Right now, this administration is in FAILURE mode.
Late last night, just minutes from an impending government shutdown, congressional negotiators and President Obama reached a deal to fund the government for the rest of the fiscal year, cutting $38.5 billion under current funding levels, per Republican demands. House Speaker John Boehner (R-OH) and other Republicans hailed the deal as an important step to reining in the deficit. In a speech addressing the deal, Obama compared the compromise to the one he helped broker late last year on extending the Bush tax cuts for two years.
But a look at those two deals suggests Republicans are not as interested in cutting the deficit as they claim. In both cases, Democrats made big concessions on key Republican agenda items — tax and spending cuts — in the face of intransigent opposition from the GOP. But while the appropriations deal from last night cuts $38.5 billion in spending over the next six months (through the end of the fiscal year in September), the tax cut deal deprives the government of roughly $150 billion in revenue over a similar period of time.
Extending the Bush tax cuts “would result in a $200 billion to $300 billion cost to the US Treasury compared to what had been expected” in one year — or $100 to $150 billion in six months. So while they very nearly shut down the government to extract painful spending cuts, Republicans had already wiped out those spending cuts many times over with the revenue lost from extending the Bush tax cuts.
Is anyone really surprised by this?
Even more so if there are specific someone’s you have in mind…
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Posting this for two reasons:
1) STUCK IN MY HEAD
2) Trying to figure out undocumented things….
Ya know, this would be hot, except my first thought was “Sand. Where NO SAND SHOULD GO!!!”
I mean it looks pretty, but…
Ganked from ju68
My poster of the U.S. Interstate System as a Subway Map has been completely revised for 2011 - all routes have been rechecked and reworked for accuracy and the graphic style has changed a bit to more closely match its inspiration, the London Underground Tube Map. 25”x17” and 36”x24” posters are available for purchase by clicking here, or click the picture to go to my blog entry detailing the project.
So pounceable… so completely bloody pounceable…..
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Because they’re cute, dag nabbit….
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Does this look kinda like neon to anyone else?
Well, here it is.
A first look at my new typeface which I have created as part of my university project for The Body Shop.
My aim was to create something modern as stylish, while still looking organic and natural, attributes which I think describe The Body Shop perfect.
I still have no name for it yet (Suggestions are welcomed tho!), but will soon be available as a .ttf file
NSFW but, well… pretty. I need a bonfire…..
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Submission from blueeyedwhore (Thanks!):
Seattle Walk for Choice had a similar sentiment!
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Wranglers. Do I really need to say more?