowed.

    Ronald Regan, with his budget pie cut into three halves is starting to sound pretty economically astute right about now.

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