The president has begun spinning last week’s budget deal, and pitching his plan for reducing the national debt, with advisers taking his case to the Sunday morning news show gangbang. Maybe tax cuts again?
And already the next budget fight, over the nation’s debt ceiling, is looming over Congress. And the rhetoric will sound familiar: Planned Parenthood, environmental protections, health care rollbacks, etc.
Slowed by airstrikes, but not stopped, Moammar Qaddafi’s forces are gradually eating their way back through Libya’s “ragtag” rebels, who appear to be “failing” in their mission to unseat the dictator.
In Egypt, former dictator Hosni Mubarak tries to sweet-talk his former people, taking to the airwaves to complain that charges of “corruption” have offended his very tender feelings.
Israel offers an olive branch to militants in the Gaza Strip after weeks of escalating mortar attacks, tank excursions, and bombings. To enforce any cease-fire (and put Israel in the same club as Libya), the Arab League wants the UN to approve a no-fly zone over Gaza.
Turns out the people who manufacture Ikea furniture are way more unhappy than the people (like you and me) who assemble it. Remember, there’s always Craigslist.
More unhappy workers: The crews working to save Japan from utter (instead of just total) nuclear calamity—now and over the past several decades—are largely underpaid, overworked temps.
After a closely contested Supreme Court vote that could undo the state’s new anti-labor law, Wisconsinites are learning all about the magic of brazen, naked, craven, etc., election theft.
Reactionary British lawmakers want to crack down on asshole cyclists—aka “Lycra louts”—after a speeding rider mowed down a pedestrian.
Portland’s water bureau would like to bill you monthly. But in a sudden burst of concern over costs, Randy Leonard says the $45 million plan for new meters is too expensive.
The bureau does, however, have its own song.
Once IKEA realizes they’re damaging a global brand by letting a few U.S. managers run amok, things will suddenly get better. Either that or they’ll just close the factory.
Any Water Bureau song could only be made far better by “borrowing” the immortal lines:
“Gimme some water!
Cause I killed a man on the Mexican border.
Cool, sweet water.
I need a little water.”
So from now on we have to call Smirk “Lycra Lout”.
So the manufacturer of the smart meters haven’t bribed Commissioner Leonard? Yet.
This is the same guy who agreed to pay $7.50/gallon for biodiesel when regular diesel was $2.50/gallon.
He doesn’t give a shit about the $45 million.
Be nice, Rosy! Sarah would never be a “Lycra Lout.” (Well, possibly an “Organic Fiber Conniver.”)
Palin would only wear Lycra that´s made from skin from animals killed by her Dad.
juuuuuuust saying….
I was just wishing last week that the water bureau would switch to monthly billing! I personally think it would be a lot easier, budget-wise.
What I love about that Ikea article is how they pointed out that the US is the Mexico of Sweden. Ho-ho! How do we like it? Not so nice to be on this end of things, eh?