But not Lost. In the Heroes world, they keep time traveling to try to change history, and that is narrative death, especially in a show as poorly written as Heroes. "Don't like what's happened? OK, we'll start over and change it." In Lost, however, the time-travel McGuffin is based on a rule that the time-line can't be changed, so it seems to far to be an interesting way to show a lot of back-story that their more usual flashbacks can't catch. That is, time-travel is supporting the on-going narrative, not killing it off as happened in Heroes.

Everyone knows that, and Limbaugh openly states it. Their opposition to the stimulus needs to be framed in those terms, both in the press and in the senate debate. It's not because they want a 'better' stimulus bill, it's because they want one that won't work, for political reasons. Call them on it.

Like women enjoying their vegitables. Good thing right-thinking people can keep that trash off the television.

Well, see, that's as high as most Palin supporters can count, and they think it's enough to win the White House.

Steele seems to think that $1 trillion dollars have already been spent on stimulus, therefore the recent decline in the stock market is clear proof that it didn't work!

But it should be.

Yeah, Bush's tax-cuts sure got us just where we want to be!

The person rearranging chairs on the Titanic never gets any credit for actually doing something CONSTRUCTIVE, while everyone else is running around like crazy looking for life boats.

The public and private sectors are in competition in a lot of areas: postal service, health care, transportation, just to name a few. If I decide to go to a private hospital instead of a public clinic, should I ask for a government rebate? Should the US Postal Service pay me back when I use FedEx? The voucher system is nothing more, and nothing less, than a wholesale attempt to end public K-12 education in the US, by forcing the transfer of money from anemic public school budgets and giving it to private, mostly religious, schools. This the American Taliban trying to replace a public secular school system with a religious system of education.

In the current abortion battleground state of Missouri, the anti-choice effort is focused on a self-contradictory bill on "informed consent." By arguing that "teenagers can't make the CHOICE on their own" yet telling parents "they can't interfere with a daughter's CHOICE to have a baby" (yes, they are arguing both things at the same time), they are locking themselves into the discourse of "choice." "Choose life!" they say, but don't want to admit that it is, in fact, a choice.

Hopefully, Steele's admission will lead to a greater understanding that one can be personally pro-life (none of my pro-choice friends would have or ever have had an abortion), but believe as a matter of public policy that it's none of the state's business.

That's the weird thing - they want to have it both ways. A girl can't get an abortion if her parents are opposed to it, but the parents can't encourage a daughter to get an abortion. So, parental involvement is good only if the parents are opposed to abortion, not the other way around.

That all Black presidents act the same. It's a South Carolina thing.

I think black people should apologize to white people for making them be racist.

Poor people should apologize to rich people for making them feel so guilty.

Stupid people should apologize to smart people for making them feel elitist.

The weak, generally, should apologize to the strong. Because they said so.

"Divorce" (and it's sinfulness) is mentioned more than two dozen times in the bible, and homosexuality, depending on your interpretation, perhaps none, maybe once, at most twice. Gay marriage is never mentioned (nor abortion, for that matter). Divorce, as a form of adultery, is one of the Big Ten no-noes, while there is nothing in the Big Ten about homosexuality. However, I would love to see how many anti-gay marriage fundamentalists would freak out if divorce were made illegal. In fact, if you consider sex outside of marriage a sin, you should be adamently IN FAVOR of gay marriage, because otherwise you are advocating sex outside of wedlock.

seem to be really stupid.

National Organization Against Marriage?

There's been a hullabaloo there in the past months over a report, commissioned by a republican governor (now gone) and conducted by the state troopers, that described potential militia members as likely being "right wing" and typically "pro-life." Because the report had the temerity to state the fracking obvious, the Missouri GOP have called for those involved in its writing to be fired. So, one half of the GOP is egging people on to create extremest militia, and the other half of the GOP is bulling anyone who notices it's going on.

Pawlenty has to understand that if this thing drags out any longer it will KILL the republican party in Minnesota for a generation (which wouldn't really be a bad thing - sorry, Al). Pawlenty's sights are probably on the national scene these days, so he might not care about destroying the MN GOP, but there should be some state GOP politicos left who DO care. I'd love to see some polling data from MN on the issue. Maybe it could at least take down Rep. Bachmann.

Because if they were already talking the torture would just be silly.

is that it can be the "popular" powerful majority angrily attacking a weak minority, especially in the US context where the powerful have all kinds of ways of portraying themselves as 'victims.' cf. the poor, poor, dis-empowered white male Christian.