Month: October 2011

"Perry has done nothing but shoot himself in the foot he’s had lodged in his mouth for six weeks," – JPod.

A bid for the Christianist vote:

Because it’s based on personal experience and because he’s so laissez faire about so much else, this ad really resonates with sincerity, whether you agree with it or not.

"Spending does not guarantee capability; in many cases, it impedes finding better solutions and creates complacency. We have more than doubled the baseline budget in the past ten years, even before adding in the operational costs of the wars. Is the world twice as dangerous as it was in 2001? I doubt it. Besides, inputs are not the right measure of outputs. I believe it's genuinely wrong to equate spending with commitment to defense. Our safety lies in our ability to find better solutions, not our ability to spend more than our adversaries." – Kori Schake, Shadow Government.

PM Carpenter exclaims that "Herman Cain is not the GOP frontrunner":

Herman has much bigger problems — such as money and filing deadlines — which some old-school Republican strategists still traffic in. "What else does [Cain] have to do? He has to raise $100 million," GOP media consultant Rick Wilson told Politico. And "You have to file in these states and you have to go through all the procedural things."

But, but, there's the book tour!

New research on the lifespans of the HIV+:

According to a study by Britain's University of Bristol, life expectancies for people with HIV have increased by 15 years. The average person who begins anti-HIV therapy at age 20 can now expect to live at least another 46 years.

Which means my new expiration date is when I'm 76. Unless another bike accident puts me out of my misery. (I was relieved yesterday to find out I won't need surgery, as briefly feared – just a sling of the non-erotic kind and lots of Aleve.)

Heh:

“Rick Perry. Liberty. Rick Perry. Freedom. Freedom is working. Liberty is working. We’ve got to get America working again," – Rick Perry, using his experience as a yell leader at Texas A&M to come up with a campaign cheer. 

Now that DADT is over, can the hysterics who warned it would destroy the military concede they were wrong?

New Hampshire Republicans are busy planning to revisit marriage equality in the next legislative session. No one seems to have told them that opposition to repealing marriage equality is now polling at 50 percent, and support for repeal is at 23 percent. And the awful impact of same-sex marriage on New Hampshire?

Just 8 percent of residents said they thought legalizing same-sex marriage had a major effect on the state, while 38 percent said they thought it had a minor effect, compared to 47 percent who said it had no effect. Just 9 percent of Republicans and 11 percent of conservatives said they thought it had a major effect on the state.