“As Paisley and his band finished their final song (Welcome to the Future), fireworks began over the National Mall.”
In the mail, this morning:
George —
Election Day will be here in less than four months. And we’re facing a big problem right now that could directly affect the outcome that day.
The Romney campaign and the Republicans raised $100 million in the month of June alone. That is a massive sum.
Just wait until they start spending all that money in full force in key states we need to win.
Folks, here is the simple reality: Building this campaign today is more important than it was a few days ago. We can still win even while getting outraised by these guys. But we’ve got to keep it close.
That means none of us — not one — can wait to make a difference right now, with whatever we can afford to chip in:
https://donate.barackobama.com/Closing-the-Gap
A little incentive: A donation before midnight tonight will also automatically enter you for the chance to sit down with me for a cup of coffee sometime soon. We’ll fly you out, and you can bring a guest.
And really — thanks, for whatever you’re able to give today.
Joe
Holy cow, a four dollar lottery ticket with one in a million odds to have coffee with Joe Biden!
Ask Brad.
Oh, wait. He’s probably already had coffee, soda and hot dogs with you and the President at the White House a few times.
In a side note, Brad Paisley is about the only mainstream big-selling country artist who would appear to be inclined to vote for the President in November.
Romney and the Republicans announced yesterday that they brought in more than $100 million in June.
For context, that’s about what we raised in April and May combined.
We’re still tallying our own numbers, but this means their gap is getting wider, and if it continues at this pace, it could cost us the election.
We need to reverse this trend — and we need to start now. Will you make a donation of $4 or more today?
One hundred million is alarming enough, but it doesn’t even include the millions pouring into pro-Romney super PACs — or the fact that, unlike four years ago, it’s perfectly legal for the Koch brothers, Sheldon Adelson, Karl Rove, and anonymous billionaires to funnel unlimited money into attacking President Obama in critical battleground states.
I’m proud of the way we build this organization. Through the primaries, more than three-quarters of our donations were from people giving less than $1,000. Meanwhile, in that same period, Mitt Romney’s campaign raised three-quarters of its money from people giving $1,000 or more.
If we don’t take this seriously now, we risk finding ourselves at a point where there is too much ground to make up.
We need to do something about it. Today.
Here, send [Mean Future] … to your mailing list and I might think about donating.
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It’s such a great idea to send robotic dunning e-mails to the little people everyday. That’s the definitive answer to Mitt Romney’s crazy right-wing billionaire sugar daddies.
The economy continued its sluggish performance in June as employers added just 80,000 jobs and the nation’s unemployment rate remained at 8.2 percent, the government reported Friday …
The job market seemed to plateau on many fronts in June, as only professional and business services added significant new jobs, while manufacturing — a bright spot in the otherwise tepid recovery — added 11,000 positions. Health care added 13,000 jobs, while most other industries showed little change.
The number of people officially labeled unemployed held steady at 12.7 million, and the number of people who have been out of work for more than six months remained at 5.4 million, accounting for nearly 42 percent of the overall unemployed …
Markets slid …
From the economy that’s boiling down into making nothing except high end goods, cars (saved by the taxpayer) arms (paid for by the taxed) and trivial services, business remains profitable by paying the desperate people still employed less and less. They then go on food stamps or depend on the strapped resources of extended family.
And this couldn’t be a better summary of delusion in the culture of lickspittle.
Why, you would think Brad Paisley would be happy someone made such a bang on update of his super hit. Some people, jeez, you just can’t please ’em.
Obama visited Ziggy’s Pub and Restaurant in Amherst, Ohio …
“I’ll arm wrestle you for your vote,” [patron Jeff Hawks] told Obama. (Landler’s report was mum on the relative sizes of the two men). The president demurred.
340 pounds of loud sodden fun. The President’s a gamer, that’s for sure.
With Chief Justice Roberts‘ vote to save Obamacare, I was reminded of what my dad told me more than 50 years ago: Never trust a man who wears a black robe. He might be naked under there …
Because our legislative, judicial and executive branches of government hold the 10th Amendment in contempt, I’m beginning to wonder if it would have been best had the South won the Civil War.
How the future really turned out. Not quite what Brad Paisley’s big hit single, Welcome to the Future, advertised. Well, it wasn’t his fault. He got the iPhone bit right.
Reality shows again and again you can’t spoof the Tea Party.
Abe Lincoln messed up everything, sez a descendant of John Wilkes Booth one Tea Party man.
In Hey Craig Man, at 2:12, a Tea Party marcher with a poster of preposterous assertion, MLK was a Republican. At 2:17, someone promenading with an “I Love Capitalism” placard. You scratch your head and laugh a bit when you see such things. It’s immediately offset by realization that most of the Obama administration’s tenure has been crippled by the ascent of Tea Party dogma and that the annihilating nature of such views could easily take the country down in November.
