Archive for January 6, 2012
The Beautiful Eyes of Reptiles
Had enough of politics this week? Ready for tomorrow night’s who can be more extreme than the next guy show debate? Oy.
Yipe! It’s break time!
I suggest this slide show of the beautiful eyes of reptiles.
Mother Nature has such a way with color combinations.
Denied Insurance Because of…Acne?
Take a look at this
(Click here.)
People can be denied (or, presumably, kicked off) insurance because of acne and pregnancy or because they were raped?
Amazing.
That said, guess what Rick Santorum said today about pre-existing conditions:
In Keene today, Rick Santorum told the mother of a cancer patient that people with pre-existing conditions should pay more for health care because they made “poor health choices.”
Gee. A while back, I had an emergency appendectomy. Was that due to “poor health choices?” Oh, and decades ago when I was 19-years-old I had a lumpectomy for a benign lump in my breast. Was that due to “poor health choices?” And what about the diverticulitis I had four years ago? I think I inherited that from my mother because she had it too. Was that a due to “poor health choices” Ricky? Huh? Huh?!
“Journalism” USA, Circa 2012
Somebody actually got paid to write this?
As Romney Jabs at Obama, Rivals Swing at Him
Ah, yeah. I mean, tell us something we don’t know.
Mitt Romney Will “Pound Working Class Americans Into the Ground”
Here’s a powerful new ad featuring two average working Americans who lost their jobs to Mitt Romney and Bain Capital:
Poor guys. They look exhausted and broken.
Fox Hires Liz Cheney
Shocking, I know:
Playbook reports, and Fox News Channel confirms, that Liz Cheney will join the network as a contributor. The former State Dept. official and daughter of former VP Dick Cheney will analyze the GOP primaries across Fox News shows and online from the foreign policy and national security perspectives.
This article is from TVNewser and boy, have they been snookered. Cheney won’t “analyze” the primaries from a “foreign policy and national security perspective.” She will spend all her time bashing Obama and the Democrats. Period. But insofar as her last name is Cheney, she will be taken seriously by Fox watchers who think the members of that corrupt-to-the-bone family still have some credibility, Foxers being the only people on Earth who do.
What Should Colorado Springs’ New Logo Be?
Regulars to this blog know that I have posted quite a bit about about the goings on in Colorado Springs (here, here and here). It’s a fascinating place to watch because shrink-government, Tea Party-types run the place and yep, they’re shrinking government alright, all the way down to firing cops and asking cab drivers to be on the alert for criminal activity.
Now we have this:
According to the Colorado Springs paper, tomorrow is the deadline for that city’s open-to-the-public contest for a new logo. Designed around the city’s awesome and totally original new slogan, “Live it up!”
We’ve followed the ongoing budget problems in arch-conservative El Paso County off and on again for some years now with car-accident gawker fascination, since it’s a useful example of what happens when ideologues who run for office on a platform of “shrinking government” get the fullest extent of their wish–the real consequences of “drowning government in the bathtub.”
The result? A conservative masochist’s paradise: in 2008, El Paso County was forced to cut its suicide prevention program–even though Colorado Springs had the second highest suicide rate in the nation. El Paso County has experienced chronic jail staff shortages, and has had to ration sheriff patrols. The county has cut child protective services, and has even considered selling off its parks. The city of Colorado Springs was forced to temporarily shut off about one-third of the city’s streetlights to balance last year’s budget. The county health department was noncompliant for restaurant inspections, though we’re told this has recently improved somewhat. Eat it up!
With all of this in mind, we came up with some entries of our own for the “Live it up!” logo contest.
And this would be my favorite:
See more logo suggestions here.
Hee hee.
