Recent Comments

1. less than a minute ago on Wizard of Id

   You seem to forget that Trump’s tax cuts were still in effect and continuing to add to the debt even after he left office. Much of the increase during the Biden years was not due to Biden’s spending but the ongoing revenue loss due to the tax cuts for the wealthy. We mere peons went back to paying the old tax rates even before Trump left office.

2. 4 minutes ago on Wizard of Id

   I would be very interested in knowing where you found that number. I was just looking at the audited balance sheet from the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services for fiscal year 2023 and their entire outlay that year was only $1.7 trillion. So there was fraud of over a trillion dollars that Medicare didn’t pay? Please be so kind as to do some serious research before spreading inflamatory misinformation. Thank you.

3. 13 minutes ago on Wizard of Id

   “People moan and groan about the debt….”

   The only people I find complaining about the national debt are Republicans and here is the irony, only when a Democrat is in the White House. Republicans had no problem exploding the debt when W and Trump were in the White House. As soon as they were replaced by a Democrat, the debt suddenly became a huge issue. You don’t do so well at irony either.

4. 17 minutes ago on Wizard of Id

   And here someone was accusing the Democrats of being rude and uncivil!

5. 32 minutes ago on Wizard of Id

   You mean the infrastructure spending that creates jobs, which creates consumption, which creates additional jobs all of which creates taxable income? That infrastructure spending?

6. about 1 hour ago on B.C.

   How about the guy who is plowing around under all that snow? That has got to be brutal.

7. about 1 hour ago on B.C.

   And after further thought, how do you square your desire to have state government leave you alone with the state’s interference in a woman’s choice of what she can do with her own body. Texas has one of the worst anti-abortion laws. That is hardly staying out of people’s business, especially one of the most personal decisions a woman or a couple have to make. And just so you will be certain, I am not some Fem-Nazi. I am a guy who believes there are definitely areas of life where the government needs to stay out.

8. about 1 hour ago on B.C.

   Having spent almost my whole life in Texas, I can tell you that Republicans in Texas government do not care about the citizens of the state unless they are very rich and/or involved in the oil/gas industry (which are frequently the same people).

   Oh yes, they also do pay some attention to those with theocratic tendencies. So I would have to say that trying to push exclusively Christian theology on public education hardly qualifies as leaving its citizens alone.

9. about 1 hour ago on Garfield

   When I was in Indianapolis, I used to see some hydrants with tall fiberglass poles with little flags on them attached to the hydrants.

   Interesting thing about fire hydrants. There is no water in the hydrant. The actual valve is underground at the water main with a reverse valve that drains the hydrant and feed pipe when it is off. This is so they don’t become a solid ice plug and useless in freezing weather. And if someone messes up, this is why you sometimes see a fire hydrant three to six feet up in the air on a piece of pipe. Someone had the depth of the water main very wrong.

10. about 2 hours ago on Tank McNamara

    I agree. It may reach that speed for the instant it leaves the racquet head but immediately slows down. It is never going to compare to a 100 MPH + tennis ball that is screaming across the net.