You’ve now found it impossible to miss the spectacle of some of the country’s biggest phonies, journalists who assiduously avoided anything science in college, writing about the “God particle.”
Rebecca J. Rosen is an associate editor at The Atlantic. She was previously an associate editor at The Wilson Quarterly, where she spearheaded the magazine’s In Essence section (a place where no science is seen, ever).
We stand today on the eve of one of the most highly anticipated scientific announcements of all time: an “update in the search for the Higgs boson” (a delightfully understated description if there ever were one). Has the world ever been so excited about a particle before? No. But why? What is this Higgs boson, and is there more to it than just its catchy moniker, the “God particle”?
Cut to an animation from “PHD Comics.” The Atlantic is a Google Editor’s Choice, mostly because The Atlantic bribes them.
So, you might be asking what’s so important about finding the Higgs boson?
The short answer is that the Higgs boson can account for all of the unexplained mass in the universe …
Particle physics is the study of the individual elements that comprise our universe. As most know, atoms are composed of smaller components; neutrons, electrons and protons. When electrons jump between atoms, new substances are formed, but the nucleus of an atom generally remains unchanged unless it undergoes a nuclear reaction …
I’m eagerly awaiting the announcement tomorrow. If the scientists at the LHC found proof of the Higgs boson, it would be huge for the scientific community and the future of science as we know it.
From TIME:
Sometime Wednesday, depending on word that comes out of a press conference in Geneva, the universe will cease to exist. All forms of matter — planets, stars, dogs, cars, you — will effectively dissolve. Mass will be no more; only energy will remain.
That’s the bad possibility. The good possibility is that researchers working at the Large Hadron Collider (LHC) — the mammoth, $10 billion particle accelerator located 380 ft. (116 m) underground at the French-Swiss border — will announce that they’ve at last confirmed the existence of the long-sought Higgs boson …
ASPEN, Colo. — Physicists working at CERN’s Large Hadron Collider said Wednesday that they had discovered a new subatomic particle that looks for all the world like the Higgs boson, a potential key to an understanding of why elementary particles have mass and indeed to the existence of diversity and life in the universe …
I mention Overbye only because I once tried to read his Lonely Hearts of the Cosmos.
At any time, from a guaranteed sleeping pill. If you ever wanted to discourage anyone from becoming a little too fascinated with science and discovery, Overbye’s was the book to give them. Gift-wrapped.
Journalists do take science courses. If compelled. Decades ago I taught biochemistry lab at Lehigh. It was a senior/grad level course and it occasionally attracted journalists who were trying to attain a credential to burnish their careers as “science writers” for newspapers.
Years ago I attended a journalist’s seminar at the University of Maryland on a Knight Fellowship to learn about nuclear proliferation.
I was the only trained scientist in the bunch and one of the faculty organizers remarked “There aren’t many like you doing this.”
One of the Manhattan Project’s old scientists, Carson Mark, was a lecturer.
Mark gave a long seminar on the basics of fission, one in which he spent time speaking about the geometry of a bare critical assembly. It was a good lecture. The journalists virtually rioted, complaining bitterly afterward that they had their time wasted getting bogged down in the arcana of mathematics and high energy physics.
In a sea of soulless, sheeplike dependency, it’s easy to spot the fiercely independent people who continue to declare our independence. We are the producers, the people who make the country work …
Fiercely independent Americans are shocked and saddened by how far our beloved country has slid into socialism.
Defiance is in the DNA of fiercely independent Americans. We defy the notion that the wealth we create through our hard work, sweat and risk can or should be spread around for others. We find that concept to be abhorrent – anti-freedom and anti-American.
July 4, like most big American holidays, morphed into something utterly phony decades ago. Eat hot dogs and hamburgers, watch the fireworks, have a big party for the sake of a party. That’s it.
However, I don’t believe I’ve ever read anything anywhere linking the philosophy of Ayn Rand to the day commemorating the adoption of the Declaration of Independence in 1776.
When the economic collapse disgraced certain Ayn Rand acolytes, the novelist’s [biographer Jennifer Burns] told Politico in 2009: “Wow, Ayn Rand. Dead and buried forever. But she’s come roaring right back.”
Frank informs that Objectivism — the catch-all name for Rand’s philosophy of pure selfishness as the pinnacle of rationality — was essentially whatever she said it was.
He does this humorously.
“When [Rand and her cohorts] weren’t banishing one another from the inner circle … the novelist and her followers were determining, by dint of pure deductive reasoning, that cigarette smoking was life affirming … ” reads the book in one tongue-in-cheek takedown.
I’d give it a B, B+ for the four of ’em, all in the cloud on YouTube. No iTunes used in the playing of this music! (After a few listens, a solid B, no higher.)
How to mix getting old and looking cool, a trick Ted Nugent desperately needs to learn..
