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2 Political Junkies: Meanwhile, Outside...
From the State of the Climate Global Analysis page for April 2013:The combined average temperature over global land and ocean surfaces for April 2013 was the 13th warmest on record, at 0.52°C (0.94°F) above the 20th century average of 13.7°C (56.7°F)....
Dateline: 2013-06-19 4:15am -07:00T (112 words)
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2 Political Junkies: Announcement
My work scheduled has shifted a bit and so it doesn't look like I can be a morning blogger for very much longer. Afternoons and evening blogging for me!Sorry for any inconvenience this may be causing you, youse, y'all, and y'inz....
Dateline: 2013-06-19 4:15am -07:00T (41 words)
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2 Political Junkies: More On Representative Jeff Duncan
Remember this from yesterday?The braintrust spread yet another wingnut conspiracy theory by way of Representative Jeff Duncan.Well they should be more careful who they quote as it turns out that Duncan's a birther:Another Republican is accusing President ...
Dateline: 2013-06-18 4:15am -07:00T (206 words)
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2 Political Junkies: The Latest OUTRAGE!
From this Sunday's Sunday Pops:Rep. Jeff Duncan, R-S.C., says he wants to know why IRS agents are training with semiautomatic AR-15 rifles. The chairman of the House Homeland Security oversight subcommittee says he saw the training firsthand at a federal ...
Dateline: 2013-06-17 5:01am -07:00T (433 words)
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2 Political Junkies: Pittsburgh Pride!
As we still await the Supreme Court's decision on DOMA and Prop 8, just a reminder that there are lots of ways to celebrate Pittsburgh Pride this month including Pride in the Street, Pride March and PrideFest. You can also help support the Gay and Lesbia...
Dateline: 2013-06-14 5:01pm -07:00T (112 words)
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2 Political Junkies: One more for Flag Day
(h/t to Chris Sandvig)...
Dateline: 2013-06-14 3:45pm -07:00T (4 words)
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2 Political Junkies: For Flag Day, 2013
From one of my favorite movies:The text:America is advanced citizenship. You gotta want it bad, 'cause it's gonna put up a fight. It's gonna say, "You want free speech? Let's see you acknowledge a man whose words make your blood boil, who's ...
Dateline: 2013-06-14 5:46am -07:00T (175 words)
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2 Political Junkies: And For All This, We Thank The Patriot Act
Let's start here:Two United States senators on Wednesday accused the Justice Department of making misleading statements about the legal justification of secret domestic surveillance activities that the government is apparently carrying out under the Patri...
Dateline: 2013-06-13 4:45am -07:00T (955 words)
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2 Political Junkies: Update On The Semi-Naked She-Pope
From Andy Sheehan at KDKA:Indecent exposure charges have been dropped against a Carnegie Mellon University student after dressed up as the pope, and was naked from the waist down, with a her pubic hair shaved in the shape of a cross. Katherine O’Connor ...
Dateline: 2013-06-12 5:01am -07:00T (556 words)
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2 Political Junkies: I Am Not Sure The Braintrust Knows How To Read
Take a look at this from today:Come again?: The Toledo, Ohio, Block Bugler editorializes that since the Framers could not have envisioned DNA testing, swabbing the mouth of those arrested for their DNA is not a Fourth Amendment violation. Neither could th...
Dateline: 2013-06-11 5:31am -07:00T (554 words)
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2 Political Junkies: Tracking Teh Crazie in Virginia
There's a gubernatorial election taking place, these days, in the Commonwealth of Virginia. On the Democratic side, there's former DNC Chair Terry McAuliffe and on the Republican side there's Ken Cuccinelli.But that's not who I wanna talk about now.I wann...
Dateline: 2013-06-10 5:30am -07:00T (255 words)
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2 Political Junkies: Again With The Christmas Tree Tax!
From today's Sunday pops:The Heritage Foundation reports that a Christmas tree tax has made its way back into the abomination that is the farm bill. A new tax of up to 20 cents per fresh-cut tree will pay for a federal Christmas Tree Promotion Board, whos...
Dateline: 2013-06-09 8:31am -07:00T (393 words)
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2 Political Junkies: Jack Kelly Sunday
A message to my friends at the Post-Gazette:This is how you fact-check Jack Kelly.In today's column on the "cost" of ObamaCare, Jack writes:The Congressional Budget Office estimated a loss of 800,000 jobs over 10 years. Luckily for you, me, Jack and every...
Dateline: 2013-06-09 6:01am -07:00T (287 words)
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2 Political Junkies: Party Of Reagan? Part II
Bill Maher disagrees with Bob Dole:From Crooks and Liars (partial) transcript:This has become a kind of conventional wisdom, that the Republican party has gone so far right, Reagan himself wouldn't fit in. But I'm here tonight to call bullshit on that. Ro...
Dateline: 2013-06-08 5:31am -07:00T (137 words)
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2 Political Junkies: Oh, How Times Have Changed...
From yesterday's Tribune-Review (and let me just say HEY to the good folks at the Tribune-Review who've visited this blog - more than a hundred times since May 1st!):It doesn't take a member of Mensa to figure out that the government of the United States ...
Dateline: 2013-06-08 5:31am -07:00T (595 words)
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