Fuck its silent in here.......

[Slaky]

How has Rick Perry not been karmically destroyed yet?

[CT III]

Well, on the plus side, Chris Christie is not tolerating stupid bullshit from anybody.

http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/plum-line/post/chris-christie-smacks-down-the-sharia-crowd/2011/03/04/gIQARsBBuI_blog.html

[Wheezer]

How has Rick Perry not been karmically destroyed yet?

If he keeps swapping furtive yet tender caresses with AFA, it may just be a matter of time.

[J. Walter Weatherman]

How has Rick Perry not been karmically destroyed yet?

If he keeps swapping furtive yet tender caresses with AFA, it may just be a matter of time.

BC assures us that "Perry's baggage is minimal" compared to the rest of the GOP field.

So, yeah... he's clearly doomed.

[J. Walter Weatherman]

Also: a generous 'holy shit' to Wheezer's link.

As I have written before, God's word to ancient Israel was that a growing danger from wild animals is a sign of a nation in rebellion against God. "If you will not listen to me and will not do all these commandments...I will let loose the wild beasts against you, which shall bereave you of your children and destroy your livestock" (Leviticus 26:14, 22).

Instead of shooting these Jeffrey Dahmers of the animal kingdom, officials in Grand Teton National Park are now prohibiting people in cars from even watching grizzlies if they are less than 100 yards away.

So, God is sending the Jeffrey Dahmers of the animal kingdom on a mission to forcibly un-gay an America in rebellion against God? But big government is preventing Americans from shooting God's Jeffrey Dahmers with guns as God intended?

[Wheezer]

Also: a generous 'holy shit' to Wheezer's link.

It's a seemingly bottomless pit. I mean, if Perry doesn't have much baggage, it's not for lack of packing.

[Wheezer]

Don't miss the live stream!

[JD]

Don't miss the live stream!

Cool.  Thanks!  Shouldn't this be in the "The Only Site..." thread, though?

[Gilgamesh]

The twitter is all aflutter reporting that S&P was preparing to downgrade the nation's debt as early as tonight. Reportedly, the downgrade message from S&P was to have taken congressional Republicans to task (or out to the woodshed, depending on your preferred cliche) for their opposition to tax increases.  The White House is pushing back against the report asserting that S&P made nearly 2 trillion dollars worth of errors in their computation.

Jake Tapper is all over this: http://blogs.abcnews.com/politicalpunch/2011/08/govt-official-us-expecting-sp-downgrade.html

Yay! Enjoy the weekend.

[Gilgamesh]

DPD, but some of the comments on that article are awesome.

[J. Walter Weatherman]

The twitter is all aflutter reporting that S&P was preparing to downgrade the nation's debt as early as tonight. Reportedly, the downgrade message from S&P was to have taken congressional Republicans to task (or out to the woodshed, depending on your preferred cliche) for their opposition to tax increases.  The White House is pushing back against the report asserting that S&P made nearly 2 trillion dollars worth of errors in their computation.

Jake Tapper is all over this: http://blogs.abcnews.com/politicalpunch/2011/08/govt-official-us-expecting-sp-downgrade.html

Yay! Enjoy the weekend.

Boom.

http://www.reuters.com/article/2011/08/06/us-usa-debt-downgrade-idUSTRE7746VF20110806

[Chuck to Chuck]

One of the reasons that the US and many other sovereigns have been able to maintain AAA ratings is that governments have the ability to raise taxes if hey need to raise revenue.  Given that on branch of the legislature has a majority that refuses to do that, the borrowing costs for the US government have now gone up. This means that we now have increased the deferred tax on future generations (debt) by capitalizing today's current interest.

Interest that is higher than it should be.

30 years of irresponsible government coming home to roost.

Something d-o-o economics.  Anyone?  Anyone?

[morpheus]

http://www.zerohedge.com/news/sp-downgrades-us-aa-outlook-negative-full-text

Republicans and Democrats have only been able to agree to relatively modest savings on discretionary spending while delegating to the Select Committee decisions on more comprehensive measures. It appears that for now, new revenues have dropped down on the menu of policy options. In addition, the plan envisions only minor policy changes on Medicare and little change in other entitlements, the containment of which we and most other independent observers regard as key to long-term fiscal sustainability.

Sounds pretty evenhanded to me.  Doesn't seem like S&P played around back there behind either side.

[morpheus]

One of the reasons that the US and many other sovereigns have been able to maintain AAA ratings is that governments have the ability to raise taxes if hey need to raise revenue.  Given that on branch of the legislature has a majority that refuses to do that, the borrowing costs for the US government have now gone up. This means that we now have increased the deferred tax on future generations (debt) by capitalizing today's current interest.

Interest that is higher than it should be.

30 years of irresponsible government coming home to roost.

Something d-o-o economics.  Anyone?  Anyone?

DPD. "Keynesdoo economics?". Never heard that expression.

[Chuck to Chuck]

One of the reasons that the US and many other sovereigns have been able to maintain AAA ratings is that governments have the ability to raise taxes if hey need to raise revenue.  Given that on branch of the legislature has a majority that refuses to do that, the borrowing costs for the US government have now gone up. This means that we now have increased the deferred tax on future generations (debt) by capitalizing today's current interest.

Interest that is higher than it should be.

30 years of irresponsible government coming home to roost.

Something d-o-o economics.  Anyone?  Anyone?

DPD. "Keynesdoo economics?". Never heard that expression.

It's found near the Laugher Curve.