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May. 20th, 2011 12:42 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
sechan19House Democrats are urging the appointment of Elizabeth Warren as director of the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau during Congressional recess. This is because Republicans have vowed to block any nomination to the position unless the bureau's powers are weakened. Such an appointment might be seen as underhanded or hypocritical, but when you consider the stakes it seems like a worthwhile cause.
And it's not like the Republicans never stoop to underhanded or hypocritical tactics. Take their reversal of policy opinion during the hearing on the nomination of Goodwin Liu. In 2005, many Republican senators went on the warpath about the evils of denying a judge nomination through filibuster. In 2011, those same senators denied a judge nomination through filibuster. I hate politics.
Determining the value of assorted college degrees. Now in handy chart form.
The Angry Black Bitch gives us the lowdown on who she'd like to see get raptured. It comforts me to know that someone else in the world has been fantasizing about how awesome it would be if certain folks just up and disappeared after tomorrow.
But fantasizing isn't all The Rapture is good for, apparently. It's also good for tearing families apart. In classic parent vs. child sibling vs. sibling style, the believers and the non-believers have been clashing in a big way on the family stage ever since this nonsense got started. Belief in the Rapture generally just seems funny, but when you realize that there are children out there living with parents who tell them "Sorry, but you're not going to be saved. Have a fun end the world while I'm in heaven..." Somehow it doesn't seem that funny anymore.
And it's not like the Republicans never stoop to underhanded or hypocritical tactics. Take their reversal of policy opinion during the hearing on the nomination of Goodwin Liu. In 2005, many Republican senators went on the warpath about the evils of denying a judge nomination through filibuster. In 2011, those same senators denied a judge nomination through filibuster. I hate politics.
Determining the value of assorted college degrees. Now in handy chart form.
The Angry Black Bitch gives us the lowdown on who she'd like to see get raptured. It comforts me to know that someone else in the world has been fantasizing about how awesome it would be if certain folks just up and disappeared after tomorrow.
But fantasizing isn't all The Rapture is good for, apparently. It's also good for tearing families apart. In classic parent vs. child sibling vs. sibling style, the believers and the non-believers have been clashing in a big way on the family stage ever since this nonsense got started. Belief in the Rapture generally just seems funny, but when you realize that there are children out there living with parents who tell them "Sorry, but you're not going to be saved. Have a fun end the world while I'm in heaven..." Somehow it doesn't seem that funny anymore.
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Date: 2011-05-20 07:22 pm (UTC)Seriously, if the world is ending, I'm not going to spend my final hours watching -ing television...
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