I've Got This

I think I've said before (seems true about everything these days) that to me DADT repeal is a big test of the Obama approach to politics. Obviously he doesn't have superpowers and can't use his mind control on the Maine twins or the beefcake from Massachusetts, but it's something that the administration and members of Congress have constantly reassured the Professional Left about, that there was a strategy in place and that it would happen.

Obama's Popularity Is Perpetually Declining

Or, not. As I've said before, the real story is just how popular he is given how horrible the economy is.

A Victory For The Insidious Park Lobby

Planning for more parks in the urban hellhole.

Joking aside, I'm not actually anti-park, it's just that too often "build a park" is just code for "block development." And some development is good! More than that, often parks aren't really built for use by humans and poorly maintained parks aren't really an improvement over vacant lots. They basically are vacant lots.

So, build parks! But build them for people and maintain them.

Get Your War On

It's back.

Symbols

Oops.

A significant production problem with new high-tech $100 bills has caused government printers to shut down production of the new notes and to quarantine more than one billion of the bills in huge vaults in Fort Worth, Texas and Washington, DC, CNBC has learned.

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The redesigned bills are the first $100 bills to feature Treasury Secretary Tim Geithner’s signature. But to stave off a cash crunch as existing $100 bills deteriorate and can’t be replaced, the Federal Reserve has ordered renewed production of the current-design $100 bills, which feature Bush Treasury Secretary Hank Paulson's signature and do not have the new security features.

Morning Thread

by Molly Ivors

Taking a snow day on Liberal Mountain.



(The best date-rape song evah!)

Overnight

Rock on.

Weekend Over Already?

Not sure how it's already December, either.

Actual liberal media

Marcy Wheeler & Stuart Zechman on Virtually Speaking Sundays
5pm pacific, 8pm eastern, on BlogTalkRadio.

Signed,
Not Atrios

Evening Thread

Massive Hangover In The Morning

The thing is, even if unemployment falls to some "awesome" level like 7.5% by the election, there's still going to be a long nasty hangover. This has been a very very long recession and people are being economically destroyed by it. It's going to take a long time before people feel any kind of economic security again. It might be morning in America again, but people will still feel like shit.

Afternoon Thread

Anybody have any good news to share?

Miss Something?

C/T translates This Week and Meet the Press.

Reality Bites

I'm someone who pays attention to politics 16 hours per day and I still can't tell you, aside from a few tax cuts and unemployment benefits extensions, what the Democratic economic agenda is. Isn't this a problem?

Sunday Bobbleheads

Face the Nation has Kyl and Durbin

All I will tell you about This Week is that they have Bob Maginnis, a "national security analyst with the Family Research Council."

Meet the Press has McConnell and Kerry.

Document the atrocities!

Wakey, Wakey

Saturday Night

It's alright.

WAAAAAAAAAAAAAAHHH

Actually have no idea what this is about, but saw this cover in the supermarket. So rare to see people be mean to St. Mccain.

Deadbeats

Why don't people just pay their damn mortgages.

No one should buy a house as long as the banksters are free to steal your homes.

It's All Silly To Me

And I honestly don't mean that with any disrespect, just that to an atheist/agnostic/whatever not raised in any faith tradition it's always a bit amusing when purported followers of mainstream Western religions giggle at the supposed silliness of other religions, even to the point of chortling about a mere reference to (not embrace of) them.