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My activist brother often tells me that the reason we have to constantly re-fight the battles of the past is that we didn’t crush these bone head brain dead assholes the way we should have in the first place.

I’m inclined to agree.

Remember Cuyahoga?

3 Dems join GOP fight to block EPA climate rules

By DINA CAPPIELLO, Forbes

03.03.11, 04:49 PM EST

WASHINGTON — Three Democrats are joining a Republican effort in the House to block the Environmental Protection Agency from reducing the gases blamed for global warming.

Rep. Nick Rahall of West Virginia, Rep. Collin Peterson of Minnesota, and Rep. Dan Boren of Oklahoma will sponsor a bill supported by 42 Senate and seven House Republicans that would bar the EPA from using federal law to control greenhouse gases from power plants, refineries and other industrial facilities.

The measure is the latest to be introduced in the Republican-controlled House, where at least a half-dozen bills target the EPA and its efforts to control air and water pollution.

At least the way many economists practice it.  Instead it is a faith based Voodoo cult.

For one thing science is predictive and replicable.

Neo-classical synthesis predicts that reduction in Government spending, without increases in spending of other sectors of the overall economy like Business and Consumers, decreases Aggregate Demand.  In the absence of Demand businesses stop producing now surplus goods and services (there’s no demand for them you see) and reduce marginal expenses (fire people and close factories) and hoard capital (money).

Pretty predictive huh?

And in terms of replicable- we have seen this same phenomena time after time ever since there have been economies and the end result is always the same.  Voodoo economics believes in Tinkerbell and Pixie Dust.

How to Kill a Recovery

By PAUL KRUGMAN, The New York Times

Published: March 3, 2011

Republicans believe, or at least pretend to believe, that the direct job-destroying effects of their proposals would be more than offset by a rise in business confidence. As I like to put it, they believe that the Confidence Fairy will make everything all right.

…

(W)e have a lot of evidence from other countries about the prospects for “expansionary austerity” – and that evidence is all negative. Last October, a comprehensive study by the International Monetary Fund concluded that “the idea that fiscal austerity stimulates economic activity in the short term finds little support in the data.”

And do you remember the lavish praise heaped on Britain’s conservative government, which announced harsh austerity measures after it took office last May? How’s that going? Well, business confidence did not, in fact, rise when the plan was announced; it plunged, and has yet to recover. And recent surveys suggest that confidence has fallen even further among both businesses and consumers, indicating, as one report put it, that the private sector is “unprepared to fill the hole left by public sector cuts.”

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Over the next few weeks, House Republicans will try to blackmail the Obama administration into accepting their proposed spending cuts, using the threat of a government shutdown. They’ll claim that those cuts would be good for America in both the short term and the long term.

But the truth is exactly the reverse: Republicans have managed to come up with spending cuts that would do double duty, both undermining America’s future and threatening to abort a nascent economic recovery.

I’m not taking any bets on whether Obama caves again or not, or what the results will be when he does, just over/unders on how long it will take.

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Hardly any premiers and if you tell me, “But ek, American Idol is choosing their finalists” I’m banning you from this piece.

Can you understand this, Mr. Byam? Discipline is the thing. A seaman’s a seaman. A captain’s a captain. And a midshipman, Sir Joseph or no Sir Joseph, is the lowest form of animal life in the British Navy.

• ABC Family– Along Came Polly, Meet the Parents
• AMC– The Brave One x 2
• Animal Planet– Animals Attack!
• Comedy– Futurama quasi-marathon
• Discovery– Man v. Wild (last week’s and new), Out of the Wild (premier)
• ESPN– College Hoopies, Tennessee @ South Carolina, Wisconsin @ Indiana
• ESPN2– College Hoopies, St. John’s @ Seton Hall, UCLA @ Washington
• Food– Ice Brigade (Series Premier)
• FX– Archer (premier)
• Sci Fi– Nomad remake
• TBS– Anchorman: The Legend of Ron Burgundy
• Turner Classic– Grand Hotel, Mutiny on the Bounty
• TNT– Hoopies, Magic @ Heat, Nuggets @ Jazz
• Travel– Man v. Food marathon (thank goodness)
• USA– Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull, Fairly Legal x 2 (premier + Instapeat)
• VH1– SNL marathon

I want to be alone.

