Far East Cynic

The Vandals are hard at work.

Congress imposed a government shutdown? Fuck you, pay me. Oh, had a fire? Fuck you, pay me. The place got hit by lightning? Fuck you, pay me.   ( All posts will start with this until the shutdown is over).   I awoke this morning at my usual time and I started to get up.

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There was one good thing that happened yesterday…….

Congress imposed a government shutdown?  Fuck you, pay me. Oh, had a fire? Fuck you, pay me. The place got hit by lightning? Fuck you, pay me.   ( All posts will start with this until the shutdown is over).   Boy talk about a , when it rains it pours moment. The S.O. was

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What he said.

Congress imposed a government shutdown? Fuck you, pay me. Oh, had a fire? Fuck you, pay me. The place got hit by lightning? Fuck you, pay me.   ( All posts will start with this until the shutdown is over).   The President summed up the issues at play in this shutdown pretty well yesterday.

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Too much time on my hands……

Congress imposed a government shutdown? Fuck you, pay me. Oh, had a fire? Fuck you, pay me. The place got hit by lightning? Fuck you, pay me. ( All posts will start with this until the shutdown is over).   So the clock is ticking upward-and the place I work could not get its act

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The trouble with mitigation

Henry Hill: [voice over] Now he's got Paulie as a partner. Any problems, he goes to Paulie. Trouble with a bill, to Paulie. Trouble with cops, deliveries, Tommy, he calls Paulie. But now he has to pay Paulie every week no matter what. "Business bad? Fuck you, pay me. Oh, had a

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A nice Sunday overseas.

My paychecks stop on Tuesday. The House GOP has proven they are among the most evil men in human history.  In all the talk about defunding or delaying Obamacare, there’s one thing that hasn’t been discussed  much, certainly not by the media.  That would be what  delaying Obamacare would actually

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The reasonable man is an endangered species……

This is a guest post although the author does not know he is posting here. I came across this discussion on another board I monitor, but no longer participate in-primarily due to the fact that too many of its participants have descended into that intellectual hell known as "conservative and

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Why I am glad they don’t have CSPAN over here.

So I don't have to listen to assholes like Ted Cruz babble on for 21 hours. Law #1: Godwin’s Corollary Law of Teabagging Congress “As any Teabagger protest in Congress grows longer, the odds of a comparison involving the Nazis or Hitler approaches ’1.’ Corollary: The first person to mention

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No matter how much you polish it.

A turd is still a turd. Unless you are McMegan-in which case your whole body of writing consists of polishing turds: Jon Chait at NYMag finds McArgleBargle’s argument indefensible, because “Subsidizing Farmers But Not the Poor Still Evil“: House Republicans are fighting to impose a $40 billion cut to the

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Got to have someone to blame….

I subscribe to Charles Pierce's first law of Blog Economics , namely: "Fk The Deficit. People got no jobs. People got no money." Pierce rightly notes that with the suicidal plunge of the teabag wing of the Republican party over the ACA, " the deficit fetishists are back. Even Messrs.

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