http://www.democraticunderground.com http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/tech/rss Wed, 19 Jun 2013 14:36:40 Wed, 19 Jun 2013 14:36:40 Two women in their 80s and infirmed were strip searched at JFK by some creepy crotch sniffing shitbag TSA employees.

Of course, everyone points at everyone else and the denials fly. "Not me" "Wuddn't me" "We gotta follow the rules"

This organization needs to be disbanded.

Yet, more common t... http://journals.democraticunderground.com/Husb2Sparkly/171 Mon, 05 Dec 2011 17:57:04 Let's define "shit" as anything you think it is. For me, it is the financial mess, the outright plundering by the 1% over the 99%. It is the way we are fed Orwellian bullshit when we have real needs - like the "healthcare" voodoo that we got when what we wanted was single payer. It is the ongoing wa... http://journals.democraticunderground.com/Husb2Sparkly/170 Wed, 30 Nov 2011 12:12:11 I heard on the radio today that Harry and the Senate Dems wanna pass an extension of the FICA tax holiday and pay for it with a 3% hike on taxes on wages over a million bucks.

The repubicans oppose this, saying such a tax hike will affect 1/3 of small businesses, who they say are the real job cre... http://journals.democraticunderground.com/Husb2Sparkly/169 Mon, 28 Nov 2011 21:22:32 In light of the current talk of cuts to Medicare and Medicaid, I am instantly taken back to the run up to the passing of the healthcare "reform" bill. It started with Obama himself talking about plain old single payer. Lots of people like to deny that he ever spoke of this, but most us know, really,... http://journals.democraticunderground.com/Husb2Sparkly/168 Mon, 19 Sep 2011 19:18:13 This can't be spun. Many will try, of course, but the fact is, we now have a Democratic president who is actually proposing "cuts" to Medicare and Medicaid. I'm sure some will see it as adjusting the program and reducing waste and overlap; that sort of thing.

But it is being sold by a Democratic ... http://journals.democraticunderground.com/Husb2Sparkly/167 Mon, 19 Sep 2011 07:45:01 You can argue about all the conspiracy theories you wish about paid left wing opposition to him and the Professional left, and all that other bullshit. But when it comes down to it, the average, non-influential, non-insider lefty (like me and many, many others) is unhappy with Obama for things he di... http://journals.democraticunderground.com/Husb2Sparkly/166 Fri, 02 Sep 2011 15:13:12 . . . . nowhere NEAR a presidential campaign.

There was a presidential candidate once who was a Roman Catholic. He had to spend a great deal of time trying to convince his country's citizens that he would not allow that to influence his presidency. And he wasn't even all that great a Catholic. I ... http://journals.democraticunderground.com/Husb2Sparkly/165 Fri, 12 Aug 2011 08:31:15 I kid! I kid!

Thanks to everyone who participated.

:blush:... http://journals.democraticunderground.com/Husb2Sparkly/164 Tue, 09 Aug 2011 08:22:00 The lie: "We need to do something about the deficit in order to pass a debt ceiling increase."

The two are only tangentially related. One causes the need for the other. But they are NOT connected.

This is how you raise the debt limit:

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v510/MMPics/DU%20Stuff... http://journals.democraticunderground.com/Husb2Sparkly/163 Wed, 27 Jul 2011 17:41:35 Before you unrec and snark at me, hear me out.

Anyone who uses drugs is a criminal. And it is in that sense I use that as my description of her.

Troubled soul might be more apt. Gifted talent is certainly a true description. Trend setter is, too. Quintuple Grammy winner fits. So does tragedy.
... http://journals.democraticunderground.com/Husb2Sparkly/162 Sat, 23 Jul 2011 16:19:41 I remember so very clearly watching Alan Shepard bravely sit atop a large metal cylinder, not knowing if he would return.

I recall feeling real worry as to whether or not John Glenn would be able to actually fly around the world and get back down safely. The whole nation worried . . . and stood t... http://journals.democraticunderground.com/Husb2Sparkly/161 Fri, 08 Jul 2011 20:21:56 On so many levels it is wrong.

First, it is a weasly position. It is a politically expedient way of trying to have it both ways. It allows one to avoid having to actually take a stand.

Second, it doesn't help anyone who has a legal marriage in one state be accepted as married in another. Forge... http://journals.democraticunderground.com/Husb2Sparkly/160 Sat, 25 Jun 2011 18:25:15 Today was just another day in Fuckyouville when AARP said they'll stop opposing cuts to the safety net. Many of us have always known they were a scam. Now they simply have stopped hiding it.

