And what can a slight GOP majority in Congress accomplish with Obama able to veto?  That's up to Obama, which is admittedly worrisome but hardly an argument around which to organize your progressive supporters ("Vote D because you know you can't trust me to veto the worst of GOP policies").

And for what is sure to be little if any productive action from the next Congress who will be blamed by an irate electorate in 2012 when there is still a horrific economy and lingering senseless wars (not to mention ongoign attacks on civil liberties)?  Whichever party is in power.

This has happened so often and in such wildly ranging circumstances, it stopped making sense too far back to remember when it ever did make sense.

Now, I know why I won't set my hair on fire: I happen to like my hair overall and I particularly like how it catches the light as it keeps my brains warm.

What's lapped the other nonsense is the stompiness following the big DUH! that I Simply Will Not Do it without some excellent reasons, detailed within good, non-insulting, rational answers first.

I have yet to hear any.

Do I really care if Heath Shuler, Travis Childers, Jim Marshall, Bobby Bright or Stephanie Herseth, et al., win? Why?

But, meh this is the big annual bragging rights battle between my two younger brothers.

Lame. Lame story overall. The central "hook" was the wolves' howling, which should have struck a strong emotional chord but instead annoyed me. I couldn't wait until they stopped.

And the animation was lame. Both the characterizations and the execution. The lead wolf-ette's fur looked like a Patagonia fleece. Just weird, couldn't figure out why they made that choice.

Co-production with Indian animation house.

Pass.

The Town

Great frigging movie. Anti-hero, moral morass, etc. Easily suspended my disbelief. Based in Boston. Saw it on Sunday and I'm still thinking about it.

After 30 years of trickle down economics that doesn't work, Obama wants to let the income tax on rates on dividends go up to only 20%, half of what hard working earned income is taxed.  Not only has it not worked, as we see under Bush we lost 8 million jobs, if has drained the Treasury so that the government could not invest in infrastructure and the things that would create jobs.  So, trickle down economics takes away jobs.

Here is an article from Bloomberg that says Obama wants to cap the tax on dividends at 20%.  

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After 30 years of trickle down economics that doesn't work, Obama wants to let the income tax on rates on dividends go up to only 20%, half of what hard working earned income is taxed.  Not only has it not worked, as we see under Bush we lost 8 million jobs, if has drained the Treasury so that the government could not invest in infrastructure and the things that would create jobs.  So, trickle down economics takes away jobs.

Here is an article from Bloomberg that says Obama wants to cap the tax on dividends at 20%.  

http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2010-09-28/house-democrats-push-to-keep-15-capital-gains-tax-rate-in-p elosi-letter.html

Hello!  I told you that's what he would do.  I told you, after listening to that Reno Gazette interview that this guy is a waste of time.  Imagine if he caps the tax on dividends at 20%.  More jobs will be lost because the Treasury will have that much less money to spend.  Maybe the Obama Vigilantes can defend the lower tax on dividends now because Obama wants it.

Wake the hell up and start understanding that the investment set doesn't make the economy grow, they just push around a lot of electronic entries.  Meanwhile, Americans are not spending and when they don't spend, dividends could be taxed at zero percent and business would not invest their capital.  It's about jobs, not the trust funder's portfolios.
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They think I am a troll and they think that rasing the rate on dividends to 20% is fine just because it is going up.  Then they asked me how the PUMA convention was among other things

In this two party system we are stuck with, we need to take the reins. The only way to do that is  for the next 2 or 3 election cycles in every race, we must throw the bums out. You can primary the incumbent but if not then if your rep is a dem throw them out. If they are a repug throw them out. It will make no difference who has the slight majority. If they can't stay in office they can't accomplish anything because we will throw them out again next election. It will finally force them to see us and it will mean we can get campaign finance reform and public financing of elections. Then we can get people other that the independently wealthy running for office and our reps will not have to spend all their time raising money from special interests instead of legislating. Without us tackling this our broken system will just continue and I won't play any more.  

I can only think of one dem senator that deserves to be kept and that is Russ Feingold- he is the only one who has stood up for progressive values.

So I am done perpetuating the old system and since a third party has been tried and tried I am taking a new tack. The slogan is Throw the bums out - everytime - until we get the change we want.