JasenComstock

steampunkanachronism:

thebeautythatisman:

ryking:

savagemike:

ctrain:

I’d love to be a fly on the wall where the Census workers have to open envelopes with “AMERICUN” written in under “Race.”

If the teabaggers don’t fill out census forms, then they won’t be counted. This is actually great for America, because the overwhelmingly “teabagger” congressional districts will go away, and those areas will also get no federal money.

So, by all means teabaggers, don’t fill out your census forms! Be a patriot!

This isn’t going to be a significant problem for the Census.  If a household doesn’t fill out their form, they will be called and asked the questions over the phone.  if they refuse, they will be visited by an Enumerator.  Lets assume that the offending teabagger family is being ultra difficult and rude, the Enumerator will then fill out the information to the best of his knowledge.  the Enumerator will wait and count individuals who enter and leave the household and ask each of them.  Actually, 3 Enumerators will independently verify the number of people in the household.  they will also cross-check their information with other available information at the local, state, and federal levels.  a huge amount of resources in the census is used to verify a very small number of difficult people to make the count as accurate as possible. About the only thing difficult people will be doing is wasting taxpayer money. the Census is a Schadenfreude free zone because it is an excellent example of the Government doing it’s job.

iwasjustsayin:

No one told me it was also picture day!

YYYYYYYYYYYYYYEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA

fromthemountains:

morninggloria:

jasencomstock:

morninggloria:

C’mon, someone say something controversial!

I want to run over people that ride bikes sometimes.  and pedestrians.

 I WANT TO LIGHT YOUR CAR ON FIRE!

You know, if we all just never left the house and sat on the internet all the time, we wouldn’t be having this argument.

Also, I totally left the craphole that is Alexandria (Landmark, that is) to move to DC because I want to light cars on fire, too (among other reasons).

DC > ALEXANDRIA.

I live in Landmark!!

mind: Blown!

morninggloria:

jasencomstock:

morninggloria:

C’mon, someone say something controversial!

I want to run over people that ride bikes sometimes.  and pedestrians.

 I WANT TO LIGHT YOUR CAR ON FIRE!

ME TOO!

morninggloria:

C’mon, someone say something controversial!

I want to run over people that ride bikes sometimes.  and pedestrians.

fromthemountains:

Inquiring minds need to know.

when it is only your bottle.

southpol:

Chris Bowers:

While Republicans have been particularly loud in their support for vastly expanded offshore drilling, this move is likely designed to win over mainly Democratic votes, not Republicans.  A quick survey of the areas that have been opened to offshore drilling reveals this:

Toss in Alaska (Begich), which was also partially opened, and you are looking at Louisiana Landrieu, Florida (Bill Nelson), Virginia (Warner and Webb, and South Carolina (Graham).  As the links embedded in their names show, they are all proponents of offshore drilling.  The coastal states with Senators opposed to offshore drilling will not receive any new drilling.  Graham is the only Republican.

This is, effectively„ home state pork for Conservadem Senators who are viewed as winnable votes on the energy bill. Of course, since the new offshore drilling policy will operate through the executive branch, there is no guarantee at all that the Obama administration will actually get an energy bill out of this deal. Nonetheless, it is clearly a political move designed to make a bill more viable.

I’d also like to think, pace Bob Cesca, that this move is not solely political. Perhaps it is a gesture of compromise towards conservatives of ‘drill baby drill’ fame and makes sense in some measure for energy independence.

Yet this concession, like some he made on the health care front last year, seems (a) to have been made rather early in the process, as there isn’t a bill to haggle with right now and (b) to be too small for the other side to acknowledge it as anything but window dressing… and sure enough, Boehner’s already rebuking it.

One more thought from Brad Pulmer:

Another possibility, meanwhile, is that this move isn’t focused on the climate-bill debate and is geared more toward public opinion. According to the EIA, gas prices are expected to go up quite a bit this summer (probably shooting north of $3/gallon), and the administration may want to step out ahead of the inevitable teeth-gnashing and garment-rending over the issue. So this could be more about the midterms than rounding up votes in the Senate. Though, granted, this drilling announcement won’t affect summer gas prices in the slightest.

catbus:

If you are coming here from this post I am glad because I was Wrong As Hell. In this post I am limiting my analysis to Florida except where noted and using whatever stats Guttmacher has here. Okay, sooooo:

a) There are about 3.5 million women in Florida who can become pregnant. Slightly over 10% of them did in 2004; we’ll say 370,000 did because that’s what Guttmacher uses. About 25% of these pregnancies resulted in induced, non-natural miscarriage abortions, which is about 92,500. (About 60% resulted in childbirth which leaves us about 15% being natural miscarriage, things like death of the mother during pregnancy, etc for populations of 222,000 and 55,500 respectively.)

b) This gives us a proportion of 222000 births : 92500 abortions. This proportion reduces to 444 births : 185 abortions. Which roughly comes out to 1000 births : 400 abortions.

I think my error was mistaking a stat on abortions among women who can become pregnant (which is usually like 20 per 1000 women, give or take 10) and confusing that with abortions per birth (which is a much more population-dependent metric). So, uh, my bad, Internet!

edit: Just to clarify I do maintain that abortions per 1000 births is kind of a bad stat to use that makes the rates of abortion look artificially high in populous states (as we can see from my seeing 400 / 1000 in FL and CA and 500 / 1000 in NY and saying ‘well there’s no fucking way that’s right!’)

It is Al Gore’s birthday!

iwasjustsayin:

I’ve alreay clocked 4 miles of walking this mornin!

the statues have wieners behind the shields.