Bobby Jindal. you lying sack of [disgusting bodily waste]

[Diogenes_the_Cynic]

Jindal is a very smart guy. He just thinks the voters are morons, so that’s how he talks to them.

I also think that the GOP believes the voters are imbeciles who will vote for a shiny new, Ivy League ethnic just because they (the GOP leadership) think that’s why Obama got elected. They think they can kep the outside the same, but fill it up with bog-standard, right wing boilerplate, and all people will see is the fashionable exterior. It’s the same dumbass, superficial reasoning that caused them to nominate Palin.

[kaylasdad99]

@Spartydog

Delude yourself as much as you want but Anaheim and Orange County are part of the Los Angeles sprawl. They didn’t develop on their own. Los Angeles, as much as you might despise or remove yourself from it, begot Orange County. Suck it up and accept it.

Far from despising L.A. County, I consider it to be, essentially, my home town (Torrance, specifically). And I don’t really accept that OC exists as a result of Los Angeles overflowing its banks, as it were. Both counties evolved independently from their beginnings as parts of the California mission system, and the royal land grants from the King of Spain in the days of Zorro.

[Orbifold]

@Diogenes_the_Cynic

Jindal is a very smart guy. He just thinks the voters are morons, so that’s how he talks to them.

I have a hard time giving credence to the intelligence of a man who believes in exorcism and intelligent design.

[Ale]

@Frostillicus

This just in…

http://www.dailykos.com/storyonly/2009/2/25/172449/187/923/701834

Wow, that introduction makes him look like the dumb lovechild of Troy McLure and Apu…

[suranyi]

@kaylasdad99

Spartydog, please note that I said AFAIAC.

And since I don’t care about football, I’m not likely to care what kind of freakish naming conventions a bunch of Noo Yawkers are willing to put up with.

Come to think of it, I don’t really care about the Angels, either (there’s that whole “designated hitter” abomination going on). So let’s drop that aspect of it.

But while Orange County is admittedly in the Los Angeles Basin (a geographic feature), I still maintain that it is not a part of the Los Angeles Metropolitan area (a political/commerce-oriented entity). Else we’d be getting our water bills from the Metropolitan Water district.

According to the Census Bureau, both are part of the Los Angeles - Long Beach - Santa Ana Metropolitan Statistical Area:

Greater Los Angeles

Ed

[Ocean_Annie]

@elucidator

Yeah, so I’ve noticed as well as many others. Anybody know what the “regards” happened?

Rupert Murdoch

[UltraVires]

It looks like Obama will have a 1.75 trillion dollar deficit this year.

http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20090226/pl_nm/us_obama_budget

It looks as if his efforts to cut spending to the bone, to the shagrin of both parties, have failed. Hell, I remember when our entire debt hit one trillion for the first time and that was met with derision. Now we have a one year deficit of almost twice that.

Be honest: He didn’t inherit all of this deficit. What was it last year? 400 billion? He’s added over a trillion in one year!

[Bosstone]

Right, he’s had his month, let’s kick him out!

[R.P.McMurphy]

nm

[Kalhoun]

@Gangster_Octopus

Jindal wasn’t picked because of his ethnicity. He was picked because he is a younun’ and they want to try show that aren’t the stodgy party of the past. Also he has full right wing nuttery credentials to speak for the republicans.

Well they’re going to need a helluva lot more than ol’ Bobby to change that image. I was focusing on the R faces during Obama’s speech the other night. A more bored-looking, stodgy bunch of dried up prune-faced guys would be hard to find. Jesus…they all looked like they were fighting a sleep apnea episode.

[Kalhoun]

@Bosstone

Right, he’s had his month, let’s kick him out!

I know! The lazy slacker! WhyIoughta…

[Squink]

@jtgain

Be honest: He didn’t inherit all of this deficit. What was it last year? 400 billion?

Be honest, the Republicans ran the entire conquest of Iraq off budget, so they didn’t count it towards the deficit. Then they engaged in profit-taking on the economy, so hard that the financial sector needed a last minute infusion of 700 billion just to keep the doors open. John Yoo style accounting aside, the last year of Bush easily cost America an unnecessary couple of trillion.

