One thing the "Obama failed" crowd likes to say is that he failed to negotiate hard enough in this debt ceiling thing, or that he didn't hold firm, or that he caved, or that he didn't make the progressive case strong enough, etc.. But what I've never heard explained is: what could he have actually done?
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Kevin Drum gets all logical and shit and smacks aside the internet-lefty-approved notions that a) Obama is ineffectual and b) that Bush was able to get everything he wanted.

I've been trying to point this out (in comment sections) for weeks now. Haven't convinced anyone, of course.

An arm of the Gallup organization based in the United Arab Emirates has just published, in partnership with their U.S. based colleagues, the results of a major polling that compares the attitudes of Muslim Americans to Americans of other faiths. Its title is "Examining U.S. Muslims' Political, Social, and Spiritual Engagement 10 Years After September 11," and its most attention grabbing finding is the fact that Muslim Americans are more likely than Christians or Jews to believe that targeting and killing civilians is never justified, whether it is done by the military or an individual. Put another way, Christians and Jews are more comfortable with civilians being targeted and killed by a wide margin.

Wingnuts are wrong again? Odd.

One thing I don't see on the list of features for this new near-auto-pilot BMW i3 : the ability to respond to stop signs and traffic lights. Sure, it will maintain a safe distance to the car in front of you, but what if that car is running a red light?

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Today is MTV's 30th birthday.

Sigh.

OJ Lies

AV Club sub-thread on a story about the town of Aberdeen WA (his hometown), naming a strip of land next to a river after Kurt Cobain:

Craig J. Clark
Ooh, a strip of land!
Is it the size of a funeral plot?

Cathartic Bullets
that'd kind of suck to be buried in a place you hated, although that almost could guarantee you coming back as a ghost.
Fake Plastic Tree
That would be cool if Kurt came back to haunt the town of Aberdeen.
santos
*cue theremin music*
"Oooooooooo....wheeeeeerrress....mmyyyyyyy...brrrriiiiiiiidge...."
Gentle Herpes
Jason: Wow. Now that's an EVP of Kurt Cobain.
Grant: It just sounds like a lot of incoherent screaming.
Jason: Exactly.
Ref Cal
anyone who's actually been to Aberdeen also knows that the sign you see upon entering reads: "Aberdeen: Come As You Are."
So it's not like they dislike Kurt... they just dont want a bunch of wankers jumping off their bridge.
Anthony Kiedis
Or doing drugs under it.

 
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