Yay! We're Going to Stop Spending Money on Defense and Give it to the Schools!
That is what's going to happen, right, when we don't pass the defense reauthorization bill, because of the Don't Ask Don't Tell repeal rider on it, yes? Susan Collins, Republican of Maine, "who backs repeal of the policy, said she would nonetheless vote against moving forward with debate because of a dispute with the Senate majority leader, Harry Reid of Nevada, over whether Republicans would be allowed to offer amendments to the bill." So, you know, LOL, good to know, they are not going to take these gays and (legal, and not government-funded!) abortions and having the Mexicans in our Army, so there are not 60 Senators who are going to pass the military spending bill. Some people are still afraid of that little gnome John McCain, who's all insanely atwitch about gays in his military. Also, maybe Mexicans actually aren't the new Irish. I guess they can only be the new Irish if they invade Canada, not Iraq.
When is someone going to tell these fucking Senate Democrats that HALF OF 100 IS NOT 60!?
Also WHY DOES CAPSLOCK NOT WORK ON OLDSTYLE NUMERALS
Silly Doctor. Don't you know that Susan Collins is Queen of America?
Harry Reid obviously isn't president of the math club.
I want old style numerals! Is this a special font? or available in most software already? I recently had some letterpress printing done and the friendly fellow at the press went to a printing museum to fish up the old style numeral bits to place in the press – it made all the difference.
Adobe CS has an option for oldstyle under OpenType options. Most fonts already support it.
I know. I know!
Gays are the new Mexicans? Anyway, color me afraid of the McCain gnome. Isn't it time we had him checked for Alzheimer's? There's flipflopping and then there's just not knowing what time period you're in.
watch an excerpt from Lady Gaga's DADT speech from yesterday:
http://bit.ly/aoysHZ
Annnnnnnnnnnd the bill didn't pass. Arc of the moral universe, standing on the right side of history, and c.
As noted above, this isn't not passing. Not passing is 49 votes. This is the Democrats trying to bypass the normal legislative process, which understandably requires a higher vote threshold, and failing. If they just give up on the bill because they can't fast-track it, they have no right to pin that failure on the opposition.
gaggie sportin the child preds… what is this, 2k7??
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Reid actually was prepared to let the Rs offer amendments and said so publicly, but the Rs had to also let the Ds offer the repeal amendment.