Archive for the ‘Domestic Affairs’ Category
Snake World
This is Daisy, who is, as you can see, blessed with great physical beauty. She’s even got matching beauty moles. She is somewhat vain in consequence. I tell both my dogs that they’re smart girls, good girls, beautiful girls. But with Daisy, it is definitely the latter that resonates. She takes in the sun like [...]
February 12, 2012
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Betty Cracker · 
41 Comments
Posted in: Assholes, Dog Blogging, Domestic Affairs, Free Markets Solve Everything, Fuck The Middle-Class, Fuck The Poor, General Stupidity, Politics, Republican Stupidity
About This Religious Liberty Stuff
When did the 1st Amendment change from basically saying that you can practice whatever religion you want and you won’t be burned at the stake as a heretic and we’re not going to form or recognize a national religion like the Church of England? When did it change to “everyone everywhere has to do what [...]
February 11, 2012
· John Cole · 141 Comments
Posted in: Domestic Affairs, Religion
Fomenting Insurrection
This is kind of shocking: The still-lingering controversy over the Obama administration’s mandate about health insurance coverage that includes contraception spread to American Army posts all over the world before the matter was settled. For the Army, it started when Timothy Broglio, the archbishop for the military services, sent a letter to all Catholic chaplains [...]
February 9, 2012
· John Cole · 240 Comments
Posted in: Domestic Affairs, Rare Sincerity, Religion
Public Service Announcement & Open Thread
This is Daisy, who rides INSIDE the vehicle at all times. Open thread.
February 6, 2012
· Betty Cracker · 61 Comments
Posted in: Assholes, Dog Blogging, Domestic Affairs, Open Thread, Politics, Republican Stupidity
He Knows What He is Dealing With
This made me smile: Saying the economy is “growing stronger,” President Obama issued a strong warning to Congress on Friday: “Do not slow down the recovery … don’t muck it up!” Speaking at a fire house in Arlington, Va. — hours after a jobs report showed the unemployment rate dropped from 8.5 to 8.3 percent [...]
February 3, 2012
· John Cole · 39 Comments
Posted in: Domestic Affairs
2012 starts
Obama 2012 has officially started here. We got the initial contact and introduction from the person running the Ohio campaign here locally and we had an Ohio conference call with Michelle Obama. I just listened in on the call. I weigh in so often here that when I engage in actual politics I have nothing [...]
February 3, 2012
· Kay · 28 Comments
Posted in: Domestic Affairs, Don't Mourn, Organize, Election 2012
I’m still not clear on why conservatives don’t want people voting early, yet they do want people voting absentee
Sunshine in the sunshine state: Election experts and Democratic voting advocates told U.S. senators Friday that a Republican-backed overhaul of Florida election laws will suppress Democratic turnout in the nation’s biggest battleground state next fall. Democratic Sens. Bill Nelson of Florida and Dick Durbin of Illinois held a field hearing at the Hillsborough County Courthouse [...]
January 30, 2012
· Kay · 83 Comments
Posted in: An Unexamined Scandal, Domestic Affairs, Education, Election 2012, Enhanced Protest Techniques
We don’t serve your kind here…
[I think there’s a clause in my Balloon Juice contract about pet photos. This one depicts my dog Patsy, who harbors ambitions to become a biped. She loves to belly up to our backyard tiki bar. You can see the whites of her eyes because she’s scanning the surface of the bar for pretzels without [...]
January 29, 2012
· Betty Cracker · 75 Comments
Posted in: Dog Blogging, Domestic Affairs, Open Thread
If I Had Known It Was This Easy
Ever play those games where you state if you could only have one type of food for the rest of your life, it would be… For me, if I could only have one kid of food for the rest of my life, hands down it would be Mexican. Could eat it every single fucking day, [...]
January 27, 2012
· John Cole · 40 Comments
Posted in: Assholes, Domestic Affairs, Post-racial America
How Does This Happen
I seriously don’t understand how this sort of thing happens: A New Mexico man who said he was forced to pull his own tooth while in solitary confinement because he was denied access to a dentist has been awarded $22 million due to inhumane treatment by New Mexico’s Dona Ana County Jail. Stephen Slevin was [...]
January 25, 2012
· John Cole · 79 Comments
Posted in: Domestic Affairs
Negotiations
I’ve written several times about our candidate for the state legislature. To recap: He’s a Steelworker. He’s been married 32 years and has 4 children. He spent 2 years in the military. He worked 2nd shift his whole life, and only became politically active with the Steelworkers in 2002 I spent part of the morning [...]
January 24, 2012
· Kay · 40 Comments
Posted in: Domestic Affairs, Election 2012
A Positive Ruling
This is great news, and completely shocking: The Supreme Court ruled unanimously Monday that law enforcement authorities need a probable-cause warrant from a judge to affix a GPS device to a vehicle and monitor its every move. The decision (.pdf) in what is arguably the biggest Fourth Amendment case in the computer age, rejected the [...]
January 23, 2012
· John Cole · 134 Comments
Posted in: Domestic Affairs, The Failed Obama Administration (Only Took Two Weeks)
Nag nag nag
Displaying the protective instincts that make Dobermans famous, Max takes a rampaging grizzly bear by the leash and calmly leads it away from his owner: Now go read this and then phone someone about PIPA. Find your Congresscritter here. Switchboard: (202) 224-3121 Guide for first-timers here. Also, open thread.
January 18, 2012
· Tim F. · 79 Comments
Posted in: Dog Blogging, Domestic Affairs, Open Thread, somebody should do something
Speak up
Why not get on the phone and tell your elected Congressperson and Senators to come back with a piracy bill that isn’t written in crayon. Find your Congresscritter here. Switchboard: (202) 224-3121 Guide for first-timers here. ***update*** XKCD has a useful roundup of SOPA-related information. ***update 2*** A Hollywood professional on why even people who [...]
January 18, 2012
· Tim F. · 114 Comments
Posted in: Domestic Affairs, General Stupidity, somebody should do something
Call me, call me anytime
Today would be a great day to get on the phone and let your Senators know that they should think hard before they vote for SOPA/PIPA. I would throw in a bunch of links to information about the bills, but I’m blogging fm the iPad and that is a pain in the ass. If people [...]
January 17, 2012
· Tim F. · 28 Comments
Posted in: Domestic Affairs, somebody should do something
