The next poor sap that comes at me about the “evils of welfare” and poor people needing to just “pull themselves up by their bootstraps” or the terrible scourge of “socialized medicine” when i mention the need for universal, single-payer, healthcare is getting punched right in the mouth.
These fools have been profiting for years off their poor decisions, and now when it catches up to them and the whole thing collapses, we get to pay for it. Where’s the $1 trillion for improving education, or making sure senior citizens and the disabled don’t fall through the cracks? The idea that we can’t afford to provide health care to every American while we toss these huge amounts at companies that have been profiting by screwing so many people and making stupid decisions is in a word, disgusting.
Where’s our bailout? These people have been getting filthy, stinking rich on being irresponsible and our solution is to toss more taxpayer money their way. And not a word in the latest super-bailout of punishment for these people.
Once again, the taxpayer gets put over a barrel in the interest of making sure the already rich can stay rich.
Yes, I understand that when the top collapses it affects everyone, but when is this country going to stop mortgaging our future on the backs of our kids for a little short-term relief? And when will the collapse of the middle and the bottom under the weight of the failures at top be a consideration to anyone other than those folks trying to make ends meet?
On the plus side I think it is safe to say we shouldn’t have to hear much anymore about the benefits of a free and unregulated market. What a crock.
From the American News Project, via Huffington Post
It’s important that people understand that opening up these areas to production will do little to nothing to reduce our gas prices, and we’re talking several years down the line regardless. The oil companies already have access to acres and acres of drillable land and sea that they aren’t using. Why not force them to produce on those areas if we’re so concerned about drilling “now” and “here.”
We need more effort towards renewable energy. Let’s see the GOP stage a congressional sit-in for that one. I’m sure their buddies at ExxonMobil should have no problem with that. I mean they want to stop the “war on the poor,” right?
More than that, we need leaders who will lead. America has spent too much time being told what it needs to hear and misled down these dangerous paths… How about a little truth in government for a change?
Seriously, every time?
I last put my iPhone on the dock about 8 hours ago, when I went to sleep.
They really need to have a setting or something to do this less often for the applications. Nothing changed on my iPhone applications over night. Not a single thing. Can’t they implement a check for that before beginning the back up process?
Oooooooh! Now we’re moving!
I was all set to upgrade to Leopard tonight, but M-Audio hasn’t updated their drivers yet. Whisky Tango Foxtrot. Is M-Audio so broke they can’t afford to join the ADC and get the developer seeds? Hell, grab a bittorrent client and your favorite tracker and ANYONE could have them. It isn’t like the announcement of Leopard’s release came as some big shock to the developer community. I don’t understand why at least SOME progress could not have been made on the drivers.
So, basically, I could update my MacBook Pro, but then my UC-33, Axiom 25 and FireWire 1814 could quite possibly be rendered useless. As I have some music I need to work on, I can’t exactly take that risk so I’ll just have the shrink wrapped Leopard box taunting me until M-Audio pulls their head out of their ass. My next gear purchase will certainly be Korg.
Also, I can’t find the totally awesome mask I was going to make my cats wear.
I’m going to go watch a movie or late-night television or something and feed the cats some treats. Then back here to record an angry evil psytrance mix.
Today, Apple got rid of the 4GB iPhone, and dropped the price of the 8GB model by $200. This comes just over two months since the product launched in the first place. That has to be a record for fastest price-drop.
Basically, now I can go to an Apple store, and purchase an 8GB iPhone for $100 less than I paid for my 4GB.
Gah!
They also announced some other stuff, including an updated iPod Shuffle in new colors (including a Product (RED) offering), a new iPod nano (affectionately dubbed by some, the “fatty”) which supports video and the WiFi iTunes store you can access from the iPhone soon and from the new iPod touch which is basically an iPhone without the phone. The disk space on all the models got moved around too. Looks like the 8GB nano comes in all the colors now, not just black, and looks like the price came down a bit.
On top of that, they announced a partnership with Starbucks which will allow Starbucks customers to instantly buy songs that are playing in Starbucks locations. Kind of neat, but I wonder what T-Mobile thinks about that. T-Mobile provides the WiFi access inside Starbucks locations, but does not carry the iPhone, which is exclusive to AT&T. So, in a round-about way, T-Mobile has a partnership with a company that does not benefit T-Mobile in the least.
