Create an online store with Goodsie. It's professional, stylish and free to start! Standard & Poors Tells GOP To Grow Up And Accept Obama's Offer Holy cow. This is mind-blowing (and confirms my contention that Barack Obama has been working closely with “Big Money” to pressure the G.O.P. to commit what may be electoral suicide): The credit-rating agency Standard & Poors has released a statement that says, among other things, that merely raising the debt ceiling is not enough to prevent a downgrade of the United States’ credit rating, triggering market instability and causing the interest rate on U.S. debt to skyrocket. What’s more, S&P is attaching numbers and conditions to its statement: to ensure a stable credit rating, any deal between Obama and the Republicans must reduce debt by $4 trillion, should include some balance of cuts and revenues (ie, tax increases), and will involve concessions by both sides (a thinly-veiled repudiation of Eric Cantor’s assertion that merely attending negotiations is the only concession the GOP intends to make). The U.S. “[T]he Republicans are pushing things too far. Read more of M.S.
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Enlightenment - The Experience Festival | Global Oneness untitled The Big Fib - Michael Hebert I'm the type of guy the Republicans could have if they really tried. I live in the South, the reddest of Red Country. I am Catholic and anti-abortion, like low taxes, and tend to agree with Jefferson's statement: "That government is best that governs least." I don't trust political do-gooders, and think liberalism too often gets wobbly in the knees when morality comes up. But I'll be shot before I vote Republican this year, any time soon. Last night I sat and watched the entire slate of Republican candidates speak at the convention. Each candidate stood up before the crowd, and in turn spoke the Lie. The GOP has never in recent memory come anywhere near reducing the size of government. In my lifetime, no Republican president has ever left office with a smaller government than he found on Inaugruration Day. Republicans whine about pork-barrel spending, even though they perfected the current system of legislative earmarks, through which they funnel billions. So you do pay more taxes.
The Last Argument of Kings A letter to the illiterate. « Fuck the Tea Baggers Dear bug eaters, Shut the fuck up. Just for five fucking minutes. We know you want to end taxation. But you don’t care what experts have to say, do you, knuckle-draggers, because all you care about is what makes you feel better. We know you want to drill for oil in Yellowstone and downtown Detroit and fucking Disneyland and two miles down through the fucking Antarctic ice cap and on Mars and every goddamned place you can think of, until the entire solar system is a polluted piece of steaming shit just like fucking Texas. We know you email each other ape jokes and watermelon jokes and other racist Ku Klux Klan fucking bullshit–just what, three years? Guess what? Like how you think the Internet is a bunch of fucking tubes. How you think evolution isn’t real because the other monkeys haven’t evolved into people yet. How you think we’ll still have roads and courtrooms and jails and people checking for e.coli in your WalMart burger meat without paying any taxes. Liberal media, huh? Go away!
Russian-English Name Cross-Index Russian-English Name Cross-Index by Jonathan J. Kalmakoff Many Doukhobor immigrants to Canada adopted English names in place of, or in addition to, their original Russian names. Sometimes, the adopted name was the English language equivalent of the original name. Often, the adopted name sounded phonetically similar to the original name, coinciding with the first sound or letters. Notes This is not a comprehensive index of all names used by Doukhobors in Russia and Canada.