party time

an inordinant amount of partying and  hoo-ha this weekend, both in the building and on the street --- st. patricks day and all i guess (her skirt is trimmed with dollar bills)

benefits of tax cuts for the rich

an updated tally

loving this weather

more benefits of tax cuts for the rich

House Appropriations Chairman Hal Rogers today introduced a Continuing Resolution (CR) to fund the federal government at current rates for three weeks –until April 8 – while cutting $6 billion in spending. [...]


$99 million reduction for NOAA – Operations, Research, and Facilities
$18 million reduction for NOAA – Procurement Acquisition and Construction

friday!

spring flowers and mid-20th century artifacts in midtown

March 11, 2011 Honshu tsunami propagation

worthless critters

there are very few horizontal surfaces in the house that dex hasn't napped on --- he wishes he could get on top of the heating ducts, but hasn't figured out how to do that yet

remembering a neighbor

this was one of a series of giant tulip poplars along the old stream bed between highland and sinclair avenues --- lightning hit it --- sure hate to see it's gone, but, hey, what a memorial!

upper midtown

walked up to rhodes hall for a little event this evening --- i don't get up that way too much, although it's only a little over a mile --- lots to look at

nearly spring blooms

the japanese andromeda (pieris japonica) is nice, even if it is a furriner

read pavord's the tulip and you'll never look at them the same way again

hear, hear

"Of course same sex marriage is constitutional! The right to be yourself, to pursue life, liberty, and property, is protected several ways over several amendments. John Boehner should know this. If only he read the Constitution as often as some of us do, he wouldn’t have bothered to lower himself to this time-wasting, pathetic attempt to invigorate his base of supporters. "Damn, congressman, we’re trying to get up the road here. Either lay out a plan for job creation for all of us to see or get out of the way. You are the Speaker of the House. Scratching around in the ancient dirt of repellent prejudice instead of tackling the real issues is amateur hour. You have a plan? Now’s the time." -
 
Henry Rollins, writing for Vanity Fair.

warmongers

i cannot believe all these people going after obama for not "doing more" about libya, meaning bombing the fuk out of them --- a no-fly zone in bosnia did nothing to prevent the sbrenica massacre --- even the defense secretary thinks it's a dumb idea

i am extremely happy that we've got a president who will not be goaded --- 

another benefit of tax cuts for the rich

i don't even like girl scout cookies, but, really, this wretched excuse for a state legislature is going to tax those cookies (and all our groceries) while lowering the corporate tax rate?

georgia: the state too stupid to be ashamed

go away winter

the japanese magnolia are quite attractive right now and the forsythia is peaking --- of course, most of the native stuff has had sense enough not to bloom just yet

hear, hear

Secretary of State Hillary Clinton said on Wednesday that Al Jazeera is gaining more prominence in the U.S. because it offers "real news" -- something she said American media were falling far short of doing. . . . Viewership of Al Jazeera is going up in the United States because it's real news," Clinton said. "You may not agree with it, but you feel like you're getting real news around the clock instead of a million commercials and, you know, arguments between talking heads and the kind of stuff that we do on our news which, you know, is not particularly informative to us, let alone foreigners.

this should give the islamophobic teahadists something to talk about

late winter color

and my bilrin

go, wisconsin!

they've started a recall effort against eight republican state senators