It has long been true that your government is simply self preservative - except for that part that works d... http://journals.democraticunderground.com/Husb2Sparkly/159 Fri, 17 Jun 2011 12:22:33 Then what?

If he were brought back alive, would we just have pictures similar to this to see over and over for the next decade?

http://www.prisonplanet.com/images/march2007/150307ksm.jpg

Would seeing such a picture over and over again convince the doubters we had him? Really? At the end of ... http://journals.democraticunderground.com/Husb2Sparkly/157 Thu, 05 May 2011 13:08:31 I have been a partner in an actual small business for nearly twenty years. In the entirety of that time, we have never felt over regulated or, for that matter, overtaxed.

Now, its true that we're not the same sort of "small business" you guys love to feature but never really identify.

We're no... http://journals.democraticunderground.com/Husb2Sparkly/158 Thu, 05 May 2011 09:55:49 Naturally, many DUers pointed out this error and much discussion ensued.

The people who pointed out the error were perfectly correct. The fondled part of the woman's anatomy was her vulva and not her vagina, as she stated.

Now think hard about this next bit:

How does this matter?

The sto... http://journals.democraticunderground.com/Husb2Sparkly/156 Fri, 29 Apr 2011 14:12:33 The repubicans want to FUCK YOU UP.

They want to set the stage so that it is more likely you will die sicker and earlier than you will now.

They want you to get a small check from the government and use it to try to buy health insurance. They want you to find someone who will cover a diabetic ... http://journals.democraticunderground.com/Husb2Sparkly/154 Tue, 12 Apr 2011 17:27:53 Would you be okay with some thug with a gun and mask coming up to your mother or grandmother, sticking the gun to her dear, white haired head, and stealing all her money?

That's pretty much what you MOTHERFUCKERS are proposing we do to seniors. Not quite as dramatically, not quite as quickly, not... http://journals.democraticunderground.com/Husb2Sparkly/155 Tue, 12 Apr 2011 17:09:18 Think about it. Maybe this is why we are where we are these days.

Iconic Anomalies. Those really quite rare people and circumstances that cause us to brand everything its category with the same broad brush.

Here are a few:

"Welfare queens driving Cadillacs". There were one or two such peopl... http://journals.democraticunderground.com/Husb2Sparkly/152 Sat, 09 Apr 2011 12:16:15 That's pretty much what goes on in government these days. We watched all that delicious drama play out over the last week.Down to the Wire. Avert a Crisis. Stalemate. Compromise. All the usual cliches.

Meanwhile, the really heavy lifting remains undone.

Lest you think this is about Obama, plea... http://journals.democraticunderground.com/Husb2Sparkly/153 Sat, 09 Apr 2011 10:13:43 End the bush tax cuts and then raise taxes on the same people even more.

Cut the defense budget to make up the rest.






Instead, we get to watch these fuckers fuck around fucking us.... http://journals.democraticunderground.com/Husb2Sparkly/151 Fri, 08 Apr 2011 18:21:34 We all live somewhere. We all have stuff where we live. We have pots and pans and furniture and televisions and computers and cars and books and coffee makers and electric blankets and a beer bottle collection and Grandma Adele's broach and Dad's college graduation Hamilton watch and your kids' toys... http://journals.democraticunderground.com/Husb2Sparkly/150 Fri, 01 Apr 2011 13:45:29 ... http://journals.democraticunderground.com/Husb2Sparkly/149 Mon, 28 Mar 2011 19:39:03 Who would have thought that the loudest, snarkiest, rudest, most breathlessly insistent voices on DU would be pro war?

I recall a time back in the bush years (in the 04 primary season) when any Democrat who even thought about voting for the Iraq War Resolution couldn't find enough support here to... http://journals.democraticunderground.com/Husb2Sparkly/148 Sun, 20 Mar 2011 17:10:53 . . . . styrofoam coffee cups.

"Green the Capitol" was an initiative of Speaker Pelosi. It was widespread, it was effective, and it served to seed other such initiatives by creating a market for biobased disposable servicewares. The lowest hanging fruit was lighting. It has been entirely changed ... http://journals.democraticunderground.com/Husb2Sparkly/147 Thu, 10 Mar 2011 08:31:54