Headlines - Sunday

I'm gone for a week. Have a great Thanksgiving!

 

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Iraq election commission: January vote 'impossible': http://news.antiwar.com/2009/11/20/iraq-election-commission-january-vote-impossible/ 

 

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Shouldn't the owner (the US government) do something about this?

For Citibank credit card holders, there is one way to escape the bank's rate hikes currently under way: Meet a monthly spending requirement.

Those who meet the spending minimum — in some cases $750 a month — will be able to get a rebate on their total financing charges for that month. The rebate could cover some or all of the interest rate hike. Customers also need to make payments on time to qualify for the rebate

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The Christian Taliban issue their manifesto

Yes, the evangelicals and the Catholics have decided to put aside their differences in order to form a better union to persecute their common enemy: gays, women who have sex, and those who don't want Christianity shoved in their faces at every turn. And they have issued their manifesto for taking over this land from the heathen who they feel have usurped its rightful role as Jesustan.

Tristero has more. I'm too revolted to even comment.

 

 

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Senate votes to allow itself to discuss health care for several more months!

 

First in a series of inevitable victories, or the dems' last hurrah? "On a perfectly partisan, 60-39 vote, the Senate agreed last night to debate and amend a far-reaching health care bill. That debate will get started in earnest after Congress returns from next week's Thanksgiving recess. Democrats and Republicans expect to offer hundreds of amendments (each of which will be held to a 60 vote threshold) and debate for several weeks before holding yet another procedural supermajority vote--to end debate. If that gets 60 votes, then there will be an up-or-down vote on passage of the bill. If the bill passes it will likely undergo yet more changes in conference with House negotiators. The "conference report" that emerges from that process can't be amended, but can be filibustered in the Senate, so will likely require 60 votes for passage. Only after both chambers have passed the conference report can the bill be sent to President Obama for a signature."

 

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Democratic Sens. Blanche Lincoln and Mary Landrieu finally called their own bluff and announced at the last minute that they would, controversially, vote to allow the Senate to debate a piece of legislation it has spent most of this year crafting, to help provide affordable medical care to people. What heroes. Their procedural votes for their own party's major bill cost the nation hundreds of millions of dollars in pork handouts. That's how Serious About The Deficits they are.

It sure will be funny when they strip out the public option and Republicans still call this a "government takeover of health care" and Blanche Lincoln still loses and everyone still dies:

"Let me be perfectly clear," Sen. Blanche Lincoln (D-AR) said on the floor of the Senate. "I am opposed to a new government administered health care plan as a part of comprehensive health insurance reform, and I will not vote in favor of the proposal that has been introduced by Leader Reid as it is written…. I've already alerted the Leader and I'm promising my colleagues that I'm prepared to vote against moving to the next stage of consideration as long as a government-run public option is included."

Maybe they can get that Cao guy to vote for it again, in the Senate.

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A proposed government-run health insurance program, among the most divisive issues in the health care debate, would cover less than 1.5% of the population, new estimates show.

 

 

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Twelve creative bathtubs.

 

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The latest from the 20-percenters.

Anyone who believes that this woman [Palin] could not perform the duties of President adequately must have some kind of mental illness, which is likely liberalism.

Turns out there's a whole lotta crazy liburls in this country.

Fewer than three in 10 Americans think Sarah Palin's qualified to be president, according to a new national poll - the least of any of the five potential candidates included in the survey.

They make this so easy.

 

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The KKK gathered at Ole Miss today to protest the University chancellor's decision to remove "From Dixie with Love" from the school band's song list. The song had drawn controversy because some fans chanted "the South will rise again" when it was played at Ole Miss football games.

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2009/11/21/kkk-rally-at-ole-miss-kla_n_366475.html