In the Northern Hemisphere, the winter solstice occurs either December 21 or 22, when the sun shines directly over the tropic of Capricorn.
I've lived in Southern California for 10 years now, and this is what I am in for when traveling back East this year for the Christmas Holiday to be with family and friends.
As a matter fact... double suck.
Chris Matthews may be a Democrat... I don't know. Most adult liberals I know voted for AL Gore in 2000, John Kerry in 2004 and Barack Obama in 2008. I'm not sure I can look at Chris Matthew's record and say for sure that is how he voted... but that's his business... or is it?
Chris Matthews is fun to watch when he gets on a liberal rant, and he has had a few, but I can't get the taste out of my mouth (and I'm sure he can't either) of his prostrating before George Bush, Jr. I mean this grown man had a hard-on on Hardball on more than one occasion.
I'm a Democrat. I'm a liberal. I'm a grown up. I vote. I post to this blog. I give money to candidates. I read bills. I listen to debate. I hated the Bush, Jr./Cheney Administration. I was getting ready to move back to Pennsylvania and declare for the U.S. Senate if Chris Matthews decided to run.
There are a plenty of bad guys out there today Chris, enemies of Democratic Party, most of them are on TV and in the Republican Party. Some, obviously are Democrats themselves.
Iam not one of them nor are the net-roots or bloggers or progressive blogosphere or whatever you want to call us... (back-benchers, bitchers, children.)
Chris Matthews has been a recipient in the past of a ...Sucks Big Fat Elephant Dick headline for sucking up to the Republican Party... he has created a new category all together. Your stupid is starting to become unforgivable.
After eight years of the stolen Presidency of Bush, Jr./Cheney and after a generation of the false conservative, religious right and media exploitation of America... all the Democratic Party can come up with is this group of losers?
The President has showed me nothing in his first year.
The Senate has been shown to be a corrupt body of corporate whores who have sold this country's government to corporate overlords.
Our religion has become a perversion of fanatical stupidity.
And the United States of America, a nation once loved and revered for its principles and its laws has become the nation that is most feared and most dangerous to the survival of the planet.
It was not so long ago, 1944 when FDR was in the White House and World War Two was still being fought, but the dream of democracy and the working class shown brightest and the Democratic Party were heroes and the Republican Party eunuchs on the side lines.
This piece on Emptywheel sent me reaching for the shotgun whiskey bottle. (Thanks Fallenmonk)
"Mind you, not only will citizens be required to pay private corporations. But middle class citizens may be required to pay more to these private corporations than they pay in federal and state taxes..."
Obamacare is a fucking nightmare. Yes, the Democrats in the Senate must share the blame and retribution of liberals everywhere... and we are everywhere... but President Obama is the one we should all be mad at... and ourselves of course.
We elected a man we knew nothing about and we are learning the hard way.
Oh man, this is embarrassing. What have we been fighting for over there... oh yeah... democracy.
China's President Hu Jintao on Monday unveiled a landmark pipeline to transport Turkmen natural gas to China, a key victory for Beijing in its drive for access to Central Asian resources.
The China National Petroleum Corp. (CNPC) will eventually import up to 40 billion cubic metres of gas a year through the pipeline when it reaches full capacity in 2012-2013.
As the 21st century unravels, the United States is going to mean less and less to the world. Our own fault really.
President Obama gets pwned by Republicans and Joe Lieberman.
Most of the A-list blogs can't face the fact that President Barack Obama is nowhere near a liberal. Guess you should have checked the lack of resume'.
I'm a little mad at my fellow progressives. I was told that if I were a true liberal, Hillary Clinton could not possibly be my candidate for President... I had to vote for Obama. Obama was Change. Yes We Can.
Well, so far President Obama is an embarrassment to this liberal. This health care reform debacle, his Republican financial advisers and his Commander-in-Chief follies are enough to have me looking at possible liberal challengers for 2012.
Okay, I tell myself...maybe I wouldn't have like President Kennedy much after his first year and would have been proven wrong by 1963.
I know President Obama has three more years to his first term, but he also has a massive hole he dug himself. Why would any liberal Democrat support him at this moment in time, after seeing him perform after one year. This is all we have to go on and it is an abysmal record.
The word cowardly comes to mind, mainly because I know he is not stupid... and was obviously politically savvy enough to become President of the United States.
Well Mr. President here is a shovel, start digging yourself out of the hole you are in and climb onto that Bully Pulpit.
What? These brilliant minds that must be so lavishly compensated couldn't figure out they could take Amtrak's Acela to D.C.? Citigroup's CEO Vikram Pandit was "busy negotiating a deal," so stiffed the president. (Apparently JPMorgan Chase CEO Jamie Dimon figured out how to get to D.C., once again showing he's the smartest boy in class.)
These guys don't give a shit what Obama thinks of them and they know he will do nothing to them. That boat left the dock back in January. Bush, Jr. looted the Treasury on his way out and Obama helped him carry the bags of money.
Here is another area that I believe the President has no idea what he's doing. If he did... it would have been done.
"Insurance companies will no longer be able to place some arbitrary cap on the amount of coverage you can receive in a given year or lifetime, and we will place a limit on how much you can be charged for out-of-pocket expenses – because no one in America should go broke just because they get sick." Barack Obama, August 14, 2009.
So why this?: A loophole in the Senate health care bill would let insurers place annual dollar limits on medical care for people struggling with costly illnesses such as cancer, prompting a rebuke from patient advocates.
And why the fuck this?: The White House is encouraging Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid (D-Nev.) to cut a deal with Sen. Joe Lieberman (I-Conn.), which would mean eliminating the proposed Medicare expansion in the health reform bill, according to an official close to the negotiations.
You are the President, man. Do something.
I liked Tony Blair. England liked Tony Blair. The World liked Tony Blair. Imagine if Tony Blair had told the Bush, Jr. Administration to go to hell and it Great Britain was not standing toe-to-toe with a bunch of stupid, neo-con war criminals.
Now that would have been something.
Instead, he went along with 'W' and had his dreams of being both Margaret Thatcher and Winston Churchill smashed by the wrecking ball that is American Republican politics... and he may have lied to his people and the world in the process. In America that doesn't mean much, but in England... you're fucked.
