Bent Notes http://barneyquick.net/blog Ruminations on music, culture, America and the world stage Sat, 13 Mar 2010 21:55:58 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en As we approach the endgame for socialist health care . . . . . . Chris Van Hollen and Louise Slaughter are vying for he status of most evil and Constitution-shredding Freedom-Hater of  all. http://barneyquick.net/blog/2010/03/13/as-we-approach-the-endgame-for-socialist-health-care/ Wonder what’s up Israel announces a 48-hour seal-off of the West Bank. http://barneyquick.net/blog/2010/03/13/wonder-whats-up/ The blade that finally severs the last human-being Dems from the Freedom-Haters . . .  . . . may be the issue of whether one is cool with the extermination of fetal Americans. http://barneyquick.net/blog/2010/03/12/the-blade-that-finally-severs-the-last-human-being-dems-from-the-freedom-haters/ NASA’s climate data was even more compromised than East Anglia’s  . . . and everybody knew it http://barneyquick.net/blog/2010/03/11/nasaa-climate-data-was-even-more-compromised-than-east-anglias/ I was hoping someone would organize this March 16, 9 AM, at the Capitol.  Even though it would be next to impossible to squeeze a quick trip to DC into my life right now, I'm seriously thinking about how I might do so.  (I am calling Congresspeople whenever I get a few minutes.) In any event, BN will ... http://barneyquick.net/blog/2010/03/11/i-was-hoping-someone-would-organize-this/ Why we use the term “evil” – today’s edition FHer leadership met with Senate and House Parliamentarians to look at ways to bend the rules to use reconciliation without House members having to vote on an actual bill the contents of which they'd read. "Drain the swamp," my ass. http://barneyquick.net/blog/2010/03/11/why-we-use-the-term-evil-todays-edition/ It isn’t pretty for the FHers A new poll conducted by Democracy Corps-Third Way (that's Carville and Greenberg, not some rightie bunch) shows the public thinking that America's standing in the world has dropped under the Most Equal Comrade, and has FHers trailing Pubs as being better on national security and the general direction of the ... http://barneyquick.net/blog/2010/03/11/it-isnt-pretty-for-the-fhers/ The largest monthly deficit in U.S. history That's what the freedom-hating, America-destroying overlords ran up in February. http://barneyquick.net/blog/2010/03/10/the-largest-monthly-deficit-in-u-s-history/ The deranged utopian vision of the Freedom-Hater regime – today’s edition Interior Secretary Ken Salazar says that there will be no offshore drilling while TCM is in office. This is another one of those matters on which the overlords are on the opposite side from the overwhelming majority of us. http://barneyquick.net/blog/2010/03/10/the-deranged-utopian-vision-of-the-freedom-hater-regime-todays-edition/ Voters (correctly) hear “tax and spend,” “soaring deficit,” “no reduction in cost of care,” and “I’ll have to switch from something I’m perfectly satisfied with” Scott Rasmussen in the WSJ on why The Aquarian Totalitarian can't move the poll numbers on Freedom-Hater-care. http://barneyquick.net/blog/2010/03/10/voters-correctly-hear-tax-and-spend-soaring-deficit-no-reduction-in-cost-of-care-and-ill-have-to-switch-from-something-im-perfectly-satisfied-with/