Suck one, Glenn Beck!

And anyone else who bitched about Democrats "cramming this down their throat". I think that includes Rusty T. or OBD or what ever the fuck he wants to tattoo on his arm next. The part I'm a little fuzzy on is, if it was crammed down your throat, why did you regergitate it and proceed to recram it from whence it came? I will never understand. Maybe it was just to bide time until election season. What can't be denied is ever since Dems got they cram on, Congress as a whole ain't done shit. I should have put this post under the "KFTC" series.

Gay Clone Industry: Douchebag Manufacture

If I had known these fuckers were right in my back yard, I would have gotten awesome and UNF'd that ass. I do want to bury my turtle in Michelle Bachmann's mud, though...

Fish in a Barrel: Michelle Bachmann

A ninja ain't even gotta type shit...

Let Ball Deep Eat Cake

A few weeks ago, during Obama's big speech on health care before a joint session of Congress, Ball Deep went a little nuts and started freaking out about the effect of health care reform on the deficit, at which point I had to smack him down with a little economic knowledge.

But today there's some good news for Mr. Deep, not to mention basically everyone else out there - the nonpartisan Congressional Budget Office has scored the Senate Financial Services bill and found the following:

• The plan will cover 29 million people who would otherwise have been uninsured.
• Only 3 million people will be removed from private health insurance.
• 5 million fewer people will use the individual insurance market, the source of a lot of the current horror stories.
• 29 million legal residents will have have insurance who would otherwise not have.
  
• 245 million people will be basically unaffected.
  
• It will not add to the federal deficit.

In other words, Mr. Deep, you can have your cake and eat it too. This is far from the perfect bill in my mind - it doesn't include a public option, there are still a lot of fucked up incentives that will need to be corrected, and I would much rather just go to a single payer system like every other developed nation. But it's a hell of an improvement. And to everyone out there who called this pretty ideologically centrist effort socialism or a government takeover or wasteful spending, here are some words of advice: go find a new hobby. Because your attempts to fuck up the country in your spare time because of paranoid fear and ill-thought-out ideology is pretty fucking annoying to the rest of us.

In other political news, it looks like Schubert and I have the right idea. Now the rest of you, move to the dirty south - you'll be able to buy a house without bankrupting yourself AND we'll be able to live in a Democratic paradise!

VT Immortalizes Deron Washington Teabagging Greg Paulus

Yep, that is a picture on the wall in Virginia Tech basketball's new practice facility. I could not be more proud of my alma mater or my new (again) hometown. More on that last part in a few days - gotta get out from under all these boxes first.