Later-

I don’t belong here, I feel it, don’t you think I feel it. I can’t do any of these vile things and I wouldn’t WANT to. Oh, my life is like death. My children are the spawn of hell, and you’re the devil. Oh God.

But baby, we LIKE you.

• AMC– Overboard (really good)
• FX– Hitman
• Sci Fi– Star Trek V: The Final Frontier
• Turner Classic– The Broadway Melody
• Toon– Eagleheart (premier)
• USA– White Collar, Royal Pains (this week’s)
• VH1– Fast Times at Ridgemont High (also really good)

Dave hosts Robin Williams and Judy Greer.  Jon has Diane Ravitch, Stephen Mark W. Moffett.  Conan hosts Emily Blunt, Martha Stewart, and Taio Cruz.

Mr. Spicoli your absolutely right, it is our time.  Yours, mine and everyone else’s.  But it is my class.  Mr. Spicoli has been nice enough to offer us some pizza.  Be my guests.  Get a good one.

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DocuDharma

Mostly premiers, only American Masters (Carole King and James Taylor) and Great Performances (Harry Connick Jr.) worth mentioning.

How do we seem to you? Do you find us beautiful, magical? Our white skin, our fierce eyes? “Drink” you ask me, do you have any idea of the thing you will become?

• ABC Family– Legally Blonde, Cheaper by the Dozen
• AMC– Tombstone
• Bravo– Top Chef (last week’s and new)
• Disney– Tinker Bell and the Lost Treasure
• Discovery– Desert Car Kings (premier)
• ESPN– College Hoopies, North Carolina @ Florida State, Clemson @ Duke
• ESPN2– College Hoopies, Connecticut @ West Virginia, Texas A&M @ Kansas
• Food– Throwdown (premier), Restaurant: Impossible
• FX– The Incredible Hulk
• History– Aliens! and Disasters!
• National Geographic– Restrepo (so it didn’t win an Oscar)
• Oxygen– Interview with the Vampire, The Amityville Horror x 2 (I hesitate to call the 1979 version good)
• Sci Fi– Face Off (premier)
• TBS– Are We There Yet? (premier)
• Turner Classic– East of Eden, Around the World in 80 Days
• TNT– Bones marathon
• Travel– Man v. Food marathon (thank goodness, with premier)
• TV Land– Hot in Cleveland, Retired at 35 x 3 (premiers + Instapeats)
• Vs.– Penguins @ Maple Leafs

We searched village after village, country after country. And always we found nothing. I began to believe we were the only ones. There was a strange comfort in that thought. For what the damned really have to say to the damned?

Later-

All I hear from you, you spineless cowards, is how poor you are; how you can’t afford my taxes. Yet somehow, you managed to find the money to hire a gunfighter to kill me. If ya got so much money, I’m just gonna have to take some more. Because clearly some of you haven’t got the message! This is my town! I run everything! If you live to see the dawn, it’s because I allow it! I decide who lives and who dies!

• AMC– The Quick and the Dead
• ESPN2– College Hoopies, Utah State @ New Mexico State
• Turner Classic– Greystoke: The Legend of Tarzan, Lord of the Apes
• USA– Fairly Legal, Royal Pains (this week’s), Blood Diamond
• VH1– Tenacious D in: The Pick of Destiny

Dave hosts the Donald (ugh), Vanessa Hudgens, and Oh Land.  Jon has Allison Stanger, like Great Performances Stephen also has Harry Connick Jr..  Conan hosts Chelsea Handler, Anthony Mackie, and Mavis Staples.

Sorry, John. Changed the rules. From now on, all the fights are fair.

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