Jon Stewart Rips Into Jim Cramer Again (VIDEO)

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Jim Cramer just got PWND.

Rainy Tuesday 10 March 2009

Workout notes yoga with Ms. Vickie, then 6 miles on the treadmill (run); 1 at 9:55 (zero incline), 1 at 9:50 (1 incline from here out) and then I upped the speed .1 mph until I got to mile 4, and then I did the next mile at 7 mph (8:34 mpm), .25 at 8:54, .25 at 8:45, .5 at 8:34 (55:10 total; 26:10 for the last 3).

I walked to get to mile 7 and then couldn’t take the treadmill anymore; I went out into the rain (just as it started to clear) and did 3 more (included the Bob Michael Bridge).

Now to make up some exams. I’ll have some serious grading to do very soon.

Daily Kos ranks third on Bill O’Reilly & Bernie Goldberg’s media enemies list – Daily Kos TV (beta)

Awww, we only made number 3? My feelings are hurt

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Back in the saddle….

Today’s workout: Not sure; I think I’ll do yoga class and then go home and do miles on the home treadmill. I want to stay near a bathroom and it is raining pretty hard outside.

Science

Did you know that there is a chimp that throws rocks at his human visitors (in a zoo)? What is interesting is that this chimp actually gathers rocks ahead of time; not just on the days of the visit but he would start his stone gathering a few days prior to visiting season opening!

The more that the animal kingdom is studied, the closer the animals (as a whole) appear to us.

Politics:

The economy: why change won’t be easy. Of course there will be resistance and opposition from the “screw em if they aren’t rich” Republicans. But compromise will be just as difficult among the Democrats for a variety of reasons:

Democratic leaders in Congress did not expect much Republican support as they pressed President Obama’s ambitious legislative agenda. But the pushback they are receiving from some of their own has come as an unwelcome surprise.

As the Senate inches closer to approving a $410 billion spending bill, the internal revolt has served as a warning to party leaders pursuing Obama’s far-reaching plans for health-care, energy and education reform.

Those goals, spelled out in Obama’s 2010 budget blueprint, continue to enjoy broad Democratic support. But as the ideas develop into detailed legislation, they will transform from abstract objectives into a tangle of difficult trade-offs. Crop subsidies, the student loan program and Medicare radiology rules are all currently niche concerns, but any one could become the next crisis for party leaders, with the potential to derail a major agenda item. One major proposal, to limit itemized deductions for wealthy taxpayers, has already raised doubts among prominent Democrats in both chambers.

Example: a raise in the amount of money for Pell grants hurts some private lenders; Senator Nelson in Nebraska doesn’t like that. Some language could signal a significant policy change toward Cuba; Senator Menendez doesn’t like that. Doing away with unneeded agribusiness subsidies to firms making large profits rubs many farm-state Senators the wrong way.

Either way one goes, you are going to step on many toes.

You can see some of what President Obama is trying to do here.

Videos: US Military Advisor Talks to Iraqi Police, A Student Whines

A college “student” complains about her mathematics professor….

Can’t you just hear the violins playing?

Giving Conservatives a voice…again….

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Mr. Norris also writes a column:

On Glenn Beck’s radio show last week, I quipped in response to our wayward federal government, “I may run for president of Texas.”

That need may be a reality sooner than we think. If not me, someone someday may again be running for president of the Lone Star state, if the state of the union continues to turn into the enemy of the state.

From the East Coast to the “Left Coast,” America seems to be moving further and further from its founders’ vision and government. [...]

How much more will Americans take? When will enough be enough? And, when that time comes, will our leaders finally listen or will history
need to record a second American Revolution? We the people have the authority according to America’s Declaration of Independence, which states:

That whenever any Form of Government becomes destructive of these ends, it is the Right of the People to alter or to abolish it, and to institute new Government, laying its foundation on such principles and organizing its powers in such form, as to them shall seem most likely to effect their Safety and Happiness. Prudence, indeed, will dictate that Governments long established should not be changed for light and transient causes; and accordingly all experience has shown that mankind are more disposed to suffer, while evils are sufferable than to right themselves by abolishing the forms to which they are accustomed. But when a long train of abuses and usurpations, pursuing invariably the same Object evinces a design to reduce them under absolute Despotism, it is their right, it is their duty, to throw off such Government, and to provide new Guards for their future security.

When I appeared on Glenn Beck’s radio show, he told me that someone had asked him, “Do you really believe that there is going to be trouble in the future?” And he answered, “If this country starts to spiral out of control and Mexico melts down or whatever, if it really starts to spiral out of control, before America allows a country to become a totalitarian country (which it would have under I think the Republicans as well in this situation; they were taking us to the same place, just slower), Americans won’t stand for it. There will be parts of the country that will rise up.” Then Glenn asked me and his listening audience, “And where’s that going to come from?” He answered his own question, “Texas, it’s going to come from Texas. Do you agree with that Chuck?” I replied, “Oh yeah!” Definitely. [...]

What parts of America?

The red area was more Republican in 2008 than in 2004; the blue areas were more Democratic.

Hey, I’ve got an idea: why don’t these areas of the country leave, NOW!!! They can feel free to take their “brainpower” and all of the advances that they’ve made in science and technology with them.

Financial Discrimination? Yep, that is what some conservatives are whining about.

Click on the link if you want a chuckle.