Did this really air on television?

Thanks to TY, via Ezra Klein...

Oh, jeez. :-)

Text Message from Brother

"I like hearing news people repeat 'teabagging our legislators' over and over."

Me. Too.

Texas Wants to Fight a Civil War

Gov. Rick Perry, participating in one of these tea-bagging events today, said, apparently, Texas can secede from the union. Thanks to Texas Liberal for the quote:

“Texas is a unique place. When we came into the union in 1845, one of the issues was that we would be able to leave if we decided to do that,” Perry said. “My hope is that America and Washington in particular pays attention. We’ve got a great union. There’s absolutely no reason to dissolve it. But if Washington continues to thumb their nose at the American people, who knows what may come of that.”

Oh? Can it? Can it now? First Alaska, now Texas. Let me just make this clear: four months of unchecked political power in a party that you don't like is enough to secede...

...but eight years of ghastly human rights violations and unchecked fiscal or financial policy and we're just a bunch of crazy liberals?

TAX DAY 2009

It's tax day! Hope you all finished up! Me? I got a nice letter from the Ohio Dept. of Taxation saying something along the lines of: "You owe back taxes -- lots of them -- so we're keeping your return. Please call us. Have a nice day."

Great. Anyways, it's a good reminder to show how your money is spent, especially considering the tea parties going on today:


From MediaMouse.org
That's right kids. The ungodly thought of paying for human services when we have so little money... especially when it's going to such important things like $200B for two unnecessary wars.

I wish I could find the graph today that had something to do with percentage of the government paid for by the wealthy. It's something like 70% of all taxes come from the top 20th percentile of the country, which makes us all go "Wow, they are paying too much." Meanwhile, they are making something like 60% of all the wealth in the country. Anyone help a sister out on this one?