Sawdust said;
Spud, interesting that you should disparage (sp?) someone who jokes that this was Bush's fault, suggesting that this joke has played it's course.
I think we will see the "It's Bush's fault" argument pop up quite a bit in the next couple years. When the Dems taxes make the economy worse,
#35 | POSTED BY SAWDUST AT 2008-10-30 05:22 AM
>> Yes, we all know that the period of time where you must save money to pay off the credit card, isn't nearly as fun as running up the debt on the card. These two phases are Republicanism, and then Adulthood.
I'm sure that the people who remember the "good old days" of deficit spending, with 4/5ths of the war off the balance sheet, will be throwing rocks at all the people trying to clean up the mess.
>> And as for this case -- I'm a little hesitant to take this police conviction without a trial. Maybe this was an open and shut case -- or maybe it was the typical lazy police work, that blames the closest person to the crime scene that they don't like. Letting a suspect blow their own head off is more sign of lousy police work but it sure does cut down on all the paper filing.
This is not about being gay, or female, or a writer for HuffPo. This is an all too common story of depression and financial stress that will play out all across the nation. We have 40% of our Vets coming home and killing themselves -- an epidemic. There are thousands of people stressed out and depressed enough to get desperate -- this is only just an unusual case and that is why it is making some front pages.
You can't pick one sad crime and say; "This is what it means to be a lesbian." When 99.9% of these murder suicides are from a Man who just lost his job.
I'm going to go home and kiss my hot latin wife, by the way, and thank God I have a job and I fit the majorities description of "A good white person." But I didn't have to do anything to be straight, white, born to good parents, and healthy.