[jayjay]

@Squink

Be honest, the Republicans ran the entire conquest of Iraq off budget, so they didn’t count it towards the deficit.

And it should be noted that that amount is going to show up in the real debt now because Obama is reversing that practice. No more sweeping the numbers under the carpet and ignoring that the lump it causes goes up to the ceiling.

[MsRobyn]

@Orbifold

I have a hard time giving credence to the intelligence of a man who believes in exorcism and intelligent design.

The sad thing is, his bachelor’s degree is in biology, and it’s from Brown University, not known for its fundie leanings.

Robin

[Kolga]

Here’s a discussion of the deceptive accounting practices that were used during the Bush administration to hide the actual size of the budget deficit.

So, yes, Obama DID inherit this. The public was just unaware of the size of it because of these tricks.

[Cervaise]

@Squink

Be honest

That’s crazy talk.

[UltraVires]

@Squink

Be honest, the Republicans ran the entire conquest of Iraq off budget, so they didn’t count it towards the deficit. Then they engaged in profit-taking on the economy, so hard that the financial sector needed a last minute infusion of 700 billion just to keep the doors open. John Yoo style accounting aside, the last year of Bush easily cost America an unnecessary couple of trillion.

It wasn’t counted in the budget he submitted, but it is certainly counted in the year end deficit figures, and it is counted in the debt calculation. If it isn’t, where does it get counted?

I’m not saying I’m not giving Obama a change, but please don’t insult me by talking about how we have to control spending when you submit a budget with a $1.75 trillion deficit. Did you all read that number? 1.75 TRILLION deficit, in one year. Less assign 100% of the blame to Bush. Fine. Obama is now President and he is the one that just submitted this 1.75 TRILLION dollar monstrosity while at the same time tell us of the “hard choices” we must make. I’m not saying that Bush wasn’t misleading us. He was. But I was looking for change here. Yes, we can, right?

It’s like your idiot brother in law with a 500 hundred dollar per day cocaine habit talking about how frugal he is with money. It doesn’t even pass the smell test.

[ElvisL1ves]

@MsRobyn

The sad thing is, his bachelor’s degree is in biology, and it’s from Brown University, not known for its fundie leanings.

More on that.

The Louisiana law may lead to a more complicated legal fight. The law mentions neither creationism nor Intelligent Design. It permits science teachers, with the approval of local school boards, to supplement textbook material on evolution and other subjects with materials that stimulate “critical thinking.” The state school board could, in theory, overrule local boards if they OK creationist teachings. But first it would have to find out about them. And intervening might not be politically attractive in such a conservative environment.
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In a debate before his landslide election last year, Jindal justified his skepticism of evolution by saying, “there’s no theory in science that could explain how, contrary to the laws of entropy, you could create order out of chaos. There’s no scientific theory that explains how you can create organic life out of inorganic matter. I think we owe it to our children to teach them the best possible modern scientific facts and theories.”
In fact, there is an entire field of scientific inquiry into the chemical origins of life. Arthur Landy, Jindal’s professor of genetics at Brown, joined leading scientist associations who wrote to ask the governor to veto the Science Education Act. “Without evolution, modern biology, including medicine and biotechnology, wouldn’t make sense,” Landy wrote. “Gov. Jindal was a good student in my class when he was thinking about becoming a doctor, and I hope he doesn’t do anything that would hold back the next generation of Louisiana’s doctors."

It isn’t just pandering; he *believes *in ignorance.

[MsRobyn]

I saw that, and it scares the hell out of me.

Robin

[Robot_Arm]

@jtgain

It’s like your idiot brother in law with a 500 hundred dollar per day cocaine habit talking about how frugal he is with money. It doesn’t even pass the smell test.

If it costs 5,000 dollars to get into a rehab program to kick the drug, and the program works, you’d tell him to do it, right? I might even lend my brother the money for that.