Remember when the problem the host of the Oscars had was that they had to try to make everybody happy? Seth MacFarlane solved that last night by not trying to make anybody happy. Seth tried to make edgy jokes and still do old-school song-and-dance numbers. Jennifer Lawrence, who fell on her way to the stage, did a better job of balancing things. ABC had promoted the show with the line “Finally... an Oscars the guys can enjoy.” Really? The guys get all they need from Jessica Chastain’s cleavage. And they don’t even know who she is. The guys get to ogle boobs. We don’t need to give them a song about boobs too!
The sequester will start taking effect this Friday. Congress! Time to start kicking the can! If Congress doesn’t kick this can pretty soon, the can is going to jump up and kick the crap out of all of us. The only reason that most people aren’t concerned about these cuts is that most people don’t think the Congress is crazy enough to let the cuts actually go through. Well, underestimating the crazy of Congress is how we got into this mess. Neither the House nor the Senate will be in session on Friday when the sequester hits. So the only thing that Congress has done to address the sequester situation is to give itself an alibi.
The White House is detailing what the effects of the sequester will be on a state by state basis. The White House is giving us a state by state breakdown of exactly how each state would completely break down.
If you want to see what the effects of the sequester will be, just look at the example of Alabama. Things will get very bad in Alabama… and Alabama isn’t a place where things are all that good to begin with. Head Start will be eliminated for some 1,100 children in Alabama. Kids in Alabama need Head Start. Heck, anybody starting out in Alabama is automatically a step behind.
Gun activists are warning that President Obama is raising a private black army to massacre white Americans. Right. Black people make up less than 15 percent of the population. The rightwingers wish Obama was that crazy! After Obama sends his black army in “then they will claim anyone resisting the black force they are doing it because they are racist.” And if that doesn’t work, they’ll use a gay army, claiming any resistance is homophobic. According to nutcase blogger Greg Howard “we were healing quite well as a nation on racial issues until Obama came along and now we have a lot of racial discord.” Funny how a black man succeeding just fans the flames of racial hatred.
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